Premium Subscriptions Now Earning 3x More Than Adsense
Posted on December 13, 2007
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So far for the month of December, premium subscriptions have earned nearly 3x Adsense and nearly 4x more than Kontera. If I extrapolate the first 13 days of this month at this rate, I will easily break $10,000, with over $6,000 coming from premimum subscriptions. Of course with the holidays coming up, I expect a downturn, but it’s still looking like it will be another very good month. But the worst part about this high income from my premium subscriptions is that it is giving me an anxiety fit!
Why would earning so much from subscriptions cause me stress and anxiety?
One of the problems is that Adsense earnings are low this month. Seeing what has always been my largest source of income drop is a bit unnerving - what would you think if your biggest earner was at an all time (or near-all time) low?
“But you’re making four-times that amount with premium subscriptions, why the stress?” Even though I have made changes in the last two weeks that appear to more than double my daily new-subscriber count, and I’ve been toying with the idea of giving away some great prizes to premium subscribers, like iPods, iPhones, etc - in an attempt to make it worth it to subscribers to continue their subscriptions, and to generate new subscriptions. (I promise, more posts about that in the near future), my fear is that I will not be able to sustain this new subscriber growth or maintain current subscribers. That little voice nagging at the back of my head keeps telling me it just won’t continue. It’s convincing me that subscription earnings will drop, Adsense will continue to drop, and oh, BTW, traffic will drop too. Maybe I’m just a pessimist, and I’m sure that the line of anxiety disorder that runs through my family isnt helping any. But as the reality of quitting the day job gets closer and closer, fear and doubts of failure like this fill my head.
I guess this is as close to a “rant” that I’ll ever have here in the blog.. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I hated writing it.
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If you’ve been growing, and you haven’t gotten any formal complaints from adsense, this could just be a phase. Websites go up and down in popularity in certain things, and in this case it looks like it’s adsense going down and premium subscriptions up.
Just site back and think about when adsense will return back to it’s normal pace and you will gain even more to brag about.
It’s almost christmas time - earnings are down for everyone this month (adsense wise) wait until January and you should see your earnings go back up.
I wouldn’t worry about Adsense Randy. I would look forward to having some extra income to spend on premium members, and make sure that the non-premium members know about the prizes.
If you have that many people willing to sign up for a premium membership, you got nothing to worry about.
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Randy,
Seems like your biggest challenge is to make sure that your premium content is really adding value compared to the content that a non-premium user has access to.
Also with regard to Adsense on my static website, I have not added content for a while, since I am drupalizing it. I have found that the content ads are declining, but Adsense revenue is slightly increased in November and December. This is mainly due to the Referral Ads which pay $6-7 as opposed to $0.25.
Anyway, good to catch up with you. Great blog. Happy Holiday.
Tom