Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Passive Income
How To Earn More and Work Less.
Do you want to continue working 50, 70, 100 hours a week the rest of your life? Good!
Neither do I.
Do you want to be able to take time off whenever you want to, without worrying about what's going to
happen to your business?
So do I!
There's a saying in the corporate world: "Don't make yourself irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." As an entrepreneur, this is still true in its own way. Let's think of "being promoted" as earning more and working less. You can raise your prices, but until you can remove yourself from being directly involved in doing the work that generates the income, there's always going to be a limit to how much you can earn, and it can only increase very slowly.
Passive income, on the other hand, is income that does not require your direct involvement. Some kinds of passive income you may be familiar with include owning rental property, royalties on an invention or creative work, and network marketing. If you want to earn more, work less, and have a decent retirement, you're going to have to start creating income streams that do not require your direct involvement. Whether you're just starting your business, or you've been running it a while, the sooner you start thinking about how you are going to shift your business model to create more passive income, the sooner you can achieve personal and financial freedom.
Let's look at two basic types of passive income, and a third type of income that, while technically not passive, is a key strategy for earning more and working less.
Residual Income
Residual income is revenue that occurs over time from work done one time. Some examples include:
Leveraged Income
Leveraged income leverages the work of other people to create income for you. Some examples of leveraged income include:
This is a term I use to describe income that requires your direct participation, but that you can make more money by having more people involved. This generally involves a one-time event, such as:
Now is the time to think about how to apply this in your business. Can you create a product that people will buy over and over again? Can you engage others to sell your product? How could you make money off the work of others?
The sooner you answer these questions, the sooner you'll have financial and personal freedom.
Register your interest at www.sugarmums.com.au/healthwise
Neither do I.
Do you want to be able to take time off whenever you want to, without worrying about what's going to
happen to your business?
So do I!
There's a saying in the corporate world: "Don't make yourself irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted." As an entrepreneur, this is still true in its own way. Let's think of "being promoted" as earning more and working less. You can raise your prices, but until you can remove yourself from being directly involved in doing the work that generates the income, there's always going to be a limit to how much you can earn, and it can only increase very slowly.
Passive income, on the other hand, is income that does not require your direct involvement. Some kinds of passive income you may be familiar with include owning rental property, royalties on an invention or creative work, and network marketing. If you want to earn more, work less, and have a decent retirement, you're going to have to start creating income streams that do not require your direct involvement. Whether you're just starting your business, or you've been running it a while, the sooner you start thinking about how you are going to shift your business model to create more passive income, the sooner you can achieve personal and financial freedom.
Let's look at two basic types of passive income, and a third type of income that, while technically not passive, is a key strategy for earning more and working less.
Residual Income
Residual income is revenue that occurs over time from work done one time. Some examples include:
- An insurance agent who gets commission every year when a customer renews his policy
- A network marketing or direct sales rep's income from her direct customers when they reorder product every month
- An aerobics instructor who produces a video and sells it at the gyms where she teaches
- A marketing consultant who creates a workbook and sells it in e-book format on the Internet
- A photographer who makes his photos available through a stock photography clearinghouse and gets paid a royalty whenever someone buys one of his images
- A restaurant or retail owner who has grown to the point of hiring a trustworthy manager
Leveraged Income
Leveraged income leverages the work of other people to create income for you. Some examples of leveraged income include:
- An e-book author selling her e-book through affiliates who promote the product
- A network marketer who builds a downline and receives commissions on the sales made by people in his downline
- A general contractor who makes a profit margin on the work done by sub-contractors
- Franchising your business model to other entrepreneurs (the ultimate leveraged income)
This is a term I use to describe income that requires your direct participation, but that you can make more money by having more people involved. This generally involves a one-time event, such as:
- A seminar or class
- A conference or convention
- Concerts and dance recitals
- Raves and other parties
Now is the time to think about how to apply this in your business. Can you create a product that people will buy over and over again? Can you engage others to sell your product? How could you make money off the work of others?
The sooner you answer these questions, the sooner you'll have financial and personal freedom.
Register your interest at www.sugarmums.com.au/healthwise
Be The Master Of Your Own Destiny
We all have dreams and we all have goals, it's wether we can or get the chance to fullfill these aspirations as we travel through our lives. These goals and dreams can only be defined by you from educating your children or yourself for that matter, buying a home, car, going on holiday,donating to charity. What ever is your goal or dream is it within reach?
Do we want to be a slave to someone else's goals and dreams instead of fullfilling our own, do we want the landlord to have control of when we live in there house or live with the unknown, of if and when they could sell their house from underneath you?
The feeling of uncertainty can be pretty frightning.
Web Definition of Uncertainty: Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance,"the uncertainty of the outcome" "the precariousness of his income".
We all need to learn the art of working smarter not harder, the science of becoming rich can be summed up in the following comments by 3 very famous businessmen.
Robert Kiosaki said, "The poor and the middle class work for money, the rich have money work for them"
John Paul Getty said, Ï would prefer to get 1% of the effort of 100men, than 100% of my own efforts"
Jim Rohn said, "The same wind blows on us all, so you need to set a bigger sail"
...............all of these comments describe the concept of financial leverage.
Sugarmums offers an opportunity to build your own web based business,by licensing our existing, proven and successful web sites and training system.
This established business produces a million dollar turnover for it's associates today.
For further information and details please register your interest at www.sugarmums.com.au/healthwise
QUOTE: My philosphy is that not only you are resposible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment~Oprah Winfrey
Do we want to be a slave to someone else's goals and dreams instead of fullfilling our own, do we want the landlord to have control of when we live in there house or live with the unknown, of if and when they could sell their house from underneath you?
The feeling of uncertainty can be pretty frightning.
Web Definition of Uncertainty: Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance,"the uncertainty of the outcome" "the precariousness of his income".
We all need to learn the art of working smarter not harder, the science of becoming rich can be summed up in the following comments by 3 very famous businessmen.
Robert Kiosaki said, "The poor and the middle class work for money, the rich have money work for them"
John Paul Getty said, Ï would prefer to get 1% of the effort of 100men, than 100% of my own efforts"
Jim Rohn said, "The same wind blows on us all, so you need to set a bigger sail"
...............all of these comments describe the concept of financial leverage.
Sugarmums offers an opportunity to build your own web based business,by licensing our existing, proven and successful web sites and training system.
This established business produces a million dollar turnover for it's associates today.
For further information and details please register your interest at www.sugarmums.com.au/healthwise
QUOTE: My philosphy is that not only you are resposible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment~Oprah Winfrey
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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