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Online Passive Income – 5 Money Making Ideas for Bloggers

May 15, 2012 By Chris

You may be a little bit confused – even my domain name tells you, that there is no passive income at all… So, where is the truth?

 

OK – I’ll reveal you a secret. There is not passive income in Internet! And please read this article very carefully – more than 99% of bloggers doesn’t earn a decent income from their websites (blogs, niche sites and other sites)!

 

Each time, when you want to earn money online, you must work – sometimes more, sometimes less. And in this post I’ll show you, what online passive income is, what skills you should have as a blogger and five money making ideas for bloggers. These concepts don’t need a lot of time, sometimes you can forget about your online business for some months (so they are ALMOST passive, but not passive!), and, for this reason, they are ideal for bloggers.

 

But before revealing you these 5 concepts, please let me tell you, what does passive income means for me.

 

So, passive income means an income generated regularly without any effort. Only effort is (if any) needed at the beginning, when you setup an account in your bank 🙂

 

Examples of passive income:

-interest of deposits

-rent from real estate (if they don’t need active management!)

-royalties (from written books, screenplays, software programs)

-pension (when you retired, you will get some money as a regular, monthly pension)

 

 

Online passive income means for me:

  • Hard work on the beginning (maximal one month of effort, but you may work 16 hours a day 🙂 )
  • Automation for almost everything, for example purchase, payment, etc. (you should simplify everything as much as possible!)
  • Little time for maintaining it (monthly it should be less than one working day)
  • Possibility of delegating tasks to somebody else (so you may go for your monthly holidays)

 

Now you know what passive income (normal and online) means for me. Does it mean the same for you? But let’s go to another aspects of blogging for money 🙂

 

As a powerful blogger:

1)      You are excellent writer (if you are not good writer, please read 10 Article Writing Tips, How To Write Killer Article

 

2)      You know, how to get a lot of traffic (if not, please read: 8 Helpful Tips, How To Promote Your Blog)

 

3)      You have a big email list (if not, please read this post 12 Action Steps To Build A Profitable Email List From Scratch by Michael Chibuzor)

 

4)      You are aware of it, how your blog may be successful (if you are not aware of it, you must read my guest post 3 Vital Tips For Creating A Successful Blog

 

With above mentioned assumptions, now you are ready to learn 5 Money Making Ideas for Bloggers. All of them, when properly used, fulfill my requirements about online passive income. Here you are:

 

  1. Prepare an online product (for example an eBook)

You can earn money by selling it by yourself, or by creating affiliate channels for selling it. In this case you will share some profits with your affiliates (as commission).

 

  1. Create niche site(s)

Your income will be generated by placing contextual ads on this site. Best choice for contextual advertisement  is Google Adsense, alternatively you may choose Chitika for instance

 

  1. Product site

It is a mix of points mentioned above. You can create online product (it may be eBook as well) for example WordPress Plugin. But you can promote someone’s product too (in that case, you will get commission from product creator. And you sell this product via your optimized website.

 

  1. Use your email list

If your list is enough big, you can try to monetize it through affiliate links, sponsored emails, or paid reviews

 

  1. Make a paid membership site

It’s very simple model of earning – you create great content, limit it only for paid access, and invite your readers (which trust you, that it is worth for paying for it).

 

If you want to learn more, you may read How To Make Money Online – 10 best ways for doing it!

 

And how about you? What does “passive income” means for you? Or maybe you have another useful concept how to earn money online?

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Comments

  1. Matt Smith says

    May 16, 2012 at 12:51 pm

    Great post Chris!

    Couldn’t agree more with what you said. Passive income can be achieved online in many different ways, but it requires lot’s of work to get them up and running. You also have to keep working at driving traffic to your blog, so passive income is possible, but needs lots of effort to make it work successfully.

    • Chris says

      May 16, 2012 at 2:14 pm

      Yes, passive income isn’t so passive, as it looks like, especially at the beginning. You must work very hard, and learn a lot of new things, to be successful.
      Thanks for the comment, Matt.

  2. steve says

    May 16, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    nice blog checkout mine on

    http://www.onjokes.blogspot.com

    feel free to leave a comment

    • Chris says

      May 16, 2012 at 3:38 pm

      Thanks steve

  3. Wali Maulana says

    May 17, 2012 at 2:35 am

    I think to make online passive income, like other business need to provide system and delegate to the team to managed and have positive cash flow than left the business. If give positive cash flow than be passive income.

    great post Christ.

    regards.

    • Chris says

      May 17, 2012 at 6:41 am

      Yes, providing great system, which will generate positive cash flow is very good idea!
      Thanks for the comment, Wali

  4. Ehsan says

    May 21, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Hi Chirs, I agree with you by hard working for first month.
    I have a question to ask from you, You are using Aweber for your email list provider and you are paying $19 a month to aweber right? If so than are you making that amount of money from this website?
    And is there any other better free email list provider without Aweber?

    • Chris says

      May 21, 2012 at 1:10 pm

      Hi Ehsan, great questions. A lot of bloggers recommend having an email list from the beginning. And it’s almost true 🙂 That means, if you are really working on your site (content and promotion) since first day, you will collect emails (and it really works). If you are treating it not serious, it’s wasting money.

      This site isn’t earning money for me today, but it’s not goal of it. I have some online services in Polish market, and they “pay my bills”. With this site I want to build my credibility and relationship with english bloggers, and it’s long term activity 🙂 Here you can read about my Goals for this blog

      And answering on your last question – I heard about MailChimp (but I didn’t try it), others email list services you can find here: Mailing lists and autoresponders
      Regards, Chris

    • Anup Kayastha says

      August 18, 2012 at 12:24 pm

      Hey Ehsan,

      I use MailChip free version. It has some great features which you can access for free.

  5. Ehsan says

    May 21, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    Thank you Chris for your reply. In my opinion Blog about Blogging isn’t the way of success. Every new Blogger is picking a topic of Blogging Tips or Blogging tutorials for topic but there are a lot of other topics which can be a profitable.

    • Chris says

      May 22, 2012 at 6:26 am

      Yes, there are some other niches, which are better 🙂 But how to make relationship with Top bloggers making blog about for example loans?
      Thanks for commenting!

      • Ehsan says

        May 22, 2012 at 12:28 pm

        I don’t think I have to tell you how to make relationship with top Bloggers on specific niche because you are better than me, I’m still newbie. But you can find some top Bloggers on loan by searching for top blogs on loan on Google, blog directories and there are other ways to find top Bloggers.

        • Chris says

          May 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm

          I’m also newbie in blogging. And I like your suggestions 🙂

  6. Juan says

    May 24, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    i like this post, my opinion you should try to get more visitor to your blog

    • Chris says

      May 24, 2012 at 8:35 pm

      Hi Juan, I’m trying to get more visitors, and every week I see progress in my efforts 🙂
      Thanks for the comment and welcome to my blog!

  7. samy jain says

    May 25, 2012 at 10:14 pm

    Great Share Chris… You have covered all the basic points.. Will return back to see more of your share…

    • Chris says

      May 26, 2012 at 7:52 pm

      Hi Samy, thanks for commenting. Of course there was only basic points – so I’m inviting you for more 🙂
      BR, Chris

  8. david says

    June 15, 2012 at 5:51 am

    It is quite difficult to find truly passive income, isn’t it?

    It is getting harder and harder to build an email list to.

    Email is one aspect of reaching people. If believe a good twitter following is also helpful.

    • Chris says

      June 16, 2012 at 5:12 am

      Dave, as I wrote in the article – truly passive income almost not exist. And about building email list – it’s hard to say for me, because I’m starting with it 😉
      Thanks for commenting here.
      BR, Chris

  9. Shane says

    June 20, 2012 at 12:03 am

    In everything we do, we are exerting effort. If you will not do things heartily you are not doing it with effort. It is helpful for us to exert effort so that we will receive blessings from it. Good day!

    • Chris says

      June 20, 2012 at 4:59 am

      Thanks for your comment.

  10. Aastha Mehra says

    July 10, 2012 at 9:32 am

    Hello,
    I liked your article very much.It is really very impressive and informative.I would also like to recommend one more webpage: http://allegianceincomeonline.com/about/
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  11. John Banks says

    July 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Really useful post this. Although I am aware of and try to do these, the one at the end I am not yet doing – the membership site. I say yet, becuase I have thought about the idea for a long time. My site does not quite get the levels of traffic yet, but when it does I am considering a membership area – I feel i have so much information to give that some would be best kept for members.

    Regards,
    John

    • Chris Madej says

      July 16, 2012 at 6:14 pm

      Hi John, thank you for the comment. I heard that you don’t need a lot of traffic to start a membership site. I don’t know how much is enough, but if you want to start it – you must try it “just here and just now” 😉

  12. passive income says

    July 30, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    Agree, For me passive income means an income generated regularly without any effort. Only effort is (if any) needed at the beginning, when you setup an account in your bank 🙂

  13. RA says

    August 3, 2012 at 11:02 am

    ^Yes, you are right, some people thinks when they heard “money making profits” they thought that they wont have to do anything and let those in the org/company do the hard work for them and all they have is a big mouth for saying “hey your program din’t worked for me”. -LOL (^^,)

  14. Santhosh says

    October 2, 2012 at 5:43 am

    I am also earning online income through microstock and it is certainly not very passive. I work almost everyday(just like any regular job) to make this work. But its really fun. It allows me complete creative and time freedom. I have created a website to help people get into microstock – http://microstockinfo.net/

  15. Google Sniper 2.0 says

    October 7, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    Hey Chris, thanks for the many insights on blogging and generating passive income. The way you have explained the many ways of monetizing a blog will resonate with a lot of us, who may be focusing on one or two strategies.

    Cheers
    Issy

  16. Online Moneymaker says

    October 27, 2012 at 6:44 pm

    I agree, there’s no way to make money online without putting in some effort first. I’ve spent countless hours trying to set up a method of passive income– I believe it is possible to get passive income, but it’s a bit of a misnomer; you need to put in a lot of initial work first.

  17. SWOM Free Surveys says

    November 11, 2012 at 12:49 am

    I have been implementing some of the money making ideas that you have shared and it has been working fine. Thanks for sharing this post because a lot of people could really make use of this.

  18. pradip says

    November 16, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Hey Crish,

    Thanks for sharing that ideas.

  19. Elena Grace Flores says

    January 21, 2013 at 8:06 am

    Yes, it’s true – online business is hard work and not passive – but the good thing is, you are in control of your time. Getting rich quickly might be impossible but as long as I’m enjoying it, it serves the purpose – Elena.

  20. Emma says

    March 1, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    Nice tips thanks for share this information – i love all money making ideas.

  21. Larry says

    March 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm

    Great post! Passive income will take a while to create but when it starts working well, it can create insane amounts of income.

    Thanks

  22. Vipul jain says

    March 24, 2013 at 10:25 am

    nice income ideas blog

  23. Vivek Jain says

    June 18, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    Nice blog, nice work you have done in latest online money making ideas field. I am very pleased to know about the such information. If you don’t mind, you could see at my blog also. I want to take you some suggestions for you regarding the Online money making topics, which will also helpful for so much bloggers. Thanks!

  24. Tarence W. says

    September 17, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    I do some graphics work and sell plr products. They are also a nice passive income source. I’m looking forward to a membership site and some mobile apps. Thanks!

  25. Tarence Wade says

    September 19, 2014 at 3:30 pm

    I want to say that this post is amazing, nicely written and included approximately all vital info. I would like to see more posts like this.

  26. Haider Raza says

    December 8, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    hey,
    i think passive income is not so easy . we should work hard for this. this article is very helpful and awesome.

  27. Jay Verma says

    April 19, 2018 at 9:04 am

    This really works. A friend of mine is earning!!!

  28. Faith Taylor says

    April 29, 2019 at 10:41 am

    Spot on, great ideas in there. I can confirm – creating a product of your own (online course or an ebook) pays off big time. As long as the affiliates have an incentive to promote it on your behalf, you should be good to go.

    I’d say email marketing is insanely powerful. Can improve your results big time if you use the right strategies – focus on giving value to your subscribers and eventually they will purchase your recommendations.

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