Before I go to the extreme of associating a specific word to the kiss of death, it helps to understand what "kiss of death" means. It originated with and refers to the biblical account of Judas betraying Jesus with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane. If you are monetizing your website, the mere word "blog" (and other words that use it as the root word) may betray you by thwarting your monetization efforts.

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For the uninitiated, passive income is defined as an income stream where money is received on a regular basis without continuing effort. It can start out as hard work and then end up requiring absolutely no work at all. As I bounce from website to website, and blog to blog, I see opportunities for people to make passive income being ignored. If they aren't ignoring it, they're doing a good job of hiding it.

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