Passive Income: How To Invest $100 In 2023

What's up, Graham? It's guys here, so imagine if you had an extra five, ten, or even twenty dollars a day deposited into your bank account without you having to do any work whatsoever. What color would your Lambo be?

All right, in all seriousness, someone has tried pretty much every single passive income idea in existence. I'll admit most of them are a complete waste of time. They'll take you forever to build, and financially, you'd probably be better off just working a minimum wage job instead. But there's also legitimate ways of making passive income that are often overlooked.

Even though you're not going to get rich overnight, the good news is that you would be able to get started today with as little as a hundred dollars. And if you could simply get the basics down, you'd be able to rinse and repeat these exact same strategies to eventually work your way up to a hundred dollars a day.

So let's talk about everything that you need to know in terms of exactly what to do, where to start, and how to scale because everything that I'm talking about is something that I have personally done myself. So please learn from my mistakes, and I'll give you real actionable steps that you could begin today.

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All right, now, first it's important to understand that when it comes to passive income, there are two very different types that you could generate for yourself. The first is by investing your money, and the second is by investing your time.

I'll break down both options here since I use a combination of each, but before we go on to that, we gotta get this out of the way. Even though some people say that passive income is not a real thing, it doesn't exist, it's not possible, I'll be the first to tell you that yes, it is real, it does exist. But it's probably a lot different than what you would expect.

The reality is flat out you will never get something for nothing, and it's not like there's the option out there to go and set up an automated YouTube channel that makes you five hundred a day while you outsource all the work for pennies on the dollar. Instead, realistically, passive income is a way for you to leverage your time and efforts up front in such a way that you'll get paid later on in the future, even when you're not working.

Just be prepared to put in the work, learn these strategies, and don't expect money to be pouring into your account overnight. And now of course, with that said, let's begin with the money aspect. If you're looking for the simplest, easiest, no work approach to making true passive income, as in you literally do nothing besides collect money, then you might want to consider buying into dividends.

Now this certainly isn't going to make you rich overnight, but a hundred dollars is going to be enough to lay the groundwork from which you could be able to build from. And this is how you could do it: anytime you go and buy a stock, what you're really buying into is a small piece of ownership within the company.

Now that doesn't mean you'll be able to go and walk into the Apple Store and claim that you own the place because you got an Apple stock, but buying into a company does entitle you to a portion of their profits, and that's usually in the form of a dividend. Of course, not every stock pays a dividend, but usually when they do, they range anywhere between one and ten percent depending on the company.

Although most of the time, you'll find the strongest companies paying anywhere between one to five percent every single year, and chances are that is going to be the easiest passive income you're ever going to make in your entire life. The benefit from an investment standpoint is that you'll be able to receive predictable cash flow on a regular basis without having to sell any shares.

And this gives you leftover money that you could then use to buy even more investments that will then make you even more money. It's almost like you could buy yourself access to a little tiny money printer, where every hundred you invest will get you on average one to five dollars back every year.

On top of that, the Simply Say Dividends blog pointed out that in three of the above recessions, dividends paid to investors actually increased, including a forty-six percent jump during the first recession following World War II. Now, even though such an increase doesn't happen every time, the average dividend cut is just a mere half a percent compared to the stock market's average decline of thirty-two percent.

Now, the downside to this, however, is that not all dividend stocks are actually worth buying, even if they are paying you a high amount. But consider IBM; even though they're paying you a four percent dividend, over the last five years their stock prices remained completely flat. Compare that to Apple, which is up 219 percent, Amazon, which is up sixty percent, or Facebook, which is, well, okay, maybe not Facebook. That's a bad example.

That's why it's important to pick your dividend stocks very wisely and invest in companies because of their strong long-term financials, not just because they pay a high dividend. If you could do this, investing a hundred dollars is enough to start building the foundation from which, like I said, you could begin earning a lot more money.

The second, if you don't want to take the risk picking individual stocks—in which case I don't blame you—you could also take my personal favorite approach with an index fund. This is basically a big basket of stocks that you could buy into for one low price, and that way you'll own a small piece of everything.

For example, if you were to buy each individual stock in the S&P 500, not only would that be a logistical nightmare and take you hours, but it would also cost you around eighty thousand dollars. So instead, an index fund was created as a way to track the entire market and simplify investing without having to dump everything into Carvana.

Index fund investing has outperformed the vast majority of professional investors over a twenty-year period. That means that statistically, you're going to make more money doing this than any other stock market investment that you could think of. And in terms of passive income, here's how you can make that a reality: first, you'll receive a dividend; in most of these funds, the dividend yield is anywhere between one and three and a half percent annually, which might not sound like a lot because on a hundred dollars you're only going to make about one to three dollars a year.

But you could also combine that with number two, the stock price increasing. Overall, throughout the last hundred years, the S&P 500 has increased by an average of seven percent a year, adjusted for inflation with dividends reinvested. So if you just buy and hold into an index fund long term, you can expect to ten X your money over thirty years with this one simple trick that hedge funds hate.

And third, this plays into what's called the four percent rule. This was a strategy invented back in 1994 and used as a method of calculation to make sure you never run out of money in retirement. Or basically, if you want to have endless amounts of passive income forever, you would be able to spend four percent of your portfolio every single year for the rest of your life.

Just imagine it like every one dollar that you have is turned into a worker, where its only job is to go and find pennies to bring back into your account. Now, initially, it might not seem like a lot to put your workers out there to bring back you pennies, but once you have hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of little workers out there all bringing you back pennies at the exact same time, working twenty-four-seven even when you're not, it begins to add up.

But at the same time, I get it. It's probably not the passive income idea you expected when you clicked on a video like this. So if you wanted a higher return or something that could potentially make you thousands of dollars, consider this: at the end of the day, when it comes to passive income, it's essential that you do your best to save money, invest wisely, and research the markets as much as you can.

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And now, with that said, let's get back to the reality. Unless you buy a winning lottery ticket, go back in time to invest in Dogecoin, or appear in the next Mr. Beast video, a hundred dollars by itself is probably not going to amount to much. That's why, if you want to make a lot of passive income, the highest yielding investment that you can make is in education.

So if you want my recommendations on exactly what you could do to make the most of it, here's what I think: first, for ten dollars, go and buy the book "Think and Grow Rich." No joke, I read this book when I was sixteen years old, and it absolutely changed my life. If you want to become wealthy, this book contains the mental blueprint for achieving whatever you want, and for me, it's been the best investment that I could have possibly made in terms of learning actionable steps that anybody could use to build wealth.

Second, take fifteen and buy the book "The Four Hour Work Week." This is a book I read right after graduating high school, and it completely changed the way I viewed business, money, and leveraging your skills. Third, take twenty dollars and buy the book on rental property investing by Brandon Turner. I've been fortunate enough to have him on my channel before, even realizing that he was the one who wrote the book that I was obsessed with while buying real estate.

But regardless of whether or not you want to buy a rental property, the information is invaluable. And since buying a home is the largest financial transaction you're ever going to possibly make, it's worth knowing what you're doing. Next, four, take ten dollars and buy the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Here's the thing: no matter what business you're in, you need to understand how to effectively communicate with another person, understand their point of view, and treat people with respect.

This book teaches you how to make win-win conversations for everybody, and I think more people should be imploring this. Since we've only spent fifty-five dollars so far and I don't want this video to go on forever, I would spend another seven dollars on "Rich Dad Poor Dad," twenty on "The Millionaire Fast Lane," seventeen dollars on "Die With Zero," and the remaining on "Your Money or Your Life."

I know we're slightly over a hundred dollars now, but if you actually go and buy these books and then actually go and read them over the course of a year, I guarantee you'll have more business acumen than ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine of people on the planet, and because of that, it's practically guaranteed that you will make more money as a result.

The fourth, you can also take a more practical approach, and even though it's not a lot, you could use a hundred dollars towards starting a business. Oh yes, I know this is quite literally the opposite of passive income because starting a business could be one of the most difficult mental challenges you will ever encounter in your entire life. While you make absolutely no money until you get it off the ground, you'll learn a lot, and once you begin earning a consistent amount, you'll be able to outsource the day-to-day activities.

For example, I know plenty of social media businesses that were started for nothing out of pocket. They just found a common problem that creators were facing, provided a solution, and then worked for free until they proved themselves. Right now, there's a huge opportunity to take long-form content like this and then chop it up into TikToks, reels, and shorts.

I'll tell you, most creators are not doing this. Most people have no idea this is even an opportunity. The business itself is going to cost you pretty much nothing to start up besides your time, and once you begin to understand how this works, you could outsource almost everything. Feel free to take this idea, by the way, and run with it because some of you are going to make a lot of money doing this, and that isn't the only option.

Plenty of other businesses could also be started with no money out of pocket, like creating thumbnails for YouTube videos, taking a video outline and turning it into a newsletter, connecting brands with channels here on YouTube, or taking a free coding class to build the landing page.

On top of that, I know it's now the most cliché thing ever to say, but you could also take a hundred dollars and start your own YouTube channel. I know this is one of the biggest easier said than done tactics to make money, but the reality is if you enjoy talking to the camera alone in a room, and it's Saturday at, uh, I guess it's almost 7 PM, then, uh, hey, if that's your idea of a fun Saturday night, then be my guest and save me.

Anyway, if you stick with it and you don't mind mispronouncing words all the time and having to refilm everything from the very beginning, then YouTube could be fantastic. For example, when I started creating YouTube videos, I filmed everything on my iPhone that I already had. I edited for free using iMovie on my computer that I learned to edit on for free by watching YouTube videos, and I talked about my experience in real estate. Honestly, I just had so much fun making videos every single night. It was the only thing that I looked forward to doing, and it eventually blossomed into what it is today.

Of course, the downside is that you're reliant on the YouTube algorithm. You have to constantly post videos if you want the algorithm to show your videos, and it's consuming of your entire life. But there's also an element to it where even the older videos that I made years ago are still bringing in sometimes pennies, dollars, or even tens of dollars every single day, even though it's been years since I've made that video.

Think of it as something that's very time-consuming and unprofitable up front, but long term it could pay off way more than you initially put in if you just stick with it long term. Finally, if you could use the above suggestions to turn that hundred dollars into five hundred dollars, you could look into what's called credit card churning. The thing is, even though it's not entirely passive, it's fairly easy and you could grow your money way faster than investing it with a nearly guaranteed return.

In fact, I used to do this all the time, and there's always options out there to take advantage of. So here's how it works: both credit cards and banks will give you a bonus for opening up an account and meeting minimum requirements. Usually, the bonus is anywhere between fifty and two hundred, and it typically takes anywhere between fifteen and twenty-five minutes worth of work. Plus, websites like NerdWallet and The Points Guy list options on a weekly basis, so your choices are almost infinite.

For example, the Capital One Saver Card has a zero-dollar annual fee and gives you a two hundred bonus when you spend five hundred dollars in the first three months. Just right there, as long as you follow the requirements, you could get a forty percent return on your money in less than a hundred days.

However, the trick to doing this is that you must not spend any additional money that you wouldn't have spent anyways; otherwise, you're just wasting money. But assuming that you would ordinarily be spending five hundred dollars within three months on gas, utilities, food, insurance, and everything else involved, then it's an easy way to make an extra two hundred.

So overall, in the big picture, starting off with a hundred dollars is not a lot, and it's not like you're going to be making money hand over fist beginning tomorrow, but it is enough to set up a good foundation from which you could build on to eventually make a lot more money.

Even for myself, I started off with the Roth IRA buying index funds. I then saved for years until I could buy my first rental property. I continued buying even more index funds and then saving even more money to buy another rental property, and then started a YouTube channel for fun that eventually turned into a side hobby.

And I continued doing that until fourteen years later, where all of those passive income sources were able to cover all of my expenses day to day. Just take it one step at a time, use what you have currently available, and think outside of the box. I really believe that if you actually read those books and then started up a creator assistance business, you would be able to turn a hundred dollars into potentially five thousand dollars a month.

Yes, it's going to take a lot of time and a lot of work up front, but it's also going to be a hundred percent worth it. So with that said, you guys, thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it. As always, feel free to add me on Instagram, and don't forget if you haven't already, subscribe or hit the like button. It would mean the world to me. Thank you so much, and until next time.