What John Coltrane can teach you about building your audience

John Coltrane

As a loyal reader of this blog, odds are good that you’re in the idea business. And that means your success hinges on finding and building an audience.

John Coltrane can help you with that.

There is just the work. Advice from a writer.

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Who cares that you don’t have the right credentials?

Or that you break rules. Or that you break them because you didn’t know they were rules in the first place.

Or that you’re afraid.

A lesson about content, mass audience and failure

radio mic on the air

I’m in the middle of doing some in-depth research for an important project, and I find myself thinking a lot these days about the nearly lost legacy of Charles Herrold.

It’s okay if you have no idea who he was. I hadn’t a clue either until I started reading up on the early history of radio.

Charles Herrold was a radio pioneer. In his story is a lesson about content, mass audience and failure.

The habit of ideas and 10 more places I go for creative inspiration

image of idea cloud

Part of the habit of ideas is to feed your appetite for more of them. I’ve talked before about places for creative inspiration.

Today, I share 10 more. The list is varied, but what they all have in common is an unyielding devotion to showing up regularly with great writing and solid ideas.