They say automation is the key to passive income. If we take an automatic car for example and compare it to a manual car, it’s less stress, easier to operate … the downsides are that you lose a certain degree of control and they’re more expensive to initially buy.
Doing everything manually and by yourself is free, but it’s time consuming. There comes a point where you have to ask yourself is it worth automating whatever it is you’re doing.
Say you have an ebook and are selling it. Isn’t it awkward trying to receive payments and manually send out the ebook to the buyer? Wouldn’t it be much easier to have it all automated so that the buyer automatically receives the ebook once he pays you?
Or lets take another example – sending a newsletter to a list of emails. Wouldn’t it save so much time automating everything so that the newsletter can be sent to thousands of people with the click of a button?
These are really basic examples of how automation can save you so much time and hassle. You can hire people to write custom scripts that will automate things for you – maybe it’s buying domain names or sending a text to your phone when you receive an email from ‘x’…
I guess this isn’t technically going to make you money directly, but I feel it’s a huge part of making money online – automation frees up your time and allows you to use that time to make money elsewhere doing other things. It is absolutely vital you have free time to think up of ideas and get
started on them… you don’t want to be manually sending out emails or sorting out payments for ebooks etc… if you can afford to automate, do it, and automate as much as possible.
These days, you can even hire what’s known as a virtual assistant who will do all your dirty work for you for a fee. Install scripts, manage sites, respond to emails etc… this can greatly increase YOUR productivity and lets be honest if YOU’RE the person hiring an assistant, you must be doing something right and therefore you have even more time to do other things right 
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