{"id":240,"date":"2003-11-04T15:04:27","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/11\/im_rich\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T15:04:27","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T19:04:27","slug":"im_rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/04\/im_rich\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Rich!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just took a break from gorging myself on Nerds<\/a> (damn that leftover Halloween candy) to go check the mail. I was glad to see that my first check from Google AdSense arrived today. The amount of money is nothing to write home (or blog) about, but I’ll take it. Free money is always welcome in my wallet. Now if I can just figure out a way to generate the kind of cash that Matt’s getting over at PVRBlog<\/a>. This also makes me wonder how well the ads are working for the advertisers. I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything from an online ad but clearly somebody’s purchasing via those ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just took a break from gorging myself on Nerds (damn that leftover Halloween candy) to go check the mail. I was glad to see that my first check from Google AdSense arrived today. The amount of money is nothing to write home (or blog) about, but I’ll take it. Free money is always welcome… Continue reading I’m Rich!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/24\/future_of_tv_advertising\/","url_meta":{"origin":240,"position":0},"title":"Future of TV Advertising","date":"June 24, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Business 2.0 has an article analyzing the success of Honda's recent 'Cog' ad. The message is that if you make your ads interesting, people will not only watch them, they'll tell their friends to watch them as well. I certainly fall into this category. Even though I skip most commercials\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "TV"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":209,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/06\/how_to_get_paid_to_blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":240,"position":1},"title":"How to Get Paid to Blog","date":"October 6, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Matt of MetaFilter and PVRBlog fame has written a great article detailing how he's made some serious coin from Google's AdSense Ads on PVRBlog. 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