Jason Sherman is a successful entrepreneur, award winning filmmaker, published author, tech startup expert, and journalist. He has been featured by several media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Verge, and ABC News. Jason is fluent in Spanish, is a classically trained violinist, and was a featured speaker on FOX’s Futurist TV Show: Xploration Earth 2050.
Jason runs a web and mobile dev shop and film studio from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gives guest lectures at area universities, and regularly supports hackathons or tech events as a mentor and judge. His methodologies on entrepreneurship and data driven decisions are his main source of education to those he helps all around the world. His startup book Strap on your Boots is the culmination of his life’s work to help other entrepreneurs succeed and is the focus of a class he created called Startup Essentials. He originally taught the course as a guest lecturer at area universities, including the Wharton School of Business and now the course is available online for students on Udemy.
Jason’s Website, Podcast, and Social Media
Website, books, Udemy class, and more
Podcast: Strap on Your Boots, Apple link
His documentaries on Tubi, Plex, IMDb: Most recent Cutting Corners, Older, King’s Highway, The Bucks County Massacre
Miami, Surfside Champlain apartment building collapse
The Grand Theatre in Douglas, AZ
SV Community Theatre, Sierra Vista, AZ
Story-Power, Lucinda’s podcast, Apple, Google, Spotify
PodMatch, A dating service for podcasters
Dan Brown, Author
J.K. Rowling, Author
Jason’s Tips for selling books:
1. Give away free copies to reviewers
2. Make a book trailer for all your social media outlets
3. Use free resources, Libraries, Websites, Social Media, Podcast guest spots, to promote your book
4. Daily exposure on social media
5. Arrange your own book signings and ask your friends and social media circle to attend
Terry Green, Strata Productions, IMDb
Marie Forleo, Host of Marie TV, business coach
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” ~ Roger C. Schank, Cognitive Scientist
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