All of the merchandise is offered for sale directly from the vendor through affiliate programs which we have joined. This site is for the consumers who wish just to shop and aren’t interested in joining affiliate programs. It also shows affiliates examples of the categories they can market the programs they have joined under. We have included opportunities for you to earn extra money through answering surveys.

About KICS Links^©

Our goal at KICS Links^© is to provide you with the resources to gain the knowledge to make decisions for yourself that will let you succeed in your dream.  We will not be giving you a list of 'top tips & tricks', but we will be guiding you to the internet and non-internet resources that we have found to be most helpful to us in starting and growing our home based business.  Please come back and visit us often as we will be adding to our questions and answer resources as we ourselves are faced with new questions to which we must find answers.

Affiliate Programs Categorized by How Hard You Have to Work.

We have categorized the programs/vendors on the pages in the KICS Links Affiliate Program Directory^© and the KICS Links 4 Business Do-It-Yourself Guide 2 Starting Your Business^© into categories based upon how much work being an affiliate of the program/vendor requires.

Within these categories we have placed each program/vendor into the categories that they themselves, the search engines or the affiliate network/program through whom we joined uses.  Keeping the ads in the same categories when you place your ads will help customers find the ones you place.

In addition to the main category for each program/vendor, we give you other categories for the program/vendor.  Some of the pages contain more than one ad per vendor.

We also show you the variety of ads that are available for you to use, most vendors offer more than one product, so there may be several categories under which you can place your ads.

December 2003 KICS Links2^© was created to bring you the products that are available for purchase online which we feel are suitable for adults but not for children that it was time I started a website just for them.  These products are offered for sale directly from the vendor through affiliate programs which we have joined.

Who "we" Are

My name is KI Clough. I have worked in business administration, computer programming, (yes, I do all of the design and coding on all of the KICS Links^© websites),  tax preparation and database administration for over 20 years. I have a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with a major in Accounting.  I have prepared taxes professionally for one of the best known and largest tax preparation company's in the world.  I have prepared taxes for a partnership business of my own,  for my late mother's sole-proprietorship business, her estate, two residential rental properties she owned and the selling of the two residential rental properties as well as her own home on contract. I earned the status of Microsoft Certified Professional - Implementing and Supporting Windows NT Server 4.0 in 07/98.

Sound impressive?  It was September, 2002, I was living in a major metropolitan area in the mid-west and even with all of my training and experience I had been unemployed since December, 2001. The company I was working for sold the division I was with and permanently discontinued my position.

So why am I telling you all of this?  I had applied to 140+ companies, both large and small, I had had 2 interviews, and 3 phone calls!  When I spoke with a recruiter at a top information technology consulting firm and told him how many companies I had applied to, he said that it was not uncommon to apply to so many companies and still not have a job.  I told him it was very unusual for me.  I usually had gotten a new job within two or three weeks after beginning my search.

Again you are asking "why am I telling you all of this?" I started a home based partnership business in 1995, with my husband, making personalized children's books.  It sounded like a sure fire opportunity.  We did not do very well with this business.  I did not know the right questions I needed to ask and have answered, the questions that would have allowed me to make our business a success. In other words I DID NOT DO MY HOMEWORK!

I once again started my own home based business, and this time I want to include you in my business.  I queried one of the major search engines to find links for 'starting a business', the results came back as '1 - 10 of about 3,400,000'.  I want to put before you the questions, answers, and resources we have found that are needed to make educated decisions about starting or expanding a business of your own.

p.s. I say 'Who we Are' because a very dear friend of mine, the Mae in MAES Links SUPERMALL 4 Family Shopping^©, is also embarking on this new venture with me.

April 1, 2003: Charlie Clough, joined KICS Links^© as Manager of Marketing and Graphic Design.  Charlie brings 15 years of AutoCAD drafting and design experience and an Associates of Applied Science degree in Machine Design with him.

Contact Information

Please e-mail us at webmaster@maeslinksonlinesupermall.com or use our feedback form to send us any comments or suggestions you may have.  If you have been faced with questions in starting and building your business that we have not addressed, please share these with us so that we and all of the members of KICS Links can benefit from your knowledge and experiences.  If you have already found the answer, wonderful, please share it also, if not, please let us help you find it or at least direct you to the resources where you may determine the answer for yourself.