Purpose

I started this blog with the goal of documenting our creation of enough passive income by July 2012 to achieve true financial freedom - a great lifestyle funded by money that comes in whether we work or not.

We didn't make it...at least partially because I now believe that work provides a lot of benefits both to the one working (physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually) and also to the one being served.

I still am very interested in investing and the world of finance, so I will try and pass along any interesting opportunities I see, but I have a newfound love for active income as well.

Friday, August 10, 2007

Amazon Context Links

So Amazon has an affiliate program where you get paid if people buy stuff from Amazon by linking from your site.

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From a moneymaking standpoint, Amazon is not that great because it only pays 4% to start up to 10% based upon your volume of business - but when I have checked Amazon always has the lowest prices, so I strongly recommend them as a place to buy books, especially when you get free shipping on orders over $25!


They recently (I assume - it's in beta) rolled out a new application (or "app" to use the "lingo") that scours your text for search terms and makes those words "live" where you get a preview if you hold your mouse over it and can click it to go to Amazon to buy.

e.g. if I wrote "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", this should become an active link to Amazon where if you hold your cursor over it, you will get a preview of the item, which you can then click on to go to Amazon.

I think this is really cool (putting on my "old man hat" for a minute) - it's incredible what that there technology can do these days. Seriously, I do think it is cool, and given my experience with Amazon being very cheap, the idea seems really cool, if it works.

After some trial and error (and consulting the all-knowing Google oracle), I figured out how to incorporate this into Blogger.

Please give me feedback on these context links:
1) Do you like them or not like them?
and of course,
2) Let me know if they are not working for you!

Thanks for your help!