This blog post has been authored by Stand Out Online Member Claire Bullerwell, Create a Passive Business

You desperately want to earn a passive income with your own digital product because you know that having a passive cash-flow can solve a lot of problems for you.

Problems such as:

* Not having an income coming in when you’re on vacation.
* Not having an income coming in when you’re poorly.
* Not having an income coming in when you have ‘meh’ days.
* Not being able to spend more time with your kids and family.
* You want to cut back on your 1-on-1 client work.
* You want to cut back on providing your service for clients.
* You want to earn more with your blog but with less traffic.

Whatever your reason is for wanting a passive income, you now find yourself with a new problem, and that is…

You keep putting off creating your passive income – and this frustrates you.

I find this is a big shame because it’s relatively easy to create a few simple digital products to add multiple income streams to your current business. Add automation to that, and you’ve just created a passive income stream – how amazing is that!

I sincerely believe that everyone who does business online should have at least *one* passive cash-flow with a digital product.

That’s why I encourage you to take advantage of the Internet and all those amazing, cool automation apps and tools!

If you’re still on the fence, ask yourself:

“How would I benefit from having a passive income stream in my business right now?”

When you sit down and really think about the benefits of having a passive income in your business, this will give you inspiration, motivation and drive to actually get around to creating that digital product!

So in response to this, as someone who’s been creating digital products since 2007, I’ve identified eleven reasons why you, you amazing female entrepreneur, keep putting off creating your master-piece and I’ve followed each one with little handy tips to help you overcome these obstacles.

So let’s get started…

1) Procrastination

Procrastination means ‘to keep putting off doing something‘ and this generally means that you don’t want to do it!

Now this may not be at a ‘conscious’ level, in fact it’s probably at your subconscious level, meaning that you’re unaware of why you’re procrastinating. Either way, somewhere in your brain it’s telling you that it just won’t start the task of creating your digital product.

What To Do About It: Try and find out exactly why you’re procrastinating. Sit down and really think ‘why do you not want to do this’, ‘what’s holding you back?’.

…the answers could be one or more of the following…

2) Fear of the Unknown

You’re delving into new territory and naturally it scares you – this is perfectly normal. In fact, you would be quite in-human if you weren’t a little nervous about starting something alien to you.

But this is more than a little nervous anxiety. It’s actually preventing you from doing what you want to do – and this isn’t great as this ‘fear’ is holding you back both personally and financially.

What To Do About It: Learn the basic steps of what you need to do to get your digital product created so it doesn’t seem so ‘alien’ to you. Just learn the basics at this stage and then start planning the very first steps you need to take. And then take one baby-step at a time.

Tip: Start with the *topic* of your digital product, and this generally means what problem can you solve for your audience.

3) Information Overload

On the contrary of the above, you’ve read a lot about creating digital products and passive income from various Facebook groups, blogs, webinars etc., but now you’re suffering from information overload because you’ve soaked in so much knowledge that your bandwidth hurts!

This is so predictable and typical of the internet as it’s a fantastic source of information, but it’s also so easy to keep on reading and overload yourself with the same information but just packaged in different ways.

What To Do About It: Take a step back from all the information you’ve saved, downloaded and just generally consumed. Don’t go near it for a day or two.

In the meantime, take a look at a simple-step-by-step plan on how to create a digital product, and then methodically put the information you’ve gathered into sections of your step-by-step plan and just scrap any irrelevant and/or duplicate information you have.

At the least, this is a start and a fresh perspective in your mind!

4) You Don’t Have Enough Time

I think we can all relate to this one. There just never seems to be enough hours in the day when it comes to running an online business, no matter what type of business model you run.

What To Do About It: Prioritize. If you really want to scope your business and leverage your income with passive income via a digital product, then you must set some time aside each day to work on this.

I know it’s easier said than done, but try and make a daily habit of scheduling in even 30 minutes to work on the passive income side of your business.

I promise you, you will reap the rewards (passively) for months and years to come!

Claire has been creating passive income since 2007 with digital products and automation, and over the years she has written twelve ‘how to’ ebooks and dozens of printables. Claire now helps other female entrepreneurs create passive income in their business with simple digital products and automated systems.