Background
A few years ago I got interested in affiliate marketing and actually was accepted to my first network Azoogle (now Epic) while my wife and I were in the hospital just hours before we had our daughter Isabelle. I was pretty excited to get started in affiliate marketing but didn’t really get going until I won $500 from Pro Blogger Darren Rowse. I took that cash and joined PPC-Coach dot com and started to learn paid traffic.

After a few years of ups and downs I’ve been pretty consistent recently with bringing in profits each month. I’ve moved on from adwords after their huge banning and jumped on board with social, cpv and seo traffic. Finally I’m able to take some time off and get to an affiliate summit and try and take the next step in building my knowledge.

Present
Affilaite marketing is actually a hobby of mine. I have a full time career in education and I don’t see myself leaving that anytime soon. The benefits and retirement plan are wonderful for my family. I have the house, fence, 2 cars, child and all of that jazz so I don’t “need” any more. But the freedom of being able to do have a secondary income coming in with this little hobby of mine sounds amazing.

Last June my wife and I took a 3 day trip to Boston and watched the Red Sox from the green monster and 3 rows behind the Sox dugout. All paid for by my little hobby. How awesome is that? We can’t take fun vacation trips like this without saving and planning. Even after a normal family saves and plans they may not get to do it as big as they want like I did. Sitting near the dugout and on the monster would not have been possible.

Ok so besides money, money, money what else?

Unless there is a random act of God we will be a 3 person family for life. Our little Isabelle took nearly 5 years of doctors, medication, procedures and surgeries but now she is here and we couldn’t be happier. When we got married 11 years ago it was my wife’s goal to be a stay at home mom and watch her children. In order for that to happen my wife needed to come up with a way to earn a second income for us while staying at home. She started a daycare in our house soon after we got married. For the first seven years she was watching other parent’s kids while we struggled with the fact that we were not having a baby of our own. Those were difficult times but with the help of fertility specialists, Isabelle was born. I don’t think people realize what it’s like to have 8 kids, all under the age of 4, in your house for 10 hours a day. Let’s put it this way, I rarely come home from work and complain because she usually beats me in that argument.

Future
Heading to affiliate summit is for our future. I have spent the past 3 years reading about everyone else’s experience of going to a conference and meeting some amazing people. These people also explain how inspiring the conferences are and build on that excitement with growth in their business. We look at this conference as the beginning of a new chapter in our family life.

My wife, after 10 years of daycare, has decided enough is enough and wants to do something else. With Isabelle leaving home for school soon this is the perfect opportunity for us to get a change of directions. This conference is the start of an 18 month plan to get my wife out of the daycare business and into the affiliate business. She has watched me become engulfed with this hobby and sees the potential for her to continue my work while I head to my “real job”.

Taking my wife to Affiliate Summit will hopefully boost her interest in what I do and get her excited about it too. This was her idea to stop her daycare and work at home on “something like what I do”. She has been focusing on her family and other families for a long time and now it is time for her to focus on herself. Hopefully now she can finally have a career of her own.

Summary
So Jeremy’s staff, this is my story and this is why I want to win the ASW contest. I want to continue to grow my small hobby into something bigger and better for my family. I want my wife to see what is possible in this industry and continue to get excited for her last day of daycare to come. (Trust me, she’s already excited) This is the first step in our 18 month journey of having some residual income going or having x months banked away for the start of her new venture.

Please consider me for one of the 10 entries in your contest.

Oh, one last thing. I’m a fellow Nebraskan, Helloooooo and if I win this contest and take away some cash from my blackjack game Shoemoney and his staff will have dinner on me. But I would also like to take some of my winnings and donate to an organization or two like these, resolve.org, fertiledreams.org

Related posts:

1. ASW 2011
2. Affiliate Summit West 2011

Right now after 2 weeks there have been 3 people that have been credited with a referral for downloading the guide. With 3 weeks left there is plenty of time for anyone to get more referrals than 1st place.

These are the names of people that have gotten referrals, in order of standings.

1. Greg
2. Ron
3. Firdaus

I’m not going to release how many referrals they have but trust me it is low enough for any “real marketer” to beat them in one days time.

So, if you have not signed up for my newsletter you can do so at the top right. If you already have all you need to do is put your email address in the url to get credit for a referral.

Good luck to everyone that wants a free membership to CPVDen.com

Related posts:

1. Free CPVDen Membership Contest
2. PPC-Coach Contest Update
3. PPC-Coach Contest Update

CPVDen.com is a membership based website teaching its members how to profit with cost-per-view advertising. The price of CPVDen is $50 a month. This contest is worth $600 as they are giving out 1 year memberships.

Here is how the contest works. I wrote a CPV mini-guide this summer and I have had good feedback from it. You can download the guide here.

http://www.browie.com/ppvguide/

Once you download the guide you will be given a referral link to give to your friends. Get as many referrals as you can to read the guide with your link and you could win a 1 year membership to CPVDen.com

-GOOD LUCK

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1. CPVDen to Aquire CPVCoach
2. CPVDen – PPV Marketing
3. PPC-Coach Exclusive Contest

Recently I uploaded a new theme, I like it better. Thanks Chris Guthrie. The final touches need some work on my theme. Since adding this new theme I had to put something in the top right box (still looks ugly) and so I headed to my feedburner account and noticed nearly 80 RSS readers? That actually shocked me since I haven’t been trying too hard to post and gain readers.

So I thought it’s close to 2010 and I’d like to get to 150 RSS Readers before January 1st. If I hit that milestone I’m going to give away one of these iPod Nano’s I’ve got sitting here collecting dust (don’t ask). When I hit 150 I’ll just have some stupid simple contest to win prizes.

YOUR JOB – Go out and get more readers to this blog. Blog, tweet, facebook, forum post. Do whatever to entice people to read the blog and subscribe.

MY JOB – I promise to have plenty of content throughout the month of December to make it worth while. In fact I have a PPV marketing post coming up later today.

-browie

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1. Another Lifetime Giveaway

Coach’s Sale
Because PPC-Coach has been around for two years coach is having a 1 month sale. For October you can join the first moth for $22.22.

My Giveaway
I mentioned at the beginning of the month that I will have a giveaway on the 10th as this marks my 2 year anniversary for being apart of the website that started my affiliate marketing campaign.

I have a nice silver ipod nano that was never given away. I tried to have a referral sign up through Hydra to give this away but that didn’t do so well. There were people that signed up but no one made much cash after that. I’d like to give that away to some one.

Here It Is
So, If I can get 5+ people to sign up to PPC-Coach.com by CLICKING HERE and taking advantage of the $22.22 sale going on, I’ll take those names and draw out of a hat the winner of the iPod Nano. Simple really. Email me when you have signed up.

Other Things
I recently won an iPod Touch from PublisherChallenge.com after I won some Paypal money in a different month on that site. I wanted to go for the camera on this contest but 10K with one network especially Peerfly just wasn’t going to do it for me. Nothing is wrong with Peerfly but they are fairly new and don’t have many offers. Most of them are Acai rebills.

New Favorite Blog
I have a new favorite blog that I read. SUPER AFFILIATE TWINS – One of the twins joined ppc-coach a while ago and from there took his business with his brother to a new level. You should check out one of their recent posts about Copeac flying them to Atlantic City for a few days to party. Why? Because they are bringing in the dough. Go check them out.

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