Today I am officially one year older than yesterday. So, unlike most days, don’t expect to get me on the phone or email today, because I will be taking most of the day off! Naturally, I find birthdays a great time for reflection on the past year; where I have been, where I am, and where I am going.

We recently had a celebration at HometownQuotes thanking our employees, their families, and our families for their hard work, their faith in us, and for buying into the vision of our company.

And so on this day, I want to thank all of you, our hard-working affiliates, for making this past year of my life an amazing one.

We are so blessed to have such great people here in the office and all around the world helping to make this one unbelievable company to be a part of.

Many of you know (and love) Ed and Ion, two of our European programmers.

Recently they came to visit us in America for THREE WEEKS! It was great to finally have two of our family members here.

They had to leave but will be back in a few weeks. I hope to have some more of their adventurous pictures (there were a lot) soon but here are two that I found:

Ed, Me, Ion

Ed

An article about the Affiliate Classroom awards was on FoxBusiness.Com recently. It is a good read about all of the deserving winners!

Click here to read the full article

It seems this picture is already outdated (it was taken 10 days ago) as we have had 3 new employees start since it was taken and have 4 more starting within the next 3 weeks. We are quickly running out of room here at HometownQuotes!

Congratulations to our Affiliate Manager, Matt McWilliams for being honored recently by Affiliate Classroom with an Honorary Certification for Affiliate Managers. This award was only given to 14 affiliate managers worldwide.

Check out the video below from Affiliate Classroom

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Today we turn 4 years old! It is hard to believe that we have only been around for 4 years.

We have grown so fast and I can truly say that each and every day has been exciting and fun.  I am surrounded by the most amazing people on the planet and it has been the greatest blessing to work with these people.

To our affiliates, you guys are remarkable!  Many of our affiliates joined our team at a time when they did not have to.  Like many of our employees, you turned down better offers to stay a part of our family…and you are truly that, a part of our family.

Thank you to everyone for believing in us and being a part of this ride.

-Matt

We had a blast at our Christmas Party. Here are some pictures

Our Family

Yes, I AM wearing a Mario Brothers Shirt

Krista and Bert

Winners!

These are the gifts we bought for a local family for Christmas.

Our IT department will be performing scheduled maintenance tomorrow (Saturday November 10) from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Central Time (01:00 – 02:30 Greenwich, UK Time on Sunday).

During this time, the site of hometownquotes.com will be down for approximately 30 minutes.

Sorry for any inconvenience. Once the maintenance is complete, we will notify you via email once again!

Have a great weekend!

Throughout the next 30 days, we are launching quite a few new landing pages. We originally were going to save them for September, but as usual, I was pretty excited about it, so I am doing so a few days early.

Currently, we have added 5 new landing pages and plan to add between 5 and 20 (depending on the conversion testing in September) in the next 30 days.

You can check out the new pages here

And of course by logging in and creating new links to the new pages.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.

Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Congrats to a record 7 affiliates who had record weeks last week!

6 new affiliates joined the First Lead Club.  Congratulations to:

Elsie Y.

Kristian K.

Greg H.

Philip S.

Julius T.

Sany O.

The top payouts last week were:

$24,702.50

$24,593.68

$13,920.75

$13,540.41

$12,980.30

Another great week for this time of year!  Congrats to Ken D. for joining the $1,000 Club LAST week (sorry I missed you Ken!)

The top payouts last week were:

$23,400.25

$21,887.30

$15,209.64

$13,503.30

$12,210.55

We recently added the following terms:

Zander Insurance (zander, zander ins, zander direct, zanders, zanderinsurance, zanderins.com, zanderins, zander.com, etc.)

Dave Ramsey

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation as always!

You can view the entire list here