Lots of negativity recently surrounding AIS - "it doesn't work", "it's a waste of time" and so on. Here are some real examples;

actually not in fact i believe most will fail in the short run and all will fail in the long run be it due to competition poor ideas or wrong concept

automated expense stream might be more appropriate

those sites require a lot of daily maintenance

more sites mean more work

And such crass comments from people who have never really tried to understand AIS, let alone give it a go. I decided to try a little experiment to see how income would be affected if an AISer took a lot (that is a "lot" in internet terms) of time off.

The Experiment
As some of you know, I was quite poorly in february which forced me to take time off. When I got "with it" again, I just didn't have it in me to carry on working so what I did was a whole lot of nothing, just making blog posts, posting in forums and so on.

Since February 10th, I have set up exactly zero new websites. As we all know, creating adsense sites has to be an ongoing procedure unless you are very lucky by having a site with a high volume of "non web savvy" traffic…

In summary, I have done no AIS creation for 3 months, so by now income should have dropped off drastically according to the Doubting Thomas's.

The Results
If I remove the big hitters that I created in December & January (NC Templates, PLR Manna), then my AIS income has remained steady at just under $2000 per month.

I have no doubt that if I continue to not work, that income will remain pretty much rock steady - I see no reason why it would go down at all. In fact, Adsense income has risen slightly month on month even though I have created no adsense sites.

So, hopefully this 3 month experiment will show that AIS is a viable means of creating a residual, ongoing income, and put to bed the doubts that some people have.

Of course, over the past 3 months I have not done nothing - I've been recharging my batteries, and have thought of loads of good ideas for AIS sites (particularly product AIS), and from today I will be putting all my ideas into practice.

What next?
Of course, I need to start translating the ideas I've written down into websites/products. This will take me at least a month as I have 5 product AIS ideas and loads of adsense AIS niche ideas. It's all good!

Main aim is to get a bunch more AIS's up and running before the start of the Football (Soccer) World Cup - I like to take 3 weeks off each 4 years to catch as many football matches as I can…