I have two (2) surprises for you:

1. I said I would not be writing any more tutorial and here I am writing one.

I guess writer's write.

I had so many members telling me not to stop writing tutorials that I felt that if they wanted my "wisdom" and such, I'm not going to say, No.

Also, I can' t seem to stay away from Chat when I see friends there--or new members whom I like to greet.

2. I have never concentrated on affiliate marketing as much as I have on selling real products.

Before I was here at Wealthy Affiliate over four (4) years ago, I was in the book business. I bought and sold books from my garage by going to yard sales and buying for a dime or a quarter at the most and then listing them on Alibris.com (sometimes on Amazon.com).

I got started in the book business when I bought 80 books for $40.00 from a Kiwanis book sale in Payson, Arizona. A few minutes later (literally) I sold Birds of New Mexico for $140.00. Having been through a year of advanced engineering math in grad school I calculated that I had just earned one hundred buck. I wrote a booklet on this subject, How to Buy Books for Pennies and Sell Them for Dollars on the Internet. I still have a bunch of these in my garage.

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