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Where’s The Passion In Passive

March 10th, 2011 by kct from shrewdies | 4 Comments | Filed in 1. Purpose
I’ve been discussing passive income recently, but the debate hangs on definition, and the passion of purpose gets lost in the passive.

It all started when Leo told Lis that there’s no such thing as passive income.

On the one hand, we have Leo with a fairly woolly view of what passive means, an unresearched view on what advertising revenue is, and a slightly silly conclusion that slightly passive is the way to go. Followed up by a non-existent debate with his mates (or Twitter alter-egos).

On the other hand, we have Lis, with a clear view of what passive means to her, concrete examples of what advertising revenues, and other passive income streams really mean, and a clear (but wrong) conclusion about the type of people who suit passive income. Followed up by a lively and interesting debate focusing mainly on what passive income means to different people.

(The debates on both sites may have moved on by the time you read this)
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Stop Making Money

May 5th, 2010 by kct from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in 1. Purpose
“Stop making money???!!!”

No posts for over 2 months, and the best you can come up with is “Stop making money?”

Have you completely lost the plot?

Just the opposite – I’ve found the plot. No posts for over 2 months because I lost sight of the whole point of any web business.

It is not about making money.

It is all about creating value.

And that means value for the community you serve, whether local bricks ‘n’ mortar business or global Internet web business.

This website, for example, does not exist to make money. It exists to help people create and manage their own web business. When that purpose is fulfilled, rewards are automatic.

Your web business will have a different purpose, but as soon as you lose focus from that purpose and put making money first, you fail. Ideas and opportunities dry up. Your web business loses interest from visitors and yourself. Your web business fails.
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