Does it cost anything to send a poem or greeting card? Q: Why is there advertising posted with the poems?
Two very related questions, so we’ll answer them together. No, it doesn’t cost anything to send a poem or greeting card, nor does it cost anything to submit your own poetry. Our newsletter is Free, the notifications we send when the site is updated our free. None of this has ever has cost anything. None of it ever will. We didn’t have advertising for the first several months we were live. Those of you who know me, or have perhaps have read my bio, know that I didn’t put up Passions in order to make money. I’m semi-retired, and the business I owned for over a decade before moving back to Michigan was fairly successful. My life is pretty simple, and I like it that way. The advertising is there for two reasons. First, it helps pay for the web site. A small web site really doesn’t cost much, but a more popular web site has to pay extra for the bandwidth it uses. As we’ve grown, the cost of running the web site has grown. It’s not really a burden, by any means, but it could become an issue
