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What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by drzaiusapelord »

vilius wrote: post #34

$5k per month for 18 months in a row. Made a portfolio website for my girlfriend. Got positive feedback, refactored into Wordpress theme and published on ThemeForest. Not 100% passive as I spend 3-4 hours per week for answering support emails. ThemeForest is a perfect place for passive income if you are a website developer. At first it challenges your skills as you need to create the concept, design it and code it. T…

What do you charge for your theme? Is that typical? How much of a cut does ThemeForest take from you?

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Post by lijjumathew »

jawns wrote: post #75

I am the author of two books: "Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid" ( http://www.experimentingwithbabies.com ), which came out in October, and "Correlated: Surprising Connections Between Seemingly Unrelated Things" ( http://www.correlated.org ), which came out earlier this month. One thing I didn't realize when I started pitching the first book was that there would be "p…

Great work. For writing books do you use any book editor/software of just MS Word ? I am in the process of writing a book and couldn't find a good editor/software. Thanks

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by patrickk »

snoonan wrote: post #169
patrickk wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to provide examples? Was thinking of getting into this myself with premium courses. Edit: this is a good example of the type of courses I mean http://www.diygenius.com/courses/ (not affilated) Is it on your own site? Or the likes of Udemy?

I'm not sure if its a good idea to share the exact topics, but generally they are language learning and software training (for example, specific CMSs). I do everything through my own sites and find customers through via free podcasts, free and promoted youtube videos, etc. Udemy's on my list, but I believe in always owning your own brand, customers and leads.

Thanks for the info, I understand completely you don't want to give away profitable niches.

> I do everything through my own sites and find customers through via free podcasts, free and promoted youtube videos, etc.

Very clever, creative promotional strategy! I would love to read more if you have a blog (again without giving too much of your exact products or niches away). I'm building up a side business currently, and cost effective, targeted promotion is high on my list...(there's a great idea for a premium course btw, would purchase in a heartbeat.)

> Udemy's on my list, but I believe in always owning your own brand, customers and leads.

I guess there's an important trade off between owning the customer relationship 100% and getting exposure on a huge marketplace...

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by bnycum »

Last September I put Amazon Affiliate codes on links in a somewhat popular post about setting up a Raspberry Pi to open my garage. I know I'm not suppose to divulge exact numbers, but lets just say I've bought games, books, toys, and a PS4 so far with my earnings. On around ~1,000 visitors a month. I wish I had it setup when that post got a ton of traffic from reddit.
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