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Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by hcho »

PawelDecowski wrote: post #109

£55 in just over a year from ads on http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com Not a lot but it’s something. And I built the validator without even thinking about monetizing so it’s quite nice to get rewarded with some pocket money. It’s not 100% passive, as I do spend a little time maintaining it and adding new features, but what income is 100% passive?

Let me get this straight. You have a piece of software which helps monetary transactions, and yet you don't charge.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by fabiendem »

tjtang wrote: post #78
fabiendem wrote: post #24

Not proud of it, but around $500/mo thanks to 3 white label dating websites. Easy money, no maintenance needed for 2 years now... Could make much more with some time invested in it!

Problem with white label sites is that you still need to do a whole lot of marketing on your end. How do you compete with the big sites?

Here is the thing, I don't compete with big sites, I target only niches so I have almost zero competitors :)

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by stronglikedan »

PawelDecowski wrote: post #109

£55 in just over a year from ads on http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com Not a lot but it’s something. And I built the validator without even thinking about monetizing so it’s quite nice to get rewarded with some pocket money. It’s not 100% passive, as I do spend a little time maintaining it and adding new features, but what income is 100% passive?

Royalties.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by stronglikedan »

hcho wrote: post #111
PawelDecowski wrote: post #109

£55 in just over a year from ads on http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com Not a lot but it’s something. And I built the validator without even thinking about monetizing so it’s quite nice to get rewarded with some pocket money. It’s not 100% passive, as I do spend a little time maintaining it and adding new features, but what income is 100% passive?

Let me get this straight. You have a piece of software which helps monetary transactions, and yet you don't charge.

It only validates the number. It doesn't take part in the actual transactions.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by mseebach »

TamDenholm wrote: post #2

Its not yet passive because i choose to spend most of my time on it to make it better, but i bought a cleaning business 10 months ago. I recently took a consulting contract for some additional money for expansion and it does run by itself (in the capable hands of my biz manager), however there are more optimisations i wish to make to it. Its the hardest thing i've ever done, but its at a stage where if i wanted to, i…

Start blogging about it, there's got to be a good handful of stories and advice in that throw-away "Its the hardest thing i've ever done". When you're at a 100-odd pages, make it an ebook for more passive income :)

Mind sharing what the cleaning company is? You appear to be in the UK, and I will soon be in the market for a cleaner.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by dotnetkow »

$2-5k per month (after Apple's cut) from my Fitbit mobile app, Fitwatchr: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fitwatchr/id684005201?mt=8&i.... The unique value is Fitbit activity conversion to Weight Watchers points as well as a tougher but more rewarding calorie tracking that is based on real science (Mifflin equation). Effort on my part really depends on me/my current schedule as it's a side project. I admittedly have some bad reviews that boil down to getting users to understand how the calorie tracking works. Using Freshdesk (love it!) to answer 1-2 emails per day. It'll be 1 year working on this next month.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by gtheme »

chatmasta wrote: post #91
gtheme wrote: post #30

My passive income, Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ Revenue around 100 USD per month. Running for half year need more marketing for better revenue. Ghost blog is the next big thing in blogging space.

Nice. Staying ahead of the curve like this is the right move. That's gonna pay off when 10x as many people are using Ghost and your site is already ranked at the top of the search results. Similarly, if you're building a content site, the time to do it is right when the hype around your topic gets started. Think upcoming movie releases, video games, elections, etc. Build out the content around the hype, then when the…

Thanks for the advice. We already built some contents around Ghost blog. :)

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by fabiendem »

maxlamb81 wrote: post #42
fabiendem wrote: post #24

Not proud of it, but around $500/mo thanks to 3 white label dating websites. Easy money, no maintenance needed for 2 years now... Could make much more with some time invested in it!

What dating niches did you come up with? Why do you say you are not proud of it?

I have targeted some very specific jobs which are usually known as "sexy". I am not proud of it because I don't think it's very ethic, I can't imagine putting this on my resume and technically the challenge is nonexistent (a simple html page with some css, few hours of marketing) Though the service is real and people don't pay for nothing, at least it's legal...

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by hcho »

stronglikedan wrote: post #114
hcho wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me get this straight. You have a piece of software which helps monetary transactions, and yet you don't charge.

It only validates the number. It doesn't take part in the actual transactions.

Still, it helps.
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