Passive Income Can Indeed Add Up
Can those few pennies you get each month ever really make a difference in the worth of your article?
Do to a serve eye infection my ability to write on the Internet has been severely limited for the last month. This has caused me a great deal of stress and worry as writing online is the way I make my living and in order to eat I need to work. This forced me to concentrate what time I could spend on line writing for the site which gives me a weekly paycheck while ignoring the sites where I write for my own enjoyment and those few extra dollars that I earn.
While this proved to be both annoying and frustrating it did have one positive result, I was able to get a clear indication of just how much passive income my sites were accumulating. To my surprise, my passive income on the two main sites I write on regularly were much higher than I would have imagine. This proved to be both exciting and made me somewhat sad.
In the case of Triond, my passive income for this month nine days to go has just about matched my normal income when I was publishing 20 articles a month or more. This either means that most of my income has been coming from my older articles, or perhaps more people are reading more of my work. With my eyes improving and since I will be able to write regularly on this site again soon, perhaps I will be able to determine where my income is coming from. I also decided to try and make the time to actually keep a record and see which articles are getting the most views each day.
On Factoidz, though my passive income is less than what I normally made writing regularly, it is still far more than I expected it to be making half of my normally monthly income on that site. While, this is not a great amount of money it is impressive to see how quickly the passive income is accumulating on this site and if it continues to add up at this rate, within 5 years I should have a reasonable passive income from Factoidz whether or not I contribute regularly.
For those of you who may be wondering what this may mean for your own writing income it is quite simple. While it is often easy to become frustrated when good or even great articles seem to make only a few cents and get a few views when they are first published you shouldn’t get discouraged overtime that article that only earned you 5 or 10 cents may be worth a decent amount of money. The nice thing is that once the article is written the revenue keeps coming in and you are earning money without any additional work needed. Back linking old articles to your newer article whenever possible can increase an old articles income and help you to earn even more money for that article.
While passive income alone is not going to make you rich, it can and will increase your income slowly and more you write the more passive income you will accumulate as time goes by. Who knows, the articles you write today may help you to survive when your retire from writing.
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June 21st, 2010 at 10:48 am
All the best.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am
I’m started to believe what you are saying. All the best!
June 21st, 2010 at 11:32 am
all the best
June 21st, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Seems right.
June 21st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
That your passive income in Triond is almost equal to your ‘active’ period might also indicate that your older articles are good reference material worth visiting anytime … I for one think so
All the best, martie, get completely well soon
June 21st, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Good points, Martie. I too have found the same recently.
June 21st, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I just wish my passive income was more than change; but I guess you cannot have everything.
June 21st, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I totally agree, and I especially love your last paragraph.
That’s the beauty of passive income.
Plus, as you said, you never know when your older articles might get more views. Sometimes, I stumble an article of mine and it goes on without recieving views but in a week or two, it suddenly has caught on. You never know.
June 21st, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Marty hope your eye infection gets better soon!
Passive income can add up. Just 10 views a day to one article is 3,650 yearly views which should be $5-$10 a year in earnings. If the views keep coming in 3 years that’s $15-$30 for just one article. And it’s all passive income.
June 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Great points indeed. Glad you’re feeling better.
June 21st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
On line writers are mostly doing it because they love writting, with a secret dream of being able to make a living at what they love.
June 21st, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Stay encouraged.
June 21st, 2010 at 11:05 pm
very informative and well researched article. liked it. thanks for sharing this
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
Thanks for a very encouraging and inspiring article. You very wisely say that passive income will accumulate in due course of time. this a very impressive article, and I hope the prestigious Triond will be of great help to the authors’ ambition of increasing their earnings. What we require is patience. Thanks again for your most remarkable article. I shall be obliged if you kindly read some of my articles posted on this site, and advise how to increase the traffic
Best Wishes
Santosh Kumar
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:57 am
definitely true. i consider myself among the easily-discouraged-but-never-giving-up type. i’m quite sensitive, the simplest things can make me happy or sad, such as the difference between 1 and 10 views on one article…though i’ve told myself what’s on this article time and time again, i’m reeally glad to hear it from someone…means that what i tell myself isn’t crap and actually works…thanks, peace out =)
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:58 am
I hope you get back to your normal self and the eye infection completely heals:) Passive income on Triond really helps, I earn just as much from past works as I do newly monthly works sometimes. Great article.
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Yes that is true. Once you cross a level of passive income you won’t look back.
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:23 pm
very encouraging and stay bless.
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June 25th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
The passive income is good!
June 30th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Good to see you back. I have missed you. Hope your eyes continue to improve. I have seen my income from Triond increase greatly this month. I am not sure why unless they are paying us more now. I seem to get making more per views. Even my first post from 2007 are making a few cents a month.
August 14th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Excellent. I have tried to figure many times, how come that some articles bring lots of revenue and clicks while others (that seem to me personally, better-written) are almost useless from the revenue perspective. Perhaps it’s the titles that attract people… but I tend to think it’s a mysterious law of random clicking, which cannot be explained by logic or common sense. What you wrote here is absolutely correct, and I absolutely agree with it! Passive income serves as an active motivation for future work.
January 13th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Wonderful article. I’m glad you got to enjoy the passive income. Makes all of us appreciate it more.