Mike, just came across this today. Love the C&C analogy... hmm, once I got to #5 in the world on C&C:RA2 (out of millions), but, lol, in terms of financial returns the efforts would better have been spent stacking shelves at tesco!
Passive Income Generation Part 1 - Theory
SUNDAY, 4TH OCTOBER 2009 - 40 Comments
The concept of a continual source of income trickling into a bank account for little or no expenditure of time is the dream of many. Yet most people do not realise that it can be done, let alone possess knowledge of how to achieve this dream. Is it possible for one to augment, or even replace, their current income source without exchanging time for money? I believe so. In this article series, I will outline how it can be done.
The first major hurdle to overcome is believing that a business owned by an individual can generate income independent of that individual's time contribution to the business. This concept is generally rather alien to the freelancer or contractor as this type of business requires a continual time investment to find and produce work for clients. This article will discuss the theoretical basis for forming multiple income streams which produce money passively, that is, without continual time investment.
In order to explain the concept of the compounding effect of multiple income streams, I will borrow an example from one of my favourite video game franchises, the Command & Conquer series. The C&C games allow one to practice real-time strategy on a small scale with various factions. One can construct vehicles, structures and infantry in order to defeat the opponent. A critical component of the war effort involves resource management, including the strategic management of cash flow.
Some factions possess particular structures which pay out a fixed amount of cash (a virtual "dividend") over a certain time period. For instance the "Supply Drop Zone" structures have a construction cost of $2500, pay $600* every 2 minutes and take approximately 2 minutes to construct. This $600 is guaranteed to arrive** and does not require any additional investment of time or income to generate. However, in order to simply recoup the initial investment one must wait at least 12 minutes. This is a huge risk, as the cash could arguably be better spent on a new group of tanks or a set of fighter aircraft to defend the base.
Investing the dividend paid by the first supply pad into the construction of a second yields $1200 every two minutes and thus the ability to construct the 3rd pad in approximately 6 minutes. This continual re-investment of the supply pad dividend allows construction of successive pads at a much faster rate. It can be seen that the majority of the risk occurs initially as there is a larger gap between pad construction. This risk rapidly reduces as more pads are created.
Although constructing 4 pads leaves the player with little interim finance, this is more than offset by the $50,000 difference gained compared to the purchase of only a single pad in the 80 minute time period. Please note that this whole scenario is a simplification. Even within the framework of the game, there will be additional sources of income such as supply collecting from the battlefield that will slightly alter the in-game economics. However, the compounding effect is still the same.
So how does this discussion of video game resource management relate to generating a passive income that can potentially alleviate the need for a full-time job? Suppose one were able to construct a set of real-life analogues of a "supply pad" that can mimic their virtual counterparts, then the same compounding effect would occur and the money generated would be independent of the time spent on the pad.
This is not as academic as it sounds given that the vast majority of successful companies essential function on a more elaborate version of this concept. The discussion thus reduces to how an individual can achieve the same effect without a vast outlay of time or money.
In the next article I will identify business types that lend themselves to passive income generation.
* I'm not sure that it is exactly $600, but for argument's sake, it will be taken to be.
** Unless your opponent manages to down your C-130 Hercules transport before it drops financial supplies at the pad!
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Top #5 in the world?! Crazy! Did you play Generals or any of the others? Many an hour has been wasted at the hand of the C&C franchise!
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