Comments on: New Zealand Bloggers – Can You Make Passive Income Here?

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:24:06 +0000

Hey Lis

Absolutely love the pictures never mind your photography skills you definitely captured the feeling quite inspiring.

Like Casparina I’m also desperately looking to pack in the day job but this IM stuff isn’t all that cracked up to be either it does take a lot of work but I suppose in the end it’s worth. One thing I’ve noticed though, it does seem like the guys who end up making it big time on the Internet like the gentlemen you mentioned start out without even intending to make money. No wonder why he can’t clearly explain how he does it.

Thanks a lot

By: Heidi

Heidi — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:00:33 +0000

It can definitely be done, but as posters above have mentioned the rules are constantly changing. Having multiple streams of income(web based) is great, but you can make it happen with even just one site!

The key is to always be tweaking conversion and have LOTS OF different sources of traffic.

By: louise

louise — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:40:19 +0000

I love the Art Deco Cinema, your pictures are pretty good. Wellington looks like quite a lovely place to live, would love to see more of your photos when you have chance.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:29:20 +0000

Hi again Lis,
I spent most of last year living in Argentina and that was a GREAT place to live while earning in US dollars. In Argentina US$1 is currently about $4 pesos. You can rent a small apartment for US$400 a month which makes for a very favourable economic situation. I’ve heard it’s similar to this in south east Asia as well.
Sam

By: Lis

Lis — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:15:03 +0000

I agree moved back from Australia and gave myself a 20% payrise just cause of the exchnange rate – its easy having a business here too compared to places like Australia and the US with the fairly simple tax rules

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:28:27 +0000

Hey Liz – I have been reading your blog and commenting for somet ime now – I only just realised you’re from New Zealand though…I grew up just out of Wellington in Masterton. I heard the same story about the builder with the DIY site – cool story. Living in NZ has a lot of benefits when it comes to making money online – most of all perhaps is the exchange rate (ear in USD – live with NZD)! Thanks for another great post!

By: Lis

Lis — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:59:58 +0000

Its clean and fresh on account of the “fresh” southerly gales which regularly pass through! Well its only a 24 hour flight these days – beats 6 weeks on a boat! In fact Emirates is running non-stop 777 flights Dubai-Melbourne (which is only 3 hours ex-Wellington) – so the times are getting less and less. I just break the journey somewhere warm in Asia

By: stacie

stacie — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:46:08 +0000

The photos look great! I love the look of Island Bay. Looks very clean and fresh, like a movie scene. I’d love to visit NZ but I am put off a little by the long trip from the UK. But hopefully one day I’ll get over that, or they’ll invent a super duper quick plane or something.

By: Vi

Vi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:04:00 +0000

You shouldn’t complaint about weather anymore. Just weekend in Welly and it was perfect

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:27:27 +0000

Thanks, just done so, even thought to include a nice backlink to you and a few other people Now of to more hubs, seems the cloud is lifting a bit finally SY