The website is focused on a niche area and takes a few hours to maintain each month as it's a directory of resources. Similar to Startup Stash (http://startupstash.com/), but a different area and on a smaller scale.

I've been doing cold-emailing to secure advertisers, managed to secure a few, but overall not a positive response. And it is a time intensive exercise; identify relevant companies, tailor the message etc.

So I've been thinking about using Google Adsense. Does this make sense for such a small website? Any other suggestions on how I can monetize a curated website? Not looking for huge sums, but it would be fun if it could generate something.

By the way, I'm new to all of this so appreciate any advice.