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BUILD IT OR BUY IT?

All good things can only be built or created, not bought.

More turbo thoughts and ideas:

  1. Build a hyper-car, don’t buy it.
  2. Build a dope PC, don’t just buy a new Mac
  3. Don’t just buy a new iPhone– get some hackable android and mod it out.
  4. Don’t buy expensive designer clothes; design them yourself
  5. Don’t use Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube … just make your own social media!

ENTREPRENEURSHIP by KIM

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Entrepreneurship Philosophy

  • Sell Yourself
    Create New
  • Insta-Slaves
  • YOU CANNOT FAKE ENTHUSIASM
  • Why Hybrid is the Future
  • Don’t Censor Yourself
  • HOW I MASTERED MARKETING
  • ERIC KIM BLOGS
  • If Someone Offers You Help, You’re Stupid to *NOT* Take It.
  • SEEK GREAT, NOT PERFECT.
  • How I Became So Famous
  • Let Reality Mould Itself to You
  • ANTI ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY
  • Live Your Life as If You Were a Billionaire
  • HOW I THINK DIFFERENT
  • Impact, Influence, Reach: The Three Pillars of Marketing
  • ERIC KIM SCHOOL
  • Classicism.
  • MY PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
  • Money is Movement
  • Elitism 2.0
  • Mass Market or Luxury Market?
  • Why You Must Market Yourself
  • Why You Must Start an Email Newsletter
  • How Laptops Can Change the World
  • What Do You Want to Become?
  • What is Really Holding You Back in Life?
  • Why I Write: Writing as Meta-Thinking
  • ADVERTISE YOURSELF
  • Use Your First and Last Name
  • How Blogging Can Change the World
  • In Praise of Liberty
  • How I Write in Markdown
  • How I Became So Influential on YouTube
  • REVERSE FLEX
  • What a Time to Be Alive in Today’s Brave New World of Photography
  • HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF FROM OTHERS
  • YOU CHOOSE YOU
  • My Life Photography Entrepreneurship Story
  • WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN COLLABORATION
  • My Entrepreneurship Mindset
  • YOU’RE THE HERO IN THIS GAME OF LIFE
  • My Money Philosophy
  • Why Brand and Market Yourself?
  • PROFESSIONALISM IS FOR SUCKERS
  • Just Share What Works for You
  • How to Create Your Own Platform
  • Living in a Post Monetary Society
  • In Praise of Blogging
  • The Entrepreneurial Lifestyle is the Best Lifestyle
  • Algorithm Slavery
  • ANTI VIEWS
  • Entrepreneurship is The Goal
  • The Art of Blogging
  • IN PRAISE OF PURSUING YOUR PASSION
  • How to Make Great Titles
  • Sole Proprietorship
  • Just Build It.
  • VIA NEGATIVA
  • PROMOTE YOURSELF
  • Become a Full-Stack Entrepreneur
  • How to Entertain Others
  • My Experience Teaching My First Online Photography Creativity Workshop on Zoom
  • Humans Aren’t Lazy
  • One Shot.
  • THE BRAVE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
  • The Brave New COVID Lifestyle
  • Start Your Own Business
  • Minimum Viable Income ( MVI)
  • TRAINING.
  • WHY VIDEO?
  • How to Become Bolder
  • You’ve Always Already Been a Photography Entrepreneur!
  • The Future is All Digital Everything
  • Digital Sharecropping
  • DO IT FOR YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SELF
  • In Praise of Buffer and Redundancy
  • ASKING FOR PERMISSION IS FOR SUCKERS.
  • POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
  • Advertise Your Own Stuff
  • THE FUTURE IS DIGITAL.
  • Simulated Universal Basic Income
  • Is Losing Followers a Good Thing?
  • How to Add to Economic Activity
  • DIGITAL CAPITALISM
  • MONEY IS MOVEMENT
  • Anything is Possible
  • BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • GENERATE
  • How to Profit from Calamity
  • Capitalism 2.0
  • WHY I’M SO PASSIONATE ABOUT INFORMATION
  • SOCIETY 2.0
  • PHOENIX ENTREPENEURSHIP
  • How to Make Art from Home
  • BUY YOURSELF
  • JUST BLOG IT.
  • MARKET YOURSELF
  • EXPENSIVE TALK
  • SOCIAL MEDIA SLAVERY
  • Who Are Your Ideal Followers?
  • Why I Blog, Vlog, and Log
  • Your Perspective is Irrefutable
  • What are Your Hidden Powers?
  • IMPACT MAXIMIZATION, not Profit Maximization
  • Our Desire to Maximize Impact and Change
  • 10 Rich Tips How to Make Money from Photography
  • Create What You Would Love to Consume
  • Publish is Pleasure
  • Retire Now
  • Do You Desire to Become the Best?
  • Solo Entrepreneurship
  • My Vision of Photography Entrepreneurship
  • PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
  • The Desire to Transcend Ourselves
  • MONEY THOUGHTS
  • How to Retire
  • Via Negativa Productivity
  • Why You Must Make Your Own Website
  • Individuals over Companies
  • Build Yourself
  • Success is Survival
  • Why You Shouldn’t Go to Photography or Art School
  • How to Differentiate Yourself as a Photographer
  • Surpass Yourself
  • Can You Handle Extreme Freedom?
  • Boutique or Mass Market?
  • Proof of Concept
  • Unified Field Theory for Photography
  • Build a Company You’d Never Sell
  • Play the Long Game
  • Entrepreneurship and Art
  • What is the Source of our Strength?
  • What’s the Future for Photography?
  • Full-Stack Visual Artist
  • Why Scale?
  • What is Your Unfair Advantage?
  • Substance Marketing
  • Share Your Dopeness with Others
  • Frugality is Freedom
  • Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for Entrepreneurship
  • Don’t Follow or Predict Trends, Start Your Own Trend!
  • If You’re Not Busy Growing, You’re Busy Dying
  • Entrepreneurship born from Superabundance, not Need/Necessity
  • Photography Entrepreneurship Philosophy
  • How to Master Marketing in Photography
  • Photography Entrepreneurship Tips and Ideas
  • Is Hustle Sufficient Unto Success?
  • Don’t do it for the money
  • DIGITAL MARXISM
  • Zen Entrepreneurship
  • BOLDER IS BETTER.
  • Streamers Shall Inherit the Earth

Photography Blogging

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  • Blogging is Public Meditations
  • The Art of Blogging
  • Give Me a Laptop and I Shall Move the World!
  • The Future is Photography Blogging
  • How to Become a GREAT Blogger
  • If you can’t code, blog instead!
  • Daily Blog of Activities
  • How to Monetize a Blog Without Advertising
  • How to Publish Yourself
  • How to Blog
  • The future of photography publishing is photography blogging.
  • Why Become a Photography Blogger?
  • Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger
  • Why You Should Delete Your Instagram and Start Your Own Blog

Money

  • How to Use Wealth
  • To Become Rich, Don’t Go Broke
  • Why Save Money?
  • Less Money, Less Problems

Self-Empowerment

  • Life is Too Short to Be Negative
  • Why You Must Follow Your Passion in Life
  • How to Conquer Shyness
  • Don’t Ask for Permission
  • Onto the Next One
  • Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
  • Why You Must Conquer Your Fears in Life

Marketing and Branding

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  • Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger
  • Why Blog?
  • Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
  • Create Substance, Not Content
  • Photography Marketing and Branding 101
  • How to Master Marketing in Photography
  • 10 Tips How to Become a More Famous Photographer

Entrepreneurship Lifestyle

  • Why Hustle?
  • Why Save Money?
  • Ascetic is Sexy
  • Why You Must Become Self-Employed
  • How to Push Yourself Beyond the Limit
  • Is Location Independence Overrated?

Entrepreneurship Mindset

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  • How to Get Discovered
  • Financial Independence
  • Disregard Success or Failure; Always Attempt More!
  • In Praise of Stubbornness
  • Success is Personal Bravery
  • Why You Must Become an Entrepreneur
  • How to Brand and Market Yourself as a Photographer
  • How to Conquer Haters
  • How to Accumulate Capital
  • Why Be Different?
  • How to Master Marketing in Photography
  • Don’t Play it Safe
  • Why Blog?
  • How to Be a More Productive Photographer
  • How to Hustle
  • True Productivity
  • What Can Only You Do?
  • Love Risk
  • What is Success?
  • Fill a Vacuum
  • Think Big
  • What is Your Dream in Life?
  • 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
  • Why Be Normal?
  • How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

Photography Entrepreneurship 101

  • Don’t Sit Still!
  • Bitcoin for Photographers
  • Don’t Be Timid
  • Why Start Your Own Photography Blog?
  • Fill a Void
  • 1,000 True Followers: How to Build Your Own Niche in Photography
  • Photography Entrepreneurship 101: Why You Must Start Your Own Email Newsletter
  • TURBO CREATION: Why a Maxed-Out MacBook Laptop is the Best Investment You Can Make for Photography Entrepreneurship

Life and Productivity Hacks

  • My Ultimate Productivity and Life Hacks
  • Life/Productivity Hack: Write (Type on a phone) While Walking on a Dynamic Treadmill
  • ERIC KIM Life, Creativity, and Productivity Hacks

How to Make a Living from Your Passion

  • Digital Nomad Photographer
  • Build Your Own Instagram!
  • How to Be More Ambitious
  • Do It Your Way
  • How to Measure Your Progress as a Photography Entrepreneur + Come Up With New Ideas
  • How to Make a Living From Your Passion in Photography

Put a Dent in the Universe.

  • Fear Disguised as Reason
  • Distraction is the Enemy
  • Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
  • Reality is Malleable!
  • Stoic Entrepreneurship
  • Against Self-Preservation
  • The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur

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  • You Have No Limits.
  • Calculated Risk-Taking
  • Invest in Yourself
  • The Secret of Happiness: Shoot for the Moon!
  • Moonshot Thinking
  • Why We Should all Be Photography Entrepreneurs
  • Memento Mori Entrepreneurship
  • Why it is Better to Beg For Forgiveness than Ask For Permission
  • How to Become a Digital Nomad
  • Why You Must Own Your Own Platform
  • First Principle Thinking for Photography Entrepreneurs
  • How I Became a Digital Nomad
  • Better to Beg For Forgiveness than Ask For Permission!
  • Spurn Pleasing Others!
  • Create Your Own Niche
  • How to Gain More Exposure For Your Photography
  • Intense Focus
  • How to Conquer Your Fears as an Entrepreneur
  • Define Yourself
  • Let Dissatisfaction Drive You Forward!
  • It Doesn’t Matter if Someone Else Has Done it Before!
  • How to Succeed as a Photography Entrepreneur: Be Extremely Resourceful
  • Open Source Business Model in Photography Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship 101: Growth and Innovation Over Self-Preservation
  • How to Create Value as a Photography Entrepreneur
  • Why Become a Photography Entrepreneur?
  • Why You Must Ignore Nay-Sayers to Succeed in Entrepreneurship, Business, and Life

The Modern Photographer: Tips, Strategies, and Tactics to Thrive as a Visual Artist in the Digital Age

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Marketing, Branding, Entrepreneurship Principles For Success

MODERN PHOTOGRAPHER is your new philosophical and practical primer to succeed as a modern photographer in today’s digital world.

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Business Mental Models

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  • How to Succeed as a Photography Entrepreneur: Be Extremely Resourceful
  • Open Source Business Model in Photography Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship 101: Growth and Innovation Over Self-Preservation

How to Monetize Your Photography

EURO CAMERA MONEY by ANNETTE KIM

  • Photography Entrepreneurship 101: INFLUENCE
  • Should I Monetize My Passion for Photography?
  • 10 Practical Photography Monetization Strategies: Pricing, Google SEO, & Entrepreneurship
  • How to Make Money From Street Photography

Why Become a Photography Entrepreneur?

Take control of your own photographic destiny:

  1. Photography Startup Manual
  2. PHOTOGRAPHY ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANUAL
  3. On Risk Taking and Entrepreneurship

THE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHER

  • CREATIVE CAPITALISM
  • How to Monetize Your Photography
  • 5 Practical Photography Career Tips and Advice
  • 10x Thinking
  • How to Hustle as a Photographer
  • How to Become Your Own Master Marketer
  • The ‘T’ Technique of Success
  • Go Ahead and Sell Out
  • What is Your Unique Voice?
  • Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
  • What is Your Unique Angle as a Photographer?
  • Photography Content Marketing 101
  • Why You Must Become Your Own Publisher
  • The Art of Cross-Pollination in Photography

Photography Entrepreneurship Articles

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  • Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Pictures to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Flickr
  • How to Make Money From Your Photography
  • Photography SEO and Blogging: How to Become Number One on Google
  • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation
  •  Now is the Best Time to Be a Photographer
  • PRODUCERISM
  • What Is The Value of a Picture?
  • Your Photographic Labor is Not Free

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS 101

CAMERA MONEY GBP by ANNETTE KIM

  • Chapter 1. How to Make a Photography Blog
  • Chapter 2. How to Price Yourself
  • Chapter 3. How to Find Your Market
  • Chapter 4. Why Teach Workshops?
  • Chapter 5. How to Build Trust
  • Chapter 6. How to Market Yourself
  • Chapter 7: Why Should Someone Attend Your Workshop?

KEYS TO SUCCESS

  • Why You Must Be a “Personality” in Order to Succeed
  • THRIVE OR DIE.
  • Impatience is a Virtue
  • Create Your Own Category
  • HOW TO DREAM BIG.
  • Will Not or Cannot?
  • Why Not?
  • How to Think BIG
  • How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
  • How to Invest in Yourself
  • The Two Camera Rule
  • MEANINGFUL DIFFERENTIATION
  • Advice For College Students
  • How to Thrive in Uncertain Times
  • CANNIBALIZE YOURSELF.
  • DO AND GROW RICH
  • Does Fear of Punishment Hold You Back?
  • HOW TO GET MORE FOLLOWERS
  • How to Innovate
  • How to Build Your Own Empire
  • YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HARD WORK.
  • PICK YOURSELF.
  • OWN YOUR PLATFORM
  • 10 KEYS TO SUCCESS

Table of Contents

Learn how to make a living from your passion:

  • Preface. BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Chapter 1. How to Create Value
  • Chapter 2. ZEN CAPITALISM
  • Chapter 3. Scarcity
  • Chapter 4. How to Brand Yourself
  • Chapter 5. How to Build a True Following
  • Chapter 6. The Blueprint to Success in Photography
  • Chapter 7. HOW TO BE BOLD
  • Chapter 8. How to Sell Out
  • Chapter 9. GO AGAINST THE GRAIN
  • Chapter 10. EXTREME ABUNDANCE
  • Chapter 11. Photography Experience Economy
  • Chapter 12. Why You Should Make Money for Your Photography
  • Chapter 13. How to Become a Famous Photographer

Photography Business 101

  • Practical Photography Business Advice

How to Make Money with Photography

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  • How to Charge More Money in Your Photography
  • Why You Should Not Pursue Photography as Career
  • Can Photography Make You Rich?
  • How I Earn $200,000+ a Year From Photography
  • How to earn $10,000 a month as a photographer
  • Why you must be an expensive photographer

Photography Marketing 101

  • Why Have More Followers?
  • Why You Should Do Photography Work For Free
  • How I Became an Internet Famous Photographer
  • Photography Blogging Ideas
  • Why You Should Promote Your Own Name
  • How to Build a Following
  • How to Stand Out as a Photographer.
  • HOW TO GO VIRAL AS A PHOTOGRAPHER.
  • How to Master Marketing
  • How to Sell Yourself

SELLOUT ERIC KIM

How to Hustle.

  • Entrepreneurial Advice to My 18 Year Old Self
  • How to Become Insanely Productive.
  • 5 Lessons From Hesiod on Hustling

Entrepreneurial Principles

  • It is Better to Beg For Forgiveness Than Ask For Permission
  • The Free Way to Become Rich
  • JUST DO IT.
  • 7 Steps: How to Make a Living From Your Passion
  • How to Do What You Love for a Living
  • How to Create an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
  • How to Fail Big
  • How to Invest in Yourself
  • How to Be Bold in Photography and Life
  • Mission: Cover Your Rent and Food
  • 1,000 True Fans
  • The “10x Principle”: The Only Difference Between “Success” and “Failure”
  • Make More Value Not Money
  • We Live in a Photo Utopia

How to be a Full-time Photographer

  • How to Make a Living From Photography
  • The 3 Principles of Making Money With Photography
  • Advice for Aspiring Full-Time Photographers
  • Don’t Go Into Debt For Your Photography
  • How to Brand Yourself as a Photographer
  • Trust: The Most Important Thing You Need to Succeed as a Photographer

Photography Blogging

  • How to become rich from photography blogging
  • How to Make a Living with Blogging
  • 50 Blogging Tips For Beginners
  • How to Start Your Own Photography Blog
  • A Photographer’s Guide to SEO, Blogging, and Social Media

How to Teach Photography

  • How to Become a Photography Teacher
  • How to Teach a Street Photography Class
  • Why I Teach Street Photography Workshops

Social Media

  • Why I Deleted My Instagram
  • The Social Media Blackbook for Photographers
  • Why Do You Need More Likes or Followers?
  • Instagram is Going to Be the Next Facebook
  • Don’t Trust “Free” Photography Social Networks

How to Save Money

  • How Cindy Saved Us $150,000+
  • The Free Way to Become Rich

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MONEY 101

  1. Just Follow the Money
  2. My Money Philosophy
  3. Eternal fame and glory over money
  4. The Trillion Dollar Question: How to Make Money on the Internet Without Advertising?
  5. Entrepreneurship that Doesn’t Involve Money-Making?
  6. Money Ain’t Real
  7. Making Money for Fun, Not to Get Rich
  8. Why Money?

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