Erik Hanberg

I got a chance to listen to Erik Hanberg be a guest speaker again, but this time it was in my entrepreneurship class. The first time I saw him, he talked about publishing on the web and what sorts of things you can publish on the web. He also made reference to the dangers of the web, like how once you publish on the web you lose all hope of keeping your existence private in the global society as well as a little about Identity theft. This time when he came in he focused more on the business aspects of his life, specifically his books. I was amazed that his mysteries seemed to be the most popular and his fictions were not as fan favored, which personally a love fictions just as much as I love mysteries. He talked a lot about his experience with businesses, my professor also commented after Erik left how he had tried to open up a production thing but it ended in failure. All successful businessmen must go through losses in order to succeed. I was also impressed by Erik’s ability to write a range of different genre books online, because most writers can just write one genre or at least specialize in one genre. It’s kind of cool how he experiments with different things to see what the public likes, which is pretty similar to the mind of a businessman. They need to adapt to the public’s likes and dislikes in order to know what works and what doesn’t.