Food for Thought
Now here’s some great incentive to keep working hard on your affiliate business and retire as soon as possible!
| Age of Retirement | Average Age At Death |
| 49.9 | 86 |
| 51.2 | 85.3 |
| 52.5 | 84.6 |
| 53.8 | 83.9 |
| 55.1 | 83.2 |
| 56.4 | 82.5 |
| 57.2 | 81.4 |
| 58.3 | 80 |
| 59.2 | 78.5 |
| 60.1 | 76.8 |
| 61 | 74.5 |
| 62.1 | 71.8 |
| 63.1 | 69.3 |
| 64.1 | 67.9 |
| 65.2 |
66.8 |
Extracted from Sing Lin’s “Optimum Strategies for Creativity and Longevity“.
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Four Questions to Ask Your Merchant
Here’s a commission-increasing tip that Willie Crawford picked up from the Super Affiliate Handbook and then wrote about in his blog. (I’d point you to the entry, but Willie isn’t moderating comments on his personal blog and some of that stuff is just nasty!)
Rosalind Gardner has put the most direct dollars in my pockets. When I read her Super Affiliate Handbook it was a real eye opener. Here was a woman earning nearly half a million dollars a year selling affiliate products and she’s telling me exactly how she does it.
OK… one of the biggest tips I picked up and ACTED UPON in her book was that even though affiliate programs have stated commissions, you CAN negotiate that. So I now get a higher than advertised commission for many of the affiliate products that I sell.
Yup, it’s that simple. Just ASK for a better deal.
Want to increase your own commissions? Here are 4 questions that you should consider asking your merchants…
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How I Broke My Blog
Here’s a caution for all those who make global changes to their site’s design in Dreamweaver or Homesite and then upload the whole mess to the server.
I’d been doing just that when I saw one of my blog posts arrive in a Google Alert and just had to click the link.
Ohmigod! Not only did the page not show up, but there was a HUGE error message telling me that something was probably wrong with my wp-config.php file. Yikes!
I then realized that in my haste, instead of Read more
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Leavin’ on a Jet Plane
Hurray! Ed and I are just about to leave the house for a long-awaited trip to Malaysia and Vietnam.
Adventure right along with us over at Roamsters.com… and never fear - there will still be lots of affiliate marketing news and tips on NPT, even while I’m building sand castles on the beach in Borneo. AMAZING how that works. 
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