How to Find Friends

BlueBuzzy said:

A laptop? You need a battle station for CSGO lol! For sure man, I'll hit you up.

On a serious note, you do need outside contact aka being away from your computer. Gyms, classes, hobby clubs, or even a church (not necessarily for religious purposes, but simply to talk to people and socialize - sometimes talking to people is all you need, no matter the subject).

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kab said:

Hey, I’d like to join the csgo team too hmu if there’s a spot available.

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majdi107 said:

Tinder

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theeyeinside said:

OK. I know what you are going through so I will reveal one of my trade secrets.

You want to meet beautiful people.

You want to meet successful people.

You want to meet rich people.

You need to be in show biz.

A special kind of show biz.

A "show biz for the masses".

A show biz where you can meet interesting people and make money as well.

You are going to produce a model shoot. A model shoot at a night club.

So do this -

1) Visit the Shopify business name generator. You are looking to create your own Fashion Brand. Put in the keyword "fashion". You will see what comes up.

2) Visit Godaddy.com and see if your best fashion name is available. No? Repeat. You will eventually find one you like. Buy it with the Godaddy $4.99 coupon.

3) Go to a GPL Theme Club like GPLDL. You need two themes.

A WooCommerce Store theme suitable for a Fashion Brand, something like "Olsen". It is your Amazon Store / Review site. Get the WooZone Amazon store plugin from Codecanyon. Install it and import one or two hundred of the best fashion items you can find. This is for women, so include clothes, makeup, supplements, hair accessories, etc

A Photography or Agency theme. This is for your Photography / Agency / Show Biz business.

If you can afford hosting get a cheap VPS at Web Hosting Talk and install those sites. If your budget is tight, google search "Free CPanel Web Host"

4) Business cards are $20 per thousand on EBay. Get business cards made for each website.

5) Go to one of the Graphics Sharing sites and find a Graphics River Poster for a "Model Party". Search words like "girl club party", or anything in "clubs, parties". These are for the events you produced a while ago. Did I forget to tell you that you are a producer? Modify them for those cities you used to live in.

6) Go to eBay and search "50 Custom Printing Service Card Stock Double Sided 8.5x11 COLOR Flyers " $10.

These are for the leftover flyers that you happen to have found in a box when you decided to become active as a producer again. I am sure the one night events were fun, but you are thinking that just maybe putting on events over a 6 week period will be more fun. Send the images to the printer and get your sample event posters.

7) Now for the big guns. You need to buy a camera.

You can do it easy or you can do it hard. But you have to do it.

You have to buy a NIKON. All other cameras are just "cameras". A Nikon is a NIKON.

And it has to be a DSLR camera, in case you want to do some video.

So search eBay for a Nikon Professional FX series body like a D750 or even a used one if the camera company tells you that it has a low shutter count. You will also need an "all around" telephoto like a Sigma 70-300. You need a cheap 3 light setup and a backdrop and you are in business. Choose strobes if you can. Continuous lights get really hot after 4 hours. Have backup lights and an extra camera.

8) Now you need to sales pitch the project to a club. They pay you a fee as well as for the main prizes. This is for 6 weeks and involves alot of publicity and sales for the club so do not be afraid to ask for $5,000 and settle for $4000. You keep half.

Three ways to make money having a model shoot (like every Saturday night for 6 weeks). You will show up early on a Saturday night, setup your studio in some corner the club provides. You will shoot every woman that wants to enter. Bring an assistant to guard the equipment and accept the paperwork. You collect names, phone numbers and emails from every contestant. You will need a master of ceremonies from the drama club at the local college to be a announce everything. WEAR EARPLUGS. I kid you not. The noise takes alot out of you.

Now you need to sales pitch the project to a club. They pay you a fee as well as for the main prizes. Talk to local businesses in the area that might want to sponsor the project before signing the contract with the club.

a) The club pays you a fee for your services

b) You sell photos to the contestants

c) You sell sponsorships to local businesses (they pay as well as provide gifts and coupons for the contestants)

d) Gold sponsors can provide bigger prizes for the winners

e) The club should be supplying a couple of big prizes. Like $1500 for the 1st and $1000 for the 2nd and $500 for the 3rd.

f) You also keep what is left over of the sponsorship money after you also buy additional prizes for the winners. (if you and your assistant shoot for 4 hours a night for 6 nights, that is 48 hours that has to be paid for) (maybe you keep half the sponsorship money and you use half for additional prizes)

g) Video tape the shoot, the crowd and everything that happens and you can sell custom DVD's of the model for $100 a pop.

The grand prizes are awarded on the LAST night. All contestants MUST be present to win. Winners are chosen by applause from the audience.

Bring extra helpers on nights 4,5 and 6 when the word gets around. Night 6 is a mad house. Standing room only.

For the prizes, think of something flashy as well as money or physical gift items. Like maybe an all expense paid trip to some acting school in California for a 4 day workshop or some such thing. Maybe even a choice of money or the workshop. You are "selling the dream".

This system works because I have personally done this in Phoenix.

You will meet EVERYONE and will never have a problem getting a date. You will know more people than you could ever have dreamed.

But it gets better.

You will also announce that for a limited time, any contestant that buys clothing from Amazon, you will photograph and put their photos on your fashion brand website. You just find the asin number of the product, add it to your website and add the extra photos of the new model. You could actually add that to the sales flyer for the shoot.

Every woman that you photograph becomes a new promoter of your Amazon site and whatever they buy, you get paid.

Also having your own POD line of T-Shirts "XXXXXXXXX Studios Model Team" or "XXXXXXXX Talent Model Team" can bring in extra cash.

Eventually you can produce the model look book and the calendar and ........

Sincerely,

TheEye

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gentzalli said:

It's a shame that this forum doesn't have a meetup IRL section like a lot of other business/entrepreneur ones I've been on - @Diamond Damien @BassTrackerBoats is there any chance for this in the future? I get that there's ungagged, but I mean a dedicated meetup subforum where we have different continents, cities

I feel like there's so many smart minds on here and we all share this similar passion that it's a shame we can't meet in person and discuss ideas and possibly work together.

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Zwielicht said:

The closest we have to a meetup section is the BHW Events subforum: https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/bhw-events.207/

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gentzalli said:

That's cool too, but I guess you have to wait and see If/When an event ever comes near you which can be tough to work around. Do you know if a true meetup section can ever become a possibility on the forum? I mean one where members can just post in their city thread without an event actually having to take place

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theeyeinside said:

OK. I know what you are going through so I will reveal one of my trade secrets.

You want to meet beautiful people.

You want to meet successful people.

You want to meet rich people.

You need to be in show biz.

A special kind of show biz.

A "show biz for the masses".

A show biz where you can meet interesting people and make money as well.

You are going to produce a model shoot. A model shoot at a night club.

So do this -

1) Visit the Shopify business name generator. You are looking to create your own Fashion Brand. Put in the keyword "fashion". You will see what comes up.

2) Visit Godaddy.com and see if your best fashion name is available. No? Repeat. You will eventually find one you like. Buy it with the Godaddy $4.99 coupon.

3) Go to a GPL Theme Club like GPLDL. You need two themes.

A WooCommerce Store theme suitable for a Fashion Brand, something like "Olsen". It is your Amazon Store / Review site. Get the WooZone Amazon store plugin from Codecanyon. Install it and import one or two hundred of the best fashion items you can find. This is for women, so include clothes, makeup, supplements, hair accessories, etc

A Photography or Agency theme. This is for your Photography / Agency / Show Biz business.

If you can afford hosting get a cheap VPS at Web Hosting Talk and install those sites. If your budget is tight, google search "Free CPanel Web Host"

4) Business cards are $20 per thousand on EBay. Get business cards made for each website.

5) Go to one of the Graphics Sharing sites and find a Graphics River Poster for a "Model Party". Search words like "girl club party", or anything in "clubs, parties". These are for the events you produced a while ago. Did I forget to tell you that you are a producer? Modify them for those cities you used to live in.

6) Go to eBay and search "50 Custom Printing Service Card Stock Double Sided 8.5x11 COLOR Flyers " $10.

These are for the leftover flyers that you happen to have found in a box when you decided to become active as a producer again. I am sure the one night events were fun, but you are thinking that just maybe putting on events over a 6 week period will be more fun. Send the images to the printer and get your sample event posters.

7) Now for the big guns. You need to buy a camera.

You can do it easy or you can do it hard. But you have to do it.

You have to buy a NIKON. All other cameras are just "cameras". A Nikon is a NIKON.

And it has to be a DSLR camera, in case you want to do some video.

So search eBay for a Nikon Professional FX series body like a D750 or even a used one if the camera company tells you that it has a low shutter count. You will also need an "all around" telephoto like a Sigma 70-300. You need a cheap 3 light setup and a backdrop and you are in business. Choose strobes if you can. Continuous lights get really hot after 4 hours. Have backup lights and an extra camera.

8) Now you need to sales pitch the project to a club. They pay you a fee as well as for the main prizes. This is for 6 weeks and involves alot of publicity and sales for the club so do not be afraid to ask for $5,000 and settle for $4000. You keep half.

Three ways to make money having a model shoot (like every Saturday night for 6 weeks). You will show up early on a Saturday night, setup your studio in some corner the club provides. You will shoot every woman that wants to enter. Bring an assistant to guard the equipment and accept the paperwork. You collect names, phone numbers and emails from every contestant. You will need a master of ceremonies from the drama club at the local college to be a announce everything. WEAR EARPLUGS. I kid you not. The noise takes alot out of you.

Now you need to sales pitch the project to a club. They pay you a fee as well as for the main prizes. Talk to local businesses in the area that might want to sponsor the project before signing the contract with the club.

a) The club pays you a fee for your services

b) You sell photos to the contestants

c) You sell sponsorships to local businesses (they pay as well as provide gifts and coupons for the contestants)

d) Gold sponsors can provide bigger prizes for the winners

e) The club should be supplying a couple of big prizes. Like $1500 for the 1st and $1000 for the 2nd and $500 for the 3rd.

f) You also keep what is left over of the sponsorship money after you also buy additional prizes for the winners. (if you and your assistant shoot for 4 hours a night for 6 nights, that is 48 hours that has to be paid for) (maybe you keep half the sponsorship money and you use half for additional prizes)

g) Video tape the shoot, the crowd and everything that happens and you can sell custom DVD's of the model for $100 a pop.

The grand prizes are awarded on the LAST night. All contestants MUST be present to win. Winners are chosen by applause from the audience.

Bring extra helpers on nights 4,5 and 6 when the word gets around. Night 6 is a mad house. Standing room only.

For the prizes, think of something flashy as well as money or physical gift items. Like maybe an all expense paid trip to some acting school in California for a 4 day workshop or some such thing. Maybe even a choice of money or the workshop. You are "selling the dream".

This system works because I have personally done this in Phoenix.

You will meet EVERYONE and will never have a problem getting a date. You will know more people than you could ever have dreamed.

But it gets better.

You will also announce that for a limited time, any contestant that buys clothing from Amazon, you will photograph and put their photos on your fashion brand website. You just find the asin number of the product, add it to your website and add the extra photos of the new model. You could actually add that to the sales flyer for the shoot.

Every woman that you photograph becomes a new promoter of your Amazon site and whatever they buy, you get paid.

Also having your own POD line of T-Shirts "XXXXXXXXX Studios Model Team" or "XXXXXXXX Talent Model Team" can bring in extra cash.

Eventually you can produce the model look book and the calendar and ........

Sincerely,

TheEye

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legion85 said:

I work in the same field. Do not repeat my mistakes: hang out with people if they invite you to drink a coffee with them at the coffee machine, always greet everyone you meet on your way to your desk, occasionally ask how's it going (don't overdo it, you'll look too inquisitive), tell a funny story from your previous job (don't smear them though!)

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