Passive income opportunities today are much greater than it was ever before. Thanks to the net, passive income has become a reality for many people and is no longer a dream. Passive income is money earned by you without actually working or putting any actual effort to earn. In early days, you were earning passive income if you owned properties or had given it on rent or if you were a silent partner with some business association.

Direct sales are another way of earning passive income. Today, several people are earning passive income through companies like Amway, Tupperware, or Avon. They sell these products themselves and also recruit other people to sell under them.

So, for bringing persons into this direct sales business, they are rewarded by given a commission of sales made by their recruiters. They are also called downline in network marketing business. So even if they stop doing the sales themselves for the product, they still make good amount of income from their downline which they have recruited.

And now, with the help of internet, passive income opportunities have expanded many folds and have also become easier for people to do. Individuals can generate passive income for years through writing e-books or articles. For ongoing passive income, people can sell the copyrights to their writing works and then make a small or even moderate commission from all future sales from those writings.