THE INFLUENTIAL WALLS
ELITE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
WE'RE ABOUT TO RESHAPE YOUR FUTURE
If you're here, it's because you're likely feeling lost, alone, or inadequate to some degree in regards to your journey in the arts. This is something every artist has gone through to a certain extent. The intention behind our Influential Walls Elite Mentorship Program is to eliminate those feelings and eliminate the starving artist mentality.
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This Program is the industry's leading mentorship program for muralists. It is designed to turn an artist into a brand strategist, designer, marketing expert, and powerful negotiator.
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Mentees receive one-on-one coaching with various collective members in Influential Walls, including our Founder, Derrik Diza, UX/UI Expert and Muralist, Morgan Zion, Hyperrealism Muralist and Graphic Designer, Steve Martinez, and Upscale Illustration Muralist and Graphic Designer, Otto Martinez.
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Welcome young grasshopper. Let's get it!
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THE HARD DATA
We offer different Mentorship Packages dependent on where you are at in your career but all packages include an extensive video library, live group calls with Q&A with our Founder, access to an online community of hungry and accomplished muralists and creatives, and a business blueprint customized for where you are in your journey. You may have only a couple murals under your belt, want to quit your job, and go full-time in the art world. On the contrary, you may have sold $100,000 worth of murals last year all through word-of-mouth and want consistent leads that have larger budgets. Some of you may want to focus on studio work and just paint a few murals a year that are with large commercial companies.
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Mentorship is custom fit to each artist we work with.
What Comes with the Influential Walls Mentorship Program?
35%
of students are on track to do $100,000 in their first year after graduating who otherwise were not.
$1M +
Get expertise from our Mentorship Team, who has generated over $1,000,000 in Mural Sales Combined.
50%
of students earn their tuition investment back halfway through our Program.
YOUR NEW MENTORS
ONE-ON-ONE SESSIONS WITH TOP TIER MURALIST MENTORSHIP TEAM
Our Team has expertise is several areas passed Brand Strategy, Lead Generation, and Sales. Students are taught various other skill sets including:
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Auditing email performance, sales roleplays for objection handling and presentation skills, strategic niche selections + more
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Efficiency in design, composition, and art complexity to simplify mural painting on various surfaces
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Learn how to conduct proper sales calls, handle objections, close deals, and price your work higher​​​
LIVE AND RECORDED GUIDANCE FOR SETTING UP NICHED EMAIL MARKETING SYSTEMS
We have proven marketing strategies that are based on formulas. Not on going viral. Not on word of mouth. Those are not dependable lead sources. We want leads to be predictable.
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We will teach you:
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How to set up an effective lead generation system through automated email systems that you can easily scale to find more clients
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Where to find decision makers
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How to communicate with prospects and clients at each point of contact
BRAND STRATEGY VIDEOS + CALLS + BRAND ASSET TEMPLATES & AUDITS
Brand Strategy focuses on your passions to build out a plan of action to help you land dream clients.
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Sessions focus on:
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Dominating a niche
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Creating an impactful & direct Artist Statement
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Determining long term direction based on your mission, goals, and ideal target audience
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Developing decks, proposals, and presentations that elevate your brand
ASSIGNMENT DASHBOARD, RECORDINGS, ACCESS TO WEBINARS, GUIDES, AND MURALIST COMMUNITY
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how we structure everything. Students receive access to a custom online dashboard, webinars, guides, and get to meet other students in the program across the world. Access includes:
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Customized Assignments Dashboard
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Monthly webinars, art critiques, and unreleased guides
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Exclusive access to online cohort community​​
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Our best students who prove technical art ability, business acumen, and professionalism may receive an invite to join the Influential Walls Collective or Mentorship Team
The Influential Walls Elite Mentorship Program is run by our Founder, Derrik Diza. But Derrik is constantly bringing in guest speakers to Group Calls, Mentorship Retreats, and even - in certain cases, to One-on-One Calls.
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Derrik grew Influential Walls into an agency by developing 3 skills essential to business: brand strategy, marketing, and sales. He is an expert at crafting email marketing systems, helping artists truly define their brand and find profitable niches that they can be passionate working within, and teaching them how to close deals on calls for prices they could have never imagined. He has worked directly with the Boston Red Sox, Accenture, almost every school district in California, and received sponsorships from companies like Buffalo Wild Wings, Vuori, and Stanley Cups.
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Everything we do at Influential Walls is about community. As previously stated, Derrik loves bringing in other experts to teach our students and mentees how to blow up their art career. We have hosted guests like Morgan Zion who is an expert at retainer deals, UX and UI, and corporate sales - she's closed deals with Amazon, The Marriott, LuluLemon, TikTok, and more. Steve Martinez, a hyper realism artist and gallery curator who has worked with El Pollo Loco, Sony, Apple, Walmart, +more has led calls critiquing our students' pieces and improving their eye for design. Devona Stimpson, who has owned her own branding agency and worked with DirectTV and Microsoft, has taught lectures on visual branding and long-term brand strategy. Izzy Addison, a famous IG and Youtube artist who has put products in stores like Hot Topic, has lectured on diversifying your income as an artist. The list goes on and on.
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We are a community of hungry artists looking to find more of you to grow into Influential Artists who can lead calls and this community with us. Are you ready?
Student Results
We have proven marketing strategies that are based on formulas. Not on going viral. Not on word of mouth. Those are not dependable lead sources. We want leads to be predictable.
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We will teach you:
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How to set up an effective lead generation system through automated email systems that you can easily scale to find more clients
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Where to find decision makers
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How to communicate with prospects and clients at each point of contact​
DANIEL ANDREU
@ARTBYANDREU
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"Influential Walls is in great service to the world and to artists. Organizations like Influential Walls are advocates for artists and teaching. How else would we learn these things and connect art to business?
My DM's are going crazy after 1.5 months.. Sticking to the plan has doubled my leads!
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Most I've learned in a class I've paid for. Game changer. Thank you and God bless ya!"
PRESLEY
@PRESLEYMADEIT
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"Finding the Influential Walls Mentorship Program is the best thing that could have happened to me post graduation. Coming straight out of college with no intent of using my degree and deciding to pursue my passion of being an artist felt like a risky decision.
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The guidance and assistance that Derrik and Influential Walls has offered since our very first meeting has paid dividends. The biggest takeaway from the Mentorship Program that I have noticed as a mentee is how my brand is portrayed to the public.
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I have gone from the girl who does art on the side to a self-sustaining full-time artist in less than 3 months!"
CALEB CRISP
@MADEBYCRISP
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"The Influential Walls Mentorship Program is by far the best investment I have made in my professional career.
I quit my job in January of 2024 and joined the mentorship program shortly after. By the end of the summer I had generated over 15 new leads and am on track to double my previous full time salary!
The 1 on 1 program gave me the tools to significantly scale my business’s marketing, showed me how to target decision makers, refined my pitching and sales process, gave me the confidence to raise my prices and set project minimums, and helped me learn sales tactics to land 5 figure deals.
5 out of 5 stars :D"
LUKE BERG
@LUKEBERGG
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"The Influential Walls community has been the best expense I’ve ever made. I have been learning the course as well with doing 1 on 1 calls with Derrik and I already got my moneys worth through the first month. I own a video production company, not even a mural business, so this truly shows how versatile and effective Derrik’s mentorship and expertise truly is. He helped us raise our minimums from 2k to 8k per project and now I’m making 4x what I was a few months ago. I've closed a 30k deal in talks with doing a 60k deal later this summer. I highly recommend Derrik’s course or 1 on 1 mentorship for anyone wanting to scale their business as an artist."