Werk.Baby Artist Portfolio Project

Origins of Beast.Vision Corp. and the Werk.Baby Project

When I first started my professional BDSM practice, I created a second cover business for it that I registered with the state. It wasn't REALLY a cover business, in the sense that it wasn't covering up any kind of illegal activity-- Beast.Industries has always been run totally above board, in a way that I can describe my activities to my bankers and be accepted. But, I do still like the added layer of discretion, as do my clients. The simplest example of that being their bank statements show the generic looking BFI PMT LLC instead of Beast.Industries.

My tagline for that business is, "Business Services for Independent Contractors." (NOT Financial Services... Important distinction.) When talking to my business in professional settings, I say that I do some sort of administrative work and account maintenance for independent BDSM providers.

Well, my business doesn't actually do that, nor do I ever plan to do that. I'm a salesman. I make my money from my group of individual clients that come from a very small niche, where I have an entire system built to suck money consistently out of them over the long term. And it is not built to do much else. But I'm also and educator first and foremost, so that always has to be a core part of whatever I do, including business.

So, I made the conscious decision that when I DO have areas of my expertise that spill over in a way that can be helpful to my peers, I would never charge for what I do, and the materials will always be free in the public domain. I recently formalized that, and registered Beast.Vision Corp. as a non-profit, and transferred the ownership of all of my master contract documents to it. That was largely a symbolic gesture, but it also fits in with some of the details of how I handle selling content to my clients. And you gotta use what you know, and as someone who had worked in the non-profit education field for a long time, that was a quick and easy project for me that only cost $35.00.

When it comes to interacting with my peers, the most frequent topic that I get questions and requests for help around is payment processing. Unfortunately, I will not ever be releasing any sort of general "guide" on payment processing. Except for maybe instructions on how to walk down to the nearest tattoo shop and ask the owner how they do it. I DO share advice on the topic with my peers quite frequently, and I do even have a handful of guide materials related to specific topics that I occasional share. But they are highly specific to certain scenarios, and also not something that I'd be comfortable releasing publicly.

The second most common topic is websites. Or rather, the conversation most commonly LEADS there, because my answer to their question was, "your own website."

A lot of people assume that one of the hardest parts of building a website is going to be the "design" itself, and that certainly is a big part of it, but when you're starting from scratch, the hardest part is actually just getting the website to simply display at the domain address that you bought. This is the biggest difference between setting up something manually like I'm going to show you how to do on this training website, versus paying for a more expensive all-in-one service like Wix or Squarespace, that automates this part of the process. With the method I'm teaching here, you can add both of those services to your website later on.

In any case though, whichever method you use to get set up and going, the actual "building" portion of creating the website is going to be quite familiar. Using a modern What-You-See-is-What-You-Get website builder, its no more complicated than say, making a newsletter or worksheet using a word processing app.

But again, building that website is different than managing to make it display at the new domain you just bought. So this training will focus on the practical side of making that happen, with a little bit of basic design added as well. When I was exploring different presentation options, I realized that the most meaningful way would be to use that same tools I'm training on, to build a website that is actually a training about websites. 

Werk.Baby

So that's where Werk.Baby comes in. This website is an interactive training site to empower independent artists to improve their brand recognition through building their own website at a custom domain, using a cheap domain and free hosting. Within the training, there are also sections on payment processing and obtaining a business bank account and ensuring discretion. Some of these sections are password protected, to help protect the safety of the providers who need this kind of information.

To promote this project, and to encourage my colleagues to take the initiate and just get to Werk.Baby, I'm giving away the ten domains below for free, in addition to offering to set up time to help you transfer it and get you up and running.

Read details about the domain giveaway here, or the training site here. This site can be accessed through any of the domains that are to be given away.

Each winner will win two domains,

one spicy and one vanilla: