This is in response to Sarah's excellent Rants From the Geek Lab: Improving Your Blog. The questions hungry bloggers want to know: How do I make money from my blog, should I put ads on it, how much traffic to I need to make money? The short answer is: you are asking the wrong questions. First, pageviews aren't the … [Read more...]
What “Passive Income” Really Requires
Passive income isn't really passive unless you are already rich and are investing in stocks, and then you are probably not trying to figure out how to make money online. In the online business world, when you hear "passive income" it usually means income from products, residual income, recurring income, or income from ad … [Read more...]
Q & A: I Want Passive Income. Should I Try a Template Affiliate Site?
A question from a reader: Hi Emma, I ran across this [Genbucks] while going through Craigslist job listings & wondered if you would give me your take on it. Since your SECP presentation my situation has changed from employed to a mixture of job hunting & developing my own freelance/residual income models. In … [Read more...]
Beyond Hourly Work: Income Models for Solopreneurs
There are many different ways to earn money beyond charging an hourly fee. This is a sampler that will hopefully get you thinking. What's wrong with hourly work? Your potential income is limited by the number of hours in a day. You have to keep working day after day, year after year. You get no return for each hour … [Read more...]