If you buy my stuff, it helps my family and keeps me off the streets so I can keep writing goofy shit on the internet for you to enjoy. When I do, I will show you my stuff, and direct you to the place or places where you can purchase it if you wish. I hope to have more stuff to sell fairly soon. But I also have this old-fashioned streak in me that thinks selling stuff should ideally be a little more straightforward.
And in an economy that is becoming more and more internet-based, people have to be a bit more creative about how they make that money. We're all trying to make money in some fashion.
Now, before the rabid Randian capitalists among you start calling for my head, let me just say this: I do not care that this company is trying to make money. None of this is secret and took me literally five minutes of internet clicking to figure out. So, they have to get the content from somewhere-perhaps a place that already produces and markets videos and has extra ones on hand to sell or one that couldn't make their own paid content business model work and can sell it off to another company who wants to try to make a go of it. Now, I can't imagine a marketing firm being willing to actually set-up, film, and produce quilting videos themselves it wouldn't be cost-effective. I took screenshots of some of the videos and they were all filmed in this same little studio: A couple years ago, Dail圜 (itself a part of Fons and Porter and which I don't even think still exists) asked me to review their site, and I got access to a video of my choice.
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In addition, I looked at some of the free videos, and I immediately noticed something. And a couple items thrown into a store for sale, mostly DVDs and more portals for the "premium" service. You become a paid member in order to access the "premium" videos, and this can be paid as a monthly or a yearly fee. All of these sites are built on the same platform: there are free videos and there are "premium" videos. They also came up with "The Woodworkers Guild of America" (which is not a guild of any kind) and "The Personal Defense Network" (which is not a network of any kind). They were not hired by quilters to do this. In fact, the National Quilters Circle is a thing this marketing company came up with themselves. It is the brainchild of a company called TN Marketing, and they specialize in something called "affinity content marketing." The basic idea is that they develop and host video content related to something in which a large number of like-minded people might be interested, such as quilting or recreational dishwasher repair. The National Quilters Circle is not a circle of any kind unless you are familiar with the Italian poet Dante. Today I stand before you, my hat in my hand, my heart on my sleeve, my Cheetos on their way to my mouth because it's totally snack time, and I entreat you: please go to the National Quilting Illuminati Triangle and nominate my humble little blog for Most Humorous Quilting Blog. But I have never actually gone on my blog and begged for nominations and votes. And a small handful of people always responds.
Now, these contests have come up before, and I have on occasion half-heartedly posted a link on Facebook and suggested that maybe if people had nothing better to do they might want to think about going and nominating me. So you can see why one might think I would be keen to win such a thing. When quilting humorists get together, I can wear my 2015 National Quilters Sphere Most Humorous Blog Award Winner t-shirt that I will totally have to make myself because they don't actually provide such a thing to the winners, and I can puff out my chest, where the logo is located, and be all, "Do YOU have a 2015 National Quilters Rhomboid Quadrilateral Most Humorous Blog Award Winner t-shirt? NO YOU DON'T." And then that one blogger will rip off her jacket, revealing her own self-made t-shirt and then we'll have to take it outside where I will most definitely mess her up because mama don't play. He thought that I might want to encourage my readers to go and nominate me in this category, so that I can win the coveted title and lord it over all the other quilting humor blogs out there. He informed me that this circle thing is holding blogger awards and that my blog had come up several times in nominations, presumably for Most Humorous Blog. A few days ago, I was contacted by a marketing person for something called The National Quilters Circle.
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