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All About The Cookies

by Joe Sousa on August 5, 2011

in Affiliate Stuff,Personal stuff

Since most of you who are reading this are probably involved in affiliate marketing you probably know the feeling of having sat at your computer for 10 hours or so finishing up a website, updating 10 different blogs, or constantly reloading your twitter feed to keep up on all the latest conversations. It is time for a break. Maybe you just had your biggest commission day of the year and you need a reward. Maybe your sales were in the tank for the past couple weeks and you need to drown your sorrows in empty calories. Well, I have a solution for all these problems.

All About The Cookies

Order your copy for only $19.99

A few days ago Missy Ward, along with Mary Poiley and Jen Goode, released All About the Cookies. What is All About The Cookies? Simply put it is a cookbook containing 90 recipes. You will find recipes for cookies, cakes, desserts, brownies, pies, and pretty much any other dessert you can think of. And one of the best parts about this is all the recipes were submitted by other affiliates and people in the industry. If you look on page 89 you will see my submission.

I will be honest though. Not all the recipes in here sound great to me but most of them are worth trying. I am sure you will find a few recipes in here that will become family favorites. And just to give you a teaser, the recipe I have in there for some Insane Chocolate Brownies has 2 cups of butter, over 2 pounds of chocolate, and 6 eggs. Some of these recipes are extremely simple so you don’t have to be an expert chef to turn out some great cookies and desserts.

Along with the recipes you will also find some great simple business tips from all these great people. They are just little tidbits from some of the greatest minds in this industry and are a very nice encouragement.

I was a bit bored so I decided to do some data crunching with this recipe book to see just how awesome (some people would say unhealthy) these recipes really are. We all know the three main ingredients that make a dessert awesome: fat, sugar, and eggs. Take these three out and you don’t have dessert, you have a salad. And that isn’t what we want. I went through and added up all three categories for each of the recipes and here is what we got:

First lets talk about fat. For this category I just counted stuff like butter, oil, shortening, and lard (yep, there is a recipe using lard). I didn’t include milk, cream, or anything like that.

Total Fat in All About The Cookies: Approx. 49.35 cups

Butter makes everything better

Let’s give a little perspective here. A cup of butter (by far the most common fat in these recipes) runs about 1628 calories. So we are looking at  over 80,000 calories just from the fat. That will also give you around 5750 grams of saturated fat which is about 28,771% of your daily recommended allowance of saturated fat. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

Next lets move on to the sugar. I am just talking about granulated sugar, powdered sugar, brown sugar, honey, etc. Are there really any good desserts that don’t have sugar?

Total Sugar in All About The Cookies: Approx. 120 cups

A cup of brown sugar has around 825 calories and a cup of white sugar is about 770. Liquid sweeteners like honey and molasses are closer to 1000 a cup. So just to make things easy lets average it all out to about 800 calories per cup. That would give us about 96,000 calories from sugars and sweeteners. Your dentist is gonna love this.

And finally let’s talk about eggs. With eggs you get calorie and fat so that is a double winner.

Total Eggs in All About The Cookies: Approx 166

A standard large egg has about 74.5 calories and 5 grams of fat. That calculates out to 12, 367 calories and 830 grams of fat. But you also get over 1000 grams of protein so that is good.

So just talking fat, sugar, and eggs we are up to 188,637 calories. If you figure on an average 2,000 calorie a day diet that would give you 94 days of calories. Which works out great since there are 90 recipes. Just make one recipe a day, eat the whole thing, and then you won’t have to eat anything else! What a great deal.

If you want to talk fat we are looking at about 9900 grams of fat. At 65 grams a day it would take 156 days to eat everything in this book.

But keep in mind these numbers don’t take in to account stuff like chocolate, pre-packaged cake mixes, marshmallows, peanut butter, and fruity pebbles. Yep, there is a recipe using fruity pebbles.

Don’t worry though, this is all for a good cause!

If you know Missy you know she wouldn’t put out a book like this just to make money for herself. Over the past few years Missy has helped raise well over $250,000 for breast cancer Affiliate Marketers Give Backcharities that support research, treatment, and awareness. Most of this money has been through the organization Affiliate Marketers Give Back.100% of the net profits of this book will be donated to the Avon Walk For Breast Cancer.

I have no idea how many of these great cookbook will sell but when it is all said and done it wouldn’t surprise me if Missy was able to donate another $10,000-$20,000 and maybe a lot more. So order your copy of All About The Cookies today and help Missy help others.

And if you do decide to make and eat all the recipes in this cookbook maybe you could talk Missy into giving some money to the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association since you will probably need it.

Be sure to check out Missy Ward’s site to follow her and all her great charity work. She is an inspiration to many people and her efforts have impacted more people than she realizes.

 

 

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The First Weight Loss Update

by Joe Sousa on June 23, 2010

in Lose Weight With Joe

It has been two and a half weeks and I figured it is time to give an update on the weight loss.  If I were a betting man I would have bet that I would have given up by now. But that isn’t the case!

As far as food goes I have been doing pretty well. There have been a couple indulgences here and there (6 pieces of fried chicken and 3 biscuits wolfed down in about 20 minutes is probably at the top of that list) but even with graduation parties, picnics, fathers day meat feasts and other stuff like that I have managed to do a pretty good job of keeping the junk food away.

I think in those two and a half weeks I have logged about 12 miles or so walking/running, 3 games of softball, a couple rounds of golf (BTW, during a recent round of golf I walked 6.16 miles. I thought it would be closer to 4 miles) and a couple other various activities. I think I still need to do a better job of walking and running though. I said I wanted 15 or so miles a week. That might be a bit too ambitious but even 10 miles a week would be a good start.

So now for the weight total: My starting weight was 218.2.  When I weighed myself this morning the scale showed 210. So in about two weeks I have dropped 8.2 pounds. I am pretty happy with that overall.  If I keep eating well and start running a bit more I hope I can repeat that for the next few weeks and be down to 198.2 by Affiliate Summit East.

Total weight loss for me so far: 8.2 pounds.

I also have a few people joining me in this quest so lets hear how you are doing in the comments below. Also, if you want to join up you can read my previous post to see some of the details and join me in raising some money for Affiliate Marketers Give Back. Remember people, I will give $2 per pound lost for anyone that wants to join me. So far I have Vinny, Eric, Kate, and Victor along for the ride. Join up and help me raise more money for charity. Just let me know how much you plan to lose and keep me updated on your progress.

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Real Sports Fans Wear Pink

by Joe Sousa on October 7, 2009

in Affiliate Stuff

Help me help others

Since October is breast cancer awareness month I decided to do something I have never tried before.  I wanted to set up an affiliate site for the purpose of raising money for a charity. I know there are many affiliate marketers who do a lot of work for various charities and I figured I would throw my hat in the ring.

Affiliatemarketersgiveback.com was founded by Missy Ward back in 2007 and to date has raised more than $200K. This is just one example of some of the great fund raising efforts many affiliates are undertaking all in the name of charity. As a whole affiliate marketers are one of the most generous groups of people I have come across.

I was thinking about how I could help and this last weekend all of the NFL teams had players wearing pink shoes, hats, gloves, and more to raise awareness for breast cancer. Since I do a lot of stuff in the sports merchandise arena I thought “I could build a site and sell a bunch of pink fan gear”.  So that’s what I did. 

I just launched http://www.realsportsfanswearpink.com earlier today. During the month of October I will be donating 100% of my affiliate commissions to breast cancer charities. And when October is over I will continue to donate 50% of the sites earnings as well. Will I be able to raise $200K like Missy has?  Probably not. But even if I can get to $1000 this month I will be very pleased.

So what can you do to help? There are a few things you can do to help me with this (and help these deserving charities):

1.  Go buy something!  This is the easiest thing you can do. The site is still in its infancy and I will be adding more products in the coming days but if you go to the site and click on any of the links and buy something I will dontate my commissions to charity. So maybe you can do your Christmas shopping early or maybe you need a new pink hat. Anything you buy will help.

2. Let your friends know. Post the link to the site on Facebook. Tweet about the site. Anything you can do to let your friends know about the site will be great and help support my fundraising efforts.

3. Give me some links!!! Yeah, I usually hate grubbing for links but I am making an exception in this case since it is for charity. Write a blog about the site, link to it from your other sites and blogs, or whatever you want to do. If you want me to do a guest post on your blog about this I will. I will do whatever it takes.

4. Oh yeah… Go Buy Something at Real Sports Fans Wear Pink

 

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