Bonus: Erick Hanberg

I had the wonderful opportunity to meet Erick Hanberg during one of my classes. He is an author of many types of books, with his main focus on non-profits, and providing types of advice for those working or in non-profits. In class he spoke about the affect of AI on authors, and how AI is integrating itself within the creative writing field. The class brought a unique perspective to the challenges that AI has brought to authors, as well as some hope on how it can be used not to ruin creative writing, rather to assist it. Mr. Hanberg also described some of the business tips he recommends to people, and how he managed to gain success in the beginning of online book selling. He went over in detail the challenges he faced with advertisement, and how Amazon made a large difference in his book selling. He also tied this into working with AI, and gave us a chance to see how AI has improved with creative writing. A big reason why Amazon allows authors to use AI in their writing, or allowing authors to write books only with AI!

Some of the advice he provided included:

Do it for free a couple of times

See pain points, do your user research

Produce a lot of content

Get paid quickly

Read 100 dollar startup (also recommended by my professor)

These were the questions that I had asked:

My first major is psychology, do you think psychology and AI are now the future in the psych world? How can this help businesses?

What are some tips and advice you can give someone who is starting a business?

What advertisement model would you suggest to support a new business?


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