Some Advice For Dinner?
April 15, 2005 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Business
Well, Calacanis and company have reached the $1400/day plateau with AdSense so I must congratulate him on that. As any sane businessman would act, he wants to increase that. His next goal is $2000/day from AdSense. Admirable and very plausible. But then he pulls this out of his hat:
Also, we’re going to start doing Amazon… anyone have advice or examples of good Amazon placement/performance? I’d really like to do something cool with Amazon on our network.
If you’re a Google Adsense expert take a loot (sp?) at our blogs and tell us what we should do! If your suggestion works I’ll buy you dinner in NY or LA. :-)
To me this is just insulting. The guy is making $1400/day (min.), which he equates to $511,000/year and wants free help to get to $730,000/year (min.) along with Amazon help. Does this seem strange to anyone else or am I missing something here? For helping him earn an extra $200k/year I can get a free dinner. Awesome.
All the answers that he is looking for can be found on the web. Now I have talked to Jason numerous times via email and in person. Nice guy. Strange, but nice I suppose. I wonder if when I am making 6 digits I will be asking for free help? If I do hopefully someone writes a post like this so I can remind myself that searching for the answers yourself can work wonders.
Oh yeah, when I am banking half a million a million a year, I am going to be concerned about that other quarter of a million. Because god forbid I have to surfice with only living in a 7 bedroom house, with only 2 maids and 1 butler. Well, half a million doesn’t go that far…
INVEST IT. I’ve seen them do it, you can take your money put it in these magical accounts called “savings” and “cash deposits” or “CD’s” (no not the kind you download off the internet for free). I think if I can manage to practice these techniques only making a fraction of this; someone making half a fat stack a year can.
You’re right Scrivs; this is kind of insulting. Most people aren’t making this kind of scratch per month, $1,500…hell I hardly make that doing the 40 hour a week thing. And this isn’t enough? Get off the coke MC Hammer, lose the entaruage…cut your expenses in half.
STOP! Hammer Time!
Sorry couldn’t resist.
Hey, if I’m not making $1500 a day, can I get free advice? :D
As one should know, there are more than just Jason behind WIN and he has to pay bills too.
But that set aside, it is an offer one does not need to accept. Plus one should not accept, because it is ruining the prices for others.
Knowledge is valuable. Remember the old story, Chalk 1$, knowing where to put it $9999.
Well, I’m joking a little about the dinner… I’m all about sharing the advice. As you can see I’ve been telling people a) what we’re making, b) how it is increasing, and c) what we’re doing to make it go up. So, I’m trying to promote an open system where we all share tips… that is why I’m having folks post the advice right to the comments.
you would be right if I was keeping all the advice locked up on my hard drive, but i’m not.
If people get paid to give out Google Adsense advice that’s fine, but I’ll reserve the right to share information about optimization freely on my blog and if those folks who charge for the service don’t like it too bad… they need to find something more valuable to do in order to get people to pay for their service. I’m sure that these Google Adsense consultants do more then just give tips. In fact, I’m sure most of them are sort of outsourced experts… in that case it’s not the tips that matter but the work of putting those tips into action.
If people send me tips to my email (jason at calacanis dot com) I’ll post them to my blog as I’ve been doing all along (www.calacanis.com)
If everyone in the blog community learns how to make more money that is good for us… right now it’s not about one blog/blogger vs. another, it’s about all of us getting advertisers to embrace blogs…. that is why I’m sharing all our experience… if we can make advertisers fall in love with blogs–which they are doing–we will all win.
also, 100% of that money is going to blogger right now… i have not made any money–not even a salary–from Weblogs, Inc. to date… in fact, I don’t know if I ever will, right now I’m 100% focused on getting bloggers paid, and getting as many bloggers on board as possible.
A rising tide lifts all boats… regardless of the size of the boat or how many boats ya got! :-)
I’ve been a faithful reader here and a few other places.
I’m tickled to have hit $300/month..if anyone can help me get to $1000/day, I’ll not only buy ‘em dinner, I’ll buy them dinner every day or cook it if they are hot !
Seriously, people, all he did was ask, if you don’t want to help it’s okay. It’s no different than the people who come up to you on the street and ask for a dollar…give if you want to, don’t if you don’t want to…it’s the American way.
Yeah I think you’re getting a bit agressive lately Paul. Being competitive is great but just taking shots at the big blog networks is the easy thing to do. It’s like you’re just trying to start a fight for the sake of it.
A little late to the party, but just posted a response over at Feed Money.
Re: the whole dinner thing… I don’t know the guy, but I think that’s just his sense of humor. (as others were saying)
Anyone have any other AdSense success stories to share? :)
I’m not able to eat so much
:-)))
Perhaps if Jason offers to share some of his own tips in person it would make the lunch worthwhile. Unfortunately, I don’t have much to share yet. (Well, maybe not…)