It’s the time when i have to sum up not only December, but 2006 as well. This post will talk about the happenings in December, and a post in the next few days will talk about 2006, and my goals for 2007.

Earnings for December
Website sold & a “new job”
Realizing the opportunity

Earnings for December

Income:

- Google Adsense: $1,966 ( $279 in November, 704% growth)
- Direct link sales: $30 ($22 in October)
- Paypal (donations): $0 (0$ in November)
- BlogAds: $80 ($35 in November)
- Text-Link-Ads: $20 ($33 in October)
- Website sales: $1400

Total income: $3496

Expenses:

- Domain name purchases: $27 ($8.80 in November)
- Link Purchases: $10

Total expenses: $37

Net profit for December: $3459 ($360 in November, 960% growth!!)

Woah! I look at my income for this month, and i can confidentially say that if i get half of that every month, i can still sit back and say i’m making more than a lot of people in my country. Of course it’s going to take a lot of hard work and dedication to keep with these figures, the site deal brought in $1400 which won’t be coming again anytime soon, but I’d settle for $1900 with Adsense for the first of month of 2007

I’d settle because it’s a huge leap considering anything that I’ve made before, and surely staying on the same level for one month and being able to focus on my other targets even more would benefit me even more.

Website sold & a “new job”

Earlier in December i talked about this deal, i have already listed all the reasons i had to or not to sell. At the end i decided to sell, i felt that having more time at my hands, plus some cash to play with would be better than keeping the site.

I feel i got a very good price considering what amount the site was making, but the buyer looks like a man who knows what he’s doing and is confident of his way of work, so i don’t think he will have an extra hard time pulling off the what he put into this site in the long term.

The buyer (i won’t reveal his identity, unless he decides to do so in the comments) and i agreed on a one month deal in which i will be posting daily to ensure activity remains the same and readership isn’t lost. This way i both guarantee the blog isn’t loosing shape, and i earn some extra cash.

Realizing the opportunity

Many many things happened in December, i broke my daily earnings record, which now sits at $151, i made 4 figures with Adsense, sold a site, got to know more wonderful people from the industry, but by far the best thing that happened to me in December was my realization that this could really be turned into a job.

It happened when my ant (an English teacher) was telling me and my cousin that she just got raised, and that she will be earning 7500NIS ($1750) this month if she works for extra hours every week. I was happy for her, but deep inside a crucial thought was repeating itself - If i can repeat December’s success with Adsense at least, i can make more money than my ant!.

From that moment i decided to treat my blog(s) like a full-time job, you know - other teens are flipping burgers for a buck or two an hour, i can do something i enjoy and make more than a teacher’s wage. Today i spend more time researching, wording, designing and giving my posts the final touch, they’re my workers now. I’m a Problogger.

Just to make it clearer - My ant is about 40 years old, she’s been teaching English for at least 15 years, she does multiple continuing education programs a year, she works for extra hours, and damn she makes a nice pay check each month. ($1750 is considered quite good here)

Me, from the other hand - A 17 years old teenager, still going to high school, still doesn’t have a 3 years experience in blogging, but still making 4 figures a month. (Even if i don’t hit $2000 again in January, I’m pretty confident of hitting 4 figures at least)

Now you decide who you’d rather be