You all know that I have a plan… an evil plan… to take over the world with my blog. I want every person on this planet to end up here eventually. I admit that it is taking longer than I expected.
On top of that, I do need to make enough money to make the time I spend working on the blog worthwhile. It doesn’t have to be a lot, but it would be sort of nice if it averaged out, on a per hour basis, to at least minimum wage. I have toyed with the idea of turning it into an actual .com… a real website with advertising. I know, it’s tacky, but I do have another kid to send to college, and my book sales are not what you would call ‘through the roof’.
Being all art-side-of-the-brain, I am bad at marketing myself. But maybe I can turn that weakness into a strength by using artistic marketing. I need to sell my blog, my books, and myself.
Now I could go the obvious route and just start manufacturing things like bobble heads…
Would you buy one of those? Wouldn’t you like to have a little me on the dashboard of your car, my big crack squirrel-filled head bobbing up and down when you drive?
I could do coffee mugs…
On the back it would mention the blog… and maybe underneath my face it would say: WAKE THE F*#K UP!!!
Or what about soup? Wouldn’t you love to have a big, steaming bowl of Pouringmyartout soup?
And beer… I need to start brewing my own beer…
Pouring My Art Out 
I can’t have dust collectors anymore, so that let’s out the bobbleheads, I don’t like vegetable soup with alphabet letters & I don’t drink beer. So that just leaves me with the coffee cup & I honestly don’t think I could drink out of the top of your head – I would get that creepy feeling I was drinking crack squirrels!
I could make crack squirrel coffee…
And every time you read my blog, you are drinking out of the top of my head… HA!
I like bobble heads. I don’t know why. Please don’t tell anyone.
I won’t…
why don’t you just clone yourself?
I am working on that.
I like the Wake the Fuck Up mug! And the soup, except you don’t want people eating you. You are on to something though, you know more about marketing that you think.
well… you say that now… just wait
If you had a Canadian RCMP Art bobble head you could get more Canadian participation. Billy Carter tried the beer thing and it didn’t go over well, but he was only the brother of the president = whereas you will be the Emporer of the World – it could make a difference. Good luck in montetizing your quest for world domination.
Thanks… I have a few more ideas…
I know: you could sell official “Art’s Loyal Minion” Blog Badges for a $1 piece. 😉
Or, if you really want to sell something tangible, go with Plush Crack Squirrels. What parent wouldn’t want to buy a stuffed Crack Squirrel for their kid?
just wait…
It’s like you’re inside my head…
Sell the beer with a few strands of genuine moustache hair, and I’m in for fifty cases.
you got a deal
I’m not an expert in marketing myself, so I think you need to get the crack squirrels’ crack marketing team involved.
I will crack the whip…
The soup and the beer, great ideas. 🙂
I am making beer in the bathtub and soup in the kitchen as we speak.
Just be sure you’re not making the beer in the kitchen and the soup in the bathtub. And please don’t tell the health authorities. That last pictures reeks of class man. lol.
I am all about the class…