You are still reading this, aren't you? Good. In a minute or so you'll be in a very relaxed state of mind by reading about amazing opportunitys. I hope you will survive this "normal" very boring residual income definition.

Residual income. The holy grail among internet marketers. What is it? Why's everybody talking about it? They are talking about it because in the very definition of the concept lies a great promise of earning money without working. Sounds crazy, eh. Who would give you money for nothing? Well, nobody you may think. But that's not entirely true, especially in todays online world. The residual income definition IS that you do your work once and then get paid over and over again for that work. Simple, isn't it. Yeah! And boooring...in the following paragraphs you will FEEL the meaning of a true residual income. Pull up a chair and listen.

Allow your self to drift back when you were a child. What was it like? What did you do? What did you experience? Maybe you built tree-houses, jumped in the ocean with friends, had snow-fights. You probably did many of those things. Well, did you at any time when doing those things worry about money? Of course not. Achieve true residual income and you can propel yourself back to that frame of mind since money will no longer be a concern. The fact you're still reading this article means that you have a big desire to achieve just that. Let's look at another scenario.

Imagine you're a songwriter and you write a song and that song becomes a hit with a major artist. The song goes down in history as a classic. Voila, you have achieved true residual income. Maybe you're a writer and creates the next Harry Potter series. Bingo! You get the idea, creators of intellectual property is people who are very familiar with this concept. How would you feel knowing that you had a part of yourself working day and night for you out there? Making money for you while you were sleeping. Feels good, doesn't it? Hang in there...there's more.

Have you ever wished that you just could snap your fingers and the day had 48 hrs instead of 24? I have. Nothing is more frustrating than seeing the family time slipping through your fingers. In the residual income definition lies the guarantee that you will have complete control of how much time you can devote to the important things in your life. And what could be more important than playing with your son before he has already fallen asleep at night. All while that little residual machine of yours is out there fishing for money.

Okay, you're probably thinking "I'm no writer, I'm no songwriter, I can't do those things". STOP and imagine yourself on a warm beach with the person of your hottest fantasies....if you're lucky you already have a relationship with that person. Anyway, what would you be prepared to do to achieve that reality, I mean being on that beach while still earning money. How bad does you want that? There are methods and tools today that allow regular people just like you to reach those goals. It's called internet marketing. Sounds pretty boring, doesn't it? But if I were to tell you that when a small girl writes in her blog funny things about her greatest interests in life which are horses she is conducting internet marketing. If she has been clever enough to put up some ads that is. Ads that generate money just by having people click on them. This concept is called contextual advertising and the biggest player in that area is of course Big G. Google has a program called AdSense and if you want you can start using this and be on your way to that beach.

What are your interests? I bet you are pretty knowledgable in something. Start creating small articles called hubs over at hubpages.com but make sure you sign up for AdSense and get those ads on your articles.

To your everlasting success! Hope you enjoyed this twist on a residual income definition.

Tomas Coox writes about internet marketing in general. Visit his website at longtaildiggers.com. Please comment if you have questions about this article about residual income definition.