How passive is passive income?
Can you actually make money doing nothing
and is this something that you could do?
Well, answers to these questions and more in this video,
Three Passive Income Myths Busted.
There are several definitions of passive income.
In the traditional sense, think of investments
in things such as rental properties
These investments continue to work for you over time
so that you can generate cashflow
or perhaps through dividends or even appreciation.
I prefer to talk about a different kind
of passive income generation
which is done through the building of online businesses
that can continue to work for you over time,
not investing money into a buy and then hold
type of strategy but rather investing time upfront
to build something that solves people's problems
because that's exactly what a good business does.
The question is well,
how does that turn into passive income?
The solutions you build to solve these problems
can eventually become automated
either by the use of tools and software
or hiring other people to do that work for you.
Now, let's say for example that you had a website
and a resource to help people pass a particular exam.
Studying for and taking an exam
is something that is a big pain point for a lot of people
and many people are willing to pay for help for that.
Test takers find your website, they see that product,
they buy it, it automatically gets delivered to them
via email and you get money in your PayPal or bank account.
After you set it all up, your business and your resource
can continually help people at any time they find you
without you having to do any additional work.
Now, what I just described to you
is actually a business that I created myself back in 2008
to help people pass an exam in the architecture industry
called the LEED exam.
After getting laid off in 2008, I built this resource
'cause I knew a lot of people needed help with this exam.
I created a study guide to go along with it
and I sold my first copy in October of 2008
and have since sold tens of thousands of copies
and have generated over a million dollars
on that website alone.
Now, because of the nature of that product
and that exam and that space,
I haven't had the need to continually update it over time.
I do check in on it every once in a while
but it's been sitting there
and it still continues to generate thousands of dollars
a month for me without any additional work.
That online business is an asset for me
that is worth far more than any investment
I could have made in real estate or in the stock market
and what was that initial investment,
how much did it cost me to actually put that website up?
$6.95 a month for website hosting
and a ton of time and effort.
Now, if you'd like to see exactly how much this website made
and other businesses that I've created too,
I actually have an income report section on my blog
at smartpassiveincome.com
where I share just transparently everything
and everything I've done since 2008 to generate income,
where all that money comes from, the expenses, et cetera.
You can check it out if you'd like
and links will be below in the description.
Now, there's a lot of people that talk the talk
in this space and they talk the talk very well,
way better than I do but you know what?
I'm not a good talker but I am a good walker,
not like Walking Dead walker
but what I mean is I walk the walk.
I don't teach anything I haven't done before
and have proven myself and again, like I said,
everything is up there on smartpassiveincome.com
for you to see.
My goal is to make sure that I'm just a couple steps
ahead of you so that I can make sure
that trail is clear and safe for you up ahead.
So I'll be your trail guide.
Thank you for subscribing and sticking around.
Let's keep going here.
So passive income.
Maybe you sell a product online and you have it dropshipped
which means when people buy it from your website,
you don't even see the product.
You don't even have it in inventory.
It connects to a company that then ships that item
out to that customer for you.
Maybe you create a software product
that does a repetitive task
that people normally did by hand.
People will pay you monthly
to get access to those kinds of things.
Imagine, passive income coming from the same person
every single month.
You just have to continually get more customers in
and your income can grow over time.
The list goes on and on with different kinds
of online businesses and passive income opportunities
but let me tell you what.
Passive income isn't all that it's set out to be.
So let's talk about these three different
passive income myths and make sure you stick around
because the third one, most importantly,
is the one that is the difference
between it actually happening for you
or having it be an item
that just continues to sit on your wishlist.
Passive income myth number one.
100% passive income is real.
The set it and forget it approach sounds amazing.
You set it up once and forever and ever
you continually earn this residual income.
Is that even possible?
This is simply not true.
- [Announcer] Busted.
- All forms of passive income include some sort
of required upkeep including real estate and the market.
In fact, it's really dangerous to leave these investments
on their own without you checking in every once in a while
to make sure they're doing exactly what you want them to do.
You need to manage your portfolios, right,
and your rental property comes with wear and tear over time.
There is no such thing as 100% completely hands off
forever and ever and ever passive income
but you don't have to trade your time for money
one to one either.
You can invest time upfront
in something like an online business
and have it continually pay you back over time.
Although it's not 100% hands off,
passive income can give you that freedom and flexibility
with your time and that's huge.
To me, that's more important than the Lamborghinis
that you see and the giant mansions, right?
My wife and I, we walk our kids to school
every day together, we pick them up together
and that to me is something that you cannot pay for.
It comes with the kind of business you create
and that's where passive income becomes an amazing tool
for what it is that you wanna do.
The money, yeah, that could be a good thing
but the freedom and flexibility, that's where it's at.
Next up, passive income myth number two.
Creating passive income is easy.
So says the many people who teach this stuff
and I'm here to tell you the truth.
Passive income is not easy
and it's not something that can happen overnight.
- [Announcer] Busted.
- Sure, there are ways to make money sooner than later
but to build something that's long-term
that's gonna continually work for you over time
that will allow for that freedom and flexibility
like we talked about, that's gonna take some time
and it's not easy to create upfront.
Now, you know they say that you cannot predict the future
but one thing that I can predict
is if you continually do the same things you've been doing,
you're gonna continue to get the same results.
So although building a passive income business is not easy,
the truth is if you don't even try, it's never gonna happen.
The hard part is you have to just learn
how to talk to people.
A lot of people, when they try to build
these online businesses,
they try to hide behind their keyboards
and just kind of just sit behind the scenes.
No, if you wanna build something long-term,
a real actual real life business,
you have to go out there and actually talk to people
about their problems
and how you might be able to solve them.
You have to experiment and know that likely
you're gonna fail, you're gonna make mistakes,
you're gonna have to get up and keep going,
it's gonna be uncomfortable,
you're gonna feel bad and terrible about it but guess what?
Like I said, nothing's gonna change
unless you actually start taking action.
You have to put yourself out there.
You have to be vulnerable a little bit
and that's where most people stop.
Once things start to get a little hard,
people retreat back to what they were comfortable doing,
their nine to five job or just feeling complacent
versus where they know they should be
but they just won't take the action to get there.
You have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable
and that's just building the active part
of the business, right?
It's gonna be active work first.
There's no way that you can do this passively upfront
because it's gonna take work and time
and then over time, after you optimize,
after you understand your systems,
after you create procedures and such
then and only then can you find ways
to automate that process
to have tools do those things for you
or other people that you might hire.
Passive income is not easy and when you build a business,
it definitely doesn't start out passive, that's for sure.
Passive income myth number three and this is the big one
and when I hear people say this, it kills me
because really, the moment a person believes this
is the moment their opportunity dies
and it's when people say this.
Creating passive income is not possible.
It is not possible.
Henry Ford said, "whether you think you can,
"or you can't, you're right" and it's true
and if you think this thing called passive income
is just a myth, is something that is not possible,
well, then guess what?
This is not a myth for you, this is reality.
Passive income is not gonna work for you, it's not real.
That's a limiting belief though.
I know that because I know it's possible.
I've experienced it firsthand myself.
I've interviewed hundreds of people
on the Smart Passive Income podcast
who've experienced it themselves too
and not just teaching other people
how to build online businesses.
I mean, I know that's what you see
and obviously, you're here and I'm doing the same thing.
We hear those stories and we see those people
because we all wanna be seen but there's a lot of people
building passive income businesses right now
who don't even care to share what they're doing
and that's what that podcast is about.
It's finding those stories and bringing 'em out for you
so that you can understand that this stuff is possible
like Lain Ehmann who made six figures
in the scrapbooking industry or even my friend Cassidy
who built a six figure business
teaching people how to plant succulents.
She makes a living online
teaching people how to plant succulents, like plants.
Now, that's a business that doesn't succulent.
Why am I even trying?
So the myth that passive income is not possible.
- [Announcer] Busted.
- Make sure you check out some of the links below
in the description to even more interviews
with success stories that I've uncovered.
I get it though.
You've probably been duped by others before.
Maybe you invested in a program
and it just didn't deliver for you
or maybe you're seeing all these other people
teaching this online talking about,
I don't know, Lamborghinis and mansions
and all this kinda stuff and it just screams scam to you
and guess what, it screams that to me too
which is why I'm here
and you've made it to this point in the video
which says a lot about who you are
and who you think I might be for you.
Now, I don't expect you to become a fan overnight.
For me, I know it's gonna take a lot of wins,
small wins, little milestones along the way
for you to realize that this stuff can happen for you
and that this stuff is actually real.
Would love to invite you to subscribe to this channel
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Now, you have two things working in your favor right now.
Number one, a fact that I've already shown you
that passive income is possible.
Number two, you got me in your corner
and you got the rest of the community here as well.
So join Team Flynn, hit that Subscribe button.
Thank you so much and make sure you check out this video
that I'm pointing to right here in the card.
It'll walk you through three different kinds
of passive income business models
'cause not all businesses are shaped the same way
and not all business models are perfect for everyone.
So make sure you check out that video
because it's gonna show you which one
might be the best suited for you.
Now, before you go check out that video
or dive into the rest of my channel here,
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