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Family First: Unable to Attend Denver Affiliate Convention

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Mom holding Gavin (my godson)I got the phone call this morning that you DON'T ever want to get – “Hi, this is so-and-so from such-and-such hospital in Toronto and your mother fell down the steps this morning and broke her hip. She is here awaiting surgery.”

My mom is 95 and lives on her own, so this is the call I've long feared.

I'm just ever SO grateful that she didn't have to wait too long for someone to come to her aid. Fortunately, she fell close enough to the door to be able to bellow at passersby in the morning and a neighbour heard her. I'm also grateful that now she sees the validity of wearing one of those Lifeline Medical Alarm necklaces that lets you summon help any time of the day or night – even if you can't speak.

Anyway, suffice to say that I won't be heading to Denver tomorrow morning to speak at the Affiliate Convention.

My apologies to the many of you with whom I planned to meet. We'll make it another time… Affiliate Summit in January, perhaps?

In the meantime, enjoy your experience at the Convention and learn LOTS – I'll miss you!

Cheers,
Ros

Affiliate Site Building Webinar

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By a special arrangement I made with Bruce Safran of BizZites, you are invited a premier Tele-Webcast training event exclusively for NPT readers.

Bruce will teach you how to “create” a complete, commission ready affiliate website, featuring targeted products, relevant articles, and related videos. ALL engineered to drive qualified traffic and convert more of your visitors into sales.

The webinar is on Thu, May 14, 2009 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT (9PM Eastern).

Register here.

Podcast: What Merchants Do to Mess Up Their Affiliate Programs

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Linda Woods, host of the weekly “Affiliate Marketing Insider” podcast on Webmaster Radio invited Kathleen Lindsay of Allegiance Marketing Resources and me back this week to talk with her on the subject “What Merchants Do Wrong to Mess Up Their Affiliate Programs“.

As Super Affiliates, all I can say is that Kathleen and I had a LOT of fun with this particular topic!

The show airs tomorrow, April 16th at noon Pacific, 3PM Eastern.

If you miss the broadcast, you can always listen to it via the show archives.

Webmaster Radio: Women of Affiliate Marketing

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Last Thursday, Linda Woods hosted the first of a two-part series on Webmaster Radio profiling the women of affiliate marketing – or, more accurately, a few of us ‘old timers' who were featured on the cover of Affiliate Summit's FeedFront Magazine back in January.

In addition to Linda (Partnercentric) and I were our esteemed colleagues Carolyn Tang of ShareaSale, Melissa Salas of Buy.com; Hammock Ventures, Industry Consultant Lisa Riolo; and Allegiance Director of Merchant Accounts Kathleen Lindsay. Rachel Honoway of Lurn.com was to have joined us, but apparently she got stuck on an airplane somewhere.

Topics included how we all got started in affiliate marketing, the good and bad old days in the business, what's different now, how it's rewarding (or not), challenges and a few horror stories.

You may listen to the show here.

Part 2 airs this Thursday at 3PM Eastern.

Rosalind to Speak at Affiliate Summit West 2009

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I'll be speaking on the Super Affiliate PPC Marketing Strategies panel at Affiliate Summit West 2009. The conference takes place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, January 11 – 13, 2009. Here is the presentation description from the Affiliate Summit site:

In this panel, (open only to Platinum Pass holders) three top PPC super affiliates will reveal their exact strategies. Learn how to effectively use Google, Yahoo and MSN to drive inexpensive qualified traffic to any of your websites.

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Ros Tells All in PepperJam Interview

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OK, that ‘tells all' subject line is a little hyped up – I haven't written my autobiography yet. 🙂

But if you want to learn a little more about who I am and what I do, check out the “Pepperjam Network “Meet the Affiliates” Interview #3: Introducing Rosalind Gardner” blog today where I've answered the following questions posed by PJN's CEO Kris Jones:

  1. Where do you live? Are you married? Any children? Animals?
  2. When and how did you first get involved in affiliate marketing. Please share your story…
  3. What are some of your favorite online resources for learning more about affiliate marketing?
  4. What are your top two (2) favorite books of all time and top three (3) favorite musical groups?
  5. What is a day-in-the-life of Rosalind Gardner like?
  6. Among other regular contributions to the affiliate marketing industry, you are a regular columnist for Revenue Magazine (BTW – I always look forward to reading your piece every issue!). Can you share with our readers what you feel is the best advice you’ve ever given as part of your column in Revenue Magazine?
  7. You authored the book “Make a Fortune Promoting Other People’s Stuff Online.” Can you share with us a few tips from that book? Wait…you’re not done yet. You’ve also authored one of the best-selling and successful e-books of all time called “The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436797 in One Year Selling Other People’s Stuff Online.” Is there an additional tip or two from that book that you can share?
  8. My guess is that as an accomplished author, international speaker, and uber successful affiliate marketer you’ve traveled the world many times. Tell us about the most amazing place you’ve ever been to around the world. Tell us about your experience there…
  9. Name one person in the affiliate industry you admire and tell us why?

And just in case you haven't yet signed for Pepperjam, check out “Pepperjam Network Review: Real Change or Just Hype?” here on the NPT blog.

Ros to Speak at IMC Event

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I was honored to accept an invitation from Derek Gehl to speak at his event being held April 12th and 13th in Orange County, California.

Other speakers include Brian Tracy, Tim Knox and Janet Switzer.

Free tickets to the event will be given to the first 300 people who purchase the new “The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on The Internet — Version 2008” system, launching on February 19th.

If you miss out on being one of the first 300, not to worry. Free invitations will also be extended to those who add the $2.95 Internet Entrepeneur's Club trial at the time of their order.

Those who have been Internet Entrepeneur's Club members for 2 months or more also get a free ticket.

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