I wanted your opinion on this and hopefully confirm what I have been thinking. I see lots of claims of members earning obscene amounts of money a day from Adsense. If this were true why would they jeopardize it by making themselves a target? I mean if you, like me, worked long and hard to get your Adsense earnings and at some point in the future it exceeded the (insert whatever your financial goal is here) a day boundary, would it be safe to say that professionally we have grown beyond what DP has to offer? If at that point we decided to boast about our triumphs would it only expose our personality flaw and lack of financial maturity? Would you agree this personality flaw would only lead to the eventual loss of said good fortunes because of unforeseen events and circumstances that a mature professional would be able to avoid due to experience? I think it is safe to say that the people who have truly succeeded don't have the time or inclination to boast about their successes in such a public way on DP. It seems to me that a successful personality would be above such things and find it distasteful. When Plenty of Fish owner Markus Frind was running Adsense I didn't see him trolling the forums boasting about his $90,000.00 payout he got the month before. When you are a real success you will be written about by journalists, article writers and bloggers. Boasting about it here on DP only shows us who you really are on the inside.
If I were making that much money from adsense I woul probably not go public with it on the internet. Though I would brag about it to my IRL friends.
Well it depends, if you have started using DigitalPoint well before you got a breakthough with online money earning, why you stop using it to talk on it like you did when you were not earning a lot? What would that tell about yourself? Me for instance, I created a thread on DP when I first got through the $500 a day threshold with adsense, because I was happy and wanted to share some of my insights gained from having got there. Not to brag about it, because it doesn't change the amount I earn to brag or not to brag. But I share because I've also learned from DP over the years, even if it's not because of DP that I succedeed (to my own level of course) but because of my own motivation and perseverance. So giving back a little (experience and maybe hopes also) I don't see it as bad, DP is not reserved to threads complaining that one is earning peanuts with adsense. On the contrary if you never used digitalpoint before and then come on it to brag about whatever earning you do online, that is weird yes.
You make a good point. Growing with your community and then giving back is a good thing. Also it can't hurt to keep posting on DP especially if it coincides with your marketing strategy. If anyone is curious here is an old article about Markus Frind, its very inspiring and a lot more motivating than someone claiming to have made a boat load of money with their mesothelioma blog. Well, I have no doubt they made a boat load of "something" today. http://www.webpublishingblog.com/ex...yoffishcom-creator-and-owner-markus-frind.htm
Well I believe also that if you make good money and that also is hard earned and you spend years , days months and hours to work on you wont just step in and tell to the poeple you make this much and that much, infact you wont have that much time to brag about it to the poeple. but those who tell these stuff in forums is only to get attention and make others to visit their signature sites and naturaly poeple will visit their site so see what kind of site they have to make that much money but in reality it's not that it's just what they want from people to visit their site that is all. but indeed their are ways to make lots of money in adsense but onething is for sure that how much is alot for you that is up to you and up to your hard work and up to your dedication to what you want.
"you wont have that much time to brag about it" ??? Are you joking? My aim for working online is to have lot of free time! My goal has always be to get the most money out of the least amount of work, so why wouldn't have time to "brag about it"? I don't understand. Do you really think that earning "a lot" of money means having no time for mindless things? What, you think because people earn a lot of money, all their time is now devoted to earning even more money? You're wrong.
To the OP: Good you point that out. In the same vein, you will never hear Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or Donald Trump announcing how much money they have in the banks.
Adsense is passive, and it snowballs ... there comes a point where you really don't need to do much, just sit back and enjoy the $$. I'm nowhere near that now but I can dream ...
I owe a lot to the DP community, so i like to hang around and help others when I can, and I'm not above boasting every once in a while. I would also submit that many earnings-claims you see simply are not true.
Some of the adsense good earner will help but they wouldnt spend hours to make a "long article" They might give simple advice but not from A to Z
I gave advice from A to Z and wrote it all down.. You can read it (for free, with no ads) here: How I was earning $1,000/mo after only 4 months ..
I never believe anyone who said that they've earned $588 today... Unless they give me their adsense login so that I can see the numbers myself )
Why wouldn't you believe? Is it so incredible to you? I've earned over $1,000 every day for 2 months, and I'm nobody in traffic terms, so $588 one day, what's so incredible about it?
Wow Tearabite I thought I was in Facebook till I looked at the URL, thats a good looking template. I like some of the stuff you are writing wwwSENSERELYcom. I too believe the more money you make the more free time you should have, thats how you know you are running a real business and not just being self employed. You must have read one or two of Robert Kiyosaki or Robert Allen's books To members like Tearabite and wwwSENSERELYcom who have been here on DP for a long time, are regular contributers and experiencing success of one form or another I believe do have some licence to boast a little of their accomplishments. The DP community and other colleagues would love to hear you doing well especially if they have been watching you grow over the years. But there are good, tasteful mentions of accomplishments and then there are those newer members (banning probably imminent) who troll by boasting of great success, never telling how they do it, actively keep the thread going and preying on the naivety of less experienced members by supplying them with a false vision of grandeur all to get clicks on their signature links to their lame blogs/websites in the hope the unsuspecting member will click on their adsense links or to buy other stuff they are hawking. In a way I don't blame them, in fact it may be one of my human weaknesses, but I kind of envy them for their ingenuity. However they break the golden rule by preying on the weakness of another and no matter how much success they reap from it, in the end, it is a bad business practice. In some way, some how these practices will come back and bite them on the ass. I guess they will have to learn to behave somehow, but you would think they would have better sense and at the very least not at our expense.