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 Read more













Appended below is an audio podcast with David Gibbons, Director of Community Relations for Zillow.com. In this recording, David talks with me, reflecting upon the details and implications of tonight’s new software release.