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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 punjsingh »

somebodysomeone wrote: post #243
deluvas wrote: post #218

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Holy cow! I'm taking a guess; is it some sort of aggregator website?

Sort of. I took various information sets (some external, some my own), and spent a lot of time pivoting them, merging them etc so that they could be useful. You couldn't find the information as it is on the website elsewhere in the same form, but you could research and produce it yourself, albeit at a much slower pace and with a lot of insider knowledge required.

A very much known service comes to mind! - maybe its yours, maybe different, but has lot of similarities with yours :)

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by punjsingh »

fookyong wrote: post #77

$1000 a month on book sales. I was surprised since I'm a software guy I didn't write the book to make money, I just did it for something to do. Although my software business makes much more money, I was surprised at how truly "zero maintenance" book sales are. My software I'm constantly fixing, tweaking and improving (which I enjoy). The book is just "out there" and is priced at $30 per copy. I sell > 1 per day. The…

I had seen your food website long time ago. That was very well done site.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by yaronl_elh »

Not as successful as the other ones here, but it's starting to show promise. http://mynativemap.com/

I created it to help people that can't surf into Google Map's in their own language. the link's forces the selected language manually and ignore the automatic language detection.

Started a few months ago and it's already covering my hosting in ad revenue. hopefully I'll have better numbers to report on the next Round of "...best passive income.." :)

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Post by sejje »

godDLL wrote: post #450
mythril wrote: post #408

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Sorry, I can't for fear of competition.

Competition is not an actor. It is a process, of which you're part; whether you want it to be this way, or would prefer a different market to the one we have. Embrace the competition. Plan for it. Set time aside for it. Make it work for you.

In the meantime, keeping smart people off your back works, too.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by sejje »

mythril wrote: post #407
tjtang wrote: post #405

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Why just a $4 ad budget if it's doing so well?

Thing is, my budget is actually higher than that, but that's how much the campaign actually uses up each day. Not enough reach / people clicking on the ad. I could try other ad channels, but I'm talking with a publisher who might be interested in publishing it so haven't tried that yet.

I don't think your time would be wasted.

Might help your negotiations, or else you just got started more quickly than you would have otherwise.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by cconcepts »

easyname wrote: post #13

I had a motorcycle which I had bought for 126K INR. I was not using it much except to commute from home to office. I was going to sell the bike, then suddenly this idea clicked. It took few hours to make and host indiarider.com(people can take the bike on rent). Its been two months now, I have made 15K till now, 7K last week.

I just rented an Enfield 500 off another company to ride from Delhi for two weeks. While they were polite and friendly, the level of professionalism on their site and systems left a lot to be desired. I emailed to check everything was set for a few months from now and the reply was: "you're picking it up in Goa tomorrow right?"

I'm assured things are organized now but its still a little nerve wracking. I know lots of people that would love to be able to reliably rent bikes in India and have often thought about doing what you have done. Your interface looks very professional and gives confidence to the user.

I live in Mumbai, do you have thoughts on expansion?

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by sejje »

rolfvandekrol wrote: post #87
tjsix wrote: post #44

Not entirely passive due to a small amount of support emails each month, but bringing in roughly $1600-$2500/mo (slower in summer) for niche WordPress themes. That's with virtually no marketing or advertising other than a $5/day adwords budget.

$5/day adwords budget is not 'virtually no marketing or advertising'. That is about the sales of a slow month over the year.

No, it's not, but he didn't say it wasn't--the "virtually no" refers to what he does other than paying that $5/day.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by petercooper »

chatmasta wrote: post #421
ohblahitsme wrote: post #303

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I'm curious to know how well your cheap bastard plan ( https://www.s3stat.com/web-stats/cheap-bastard-plan ) has been working out. Has it brought in some customers?

Isn't this almost exactly what Google punished rap genius for doing?

Nah. The Rap Genius representative was offering up a specific and unnatural chunk of HTML with numerous links to different areas of the site. The rules for that S3Stat plan says nothing about linking back at all, although of course you are naturally likely to. Not even in the same ballpark.

Re: What was your best passive income in 2014?

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Post by mail2vks »

ComNik wrote: post #222

~100$ / year from an Amazon Price Tracker ( http://www.rankique.com/ ) I wrote a long while ago. It's 100% passive and is free to run, although some SEO should increase that, which frankly I neither have the time nor the expertise to do.

I run something similar for India. http://www.pricetrak.in
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