Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Scenario: The online social networking industry is growing rapidly with a variety of both personal and business oriented applications emerging tapping into the global marketplace. There are also many niche applications popping up, such as those targeting a specific geographic region, industry, or customer group. The Vice President for your company, Funder Mifflin Inc., recently approached you with a new social networking website that Research and Development designed. He explains that the company is extremely excited about the possibility of entering the industry and taking advantage of the growing demand for social networking. Your company has extensive technical experience and the ability to build most any feature into the website but they are unsure of what strategic direction to take when marketing the new website. For instance, should your company focus on a specific niche or keep the website more mainstream. Additionally, they would like to know the features, pricing, and marking strategy that would best support the new website. Given your background and management expertise, your company, Funder Mifflin Inc. would like to offer you a bonus for helping the company implement a strategic plan to get the new website off the ground. The Vice President explains that in order to receive the bonus, you will have to present a plan of action to the Board of Directors in order to obtain funding to launch the new product. The essay should cover the following with apa style applied:(5 references) The vice president of your company, Mr. Myers, has read over your last report, and he has decided that for you to fully understand the social networking industry, you must research a prosperous social networking Web site or company. He explains that you should use the researched social networking Web site as a benchmark and compare it to the needs of your company’s developing social networking Web site. the assignment, you must submit a report in which you research a prosperous social networking Web site and discuss how its core strength could help your social networking Web site jump into the global marketplace, you must address the following in your report: •Research a prosperous social networking Web site or company, and use it as a benchmark. •Discuss in detail the main objective of the researched social networking Web site or company. •Discuss the benchmark Web site or company’s core strengths. •Discuss at what extent the benchmark Web site or company strategy has been built upon a common set of resources and capabilities rather than specific customer needs. •Explain the principal resources and capabilities of the benchmark Web site or company. •Identify the benchmark Web site or company’s basis for formulating its strategy. •Explain what core strengths of the benchmark Web site or company would help your company jump into the global marketplace.

The Beast Is Starved: Welcome to the Next Great Depression
by John Atcheson
Since Reagan, Republicans have been on a “starve the beast” campaign – by which they mean eviscerate the government by taking away as much revenue as they can.
Starving the beast has been the biggest bait and switch con game that has ever been perpetrated on the American people. And the most tragic.
“Well, if past is prologue, welcome to the next Great Depression.” (photo of mother and children As Paul Krugman pointed out, Republicans offered popular tax cuts so that they could later cut popular government programs “as a necessity.” Oh, we’d love to continue providing low cost, effective medical care under Medicare, but you see, the country just can’t afford it … Of course we can’t. Billionaire hedge fund managers and Wall Street traders pay less in taxes than their secretaries. And most corporations pay little or no taxes.
Starve the Beast was coupled with a clever campaign to make government appear to be a collection of bumbling bureaucrats who wasted tax money for pure pleasure. Long after it became politically impossible to stereotype racial and ethnic groups (with the possible exceptions of Muslims) it was – and is – quite acceptable to characterize government workers as shiftless, lazy and incompetent.
As a result, once the Republicans succeeded in cutting government revenue to the bone and beyond, it became impossible to raise taxes – who wants to give any more of their hard earned money to a bunch of lazy bureaucrats?
Never mind that most big government programs are far more efficient than their private sector equivalents. That’s a mere fact. Can’t let that get in the way of starving the beast.
Bait and switch. Divide and Conquer.
So, after starting with a surplus in 2000, Republicans used two wars, two rounds of tax cuts, and a giant giveaway to big Pharma, to get the country racking up debt like a drunken sailor.
Along comes the Bush recession, and the debt accelerates, and the Republicans declare the debt to be an “emergency” and right on schedule immediately attack popular programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Student loans –and virtually anything that doesn’t help the uber rich or the corporations suddenly must be cut if we are to stay solvent.
Never mind that cutting Social Security to balance the budget is like attacking the mailman because your car doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with the budget – but again, that’s a mere fact. When you’re drowning the beast, facts don’t matter.
So OK. The beast is drowned. Keynes is dead. Now what?
Well, if past is prologue, welcome to the next Great Depression.
See, the dirty little secret is that we never had a debt “crisis.” We had a jobs crisis.
While Republicans were arguing about the faux “crisis” and the press and Obama joined them, we got a series of disturbing economic signals. Consumer confidence was down, manufacturing was off, May and June’s job numbers were pathetic. In fact, if not for a hiring binge by McDonald’s there would have been a net job loss in May. That’s something to hang your hat on: McDonalds accounted for what little job growth there was. What’s next, America gets saved by an uptick in Wall Mart greeters?
Look. This whole drown the beast strategy has been nothing more than a stealth tactic for instituting an extremist version of a laissez faire, market uber-alles policy designed by and for the Plutocracy.
And to be sure, it’s worked great for them. Today, the richest 1% owns 40% of the nation’s wealth, and the top 10% owns nearly 75% of it.
The rest of us? Not so much.
Income and wealth inequality in the US has been increasing rapidly since Reagan, (with a slight break under Clinton). In terms of income inequality, the US now ranks about the same as Ivory Coast, Uganda and Cameroon – countries not exactly noted for being prosperous, equitable and just societies.
News flash for all the debt mongers, Tea Partiers and other assorted ignoramuses. You can’t run a consumer-based economy when the vast majority of consumers don’t have enough money to buy anything. After all, Paris Hilton can only buy so many yachts; Corporate CEOs can only purchase so many jetliners – even with their special jet tax credits; and Wall Street traders can only buy so many Bugattis. But middle and working class Americans need to spend their money on food, lodging, and other necessities.
Here’s the dirty little secret: Republicans want the economy to fail. They want Obama to fail, and they don’t care who gets hurt in the process. They want these things, because the beast is in the bathtub and they can almost taste its demise.
The pieces are in place for the Plutocrats final victory … an industry friendly Supreme Court; a Democratic Party that is either in collusion with the plutocrats, or so cowardly as to be neutered;

When I signed up…it said i can not be an associate becuz i live in california.
Is there a link where i can sign up?

(chorus)
all is vanity that’s what humanities comprised off
plus a smidgen of pidgin filling fallen from above
each glance in the mirror slowly saps your sanity
till the crutched kid in the corner screams all is vanity
all is vanity, that’s what humanities made of
walk around like targets for the market to enslave us
each glance in a window pane shows what you’d rather be
till the leaper kid in the corner screams
suzie was born in June in time to see the flowers wilt
a bubbling bouncing baby who thought herself more powerful
though she saw the flowers fall and die despise the rain
she’d mimic the formaldehyde and never do the same
adventurous her parents called her rebellious they’d think
when suzie tried for the millionth time to jump off the kitchen sink
and after her parents caught her and set her on the ground
she’d yell, i was only trying to fly, mouth folded in a frown
at age 12 suzie had some questions, that were left unanswered
so she swallowed and locked them behind a secret password
the next day her mother was hospitalized for cancer
and though suzie looked unflustered she had bottled up her anger
they say the day her mother died suzie sighed but did not cry
she went to school like normal, did not leak what was inside
on the bus ride back home she sat alone and shed a tear
and that kid at the back of the bus said for all to hear
suzie blossomed, got lost in her own moccasins
self proclaim queen of the teen age dream monolith
soon grew conscious of all the prospects that wanted in
there was no escaping her toxins so she flaunted them
but kept her heart callous. Only aimed for the established
parish-pimps till they made it rain with lavish
habits, none of them placid or flaccid
but all the endless fancies couldn’t kill suzie’s anguish
so she wiffed the sacred mist to see where all the faces went
the second time was to forget that she had ever taken it
all the city latex would crowd in amazement
when she had her way with the pavement of every drainage ditch or basement
when will suzie ever learn that mellow is a lie
that the meadow in the mind is a devil in disguise
i guess the yellow that is lie must have settled in her eye
by the time the kid in the corner bellowed to the sky
suzie died in may, the skies cried, the violent day
made no effort to hide dismay that lives should lie in graves
the wind wept the flowers in a pious wave
and each shuddered to think they would die the same
each shuddered to think that night might invade
each shuddered to think where light might escape
each shook, till they could no longer look
and mistook a bag of soot for a babbling brook
to this day if you take the long route past the bombed house
you can see the box where a lit match has gone out
see the chips in the tombstone that used to be gilded
the flowers on her grave are wilted like she willed it
i guess petals never droop down enough to feel the thorn’s burn
but out of her thousand closest friends, no one came to mourn her
but the coroner offered some warm dirt to adorn her
she should have been willing to listen to the kid in the corner

Me and my fiance are having a lot of problems. It would be easy for us to split if it were just him and I, but we have a 9 month old baby in the mix which makes things really really hard. We are not affiliated with any church and I would feel odd calling random churches asking for a minister to counsel us. Could someone plz tell me how I would go about getting this started and how much does a minster charge. I also would like to know if they would be judgmental of us since we have a child, live together but are not married.