Passive Income Proactive
Working smarter, not harder.

I don’t know about you, but I get tired of all the scams out there about making money on the Internet. Where are the legitimate online money making ideas? Most of the people involved are making money by getting you to spend yours for their information. That’s why I decided to start this blog—people need a website that provides honest information about how to actually make money online without having to spend a lot of money to get started.

I should tell you up front that I’m not going to talk about making a zillion dollars a day doing nothing—that’s a money making scheme, and who wants to do nothing anyway? I’m also not going to talk about making your money by ripping someone else off—bad karma there and I believe it’ll come back around to bite you in the ass, if nothing else.

I’m going to talk about making money by using the Internet to learn how other people are doing it, to change it a little to fit your needs, and then spend whatever time it takes to make it happen. You can’t expect to jump right in and make a lot of money without knowing anything about how to do it—that’s just not going to happen. Like anything else in life, there’s a learning curve involved.

I want to be a money making machine, but I don’t want to work too hard. My ideal job is one where I do the work up front and then sit back and watch the money come in for a long time—remember, work smarter, not harder. That’s where the “Proactive” comes in. The dictionary defines proactive as acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes. To me, that means making a plan and taking action to meet my future needs where money is concerned. It doesn’t bother me at all that more and more people are starting online businesses. There’s nothing wrong with competition—it makes you work harder to win the race. The real key to earning money online isn’t having some secret scientific formula or being an extra lucky person—it’s being better at what you do than anyone else.

There are actually many legitimate ways to earn money online. For instance, one idea is to start a blog and offer something that people can really use—like I’m doing here. I’m offering people legitimate information—called content–with some links to more good information, and if you purchase some of that information, I get a percentage for showing it to you.

Another way to make money is with affiliate advertising– promoting other people’s products. Nothing magical here—all businesses have an advertising budget and they are giving you a percentage of it to help advertise their goods–such as CopyNProfit or Day Tradeing Robot, both are simple products or solutions that one can market for a commission..

Even though there are other ways to earn money online—and I’ll be covering the good ones as we go along–you should plan to start earning money from a combination of content, advertising and affiliation. The basic idea that I’m going to start with is to build a website with great content, promote the site to get people to come to it, and use affiliate marketing to earn passive income from the site. I’ll tell you how to set up a website—you can get free hosting online if you need to—how to come up with good content to put on the site, and how to promote (market) your website so people will come to it so you can earn money online.

Don’t go running off because some of this sounds scary—trust me, if you can read the information posted here then you’re capable of doing this.

I suggest you first decide how much time you’re going to devote to this per day. In fact, treat it like a real job right now–I’m spending at least two hours a day in addition to my day job setting up websites. For this week, spend most of that time searching the web, keeping an open mind for ideas about earning money while you’re learning as much as you can about how to do this. Then come back here and catch my next blog post to get started setting up your first website and paving your way to a passive but proactive income!

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