Before reading this article, I strongly recommend you to read and understand the basics of Passive Income and How it works? Because without understanding of the basics of Passive Income, you won’t be able to understand anything in this post.

This topic is discussed by several internet marketers, bloggers and financial experts all around the world and on the internet. And there is a lots of criticism and opinions about this topic. Several Internet Marketers sell ebooks and courses by saying people that, you can launch a blog, post articles, put advertisements on it and start making some real money from your blog.

But according to many internet marketers, Blogging is not the Passive Income. Because you don’t have to just write few posts on your Blog. But you have to keep posting new content on your blog to keep your blog alive as well as you have to do extensive marketing of your blog all around the internet. Now, this is hard work and this is not in anyway called the passive income.

This is the opinion of many Internet marketers. Read here the post about the same opinion.

Blogging for a Passive Income

But well, my opinion is entirely different from it. I will consider Blogging as a great source of Passive Income. This is because according to the definition of Passive Income, It is the Income to generate which out of the Scratch, you have to work hard at once. And once you do all the hard work, this will make steady income for you for the rest of your life forever.

Say for Example – Book Royalties. The author works hard at once to publish a great book. But this is one time hard work only. Once the book is published, you don’t have to work hard any. But this Income will keep flowing into the author’s bank accounts for the rest of his life.

Now, let us discuss the example of this Blog. Will You Consider my current Income from this Blog as a Passive Income?

Of course, Not. Because all of you know that I spend daily 5-8 hours behind this blog since last more than one and a half year. Right? So How can this Income become a Passive?

Ok. You are right. Right now this Income is not my Passive Income. I agree with you at this level. Now, just imagine the scenario after 3 years. After 3 years, when the Income from this Blog will be much much higher, I will hire 5 writers for this Blog for full time, who will write and post the articles on this blog whole the day weather I sleep, work, not work or travel the world. This is because at some point of time, the readership of this blog will become so much that, I can afford to hire the best Personal Finance writers who will run this Blog even without my presence. They will keep adding the more and more new content daily for the rest of my life and even after that.

Now, Will you Consider this Kind of Income a Passive Income?

Of course, Yes. This will become a Passive Income than. So I want to tell you that, its your mind which will decide the ways to make your current active income into a passive one. Of course, to develop a passive income stream out of Scratch, you have to work hard at once. But this is one time hard work only.

Believe me, a Blog can be your active or passive income Both. It’s up to you…!!!