Building Passive Income


by Trey Williams - Date: 2007-01-07 - Word Count: 383 Share This!

There are a few reasons why people wish to create a steady source of passive income. Some of them may be fast approaching the age where it's time to start thinking about retirement and they wonder what will happen when they are no longer able to work. Others may wish to have a family, or purchase their first (or second) home. Or they may simply desire to own their own business, or remodel their current home.

In essence, life takes money, money takes work, and work takes time. Or does it? In the new millennium, many average, everyday people have found it possible to build passive income as a financial cushion, or backup, for their primary source of income. It's a sad state of affairs when your nine to five job isn't always enough for a person and their family to live off of. Having another source of income, a passive source of income that only takes spurts of work to generate revenue, is all too important for your financial security.

There are many ways to build passive income and frankly--not every way is for every body. There are some things that require more work, or a different type of work, than some people are able to do or accustomed to doing. Real estate is a good example, choosing and sometimes having to fix up houses, not to mention the upkeep on rental properties and going through all of the financial hassles that come with being a landlord. And then there are other ways of building passive income like selling the rights to a book or screenplay you wrote or an invention that you have created.

Creative ways of building a secondary source of income are, obviously, not for everybody, just as purchasing and maintaining rental properties is not for everyone. Just find something YOU are good at, and are passionate about, and then you can turn it into a source of passive income. Impossible? Nothing is impossible with the Internet. Build a website devote it to your favorite hobby, people will come. And once you have people going to your website, show them products that they may be interested in, things that relate to your hobby. It sounds easy, and the concepts are, but it does take work, but the rewards are well worth it.


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