Comments on: When Passive Income Ideas Turn Out To Be Active Income In Disguise

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:30:06 +0000

Passive income only comes after you have planted the seeds, sweat in the sun, weathered the storms, and worked on the harvest. It takes patience, persistence, and vision. But often, it is work that you can love, and in time, it will bear fruit. But there is no thing as quick passive income. It took Robert Kyosaki at least 10 years!

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By: J. Money

J. Money — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:32:52 +0000

yeah, blogging sure does take a lot more work than sometimes people give credit for. i look at it as a nice hobby/2nd job if only i can figure out a way to make it my 1st job now!

By: Fabulously Broke

Fabulously Broke — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:14:47 +0000

I agree with Miranda. There’s no such thing as truly passive income. You have to put out some sweat and tears to get something back, or at least, set up the whole deal with a lot of hard work and then reap the benefits later.

I don’t make any money off blogging to be honest. I kind of blog just for fun, but now with 1300+ readers I should consider monetizing it in some way…

By: Manshu

Manshu — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:19:01 +0000

I do think there is such a thing as – Profession or Business (From the book – Cash Flow Quadrant)

A profession is like a doctor who needs to be physically present to make money. While a business is like owning a hospital – where the system makes money for you.

To that extent blogging can start out as a profession where you churn out hundreds of posts over a number of years and are engaged actively.

Then at some point you make enough money to hire bloggers for you and make money out of the system. Like most Professional blogging networks.

I seriously doubt you can get passive without being active first.

By: Maria @ Residual Income Web

Maria @ Residual Income Web — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:43:17 +0000

I don’t think that blogging is passive income, either, but it can help boost your passive income streams, such as niche sites or downloadable products with backlinks and traffic.

I tried becoming a Mary Kay consultant in college, forgetting that I don’t like sales. I paid $100 to start and never sold the first tube of lipstick.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:43:43 +0000

I never considered blogging passive, takes a lot of time and effort to not only create content, but build relationships in your niche to try to get the content out there and to be seen. Very rarely can income become strictly passive unless lucky. Unless you own a book/real estate, difficult to fully just sit back and collect a check.

By: asithi

asithi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:57:14 +0000

“Have you attempted to find a passive income source, only to find out it was active income in disguise?”

Oh, do you mean like blogging? Sometimes I can stop for a week or two still earn a couple of bucks from Adsene, but those are usually the posts that I already spent a large amount of time researching and writing. The conversational posts usually earns nothing because no one is searching for them.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:17:39 +0000

There are some that argue that there is no such thing as truly passive income, since in order to get anything substantial without SOME sort of outlay of energy. Many things that people think are “easy” actually turn out to need some thought, planning and effort.