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Rosalind Gardner's 'Don't Buy Ros a Coffee' Contest

On January 9th, Rosalind Gardner finally picked out a winning card from her stash of cards.

For those of you that aren't familiar with the contest, the prizes were Rosalind's Super Affiliate Handbook and the late Corey Rudl's highly acclaimed Internet Marketing Course. In order to enter the contest, anybody could send Rosalind a Christmas card or birthday card.

I ended up sending a card early in December and on January 9th, I recieved a NetProfitsToday link via RSS.

I was pretty excited to find out that I was the winner of the two internet marketing courses.

That was on January 9th. Today, it's January the 24th. What took me so long to post this message?

I've been so busy building websites. Since the beginning of the year, I've created 3 new websites with a total of over 70 pages of content so far. It's been hectic trying to do this, take care of my family with a wife and 2 kids, brush up my knowledge with some great ebooks, and handle my regular job.

Within the last week, I just received both courses from the contest. I've spent many hours reading those as well and implementing some new techniques. I have to say that these courses aren't what I thought they would be.

I've read close to half of Rosalind's book and a third of Corey's course. There's so much information, it's pretty overwhelming. I've read over 50 marketing books and there's tons of great information that the other books didn't cover. I'll keep you guys posted on what I've been doing and what I've learned.

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