A few years ago the Government of New Zealand announced the Hi Growth ICT project which was to make 100 ICT Companies that had 100 million a year in turnover by the year 2012. I believe this project is still going.

I’m not sure how much the Government is spending on this, but to my way of thinking they are a little mad. Creating Companies of that size is quite difficult. What the Government should be doing is creating a program that gets unemployed people into online working.

I’m sure that people reading my previous post will be thinking I’m either joking or crazy.

I’m not joking and I’m not crazy.

For those of your who don’t know I live in New Zealand, people from this country are often called kiwi’s.

In today’s NZ Herald Newspaper there is an article about New Zealands Trade Deficit, which this month is $935 million NZ$. This got me thinking, If 100,000 Kiwi’s earned $1,000 NZ$ a month from online ventures that would wipe out this Countries trade deficit (assuming of course that our monthly deficit stays at around at the same figure).

I’ve been pretty much ignoring my duties with regard to this site, I have been far too busy with my other sites to even think about this site.

An Article in today’s paper has caused me a to be spurred into action, this site isn’t going to be ignored any longer, my next post will give me information.

Just FYI, last month I earned $1,476 US$, which I am pretty happy about.

There has been a lot of talk recently about Google and their smart pricing for AdSense, I have been doing a bit of thinking about it. What I was trying to decide is if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

A lot of webmasters are complaining about it, because they have seen a significant drop in their revenue. I’m one of those webmasters, and you might think that I’m mad about it, except I’m not.

About a month ago I picked up an ongoing contract that was paying me $65 an hour for a reasonable number of hours a week but not fulltime.

Last week I rang the owner of the Company I was doing this work for and requested that they find someone else to do the work as I was not going to be able to continue.

I wanted out of that work because I needed more time for my online ventures, it might sound crazy as the amount of money being earned on that contract easily exceeded my website based income.

Until recently I have been using a very simple spreadsheet that I plug my daily earnings into and it gave me some metrics to work with.

It was getting a bit unwieldly to work with, and with a years worth of data it would be impossible, so I decided to create a new spreadsheet that had some thought behind it.

My new spreadsheet has a sheet for each month, a monthly graph sheet, and a summary sheet that includes all sorts of useful (at least to me) information. (Earnings by Month, Daily Avg, Monthly Min, Monthly Max, Monthly Earnings by Advertiser, YTD Earnings, YTD Earnings by Advertiser and a YTD Graph.)

In the last few days I have been doing the rounds each evening collecting the total earnings from each of my advertising programs, which I then enter into a little spreadsheet I have created that gives me all kinds of nice stats.

As I was doing this tonite I got to thinking. A month ago I was happy if I earned a couple of dollars in day, a week or two later I was happy with $5, then $10, and now I expect at least $20 a day. I find it interesting that once I have hit a certain level a couple of times that becomes the yard stick by which I measure subsequent days.

One of the sites I bought recently had previously been excluded from the google index. The owner decided he was going to sell the site rather than fix it.

In comparision to the sites revenue the purchase price was very cheap ($2.5k). I was pretty sure that I could get the site back in the google index, and last night it was again in the index.

Basically I went through the site and cleaned up anything that could of caused the ban, then I contacted Google and explained the situation to them, after a couple of emails being exchanged between them and me they agreed to pass it onto the engineering team for evaluation.

I really like my Mondays!

My Mondays are for most of my visitors their Sundays, and it’s always the highest revenue day for me, this week my AdSense revenue was over $10, in fact it was very near to $15.

I know this is peanuts compared to what some people are earning, but it shows my revenue is starting to climb.

I can’t wait for next Monday!