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[Dumb] Passive Income Report for June 2015

January 21, 2020July 15, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Welcome to my [Dumb] Passive Income Report! This blog is all about what I am doing to create several different passive income streams. This monthly income report details my results. I work very hard and dedicate many hours each week to working on my different online endeavors in an attempt to create passive income. So why do I consider it passive income then? Because I am not trading specified amounts of time for a predetermined amount of money like I do at my day job. Most of the income you will see in this report results from work I have done in the past.

Why am I sharing my income publicly? Hopefully to gain credibility with you (the readers) and to maintain a certain degree of accountability for myself. I could blog all day long about what I am doing to create passive income online, including some of my unique strategies. But why would anybody trust me and believe that what I am doing works if I don’t prove it by sharing my results? This is what I mean by gaining credibility and this is one of the main purposes for sharing my income. I also share my failures on the blog, which holds me accountable. Knowing that I will be publishing a monthly income report will keep me motivated to keep pushing forward and plugging away on the things I need to do to create future passive income.

The Ultimate Azon WordPress Theme for Amazon Affiliate Sites

January 22, 2020July 4, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Amazon Affiliate Site - Ultimate Azon Wordpress Theme

As a niche site creator and enthusiast, I’ve been focused lately on building out Amazon affiliate sites. Amazon sites are so much fun to create for several reasons. One of the main reasons being that it is so easy to find profitable niches and products to promote. Another reason that I love to build Amazon sites is because of the awesome tools that are available that make building out these types of sites on WordPress extremely easy.

There are a couple of tools on my “must-have” list when it comes to creating Amazon affiliate sites. And previously, a specific theme did not make that list. I usually just used either a free theme or one of my Genesis themes and used several plugins to add different functionality for my Amazon review sites. But after using the Ultimate Azon Theme for several months now (on a few of my sites) – there is now a specific theme on my “must-have” list for building Amazon sites.

The Ultimate Azon Theme is so powerful and so easy to customize and set up. You won’t even believe how easy it is to create beautiful, professional looking Amazon review sites with all the bells and whistles. I am going to show you exactly what I mean in this extensive review post. But just telling you that it is awesome wouldn’t quite do it justice. So, I’m also going to show you one of my sites that uses this theme!

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for May 2015

July 30, 2022June 13, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Link Building Packages from The Hoth – An Honest Review (Updated)

March 22, 2017May 28, 2015 by Matthew Allen

As a niche website builder, one of the necessary evils that I’ve had to deal with is building links. Getting good links pointing to your sites is essential if you want to rank in Google for the good keywords. Over the last couple of years, I’ve tried it all. White hat. Grey hat. Black hat. You name it. Some methods work better than others and some methods carry more risk. But the fact remains that even after the multitude of updates to it’s algorithm – Google still relies heavily on backlinks as a main factor in determining it’s search engine rankings.

This post will mostly consist of my honest review and my experience using The Hoth to buy link building packages.

Here is what I will cover…

the different types of Hoth link building packages available
my experience and opinions about The Hoth
my most recent purchase from The Hoth
- the exact process and what to expect
- my exact results with before & after screenshots
will I continue to use The Hoth?

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for April 2015

July 30, 2022May 11, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Fastest Web Hosting for WordPress (Revisited) – My Site Speed Obsession

April 17, 2015April 16, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Almost exactly one year ago, I moved this blog – Dumb Passive Income – to the best and fastest web hosting company available for WordPress – WPEngine. My experience over the past year with them has been extraordinary. To say that I have been satisfied would be a vast understatement. I’ve been more than satisfied. If you haven’t read it before, I encourage you to read my original article on my experience with moving this blog over to WPEngine.

Site speed (page load times) was my number one reason for moving in the first place. And my results have been remarkable. But here’s the thing… I left some of my best money-making niche websites on my old Hostgator shared hosting account. Load times on those sites continued to be horrendous. Makes me wonder if those sites would have been making even more money if I hadn’t left them on that slow shared server for so long. I did finally move them, but what took me so long…?

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for March 2015

April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Getting Started with Amazon Niche Sites – How to Find Profitable Niches and Limitless Keywords

December 30, 2016March 17, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Amazon Niche Sites - Profitable Niches - Keywords

Amazon niche sites. Everybody wants to build them. Everybody wants to have them. Why in the world are Amazon niche sites so popular? You hardly hear anybody ever talk about building Adsense niche sites anymore. Heck – when I started building niche sites, Adsense sites were THE thing. Very few people were talking about building Amazon sites. But now it’s the other way around. And it’s been that way for most of the last 2 years.

I think part of the reason for the popularity of Amazon niche sites is due to the plethora of successful case studies that people have shared throughout the community of internet marketing bloggers. People are more protective with their Adsense sites and less likely to share for fear of getting their Adsense account shut down by Google. But it’s totally acceptable, and even advantageous, to share a site with your Amazon links plastered all over it. It’s a good way to get more backlinks and even possibly generate more commissions. For example…

The Content Upgrade Strategy for Growing an Email List

August 14, 2015March 12, 2015 by Matthew Allen

(Big win and even bigger mistake in the last 30 days)

The content upgrade strategy. I’ve been hearing about it for a long time and I’ve been wanting to try it out on this blog. Well – I finally made that happen last month and I have some amazing results to share with you! Given my relatively low traffic numbers on Dumb Passive Income – I was (and continue to be) blown away by the results of implementing this simple strategy.

As you’ll see in my screenshots below, I had a pretty major win last month as a result of using the content upgrade strategy. And the results are ongoing. I’m still getting more daily email subscribers because of this one strategy in just one post. But I also made a huge mistake that resulted in me not possibly doubling those results. Keep reading – you’ll see what I mean…

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for February 2015

January 21, 2020March 7, 2015 by Matthew Allen

A Profitable Online Business – Amazon FBA

February 11, 2020February 18, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Looking at a few of my more recent income reports (late 2014 and early 2015), it’s hard to miss that my total online income numbers have skyrocketed. This is due mostly to the recent business venture that my lovely wife and I are doing together – selling on Amazon via FBA. If you haven’t seen it already, be sure to check out my original post about how we got started – Side Hustling with My Lady. Income is up. No doubt about that. But expenses have skyrocketed too. Due to the nature of this type of business – we have to spend money to make money.

In this post, I’m going to dig through my numbers from my first 4 or 5 months in this business and answer the following questions:

Is selling on Amazon via FBA a profitable online business model?
Is selling on Amazon via FBA considered passive income?
How much money have I spent?
How much money have I earned?
How much inventory do I have at Amazon?

[Dumb] Passive Income Report for January 2015

February 5, 2015February 4, 2015 by Matthew Allen

Here is what I will cover…

(Big win and even bigger mistake in the last 30 days)

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