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Route Happy!

One thing I always find annoying and frustrating when researching travel plans is the almost universal focus on cheapness and price. I don’t want to over-pay, but I don’t want to be transported like livestock either. I was therefore interested to read about Routehappy, a service aimed at those who want to travel in comfort.

The company has created a database of information about flights around the world, detailing attributes such as seat type, legroom, entertainment options, wifi access, dining and other amenities. Routehappy uses this research to assign a “Happiness Score” for each airline flight. Users can then check to see whether their planned route will provide the facilities they’re after. 

Every comparison site you look at today, irrespective of the product or service, focus’s on price. This is unserstandable, because it’s what most people are interested in. But within all product categories, there’s a group who are equally interested in quality, comfort and style. Might there be a demand for a Routehappy-style service in a field you know something about.

Motivational Quote Of The Day

“Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops”

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Thomas J Watson

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“‘I am’ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‘I do’ is the longest sentence?”

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George Carlin

Pedal TV

There’s no doudt that child obesity is a growing problem. Goverments are investing a lot of time and resources in coming up with an effective solution. Entrepreneurs like Margie Mullen are thinking about it too.

Margie came up with the idea of the 123GoTV. Marketed through her company, Kidexercise, it’s basically a stationary exercise bike linked up to a TV. If you pedal, you get to see the TV, and if you stop, the screen goes blank.

I’m not sure how well this works in practice. Most homes have more than one TV and kids seem to spend more time on their phones and computers (which also gives access to TV) these days. However, it’s a manifestation of the need to solve the problem which is likely to become a bigger health, economic and social issue over the next decade or so. I think there’s a lot more money to be made for anyone who can meaningfully encourage kids to take more regular exercise.

Today’s National Day   

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NATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

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Hello.     

Are you worried you’re going ot have to “work until you drop”?

Are you tired of working all day, every day to make someone else rich  when it’s YOU who should be the one becoming wealthy?       

Ian once shared that grief, but now he never has to worry about money  again…

Here’s a PROVEN way to make enough money to retire on as soon as you want, never work again and enjoy a fabulous income for life.

And it’s not like you even have to quit your job if you don’t want. You can  keep your regular paycheque coming in if you’d like while you follow the specific steps of this blueprint in your spare time.

Let us show you everything about this when you click the link below:

www.streetwisenews.com/wizard 

Best Wishes  

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John Harrison 

Exploiting Laziness

People are primarily lazy. I can say that without guilt, knowing that I fall fairly and squarely into that category myself! And many lucrative businesses have been built up which cash in on this common trait. 

Ticketbust.com is a US business, set up to help people either get speeding tickets dismissed, or to facilitate a smaller fine. It’s all done through a process called ‘trial by written declaration’ which is clearly offered on the back of every ticket issued.

Every driver could do this for themselves, but few bother. Instead they go to Ticketbust.com and get them to do the job for them. Ticketbust.com now has revenues in excess of $1 Million a year, and all from doing something which their customers could easily do for themselves. 

One of the big mistakes I see a lot of would-be entrepreneurs making is discarding iseas and opportunities because they involve doing things that people can do for themselves, or can get done for free with a bit of effort.

The truth is that a significant proportion of any target market won’t do things for themselves and can’t be bothered to make a bit of effort. They’d rather pay someone else to do the job for them. It would be rude for you not to take their money!

“Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking”

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”    

Motivatinal Quote Of The Day

“Do not wait to strike until   the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking”      

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William B. Sprague

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”

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George Burns 

Your Personal Car Park

Sometimes, making some extra cash involves nothing more than making use of under-utilised resourses you already have. More than 150,000 people in the UK have made over £3 Million through www.parkatmyhouse.com a website where they can advertise their driveway as a temporary car park.

This is an ideal opportunity for anyone who lives in the city centre, near a railway station or close to a tourist attraction or sporting venue. In these locations, the option of parking on a private driveway is very attractive compared with the alternative of parking in a public car park with the associated issues of queues, cost, hassle and potential damage.

So if you have a driveway in the right location, why not take a look? It’s free to list your space and everything is organised through the site. You won’t make a fortune doing this, but you won’t have to do any work either.

Today’s National Day   

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NATIONAL TELL A FAIRY TALE DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

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Hello.     

Are you worried you’re going ot have to “work until you drop”?

Are you tired of working all day, every day to make someone else rich  when it’s YOU who should be the one becoming wealthy?
                                   

Ian once shared that grief, but now he never has to worry about money  again…

Here’s a PROVEN way to make enough money to retire on as soon as you want, never work again and enjoy a fabulous income for life.

And it’s not like you even have to quit your job if you don’t want. You can  keep your regular paycheque coming in if you’d like while you follow the specific steps of this blueprint in your spare time.

Let us show you everything about this when you click the link below:

www.streetwisenews.com/wizard 

Best Wishes  

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John Harrison 

Unhackable Phones

Wealthy people are always concerned about their phones being hacked. And following the news that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might be behind the compromising of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’s phone, many will conclude that the latest iPhone just isn’t good enough.

Powerful people are increasingly adopting extensively customised, hyper-secure smartphones that guarantee safety through special software. Politicians, executives and underworld bosses are turning to “unhackable phones” to keep them safe from crooks – and often from the police too.

Though similar in appearance to “bog standard” smartphones, clients pay monthly fees stretching into the thousands to keep special security software running. Spanish manufacturers BQ, for instance, claim its Aquaris X is “impenetrable”.

It has an adjusted Android operating system, coupled with a messaging system called EncroChat, which developers describe as the “electronic equivalent of a conversation between two people in an empty room”. Data can be remotely wiped from the phone and messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically.

Motivatinal Quote Of The Day

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”  

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Winston Churchill

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“I love restaurants, and that’s the thing now, they always boast about restaurants being ‘home made cooking’….I don’t want homemade cooking, that’s why I’m here! ‘cos I don’t like the rubbish at home.”

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Lee Evans 

Sanitised Shopping Trolley’s

We appear to be going through a cleanliness fetish phase at the moment – or at least the entrepreneurs we feature are.

Here’s something you didn’t want to know (but I’m going to tell you anyway)… a new study has found that 72% of shopping trolley handles have fecal matter on them. And 50% of trolleys tested also tested positive for E.Coli bacteria. This is in the United States, but I can’t imagine the situation here is any better.

The Americans are already doing something about it, with at least two companies marketing systems which supermarkets can use in-store to clean and sanitise the trolleys before returning them to the front line. These systems are mechanised and quite expensive. They may arrive here eventually (and someone has to negotiate those deals with the supermarkets – why not you?) but in the meantime, it seems to me that is a problem that could easily be tacked manually with some anti-bacterial spray and a cloth.

Here’s my thought. Supermarkets are always looking for an edge over the competition. What if one of them were to publicise the potential issue with germ laden trolley handles, but tell customers there’s no need to worry at Sainsburys because trolleys are thoroughly cleaned and sanitised on site after every use? Might that give them a lead on the competition, and might this idea provide an easy-to-run business providing this valuable service to supermarkets?

Today’s National Day 

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NATIONAL LETS LAUGH  DAY!  

PUBLISHERS NOTICE

Shock Discovery: Ancient Code Cracks The Banks…

PROVEN:An 82.4%Chance of a £55,250 

Windfall with just a few clicks… Legally.

To find out why I’m discreetly allowing 181 people to use this windfall.

Secret visit…

www.streetwisenews.com/bws10

Best Wishes 

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John Harrison 

Money Statistics

41 – The percentage of people in England aged between 25 and 34 who own their own home, up from the 36% recorded in 2015. However, that figure is still below the 59% which seen in 2004.

315 – The number of new pubs and bars that opened in the UK in 2019, taking the total number to 39,130. It was the first year since the financial crisis that more pubs opened than closed.

$9m – How much Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has promised his 6.8 million Twitter followers in the spirit of a Japanese New Year’s tradition. The one million yen prizes, which have been split into 12 monthly instalments, will also form the basis of an experiment into happiness. The winners will be chosen, at random, in a draw.

£1.5bn – How much Disney’s British-based subsidiaries have spent over the last six years on making the past five Star Wars films. Much of the filming, including that of 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker, starring British actress Daisy Ridley as Rey, has taken place at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

Motivational Quote Of The Day

“What’s meant to be will
     always find a way.”     

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Trisha Yearwood

Alternative Quote Of The Day

“Me and my wife haven’t got any savings. Well, we do, but they’re all tied up in Boots points.”

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Gareth Richards 

Virtual Bridge

People are spending an increasing amount of their time online at sites like Facebook and twitter. Much of their social life now takes place in the virtual world, but that doesn’t mean that they’ve dispensed with the physical world (and physical products altogether). In fact there’s a growing market for products and services which form a link between the on and off line worlds.

Facebook users can already use their online content to make tangible products like mugs, photo albums and notebooks. A recent addition to what’s possible is Social book, which is a hardcopy 8.5”x 11.5” book cataloguing the buyers Facebook history and content.

The need and desire to convert online content into a tangible real-world product is a trend that is likely to grow. So how might you help people to bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds?

Today’s National Day 

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NATIONAL AWKWARD MOMENT  DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE 

“HE JUST WON £1,460 IN
TWO DAYS!” 

  Dear Streetwise Customer, 

 “OMG, Ludlow 3:45…two horses to back. Bott N Brown WON at 25/1 !!! Average odds taken on Betfair exchange 80/1. I backed for £12 winning me £960. Can you please thank Bill for me.”

G.B – 6th February 2020

    “Many thanks. Thursday OMG Newcastle 5:30. Special Lady WON 50/1. Won £500. “

G B – 7th February 2020  

 A couple of weeks ago we wrote to you about The Hermes Strategy, a unique approach to horse racing created by Bill Burrows. I’ve reproduced word for word, two emails I received this week from
one of our customers who tried the strategy for the first time just a few days ago. 

He just won £1,460 in two days! 

Needless to say, he’s pleased!  

 Now we don’t get 80-1 and 50-1 winners every day (although it looks like we do at the moment!) but because this strategy looks at the whole thing from a VERY unusual angle, long odds winners come along pretty regularly alongside more mundane wins.

It all adds up to a great second income for anyone able to spend 7-10 minutes a day putting the strategy to work

For full details, take a look HERE 

You could very easily be up and running and copying Bill within a few hours of reading about this. Everything you need is at your fingertips.         

Best Wishes  

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John Harrison 

www.streetwisenews.com/hermes

  

AVOIDING INHERITANCE TAX

Will the new Conservative government’s first Budget on 11 March abolish inheritance tax (IHT)? The Chancellor said in September that he was mulling significant reforms, but there were no firm proposals in the Conservatives’ election manifesto and he has gone quiet on the matter. The good news, however, is that the pension system now offers a golden opportunity to cut, or even wipe out, a potential liability. Since the pension freedom reforms of 2015, pensions have become a key inheritance-tax planning tool. 

This is primarily because, while pension assets bequeathed to your heirs have always been exempt from IHT in most circumstances, the reforms make it much easier to pass on such assets. You’re now entitled to pass on any unspent money in your pension fund – that is any cash you’ve not spent on an annuity or drawn down as income – to the beneficiaries of your choice. If you die before your 75th birthday, your beneficiaries will receive your pension fund with no tax implications at all.

There’s no IHT due and they can withdraw the money in one go or as regular income, with no income tax or capital-gains tax to pay. If you die after age 75, the rules are slightly different. Your beneficiaries will pay income tax at their marginal rate on money they take out of the fund, but there will still be no IHT to pay. 

The reforms make pensions really useful for families’ financial planning. You can pass pensions wealth down to your children, and they can pass it on to their own children if they choose not to use it. For these reasons, it makes sense for anyone worried about inheritance tax to consider making full use of pension saving. The more you shift into a pension plan – subject to rules on annual contributions and lifetime savings – the more you’ll be able to pass on with no inheritance-tax consequences. 

Do, however, check the terms of your pension. Some older plans include clauses requiring savers to buy an annuity or come with other conditions that reduce their effectiveness from an IHT perspective. Final-salary pension schemes also have less freedom in this regard.

Finally, it could be worth exploiting pensions to work around IHT in another way. You are entitled to set up pension plans for your children, paying in up to £3,600 of contributions a year including tax relief even for non-taxpayers. This can be a useful way to provide them with money and reduce the size of your estate for IHT purposes. 

Motivational Quote Of The Day

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

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George Bernard Shaw

Alternative Quote Of The Day

sexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.” 

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Woody Allen 

Today’s National Day   

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NATIONAL GET OVER IT DAY!

PUBLISHERS NOTICE 

“HE JUST WON £1,460 IN
TWO DAYS!” 

  Dear Streetwise Customer, 

 “OMG, Ludlow 3:45…two horses to back. Bott N Brown WON at 25/1 !!! Average odds taken on Betfair exchange 80/1. I backed for £12 winning me £960. Can you please thank Bill for me.”

G.B – 6th February 2020

    “Many thanks. Thursday OMG Newcastle 5:30. Special Lady WON 50/1. Won £500. “

G B – 7th February 2020  

A couple of weeks ago we wrote to you about The Hermes Strategy, a unique approach to horse racing created by Bill Burrows. I’ve reproduced word for word, two emails I received this week from
one of our customers who tried the strategy for the first time just a few days ago. 

He just won £1,460 in two days! 

Needless to say, he’s pleased!  

 Now we don’t get 80-1 and 50-1 winners every day (although it looks like we do at the moment!) but because this strategy looks at the whole thing from a VERY unusual angle, long odds winners come along pretty regularly alongside more mundane wins.

It all adds up to a great second income for anyone able to spend 7-10 minutes a day putting the strategy to work

For full details, take a look HERE 

You could very easily be up and running and copying Bill within a few hours of reading about this. Everything you need is at your fingertips.         

Best Wishes  

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John Harrison 

www.streetwisenews.com/hermes