I live in beautiful Seattle Washington. After spending 40 years of my adult life working with children, mine and many others in my home and then as director of a not-for-profit childcare

center, in 1997 I decided to test my creativity with a gift-basket
business.

I had bought my first computer in 1993 and used it mostly for
communicating and writing until a few years later when I had
a giftbasket website set up for Alki Giftbasket Services. I didn’t
dream then that some day I would be setting up websites myself!

Then while working on my giftbasket website I would of course
surf around and I was seeing people making money with a
website, without going through all the work I needed to do for
my giftbasket business:  planning for the season or holiday …
figuring out what supplies to order … unpack the shipments
and shelve the products… phew!

All the while I needed to contact clients I had acquired and make
new ones by phone and office visits… make beautiful gift basket
arrangements and get them delivered… phew again!

Don’t get me wrong in spite of all the work I really enjoyed my
business … contributing to the pleasure experienced by the giver
and the receiver added a special quality to the transactions that
surpassed the simple satisfaction of making a profit.

As I met more and more marketers on the phone, visiting their
websites (blogs were not the rage yet!)  listening to them tell me
all about making money with affiliate marketing or writing ebooks
and small reports or providing services for businesses such as
copywriting, designing, setting up and maintaining websites, etc.
I got hooked and I closed  down my giftbasket business at the end
of 2006.

I’ve been working online fulltime for close to 4 years and I continue to learn constantly, so I know that there are a lot of people I can help.

My newsletter  Apprentice Marketer Gazette is a reliable source of information for boomers who need to get up to snuff with internet marketing skills that could enrich their pocketbook and their life too.

This blog ‘Make Your First 100 Dollars a Day’ will be focusing on step by step information about making with Affiliate Marketing.

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