{"id":961,"date":"2008-07-25T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/colin-mcdougall-tosses-a-cob\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T17:11:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T01:11:17","slug":"colin-mcdougall-tosses-a-cob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/colin-mcdougall-tosses-a-cob\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin McDougall Tosses a Cob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update: Colin Pearce McDougall passed away on May 29, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Affiliate marketing isn't ALL work&#8230; trust me.<\/p>\n<p>Colin McDougall (VEO Report, 6 Minute Rankings and Fly on the Wall Club coaching program) and I have been friends for what seems like forever &#8212; or at least since he phoned me one day a few years ago with his impassioned plea for help after things in his original affiliate business went terribly awry.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, he listened (to me and a few notable others) and things are much better for Colin now&#8230; like to the tune of 70K Commission Junction checks. Because he now has the time, we get together to play in his favorite playground (and where I live full-time), the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I thought it would be fun to include these pics of an affiliate tradition&#8230;the after-dinner corn cob toss at my house. I live on a bench overlooking the valley and the objective is to hit the neighbour's shed roof.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a title=\"Colin's shows us his corn cob by roamsters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roamsters\/2701715661\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3085\/2701715661_793f925b4d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Colin's shows us his corn cob\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a title=\"Colin Throws a Cob by roamsters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roamsters\/2702531596\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3071\/2702531596_877ee1e3cf_m.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Throws a Cob\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Colin won the latest round&#8230; and the neighbour doesn't like me any better now.<\/p>\n<p>Another tradition has become a once yearly &#8216;play a round whether you like it or not' golf game (we both hate it). Ed gets choked that neither of us keeps track of our score, but we enjoy sharing a round, a couple of beers, the great weather and views, as well as some great conversation about affiliate marketing.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"Colin McDougall and Rosalind Gardner at Skaha Meadows Golf Course by roamsters, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roamsters\/2701715977\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3089\/2701715977_9a70d25dfb.jpg\" alt=\"Colin McDougall and Rosalind Gardner at Skaha Meadows Golf Course\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Anyway, let's see if Colin has a Google Alert on his name&#8230; and how quickly he responds to seeing his corn cob tossing pictures published on the web. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Colin Pearce McDougall passed away on May 29, 2021. 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