Residual income

I love residual income, the type of income that I get without doing anything other than setting up how to earn it. I have 3 sources of residual income. The first one is affiliate advertising but that one is also my lowest earner. Google is the main one of the affiliates with eBay a close second. Clickbank use to be a regular earner but that one dropped off the charts several months back.

My next biggest residual earner that brings in at least $25 a month are my articles at Associated Content.

For each article I write I normally get a minimum of $5 and I get paid each time someone reads them. Lately I have only written about 1 or 2 articles a month and the monthly commissions have been slowly increasing. Several people actually earn $800 a month in residual income there. They also have contests that they award $500 a month for the best article in a subject group. The key to earning money there is in volume. The more articles you write and submit the higher your monthly earnings. I normally get about .50 cents worth of views each month for each article. That is including the articles that get zero views to articles that get 8,000 views (yep I do get that many on one article) per month. You can submit articles you have already written for your blog and publish them right away without them having to be approved for payment. You'll only earn monthly views on them but monthly views actually pays more in the long run.

My next monthly residual income producer is the blog I started up over at Today.

At first I was only earning .05 a day so I thought that it was a real joke. I wrote blog posts on there everyday for a month. Soon I was writing a blog post only twice a week because I was getting discouraged. After the 3rd month I was getting a following! I was now earning .10 a day. I am now only adding a blog post once a week or once every 2 weeks and now my earnings are up to .25 a day. Now you might laugh at those earnings but when I was first starting out as a blogger it took a week to earn .25 from Google Adsense, so .25 a day for a small blog with only 45 posts on it is great.

Residual income for the most part will start out as small income, but over time will grow. My husband use to laugh at my zeal when I told him I had earned $5 a day with my blogging about a year ago. Now that has grown 10 times and he no longer laughs at my blogging. In fact he proudly tells his friends that I get paid to blog and write articles.

You will never have residual income to brag about if you don't start. My advice to you is once you start you MUST keep on going. It will often take a year or more for you to receive any real monthly income that will help with your household bills but if you don't try it you'll never succeed.