16 People Share Passive Income Ideas That Gets Them $1000

Many seek passive income for financial security and better work-life balance. A forum user asked, "How to make $1k+/month online passively?" Let's explore top responses.

SELLING WEBSITE SUBSCRIPTIONS

"On course to make $6k/mo passively by selling website subscriptions for $150/mo with no down payment. Includes unlimited edits, 24/7 support, updates, hosting. Clients love it. I do less than 10 hours of edits yearly. Payments collected automatically on the 1st of every month. Square Up is used for recurring invoicing."

AFFILIATE PROGRAM IN NICHE SITES

"Maximize your income from niche sites by finding affiliate programs that pay $100+. Use long-tail keywords answering buyer intent questions. Less traffic but higher ranking likelihood. [source]"

HAVING A BUSINESS SELLING ONLINE COURSES

“I have a business that sells online courses. It does require a bit of admin work (roughly 5 hours a week), but it makes about $1.5k/week.”

3D PRINTING

“3D printing. It’s not “passive” entirely, but I click a button, pack it up, and ship it out. It’s about 500-700% profit per order after all costs for 5 minutes worth of work.”

INFLUENCER

"If we quit now, we'd earn thousands monthly. However, passive incomes require effort to avoid decline."

BOOK COVER PHOTOGRAPHY

“Book cover photography – about £2k a month. Haven’t done anything in 4 years at all.”

SHOPIFY AFFILIATE SIGNUPS

“Making a few thousand per month from Shopify affiliate signups. But that’s taken about ten years total to build up.”

SELLING OPTIONS RETURN

“2-3 hours/week selling options returns $5-8k/month, and I’m barely doing anything crazy.”

WEB SERVICE BUSINESS OVER DISCORD

"Establish a web service on Discord for daily deals. Funded by user subscriptions while offering valuable content. Involves coding (3-6hrs/day) for improvements and fixes. Auto-pilot business earning $1k/month."

DRONE REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHY

“Drone Real Estate Photography, Not 100% online tho. More like 25% in person and 75% online.”

AFFILIATE MARKETING AND CONTENT ADS

"Earn $100k+ monthly through affiliate marketing and ads. I run a foreign staffing agency too. Although I need to produce content and manage my team, income keeps flowing even if I stopped briefly."

SELLING ON CONSIGNMENT

"Selling on consignment. Leave products at stores, charge monthly for sold items and restock. Mostly passive, high ticket items."

INVESTING IN THE STOCK MARKET

“Investing about 120k bucks in the stock market, you get about 1k a month. You’re welcome.”

DISCORD SERVER

“I’m pulling ~$8k from a Discord server.”

OPTIONS TRADING

“Options trading. It’s very volatile; some months, I can be up or down $2-3k.”

AMAZON WHOLESALE, COURSES, AND EBOOKS

“Amazon wholesaling/3PL. The operations management company runs it for me, so it’s passive. My ebooks and courses are passive as well.”

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