My 5 year wedding anniversary is tomorrow.  It’s amazing how time flies, and how much has changed in my life in the last 5 years.  But I’m happy with where things have gone – generally.  So while I’m spending a romantic anniversary weekend in Lake Tahoe, you can chew on these links and I’ll catch you on Tuesday.

• XM and Sirius Satellite radio companies finalized their merger this week.  Details are still to come.  I really am anxious to learn what stations are surviving – I don’t want to just change the station to find that one of my favorites doesn’t exist anymore.
• Google was all set to purchase social bookmarking/sharing site Digg for the princely sum of $200 million, but looks like The Google bailed on the deal.  Are they toying with Digg?  Time will tell.
• Vertical Response posted a great idea for building your mailing list using your business cards.  Great strategy just in time for Affiliate Summit.  Remember, it’s not too late to order new cards with PsPrint.  I ordered my new batch a couple days ago and I can’t wait to see the results!
• A new forum for affiliate marketing was launched last weekend, AffSpot.com.  I joined up and I’ve been having a blast so come on over and say hi!

Have a great weekend and go rent a movie from Netflix!

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Anyone who’s been in charge of writing content for a newsletter can feel my pain.  I’ve been trying to brainstorm some topics for our Reseller Newsletter, and I’m drawing a blank.  While I’ve got a ton lined up for our Affiliate Newsletter, the topics just don’t cross over.

A reseller is defined as “A person who is authorized to sell someone else’s goods and/or services.”  We definitely have tons, but what do these people want to know about?  What good tips and advice can be given to a graphic designer or print broker looking for a resource on how to resell printing?

I admit – I’m new to writing a newsletter.  I’ve often thought about starting one for my other sites, but what would I talk about month after month?  It’s sometimes hard enough to come up with blog topics, let alone an entire extremely focused newsletter.  I give those e-mail affiliate marketers out there a lot of credit.

I’m officially open to suggestions!  Let’s do some online brainstorming here in the comments.  What would you want to know more about if in this position?

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Announcing a momentous occasion – the first ever contest from TrishaLyn.com! In an amazing feat of social media at it’s best, prizes have been graciously donated by a number of sponsors, mostly through Twitter! Now you have a chance to win, and let me tell you, I wish I could keep some of these!

Prizes:

• First Prize – Six month subscription to Trackur.
• Second Prize – Creative Vado Pocket Video Camera.
• Third Prize – Six month 125×125 ad spot on FreshySEO.com.
• Random Entry “Door” Prizes – 50 custom printed business cards from PsPrint, a Secrettweet.com Logo T-shirt, Create Your Own Reality: The Ancient Wisdom book by Sharyn Abbott, and a fantastic free sticker selection from StickerGiant.com,

To Enter:

All you have to do to win is write a blog post telling your readers why you read TrishaLyn.com and link to both the main URL TrishaLyn.com and to your favorite post. Simple, right? Well for our first contest we’re going low-key. To submit your entry, post a comment with a link to the post. You must submit your entry via comment – e-mail entries will not be accepted! Winners will be determined by the quality of content – because that’s the name of the game!

And, for the random entry prizes, I’ll put all the names in a hat and draw some for the random entry “door prizes”. This will be fun!

Deadline:

I want to give a decent amount of time for contestants for formulate and post their entries, so the deadline for this bad boy is Sunday, June 15th. Two solid weeks should be enough time to get the post refined and posted.

Prize Details

First prize is a six month subscription to Trackur, a great aggregation service produced by Andy Beal to help monitor your online reputation. Track keywords, brand names, branded terms, etc all from one super easy to use platform. I’m already a Trackur evangelist having blogged about it long ago, and that’s only after a 14 day free trial. The six month subscription donated by creator Andy Beal is valued at $108 for the Standard service and is an invaluable asset in monitoring your brand online.

Second prize is the techie talk of the town – the Creative Vado pocket video camera. A direct competitor to the Flip Camera, the Vado is lighter, smaller, and being talked about as the next best thing in internet video. This prize has been graciously donated by James Seligman of JamesSeligman.net. On his blog, James addresses the challenges of running various forums and his dabbling in affiliate marketing. The winner of this prize (valued at $100) has their choice of Pink or Silver for the camera – and should, of course, send me their first video with it to share!

Third prize was donated by Eric J. Odom from FreshySEO.com. The 125×125 ad spot on FreshySEO.com’s homepage, valued at $100, is located above the fold on the right hand side of the page. FreshySEO.com gets an average of 900 unique visitors per week. The blog covers many topics important for SEO professionals and amateurs alike, with frequent updates and helpful information. The winner will have to provide their own banner and the URL for the ad, which will be live for six months on the website, putting your ad in front of over 21,000 potential leads! So make it alluring!

Random Entry “Door Prize” Details

A sweet logo tee donated by Kevin Smith of SecretTweet.com. Secret Tweet allows anyone to post an anonymous tweets through the @secrettweet Twitter name. The shirt (pictured right) is valued at $25 and is available in an adult size requested.

Everyone can use some help achieving their goals, so author Sharyn Abbott has graciously donated a copy of her book Create Your Own Reality: The Ancient Wisdom (retail value $24.95). Create Your Own Reality is a different kind of self-help book, with tips and resources on how to make all the money you want, lose all the weight you want, and be as happy as you want. The book is 208 pages and includes over $99 worth of free bonuses.  More details about the book can be found at www.CreateYours2.com.

For a customized door prize, PsPrint is donating an order of 50 full-color 1 sided business cards. Winner will have a free account created for them at PsPrint.com and an order placed into their account. The winner will be responsible for designing and submitting the cards, either using their own design or one from the Design It! online tool. Help can be provided if necessary. For some generic fun, John Fischer from StickerGiant.com has donated a selection of stickers. Stickers will be randomly selected from their free stickers stash.

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