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 In this day and age, there are so many different jobs that someone can do to earn a living. If 
I was to state even a fraction of a percentile of all the jobs that can be done, it would take up
more space than probably three articles of the length of this one. Most jobs that can be done,
ARE done, Rain or shine. Wether it's storming out, or the weather is bright and beautiful, the
job that you will do can be done. But when it comes down to it, there are very few that can be
done from the comfort of your Den or Home Office, sitting in front of the computer with a hot
cup of coco, all warm in the task chair, with a blanket wrapped around you in your p.j.'s as you
languidly read over your stats. That, would be the power of affiliate marketing. Rain or Shine,
come hail, sleet, snow or ice one can sit down at their computer, even in the hottest of the
summer months and write, or point and click their way through their different systems, checking
one thing or another and fine tuning their business. Personally, for a beginning marketer like
myself, with only a free-site and someone elses products, this job is a God-send. I can't even
call it a job. We all know the definition of job right? Well, for those that don't, job is commonly
refered to as a just over broke.

                                                                       J.O.B..
 
 Kinda a funny name for something that is supposed to provide foodto your table and a roof
over your head. Seems to ME, in MY experience, a just over broke barelyput food into my
belly. Not to even mention that when it came down to it, I lost work in the winter as the
industry slowed down. See, I used to be in the construction industry. In that industry, they hire
in the spring and fire in the winter. Or "lay-off" as they like to call it. It's just another way to say
"come back again when there is more money for you." After about 6 years of not quite
making an entire year, of consistently being layed-off at the holidays, off doing jobs I absolutely
despised, I decided enough was enough!

But what was I supposed to do?? I don't have the technical training, though I am an excellent
typist, to take a job in an office environment. I couldn't even continue with the construction
industry any longer as a part time or seasonal effort after my work vehicle got stolen and along
with it, my ability to pay for certain tools that I had just hocked to get another vehicle running.
Sometimes I would hock my tools, to attain the funds to get things done when My construction job
wasn't paying or wasn't paying enough. That is a flaw that sank me eventually. Well, to answer the
above question, I personally turned to sales. Which, even though sales don't stop in the winter, I
found that I did.

Why?

 Well, you try running around in the whipping wind and the freezing rain going door to door to talk
to people that would rather, other than their inherent need to be polite, slam the door in your face
than sit there and listen to you talk about how you can get them the best windows for their home
in the industry. I had already known about the internet, so, as far as that went, I simply didn't have
the tools for that either. Well, the weather killed it for me, when it comes to sales. At least sales in
the face-face direct sales industry. Or, worse yet, standing on top of a 2X4 wall, putting in eve
blocks in the pouring rain and whipping wind, over 8 ft. or MORE in the air. So, I did
something that most can't even imagine. I couch surfed. After awhile a friend had me at his house
for awhile, but that wasn't doing me much good. I could get on his computer, but dayum it if
it wasn't that he wanted to be on it all the time. Then another friend gave me his old one. One
that was setup to run the net and keep a certain amount of information so that I could chat
or whatever.

 Now, this was my first computer of my own and since I attained it I wondered why I never
bought one myself. The answer to that was painfully clear. I never could afford one. Now, you
might be wondering what the hell is it that I am writing this on? Well, not that old 233 that I got
from my friend to be sure. This computer, is my MOMS...

 Okay, so when did this happen??  Long story short, I moved to Redbluff with another friend, but
due to my life experiences, apparently I wasnt patient enough with his little brother, whom is
mentally disabled. So I moved to my parents. AGAIN. Something I never wanted and I am sure
some of you can never imagine doing.

Well, after exploring some more on the internet, as I knew that it would HAVE to contain some
information that is useful to earning a living, I mean, after all, look at all the millions of sites that are
up! All of them have some sort of service that they can offer. Of course they do, and these services
and products, as I found out, come both freeand paid, depending on the restrictions. They also
tend to contain ad's for the free services. Those ad's are affiliate ads, usually, or they are ads that
another service elsewhere has paid for the space. Suddenly I realised that thesepeople also, aren't
sitting at their desks 24/7 either to get this stuff done. I started hearing and learning about auto
responders and so forth. So now I know that it can be auto-mated. Now, onto My quest. I started
an even deeper search and one night, a friend of mine tells me of this "submission magic" search
engine submitter, but you have to join an affiliate program. Okay, whatever,that's fine. So there
went the first 30 bucks I ever wasted on the inter-net. I don't even use the submitter anymore. It
doesn't do me any good. I keep forgetting to resubmit everyweek. So, I kept up the search and
eventually, it all brings me into this specific circle of niche marketers, starting with a woman by the
name of Janet Legere.

Hi Janet!!

Okay, now I don't know her well personally, but she is on My contacts list, mainly, because as a
list builder, she saw me post to a safelist, I suppose that she is a part of and e-mailed me, asking
for more contact and to be added to my contact list and if she could add me, to her list. I didn't
see anything wrong with that, maybe she has some answers. Ya know what I found out??

 Oh, boy, does she have some answers. That elusive list, that everyone says that if they didn't have
anything else left over, they wouldn want that list. She is one of the best people in the world for
teaching you how to build it. Now apart from that, I ran into a couple snags. You see, when I first
started this, I was working on a ZERO advertizement budget. In order to do this, I managed to
research a TON of different resources and programs that one can join forabsolutely ZERO cost to
their advertising or products budget. You can operate these businesses(really just affiliate programs)
for absolutely nothing. Except time. Except effort. Now of course, the effort you put intothese
businesses are not the type of effort that you put into other work. ALOT of this effort you invest
is a one time investment, with follow-up. What do I mean by that?

 Well, for starters, when you set up your lead capture system, you tend to set it and forget it.But it
takes a TON of effort to get it just right. When you set up an ad somewhere, or submit your site to
the search engines for indexing, it takes a little more effort, but not much, you just have to
check on occasion and resubmit,or sit down and write some more content for your site. Like this
article. I am writing this article and its nice and sunny outside. In fact, right now, in California,
near Monterey, it is about 70 degrees and 1:44 P.M. in the afternoon. But that is follow up.
When you gain a new customer, you also want to auto-mate your follow up, so that if you get them
at 3 in the morning, as you sleep, you don't have to worry about wether or not you might lose them,
taking too long to reply. Follow-up. Sometimes as easy as pushing a couple lil html buttons.:-)
I can work this job, day, night, afternoon, 2 in the morning. I can work this job when it's sunny
and warm, or icey and cold. I can work this job any time that I feel like it and have the faith that
it's doing what it's supposed to be doing. It is all because of automation. I can work this job any
time of night or day, any time Rain or Shine and still, be comfortable in my own room.
                                                                    
                                                     Rain or Shine.

                                The appeal of the affiliate marketing lifestyle.
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Jamie Davidson is President and C.E.O. of Tigers Den Marketing Group. He writes articles for
the benefit of himself and those in his organization to bring them into understanding of the always
changing market-place. You can find more information about Tigers Den Marketing Group @
www.tigers-den.tk You may also sign up for the weekly Tigers Den newsletter "Affiliate Weaponry"
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