My CIO recommended it to me. I'm reasonably sure my dear ol' hubby found it mentioned on GFY somewhere since that seems to be where he spends most of his forum time.
Family wasn't an option, so I marked him as "friend." But believe me, he's more than just a friend...
I discovered WickedFire (via another forum, can't remember which) more than a year ago when I first learnt about Internet Marketing, but it was only recently that I started visiting it more often as I'm finally into affiliate marketing seriously.
I was looking for information on affiliate marketing on google. I either found WF through searching affiliate marketing 101 or affiliate marketing community.
Which ever one it was it was within the first few links.
I searched Google for "Affiliate Marketing Forum", saw Wickedfire came here and realized that you have a large number of members so I joined. Found a couple of useful posts and hit WF's favorite makemonies site like 4 times and I fell in love with this place.
Blog. BlueHat, I think. Or maybe a comment on another blog talking about BlueHat. Can't remember, was a long time ago. Either that, or the Mad Cow is kicking in...