I don't run this blog to make money, which is good, because it doesn't.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if it did make some money, that certainly wouldn't be unwelcome. I would gladly do a seven figure deal for the movie rights (I would insist on Speilberg directing..), and who knows, more realistically, I might try to shop around a Columbia Closings<\/i> book someday.<\/p>\n
I went so far as to sign up for Google Adsense<\/i>, and may actually turn it on at some point, but that requires some work with the theme and HTML, and looking at Internet chatter it appears that a blog targeted at a 40+ demographic in one medium-sized city is not going draw the traffic to make it worth-while. Now, don't take that wrong, it's already worth-while for me<\/i>, and I'm happy to have each and every one of you Columbia Closings<\/i> readers and commenters!<\/p>\n
What I can<\/i> do fairly easily is open a Cafe Press<\/i> store. Cafe Press<\/i> is a web shop that will put your designs<\/i> on products of your choosing -- the standard set of merchandise: Tee shirts, cofee mugs, postcards, prints, wall clocks and the like. Now, I don't really have designs<\/i> per-se, I just have pictures<\/i>, but some of them I like pretty well, so I've set up an initial shop with some Columbia landmark products, as well as a bit of coastal scenery from Pawleys Island. If anyone actually buys anything, I'll be adding some more, if not, well, as W.C Fields said:<\/p>\n \nIf at first you don't succeed...try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a danm fool about it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I believe Cafe Press<\/i> to be a reputable operation, so I expect that deficiencies, if there are any, will be due to my pictures not being as exemplary as I had thought, but in that case, they have a 30 day return policy.<\/p>\n