26 Dec 2007 @ 23:03
Robin Good is somebody I admire. He's tirelessly keeping his readership and viewership informed about the latest in new media, collaboration technologies and more.
Earlier this month the Italian magazine "7th Floor" featured him prominently with an interview. Amongst other things he's credited as the first Italian to make a living from the Google Adsense revenue on his sites. More than that, he seems to earn a great income, and has a paid staff to help him. Essentially to blog.
The interview is here, translated to English. It is inspiring reading for anybody who wants to make it as an independent information entrepreneur on the net. In the first few months I started using AdSense ads the amount I made monthly was not more than a few hundred dollars. But as time went buy, total commissions started to improve significantly.
When they reached a few thousands dollars per month ($3,000-4,000), I started to reduce my commitment to my main professional customers and decreased my willingness to accept new orders.
I pushed on the accelerator and gave the best I had. Have worked for 14 or more hours a day, without interruptions and without holidays until numbers and traffic duplicated and then tripled.
When I reached about $10,000/month, I could not believe my own eyes and finally resolved not to accept anymore external jobs to fully focus only on this new work.
I realized that this was what I really wanted to do and decided to invest further resources and time into it.
I opened a few extra web sites, newsletters, started some parallel experimental projects - not always commercial - and kept working at sharing my best insights and discoveries.
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