Creating Residual Income For Newbies

April 15, 2009 by Liz Tomey  
Filed under Residual Income

By creating a residual income, you can literally turn your finances around this year. By creating a residual income you can have a stream of income that comes in month after month almost on autopilot depending on how you set it up.

Residual income is simply income that you get started (maybe by promoting a membership site, a network marketing program, or something you own that pays you monthly), and work very little to keep coming in.

Now don’t let the word residual income scare you. You can easily create this kind of income simply by educating yourself a bit, using the right tools, and having a guide that will help you.

This article will act as your guide, so let’s dive in right now…

To get started, you will need to know how you want to make your money. That simply means finding a program that you can promote that will pay you a monthly commission. You can also create your own programs or websites that will pay you a monthly fee.

Once you’ve decided how you want to earn your money, you’ll then need to create a plan to promote what you’ve decided on.

So let’s say that you are promoting a network marketing company that pays you $50 for every person you signup, and $10 for every person that buys the product that network marketing company owns.

Your job would be to create a plan to advertise the opportunity. That way for every person you signup, you get paid $50.

You would then need to create a plan to advertise the product also, so that you would be paid $10 for every person who buys the product.

So in simple English here, you find the opportunity you want to get paid by, and then advertise it, so you get paid.

My advice to you with what you’ve learned here, is to find experts who specialize in teaching people to create residual incomes. You can do this very easily.

Simply go to your favorite search engine, and search using the term “create residual income”. You’ll find many people with websites, newsletters, and blogs all specializing on this topic.

Simply grab a notebook, educate yourself, and take notes. Then use your notes to take action.

Whatever you do, just realize that creating a residual income is the answer to working less and still making a lot of money. This should be at the top of your “to do” list to get your finances where you want them this year!

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Getting Started With Residual Income

October 5, 2008 by Liz Tomey  
Filed under Residual Income

Residual Income is another term for “recurring” income. Basically there are three types of income streams that you may have coming into your business.

If you do a one-time job, sale or perform a contract, you get paid once and the income stops there. If you do a normal 9 to 5 job, you will continue to get paid as long you continue to work for your employer-often called a linear income. This is the type of income that the majority of workers “enjoy.” Even if you are a neurosurgeon, lawyer or engineer, you are only paid as long as you continue working. You stop working and the bank account dwindles.

The third type of income is the residual or recurring income where you are paid even after you have stopped working. For example, let’s say that you wrote a book. You had to go through the tedious task of researching, writing and getting a publisher. However, after that initial investment, and as long as your book continues to sell, you will continue to receive royalty checks.

A majority of affluent people created wealth through a residual income stream. Take singer Michael Jackson for example; he still continues to receive royalty from the sales of his records made decades ago. He can even repackage the same oldies and sell them to generate new income. He doesn’t have to spend time in the studio to record new songs in order to have the cash keep flowing in. This is the most ideal situation of the three. We would all like to work once and get paid over and over again. That is the power of residual income!

The majority of professionals that enjoy this type of income belong to the creative fields such as actors, writers, singers, and inventors. The field of Network Marketing or Multi-level Marketing (MLM) has also been instrumental over the past 60 years or so to make the residual income concept very popular and attractive.

Here, you can build a network of distributors, referred to as your ‘downline’, and generate income outside of your own immediate effort. Working for an MLM company is one of the most feasible places where you can generate residual cash, and so we will now take a look at the secrets to being a successful network marketer.

There are other many many many different things you can do to create a residual income, and this part of the blog will be dedicated to all things related to residual income!