Passive income – to my way of thinking is the best income to have. Why? Because I’m bloody idle that’s why! Oh and because I know its possible to. My partner and I own several rental properties in New Zealand, we bought them several years ago and every month we get paid the income from them. Is it passive income – sure it is – we’ve never met our tenants, we don’t mow lawns, we don’t take calls about broken toilets at 2am – my property manager does. Property investment can be as active or as passive as you want to make it – but you have to pay someone to do the work for you. Property investment is not risk free either. Our rental properties are exposed to interest rate risks, tenant availability, natural disasters, property manager going bad etc etc. If we’d borrowed the amount the bank was prepared to lend us a few years ago we would be in a nasty position now. Making passive income online, to my way of thinking is a much better thing than making passive income from property investment. Why? The risks are lower much lower. The investment required is much lower. It’s [...] Read more »
Can You Make $1000/month With Adsense?
The title of this post is a quote from a question which was posed by an new writer over at hubpages - the question was naive – the questioner probably actually wanted to know how to make money online, or even how to make passive income online, not with the specific Adsense program. The reality is that Adsense is a tricky beast. It appears deceptively easy to earn a little money with Adsense, most people at HubPages make more from Adsense than the other options available there (eBay and Amazon particularly), $50 a month, $200, $500 even -but a $1000 is it possible? Sure its possible to earn that sort of money -some make much, much more than that. One of the few sources of reliable information on the internet that I’ve found is a Canadian who lives on a frozen lake who goes by the name of Grizz and writes all about how to make money online with Adsense – go on go and have a look, here’s a nice bear picture while we wait You see I knew you’d come back pretty quick, or you won’t be back for weeks one way or the other If you came [...] Read more »
Why a Blogger blog?
Update: I moved – this is no longer a blogger blog: and heres why I moved from Blogger Some of you may be wondering why I am using the free blogger hosting to run this blog. After all I pay for hosting which effectively allows me to run unlimited domains so why would I not just run another blog there: after all all I need to pay for the domain nae – which can be had for $1 if I don’t mind a info tld. I started on blogger but moved away from it when I discovered the power of Thanks Blogger.com Originally uploaded by Shavar WordPress. Now for some purposes I think blogger has a place in my empire. Horses for courses and here are some of the pros/cons that I can see. Advantages of Blogger (Blogspot) Blogs they get indexed quickly in Google: not surprisingly because Google owns blogger! This blog got indexed inside about 48 hours. out of the box bloggers are well optimized for SEO purposes. You can do the same for WordPress blogs of course: but that’s the point you have to do it – and many people don’t; it’s idiot proof: its very,very easy [...] Read more »
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