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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#421

I have just released http://selfstream.io - a platform for event organizers to host and live stream their events. Right now making a negative $25 for hosting, without counting a small ad campaign on Google Adwords.

Is that site built with Bootstrap? ;)

Yes, it is a theme from https://wrapbootstrap.com/, which I modified beyond recognition ;)

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#422

I make $0.70 cents (1 sale) every month from my iOS puzzle game: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simpl/id672601351?ls=1&mt=8 In a few months I'll be able to buy myself a coffee! =)

You should go to a coffee shop, and buy people a coffee in trade for looking at your entry in itunes, see what they think and if they can describe what the game does. You probably want to re-word the description as I am only guessing at how it works and I still don't know. A trailer on youtube wouldn't hurt either, though the name makes it hard to search for...

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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12 years ago I started a vertical social network for schools. We tried to hustle and visited schools one by one to sign them up. It crashed. Hard. Over time it evolved into a simple school directory, and after 3 years or so, it started making consistently about $300/month on AdSense. Revenue continued to rise (slowly), and now somedays it breaks $200/day. In the last 10 years I've spent like a week at most on the sit…

How do you bring traffic to your site?

At first I did lots of SEO, good page titles, meta tags, links from other sites. It brought modest traffic. Since then I haven't done much but the traffic keeps growing.

Part of the explanation is that is has a pretty long tail.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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Sounds like it's treating you well but have you had problems or do you price it so you generally price-out those that might less than savory characters?

I live in a city that lacks hotels and doesn't have any tourism, so the only people contacting me are people who work in our local industry (offshore oil production), and just need a place to stay while they are doing training, etc. I've never had any problems, and like I said that has kept work for me really low. In terms of pricing, I just priced it by what I thought was fair. I do refuse people though, since like…

I'm guess that's Aberdeen then?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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I had this, it got boring real fast. The money wasn't great. I could live on it but there was no future prospect. A slow career death if you will. So I took a harder job, with higher pay.

Exactly the same case for me too. At first it seems like it would be great, but it was wearing away at the passion I once had for my career. I now spend my days looking at cat videos and playing games rather than focussing on personal projects. I move jobs in 2 weeks to a harder job with better pay and can't wait.

Best of luck with that. For me it was a great decision!

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this, it got boring real fast. The money wasn't great. I could live on it but there was no future prospect. A slow career death if you will. So I took a harder job, with higher pay.

Can't really argue with "and higher pay"

It was exactly double. Can't argue with that.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a city that lacks hotels and doesn't have any tourism, so the only people contacting me are people who work in our local industry (offshore oil production), and just need a place to stay while they are doing training, etc. I've never had any problems, and like I said that has kept work for me really low. In terms of pricing, I just priced it by what I thought was fair. I do refuse people though, since like…

I'm guess that's Aberdeen then?

Correct!

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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post #413

I have a few things going on. 1. Income from ~5 non-fiction Kindle books for sale on Amazon. Around $100 a month, though at one point when I was more heavily marketing them it went up to $900-$1000. Would be great to spend more time on this and automate a system where I have a couple of assistants doing this for me around the clock (marketing and book creation). 2. Income from a single Youtube video which links to a…

Pretty cool list, and all three look like things you could expand your earnings on with some moderate extra work. Just out of curiosity, What subjects do your non fiction books cover?
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