#7 Lifestyle & Biz By Design: Walking The Road Of Passion

Real Life Case Study:Lifestyle & Biz By DesignWith Affiliate Marketing

Lynn Terryhttp://www.clicknewz.com

Vera Raposohttp://www.yourcreativebiz.com

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About Vera Raposo

I have been an entrepreneur since the age of 20 (1995),from owning 5 retail stores to discovering the beauty ofthe internet in 2004. I sold/closed all 5 locations andmoved my biz completely online in 2007.

My life and biz was completely overhauled when mydaughter was diagnosed with cancer. After her 2 ½ yearbattle (you can read more about it here) I sold my onlinebiz.

I then spent a couple of years with God, thinking,praying and just being with Him and discovering who I am and what Ineed to do in this world.

YourCreativeBiz.com was launched October 2012 with the goal todiscover the life and business of my own dreams. I hope to inspire manywomen to do the same.

My motto in life is, “Life is good! Best wearing flip flops and living mylife for others.”

Hebrews 11:1 – Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certainof what we do not see.

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Lifestyle & Biz By DesignWith Affiliate Marketing:

Walking The Road ToPassion

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Written by Vera Raposo

So here we sit, in just a few short posts we have already chosen my nichewhich will flow so easily from me.

Here’s the list of our back and forth talk so you can followalong:

● Vera: Affiliate Marketing: Intro & First Question● Lynn: Affiliate Niche Selection● Vera: She Says To Dream Bigger!● Lynn: Brainstorming Affiliate Niche Ideas (Part 2)● Vera: Taking A Deeper Look● Lynn: Choosing Your Niche… Without Research?!

I’d like to state again, this really is not easy. I’m truly sharingfrom my heart and the depths of my soul here. I know that whatever Iput my hands to needs to count for eternity. There’s no point buildingsomething that doesn’t share my faith in God and I’m so amazed howquickly Lynn pulled that out of me.

I will be forever thankful to Lynn for taking this time with me, she’s atruly special person. I look forward to joining her Private MastermindGroup.

The other thing I’d like to mention is as you’re reading this, I hope youlook deep into what your special callings, gifts, passions and desires arein this life. You are a different person with something truly special andunique to bring to this world too.

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It’s my joy and prayer that you are not just inspired by this cross blogconversation but are ready to take action for yourself too.

Here’s a picture that I took in Vancouver that to me reflects this momentin our conversation, I’m feeling very purposed, equipped, called,designed and valued.

Here We Go Walking The Road Of PassionWith FaithAdventurist.com

Oh I love this, I really — really love this!

Lynn said…In fact, buying market or not, this is truth: If you can build up ahuge audience, and a loyal readership (and social media following)… youcan monetize your affiliate blog. Period. The options will be endless if you

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have an audience. Merchants and Advertisers will be coming to YOUwanting to get exposure to your readers.

It’s a new day for affiliate bloggers … it’s refreshing!

The creativity that can now POUR out of you can be well received by youraudience with many different avenues — back in the day it was focusedon search engine optimization (SEO).

I’ve often compared SEO to flossing your teeth, totally required but notfun to do.

Thank goodness there are many other ways to get things going!

Lynn said…

Once she got excited about the idea, and agreed it was a perfect choicefor her, we brainstormed available domain names. I happen to be prettygood at this.

Ah yep, Lynn is amazing at this! Seriously, I was blown away by hersuggestions!

Lynn said …

The idea being that she can use this blog to discuss expanding your faith,the journey to peace & joy through faith, discovering your calling,stepping out in faith, her missions of course, and to motivate and inspirepeople on a spiritual level. If you know Vera, you know this is the verycore of who she is as a person.

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Oh yes it truly is, I even spoke about it at my Faith Works Grad, themoment I knew that God required SO much more of me. I will not liveONE day of my life not doing all I can to get that message out to theworld, serving my church, helping others, and doing all I can for my kidsand my Grand Baby that’s on the way.

Here’s Why I’m Doing What I’m Doing

Adventurous Vera ….

Let’s talk about her for a second, I think we all have adventure within usbut we let it lie dormant and ignore it. It’s the excitement of a new day wehad as a child, remember when you anticipated Christmas Day as achild?

As a child I was extremely adventurous ..

I was the first to jump on the rope and land in the deep end of the pool, Ispent many times doing the zip line at kids camp, roller skated mytooshie off and was pretty darn good at it, was the captain of my soccerteam in grade 6, on the relay team, ran my butt off for short AND longdistance running (although I was much better with the short distances), Iwas also on the basketball team, loved to swim and ALWAYS jumpedoff the high diving boards.

I want to find that kid again and I haven’t thought about her fora long time.

As we grow older, raise our kids, we let our dreams die. We forget,

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shove them down and they are sooooo far away from us we almost forgetwhat we loved to do.

I’m very excited to explore this part of me once again but as an adult.What I absolutely LOVE about this domain name that Lynn chose for meis that it keeps me open to any kind of adventures and any place onplanet earth.

I’m not stuck to British Columbia which was my thought process before.

Time For Homework! BrainstormingProducts & Services

You can also rename that title to be, “Vera’s Wish List.”one bee-utiful camera

Biblegorgeous comfy chair to read at the beach

books, books and more booksjournal items

camera accessoriesgood shoes for discovering places

nice beach wearlipstick

pretty flowers for your hairjournal accessories

pens, paper, pretty paperbinoculars

snackspretty journals

light blanket

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camping tents and stuffflights

travel packagesreal estate

home, condo, bed and breakfast rentalsphotography

referral fees from restaurants, cafe’s etctours

advertisingretreats

info productsrelaxation audio

vacation planning packagescruises

many, many different “adventure” type services:diving

zip linegolf

helicopterskydiving

unique local artwaterproof camera

waterproof anything (lol!)

Brands: WalMart, Target, American Airlines, Air Canada, West Jet,Chapters, Starbucks

That is just off the top of my head, we can dig and dig into these likecrazy!

My Target Market – I believe my target market will be others who are

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looking for peace, tranquility, faith, hope, love and wanting to make aserious difference in their world.

Lynn Said…

In my next post in this ongoing series, we’ll walk through the actualset-up of Vera’s new niche affiliate blog. The nitty gritty details n stuff.

My next question to Lynn…

How much content should I now be prepared to write for this new blog tolaunch it out there? I have some ideas and I’ve also been followingCorbett Barr’s program, “How to build a blog that matters“ (which isreally good by the way!) on preparing for this. I’m a little nervous to takeon another blog but thankful that it is overflow of everything that I’malready doing.

PS. Did you like my Pinterest photos? I really love doing them

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