I received a nice email from Janie McQueen, winner of our Giving Away the Goods Contest… 

The Rosalind Gardner book is fantastic. I’ve just built my website promoting my new book (I’m an author/publisher of parenting books — my new book, The New Magic Bookshelf: Finding Great Books Your Child Will Treasure Forever, has just this week hit the market). The home site is called magicbookshelfonline.com. I used as many of Rosalind’s suggestions as I could (I had no web presence before), learned a ton and plan to use even more when I do the straight affiliate marketing projects I plan to do. So thanks so much for the opportunity to win the book!

You’re welcome Janie! I have a couple more of Ros’s books to giveaway, so stay tuned.

Janie is also expecting twins! And you can read an excerpt from her new book here.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Congrats to Janie McQueen, winner of our Giving Away the Goods Contest who won a brand new copy of Rosalind Gardner’s The Super Affiliate Handbook!  I have a few more of Ros’s books to give away, so look for another giveaway in the future.

I finally gave in to the Twitter trend and started “twitting”.  You can follow me here.
I’ve been auto-updating it via TwitterFeed and FB2Twit (uses my Facebook status).
Wonder who owns Twatter.com?  I would jump on monetizing that if I did.  ‘Nuf said.

Anyway, back to biz, I’ve been compiling a list of related blogs written by my colleagues for added resources.  It’ll remain a work in progress as I add more links, and you can check it out here.

I also finally decided to play with Movie Maker (free download from Microsoft) after I made a video for my Mailbox Monday feature.  Obviously youtube won’t let you upload more than 10 minutes worth of clips, and I rambled on for more than 12 minutes, so I figured out how to cut out a few frames (ie useless jokes).  Movie Maker also lets you add screens and words, too cool. And just today, I see youtube now lets you “add video annotations”.  Now I need to play with that to see if I can add words to previously uploaded videos. 

But for now, tune into my youtube channel this week as I actually let the world see me with no makeup on (can’t wear it for a week after my lasik enhancement surgery, argh!).

How would you like a brand-spankin’ new copy of Rosalind Gardner’s The Super Affiliate Handbook, and not the eBook, but the printed version that sells for $59 at Amazon!?! Well, you’re in luck because I have one to give away!  But I don’t want to give it away to just anyone; I want to give it to someone to who is truly interested in learning more about affiliate marketing online, so I made a few rules (don’t worry, they’re easy)…

1.  Subscribe to my RSS feed.  You can do this by entering your email address in the upper left hand column of this very page.  Or click here to enter your email address.  You must use a valid email address as you will have to verify via a confirmation email.

2. Leave a comment on this post.  Tell me why you want to win this book in a sentence or two.  Please use the same email address that you subscribed to the RSS feed with, so I can verify (it will be private and will not appear).  I will then use that email address to contact the winner to ask for your mailing address.  

3. That’s it!  See, that wasn’t so hard.  Now I have to add the legalities… You can only enter once.  Duplicate entries will be voided.  The book will only be sent to a US address (because I am too lazy busy to go to the post office, so I use Stamps.com).  And you have to be the “age of majority” in your state (I’d say 18+, but Nebraska is a crazy state in which you have to be 19+, go figure).

Enter by June 15th, 2008!  I will announce the winner with a blog post (and picture and free link love if you wish).  Remember, you can’t win if you don’t enter!