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MAKING MONEY

July 16, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

WHAT I DO TO MAKE MY MONEY.

This is not just about Art. It’s not just about Design. It ain’t just about Photography. It most certainly isn’t just about Entrepreneurship. This is about the ability to build, establish, cultivate and maintain wealth. The game I’m playing is most certainly about making money to make and achieve other things. Goals and milestones. The goal is to be an affective and impactful influencer within my communities and the larger societies.

If nothing else, I strive to stand on my Personal Truth and Agenda. I strive to stand firm on my spiritual core and beliefs incorporated with an informed outlook of this modern world to create.

ART, DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY ARE ONE THING…COACHING, CONSULTING AND INVESTING ARE ANOTHER.

As well as finding new streams of income based upon what assets we currently have, we also provide Private Coaching and Consulting. The point is to not only leverage your knowledge with what we have in hard assets but soft ones as well. One-on-one personal relationships are key. We’ve been in business for over 3 years now with over 10 years of entrepreneurial activity under our belts, we’re continuing to position in as many spheres as possible and that includes helping others to navigate the modern day and sidestep issues and obstacles we’ve already encountered.

A Strategic Mindset Shift

Being an Artist can sometimes be a daunting thing to be. Especially within this modern day where hyper-creativity is the demand, the transition from Artist to Entrepreneur can be overwhelming. In order to making that transition even possible there must be a shift in ones mindset—a dynamic paradigm shift. Here’s a sample of our 7 Tips we live by for Artists to Make Money as Entrepreneurs:

1. Think Like a Business, Not Just a Brand

Shift your mindset from *"how do I get noticed?"* to *"how do I create value?"*

Artists often get stuck in the loop of visibility over viability. Start treating your art like a business: identify your market, price your work sustainably, and understand that consistent revenue comes from structure—not just exposure.

2. Offer Services, Not Just Products

Don’t just sell art—solve problems.

Graphic design, portrait commissions, album covers, book illustrations, set design, event installations—there’s always a service that fits your skillset. Package your offerings and market them directly to communities and clients who *need* what you can do.

3. Build an Email or Text-Based Client List

Social media followers are flaky. A list is power.

Use workshops, exhibitions, vendor tables, or community events to collect emails and numbers. Then follow up with offers, availability, or exclusive opportunities. Keep your list warm with behind-the-scenes peeks, studio updates, or early access to new releases.

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WRITING & JOURNALING

February 08, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

The fact is that we encourage and believe in the power of Writing and Journaling. While some kinds of creativity can be spontaneous and easily captured in a moment, there are those times and moments where creativity can become stagnant and even paralyzing. As we strive to introduce FOCUS themes to keep and engage creativity, we’ve proposed and therefore are introducing a personal Self-Help, Encouragement and Inspiration system. We want to help people maintain and enhance themselves within the things that are going on today.

As the purpose behind what we do is to display the Creativity consistent with Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation parallel to a focus on People of Color, Ethnicity and Culture, the messages surround Ethnicity. Our goal is to further the drive, agenda and intention to use the Arts to Inform, Influence and Impact the Future and potential of prosperity for People of Color around the world. This of course begins with efforts to impact African Americans and the associated and relative supportive surrounding communities. Whether thru developing content and media or custom IP and products or implementing *Services to those who share our interest and passion, we’re committed to standing out by doing things with thoughtfulness, care and patience. Analysis and research. Planning and documentation, we strive to ensure depth as to add and encourage value and significance.

NO FEAR. STAY UNAPOLOGETICALLY TRUE TO BEING YOU!

Truth be told…I’m a complex man—a sophisticated man. I’m a man of creativity. I’m informed and influenced by many things as we all are. Not sure by what measure when compared to others but many things have led to the beautiful great and grand complexity of creativity that have become me. Whether by magazines, automotive, wall art social media, conversations or play time with my daughter, I’m informed to stay creative. In staying true, there are many other places you’ll find me doing appropriate and perhaps inappropriate things at a moments notice. In not muting or diminishing all that I am, one place I love to be is TUMBLR! Yes! You can find me there! Here’s to staying Creative!

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MINDFUL GOAL-SETTING

January 21, 2025 / William Burrell Philpot IV

Plain and simple, as a supplemental product to “THE MOTIVATION BOOK”, we’ve developed our own proprietary system that Encourages and Inspires Artists to Entrepreneurs to even Family Leaders to hold fast to their lives by planning and gaining Vision enough to create their Mission.

Out of our practice within Coaching and Consulting, we’ve developed this system inspired by others that have been long-time leading names within Self-Help, Encouragement and Productivity. Our system is common-sense and so we believe it has the potential to become common-place. It is our hope and drive for this system to become common-place for Creatives of Color, Ethnicity and Culture further acknowledging our commitment to “Intelligence, Ethnicity and Innovation.”

This product is set to debut in February 2025! Stay tuned!

*As a byproduct of my passion of creative writing; poetry and fiction, I’ve also come to understand the place of journaling, assessing and planning. The process of writing often gives clarity thru slowing things down to review and gain an understanding in order to articulate thoughts effectively. Yes, it’s dependent on many factors of the individual but for me, to write does a lot of good for me. A crucial part of the RED BOOK process of developing creative ideas, writing is a fundamental part of investigating and cultivating potential ideas.

I encourage—therefore we encourage—the process of writing. We encourage it not only for critical thinking but to cultivate better and better ideas. We encourage our clients and customers and partners and audiences to engage the process of writing. Write whether on paper or on your mobile device. Gather your thoughts and go thru the process of organizing them into articulation. Do this to go back to them later. Do this to expand upon them. Do this—do it—just because it’s a healthy thing to do. Write…to Create!

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