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Corey Brown is the founder of the online bass magazine, No Treble, and worked with Seth Godin to build Squidoo, one of the most visited websites in the history of the internet.

This TEM Short features thoughts on my favorite Corey Brown quotes from TEM 105.

Quotes:

"We spent the summer (and) Seth's goal was to prototype (the website.) I don't know why but the team couldn't really pull together a prototype. So I said 'Well this is really too complicated of an idea to just jump into protyping. This thing has to be architected. That's a skillset he didn't bring me in for but it's a skillset I had."
"I'm inherently lazy. People don't think of me that way but I look for efficiencies in everything. If we're doing the same thing twice, I'm like 'Okay how do make this so we don't do this twice?'"
"I didn't see an online magazine for bass players, and there weren't that many of them anyway, but I didn't see one where I thought 'This is what I would want to build'. This was the opportunity to say 'This is the online magazine I think needs to exist and we'll see what happens and we'll see if people agree with me or not."
"In my mind, if you see an opportunity to connect with someone, you should just go for it."

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Produced by Joey Santillo

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TEM105: Corey Brown of No Treble on working with Seth Godin, having the courage to reach out to people you want to meet and launching the world's top online bass magazine

Corey Brown is the founder of the online bass magazine, No Treble, and worked with Seth Godin to build Squidoo, one of the most visited websites in the history of the internet.

What You'll Learn:

How Corey fell in love with music and ended up majoring in music at North Texas
How not thriving within the formal structure of college pushed him towards one of his other loves, graphic design
How he ended up working with Seth Godin to run Squidoo, one of the most frequently visited websites in the world, when they didn't know each other beforehand
The importance of architecting a website when building it so you have a clear idea of how it is all going to function together
How he launched No Treble so he would have something waiting for him whenever his run at Squidoo ended
Why he worried entirely about content and traffic and not about monetization (and the parallels there with launching a podcast)
How he's monetized No Treble after the fact
How every time they hit a traffic benchmark at Squidoo Seth Godin challenged them to add a zero as their next goal
How he came to be in charge of the official Jaco Pastorius website (and why when given the chance to connect with someone you should just reach out)

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Show notes for all episodes of TEM including topics discussed, links to all books and websites referenced can be found at:

http://www.andrewhitz.com/shownotes

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And finally, a huge thank you to Parker Mouthpieces for providing the hosting for TEM.

Produced by Joey Santillo for Pedal Note Media