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Really? People will buy any old guff… literally!

What I’m about to share with you isn’t a business model for everyone. You’ll understand why as you read on.

It has it’s complications as you’ll soon see and it is more suited for someone who is younger with a larger following… being an attractive young woman also helps.

Stephanie Matto, 31 from Connecticut in the USA, is a reality TV star who appeared on a US show called 90 Day Fiancé.

I believe it’s something to do with US nationals marrying their non-US national fiancés within a 90 day period so that they can get their K-1 visa.

Yes I know, it sounds as dull as dishwater but it proves that people will watch any old guff… not just buy it!

Stephanie has grown an impressive following of 260,000 fans and like so many young women these days, she opened up an OnlyFans account where people paid to see more of her.

I don’t know what kind of content she was posting on her OnlyFans account, but it is what happened next that is interesting… from a business point of view at least.

After receiving requests from fans, Stephanie began farting into Mason Jars and selling them for $500.

“I always thought that was a complete joke,” she said, but she still wanted to see if anyone would buy them and so that’s what she did… she offered her fans the chance to buy her guffs in a jar.

And they did.

A lot of them… demand was high.

They sold out fast.

In one article I read that they were priced at $1,000 per bottle but I saw that she was offering 50% off so I’m not fully sure whether she sold them at $1,000 or just $500 a piece, but what I do know is this:

  • She claims she made over $145K from selling her farts in a jar.
  • In one week alone she made a staggering £38,000.
  • One customer bought two jars (at $500 each) so that he could feel a sense of ‘closeness’ to her! … Seriously?
  • At one point, Stephanie was producing up to 50 jars a week.

She was on a gas-producing high protein diet including a lot of protein shakes and black bean soup.

However…

The wind changed as she tried to squeeze one more guff out.

Stephanie became unwell.

She felt that something was not quite right as pressure in her stomach began to move upwards throughout her body.

It got so bad; Stephanie called friends asking to be taken to hospital believing that she was having a stroke or a heart attack.

“It was quite hard to breathe and every time I tried to breathe in I’d feel a pinching sensation around my heart,” she explained.

Stephanie was diagnosed with severe gas pain. Doctors told her to change her diet and take gas suppressing medication which literally killed off her new business.

“I had to rethink my business model because I knew that selling my farts in this way was not something that was physically sustainable for me.”

I think the saying ‘No shit Sherlock’ springs to mind here… a few per week perhaps… but not in this quantity.

Stephanie has since turned to selling NFTs of art inspired by her farts.

Fart art? Now there’s something I never thought I would say.

A digital artist contacted her and suggested that they made a collection of unique artwork based on her farts… Again… seriously? I have no idea what that means!

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token and is a unique identifier that can cryptographically assign and prove ownership of digital goods.

In the physical world, a person can own an original painting by a master. Other people can own prints and copies. The original should – for the most part – be easy distinguishable from the copies.

In the digital world where people can download and ‘copy and paste’ digital images, to prove ownership meant having the original ‘source files’ but now, images can have an NFT assigned to them.

Maybe you can call it a kind of crypto-certificate perhaps.

Some people are spending a lot of money buying unique digital art, often generated by AI software.

I don’t know if they are seeing them as investments which they can sell later for a profit.

The ‘newness’ of the art and NFT movement will certainly add to the potential of these investments, but once it becomes more common, will digital art have the same value?

Some people see NFTs as a fad and as the new ‘dot com bubble’. Time will tell, we are in a digital world and it is only going one way… even more digital.

Stephanie is now selling her new ‘fart art’ for 0.05 Ethereum which at the time of writing has a value of £114.

As a bonus to help sales of her new ‘fart art’, some of the NFTs come with redeemable gifts including signed lingerie and now ‘very rare’ real fart jars.

So, if you are struggling to think of anything to sell, take a leaf out of Stephanie’s book, it proves that you really can sell any old guff… quite literally.

As she says herself, “I’m very good at turning shit into gold.

.You need to remember, there are a lot of people out there who will buy some very strange stuff.

There is always a market to sell to and there is always a product you can sell… it just might not smell so sweet.

I don’t know much about cryptographically assigned NFT fart art, but I do know that people are making money from the ‘traditional’ cryptocurrencies.

John Banks is one such person.

His easy approach to cryptocurrency is to allow a bot trade the cryptocurrency markets on autopilot while he goes about his day.

The system doubles his investment for him.

If you would like to know more, go to:

John Bank’s CryptoCash Strategy

Kind Regards.

John Harrison

PS… John shows you exactly how to copy his system which should take no more than half hour to set up. After that, the system is left to run on autopilot growing your investment.

Taking just £200 starting capital and doubling every 6 weeks, you’ll be sitting on a profit of over £50,000 in under a year… and that’s without introducing a single penny more in capital.

Learn more here:

John Bank’s CryptoCash Strategy

Would you really choose to be cold, wet and miserable?

As I look out of my office window, I see bright blue sky with a few brilliant white whispy clouds dotted about.

It’s a beautiful crisp winter’s day… at the moment.

It wasn’t like that an hour ago.

If I look to my right out of my window I can see a heavy grey blanket showering parts of Yorkshire with cold sleet.

An hour ago we were in the middle of a miserable sleet shower, and looking at the skies to the left, I fear that it will be back again shortly.

It seems that the beautiful blue sky I am currently experiencing is nothing more than a break in the clouds. It’s going to be one of those days!

Not far from the office there are several men in hi-viz jackets running around laying concrete on a building site. It’s the same building site I told you about where I watched several men searching for scrap metal in the giant mound of excavated earth a month or two back.

I can’t imagine how cold their hands and toes are right now. I imagine that the biting cold wind and sleet is stinging their cheeks.

They cannot shelter from the weather. The job has to be done. Two concrete trucks are on site pouring wet concrete into foundations which need to be spread and tampered.

Rather them than me. That’s all I can say.

Now unless my whole world collapsed around me and I had no other option whatsoever… you’ll never find me on a building site… and there is a reason for that.

I’ve designed my life that way.

I choose not to work outside in the cold and rain doing hard manual graft.

And those guys on the building site do work hard. I’ve seen them lugging heavy blocks, bricks, shovels of sand into mixers and wheelbarrows full of ‘gobbo’ about the site. It is a hard job.

I know that a lot of people love working outside and that they love the camaraderie of working with other people. Many trades people work in teams and those teams become a sort of ‘band of brothers’, a group of people that they work with for years.

However, for me, no amount of ‘banter’ can compensate for working hard in extreme conditions. The ‘good craic’ that I hear a lot about is not appealing to me. I can have a chuckle with people in the warmth of an office. I like being dry and warm.

More importantly, I like being paid more for what I do per hour without risking getting wet, cold or injured

I like not having to worry or fear about injuring myself or tripping over stuff. The building industry is one of the worst for sustaining an injury.

Andi who works for us spent many years working as a carpenter and joiner.

During those years he has…

  • Hit his hand several times with hammers.
  • Shot a nail into his thumb with a nail gun.
  • Dropped numerous items onto his hands and feet.
  • Cut himself several times with saws, knives and glass.
  • Had dirt land in his eye on more than one occasion. (One time required medical attention at A&E.)
  • Fractured his ankle. (He needed crutches and time off work.)
  • Had lumps of wood kick back while using heavy duty table saws.
  • Had more large splinters than he cares to remember.
  • Caught scabies from imported wood. (Yes, apparently so!)
  • Breathed in more harmful dust and chemicals than he cares to think about.
  • Stood on several nails sticking out of timber.
  • Tripped and fallen over numerous times, sometimes while pushing wheelbarrows up a narrow scaffold board to fill skips.
  • And more.

He has also worked with several men who have lost fingers and even eyes while using woodworking machinery. One guy has since died from asbestosis.

I’m surprised he is still alive!

No wonder he couldn’t wait to give it up to work from home as a writer, content creator and sales funnel specialist… it’s so much safer!

The only thing he has to fear now is being round-up and shot by the Grammar Nazis.

Working as a builder is not very appealing if you ask me.

The building industry can be well paid. Some of the trades can earn good money. Scaffolders and those chaps who install miles and miles of steel reinforcing for foundations and structures can earn quite a lot of money.

The wages can be attractive to many people. School leavers see how much they can earn doing these kinds of jobs, which is an astronomical amount for a young teen, and then without thinking, dive into a trade which is incredibly hard and extremely taxing on the mind and body.

The problem with these types of jobs is that if you want to earn more, you usually have to work more hours. And that means doing more solid graft, often in the cold and wet.

Before you know it, years have passed and your body is weathered and broken. The money you have earned is of little comfort because it has been used for living and to keep on living, you need to keep on working. Only this time, your body struggles to do the hard graft you once took in your stride.

However… there is another way.

In fact there are many different ways to earn a decent living which does not require you to lose so much of your precious time and risk damaging your health.

Unfortunately very few of these are taught in school.

Today it may be a little different, but they certainly weren’t discussed when I was at school.

We were basically taught how to get a job and become a reputable worker drone.

We were taught to turn up, spend our day working for a small-to-decent wage (basically earn TAX for the government) and then go home only to do it all again the following day.

It is scary how little people know about the many other ways there are to make money without having to sacrifice your health or your precious time.

It is even more scary how many people are actually wasting their lives and damaging their health for a wage just so that they can live.

On the subject of what we are taught and not taught…

There are a few copies of my book ‘Why Didn’t They Tell Me – 99 Shameless Success Secrets You Won’t Learn At Eton Harrow Or Even The Classiest Comprehensive’ still available.

As the title suggests, it reveals 99 success secrets which the general public are unaware of.

Why are most people unaware of these success secrets?

Because the focus for all governments is to have the majority of the public doing the same old thing… going to work day in day out generating TAX money.

It makes it easier for them to manage the population… but unfortunately it robs most people of the success they could have… and deserve.

It may be good for them… but it isn’t good for you or your family.

So I say, give yourself, your husband or wife, your children and your grandchildren an unfair advantage by arming yourselves with these secrets. To learn more go here:

www.streetwisenews.com/wdttm

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS…

  • They don’t teach any of this in schools…no matter how much you pay to go there…
  • They don’t teach it in college or University either…
  • In fact they don’t teach these secrets and shortcuts anywhere.
  • But you’ll find them all in this book.

Here’s that link again:

www.streetwisenews.com/wdttm

Cash from chaos. Covidiots and the profit conspiracy

There is a lot of confusion in the world right now regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and the vaccines.

A lot of that confusion is down to two major factors:

  1. Lack of awareness of how specific things work.

And…

  1. Unscrupulous and downright dangerous people acting on that lack of awareness.

There are a lot of people who make a lot of money by simply sharing harmful and dangerous ‘shit’.

Right-wing nut jobs like Alex Jones feed into people’s paranoia and fears and they build businesses off the back of the ‘them and us’ mentality which prevails through most of mankind.

Recently a woman claiming to be a Dr was reported to be making a lot of money by publishing anti-vax videos.

Those people who have a mistrust of the government and believe that there is a conspiracy going on behind the scenes began to share her videos over social media.

Because she claimed to be a ‘doctor’ these ‘nut jobs’ saw her as some kind of hero ‘whistleblower’ who was ‘outing’ the genocidal plans of a ruling elite.

Her videos were going viral. People were sharing them across all platforms and going to YouTube to watch more of their ‘saviour’.

Here’s the thing that most of the ‘tin foil hat wearing brigade’ have not realised…

Most of these people are simply doing it to make money.

It’s no different to Billy Graham and the other famous American evangelical preachers who packed out stadiums and large venues and amassed a lot of wealth by sharing a message that, if I dare say it, many weak minded people wanted to hear.

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, people paid out of their own pocket to listen to these preachers, today it works slightly differently.

Today, thanks to free social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, the videos and messages of today’s charlatans are shared far and wide for free.

Tens of thousands, sometimes millions of people watch videos on YouTube and they read articles on websites all of which show advertising.

With millions of people reading anti-vaccine articles and watching misinforming videos, adverts are getting millions of impressions.

Advertising networks such as Google, Mediavine and many others pay the content creator/website owner a share of the revenue generated when adverts are shown.

We know this to be true because we have done this ourselves with various websites that we own.

Our techy guy Andi had a lot of success in the past generating advertising revenue from creating and sharing fun and satirical news articles.

With a lot of those articles being satire, they were simply made up. They were fictious.

Because they were satire and the way they were written… you could clearly see that they were not real.

Well… most people could, some people still shouted ‘fake news’ in the comments section under the posts on Facebook to stop people from believing them.

And that’s the problem… people do believe any old guff!

There are people who do purposely share fake and false news which reads like a real report just to make money, Jestin Coler being one of them.

During the 2016 US elections Jestin started sharing satirical news style stories on a website he set up mimicking an official news website.

His content became so popular that he began to make a lot of money and eventually he set up several sites and drafted in several friends to help him write the articles.

All of his websites had a disclaimer on them stating that the content was satirical in nature and not in any way factual… did anyone pay attention?

No… far from it.

As more and more people began to believe and share his satirical news stories, Jestin and his friends started to push the boundaries and write articles which were ridiculously farfetched and less funny.

Many of them were pretty dark.

One such article reported that the CIA or FBI had burned down a house killing a person who had supposedly leaked Hilary Clinton’s emails.

That article had conspiracy and far-right nut jobs sharing it on the socials stating that they ‘were right and that the CIA or FBI will kill those who seek the truth’… and all of that kind of guff.

A lot of Jestin’s material went viral sending thousands of people to his websites where he made a stack of money from showing adverts.

At the peak of the election Jestin’s sites were making around $30,000 per month.

You read that right… $30,000 per month!

Jestin became known as…

The king of Fake News

To put it bluntly… Jestin and his friends were making bucket loads of cash selling bulls*** to anyone gullible enough to believe it… even when his websites clearly stated that it was satire and nothing was true.

Does he feel bad for it?

He says not.

It helped to buy him a house and set his family up for the future. He says that he only published the kind of stuff that certain people wanted to read.

He puts the blame squarely on the reader’s shoulders.

It’s their fault for being dumb enough to believe what was written and for not being able to figure out that what they were reading was ludicrously farfetched and not real.

After all, it did say on the website in a small box that none of it was real… but they missed that.

So, you could say that the ‘sheeple’ shouters didn’t do their ‘research’ after all.

The problem is that creating this type of content and publishing it can cause a lot of harm and damage to society.

Many families have been torn apart when loved ones have gone too far down the ‘Deep State’, ‘Qanon’, ‘Anit-vaxx’ and other conspiracy rabbit holes.

Quite a lot of people have died from Covid because they have chosen to not have the vaccines based on misinformation shared by people who are doing nothing more than sitting at home making money by creating and sharing content which follows a specific narrative.

And that is where the problem lies…. the majority of the public do not understand or realise that people will share any old crap if it makes them money.

Newspapers have been doing it for years.

Yet people believe that newspapers are honest organisations set up to share the ‘truth’.

But they are not; they are media businesses whose main focus is making a profit.

I’m not saying that they are corrupt or constantly print untruths but…

Newspapers do not have any moral or ethical obligation to share information which is correct or right.

Legally yes… morally or ethically… no.

Newspapers make money by selling ‘stories’ to people which are ‘new’ – ever wondered where the word ‘news’ comes from – so they can show them advertising which they have already been paid for.

Big companies pay large amounts of money to newspapers that have a large readership to have their adverts placed within their pages.

To maintain a big readership; those papers will print sensational – and often questionable – stories.

Put it this way…

If people stop buying a certain newspaper, it will stop being published.

The owners will not bust a gut to find a way to keep publishing it so that they can inform the public of the ‘truth’. They are not bothered about the ‘true state of the nation’.

They are not concerned with fighting for a better world; they are concerned with making money.

That is what most of the human race has failed to understand.

And unfortunately… that lack of awareness seems to have worsened with millions of people now blindly following all kinds of chumps online.

I personally cannot say whether David Icke is wrong, maybe the Queen is a shape-shifting, blood drinking reptilian humanoid alien from Draco… but I somehow doubt it.

What is interesting though, is how sure they are of the things they say. These conspiracy theorists believe they are right… or do they?

While they have websites which show adverts around their content, videos on YouTube drenched in Google ads (Google is now actively removing adverts from videos which they believe share misinformation) and are selling books and merchandise… they will declare that they are right.

Why?

Because it’s good for business!

There is a lot of cash to be made from chaos and conspiracy.

I’m not saying that you should consider this as a way for you to make money… but it is a profitable one.

If you are considering writing and sharing information as a way to make money… I would recommend that you focus on using email and share information which is actually useful to people.

Writing emails do not have to take too long and can be done anywhere at any time of the day using a smartphone or tablet.

To learn more, go to:

The Email Secret

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… Using email means that you can make money wherever you are in the world.

The world is changing, so is the technology.

There is no need today to stay in one location to earn money. You can take your tablet with you wherever you go and make money.

Here’s that link again:

The Email Secret

Perfectionism, proofreading and profits

When I was a small boy at school, my English teacher said “John how’s your grammar?”

I replied with, “She’s fine Miss, she nearly choked on a Strawberry Bon Bon the other day, but apart from that, she’s doing well. Thanks for asking.”

The old ones are the best!

You might be wondering why I started the email with a bad joke about grammar. It’s because of an email I received this week.

I’m always grateful when our customers reply to the emails I send out… especially when they praise the subject matter.

I’m also grateful when they email in pointing out any errors which they see in the emails… especially when they are glaringly obvious and I have somehow missed them.

Earlier this week a much valued customer did just that.

Not only am I grateful for the ‘heads up’ meaning that I can make a much needed correction, I’m also grateful because it inspired me to write this email.

It’s hard to believe I know, but I do make a few spelling and grammatical errors when writing my emails… but do you know what?

I’m happy with that… and here’s why.

To Err Is Human…

So please forgive me… in fact…

To Forgive Is Divine

Believe it or not, making mistakes is good for business. Firstly it shows that you are human which is always good in business and secondly… this is the best part… it creates engagement.

Whenever you make a mistake, people notice it and cannot wait to correct you.

Before working with us, Andi used to work for another company which did similar things as us and part of his work was to manage Facebook pages.

He told us that one of the tricks they would use was to intentionally spell words incorrectly or use bad grammar simply to get people commenting on the post.

This engagement was great for Facebook’s Edgerank algorithm.

Basically what that means is that Facebook would notice that those posts were getting a lot of interaction (people informing them that they spelled a word wrong and that they were completely useless) and would deem them popular and they would then show those posts to more people.

Whether we like it or not, spelling errors on social media… generate engagement and traffic.

The online versions of newspapers such as ‘The Metro’ do this too. The reason is that it grabs people’s attention.

In marketing this is called a ‘pattern interrupt’.

It stops people in their tracks and for some of them; seeing spelling errors on social media is enough to ruin their peace of mind and can even ruin their day.

Spelling errors to some people is like what Kryptonite is to Superman… it destroys them.

Another reason why I don’t worry too much about speeling or grammatical errors… (I bet that is driving some of you nuts right now!) is that perfection is harmful to profits.

I’m not saying that you shouldn’t put out the best product possible or that you should care less about your customers, I’m saying that you shouldn’t obsess about making something perfect.

Not only is perfection relative, people have different ideas and opinions on what is perfect or not, it is also costly to achieve.

Perfection cannot really be achieved but those who constantly strive for it… often fail spectacularly. And here is why…

Many talented artists, musicians and writers never publish anything because they believe that their work is not perfect.

When they think that work is not perfect, they believe it is not good enough for people to consume, so they don’t release it… and they don’t make any money.

Those people who constantly publish content which is considered just ‘good enough’ will always outperform the perfectionist who publishes little or nothing.

Prolific Beats Perfection

To strive for perfection robs you of a lot of time and/or money.

Take these emails as an example.

I spend a lot of time writing and proofreading these emails (yes, I do proofread them, but sometimes a type of snow blindness can take over when you are reading what you have spent ages writing) and time is precious to me.

If it took me two hours to write and proofread an email that still had one or a couple of errors in it, I am happy with that because I can go move onto writing a new email or do something else.

If I were to spend the necessary time and effort that was required to make a perfect email – one which pleased an English professor or the small number of people who find a couple of errors irritating or infuriating… I would get less done and make less money.

You see… I’d rather get two, three, or four ‘just good enough’ articles and emails ‘out there’ than one ‘perfect’ one.

Getting twice, triple or more content out in front of people’s eyes is far better for business than one perfect piece.

The Three Rs Of Marketing

That extra content will be seen by more people and it will repeat, remind and reinforce my message.

Do you want?

  1. 20 ‘just good enough’ articles on a website being seen by 1,000 people each or…
  2. One ‘perfect’ article being seen by just 1,000 people?

No 1 wins hands down for me. I want my content being seen by 20,000 people.

Most people can overlook one or several errors. They aren’t deal breakers. They really aren’t.

Yes, if the email or article is complete tosh and badly written from start to finish, then you have a problem.

But one or several errors are not a big problem. They can always be rectified later.

You do need to deliver quality content, that is a given. But quality content can bury a tonne of spelling and grammatical errors.

I recently read a self-published book written by a Michael Killen. Michael makes a lot of money selling marketing funnels to clients. His book showed you how to charge large companies five figures for a simple marketing funnel.

The book has a lot of valuable content which if a reader puts into practice, will make a lot of money. But the book is littered with spelling, grammatical and formatting errors.

He makes me look like an English professor… which I am clearly not. Yet that book makes him a lot of money because some of the people who read it, purchase other products from him because they have been convinced that he ‘walks the talk’.

They see past the errors and mistakes and embrace the information.

Considering that this is a book that is being sold on Amazon Kindle, I was horrified at the amount of errors in it. I would most certainly not have published it without giving it another few proofreads and had others check it over for me.

But, I have always said that you need to get stuff ‘out there’ as fast as you can and if you wait to publish a book until you have it ‘just right’, you may miss out on a lot of money or good life experiences.

Too many people put things off ‘waiting’ until the time is right or the product is right or that they can afford to do a specific something when they could have done a cheaper alternative.

Putting things ‘out there’ which are less than perfect, is a better than not having anything ‘out there’ at all.

As I say, you don’t want to publish any old rubbish which is littered with errors, but if there’s one or two… I wouldn’t worry.

As you know, I can spend up to an hour writing these emails. That’s mainly because once I’m on a roll, I struggle to stop. As I write, ideas feed on themselves and I think of other things to add.

But that’s me; you do not need to spend that amount of time writing emails.

Very often, the emails which make the most money are the simpler ones which take less than ten minutes to write.

I’m going to share with you a video showing our techy guy Andi writing an email in just four minutes.

He also shows you how the email is added to an email autoresponder which will send out the email for you on autopilot.

You can watch that video here:

How To Write A Simple Email In 4 Minutes… An Email Which Can Make You Money!

With or without typo’s, spelling errors or bad grammar, sending simple emails is a fantastic and easy way to make money.

Go check out the video now.

Kind Regards

John Harrison.

PS…The great thing about emails is that they can be written anywhere in the world, at any time on multiple devices including tablets and smartphones and can be set to go out at any time.

Here’s that link again:

How To Write A Simple Email In 4 Minutes… An Email Which Can Make You Money!

28 year old man dies trying to avoid subway fare… he should have done this instead!

On the second day into the New Year, a 28 year old man accidentally killed himself when he attempted to jump the turnstile in the New York Forest Hills 71st Avenue subway station to avoid paying just $2.75.

After failing to clear the turnstile several times, his last attempt resulted in him flipping over and landing on his head. It is believed that he broke his neck and died instantly.

Read More Here.

A life lost to simply avoid paying $2.75.

At the time of writing, that is just £2.04.

I know that I don’t know the whole story here; he may have been completely desperate with no money whatsoever.

He might have been homeless.

He could have been drunk or on drugs and not thinking clearly.

I cannot say that he ‘should have done this…’ or that he ‘should have done that…’

However…

It really is not that hard to make a few pounds each day… not today anyway.

In previous emails I have shared with you the story about the homeless man who once lived in a tent in a park yet managed to use computers at a local library to make money and now runs several six to seven figure a year businesses.

I have also shown you how anyone can make a passive income using a simple fully automated passive income system.

Andi – our techy guy – built a fully automated passive income system of his own as an example for The 30 Day To £30K Challenge training; he built it within 30 days during the summer of 2021.

Why am I telling you this?

One day over the Christmas period while Andi was troughing on chocolates and watching Jason Statham shoot several bank robbers in his latest film The Wrath Of Man… he received notifications informing him that he had sold a couple more eBooks via that automated passive income system.

He did not need to do anything other than go back to watch the film and get fat.

Yet while he sucked the gooey caramel centre out of several mini Galaxies, he had generated enough money to pay for at least two subway train fares.

That money was generated from work he had completed six to seven months previously. And yet while he was relaxing and away from the office, he made sales.

As I say, I don’t know the full story about the man who lost his life while trying to avoid paying a couple of pounds, I cannot say what he himself should have done… but I can say this…

He would be alive today if he had paid… and if money was tight for him – and anyone else – we are living in the greatest period of human history to make money.

In a previous email I talked about the film In Pursuit Of Happyness starring Will Smith which follows the true(ish) rags-to-riches story of Chris Gardner who is now worth over £50 million.

In the early 1980’s Chris spent quite a bit of time in and out of homeless shelters, sleeping on friends couches and at one point he even slept on the floor of a subway station toilet.

This was happening while trying to make money selling bone scanners to hospitals and doctors while also studying to be a broker.

It was hard for him.

But if Chris had been homeless today, it would be a completely different scenario for him.

Not only could he be able to use a smartphone to send emails and messages to arrange consultations with doctors regarding his bone scanners, he could build websites and publish sales letters online through which he could make sales.

He could have contacted and attracted numerous potential clients via free-to-use social media platforms.

He could use his smartphone to make money writing articles and sales letters for other people.

He could use his phone to create products which could be sold online via fully automated passive income systems putting money into his bank account in the same way Andi made money while relaxing on the sofa watching films and eating chocolates.

The sad thing about the young man, who died trying to avoid paying the £2.04 subway fare, is that he died unnecessarily. It could have been prevented.

It’s a harsh reminder that life is – for the most part- a series of results based on our decisions and actions.

Had he decided to pay the £2.04, he wouldn’t have needed to try and jump the turnstile and he would not have smacked his head on the ground causing his neck to break and his life to end alone on the cold hard floor of the subway station.

Unfortunately, a lot of people cause themselves a lot of unwanted problems and misery when they try to save a few pennies and avoid paying for things.

Not only is it far easier to make a few extra pounds these days, it relieves a lot of stress and worry when you have money coming in passively on autopilot.

If there is one thing I recommend that you do this year, it is to build yourself a passive income system.

Even if it just helps to pay public transport fares or buys food and drink on days out.

It’s better in your pocket than someone else’s!

If you would like to learn how to make your own fully automated passive income system go to:

www.The30DayTo30KChallenge.com

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… If not for you, a fully automated passive income system would be a great gift for a child or grandchild. Imagine telling them that they now have a system earning them extra money each month and all they need to do is show the system to people every now and then.

Here’s that link again:

www.The30DayTo30KChallenge.com

Design the life YOU want to live.

For some people reading this email it will be the first week of a new year, for others, it could be anytime of the year.

Generally New Year is seen as a time where people make resolutions and decide to make changes to their lives… which is great, but the truth is… every new day is the start of a new year.

You can and should make changes at any time of the year as and when you need them.

Unfortunately, most people fail when they try to implement new changes to their lives – especially those New Year resolutions – and the reasons for that are:

  1. They try to do too many at once.
  2. They do not spend any time designing a real plan they can follow.
  3. They set unrealistic expectations and don’t start small.
  4. They do not manage and track their performance and progress regularly.
  5. They don’t really want to change and have made a ‘decision’ to change based on a ‘should do’ rather than a ‘want to’.

Big changes are not made by simple decision alone.

Decision to make changes is powerful and all changes start with a decision, but big changes need to be monitored and tracked.

Successful people will spend time each week – some do this daily – reviewing how well they are doing.

They take notes and record their performance and progress.

They make new decisions and alter things which are not working for them and improve on those that are. They write this all out in a book called a ‘journal’.

This simple act keeps people on track and helps them to achieve the things they want to achieve.

Think of this as the gyroscope of your life.

By regularly reviewing your progress and performance, you are bringing yourself back into line and preventing yourself from deviating off course and down a route you don’t want to go.

In previous emails I have shared with you the study of the Yale University graduates which showed that the 3% who had written down clearly defined goals went on to enjoy more wealth and success than the other 97% of students combined.

Spending time writing out what it is that you want to achieve and experience in life will have a powerful effect on your life.

I can guarantee that the 3% in that Yale University study who amassed more wealth and success than the other 97% combined regularly monitored their progress and performance and made new decisions and changes as and when they were required.

‘Every New Day Is A New Blank PAGE Of The Book Called LIFE’

They say that every new day is a new blank page and like a book, you write your life the way you want it to be.

It’s interesting really when you consider that to ‘write the life you want’ as if you were actually writing a book, you do actually write it in a book!

Some people call it journaling because they use a daily journal.

Journaling is the science of self-study, self-observation, evaluating progress and performance, making decisions based on what is happening, what you are doing, what you want and need to do to have the life you want.

It is also a great way to figure out what it is that you want from life.

Personally I call it:

‘Designing The Life You Want’

It is incredibly powerful stuff.

As part of designing your life, many successful people incorporate another daily ritual which includes using ‘goal cards’.

They spend time each day focusing on their goals with the use of these cards.

To learn how to do this yourself, go to:

The Powerful Goal Setting Ritual

How To Really Set Goals And Change Your Life For Good!

Do this daily ritual as part of your journaling and you will design an incredible life.

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… This is powerful stuff. It really is. This can make a huge difference to your life… and all it takes is a pen, some paper & card, and 5-10 minutes a day.

Let me share some numbers with you…

I’ve spoken quite a bit about writing in the past. Specifically about writing sales letters and emails… and there is a reason for that.

1. They make a lot of money
2. They are incredibly simple to write.
3. They take very little time to write.

As an example, I have just this week finished writing a new sales letter for a new sporting product which will be released shortly.

That one sales letter consists of only 2,623 words.

That is not a lot of words.

I have written and sent emails which were over a 1,000 words. That sales letter probably took me a couple of hours to write and I expect that sales letter to generate more money than what most people earn in a full year.

Obviously, there is a product for sale and so the product needed to be made, but I haven’t made it. the only work I have done is write the sales letter and the accompanying emails.

My part in making money from that product took me less than a day in total.

The three previous sales letters which I have written recently look like this.

Sales Letter A – 2,622 words
Sales Letter B – 1,772 words
Sales Letter C – 3,578 words

Andi, our techy guy, tells me that he once wrote over 2,000 words talking into his phone while walking to his previous job.

Those words were a ‘content dump’ as he likes to call it. They were waiting for him as a text document when he got home. He just had to turn on his laptop and start editing.

It is still early days with those sales letters but I can tell you that as I write this email, Sales Letter A generated £84,000 in the first 30 days!

Yes, you read that right…

‘A 2,622 word sales letter generated £84,000 in the first 30 days!’

That includes doing a paper mailing but I can confidently tell you now, that all four of my recent sales letters could quite easily generate £100,000 or more using just email alone.

As I have mentioned many times in the past, running your own email business is ridiculously cheap compared to virtually all other businesses.

Learn how to write simple short sales letters and emails yourself, then you have a money making skills which you can take anywhere in the word.

An email business combined with the ability to write these kinds of sales letters means that you can earn money wherever you are… and when times really are hard.

With the current state of affairs here in the UK, driver shortages, labour shortages, exports to Europe being slashed, businesses closing and whole industries on the brink of collapse, having a set of skills which you can take anywhere and can generate money from a world without borders is a must.

I know that I could up sticks and move to the other side of the world and still make money just as I do now. I simply plug into my business and carry on as before. My location may change, but the way I make money doesn’t have to.

Being able to write great sales letters and emails, and building your own personal email list are a must as far as I am concerned.

They are THAT important.

This should be taught in schools.

Seriously, if your children or grandchildren do not know about this, tell them. They need to know, this business is all about freedom.

Do it right, you, your children and your grandchildren could have the freedom to leisurely travel the world without worrying about how to pay for the next meal.

To learn more about writing simple sales letters go to:

One Letter From Retirement

To also learn how to find freedom using email go to:

The Email Secret

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… This article has taken around 30 minutes to write and has less than 700 words and is just under half the size of Sales Letter B in the list which had 1,772 words. It really isn’t as hard as you imagine.

My hotel nightmare…

I don’t know if you caught the recent Alex – The Hotel Inspector – Polizzi programme on Channel 5 but it was rather interesting.

Alex and her mother Olga decided to buy a hotel which had previously been owned by Alex’s grandfather (Olga’s father) Charles Forte, the man responsible for building the Forte hotel empire.

The Forte empire had over 1,000 restaurants, 500 hotels and catered for 24 airports.

In January 1996, the Forte Group Plc was taken over by Granada after a very public and hostile takeover battle.

Just months after the takeover, Olga and her brother Rocco, started the Rocco Forte Hotel chain which today has 11 hotels, two resorts and the Rocco Forte House.

Olga Polizzi also owns a couple of hotels herself which her daughter Alex manages for her.

In the latest programme, Alex Polizzi – My Hotel Nightmare, for the first time ever, Alex and her mum Olga become equal partners and buy the rundown hotel together.

The former medieval coaching inn in Alfriston, east Sussex is a huge 37 bedroom hotel comprising several run down dilapidated extensions.

The whole building was in a desperate need for renovation.

Because of the work required and the unfortunate timing of the Covid-19 pandemic, the building work took nearly a year and a half longer to complete – there were workers still paining the doors and windows on the open day – and cost a million more to renovate than planned.

They bought the hotel for £2 million and the renovations cost a further £2 million.

In one of the three episodes Alex is seen working out how long it would take to pay back all of the money they had borrowed.

12 years was her initial estimate.

In the same episode, Alex stated that one of her mother’s hotels – the Hotel Endsleigh in Devon – took 15 years to clear all of its debts.

That’s a long time.

I understand that once the business is running, it pays for itself.

The money is not coming out of their personal pockets and that the hotels would be giving them a wage as well as paying back those debts… but it had me thinking.

12 and 15 years is a long time to be paying back loans.

Alex is nearly 50, her mother Olga is 75… now I don’t want to sound morbid but… it’s possible that Olga may no longer be around when the debt for the new hotel is finally paid off.

Hotels and hospitality is in their blood. It is what they know and it is what they grew up with… it’s also what they enjoy.

There is a lot of money to be made in hospitality… but it’s not always guaranteed.

As we have seen with the recent pandemic and its effect on the tourism industry, the hospitality industry is reliant on serving people… and if people are not moving about freely, there is no one to serve.

Also, there are a lot of cogs in the hospitality machine to consider.

Including:

  • Staff – restaurant servers, kitchen staff, bar staff, cleaners, reception and administration.
  • Towels, toilet paper, soap, tea, and coffee making facilities.
  • Bar and restaurant crockery.
  • Kitchen equipment.
  • Maintenance & decoration.
  • Marketing & website management.

This is just a quick short list… but as you can see, there is a lot to manage.

It is safe to say that the hotel and hospitality business is not for me.

There are too many costs and headaches to deal with.

I prefer a more simple way to make money.

If you are looking for a simple way to make money where you have none of the costs or headaches associated with running a large and complex business like a hotel, then I have the thing for you.

Paul Bent regularly makes thousands of pounds each month using bots to pull money out of Betfair… and he doesn’t need to do anything once the bots are set up and running.

If you would like to learn how he does it and watch a video where Paul shows you one of the systems working – a system which makes him £1,500 each month – go to…

www.StreetwisePublications.com/AFB

Kind Regards

John Harrison

PS… There were only 50 copies of Automated Football Betting made available and they are selling fast. I wouldn’t want you to miss out on making a Tax Free income on autopilot using sophisticated trading bots.

You too could be earning thousands of pounds each month without lifting a finger. To learn more go to:

www.StreetwisePublications.com/AFB

Kanye West Paid £11K For Something You Can Offer…

Apparently, the eccentric US rapper Kanye West tipped a bartender $15,000 for listening to him for four hours while he poured out his heart.

In proper money, that’s roughly £11,000 (at time of writing).

That’s one hell of a tip!

It happened when Kanye visited a club in Los Angeles a few years ago.

Kanye took a seat at the bar, ordered a drink of water on the rocks (does he not have a tap at his place?) and simply sat and chatted to the bartender.

The bartender spent around four hours listening to Kanye share his soul – between serving other customers I presume.

This had me thinking… why would he pay a complete stranger £11,000 to simply listen to him waffle on?

In a world where we are connected to more and more people thanks to the internet and mobile phone technology… it would seem that despite this incredibly connected world, more and more people are feeling lonely.

Superstars like Kanye who are in the public eye all the time, surrounded by people who they don’t know whether they can trust or have their best interests at heart, can often feel completely lonely and isolated.

They don’t know who to talk to or whether people will actually sit and listen without judgement… or worse, their heartfelt outpourings appearing in the papers the following day.

It would appear that Kanye just needed to offload and talk to someone who was completely impartial.

And this had me thinking further…

Could impartial listening be offered as a service online?

This would be a service similar to a therapist or counsellor but without any actual advice given.

Unless of course the person paying to be listened to, asked for your opinion, then you could offer it but you would need to clearly state that it isn’t professional advice or guidance.

Obviously, I am not suggesting that you will make £11,000 for a four hour stint of listening, but you could quite easily make money by simply listening to people talk about their problems.

In the 1990’s and 2000’s, it seemed all the rage in the USA for people to have their own therapist.

It seemed that if you weren’t seeing someone at least once a month to discuss the state of your life then you really wasn’t a ‘modern American’.

I don’t know what the trend is at the moment, but I do know that thanks to the coronavirus, lockdowns and the uncertainty of the world we are living in today, worries and mental health issues have become more prevalent.

Obviously, serious mental health concerns should be forwarded to people like the Samaritans and professional organisations who are better to deal with those situations.

But there are a lot of people who simply need to offload and say out loud what they are worried about and what is concerning them.

Talking to the wall is fine, but there is no humanity to it. No empathy or caring compassion being returned.

People not only like to be listened to, they need to be heard.

The simple act of being heard can really help people.

It helps with healing and it helps people to process their thoughts and fears.

Asking a few well chosen questions to help the person speaking to explore their concerns and figure out why they think and feel the way they do can really help them.

I think this could be a great way to make some extra money for those who are not technically minded and really do not want to create and sell any products or offer up any complicated hands on services.

In a previous email I shared with you a video I instructed Andi to record showing a simple two to three page website which would be ideal for a business model like this.

You can watch that video here:

Build A Six-Figure A Year Business Using A Client Qualifying Funnel

For this, you would really only need a website which has a simple front page where you offer a free product in exchange for an email address… for this you could offer a free 15 minute session where you listen to the person offload.

When the 15 minutes is over, you could then tell them that you are available for further sessions where you will listen without judgement.

You could offer 30 minute, 45 minute and/or 60 minute sessions in exchange for money. These sessions could be over the phone or face-to-face using one of the many face time apps or services like Skype or Zoom.

Andi’s good lady used to offer a therapy where clients would come to have aches, pains and injuries worked on through body manipulation but the one thing she noticed most, was that most of her clients came to ‘talk’.

Especially the older clients who struggled to get out and about.

Often the sessions would overshoot their allotted time because people were still offloading their problems… and very few were related to the actual aches and pains they were supposed to be there for.

It appeared that the actual therapy was second to the listening that she was doing.

When people asked her what she did for a living, she would often reply that she was ‘paid to listen’.

People need to be heard, it is as simple as that.

I cannot say how much you can charge for this service or how much you can earn… I doubt you will end up with a £11,000 tip, but like all things in life, what you earn is determined by factors you control such as how much effort you put into finding clients, how much time you spend promoting your service and what type of people you target.

Focusing on people who are more affluent than the general public can result in you charging more for your services.

That is where the money is… people who have money, are willing to spend it. Finding the right people and offering your service is the best way to make money.

Watch the video that Andi recorded showing how people attract the perfect clients using a simple two to three page website here:

Build A Six-Figure A Year Business Using A Client Qualifying Funnel

The Big Bad Mouse, The Gruffalo And The Myth Of The Alpha Male!

I was surprised at how much I enjoyed watching The Gruffalo one Christmas.

Let me be clear here, I don’t usually sit and watch children’s films but this came on right after another programme had finished and before I had chance to turn it off, I found myself engrossed.

The Gruffalo is the story of a little mouse which is walking through the woods when it is approached by an owl, a fox and a snake who all want to eat it.

This plucky little mouse – which is at the bottom of the food chain – manages to talk his way out of being eaten by scaring these alpha predators into believing that he is on his way to meet with his friend, the big and ferocious Gruffalo.

Neither of the owl, fox or snake have heard of the Gruffalo – it sounds made up and as you watch the film you think it is.

But somehow, the little mouse manages to convince the predators that the Gruffalo is his friend and that he loves nothing more than eating food made of snake, owl and fox, and if he were to be harmed the Gruffalo would come looking for them.

The little mouse is left to continue on his merry way until… he comes face to face with an actual Gruffalo.

Like all alpha-predators, the Gruffalo sees the little mouse as food and wants to eat him. But, the mouse quickly and calmly tries to convince the Gruffalo that he – the  mouse – is actually the most feared animal in the woods.

At first the Gruffalo doesn’t believe him, after all, how can something so small be so feared?

The mouse convinces the Gruffalo to follow him into the woods so that he can show him.

The mouse soon happens across the owl, the snake, and the fox again. Only this time, standing behind the little mouse is the large ferocious Gruffalo which they had come to fear only minutes earlier.

Seeing this large monster-like creature, the owl, the snake and the fox soon cower in fear and quietly slip away.

The Gruffalo doesn’t know that the owl, the snake and the fox were actually scared of him and is surprised to see them scurry off fast as soon as the mouse approaches them.

Now convinced that the mouse is indeed a scary animal and one to fear, the Gruffalo decides to not eat him and walks away leaving the mouse to continue on his merry way.

What I love about this story is that it shows how both brains and communication is far superior to brawn.

In a world where muscles are still admired and the alpha-male and alpha-female are seen as being ‘all powerful’, the Gruffalo puts that notion nicely to bed.

The truth is, alphas are fine when doing alpha things, whatever that is, but have you noticed how cult leaders, politicians and serial killers are often weedy little whatnots who look like they cannot rip open an envelope let alone have power over another free willed and free thinking human?

 And yet they very often do.

The power and the fear they have over other people is often implied… or executed by other people who are also under their spell.

So, what am I getting at here?

The little mouse in the Gruffalo implied his power through communication.

He used words to convince the owl, the snake and the fox that he was friends with a large creature which would eat them if they harmed him.

He used words to suggest to the Gruffalo that he was incredibly feared and then used the ‘fear’ the other animals expressed when they saw the Gruffalo standing behind the mouse, as proof to his power.

It was all down to communication and the power of words.

In the second Gruffalo film, The Gruffalo’s Child, the mouse once again has to imply how powerful he is to prevent the Gruffalo’s child eating him.

He tells the young Gruffalo about another big monster living in the woods who will soon appear and that she should look into a large bush for it.

Standing on a branch in front of a bright full moon on a dark winter’s night, the mouse casts large shadows across the snow making him appear like a huge monster with big sharp teeth scaring the Gruffalo’s child who promptly runs away.

The truth is, he was just a little mouse. He always was and always will be.

However, he commanded the respect of the larger alpha predators who left him alone because they feared an idea of who they thought he was. An idea he had created through the use of carefully crafted words.

Words are incredibly powerful, when used correctly, they can build empires and they can generate a lot of money… and you do not need to scare people into it either.

Skinny weaklings can dominate the business world over alphas and bullies by using simple communication and psychology.

There are many alphas strutting around who cannot rub two pennies together and yet there are many non-alpha types, who are incredibly successful in business.

It is through communication how I and many others make millions of pounds. By writing sales copy which communicates directly to people in a way very few alphas can.

With the use of words, I can open hearts, eyes and wallets.

And what is really important to understand is that it really isn’t that hard to do and anyone can learn how to be an alpha of the communication world.

If you would like to learn how I use words and communication to generate large sums of money click the link below:

One Letter From Retirement

Knowing how to communicate better takes you from being the underdog to top dog.

It frees you from feeling like a victim in life to being the one making the shots. Learn to communicate and you will be the one pulling the strings in your own life.

One Letter From Retirement