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.

Click the link below:

The EASIEST Way To Start A PROFITABLE Newsletter!

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?

Here’s that link again:

The EASIEST Way To Start A PROFITABLE Newsletter!

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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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:

The Z15 Profit System

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.

Here’s that link again:

The Z15 Profit System

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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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.

Here’s that link again:

How To Cash In With A Subscription Based Business

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.

Here’s that link again:

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

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

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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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.

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

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.

Here’s that link again:

How To Build A Six-Figure-A-Year Income Without Spending A Penny Of Your Own Money!

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:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge

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.

Here’s that link again:

The 30 Day To £30K Challenge