"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Entertainment/Media w/cross promotions for other things owned by the parent company

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For mass media I'm writing a paper about how huge conglomerates like news corp, GE, viacom, etc, use their products to promote eachother. For example, in "Friends," one of the characters always goes to watch a certain basketball team play. Apparently, the parent company of "Friends" owns that team. I'm looking for things like this.

However, I've found it hard to do research on the topics I've chosen, the movie "I, Robot," and "The Simpsons."

I found that "I, Robot" is just full of product placement advertising, not cross promotional stuff, and "The Simpsons" signed an agreement when Fox aquired them that they couldn't order the writers to put certain things in the show, so neither of these turned out to be very good choices.

As I look for more, does anyone know of any particular shows/movies/newspapers that have a lot of cross promotion? It would be highly appreciated.

Thanks.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Try Disney or Warner Brothers. They are very big on cross promotion. Not so much with product placement per say but with control of their franchise characters. For example, Warner Brothers owns DC comics, so they produced Batman the movie. In turn the spun it off into various animated TV shows and toy lines. The studios are much more interested in owning a complete product line like Batman than finding ways to put in random product placement.

Although, there is a one notorious bad example of product place ment gone wrong. "Mac and Me" was a film produced by the McDonalds corporation. Basically, it is the story of how this one lonely kid discover a hideous ugly alien. They becomes friends after he takes him to McDonald to have a big Mac, hence the title. The movie essentially exists as a 90 minute long comercial. Fairly horrible, but yet oddly hilarious. The first Ninja turtle film also has a lot of product placement from pepsi and Burger king.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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