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Let the adventurous journey begin: Passive Income

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Re: Let the adventurous journey begin: Passive Income

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Post by StavrosK »

zupreme wrote: post #35

Passive income is indeed real, but is often exaggerated. I've been doing quite nicely from my ebooks and ad-supported sites for some time, with no additional promotion or other activities to drive sales since they were each published. However I could certainly not pay all of my bills from them. However, just like anything else, you get out what you put in. If I had no other career and just spent all my time writing e…

Well, they do have a method, it's just that the method is "defraud suckers who think they can make millions in their spare time".

Re: Let the adventurous journey begin: Passive Income

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Post by semanticist »

jamii wrote: post #13

In the light of recent UK news, I suspect someone could make good money by selling a user-friendly browser plugin that proxies connections to blocked sites like the pirate bay. Of course, you probably don't want to be living in the UK whilst doing that.

That could be exceptionally risky as the mechanism used to block access to The Pirate Bay is the same used to block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation as child porn.

Even if it's not your intent, the last thing anyone needs is to be branded a pedophile-enabler.

Re: Let the adventurous journey begin: Passive Income

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Post by yaix »

chc wrote: post #37
yaix wrote: post #10

"Advertising [...] the amount you get [...] isn’t big and only pays off with high traffic" Realy? Glad you think that. And: no, it does not suck but can provide a positive user experience if done correctly. And: no, I am not talking about hit-the-monkey ads. And: no, it's not as easy as copy-pasting some random ad code into your HTML.

You had an opportunity to provide useful information here, but instead just chose to cop a supercilious attitude. That's disappointing.

Could you be more specific, because I really have no idea what you mean.

I provided "useful information" in saying that it is possible to earn good money with ads, but that it takes more than just copy-pasting a random ad code into the pages.

What is "supercilious" about what I am writing?

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