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Deal In Bangers

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.

Motivational Quote Of The Day

“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”

Abraham Maslow

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“I need cheering up. I lent my friend $8,000 for plastic surgery. Now I don’t know what he looks like.”

Emo Philips

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,

Climbing The Wrong Tree

I spent an enjoyable couple of hours recently, watching a show put on by my daughters school to celebrate its 60th anniversary. It was a review, encompassing music, songs and shows from the past 60 years.

This isn’t a stage school, and yet many of the performances were absolutely outstanding. I can’t imagine for one minute, being able to do what they did now…let alone when I was nine years old. I’m sure many of those on stage last night have aspirations to ‘make it’ in the entertainment business when they’re older, and good as they are, I’m equally sure that they probably never will.

You see, it’s an incredibly competitive field. Kids have always wanted to be either pop stars or actors, but with the growth in popularity of TV talent shows like X Factor, that trend has gone into overdrive. They all want to do it now, and a lot of them are very good…

But very good is never quite good enough.

The other evening, I watched an interview with actor Mackenzie Crook who was in The Office, and went on to star in Pirates of The Caribbean, among other things. Now here’s a man who doesn’t look much like a film star.

What’s more, he was asked about his school days and admitted that he’d never performed in a school play, sung in a choir, or anything else. And yet here he is today, far more successful than 99.99% of people who have gone the performing arts route.

Go back more years than I like to admit, and while I was doing my A Levels at one college in Rotherham, another teenager was doing a welding course at another college just a mile down the road. His name was Sean Bean.

Like Mackenzie Crook, he’d never been in a school play or taken any interest in the performance arts up to this point. And yet he was about to become one of the most successful British actors of his generation.

What Crook and Bean have is that indefinable ‘something’ that trumps and overrides, ‘very good’. And that’s what you need if you’re to succeed in the most hotly competitive environments.

Because, as I’ve said many times, the vast majority of the spoils go to those at the top of the tree, and everyone else has to battle over the scraps that are left over.

The reward gap between the top and the next rung down is massive, and this is true in all fields. An almost imperceptible performance differential can have a huge impact on the rewards received. It’s true in the performing arts, sport, literature, business…everything.

I’ll repeat it. Very good, just isn’t good enough.

For most of us the implication is clear. We need to aim to be at the top of our own tree, and some trees are just going to be impossible for us to climb.

There are often far higher rewards to be had by climbing to the top of a small or peripheral tree, than getting close to the top of a much taller central one, that everyone else is trying to clamber up.

So do you have that ‘indefinable something’ you need to get to the top of the tree you’re currently trying to climb? Or are you just one of the many very good performers who will always fall short of where you really want to end up?

If you are, then it could be time to start looking for a different tree.

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

Hello,

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.

Take A Look HERE

Very Best Wishes,

Name Your Price

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?