As I talked about yesterday, my friend Corbett Barr’s new course Affiliate Marketing for Beginners is now available!

I use this site to bring stories of people living their everyday lives outside of the realm of the typical office drone 9-5 worker. I bring the stories of exceptional lifestyles being lived by everyday people. Most of them are not living this default corporate life, but they all still earn money one way or another.

The question I get asked most from readers here is “How do I quit my job and make money?” While I don’t intend for this site to become a “Make Money Online” (MMO) site, I do intend to also highlight the many ways people who live collar-free make a living. One of the most popular is through Affiliate Marketing.

Affiliate marketing is basically being a sales rep for companies who have a product to sell. You don’t need a warehouse, storefront, or distribution system. You just act as a sales rep for the company by building sites on the internet. There are thousands of companies who do this (like Amazon, for example).

There are plenty of scams and crap ideas out there. I will not ever be linking to any of that kind of junk just to make a buck or two. Corbett is only interested in helping others understand how to do this work in an ethical way. If you are looking for a pill to swallow to get rich quick or looking for ways of gaming Google, this isn’t going to work for you. But if you are willing to do a little work and follow the process, this course will take you step by step from explaining the terminology to getting traffic to your site and making sales for products of your choosing.

For the next 48 hours only, Corbett’s Affiliate Marketing for Beginners course will be offered at the heavily discounted price of only $47. After that it will jump up to it’s regular price of $87 (This is a one-time price. This is not a monthly membership charge).

He just added a deluxe package with some advanced bonus materials that I haven’t even had time to finish going through yet! Interviews with several others who are making money with affiliate marketing, a “Successful Affiliate” Tip Series, and group coaching sessions. The interviews are with Ridiculously Extraordinary‘s Karol Gadja, Adam Baker from Man vs. Debt, Everett Bogue of Far Beyond the Stars and a case study from Trever Clark, who completed this very course and his success story.

Both the standard course and deluxe packages are being offered at deep discounts for only the next 48 hours. They will still be available after that, just at their regular price.

That’s as much of the sales talk as you’ll get from me. Go check out the site if you have any other questions. Yes, that is an affiliate link

Feel free to ask any questions either below in the comments, or by sending email on the contact page.

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My friend Tammy Strobel over Rowdy Kittens was featured in a New York Times article over the weekend for simplifying her life and getting rid of most of her stuff.

Tammy simplified her life down to less than 100 possessions, sold her cars and the rest of the unnecessary stuff, and found she was much happier. I shared some of Tammy’s story earlier here on the blog and you can check out her book simply car free on this earlier post. She has been working as a writer and web designer on her own since making all these changes.

The question I’m asked most often by readers is how do people make a living when living in these unconventional ways. They don’t know how to design websites, or don’t think they can write for a living like Tammy. They ask about the ads that I have on this blog, and if I am making a living from them. This is a small blog and I don’t make much money from the affiliate links that I place on the site as I reference on my disclosure page. Most of the ads here just help the blog pay for itself, covering hosting costs and such. But they aren’t just random Google ads. They are affiliate ads for products I chose and like.

Most webpages on the Internet today that you see selling products are sold through affiliate programs. From tiny single page websites selling a single product, to large “compare and find the best travel deals” websites, many of these are set up to refer people to buy products that companies sell. These companies have affiliate programs set up for those people to make a commission on each referral they send. Amazon has had one since the mid 90′s, and it is a very common way for companies to bring in sales.

Many of the sites that you see are affiliate sites, and the people who own the websites are making commissions off of any products that you end up purchasing, when clicking on those links.

Tomorrow on August 10, another friend, Corbett Barr is launching his Affiliate Marketing for Beginners program at a discounted rate for the first 48hrs. In the course, he teaches a complete step-by-step course for beginners how to build your own affiliate sites from the ground up.

Affiliate marketing is probably the simplest and least expensive way to get into earning some extra money on your own using the Internet (that is legal, ethical and not a scam), and this course teaches you step-by-step how to do it. I was surprised how much information he included in the lesson plan. Even though I have done affiliate marketing, I have found a wealth of information and steps in there that I wasn’t quite doing as well as I could be. It has already helped me out quite a bit.

Since so many people ask me about this stuff, and I like Corbett and the program he has created, I’ll have more information up here on it tomorrow when he officially launches at 8am PST, so keep an eye on this space. Of course you can subscribe to our feed by RSS or email to be notified whenever there is new info here on the site.

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Want to travel around the world by motorcycle? Wander the Americas living in an RV? Move to a foreign country? Sail around the world? Love your current life, but want more free time with your kids? Think you can’t? People do these things and more every day.

We’re taught to get a good job working 9 to 5 for 5 days a week. In return, we’ll get money to buy stuff, free weekends and a short annual vacation to rest from our busy work life.

Following this model, after 30-40 years of this, we are rewarded with retirement in our 60’s (now 70′s) so we can do what we really want with what’s left of our lives. So long as we’re careful not to spend all the money we saved up in our labor years.

Society defines us by what we do for a living.  White collar jobs. Blue collar jobs. Even green collar jobs. Who really wants to wear a collar? I don’t want to wear a shirt most days, let alone a collar.

There is nothing “wrong” with that norm, if you’re fulfilled by that lifestyle. I believe we should all live a life that is important to us. That deferred living concept just doesn’t work for me. I don’t want to spend 80% of my waking hours doing something I despise, only to hopefully later be able to enjoy life in retirement.

Life is far too short and the clock is ticking.

There Cannot be Only One

Fortunately, I am not the only one bothered by this concept. There are a multitude of ways people are out living their dreams or doing things they actually enjoy, instead of a 9 to 5 “regular job” or even a job at all.

They are out there living and working from wherever they want, for themselves, freelancing for various clients, or even having corporate jobs they work remotely.  They don’t define themselves by the color of their “collar”, but by many other names, such as Digital Nomads, Location Independent Professionals (LIP), Technomads and many others.

They are usually outside the mainstream or otherwise considered unconventional lifestyles. We’ll cover them for you. We’ll introduce you to them. We will bring you the stories, interviews and reviews of these unusual lifestyles, so you can find the life you want to live.

Lifestyle Design Your Way

We are not going to tell you how you must live your life. We can’t tell you what is important to you. There are many ways to create your own ideal lifestyle, and it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. You don’t need piles of cash to be successful or happy.

We will show you the ways, and there are many. There are no excuses. There are no limits. You don’t have to live like we’ve been told all these years. You can live however you want. So often people say they’ll do what they dream to do “someday” and they never take another step. That clock just keeps ticking.

Find your passion. Figure out what you want to do and DO IT.

Not “someday”. Not after decades of soul-sapping labor for a company you don’t even like, and that may not even still exist by then.

NOW.

Tick-tock…

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