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Setting up an internet business of any kind has the potential to earn you a ton of money, but if you set up more than one online income stream you can effectively double or treble the possibility of becoming a wealthy internet entrepreneur. Following this practice is known as having multiple streams of income.

So what you may well ask are multiple streams of income, and what indeed is passive income? Simply put having multiple streams of income just means that you are making money in more than one way. It is always good business sense to have multiple sources of income off-line but even more so when you have an internet business. This way if one of your sources of income dwindles for a while or disappears completely you have other income streams to fall back on. This way you won’t get into a panic or go under.

If you are planning a website or already have one up and running you could easily have additional income coming from lots of other sources including Google Adsense, affiliate programs, commission on other people’s products and services, selling your own e-manuals or through consultancy work or writing.

Probably the most attractive internet income of all though is what is known as passive income. In a nutshell this means that once you have set it all up you will be making money with very little, if any, extra effort and you certainly do not need to be too commited to create this type of income on a regular basis. Admittedly at first it can take quite a lot of work to get your income stream up and running, but once you have done this it will on the whole require very little maintenance.

One of the best ways to generate extra income from an existing website is basically to ‘piggy-back’ other income resources on your site. Let’s take an example.

Say you had a successful site where you were promoting holiday cottages or country activities you could then begin to look into what the visitors to your site might be tempted to spend some extra money on. If they were booking a country holiday it is more than likely that they will need good quality walking boots or all-weather clothing so you write an article about the importance of choosing the right boots or outdoor gear. Within the text of the article you recommend a company, or companies, that you have signed up to under an affiliate scheme such as Affiliate Window and put in an affiliate link or two.

If your visitors click on these links and then buy something you can earn commission of anything up to 15% if you are lucky. The trick then is to work out as many ways that you can encourage traffic to your site to earn you extra income since the more traffic you generate to your site the more chance you have of creating plenty of passive income.

Many clever network marketers build large organisations and then reap income rewards even when they stop working. The big difference is they often will move on to another opportunity and create even more passive multiple streams of income. This is what is possible to be done in network marketing using the internet.

If you are good at writing, or finding other people to write for you, you can develop a virtual empire of websites or blogs and monetise them with Google Adsense or affiliate products.

There are even internet marketers who have developed over a thousand websites which bring in massive incomes. These clever folk are also very busy so they certainly don’t work on these websites full time and they have been able to automate most of the traffic generation tactics. This means that every day they have passive income coming in to their Google Adsense or affiliate accounts and they haven’t had to sell anything to earn it.

Another way to earn extra from your site, if it is has something valuable or rare to offer, is to start a membership site and earn a monthly income when people take up a membership. One example of this could be if you sell musical instruments and set up a ‘learn how to play’ membership site alongside the main site. You could create videos on different music techniques that only members can watch.

Charge a membership of say £20 a month and build up a useful passive income stream of over the year. One exciting thing about developing membership sites is you can branch into multiple niches, which makes it possible for you to create a huge number of income streams all developed on a passive basis.

Another way of making money from your site is to sell other internet products such as training courses, e-books or software that are not in competition with what you are offering. If you do this in a tactful way it can in fact enhance your website and make you look helpful while earning you a healthy commission.

These are only a handful of the best multiple streams of passive income you can build up to give you an even better standard of living. With the internet and some imagination just about anything is possible, and making money in more than one way, even when you stop working is just plain smart business practice.