What Earns You The Most Passive Income?
By Matt Jones on Oct 26, 2007 in Blog Money
Over several months bloggers build up income streams, some of which don’t involve constantly making new sales but generate income from referrals earning the money.
At the moment Adsense earns me what I consider “nearly passive” income because I earn from it on a few niche sites that I hardly ever update. But it is not entirely passive because if I never ever updated the sites they would lose Google rankings eventually to competitors and my earnings would drop.
My 100% Passive Income Generator
My only truly passive income source is CashCrate because of the referral network I have built up. You can see in the screenshot below that over a few months I have build up a referral base large enough to keep growing all by itself. I only have 29 active referrals but that is enough for new 2nd level referrals to be made every day.
It is so easy to build a referral network like this with CashCrate because it is free to join and there is no skill involved at all in making money with it, which means that referrals sign up in swarms and start making money with it straight away. It is a PTO site, which means once you sign up there are “offers” for you to take, such as entering competitions or completing an action of some kind.
Most of the offers are free to take and earn a few dollars each, while other larger offers cost some money to take but CashCrate pays you back with a much bigger return for these.
My advice is to only take offers you feel comfortable with and also to create an extra/fake email address that you can enter when taking the offers so you don’t get inundated with spam.
What is your best passive income source?
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Pretty good those referral stats. I guess CashCrate would be one of your biggest money makers (if you take out private ads?)?
Each active referral tends to earn a dollar or so each per month so they are a moderately sized money-maker.
What kind of offers are we talking about? It looks interesting.
My “passive” income is Google Adsense, Kontera ContentLink, and I have tried some other ones that I won’t recommend. Adsense and ContentLink consistently pay out, especially on my older articles.
Offers are generally entering competitions and signing up to things.
What is the pay rate for cash rate for referrals?
I promote fusion cash which is very similar and get paid a flat rate per lead. My other sources of passive income is kontera, adsense, comission junction and many other pay per lead programs. In my opinion it’s much easier to make a passive income without selling anything. Lead generation is the easy way to go!
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That would be Adsense and Affiliates.
Most of my sites are turnkeys that needs little or no updating (really) of course you have to set it up and build some links to it.
I honestly haven’t tried Cashcrate before as it looks like another pyramiding scheme. Anyway, I saw your check, so that’s it I’ll try it!