His eyes slowly scanned the scene ahead of him.
To his left were the natives, busy beavering away sorting through piles and piles of ‘stuff’.
To the right were other treasure seekers, also searching for the treasure lost deep within the jungle.
There is gold in this jungle somewhere, finding it was hard enough without having to battle with natives and other treasure seekers.
Still scanning the area, he became aware of a glint at the back of the village… it flashed only for a fraction of a second. But it was long enough to draw his attention.
There it was… the treasure he was looking for.
Quickly looking from left to right, he realised no one else had spotted it. Not the natives, not the other treasure seekers.
Only he had seen it. It was his… he just needed to get to it.
He lay silently waiting to make his move.
Both the natives and the treasure seekers turned their backs to him. Now was the time.
Launching himself from his hiding space behind the shelves full of shoes, our brave explorer raced across the store towards the shelves stocked high with tea pots.
Running fast, trying to maintain a steady breath and heart rate, the plucky explorer weaved in and out of aisles. The natives and the other treasure seekers turn to hear what was making the new drum beat of feet on the jungle floor.
They see the explorer running; they look towards the direction he was heading. They see it. The treasure they too were searching for.
They turn and give chase.
Throwing themselves at the explorer in an attempt to take him down, they need to stop him so that they can reach the treasure first!
It’s a dog eat dog world, and the first to the treasure is the winner!
By now I’m sure you are thinking to yourself ‘John, what the hell are you on about?’
The above is how I imagine my friend sees his trips to the local charity shops.
I swear he thinks he is some kind of ‘Indiana Jones’ type character searching deep in the junk jungle for lost treasure whilst battling with natives and other treasure seekers.
He regularly tells me that there is ‘gold in those shops’.
I wouldn’t know I’m not a huge fan of trawling through charity shops personally so I’ll have to take his word for it.
I have nothing against them; it’s just not for me.
But I do know that some people love spending hours searching for lost ‘gems’.
People make good money trawling through charity shops looking for quality bargain priced items which they can ‘flip’ on eBay for a profit.
Sometimes the profits can be huge if you know what to look for.
As well as finding great items to flip, you can also find ideas for other businesses.
On a recent adventure to seek out bargains, ‘Indiana Jones’, my plucky explorer and adventurer friend sent me a couple of photos of a few items.
In those photos, you can see two stacks of magazines.
He thought that with me being a publisher, I would be interested in seeing them… I wasn’t… at first… but then I took a second look.
What you see in those pictures are great examples of ‘niche’ publications.
And the reason for showing them to you today is this…
People will pay money to access more of what they enjoy.
Whatever their hobbies are, they want to know more.
They want to learn more, they want to read more, they want to see more and they want to participate and experience more.
In the picture above, you will see two publications which are not that old.
These are not magazines from the late 1970’s and early 80’s. This is not a doctor’s waiting room; this is a charity shop which has just had a recent donation.
One of those magazines is only three years old.
As I’m sure you are aware, these publications would have cost money to make.
There are articles to be written, photographs to buy or photographers to pay, graphics and layout to be paid for, editing and proofreading required, paper to buy, printing to pay for and then there’s the distribution of the magazine to pay for.
There would be quite a cost to publishing these magazines… and no publisher would do that if there wasn’t a market to sell too.
So why am I showing you this?
We now live in the digital age where all of what you see in those magazines can be delivered digitally online either as a PDF, as an eBook or eZine, as a website or in a members only website… at a fraction of the cost.
As the pictures show, people will happily pay for any hobby.
And this is what I wanted to talk about today.
If you are looking for a way to make money, you could create a subscription based newsletter or website business.
People will pay to access your content online in whatever format you choose.
The opportunity to deliver content digitally is no longer in the hands of the multi-national media and tech companies.
You have access to all you need.
The hardest part is actually deciding what niche to focus on and creating the content.
But even then, it doesn’t need to be that hard, people are happy to pay £5 or £10 for a newsletter which is just a few pages long.
Even if you produced a simple four or five page newsletter and charged a ridiculously low £2.99 for it… you can still make a decent amount of money if you get enough people to pay for it.
Remember, the costs of online digital publishing are incredibly low compared to the traditional print publishing model.
There is no reason as to why you cannot make money publishing newsletters and information about a specific hobby or two.
If that sounds interesting to you, Andi recorded a video which I think you would find interesting. It walks you through a popular subscription based email newsletter business I found last year.
You can watch that video here:
Revealed! A Simple Fully Automated Subscription Income Model You Can Start From Home… TODAY!
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… This is something which requires a simple website as show in The 30 Days To £30K Challenge, can be marketed for free using social media and takes very little time to work on each week.
Here’s that link again: