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- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Blogging isn't passive income .... you have to put some sort of effort into it. It would be passive income if you somehow set it up so that other people blogged -for- you, and you paid them a percentage of the ad revenue.
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25How to make money blogging:
1) write a blog about how easy it is to make money blogging
2) submit to Digg
3) profit! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23"if you somehow set it up so that other people blogged -for- you, and you paid them a percentage of the ad revenue."
So, kind of like Slashdot and Digg. Minus paying us a percentage of course... - ashwinashwin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19i agree, blogging is not totally passive... but you know what IS a passive income? Digg.com! There is of course site maintenance and development, but, users make all the content, and the money pours in... congrats guys, you've hit the jackpot with this site and lets admit it, we're all pretty jealous
- iwannagofast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18if you can earn enough income with an hour a day worth of bogging to quit your 9-5, we would have a lot more losers sitting at home on their computers trying to do this.
Now bogging AT work; that's where the moneys at ; ) - JoeMerchant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17There's nothing passive about writing a quality blog.
- ginty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm not aware of any "laws" that make passive income ok for some and not for others.
Anyone can develop a passive income, it just requires some work up front on your part, and some risk.
Most people aren't willing to take risks, and thats why they sit at a desk 9-5. What they don't realize is, that is perhaps a bigger risk. They really have little control over their income and are depending on a lot of other people to do their jobs right so they can get paid. I'd rather depend on myself or the system I work than a bunch of other knuckle heads. - n8r0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I use cafepress for passive income.
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"Everyone ought to do their fair share. "
Why? No one is stopping anyone else from trying one of these "passive income" ideas. If people continue to work hard, it is because they have chosen to do so. In general, it is because they either don't have the skills needed to do something better, or because they realize that for the most part they will make more money through the effort. Either way, why in the heck should the law be regulating how much or little people choose to work? - goostoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm not passive in saying, "There's nothing quality about blogging."
I'm also surprised that this has been on the front page for 15 minutes and people haven't started to whore links to their ***** blogs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Writers have been struggling with the originality issue for centuries. Shakesphere didn't really come up with any original stories. He just did them better. Maybe that is the key to successful blogging. Better blogs and ( more importantly ) better writing.
- monergism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't forget to report the income for tax purposes.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What's all the fuss about bogging for money?
I think people who grow cranberries deserve an income!
Oh...
Never mind. - blackb0x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4make up funny top 10 lists.
- shark72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Why are the laws arranged such that some people can have a 'passive income', while others have to work their asses off every day to pay for the basic needs of life?"
What's really interesting is that you're being massively dugg down, but in digg discussions about music piracy, your comments would be dugg UP. The gist of such posts is "why should musicians get away with doing work once and being paid over and over again when the rest of us have to keep working to keep making a living?" But, as you've seen, if you can generate a passive income just by running a web site, that's OK. I think this is because most diggers are more likely to be able to create a web site than to write a hit song, so we empathize and have respect for web site operators, while musicians who have similar success just make us jealous and angry.
At any rate, if you (or anybody reading this!) would like a passive income, here's an easy way:
1. Go to ingdirect.com
2. Set up a savings account, and have it automatically withdraw $25 each month from your bank account. Before you say "hey, wait, $25 is too much" keep in mind that it's just a little more three extra hours of work per month even if you're making minimum wage.
3. Wait.
4. In five years, you'll be making $8 per month in interest alone. That is, each month, you'll be investing $25, and your savings will increase by more than $32. And it only gets better from there. Now, imagine if you invested $50 a month, or even $100 a month.
THAT'S how you build a passive income... by setting a goal and working at it. Claiming that the laws prevent you from doing so does not help. Self-pity doesn't help. Hating on bloggers doesn't help. Hating on musicians does not help -- it may give you the moral prerogative to help yourself to free music, but it won't help you build a passive income. - ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of research and some English/Grammar skills, some research and maybe less than an hour a day... that's passive enough for me.. sure beats working the 9-5
- Soulhuntre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What's really interesting is that you're being massively dugg down, but in digg discussions about music piracy, your comments would be dugg UP."
Thats easy ... many on Digg and Slashdot have a highly selfish interest in stealing the work of artists and pretending that they have a right to do so via their moral outrage. Almost no one is interested in stealing blog posts and trading them on BitTorrent. - jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you can't make money submitting your blog to digg. You cheap ***** don't click *****. :)
- plex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That my friend is the hardest part, having something to say that no one else does. I've been thinking about blogging and have spent a lot of time thinking what I could blog about that no one else has. Now I am a believer in just blog about what interests you as that is where you will put the most fun into it.
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2None that I know of. Just about every blog I've read is either boring or terrible.
- tknd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"What they don't realize is, that is perhaps a bigger risk. They really have little control over their income and are depending on a lot of other people to do their jobs right so they can get paid. I'd rather depend on myself or the system I work than a bunch of other knuckle heads."
I don't agree. I think most people understand the risk in all situations, but they choose the situation that is easiest for them to manage. In many cases that's simply getting a 9-5 job with a set expectation of tasks.
The second you decide to run the entire show for yourself, you instantly are responsible for far more things than a 9-5 job typically is. Furthermore, when you fail, you don't always immediately have a second chance. If you run your own business and it fails that either means you went bankrupt (no more money) or you are in the negative (debt). The only way to try again is to create more debt or stop trying and generate capital by some other means.
With jobs it is different. You work for someone else and are only expected to perform some subset of services. If you lose your job through a layoff, you don't suffer any debt directly. Instead you can search for a new job with minimal impact on your resume. The only time it becomes problematic is if you are terminated (fired) from your position or the job market which you are targeting is bad. Finally, when you leave your job, all of your obligations and responsibilities basically disappear even if the business was a failure.
You base your assessment of risk based on trust, but in reality most people base their risk on that and other things like potential for failure. There is high potential in failure and debt when running the show yourself and that's why most people don't do it. - RonaldLewis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Charlotte,
Anyone hoping for a jackpot (monetizing via ads) from reaching the front page should reconsider. Digg users rarely click on ads. The jackpot is the visibility -- at least for me. I couldn't care less if people click on my ads, because I'm not making much from them anyway. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@pcgeek101
"It would be passive income if you somehow set it up so that other people blogged -for- you, and you paid them a percentage of the ad revenue."
I love Digg....but that sounds a lot like the business model of digg, except for the part where the income is shared.
And I know it wasn't that way originally, before those 'investors' came along.
I sometimes wonder what would have been the monetary value of all of my comments, for the past 13 months.
...Or maybe I should be paying the readers! ;-) - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I'm not knocking the guy... I was being serious! :-D
Return traffic is the key to making money through your site. It helps to have a hot-button topic for you site, like How to Make Big Money at Home in your Underwear on the Internet.
Some bloggers are making big money from AdSense; I know that Diggers and Slashdotters typically don't click the ads. But getting dugg to the front page can save you a ton of marketing bucks, and get you high visibility overnight. - Wolfboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's all about reaching a target audience and providing a quality source of information or entertainment that the audience can't as easily get elsewhere.
If you like to hunt, find a good one that specializes in hunting. If you like soccer, find one for soccer. If you like listening to opera, there's likely a good one out there about operas.
Almost every day I read web sites that existed before the word "blog" came into being that would be called blogs had they started today instead of 10-plus years ago. They are specialized sites aimed at the professionals in my industry and are central clearing houses for news, trends, ideas and industry gossip.
I read several blogs that have news and commentary about local events and politics in my town. - ejdmoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"There's nothing passive about writing a quality blog."
Which is mostly what the article says:
"Unfortunately I wouldn’t use the term passive income to describe blogging for money." - tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3in the article, when he said passive, i think he was referring to the blog posts that he made in the past. He mentioned that most of his revenue comes from pages where people are reading his archived posts. In that respect, they are now passively generating income since he no longer puts any effort into them; a one-shot investment that continues to earn money as long as its available.
- blackb0x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there is always someone that will cheat the system.
Laws are there to punish them. - rudy23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well they dont have to pay rent in the blogosphere so sure they save money.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Three tips for successful blogging for money
1. Yes, of course put advertisements on your blog, but don't make the blog look "busy" with them.
2. Post regurlarly
3. Have something to say that no one else does.
Ask yourself "With all of the other blogs on the net, with all of the other sites on the net, with all of the books out there and all of the things someone can do with her/his free time why would someone want to come to my blog?" - kingpin2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The silliness is in structuring life and activities around taxation. Why do we tolerate a federal government that impacts so many areas of life? Why do we tolerate taxation on productivity? Why should I care whether income is legally defined as "passive"?
- rayfoy, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1try these, they work for me
http://themoneymap.wordpress.com/surveys-online/ - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can anyone point me in the direction of a good description of how this bolgging/adsence thing = money? I guess the more popular your site the more the clicks are worth, but it still requires people to click on the ads though, doesn't it? That would require a heck of a lot of visitors to get enough clicks to make any money.
- Lynxist, on 07/28/2009, -0/+1Don't mistake passive with easy.
Building passive income takes planning, time, effort, blood, sweat and often a few tears. - monergism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you not know? Governments are designed to meddle with men.
- election, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1PCGEE, The direct link to the passive income stream video is http://digg.com/business_finance/Creating_Passive_Income_Streams_from_Your_Cubicle and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCIS6ZsJYw
- imtigger2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I never understood the hype behind blogging."
People making six-figure incomes doing it. That's the reality of what can be done with a good blog and a LOT of research and hard work. It's a full-time job for sure, but the payoffs are sweet. - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its no different to a band writing a song and the song being used ads or compilations. They wrote the song but each time its used by someone else they get paid. No more effort on their part but income for the rest of their career.
- rYno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This guy's got a really good blog - I suggest adding it to your feeds if you do any blogging at all.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Before blogs only tech savy people, more or less, could have their say on the web. Imagine what the world would be link if only trained type setters and printers could express their opinion in writing.
Now, anyone who has something to say ( and often anyone who does not ) can say it.
Before you had the people who knew how to make web pages. Now you have things opened up for the people who have something to put on those web pages. - RizzoFrank, on 06/02/2008, -0/+01. Blog
2. Place ads on site
3. http://www.millionvisitorclub.com
4. Profit - Wolfboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Blogging is the pamphleteering of the 21st Century. Pamphleteering help stoke the American Revolution.
Some blogs will be bad, some will be good. With luck, the market and court of public opinion will separate the bad from the good. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I never understood the hype behind blogging. Such a stupid fad, kinda reminds me of the dot-com bubble era.
Just a bunch of asshats who lack credibility that type out rather uninteresting opinions or rants to a rather gullible reader base. THE #1 source of rumors on the interwebs, especially when sites like digg are made that have random people linking to said blogs that get dugg up. Readers take the ***** as gospel instead of questioning, "..and you know this how?" or, "We should believe you because?"
Worse than the evening news, IMO. - johnstack08, on 08/03/2008, -0/+0I totally agree. I find my work to make money not so passive
http://blogincome123.blogspot.com - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or how about ...blogs are the 'soap boxes' of the 21st century!
heh heh
And what better way is there to waive one's rights to privacy, than to tell everyone all your sh*t on the internet?
Especially, sites like Myspace are a great way of throwing away all your privacy!
I bet groups like the NSA just LOVE them. - madhuprasanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Now bogging AT work; that's where the moneys at ; )"
I like this concept..!! :) Probably some one can write a blog, about how to blog in office time, in their office time..!! - drobe31, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0Blogs really aren't that hard to make money off of if you are really into what you're writing about. If you produce a good amount of content google will like your blog, so put up some ads and get some traffic and you'll probably start to see some income. You can use the same topics as other bloggers, just try to make your opinion more interesting than the rest. Check out this site if you want to find more ways of making money with webpages and such http://www.premier-market.com
- oziescom, on 12/27/2008, -0/+0blog is ACTIVE INCOME..!!
You must to be active to get what you want
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