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June 6, 2006

Passive Income
by Valerie Underhill

What is passive income? To tell you the truth, I am not sure because anything one does to become successful, had to take effort to get there. Online as a norm, I believe people refer to passive income as, those things you pay a dollar amount and receive a profit back for doing virtually little to nothing.

In essence I can chalk up 'passive income' as junk programs online called 'paid to surf', 'hyip', 'gifting', 'doublers' and 'fast cycling garbage programs'. The problem with these types of programs is, they are illegal, they rarely last more than weeks to a few months, and more people lose than win. They are very high risk.

For residual income, solid income, income you can depend on, it takes effort...work. The four letter dirty word 'work'. However, earning income online is not like digging ditches and punching a time clock. It is easier in that regard. Real effort, real work can in fact produce passive income.

Take Edison creating the light bulb. He did not succeed on his first try. It wasn't easy. He kept notes. He experimented. He never gave up. When the light switch finally came on, Edison became a very popular wealthy man. He could have possibly kicked back and maybe he did. The money was still flowing in. I do imagine that Edison did continue onward in his developments. The point is, he could have kicked back the rest of his days and enjoyed passive income.

Effort and work breeds success which can and often does result in passive income. Joining so called passive programs is not going to be the ticket to easy street. Learn how to really earn income online. It's not difficult but it does take ... work.

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About the Author:

Valerie Underhill is a work at home entrepreneur. Having worked at home from her computer for many years, she shares valuable information to visitors, customers, members, and affiliates. She owns several business and marketing websites that include http://www.mrbluemarketing.com, http://www.agpcommunity.com, http://www.listparadise.com, http://www.marketersopera.com.

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