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The House That Adsense Bought?

March 5, 2007 • Filed in: Uncategorized

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If you had listened to Episode Two of the Noypi Podcast, you would’ve heard a small tidbit about Tsikot.com’s owner Jedi Dancel - he is currently having his Google house built.

What is a Google house? Is it one with the Google Logo on it? Nope. It’s a house funded by Google Adsense Income.

Jedi’s story is an inspiring piece for online entrepreneurs. By building a community of automobile enthusiasts and creating a portal for buyers and sellers to meet, he has gained some significant Ad revenue. Enough to buy a lot and build a house. He tells a funny anecdote of how his mom would be the first to open the Adsense cheques when they are delivered through courier. “Inuunahan ako.” He says.

Affordable houses in Manila would probably be around the 700 hundred thousand to 1 Million Peso price range. To be able to buy a simple house and lot, what monthly Adsense Income should one get?

I know of some condominium properties with payment terms that go like this:

- 10 thousand pesos (US$200) reservation fee
- 20 thousand pesos (US$400) first month payment
- 7,500 pesos monthly payment for the first year
- 10 thousand monthly payment for the second year
- 12,000++ monthly payment for the third year up to the fifteenth year

Yes, the condo terms is fifteen-years-to-pay. Quite attractive for middle income, blue-collar Philippine workers.

Following the preceding example, someone earning Adsense should get at least around US$300 monthly for fifteen years. I think Jedi would probably be earning more because, if I heard him right, he bought the initial LOT property in CASH.

Wow. That is inspiring. I wonder when I’d be able to buy my own Google House.

Jedi! You’re the man!

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Comments

By Miguel on March 5th, 2007 at 3:03 pm

Great to have more success stories!

By Gabs on March 5th, 2007 at 4:23 pm

Any chance he could have mentioned how long it took him to build that amount through Adsense? Makes for an interesting case study, eh? :)

By Rommel on March 5th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

Wow Good for him, hope i can do it too..

By ManuelV on March 6th, 2007 at 6:00 am

Hi Jozzua… How are you able to get Adsense in pesos?

By jozzua on March 6th, 2007 at 6:50 am

@Migs, yes stories like these are really inspiring
@Gabs, yeah it is an interesting case study!
@Rommel, keep going. We all wish more adsense income.
@Manuel, I just answered your question with a new post.

By riz on March 6th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Hi Jozzua! Still looking pink ba? Haha. I tried to control myself. At least hindi dominant ang pink noh. :)

So.. ikaw? “kelan ang house that google bought mo?” :)

By jozzua on March 6th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

@Riz: Oh I wish.

By Jed Enerio on March 7th, 2007 at 7:56 am

WOAH!! elib ako dun a. Sana ako din makabili ng properties out of my ADSENSE earnings. - jed

By chuvachienes on March 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am

$All

What an awesome story! More power - optimize, and monetize!!

By jozzua on March 7th, 2007 at 10:50 am

@jed: Ibang klase rin ano?
@chuva: Really awesome indeed. Inspiring.

By talksmart on March 7th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

Here is what Google Adsense Bought Me! :-)

By Charlie Gaw on March 7th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

2007March 7
Thanks for the inspiring info on the potential of Adsense revenue opportunity
Do hope someday I’ll have a piece of the Adsense pie.
Regards,
Elymar

By jozzua on March 8th, 2007 at 9:03 am

@talksmart: Nice Laptop!
@Charlie: Start Adsense now! You’re missing out on opportunities to earn money on the side.

 

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