Mo' Money: Blogging for the Buck

Dear Reader of The Charters Of Dreams

TCOD is now a member of Smorty where bloggers can  blog for money -- from the smorty.com website:

Smorty is a bridge between bloggers and advertisers. Advertisers start campaigns with us and we deliver them to the right bloggers for publishing an opinion on their Blogs (http://www.smorty.com)

I like smorty's approach to advertising: great advertising isn't about selling you "X," it's about your relationship to "Y," and "X" either helps that relationship or makes it better!

For example, zoom in on the wife (ca. 1958) saying oh dear, my husband's shirt has this terrible stain, and he's got a big presentation to do tomorrow. What do I do? Pan over to another woman poking her head in the laundry room window an saying don't worry Beth, X will clean that spot right out, and the shirt will look as good as the day you bought it! Cut to Beth and her husband, and husband says Honey! the presentation went great! They loved it! Now we can afford to move into a bigger house! Oh . . . by the way, you didn't have to buy me this new shirt, but -- it's looks great! You're the best honey!

See -- it's not at all about "X," it's about sex and love, so when I write an post for smorty client, you'll never know that I'm doing it to get paid for blogging-- you'll think I'm writing about sex and love, but then . . . strangely, inexplicably, you'll start thinking about "X"  . . .

ah . . . Capitalism + psychology/human nature = money, and the Universe works!