Greetings Entreprenerds!
My guest this week is Grace Herbert from Zonbi’s Workshop, cosplayer, YouTuber, and author of “The Cosplay Handbook: A Book of Costume and Prop Making Techniques”. Zonbi shares her experience from nearly 15 years of prop and costume making in over 150 YouTube tutorials. She was also a contestant on SyFy’s Cosplay Melee along with former guests KnowOne’s Designs and Marty LeGrow.
In this episode, we discuss:
- 3:00 How Zonbi got started in cosplay and YouTube
- 5:00 Monetizing a cosplay brand
- 8:00 Writing “The Cosplay Handbook”
- 10:00 The book publishing process
- 15:00 Growing the Zonbi YouTube Channel
- 20:30 Engaging with the cosplay community
- 22:00 Filming SyFy’s Cosplay Melee
- 28:00 Promoting Zonbi’s Workshop
Head to Zonbisworkshop.com to learn more and follow Zonbi’s Workshop on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
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