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Introduction:
Why Passive Income is the Ultimate Business Model
Earning a truly passive income is the end goal of the vast majority of internet
marketers and you could very easily consider it to be an absolutely ideal
situation in terms of finances and business. What is passive income? Simple: it
means that you earn money without having to work. That doesn’t mean you haven’t
worked for it though – it just means you’ve sewed your seeds so that you can
profit long into the future. In other words, you invest some time and money
into setting up a business model that is capable of ‘running itself’ and from
then on, you reap the benefits. You might even continue to work on the business
model in your spare time to scale it further, or to keep it going, but the
point is that you don’t have to actively trade your time for money any more.
Once you have a passive business model, you can literally continue to earn
money while you’re sleeping. Working online increases your freedom to a great
extent because it allows you to choose how and when you work. But if you’re
providing a service to a client, then that’s still not true freedom. At the end
of the day, if you take time off, you lose money. And you can still upset your
clients and end up losing your means of income. But with passive income, you
really do get to experience true freedom. Now you can choose to take the entire
day off, or to refrain from working for the next week even and there will be no
repercussions. Want to spend more time with your kids? You can! Want to go for
a stroll and feel the sun on your face? You bet! Want to go travelling? Play a
computer game? Work on a personal project that means a lot to you? Stay in bed?
I think you’re starting to get the picture…
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Expectations:
Using Passive Income to Begin Truly Wealthy But for
many people, passive income goes further than this. For many people, passive
income isn’t necessarily about working less but rather it is about increasing
their income. More so than any other type of business, a passive income model
will allow you to scale. Why? Because if you start earning money that doesn’t
require your active input, then there’s no reason that you can’t use your free
time to set up another passive income model. And then another. And another. And
each time you do this, you increase your potential earnings several fold. You
can also often increase the earning potential of a passive income model simply
by investing more money into it in order to scale it up directly. And the more
separate passive income businesses you create, the more resilient your business
will become. With ten separate businesses, all running at once, you can
consider your income very safe. It would take multiple businesses all to fail
at the same time for you to have any threat of serious financial strain. You
can use a passive income to set up multiple businesses then and you can use a
passive income model to fund other business plans and thereby ‘bootstrap’ your
larger ambitions and projects.
Multiple
Passive Income Streams:
I’m going to
break from convention from a moment and share with you some personal
experiences of passive income. One was my friend. Being a very forward thinking
guy, he invested a huge amount of time into writing content for a new website
he was developing when he finished college in the early 2000s. By the end of
one long summer, he’d written hundreds of thousands of words and was able to
fill his site as well as posting a ton of content on ‘Ezine Articles’ (not a
strategy that would work today). He ended up landing the number one spot for
one of the most popular search terms on the web and then used this position in
order to attract a huge amount of traffic to his website. Better yet, he used
that position sell affiliate schemes, including many that offered recurring
income. In short, her was earning nearly $100,000 per month by the end of it
while not having to put in any subsequent work – except a little maintenance
here and there. He used this money in order to fund the lifestyle he wanted –
he bought a house and bought one for his brother and then went travelling. He
eventually sold the site for astronomical amounts of money and today lives in
Spain with his girlfriend, where they spend most of their time ‘foraging’ (he’s
a weird guy, okay?). I have had similar experiences myself. About 6 years ago,
I wrote a hit app that sold hundreds of thousands of copies and generated a lot
of income. It was nowhere near the success of my friend’s website but was
enough to bring in an additional $1,500 per month. Bearing in mind though that
I was already on a very healthy salary, that meant that I was now earning $4K
monthly without doing any extra work. I was able to use this money to buy a
large house myself, as well as to fund a huge amount of travel and to kit out
my home office/gym just the way I always imagined it. And the sense of
excitement and pride that came from seeing those numbers start to climb… I
can’t tell you how exciting it was. That app eventually died down but I
currently have numerous other continuous income streams. I make money from book
sales, from websites, from apps and from my YouTube channel and all of this is
on top of the money I earn from my main ‘gig’. The other day one of my videos
had a surge and earned me an extra $200 in a day! I did nothing to cause this
but that amount of money allowed me to buy a cool monitor set-up without it
coming out of my main income (and being tax-deductible means I didn’t pay any
tax on it, either!). Why am I telling you all this? Just to illustrate that
there are countless ways you can create a truly passive income and all of them
allow you to live the lifestyle you want. It doesn’t necessarily have to mean
becoming rich and quitting your day job (although it can), it can simply mean
enjoying the success, excitement and reward that comes from beating the system
and figuring out a way to literally get money for nothing.
Great
Expectations The first thing to do is to have the
right expectations. Too many people expect to get money for nothing and to make
a huge profit from a website or blog for example after putting in only a small
amount of work. What’s very important to understand here is that passive income
does not mean that you are getting money for nothing. This is not a get-rich
quick scheme and it does take a lot of work and a lot of smarts. Let’s take
running a website as an example. While may creators seem to be under the
impression that they can set up a website in a matter of a few days and start
earning thousands of dollars from advertising, the reality is very different.
Actually, the main form of advertising used to make money from a website is
AdSense. AdSense is a form of PPC advertising, which stands for ‘Pay Per
Click’, meaning in other words that you get paid each time someone clicks on
one of your ads. If there are no clicks, you don’t get any money. And thus, it
follows that you need to get as many visitors as possible to make any serious
money. How many visitors? That depends on numerous factors including just how
well you have optimized your ad placement and how good the niche you initially
chose is. But what you can rest assured is that it’s going to require at least
a couple hundred thousand. In fact, if you read around the web and do your
research, you’ll likely find that the average advice is that it takes somewhere
in the region of 150,000 views for your website to make $100. How long does it
take to get to those kinds of numbers daily? I’d argue that it can take at
least a couple of years for most people. And that’s only if you put in a huge
amount of work to consistently flood your site with excellent quality content
and to continuously promote your site and your brand
Making Passive Income From a Blog
Those last three chapters have given you an insight
to what are some of the most popular methods of generating passive income. Of
course many people will also create a blog to help back-up their products and
to strengthen their brand but you don’t even need that – just a landing page,
an affiliate link and the right advertising campaign. But what if you don’t
want to sell a product at all? Can you make completely passive income from a
website or blog alone? The answer is: yes and no. Over time, if you build a
website up to be big enough and to provide a huge amount of free information,
if you can rank at the top of Google and if you can build an active community,
then in theory, you can get a massive flow of traffic that will be
self-sustaining for several years, even without you having to have any
consistent input. If you then place advertising on this website, then you can
potentially earn up to a few hundred dollars daily and profit. But this will
take a lot of time and a lot of luck. Therefore, most of the best ways to make
money from a blog are going to involve regular input on your behalf, which will
mean writing new blog posts and running a social media page. One way to get
around this is to find a write (or several) and pay them to write content for
your site. Make sure it is good though. Another way to get around this is to
buy a website that already comes with a big audience and a big community +
plenty of content. To get this, you’re going to have to spend a large amount of
money but this can be a good investment if you can make that up-front expense.
Browse marketing forums and webmaster forums where you’ll be able to find
people selling sites and try contact big sites directly. A good strategy is to
contact people who have a massive audience but haven’t maximized their earning
potential yet with ads and affiliate links – it’s likely that they’re not going
to know just how valuable their site is just yet and that means they might
accept a good deal. Another strategy is to use insider information and to
target a website that’s in a niche that you think is about to become more
in-demand. In other words, if you have a tip-off that a big brand is about to
take the world by storm and you can buy a website about that brand before that
happens, you can stand to profit in a BIG way! If you can buy a website that is
already getting a lot of visits, then theoretically you can simply add some
adverts to it or some affiliate links and start profiting immediately! Content
Conclusions
With moneymaker options you have a ton of different
options for creating business models that will generate passive income for you.
The question is: where do you start? The answer is to think about what you are
passionate and excited about. Which of these models and which industry would
you be willing to put the most time and work into? At the same time, ask which
projects are likely to have the greatest yield while requiring the smallest
amount of time. Try to avoid massive projects for now and instead focus on
quickly setting up easy business models that you know will work. That might
mean creating a small ebook and selling it on Kindle, or it might mean buying a
PLR site or a website that’s already doing quite well. Over time, these revenue
streams will start to add up and eventually, you’ll be able to earn BIG money
while you’re sailing around the world, snoozing in bed or working on the things
that you truly care about
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