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Affiliate Marketing: Sometimes bloggers and website creators concentrate their efforts on promoting certain products where they get a percentage of the cut if a product or service gets sold. This can be done either on your blog or through the use of a niche site (see No. 17 for this topic). Of all the passive income ideas, this is one is truly “passive” because as people click on your ads, you don’t have to do anything at all. There are dozens of affiliate broker services out there (Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, Commission Junction, Flex Offers, etc) and they allow you pick from thousands of different products in your particular niche. Here’s how you can get started.
Email Marketing: This is another form of affiliate marketing where you use your list of blog subscribers to promote a certain product. Lots of successful bloggers swear by this process because they claim that your website subscribers are a “target audience” for your niche; thereby increasing the chances of more purchases.
Niche Websites: If blogging sounds too time intensive, then why not make a smaller one focused on one particular topic. These types of websites are called niche sites. This very website is example of a niche site: It is focused primarily on the topic of discussing passive income ideas. A niche website may be as small as 5 pages (also called a micro-niche site) or as big as 100 pages. It all depends on how much work the creator wants to put into it. Webmasters make money from niche sites either through the advertising or by selling them at auction websites like Flippa. The really successful ones take it to the extreme and create a portfolio of niche sites. Think about it: If you had 10 sites each bringing in an average of $500 per month, that would be $5,000 of passive income. Click here to learn more about creating a collection of money-making websites.
Website Services: Anyone who starts a website can tell you how frustrating it is in the beginning; especially for the technically challenged. There’s all kinds of setup, programming, and small tricks to know if you want things to look right. The good news is that people are willing to pay for someone else to deal with that nonsense, and that someone could be you! If you have any talent at anything reltated to website creation such as search engine optimization (SEO), post writing, creating graphics, creating website themes, programming, etc, then you could sell your services to those in need. The easiest place to market yourself to those who are looking would be through a broker such as Elance, Freelance, or 99designs. Surprisingly you could also market yourself through an add on eBay. And there’s always your own network of friends and referrals via your own website (or Facebook account).
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