Piece Work

I've been doing HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) at Mechanical Turk, which is part of the evil Amazon empire. You won't get rich doing this, but if you have about an hour a day to fart around, you can pick up an extra $25 or so a month.

It's like this, y'all

I'm having to streamline.

Fuck ebay, they've never done shit for me other than make me pay fees. I haven't sold shit through them. It's a pain in the ass to list your items. Waste of my damn money and time!
That's the first thing I'm cutting out. And I am unanimous in this. Seeing as I am the only voting member of my board.
Back when Phil Harvey was first starting Adam and Eve, the adult industry was still new and a bit taboo. Adam and Eve is a huge hit and I am proud to be one of their affiliates. My other adult web store that I pay $60 a month in hosting fees for has gone nowhere. I think I need to cut my losses.
I will keep the Dandy Yank store and the dollar store.
I'm going to quit while I'm behind with the Amazon web stores. You can get what's called an a-store for being an Amazon affiliate which I am. I need to be cutthroat rather than sentimental about this. Especially considering what a huge corporation Amazon is. Nobody's getting hurt except my wallet from my paying their hosting fees.
I need to redirect some of these hosting fees into advertising for the book and the stores I intend to keep.
I cannot take this personally. It's just business.

The Crystal Cavern

The newest addition to the Empire is The Crystal Cavern. Featuring a variety of aromatherapy products, books, candles, massage oils, and cool specialty items. Check it out!

Stick This!

Stick Your Banner offers free banner advertising with no reciprocal link needed. This is great for sites like my mall which do not allow for a reciprocal banner link. A mini banner, size 88x31 is necessary. If you do not know how to create a banner or do not have the means of creating one, download the free trial of Banner Maker Pro. I love it so much I bought the full version. I will warn you that their HTML creator is crap although the banner creator itself is wonderful. Feel free to email me for sample banner HTML and help in creating your banner.

My New Dollar Shop Banner

I'm glad I finally figured out how to make my own HTML banners. I think this one turned out really well!

Making Banners

Don't mind me, I'm just making a new banner and I'm testing some graphics here.

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Clowned on Ebay

Come, fellow entrepreneurs, and let me tell you my tale of woe. I'm down with selling on Ebay and will soon be starting up a store to sell some of the items from my fabulous gift store, and some of the less, shall we say, explicit items from my adult store. But I despise buying on ebay. I despise the "thrill of the chase." And then I come to find out that I scrogged myself out of some items that I was willing to deal with the most foul-tempered merchant on Earth for by presenting my bid and letting it be part of the dumb driven Bidding War. No, no, no, this is NOT what I should have done! This is for newbies--which I was. The way to do it is to watch the war and wait until the last hour and then swoop in with your Bidnapper!
Bidnapper is an online bidding program. You don't have to download software and you don't have to be at your computer, although if you're really wanting to be hardcore, you will be there during the last hour. You take the crappy-mannered seller by surprise so he or she doesn't have time to harass you like this joker did me, threatening to delete my bids because I didn't immediately answer his emails and just basically being about as unpleasant as is humanly possible. Click here for the whole horrible story.
Then click here to get signed up with Bidnapper. And don't get clowned on Ebay any more!
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