ZEN and the art of making a living as a 3D artist

Welcome to the Marketing course for 3D artists, creators, and innovators. Watch this elevator pitch to see if this course is for you or not. Warning: this course can change your life.

Watch this video first before starting the course. This video covers:

• What is covered in this course.

• What is the best time to watch the lectures.

• Information about the audio files, and guided visualizations.

• Blender Users is set as target as an example. You can set your own target.

Links used in this course: websites and mind maps.

This lecture explains the fundamental structure of the first part of the course. While this lecture covers an abstract idea, you will discover its practical use later in the course.  This section is for those who are "not wired" for marketing.

Please don't skip this lecture because it's hard to find elsewhere. This lecture shows the first step to take before doing business.

In this lecture, you will learn about intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Learn how the right motivation can give that magic sparkle.

• Learn when is the right time to make a plan.

• What thinking strategies are out there?

• Learn how to set goals.

• How do we learn?

• How do you get good at something?

• Learn about the common pitfalls of entrepreneurs. So you don't have to make the same mistakes.

• Adapt the habits of successful entrepreneurs.

Learn to think like an entrepreneur; experience being Harry K for a moment. Here everything comes together;

• Sense (Trends, what is out there).

• Feel (Your motivation).

• Think (When and how to plan).

• Act (When to come to action).

In this lecture, you will learn:

• How to overcome perfectionism.

• Look through the eye of the customer.

• Realistic planning.

• Building confidence.

• Constructive self-talk.

• Intro of the list of Marketing Strategies.

• There are loads of marketing strategies out there. Learn the building blocks so that you can make your own strategy.

• Affiliate Marketing

• Article Marketing

• Affinity Marketing

• Agile Marketing

• Brand Marketing

• BTL Marketing

• Buzz Marketing

• CTA Marketing

• Catalog Marketing

• Channel Marketing

• Cloud Marketing

• Communal Marketing

• Computational Marketing

• Concentrated Marketing

• Consumer Marketing

• Content Marketing

• Contextual Marketing

• Conversational Marketing

• Cross Media Marketing

• Corporate Marketing

• Cultural Marketing

• Database Marketing

• Data-driven Marketing

• Defensive Marketing

• Differential Marketing

• Digital Marketing

• Direct Marketing

• Direct Mail Marketing

• Disruptive Marketing

• Diversity Marketing

• Door to door Marketing

• Drip Marketing

• E-commerce Marketing

• E-mail Marketing

• Entrepreneurial Marketing

• Ethnic Marketing

• Evangelism Marketing

• Event Marketing

• Expeditionary Marketing

• Facebook Marketing

• Flanking Marketing

• Free Sample Marketing

• Geographic Marketing

• Goods Marketing

• Horizontal Marketing

• Inbound Marketing

• Informational Marketing

• Influencer Marketing

• Interactive Marketing

• Integrated Marketing

• Internet Marketing

• Local Marketing

• Left Brain Marketing

• Loyalty Marketing

• Long Tail Marketing

• Mobile Marketing

• Mass Marketing

• Multi-Cultural Marketing

• Multi-Level Marketing

• Native Advertising

• NeuroMarketing

• Next Best Action Marketing

• Newsletter Marketing

• Non-Traditional Marketing

• Niche Marketing

• Partnership Marketing

• Pay Per Click Marketing

• Permission Marketing

• Performance Marketing

• Personalized Marketing

• Persuasion Marketing

• PR Marketing

• Post Click Marketing

• Product Marketing

• Promotional Marketing

• Pull Marketing

• Push Marketing

• Referral Marketing

• Relationship Marketing

• Remarketing

• Reply Marketing

• Reverse Marketing

• Scarcity Marketing

• Scientific Marketing

• Search Marketing

• Self Marketing

• Services Marketing

• Shotgun Marketing

• Social Marketing

• Social Media Marketing

• Synchro Marketing

• Targeted Marketing

• Technical Marketing

• Time Marketing

• Transactional Marketing

• Traditional Marketing

• User-Generated Marketing

• Undercover Marketing

• Video Marketing

• Vertical Marketing

• Voice Marketing

• Viral Marketing

• Youth Marketing

Recap of what we did so far and what is next.  This lecture discusses what steps you can take now.

In this video, you will learn what Branding is and if archetypes are useful.

Learn what archetypes are and the stereotype Blender-user.

Learn what the Creator Archetype is and what their needs are.

In this lecture, you will learn that you are selling more than your product. But what is it?

Before content writing, avoid this mistake.

In this lecture, you will learn about: 

• Informational vs. persuasive approach

• Readability

• Hooks

• SEO

• Call to Action

• First Impression

This lection covers:

• Color science vs. Color Theory

• Working with specific colors

• How to get more vibrance in your renders

• Brand Colors

• Using colors in Branding

In this lecture, you find the latest tips about: 

• Facebook

• Instagram

• LinkedIn

• Reddit

• Twitter

• YouTube

In this lecture, you will learn about:

• OneNote

• Audacity

• Blender

• Balabolka

• Grammarly

• Hemingway Editor

• Canva

In this video, I show you what online markets are good to use and which ones you better avoid:

• Blender Market

• Gumroad

• Shopify

• Cubebrush

• 3D Export

• 3D Ocean / Envato Market

• Unity Asset Store

• Unreal Market Place

• GameDev Market

• Itch.io

• Turbosquid

• CD Trader

• Sketchfab

• CG Studio

This is a simple ZEN meditation. When you do this meditation 3 times a day, you will notice tranquility in your daily life. I describe it as wind-still where you are in charge of your thoughts and emotions.

Use your preferred induction methods before listening to a Guided Visualization. In this induction method we relax the muscles, breathe a bit slower, and let thoughts come and go.

An induction method with peripheral vision.

This induction method uses multi-sensoriality.

A guided visualization that helps you improve your self-talk.

This visualization helps you to take more action.

This visualization will help you solve a problem.

This visualization helps you to put emotions in perspective.

In this video, I show you how I look for trends. As an example, we use the keyword "Blender," but you can use your own.
More examples to come in June 2021.  Covered are Google Trends, Keywords Everywhere, Google Analytics, Youtube Analytics, Blender Market, Twitter top Tweets, Job Boards, and Blender road map.