Any income is good income right? How hard do you want to work for your income? How often do you want to work for your income?

There are two basic types of income: linear and residual.

Linear income is income that is based off what work you do, and how much actual work you do. Your normal hourly job where if you don’t work you don’t get paid is the perfect example of linear income. Pay to click (PTC), filling out surveys, reading email is an example of linear income. You get paid once for your work and you have to work again to get paid again.

Residual income is income that comes in from work you do once and continues to roll in even after you’ve moved onto other things. An example of residual income is when an author writes a book. He writes the book once, then gets royalties every time someone buys his book. Here are some more examples of residual income:

Savers earn interest
Songwriters earn royalties on their songs
Network Marketers get residual commissions
Entrepreneurs get business profits
Real Estate Owners get cash-flow profits

As a blogger, you should be working to set-up opportunities for residual income. How you ask? Simple, you post. That’s it, you post. Write about your passions, write about your day, write about anything, just write! Do your research and setup affiliates and link to them in your posts. Don’t write to give an excuse to make a link, write and add links based off opportunities. Quality posts are what brings traffic to your site. If visitors think they’ll just see ads instead of posts they want to read, they won’t come back. Bring the people in because they want to read what you have to say, bring something up in the post that makes them go “hmm, what’s this?” and that’s it. You’ve won half the battle, you got the click.

I go to and post on MyLot because not only do I like to read opinions on issues and will post on something that interests me, but getting paid (cents per post) to do something I would do anyway is just great! I’m glad that I found that site, and I found it on a blog site. That blogger got a referral because they offered something that I wanted and was willing to click on. Bring value to your visitors with every post and not only will they keep coming back, they might see something they like and give you a referral. How many times did you have to post to get that referral? Once.

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