This week has been full of win, and it’s only Tuesday!

All the Cool Kids (and me)

My humble little blog TrishaLyn.com has been featured on Alltop.com under the Marketing category. Alltop is a digital magazine rack, per se. At each Alltop site, they display the latest five stories from 30+ sites on a single page, aggregating the information as a starting point. Alltop is a great way to expose yourself to blogs and websites relating to your interests that you may not have stumbled upon before. The interests range from women’s interests to sports, religion to geekery. In the marketing category my humble blog is mentioned amongst the likes of Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, Michael Martine’s Remarkablogger, and Seth Godin’s blog. I’d say that lives up to the “all the cool kids (and me)” slogan!

Guest Co-Host of AffiliateThing on WebmasterRadio.fm

Regular host Shawn Collins of AffiliateTip.com and co-founder of Affiliate Summit invited me on to co-host the weekly Affiliate Thing podcast in lieu of regular co-host Lisa Picarille of Revenue Magazine who can’t make it tomorrow. I’m excited as I know this is a well-produced, professional podcast broadcast on WebmasterRadio.fm, so I can’t wait. I’ll be recording from the pleasure of my own home in the morning and can’t wait to chew the affiliate fat with Shawn. I will say that I’m glad I’m not the one who has to edit it! it’s all recorded over Skype, so it’ll be great quality I’m sure!

Featured Expert on EzineArticles.com

That’s right, yours truly is also now a featured expert author on article site EzineArticles.com. So far I’ve submitted my Top 10 Things That Improve Work Ethic article and plan on submitting many more. If you’d like to see any of my former blog posts as articles on Ezine, drop me a line and let me know!

So that’s it! I feel like all this work I’ve been doing is paying off, and let me tell you, it’s a terrific feeling! I’ll be sure to report back on how the recording of Affiliate Thing goes tomorrow!

So Gary Vaynerchuk at WineLibrary is at it again, enthusiastically making up holidays as he fancies. He’s come up with April 3rd as Good People Day, a day to thank those that help you, inspire you, etc. He explains it better than I, so here:

So I’m left to wondering who I should thank. I guess there’s several peeps out there that inspire me. Here we go, in no particular order.

• Anne Casanova, my manager. She’s awesome!
• Sam Harrelson. A great blogger, generally nice and helpful guy.
• All the people I follow on twitter for constant entertainment.
• All the people who read my blog. Y’all rock and give me a good motivation to keep talking.
• The GeekCast crew for making me laugh hysterically once a week, so big ups to Jim Kukral, Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, and Sam Harrelson once again.
• My best friends ever for always being there for me, Katie Shaw, Lorenza Martinez, Rachel Nuckols, and Jennifer Morrill. None of them are big interwebbers, so no links!
• Karen Garcia is a great for random questions via Twitter. So is Deborah Loxly!

Described as “A fancy tip jar for your blog!”, ScratchBack is a great monetizing widget for any blog or website. Best to the user, it’s free to throw onto your blog and free to customize if you have the right skills and a copy of Photoshop.

A Jim Kukral joint, ScratchBack is essentially a paid blogroll. You set the amount that you want to charge for each link. Anyone interested in their link showing on your website can click the widget to purchase the link and enter in the URL and anchor text for the widget link. The administrator can either set the links to moderate what shows up or just let everything come through. There’s a great deal of flexibility with how much you want to moderate the links or how much you want to be hands off.

Since I’ve just thrown it up as a test, I’ve taken the initial hands off approach. I’m allowing any link and only charging $1. Other more veteran users, like Shawn Collins at Affiliate Tip, have found a lot of click spam and raised the level of moderation and price to weed out some of the less savory links. It’s a great tool as an advertiser as well because you can get some great links on high traffic blogs for extremely reasonable prices.

As most of the tools I suggest, there’s no downside to giving it a try. Definitely check it out and if it doesn’t work for you, no harm done. But I have to say that in just the two weeks or so I’ve had it up I’ve had some decent luck with it. Show some love at www.ScratchBack.com.