We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Quinton Smith. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Quinton below.

Quinton, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Alright, so one thing we think people don’t talk about nearly enough is investments – either time or money. What’s one of the best or worst investments you’ve made and what did you learned from the experience?

I would say, my worst investment was not taking time to analyze how beneficial it is for me to invest into the resources and assets around me that could help me on the inside, and that goes for the personal and business. When it comes to being professional as a freelancer, and when you don’t have, ideal education or a reliable mentor, It can be very easy to frivolously invest but then have high expectations. So I ran into the issue of seeing my operation and priorities as what I wanted and not what they were in the scope of the business market that I’m inside of.
Which then lead me to my best investment, being how I prioritize my short term goals Vs my long-term expectations. Thus leading me to the realization that I need to be proactively putting in the effort to exceed the expected wants & needs of my target audience and consistent clientele.

Quinton, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

For starters, I want to build a business network, allowing people to have reliable resources on speed dial, but I already understand there was a needs wow understanding the history that lead those people total situations. As a young man, without ideal qualifications, I begin to study economics after being granted an intern position, while inside of the workforce development program called year up. The economics field and training helped me understand how to scale business and how to track one of the most important things as a beginner in business your P&L margins. And while brainstorming, I came up with the acronym BLIIND, standing for building low interest into new desires, as a motivational mantra, to help assist people in shifting their previous interests or hobbies into a realistic side hustle/business/livelihood. Beginning I was around majority sports artist and as we call them now Content creators.
I saw a demand for the media production/visual producer market when studying some economic, forums and national data. The demand in my real life experiences became almost overwhelming and in abundance so I didn’t have to go searching for work at first.. once I started to gain clients in produce enough inside of my portfolio to offer my services, I saw I could go more towards full-time with this work, and that’s where all of the serious back end priorities inside of the business became relevant.
From their connecting with the right mentors, booking the right type of work to gain valuable experience, and to create reliable income, was a lot of my main focus. I knew I had the right intentions for the business before I started it, so I always kept that in the forefront of my negotiations and my attention to detail when in the moment with the client or team I was working with.
So I began taking sports, live performance, personal branding & small business clients which has led me to a very vibrant network of people that have been a great support system. One of my reoccurring situations when handling my work is, I am a perfectionist, and my attention to detail sometimes becomes a hindrance. With my childhood loves being connected into my current work, livelihood and business.
I have a unwavering commitment to build, grow and connect with as many like-minded people as possible because I understand at the end of the day, healthy communication, good equipment, and the right kind of eye, in this business can leave all of my connected parties into favorable dynamics for their business and for their personal futures.
So I don’t believe in flat rates unless you have a small event or we have built rapport and agreed-upon those numbers but other than that, I always like to negotiate in create the contract based off each clients, specific and unique frame of reference towards their business goals.
Being that I have not had ideal professional equipment I had to have the energy, the passion, the charisma, and the sanguine mentality to be adaptable for my lack of experience and equipment to nail me out.
At one point in time I was taught under promise over deliver to leave room for the feedback I want in the feedback every client wants to offer, but sometimes doesn’t for the own reasons.
My mentor, friends supporters & clients have given me amazing feedback on how to grow where to grow, and how to show that I have grown which only benefits my future understanding of how to be sustainable in this chaotic capitalist system we currently have.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

I think it’s such a great question because that’s always been my focus since I was a kid. With anything intensity and tension, effort, and morale all be a top priority before and inside of the feedback after annoy team completes any operation. So my biggest goal was to always communicate that there is no right or wrong; good or bad, only that we just need to learn how to adapt when we see and hear things that we didn’t expect.
Consistent reassurance, constructive feedback, and unique 1on1 conversations have been a great way for me when it comes to maintaining team spirit per se.
For most things, there is no one right way, so if we can respect and honor the hierarchy of positions, then all look at the dynamic and agree on a path, moving forward, I don’t see an issue that could come from that.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

Word of mouth, creative events, and like-minded people. They have been at the forefront of my growth and I can’t think them enough. Mainly when I go to his events and connect with people who host or publish/post about upcoming events, that is my most consistent and reliable way to truly build rapport with a entity, person, league or team.
Face-to-face smiles, hugs, handshakes & conversations can’t take a backseat in your priority list!
Truly those are your most effective ways to build any business.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://dot.cards/bliind?fbclid=PAAaYyw-M0wABqbnB45Fh7dLAwSh5OdNsZbsssSJ1uhtV5YSllraf6WPl1jYA
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/qudinii?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quinton.smith.73307?mibextid=LQQJ4d

Image Credits
Photos of me taken by: Zaine Butler, Starlight Media & Montage