Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I used to be one of the top students in my class and in my small “niche” when I was young. However, the older I got, the more I started to wonder what the whole point was. I easily used to get 95-100% on assignments or tests in the beginning of the year in highschool, then kind of taper off because of burnout since my physique was my most major weakness at that time. Up until then, my parent’s pressure kept me going, as well as personal interest in my studies. I enjoyed my teachers who seemed to be great motivators and mentors.
I would see certain students with 97% averages (I was friends with one of them) and kind of wonder what the whole point was trying to “be the best”. People who did this were not necessarily happier people and all the hard work and drive to prove superiority or higher achievement over another would lead to a short term feeling of satisfaction of “proving that one’s better”. Then if you were to go to the top, you would go through all the stress, competition and pain trying to maintain it…until you find another person better than you and the whole process would repeat itself. It doesn’t always necessarily mean that these people are necessarily better people either. The ones I’ve met were downright narcissistic on a pathological level (and lie to preserve a perfect image), were obnoxious, and generally not well liked either.
So what motivates these cutthroat competitive people? Their short term feeling of satisfaction of “superiority”? All that hard work, strained relationships, all for that? Or is it to please their parents?
Just wondering what you think of this.

I applied for financing for a medical procedure I want to undergo because I don’t have the money to pay it all at one time and prefer to pay it off little by little every months for the next couple of years.
The financing company says it will check the following:
“Information we receive from you on credit applications, driver’s licence, and other forms, such as your name, address, assets, and income;
Information about your transactions and experiences with us and our affiliates such as your account balance and payment history; and
Information we receive from consumer credit reporting agencies or other outside sources, such as information regarding your creditworthiness and credit history.”
I think I won’t have any problem for anything except..I am wondering about my credit history. I have one visa card only and I am doing ok. I am paying it off entirely practically every month.
BUT one time I went to shop at Sears and you know when they ask you if you want a HBC master card, I said fine. I never received that master card…just some other kind of plastic card (but it’s not written master card on it. I think it’s some kind of member card or something.) And I decided not to use it so I cut it and threw it in the garbage. I do receive letters now about that saying I have to pay..I guess some kind of service fee. Which I always ignored. Now I have been receiving phone calls too, which I ignored too.
Is this gonna show up on my credit check? The amount they want is like 130 dollars I think. It’s not a whole lot.

I am doing an assignment about a company called Cash Connections. It is a company that basically purchases your gold and gives you money in return. They also offer services such as western union, bank transfers, etc. www.cashconnections.org
This is the question I have to answer:
What is Cash Connections strategy? Which of the five generic strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely fits the competitive approach that Cash Connections is taking?
I have to apply one of these generic strategies:
1- Best Cost Provider Strategy: -Make an upscale product at a low cost.
2- Focused (Niche Market) Strategy. Concentrate on narrow piece of market.
3- Focused (Low-Cost) Strategy. Offering a lower price than competitors.
4- Focused Differentiation Strategy: – Targets upscale buyers who want world class attributes (eg Rolex, Rolls Royce)
I was guessing it would be number one or two.

I was recently at a rather fancy wedding recently. The central group was the friends and family of the bride and groom and then there were a large number of affiliates (business partners and a few direct relatives of business partners like me). Id say around 100 attendees. And there was a bar in the room before the dinning room and also a bar in the dinning room. All drinks were free.
I’m wondering what kind of drinks I am supposed to order before the dinner and after the dinner.
For example, I had some white russians before the dinner. Is it bad to order white russians before dinner?

So recently I came to a new school and the Drama Club group kind of became my niche. There were two people who made a really good couple when I came here. Let’s call them Jill and James.
They looked great together as a couple and were almost exactly alike. Now, Jill is my friend and she’s really sweet.
James is one of the best, sweetest guys I think I’ve ever met. He’s had his heart torn out, stomped on, and shredded into a million pieces.
Jill broke up with him after rehearsal today.
And I think, only when I saw him trying not to cry outside the theatre, that this intense emotion washed over me. I had the strongest urge to run over there, put my arms around him, and start crying with him, or at least do something to make him not cry, it was like all I suddenly cared about in the world was him. I tried to talk to him but he was so disgruntled that I backed off.
The more and more I think about it… The more I think I like him and I have for a long time, but I just now realized this.
He’s hilarious, not extremely hot or anything, very, very kind, a talented actor, and overall one of the greatest people I’ve ever met, and now, I really want to ask to go with him to the end of the year dance or something.
I understand that within at least the next two weeks, this would be completely innapropriate. I get it.
My other issues are, he’s extremely thin and I’m about 125 pounds. I don’t feel like this affects anything, but I feel awkward in general with that type of thing.
So my questions are…
A) How can I stop having feelings for James?
B) Should I even bother asking him? I feel so terrible when I see him looking so depressed; it makes me upset.
C) If we DO decide maybe on a relationship of some sort, how can we keep Jill from being too angry? (She’s not really the jealous type, but still.)
Thanks a bunch. 😉

So recently I came to a new school and the Drama Club group kind of became my niche. There were two people who made a really good couple when I came here. Let’s call them Jill and James.
They looked great together as a couple and were almost exactly alike. Now, Jill is my friend and she’s really sweet.
James is one of the best, sweetest guys I think I’ve ever met. He’s had his heart torn out, stomped on, and shredded into a million pieces.
Jill broke up with him after rehearsal today.
And I think, only when I saw him trying not to cry outside the theatre, that this intense emotion washed over me. I had the strongest urge to run over there, put my arms around him, and start crying with him, or at least do something to make him not cry, it was like all I suddenly cared about in the world was him. I tried to talk to him but he was so disgruntled that I backed off.
The more and more I think about it… The more I think I like him and I have for a long time, but I just now realized this.
He’s hilarious, not extremely hot or anything, very, very kind, a talented actor, and overall one of the greatest people I’ve ever met, and now, I really want to ask to go with him to the end of the year dance or something.
I understand that within at least the next two weeks, this would be completely innapropriate. I get it.
My other issues are, he’s extremely thin and I’m about 125 pounds. I don’t feel like this affects anything, but I feel awkward in general with that type of thing.
So my questions are…
A) How can I stop having feelings for James?
B) Should I even bother asking him? I feel so terrible when I see him looking so depressed; it makes me upset.
C) If we DO decide maybe on a relationship of some sort, how can we keep Jill from being too angry? (She’s not really the jealous type, but still.)
Thanks a bunch. 😉