Happy 4th Birthday Expat Women & Blog Shout-Out Competition!

Hi Everyone, Today is ExpatWomen's 4th Birthday online. It is a day that we celebrate all of the wonderful supporters like you in our audience - who send us positive emails, contribute ideas and who help us gain new members by telling your friends to join ExpatWomen.com as well. (More members = more sponsors = more bills paid = we stay online longer!)

So, a huge thank you to you, wherever you are around the world.  We genuinely appreciate your support and we are eternally grateful that you read our newsletters and share our site with your friends.  Thanks to you, ExpatWomen.com now has over 10,000 members worldwide - of 165 nationalities, based in 187 countries!

We also need to say a big thank you to our sponsors.  Despite the odds at times, we have managed to keep our site completely free and still paid all our bills (which is a great achievement for a very niche site). For that, we would like to take a minute to thank our (2011) sponsors: Aetna (Health Insurance); Barclays Wealth International; SIRVA Relocation; Trafimar Relocation (Mexico); Clements International (Multi-purpose Insurance); and US Global Mail. If you are in need of any of the services that our sponsors offer, please consider supporting them, as they do us.  Many thanks.

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Expat Women Blog Shout-Out Competition:

To celebrate our birthday, we are randomly giving away one US$100 Amazon.com voucher to one lucky blogger who gives us a positive, happy birthday shout-out on their blog - anytime between now and midnight 31 January 2011 (US EST).

To enter is as easy as 1-2-3:

(1) Say good things about our site and wish us a happy birthday for this month;

(2) Remember to include a link in your shout-out back to ExpatWomen.com; and

(3) Please email us your blog URL (in an email entitled something like “Blog Competition”), your name and location, by the deadline above.

Blog shout-outs help us a lot, so thank you very much in advance and good luck!

Potentially useful text for your shout-out:

ExpatWomen.com is the largest global website helping women living abroad. The site displays 1,000+ content pages, 1,600+ expat women blogs, 300+ readers' stories, invaluable country resource pages, interviews with successful expat women, loads of motivational articles and an inspirational blog and newsletter.

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Thank you very much again for your support Everyone! 

Have a great day/evening/week/year! Andrea x

Newcomers Club Mexico City & Trafimar Relocations

Hi Everyone, A great big thank you to the Newcomers Club Mexico City and to our valued Gold Sponsor, Trafimar Relocations, for organising the two events in Mexico City that I spoke at this week about 'Inspiring Your Success Abroad'.

If you are an expat in Mexico who has not yet joined the Newcomers Club, I highly recommend that you do. Not only do they have wonderful people and a wide of variety of events/activities for members, but they also recently produced The Guide: An Insider's Guide to Mexico City - which is a fabulous 'bible' of member recommendations for anyone living in Mexico - and which is being given free to all members of the club.

And of course if you are ever moving to/from Mexico, or know someone who is, please support Trafimar Relocations, who kindly support Expat Women and also support Newcomers Club projects.

Many thanks and best wishes, Andrea.