Passive income is money that comes to you at regular intervals for which you do not have to work or, an affiliation with a business in which you do not actively participate, but receive income from on a regular basis.  If you receive money on a regular basis and do not actively work for it, that is considered passive income. If you have an investment of time or money in a business but do not actively participate in the business then the money you receive is a passive income.

 

When you receive money from rental property which you may own, or from a business in which you have a vested interest but do not actively participate, it is considered passive income. However, the Internal Revenue Service may not see it as passive income. Some of the incomes the IRS does not see as passive are: interest, dividends, royalties, gains on stocks and bonds, annuities, lottery winnings and salaries.

 

Have you ever seen advertisements for income opportunities in which they claim a residual income of thousands of dollars per week? Such passive income opportunities are usually not legitimate. They are usually scams. Most of them require money up front before you receive any information from them. Do not pay any money up front but research the company and their opportunities before going into any kind of business with them.

 

There is no reason to have to use the advertised business opportunities because with some ingenuity and creativity you can make your own business opportunity that will provide you with a passive income.  Anything worth doing is worth doing well, and means hard work. If you create your own business opportunity you will have to work at it to make it a success. Start-up may mean an investment of some extend but it always involves work. There may be some monetary investment but the amount depends on what you plan  to do.

 

There are some passive income opportunities that do not require a monetary investment, only some hard work on your part.

 

Look for companies that will let you write articles and post them on their website to sell to their clients. Each time an article is sold will receive a percentage of that sale. One article may be sold several times and each time it is sold that is passive income for you.

If you have your own website you may consider becoming an affiliate to a company that has a affiliate program. You can advertise their product or service and each time someone buys the product or service from your website you receive a commission. You will not have to actively sell but you do have to advertise the product or service and market your website to get the proper kind of traffic to it.

 

If you like to take pictures and do a good job at it then look for companies online that will buy those photos from you. The pictures have to be a good quality and interesting. These too can be sold more than one time.

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