LOL —Amazon Gave Me the Boot

After selling off the last of my nursery, Shelterwood, and moving to be with my spouse in Colorado, I attempted to earn some revenue with the Amazon Affiliate program. I continue to get a fair amount of traffic on some how-to posts, so why not. Well, that didn't work out: hardly any clicks, and then no purchases where someone did click. Turns out, people already know how to find what they want to buy! Of course. Amazon blasted me with "ideas" on what was hot selling so that I could blog that into existence, here. But that wasn't my interest, and so, this blog will remain ad-free and monetization free for another...who knows how long.

Much like a writer nudged me to start a blog in 2007, another writer is nudging me to start a Substack (to use the shorthand). Of course, that relies on SEO, much like this current blog, which happens to continue to get trafffic for, in general, the same 20 posts across 18 years of posting (where does the time go?). And so, that leads to the question: where does the time go? Do I, now, have the time or want to spend the time to develop a new platform and attempt to get paying subscribers —because if I do not try to get paying subscribers, what is the point in starting at the beginning?