Conflicting thoughts on the potential of Adsense??

Marketseeker...you don't know this but it is extremely difficult to offend me by anything you might say to me on an internet forum. I've been around the block and then some and have developed a rather hard shell or perhaps more accurately the ability to let offensive comments just roll in one ear and out the other.

What you say doesn't faze me in the least.

I am at the computer all day because I am trying to solidify the gains I have made in web development. Gains that come and go due to the nature of the business. Some months I feast relative to other months where I starve (figuratively speaking...I have never starved literally. God has always provided for me in one way or another).

Also health wise I can't work at a normal job very easily anymore. I have bad knees and a bad back so it's either make a living over the Internet or starve. It's make a living over the internet for me or bust.

I have been working on a joint venture idea that has taken up almost all my discretionary time in recent weeks (above that which I must devote to client projects).

Incidentally my security is in God not the money I make or the business I get involved in. He has never let me down and I don't believe he ever will.

I don't intend to veer this conversation to Christian things but for the record I want it to be clear that my security is not in my work. Our jobs will come and go. People will come and go and let us down but God never will.

Regarding partnerships...yes I have had some bad experiences in the past. But I have learned and since coming to San Diego my "partnerships" have worked out very, very well. It is has been my experience that partnerships can serve a valuable purpose. That of bringing to the table resources that I do not have on my own as I bring to the table resouces and skills my partners do not. It can be a win/win all around though of course I must be careful and use wisdom in my partnership dealings.

Lastly I don't know why you brought up the subject of meekness. I certainly don't see myself as meek. Rather I see myself as acting prudently and cautiously and getting wise input from others here and on other forums who have had more experience than I have had in internet marketing/Adsense stuff.

Carlos

Thanks for the dose of reality John. I read through some of that thread. I will likely read through more of it later.

A couple of thoughts that I would like your further input on if you don't mind sharing more with me in this thread. I don't expect your input but if you do have something further to add I would appreciate hearing about it.

I think we can safely discount any need on my part to trudge through the technical side of creating Adsense related sites and their content. All modesty aside I know how to build web sites and I am an excellent writer.

I don't use PLR stuff. If I write something I write it myself. Always have....probably always will. That's not to say I won't ever use PLR stuff but I'd rather write it myself. Especially if it's a subject I enjoy writing about.

I am an excellent researcher at uncovering knowledge about a subject matter that I know next to nothing about. Becoming quite knowledgeable about something relatively quickly.

That's what I bring to the party.

In addition to the above my needs for money are very, very small. I can survive and survive quite well on about $1000 a month. Literally and completely. So unlike some that need to make thousands and thousands of dollars I need to make very little.

My main reason for considering an internet based living is not just the money. Indeed I would go so far as to say it isn't even mainly the money for me. I could make more at a regular job somewhere doing something as benign as flipping burgers at minimum wage (not always...I mean I do make more at times when I have a good string of web development projects I am working on but what I mean is that the money is not the main motivator for me).

What motivates me is that I can make those $1000 from anywhere in the world where there is a high speed internet connection. That I can work from home. Take a break when I want to. Operate in integrity without the constant pressure to compromise my principles of right and wrong to abide by a boss whose God is money and who might as likely be operating in greed as not.

That is why I am focused on making a living over the Internet.

If I make my $1000 (of course more would be better) consistently I can then go and live in the country of my birth in South America. Be with mom in her older years and get to know relatives I hardly know. Before they all start dying off on me. That's what motivates me.

I don't care if I have to work hard. That matters nothing to me.

Like I said...I have been working real hard for a long time and I have seen reward for my labor. Not as much as I would like but it's been there.

I am just looking for something that will be more consistent where I won't starve one month and then feast the next.

Always bearing in mind that whatever I do it must be internet based and allow me to make an income without going to an office or otherwise being tied to the local economy. That is the only way I will be able to survive in South America where it is much tougher to make a living.

I think Adsense may be that vehicle for me.

A few questions...given what I have said above and again I won't hold you responsible for my success or failure but I would like to know...given what I have said about my skills and motivation and my ability to write well...is it realistic for me to believe that I can create one website that will make at least $5 in Adsense money per day? On average? Over the course of a month (for a total of $150 for the month)?

I believe I can create one such site very two days on the outside and once I work through your system and become familiar with it...I believe I can create one a day. I have a system of creating web sites that allows me to create them very, very quickly. It's basically a plug and play system.

Of course getting traffic to the sites will require some daily work too but with regard to traffic are we talking about having to write 100 articles for every single web site I create? Is that what it takes? I mean really? Or can one do with less promotion if one ranks well for a nice niche area that has good traffic potential? Writing that many article per site might be the killer for me. I mean I can do it but I only have so many hours in a day.

Is it realistic to believe that there are plently of untapped niches left? Or is the market so saturated with Adsense wannabe's that finding a good niche is getting to be impossible?

I have been working on another idea to date. Creating joint venture material that could be used by internet marketers to give to their subscribers. A series of e-lessons on how to build web sites quickly using my cut and paste PHP object code classes and methods. It's just a way to get a lot more traffic to my site. Perhaps that would be much easier for me to implement. Don't know. I've never built or worked on Adsense sites. This joint venture thing I have been developing is going to take a lot of work too.

I just can't do both. I must choose one. While the joint venture thing looks very, very promising and I have received good feedback on the idea of it...it is something new. Untested. There is no blueprint or roadmap of anyone that has gone before. I am creating my own.

In many respects Adsense sites is better in that others have gone before me and at least made it work. I can duplicate that.

That's where I am coming from and any futher input on any or all of what I have said would be appreciated. I don't expect it John so no pressure on you to answer any of my questions but if you care to share anything more on what I have said...I am all ears.

Carlos