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Amazon Affiliates Program
Let me be honest — hosting this website is not terribly expensive for Jill and I. But, there are still some costs involved. So, that’s why I don’t feel too entirely bad about setting up a way in which we might even out those costs while not really costing anyone any money… Sounds a little fishy, doesn’t it? That was my first thought about it — and hey, the jury is still out — but I think it will work fairly well. “What will work?” you might ask. The Amazon.com Affiliates program.
Basically, here’s how it works. Whenever Jill and I get ready to buy anything from Amazon.com, we first use the “Shop at Amazon” link in the menu area of this site. It identifies us as shoppers who have come from 348North and will credit back to us 15% of any purchase. So right off the bat, we get 15% off any purchase. Sweet!
Also, any of you who are going to shop at Amazon.com (or Toys R Us online, or Target online, etc.) and travel through our site first instead of just typing a-m-a-z-o-n-.-c-o-m into your browser will be helping us out on any purchase that you make. And no, it doesn’t add to the price of your order. And no, we can’t see what you purchase — only the total dollar value of everyone that orders using our site as an entry point. So Santa’s helpers should rest assured of their confidentiality.
We’ll see how this works, and if it gets “fishy” I’ll can it right away. Like I said, it isn’t a huge amount of money that we pay to run this website, but any little bit that offsets the cost is helpful.
written by Kevin in web stuff