The Personal Finance Podcast - 25+ Passive Income Ideas That Will Blow Your Mind - Part 2

Episode Date: January 20, 2021

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And why anybody would ever want to pursue a side hustle or a passive income idea. And the bottom line is you want to increase your income so that you can invest more money so that you can create financial freedom for yourself. And that's why this is so important. And once you start stacking up these income streams, you're allowing yourself. to buy your freedom. And that's the most important thing that money can do. Most people will use money to buy stuff, and that's how they get into sticky situations.

But if you use your money to buy freedom, every dollar you put towards a business or every dollar you put towards an investment buys your freedom. It buys your time back. And if you understand that, then you are miles ahead of everybody else who doesn't. Because the majority of people live to consume. But if you live to produce, you'll be able to consume. whatever you want later in life. That's the amazing thing about this. So without further ado, let's get into part two of the 25 plus passive income ideas. Let's get it. Number 13 is buy a

profitable business. Now there's two ways that you can do this. But my favorite way to buy a profitable business is to use what's called seller financing. And I learned about seller financing in the real estate world. When you buy a property in seller financing in the real estate world, The seller becomes the bank. So let's say you're buying a property from someone. Well, that person immediately becomes the bank because what you ask them for is seller financing. What they do is they take a loan and then you pay them every single month your payments. And it's a win-win situation because they collect interest.

And if you default on the property, then they get the property back. And it's a winning situation for you because you don't have to go get a bank loan, go through the process of making sure everything is approved so you can get that loan. negotiating your interest rate, all those pieces. All you have to do is work with this specific person. And this is a great strategy, especially if you have a lot of bank loans out on real estate. Well, what if you did the same thing with small businesses? Maybe you want to buy a business as a passive income idea.

You know that they have employees there. They have a manager that operates that business. But you want to go ahead and buy a business. But you don't have the cash to be able to buy the business outright. What if you did seller financing? You worked with the seller. Maybe they want to retire. And you said, hey, I'm going to give you.

give you monthly payments on this, you're going to collect interest as well, so you're going to be actually making more money than what the sale price is. And if I default on this, you get the business back. It's a win-win situation. And this is fantastic for people who want to retire who just want cash flow. They want to maintain the amount of money that they were earning before. Well, this is going to help them do that. So buying a business with seller finance, so there's all kinds of businesses you can do this with. Anything from like sweat equity businesses, what I mean by that is businesses like lawn care, cleaning services, all those types of businesses have owner-operators that want to retire one day. And if you offer them something like this, it's something nobody else has ever

offered them before. They've probably ever even thought about it. So it's an opportunity for you to get in with low money down. You put down a down payment just as you would with a house. And then you go ahead and you can operate that business and reap the rewards of the profits. Number 14, start a podcast. Now let me tell you something about this whole process of starting a podcast that I have learned. If you think about it and if you look at the numbers, there is well above 100,000 million YouTube channels. So if you start a YouTube channel today, your chances of success are extremely low because you're competing with 100 million other YouTube channels. Can you be successful? Absolutely. You can be successful. If you have great content, you can be successful. But let's think about blogs here

for a second. Now there's over 300 million blogs. So now you're competing on Google with 300 million other blogs. It's a lot harder to stand out within blogs. Guess how many podcasts there are? We just reached over a million podcasts. And the cool thing about podcasts is we are still in the early days. Now, it feels like everybody and their mother has a podcast and a lot of people have started podcasts, but what happens in podcasting is a lot of people quit. What they call it is pod fading, but a lot of people will quit. And the opportunity in podcast is if you can build up an audience, you can do affiliate marketing, which is you recommend products and people click on those products on your link that you recommend and you truly use that product, then you get a commission sale on that. You can also make

money on ad reads. Now ad reads can become extremely profitable for people who start a podcast, but you have to have an audience first. You have to have great content to be able to get to that point. But starting a podcast, especially around something you love, may be a great opportunity for you. Because if you do it simply, you don't have to get all technical and use all this fancy jargon and things like that. If you do it simply, it would take you five, ten hours a week and all you have to do is tweak it and make sure your episodes are right and you're talking about things that you're interested in. So it's a fantastic way to get your message out there. And specifically If you just focus on the content, don't focus on trying to profit, but focus on serving other people,

you're going to be in a fantastic position. You're going to grow over time. The thing is, you've got to stick with it for the long haul. So I think podcasting, there's still a fantastic opportunity out there. Number 15. Create your own journal. Now, this is one of those things that it just shows that there's endless opportunities out there on the internet. There's a multitude of ways to make money.

And creating your own journal is one of those examples. I have friends who have created journals, meaning little notebooks for people to journal each day. They give them timelines and outlines and things like that that they can do to achieve certain goals or just to free their mind or for therapeutic reasons or all types of different journals are out there that people will buy. And they will pay $20, $30, $40 each journal. And a lot of times you have to buy three or four journals a year. And all you have to do is create one journal and sell it to an audience. And that can be a recurring revenue for you for a long,

period of time, especially if people really buy into what you're doing. And if you have a great message behind that journal on why those people should be using those journals and they have results based on using those journals, you can have a fantastic revenue source there. And it's really easy to create your own journal. There's a website called Blurb and you can go on there, create your own journal. You can sell them on Amazon. You can sell them on your own website. And it's a fantastic, simple way to be able to create another income stream. I remember when I needed to hire someone fast, but finding the right person quickly, felt impossible. And if you've ever been there, you know how stressful this can be. That's where

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But what a lot of people don't do in their courses is create high value courses, because what they do is just put a small amount of information into a course, package it up and try to sell it to you for $200 bucks. And what happens is a lot of unhappy people get to the end of that course, and they really don't get that far. Now, I've been through a lot of courses that are absolutely terrible, but I've also been through a lot of them

that have given me a multitude of information. And sometimes the free ones have the best information, and a lot of times those free ones should actually be charging. But what you're going to find out is, if you have an expertise somewhere, and if you have a lot of knowledge in something, it can be anything from hobbies, so golf, hunting, fishing, hiking, hiking, knitting, underwater basket weaving.

It doesn't really matter what it is. you can put a course out there on there. So you can go anywhere from, there's websites called Coursera, which is a high value. I think it's 40 bucks a month to use Coursera, but that's what a lot of high value courses use. Or there's websites like Gumroad,

which is absolutely free and you could put out a course. So there's so many ways to do this, especially if you have a specific audience, that it's a fantastic way to build an additional income stream. Because all you do is you create your course and it could be a video course, it could be a text course, it doesn't matter, but you create your course,

put the information online and offer it to people. and make sure it's high value because that's what's going to create the income for you. If you have a terrible course, words going to spread. If you just do it halfway, you're never going to make money on that course. But if you make a fantastic course, the best course there ever was on that subject, you're going to make money because words are going to spread. People are going to share it and say, I learned so much from this. You've got to take this course.

Make people want to tell everyone about it. And that's how you make money on it. But if you look across people who have created courses online, the best courses, they make 20, 30, 40, 50, 50, 60, $70,000 a month on their course. There's a guy named Jock who create a piano course called Piano in 21 Days.

And I listen to his podcast all the time. And he just hit $120,000 in one month on sales for his course on piano in 21 days because it literally teaches people how to play the piano in 21 days. And it's an extremely high value course that you can use. And he's making tremendous amount of money on it.

And inside those courses, you can make money on affiliates and things like that as well, but creating the value for other people is what truly matters. But a few other ideas for courses just so you have the ideas in your head. How to start a home gym. Cooking, yoga. How to negotiate your salary. How to create a pitch deck.

How to teach your kid golf. Sales, dating. The list goes on and on and on. But think through your expertise. What do you know the most about? And can you create a course on that? Number 17. If you have an audience, once again, you can host a virtual summit.

If you don't know what a virtual summit is, it's basically like having a seminar, but on Zoom or online, where you can have a large audience, watch presentations that you put together. And what you do is you host it with other people. So you collaborate with other people that are in your niche or whatever you do. And you put together a summit together. And people will pay 100 bucks for this. They'll pay 100 bucks. And you put out high value content.

They'll come every single year to do this. Because a lot of people don't want to go fly across the country and go to a seminar when they don't have to, especially if you're introverted. And this is the best option for them. This allows them to learn as much as they possibly can from a bunch of different speakers about a very specific topic. And you can do it for like a one, two-day event. And it's all digital. It's all online.

It's a very cool way to create high value for your audience and make a passive income. Number 18. Now, this one isn't as passive as it could be, but creating an online newsletter. So there's a lot of newsletters now. I don't know if anybody subscribes to them or if you've seen any of them that are behind paywalls. And there's websites like substack where you can do this. What's happening is a lot of high-end bloggers who have really good content are now putting their content into these newsletters. And what you do is you set up a newsletter and then create an audience.

Now, if you have great content, your audience is going to come. And if you think about this for a second, let's just say that you have 10 subscribers to this newsletter that pay $10 a month. Well, that's $100 every month. So if your content's great and people start talking and spreading your message, and let's say you get 1,000 subscribers at $10 a month. that's $10,000 a month that you can make. And writing a newsletter takes two, three, four hours, two hours to write it, one hour to edit it, and one hour to make sure the formatting's correct. It's not something that's going to take a tremendous amount of time.

And for something like that, for $10,000 for a thousand subscribers, that's a massive income stream. And that's somewhat passive because four hours a week, that's like a four hour work week right there. That's a full-time income and four hours a week. So that's the power of these newsletters and how you can do that. But there's a lot of people doing it now who have very high-value content and people gladly pay because if your content is good, people will gladly pay. Number 19, consult for others. Now, consulting is one of the biggest ways to make money on the side. And it's one of the best ways to make money on the side, especially if you're starting out. Because if you have an expertise in

something, you can start consulting for all kinds of businesses. Now, the downside of consulting is you have to fill out a lot of applications to get going. And that's what takes the biggest amount of time. Because once you land some consulting gigs, then as long as that consulting gig is going on, you're going to be making money and it's going to be minimal amount of work. A lot of consultants don't work a long hours. Being able to consult for, say, small businesses, maybe you're an expert in social media and you can help a small business talk through those pieces. Maybe you're an expert in accounting, and you can be an accounting consultant for businesses who are trying to figure out different ways that they can reduce their taxes. Maybe you have an expertise in public speaking and you can help businesses get in front of people and do more with their

There's all kinds of ways that you can consult. But reaching out and asking businesses and filling out applications is the tough part. But once you land some of those gigs, they'll pay you $1,000 a month for four hours of work a month. Think through businesses and think through your expertise and say, hey, can I consult for some companies? And reach out to them, send them emails, and see how you can go through the process of signing up and applying to become a consultant for that company. Number 20, get your own website. I think every single person in the world should have their own website. Why?

Because there's so many things that you can do with. it first of all you can use as your sales page if you have a business you can sell things on that website you can use it for consulting gigs you can use the home page for e-commerce you can sell i don't know what you sell finger painting something like that you can do anything on a website but everybody needs to have their own website so go get a domain worst case in error get your name as the domain and get a website going because you can make revenue on all sorts of things from affiliates to ads there's so many ways to make money online but you have to start with having a website number 21 start an e-commerce company. So there's a bunch of ways that you can do this. You can sell things online.

You can build software. There's a bunch of ways to have an e-commerce company. But getting a company online and selling things online is one of the best ways to create a passive income. What a lot of people just don't realize is building online businesses is the best way to reduce the amount of time you have to spend on your business and at the same time make maximum profit. Think about it. There's no overhead in terms of you don't have to pay rent to a business. You don't have to pay rent to a building. You don't have a bunch of employees everywhere. You can run those businesses by yourself or with a few employees or virtual assistants or things like that. Your overhead is extremely low, which allows you to have to work less. Number 22, get paid to travel. So if you're big into travel,

you can get paid to travel. There's companies like trusted house sitters USA, House Sitters America, house carriers, no matter, mind my house. All of these companies will pay you to house sit for people. So you can go travel around the world, set up appointments in each place that you're going to go travel, and get paid while you're traveling. And this is especially fantastic if that is what you love to do is travel. And some people make this their full-time income because all they want to do is travel. So they house sit for other people and people will pay you $300, $500 a night to house sit. So look into this option if you love to travel. Number 23.

Sales. If you're great at sales, then reach out to local companies in your area that you are really, really into and see if you can be a sales rep for them. Maybe it's your favorite t-shirt brand. Maybe it's gym equipment. Maybe it's a candle company. It doesn't matter what it is. But if you want to make some additional income, reach out to companies like that

and see if you can be a sales rep. Companies are always looking for more sales reps. They're always looking for more sales reps. And sales is the way to make the most money starting off. Number 24. If you have more money than time, buy an Airbnb with management. Now, Airbnb's have become extremely popular as of late.

And the cool thing is, you don't have to manage them if you bake management costs into running your numbers. So let's say, for example, you want to buy a cottage, I don't know, in the Georgia mountains. And while you're running your numbers, you say, hey, I want to make X amount of cash flow. But I don't want to take phone calls and have to book it and set up the house cleaners and all those types of things. So what you do is you bake in management into running your numbers. So usually an Airbnb management company is going to cost 20 to 30%. If you bake those numbers in and the numbers still work, you have an investment that is going to be paying you passive income every single month and you don't have to management whatsoever. All you have to do is manage the manager. So that'll take one, two, three hours a week max and you're golden. You can do this over and over and over again. You don't want to over extend yourself into one area. I wouldn't say buy 500 Airbnbs, but it's a way to make an additional passive income and diversify your income.

Number 25, if you do buy an Airbnb, partner up with local businesses and say, hey, I'm going to recommend my guest to your local businesses. Maybe it's a restaurant or maybe it's a spa. And every time one of my residents comes in, you give me a cut of the profits. And I've seen people do this and it works tremendously. So for example, if there's a restaurant down the street that you really like, you can recommend it to your guests and work a deal with a restaurant. Maybe they give your guest 10% off.

And every time someone brings in that 10% off coupon, you get a cut of that deal. and it's a fantastic way to work through and see additional income sources for your Airbnb. Number 26, start a drop shipping business. Now, if you're not familiar with drop shipping, you got to think of it like you're the middleman. So you set up an e-commerce website and you sell other people's inventory on that website. So for example, you can set up an e-commerce website that sells basketballs. And what you do is you don't carry any inventory. You don't have to fill up your basement with a bunch of basketballs.

All you do is you set up the website. will buy the basketballs on your website, and then another company, the actual wholesaler, will ship the basketballs to your customer. So you're just the middleman. They make an order, you email it to the wholesaler, the wholesaler ships it over there. It's a fantastic way to create a business

where you're making money, the wholesaler's making money, and the customer still gets a good product. Number 27, create a niche or authority site. So if you're not familiar with niche sites, and I talked about this on the cheapest ways to become a millionaire because a website is so cheap to start up. But a niche site is something that focuses on a very specific topic. So it can be something from golfing, synchronized swimming, to taking care of parrots.

Because this is a real example I'm going to use right here, and I talked about this on the other episode. But there's a website out there called Parrot Secrets. And what Parrot Secrets does is it teaches people how to take care of one of the most difficult birds to take care of out there. And Parrot Secrets has an e-book. And that e-book sells a significant amount of copies because it's very hard to find someone who actually knows how to take care of parrots. And Parrot Secrets.com, if you can go to a website right now, it doesn't even look like it's anything. It looks like it was made in 1995. But Parrot Secrets.com has been estimated to make $60,000 a month just on a website that talks about taking care of parrots.

That's an example of a niche site that is extremely successful. And the crazy thing about that is, if you do your research correctly, you can find a niche site that will become profitable. And a lot of people are starting niche sites or building niche sites and then selling them off because they sell at 25. X multiples. And it's a really cool way because once it's established, it becomes passive. And once you have it set up and you have enough articles and you have enough content on that website, it's just going to run itself. You can make money on ads. You can make money on affiliates. There's so many different ways to do it. But it's one of the best ways to make a passive income. And that's going to wrap up the passive income ideas for this episode. I hope you guys enjoyed this series. And just

remember, the reason why we do this, the reason why we talk about increasing our income so much is so we can create that freedom. Create freedom from your job. Create freedom from things that you don't want to do. Because that's what money does. Money creates freedom so you don't have to work a job that you hate anymore. Thank you guys so much for listening. And if this is your first time listening,

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