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A Basic Online Poker Strategy

   Don't get me wrong, I'm a complete Fish however I have a mate who does very well on cash games and rakeback. Here is a summary of his basic rules:

• Never limp in.
• Never call unless you are in position with suited connectors or a low pair.
• Use position. Use position. Use position.
• Use blind stats to your advantage.
• Always be raising.
• If you bluff on the flop you have to keep bluffing.
• You need Hold Em Manager software (or an equivalent) to survive.

Stock Photography Basics

   I've never started listing my pics on Istock as of yet as the entrance questions were too hard! Nonetheless, from my reading here are some of the key points:

• You should be uploading thousands of photos.
• Use Photo Stock Plus, Dreams Time and Istockphoto.
• Take photos associated with what is happening in the news.
• Upload funny photos at break.com
• Use 3.5 keywords
• Make more money through the referral program.

How to Become an Antiquarian Bookseller

   Further to Avril Harper, I love the videos which are regularly posted on Youtube by King Human. Once again this guy keeps the sales patter to a minimum whilst still providing useful and usable information. Here is a basic system he put forward once to get you started in the Antiquarian Book Business:

1)      Go to Ebay.

2)      Go to Books – Antiquarian and Collectable

3)      Go to Completed Listings under £1000.

4)      Find a sold item with more than 10 bids.

5)      Trawl the net to find that very product at 50% or less of the Ebay sold price.

 

   It’s as simple as that. It sounds too basic but King Human shows it working in practice.

   This isn’t something to pin your hopes on but I think you should make one sale a year if you give it a bit of focus. Aim to make £50 within a year – that might give you the taste for it.

A Simple Ebay/ AliExpress System

Of all the Internet Marketers that I follow, Avril Harper is probably my favourite. Not too much B.S., not too much gloss. Her plans are really basic step 1, step 2 stuff. Here is a plan of hers I jotted down some years ago:

- Go to www.ebay.co.uk. Click ‘Buy’ in the top right of the screen and then click ‘Browse Categories’. On the next page choose a category, then a sub-category. Now search for Top Rated Sellers with Buy It Now listings for products you might enjoy selling. Click on one or two listings and study the numbers sold at the right of ‘Quantity’.


- If sales are high from one listing, I’d say 100 or more in two months is good, head over to Alibaba - www.alibaba.com - it’s one of the world’s most reliable product sourcing portals, where you can access many thousands of different products from reliable suppliers. This reliability is what makes AliExpress or AliBaba a good place to source products - the company keeps careful tabs on its product suppliers and bars any that prove unsatisfactory.


- Key the details of eBay’s top selling products into the search box of your chosen product sourcing sites.

Study the wholesale prices against those fetched on eBay to determine the likely potential profit per sale. Study discounts on products purchased in bulk, which add to your profit margins.

- Contact the sellers and ask permission to use their images and product details in your eBay listings. I’ve only been refused once.

- Choose as many products as you have time to handle and list them on eBay. Use auction listings to determine prices people are willing to pay, and how many orders ensue for specific price levels. This information helps you determine demand and profit potential for subsequent multi-product Buy It Now listings that allow you to offer hundreds of similar products inside one listing for the same price as a one product listing at auction.

- As soon as bids appear contact wholesalers and get them to put stock aside for your test marketing exercise. Most will agree as long as you tell them you’ll be buying stock in bulk later.

- When auctions end, invoice your winning bidder and send Second Chance Offers to unsuccessful bidders whose offers also generate profit for you.

- Isolate products that do make money from those that don’t - add the former to your permanent inventory and dismiss the rest.

Note: You must do constant checks on permanent inventory to ensure profits stay high. It’s also a good idea to do further checks on products that fall slightly below your profit expectations to see if changes to your listing might generate higher profits later.

- Take payment for goods sold in your test listings, buy sufficient stock to fulfil orders, use profits to pay your eBay and PayPal fees, spend the remainder on stock for future listings.

- Make replenishment of stock from profits your main priority and look for products that at least double your investment after overheads. This allows you to double your wealth every time you acquire new stock. So as long as the market for your products remains constant, or grows, you could end up with a multi-million pound turnover business in less than one year. Much less if you’re really keen.

 

Make Money From Thin Air

   You may have noted that a recurring theme in my writing is to take something free (or next to free) and then sell it on by adding a little value or reframing it in some way.

   Here are 2 Free products which you can sell on Ebay today:

1) Money off coupons/ vouchers. Someone recently sold a Tesco voucher on Ebay for £1.74 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TESCO-Grocery-Money-off-Voucher-7-off-a-70-spend-Valid-to-1-7-April-2013-/251246116538?pt=UK_Tickets_Trave_Vouchers_Coupons_LE&hash=item3a7f6f7eba. Money off vouchers are always to be found in the daily papers, magazines, junk mail or in the free magazines which the supermarkets distribute.

2) Ebooks. Technically you are not allowed to sell digital products on Ebay anymore but it still happens. There are many out of copyright Ebooks that sell every week. Check out "As A Man Thinketh" which is a particular favourite.

   If you were to think about it there are many, many more free items which you can sell. By building up a portfolio of these you could create a small £5 a month/ £60 a year income from just this.

   That's enough to cover odds and ends.

Pat Butcher Topless!

   This is one of the funniest things I've seen on EBay:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2293959/Funniest-eBay-items-sale-Nude-drawings-EastEnders-stars--topless-Pat-Butcher-pulling-bids.html

Yet another food idea

   This year T Baillie and Son of Saltcoats won the best Black Pudding award and JB Christie of Airdrie won the best Scotch Pie award. What do both of these companies have in common? Neither have a website. This is a huge missed opportunity for them and a massive opportunity for the entrepreneurially minded.
   Two chances to win:

1) Approach these guys and offer to the website and fulfillment for them for a small fee. Then just buy a website off the shelf at 1&1.

2) Do your own "Best of Scotland" website and list their products for sale via the net. I've talked before about Scottish hampers.

   My choice would be option 2.

Review: The Fast Diet

   This was a funny book. Don't get me wrong, the concept is good and most probably scientifically sound. Go onto Youtube and you'll find hundreds of videos promoting Intermittent Fasting going back to 2006. The problem with the book is that it is so formulaic:

1) Introduction - Who am I etc.
2) The Science blurb
3) The experience of doing the diet
4) Recipes
5) Comments from Social Media

I'm not trying to be funny but you could probably write a book akin to this yourself with a little outsourcing. Go on Twitter and search for New Diet. I did this just now and found the "UMF Diet" (which I've never heard of before in my life).

I could then outsource someone to write a couple of thousand words on the subject of dieting.How they felt extra. With a couple of small changes that experience could be applied to any diet.

With the Science blurb you'd just need to get up to your local University library or do a bit of searching online. Note that you are only writing a couple of paragraphs on research which backs up your diet (and there will be research which backs up every diet).

The recipes could be found online pretty easily and you could create the social media comments yourself.

In a nutshell The Fast Diet was very interesting BUT if you've read the back cover then you've read the whole book.

Book Review - "The House of Silk" by Anthony Horowitz

  I just finished reading The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel (Sherlock Holmes Novel 1) by Anthony Horowitz and really wanted to come to Amazon to review it because I was so impressed.

   The story is supposed to be written many years after the exploits as Watson looks back at a case of such magnitude that he hadn't dared detail it at the time. Whilst Watson's wife is away on a visit he returns to Baker Street and embarks on another adventure with Holmes. At first they are looking into a strange case involving the Flat Cap gang of Boston, but a mishap involving one of the Irregulars takes the pair to a much darker place.

   I loved this book from cover to cover. I first started reading the Sherlock Holmes stories in my teenage years (20 years ago) and having exhaused the canon I went on to the many spin-offs but was always left unsatisfied. I am not exaggerating to say that this is the best Holmes story in black and white since Conan Doyle slipped this mortal coil. I think that either Horowitz is a natural mimic or, more likely, he has studied the rhytm, vocabulary and timbre of Conan Doyle. We get to enjoy the exquisite glory of Holmes summing up the life story of a visitor to his rooms on a number of occasions. Not only does he do his "parlour trick" with the players in the story but Horowitz also pens an exchange of this sort with Mycroft - my personal highlight of the book.

   Having not read any fiction for a year or so I flew through The House of Silk: The New Sherlock Holmes Novel (Sherlock Holmes Novel 1) in two quick sittings. I might even read it again next!

   In a nutshell the novel is excellent and a must buy for any Sherlockian. I heartily recommend it and hope Horowitz returns for more.

Love this idea - Fitness Walk and Talk

• Cards in Post Office window for "Walk and Talk".
• You offer to meet people with them and walk - easy as that.
• Every time you meet up you go for a little longer.
• Stay with the Punters for at least an hour so they are getting some value.
• £10 a pop
• Keep the conversation going so that the time flies by.
• Use a variety of walks and try to make them incrementally longer/ steeper.

My Top Ten Income Streams

 

My Top Ten Income Streams:

 

1. Main Job

2. Rental Property

3. Arbitrage Betting

4. Second Hand Book Sales on Amazon

5. Ebay

6. Adsense

7. Complaining for Profit

8. Amazon Affiliate Income

9. Mystery Shopping

10. Comping

 

If you want to join me on a Money Making adventure then just get in touch......

All of these have their own "system", and all are part of my bigger picture "system"

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Email       ross.taylor1@live.co.uk

 

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My George Galloway Blog had 2000 visitors in one day! I salute its indefatiguability!

 

 

 

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Susanna Reid is TV's Hottest Property!

 

 

 

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I'm building this blog as a way of finding Nigel Farage quotes for a possible Kindle book in a couple of months #smartthinking

 

 

 

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This blog will be huge - mark my words.

 

Uncommon Advice: Shortcuts

   Back in the Nineties there was a comedy drama called "All Quiet on the Preston Front". There was an Asian character who was portrayed as pretty successful. He was asked in an episode how he came to have so much money. He replied, "My Father arrived in this country with only the clothes on his back. He got a job in a factory and worked hard every day of his life. Each week when he got paid he would put as much as he could to ensure a better life for his family". Just when we are thinking we've seen a great example of the "American Dream", he completed his story: ".... and then one day just as he was approaching retirement he lost his hand in a lathe and received massive compensation".

   You see, people don't like to mention it but there are shortcuts to wealth in the UK. Let me give you some more examples.

   When I was a Financial Adviser I would often be visited by people who obviously had a bit of cash. Perhaps they owned their house outright, maybe they enjoyed multiple foreign holidays. What do you think was the most common cause of wealth amongst my customers? It wasn't working hard and running your own business. It wasn't studying at Uni to get a fantastic job as a Doctor or Lawyer. Actually there were 2 main reasons - some people had bought their Council House for 2p back in 1983 and then sold it for £150,000 fifteen years later; others had (unfortunately) had a windfall from Life Insurance when a loved one had died.

   There are shortcuts in the workplace too. Whilst with Gala a colleague of mine received regular promotions despite having a very cynical view of the business and spending half his time at work in a drunken stupor. But he had a shortcut system which worked. Every night he would pick up the phone and dial up the Regional Manager. He'd wax lyrical on how well the day had went and how the business was doing so well. During the day he'd call the other Manager in the area and get them chatting (open questions and all that). "How's your Son's Golf lessons going?" and stuff like that. He therefore had the Area Manager thinking he was doing well and all the other Managers in the cluster thinking he was a great guy. When it came to shuffles and promotions he was therefore always treated very well.

   You can also find shortcuts in Education. A relative of mine has a degree despite attending the Uni only once or twice a month. All he did was select a course which was coursework heavy rather than focused on the Exam. He then paid for his coursework to be completed by someone else via the internet.

   There are shortcuts in the Health world too. If you ate Bacon Sandwiches for every meal you'd end up a fat bastard like me, but if you ate Bacon only you'd end up with Tom Daley's physique. To a certain extent that's the Atkins diet in a nutshell. If you don't believe me then read the 4 Hour Body by Tim Ferriss.

   This is uncommon advice. Many others will tell you to work like hell. I agree that you wont go far wrong if you put your all into an area - I just want you to be aware that there are shortcuts to your goals if you think laterally.

   In my own dealings I have my own shortcut system which I have referred to many times on the blog over the years. The system is basically to take small, low maintenance Micro-businesses and let them flourish at once. You might have a wee job that makes you £20 a month. If that job takes 10 hours to do (like filling surveys) then bin it BUT if that job takes 10 minutes (perhaps being a Strip-o-gram) then more power to your elbow. Collect up enough small short cuts and you'll soon be laughing all the way to the bank.

My current favourite Micro-Businesses are:

• Amazon
• Ebay
• Betfair
• Arbitrage Betting
• Ebooks for the Kindle
• Mystery Shopping
• MLM
• Blogging for Adsense Revenue
• Complaining for profit
• Comping
• Amazon Affiliate
• Debt Collecting
• Courier Work

   If you'd like to help me - or you'd like more info then please get in touch at ross.taylor1@live.co.uk or via twitter @1000moneymakers.

Another Good Amazon Week

   Another good Amazon week with £25.61 coming in for very little effort.

 That means I've averaged £25 per week for the last 9 weeks. I've actually found that I've been getting sales on items where I am nowhere near the cheapest price - nice. I must be building up a reputation.

   The classic thing about this business is that it is scaleable if you have enough storage space and buy correctly.

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Make Money Selling Irn Bru Hampers!

Always remember the moral of the “Acres of Diamonds” speech:  If you need to make money then start by looking in your own back garden – or perhaps your own Kitchen cabinet.
 

   Did you know that if you type “Scottish Hampers” into Google you’ll get 18,500 hits? This is a very competitive market. My idea on this would be to go for the absolute quality end of the market. By setting up Google alerts you can quickly find out the best Whisky, the best Oatcakes, the best Black Pudding, the best Haggis, and the best Biscuits etc. How I would actually work this would be to take the Award Winning food for the year and then promote my Hamper as “The Best of Scottish Food 201X”. The best way of working this business (if lines of supply were readily available) would be to wait for the orders to come in before laying out any cash. This is therefore a zero risk game. A real top notch hamper could go for up to £100. I would therefore be looking at maximising the cost of sale (including delivery) at somewhere under £80 therefore giving me £20+ profit per sale. The web is the best bet for sales of these once again. If you wanted to push the boat out I’d put an ad in The Scots Magazine or Scottish Memories Magazine.

   Here’s an idea, why not do the Official Unofficial Irn Bru (you might have to call it Iron Brew) Hamper? You could put in Cans of the Golden Nectar along with any limited editions there has been that year (for example the recent Fiery edition). You could put the TV adverts from that year onto disc and include them. Some Iron Brew chew bars if you can find them. Also, check out Iron Brew Square Sausage (http://news.stv.tv/scotland/211673-irn-bru-sausage-the-perfect-hangover-cure/). You could pretty much include anything which is orange and blue. I recently saw Irn Bru Cupcakes being advertised. They were basically just normal cupcakes with Orange piping and blue cases.

   If you use your imagination you could definitely think up some exciting and original Scottish hampers for sale at Christmas this year.

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BETTING ARBITRAGE

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Check out "George Galloway Youtube"

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My new Blog! All the latest George Galloway News and Videos plus some classics. I hope to (relatively quickly) use the content from this Blog to create a George Galloway quotes book to sell on the Kindle.

What if Kate Middleton was a traitor Spy?

   If you ever get the chance look up a guy called Chas Newkey-Burden. This man pumps out trash Celebrity biographies every few months – and they sell (why else would he keep on doing them?). Fair play to him. I doth my hat.  

   In my opinion his writing style is relatively easy to copy. If you think about it, 6 x 200pg books in 2 years means he is knocking them out at the giddy pace of one every 16 weeks – 12 pages a day. I think that he does this by spinning out a lot of the Google alerts he gets on his targets. He also writes up what he sees on screen. In my opinion of course.

   This style could be adapted to create trash fiction for sale on the Kindle. To give things a spin you'd need to take a well reported event or life and then spin a story around it - think Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

   Basically you take a well reported series of events and then build a story around them. This is easy to write as every second chapter will just be lifted from news reports. I’ll give you an example. Let’s pretend that Kate Middleton was actually a Russian Sleeper Spy. Her parents had been recruited by the KGB back in the 80’s when they lived in Jordan for 3 years (they don’t talk about that in the papers very often do they?). The deal had always been that they would try to push their children into Royal circles. Hence their eldest daughter had been sent all the way from Berkshire to study at St Andrews University (how often does that happen?). Pippa had been sent to Edinburgh as that was the other Uni that William was possibly going to attend. Isn’t it a bit strange that two Middle Class girls from rural Bucks moved so easily into the circles of the uber-rich? Not really when you consider that they had been being groomed for it since birth. Does a party planner and an Air Traffic Controller really make enough to have a 5 Bedroom house with wine cellar and private grounds in the Stockbroker belt? Remember Carole was brought up in a South London council flat. She’s went from Nelson Mandela House to Buck House in 25 years. In my story I would take all the news reports of Kate and Will’s courtship and intermingle it with the tale of a shadowy figure who threatens to expose the Middleton plot. I would have the subterfuge building up to the Wedding Day when the Blackmailer plans to spill the beans at the ceremony. For the set piece events like the announcement of the engagement or the Wedding day itself I would be using direct commentary from YouTube videos. Think Dan Brown meets David Icke.

   In a sense Nigel Tranter books (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Tranter) were basically a story woven around historical facts – and he was rich enough to be living in a fantastic castle by the time of his death. The same could be said for Ian Rankin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin) crime novels. A few I’ve read have clearly been based around actual events. One was clearly based on the Bible John murders. The truth is truly stranger than fiction.

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