Best Ways to Earn Residual Income

Now you've thought about it before - How can you make money work for you and not spend the rest of your life working for money?

It almost sounds too good to be true doesn't it?

I mean, how can a regular person like you create residual income and live the rest of your days doing what you love?

Now obviously it can be done. We all know someone or know someone who knows someone who's doing it.

Luckily for you I'm going to share how you can do it to!

Residual income, also called passive income, involves a steady source of income that does not come from an employer or contractor. This can include rental income or any other business dealing in which you do not actively participate in the business but still earn money from your initial work (like book royalties or certain types of stocks). It's important to realize that even residual income takes a lot of time and effort, and isn't as simple as waiting for the checks to roll in. Learning how to earn residual income can help you supplement your regular income and generate profits for the foreseeable future, as long as you put in the necessary work.

1 - BUILD AN AFFILIATE BLOG

Set up a blog, promote the blog, and use it to promote affiliate offers. This is by far the best known way to generate a source of passive income online.

Start with an affiliate site like ClickBank or Commission Junction. Find a few offers in a category that you know a bit about. Ideally offers with some degree of recurring income. Make sure they have good numbers, and do your keyword research to make sure there's demand. After figuring out what keywords to optimize your blog for, start a new blog and write articles. SEO optimize the blog, and promote it around the web. Once the traffic numbers start going up, deploy some ads for affiliate offers. People click on the ads, and you get paid.

Now repeat the process until you have ten or twenty blogs, or maybe hundreds if you want to lots of cash online.

2 - SELL COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS ONLINE

Customers are buying products online at an extensive rate nowadays. This means that there are a large number of customers looking for exactly what YOU can supply them with.

Lots of people have proven that this is a great platform to sell products online. Put up a page and promote it. People pay you money. The product gets delivered to them, while you kick back as the money rolls in.

If Shopify is not your thing then you can always try your luck with eBay.

3 - MLM / NETWORK MARKETING

This is a great way to gain residual income. You can literally have your own franchise for less than $500. In some cases less. I was personally lucky enough to find a great Health & Wellness company that only has a $50 start up fee! The company ships the product directly to the customer, bills them and pays me. How amazing is that! How this works is you make money from selling a product and building a team of people to do the same. A number of highly reputable entrepreneurs such as Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki, Bill Gates and Richard Branson are big fans of Multi-Level Marketing and all say that if they had to start a business at this day and age they would choose Network Marketing. Some even have. Network Marketing is also great because it's more like a course in personal development. The person you end up becoming in the process is far more important than the income you can earn.

Make sure that it's a product and company that you can stand behind. That way it's not like selling at all it's simply sharing something that you believe will benefit others.

4 - RENTAL PROPERTY

Learn about the work involved. Being a landlord isn't as simple as just collecting rent checks every month. There's a lot of time, work, and money involved in maintaining the property and meeting the tenants' needs.

• It's best if you're a handy person with hands-on experience making repairs, doing yard work, and working on basic plumbing repairs/maintenance.
• If you can't perform work yourself, you'll have to pay someone else to do it. This can get very expensive, especially if it's an older property or a neglected building in disrepair.
• Remember that being a landlord can involve 24-hour problems. Just because you're ready to call it a night, it doesn't mean there aren't problems that need to be addressed at the property.
• Sometimes problems arise that need an urgent solution. If you can't be on call around the clock, you'll need to hire a building maintenance person who can be (which, again, will cost you more money).
• Recognize that dealing with tenants can be difficult at times. There's always a chance that some type of conflict will arise at some point, so make sure you can calmly defuse those situations if you're thinking about becoming a landlord.

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Bonds are an integral part of every Canadian's portfolio for good reason. Bonds carry the "promise" of fixed income with regular stable cash flows. But with interest rates hovering at all-time lows, the pressure to make every cent count has never been greater. Creating such exposure smartly can make all the difference in the returns.

A portfolio for the average Canadian probably contains fixed income securities, otherwise known as bonds. Bonds are particularly attractive to those investors at or near retirement as they look to replace their regular and stable salary with a similar certain stream of interest income.

Unfortunately purchasing bonds in Canada is not as easy or as cost effective as purchasing stocks. Unlike equities which trade on an open stock market exchange with fully transparent bid and ask prices, bonds in Canada have to be purchased through a 'dealer network' which effectively removes all the efficiency and transparency of a fully functional liquid market.

This is where it gets unpleasant for the retail investor. Compared to gigantic financial institutions who invest billions of dollars with pooled assets, it is extremely challenging for the retail investor to purchase a bond with the similar efficacy as these large behemoth financial institutions.

The only thing that might be worse than purchasing bonds through Canada's dealer network is purchasing a bond mutual fund. The average expense ratio on a Canadian bond mutual fund is close to 1.75%. In an interest rate environment where long term yields are hovering around 3.5%, that's like sharing my hamburger with a stranger and him taking half of it in one bite. I don't think so!

So how can the retail investor get the fixed income exposure with a handsome seniority and a tight bid ask spread? The average investor should consider Bond ETF's to create the fixed income exposure in their portfolios.

ETF's are managed by big financial institutions, and trade on any number of stock exchanges just like your favorite stock. The benefits to the average investor are numerous.

A bond ETF, is basically a bunch of different bonds bundled up in a portfolio and traded in the stock market. Unlike the individual bonds themselves, there is substantially more liquidity in bond ETFs, which makes for a tighter bid ask spread. Basically, investors can easily exit their position at any time without the cost of large transaction fees.

This advantage alone is all retail investors should need to convince themselves that bond ETFs are the most efficient way to gain exposure to the fixed income market. In addition, these Bond ETFs have huge amounts of assets under management and have superior purchasing power. For example, total assets under management for the major Canadian Bond ETFs is in excess of 2 trillion dollars. Guess what - that gives these ETF companies huge leverage in negotiating with the best bond issuers. Not only are they able to trade in and out of bonds at much better spreads than you or I could ever get, but they also have access to the best issuers.

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