I was asked to give thanks at a recent family reunion and I couldn’t think of anything better to give thanks for than my Mom:

I think I speak for each and every person in this room.  We would like to give thanks to our mothers for all they have given us in life. I especially want to thank my Mother for teaching me to do what is right in life, to love each other as a family above all else.

My Mother, especially, has taught me not to let outside forces ever interfere with my family coming first.  As we have fought the many battle in our lives that we have, it was through the love and respect that our parents had for each other, and taught us to have for each other, that made an impact on my life.  Teaching us not only by their words, but their examples.

I only hope I can be as good of an example to my kids as my Mother has been to me.  I also hope that I can always live up to the expectations of my Mother, and to do what is right above all else, and put my family first.

We are all gathered here because of the love of our parents and their parents, and so forth.  We share a common bond that is only known in families who love and respect each other above all else.

Many of us here have lost our parents, children, sisters, and brothers and would give anything in the world to have even one more moment with them to tell them how much we love them.  I am one who is lucky enough to still have my Mother here.  I treasure every moment I can spend with her.

Time is something you can never get back, so in our busy lives we need to take time everyday to tell the ones we love how much they mean to us and to give them, as they have given to us, the gift of our time, because at the end of the day all that matters is our family.

Thank you all, and above all I want to thank my Mother, I love her more than life itself, she has given unselfishly, she has put her family above all else and if ever there were an angel on earth it is my Mother.

I love you Mom

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Do you want to be successful in your attempt at affiliate marketing?

Do you want to know the secrets of the most powerful women in this industry?

If you answered yes to the above questions, then you will highly benefit from my list, of powerful women in the affiliate marketing world.

Each of these women have had an affect in my attempt at affiliate marketing.  These women have encouraged me, they have given me advice, and they have had an overall affect in how I work.

These women made me realize “I Can Do It”!

With that said, here is my list of “Powerful Women in Affiliate Marketing”.

Kim Rowley

Kim is the CEO of Key Internet Marketing, Inc., Kimarketing.com .  Kim has been in the affiliate marketing space since 1998.  Kim is a single mom of four, who on her website, House for Kim, sold “square foot” pixel ads online to help fund her dream of building a new 4000 square foot house.  Kim added a little humor to this by advertising for a husband to share it with.  Kim owns several other sites including: PreemieTwins.com, ShoppingBookmarks.com, ShoeAholicsAnonymous.com, and WorkInMyPajamas.com. Kim is a video blogger with her series of “Mailbox Monday“.  Kim is my biggest inspiration in realizing that it can be done, no matter where you live, (she lives in a smaller town than me) you can be successful.  Kim was also nominated as “Affiliate of the Year” at the 2009 Affiliate Summit’s Pinnacle Awards.

Carolyn Tang

Director of Client Services at ShareASale.com, Inc., Carolyn has been in affiliate marketing for 10 years, she also has a personal blog urbanvivant.com.  Carolyn is one of the sweetest and most helpful people that I have come in contact with in the affiliate marketing world.  Carolyn was nominated as “Affiliate Manager of the Year” at the 2008 Affiliate Summit’s Pinnacle Awards, and she was awarded AbestWebs 2007 “Best Affiliate Mananger”.

Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit, Inc., Co-Founder,  Missy has been in affiliate marketing for 10 years.  Missy blogs at her site  missyward.com. and is one of the authors of affiliatemarketersgiveback.com a blog about affiliate marketers that give back by raising money for the Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer foundation.  Missy and Shawn @Affiliate Summit Inc., were awarded the AbestWebs 2007 “Best Service to Industry”.  Missy is instrumental in my role in being a part of the Affiliate Summit, by allowing me to head up the mentor program for the Affiliate Summit East 2008 in Boston.

Amy Rodriguez

Amy is the Conference Director for Affiliate Summit Inc., Amy is part of the hard work that it takes in getting the whole Affiliate Summit to come together so smoothly.  Amy is the one behind the scenes.  Amy made me feel comfortable at the very 1st Affiliate Summit I had attended, just by walking by and saying “Hi, Teresa”.  I really didn’t think she would know who I was.  Amy is very hard working and very sweet, a very pleasant person to be around.

Kim Salvino

Sr. Delivery Manager at Buy.at, previously affiliate manager at 4checks.com. Kim has been in affiliate marketing for 4 years.  Kim was nominated for the Affiliate Summit Pinnacle Awards 2009 Best Affiliate Manger.  Kim was awarded the AbestWeb Best Affiliate Manager 2008, and was nominated for the Best Affiliate Manager in 2007.  Kim is obviously a very hard worker and also a very personable person.  She made me feel like she had known me forever when I met her for the first time.  A personality like this with hard work ethics, is always a plus.

Deb Carney aka Loxly

from Loxly Galleries, Deb is one of the moderators on the AbestWeb.com forums and was nominated for AbestWebs Best Moderator of 2007, Best Moderator of 2008, and Best OPM 2008.  Deb operates several websites including loxlygallery.com, and nightfireproductions.com. I haven’t met Deb in person but I have talked to her on the forums, twitter, and email.  Deb has advised me and encouraged me to promote my artwork.  I feel like I know her personally.

Jen Goode

owner of jgoodedesigns.com, Jen is also an author along with Missy Ward on  affiliatemarketersgiveback.com a blog about affiliate marketers that give back by raising money for the Susan G. Komen, Breast Cancer foundation.  Jen is also known for her famous icon, her penguin, where she follows the penguin’s travels at the site mypenguintravels.com.  Jen also is a life saver because she took over the mentor program for Affiliate Summit, when I could no longer carry on the leadership of this program, due to the illness of my Mother.  I appreciate this so very much, she is doing an awesome job with the program.

These are just some of the women, in affiliate marketing, that have made an impact in how I work, whether it is with my affiliate marketing, my artwork, or the mentoring program.  These women have made an enormous impact on me, and I would like to award them with my “Power Women In Affiliate Marketing” Award.  Thank you all for your support.

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Tags: affiliate marketing, Amy Rodriguez, Carolyn Tang, Deb Carney, Jen Goode, Kim Rowley, Kim Salvino, Loxly, Missy Ward, Power Women, Women

The Twittersphere has been created, and there is no stopping the phenomena.  Therefore we have a new lingo, new words, with new meaning, that only those who Tweet might understand.

If you Tweet, you know that you only have 140 characters, so the shortcuts you take to get your message across, are similar to those on text messaging.   But that is not all that has come from Twitter, we also have new words.  I searched the urbandictionary and found some very interesting, and Twitterific words that were born from Twitter.

1.  Tweeple -  People who use twitter.com.

2.  Twittizen -  A citizen of twitterspace, someone who resides in the cyberspace area of twitter.  Someone who twitters.

3.  Tweet -  A post on Twitter, a real-time social messaging system.

4.  Twitterism -  A word specific to the twitter.com universe. Usually formed by adding ‘tw’ to the beginning of any word. For example, a twitter meme is a tweme, and people on twitter are tweeple.
By gosh if we’re not twareful, everything will become a twitterism! You know what I twean?

5.  Speme -  A spam meme- that is, a new word someone creates to be tracked by a service Google or Tweme in order to draw attention.

6. Bacontwitter -  Twittering through the six degrees of separation to finally reach Kevin Bacon.

7.  Twitterverse -  The cyberspace area of twitter. This naturally extends beyond twitter.com to anywhere you can twitter, which includes cell phones.

8.  Twit -  Originally a twit was a person who annoys or “twits” others. Not unlike other tw words and rhymes with nitwit. Now comes “twitter” and twit takes on a whole new definition. It is still someone who annoys others or “twits” them. But now it is someone so infatuated with twitter and their tweets that when not twittering they are talking about twitter and tweets. A twit is someone who has lost the ability to communicate face to face. Someone lacking interpersonal skills.

9.  Twitterholic - A person who is addicted to twitter. They tend to tweet at least 20 times per day, follow at least 200 people, and attain at least 150 followers. Since twitterholics tend to do very little other than use twitter, Twitters intended purpose of quick messages about what you are doing is not enough to satisfy their need to tweet, therefore they carry out conversations, share links, and play games. Twitterholics are competitive about their stats, trying to post more than anybody else, or have more friends/followers than anybody else.

10.  Tweetup  - A group of friends on Twitter that are planning to meet up. A request by a user to meet with friends via Twitter.

11.  Tweeper - A person, or persons, who creep friends, or strangers, Twitter profile in order to gain perspective into the person’s life or just find someone to follow. If this is you then you are a Twitter-Creeper aka a Tweeper. To Creep, is to secrectly and discretely view other people’s profiles, blogs, etc without the person’s knowledge.

12.  Tweepetry - A poem of exactly 140 characters sent as a tweet. Soon to be popular.

13.  Tweepside - An opposite, reverse, or sharply contrasted side or aspect of something or someone on twitter: The Tweepside of their activities on Twitter is a desire for publicity and social media popularity. An alternate state of reality in twitter. Another word for “tomorrow on twitter”

14.  Tweet cred - Similar to street cred, this is the level of respect you command in the micro-blogosphere due to your witty, cool or ingenious tweets.  Example @garyvee gots mad tweet cred!

15.  Tweet Diarrhea - Unstoppable continuous tweets…much like diarrhea. Low to no quality, immense quantity.

16.  Tweet Heap - An excessive amount of messages waiting for you when you log on to Twitter that you feel obligated to read.

17.  Tweet ping pong - When you read the twitter updates of someone and you see an outrageous directed tweet and you want to know what led up to that tweet(or update) of theirs — you must play ping pong between the 2 users to see who asked what and why it was answered that way.

18.  Tweet Syncing - The use of another person to post tweets to your Twitter account, pretending to be you.

19.  Tweetard - A Twitter whore.  Someone who is addicted to Twitter.

20.  Tweetarrea - When a person tweets excessively in a 24 hour period.

21.  Tweetdropping - To eavesdrop on twitter conversations, without making your own comments.

22.   Tweetesis - Something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc. on Twitter: The fact that no one follows me proved to be my tweetesis when trying to get my message out. An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome on Twitter. Especially someone who disagrees pointedly with a tweet.
HISTORY: Originally coined February 1, 2009 by @ADMAVEN and @thedirtyblonde on Twitter to describe their interaction when arguing over humor in a Superbowl advertisement.
My tweetesis has been disagreeing with every tweet I make.

23.  Tweetho - That girl at work who sits on twitter all day not working while you slave away for the man.
Tweethoe - That guy at work who sits on twitter all day not working while you slave away for the man.

24.  Tweetover - Is like a sleepover, except instead of chilling with a buddy you tweet all night.

25.  Tweetwad - A name for a person who feels that the frequent posting of the mundane details of their daily life is warranted and/or justified.  “Look at that tweetwad wasting away his pointless life online.”

26.  Tweezer - A geezer that uses Twitter.  “John McCain is a total tweezer.”

27.  Tweevella - A short story told in successive tweets. Like a novella.

28.  Twiddict - A person who is addicted to Twitter.com, and has to update almost every couple of minutes or hour(s)…

29.  Twidiot - Someone that has no experience with Twitter at all. Clueless about Twitter.

30.  TWILF - Acronym, stands for “Tweep I’d like to follow.”

You just never know what language will be next!

I know one thing, I would rather be known as a “TWILF” as a “Tweezer” LOL.

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Tags: Lingo, New Words, twitter, twitterism, twitterverse, UrbanDictionary

Twitter wants to know “What are you doing”?

Why is Twitter sweeping the world of news reporters, movie stars, marketing gurus, mom bloggers, artist, designers, bands, politicians, wine enthusiast, and everyone else in the world?

It is almost unexplainable.  For some it seems to be a waste of time, to others it consumes all of their time, It can be life changing, it can be a tool for self promotion, and it can be the newest alternative to a search engine.

Twitter can help companies, and businesses keep up with what the consumers are saying about them.  It is a way for an individual to have a say, because it is uncensored.  One tweet can be read by thousands of people and if a consumer has a bad experience with a company, what better way than telling world about it, to get the company to pay attention.  It is a lot better than waiting on the phone to talk to an operator to complain, and being transfered several times and on hold forever, to finally get fed up and hang up.  Let me give you an example, a friend of mine, Shawn Collins, was featured on an ABC news affilate, about his experience with ComCast. Watch the video!

Do you Twitter?  If you don’t you should give it a try.  If at first you don’t feel it is useful, don’t give up, I am going to tell you several ways twitter has helped me, changed my life, and connected me with some very interesting people.

Follow me on Twitter

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Tags: Shawn Collins, Tweet, twitter