Free From Corporate America

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Free from Corporate America: A Tactical Guide to Success on Your Own Terms

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Episodes

Podcast – How Artists Can Navigate the Digital Economy with Freemium and Crowdfunding Tactics

In late August 2011, I taped some audio from a great live event we did at the Media Education Foundation in Northampton about artists navigating the digital economy – both the struggles and the success stories. The event was hosted by me and co-presenter Noel Ramos of the Independent Music Conference . We actually broadcasted much of the three hour live event via Google Hangouts and it was pretty neat to be fielding questions from folks across the world. Amazingly, the technology held up pretty ...

Oct 10, 2011•1 hr 6 min

Neal Hutto Tribute – Read Aloud to His Own Music

In October of 2010, Neal Hutto, fellow member of the Booker T. Washington High School class of 1986 and an integral part of the remarkable whatever that holds our class together, died. I wasn’t able to attend his memorial service in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but I did write a tribute for Neal that Will Katz read that weekend, and I’m told that he did it in a memorable fashion. In fact when I wrote the piece, I had an image of Will reading it and conjuring Neal’s inimitable spirit with his words. Neal Hut...

Jul 24, 2011•4 min

FFCA Podcast – The Business of eBooks for Self-Publishers: Why Kindle is Overrated for Sales, and the Pros and Cons of Digital Rights Management (DRM)

In his return to the Free From Corporate America podcast series, Morris Rosenthal of FonerBooks.com talks with Jon Reed about the business of eBooks and how self-publishers can add an eBooks revenue stream by selling eBooks from their own marketing platform. Morris, the author of Print on Demand Book Publishing , also has a YouTube video channel for self-publishers that is referenced in this podcast. During this forty minute, unscripted conversation, Jon asks Morris about how he found success wi...

Mar 13, 2009•39 min

FFCA Podcast – The Myth of Blogging Traffic, Debunking Page Rank, and Self-Publishing Success

In the series reboot of the FFCA Podcast Series, Jon Reed welcomes Morris Rosenthal of FonerBooks.com and the author of Print On Demand Book Publishing for a totally unscripted conversation on web business and self-publishing. Listen in as Jon and Morris debunk popular myths about blog traffic, Google Page Rank, and how to succeed as an Internet-based self-publisher (Morris) rather than an overworked blogging and consulting diva (Jon). After we taped this podcast, both of us felt that we can imp...

Mar 10, 2009•46 min

The Uncensored Week in Sports – Complete Podcast Archive

This page contains the complete podcast archive of all the “Uncensored Week in Sports” podcasts. Since Jon doesn’t currently have podcast archiving on jonreed.net , we’re archiving the show’s podcasts here. While the show is focused on sports, it is also Jon’s chance to elaborate on how his philosophies of life and business have been impacted by sports, and to go off on rants about the increasing commercializion of sports. This is also a chance to interact with Jon live about whatever issues are...

Nov 11, 2007•29 min

First-Ever Radio Interview for Free From Corporate America

In February of 2007, I did my first-ever radio interview for Free From Corporate America. It took me a few months to pull the audio together for irritating reasons that aren’t worth dwelling on here. But it’s now ready to play or download: It’s a pretty large file (10 megs, 45 minute interview), so if you do the “play” option by clicking on the previous link, make sure you have some time and also a broadband connection. Dial-up folks should probably download the file first and then listen to it ...

Jun 08, 2007•44 min

Making Fun of Business Plans, Venture Capital, and Multi-Level Marketing

December 30, 2007 : Jon had some recent debates about topics in this chapter, including an MLM guy hot on his heels, which inspired this new Free From Corporate America podcast. Readers have been after me. Through the course of writing this book, I’ve been asked about classic entrepreneurial topics like business plans, venture capital, and multi-level marketing. I briefly mocked business plans in an earlier chapter , but that raised more questions than answers. So let’s go through each of these ...

Oct 26, 2006•22 min

The Internet Changes Everything – Or Maybe Not

December 23, 2007 : In his most personal podcast on this site, Jon uses the hard-won examples of his own web sites to talk about how the Internet can be used as a “feedback loop” to affordably market test new ideas. Jon explains why “do what you love, the money will follow” doesn’t work and how the Internet can help us to make our passions marketable. Remember all the idiots who said that the Internet was going to change everything? I was one of them. Yep, I was a card-carrying member of the mid...

Oct 13, 2006•24 min

Reckoning With Your Balance Sheet

December 16, 2007 : check out Jon’s podcast update to this chapter, where he explains his approach to finance in the context of “freeing yourself from corporate America.” A balance sheet can be a terrible thing to behold. So we save ourselves the trouble by either not creating one or doing it inaccurately. Unfortunately, listing our home as an asset and patting ourselves on the back is not going to get it done. A properly constructed balance sheet tallies up the resources we have to throw at our...

Jul 31, 2006•17 min

Chase Skills, Not Dollars (and Management is for Suckers)

February 4, 2008: Returning to the FFCA podcast show after some travels, Jon added this podcast update to one of his favorite chapters, in which he talks about how you can dramatically change your career path by focusing on skills and less on your total salary. Drawing on his own experiences after graduating, Jon explains how he used this tactic to get out of the service industry for good. He also hits on the more controversial part of this chapter, “management is for suckers.” It’s hard to mast...

Jun 26, 2006•13 min

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