As you probably know, making any kind of money online is very difficult. When most people look for ways to make money online, they turn to advertising.

Unfortunately, online advertising requires an extreme amount scale for you to be able to make anything. The average CPC of a display ad on Google Adsense is less than $1.

Fortunately, there are promising alternatives out there. In this article, I’ll share with you three ways I have personally made passive income. Some of these ideas made more than others, but in each of them, I’ve had some level of success.

Along with each idea, I’ll talk about the good and bad about it, and give you step-by-step instructions on how to get started if it interests you.

Let’s dive in.