I recently saw an oldish guy – yes, I know that I am no spring chicken myself, but I’d say that this guy was at least ten years older than me – with a van crammed full of used tat that he was taking to sell at the local car boot market.
I’ve seen him a few times; he is local to my area.
He takes his van of tat each and every week the market is on.
At first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything worth selling, but for all I know, there could be a few gems hidden deep within the van.
I often wonder what drives people to go to car boot markets each week to sell tat to other people.
I understand it when people are having a clear out and want to make a few extra pounds selling the items they no longer want or need, but I struggle to understand those people who spend their weeks gathering up knackered tat with the idea of selling it at the weekend.
I know that it is nice to have money in your pocket, but when selling old knackered tat you are really limiting yourself to who you can sell it to, and how much you can earn.
When something is old, outdated, and basically knackered, very few people are going to want it, and even less are willing to pay much for it.
Plus, when you are selling it from a table or a tarpaulin at a car boot market, you can only sell it to those who are there, and so if no one at that market wants your items, you make no money.
The reason I am talking about this old guy is that I have never seen him with a smartphone and everything about him screams ‘old school’.
I imagine he has been doing the same thing since he was a teen back in the 1960s.
I bet he was a bit of a ‘wheeler dealer’ back then, and I cannot help but think that he has not evolved much since.
Firstly, had he embraced modern technology, he could potentially sell his tat to people further afield on platforms such as eBay and Vinted on any day, and not just rely on those people gathered in field at the weekend.
Secondly, he could have progressed to selling digital products online giving him more money for less work.
Today I saw this post (below) in a Facebook group where the poster, Domonique Williams, said that she created a digital product using the free version of Canva, and then generated $1,500 (£1,200 ATOW) in just one day selling it at $77 (£61 ATOW).
People are using free tools to create digital products that they are selling online… and they are doing it all from the comfort of their own homes.
Unlike the old guy who has to spend his time loading and unloading his van, and driving around the town sourcing products to sell, these people sit at home in a comfy seat with a mug of their favourite brew, and make digital products to sell… or sell other people’s digital products.
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Maybe this old guy enjoys what he does and enjoys talking to people at the markets. There is often the same old faces who gather at these events and they enjoy catching up.
Maybe he does it for that, it’s not just about making money, but a social event where he meets friends and like minded people… and there’s nothing wrong with that if that is why he does it.
Sadly, I have noticed that he is struggling to walk and carry things now that he is aging, and that can only make it harder to earn money.
So, not only is he selling knackered tat that very few people want or need to a small audience… for pennies, he is also struggling to do it efficiently and effectively.
It would be interested to know how long it would take for him to make a clear £1,200 profit selling tat for pennies.
I have no reason to doubt Domonique’s claims, although let’s not be fooled, she is using the post as a way to sell an affiliate network program called UBC.
I imagine that if anyone purchases access to that program through her, she will earn a sales commission between $500 and $1,000.
Making $500 or more per sale isn’t bad going. It’s certainly a lot easier on your body than carrying crates of heavy tat to and from the van every market day.
I don’t know if the old guy has refused to embrace modern technology or whether he didn’t see a need for it, and it has since gone on to overtake him and leave him behind, but he has been left working hard scratting for pennies while others are banking money without having to leave their homes.
Also, the people making money online are not being affected by the weather like market traders are.
Cold and wet weather can put people off from going out.
Car boot markets usually only happen during the summer. Winter in the UK is pretty bleak and it can be too cold, wet, and icy for trawling through tables of tat in a large field.
Incredibly hot weather can also prevent people going out, it can also encourage people to go and do something ‘better’ instead.
Would you rather walk around a car boot market, go to the park with the family, have a barbeque, go to the pub for a few cold beers with friends, or go to the beach?
I imagine the car boot is at the bottom of your list.
Yes, when the weather is good you can do more than one thing a day, but I still think given the option, most people would rather do something else.
The point is… a car boot market trader’s earnings can be greatly affected by external and environmental conditions, but those people who work online, they can earn money no matter what the weather is doing outside their window.
The other thing to consider is that digital products can be bought at any time of the day and night and from virtually anywhere in the world… you are not relying on a small group of people wandering around a field on a Sunday between the hours of 7 am and 3pm.
As I stand and watch that older gentleman spend several hours on a Saturday afternoon struggling to load his van with crates and boxes of his latest required tat, I cannot help but think that he is suffering a cycle of struggle of his own making because he didn’t embrace technology.
The tools and services we now have access to are the most sophisticated and freeing ever.
The idea that you can take your phone out of your pocket and film yourself talking in your garden, and then upload it to a platform resulting in that video being seen by potentially millions of people at no cost to you whatsoever… is simply mind blowing.
And when you use those tools intentionally with a plan… you too could be banking a lot of money.
I am not going to say that making money online is easy… but I will say this, it is a lot easier to do than most jobs.
- Recording a video on your phone is simple and easy.
- Adding text and images to that video is simple and easy.
- Taking photos and putting them online is simple and easy.
- Adding text and images to those photos is simple and easy.
- Writing emails, articles, social media posts, and eBooks is simple and easy.
- Publishing those emails, articles, social media posts, and eBooks is simple and easy.
Compared to most ‘real’ jobs… working online is easy.
Over 20 years ago, if you wanted to record a series of videos for a product, or write and publish a book, and get in front of millions of people to tell them about your latest product… it would have cost you a lot of money and required you to hire a team of professionals.
Now, you can do it all for free with ease.
Now, if all of the above still sounds like a bit ‘too much’ for you, and you would like something even easier, then another fantastic thing that you can do with your smartphone from anywhere is to trade sporting events.
The smartphone allows us to connect with betting exchanges like Betfair and place bets on specific horses.
Those platforms and that connection to the internet allow us to do a little research where we can accurately determine which horses are the best ones to bet on.
When you know which horses to bet on, you have a far greater chance of winning.
Far too many people today still ‘bet blind’ simply because – like the old guy selling tat – they don’t know that there is a better way.
That better way is John Bank’s Easy As 123 System.
John has a way of determine which races have a higher probability of giving him a winner.
I know what you are thinking, ‘all races have a winner!’
But there are a few races where there is a greater chance of picking the winner by looking at a series of stats.
John Banks is a numbers and stats man; he loves nothing more than figuring out systems that use information that is overlooked by most people.
He recently developed the Easy As 123 System which takes readily-available information – that most people ignore – and turns it into easy profits using Betfair.
As the name applies, the system is easy to do. You simply check a few tables, then place a few bets on a few specific horses
Discover more by clicking the link below:
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Kind regards.
John Harrison.
P.S… You can started right away with just £100 and after 6 months, you could be sitting on a decent tax free £12,800!
Here’s that link again: