Make Money Doing Nothing

[Marc Jager]

Call me a dreamer then because I believe you can make money doing nothing....

Considering all the threads here about the power of the mind and your outlook (aka 'platform' etc etc) I'm surprised you're all dissing this notion.

If you think outside the box or come up with something brilliant, surely you will make money doing nothing?....
What about someone who stumbles upon a brilliant invention?
What about a hit song?
What about some website that just goes viral?
People do get lucky or happen to be in the right place at the right time and I'm sure yet others place themselves in the right place at the right time...

I haven't even 'made it' yet (in IM) but I make money doing nothing right now.
I do this in my current job!
*LOL* I'm at work right now, getting paid to sit here and read this fantastic forum *grins*

[EDIT] And to answer you guys who scoff at people who don't want to work for their money, maybe they are like me who would rather play than work.
Let's say I found myself with several million dollars in the bank tomorrow. This wouldn't diminish the value of my life or the pleasure or satisfaction I would have within it. I would travel, I would surf all over the world, I would study, I would read and play computer games, watch and make films.
{By the way I realise that someone is bound to say that inventing something or having a website go crazy overnight etc etc is work but I don't think that's the kind or hard regular work we're discussing here}

[pinoy bands]

Make money doing nothing is like an impossible thing but maybe, if you would really work hard then, there would be no doubt that you would reap what you sow.

[KINGOS]

Well, I don't see how possible that is without first investing your time and effort into a lot of hard work after which you can recline and enjoy the benefits of "doing nothing" while your money works for you.

[alexei_aus]

nothing gets you nothing, while something gets you something. common sense

[prosperpreneur]

Not sure who is searching for those kind of terms, especially the exact search terms,

Mostly people who are searching for those terms may not really want to achieve it but trying to see if other people are searching for this kind of solutions or not.

If somebody is seriously searching for this kind of solutions, my answer would be to deposit a huge amount of cash for a fixed investment purpose and let money do the work rather than some human body doing the work.
My answer is it is not impossible but only very few people can achieve in their life

Hope I am making sense to you all.

-Gaj

[alexei_aus]

passive income is another story...
thats something worth pursuing

[Michael Taylor]

Originally Posted by Richard Tunnah

Not totally true is it Jon? I mean she screeches a bit, shaves her hair off, gets drunk and flashes her lady area! So noy quite nothing!

You're thinking of Britney Spears. Paris never did anything of the sort. (However, she did make a sex video a while back.)

And Paris actually has done work...she's been a model, a movie actress, a reality TV star, a TV ad star, and a singer.

[Diane S]

Originally Posted by yves

Hi,

The make money online isn't one of my niches but I just had a look in the google keyword tool to see what keywords were searched for.

The keyword "make money doing nothing" is searched for 3900 (broad match) and 2900 (phrase match) ha ha ha.

I can't believe that many people think it is possible to make money doing nothing??

Maybe it's nice to live in such a fairytale world.

No doubt many of you have come accross this kind of keyword countless times but as someone who doesn't deal in this niche, I was astounded.

Very nice title for a post and it is a real attention-grabber. Here we are in a flaming folder! There must be a way to make money with that phrase...ethically!

I just did a Google search for the exact phrase, but alas, this thread is not on page one in my data center right now. Further down I read that it was...

[ken_p]

even paris hilton needs to shop, so paparazzi could stalk her around, and i think she gets money indirectly from all of these publicity.
i think the phrase " make money from home" also gets searched a lot.:-)
everyone is just finding ways to work from home.

[yves]

Originally Posted by Michael Taylor

You're thinking of Britney Spears. Paris never did anything of the sort. (However, she did make a sex video a while back.)

And Paris actually has done work...she's been a model, a movie actress, a reality TV star, a TV ad star, and a singer.

I think this just highlights the fact that not having to do any work eventually gets to you. She doesn't have to work and yet she does. Granted, Paris's kind of work is more in line with her attention seeking nature and probably her needing to validate her existance and there is nothing wrong with that.

Will, what's that your selling (I hope it's kosher ) Let us know how you get on with it.

I'm not a phsychologist (can't even spell it!) But I think as humans, most of us need to feel like we have achieved something before we can truely enjoy our relaxation time etc.

[tommen]

Do nothing - get nothing.That´s how it works and will work.It´s funny how people think that just because something is online it would be any easier.It´s hard work to make a living online.Those who now make $100K per month have built a site, a huge mailing list over time and now they are reaping the rewards.

[Will Edwards]

Originally Posted by yves

Will, what's that your selling (I hope it's kosher ) Let us know how you get on with it.

Course it's kosher - it's a flipping ClickBank product. And ... I am now on page #2 of Google for the term with this article ...

Archimedes - How to Make Money Doing Nothing

Now I'm not any kind of article marketing expert yet, so if anyone can tell me how I can keep it there, I'd be really grateful.

Cheers

Will

[FXDaddy]

That would actually be pretty boring...doing nothing that is. Putting in the hard work in the beginning is why most people are broke.

[Anomaly1974]

Dang, you know I could market this idea as a physical product. I just wonder how many people would pay good money for it ... at least if I told them up front I was just going to sell them a dirty piece of cardboard with "Why lie? I need a beer!" written on the front?

Just my two cents

[visit_faraz]

Wow, Will.
You are fast, aren't you.
An action taker.

While others were talking about this topic.
You went ahead and built a site. Awesome man.
Hats off to you.

Faraz

[John Durham]

You can making money without having any... but you can't make it doing nothing! At least not at first. I still work my butt off and have a long ways to go.

[edhan]

First you have to be famous.

Then you can make money doing nothing as you can collect royalty from song records, patent products, etc.

So, once you are famous, your name will generate income doing nothing ...

[Freeon]

The Nigerians have that market cornered...Its called a scam.
But even scammers need copy and have to mass email lol.

[ncmedia]

You can definitely set yourself up over time and residual actions/automated business models where your 'nothing' is a 1hr work week... All depends on what your 'nothing' really means to you. Even then, when you have time to do nothing you'll find yourself doing something, probably spending, or killing time.

Someone above said 'that's why we're all here isn't it..', quite true in a sense, everyone's looking for a way to open up their time with automated business solutions they've setup. Only problem is anything and everything you've thought of has been done 10 times over and better than you can think of, and duplicating current success out there is futile but attempted everywhere (constant recurring curriculum with a new face and message)... Most are conditioned through our community(ies) and standards to do things certain ways, which is a vicious cycle sometimes.

It's hard to stand back and think long term, most marketers jump from campaign to campaign, or have trouble monitoring and engaging multiple monetization efforts (mouthful), but if you can setup a mailing list of buyers, build x products, promote x products, setup/promote residuals starting now, stop buying crap, duplicate what works only, network with those that have buyer lists, get a good VA or two that you can trust, pay them well, << all at the same time overlapping - you can def. narrow down your time spent online (working) vs. monetizing and simply monitoring your efforts.

I still find that most millionaires I've come across, worked with/for, met in my career have admitted to stumbling and fumbling their way there instead of a fierce plan of action and attack. Most online success stories now have multiple growing closed loop systems where they monetize every last bit of data they gather from front to back, online and off, build products aimed at their lists, partner with sales/coaching floors, monetize free trial recurrs, etc. totally diversifying and picking up every penny from every angle, automated at that. Hey, it's a good problem to have - cheers to doing nothing and still making money.

/rambled.

[SmartTeenager]

Maybe they aren't thinking that it is possible, but are rather wishing it to happen by typing it into Google

[ripsnorta2]

Originally Posted by yves

I think this just highlights the fact that not having to do any work eventually gets to you. She doesn't have to work and yet she does. Granted, Paris's kind of work is more in line with her attention seeking nature and probably her needing to validate her existance and there is nothing wrong with that.

As much as I don't really like Paris or her antics, and I don't think she's a particularly attractive person, she's not the silly bimbo she presents herself as in her TV and other appearances.

She has done a masterful job of building herself into a brand. Hands up anyone here who would have known who Paris was before her first videos?

She used that infamy to build an acting career, and having seen her act she probably wouldn't have been able to do that on raw talent. She made herself known, and built a brand based on that public perception. In a way she proved the old cliche that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

There's a lot anyone getting into marketing could learn from how she rose to fame.

[ragnartm]

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

It is possible but you have to set the foundation first. You work hard in the beginning then bum around in the end.

That makes it IMPOSSIBLE, making money doing nothing requires you to do nothing, if you have to set a foundation you have to do SOMETHING.

[yves]

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

Course it's kosher - it's a flipping ClickBank product. And ... I am now on page #2 of Google for the term with this article ...

Archimedes - How to Make Money Doing Nothing

Now I'm not any kind of article marketing expert yet, so if anyone can tell me how I can keep it there, I'd be really grateful.

Cheers

Will

Hi Will, I know I was just joking with you. You can direct backlinks to your articles from other articles and sites to give them more power.

It's great you are taking action and goes to show that this thread isn't just about theorizing.

[John Durham]

Originally Posted by edhan

First you have to be famous.

Then you can make money doing nothing as you can collect royalty from song records, patent products, etc.

So, once you are famous, your name will generate income doing nothing ...

Interesting that you say that, because was a full time staff songwriter for a Nashville music publishing company for 6 years... yeah the "being famous" part helps...otherwise if you're lucky enough to get a full time job as I was, you will write 6 songs a month and make a $500. weekly salary, then when you quit writing you will stop making money!

[JasonParker]

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

It is possible but you have to set the foundation first. You work hard in the beginning then bum around in the end.

Exactly. Once you build your resources, capital, and if you have hands-off processes, then you can't exactly do nothing, but you can work very little and still live comfortably if you want... it all depends on how much money you want to make at this point.

What also helps is having a lot of continuity subscriptions, so you can kick back and feel secure about how much money you're going to make while you go play PS3 all day, spend time with the family/pets, or whatever you want.

[mrkrabs]

Well, I am making money doing nothing

[timpears]

Making money doing nothing isn't all it is cracked up to be. That is what I have been doing for the past six years when my health problems made it so I could not hold a job any more. So ever since I have received a check from disability payments, first from my insurance at work and now from Social Security and a small payment from the insurance. It sure doesn't pay a hell of a lot and it is not enough to live well. That is the reason I am here, to learn what I can so that I can quit doing nothing and go back to earning enough money to live on.

I think that I will be able to do that in the near future as I am learning some really great lessons. If I could only write a decent article I could probably do it already. But no matter how many reports I read on that subject, it just doesn't seem to matter. So that will probably have to be outsourced, but thankfully, there are some great witers that are glad to take care of that for anyone who wants to pay for it.

Anyway Will, I hope that you do well with your new site venture. As for me, I want to quit doing nothing.

[Kneb Knebaih]

The key should be to work really hard in your first years, to setup several streams of passive income...

So there will be a time in your life when you do "nothing" and money keeps flowing in...

And/Or develop your mind until you can hit a lottery jackpot...

(No joke, I personally know 2 guys who did that)


: )

[Anonymous Affiliate]

The entire IM business is built on the "make money doing sh!t" premise... or at least that's what many newbies believe. Just take a look at the WSO section or at Clickbank marketplace: "Make $34,943.93 while scratching your balls with this super duper secret. Buy Now for $37"

The truth is that 99% of the people who make it big have actually busted their asses in order to get there. There's no such a thing as a free meal.

[JaySabree]

I love threads like this... lol too funny...

had a quick look at Google and I didn't find this post on the first page of Google...
Maybe because I'm from Canada?

Oh well, carry on...

[John Durham]

Originally Posted by Marc Jager

Call me a dreamer...If you think outside the box or come up with something brilliant, surely you will make money doing nothing?....
What about someone who stumbles upon a brilliant invention?

On second thought, you're actually right. My friend patented an idea of his, and later found a company marketing the product in walmart...he took them to court and now gets 17k per month for the next 10 years. This is true. No BS. The product is a certain type of foam kitchen drawer liner.

By the way: "you're a dreamer"!

[Theone24]

How many views and replys has this had?!!

[runfast]

I like this thread...this shows how lazy the general common wealthy is getting.
Truth is if you work hard you sleep well,
If you work smart you'll live well.

[WarriorMaster82]

Few could make money doing nothing. But lots can make money doing a lot!

[Marc Jager]

Originally Posted by kadensnga

On second thought, you're actually right. My friend patented an idea of his, and later found a company marketing the product in walmart...he took them to court and now gets 17k per month for the next 10 years. This is true. No BS. The product is a certain type of foam kitchen drawer liner.

By the way: "you're a dreamer"!

: )

And that's just ONE example!

[tommygadget]

I think we need to keep the keyword density high on this one to make the thread hit the top of the serps. So to make money doing nothing, you need to setup a system that will allow you to make money doing nothing. Such a system that allows you to make money doing nothing must operate passively, otherwise your dream to make money doing nothing will not come true. I currently make money doing nothing because I have a system that allows me to make money doing nothing. That's all I'm saying

TomG.

[Mubarak Waseem]

Tom, in order to make money online doing nothing, you need to do something first, before you can make money online doing nothing. Once you have the processes set up, it is easy to make money online doing nothing.

Btw, any news on that design project lol?

Mubarak

[dndoseller]

"Make money doing nothing" in IM can be more accurately described as:

Work an hour now and get paid a CEO's wage for that in daily micro-payments over 10-15 years. That's why this is a hard business for some - it takes massive foresight.

I have a site that I have literally not touched in over a year that was an experiment that still make me adsense money. I am just totally surprised every day to see that people just keep searching and clicking.

[MBeshr]

make money doing nothing
just dreams for some people
but i didn't meet anyone make money doing nothing


thanks

[John Durham]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

I think we need to keep the keyword density high on this one to make the thread hit the top of the serps. So to make money doing nothing, you need to setup a system that will allow you to make money doing nothing. Such a system that allows you to make money doing nothing must operate passively, otherwise your dream to make money doing nothing will not come true. I currently make money doing nothing because I have a system that allows me to make money doing nothing. That's all I'm saying

TomG.

If we all had "make money doing nothing" programs to sell, and this thread hit the serps hard enough, then we would all be making money doing nothing! It's Brilliant!

[discrat]

Originally Posted by kadensnga

On second thought, you're actually right. My friend patented an idea of his, and later found a company marketing the product in walmart...he took them to court and now gets 17k per month for the next 10 years. This is true. No BS. The product is a certain type of foam kitchen drawer liner.

By the way: "you're a dreamer"!

Nice, spend 7k a month for your Life Expenses. And put the other 10k away for a rainy day. At the end of 10 years you will be better than a Millioniare if you invest right

[Steven Carl Kelly]

Originally Posted by yves

The keyword "make money doing nothing" is searched for 3900 (broad match) and 2900 (phrase match) ha ha ha.

Actually, those numbers are way high. There aren't that many monthly Google searches for that term. Probably closer to about 400-500.

[hangtimenino]

i guess these kind of people that are doing the searches, are pretty tired working that they are ready to do nothing , and yet still making money.
overworked....

[John Durham]

Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly

Actually, those numbers are way high. There aren't that many monthly Google searches for that term. Probably closer to about 400-500.

Why does that happen? I find that most keyword research tools are far from accurate.

[Darla]

The best way to make money doing nothing is to hope to inherit a LARGE sum of money,then invest it WISELY in the stock market or in real estate. If only we were ALL so lucky! :-(

Most of us have to work REALLY hard for 1-3 years (or longer) and then sit back and let our money or online businesses work for us.

[Steven Carl Kelly]

Originally Posted by kadensnga

Why does that happen? I find that most keyword research tools are far from accurate.

Have you ever heard someone here say: "My page is ranked #1 in Google for such-and-such term, and the Google KW tool says that term has a monthly volume of 2,500 per month, but I'm seeing seeing less than 200 clicks a month from it..."?

Google's external keyword tool is fairly accurate -- the problem is actually mis-interpretation of what that search volume truly represents. It's NOT Google organic search volume. The tool is NOT designed for that, it is designed for Adwords advertisers. That tool is almost worthless for non-PPC keyword research -- yet hundreds (or thousands) of people use it that way.

Elsewhere Google is reporting a monthly search volume on "Make Money Doing Nothing" of 350. So even when I guessed 400-500, I was still a little high.

I've started to tell everyone I advise who continue to rely on the Google external KW tool for keyword research to take the latest month's local search volumes and divide them by 5 or 6.

[MikeGriffith]

I think the only way to make money doing nothing is to have made money doing something, and built up an awesome residual income base. It's also interesting how many ads you see that make this sort of promise.

[Tim45]

Well I'll tell ya guys, I have been working on the Internet for years and I'd hardly call this work, its more like a challenge to me. Would I call it money for nothing? No but when you are doing something you love, it doesn't seem like work. Now for the people searching the phrase "Make Money Doing Nothing" I'd be willing to bet that half are people like you and me doing research. I search phrases like that all the time looking for a product to sell and checking the competition. That's how I get ideas on what to market, what keywords to target, how my sales page should look and so on.

[malcasid]

Originally Posted by Mark Brian

It is possible but you have to set the foundation first. You work hard in the beginning then bum around in the end.

Yea I agree, it is possible if you have something going already. Of course you have to monitor it but that doesn't take a lot of time.