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Friday, December 9, 2011

How does FANBOX make money? By Johny Cash

How does FANBOX make money?

With the launch of Knowledge Investor – which is generating a lot of profits for FanBox users (Investors, Advertisers, Bloggers) -- one of the questions coming up is:

“How does FanBox make profits for itself?”

The answer is:

FanBox does not make a profit… yet.

But how can a company continue to operate without making profits?

It happens every day.

Companies ALL start out by spending more money than they bring in -- in order to build out the products, services, marketing and infrastructure that they need to serve their customers.

Did you know that Facebook raised USD $2.8 Billion from outside investors over the last 5 years?

Facebook did so – and operated at a loss (making no profits) for years.

In a similar manner, FanBox has been very focused on building its products and services – instead of focused on generating profits in the short-term.

It might also interest you to know that (in order to be able to focus single-mindedly on its mission of helping Knowledge Workers succeed) over the course of its history, FanBox has deliberately rejected each and every offer from investors that has come its way.

FanBox has rejected outside investment in order to not be influenced by investors who would naturally push the company to make more profits more quickly.

This strategy has allowed it to focus instead on generating profits for FanBox community members.

In order to stay alive, FanBox has generated nearly USD $200M in retail revenues from the sale of digital goods in partnership with mobile carriers around the world. This revenue has allowed it to stay focused on its customers instead of its investors.

Indeed, while Facebook has raised billions to “allow its investors and employees to cash out” (read article), FanBox has been busy building its community and products around the idea of allowing its customers to cash out.

So while FanBox is not currently making a profit from its operations, it very much believes that building a profitable business model is an important part of ensuring that it will always be there for customers in the long term.

Towards that, in the future, FanBox plans on generating revenues from outside advertising, along with small fees generating by enabling community members to sell premium content (such premium blogs, applications, music, movies and digital content), goods and services to each other.

For now, the FanBox business plan calls for helping community members build their skills and confidence via a number of different types of knowledge work… and if that requires FanBox to run for some time without making profits, it is completely satisfied with doing that.

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Question:

In the future, when FanBox launches new revenue streams, does that mean that you can earn more – or less -- on FanBox?

Answer:

New revenue streams for FanBox means more opportunities for FanBox members to earn – and earn more.


Would YOU like to help FanBox succeed?

Question:

What’s best thing that YOU can do to help FanBox become very profitable and a huge success?

Answer:

Become a big success yourself!



Look, FanBox’s mission is to help you succeed.

By focusing on becoming a big success on FanBox, you are doing the very best thing that you can do, to help FanBox succeed.

As you succeed, you will be leading by example – paving the way for others to follow in your footsteps.

Just take a look at Arlene – who within the next few hours will become the Worldwide number one, all-time earner on FanBox.

Arlene started on FanBox a few years ago, and waited patiently while products were built, and services went live, and bugs were eliminated, and products revised and improved, and so on and so forth.

By figuring out how to succeed despite the product, community, mental and other roadblocks in her way, she paved the way for others to succeed.

(Indeed, along the way, she has been quick to give pointers to others, so that they could benefit from her patience, trials and tribulations too).

As a result of her success, hundreds of thousands of others have become inspired to take action, set goals and work towards their own success.

Here's the thing: You can have the same – or even greater – impact on the success of the community than Arlene has had!

(Remember that your success can now happen faster and you can be more influential than Arlene was, because when she started out she didn’t have the tools, capabilities and community that you now have at your disposal).

So, the very best thing that you can do to help FanBox succeed is to get out of bed every day, focus your mind on the positive, set and review your goals -- and execute on your own success plan.



FanBox can ONLY succeed when you do



FanBox Purpose, part 2: Knowledge Econom By Johny Cash

Understanding FanBox's Purpose, part 2:
The Knowledge Economy




The Knowledge Revolution has started, and now we’re living in the Knowledge Economy.



(WHAT'S THE KNOWLEDGE REVOLUTION?)



The Knowledge Economy has two main participants:



1) The Knowledge Worker: The producer of the knowledge; the person that is selling his or her knowledge, and

2) The Knowledge Consumer: the person that is receiving (benefitting from) the knowledge.







Examples:


Knowledge

Workers
Knowledge

Consumers


Musician
Music Fan

Doctor
Patient

Personal Trainer
Person wanting to get fit

Chef
Restaurant Customer

Film maker
Film lover

Lawyer
Client

Real Estate Agent
Home buyer

Stand up comedian
Person that likes to laugh

Sports writer
Sports enthusiast

Plumber
Client







(To learn about the different types of knowledge work -- that YOU can do on FanBox to earn money TODAY -- go here)



While 90% of us are now Knowledge Workers, virtually all of us are Knowledge Consumers -- consuming many different types of knowledge on a regular basis.



As Knowledge Consumers, we have many choices -- so we're picky and generally only want to consume the very best knowledge.

Therefore, in order to compete for Knowledge Consumers, Knowledge Workers must focus on one type of knowledge work… usually the work:

1) That’s in the most demand

2) Or, that we’re the best at

3) Or, that we enjoy the most



With the way the economy is these days, many people don’t have a job at all.

Therefore, many of us are lucky to simply have a job – any job.

Some of us are even luckier, and get paid to do a job that fits into one of the above categories.

And then some of us are even luckier; we fall into two of the above categories.



Then there’s the lucky few – a tiny percentage of us – that can say that we get paid to do work that fits into all three categories.

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As human beings, we spend more of our life focused on our work – more than any other thing we do -- including sleeping.



Therefore, it is a tragedy that most of us don’t get to do the work that we love most.

At FanBox, we are convinced that technology will enable virtually all of us to do the work that we love to do, and be compensated fairly for that work.

In other words, just like new technology enabled most of us to stop working in the soil in order to eat, new technology will also enable us to do the knowledge work that we love to do.



FanBox’s mission is to bring you the building blocks that you need to profit from your passions.



We believe that if we are successful at doing our part in helping make that opportunity a reality for most people, the world will be a much better place.

Our reasoning is that happy, focused people -- that are fairly compensated for what they love to do – are operating at a higher level of existence.

At that level of consciousness, love, compassion and understanding are most easily accessed.

We believe that when the planet hits a certain inflection point -- or percentage of the population that operates at that level – we will have our best chance for survival and continued evolution as a species.



On the flipside, the continued advent of weapons of mass destruction, combined with poverty and religious fanaticism on a global scale, are taking mankind to a place of almost certain destruction.



Thus, the race is on – the clock is ticking and time is of the essence.


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Before we can fully understand the solutions that FanBox is working to bring you, let's drill down to identify the specific obstacles that are limiting Knowledge Workers.

We'll do that in the next chapter.



In the meantime, please enjoy some quotes that remind us how getting lost in work we enjoy, can uplift us to a place of higher consciousness.



Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)



Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough (1933 - )



Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)



You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009



My work is a game, a very serious game.

M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)



When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Address, 2008



When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Address, 2008



You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process