The terms get used interchangeably, but they're not quite the same thing.
Passive income requires minimal to no ongoing effort once it's set up: dividend payments, interest on savings, royalties from something you built once.
Residual income usually still requires some ongoing involvement, even if it's less than the work that created it in the first place: a consulting relationship built on past reputation, or renewals on something you have to periodically re-sell.
A few real ideas across both categories: dividend investing, rental property income, a niche digital-product store built around a skill you have, an affiliate review site that keeps earning from content you wrote once, licensing a design or piece of creative work, renting out equipment you already own, or a course that keeps selling after the initial launch effort.
The honest version of both: almost nothing is fully passive at the start. Everything on this list required real, active effort to build before it started paying out with less effort. The "passive" part is the payoff, not the starting condition.
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