With Christmas and New Year’s nigh, it is time again to reflect on what has been a most incredible and rewarding journey.

It’s almost hard to believe that I am about to start my 14th year as an online entrepreneur, affiliate marketer and coach.

But that achievement would have been impossible without you — my readers, students, clients and customers.

So, to all those who have followed me throughout the years, asking questions that inspired me to persue greater knowledge to share, I say a great big THANK YOU!

With heartfelt gratitude, I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Cheers,
Ros

This week I’ll be chatting with Denise Griffits on the “Your Partner in Success” show on BlogTalkRadio. Denise will be grilling me on all the following points. So, if you want to know…

• How you can use your web site, blog, or email list to “presell” visitors into affiliate purchases?
• The strategies that lead to high conversion rates?
• Why it’s critical to pick affiliate products you believe in personally?
• How to write product reviews that convert into sales?
• How to use affiliate offers to solve your customers problems and make money doing it?
• My #1 success tip for anyone considering information marketing or for those already involved in information or affiliate marketing?
• What I think the biggest challenge or pitfall is that holds individuals back from success in Information Marketing?
• Marketing your own products on ClickBank

Then join Denise and I on this week’s Partner in Success radio show.

When: Friday, July 16, 2010

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm EST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Will wonders never cease? I’m 50.

I’m actually so blown away by that fact that “Will wonders never cease?” is what’s going on my birthday cake.

Anyway, as much as you should be able to do whatever you want on your birthday (for me, that would be blogging and working on the AffiliateBloggerPro project — I’m having SO much fun with that!!), I promised Ed that I would actually take the whole weekend off, i.e. away from the computer.

And considering that the party is tomorrow night and I have guests coming to stay from out-of-town, that’s probably a good idea.

So, I’ll go finish decorating the tree now. Just hope that in my new advanced state of decline that I don’t pull a spazz and fall off that ladder.

Chat soon,
Ros

P.S. While I love to fly upside-down in aerobatic airplanes, ladders scare the @(#*$ out of me.

Update… just to prove it really happened….

Just got a nice surprise from Kit Elliott who commented that I made Michael Dunlop’s ’50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009′ list.

Cool – especially considering Arianna Huffington is also on that list.

Who is Michael Dunlop?

Now 20, Michael launched his first profitable website when he was 16 years old and has been blogging himself rich — making between £1,000 and £1,500 a week according to one newspaper.

By result, Michael says he’s been “fortunate to hang out and interview some of the biggest names online”, people such as Mark Victor Hansen, Yanik Silver, Craig Newmark, (founder of Craigslist.com), Bob Parsons, (Founder and CEO of GoDaddy), Matt Mullenweg, (founding developer of WordPress) and more.

Michael says:

The opportunities with blogging are endless and I hope today’s post of the fifty most influential bloggers of 2009 will inspire you to follow in their footsteps.

Find out who the ‘other 49′ are on Michael’s ‘50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009‘ list.

I will be chatting with Denise Griffitts on her Blog Talk Radio show, Your Partner in Success, on Friday October 23rd at 9AM Pacific.

We will be covering some very important topics that will be of interest to online entrepreneurs of all descriptions.

When: Friday, Oct 23, 2009

Time: 9 am PST, 10 am MST, 11 am CST, 12 pm PST

Where: Your home office telephone or computer.

Website: Your Partner In Success Radio Show

Call-in Number: 347-843-4988

Time permitting, we will take questions so please be sure to join us in the chat room.

We look forward to “seeing” you!

I’ll be speaking at the Affiliate Convention being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, December 3rd-4th.

The panel on which I’m participating is called “Super-Affiliate To Affiliate: Best Advice for Growth” and includes the following speakers:

Our panel is being held in Super Affiliate Room II from 1:30 until 2:30 on the 4th of December.

• Jim Lillig (moderator): Director of Networks at DotComSecrets
• Dush Ramachandran: Vice President of ClickBank
• Brian Norgard: Vice President of Fox Advertising Network
• Mark Roth: Founder of Offer Vault

Please Note: In light of ongoing family health concerns, I will likely only be in L.A. on the 4th of December, and not for the full conference. Please let me know if you plan to attend by dropping a comment below.

Visit the official Affiliate Convention website… and remember, registration for affiliates is FREE!

I’ll be speaking at Affiliate Summit West at the Rio in Las Vegas in a session with Jeremy Palmer, called “Video: Biggest Affiliate Marketing Opportunity Since Google“.

The session will take place on Sunday, January 17 at 3:00 PM (15:00). You can see this presentation with a Gold Pass… you don’t need a Platinum Pass.

Jeremy and I are both excited to present together again and to help you discover the secrets of affiliate video promotion. You’ll learn how to increase your traffic and conversions by leveraging some of the most popular video sites.

Sign up now to attend Affiliate Summit, taking place January 17 – 19 at the Rio in Las Vegas. Early bird rates end on October 19th. (The price of a Gold Pass increases by $270 on October 20th, so don’t wait to register!)

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be speaking at the Unlimited Power Online event in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 20 – 21st, 2009.

After speaking to the organizers of this event at length about their plans, I couldn’t refuse their kind invitation because unlike typical
multi-speaker events, attendees will get time to ask questions and have their questions answered.

Faculty roundtables will let you sit down with the Expert Speakers during panel discussions and ask WHATEVER you want to ask.

The other Expert Speakers presenting at Unlimited Power Online include:

1. Raymond Aaron, America’s # 1 Success and Investment coach.
2. Harlan Kilstein, the ‘Copywriter of the Guru’s’
3. James Schramko, Multiple Revenue Stream expert.
4. Simon Coulson, the U.K.’s leading Internet Marketing expert
5. Ron Ipach, author of “The Lazy Man’s Way to a Successful Life”
6. Andrew Lock, WebTV expert
7. Dean Hunt, the leader in buzz marketing
8. Jimmy VEE and Travis Miller, authors of “Gravitational Marketing”
9. Dave Crane – Master of NLP
10. Ernesto Verdugo, the Art of Abundance

During the conference you’ll learn powerful goal setting strategies, how to write cash-sucking copy, create multiple streams of income, massively increase the value of a customer, identify your strengths and weaknesses, how to get and use free publicity… and more.

Read more about the conference agenda now.

Furthermore, after the conference is over, you aren’t left on your own, not knowing where to take all your new ideas. Right Selection (the event organizers) will provide you with a participant’s forum with an exclusive ‘members area’ where you can find literally hundreds of articles, videos and audio programs to continue your education.

Tickets for the 2-day conference are a very modest $379 and include a host of very worthwhile bonus, not least of which are the audio recordings from the 2008 event which featured:

• Mike Filsaime
• John Carlton
• Russell Brunson
• Mike Koenigs
• Barry Dunlop
• Andrew Lock

The 2009 Unlimited Power Online conference will be held November 20th & 21st, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates at the Centre Point Auditorium of the Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre

Note: A percentage of the proceedings for this event will be donated to the Just Like My Child Foundation.

I hope to see you there! Get your ticket for the 2009 Unlimited Power Online conference now.

P.S. Leave a comment below if you will attend and we’ll plan to meet up.

This is SO sweet.

My Google Alerts led me to Shawn Collin’s (co-founder of Affiliate Summit) Affiliate Tip blog entry titled “Rosalind Gardner’s Biggest Fan” where I found this picture of his son Jack, perusing the Super Affiliate Handbook.

Shawn makes the comment “… it never fails. He passes by Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Jay Conrad Levinson, Frank Luntz, Robert Cialdini, John Caples and all the rest. Always straight to Ros.”

Well Shawn, I’m honored to know that you have my book on your shelf and delighted to see that you’re teaching your kids right and giving them a great leg up in the affiliate marketing world.

Too, Jack may be my biggest fan, but he’s also my cutest fan!

Affiliate Marketing Audio Tutorial

Jim Edwards and I got together and recorded a seminar all about affiliate marketing. We called it the Affiliate Business Blueprint.

Here’s what one attendee had to say about the Affiliate Business Blueprint…

Dear Jim and Ros,

Thank you both – the seminar was informative, eye opening, and you even made it fun – the fastest and densest two and a half hours I’ve spent in a while! I appreciated the way you were able to build off of, and enhance each other’s comments, while keeping things moving in a clear direction.

Not many seminars that I’ve attended are that successful.

You’re a class act, indeed, and if after the feedback you’re no doubt receiving from us, you find that your hats don’t fit yo.ur heads quite as well as they used to, well, all I can say is you deserve it!

Thanks again,
Steph Z

Get the MP3′s and transcript at:

Affiliate Business Blueprint