The Critical Guide To Passive Income: A Thorough Exploration

This book carefully examines the world of passive income - where the opportunities for an ordinary person looking to begin generating passive income are, and where the pitfalls are.

We look at five categories of passive income and explore each category in depth using concrete examples and how-to guides.

We are confident that any reader will be able to go out and begin generating some form of passive income after reading this book.

The Five Categories of Passive Income

1. Property Income
• Rent
• Interest (Portfolio Income)
• Profit

2. Royalties
• Writing a Book
• Making Music
• Voicing an Audiobook
• Inventing
• Taking Photos and Making Illustrations
• Making HTML-Templates
• App Development
• Designing Clothes
• Online Lectures

3. Arbitrage
• Spatial Retail Arbitrage
• Temporal Retail Arbitrage
• Credit Arbitrage
• Arbitrage Betting (not recommended)
• Forex Arbitrage (not recommended)
• Eyeball Arbitrage (not recommended)

4. The Internet
• Advertisements
- Blogging
- Niche Websites
- Video Blogging (YouTube)
- Social Media
- Podcasting

• Affiliate Marketing
• Subscription Services

5. Digital Goods
• Public Domain Digital Goods
• Homemade Digital Goods
• Licensed Digital Goods

Bonus

As a bonus we take a detour and look at ways to make money online that does not qualify as passive income. These include:

• Fiverr-Gigs
• Mechanical Turk jobs
• Freelancing
• Survey Taking
• Article Writing
• Selling Things on Etsy