Is Adsense paying your salary yet? Your mortgage? Your car loan? Your hosting bills? A coffee a month?

No? Tough going, isn’t it?

But there’s plenty of inspiration out there if your aim is to make Adsense pay out. However, matching your salary, or evenmeeting your mortgage payments via Adsense is a long way off for most of us, and you’ll get pretty damn tired of waiting for it to happen. In fact, some days progress will go so slowly that it seems like you’re not getting anywhere at all.

A much better way to measure your Adsense success (or the success of virtually any online revenue model) is to break your main goal down into a bunch of smaller goals that are much more achievable.

That’s because hitting lots of little targets is a lot more satisfying than waiting months or even years to hit just one big target. It’s good for morale, and once you’ve smashed one, the next one never seems that far off.

So with that in mind, here are a few Adsense targets you could try…

X dollars a day.

Everyone’s taken a shot for this one at one point. As a first target, hitting a dollar a day, or 30 dollars a month, makes a lot of sense. Once you’ve reached that one, moving on to the next one ($2 a day/$60 a month) is simple, and it gives you a steady stream of easily-achievable targets to meet.

Moving targets.

First, you set yourself a monthly earnings target that you’ve almost achieved – $10 a month, $25 a month, $50 a month, whatever. Then you work hard at achieving that target on or slightly before that last day of that month. After that, your challenge is to try hitting that target earlier and earlier in the month. So, for example, if you’re currently making $50 on or around the 30th of every month, try pushing that forward so you hit $50 on the 25th of the month. Then the 20th of the month, and so on, and so on.

Think about it – the faster you can bring that $50 forward to the 1st of the month, the faster you’ll be earning $50 each day.

Double your money.

This one’s for the hardcore amongst you. It’s a simple idea – all you need to do is double your Adsense earnings every month. So, imagine you earn $10 this month on Adsense. Next month you’d need to earn $20. The month after that, $40. Then $80. Then $160. Then $320 per month after just 6 months. Not for the faint hearted, eh?

Cheque checking.

Google only pays out when you hit $100. Wouldn’t it be nice to get those cheques a little faster? With that in mind, here’s a goal for you – work out how long it took for that first $100 cheque to land on your doormat. Then try to land the second one quicker. And the third even quicker, until you’re regularly receiving a Google cheque each month.

Match your salary.

As I said, this is probably a long, long way off for most of us. So, why not try to match just a tenth of your monthly salary first, which will seem much more achievable. From there, the jump up to a fifth of your salary isn’t as much of a hurdle as you might think. After that, a quarter of your salary will seem reachable. Then 50%. Then 75%. Then you hand in your notice and become a full time, bona fide pro blogger.

After all, that’s the ultimate aim in all this, right? ;o)

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