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I started WeAreGrowing - the blog - in late November, 2004. Late December, 2004, I added Google Adsense to my tools. You'll notice that December 27th has a big jump in Page Impressions. That's when I figured out how to actually add Google Adsense to my WeAreGrowing blog page. That is, I figured out how to add the HTML that Adsense provided me to the Template in the back office of WeAreGrowing. I'm not exactly sure why, but the table below appears nice and neat in the back office and when I view it "live" over the internet, it's not so pretty. I guess I should have used Word.

I cut and pasted it from my back office at Adsense. I edited it and what you see starts with 5 page impressions per day. Seven days later it jumps to 306. It's mostly in that range with one notable dip on December 30th and it jumps again yesterday to over double. Today's reading is incomplete as it's around 1 pm Pacific time. My guess is 590 for today's final total. What caused the jump yesterday? New Year's Day? Posts at InstantBuzz? Some from BlogExplosion.com - [Join through my flashing link on the left near the bottom of my profile! That's how we help each other get traffic through BlogExplosion.] Maybe some from Blogrolling.com.
If I had to guess about yesterday's jump, I would say mostly posting with my website in my signature at InstantBuzz, about even from New Year's Day and BlogExplosion and just a bit of traffic from Blogrolling.com.

Date Page impressions Clicks Your earnings
Monday, December 20, 2004 5 0 0.0% $0.00 $0.00
Sunday, December 26, 2004 10 0 0.0% $0.00 $0.00
Monday, December 27, 2004 306 0 0.0% $0.00 $0.00
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 323 1 0.3% $0.15 $0.05
Thursday, December 30, 2004 108 0 0.0% $0.00 $0.00
Friday, December 31, 2004 309 2 0.6% $0.39 $0.12
Saturday, January 1, 2005 727 5 0.7% $0.41 $0.30
Sunday, January 2, 2005 303 0 0.0% $0.00 $0.00
Totals 2,434 8 0.3% $0.19 $0.47
Averages 173 0 $0.03

Also notice that a little bit of cash is being generated. The table shows an average of 3 cents a day and a total of 47 cents. Making money through Google Adsense is not my primary objective with this blog, but there is no reason why I shouldn't be making 100 to 300 times this amount in 6 months to a year. I expect to make at least 30 times this amount 6 months from now and we'll see. Remember, this is just one blog. I plan on starting another one just after this post. You can do this. You can use Google Adsense and other indicators like Blogrolling, BlogExplosion, and the Andale counter that you see a few posts away from the bottom of this page to keep score. Make it like a game and strive to get more "real" traffic. You can also make it a goal to have your content suit your audiences wants more closely so that a great percentage of them click on your Google Adsense ads. You've probably noticed that I mentioned Google Adsense several times today. Anyone guess how that might help traffic to this site? I don't intend on overdoing it like that in the future, but this is an experiment and I'll let you know the results.

Today's link in the title is a friend and business associate in Washington State, Jim Thomson. He's been a great help to me with technical issues regarding computers and some HTML and even sales and marketing. I introduced him to an entrepreneur I know named Tony Dohrmann who is seeking distributors for whole regions for his unique plug-and-go alarm product, Lasershield.

If any of you would like to build a network of distributors in your state, let me know. I personally think it's gonna be huge because it's what the Harvard Business Review calls a Blue Ocean market. A Blue Ocean market in this context means a market where no one else has the product you're marketing. In a book called Seeing What's Next, this is also mentioned when you have a product that is being improved in some way that no one else has done or is likely to do any time soon. It could be years before anyone else does what Tony Dorhmann is doing and then he'll be on to the next generation of his product. I think he'll probably just miss being one of the 40 richest men under 40 as I think he'll turn 41 about the time I expect that he'll sell his company. For those of you who haven't read all my WeAreGrowing posts, Tony Dohrmann is the gentleman I know who has raised over $9 million privately to fund his enterprise. Contact me if you're interested in Lasershield.


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