Hello, My Telekinetic Marketing Friends!

I've been promising to start this Affiliate Marketing blog for several weeks — I guess I'd better just do it, right?

The intended purpose is to focus on and highlight the process and benefits of home-based Affiliate Marketing on the Internet.

The title of this blog is "Affiliate Power" which reflects the name of the new website I launched a few weeks ago, Affiliate Power Central (APC). 

APC is the product of an affiliate program called My Affiliate Power Site (MAPS). Interested parties can find more information about that on the APC site. And I will likely write something more about it in a future post.

The MAPS sites are built on a WordPress platform, which means they are easily customizable. I have made a few changes to my site, but I've been too busy to do anything significant as yet. It will come, in time.

My plan for the APC site is to gradually add info and resources of interest to Internet and Affiliate Marketers.

My plan for this TM blog thread is to introduce my interest and activity in Affiliate Marketing and to offer tips and insight into the process of Affiliate Marketing.

The bottom line for me and for you is to learn and practise the best ways to earn home business income with affiliate products, services and programs. More to come here in following days.

I've been intending to start a new blog focusing on my writing history, so here it is. I don't know how often I'll post here - it will depend on how busy I get with other activities.

... But, when the mood hits ...

I have no great story to tell, not like some writers. But maybe the odd aspiring writer might find some inspiration here.

I've been interested in writing since my teen years, although I never started developing my writing skills with any degree of seriousness until about 12 or so years ago.

At that time, about this time of the year in 1998, I discovered that a Toastmasters International public speaking club had just started up in our little town. I knew what Toastmasters was and what value it had to offer, so I attended a meeting and joined.

The club focuses on three primary areas of development: speaking, listening and leadership. Every club has a different "personality" and may place different degrees of emphasis on each of those areas.

Anyway, I joined to get training and practice in basic public speaking. I quickly learned about the emphasis on leadership training, and just as quickly got talked into becoming the club's Vice President of Public Relations! Little did I know that was to be the catalyst to launch my writing career.

I decided that one good way to fulfill my duty as VP PR would be to get articles about Toastmasters published in our local weekly newspaper. So. I approached the editor with the idea of writing a series of 10 weekly articles on Toastmasters and public speaking.

The editor tentatively agreed, not knowing if I had any writing talent or if I could deliver on my promise of 10 articles.

What a thrill it was to see my first article printed in the newspaper! Thanks to Toastmasters, I was beginning to fulfill one of my lifelong dreams: to see my writing in print!

Later, I realized that the dream had not been properly defined and I found that I had to clarify certain points of the dream. But in the beginning, I was just so excited to be published!

That was the beginning of my writing career. More about that to follow in future blog posts.

Hello, TM Friends!

In the beginning was the word ...

Wait. That's a different story. But really, MY web biz marketing story begins with the word, too. I debated what exactly to write in this first TM Blog post without sounding too enthusiastically commercial, which I can sometimes be ... because I get excited about the things I promote. So, I decided to start with a bit of an introduction, followed by how I ended up here at Telekinetic Marketing.

Years ago — DECADES ago — I became enamoured with those ads in comic books promising extra money to kids by selling garden seeds to family and friends. I never followed through, but the marketing bug had bitten and as an adult, I got involved in home-based mail order marketing.

Working from my kitchen table, I began selling "reports" and promoting money-making programs. I soon realized that the marketers who made the most money were those who could successfully sell products and services of interest to OTHER home-based business marketers.

I've always been interested in writing, so I started up an "adsheet." That's where you print your ads and ads from other marketers on paper, then mail copies to your list. You might also send copies to your advertisers to mail to their lists.

My little adsheet eventually developed into an 80-page publication that included ads, articles, marketer profiles and more. The publication produced very little revenue and was very expensive to snailmail (a few thousand copies) worldwide! Eventually I discontinued the publication.

Point of note: I was producing this publication with no training or experience and this was before computers! I typed the text on a typewriter, cut and pasted text, graphics and everything by hand and sent it to a commercial printer to print. My only regret is that I didn't keep doing it once computer technology and desktop printing caught up to me. Image where I could have been today?

Wow. This post is too long already. (That boy can talk!) I'll close for now. Tomorrow: The Evolution of Marketing: Network Marketing (also known as MLM).

GT :)

(Click "Web Biz Marketing" title at top of page to continue, or click here: Web Biz Marketing — In the Beginning)