Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I’m honestly tired of websites claiming to have secrets to weight loss and all the conflicting information on this site (I still love YA!)
So a book, please?

Hi.
Would like to start my own shop on ebay but dont have anything to sell. So i thought maybe i could sell various things as an affiliate. Does anyone know if this is allowed or even how i could set up the whole process?
Any Help would be great.
Thanks

I know this is VERY vague, but it took place in Iraq, Iran, or Afghanistan. A woman approaches an american in the market place and says there are secrets that need to be told regarding the local government possibly. Any clue? T.I.A.

I realize this is a bit early for Christmas shopping, but I didn’t have much money to invest in thoughtful gifts for loved ones last year, so I want to do it right this year. My boyfriend is a die-hard Red Sox fan, and he’s mentioned offhandedly that he’d like a documentary and/or box set affiliated with the Red Sox. So, my question is for fellow Red Sox fans. Which is a must-have in your collection, that you think he would be absolutely psyched to receive?
Any info/link is helpful, but I work for Amazon (and get a discount), so that would be even better.

~Richard Lawson
Ah, another adventure into Race In America. And into Ohio. According to an Akron Beacon Journal columnist, many of the Wal-Mart superstores in the area have a specific section to which all books by and about black people are relegated.
Barack Obama’s Audacity of Hope is in that section, as are many other books written by black folks:
At the Walmart on Arlington Road in Springfield Township, you’ll find two fancy, hardcover books by people who are household names in professional football. Drew Brees, quarterback of the 2009 Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, smiles on the cover of Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity. Tony Dungy, coach of the 2006 Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts, smiles on the cover of The Mentor Leader.
But you won’t find those books side by side. Why? Because Brees is white and Dungy is black.
The black guy goes in the black section. After all, who other than a black person would want to read a book by an insightful, ethical, inspirational football coach?
At the Walmart in Montrose, Storm Warning, by hugely popular white pastor Billy Graham, can be found in the religion section. But Life Overflowing, by hugely popular black pastor T.D. Jakes, is in the black section, along with Dungy and Obama and Sister Souljah and Adrienne Byrd and all those other people whom Walmart believes are pretty much the same.
Terrific. Wal-Mart was reached for comment and responded even-handedly:
”The book sections in our stores are designed to meet customer demand and feedback at the local level,” read an e-mail from Phillip Keene, a media-relations official at the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
”Like many national bookstores, and book sections at retailers across the country, some of our stores have a section for African-American-focused books, while a store in a different area of the country might have a large science-fiction section or Western section. . . .
”Additionally, our books are separated into hardcover bestsellers, paperback bestsellers and other categories and it’s possible that titles could be moved to different areas of the book section based on demand or interest for that particular merchandise.”
Right. Because science-fiction interest books are the same things as books written by black people. Just a little niche! What, are the sci-fi books written by aliens? Books about the African American experience in their own section is one thing, but just throwing any old book into a specialized section simply because it was written by a black person? Sigh.
Obviously this is a) No surprise coming from Wal-Mart and b) Probably not evidence of some seething, malicious racism at Ohio Wal-Marts. It’s just another sad “Well, ****” moment, here in this frayed old country of ours. Go Buckeyes!
Source: Gawker

Not long ago, a Real-American named Gary Troy was standing in his kitchen, deep-frying a cheeseburger for his lunch, when God the Creator suddenly appeared. “Gary,” God said, “This is your mission in life: To promote the phuc out of Sarah Palin until she becomes president. Succeed, and admission to Heaven is yours. Fail, and you spend the rest of eternity in limbo with the sad unbaptized babies.” Then God went poof! and disappeared. Not long after this incident, Troy founded the Palin 2012 Project to honor God’s word and get our heroine elected using his two secret weapons: TRUTH, and seminar-planning know-how!
In an email sent out to fellow patriots, Troy describes his project as a “responsibility that God has placed on me for such a time as this” — a time, he says, when America has become “a shack of its old self.” But Troy is a spiritual repairman whose tools are PowerPoint and an events calendar, and so he will organize meetings — an estimated 40 events a year, in sports arenas, attracting 15,000 people each — to restore the American shack to its former glory.
His road-map to SUCCESS:
1. Build the Palin brand & awareness beyond political parties,
2. Fund raise for Palin sponsored charities,
3. Raise political campaign charities,
4. Sharing ideas, knowledge, & skills with people on the hope and promise of a better tomorrow and teaching people skills for success in the new economy and how to be more competitive and how to cash in on the new economy,
5. Expand Palin voter base beyond Palin fan base (bringing together the republicans, independents, tea party, unaffiliated people and even some of the disgruntled democrats) with common goals (many minds, many hands, and common goals),
6. Win over people, who are fed up with politicians and fed up with Washington politics,
7. Show the world we can put people back to work without excessive government spending. Using politics and ideology to fix GM or any company will only provide short term solutions and will not fix a broken business model and eventually create bigger problems over the long term by not addressing the real problems or real issues as market conditions change.
8. Because your goals may be bigger than fund raising, I am recommending we have a business seminar rather than a political fund raiser but having both may be the best of both worlds. People who own companies and people that go to business seminars may not be politically active and are more likely to have money, whereas people that are politically active may not have money. Additionally, it may be easier to win over business people at a business seminar that are not yet Palin fans,
9. Other goals not mentioned.
Troy’s email doesn’t clarify whether he’s notified Palin or her people/handlers about his project. It doesn’t discuss who he is, where he comes from, or how he could do better work than other “Palin for President”-type sites. And it has no pictures! Looks like Troy had better get used to the sound of wailing.