American public conversation about Covid-19 has become haunted by prominent voices who propose “sacrificing the old and weak at the altar of the global economy”. Republican officials, conservative economists, unqualified pundits and even the 73-year-old president of the United States (who has since changed his view) have suggested that the economic pain caused by lockdowns to protect the vulnerable might be too great.

However, positing this problem, anywhere in the world, as a trade-off between the economic interests of the young and the lifespan of the old is a terrible error. The global economic depression unleashed by the deaths of millions is beyond imagining. Trade would grind to a half because of mourning, fear of infection, society-wide trauma and social unrest. And, of course, even healthy children can die from Covid-19. 

Saying that it is morally unacceptable to trade lives for GDP is missing the point. Setting aside the act that policymakers frequently do put a price on human life (the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, which decides which drugs and medical procedures to fund, says we should be spending no more than £30,000 to add one year of perfect health to one person), these high-sounding pronouncements ignore the fact that economic downturns cost lives.

The choice politicians are making is not between saving lives and economic growth, but between sacrificing lives now (visibly) and sacrificing them in the future (less visibly).

When economies shrink, poverty, violent crime and suicide rise and life expectancy declines. The Depression proved as much. Moreover, life expectancy among some deprived groups had, pre-pandemic, stalled in the UK, and gone backwards in America. If the UK’s GDP falls more than 6.4% per person as a result of the lockdown, more years of life will be lost than saved.

Currently, however, it looks more likely that we will get a deep, short recession, not a lengthy one and if businesses can struggle through, consumer demand and investment will rebound, without a significant impact on life expectancy. Possibly, but by some estimates GDP will be down 15% this quarter; the longer the lockdown – and the signs are that it could last until June – the deeper this slump could get. That’s why testing is key.

A team at Oxford University think that 50% of the UK population may already have been infected. If true, suppression measures could probably be safely relaxed. Data is crucial, because for now there are too many unknowns. But we will arrive at a time when the cost of containment measures, in terms of human welfare and even of fatalities, outweighs the cost of the virus. Refusing to face this grim calculation is not an act of high-mindedness, but of dereliction.

The Great Toilet-Roll Shortage

We all know who’s to blame for the great toilet-roll shortage: irrational hoarders and greedy panic buyers. Or are they?

Actually, we don’t need to assume that most consumers are greedy or irrational to understand why shelves are emptying. It’s all to do with supply chains.

The toiletpaper industry is split into two, largely separate, markets: commercial and consumer. Consumers are not making more trips to the bathroom, but are doing so more often at home than elsewhere due to lockdowns.

That means the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all its members are staying at home. That’s a huge leap in demand for a product whose supply chain is predicated on the assumption that demand is essentially constant.

So if you’re wondering where all the toilet roll went, mystery solved – it’s at the office. Couldn’t industrial processes and supply chains change to solve the problem? Perhaps, but then we’ll face the same problem in reverse once people head back to work again. Knowing this, we can at least stop looking down on the “idiocy” of our fellow shoppers.

Even a modest, reasonable amount of stocking up by millions of people in preparation for staying at home would be enough to deplete many store shelves of everyday items.

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL SENIOR HEALTH AND FITNESS DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

Dear Streetwise Customer 

I hope that you and your family are well. 

I don’t have to tell you that the Coronavirus outbreak has changed everything, and nowhere more so than in the world of sports betting. With almost all our regular ‘go to’ profit makers like European football, horse racing and golf on hold, you might be excused for thinking that the opportunity to make a lucrative extra income from sports betting was gone – at least for now. 

That’s what we thought until we heard from a guy called Craig Russell and how
he was… 

Making an extra £150-£250 a week exploiting the ‘invisible’ betting opportunities exposed by the Coronavirus mayhem.

 You see Craig isn’t your typical sports bettor. Long before anyone had heard of coronavirus, he was shunning the sort of events most of us bet on in favour of little-known sports, events and fixtures taking place in obscure locations. 

Why did he concentrate on those? 

Because he figured that the less ‘pro’s’  there  were  looking  at  these  obscure markets, and the more time he spent studying them, the greater edge he’d have over the competition. 

Obvious when you think about it. 

So why this message? 

Because it seems like now is the perfect time to bring this to a wider audience…but not much wider! 

You see, in conjunction with Craig we’ve put together a totally unique service which is tailor-made for the times we find ourselves in. But there will only be 100 places available. Ever.

For full details on what’s involved and why the limit, take a LOOK NOW.If an extra couple of hundred pounds tax-free income would be worthwhile to you right now, I’d urge you to get in touch without delay. These places are really going to go fast.  

  For full details CLICK HERE

  Very Best Wishes, 

  John Harrison
  Streetwise Publications 

  P.S   Almost forgot…you can get started with this for just £9.95.  I’m pretty sure that makes it our cheapest service ever. Why? Well take a look now  and all will be revealed. 

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A deadly virus is spreading across the world at an accelerating rate. Shops, restaurants and pubs have closed down. No one is allowed out of their house and the economy is collapsing.

There are moments when it feels like the apocalypse. The world is ending and we are all doomed. Investors may feel the same way. Amid the carnage on the stockmarket one small category has done well – space stocks.

It is almost as if people have decided to give up on this planet and try a different one instead. Space exploration is a small sector, of course, but there are definite signs of life. 

The only pure quoted space stock is Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which aims to offer the first tourist trips into space. True, its shares have been volatile. They tripled at the start of this year, then crashed even before any of us realised Covid-19 would spread beyond China.

In the last month however, they bounced by 50%. There are also a couple of space exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that track a broad range of spacerelated companies. The aptly named Kensho Final Frontiers Fund is up from less than $160 to more than $185 at the time of writing. The Procure Space ETF – with the cute ticker UFO – is up by a similar amount. 

Other private firms are forging ahead too. Blue Origin, controlled by Amazon founder Jeff ezos, has, slightly surprisingly, been designated an “essential” company by the US government and allowed to keep operating.

And of course there’s Tesla founder Elon Musk’s Space-X, which is pressing on with plans for a new rocket capable of going to both the Moon and Mars.There are two main reasons why space companies have soared above the carnage on the stockmarket and in the wider economy.

First of all, all the terrible news about collapsing demand, closed factories and rapidly rising unemployment doesn’t make any difference to them. They didn’t have much in the way of sales anyway.

They were devoting their resources to making products that might be fantastically valuable, but not for another five or six years. A six-month shutdown is not terribly relevant one way or another. And next, 50 years after men first landed on the Moon, a genuine “space economy” is starting to emerge with real revenues.

It includes tourism, communications, mining and transport. It is getting big enough to be included in US GDP calculations and in the numbers of many other countries as well. In the US, it is estimated at $158bn, making it by far the global leader.

For Canada it is estimated at $5.6bn and for Germany $3.1bn. The Space Foundation estimates the total value of extraterrestrial GDP at $419bn in 2019 with 79% of that in the private sector. In truth, given its size and rapid growth, it is surprising there is not a larger quoted sector and more interest from investors.

The few who are taking the plunge are probably right to do so. It is one of the most exciting new industries around.   To infinity and beyond! Of course, it remains to be seen whether a genuine space industry emerges, whether it is profitable and whether the investors backing it now ever make a return on their money.

But there is a broader lesson here for investors. The economy may look absolutely terrible right now with uncertain prospects for recovery, but whole new industries are going to emerge.

That has been true even in the deepest depressions. After the crash of the 1870s, the railways forged ahead and new technologies based on electricity started to emerge. In the 1930s, following the Great Depression, industries such as television and electrical household appliances would later form the foundations of the post-war boom.

After the crash of 2008 the app economy was just getting going, with companies such as Uber and Airbnb raising capital. This is a good time to back emerging technologies because valuations are at rockbottom. And some of the prices are just too good to be missed.

Space may or may not turn out to be the industry of the future – but it is certain we will look back in ten years’ time and realise that something was, and it was very, very cheap in 2020…

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL STRWABERRIES AND CREAM DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

   

Hello,

My name is Michael White, and what I’d like to share with you now is a
total game-changer. With your permission, over the next few minutes I’ll
explain a money-loophole that could be your ticket to the laziest and
fastest retirement imaginable. 

Please let me first put your mind at rest about a few things…

There’s no limit to the number of times you can use this under one person’s name. You could use this secret regularly…

 . You DON’T need to already have a bank account with a 
   particular bank or building society.

 . You DON’T need to have been mis-sold a pension or investment. 

. You DON’T need to buy shares of a specific company or bank.

. You DON’T have to pay this money back- it’s NOT a loan. It’s
   YOUR money, free and clear.

 . You DON’T have to own a home, and you can use the money for 
   ANYTHING you like.

 . You DON’T need a credit rating or be at any particular earnings
   level or be on benefit.

 . You DON’T need a computer or any technical know-how. You 
   could even place a call instead of make a few clicks if you don’t
   have a computer.

NOBODY else knows this secret because I discovered it – through
the application of an ancient code. I will share it with you HERE for
legitimate reasons I’ll explain in a moment. And I guarantee you’ll
be stunned at how this powerful secret could force the banking
system into letting you retire early…

Take A Look HERE 

  Very Best Wishes, 
 

David Hockney, creator of Britain’s most expensive artwork by a living artist, is in lockdown. But he isn’t letting it get to him. From Normandy, where he is staying, the resourceful 82-year-old whipped out an iPad and “painted” a picture of bright yellow daffodils.

He called it Do Remember They Can’t Cancel The Spring. Sadly, Hockney’s latest two exhibitions in London, at the National Portrait Gallery and the Annely Juda Fine Art gallery, have not been able to escape the spread of the coronavirus. Both have been closed, as have galleries, museums and art fairs around the world.

Art Basel Hong Kong, the biggest art fair in Asia, had been due to open its doors last month. But it wasn’t cancelled entirely. Like Hockney, it and the galleries have instead embraced a convenient digital format.

Of the 242 galleries that were due to appear at Art Basel Hong Kong, 235 have taken up residence in its online viewing room instead. So many visitors piled into it in the first 20 minutes that the platform was temporarily paralysed.

But there’s no doubt the global disruption is hurting the art market, particularly the smaller players.That’s partly down to the market having expanded so quickly – from 140 international art fairs at the last financial crisis to 300 as of last year.

Exhibiting is also an expensive business. For the past few years, galleries operating below the stratospheric levels have been struggling to keep pace with the financial pressures of showing at fairs all over the world. Five-figure exhibiting fees, flights, shipping, hotels, dinners with clients and rent have led to what has become known as “fairtigue”.

The same is true of collectors. If there were fewer regional art fairs, but stronger online offerings, it could do everyone, and the environment, a favour.

While the international art fair phenomenon has become a travelling circus, there are serious collectors everywhere, particularly for contemporary art, and they do not always want to get on a plane to look at a work they may want to buy.

The majority of art fairs are for the people who live in the host city. The Dallas Art Fair and Art Brussels are two that cater to the local base of collectors. Whether they and others like them survive the shake-out remains to be seen.

But the current lockdown could also turn out to have been beneficial to the art market. An awful lot of people are, after all, sitting at home with little to do but log on. When you work from home, the state of your home takes on new importance. Not every member of this demographic will decide to fill the void with fine art, of course.

Shares We’re Buying 

Leading the fight for the COVID-19 cure is RedHill Biopharma Ltd, having been one of the first biotech companies to successfully treat patients in Israel.

A patient with respiratory problems related to COVID-19 has recently been dosed with opaganib at a leading hospital there. RedHill said the treatment was administered under the Israeli Ministry of Health’s compassionate use guidelines.

More patients in that country will likely be treated soon. The drug already has been tested on 131 subjects in the United States as part of Phase 1 and Phase 2 oncology clinical trials.

Clinical data to date have demonstrated its safety and tolerability in both healthy volunteers and cancer patients.

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL JOKE DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

   

Hello,

My name is Michael White, and what I’d like to share with you now is a
total game-changer. With your permission, over the next few minutes I’ll
explain a money-loophole that could be your ticket to the laziest and
fastest retirement imaginable. 

Please let me first put your mind at rest about a few things…

There’s no limit to the number of times you can use this under one person’s name. You could use this secret regularly…

 . You DON’T need to already have a bank account with a 
   particular bank or building society.

 . You DON’T need to have been mis-sold a pension or investment. 

. You DON’T need to buy shares of a specific company or bank.

. You DON’T have to pay this money back- it’s NOT a loan. It’s
   YOUR money, free and clear.

 . You DON’T have to own a home, and you can use the money for 
   ANYTHING you like.

 . You DON’T need a credit rating or be at any particular earnings
   level or be on benefit.

 . You DON’T need a computer or any technical know-how. You 
   could even place a call instead of make a few clicks if you don’t
   have a computer.

NOBODY else knows this secret because I discovered it – through
the application of an ancient code. I will share it with you HERE for
legitimate reasons I’ll explain in a moment. And I guarantee you’ll
be stunned at how this powerful secret could force the banking
system into letting you retire early…

Take A Look HERE 

  Very Best Wishes, 
 

We look at a lot of unusual or off-beat ideas here but sometimes it’s easy to overlook something run-of-the-mill but lucrative.

There’s a seemingly endless market for cheap second hand cars, and a profit to be made by supplying them, particularly if you have some basic mechanical knowledge.

Often, the only difference between a car which can be bought for £500 and one that can be sold for £1,000 is a good clean/valet, and an improved advertisement and photographs.

Sell just a couple of cars each month like this and you could very easily make an extra £12,000 a year.

Not everyone is interested in cars of course, but if you are, this is a great way to combine business with pleasure.

Big Is Bountiful  

The launch of a magazine for women that hit the news stands. Called ‘Just As Beautiful’, its aimed at curvy, plus sized women.

The rationale behind the launch is that the average dress size for women in the UK is 14 to 16 and yet there’s very little representation of larger women in the fashion media.

The aim of the magazine is to provide style and grooming information to ordinary women, without making them feel that they are outside of the norm.

I think they could on to something here. It seems crazy to market a product as only being applicable to a small minority of stick-thin women, whilst ignoring the majority. And yet that’s what seems to happen at the moment.

Both the fashion media and the designers they promote and support, tend to focus on a tiny (literally!), minority. With this new magazine, and even some top designers now dipping their toe into the plus size market, it looks like marketers are waking up.

There just have to be dozens of business opportunities hinging on a single thought. Instead of trying to make people thinner, what can we do to make them happier and more satisfied the way that they are?

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL SMILE POWER DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

   

Hello,

My name is Michael White, and what I’d like to share with you now is a
total game-changer. With your permission, over the next few minutes I’ll
explain a money-loophole that could be your ticket to the laziest and
fastest retirement imaginable. 

Please let me first put your mind at rest about a few things…

There’s no limit to the number of times you can use this under one person’s name. You could use this secret regularly…

 . You DON’T need to already have a bank account with a 
   particular bank or building society.

 . You DON’T need to have been mis-sold a pension or investment. 

. You DON’T need to buy shares of a specific company or bank.

. You DON’T have to pay this money back- it’s NOT a loan. It’s
   YOUR money, free and clear.

 . You DON’T have to own a home, and you can use the money for 
   ANYTHING you like.

 . You DON’T need a credit rating or be at any particular earnings
   level or be on benefit.

 . You DON’T need a computer or any technical know-how. You 
   could even place a call instead of make a few clicks if you don’t
   have a computer.

NOBODY else knows this secret because I discovered it – through
the application of an ancient code. I will share it with you HERE for
legitimate reasons I’ll explain in a moment. And I guarantee you’ll
be stunned at how this powerful secret could force the banking
system into letting you retire early…

Take A Look HERE 

  Very Best Wishes, 
 

The traditional way of running a retail business is that the seller names the price and then the customer decides whether he is prepared to pay it.

Thanks to the internet, some modern businesses are turning the model on its head. For example, Buystand enables extreme sports fans to name their own for products and accessories at the start of the season rather than waiting for the spring sale.

Customers create an account and then browse products for sale. When a bid is made, Buystand put it to their panel of retailers to see whether any are prepared to match the price.

If a taker is found, the customer is charged the bid price and the retailer ships the product. Both parties benefit; the customer gets a discounted price and the retailer makes a sale he would otherwise have missed at a price he’s happy to accept.

It seems to me that there’s room for a business operating this type of model in myriad markets. If there isn’t already one serving a market you’re familiar with, this could be worth investigating further?

Calculated Profits 

It’s not unusual for groups of consumers to have quite transient needs, and when this happens, a business opportunity often opens up. Students are one such group.

They often study a subject for a short period, and are required to source quite expensive resources, which they will only need for a short period of time. Previously, we’ve talked about services set up to rent books to students, thereby negating the need for them to make an expensive purchase.

A Canadian company has spotted another need they can satisfy in a similar way-by renting out expensive graphic and financial calculators. Students often need these for just a couple of classes and can save 70% by renting rather than buying. When the rental period is complete, they simply mail them back to the company.

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL VISIT YOUR RELATIVES DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

   

Hello,

My name is Michael White, and what I’d like to share with you now is a
total game-changer. With your permission, over the next few minutes I’ll
explain a money-loophole that could be your ticket to the laziest and
fastest retirement imaginable. 

Please let me first put your mind at rest about a few things…

There’s no limit to the number of times you can use this under one person’s name. You could use this secret regularly…

 . You DON’T need to already have a bank account with a 
   particular bank or building society.

 . You DON’T need to have been mis-sold a pension or investment. 

. You DON’T need to buy shares of a specific company or bank.

. You DON’T have to pay this money back- it’s NOT a loan. It’s
   YOUR money, free and clear.

 . You DON’T have to own a home, and you can use the money for 
   ANYTHING you like.

 . You DON’T need a credit rating or be at any particular earnings
   level or be on benefit.

 . You DON’T need a computer or any technical know-how. You 
   could even place a call instead of make a few clicks if you don’t
   have a computer.

NOBODY else knows this secret because I discovered it – through
the application of an ancient code. I will share it with you HERE for
legitimate reasons I’ll explain in a moment. And I guarantee you’ll
be stunned at how this powerful secret could force the banking
system into letting you retire early…

Take A Look HERE 

  Very Best Wishes, 
 

Anyone who’s undergone any sales training will be familiar with the idea of the puppy dog sale. In case you’re unfamiliar with it, here’s how it works:

A customer is in a pet shop with a child who is begging for a puppy. Not at all sure this is such a great idea, or perhaps not sure if this particular puppy is the right fit, the customer will not commit to the purchase. The salesperson then plays his Ace.

He offers to let them take the puppy home for a few days, assuring the parent that the puppy can be returned, no questions asked, if they decide they don’t want to keep it. How could you refuse? Of course, the child falls in love with the new pet, and there’s no way it’s going to be returned. Sold!

It’s an idea which can be applied to the sale of many products. Get the product into your customers hands on a trial basis and there’s every chance that they will keep it.

That could be because they find it’s just what they want, or because they form an emotional attachment to it (as with a pet). Either a sale is made or you’re not much worse off if the customer decides to return the product.

Give some thought to whether this is something you can apply to your business. Making it completely risk and obligation free for your customer to try out the product in their own home is a very powerful technique. It won’t apply to everything, but where it does, you should use it.

Selling The Unsavoury

Not every product is attractive in either appearance or function. Many fall into the yucky-but-necessary category. So how do you go about selling them? The makers of Naposure, a saline product designed to wash out a mucus laden nose, (apologies if your eating!) faced just this problem.

Their solution was to soften the whole thing by using attractive children in the advertisements, demonstrating the product. The cute and funny videos they made seemed to do the trick of making an unglamorous product visually attractive to the target market.

It’s a trick that toilet paper manufacturers have used for decades of course. What Labrador puppies have to do with the quality and effectiveness of Andrex is anyone’s guess, but they serve the function of making the product attractive, while very subtly conveying the benefits.

Perhaps if your product lacks a little glamour, you could think about making it more attractive and appealing by associating it in customers minds with something more acceptable. Something to give some thought to.

As an aside, I just discovered that toilet paper was first marketed in the United States just 150 years ago, and up until that point in time, everyone made ‘alternative arrangements’. Just give some thought to that the next time you’re bemoaning the fact that some modern day luxury you’ve become accustomed to isn’t working quite the way it should! 

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL BIKE TO WORK  DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

  Dear Streetwise Customer,

    If you were to design a money-making strategy from scratch to take advantage of the circumstances we’re currently experiencing, here is exactly what you’d come up with – a business where…

 . You can work exclusively from home and never have to leave   
   the house

 . As long as you have a computer with internet access, you’re in 
   business  

. The method behind it doesn’t just cope with turmoil and
   uncertainty…it positively thrives on it.

. You can get started and be making money in days rather than 
   weeks or months.

 . Start-up costs are virtually zero.

  How do I know this is perfect for now? 

  Because the guy who developed it is something of a recluse. He started ‘self-isolating’ years ago before it became a thing, and has run this business from the top of a French mountain, from a remote Swedish farm and from the wilds of northern Scotland…  

  He didn’t have to self-isolate…he just chose to!

  If you find yourself having to live and work a little more remotely in the coming weeks and months…or even if you just like the idea of doing that…then this is perfect for you.  

 Take a look now and respond today. In every crisis, there are opportunities. Even if you’ve looked at doing something like this before and decided against, think again. Now is the time.

 Click HERE for more information

P.S Uncertain and volatile times are precisely when this works best.
         What other opportunity can you say that about?

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I returned from a holiday in a large hotel and I was struck by how much waste there must be from the breakfast and dinner buffets. Dan Blake noted this too back in 2010 and decided to do something about it.

The result was an eco-friendly business with has been named one of the ‘Top 25 Most Promising Social Ventures in America’. EcoScraps takes the waste from ‘All-You-Can-Eat’ Buffets and turns it into a sustainable compost mix.

The business has proved highly profitable and diverts 20 tons of food waste a day from local landfills.

Obviously this is a locally based business – it involved physically picking up the waste – so here’s the question… Who will be first to take this up and run with it in the UK? You’ll have to be quick, I like the idea of this one myself! 

Climbing Profits

I’m sure you’re well aware of the fact that health and fitness products are big business. Getting fitter and losing weight are high on the priority list of a lot of people at the moment, and as a result there are hundreds of fitness related machine’s, gadget’s and gizmo’s on the market.

A lot of them are poorly designed, executed and a made, but we recently came across something new which could have a longer life and more appeal than average.

MtEverClimb is a continuous rope climbing machine that (as the name suggests) simulates rope climbing – an activity with long term proven benefits with regard to strength, endurance and cardio vascular training.

The device appears to be very robustly built – it would need to be as it’s endorsed by the Pittsburgh Steelers American football team – and as far as I know, isn’t yet available in the UK.

Could it be the next big thing in UK gym’s? If so, who will introduce it to them. Perhaps something for an ambitious entrepreneur to investigate. 

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL DECENCY DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

  Dear Streetwise Customer,

    If you were to design a money-making strategy from scratch to take advantage of the circumstances we’re currently experiencing, here is exactly what you’d come up with – a business where…

 . You can work exclusively from home and never have to leave   
   the house

 . As long as you have a computer with internet access, you’re in 
   business  

. The method behind it doesn’t just cope with turmoil and
   uncertainty…it positively thrives on it.

. You can get started and be making money in days rather than 
   weeks or months.

 . Start-up costs are virtually zero.

  How do I know this is perfect for now? 

  Because the guy who developed it is something of a recluse. He started ‘self-isolating’ years ago before it became a thing, and has run this business from the top of a French mountain, from a remote Swedish farm and from the wilds of northern Scotland…  

  He didn’t have to self-isolate…he just chose to!

  If you find yourself having to live and work a little more remotely in the coming weeks and months…or even if you just like the idea of doing that…then this is perfect for you.  

 Take a look now and respond today. In every crisis, there are opportunities. Even if you’ve looked at doing something like this before and decided against, think again. Now is the time.

 Click HERE for more information

P.S Uncertain and volatile times are precisely when this works best.
         What other opportunity can you say that about?

www.streetwisenews.com/wizard

When Linda Katz was learning how to make a website, she set up a tongue-in-cheek site to sell tumbleweed. Being a farmer in Texas, she had an over-abundance of the stuff growing wild.

And then a funny thing happened – people started buying it. A single tumbleweed sells for between $15 and $25 depending on size. Not bad for an unwanted weed. 

I’m not suggesting you start selling tumbleweed, but I am suggesting you use this as a mental springboard. People will often pay good money for something which others regard as a waste product or a nuisance.

Do you have access to anything in your life or business which you are currently throwing away or destroying, but which others might be persuaded to buy?

Filling The Gaps

The internet has created a number of opportunities for individuals and businesses to make money by helping companies to profitably dispose of their spare capacity.

Companies like Lastminute.com were set up on that premise. The growth of mobile phone apps has created even more opportunities to do the same thing.

Yum Table is a mobile app which connects hungry diners with spare tables and special deals at a location near them. If a participating restaurant has either a spare table or cancellation they can have it listed on the app and find a paying customer quickly. In one sense, plane seats and empty tables are very similar.

They have to be filled within a short time frame or the opportunity to sell them is lost forever. Yum Table attempts to do for restaurant tables what Lastminute did for plane seats.

Might this be something you could emulate or copy? Is there some other product or service category crying out for someone to come in and deal with the spare capacity problem? Something to give some thought to.

Today’s National Day  

NATIONAL JOIN HANDS DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE  

  Dear Streetwise Customer,

    If you were to design a money-making strategy from scratch to take advantage of the circumstances we’re currently experiencing, here is exactly what you’d come up with – a business where…

 . You can work exclusively from home and never have to leave   
   the house

 . As long as you have a computer with internet access, you’re in 
   business  

. The method behind it doesn’t just cope with turmoil and
   uncertainty…it positively thrives on it.

. You can get started and be making money in days rather than 
   weeks or months.

 . Start-up costs are virtually zero.

  How do I know this is perfect for now? 

  Because the guy who developed it is something of a recluse. He started ‘self-isolating’ years ago before it became a thing, and has run this business from the top of a French mountain, from a remote Swedish farm and from the wilds of northern Scotland…  

  He didn’t have to self-isolate…he just chose to!

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I’ve always held the view that business plans can be a monumental waste of time, and it seems that the academic world may be catching up – or at least part of it.

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur, turned business school professor. He argues that entrepreneurship is about getting out into the world and doing it, rather than researching and writing about it. Blank says that business plan classes and competitions are ‘dead in the water’ for new ventures.

My take on this is that creating a detailed business plan is often used as a device for procrastination by would-be entrepreneurs. And even the best thought out plan is pretty useless if you take your product or service to market, and nobody buys it. It’s a bit like designing a car that will handle perfectly at 70mph without firstly ensuring that you have a means of making it start.

I’ve heard the correct sequence of events described in a number of ways, but probably the best is this…Ready, Fire, Aim. Test your ideas out in the real world as quickly as possible. You can do detailed planning later once you know you have something with potential. Don’t waste time planning diligently for something which may prove to be a non-starter.

Décor to Door 

 As we’ve discussed here before, businesses employing self employed agents to sell products direct to end users in their home, are enjoying a bit of a boom at the moment. We’re all familiar with the Avon’s and Bettaware’s of this world, but the concept is now being adopted by companies selling products at far higher price points.

Décor to Door uses a self employed representative system, but the product is home décor and furnishing. Independent representatives earn commissions by presenting the company’s products in a party plan setting.

This an American company and I’m not aware of anyone doing anything similar here yet. Might this be an operation you could emulate, perhaps partnering with a traditional furniture retailer? Or is there some other product category which would lend itself to the direct sales treatment?

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 . You can work exclusively from home and never have to leave   
   the house

 . As long as you have a computer with internet access, you’re in 
   business  

. The method behind it doesn’t just cope with turmoil and
   uncertainty…it positively thrives on it.

. You can get started and be making money in days rather than 
   weeks or months.

 . Start-up costs are virtually zero.

  How do I know this is perfect for now? 

  Because the guy who developed it is something of a recluse. He started ‘self-isolating’ years ago before it became a thing, and has run this business from the top of a French mountain, from a remote Swedish farm and from the wilds of northern Scotland…  

  He didn’t have to self-isolate…he just chose to!

  If you find yourself having to live and work a little more remotely in the coming weeks and months…or even if you just like the idea of doing that…then this is perfect for you.  

 Take a look now and respond today. In every crisis, there are opportunities. Even if you’ve looked at doing something like this before and decided against, think again. Now is the time.

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P.S Uncertain and volatile times are precisely when this works best.
         What other opportunity can you say that about?

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So you don’t have children, but your friends or relatives do. You have to buy them Christmas and birthday presents, that’s where NeverMissGift comes in. 

Site users register and then answer a few questions about the child they’re buying for, including age, gender and their budget. Any number of children can be added to a user’s profile, and NeverMissGift sends an email shortly before a birthday or special occasion comes up.

The company recommends its top gifts matching the child’s profile and customers who are happy with the selection don’t have  to do anything-the gift is automatically sent to them or the intended recipient. The company also offer personalised wrapping for those choosing to send the gift straight to the child.

This is a US based service. Could the same service work here in the UK? I see no reason why not. Thinking more widely, could there be a gap in the market for a service designed to solve other gift buying problems-men buying for their wives or girlfriends for example? Something to think about.

I’ll Have Vows With That 

Speaking as someone who got married in Las Vegas, I’m probably the last person to comment on the wedding plans of other people. But even I would draw the line at what’s going on in Hong Kong, where you can now get married in your local Macdonalds.

In the West this would be seen as tacky, but Hong Kong is different. Many people there look on it with a sense of nostalgia relating to their student days, whereas here or in the United States it’s generally perceived to be a bit downmarket and certainly not suitable for the most important day of your life.

There are a couple of lessons and ideas to take from this. The first is that we can’t just assume that a business, service or project can be lifted wholesale and set running in another environment or culture. Things may be viewed in a completely different way there, so it’s important to do some research first.

And the second lesson is that it’s worth taking a hard look at the wedding market, wherever you are. Tastes and practices are changing which means that there are new opportunities opening up all the time. People spend small fortunes on their wedding. It would be nice to figure out a way to get hold of a share.

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NATIONAL BEVERAGE DAY!

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