Holiday Adsense Cheer

Hello good people!

It’s only five days till Christmas! Today I’m going to grab my girlfriend and try to get in one more trip down to the Christkindlmarket for some hot spiced wine and Christmas fun before it ends.

Two days ago we saw monster Adsense earnings, and it looks like we followed it up yesterday with another huge day. Adsense brought in $121 which is nice, but amazon was the clear champ of the day with $61 in commissions (off of 21 items sold for $872). That was clearly one of the biggest amazon days of the shopping season so far, easily.

That brings yesterday’s grand total to $182 which is just slightly less than the day before’s $190.

What an amazing holiday shopping season so far, all the way around. And remember, we’re in the middle of the worst recession in the history of the world!

North Korea is in disarray following the death of their dictator, Europe is sinking in debt woes that threaten to derail their entire federation, Russia is sending troops into Moscow to quell rioters after fraudulent elections, China’s property bubble is nearing collapse and we have reports of some 20,000 small riots a week or more throughout their country, and here in America our own politicians are seemingly doing their best to destroy the American way of life and cripple what’s left of the economy with draconian business-killing regulation….but shoppers keep buying holiday gifts and advertisers keep paying to run ads!

You’ve got to love this business!!

I don’t really have anything important to write about today. I get a little lazy around the holidays, luckily Adsense allows me to be as lazy as I want and still keeps pumping out money!

I’ve got one question for you…

I might not have much to say today, but I do have a question for you. It’s a simple question but it’s incredibly important…ready? Here goes…

How many websites did you build yesterday?

Well?

None?

I had a basketball coach when I was younger who used to tell a story. He said that when he himself was a kid his dad created a basketball practice session for his son (my coach) to do everyday. It consisted of shooting so many free throws, so many jump shots, and so many three pointers (well, they weren’t called three pointers back then but you get the idea).

He called it “his shots”.

Every day when my coach’s dad came home from work, he’d ask his son “did you get your shots in today?”

And that’s all he’d ask. He wouldn’t berate his son on days when he didn’t get “his shots” in, he wouldn’t praise him when he did. He’d just simply ask “did you get your shots in”.

My coach said that even though his father never scolded him or said a single word about it…on the days when he didn’t get those shots in he felt ashamed to tell his dad that he hadn’t practiced.

Building websites is our “shots”. You’ve got to build every day consistently if you want to make the big bucks…

So…did you get your shots in yesterday?

Keep on building!

-John
The Marketing Fool!

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John Elder is an Entrepreneur, Web Developer, and Writer with over 27 years experience creating & running some of the most interesting websites on the Internet. Contact him here.

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