I recently threw away a weeks work as an affiliate, on a product launch by not recommending the product on launch day - what an idiot! I had Yahoo’s top two spots, and 2 places on Google’s first page and the Top 4 for Google Australia for the product title search.

My landing page invited emails from interested parties as to why I was not recommending the latest, greatest, must have program for affilliates to make money through adwords campaigns.

I was inundated with emails.

My point here is only that this is how I became friends with G.

G is the mother of three kids under 10 - one of them is about a month younger than my toddler. She and her husband both work full time and she is studying part time. They hate their jobs but they are in debt.

G is trying to make money online to get out of debt and get a life more like the one she dreams of.

Now Wait - this was a long and boring post so I sent an email to G and asked her if I could I post our email correspondence from the other day and she said yes - so here it is almost completely unedited:

Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:G <g@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: G<g@yahoo.com>
Subject: Mentor?
To: ME

Hey Robyn,

I need some quick advice, I have been contacted about getting a mentor, through Shawn Casey. Do you recommend this, there is a cost for this but they guarantee profits within 3-6 months.

What do you think?

Thanks G

From: “ME>
To: G <g@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 8:50:31 PM
Subject: Re: Mentor?

Hi G,

Firstly don’t rush any decision, no matter how “urgent” the sales
letter, cause remember that’s what it is.

How much is it?
Who will be your mentor?
How many others will that person be mentoring?
What is the program?

Remember that $1 more than expenditure is a profit.

Get back to me,

Cheers Robyn

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