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£9,503 Per Month For Sharing…

Amazon Kindle has been the behemoth of the self-publishing world for the last ten years.

It has allowed tens of thousands of everyday people to become successful self-published authors, and in many cases become millionaires.

The downside to Amazon is that they take the bigger chunk of the profits made from the sale of each self-published book.

Quite ironic really when you consider that Amazon actually pay more in royalties than the traditional publishers and that was the reason many authors chose to use them and go down the self-publish route.

As with everything, the world is changing, habits are changing, technology and platforms are evolving which means that Amazon has a new challenger.

The newest kid on the block for authors is a new platform called ReamStories.

ReamStories is a platform that is dedicated to authors to build a subscription income around their work.

ReamStories is not even one year old and it has a lot of people signing up to use it. ReamStories fees are 10% of all transactions leaving the authors to collect 90% of the money earned per transaction (there will be Stripe payment fees to come out of that 90%).

Bestselling author, Seanan McGuire, is currently making £9,503 each month (or possibly per short story) publishing exclusive short stories using the platform Patreon.

The idea is that authors share exclusive content with subscribers and give them first look at work-in-progress by publishing new chapters each week.

Different authors offer different content. ReamStories and Patreon allow people to have different price tiers and offer different content per tier.

I’ve repeatedly said that subscription based businesses are the future of making money online for the ordinary person.

With over 5 billion people using the internet each day, there are more than enough people globally for you to find enough to pay you a decent monthly income.

Just 100 people paying you £10 a month will give you a decent £1,000 extra each month.

There are people who are earning tens of thousands of pounds each month with subscription based businesses that they are running from the comfort of their own homes.

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Noah Smith is making an estimated £800,000 a year publishing an economist newsletter on the Substack platform.

He publishes roughly five times a week with two of those newsletters being exclusively for paying subscribers who pay either £8 per month or £80 for the whole year.

Working on figures I read last year (it may be different today) Noah has somewhere around 8,333 subscribers earning him around £66,000 each month.

Before you get too excited, let me say that Noah knows his stuff and his newsletters are long. They are well researched and well written.

However… it still amazes me that he has so many paying subscribers. It’s not information that most people can use in their day-to-day lives.

Going back to Seanan McGuire, the bestselling author who is making £9,503 each month on Patreon, she has 3,655 subscribers who are paying her to make stuff up!

In truth, that is all fiction writers do… they make stuff up, and a lot of that is based on stuff that has been done before.

After watching a BBC adaption of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, I noticed a similarity between that story and the popular Saw horror films where a dying man decided to seek revenge on people who were to pay for their crimes and bad life choices.

A tweak here and a tweak there, change the characters, change the dates and the location, and you have a completely new story.

Incidentally, the popular crime drama, Harry Wild, starring Jane Seymour, also had an episode which was completely based on And Then There Were None.

I got a little distracted there… but please know that to be successful doesn’t mean having to be completely new or unique, you just have to put a new spin on something that’s already out there.

The point I am trying to make is that it is possible today, with the technology, tools, and platforms available to us… and with direct access to millions of people online… it is more than possible to run your very own online subscription business from the comfort of your own home.

To give you a better idea, Andi, our in-house online and subscription specialist has created a video showing you the easiest way to start a profitable newsletter.

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Kind regards

John Harrison

PS… Have a read back through this article and see what is involved in creating it. There are real life examples and a couple of interesting points, it outlines a way to make money, and it includes an image.

This article is a newsletter!

Let’s say that it took a couple of hours to create, if you had 200 people paying you just £10 per month to access your newsletters, this one piece of writing would part-earn you £2,000.

That’s not bad, don’t you agree?

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Could Coffee Waste Replace Plastic For Good?

Money is found in solutions to problems.

When you offer up a new ‘workable’ solution to a problem that people and society have been struggling with for a while, you will be rewarded.

You may be aware that there is a problem with plastic waste and plastic pollution.

Far too much stuff today is made from plastic which will not break down as fast as organic products when discarded.

Plastic waste not only litters our oceans, forests, rivers, fields, beaches, and streets, it is being found inside animals and fish. Most humans now will have traces of plastic fibres and pellets.

It’s everywhere, and it’s a big problem.

A lot of glasses – those of the reading variety – are made with plastic frames.

You can pick up a pair of cheap reading glasses from many shops such as Poundland.

The problem with cheap glasses is that they break easily and are now classed as a throw away’ item.

No one would consider repairing a pair of glasses that cost as little as £1.25 from Poundland. It’s far cheaper to buy a new pair – possibly cheaper to buy several pairs – than it is to have the glasses frame repaired.

Those glasses then get thrown away, which means that there is even more plastic being put into the bins… or worse, thrown into hedgerows, waterways, and ditches.

To reduce the amount of plastic waste from glasses, Ukrainian glasses maker, Maksym Havrylenko, has developed glasses that are made from coffee grounds.

Maksym’s family have been making glasses for years and seeing the amount of plastic that was being used, he set about creating a sustainable alternative.

Coffee grounds are the waste that is left over from making coffee. Coffee shops throw tonnes of it away each year.

To get an idea of how much coffee grounds are produced, a quick Google search informed me that the UK consumes nearly 36 billion cups of coffee each year, generating over 250,000 tonnes of spent coffee ground waste in the process.

Maksym collects the coffee waste from local coffee shops in Kyiv, dries it out, and mixes it with natural oils to bind it together before pressing it into plates.

A milling machine cuts the plates into shapes which are polished then assembled by hand into pairs of glasses.

Those people who love the smell of coffee are in luck because the glasses have a distinct coffee odour.

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I don’t know whether this will fully replace using plastic in glasses, it would require more companies to adopt it, and there is a bit more work involved than simply moulding the plastic into shape…but I think it is a brilliant alternative.

What I really like about this is that this is using a waste product that is produced daily all around the world, and will continue to be produced for the foreseeable future.

Making glasses from coffee grounds is reducing the amount of coffee waste that is being put into landfill and is cutting down on plastic pollution because any broken or binned glasses that are made from coffee grounds should ‘break down’ naturally and not cause any harm to the environment… or at least reduce the amount of damage.

It’s a big win-win for all involved… except for the plastics companies, but they could step up and start to focus on replacing plastic with plates made from coffee.

It reminds me of the car body that Henry Ford built from a mixture of hemp, flax, wheat, and spruce pulp, which made the car ‘lighter than fiberglass and ten times tougher than steel’, according to the New York Times on February 2, 1941.

The car also ran on fuel made from hemp apparently.

Henry Ford was a visionary, he said: “Why use up the forests, which were centuries in the making, and the mines, which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?”

Depending where you are in the world, the hemp plant can be harvested around 12 weeks meaning that you can usually get three to four harvests per year.

Yes, you will need to follow proper field and soil management and crop rotation, but hemp is great because you can get multiple harvests per year.

It’s no secret that many natural products can be used to replace those man-made ones that cause harm to the environment.

Plus… with hemp being a plant, it should use up CO2 from the air as it grows and replace it with oxygen.

That’s another win-win for all… well, apart from the plastic manufacturers again.

Henry Ford’s visionary car shows that the technology, ability, and specialised know-how has been around for many years… it’s been 83 years since he built the car from hemp.

Sometimes, the problem with mankind is that it is so slow to adopt and adapt to solutions that make this world better for all… but that’s a discussion for another day.

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John Harrison.

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The £12K Investment Plan

I recently shared with you fact that wealthy people, and those wishing to become wealthy, are willing to risk losing a specific amount of money as an attempt to make more.

You’ve heard of the sayings…

You need money to make money.

And…

Money makes money.

It doesn’t mean that those with money make more by simply leaving it in a bank to earn interest; it means that they actively use it to try new things. 

They start businesses with their money, they buy investments, and they look for ways to grow it.

Money is a tool that is used to make more money. If you don’t use it it’ll just sit in the bank festering.

It’s through the use of money that more is made.

I recently read of a chap who had no money spare to use and so he set about finding a way to make more so that he could start a business idea he had. 

He knuckled down and within a year he had amassed around £12,000 by working evenings and weekends doing several side hustles.

He could have borrowed the money and made a start on his business right away but apparently he didn’t want to have to be worried about repayments or be left owing money if the project failed.

So he drew up a plan to earn at least £1,000 per month extra and to work hard for a year amassing as much as he could. He would then start his business the following year.

He now has £12K to use as his investment money.

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Although he worked hard to make that money, he calls it his ‘free money’ because using it will not take away from the money needed to pay his living costs.

His wages from the day job pays his living costs, his evening and weekend work pays for the new project he is currently working on.

He is now free to use that money in any way he chooses.

Yes, if he were to lose it all it would be annoying and frustrating, and incredibly hard to bear. But he would still have his home and his job and not be in any worse position than when he started.

Some people may say that he’s wasted a whole year of effort and money, but if his project is successful the rewards could be HUGE and life changing.

For him… it’s worth the risk.

What’s one year of hard graft if it sends you on a path towards becoming a multimillionaire?

I am not suggesting that you work your arse off for a whole year to amass a stack of investment money.

You can if you wish, but you don’t necessarily need to work hard for a full year; you can work until you have the right amount of investment money required to get started with.

The amount needed will be different from person to person.

Someone who wants to develop a website they believe could eventually make them a millionaire will probably require several thousand pounds, whereas someone who wants to publish a couple of eBooks may require just a couple of hundred pounds.

You may not require as much money as you first think because once you start to use the money it starts to earn money back.

An example of this would be creating a website where you sell digital products.

Initially you will need the money to pay for the website hosting and having it built, but the ongoing running costs of the business (website maintenance, SEO work, having digital products made, graphics made for products) would be paid for once you start selling digital products.

Let’s say that the running cost for the business over the first year is £1,000. You may not need to find that £1,000 at the beginning; you may only need £200 to have the website built initially.

The other costs are paid out of the money made from any sales made via the website.

From that point on, it all feeds on itself.

The initial investment kick-started the whole project towards big profits.

Now… if you are someone who is not interested in creating products or working on projects and would prefer a simpler less involved way to make money, you should take a look at Dan Edwards Z15 Profit System.

There is nothing for Dan to work on, he simply makes a couple of checks and decides on what football games he wants to trade.

He doesn’t wait until the end of the game either, he is like the SAS, he gets in and out as fast as possible.

There’s no sitting around waiting for the final whistle. He takes his profit and runs before the game starts warming up.

If you would like to know exactly what it is that Dan does, click the link below:

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Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… This is something that can be done from wherever you are using a smartphone or a tablet. It takes a few minutes to learn and a few minutes to implement. It is one of the simplest methods we have ever shared.

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Why You MUST Spend A Day Creating A Plan For The Year!

The internet has given everyone the opportunity to make A LOT of money publishing content that can be seen by potentially millions of people around the world.

Creating and publishing content can change people’s lives.

I know that very well.

As a publisher of information products, I have made many millions publishing books, courses, and manuals.

Today, virtually anyone anywhere in the world can create and publish information that can be seen by potentially millions of people… and that content can earn them money.

The internet has allowed ordinary people to have their own wildly successful and profitable online businesses.

You can easily create products that can be sold multiple times; products that can take as little as a few hours to create using cheap tools which most people take for granted.

A laptop, a webcam, a microphone, and a mobile phone are all you need to make a very decent income.

One of the reasons people fail to make money online – which is incredible when you consider how easy it is to make money online – is that they do not make a plan of what they need to do.

Without a plan, it is easy to become distracted and lost.

Without a plan, you struggle to move forward because you are not sure what you are to do next.

Not having a plan leads to a lot of head scratching and wasted time.

As Benjamin Franklin said…

“By failing to plan, you are preparing to fail”

And that is true… without a plan success is unlikely to be achieved!

A person without a good plan will dither and flip from one thing to another, failing miserably as they do.

If you don’t have a plan but you wish for success and wealth, then… I’m sorry to say… it won’t happen.

Fortunately, the good news is that if you spend just one day planning, your chances of success increases astronomically.

Even just a couple of hours are better than nothing.

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As it is the start of a new year you should spend a day planning out what it is that you want to achieve this year, and figure out what you need to do to make sure that you are successful.

Spending time figuring out what it is that you want and need to do makes doing it so much easier.

With a good plan there is no sitting around each day trying to figure out what you need to do next.

When you have a plan you already know what you need to do. You just need to do what is listed next on it.

When creating an overall plan, you should do it in multiple parts. Basically, you will need several complimenting plans.

They are:

  • A Yearly Plan.
  • A Six Month Plan.
  • A Three Month Plan.
  • A Monthly Plan.
  • A Weekly Plan.

I would suggest that you spend at least one day a month working on a changes that may need making to your plan. As time passes and you work on your plan, things may change as your business/work evolves.

I also suggest that you spend at least one hour on a Monday working through your weekly plan and creating a plan for each day.

The idea of a plan is that you know EXACTLY what you need to do and when.

Not only does it remove a lot of confusion and frustration, it saves you a lot of work and allows you to spend less time ‘at work’ because you are working efficiently.

A perfect example of this is when one of our writers spent hours looking out of a window, and pacing up and down trying to think of something to write about. It happened several times over a one week period.

Usually, he plans out his week so that he knows what to write about each day, but for some reason, he hadn’t planned out that week and it left him lost and frustrated.

When Friday landed, he spent time planning out the following week and so when the time came to write he wasn’t wasting time trying to think of ideas.

Bizarrely, he says that it takes less time to plan out his writing a week before, than it takes when he needs to think of something to write about on the day.

He can come up with several article ideas while he sits with a cuppa making notes at the end of the week, but when he needs to think of something to write there and then… he struggles to come up with good ideas.

It might have something to do with a relaxed and calm mind that has all the time to think versus a desperate and frustrated mind that needs an idea fast.

When you work efficiently, you tend to do more in less time meaning that you have more spare time.

People with a plan work efficiently, people without a plan are ‘busy’ and there is a world of difference between ‘working’ and ‘being busy’.

A person can be really busy all year and achieve absolutely nothing.

Spending time working on a plan IS the big difference, a plan is a map that guides you to your chosen destination, it is the fastest route… a plan is the ‘big break’ people desire.

You create your ‘big break’ by creating a plan.

I hope you are spending some time this week creating a plan for the coming year. If you aren’t, maybe you should.

Kind regards

John Harrison

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The Hottest New Trend For 2024 Is…

I predict that 2024 is going to be a big year for personal subscriptions.

I don’t want to sound like a broken record, I know that I have talked about it many times before, but personal subscriptions is not only a fantastic way to make money… it is a business model that is becoming so ‘normal’… more and more people are choosing to pay a monthly subscription for the things they enjoy.

Today, most people are paying several subscriptions each month for things like:

  • Internet and broadband connection – Sky, Virgin Broadband, Plusnet, etc.
  • Mobile phones – Vodafone, Tesco, O2, EE, etc.
  • Television networks – SKY, Netflix, Amazon, Acorn TV, BritBox, Apple TV, ITV X, etc.
  • Shopping – Amazon Prime.
  • Entertainment – Audible, Spotify, Amazon Kindle Unlimited, Patreon, YouTube Music, Ream, etc.
  • Health and fitness – gym memberships, online fitness apps, food/recipe delivery (Gusto), sport clubs.
  • Drinks – Monthly coffee and wine delivery.
  • Storage – Dropbox, Google, storage units.

Monthly subscriptions are now part of everyday life.

Studies show that 63% of the British population subscribe to some form of monthly product or service. That’s around 41.3m people!

The average person has 2.4 active subscriptions and are paying around £39 per month, that’s a total monthly subscription spend of £1.6bn across Britain.

People love monthly subscriptions. People generally get more for their money when they subscribe.

You can still buy individual songs, films, books, and audio books, but why do that when you can pay a small fee and have access to thousands?

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Because of this trend there is a new movement of product creators who are moving from focusing all of their efforts on creating individual products to supplying ‘parts’ regularly via a subscription and then compiling the parts later to create an individual product for those who prefer to consume them that way.

An example would be of a musician working on a new album…

Instead of creating the album then releasing one or two tracks to warm people up for the album release, the new model would have the musician work on individual tracks which are released as part of a subscription as soon as they are done along with any remixes or reworks and then the album would be created and released later using the tracks the subscribers were able to enjoy early.

The subscribers pay to enjoy specific material earlier than other people along with exclusive extra material.

A lot of authors are doing this too. They are writing books which they release as chapters using platforms like Patreon, Ream, and Substack.

Subscribers get to read the chapters as soon as they are released before other people. They can comment and offer feedback. The author may make changes and share them with their subscribers for more feedback.

The book is finally published as a whole after the paying subscribers have read the last chapter.

For fans of specific content, becoming a subscriber for early and exclusive content gives the purchase more value as it allows them to also engage with the creator and other fans.

They are no longer just fans; they become part of an interactive community built around something they love.

They become part of a community… a collective… a part of the creator’s tribe.

They are loyal fans part of the ‘inner circle’.

There is money to be made by building a community.

The good news is that anyone can build a subscription business today.

It may take time to grow but once the number of paying subscribers swells to 500 or more, you are being paid multiple times to create the same piece of content.

One piece of content will earn £5 or £10 if you have just one paying subscriber… yet that same one piece of content could be worth thousands of pounds if you have more than 500 subscribers.

Publishing one post, one article, one chapter of a book, one video, or one piece of music can earn thousands of pounds if you have a large enough number of subscribers.

It may take some time growing your subscriber base – the best way to do that is give quality content away for free, but once your subscriber number starts growing… you are sitting on an incredibly profitable business.

To discover more, click the link below:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Once fully established, you could be earning thousands of pounds each month from work which could take less than a day… depending on what you are providing.

A subscription based business is all about the numbers.

Give a large group of people something they want and need at a price they are happy to pay, and you can be paid multiple times for the one piece of work each week or month.

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How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

£100,000 For A Pavement… Really?

Someone somewhere has made a nice bit of money after selling off a small strip of land which can best be described as a ‘roadside path’.

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The 50 year old adventurer and television presenter, Ben Fogle, spotted the land listed by a local estate agent and shared it on Instagram.

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He couldn’t believe that what he saw listed could be priced so high.

The land outside Wokingham – complete with a narrow tarmac pavement, was originally priced at £100,000. The land has since been sold meaning that someone has actually bought a small strip of land with a roadside path.

I don’t know what sale price was agreed, but someone bought a strip of land which doesn’t look big enough to do much with.

Maybe the council sold it off to raise a few funds, I don’t much more about the sale itself other than someone somewhere has spent a lot of money buying a pavement to nowhere.

It’s crazy when you think about it.

This week I also saw that a detached house in Dorset with structural damage was sold for over a quarter of a million pounds.

We are not talking about a fairly large mansion house left derelict; this was a three or four bed family house in a typical British street.

The house is damaged and needs repair. I don’t believe that anyone could move straight into it without first address the structural damage.

If a short stretch of pavement in the UK can be sold for around £100,000 and a small structurally damaged and unliveable house can be sold for over £250,000… then it is safe to say that you need a good amount of money to live in the UK.

Property has always been a great way to make money but with prices being as high as they are currently very few people can afford to get started.

Online property on the other hand… that is incredibly affordable to get started with, and it can be incredibly profitable too.

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Yesterday I read an email from a woman sharing how a student of hers had made over £30,000 ‘flipping’ websites.

Most of that £30,000 will be profit.

The student, a woman from Norway if I remember right, builds simple starter websites and then sells them on platforms such as Flippa.com.

These websites take very little effort to create and they can be sold quite quickly.

A hosting package that allows you to build multiple websites can cost less than £150 for two years.

Domain name purchases can cost as little as £12.

A website can be sold for well over £200 a piece. Some go for several thousands of pounds.

People buy websites as investments.

So if you build one which is earning money each month, even if it is just a few pounds, there are people who are willing to buy it off you.

Often these people have access to a lot of traffic and so if you had a website that was earning £20 a month, which is actually quite easy to achieve, they may buy it from you for around £2,000 and start sending people to that website.

It won’t be long before they have made their money back and are soon in profit.

If you build one website a month and sell it for £2,000 you have a rather decent £24,000 a year side business.

You can work on more than one website at a time.

There are people who make six figures each year selling websites.

If this is something that may interest you but you believe that you don’t have the technical skills to build a website, watch the video here:

How To Build A Profitable Website Fast WITHOUT Knowing Anything About Building Websites!

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… This really is an easy way to make money.

The biggest obstacle at the beginning is confidence. You may struggle to believe that you are able to build a website worth selling.

You can.

Start small, build a really simple website and list it for sale for £100 or £200 and start from there.

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The New Land Of Milk And Honey!

I had to laugh the other day at a scene from the 2015 comedy, ‘Cradle To The Grave’, starring Peter Kay.

The comedy is based on the autobiography ‘Going To Sea In Sieve’ and follows the early life of television and radio presenter, Danny Baker.

Peter Kay played Danny’s father, Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, who spent most of his adult life working on the Bermondsey docs… and always involved in a ‘scam’ or two.

The scene that made me chuckle was that the docs in Bermondsey had taken a large delivery of shoes… but they were only one half of a pair.

Apparently, the company importing the shoes were so fed up of losing inventory at the docs; they sent shipments to both London and Liverpool.

One city received the left hand shoes whilst the other received the right hand shoes.

Unfortunately for the import company both cities had contacts in each port.

One telephone call later and dockers from both cities arranged to meet inland to swap boxes of stolen shoes so that they could make a pair that they could sell in the local pubs.

Theft by workers was such a common thing on the docs that it had its own nickname, ‘dockers’ fiddle’.

There were all kinds of tricks the dockers played on security so that they could get goods out of the yards.

One method used for bottled or canned items had workers purposely attach chains insecurely resulting in a crate of cargo ‘accidentally’ dropping into the water.

The dockers would return later with dive suits and rescue the lost cargo from the port floor.

Theft of goods might have been a way for workers to survive in a forever changing and increasingly expensive world.

Wages may have been low and many workers might have been struggling… or it might just be that workers were greedy and selfish and wanted more for themselves.

There is nothing wrong with wanting more from life, but stealing from your employers and those companies trying to legitimately import goods is not right.

This is one of the reasons Margaret Thatcher decided to take on the unions.

If you read my book How To Stop Working And Make A Million Pounds Instead, you will see that workers in the steel mills here in and around Sheffield and Rotherham had their own way of ‘fiddling’ money from their employers.

The night shift would come in, do an hour or two’s work and then enjoy a fish super before settled down for the night in the canteen.

They would then get up early and do an hour’s work before the day shift and the managers arrived.

They were sleeping on the job, stealing hours of pay from their employers but every time the company tried to do something about it, the unions would step in and ‘kick off!’

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During the late 70s and early 80s the unions were quick to defend anything. They did good in certain areas of employment, but not so good in others.

The debate regarding the unions of that period can go on for hours and I am not wanting to talk much about that in this article, but what I do want to talk about is how different today is from those days.

You see, back in the late 70s and early 80s, wages were paid in cash in envelops and real money was used by virtually everyone almost everywhere.

Plastic cards and cheques might have been available, but for the most part, cash really was king.

Everyone wanted to be paid in cash, and to pay with cash.

Cash money was the currency of the day (funny that) and to be paid in cash, people needed to do something or sell something locally.

For many, fiddling their hours or stealing goods to sell was the only way they could make more money without working a second job… which was not an option for many.

Theft was often the easiest option as it happened during works time and the sale happened later down the pub.

It didn’t require a lot of extra time or effort.

Today, there is no need to steal and there is no need to do or sell anything locally for extra money.

In fact, a time-strapped mother can usually earn more working online for an hour from the comfort and warmth of her home than a heroin addict can shoplifting goods all day to feed a habit.

Well, it’s a lot less risky and the money made isn’t just wasted on crap.

I’ve discussed many times the different ways you can make money online and have also named individuals who are doing fantastically well.

The internet is the ‘port’ of the new world.

It is the ‘gateway’ to opportunity.

It is the new ‘land of milk and honey’.

You can legally access many products, opportunities, customers, and territories through it.  

The internet is a tool for generating money.

Gary Lister has been using the internet to source products cheaply which he then sells for a large profit.

He buys items that he knows he can sell for double the purchase price.

He started small and has now grown to the point he can generate £1,263 per week flipping specific items he finds being sold cheap.

And unlike Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, Gary hasn’t spent any time in prison doing what he does because there is nothing illegal or dodgy.

It is both legal and simple.

Discover more here:

Gary Lister’s Secret Ladder

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… There are several reasons as to why people sell off specific items cheaply, Gary has found one item that people are often in a rush to sell off and so they sell it at half the value to get rid of it quickly.

Gary snaps them up quickly, and then sells them at their full value making hundreds of pounds, sometimes thousands of pounds, in profits for a few minutes work.

Here’s that link again:

Gary Lister’s Secret Ladder

How Much Are You Willing To lose For Success And Wealth?

I recently read a report that stated that wealthy and successful people were always willing to lose money trying something new.

Most of the people questioned said they would be willing to lose somewhere between one and ten thousand pounds on a new venture.

The amount of money people are willing to lose is usually dependent on how wealthy they were.

A billionaire probably wouldn’t bat an eyelid at losing £100,000, whereas someone with just a couple of million pounds they would not want to lose more than £10,000 if they could help it.

It also depends on what the potential outcome could be if a new venture or investment went well.  Risking over £10,000 might be worth it if the return is believed to be a couple of million pounds over several years.

The point I want to make here is that wealthy and successful people are willing to lose some of their money trying new investments and ventures.

As the saying goes: nothing ventured nothing gained.

Wealthy and successful people don’t want to lose money, but they will risk it for something they believe will make them more.

Just because they are willing to risk losing money doesn’t mean that they are willing to jump feet first into just any old thing.

They will study the venture or investment carefully and only take calculated risks. If they have any doubts whatsoever and believe that a venture or investment is highly likely to lose money, they won’t do it.

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Again, the point here is that wealthy and successful people are willing to put their money on the line as a way to make more.

They are also willing to risk their time and energy on a venture they believe will pay off. If they have any doubts that something will be a waste of time, they will simply say no and walk away.

If you want more money then you are going to need to adopt the same attitude as wealthy and successful people and be willing to risk some of the money you have.

Obviously, you cannot risk more than you can afford to lose, which for a lot of people isn’t that much. But without actually risking your money (or time) you will never enjoy the potential rewards that can come from new ventures or investments.

When it comes to making more money you need to:

  1. Carefully study what the new venture or investment entails. Learn as much about it as you can before making any decisions.
  2. Decide on how much you are willing to lose should the venture or investment not work out.
  3. If the venture or investment looks sound enough and you believe that there is a greater chance of success than failure, take positive action.
  4. Do all that is required to make the venture or investment a success, and if it fails, accept it and move on.

Successful and wealthy people take risks with their money, it is called leverage.

They use what money they have, they don’t just leave it in the bank to gather dust.

Money is your best tool for further success and wealth.

Kind regards.

John Harrison.

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Why Risk Prison Doing This?

I’m not the type of guy who panics easily in life, I couldn’t tell you the last time I felt slightly claustrophobic, but the idea of being locked away in prison with hundreds of dangerous lowlifes with nowhere to run panics me a lot.

The thought of it makes me want to run.

Why am I telling you this?

Yesterday, I watched the first couple of episodes of the new series of Time, starring Jodie Whittaker, and that really had me feeling panicky and claustrophobic.

Jodie played Orla, a working single-mother of three who was sent to prison for six months for ‘fiddling the leccy’.

She was struggling for money and as a way to keep her children fed and warm, she chose to bypass the electricity metre to save money.

It is theft, and it is a punishable crime, but she believed that she would be let off with a caution as ‘no one gets sent to prison for fiddling the leccy’.

Unfortunately, she was wrong. She was given a six month custodial sentence.

And because she wasn’t expecting to be sent to prison, she sent her children to school as normal on the day of her court appearance and hadn’t arranged for anyone to collect them should the worse happen.

The worse did happen and she was soon stuck in a small box in the back of a prison van heading 60 miles away to prison with no means to contact anyone in the outside world.

Eventually she managed to make a call to her alcoholic mother who was able to collect her children for the night.

Orla wanted to arrange for them to go to someone else, she feared that her mother’s alcoholism would lead to social services taking her children away and putting them into care… a fear that came true.

Orla was eventually released from prison early but because she had no home and no job – due to being sent to prison she lost the job she had, her children were not returned to her.

She had to find a new job and provide a stable home before they would be returned.

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In her desperation to do just that and be reunited with her children, Orla stole £500 from her new employer as a way to find the deposit for a new family home.

Her employer had caught her on camera numerous times ‘pocketing’ money from the till at the bar she was working in.

Because she was let out of prison early on license, she was soon whisked back to prison, this time for a 12 month period.

While watching the drama, I could feel myself feeling trapped and claustrophobic.

I just hate the idea of being locked up 24/7 for long periods of time with the lowest dregs of society.

What was worse is that Orla was sent to prison for doing nothing more than trying to provide for her children.

She wasn’t your normal kind of criminal; she was just a mother trying to survive.

Yes, she stole electricity, but it was so that she could feed her children warm food, keep them warm, and not have them sitting in the dark staring at walls.

Off all the crimes committed by people, this wasn’t one that was particularly born from selfish greed.

She didn’t steal a television or a laptop from a store during looting just so that she could have it.

She didn’t shoplift items to sell to feed a drug addiction…she just wanted to provide for her family.

I need to watch the rest of the series to see what happens, but I can tell you this, being sent to prison and separated from her children has sent her spiralling downwards.

I can’t see it being a particularly happy ending.

It’s safe to say that this storyline had me thinking.

How many good people are risking a spell in prison just so that they can provide and protect their families?

With the current cost-of-living crises squeezing people to the max, how many people are stealing products and services just to survive?

It is frightening that this could be happening today.

I remember watching another drama a couple years back where another single-mother who was struggling ended up entertaining gentlemen clients as a way to make ends meet.

It wasn’t a lifestyle she chose by choice; circumstances forced her into it… that and a dodgy bloke who ‘kindly’ lent her money when she really needed it, but then insisted he wanted it back knowing that she couldn’t afford it and so suggested an ‘alternative’ way to pay it back!

This is why people need to look for ways to generate a passive or semi-passive income.

In the case of Orla, her three children were young and so they would be in bed before nine or ten at night and so she would have a couple of hours each evening to look online for ways to make money.

Being broke, she didn’t need to spend a lot to get started with several methods. There are many ways to make money online that you can start for free.

Had she started when she began to ‘fiddle the leccy’, she could have been earning enough to pay her electricity bill a few months later.

I appreciate that time is in short supply for most people… but when needs must, working a few extra hours on a project is the better option than being locked away 24/7 for six to twelve months.

Don’t you agree?

There are many different ways to make money online, and far too many people to count who are making hundreds of thousands of pounds each year working online from home.

If you click the link below, you will discover a way to make six figures a year starting today without spending a penny of your own money.

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I’m sure that you are not in Orla’s position, and I hope you and your family never find yourself in a similar position, but know this… there are far better and less riskier ways to provide for your family than ‘fiddling the leccy’.

Kind regards.

John Harrison

PS… Once you have this up and running correctly, it can reward you with an automated (semi) passive income for many years.

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Is This A Sneaky Way To Prevent The Government From Stealing More Of Your Money?

While putting together my latest book regarding inheritance tax and how to avoid it – The Inheritance Tax Eliminator – I got thinking about other ways to pass on your wealth without it being double or triple taxed.

What really annoys me about inheritance tax is the fact governments want to tax money that has already been taxed… often more than once.

There’s not many ways to accumulate wealth without paying tax on it and so when the government – the same government that insists on good family values and wants people and families to be self reliant – insists that they take a large chunk of the money that you pass on to your family when you die… money which has already had tax paid on it… it really annoys me!

You’ve already paid tax on that money, why should your children or benefactors have to pay tax to be given it?

Isn’t that what good family values are all about… helping your family financially and passing on the wealth you have accumulated over the years?

I remember watching a drama a couple of years ago where an architect had suddenly died and the house he had just had built was left to his parents – much to his wife’s surprise – and because of the value of the house his parents were left with a hefty five or six figure tax bill that they couldn’t afford to pay.

Their only option was to sell the house to pay the bill that they suddenly found themselves with.

Failure to pay would have resulted in more financial penalties.

As well as struggling with the grief of losing their son, they were now facing the stress of having to quickly sell a house so that they could pay a large tax bill they didn’t ask for.

Inheritance tax is not only a disgraceful attempt to steal more money from ordinary hard working people who are already paying taxes, it is also an additional stress that is dumped upon people at a time they really don’t need it.

Talk about breaking people’s sprits!

It’s vile.

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And so while putting together the book The Inheritance Tax Eliminator, I got thinking about other ways to pass on your wealth without passing on any other tax burdens.

What came to mind was – while you are still young – to either gift a lump sum of money each month to specific people, similar to paying them a wage… or to set up a fully automated passive income system to pay them an additional wage.

Yes, they (or you) will need to pay some tax such as income tax each year, but at least it is a tax that is being paid once.

Don’t forget whatever money or assets your family are set to inherit from you in the future, income tax and other taxes have already been paid on it.

For example: let’s imagine that you created a website which sold numerous information products, similar to our Streetwise website.

The money made from sales either goes directly to your benefactor, or into a bank account that you have set up specifically to send money to the benefactor each month.

Yes, you (or the benefactor) will need to pay tax on any ‘additional’ income earned, but at least it isn’t going into your bank where it will be eroded by taxes each year and then being heavily eroded again once it is passed on to your chosen benefactor many years later when you have died.

Obviously, if you are in a position where you need the extra money yourself, setting up a passive income for others as a gift to avoid inheritance tax is probably not your priority, and with living costs as they are today, I can understand that.

A passive income would then be a gift you should consider giving yourself.

I cannot say how much you can earn as there are so many different factors to consider for each person, but after all my years in the information publishing business; I have seen more examples than I can remember of people earning large amounts of money by creating and publishing books and courses from home.

I am not saying that you create an eBook, publish it online and then sit back and watch as the cash rolls in each month… there is a little more to it than that.

However… once you have set up a fully automated passive income system correctly, they can require little maintenance.

Andi, our techy guy, previously worked as a joiner and he has told us about the people who he had worked with who were missing body parts due to working in the building industry.

I remember there were two guys who were missing several fingers, and one who lost an eye thanks to an incident with a band saw and a lump of wood.

Andi himself had to take time off work due to a couple of injuries that occurred while working on building sites.

One accident left him on crutches after twisting his foot while stepping out of a doorway on to uneven ground resulting in a painful hairline fracture to a bone in his foot.

One workshop he used to work in had a cleaner who was originally a welder in the RAF but a serious accident left him with a permanent brain injury meaning that sweeping up was the only thing he was able to do.

Working online is far easier and safer than many other forms of work… and it can be far more profitable.

So yes, there is more to it than simply creating (have created) and publishing a product online… but no, the work is not hard, nor is it difficult.

Imagine creating a passive income that was to pay between £500 and £1,000 per month for either you or a family member for the next ten or twenty years.

That would be good, wouldn’t it?

If you were to set that up for someone as a way to pass on your wealth in the here and now to avoid any potential inheritance tax in the future, I’m sure they would thank you for it.

Plus, most people need financial help in the here and now. It makes life easier and less stressful when there is more than enough money coming in.

As nice as it is to inherit a large lump sum later in life, I believe most people would find it more useful and enjoyable to have the financial help and support now.

I’m not suggesting that you should if you don’t want to… but gifting your money now to your family today, or setting something up that ‘gifts’ money on your behalf, is far better than allowing them to struggle for several decades and to then be left with a potential tax burden to deal with alongside grieving the loss of a loved one.

It’s just an idea.

And if you like the idea of creating a fully automated passive income system for you or a love one, go to:

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Kind regards.

John Harrison.

PS… We are currently putting the final touches to a new product that I believe will sell really well and generate at least £30,000 in profit over time.

It may be more, it may be a little less, but I’m sure it will do well… and it has taken the author less than a week to put together.

Just one week’s work could easily make £30,000 or more. I’m sure you or a close family member would find that useful.

Once a product is created, it can be sold for many years to come. We still sell copies of products that were first promoted over ten years ago.

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