EARN BIG by building your own media company

GO BIG with your own media company

Hi everyone,

It's been fun watching everyone creating their new Products, Services and Premium Blog Packages these last few days.

Of course the question everyone has is: When does the "Buy Now" button get activated?

And the answer is: Very soon. I believe the engineers are only about 1 to 1 1/2 weeks away from launch. The team is completing some final testing before giving it their final "seal of approval". I promise to keep you posted, as always.

There's an idea floating around for people to make a lot of moneywith, while having a lot of fun at the same time.

   --> This idea revolves around building your own TV Channel.

For example, below you can check out this channel that some of our community members are creating.

They are calling it: "The FanBox Report".  

Note: FanBox is NOT the creator and producer of this channel -- but FanBox is OK with them using the "FanBox" name because they are very clear (in and around the video) that the video is NOT something from FanBox, but is from FanBox community members.

You can watch the first part of the episode below; then click "Read More" below to watch the 2nd part.

 

NOTE: The entire episode is free to watch today.

(So, how will they earn money with their channel?)

Well, in the future, the producers plan on making the 2nd part of each episode only viewable after viewers pay a small amount of money -- using a Premium Blog Package -- so the producers can earn money.

And it will be a monthly subscription -- meaning that the viewer will pay some amount of money each month (as determined by the producers) to have access to the channel -- so the creators only need to ask their viewers to click "Buy Now" once.

After that, the viewer will be automatically charged each month (and therefore have access to all episodes) and the producers will automatically receive earnings from all their subscribers.

This is called "Recurring Revenue": Now the producers will have a growing and predictable stream of earnings -- that they they need to pay for equipment, staff and more, as they build their media company!

We wish lots of luck to the producers of "The FanBox Report"!

Be sure to give a big shout out to the producers of "The FanBox Report": Chris, Arlene, Sy, Christina & Joe

I know many others are thinking about launching their own channels in different categories -- so this is a fantastic opportunity to learn from them. 

Questions:

Do you want to own your own media company?

What channel(s) will YOU create?

And here's the 2nd part:

Remember, the "FanBox Report" is NOT created or produced by FanBox -- so FanBox does not control, approve or edit their work.

It is a totally independent piece of work created by some very creative and enthusiastic members of the community.

5 Things Your Girlfriend Won't Tell You

5 Things Your Girlfriend Won't Tell You

The girlfriend code broken.

Last week we took a look at the 5 biggest secrets that boyfriends keep from their girlfriends, the 5 things we can’t let you know because it throws a real curve ball in our game. But as we all know guys aren’t the only game players in relationships. Girls play their fair share of games too. Girls play it coy, they wait for you to make moves before strategizing their own, and girls honestly don’t always say what they mean. Why? Why wouldn’t girls just tell it like it is? What do girls want from their guys? Why does it seem like girls only want the guys who treat them badly? Just what is going on in the female mind? Why won’t girls give good guys a chance? Finally we can give you some answers. Here it is, as promised, a look at the 5 things your girlfriend doesn’t want you to know as told by Love Lady Tina Kells.

1. We like the chase – you chasing us.
Yep, it’s sad but true that when a guy is too eager to catch us we wonder why. What is wrong with this guy? Why is he so clingy? Is he a control freak? Is he a serial dater? A player with many girlfriends on the go? Is he insane? It’s not that we don’t want to be caught, we do, we just don’t want to feel trapped and when things happen too fast trapped is how we feel. We need to be sure of our feelings and of our attraction before we can step off the racetrack and give up the chase. You need to woo us to make us yours. Some guys lay out traps, saying all the right things and meaning none of them, in an attempt to woo us and this gives way to our biggest fear; falling prey to an insincere guy who is more about the game than being in a relationship. For this reason even once we’re yours, even once we are sure of your feelings and you are sure of ours, we need to still feel a little bit of the chase. When you chase us we feel like you want us and are willing to do some work to be with us and we don’t want that feeling to go away just because you’ve caught us.

2. When we say we’re “OK” or that things are “fine” the opposite is probably true.
Girls are communicators. It is hardwired in to our psyches to talk and talk and talk some more whenever there is discord or conflict. So if you sense there’s a problem and gather the courage to ask us and we respond with a “fine” or “it’s ok” or some other sentence with less than 7 (short) words chances are good that we really want to talk. So, you think, what’s a guy to do? You ask a question, you get an answer, and you plan based on that answer. Who wants to read between the lines or guess what is really going on? What a waste of time, right? Wrong! When girls pull the short answers out during a conversation it is because we want you to put the effort in to getting us to open up. It comes from a place of feeling like you don’t usually care what we have to say so we want you to put some effort in to getting us to talk so we can be sure we will be listened to. Now those perceptive guys among you may have your hands up right now waiting to ask the obvious question… if a girl feels like she’s not usually heard isn’t that the REAL problem? Yes, yes it is, and one little talk won’t stop that feeling of being marginalized. In psychology we call this a learned response, a behavior that does not come naturally but rather has been developed through a process called social conditioning. You may very well be the most attentive boyfriend since the dawn of time but if her previous guys made her feel insignificant or unheard you’ll have to help her carry that baggage. Heck, you’ll have to help her unpack it and put it away! So when your girl replies with a curt little answer to your questions don’t take her at face value. Calmly and gently ask her a few more times. Once she feels like you will hear her nature will take over and, voila! You’ll be communicating.

3. We want you to have your guy time.
It is such a myth that girls don’t like to let their guy just hang with the boys. It's a terrible lie perpetrated by relationship-phobes throughout the ages. It is totally untrue that we want you to give up your life to be with us. Think of it this way… when we met you and fell for you, you were (hopefully) single and your friends were a big part of your life. Take your friends away and a big piece of the guy we fell for goes with them. So we want you to keep your guy time. We know you need your friends and truth be told we need our friends too. That being said, obviously when you are single you have lots of spare time to spend with friends but when you are in a relationship some of that time is going to be taken up by your significant other (A.K.A. us). That is only normal. It is normal for you to need your guy time and it is normal for you to want to spend time with us. If you find the right balance the guy-time issue quickly becomes a non-issue. It is when we feel like you don’t make as much time for us as you do for them or that you resent being away from your friends when you are with us that the stereotypical “girlfriend verses the friends” scenario takes the stage. It’s all about balance. Spending time with your friends or with us will never be an issue as long as there is a balance and as long as we never feel that they mean more to you than we do or that they come always first.

4. We want to know your friends but aren’t so sure you need to know ours.
I’m not going to lie; this is hypocrisy in its most raw form. We want you to bring us around your friends, we want to know them and we want them to like us, but we aren’t quite as crazy about you knowing our friends. The why of this is as simple as it is irrational and here it is… we want to know your boys so we can understand the kinds of things they may get you to do when we’re not around. In short, will they encourage you to cheat on us, will they get you doing reckless and dangerous things, and will they help you engage in self-destructive activities? What we want to know is if they will be good or bad influences on you. We also want to create a buffer; we want your friends to like us so that they won’t want you to lose us. If there is no tension between your friends and us then we don’t need to fear them asking you to choose between love and friendship. Now on the flip side, we don’t really want you getting all chummy with our friends because we don’t want them to fill you in on all of our dirty little secrets. As previously noted girls are talkers by nature and we don’t want them to let something slip that may make you raise an eyebrow in our direction. We also fear, but will never admit fearing, you wanting one of our friends more than you want us. It’s bad enough to lose your guy to another girl but when that girl was once a friend, well, the sting is even sharper. So allow us this hypocrisy. It’s irrational, that's true, but it’s also quite harmless.

5. We worry that other girls look better now that you are in a relationship.
Mike nailed the core of every girlfriend's relationship insecurity on the head when he brought up the GIGS (Grass Is Greener Syndrome). The idea that life is better on the other side is one of the most destructive forces in relationship world and girls feel that guys fall for it way too often. It is a great fear of ours that once you can’t have other girls you will suddenly want them all. It leads to a lot of unfounded jealousy brought on by innocent comments on your part or casual non-flirtatious conversations with other girls. So what’s a guy to do? In a perfect world you’d stop interacting with other girls altogether but our rational super-ego knows that’s not realistic. What you need to do is follow these three simple rules; 1) never pay more attention to another girl than you do to your girlfriend, 2) never comment over and over how hot/cool/nice/fun another girl is, and 3) if you meet a great girl while you’re in a relationship hook her up with one of your buddies (also known as taking her off the market and getting her out of our face). And should you ever really get the itch to jump the fence and live life on the other side... just do it! Don’t lead us on, don’t cheat on us, don’t sneak around, just end the relationship. If it ends up being a GIGS fueled mistake… oh well, consider it a hard lesson learned and leave us alone... we won't want you back any way!

Alternative Sleep Cycles

Most people only think that there is one way to sleep: Go to sleep at night for 6-8 hours, wake up in the morning, stay awake for 16-18 hours and then repeat. Actually, that is called amonophasic sleep cycle, which is only 1 of 5 major sleep cycles that have been used successfully throughout history. The other 4 are considered polyphasic sleep cycles due to the multiple number of naps they require each day. How is this possible? How is this healthy? Well the most important of every sleep cycle is the Stage 4 REM (Rapid Eye Movement)sleep, which has been shown to provide the benefits of sleep to the brain above all other stages of sleep. When changing over to a polyphasic cycle, the lack of sleep tricks the body into entering REM sleep immediately instead of 45 to 75 minutes into sleep like in the monophasic sleep. This way, you still get the benefits of 8 hours of sleep without wasting all of the time it takes to get to REM cycles, resulting in a much more efficient sleep cycle. Here are polyphasic cycles:

Uberman Cycle:

20 to 30 minute naps every 4 hours, resulting in 6 naps each day. The uberman cycle is highly efficient, and usually results in feeling healthy,  feeling refreshed upon waking and extremely vivid dreams. Many uberman-users report increased ability to lucid dream as well. However, the rigid schedule makes it near impossible to miss naps without feeling horribly tired. Blogger Steve Pavlina tried the cycle for 5.5 months and had amazingly positive results.He only reverted to monophasic sleep so that he could be on the same cycle as his wife and children. Read his articles and updates on the cycle here.

Everyman Cycle:

One longer “core” nap that is supplemented with several 20-30 minute naps. The most successful variations that I have read about are either one 3 hour nap and three 20-minute naps or one 1.5 hour nap with 4-5 20 minute naps, all of which have equal amounts of time in between each nap. This cycle is much easier to adjust to than the Uberman and allows for more flexibity in nap times and in skipping naps when necessary. It is also still extremely efficient compared to monophasic with only 3-4 hours of sleep per day. Many bloggers have tried out this cycle and reported no negative effects on their health.

Dymaxion Cycle:

Bucky Fuller invented the cycle based on his belief that we have two energy tanks, the first is easy to replenish whereas the second tank (second wind) is much harder to replenish. So Bucky began sleeping for 30 minutes every 6 hours. That’s 2 hours a day of sleep! He reported feeling, “the most vigorous and alert condition I have ever enjoyed.” Doctors examined him after several years of using the cycle and pronounced him perfectly healthy. In fact, Fuller only stopped the cycle because his business associates were still stuck on monophasic cycles. This is by far the most extreme of the 4 alternate cycles, but also the most efficient.

Biphasic/Siesta Cycle:

Not even worthy of a diagram, the biphasic cycle is basically that of every college student in America. The biphasic cycle consists of sleeping for 4-4.5 hours at night, and then taking a 90 minute nap around noon. So not all that different, still more efficient than monophasic, but not by much.

So which cycle is right for you?

That completely depends on your lifestyle. Keep in mind that if you decide to switch to either the Dymaxion or Uberman cycles, you will be a zombie from day 3 to around day 10 until your body fully adjusts to the cycle. Here are some other tips I have gathered from reading other people’s accounts:

- Eat healthy, avoid fatty foods and the adjustment will be much easier

- Make sure you have a project to work on during all of your new awake hours as it makes the time go by faster

- Also make sure you have two or three weeks of freedom to adjust to the cycle so that you don’t go to work or school completely dead from sleep deprivation

- Hang in there. Each of the cycles will get exponentially easier all of the sudden after the first 2 weeks or so. Just be patient and diligent! Don’t skip naps or change your nap times around or you will basically have to start your adjustment period over.

- Use natural cues for being waking up from naps like sunlight and loud music, while using darkness and silence for sleep (obviously)

How to Propose to Your Girlfriend

How to Propose to Your Girlfriend                                                             Of course it’s nerve-wracking to pop the question, but if you’ve been lying awake thinking about how to do it, it’s probably just a sign that you’re truly ready for that next step! Think of this as an exciting time, one where you and your girlfriend will embark on a journey that will last for the rest of your lives. Don’t worry about your girlfriend judging you—she loves you, after all—and just focus on how to make your marriage proposal as sweet as it can possibly be.


1. Pick the Right Time

First of all, you need to know for certain that you’re at the right point in your relationship to be proposing. A marriage proposal is not a magic salve that will fix any serious disagreements between you and your girlfriend. Don’t pick a time when she is under a lot of stress, or when either of you is going through a serious rough patch in life. You both must be absolutely convinced that you truly want to spend the rest of your lives together.

2. Stay True to Yourself

It seems tempting to try and impress your girlfriend with a flashy proposal, but keep in mind that she loves you for you! Proposing to her in a way that comes from deep within your heart, rather than attempting to dazzle her with a contrived situation, is what will really win her over. You want the proposal to reflect all the things that are real and wonderful about your relationship.

3. Bring the Romance

Although you want your proposal to be genuine, it’s also going to be one of the most romantic things you ever do, so it’s a great idea to play that up. A lot of the traditional techniques are still winners: a romantic restaurant, classical music, getting down on one knee. Other people think it’s more romantic to announce their proposal during a public event like a sports game. Whatever sounds the best to you, be sure to plan ahead so that the moment won’t be interrupted.

4. Consider Her Feelings

Your girlfriend might be quiet and shy, in which case she might be mortified if you proposed to her with a huge song and dance. Similarly, if she doesn’t like sports, proposing during a ball game would reflect more on your interests and not hers. Give a moment of thought to what she would really enjoy the most. If you propose to her when the time is right, it will be far more likely that she’ll cherish the memory forever.

5. Make It Special

If you and your girlfriend share many interests, now is your chance to create a proposal plan that’s tailored to your strengths as a couple. People are getting more and more creative with their proposals these days, and everyone is sure to remember it if you propose to your girlfriend in a quirky way that shows off your individuality. Or, if you think a traditional approach would be more appropriate, you can simply change a few of the details so that it subtly reflects you and your partner’s personalities. Go with what your heart tells you is right, and a proposal really can be that perfect golden moment in both your lives.