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Why Should You Become An Affiliate?

• ​Entertainers do not directly make money from their work.

What is an Affiliate Marketer?

• An affiliate Marketer is an individual who promotes and sells corporation products for a certain commission without being employed by the said establishment.

How would I use affiliate programs with my talent?

• 1st, It’s never about the product but what the product can do for the customer.

• 2nd, Create a work of art, a story, a song, a video, a comedy skit. (Click here to learn how to properly promote a product within your content without turning it into a commercial)

• 3rd, Go over it, are there any particular products you naturally shout out?

• 4th, If yes, find out where one can purchase that product online. (Click here to learn some of the best products to promote)

• 5th, Sign up for the free affiliate program and acquire the affiliate link or code

• 6th, Go back to your content, place the link in the content or below it. If it is below it, say, dress like, character’s name. Or, feeling said character’s style or behavior you can get something similar.

• 7th, Place a one or two sentence call to action at the bottom of your post. (Click here to see an example of this.)

• 7th, Upload Content

• 8th, Attract People to your site

 What do I need?

• An updatable site, also known as a blog. (Learn why indie entertainers need to have a blog or website)

• You can do this with a free blog platform

• Or purchase the Empower Network vlogging platform for $25 a month. (See list of features here)

 What is the Empower Network?

• It is an educational company that teaches small-business owners, entrepreneurs,and opportunist how to maneuver the internet in order to acquire more customers/fans/followers through a series of products.

• It is an Affiliate Based Program that pays 100% commission.

• Click here to see my Empower Network Blog and  learn about the compensation system.

 Why would I pay for a blog platform if I can get one for free?

• This one comes with an affiliate program.

• Not only can you garnish an income from the products that you promote in your content

• You can also get an income from selling the vlogging platform that you are using to someone else who is interested in changing their life.

• It is an authority site, therefore your site will have the ability to rank high on the search engines page. The more visible you are the more of following you acquire. (Learn how to set your site up for SEO, search engine optimization,here.)

• Many of the other product affiliate programs pay you once a month, but with Empower Network you get paid as soon as the purchaser’s payment goes through. The funds will go into your e-wallet account, which you purchase for 19.99 a month, and then you can extract it straight to your bank account or pay card. Whatever works for you.

  • This is not a magical program you do have work in order to make money. Look over the income disclaimer.

What if I don’t have a talent? Would the affiliate life still work for me?

Of course.

1. Your content can be anything you like to write about, talk about, bitch about, or anything you see on the internet

2. You can be a reporter, a commentator, a critic, a journalist

3. (Just to get started) Find an article that someone else wrote

4. Copy it

5. Paste it to your site

6. Place a link in the content with a one line reference back to the original site.

7. Does the content have a product that you can promote and reap a commission from?

8. If yes, sign-up and place the affiliate link within or below the content

9. Upload it

10. Attract People to your site.

11. Again you need a blog why not use one that can garner you an extra income?

This sounds too easy. What’s the catch?

• There are a million or more people on the internet every minute and most of them are hunting for the next best thing.

• However, getting in front of them is a difficult task for a beginner.

• This is the bread and butter of Empower Network, they teach you the secrets to building an audience or following, but it takes work.

  • Once you sign-up the fast track training will teach you just how to gather a following.
  • Click here to learn how I attract followers.

You'll make more money if the people who are supporting you can also acquire a way or product that will improve or maintain their life. 

Good luck and don't hesitate to ask questions. I'll do what I can. 

WILL YOU JOIN ME AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION?

This is a serious matter needing close attention. There are many things going on in our society that are very wrong these days as we well know. Will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? There is a saying by Edmund Burke, “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Our communities have been doing allot of nothing in some respects and I want to challenge you to stand up and be the change we seek and do something.

I am sure you are aware this is hard for me to do. It’s hard for me to ask for help on anything. I’ve always been a self-reliant, do it yourself type of guy.  In this case I will make an exception because that is just how much I believe in this project.  As you may or may not know after over 20 years of working on multimedia projects for others I finally decided to make one of my dreams a reality. I have always dreamt of the day when we can have heroes and sheroes that look like us and are the stars of the show rather than just stereotypes in movies, TV, comics and books.  We all know the damage that has been done by the constant repetition of negative images in the media. This is your chance to be part of a positive change in toward rectifying this injustice.

I need your help with developing our digital production facility pipeline to make this first 3D animated feature length Sci-Fi action film, “Earth Squadron” a reality. Earth Squadron is a film about what happens when planet Earth's rejects are the only ones that can save them from an unknown alien foe bent on world domination. The short story was originally published in Genesis Anthology Book I in 2010. This full-length film showcases a positive and uplifting multicultural cast of characters.

I am asking for your support by making a donation of what you can afford toward getting this movie done.  Our team is fired up and ready to make this film a reality! Our community and children in particularly deserved more positive images and role models to emulate. Be a part of making that happen now.  Click here for more info and to support today:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/earth-squadron-movie-project

Sincerely,

Jarvis Sheffield, M.Ed.

Administrator

John Pendry wishes J.K Rowling had written about superlenses. Photo by Cirone-Musi/Festival della Scienza/Flickr Creative Common

New Scientist/Slate: The Physics Hidden by the Invisibility Cloak

Genesis (2013) Short Film from CJ Johnson on Vimeo.

Set in an alternate present day, people with super abilities known as "genesis subjects" are hunted down by the government as a larger political debate is happening worldwide. When a "hunter" comes face to face with an old friend who refuses to go quietly into the night, he's faced with his toughest mission yet. Discovering that he may just be a pawn in a much larger game. This is a gritty take on a world filled with people with super abilities. No costumes. No capes. Just a simple question… if someone you knew had special powers, does that mean that they still have the same rights as everyone else?

Ingredients

2 lbs. 80% lean ground beef

4 slices multi-grain bread

One pound black beans

One medium onion

One Green pepper

One Red pepper

adobo

pepper

garlic powder

cumin

2 to 3 tablespoons of melted butter

A dozen Kaiser rolls

Directions:

Prepare beans according to directions on package. When drained, mash into a paste or use food processor. Season meat and mix well, set aside. Toast multigrain bread and drizzle with butter, garlic powder  and cumin mixture. Cut each slice into sixteens. Finely dice onion, and peppers. Combine bread and onion and peppers with meat and mix well, folding over itself repeatedly.  Use same large spoon to form into patties and cook on medium high heat for five minutes a side. Then place on Kaiser roll. Should make twelve patties. Serve with Russian or Thousand Island dressing.

Bon Appetit

Hello BSFS! The team Incus Interactive Productions are proud to present "Fated By Chain" coming soon for the Nintendo Wii U. This is a brand new action-adventure/RPG that pushes the Wii U technology to the limit, while going through locations that go beyond the boundaries of time and space. This game application is being made by William P. Smith Jr. "Technical Artist" and David M. Smith "Graphic Designer". This game is also a Wii U exclusive, and will be lunched on Nintendo's eShop for sale on Wii U.  Be cool BSFS!

Check out the latest installment

SILENT THREAT: Episode Six

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 I have created a short six minute video featuring the Alien Ambassador aka Nathan Turner.  This is the beginning of my effort to raise last minute funds to complete my movie which will be released in the summer of 2014.  I wanted everyone to see that we can have a black superhero on the TV, internet and big screens.  I have the actors, screenplay, location sets, but what I need is last minute funds to put everything together.  We as black people have been complaining about the lack of black characters in comic books and movies for a long time.  Nothing is going to change unless WE do something about it.  I'm not producing a blockbuster Hollywood event like The Amazing Spiderman, Man of Steel or the The Dark Knight. What I'm doing is producing a good sci-fi movie for 90 minutes that features a black superhero.  I got a bunch of nerds to help me with editing and special effects because we want to see that a black man and woman can save the day like any one else. All I'm looking to raise is at least $500.00 dollars.  It's relatively small amount of money compared to other budgets.  I have put in my own money and time so  you don't have too.  I can use additional funds to carry me over to the finish line.  Tell others about my project.  Watch the short video and pass it along to see what my vision is.  See if my project is worth helping.  My project is on kickstarter.com at THIS ADDRESS.  I have some cool reward prizes, but 5 bucks and can start it off.

Enjoy the short video and help me put a black superhero on the screen this summer.

Thank you  

FROM: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT

REVIEW: Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond

BY: DON SAKERS
This article was originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact 

Edited by Bill Campbell & Edward Austin Hall

Rosarium Publishing, 350 pages, $19.95 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9891411-4-7

Genre: Original Anthology

Mothership is billed as presenting “just a part of the changing face of speculative fiction,” and features thirty-nine stories by forty writers of color. Some are familiar names (Tobias Buckell, S.P. Somtow), while others are up-and-comers.

As you might expect from the term “speculative fiction,” not all of these stories are science fiction—there’s fantasy, steampunk, and horror as well. And despite the term “Afrofuturism,” these stories aren’t limited to the concerns of Africa or African-Americans. Frankly, what we have here is simply an anthology of good stories.

Market realities dictate that it’s not enough to have good stories by relatively unfamiliar writers—there has to be a gimmick. In this case, readers need to look past the gimmick at the stories themselves.

Mothership’s keyword is “diversity.” If these stories share anything, it’s that they spring more from the tradition of literary SF than from the Campbell era. To put it in magazine terms, you’d see most of these stories in Asimov’s or Fantasy & Science Fiction before you’d see them in Analog. Not surprising, really—the editors come from academia. Don’t let that deter you.

Among the standouts in this volume are Thaddeus Howze’s “Bludgeon,” a Twilight Zone-ish tale of alien invasion with a surprise ending; Carlos Hernandez’s “The Aphotic Ghost,” in which a father comes to terms with his talented son’s death on Mount Everest; and Nisi Shawl’s “Good Boy,” a parable of virtual reality.

If there’s anything missing from this volume, it’s background on the contributors. Yes, one can always turn to the Internet—but I kept wishing there was an “about the authors” section.

For readers who want to see more diversity in SF, Mothership is definitely worth the price.

Image: NASA/JPL and article link

Scientific American: First Exomoon Possibly Glimpsed

It’s bath day.

My wrist itched from where my voidwatch had been part of my flesh. I rubbed it, missing the tech beneath my skin. Once a transtemporal connection to my voidship, now only flaking skin remained.

I don’t remember the last time we had a bath. I refuse to even attempt the mad rush. Eighty inmates in this section alone, six sinks, we get herded in, naked, filthy and play russian roulette with sinks, each sink may distribute water, this time, maybe not.

Just another psychological ploy, like keeping us dirty, introducing lice into the facility, food just shy of being spoiled and completely unedible.

The real goal is to break us.

To anchor us in time. To make us atone for our sins. To remind us we were not God.

Here away from voidships, away from temporal loci, we were just men subject to the irreversible hands of causality. I remember so many lives being at the center of a temporal locus, so many experiences, cheating the rules of reality.

Sitting on the event horizon of a black hole, I have just this one timestream. Crushing. Heavy. Inescapable.

I know where the nooks and crannies are and I hide when the gulag’s guards come around for bath day.

My guard came and left. I climbed back into the window and waited. Waited for the trail. Waited for the sign the Venture had come for me. She always came for me. But she didn’t come today. Or tomorrow. Or for many days after.

Years passed. I looked less and less. I did what I could to stay physically fit. But conditions in the gulag meant I spent more time sick and more than once I nearly died. But I never stopped looking. Then I realized, without my voidwatch, they would never find me. They needed a sign.

After a decade as a model prisoner, which meant selling out others, killing bastards who tried to kill me first, and providing favors to people I couldn’t kill outright, I became the head of the ship fueling detail. Today, thirty years after arriving in this gulag, I would leave here or die.

No one asked what I was doing onboard the warden’s yacht. It was my job. No one knew what I did before I came here, so reprogramming its navigation was child’s play. I waited until the fuel depot was completely full before enacting my scheme. The fuel was stored beneath the prison.

I watched the warden take off, he and most of his administrative detail were taking a vacation to someplace warm and beautiful. I had forgotten warmth and eschewed beauty. I had forgotten having been the master of my fate and the captain of my voidship.

I had become mean and petty. The truth was I had given up on rescue. This was now, just revenge. I watched the yacht arch into the heavens, its drive supplementing its antigrav, then I imagined their inability to control it as it dived toward the fuel depot.

I laughed maniacally as I saw them plunging into the atmosphere, heating up, knowing they would survive until impact.

I thrilled to the fuel explosions as they spread across the prison faster than they could be suppressed. I tossed the fire suppression module out the window of my cell.

My vanity fell away. We weren’t gods. We hadn’t the right to change reality to our whims. I made peace with my end.

As the fireball consumed the prison below me, I saw the arc of the voidship Venture as it fell from the heavens. Not in time enough for me. Fire became my world.

At this distance, I could hear her in my mind, again. That familiar song as she bent time and space. “You came.”

“I will always be there for you.” Her voice soothing, filled my consciousness, became all consuming, my death fell away.

“You’re late.”

“A timeship is never late, my love. Regulations notwithstanding, I will rescue you.”

“I know.”

I fall away into the darkness, away from her light, and I died. Again.

But not alone this time.

It’s bath day. Its been a month since I’ve been clean, but I know she will come for me.

She would move a universe.

Never Late © Thaddeus Howze 2014, All Rights Reserved

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