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But he had also a problem, he lives in an rural area of the earlier East Germany.
His old company did not exist anymore, no chance to start a new business in this area.
He started July last year with a web site.
I teached him by remote support and Skype how to use my CMS.
He applied for AdSense in September and started end of September.
He finished December 2008 with nearly $100.
He crossed January 1 first time $10 a day.
To make his living, $1000 a month required.
This is the target until the end of 2009.
just what it requires is will to learn to teach and to do hard work nothing else.
Hard work, many month
this is the biggest barrier for most people,
they search all for quick money.
Little work, and immedeately money.
There are only a few people ready for slow money.
He has now 350 pages with own written articles and self created photos.
One question though: how on earth are you going to make a living in Germany with only $1000? Did you fortget about the exchange rate?
One question though: how on earth are you going to make a living in Germany with only $1000? Did you fortget about the exchange rate?
It's intended, that AdSense is not the only income line.
He tries to cooperate with different companies to get money for bringing new customers.
His wife has a job and brings the other part of the family income.
It's not to get rich, it's just to survive.
But to survive can be in this times also a complicate task.
One question though: how on earth are you going to make a living in Germany with only $1000? Did you fortget about the exchange rate?
I'm from germany and I can answer that: I couldn't, because I'm in west-germany, but I could if I was living in the eastern part (even in Berlin). Comparing Hamburg and Berlin (Hamburg has ~1.8m people, berlin ~3.4m plus Berlin is the capital), you'd be shocked (if you live in Hamburg, happy if you're in Berlin), since comparable appartments will be 30-60% cheaper in Berlin. A friend of mine and his family have a generous 90sq meters apartment in one of the "hip" parts of Berlin and they pay little more than I do in an average part of Hamburg for 42sq meters. Even though the dollar is pretty weak right now, I still guess you could live off $1000 in eastern germany (especially in the rural areas where it's much cheaper than in Berlin).
nomis5: it's not about a CMS or a secret formula for quick success, it's all about what you publish and how you promote it.
there are so many informations lacking in the internet, if you produce something useful to someone, and let the world know,then you'll be rewarded.
actually I'm near finishing one of my own and I plan to advertise on it. and I hope to have up to 1000 pages in 2-3 months (as I have a few friends doing it with me). what kind of profit can I expect in a few months once we get let's say 5000 visits a day (if it even happens).
I guess the real answer is that you will find out when you get there.
What you might make on 5000 visits per day is extremely variable. depending on cercumstaces, the niche you are in and other variables, it might possibly be anything from $1 per day to $50 per day and perhaps even more.
1 year ago, I would have said up to $100, but now only up to $60.
I had Sunday highest ever page impressions, about 20% more than the last highest ever, but revenues only in the average of the month August.
My last Sunday page impression times the usual eCPM from 2005 to 2007, I would have no money problems.
I have another question. is it smarter to release all our content of around 1000 pages (maybe more we can't know yet) at once, or to let's say add 500 pages and then add other 500 over the next few months
A very theoretical question for the situation of my student.
It's a question of motivation to sit all the day at the computer to create new pages.
How to have this motivation, when publising only after 500 pages finished?
He started with maybe only 20 pages. He looked every day in the referer log files
Oh, people are really visiting my page, because they searched at Google for ......
This experience gives the motivation to write the next page.
To see from week to week more visitors.
The sitiation is simple that most people including his wife think he is mad :), so seeing after some days, the just new written page also is found by people searching in Google is very important to hold the motivation.
that's why we have much content already.
Why have you not uploaded it to a site already? All my sites start with the same basic 10 pages of index, contact, about, meet, legal etc. and then I expand them from there.
Some now have thousands of pages and some only 20-50 however all those that have content to never seem to have a problem having new content indexed since, I assume, G understands many of the sites are in a constant state of new content whereas many have evergreen content.
Get the stuff up there if it's unique and relevant :-)
Most don't have the patience, though, which is a shame because the Internet is the great equalizer.
Is it a lack of patience - or is it a lack of motivation, or maybe willingness?
I know a number of people that have a computer, Internet connection, disposable income, time, etc. - everything they need to get started.
Yet just by observing their life habits for a while, it's easy to determine which ones don't have much of a chance of making money online - AdSense or otherwise.
They aren't willing to forgo a few hours of watching sitcoms, to stay home with a sandwich while working instead of going out and spending an hour or more over a restaurant meal, to sacrifice attending the social event of the day, etc.
FarmBoy
In China almost 60 percent people live on Salary of $150 per month, believe or not. I am working for a big MNC China branch and every month my salary is about $400, I make it for 4 members of my family.
From your posts I can imagine that China is the poorest Country in this world.
From your posts I can imagine that China is the poorest Country in this world.
For some technical articles, there is a 1:2.5 difference between price in China and price in US or Europe.
This makes the $400 much more valuable.
I remember 1998 had been the salary for a chief of a group of scientists in Romania in the same range, but the prices in Romania had been the same as in Europe.
Be sure, there are many much purer countries.
Just take some cases for exmaple,
In China, we should pay
RMB 50 for a Children toy. -- $7.3/ 1 mid-size toy as Wal'Mart's setting dog.
RMB 5 for a piece of bread. -- $0.73/ a piece of bread.
RMB 150 for a normal jeans coat. -- $22/ a jeans coat.
RMB 5 for each Liter of petrol. -- $2.77/ gallon petrol.
RMB 5000-RMB 15000 (the most common price) for each sqm of house. --$730-$1460 /sqm of house.
KFC sells its each Chicken Hamburg for RMB 12.88. -- $1.89/ 1 KFC Chicken Hamburg.
Then what do you think about it?
I think the guys who have been in China know more clearly than my post.
His target is $400 for February, and I think, it's possible.
[edited by: Yoshimi at 1:39 pm (utc) on Feb. 9, 2009]
Target for March is $500
The peak doubled from January 1 to February 23
This in a time, where I have myself declining revenues
louiswang that doesn't actually sound that bad to me; comparred to salaries in the UK, a basic administrator in a large company could expect to earn as little as £14,000 per year, that's £800 per week
Yoshimi
I think you have got your figures mixed up. £800/week evaluates to £41600 a year, this is way above the national average for the UK. Rent may be £500/week in London and parts of Home Counties but according to rentright the average rental is currently £580/month ($835 USD/month).
According to National Statistics online the national average as of April 08 was £479/week, thats around £25000/year ($36000USD/Year).
And yes you can pay £1 ($1.44USD) for a loaf of bread, but in the supermarkets you can buy for quite a bit less.
£25,000 may be the mean average, but it is not what the majority of people in the UK are earning, especially when you take into account that the gap between director level and staff level salaries is bigger now then it was in the 1970's. £25,000 is equivilent to a specialist clerical job (think marketing/accounts but not managerial) or a shop manager for instance, minimum wage is I think £5.20 an hour, and there are a lot of people still earning only that, and their supervisors, some who may have decades of experience will only be on £20,000.
My point wasn't to state that the salary wasn't bad, more to try and open a discussion, as the cost to income ratio genuinely didn't seem that bad when viewed in context.
as for £1 for bread, you're right you can buy it from as little as 40p, but looking at mysupermarket most brands are around the £1.00 mark
This month, hist stats are towards to have at the end first time more than $500
And the first time a sales commission business worked.
2,5% sales comission for a 80.000,-EUR sale.
2000.-EUR, many photos mounting the 80.000,-EUR project for his web site, a valueable reference for having in the future better chances for the next sale.
