LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME

Several of my long time readers have asked me to post my online income. I didn’t realize that I haven’t posted the passive income and online revenue numbers since December. A few reader are just starting to make money online and are particularly curious!

So here’s a quarterly breakdown for online income only. I haven’t had time to calculate the dividend income.

Quarterly Online Income:$6,760.85

• Ebay Publisher Network: $1,874.99
  
• Linkworth: $466.72
• TLA: $1,432.38
• Adsense: $543.6
• Kontera: $61.03
• Direct Ads: $1,696.8
• RevResponse: $12
• Amazon: $129.23
• Other/Affiliate: $228

Dividend Income: No Clue
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• ING Savings Account: No Clue
  
• Direct Oil Drilling Investment: No Clue
  
• Other Dividends: No Clue
  

I just ran the totals for passive income for December and I found out that it was the 3rd most “profitable” month of 2008.  The other two were October and June.

Monthly Passive (alternative, online & dividend) Income was $3,276.07.

The total online income was $2385.20 which broke the previous record by ~$130.

Here’s the breakdown of the $3,276.07:

Online Income:$2385.2

• Ebay Publisher Network: $922.6
  
• Linkworth: $471.61
• TLA: $322.93
• Adsense: $128.81
• Kontera: $26.34
• Direct Ads: $220
• RevResponse: $10.63
• Amazon: $17.38
• Other/Affiliate: $309.24

Dividend/Alternate Income: $890.87
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• ING Savings Account: $102.77
  
• Direct Oil Drilling Investment: $329
• Other Dividends: $458.86 (net of foreign tax deducted at source)

I’ve been busy with Business School and it’s been an insanely hectic month. Forget about writing posts, I haven’t even had much time to sleep!

I just ran the totals for passive income for October and I found out I’ve broken my previous record for monthly passive income that I set in June.

Monthly Passive (alternative, online & dividend) Income was $3,454.99.

The total online income was $2160.67 which is lower than my record by ~$95. However, my investment in a Japanese REIT paid a quarterly dividend that pushed up my dividend income over the usual $1000/month to a total of $1259.18.

Here’s the breakdown of the $3,454.99:

Online Income:$2160.67

• Ebay Publisher Network: $644.97
  
• Linkworth: $403.83
• TLA: $277.72
• Adsense: $207.30
• Kontera: $40.20
• Direct Ads: $234.95
• RevResponse: $26.90
• Amazon: $58.67
• Other/Affiliate: $262.11

Dividend/Alternate Income: $1259.18
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I made $2,884.13 in online & passive income for the month of September, 2008. After the somewhat lackluster income over summer, this was a welcome increase.

Here’s the breakdown:

• Online Income: $1799.92
  
  • Adsense: $214.78
  • Linkworth: $332.24
  • TLA: $241.78
  • Kontera: $$45.48
  • Direct Ads: $205.55
  • RevResponse: $28.23
  • Prosper Referrals: $25.00
  • Amazon: $58.67
  • Ebay Publisher Network: $580.58
  • Other/Affiliate: $51.59
• Savings Accounts: $127.59
• Direct Oil Drilling Investment: $387.59
  
• Dividends from Canroys: $502.09 (after tax deducted at source)
• Other Dividends: $73.51
  

The affiliate income from Ebay has been growing steadily. It’s more than doubled from August and the total revenue for this year is $1847.67. I think that’s a pretty good return for a little bit of effort (most of which took place in May). In July I added a storefront on this website which focuses on business, cheap real estate, gold coins and other income producing ventures. I recently added a Ferrari and Sports-car for sale page. I don’t expect to sell any Ferraris’ or Lamborghinis’ but I sure enjoy looking at them!  Read more... (431 words, 9 images, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)

As of July 20th 2009, I’ve received over $8,500 so far from Ebay. But the beauty is I didn’t actually sell anything. That’s right, Ebay sent me the money for referring buyers to their site. Since several of my fellow bloggers have asked me how to go about making money from ebay, I’ve put together this short how-to article that I hope will help you.

How Does the Ebay Affiliate Program (EPN) Work?

Back in April I built several niche sites to that specifically targeted to specific niches like gold coins, iphones and ipod batteries. Several weeks ago, I also added an “investment store” on this site that sells cheap timeshares, real estate and income-producing websites.  Read more... (1443 words, 9 images, estimated 5:46 mins reading time)

Finally got some time to add up all the passive income for the month of August. While June was a record breaking month with over $3,300 in passive income, July and August have been pretty lackluster in comparison. July’s income was $2,115.61 and August’s total was hardly any better with $2,134.57.

Maybe I can use the same excuse that government statistians use when talking about the economy and blame on seasonal variations! But the fact is that revenue dropped due to 2 main reasons. I pre-sold annual advertising in June that rightly should have been ammortized over the year (according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Also, since I was busy with my move to Los Angeles, I didn’t really have time to look for advertisers or respond in a timely fashion to those that contacted me.  Read more... (773 words, 8 images, estimated 3:06 mins reading time)