May 04, 2012, 10:59 AM —
Web developer and QR code programmer Patrick Wied decided to search for a passive income stream. Tough job.
How do webworkers get passive income? He checked Flattr, but it's hard to get donations from javascript projects. New blogs are lost in the ocean of existing blogs. Ad networks want sites with 100k+ visitors per month. Weid decided to sell some Open Source projects through Codecanyon, and sold five for a total of around $62 so far. He joined Adbrite, but with 500-700 daily visitors, he's only earned 25 cents in two weeks. But he has high hopes for his WordPress Visitor heatmap plugin.
To help Wied, we went to the Internet marketing world. "How to Fearlessly Build an Online Business that Generates Passive Income" starts out by saying, "Building a passive income online is not for the faint of heart." But if you crank out good content day after day, for years rather than weeks or months, you may earn "a full time income online within two to four years." Sounds like hard work for passive income.
Am I rich yet?
I had a blog, and it made me about $100 from advertising in 6 months after putting in a ton of work.
David on patrick-wied.at
If you really want passive income, try to come up with something that is a subscription service people will pay you monthly for.
gravitronic on news.ycombinator.com
To earn passive income you need to think on long term plans of your website, If you don’t have any long term plan then you ll ultimately fail in the money making adventure.
Bishwajeet on famousbloggers.net
Other options
I know some companies selling wordpress plugins and I can say support is hell for them.
Anonnn on patrick-wied.at
For passive income think: solve the smallest problem possible. Simple SaaS software.
