Okay, there was a glitch in the matrix last week and I somehow forgot to post what I’d been working on.  Fail for me.  Anyway, this week’s cribbed content will include some self-aggrandizing points from last week and some really nifty stuff going on this week.

• StickerGiant was kind enough to feature me on their blog last week.  I placed my first order with them while I was in Boston and was really happy with the quality of stickers I received   So I slapped their logo on my laptop!
• I never win anything, yet while at Affiliate Summit I won $1000 in a contest.  So with that I will be going to BlogWorldExpo!  I’m excited as this will be my first BWE and a lot of the good people I met at Affiliate Summit East will be there.
• ShareASale, always the innovator, launched their Make-A-Video widget, allowing affiliates to make – and monetize – videos for advertisers’ products and services.  I’m excited – I don’t do much on ShareASale yet, but soon I hope to have a bit more time to play around with this.
• Fellow AffSpot.com forum poster Daniel M. Clark just published his first widely available book, The Big Book of Spam: Subject Lines.  This is volume one, and volume two is already in the works.  I’m waiting for my copy and will dutifully review it for you!
• Motive Interactive affiliate manager Luke Jeffery Smith has a good audio eBook out there, Luke Jeffrey’s Affiliate Marketing Fast Track. It’s just $0.99 – I plan on buying it and giving it a listen this weekend, again, complete with review!

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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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Welcome to May, my darlings. We’re inching closer to summer every day, and it’s starting to get warmer and warmer. Take a few minutes on this lovely Friday to check out my collection of crap from over the week! This edition is slightly longer since I didn’t do a CC last week – shame on me!

• Another satisfied customer! I recently offered some free stickers to Mike Rohde of Web414 & Rhodesign for him to give us a try and he loves them! Always happy to read about another satisfied PsPrint customer
• Zac Johnson, one of the first bloggers to report on how Joel Comm was going to make good for the recent eBook snafu, gave away 5 copies on his blog and I was lucky enough to win one. Thanks again Zac! I’ll most likely be cracking into it later this week when I get a bit more free time, so I’ll be sure to write a review.
• I’m tragically behind on WineLibrary TV. Not that important, but I thought you’d like to know. I was also behind on JangroCast, but I caught up last night. Good stuff!
• Affiliate Marketers are Giving Back! A rather large group of women affiliate marketers are going to be walking and raising money for breast cancer research. They’ve started selling space on their t-shirts in exchange for donations, so go contribute!
• I am AWESOME, and I can prove it! http://trishalyn.isreallyawesome.com/
• Sam Harrelson was disappointed by the Web 2.0 Expo. And thinks I should podcast more.
• Why the eff is eBay suing craigslist? Jordan McCollum at Marketing Pilgrim does a great job explaining it.
• Anne Kadet from Smart Money Magazine apparently received her journalism training from a dog. She wrote a “story” for the May issue quoting all the bad parts of the Jason Calacanis keynote from Affiliate Summit West out of context. Google is clearly her one and only “source”. Missy Ward’s reaction video is awesome.
• Joy O’Hare, a dang good blogger herself, reviewed my blog. Thanks for the great review, Joy!

All in all I’d say it’s been a good week!

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