Aug 11 2008

Ready to Shop?

Published by Kirsten at 11:53 am under Blog, Shopping

I thought long and hard about monetizing my blog.  I didn’t want to clutter up my fine work with ads, and I wasn’t keen on the whole pay-per-post idea.  In the past, you’ve probably seen some posts with links to products on Amazon.com using an affiliate program.  That’s about the extent of my efforts to make money from the blog.  Then Amazon came out with a whole storefront thing that you can insert in your site.  I fiddled around with it and realized I could probably do that.  So I made a shop - months ago.  I made the new page and let it sit in draft for the longest time, thinking I’ll release it when I have the time to work on it more.  But then I figured, why not?  Why not release it now?  So I did.  I’m featuring some stuff I’ve mentioned on the blog, along with other stuff I love.  And I decided to stay exclusively with Amazon because it’s a site that everyone knows, and they carry nearly everything.  So go check it out.  I’ll be adding more stuff as time and inspiration permits, so check back once in awhile.

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3 Comments to “Ready to Shop?”

  1. # Zhu (88 comments.)on 11 Aug 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Cool!

    I want to make a shop too, I need the money but meanwhile I like my blog too much to monetizing as much as some people do.

    I have one Adsense block but between us, it’s crap. I get money from TextLinkAds (if you’re interested, let me know, you can use my sponsor and I believe it can benefit us both) and that’s about it.

    I’d like to set up a page to sell some of my pics but I suck at marketing.

  2. # Zhu (88 comments.)on 11 Aug 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Eh, that’s weird, my comment was blocked because of the word “m…ting” apparently :lol:

  3. # Kirstenon 11 Aug 2008 at 6:41 pm

    No worries about the comment, Zhu. I moderate everything, but was getting way too much spam with certain words, so I added it (I use the TanTan Noodles spam filter in addition to Akismet). Not sure I’d really want the TextLinkAds, and I doubt I’ll make much from Amazon, but I figured if I’m going to link to Amazon, I may as well become an affiliate.

    For your photos, have you thought about Etsy? I think they let you do a slideshow of your offerings. Plus, you’d also reach people who don’t read your blog.