Yesterday I was playing with Amazon widgets and stumbled across the Amazon.com Associates Program. As far as I understand the program, bloggers can refer their traffic to Amazon and if a purchase is made from the referral, then the blogger gets to pocket a small %. When you join the program, you can choose to receive the money via 1) gift cert. 2) direct deposit or 3) check. I joined the program via gift cert. and will be donating 50% of every sale generated from this site to the excellent Room to Read charity via a gift in kind. Room to Read was established by John Wood, the guy who left Microsoft to Change the world. John’s social entrepreneurship story is fantastic & he is responsible for the establishment of around 5100 libraries worldwide–highly recommend you check out his book. Mitch Joel interviewed John here.
All this talk about libraries, reading and Amazon got my wife and I over to see one of the best private libraries in the world on a cloudy Geneva Sun. (no more rain, please). Over in a small, super wealthy part of town, the Fondation Martin Bodmer holds some of the world’s literary treasures…like a copy of the Gutenberg Bible.
Ryan Jones is interested in marketing and good causes. He currently works in Global Brand Management at Procter & Gamble and resides in Geneva, Switzerland.
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[...] disclosure, I am part of 1 affiliate program…Amazon affiliates. And, as I posted here, half of the proceeds I receive from it go to charity. I am now going to change that to 100% of [...]