Here's a Fun Site

On Thanksgiving Joe sent me a fun email and I wanted to
share it with you. Since I won't add your email address to
the site where it came from I will share the link with you
so you can get a laugh:
http://www.funpages.com/fatguydance/

Now after I had a good laugh I checked out some more of
the fun things they have to offer. If you're a chocoholic like
me then you'llappreciate this one too.
http://www.funpages.com/chocolate/

We all need a good laugh once in awhile so take a minute
and enjoy.

And thank you Joe for finding this site for us!

To Your Success,
Susan

It's Starting Already

Well it's started already. I thought I was getting
an early start but no, others started before me
and are already sending out their mailings for...

The Busiest and Most Profitable Time of the Year.

I am not talking about the mailings from Hickory
Farms, Home Depot, ToysRUs or any of the other
major retail stores.

I am talking about those who are signing up as
many new affiliates for their affiliate programs
as possible before Christmas.

Today I received 2 mailings from programs I am
in reminding me to advertise my referral link as
opposed to selling or helping me sell their products.

I don't have to tell you why they want more people
to sign up but I will anyway. The more people trying
to sell their products - the more sales theywill make.

And that's good business!

Now whether you have your own affiliate program or
not, becoming an affiliate for a good program is
still a good idea. Even the very successful online
marketers join other affiliate programs.

By joining multiple affiliate programs that offer
similar products, you have more to offer your
customers.

You don't do most of your shopping at Tide stores
or Sony stores. Sure, there are specialty stores
but most of these products are still available in
other places that attract more customers because
of the wide variety of products and manufacturers.

As I have stated in many of my newsletter articles:

Learn some of your online marketing techniques from
what works offline.

BUT... there is one very important thing to
remember while you are joining affiliate programs.

Join "Good" ones because you don't what to sell
valueless material or earn next to nothing on
your sales. Find honest, solid and dependable
programs that offer good products or services
and pay you a decent commission for your work.

I have joined many fine affiliate programs and
have some of them listed here:

http://www.affiliates-win.com/pbi/

and here:

http://www.friendswhocare.us/tools.htm

To Your Success,
Susan

PS - Here's the link to free affiliate program
that has already started recruiting new affiliate
for Christmas. They have many fine products, pay
a good commission, don't require you to earn a
large commission before they pay you and give you
2 ways to get paid (check or PayPal). You can get
all the details on Neil Shearing's Affiliate Program
site.

Our Forum Needs A Facelift

I am sorry to report that right now our forum is not getting much
traffic, very few postings and no new registered members.

What's the problem?

• Too new to expect much?
• Too restrictive?
• Not enough groups to get anything of value?
• All of the above?
• Don't know?

Me, I don't know the answer but a couple of registered members
have made some suggestions - you can see them on the forum
and since we need the traffic, go there to read them.

Since this forum was set up for you and right now it needs all
the help it can get, I am asking you to visit it, become a member
and post something. Most of the discussion right now is on how
it should be laid out and who should be allowed to post. One
subscriber even has a poll to see if you think this forum or any
one like it will work. So please vote!

I am willing to:

• define new groups
• allow some subscribers to be the administrator of some of the groups
• allow groups to be open or restricted
• take suggestions on what else to do

If we can't get some traffic and postings on our forum then
what's the point of having it?

So it's up to you. Let me know what you think so we can either
make this forum work or close it.

To Your Success,

Susan