Birth Announcement

Well, it's time to usher my latest baby into the world.

Gourmet Food Gifts is the latest site in my arsenal. If you have any comments to make, as per usual, keep 'em constructive or don't bother ;)

Got a bunch of directory and lesser SE submissions done today. More of those and *shudder* article submissions tomorrow. Oh how I hate those. Jon and I were discussing our hatred of doing that today. He would prefer to write articles and I'd rather submit sites, though I'm happy to outsource the article submissions also.

Not sure if I mentioned it yesterday, but I had a sale (tiny) through the travel site yesterday and another sale from my blog today. I prefer not to mention where the blog sales come from specifically since I cover a few and I don't want too much competition ;)

Mark said today I was an insipiration and I find that so kind, and I guess hard to accept. I've always been the type of person where my life is an open book - too much so sometimes - and when we were chatting later elaborated that it was not only because I'm doing so well (relatively) but because I share my financials. I have no problems sharing at this level, at all, but I will be honest enough to admit that after I hit a certain (undecided) point, I won't be quite as open as I am now.

I'm also uncertain how many more sites I'll be sharing here. Most of my affiliate marketing buddies don't share any, or very few. Many of them also think I'm brave - or crazy! - to share what I do. The way I look at it is when I started 6 months ago, it would've been lovely to have a benchmark to measure myself against, or at least see someone else's struggles and triumphs along the way. So, I hope those of you who are celebrating your first $1 day, or your first month of $1 a day are enjoying this :) I also hope that you'll share your struggles and triumphs too, even if you don't feel comfortable with my level of openess :)

Tara :)