5 Ways To Create Passive Income with a Blog

Who doesn’t want to make money while they sleep?

Creating a passive income via blogging isn’t easy. But it’s doable, especially if you find an in- demand niche.

Most people believe that blogs are just online diaries. However, nothing can be further from the truth. Many people use blogs as sources of information on various topics, from beauty and fitness to financial advice to real estate.

This being said, let’s look at 5 ways you can create passive income with your blog.

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1. Sell a Template

Are you really good at making people listen? Can you make anyone curious to see what’s in the email you just sent them?

Many people would kill for those skills, and you can help them out by showing them a template you use for financial planning, email marketing, etc.

The template doesn’t have to be fancy. They just have to work. For example, there are bloggers who sell financial planning templates made in Excel, or copywriters who sell email templates made in Docs.

2. Sell a Book

One of the most popular ways to get recurring income and work only once for it is by writing a book. The beauty of this passive income idea is that you also get to keep 100% of the earnings if you sell it on your website.

All ebooks platforms get a cut. But if you sell it directly on your website, all earnings will be yours.

On top of this, publishing a book builds credibility and often opens doors for other business opportunities as well, such as being hired to speak in events or sharing your story on podcasts.

3. Promote Other People’s Products

Affiliate marketing is perhaps the most popular source of passive income. There are thousands of websites out there specifically for this kind of purpose: to blog in a certain niche that attracts an audience that would be interested in certain products.

For example, many health & fitness bloggers end up promoting protein powders, supplements, and gym equipment.

The secret is to introduce the products you’re trying to promote naturally in your blog content. For example, if you’re trying to promote a set of kettlebells, write about how you sculpted your arms in less than 6 months.

4. Sell a Course for In-demand Skills

If you’re really good at making things go viral, or if you are really good at coding, creating a course might be your best option.

But keep in mind that before you start working on it, you should do some market research and compare what you can offer with what others are offering as well.

There are many online courses out there on everything from teaching you how to sing to how to become a professional photographer.

5. Sell Branded Products

Mugs, t-shirts, and toys offer an excellent opportunity. If you have a strong brand and a following that loves being associated with you, selling products with your logo on them can be a viable passive income source.

Just think about celebrities that sell products with their names on them. The products may include perfumes, cosmetics, and clothing.

It puts into motion the same concept, just on a smaller scale. The more popular you get, the higher the chances you will make a steady stream of income from it.

How to Get Started

Bloggers are no longer just people who share their thoughts online or have published diaries. Many of them are now transforming their passion into a source of income by offering services or products to their audiences.

Comments

Praveen Verma says

April 12, 2018 at 9:15 am

Hello
Erik,
Happy to read your interesting post. The 5 ways you have explained here to make income from blogs are a little bit different from common ways like google adds, affiliate program but they are very effective and interesting.

Happy to know the process, you have listed here to create passive income from blog. I really like all these points and this post is going to be very helpful for bloggers.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Best wishes,
Praveen verma
Adithya Shetty says

April 12, 2018 at 11:31 am

Hi Erik,

Great tips to generate passive income. I prefer Affiliate marketing because it’s risk-free and quite lucrative compared to other methods.

Thanks for sharing!
Lisa P Sicard says

April 12, 2018 at 1:07 pm

Hi Erik, Great tips! I’ve been thinking about the courses I could do for making money with my blog. It’s on the bucket list for sure. I also like the idea of branded products and maybe using some as a give-away.
Affiliate marketing is one tactic I do use and like. You do have to keep your traffic up for it.
Thanks for all the tips and tricks here Erik. I hope you are recouping from your trip well 🙂 Have a great day!
- Anil Agarwal says
  
  April 27, 2018 at 5:35 am
  
  Really easy and practical tips to earn passive income from a website online. Most people don’t make any money from the blogs just because they don’t have a monetization strategy that help them put on their website visitors into customers.
  
  As you said selling your own products like ebooks can be a great way of earning passive income from a blog but it requires a lot of efforts especially when you are just starting out because you should know what kind of products to sell to your target audience.
  
  Making money by selling other products which is earning money from affiliate marketing is definitely a lucrative way to make more money from a website online. We make most of our sales from affiliate marketing and we know it is not so easy and you need to have a lot of patience to make thousands of dollars from affiliate marketing every single month but it’s completely doable when you are consistent with your content marketing efforts.
  
  Apart from them you can also start offering services such as web design services are freelance writing services to start making money immediately from your blog and you don’t need to establish yourself as an authority to make money by offering your services so that’s definitely a great way to make money although it’s not a passive income source but a great starting point for all kinds of bloggers.
  
  Thanks so much for sharing these tips to earn passive income. Keep rocking.
Enstine Muki says

April 12, 2018 at 5:10 pm

Hi Erik,
Good to be here again and I’m glad your blog is still thriving.
Yes if we’ve succeeded in building a community around your blog, then you can make money. It’s just about monetizing properly and you just brought out some of those methods that work.

One thing to do with affiliate marketing is promote products that pay recurring income. This way, your passive income grows tremendously with time. As I write, I just got affiliate payment from Zaxxa for sales generated in 2016. That’s the beauty of it 😉

Thanks for being awesome bro
mism says

May 25, 2018 at 2:28 am

you can earn money from your blog or website. you just need to create a nice blog with great quality content and images. Your blog must be full of visitors attracting capacity to grow traffic to your blog.

The second step is to create a publisher account on StudAds. This ad network pays 80% affiliate commission which is the highest pay scale in the industry.