Residual Income is just another name for “recurring” income. Every
business, profession or household has some form of income stream.
There is contract income, linear income and residual or recurring
income. The difference between types of income can be great.
Contract income is based on a specified amount for a specified time
or specified job. Once the contract is complete the income stops.
Linear income is what the majority of the working world receives.
You receive income after while you are working from an employer.
Once you stop working the income stops. Residual income or
recurring income is where you continue to get paid even after you
have stopped working.
This makes residual income a very attractive form of income.
Artists, musicians, some types of sales people, authors are usually
paid in some form of residual income. This is sometimes known as
royalties or in the case of sales people it is known as renewal
commissions. One of the best examples of residual income comes from
the music world. An artist writes a song, it is recorded and then
sold. The artist may receive an initial amount for the song but
they also receive a small percentage of the income from each
subsequent sale of the song. It is a really great way to get rich.
Do the work once and then get paid over and over again. Therein
lies the great power of residual income!
During the 1920's a small company started using direct selling of
dietary supplements to consumers. They found a way to increase
their sales and their sales force by building relationships with
people and offering them a residual income on the products they
sold. This was the real foundation of Network Marketing as we
understand it today. The earliest known real success had to do with
the Amway Corporation. Is this a bad thing? No it is not.
Multilevel Marketing companies (MLM) or Network Marketing proved to
be a legitimate form of doing and offering business after a long
and drawn out court case. However, once this case was completed it
opened the door for a multitude of other companies and compensation
plans to come out. Over the years many companies have come and
gone. Some were good and some have been bad. The same can be said
for the compensation plans of each of these companies.
The rules for residual income work from home companies have
remained the same. Find a good company, with a good compensation
plan, a great system for recruiting and then focus on that company.
The second thing you must remember is to find people you can work
with especially if the company requires a lot of personal contact
either face to face or by phone. The third and in many instances
the most important is the system for recruitment.
Finding all these things can be tough. This series of articles is
designed to get you thinking about the “WHY” that makes you want to
have residual income work from home opportunities. There are many
ways to make money from home. Evaluate and act and then focus,
Date Published: Oct 18, 2008 - 2:28 pm