I had a snippy comment, clipped for flame-baiting, that in part complained that our participation in the Amazon Affiliates program is not disclosed. The beef is stoopid, but it’s nevertheless accurate, so I have added this text to our About page:
Amazon Affiliates information: When Greg Swann set up this weblog, he joined the Amazon Affiliates program for what seemed like good reasons at the time. Amazon Affiliates is a promotional program whereby websites are paid commissions in the forms of cash or same-as-cash Amazon merchandise credit in exchange for promoting and brokering the sale of Amazon.com products. Does this affiliation produce income for BloodhoundBlog? Yes. How much? A little over $5.25 a month, on average (much of which is occasioned by our own personal purchases). Our pro-rated hosting cost, excluding domain costs, is around $37.50 a month, so our Amazon.com windfall has us on the dot.com path to profitability. It seems absurd to make this disclosure, but we heard from a rancorous busy-body who wanted to make a big deal about it, so there it is. So far, we have used our vast Amazon.com earnings to buy a book about Robert Moses for a young real-estate-tycoon-to-be whom we know and admire. God alone can guess what nefarious ends we will finance with future earnings. So: Don’t say you weren’t warned.
That notwithstanding, we’ve sold some cool books, some genuine make-a-difference tomes of self-improvement. Among them:
- Broker to Broker: Management Lessons From America’s Most Successful Real Estate Companies
- Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE/MAX
- Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
- Real Estate Agent’s Business Planning Guide
- Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing
- Realty Blogging
- Small Is the New Big: and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
- The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
- The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It’s Not About the Money…It’s About Being the Best You Can Be!
- The Millionaire Real Estate Investor
- Unleashing the Ideavirus
- What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere
- Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
Frankly, it seems unlikely that we will ever make enough from Amazon.com to take over the world, even if our thoughts turned in that direction. But there is a chance that someone could start themselves on the path to dominating his or her local market because of a book they first heard about here — or discovered by linking out from here. Your mileage may vary, but I think that’s worth at least seventeen-and-a-half cents a day…
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Jay Thompson says:
Wow, a weeks worth of Ramen noodles!
Try not to spend it all in one place…
April 7, 2007 — 12:53 pm
Sock Puppet says:
On come on. Everyone and their dog with a webpage that has a link to a book is an Amazon Affliate. Some people just have too much time on their hands.
You may as well be disclosing that the sky is blue.
April 7, 2007 — 12:57 pm
Greg Swann says:
Disclosure: Nowhere is the sky more blue than in Phoenix in the Springtime. Eat your hearts out, you rain-and-snow-besodden wretches!
April 7, 2007 — 1:00 pm
Teri Lussier says:
>Eat your hearts out, you rain-and-snow-besodden wretches!
That really hurt.
>Disclosure: Nowhere is the sky more blue than in Phoenix in the Springtime.
Tucson is prettier.
April 7, 2007 — 2:09 pm
John Michailidis says:
Dirty capitalists! How dare you have the nerve to try and make a living from all of the priceless and wonderful thought fodder you put out to the world. For God’s sake, next thing you know you’ll be expecting private property rights, personal liberty, and freedom of speech! Just who the heck do you people think you are?
April 7, 2007 — 9:54 pm