My journey to WA is the stuff mini-series are made of.  If you would have asked me a year ago if I'd be here...doing affiliate marketing, chances are, I probably would have given you an emphatic "NO".  Nothing against it.  Fact is, I didn't even really know what it was.

I thought the ads on webpages were sponsorships.  And no, I'm not kidding.

That's not to say I didn't know my way around the internet.  I had a blog before blogs were cool.  Back when they were scandalous even.  You're thinking: Right.  But it's true.  Want backlinks?  Have a reporter discover your blog when you work for a public figure.  Then have him label it "sexy".  You'll be referenced in every periodical south of the Mason Dixon line.

Yep.  That was me.  Needless to say, I took a break after that.  Strike that.  It was more than a break.  It was really more of a vow to leap naked from the Ivy at Wrigley Field before I started blogging again.

Thankfully I changed my mind on the Ivy part.

And the blogging.

I started TeapotTempest a little over a year after the "incident".  I'm not going to lie, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done.  I was more than a little gun shy.  I started again after my best friend Samantha was diagnosed with leukemia. She called me one day after a bad treatment and said "Ya, know.  I miss your blog.  It always made me laugh." 

And that, my friends, is how you change your priorities in life.

There is actually a point to this post.

TeapotTempest is my personal blog.  I don't monetize it (although I do sometimes use it to park banners when I'm trying to get approved for an affiliate program).  And I don't have it linked to anything.   But guess what?  I checked my statistics today (out of sheer curiosity) and I'm getting close to 400 unique visitors a day!  For absolutely nothing.

The moral to this story?  Build it and they will eventually come.  Link it and the sky is the limit.