This is possibly the most sexist idea we’ve presented so far, but I’m not going to let that stop us! I’m sure you’ve often heard woman complain that their husband doesn’t want a wife – he wants a cook cleaner/launderer ect.
Do you know what in some cases that’s true! There are many men who just want someone to do the chores for them without an emotional or romantic attachment, so why not offer the service?
The idea here is for a ‘Rent-A-Wife’ service, whereby men can pay someone by the hour to do all the stuff they might normally expect of a spouse.
Duties would include cooking, cleaning and laundry as well as any other chores and errands the customer needed doing.
Offering a service would generate a huge amount of publicity and controversy, but there’s no denying it would appeal greatly to men who simply don’t want any additional commitment or strings in their lives, but do want someone to share drudgery.
So who will be brave enough to take this one on?
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.”
Bo Bennett
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“I phoned the local gym and I asked if they could teach me how to do the splits. He said, “How flexible are you?” I said, “I can’t make Tuesdays.”
Tim Vine
‘Gilty’ Food
Interest in food and cooking has never been stronger. It seems like every other TV programme is devoted to food or cooking, and people have had their expectations raised regarding what’s possible.
A new idea from Germany seems to take this to a new level.
Esslack Food Spray allows you to graffiti your food or make it glitter like a pile of gold. It’s made from an edible dye and can be safety sprayed on anything. So if you want a gold tomato or a silver mushroom, there’s nothing stopping you.
I’m not sure I’m personally keen on this idea (I prefer my food to look like what it is) but I can certainly see a novelty market for this. I haven’t seen this being sold anywhere in the UK yet, so it could be worth looking into if you have the right contacts or outlets.
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL LOOK A LIKE DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
Imagine this…you load up an amazing piece of software on your PC or Laptop. It takes about 10 minutes. And then you wait.
Every now and again – perhaps two or three times a week – an icon flashes up on the screen, and when it does, that’s your signal to collect £100. Simple. No rush. No dramas.
Sound interesting?
You’re probably in a significant minority!
Believe it or not 99% of readers will pass up on this because it’s doesn’t sound like it makes enough money. It’s hard to resist the promise of tens of thousands of pounds. But give me five minutes now, and I’ll show you how these small ‘hidden’ amounts can really add up.
Matt Shaw, the guy who discovered this reveals HERE.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
P.S. This comes with a 100% cast iron money back guarantee. There is absolutely no risk to you to take a look.
The complicated rules on claiming child benefit are landing some parents with shocking tax bills and causing administrative hassle.
Since 2013 those who earn more than £50,000 a year have to pay back some of the child benefit they receive: £1 of every £100 earned over the threshold. If you earn more than £60,000, you’ll need to repay all of it.
One family has just had a £7,400 bill from HMRC because the sole earner was bringing home less than £50,000 a year, but his company car was classed as a benefit in kind, propelling him over the threshold. Be sure to register for child benefit if you earn over £50,000.
A stay-at-home parent who hasn’t won’t get National Insurance credits that build up their state-pension entitlement while they are looking after their children. Your children may also have trouble getting a National Insurance number if they’ve never been on the list.
If you earn over £50,000 then you sign up and pay the High Income Child Benefit Charge via your tax return. Earn over £60,000 and you still need to register, but you can opt not to receive the payments. You will still get any National Insurance credits due, but you won’t have to pay the tax charge.
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
George Burns
Dinner With The Dead
When Na-yeon died four years ago aged seven, her mother, Jang Ji-sung, turned to technology to bring her back. Millions in South Korea tuned in to ‘Meeting You’, a television programme in which Jang donned a virtual-reality headset and sat down to her meal of seaweed soup with the avatar of her daughter.
The digital Na-yeon couldn’t respond to Jang’s words, but could ask “Where have you been, Mum? Did you think about me?” At one point, they appear to hold hands. “Maybe it’s a real paradise,” Jang said afterwards. “I met Na-yeon, who called my name with a smile. It was a very short time, but a very happy time.”
Others aren’t so sure, saying ”Having this type of interaction through an avatar could present a real challenge for some people in accepting the reality of the death.” London-based Peter Trainor, founder of Us Ai, agrees.
He worked with James Dunn, a young man with a rare condition, to create an algorithm that would mimic Dunn’s personality after his death, aged 24. In the end, Trainor shut down the company, he says. “We were beginning to attract the wrong sort of attention.”
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL ALL IS OURS DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
Imagine this…you load up an amazing piece of software on your PC or Laptop. It takes about 10 minutes. And then you wait.
Every now and again – perhaps two or three times a week – an icon flashes up on the screen, and when it does, that’s your signal to collect £100. Simple. No rush. No dramas.
Sound interesting?
You’re probably in a significant minority!
Believe it or not 99% of readers will pass up on this because it’s doesn’t sound like it makes enough money. It’s hard to resist the promise of tens of thousands of pounds. But give me five minutes now, and I’ll show you how these small ‘hidden’ amounts can really add up.
Matt Shaw, the guy who discovered this reveals HERE.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
P.S. This comes with a 100% cast iron money back guarantee. There is absolutely no risk to you to take a look.
If it’s a clear night tonight, and you look up towards Orion, you’ll see a star at the foot of the constellation called Rigel. Rigel is the sixth brightest star in the sky with a luminosity roughly 40,000 times that of our sun.
It has a mass of 17 solar masses, a surface temperature of 11,000 Kelvin and a solar radius of 70. It’s surrounded by a shell of expelled gas, which was either shed by its pulsations or came about as a result of stellar wind.
Rigel isn’t the furthest star by any means, but it’s not what you’d call ‘on the doorstep’ either. It’s around 765 light years away. Now, light travels at 186,282 miles per second.
So every second since around about the time that King John signed the Magna Carta, light has been travelling through space at that speed from Rigel to Earth. And the bit you’re looking at tonight only just got here.
I don’t know about you, but I find this sort of thing fascinating and mind-boggling ~ literally mind-boggling. Like a lot of people I suspect, I attempted to read ‘A Brief History Of Time’ (which is supposed to simplify all this stuff) and got about as far as page 26.
My brain just doesn’t seem to work in that way, and I’m constantly amazed and impressed that there are people who can work out all this detailed information about something further away than I can properly imagine. It’s beyond my comprehension…
And yet…and yet…many of these same people would struggle to put up a shelf, find their way to the next town, run a hot dog van ~ or a hundred and one other things which other folk find easy.
You see, we all have things we’re good at and things we do badly. It’s very easy to become intimidated by what we perceive to be great intelligence. The truth though, is that most of us have great ‘intelligence’ – just not necessarily the sort that we traditionally associate with the word.
Einstein has a lot to answer for.
Mention the word genius, and his is the name that comes to most minds first. Because of this, mathematics and science seem to have hijacked intelligence, with the result that the rest of us end up feeling…well, a little bit thick. The knock-on effect is that we somehow feel that the sort of intelligence that can unlock the secrets of the universe, is what really matters.
The reality though, is that other types of intelligence are just as important – maybe more so if your goal is to succeed financially or in business. As impressive as the ability to calculate the mass of a distant star is, there’s not a lot of money in it!
If you haven’t already done so, I’d urge you to firmly nail down exactly where your peak intelligence and predispositions lie – and then to stop worrying about what you can’t do, and focus all your efforts on what you do best. When you combine a strong predisposition with something you enjoy, you have a massive head start on the competition.
You might not be able to explain the stars ~ but that doesn’t mean you can’t reach for them.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
Imagine this…you load up an amazing piece of software on your PC or Laptop. It takes about 10 minutes. And then you wait.
Every now and again – perhaps two or three times a week – an icon flashes up on the screen, and when it does, that’s your signal to collect £100. Simple. No rush. No dramas.
Sound interesting?
You’re probably in a significant minority!
Believe it or not 99% of readers will pass up on this because it’s doesn’t sound like it makes enough money. It’s hard to resist the promise of tens of thousands of pounds. But give me five minutes now, and I’ll show you how these small ‘hidden’ amounts can really add up.
Matt Shaw, the guy who discovered this reveals HERE.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
P.S. This comes with a 100% cast iron money back guarantee. There is absolutely no risk to you to take a look.
Britain’s equity-release market is expected to be worth more than £5bn this year: the number of people unlocking some of the value of their home in retirement continues to grow at rates of more than 20% a year.
But while this growth is understandable, with many people owning valuable properties by the time they retire but finding themselves short of disposable wealth, is equity release really the answer?
Downsizing may be a better option.
The allure of equity release is obvious. If you own an expensive property outright but need more money for everyday living expenses or home improvements, travel or helping out children, an equity-release plan offers real benefits.
You borrow money against the value of your house or, with some plans, sell a chunk of it. There are no repayments to make until after your death or you’ve moved into some form of care and the money is yours to spend how you wish. And you can stay in your own home.
However, there are substantial downsides. While the equity-release plan market is more competitive than in the past, the cost of products is still high compared with a conventional mortgage. The average borrower pays an interest rate of 4.55%, at least twice what you’d pay for a conventional home loan.
Moreover, as there is nothing to pay during your lifetime, your debt mounts up quickly due to the law of compound interest. There may be little or nothing to pass on to your heirs once the money is repaid on your death.
Another problem is that equity-release products can be constraining, particularly if your plans change. It may be difficult to move house, with extra charges to pay. You may struggle to make repayments during your lifetime, even if you want to reduce your debt.
Home-reversion plans, where you sell a chunk of your house rather than borrowing, are problematic too, since your property will effectively be valued at well below market value, reflecting the time that the equity-release provider has to wait to earn a return. Downsizing, by contrast, carries none of these headaches.
You simply sell your current property and buy a cheaper one, with the difference in value freeing up cash you use as you see fit. Your new house can be left to your heirs and there is no financial-product small print to worry about. For many older people, selling a large family home in order to move into a more modest property also has practical benefits. Smaller houses are easier and cheaper to maintain.
Nonetheless, downsizing isn’t right for everyone. If you don’t have a large property, moving to a smaller one may simply not be an option. The practicalities will also depend on the dynamics of your local housing market. How much can you sell for and what will a smaller property cost? And some people do not want the emotional wrench of leaving a much-loved family home.
Downsizing also carries costs. You’ll incur all the costs of moving house, including estate agents’ fees, solicitors’ costs and the removals firm’s charges. Plus you may have to pay stamp duty on the purchase price of a new house, though stamp-duty rates are lower on cheaper properties (and zero on purchases below £125,000).
The cheaper option Nevertheless, for most people, the total cost of downsizing is likely to be significantly lower than what your family effectively ends up paying through an equity-release product. The costs of moving house just do not compare to the cost of interest charges on a large loan rolled up over time.
In financial terms at least, downsizing is a better option than equity release for most people. If you’re willing and able to consider it, this should be the first thing you consider if you’re seeking to raise cash later in life.
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“If your not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”
Catherine Cook
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“If you’re being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They’re trained for that!”
Milton Jones
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL SORRY CHARLIE DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
Imagine this…you load up an amazing piece of software on your PC or Laptop. It takes about 10 minutes. And then you wait.
Every now and again – perhaps two or three times a week – an icon flashes up on the screen, and when it does, that’s your signal to collect £100. Simple. No rush. No dramas.
Sound interesting?
You’re probably in a significant minority!
Believe it or not 99% of readers will pass up on this because it’s doesn’t sound like it makes enough money. It’s hard to resist the promise of tens of thousands of pounds. But give me five minutes now, and I’ll show you how these small ‘hidden’ amounts can really add up.
Matt Shaw, the guy who discovered this reveals HERE.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
P.S. This comes with a 100% cast iron money back guarantee. There is absolutely no risk to you to take a look.
I read an interesting story about actor, Brian Blessed, that made me review how I’m currently thinking about things. Maybe it will do the same for you.
Blessed tells the story of how in 1980 he was appearing in a production of Macbeth at the Old Vic. Peter O’Toole was in the title role and had taken a hammering from the critics. One night, Blessed found O’Toole on his knees in his dressing room, crying out in anguish, “destroyed in heart and soul.”
Blessed intimated that he shouldn’t go on – that the audience were only there to see him make a fool of himself. O’Toole rejected the advice, and went on anyway.
To quote Blessed: “I have never…never…seen courage like that.”
Now here was a man (Blessed) who originated from my part of the world. In those days in particular, it was an area where you didn’t have to wait long to see acts of REAL courage ~ where men put their lives on the line to save stricken colleagues in mining and industrial accidents.
He would have seen men going to work in horrible and dangerous conditions where they were exposed to health-wrecking noise, fumes, dust, machinery and work practices on a daily basis. He would have seen men horribly disabled and handicapped for life, but being forced to carry on…
And yet he had become so immersed in the world he now inhabited, that he saw some bloke risking making a bit of a pillock of himself as the pinnacle of human courage.
I think we can all be a bit like this at times. We become almost hypnotically focussed on our own little world, and totally blinkered to the wider picture. We lose perspective, and a sense of what’s important and what isn’t. We overestimate the magnitude of our own problems, and diminish the significance of those experienced by others.
Reading what Brian Blessed had to say caused me to think about what real courage is, and the nature of real problems. And if I’m honest, I’m a complete stranger to both.
Perhaps when you think about it, you’ll find that you are too.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
I want to inform you of a new Facebook group Andi, a member of our staff has set up for Streetwise customers. This group is for Streetwise customers only. It is a private members only group and we would like to invite you to join it.
Andi suggested that he would like to host a series of live online training sessions starting next week. These live sessions will cover a range of important topics from creating the right mind set for success – which will be very handy if you have to stay in isolation for weeks or months at a time! – to the many different ways to make money online from home.
Including how one man made $30,000 a month sharing untruths. Seriously.
The reason for doing these live sessions is that if you are going to be in isolation for a few weeks then that is a great time to think about your future, your future income and learn new valuable skills.
It is our way of giving back to you during this strange time and it is also a way that we can interact with our customers better. We can let you know of future products and what we are doing as a business.
Andi knows a lot about online business and making money online after making quite a bit of it through his websites and various projects. He is the perfect person to be holding live training sessions in the Facebook group… it also helps with him being the only one out of us all who actually knows how to do it!
To access these training sessions you need to join the group so please click the link below or the image above and request to join The Streetwise Private Members Only Club.
Being indoors for such a long time could have you climbing the walls and so you are going to need a healthy distraction. Something to take your mind off being imprisoned within your own four walls.
This time will be a great opportunity to learn some new life changing skills and ways to earn an income.
From what Andi has said to me, I believe the group is going to be invaluable to you. There is a lot of great stuff which he plans to share into the group. Stuff which I personally believe will make you see the internet and online businesses in a whole new light.
The days of bumper cashback offers or fantastic rewards with your credit card are long gone. But there are still several good reasons to pay with plastic. One is the protection you receive thanks to Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act.
Pay for something costing between £100 and £30,000 on a credit card and the card provider is as liable as the seller if something goes wrong. Credit-card firms are currently swamped with Section 75 claims, thanks to Thomas Cook. The 178-year old travel agent went into administration in September, prompting thousands of customers who had booked trips on credit cards to submit refund claims.
You can put a claim in with your credit-card provider if the thing you purchased never arrives or isn’t what it should have been. For example, you could claim for flights you bought if the airline goes bust, or a car that breaks down days after you bought it. You even get protection for the whole cost if you only paid the deposit on your credit card.
Another reason to put some of your spending on a credit card is that it improves your credit rating. It is a myth that a person who has never borrowed has the best credit rating. Lenders want to see that you are a reliable borrower; if you’ve never borrowed, they don’t know you’ll pay them back.
Using a credit card and repaying the balance in full each month – or at least never missing a minimum payment – will bolster your credit rating. There are also financial benefits to spending on a credit card. If you can’t afford to buy something outright then an interest-free credit card is still the cheapest way to borrow. For example, Sainsbury’s Bank is offering 27 months of 0% interest for new spending.
Just make sure you clear the debt before the interest-free period expires, otherwise you’ll end up paying 20.9% interest. Divide your debt by the length of the interest-free period and then set up a direct debit for that amount, so you don’t miss a payment and clear the debt in time. You need to make at least the minimum payment each month or you may lose the 0% deal and be charged a fee.
If you don’t need to borrow, then get paid to shop with a cashback credit card. The return on these cards isn’t as good as it once was, but it is still reasonable. The top-paying card is the Amex Platinum card. It has a annual fee but a 5% cashback rate for the first three months; the rate then falls to 1.25%.
But make sure you clear your balance in full each month, otherwise the 22.9% APR interest will quickly cost you more than you are earning in cashback.
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
Fran Lebowitz
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“Crying is for plain woman. Pretty woman go shopping.”
Oscar Wilde
Money Statistics
150 – The number of tonnes of gold, silver and gems that could have been aboard the Nuestra Señora del Juncal Spanish treasure ship when it sank off Mexico in 1631. Spain and Mexico have agreed to look for it together. The 14 tonnes recovered from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes in 2007 was valued at £385m.
£15,000 – The estimated value of a recently unearthed silver coin from 826 AD, featuring the face of Saxon King Ludica of Mercia and the place name “Ludenwic”.
£40bn – The combined face value of all of the paper £20 notes that have started to be withdrawn from circulation. The old notes are bundled up into blocks of £50,000, and sent for composting by the Bank of England. You can still spend your paper £20 notes for the time being.
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL NO HOUSE WORK DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
I want to inform you of a new Facebook group Andi, a member of our staff has set up for Streetwise customers. This group is for Streetwise customers only. It is a private members only group and we would like to invite you to join it.
Andi suggested that he would like to host a series of live online training sessions starting next week. These live sessions will cover a range of important topics from creating the right mind set for success – which will be very handy if you have to stay in isolation for weeks or months at a time! – to the many different ways to make money online from home.
Including how one man made $30,000 a month sharing untruths. Seriously.
The reason for doing these live sessions is that if you are going to be in isolation for a few weeks then that is a great time to think about your future, your future income and learn new valuable skills.
It is our way of giving back to you during this strange time and it is also a way that we can interact with our customers better. We can let you know of future products and what we are doing as a business.
Andi knows a lot about online business and making money online after making quite a bit of it through his websites and various projects. He is the perfect person to be holding live training sessions in the Facebook group… it also helps with him being the only one out of us all who actually knows how to do it!
To access these training sessions you need to join the group so please click the link below or the image above and request to join The Streetwise Private Members Only Club.
Being indoors for such a long time could have you climbing the walls and so you are going to need a healthy distraction. Something to take your mind off being imprisoned within your own four walls.
This time will be a great opportunity to learn some new life changing skills and ways to earn an income.
From what Andi has said to me, I believe the group is going to be invaluable to you. There is a lot of great stuff which he plans to share into the group. Stuff which I personally believe will make you see the internet and online businesses in a whole new light.
For years, the Nintendo PlayStation existed only in the hushed whispers shared between geeks at comic-book conventions. Nintendo and Sony working together to bring out a games console?
It couldn’t possibly be real. It would be like Coke and Pepsi teaming up to make cola. But the rumours were true. Sony and Nintendo, today arch-rivals in the gaming sphere, had indeed collaborated to make a console in the early 1990s.
Two hundred prototype Nintendo PlayStations were created in around 1992 and 199 are said to have been destroyed when the partnership ended early. Just one model survived and it was kept by Olaf Olafsson, the first president of Sony Computer Entertainment. Olafsson went to work for the Advanta banking corporation and took the console with him. But it was left behind when Olafsson changed jobs again in 1999. When Advanta later went bust, the PlayStation was sold.
Now it has surfaced again – this time as part of an online sale with Dallas-based Heritage Auctions. The highest bid stands at $420,000, with fees. For sure, it is a strange beast, worthy of any 21st-century curiosity cabinet. Part Sony and part Nintendo, at first glance it resembles a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or “SNES” to those of us who grew up with it (it hit the shelves in Britain in 1992).
The controller is almost identical. Except, look closely and the controller reads Sony PlayStation. Presumably, Nintendo chose to recycle parts of the design after the plug was pulled on the project. The console has been restored to full working order and it can play music CDs. Stranger still, it can apparently even play the games meant for the SNES. Incidentally, the video games themselves are fetching ever higher prices.
Heritage Auctions is also selling a rare copy of Stadium Events: Family Fun Fitness, which was made for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1987. It has been given a 9.2 A+ grade rating by video-game grading group WataGames, which means it’s in pretty good nick. The current bid is $54,000 – for a video game! Games for the NES are particularly collectable. Still, maybe Nintendo should have tried harder to hold the collaboration together. Sony went on to sell 103 million PlayStations.
The SNES “only” sold 49 million units. Nintendo would lag the market for years, while Sega, another big player in the 1990s, stopped making consoles in 2001 to concentrate on video games. That same year, Microsoft entered the fray with its popular Xbox – but not popular enough to worry Sony, as it turned out. The best-selling console of all time at 159 million units sold is the Sony PlayStation 2. With the release of PlayStation 5 slated for later this year that market dominance may continue.
The hottest investments in games, are the games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which popularised characters such as Link, Mega Man and Mario in the 1980s. A collector who spent almost $1,500 on one game was able to resell it for $12,000. Nostalgia is one reason. Collectors who are now in their 30s and 40s are fond of the video games from their childhoods.
The market really took off in 2018, when WataGames began grading game boxes, cartridges and manuals according to its ten-point scale, much in the same way baseball cards and comic books are graded. That gave the market a certain respectability, leading to a rush among collectors to get in early, and prices have been rising ever since. Last February an unopened copy of Super Mario Bros, from 1985, set an auction record of $100,150 with Heritage Auctions.
Some see a bubble. Some suspect companies with vested interests of stoking the market higher by creating hype. Still, there’s no reason why video games shouldn’t be considered collectable. Rarity and condition are crucial, so do your research.
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.”
George Carlin
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
I want to inform you of a new Facebook group Andi, a member of our staff has set up for Streetwise customers. This group is for Streetwise customers only. It is a private members only group and we would like to invite you to join it.
Andi suggested that he would like to host a series of live online training sessions starting next week. These live sessions will cover a range of important topics from creating the right mind set for success – which will be very handy if you have to stay in isolation for weeks or months at a time! – to the many different ways to make money online from home.
Including how one man made $30,000 a month sharing untruths. Seriously.
The reason for doing these live sessions is that if you are going to be in isolation for a few weeks then that is a great time to think about your future, your future income and learn new valuable skills.
It is our way of giving back to you during this strange time and it is also a way that we can interact with our customers better. We can let you know of future products and what we are doing as a business.
Andi knows a lot about online business and making money online after making quite a bit of it through his websites and various projects. He is the perfect person to be holding live training sessions in the Facebook group… it also helps with him being the only one out of us all who actually knows how to do it!
To access these training sessions you need to join the group so please click the link below or the image above and request to join The Streetwise Private Members Only Club.
Being indoors for such a long time could have you climbing the walls and so you are going to need a healthy distraction. Something to take your mind off being imprisoned within your own four walls.
This time will be a great opportunity to learn some new life changing skills and ways to earn an income.
From what Andi has said to me, I believe the group is going to be invaluable to you. There is a lot of great stuff which he plans to share into the group. Stuff which I personally believe will make you see the internet and online businesses in a whole new light.
Sometimes the difference between a generic product and one targeted at a specific group can be the title. In non-fiction publishing, It’s pretty widely acceptable that the title is responsible for much of books success. Here’s an idea that capitalise on that. It’s a range of books…for the British.
Once you have that concept in your head, possible titles immediately present themselves. Baseball For The British, Bollywood For The British, Haggling for The British, New York for The British. The connecting factor is that each book is about something with which the British may not be familiar, or may have a unique take on.
This is just one manifestation of the concept of course. It could Just as easily be for another nationality (For Americans) for people from a region (For Yorkshiremen) for people from an occupational group (For Teachers) or for a particular demographic (For Pensioners).
The key is that by focusing in on a particular group, you can turn general information into something which people in that group feel is specifically for them.
I’ll leave you to think how you might use this idea
Motivational Quote Of The Day
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking what’s in it for me?”
Brian Tracy
Alternative Quote Of The Day
“I remember when safe sex was a padded headboard.”
Bob Monkhouse
Where do old footballers go?
In the days before footballers go paid £100,000+ a week, you always knew where you’d find an ex-player after retiring – behind the bar of his own pub. It was the career of choice for any player who hadn’t gambled away his wages. Did you ever wonder why?
I think it’s because people naturally gravitate towards businesses they enjoy patronising themselves. If you enjoy spending you leisure time in a pub, why not get paid for it instead? It’s the same though process that has led people to open coffee shops, gyms, and myriad retail establishments. But does this make sense?
Well, yes and no. If you’re an enthusiastic consumer of something, you should have a good feel for what the market wants. That’s bound to be an advantage. But at the same time, it would an extra-ordinary coincidence if the optimum business for you turned out to be the type of business you personally enjoy frequenting most as a consumer. And there’s always the chance that you metaphorically ‘’drink the profits’’.
The lesson to take away from this is to thoroughly question your motives for following the business path you’ve chosen. If it’s nothing more than an extension of you consumption preferences, it could be worth a rethink.
Today’s National Day
NATIONAL APRILS FOOLS DAY!
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
Dear Streetwise Customer,
I want to inform you of a new Facebook group Andi, a member of our staff has set up for Streetwise customers. This group is for Streetwise customers only. It is a private members only group and we would like to invite you to join it.
Andi suggested that he would like to host a series of live online training sessions starting next week. These live sessions will cover a range of important topics from creating the right mind set for success – which will be very handy if you have to stay in isolation for weeks or months at a time! – to the many different ways to make money online from home.
Including how one man made $30,000 a month sharing untruths. Seriously.
The reason for doing these live sessions is that if you are going to be in isolation for a few weeks then that is a great time to think about your future, your future income and learn new valuable skills.
It is our way of giving back to you during this strange time and it is also a way that we can interact with our customers better. We can let you know of future products and what we are doing as a business.
Andi knows a lot about online business and making money online after making quite a bit of it through his websites and various projects. He is the perfect person to be holding live training sessions in the Facebook group… it also helps with him being the only one out of us all who actually knows how to do it!
To access these training sessions you need to join the group so please click the link below or the image above and request to join The Streetwise Private Members Only Club.
Being indoors for such a long time could have you climbing the walls and so you are going to need a healthy distraction. Something to take your mind off being imprisoned within your own four walls.
This time will be a great opportunity to learn some new life changing skills and ways to earn an income.
From what Andi has said to me, I believe the group is going to be invaluable to you. There is a lot of great stuff which he plans to share into the group. Stuff which I personally believe will make you see the internet and online businesses in a whole new light.
If you have ever wanted to be wealthy, or at least have more money than what you currently have, then maybe you should start to focus on what is going on in your mind.
Too many people settle for the idea that they cannot or will not be wealthy because it ‘just isn’t for them’ as if there was some kind of magical force choosing who earns money or not.
Watching other people who have money with dejected eyes, wishing that they could at least have some of that wealth pie.
Well you can.
Wealth is not something which is determined at birth. There is no wealth god who decides who can and will get rich and who won’t.
Wealth is not a ‘thing’ that other people have.
Wealth is not assigned to… or simply given to other people while you are completely overlooked.
There is no ‘other half’ like the saying implies.
Yes, some people inherit wealth, are born into wealthy families or are given a big hand from wealthy parents, but generally wealth is nothing more than the accumulation of money and items collected through various systems and methods.
‘The most successful letter I wrote…and one of the shortest at two pages of A4…has pulled in over £5 Million so far, and it’s still coming in. I wrote that one way back in 1998 – in an afternoon!’ – John Harrison Streetwise Publications
The accumulation of wealth is a by-product of action.
Action based on ideas.
The same can be said of the lack of wealth… the lack of specific action and the repetition of bad action will lead to a lack of wealth… but that’s for another post.
True wealth is the result of an idea or ideas.
And we all have ideas.
Sometimes all it takes is just one idea… an idea which comes out of nowhere when you least expect it.
That ONE Big Idea… could be all you need to change your financial situation.
But… the idea itself is useless if nothing is done with it.
An idea without action is simply… an idea.
To say that wealth is something that only ‘the other half’ have is doing a big disservice to people like JK Rowling, Roman Abramovich, Paul McCartney, David Beckham, Dr Dre, Stephen King and James Patterson to name a few.
In fact, I would say that it was…
…a down right insult.
Those people are very wealthy individuals, but they started with nothing and eventually amassed small to rather large fortunes by doing nothing more than creating systems which filtered wealth to them.
All based on the ideas they had.
They have not done anything which you or I cannot do. They had ‘ideas’ and they took action on those ideas.
Yeah But…! They Are Lucky… Right?
Some might say that luck or talent is involved with some of these people who created products which people like or need, but again that isn’t true.
Luck is not something which just happens, it is something we ALL control… most of the time.
These people learned as much as they could about the systems they wanted to work with, the systems which brought wealth to them.
They invested in themselves and studied hard. They mastered their crafts and whenever they could, they put their knowledge into action.
JK Rowling, Stepehn King and James Patterson spent years writing, suffering many rejections and setbacks before success came knocking.
Paul McCartney learned how to play the guitar and write songs, Dr Dre spent time writing raps and learned how to produce music. They performed numerous gigs mastering the art of their craft before success came knocking.
David Beckham practiced taking free kicks and penalties while his friends went out having fun. He practiced day and night until he mastered his skills.
Roman Abramovich learned about buying stocks and shares and then invested his spare money until he no longer had to work in the oil fields of Russia. The man is a billionaire who owns/owned the oil company he onced worked for.
Never Give Up!
One of the things which ties this group of people together, and separates them from others – apart from the fact they all acted on their ideas – is that they never gave up. They carried on even when times were hard going.
Stephen King worked as a teacher to earn money while he spent his spare time writing his unpublished books. He kept his rejection letters pinned to the wall, having to swap the pin for a longer nail because of the amount of rejections he was getting.
James Patterson received 30 odd rejections before he had his first short story published. His success is largely down to him self-funding his own TV advert for his first published book because the publishing company wouldn’t.
Paul McCartney along with his Beatles band mates were famously rejected by Decca records because their music was considered ‘old’… that was before they became the biggest band the world has ever known.
JK Rowling was turned down 12 times for her first Harry Potter book and now look at it… Harry Potter is one of the biggest children’s adventure franchises in the world. Those Harry Potter books have spawned other books too.
JK Rowling also turned her hand to crime writing under the pen name Robert Galbraith, yet after her huge success with several Harry Potter books, the first of her crime books was rejected by publishing houses… until it was leaked that she was the writer and then it became a huge success… or at least, that’s how the story goes.
Whatever their passion or business venture was, these people simply did not give up and allow the thoughts and opinions of others to stop them from doing what they wanted to do.
They knew they had something to share with the world, they knew what they wanted to happen and they made it happen.
The traditional idea of luck never paid any part in their success. Luck is created, as the saying goes…
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Samuel Goldwyn
These people made their own luck by running with the ideas they had.
Become An Ideas Farmer
People have ideas all the time, they come right out of the blue, when we least expect them. We could be in the shower, sitting on the toilet, driving the car or at work.
Ideas are flowing to us all the time.
One or several of those ideas could be worth a lot of money to you. If you follow on from the initial idea and take action.
The idea could be to learn a new skill, it could be the idea for a new book, it could be a new business venture, or maybe a website focusing on a specific topic.
Whatever the idea is, it will only stay as an idea until you explore it more.
Write down any ideas that you have and expand them. Go to town and write down EVERYTHING which comes to mind as you think through the idea.
Slowly you will see a plan grow, a plan which you can start to follow.
Ideas can become very profitable and if you follow through on ideas they can take you to places you probably never dreamed of.
In 1964, the Beatles were already wealthy when Paul McCartney and John Lennon one day sat down to pen a new song.
In an interview Paul McCartney said, “John would be getting an extension on his house or something, and the joke used to be, ‘Okay! Today let’s write a swimming pool.’ It was great motivation.”
“Then in the next three hours, ‘Help!’ appears from nowhere, you’d suddenly get the idea, this’ll be a hit, this is a good one. You become aware what you were doing was making money. Making good money.”
I love the sentence, ‘Today let’s write a swimming pool.’ To me it shows how powerful an idea is and what taking action can lead to.
An idea is the seed which when nurtured can develop into something beautiful.
The nurturing process is actively working on it, doing whatever it needs and takes to grow that seed. If one idea doesn’t work, you try a different approach or a completely new idea.
The idea is to not stop and give up.
How To Become A Master Ideas Generator
Ideas, which are the seeds to wealth can be cultivated.
With a notepad and a pen, sit down and write down all the ideas you have for new business ventures, books, products or services. Whatever they are, however stupid you may think they are, simply write down all the ideas you have.
Read through them and filter out any which on second glance appear to be unlikely to work. Begin to evolve on any which you think can work and carry on until you are left with a few good ones to work with.
To become a master idea generator, spend time each day coming up with a list of 10 new ideas for different things.
Such as:
10 non-fiction book ideas
10 fiction story book ideas
10 website ideas
10 business ideas
10 service ideas
10 physical product ideas
10 life changing social ideas
Spending time thinking up ideas in different fields will help to acustom the brain into seeing and thinking up ideas.
Look around at the things around you and think about how they can be improved or used in different ways.
Becoming an ideas person can bring in a lot of money, the more ideas you have, the greater chance you have of hitting on a real profitable idea… and the greater chance you have of having several profitable ideas giving you multiple income streams.
Multiple income streams is another secret to wealth accumulation and that is something I shall discuss in another post.
But remember, ideas are only profitable if you take action and make them real. If not…
I watched an edition of The Apprentice last night, after missing the first show last week. I’ve been a fan of the show since the first series, and I used to think it was something that all aspiring entrepreneurs should watch. But now I’m not so sure. I think it could give them a false sense of security.
You see, in the first series, they had candidates who could be described as normal. They approached tasks in a rational (if sometimes misguided) way, and most of them treated the others with something approaching respect. Most had ability.
Good for reality ~ but not so good for reality TV.
The producers ~ realising that the biggest untapped audience will come from people filling in time before the next series of Big Brother, rather than entrepreneurs ~ have clearly decided that conflict and eccentricity are what ‘sells’. And so they’ve filled the show this time with a collection of characters who make for great entertainment, but who I wouldn’t employ if they worked for free.
There’s the ultra-alpha male, the toff, the superbitch, the emotional wreck, the David Brent clone…Get the idea? The end result is great entertainment, and even the least business-savvy viewer gets to believe that they could probably do better than that – which they probably could.
If you didn’t see the show, let me give you a little test. At short notice, you have to pitch to a hotel to do their laundry for an evening, and need to quote a price. Do you:
a) Ring an established service to get a feel for market prices and then base your price on theirs?
Or…
b) Pluck a price from thin air in the car on the way to the meeting?
If you answered ‘b’, you should almost certainly be killed, but you’d fit in well with the women’s team. Because that’s precisely what they did ~ they just guessed. But worse that that, the figure they chose was £4.95 per item laundered, which is about 25 times more expensive than the going rate!
Now anyone who was more concerned with common sense and effective action, rather than strategy meetings, brainstorming, synergy, customer interfaces and the myriad of other corporate crap that these people seem to be able to regurgitate on tap, would have realised two things.
Firstly, that guessing a price in a market you know nothing about is moronic. Secondly, that guessing a figure that is more than the item would cost to replace, just has to be wrong. A child could work that one out.
The fact that one person came up with this plan was bad enough ~ but when all her team mates were so devoid of any common sense that they went along with it…well that’s really worrying.
So watch The Apprentice for the entertainment, but don’t be fooled by the notion that these people are the ‘cream of young British business talent’, and you could do better. You almost certainly could do better, but doing better than someone who, but for their over-inflated ego and comedy value, would most likely find themselves employed flogging double glazing or toting time-share, is no great achievement.
For some real business insight, watch Dragon’s Den. There are some numpties there too, but at least you get to see them sweat.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PUBLISHERS NOTICE
“No Gym, No Problem!”
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Now Gyms Have Been Closed Temporarily You Might Be Wondering…
What To Do Instead?
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