Sunday, October 03, 2004

Too far over the syncretistic edge?

Michelle, Minna and I took an afternoon drive down to Yellowstone Park today... 45 minutes down the road from our front door here in Livingston, MT. It was a beautiful warm fall day.... the Cottonwood and Aspen trees were at their brightest yellow-orange and the elk were everywhere. We got home in time to make Pizza for dinner. This week we finally launched the fully functioning Chrismukkah.com site... and began taking orders for cards. By week's end, we received our first order... from none other than Chrismukkah.org "blog brother from Boston" Jay Brewer. The next day, we received another order for cards from San Francisco. We've broken the ice! 2,000 orders to go and we'll have broken even! I spent a good deal of time this week writing to "interfaith" oriented sites, trying to encourage reciprocal links. We were turned down by each organization we contacted... apparently our cards are pushing an envelope. This response was typical: "Dear Ron: I've consulted the ****** Interfaith Institute Family board and the feeling is unanimously against our putting a link to you on our site--you're a little too far over the syncretistic edge for us. You're welcome to list us as a resource on your site, though. Thank you for your interest." I've been called a many things before, but "too far over the syncretistic edge" was a first. I had to look up the word. While there are still a number of tweaks remaining, for the most part, I'm happy with the way the site looks. Now all we have to do is try to get the word out. Google and Overture PPC advertising begin this week. If you're reading this, please help spread the word. And we'd love to hear from you.

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...

What an interesting web site! I found this while looking for information about my boyfriend's religion (judaism). I was born into catholicism. The odd situation about us is that I'm 1/2 Italian, 1/2 African American and he's an adopted jewish man with an Italian father and Jewish mother. So, I've been introduced to this entirely different world and it's great. I believe that once people know about this site, they will thank you for bridging the gap between religions.

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