Today, it is far easier to make a passive income than ever before, if you truly know how to. Most people aren’t aware that there are numerous different ways they can make an income passively. While some ideas may not lead to an income you can completely survive off, you can make a little extra money without too much an effort. We have 7 ideas that you can use to make a fairly decent passive income.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an easy way to make some money without putting too much effort. Amazon has an amazing affiliate marketing program that you can sign up for. All you have to do is promote products on Amazon and link them to your blogs or website. If visitors click on the link of the product you post and purchase it within 24 hours, Amazon pays 10% commission of the product sale to you. There isn’t too much backend work you have to do for this type of income.

Author or Blogger

One of the wonderful thing about becoming an author is the fact that your income doesn’t stop. You can write a book and if it ends up becoming a best-seller than you can make an income off of it for a long time. You see, the book will continue to sell which means you will continue to get money. It is, however, tough to become a bestseller. So you may have to write more than one book but at least you can write about something that interests you.

You don’t even have to be an actual author that writes books. You can become a blogger. If you establish your name and promote brands on your blogs, you can make quite an earning from it. You just need to work and target a specific niche and if your writing is well-researched and is liked by target audience then you can make an income out of it through affiliate marketing or many other ways.

YouTube Channel

There are numerous different ways you can make money off YouTube. Once you create a channel and have a decent following, which is not as hard as most people think, you can make money off ads that play before your video. However, that isn’t the only way, you direct traffic off YouTube to your website, blog, and what not and sell products to them on that. You can also get brands on board to advertise them in your video and make extra money.

Drop Shipping

This particular type of passive income has become popular in the past few years. To become a dropshipper, you need to create a website that advertises and sells products. We recommend making a website for a particular niche. You work as a middleman and once a visitor purchases products on your website, you buy the product from the actual manufacturer and have it shipped directly to your customer.

Monitoring your baby today is a lot different than it was a decade or so ago. While most parents used a monitor that relied on sound back then, today they can get a live video feed with the help of a WiFi baby monitor. There is also a wider variety of monitors to choose from which can make the hunt for the right one far more difficult. But don’t worry, we have that covered for you. Keeping performance and different functionalities offered, we have selected the 4 best WiFi baby monitors.

Infant Optics DXR-8 Video Baby Monitor

Infant Optics hasn’t been in the baby monitor game for too long, starting off in 2011. However, it has made an impact in the industry developing baby monitors that are reliable and provide a variety of features to users. One of the best features is the ability to change the lens on the camera. It allows parents to customize the camera to their liking. It comes with an LCD monitor with a 3.5-inch screen so you get a clear image of the baby while it sleeps. It also comes with a temperature monitor so you know if the room is too hot or cold. As far as battery life goes, it lasts 8 hours with the screen constantly on and 12 hours in power mode.

Wansview WIreless 1080P Security Camera

Our rating: 4.7 out of 5                        Cost: $$

While Wansview is a security camera, it serves well as a baby monitor. It works with 2.4 GHz Wifi and needs a power supply to stay online. It provides HD video and you can get the feed directly to your mobile devices. Which is wonderful because you won’t need to have a separate device to monitor your child. The application of the system also allows you to control the camera, moving it around from your device so you can easily monitor the whole room. You get two-way audio so you can hear your child and also speak to them. Making this a wonderful monitor for babies.

Netgear Arlo Baby Monitor

Netgear Arlo Baby Monitor provides high-quality HD video directly to your phone or mobile device. What makes it amazing is that it also supports Alexa so you can control the device with the help of Alexa. It has a neat design around the camera and definitely adds to at the aesthetics of your baby’s room. You can also record video and sound as it saves recordings of seven days on its server. It has a wonderful night vision option and comes with an air sensor so you know exactly what the temperature is in the room.

LeFun WiFi Camera

The LeFun WiFi Camera is easy to set up and use surveillance camera that can be used as a baby monitor. It provides a video feed in high-definition and has two-way audio. What we really liked about the camera is the fact that the setup was very easy. Once we mounted it, it took a few minutes to have it hooked to the WiFi and getting a feed from it to our mobile devices. It also has an SD slot so you can store video feeds in memory cards or you have the option to do so in a cloud with Cloudbox.

The use of BCAA by gym-goers is growing. Many people use them without even knowing anything about the BCAA or the impact it has. We breakdown BCAAs for you so you know what they are and exactly how they benefit you.

BCAA is an abbreviation for Branched Chain Amino Acids. Amino acids are vital for muscle protein, so if you want muscle recovery and growth then you need to ensure your body gets amino acids. BCAA consists of three major amino acids: isoleucine, leucine, and valine. These three are part of nine essential amino acids.

To develop a better understanding of BCAA, you need to understand that protein is made up of approximately 22 amino acids. Nine of which are 'essential' of which 3 are BCAA. So incorporating BCAA into your diet will help in both maintaining and increasing muscle mass.

Benefits of BCAA

So we know that BCAA is important in developing and maintaining muscle mass. It has many other benefits than that.

Work out for longer

While you work out, the serotonin levels in your body rise which makes you more fatigued. This means your tire and won’t be able to push yourself to a more intense workout. Adding BCAA to your diet completely changes the chemistry of how your body reacts to getting tired. When your muscles get tired with the release of serotonin, the body creates tryptophan which is transmitted to the brain to tell it that the muscles are tired. However, with BCAA there is a barrier created between the brain and the blood and less tryptophan is allowed to go to the brain allowing you to work out for longer and having a more intense workout.

Increase the synthesis of protein

Since BCAA are part of the essential amino acids that produce protein, they greatly aid in protein synthesis. They stimulate the process of protein synthesis making more muscle protein which helps with your gains.

Reduce breakdown of protein

The presence of BCAA in your body reduces the activity of protein breakdown. The BCAA does this by blocking the breakdown path of the protein, by reducing the production of mRNA in the gene code. There is some complex science behind protein breakdown which we won’t get in to. However, the fact that it reduces that while promoting protein synthesis leads to even more muscle gain.