These
days almost everyone is talking about Passive Income Opportunities – the stuff
that helps you earn money even while you sleep, dine, watch a movie, vacation –
in simple words, earnings that happen even while you are not working at it. To
the skeptics, it sounds too good to be true, plain crap and scam to those who
are not educated about the concept.
However
for those who have tried it (provided those Passive Income Opportunities aren’t
SCAM in the first place), Passive income is real and perhaps the ultimate way
to achieve greater financial independence, and time freedom as additional
bonus. They probably have heard of Robert Kiyosaki’s ‘Cashflow Quadrant’, and
read his popular book, ‘Rich Dad, Poor
Dad’.
Still,
it is extremely essential to understand what it really takes to succeed
when joining a Passive Income program. The program is certainly should not be
one of the dreaded and avoidable ponzi scheme in the first place, and then it should
also have a concrete and workable compensation plan to deliver. So, selecting
the right company to get associated with, is of most prime importance.
Thereafter, what one needs to focus on is, personal attributes that need to be
addressed, developed and monitored to exploit the complete benefit being
provided by such opportunities.
So,
here are the six personal guides to
benefit from Passive Income programs.
Invest
Necessary Seed Capital in the Passive Income Program
Since
Passive Income Program is a real business – you need to spend money to earn
money. Be ready to spare some real cash to get you started. But the beauty of
most Passive Income programs is that these are designed for just minimal
investments, mostly equivalent to annual expenditure on a family dinner in a
respectable hotel once a month. And, actually it may not be an investment,
since you do not put in pure cash. It may rather be a product that you purchase
for your personal use, or a service that you utilize.
You
don’t have to spend more money in most Passive Income programs. The strategy
would be to add passive income programs into your existing business once you
have made a steady income – which is not necessarily big. This is called adding
revenue streams – which will allow you to earn multiple incomes from different
revenue sources. Common sense dictates that many small quantities put together
can become big, but risks can be kept low.
Have
Clearly Defined Goals About Your Passive Income Venture
Joining
a passive income program is like starting your own business. You need a
business plan. And, you need to define your goals – what are your needs, how
you want to achieve them, and what are your skills and experiences that will
help you achieve your objectives.
You
need to discover your strengths and your weaknesses. You need to set your
targets, put dates and deadlines, provide criteria of assessing your
performance and understand/mitigate the risks involved.
You
can seek help from people who have tried the program, your uplines as well as
the downlines, and you can do research online too. Well established programs
have things in the right place to ensure adequate training and motivation. Be
sure to take active part in them.
Spend
Quality Time For The Passive Income Program
You
don’t want to start a business and then forget about it would you? You need to
spend time – quality time each day of every week to grow your Passive Income
business. Before you start enjoying the fruits of steady passive income,
you need to put lots of hard work in it. If you cannot commit yourself to spend
time to your business – you should not start it in the first place.
It
is essential to appreciate that such successful programs have been tested over
a period of time, and the requirements to succeed in it get conveyed through
various interactions with the people involved in it. These need to be followed
in true letter and spirit.So, do look within before you decide to blame the
system for your failure, in case that be.
Believe
In The Products/Services That You Will Offer
If
you can’t use it, or find it worthless, then you don’t want to offer it to
others. It’s just a simple rule of thumb. To be credible, you must be able show
people that you are using the Products/Services that you sell. If your Passive
Income Program is domain and web hosting, then show people you have a working
website using the Passive Income Program that you are promoting. Even if you
are not personally using a particular products being offered by your company,
you should still have complete knowledge about the products which you wish to
promote, and be able to support it with adequate
research/literature/testimonials.
While
others are saying you can earn money even without a product/service, you should
be careful about joining and promoting it as it definitely smells of a Scam
from a distance. Believe in the dictum ‘There are no free lunches’.
Do
Duplication
Most
Passive Income Programs use the Network Marketing as a business model. This
allows the ability to distribute earnings or commissions in multi-levels – thus
allowing earning revenue from these multi-levels as well.
That
is why, in any Passive Income program, the key is to work on few quality
potentials rather than running on many “unproductive” leads. You do the grunt
work on these few leads, say just two people. When successful, your efforts can
be ‘duplicated’ on another set of three people, who in turn can use the same
‘duplication’ method to get two people each.
This
is where and how Passive Income is generated. So the question is, can you make
two sales and get at least two people to join under you and do the duplication
process? If you’re short of friends in this world and cannot find two people –
then you’re probably better off working to earn money.
Have
Patience In Growing Your Passive Income Earnings
Growing
your Passive Income business to generate a steady revenue that can make you
dump your JOB (‘Just Over Broke’ for the uninitiated) forever takes time, and
lots of patience. Remember that you’ll be in it for the long haul, but
commensurate to the efforts put in by you. It will take weeks, months or even a
few years before you can enjoy a good revenue. This is why, only those people
who opt to remain committed about Passive Income earning, are actually able to
exploit it’s full potential and enjoy it’s fruits. “Put in dedicated efforts
for four years and earn more than what you would in a job in 40 years”, well
this statement has a lot of truth in it.
We
all know this!!! Right?? So, where’s the problem in succeeding? It probably is
in NOT translating knowledge into ACTION. So, go ahead and JUST DO IT!!!