If you’re down and out of luck with Google AdSense, perhaps you can think up new ideas and launch your own company with the help of another branch of the Mountain View giant: Google Ventures.
That right, folks. Google has a venture capital branch where all sizes of “creative” companies can apply for financing.
Here’s the official bio…
Google Ventures seeks to discover and grow great companies – we believe in the power of entrepreneurs to do amazing things. We’re studying a broad range of industries, including consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech and health care.
We invest anywhere from seed to mezzanine stage and embrace the challenge of helping young companies grow from the garage to global relevance.
Our team includes entrepreneurs, investors and innovators, along with some 20,000+ exceptional Googlers whose breadth of knowledge, experience and creativity constitute perhaps our own most valuable resource. You don’t have to be a potential Google acquisition for us to want to work with you; we’re out to build great companies, period.
Whew! Quite a pitch — it’s basically open to anyone for any project that’s remotely interesting.
In other words, you should send your idea even if every other venture cap firm turned you down because this outfit looks a lot more down to earth than the others.
Moving on, let’s look at the two managers’ short bio…
They look like fine young gentlemen and seriously, I’d trust them!
Their resumes must be akin to “brain candy” since they both have solid academic backgrounds. That means they’ll probably know what you’re talking about when you present them with your idea. Which is obviously very good. There’s nothing as bad as a “bland stare” when you’re pitching your “exciting new idea”… you want people like Bill and Rich who “get it”.
There are two offices — west coast and east coast. It’s like the Ivy League but for venture cap…
And for those living in the 21st Century, they also have an email address, which will probably come in handy.
I couldn’t find a list of companies they’ve invested in but I suspect there might be quite a few, given their apparent open mindedness.
All in all, this might just be the venture cap firm you’ve been waiting for so go ahead and share your knowledge with, in hope of being rewarded with money and fame.
If you’re still waiting for Google AdSense to bounce back and help pay your rent or mortgage, you may want to consider another alternative because as far as most experts can see, it’s not going to happen soon — unless you jump your site’s daily visitor count into the hundreds of thousands of millions, that is.
You see, the web is a reflection of the world and not just of the United States.
As such, there are more users from China than from the US and that’s a real eye opener. Can you really afford not to sell “something” to these fine individuals who, by the way, generally have a working understanding of English? If you’re smart, you absolutely want to make money with your Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and Russian visitors, to name only those.
Better yet, if you’re based outside the US and want to market web services locally, then your own online store is a must to maximize your ongoing profits, especially with your current customer base.
While pay-per-click ads might yield a $0 profit from each click originating from “overseas”, a full features web services store will generate a healthy profit for you, wherever your paying customer is based. Congo, South Africa or Malaysia — they’re all welcome in my web reseller store (seriously, go take a look at MY web services store).
By the way…
Did you know that 70% of all of Google AdSense’s revenue share went to its “Top 10 Publishers” meaning that only 30%-or-so of their shared revenue went to the millions of “other” publishers… like you, and me.
Furthermore, the top publishers have signed deals with Google that forces the Mountain View giant to share 50% but no smaller publisher knows exactly how much Google is “sharing” with them. It might be as low as… 0% — there’s NO WAY TO KNOW, at all.
With Google AdSense, the numbers that really matter are a SECRET and that tells a lot about the nature of this master-slave relationship.
If you’re tired of relying on only one source of pay-per-click-based revenue stream which happens to be taking, right now, perhaps you owe it to yourself to try something else, namely your own online web services store where you can sell domain names, web hosting and SSL certificates for a healthy profit.
Stop making between $3k and $18k a year busting your chops trying to “position / place” your AdSense “zones” where they’re the most visible and try promoting your own store, for a change. You know stores make money because they SELL stuff… and in this case, YOU set the selling price (as long as it’s over the “buy rate”, which is very low to start with).
It time for you to say “Welcome” to the entire world and since the domain name business is mostly handled in English, you’ll be well positioned to rake in boatloads of money, every month, from “emerging markets” which are GROWING while America is suffering a horrible recession (which we all hope will end soon, because it hurts us all).
Get on the winning team: get your own online store and make the kind of money that’s all but impossible to make, using today’s AdSense.
Web publishers remain committed to Google AdSense even as the revenues are being slashed downwards in a seemingly endless spirale of financial loss of lack of comprehension about what’s really going on, behind the scenes.
Holding on to Google’s apparently sinking advertising ship may be a strategy worth considering because as more publishers opt out, perhaps more advertiser money will trickle down to those publishers who decide to stay but that, by all means, something of a long shot. Better on the future of online advertising is akin to guessing the winning numbers to your local lottery — it’s fraught with wild uncertainty, to say the least.
Even if you wish AdSense will bounce back, magic thoughts might not be enough, in this particular case. Of course, sending positive vibes towards Google, in Mountain View is still a nice thing to do ; )
The truth is, nobody other than Google a few of its major affiliates know what’s going on, right now.
Nobody can be sure why the monthly revenues are drying up but almost every single publisher is feeling the heat from the rock bottom income AdSense is now providing them so, when the going gets tough, a “Plan B” needs to be spun into action.
You could do a whole range of things, depending on your particular talent but if you want to continue generating money 24/7 with the same ease as AdSense (set and forget, basically), you may want to investigate the web services reseller plan I talk about and sell, in this blog.
Why?
Because it works!
And if you happen to have a reasonnable visitor count seeing your ads, it works even more!
Sell web services through your online store —into which YOU set the selling prices, over the low buy rate— and you’ll grow richer with every sale. Domain names, web hosting and SSL certificates are in huge demand and you can be on the selling end.
The store, in and of itself, is entirely automated though you can customize it to resemble your web properties. You can take a look at mine, if you want. Even the 24/7 customer service will answer with the name of your company — wow!
Your visitors will thank you for providing them with such a full featured web services store so don’t wait and make your move. Becoming a web services reseller will probably the smartest move you made since deciding to join Google’s AdSense, a few years back… before the fall.
If you’ve been a Google AdSense publisher for a few years, you’ve seen how dramatically the revenues have dropped, with a sharp decline in February of 2009 but since then, it has hit new lows.
A publisher who has access to historical data will see that the revenue derived from each click has been divided by between 5 and 8 while the click rate has melted at least three times.
So, if you web properties haven’t grown by either a factor of 15 to 24, you’ve seen a spectacular revenue drop.
Since last year, most web publishers have managed to make their web destinations much more interactive, useful and attractive but even if that has helped double the unique visitor count, it doesn’t make up for the huge loss in daily revenue — not by a long shot.
The ugly thruth about AdSense is that…
It’s very hard to know which case may be going on but in whichever one it is, the end result is exactly the same for publishers who can’t even call their AdSense revenue “pocket money” anymore because the monthly checks are so ridiculously low.
If you’re experiencing this AdSense revenue freefall, you better start thinking about the alternatives and for the most part, it’s not going to be a competitor, like Yahoo!’s Publisher Network (in which NOBODY can seem to get admitted) or AdBrite. Unless your web site is getting millions of unique visitors a day, AdSense and similar ad networks will NOT be enough to even pay your rent or mortgage.
It’s a sad story, really.
Just a year ago, it was still possible to make a decent living off AdSense but now, it’s mathematically impossible.
So, what do you do?
You have to think of something — my suggestion is that you should buy my 99$ web services reseller store and market it to your customer base. As a rule of thumb, if your site gets 10k visitors daily, you’re probably getting between 5$ and 20$ through PPC ad networks (if you’re lucky) but if you sell your domain names $25, you could pocket a healthy profit of $16.51 with the “Basic” buy rate at $8.49 and $17.71 with the “Pro” buy rate at $7.29 — wow!
With just one (1) domain name sale per day, you could make more than with an entire day of PPC and since both revenue generation models are perfectly compatible and complementary, you can even keep you AdSense ads on while you gradually entice your visitors to register all their web services with you, starting with their domain names!
If you’re tired of getting stressed out because the end of the month is coming, you know you owe it to yourself to try something else that’s immensely more reliable, like selling domain names which means annually recurring sales and web hosting which usually implies monthly recurring sales. In other words, the longer you resell web services, the richer you’ll get.
Seriously, AdSense has failed most of its web publishers and the rest of us are barely getting by — even with visitor count numbers!
Switching to selling domain names is a smart move and once you become a reseller, you too will have a store like mine where all your customers can puchase their domain names, web hosting, SSL certificates and just about every other web service you can think of… all for a profit that’s mostly end up in your pockets.
Don’t let this opportunity pass you by, it’s solid, proven and reliable. Get your online store now!
Dear Visitor,
With over 20 year of hands-on experience in computer sciences, over 10 years as a web developer and domain name expert, I've learned a few things about how to make serious money, online.
In this blog, you'll see how you too can multiply your revenue with a rock-solid, reliable and easy to implement web services reseller storefront.
Having your own online store makes sense.
Thanks for taking the time to envision a richer, happier you.
