Earlier today I went to the gym to work out. Before I hit the treadmill, I logged into the gym’s public access computer and I took a few minutes to check up on a new website that I recently put up on the subject of “Golf Instruction.” Interestingly, I found that Google listed a page on my site about “golf lessons.” I didn’t remember creating a page on that topic.

When I clicked on the link it took me to an empty page on my site. Then I remembered - I had created a page a few days ago and then deleted it. Whoops! My immediate thought was, “I had better run home after my workout and re-create that page. If it’s already on google, I need to create some content for it.”

Then it hit me - Why go home?! The website is built on a modified “Wordpress” blogging software. All that I needed to do was, log-in, create the content and save it. Somehow this blindingly obvious fact had not occured to me before. When I build my new websites on a Wordpress “core” I will not need to have my laptop with me to create content and change it. Why does this matter?

Passive Income and Your Life of Freedom

Not needing to lug around a laptop is a huge advantage when designing one’s life of freedom from job and location. It doesn’t matter whether your are in La Paz, Bolivia or Bangolore India - as long as you have access to the internet and a computer, you can create the content that will help you increase your passive income streams. You do not need your own computer, any will do, and you do not need to have FTP software, nor an HTML editor or dreamweaver. Just tune in, log on and create.

Now, I hear someone saying:

“I want a ‘real’ website for creating passive income not just some crappy blog.”

Well, the Web Whisperers will teach how to make your blogs stand up, sing the blues, cook you a hot meal and then draw you a bath. The Wordpress blog software that we use is called “Semiologic” and you can add “static pages” just like a regular website. In fact, you can delete the blog section if you want to and it will look just like a regular website. Outsource your computer tasks to India and you can have some create a custom “skin” for your blog that will make it look uniquely yours. With a blog, you can do everything that you need to do to create passive and residual income. You can podcast, optimize it for the search engines, insert google adsense (to create advertising income), sell Amazon books, sell your own digital products - the list goes on an on.

The first step is to get used to creating content on a blog. Go to your favorite search engine and type in “wordpress” or “blogger.” These are two services that will give you a blog for free. You do NOT need to be a programmer. You simply need to know how to use the internet and email. If you can do that, you can blog. Once you get familiar with the process, you can learn how to modify the blog for your own needs. If you want a little help, come to one of the Web Whisperers 5-day internet marketing bootcamps, or sign up for our eCourse for creating passive and residual income.

And when you go to South America (Or Europe..or Asia) to enjoy your new life of freedom. For god’s sake leave the damn laptop at home!!