{"id":1273,"date":"2007-04-07T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2007-05-12T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:15:59","slug":"caveat-lector-bloodhoundblogs-amazon-affiliates-earnings-might-someday-fund-a-war-of-global-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1273\/caveat-lector-bloodhoundblogs-amazon-affiliates-earnings-might-someday-fund-a-war-of-global-conquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat lector: BloodhoundBlog&#8217;s Amazon Affiliates earnings might someday fund a war of global conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s nevertheless accurate, so I have added this text to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">our About page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>Amazon Affiliates information:<\/i><\/b> 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 href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0394720245?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0394720245\" target=\"_blank\">a book about Robert Moses<\/a> 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&#8217;t say you weren&#8217;t warned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That notwithstanding, we&#8217;ve sold some cool books, some genuine make-a-difference tomes of self-improvement. Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broker to Broker: Management Lessons From America&#8217;s Most Successful Real Estate Companies\n<\/li>\n<li>Everybody Wins: The Story and Lessons Behind RE\/MAX\n<\/li>\n<li>Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers\n<\/li>\n<li>Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable\n<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate Agent&#8217;s Business Planning Guide\n<\/li>\n<li>Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing\n<\/li>\n<li>Realty Blogging\n<\/li>\n<li>Small Is the New Big: and 193 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas\n<\/li>\n<li>The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual\n<\/li>\n<li>The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More\n<\/li>\n<li>The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It&#8217;s Not About the Money&#8230;It&#8217;s About Being the Best You Can Be!\n<\/li>\n<li>The Millionaire Real Estate Investor\n<\/li>\n<li>Unleashing the Ideavirus\n<\/li>\n<li>What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting: Real-Life Advice from 101 People <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1273\/caveat-lector-bloodhoundblogs-amazon-affiliates-earnings-might-someday-fund-a-war-of-global-conquest\/#more-1273\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1417,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1417\/caesars-wife-in-the-agora-why-i-am-disconnecting-from-bloggers-connect\/","url_meta":{"origin":1273,"position":0},"title":"Caesar&#8217;s Wife in the Agora: Why I am disconnecting from Blogger&#8217;s Connect","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Through the good offices of Jimmy Tomatoes, I found out today that I am cashing in on BloodhoundBlog. 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