I still have a
day job.
And I think that
makes me more
useful to you.
Most bloggers wait until they have made it to start teaching. I write while I am still in the middle of figuring it out. Every mistake I share is one you do not have to repeat.
My name is Selim. I am an Assistant Manager of Accounts by day and a blogger by night.
I work a full-time accounting job in Dhaka, Bangladesh. After work, I open a laptop and build this website. No team. No startup budget. No shortcuts.
I started The Passive Circle in June 2025 because I wanted something different from the 9-to-5 routine. Not a get-rich-quick exit, but a sustainable second income I could build slowly while keeping my day job safe.
I document everything openly. The wins, the stalled months, the tools I bought and regretted, and the ones I kept. If you are starting from zero, you are reading the right page.
I only recommend what I actually use. Every tool on this site passed through my own workflow first.
Bangladesh
went live
and counting
for BD users first
about results
How I got here
The job was fine. That was the problem.
I spent years in accounts. The salary was steady. The commute was predictable. Every month looked like the last one.
Then one morning I sat down at my desk and thought: if nothing changes, what does 2035 look like? The answer scared me more than any risk ever could.
I was not unhappy. I was just standing still. And I realised that standing still, at my age, was a kind of falling behind.
I started searching for alternatives online. I found endless promises. Passive income in 30 days. Quit your job in 90. Retire early with one funnel. I wasted months chasing those headlines.
The tools were real. The strategies existed. But nobody was talking to someone in Dhaka, with a full-time job, a modest budget, and no technical background. That gap became the idea for this blog.
I stopped looking for shortcuts and started building something real.
In June 2025 I registered a domain, set up WordPress, and published my first post. It took three hours. It ranked nowhere. Nobody read it. I published the next one anyway.
The early months were genuinely humbling. My site had no sitemap, no internal links, and a page load time of nine seconds. I learned about Core Web Vitals the hard way, by watching my impressions sit at zero for weeks.
But I also discovered something important: the mechanics of affiliate marketing are learnable. They are not secret. They are not reserved for tech people or people with large budgets. They just take longer than anyone on YouTube admits.
The month I stopped trying to monetise everything was the month I started making progress on anything.
I chose three core income streams and committed to them. Systeme.io for funnels and email at 60% lifetime commission. Hostinger for hosting I already used. LowFruits for keywords that a new blog can actually rank for. Three earners. One blog. No distractions.
Still working. Still building. Still here every Friday.
I have not left my day job. I do not plan to rush that. The blog is growing slowly, which is how anything built on real content tends to grow.
Every week I publish at least one post following the same process: keyword research, competitor reading, personal testing, then structured writing. Nothing goes live unverified.
What has changed is my confidence. I no longer feel like an outsider looking in at affiliate marketing. I know what works for my audience, my niche, and my situation as a Bangladeshi blogger. That knowledge is exactly what I share here.
Not a guru.
Not a case study.
A fellow beginner
who documents everything.
Most affiliate marketing content is written from the top of the mountain. Here is what worked for me after seven years and a team of twelve. Useful, eventually. But not when you are trying to figure out which hosting plan to buy on a Tuesday night.
The Passive Circle exists for the Tuesday night version of you. The one who has a job, a limited budget, and a question that Google has not answered clearly yet.
Every post I write targets a question I actually had. Every tool I recommend is one I paid for myself. Every mistake I document is one I made first.
I write specifically for people based in countries like Bangladesh where payment processing and tool availability are real obstacles. I filter every recommendation through that lens. If a tool does not accept payments from here, I say so. If it does, I explain exactly how.
This blog is also a public record of whether affiliate marketing from scratch is actually possible for someone in my position. I share results honestly, including the months where nothing moved.
If you are just starting out, you are reading someone who is one year ahead of you, not ten. That is a useful gap.
What you will find here, by stage
Every post is written for a specific stage of the journey. Find your stage and start there.
Three tools I would not build without
I have tested dozens of tools since June 2025. These three stayed. The rest got cancelled subscriptions or honest negative reviews. I disclose affiliate relationships in every post where they exist.
To whoever is reading this right now,
If you found this page, you are probably asking the same question I was asking a few years ago. Can I actually build something online that earns real income? Is it realistic for someone like me, with my constraints, in my situation?
I cannot promise you a timeline. I cannot promise specific numbers. Anyone who does is either very lucky or not giving you the full story.
What I can tell you is that the mechanics are learnable. The tools are affordable. The strategies are documented, tested, and repeatable. The only thing between you and starting is the first post.
I spent too long researching before I started. Do not do that. Start imperfectly and improve as you go. That is the only way any of this actually works.
This blog exists because I needed it and it did not exist. I built it so you do not have to start from the same level of confusion I did. Every post is one piece of the puzzle I wish I had found sooner.
See you in the blog.
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You do not need technical skills or a big budget. You need a clear starting point and the patience to keep going past month one. Let me show you mine.