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Re: Affiliate Marketing

Posted By: Sandi Bowman
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at 8:21 a.m.(pst)

In Response To: Re: Affiliate Marketing (Anne)

Hi, Anne. I'm not Tom but thought I'd toss out a couple of ideas for you.

Focusing narrowly on pregnancy issues is fine as far as it goes but you're leaving out a lot of the much needed issues both before and after pregnancy. You see, the best pregnancy begins long before actual insemination. I'm talking about physical preparation as in having the right nutrients to avoid things like spina bifida and being in the best possible fitness before trying to have a baby. The folks who are out of their minds with pain and depression and so on are usually the ones who are least equipped, physically, to handle things. So, prepare the body to receive and nurture first.

Next consider the after-effects of pregnancy. This is an area that is glossed over much too much and it has lifetime consequences if things aren't handled right. It can affect everything from your spouse relations to wearing a bikini (no, I'm not kidding!). The body goes through rapid and very dramatic changes and some of these changes are permanent and will never return to the previous status no matter what one does. Too many people having their first child (or planning to) never give a thought to these things. Things like changes in the positioning of the internal organs (often leading to pain), bladder collapse, episiotomies and so on not to mention a kangaroo pouch effect, stretch marks and other nasty let downs.

Suggestion: if you have a blog, you might elicit a very active and responsive group of older folks who could interact with the young pregnant ones. It'd be one great way to get the ball rolling fast, IMHO. Encourage visitors to ask open ended questions, encourage responses from those who've been there done that and so on.

Hope this is some help.

Sandi Bowman

>> Hello Tom,
>> I'd like to try the Rosalind Gardner method but I'm still a little
>> skeptical. If you would, please let me know more about your personal
>> experience and also about any results you've had using her method.

>> I have one year left to before I have decide whether I'm going to
>> re-enlist in the Navy or get out and find a regular day job with a few
>> prospects that I have lined up already. So that's it, all I have is one to
>> make a difference in my finances or just keep working outside of the home.
>> In one year I hope to see enough results from my efforts that will save me
>> from having to exercise either one of the options. Is one year going to be
>> enough time? Rosalind shows a tax filing with the amount over $600K in one
>> year! But I'm worried that my niche market is too small to see those
>> results although it would be nice. Should I expand on my topic. What are
>> some other ideas that would go great with pregnancy other than babies of
>> course. I can't come up with anything else because my one-track-mind can
>> only write on my passion for pregnancy issues.

>> By the way, another back-up plan for me to work at home is to teach
>> online when I graduate with my master's in June. I've started looking but
>> still no luck in that area either. Meanwhile, my precious baby is going to
>> turn 3 years old this August and I've missed so much already! I want to be
>> home with him before he starts school and I feel like I'm running out of
>> time.

>> Thank you everyone for all of your help.

>> Sincerely,
>> Anne

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