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MyVieWin is another new social networking club that many of us will want to join to enhance our networking capabilities. This one is still very “wet behind the ears” in that there are fewer than a thousand members as of yet. So, it will be an excellent referral source if those of you who get in early and establish a presence...
The details:
How can I make money?
You can make money on this website by joining, updating your profile frequently and especially referring other members.
How does it work?
We will give you points each time a user is viewing your profile, photos, videos, music, blog, groups, etc. At the end of the month we will transfer this points into money, the amount will depend in how many points you have earned and the gains of the website by advertising.
Is there other way to have more points, so more money?
Sure! Whenever you refer other members, you win points if the user opens an account. At the same time you will win points when the referred member wins points. We suggest you to refer as many as you can!
How can I reffer?
There is a referral link in your account to recruit new members. Send the link to your family, friends and acquaintances and earn money!
How can I get paid?
You can request a payment when you have reached at least 50$. We offer 2 different payment methods, either by PayPal which is an online payment processing company or by check. There is 1$ fee if you chose the check method.
How much money can I get?
That all depends on you! You can make everything from 100$ to 50.000$ a year.
The more you refer new members the more money you will get.
The more you your profile is viewed the more money you will get.
Will I get money or points by clicking on ads?
No, excessive clicking on ads may cause your profile to be deleted. Please feel free to click on only ads that you actually want to see. Do not click just to try to get more money and of course do not forget that we pay you for having membership with us and maintaining it!
Ohhh! I almost forgot to mention: IT’S FREE!
Here’s the address: MyViewin.com
The real secret to making money online has nothing to do with your site or the product you sell......Fact!
What really makes the difference as to whether you make money or go bust is all dependant on how many people see your site each day.
If you only get 10 to 100 people per day visit your site, you might as well give up now.
What if you could get 1 million visitors in the next 30 days? Would that make your sales increase?
What if you could guarantee that all these visitors were real people, and they would be on your site for at least 10 seconds each? And what if you could get all this completely free?
Would your bank balance be able to take the strain as the sales poored in?
There's an incredible new marketing system that can easily and very realistically send you over a million guaranteed real visitors to your website, and it won't cost you a thing.
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This is going to change the way you market forever.
Q. Ok, so how do I advertise?
A. If you have your own website and access to the source code, you should immediately place one of the banner or text ads on your site. You should also add a signature in all your regular emails so that it either has a banner or a text link in it. Further to that, you should place as many adverts on as many free advertising sites as possible. Place classifieds, FFA's, use traffic exchanges and anywhere else you can find to place one of our small text adverts. The more people who see one of your ads and signs up from your site, the more your downline will grow and the more traffic you will get. We also recommend if you have your own opt-in email list, you immediately send them one of our email ads so they can visit your link and sign up under you. Basically, get your link seen, so you can get the maximum number of people sign up in your first level.
Q. So how much advertising should I do?
A. Well the absolute minimum you need to do is get 10 new sign ups underneath you. Once you've done that the system is set, and so long as each of those 10, do the same as you, and the next level does the same and so on, your website visitors will grow exponentially and very quickly. Of course, that is just the minimum you should do, and most sensible people will do much more than that. If you want your traffic to be high month after month after month, you should really try to be getting new sign ups each week for as long as you want to use our system. If signing up just 10 people can result in over 1 million visitors, imagine what could happen if you signed up 100 people or even more! We recommend you go crazy with your advertising in the first week or two, and then slow it down but keep it constant from then on to ensure a constant flow of heavy traffic as your downline grows.
Q. Why do I need to advertise or promote my T2000Ultra site?
A. Because you have to get people to sign up to this under you in your first level...it's the only way this system can work. Once you've got people to sign up via your site, they get placed in your downline and your advert will be displayed on their site as well as on your own. As those people sign up new members, your advert will get transfered to those new sites as well, so you have a downline 3 levels deep. This method creates a network 6 levels deep and consisting of many thousands of sites.....all displaying your advert. You have to get the first sign ups in the first level, in order for the system to continue and grow. Once you've done the initial advertising to get the first sign ups, you can stop all promotion if you like.
INSTANT NOODLES
Dear instant noodle lovers,
Make sure you break for at least 3 days after one session of instant noodles before you eat your next packet! Please read the info shared to me by a doctor. My family stopped eating instant noodles more than 5 years ago after hearing about the wax coating the noodles - the wax is not just in the Styrofoam containers but it coats the noodles. This is why the instant noodles do not stick to each other when cooking.
If one were to examine the ordinary Chinese yellow noodles in the market, one will notice that, in their uncooked state the noodles are oily. This layer of oil prevents the noodles from sticking together.
Wanton noodles in their uncooked state have been dusted with flour to prevent them sticking together. When the hawker cooks the noodles, notice he cooks them in hot water and then rinses them in cold water before cooking them in hot water again. This process is repeated several times before the noodles are ready to be served. The cooking and rinsing process prevents noodles from sticking together.
The hawker then "lowers the noodles in oil and sauce to prevent the noodles from sticking if they are to be served dry. Cooking instructions for spaghetti require oil or butter to be added in the water when boiling the spaghetti to prevent the pasta from sticking together. Otherwise, one gets a big clump of spaghetti!
There was an SBC (now TCS) actor some years ago, who at a busy time of his career had no time to cook, resorted to eating instant noodles everyday. He got cancer later on. His doctor told him about the wax in instant noodles. The doctor told him that our body will need up to 2 days to clear the wax. There was also an SIA steward who after moving out from his mother's house into his own house, did not cook but ate instant noodles almost every meal. He had cancer, and has since died from it.
Nowadays the instant noodles are referred as " cancer noodles ".
SATAY LOVERS (BARBECUE)
If you all eat Satay, don't ever forget to eat the cucumber, because eating Satay together with carbon after barbequing can cause cancer.
But we have a cure for that... Cucumber should be eaten after we eat the Satay because Satay has carcinogen (a cancer causing element) but cucumber is anti-carcinogenic. So don't forget to eat the cucumber the next time you have Satay's.
PRAWNS (SUGPO) & VIT C
DO NOT eat shrimp / prawn if you have just taken VITAMIN C pills!!
This will cause you to DIE in ARSENIC (As) toxication within HOURS!!
PORK AWARENESS
Try this and see whether the pork you bought has worms. There goes with your "Bak Kut Teh" for those who love it. Most men love to eat this so watch out before it's too late. If you pours Coke (yes, the soda) on a slab of pork, wait a little while, you will SEE WORMS crawl out of it. A message from the Health Corporation of Singapore about the bad effects of pork consumption. Pig's bodies contain MANY TOXINS, WORM and LATENT DISEASES.
Although some of these infestations are harboured in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far MORE PREDISPOSED to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because PIGS like to SCAVENGE and will eat ANY kind of food, INCLUDING dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta including their own, garbage, and other pigs. INFLUENZA (flu) is one of the MOST famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harboured in the LUNGS of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and human in the cooler months.
Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who EAT pork sausage tend to SUFFER MORE during EPIDEMICS of INFLUENZA. Pig meat contains EXCESSIVE quantities of HISTAMINE and IMIDAZOLE compounds, which can lead to ITCHING and INFLAMMATION; GROWTH HORMONE which PROMOTES INFLAMMATION and growth; sulphur containing mesenchymal mucus which leads to SWELLING and deposits of MUCUS in tendons and cartilage, resulting in ATHRITIS, RHEUMATISM, etc. Sulphur helps cause FIRM human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage.
Eating pork can also lead to GALLSTONES and OBESITY, probably due to its HIGH CHOLESTEROL and SATURATED FAT content. The pig is the MAIN CARRIER of the TAENIE SOLIUM WORM, which is found in its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has RICHINOSIS from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork.
Many people have NO SYMPTOMS to warm them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are NOT noticed during meat inspections.
SHAMPOO
Cancer-causing substance in shampoos. Go home and check your shampoo. Change before it's too late... Check the ingredients listed on your shampoo bottle, and see they have a substance by the name of Sodium Laureth Sulfate, or simply SLS. This substance is found in most shampoos; manufacturers use it because it produces a lot of foam and it is cheap. BUT the fact is, SLS is used to scrub garage floors, and it is very strong!!! It is also proven that it can cause cancer in the long run, and this is no joke. Shampoos that contains SLS: the new Hemp Shampoo from Body Shop etc. contain this substance.
The first ingredient listed (which means it is the single most prevalent ingredient) in Clairol's Herbal Essences is Sodium Laureth Sulfate. Therefore, I called one company, and I told them their product contains a substance that will cause people to have cancer. They said, Yeah we knew about it but there is nothing we can do about it because we need that substance to produce foam. By the way Colgate toothpaste also contains the same substance to produce the "bubbles". They said they are going to send me some information.
Research has shown that in the 1980s, the chance of getting cancer is 1 out of 8000 and now, in the 1990s, the chances of getting cancer is 1 out of 3, which is very serious. Therefore, I hope that you will take this seriously and pass this on to all the people you know, and hopefully, we can stop "giving" ourselves cancer-causing agents.
Answer 1: Im younger that any.
Question 2: What are your plans in the future?
Answer 2: I want to plant different growing fruits?
Question 3: What is the most fruitful year you have had so far?
Answer 3: I have so many fruits last year like dalandan, chico at others sweet-sweetie fruits.
Question 4: I think you are drunk?
Answer 4: yes I drunk everyday. It just normal for me.
A friend named 'Maeng Ni' posted this.
Lahat ng sinabi niya nakakatuwa at totoo.
Akala ng mga tao na nasa Pilipinas kapag nasa America ka akala nila madami ka ng pera. Ang totoo, madami kang utang, dahil credit card lahat ang gamit mo sa pagbili mo ng mga gamit mo. Kailangan mo gumamit ng credit card para magka-credit history ka, kase pag hindi ka umutang o wala kang utang, hindi ka pagkakatiwalaan ng mga kano . Pag wala kang credit card, ibig sabihin wala kang kapasidad magbayad.
Akala nila mayaman ka na kase may kotse ka na. Ang totoo, kapag hindi ka bumili ng kotse sa America maglalakad ka ng milya-milya sa ilalim ng init ng araw o kaya sa snow. Walang jeepney, tricycle o padyak sa America ..
Akala nila masarap ang buhay dito sa America . Ang totoo, puro ka trabaho kase pag di ka nagtrabaho, wala kang pangbayad ng bills mo sa kotse, credit card, ilaw, tubig, insurance, bahay at iba pa. Hindi ka na pwedeng tumambay sa kapitbahay kase busy din sila maghanap buhay pangbayad ng bills nila.
Akala nila masaya ka kase nagpadala ka ng picture mo sa Disneyland, Seaworld, Six Flags, Universal Studios at iba pang attractions. Ang totoo, kailangan mo ngumiti kase nagbayad ka ng $70+ para makarating ka dun, kailangan mo na naman ang 10 hours na sweldo mong
pinangbayad sa ticket.
Akala nila malaki na ang kinikita mo kase dolyar na sweldo mo. Ang totoo, malaki pagpinalit mo ng peso, pero dolyar din ang gastos mo sa America. Ibig sabihin ang dolyar mong kinita sa presyong dolyar mo din gagastusin.
Ang P15.00 na sardinas sa Pilipinas, sa America $1.00 = P41.00. Ang isang pakete ng sigarilyo sa pilipinas P40.00, sa
America $ 6.50 = P266.50, ang upa mo sa bahay na P10,000 sa Pilipinas, sa America $1,000++ = P41,000++
Akala nila buhay milyonaryo ka na kase ang ganda ng bahay at kotse mo. Ang totoo milyon ang utang mo. Ang bago mong kotse 5 taon mong huhulugan. Ang bahay 30 taon mong huhulugan. Ibig sabihin, alipin ka ng bahay at kotse mo.
Madaming naghahangad na makarating sa America . Lalo na mga nurses, mahirap maging normal na manggagawa sa Pilipinas. Madalas pagod ka sa trabaho. Pag dating ng sweldo mo, kulang pa sa pagkain mo. Pero ganun din sa ibang bansa katulad ng America .
Hindi ibig sabihin dolyar na ang sweldo mo, yayaman ka na, kailangan mo ding magbanat ng buto para mabuhay ka sa ibang bansa.
Isang malaking sakripisyo ang pag alis mo sa bansang pinagsilangan at malungkot iwanan ang
mga mahal mo sa buhay. Hindi pinupulot ang pera dito o pinipitas. Hindi ako naninira ng pangarap, gusto ko lang buksan ang bintana ng katotohanan.
comment ng isang kaibigan:
Hindi yung actual living condition sa amerika ang importante sa Pinoy Ang pinakamahalaga ay makapunta sa fantasyland sapagkat diyan namulat ang nga Pilipino simula pa nung kanilang grade school. Gusto nilang makasakay sa eroplano at mamuhay sa kapaligiran ng snow, hamon, keso, mansanas, ubas at maipakita sa mga pinoy sa Pilipinas na naabot na niya ang paraisong nagbibigay ng credit. Hindi masamang mangarap pero hanggang dito na lang yata ang pangarap ng mga Pilipino.
Kung tutuusin, sino nga ba ang gustong maiwan sa Pilipinas sa mga kurakot na officials? Hirap ka na sa trabaho, wala ka pang pambili ng Oakley, pizza at iPod.
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Buong ipinagmalaki ng Pambansang Kamao na si Manny Pacquiao na inabot ng 9 na takes ang kissing scene nila ni Ara Mina para sa kanilang 2007 Metro Manila Film Festival entry na “Anak ng Kumander.”
Ayon kay Manny, ito ay para maging “maayos” ang eksena. Wala po ang kanyang asawang si Jinky nang shinu-shoot ang eksena."Anak ng Kumander" is easy to dismiss as just another Filipino action movie that doesn't offer anything new to the table. And it's hard to imagine how it would pull in audiences even with all the events surrounding the film (not the least of all star and co-producer Manny Pacquiao's shenanigans with co-star Ara Mina). An unconvincing jingoistic picture with melodramatic hogwash marked by tedious moralization, "Anak ng Kumander" is a slog that adds up to not much more than an empty affair in the ongoing Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF).
Philippine boxing idol Pacquiao plays Ka Iden, the leader of a viligante group in Basilan who puts to his brand of justice who has wronged the townsfolk. The mayor of the town (Efren Reyes Jr.), who is predictably corrupt, has placed a P10 million reward to anyone who can capture or kill Iden. Ara Mina plays a TV reporter assigned to Iden's case while Valerie Concepcion is a member of the rebel group.
Directed by Jose "Kaka" Balagtas, "Anak ng Kumander" is unconvincing in virtually all aspects. Its moral, which is all but mauled into its audiences, states how a man who lives by his principles could spark a national revolution and create transofrmation. While such an idea is all well and good, the notion of subtlety in storytelling is bypassed in favor of beating home the point with excessive mawkish sentiment.
It doesn't help that the screenwriters prove entirely feckless at establishing and developing its characters. The cloying final act might have held more resonance had the viewer been provided with enough opportunity to care about the people involved in the story. As it is, Pacquiao's characters is a monotonous cipher whose background and motivation are paced in a quick processor in favor of a whole lot of inept action scenes in the jungle and a lot more of moral mumbo-jumbo. The dialogue, while not becoming a classic howler as Balagtas' previous outing "Apoy sa Dibdib ng Samar" ("Saging lang ang may puso!"), still finds shards of laugh-inducing moments. Technically, the film suffers with ill-placed split-screen effects, an unmemorable score, distracting camera movements, and some blurred shots.
In his second leading role in a feature film (what, you don't remember 2005's "Lisensyadong Kamao"?), Manny Pacquiao should think about focusing on boxing. His recent foray into politics did not end as a success and his venture into film production seems treading the same path. Pacquiao's rendering of his paper-thin role is so uninspired as to almost feel like another supporting character rather than a lead performer, and his dramatic scenes are done so laughably bad. Ara Mina is every bit Pacquiao's equal. As for poor Valerie Concepcion, she just goes through the motions of the script, trying to achieve a look of a lethal female with guns, but she just isn't cut out for it.
If there is something good to be found, it is that "Anak ng Kumander" is at least filled with some humor (mostly unintentional) and, if you're up to those sort of films, you can at least laugh at it and say that it's not an entirely unwatchable affair.
Movie Synopsis:
The son of a rebel continues his father’s work, hiding out in the mountains with a band of men, wreaking havoc on the corrupt officials who continue to oppress the people. Using his unique code of honor, he meets out justice to all those who deserve punishment. But the life of a rebel is difficult, and he must eventually make a choice between his values and a chance for an easier life.
While counter-punching expert Juan Manuel Marquez doesn’t give Manny Pacquiao the creeps, the Filipino hotshot insists he is not taking his Mexican rival lightly.
"I am not underestimating Marquez," Pacquiao said in a radio interview from Los Angeles yesterday.
"I know for a fact that Marquez is also training very hard for this very important fight."
On March 15, before an expected overflow crowd at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Pacquiao and Marquez square off not only for the World Boxing Council (WBC) super featherweight crown but for the universal recognition of being declared the finest 130-pounder and a pound-for-pound star as well.
The two had battled to a 12-round split draw almost four years ago and Pacquiao and Marquez are aching to prove who is far superior between them.
Pacquiao, 29, revealed that while he has undoubtedly trained like never before, he expects Marquez, 34, to be in top condition as well when they answer the bell for the showdown dubbed "Unfinished Business."
Before heading to Las Vegas, Pacquiao and Marquez will grace a press conference for the southern California press in a hotel to be determined soon.
"The Beverly Hills won’t be available on that particular time (lunchtime) so they’re trying to look for another venue," Top Rank big boss Bob Arum said yesterday.
Arum likewise said Pacquiao will get on a private plane from Los Angeles, the first time Pacquiao is taking such a route since he had opted to be driven there by his chauffeur whenever a fight takes place in Las Vegas.
"Manny will be joined by Freddie and a few others on the private plane," Arum, who will be on the same flight, said.
Meanwhile, Arum bared that "for the first time in Pacquiao’s career," there’ll be closed circuit TV in at least two Vegas hotels.
"We won’t be selling tickets for the closed circuit until three days before the fight. There are less than a thousand (venue) tickets left and we expect a sellout," said the 76-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer.
As in other moneymaking ventures entered by Top Rank, Pacquiao’s MP Promotions will also receive a cut in the revenue based on Pacquiao’s contractual agreement with Top Rank.
1. Get someone on base.
2. Move them into scoring position.
3. Bring them home.
"What does baseball have to do with affiliate marketing?" I'm glad you asked.
Too many affiliate program managers have no concept of the progression they should try to facilitate to run a successful affiliate program. Too many of us get stuck in "recruit mode," and never take that next step. I hear so many conflicting gripes from my peers on how they don't have the time to manually approve affiliates, because they get too many applications every day to do so. Yet if you ask any affiliate manager what the hardest part of their job is, they'll say affiliate recruiting. But how efficient are they with the applications that they do get? Are we so busy pouting that we're not nurturing our current applicants into the super-affiliates they could become? This alludes to another important issue in affiliate marketing today: the lack of affiliates that can produce large amounts of sales volume. If affiliates were houses, and merchants were buyers, it's definitely a seller's market. But that's another issue for another day, so I digress…
The first step of the initial progression of any program is affiliate recruiting, and in the baseball strategy above, this is "Get 'em on."
There are many different ways to recruit. Most networks have ways of internally recruiting affiliates, but this is limited. Affiliate forums such as AbestWeb.com and affiliate events like Affiliate Summit are your best bet for getting affiliates to join your program.
Congratulations! They've joined! Now what? Get 'em over.
Affiliates are busy. They have their pick of whatever program they want to promote. It's a seller's market, remember? They can just as easily promote your biggest competitor, so treat them well. Make things easier for them, or at least don't make things harder than they have to be. But most important, be efficient with the affiliates you do have.
I apply to many affiliate programs to keep up with industry trends, see what promotions are being used and so on. I can't believe the number of "welcome" emails I receive that are recruiting emails regurgitated. If I were a normal affiliate, they would be deleted without hesitation. This is our first (and best) chance to get them to take that next step! We need to help them get into position to make their first sale, putting links up. Obviously, affiliate managers should follow traditional best practices and include links for use right in the initial email, but everybody does that. What can you do to differentiate yourself? One of the things we do is offer a "Quick Start Bonus" (QuickStartBonus.com). These bonuses are conveyed to the affiliates in the welcome email, and are time-sensitive to create urgency. Affiliates have many merchants to choose from, but all else being equal, they'll put up the links for the merchant offering an incentive.
The next important step is to have valuable content within the email. Include information on your Datafeeds, Dynamic Banners, Best Sellers and so on. The welcome email is not a one-time setup; it is a living, breathing document that changes as your program matures.
Get 'em in. This part definitely varies per program, mostly due to the different skill sets of the affiliate manager. But if the affiliate is doing their part, and has started generating traffic for you, it's your turn to bat. The merchant site has to convert, or that link isn't staying up for very long.
Here are some ways to turn that traffic into sales:
1. Offer Direct Product Links: Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that links that land people on exactly what they were looking for convert better than links that land on the home page.
2. Educate your affiliates: Affiliates PRE-sell for you; give them the material to do this.
3. Give them tools: If you have a power PPC affiliate, they aren't going to look twice at your program unless you have the ability to put Adword and Overture tracking on your thank-you page. Otherwise, they'll be "flying blind."
Remember, have a purpose for every action that you do. Similar to how your customers have a life cycle, so do your affiliates. Be conscious of where your affiliates are in their life cycle – new affiliate, inactive affiliate, mid-tier or superaffiliate – and have a plan in place to assist them to achieve the super-affiliate status. Maximize the effectiveness of every contact you have with the affiliate, from welcome emails to month-to-date status reports. And last but not least, hold up your end of the deal by converting the traffic they worked so hard to send you. All right, I think you're ready. Play ball.
Michael Nunez is the founder of Suluta.com, an affiliate marketing consulting and services company that manages some of the largest affiliate programs in the industry and all merchants in the TTB Marketplace.
Hello! This week i am featuring Reiki as our Mind-Body-Spirit Modality.
What is Reiki? Reiki is simply tapping into Universal Life Energy in order to bring balance into our lives. The extend to which Reiki energies brings improved health to a dis-eased person is dependant on the recipient's receptivity. No.. it has nothing to do with faith healing. Reiki has to be experienced to fully understand its gifts.
Reiki (pronounced Ray Key) is a combination of two Japanese words rei and ki meaning universal life energy. Reiki is an ancient laying-on of hands healing technique that uses the life force energy to heal, balancing the subtle energies within our bodies. Reiki addresses physical, emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances. This healing art is an effective delivery system. The Reiki practitioner serves as a vessel that supplies healing energies where they are most needed. Reiki's ki-energies flow out of the practitioner's body through the palms of the hands while they are touching the recipient's body.
The Affiliate Lifestyle
By: Rosalind Gardner
It's not just a job, it's a way of life.
For many aspiring affiliates, the phrase Affiliate Lifestyle conjures up visions of big beautiful homes and shiny new sports cars. Graphic images on affiliate training sites encourage visitors to imagine themselves at their desk, dressed in pajamas and smiling the big happy smile as hundred-dollar bills miraculously fly from their computer monitor. Those images often include a picture of the loving spouse standing in admiration somewhere in the near background. Another popular image of the "rich affiliate" shows her relaxing in a lounge chair on a long stretch of almost-deserted white sand beach, a laptop perched atop her knees and some tasty tropical drink at hand.
Cynical homebased business opportunists and experienced affiliates alike may snort, snicker or even guffaw at the idyllic portrayal; however, with two exceptions, that is an accurate picture of this affiliate's lifestyle. The "hundred dollar bills" are in fact four- and five-figure checks delivered by snail mail, and I would never bring my laptop to the beach where it might be exposed to the dangers of sand and water. Actually, I'm reluctant to tote my VAIO with me on vacation as I so rarely use it.
Case in point: I spent the month of March touring Vietnam and Malaysia. Although the resort in Sabah on the island of Borneo, and each hotel in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) provided free or inexpensive access to high-speed Internet, I spent less than three hours at my computer during the entire trip.
I was not working during that time. I spent it uploading vacation pictures to Flickr for my personal travel blog at Roamsters.com and GoogleTalking with family and friends. The few emails and responses I sent to friends in the industry were primarily to feign sympathy for their ugly early-spring weather and to talk about enduring three-and-ahalf- hour spa treatments and swims in the 86 degree Fahrenheit (30 C) waters of the South China Sea.
My month-long vacation wasn't the "once in a lifetime" trip about which many people dream either. It was the trip I take every fall/winter. Moreover, the winter trips represent only a small percentage of my annual vacation time. In 2007, I will spend at least 4 months away from home for pleasure travel and family events – not to confuse the two. Furthermore, to make the best use of our short Canadian summer, I will work only a few hours per week during June, July and August.
Do I tell you this to gloat? Not at all! OK, maybe a little. But what's really important here is for you to know that, a) the fabulous Affiliate Lifestyle is possible, and b) you need to define your version of the lifestyle and choose to live it before you hamstring yourself with some crazy 24/7 business that won't allow you the time of day (or night) to enjoy what you achieve.
Take for example my friend Ray (not his real name). Ray earns seven figures a year as a search affiliate. He works with a paid assistant in rented office space where, for eight to 10 hours a day, they scramble to investigate new product offers in a vast array of markets, create static landing pages, write and place ads, and monitor their conversions to sales. His workload doubles during the ramp-up to major holidays. Simply talking to him about his frenzied business at Christmastime left me feeling frazzled and I was in the midst of a three-week break.
Despite all that money, Ray still can't relax with his family at the cabin for the weekend without working evenings at his laptop. He told me that it was a major effort to ready his business for a week's absence during a family emergency, and when Ray heard about my latest foray abroad, he replied by saying, "I really wish I had more time to travel."
Ray would have more time to travel if he made more time to travel, something he could easily do if he adopted a few content publisher strategies. Although I too research new offers, write product endorsements, create landing pages and place PPC ads, I dig much deeper into far fewer markets, which means less email to read and fewer offers to research. Placing 10 to 30 offers that run dynamic ads on one theme site is considerably less time-consuming than placing thousands of individual product ads that must be constantly monitored and revised.
Rather than chasing offers, content affiliates concentrate on building relationships with potential customers through information and entertainment. Delivery is simple and cheap via blogs, email and RSS feeds. Moreover, blogging, podcasting and making videos are way more fun than ad writing. The biggest advantage, however, comes from the ability to plan our publishing schedules well in advance.
So if I suddenly required an uninterrupted month of time to respond to a family emergency or to take advantage of an extraordinary travel opportunity, I would log in to my blog, select four draft articles and queue them up for delivery – one per week. The same articles would be queued in the same order for delivery through my autoresponder. To keep my business humming along for four weeks would take about five minutes per site, or less time than it would take to pack my bags.
Making even a partial switch away from the search affiliate to the content publisher model should be easy for Ray. He could start with an existing niche in which he has had success, preferably one of an evergreen nature such as dating, skin care or weight loss. In as little as a day, he could rework and load seven of his best product reviews into an autoresponder series and put an email capture form on the applicable site. He should also take a minute to install a blog on that site, and spend $20 to $50 to have a designer work his existing template into the blog.
Next, Ray should reallocate just one day per week of his pay-per-click ad writing time and devote that instead to writing articles and product endorsements. By producing just four short articles per week, in three months Ray will have populated his blog and autoresponder with a year's worth of messages to be published and delivered to his subscribers every week.
As the size of his subscriber lists grow, not only will Ray's income increase, but he will also be able to lower his pay-per-click advertising costs substantially.
And if Ray's perpetual pay-per-click ad writing has left him short on prose, he could hire a ghostwriter to write those articles. Better yet, he could hire a team of ghostwriters to write articles in a half dozen of his best niche markets and get his affiliate business to the "set it, forget it and go on vacation" stage more quickly.
The last step in the process – taking a vacation – might be the most difficult for workaholic affiliate Ray, as he may be tempted to use his newfound "free" time to build an even bigger empire.
If you're like Ray, listen up! Whether you are an aspiring affiliate or a seven-figure affiliate, making time to rest and rejuvenate body, mind and soul is the best thing you will ever do for you and your family. When you are refreshed and focused, you become even more efficient and productive in your work. So leave the laptop at home and go have fun. With practice, you'll soon discover that living the Lifestyle and taking vacations is as easy as FTP.
Oh, and one last thing. When making your travel reservations online, remember to book through your own affiliate link.
Rosalind Gardneris a super-affiliate who's been in the business since 1998. She's also the author of The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online. Her best-selling book is available on Amazon...