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<\/p>\nI’ve added a new t-shirt to the CafePress store:<\/p>\n
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You can order one if you’re so inclined here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Strangely enough, my CafePress store has proven to be the most profitable endeavor of my “throw it out there” attempts at passive income. I’ve had it since 2004 when I made some off-color bumper stickers and then some political things which never sold. But when I started adding IT things badged with QA Hates You, I sold a couple–especially Project Manager Wall Clocks<\/a> which have sold enough that I got a check from them back when they were new and which still sell steadily enough to cover the costs of having a CafePress storefront.<\/p>\n The Nico Sez<\/a> line of apparel? I bought one to see how they would look. I’m wearing it as I type this blog post, actually.<\/p>\n The two apps I have on the app store? I sold one copy of Boxing Drill Companion<\/a> to someone in Eastern Europe on the day I released it. I sold two copies of Dr. Franklin’s Art of Virtue Tracker<\/a>: One to my beautiful wife, and one to her mother (who uses it every day, by the way, so: yay(?)). Which is almost $3 in revenue against $99 for an annual Apple developer account.<\/p>\n The books? Yeah, build your brand online didn’t work; not only did I spend $300 for a cover, but I sent out 50 to newspapers, magazines, and bloggers and got, what, five reviews<\/a>? I’ve sold fewer than 100 copies of it and a handful of copies of the other books, but I’ve done my own covers for the others and have not sent out review copies except to the Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Contest<\/em> or whatever it’s called. Which might explain one of the reasons that I haven’t written much long form in a while.<\/p>\n And this blog? I think I got a check from Google AdSense once over a decade ago. Against the ever-increasing costs of hosting and, fortunately, no longer the cost of updating the SSL certificate, but, yeah, not a profit center.<\/p>\n