Pinball: Anna Uses Another Interview...

Another example of the Pinball Effect...on the net, Contact/Contact trades move very well indeed. Yesterday, my old friend Anna asked me for another interview...so of course I also wanted to vote for her site with her favorite ezine reviewing service...and while there I found another professional site that supports new writers, and left ANOTHER free plug for THIS site on their forum.

That doesn't even count the other three links Anna had left during our chat .

Now, here is the question...who is paying the money to establish these links and the resulting business relationships? Certainly not me! I've placed them in an article square in the middle of a large piece of my own intellectual property! I even managed to "plug" one or two more of my own projects while doing it...A lesson our old friend Spider Robinson "stole" from his mentor, Grand Master Robert!

The only reason this would NOT work out as a win-win-win trade for everyone concerned, is if someone in the chain of results wanted for some reason to DENY me permission to make the links in the first place...and this is why I am so shy of corporate exclusivity contracts!

But...who can kill this trade?
Spider can't...he gave me permission to write about him here months ago.
Anna won't...she's a personal friend by now, and I plugged her site (and her resulting revenue streams) at least twice.
Robert won't...resquiescant In Pace.

Author-me.com MIGHT...if they wanted to be hypocritical toward a new writer. I DID file my permissions request before I filed this story...I suppose that the good-faith expectation that they WILL give permission is largely irrelevant, but that is a central problem with blogging in general.

Google and Amazon might TRY...but they would want and need more evidence that I was being nasty...
That leaves Dr. Kessler, from whom I stole the central idea for the post...and he says point blank and up front that HE also stole it... See his book for details.

So the whole exercise is a lesson in the MONEY value of TIME.
The more TIME I put into the site EARLY, while less and less people know about it, the stronger my intellectual property becomes....and the more people I can prove that I am helping, the FASTER my project goes!

So the Pinball Effect is certainly working in my favor...but the Domino Effect could definitely work against me if anyone decided to pull support for the project.