Sunday, May 9, 2010

Had to launch this one because I liked the name

A new update as of December 7th, 2013
I now have a total of 17 blogs across two platforms, Blogger and WordPress. I've gone well beyond getting carried away. And I still have multiple ideas for many other blogs in the works. Either in my mind or squirreled away in various notebooks I carry around to jot ideas down as they occur to me.

Older post continues here:
I had to launch this one because I love the name. I won't take all the credit for it, however. I tip my hat for that to my friend and former fellow co-worker, Mark Fowler, for the idea.
I told Mark he should use it for his own blog...but, at the point I decided to launch this blog, he still hadn't, so I decided I better before someone else thought of it or grabbed it first.

(As of Sunday morning, July 11, 2010 switched template yet again. Now it's one of the new Picture Window templates and it reminds me even more of a web site, so it feels like I'm getting closer to that goal.)

New Post August 2nd, 2010
Wasn't entirely sure what I was going to do with this particular blog originally, but I decided to put some of the extra cool shoes I felt I was running out of room for on my I Love Cool Shoes Blog here instead, so I did. This blog for now is basically I Love Cool Shoes Pt. 2.

I have continued my shoe-gathering efforts and I continue to find more and more websites with cool shoes. When I finally launch my I Love Cool Shoes website, my plan/idea/concept for the site is that I hope to be the online portal to all other cool shoe websites on the World Wide Web. Bit of a grandiose idea, maybe, but as I've said elsewhere, if you're going to dream, dream big.

Thing is, I don't really want to compete with the other websites that sell shoes. I want to support them all because I love all of them. My hope is that my site will enable visitors to get to other cool shoe websites from my website. Ideally, I will drive traffic to my website and once there visitors can view all the cool shoes they want and when they find a pair they like, they can go to either the designer's website to see more or a website where they can make a purchase (or both, depending on the site). Ultimately, I'd like the site to generate income on a pay-per-click basis. Every time a potential customer clicks a link to a companion website, that website would in turn pay me a finder's fee for sending them customers.