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Your best passive income? (2014)

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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by sirbrad »

I created and sold Stickonspy (http://stickonspy.com) just after mid last year. The initial month I launched it did pretty well as the NSA news was still a pretty big deal. All in all it's made me I'd say my time - which was evenings after work - investment was around 3-4 days initially and then fulfilling orders is simply writing a customers address and posting the stickers - which if the demand was bigger I'd probably outsource.

It's been great. I've learnt a shit tonne & the conversations it started has given me an idea for a similar product which I'll be focusing on very soon!

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by [deleted] »

sawyer1708 wrote: post #19
dangrossman wrote: post #6

Not much has changed since the last thread. Improvely ( https://www.improvely.com ) is still in the 5-digit monthly RR range and growing, and I do no outbound marketing other than some PPC ads that don't need much active management. Everything that can be automated has been automated (onboarding, lifecycle mails, dunning mails for billing issues, etc), leaving me free to spend all my time on support and improving the…

That's great Dan. I have a couple of questions. Do you have an in house affiliate program that you use or a third party one? How did you get affiliates interested (other than existing customers)?

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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by atmosx »

mhoad wrote: post #9

Just in the middle of getting this up (was a way of teaching myself Rails) that works as an Affiliate style site for gadgets and cool gift ideas. http://fmhgifts.com/

I like the design and the idea is smart, but are you planning to monetize this?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by midas007 »

drewolbrich wrote: post #12

My iOS app that teaches you what a tesseract is and lets you manipulate it in 3D and 4D. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-fourth-dimension/id50420... It blows my mind that people still find out about this app and happily buy it every day even though it occupies such a small geeky niche.

Seems to violate the premise of "the dumber the app, the more popular it will be." Awesome.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by qzervaas »

I made this PHP library about 5 years ago:

http://zervaas.biz/escapianet/

Probably make 2-3 sales/yr which is always a nice surprise. It comes up first when you Google "escapianet php"

I also wrote a PHP book in 2007. I still get royalty cheques, although they've almost approached 0 - the last quarter was about $30 ;)

Most of my income now is from app sales.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by dejv »

I had created http://notationtraining.com in 2010 when I was learning how to play piano. I did update this project few times, but otherwise it is completely on its own. It makes only about 300 USD/month but I am quite happy with it as I am not doing anything to promote it or anything else.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Post by cdaven »

I have a quite simple web site with some calculators for taxes and stuff, that I originally built in 2007. The Google AdSense and affiliate income has grown from about $1000 per year to almost $1000 per month.

It is "passive" in the sense that I respond to the occasional e-mail (once a month), update the data once a year, and add another calculator when I feel like it.

A few years back, I was in the same position with another (online casual gaming) website, that I sold for 2.5x the yearly revenue. Looking back, I should probably have kept that site as well.

Pro tip: quality content beats SEO in the long run. Be the tortoise.

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