This post’s title comes from that (semi) famous song by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.  I guess it’s my little kind of joking segue thing into today’s topic:  monetization.

Over the past (almost) three years, I have done tiny little experiments with monetization on Broadcasting Brain.  There have been ads in different places around the blog at different times.  For the most part, it’s been pretty small stuff.

After much thought and research, I have signed up as an affiliate for a mind mapping strategy product, an eBook.  It is a product that I have purchased and I’m in the process of reviewing.  I think it’s a good product that will provide mind mapping help for people who want to learn more.

I have posted affiliate links from Amazon.com for books that I’ve reviewed and enjoyed.  Some of you have used those links (and thanks very much for that!).  I’m sure more will come in the future.

We all have things we’d like to do.  Most of those things cost money.  I’m no different than anyone else.

If I find free resources that I think are valuable, I share those.  Same with the ones that aren’t free, although I haven’t done that so often in the past.  All I can do is try to find the best, and most appropriate, resources.  Then I can tell you about them, review them, and you can make the best decision you can about whether or not you want to pursue them any further.

My rules for this:  the product’s got to deliver value, at a decent price for the value, and it’s got to somehow relate to the material here at Broadcasting Brain (or whatever blog I’m putting the links on, like Thoughtwrestling.)

If this slight change to the blog bothers you, my apologies.  I’ll understand if this isn’t what you came here for.

Hopefully I can help pass some useful things on to you and we can all benefit.

Thanks for your continued support and thank you for reading this post.

P.S.  this is the product, it’s also in the blog’s sidebar:

Chuck Frey has written a detailed eBook called Power Tips and Strategies for Mind Mapping Software to provide you with different ways to use mind maps, some of which you may never have thought of before! Click on the picture above to check it out (yes, it is an affiliate link, which means that if you buy the eBook, some of the proceeds come back to Broadcasting Brain to help us do more great work here!)  If you are looking for some mind map help, this product will help you.