Last week I was fortunate enough to participate in a roundtable with other industry professionals and a company called 2Checkout.com. Honestly, I had never even heard of them before and was uncertain what I could add to the discussion.
While there, we discussed 2Checkout launching a full affiliate program based on their product catalog (which is huge). The concept will be fabulous for smaller merchants who want to get their products out to the public. As a small business owner, this especially appealed to me.
I had a number of takeaways from the meeting, but I will share just a few with you.
1) It is always a good thing to network with others in your industry because you never know what you will learn.
2) Affiliates should be using Instant Messaging to form closer relationships with their merchants.
3) The affiliate industry is still growing and changing with every passing day. Keep your eyes and ears open to stay on the cutting edge because it moves fast.
If you would like to read more about the roundtable, here is a link to the 2Checkout blog.
Everyone knows that I am all about making money through blogs and through video in particular today. I heard about a new site called Graspr that just received some pretty major funding. It looks a lot like Revver except that it isn’t obvious to me from the outset how to make money off of it.
Apparently you can make money either by uploading your own videos or showing the videos of others. Given all of the news that we are hearing about people watching more and more videos online, it’s clear that it is the next new way to make money. The question is which platforms are going to be the ones that work?
If you are interested, click over to Graspr.com and create an account. I haven’t uploaded any videos yet but I was having a ball watching some dancing videos like the one below. I just keep trying to picture myself at a Nightclub doing this dance.
As a work-at-home-mom, I never know what the summer will bring. Depending on our activities and the ages of my girls, each summer is different.
I have to say that I am totally loving this summer! We planned in advance a good variety of things for the girls to do–a couple of weeks of summer camp, a week with my in-laws, a week here with my mom, some parties and social events, etc. We take a weekly trip to the library for both books and movies. In addition, a sitter comes and teaches them swimming a couple of afternoons a week.
Although every day is different, we are really enjoying family time. Sometimes it is something simple like a craft. Today it was a movie. It’s just nice to be relaxing and enjoying the kids.
That’s not to say that there are not challenges. I work even stranger hours than before because I have less dedicated work time. But the girls have even started helping me out a bit with my work by making videos for my websites and giving me contest ideas. This week they will help me stuff envelopes full of Disney gift cards.
I’m sure by August 10 I will be completely ready for them to go back to school. But for now, I am enjoying the time that we have and the opportunities in front of us.
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I was on a blog this morning and notived them using Disqus for their comments. I’m curious as to how it works because I am new to it. I went ahead and signed up for it and added it to this blog, but I am not sure whether the Disqus plugin will work with Wordpress Mu. I guess we will see!
Do you Disqus? What has your experience been with it? You can learn more about it at www.disqus.com.
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It was only a matter of time before one of our family members ended up on YouTube and not because we put ourselves there. We found out the other day from my husband’s mom that his uncle (I think actually his great uncle) was found on YouTube singing Old Man River on an airplane. It’s totally in character from what I know of his uncle. Apparently someone just found him amusing and started recording him. A family member stumbled upon the video months later and recognized him. Since then, the video has been passed along from family member to family members.
It’s actually kind of funny. And definitely a warning that we all need to be careful what we do in public because we have no idea who might be recording us and putting us on the internet! As small as video cameras are these days (not to mention video capability on cell phones), any one of us may unknowingly become a “star.” Here’s Uncle Allen!
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