Bumper Sticker Rant News

Hey all,

I know, I know. Where's the picture? Well the one for today is right below this. So no worries.

So this post is to go over some things that need to be said, and then tomorrow we get back to pictures.

1. Contributors. I still need contributors and email contributions. I would like to specify that I would prefer the bumperstickers be in use (on a car). Those will always be preferred to pictures of those you come across, or sell, on the net. But if that's all you got go ahead and try. Be warned, however, that I try to keep a small slush of stickers from covered cars to use in slow times. So it'll have to be a really bad stretch before I use pictures of stickers that aren't on cars. The reason for this is so we keep the commentary on what one of us has actually seen in the real world.

2. Newsletter. I'd like to be able to use that nifty newsletter function. Yes, my sign up box is a cafepress newsletter box. But I figured a newsletter is a newsletter. If you know of a good free newsletter service you can try and change my mind. For now, that's it. Anyway, sign up. I'll announce contests (if I ever have enough funds to have prizes) via newsletter, not here. So there is one incentive. Another reason to sign up is so that I can make only general announcements here, and can use the newsletter for detailed news and stuff. (Yeah, like this post.) And I won't send stuff too often so don't let that deter you.

3.Support the site. Seriously. I want to have contests. I want to do fun things with this site. But I'm poor. I'm in college and have no money. SO I can't just use my own meager funds to do some of the stuff I'd like to do. Please click on the various links.

3a. Cafepress affiliate- NEW!! Today I signed up to be a cafepress affiliate. What does this mean? It means that if I have my links set up properly I can earn a commission for every sale that I send their way (excluding my own stores of course). So I have the text link on the top that directs toward the bumpersticker portal, and a image on the side that goes to humor. Click those
and buy something.

3b. Cafepress store-Still there, still doing nothing. I know it's not a big community yet. But show your support. And what better way to grow than to have people see the URL and check it out.

3c. Adwords-Top and sidebar banners. I get paid per click, so you don't even have to buy something. At least that's the way I understand it. But this is probably the slowest way to earn any money, since some clicks can be worth as little as a penny.

4. Traffic. Need more of it. I'm gonna try and come up with a way to give out banners to those who want them, but I need to find either another place to store the images or have you all host them yourselves. My geocities account is already screaming at me because I've started to use more bandwidth than it wants me to. So I can't have ya'll link there for the source. In the meantime please blogroll me, or add me to your links. That way more people find out about the rant.

So help me out with this, ok? I really want this to be just a fun place for us all, but I can't do it alone.

Thanks,
Phoenix