Affiliate Marketing: Fuel Your Passion

"Tell me the secret to being a successful affiliate marketer!" I get this type of email on occasion. I always dutifully read the email and send a polite reply. In the reply email I always try to stress the following points:

There are no secrets in affiliate marketing! I don't care what the guru's tell you. Being successful in affiliate marketing isn't a matter of luck, or the result of some type of magical wizardry. Being successful in affiliate marketing involves knowing the ingredients that makes other affiliate marketers successful. One of the common threads that I have observed in all successful affiliate marketers is their ATTITUDE toward their affiliate marketing business. Jim Martell, Rosalind Gardner, Jim Edwards, Allan Gardyne and many other highly successful affiliate marketers, that you may not have even heard of, all LOVE affiliate marketing. They have the passion a burning desire to be successful in their affiliate marketing endeavors.

Passion for affiliate marketing has to be the one key ingredient to achieving success, not only in affiliate marketing, but in any pursuit you undertake in life. Without a passion for your affiliate business, you are traveling down the road to failure. Your passion is what will keep you moving forward one tiny step at a time when your affiliate marketing business is going through difficult and trying times. That same passion will be the key factor in ultimately moving your affiliate marketing business toward the rewards of financial success!

Seven Tips for Finding Great Real Estate Bargains!

The recent influx of foreclosures and distressed properties creates a wonderful opportunity for investors. However, in order to find great deals on real estate, you can't just have a few coming across your plate every couple days. Instead, use these seven tips to keep the bargains flooding your desk:

1. Connect With Lots of Agents

When properties go into foreclosure, it often ends up as real estate owned (REO) property. Agents who deal with these types of properties are your closest allies. Don't just work with one. Instead, create a list of local REO agents. Take some time to meet with them and establish a good working relationship. Let them know what you're looking for - you'll find they will do a lot of the grunt work for you.

2. Work with Asset Managers

Asset managers can notify you of potential properties before they reach the multiple listing services. Some of these deals are far too good to pass up! And if you're able to close quickly on these great bargains, the bank will just keep feeding you more and more.

3. Market Yourself to Local Individuals

While they may not be in foreclosure, there are many families experiencing financial difficulty that would love to sell their home. Don't be afraid to spend some money on a strong marketing plan that targets these distressed homeowners. These individuals are looking to sell for whatever they can get, and you can find some profitable bargains when negotiating one-on-one with the seller.

Where You Can Find the World's Greenest Homes?

If you're looking for a place in this world that has lush green grass, tall trees, and clean air; you might want to visit some of these natural green cities. These won't be cities in the middle of nowhere. The places we'll give to you are mostly popular or maybe a site to see. These are the world's top five greenest cities.

Starting off with a place you might never heard before, Malmo, Sweden. This city uses green electricity, hydropower, which reduces carbon footprints. They've used this system for a decade; reducing the carbon dioxide by 5%. They recently raised that bar to 25% making it one of the cleanest air cities.

This next city has been reported to be one of the greenest cities in South America, Bogota, Colombia. The city is a nice tourist attraction having a wonderful green forest and beautiful view of the city. To keep the city green doesn't take much. They use more buses than cars and have more bike paths to keep carbon dioxide levels low.

A city that most Americans wouldn't know is a green city, Minneapolis, Minnesota. You may ask how this city is green with the mass amounts of buildings and lack of Agriculture. They have created a new green program called GreenStep. This program was a statewide program trying to make an eco-friendly impression. The city has 130 miles of bicycle paths; 46 running through major roads and 84 running through parks and green spaces.

Sneaking Up On Anger Before It Sneaks Up On Us

Anger is often a sneaky thing; we aren't aware of it until it springs up within a presenting injustice. But the trouble is anger may take us over the top and our argument is quickly shot down in an abuse of the other person.

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1. Anger Management-Control Anger Before it Controls You

2. Stress Management

Somehow we have to become aware of the issues generating feelings of frustration, annoyance, betrayal and disappointment before anger becomes manifest.

Anger can be thought of as a response to us lying to ourselves.

If we try to pretend life is all okay when it isn't, that sadness within will insist on being heard some way. We need to be honest.

Only when we are honest - as we take honesty into our devotional time each day - on the train, bus, or in the car, if need be - will we have enough awareness to think on a solution.

We can only manage our anger if we are being proactive in thinking on a solution. As we think more and more consciously, our unconscious thinking is engaged more and more. When we have our unconscious (or subconscious) minds working on something, we have more of a chance of developing a creative solution to innovate.

The truth is there are many, many possibilities for solutions. We just haven't thought them up yet.

Can a Foreign Person Be a Shareholder of an S-Corporation?

One of the most asked questions by foreign individuals planning to conduct business in the U.S. is whether a foreigner can be a shareholder of an S-corporation. Below are some basic concepts aimed at helping one to understand the rules applicable to different classes of alien individuals as governed by Internal Revenue Code 871. This information will be of relevance to a foreign person or someone doing business with a foreign partner.

First, there are S-corporation status qualifications. To qualify for S-corporation status, the corporation must meet the following requirements:

• Be a domestic corporation

• Have only allowable shareholders including individuals, certain trusts, and estates and may not include partnerships, corporations or NONRESIDENT alien shareholders

• Have no more than 100 shareholders

• Have only one class of stock

• Not be an ineligible corporation (i.e. certain financial institutions, insurance companies, and domestic international sales corporations).

Noted above, NONRESIDENT ALIENS appear to be ineligible shareholders for purposes of S-corporation status qualification. However, the question arises as to whether any particular legal immigration status (e.g. holding a certain visa) has any impact on whether a nonresident alien can be an S-corporation shareholder. The short answer to that is "no".