Beware Banks Sharp
Practice!
Keeping cash on deposit during these turbulent times? Make certain that you monitor what’s
happening with accounts, rates and bonuses at regular intervals. You need to be pro-active rather than relying on
banks to treat you properly. A recent Daily Mail investigation revealed, for example, that when high-interest bonds
mature, some high street financial institutions move savers’ funds over into accounts with little or even no
returns.A great site to find the current best savings rates is (www.moneysupermarket.com). Take a look if you have
any accounts maturing or cash on deposit coming to the end of a bonus period.
Property Credit Blacklist?
Worried that your property might be ‘blacklisted’? Look beyond the
myth by getting copies of your credit files from Experian (www.experian.co.uk), Equifax (www.equifax.co.uk)
and Call Credit (www.callcredit.co.uk). There is a common misconception amongst many people that an address
can be blacklisted (thus preventing future owners or occupiers from obtaining various forms of borrowings and
credit). James Jones at Experian explains, "Addresses can't be blacklisted. There really is no such
thing."
Funny Old World Of
Auctions
It may well have spent over 70 years "gathering rust" at the
bottom of an Italian lake, rendering its bodywork only 20% reusable, but that didn't stop a Bugatti
selling at auction recently for a phenomenal £228,000, or £160,000 more than its highend guide. Of course,
this isn't just any old Bugatti. This is a super-rare 1925 open-top Type 22 Bugatti Brescia, whose full
story is as fascinating as its happy resolution. Originally purchased in Paris by a Swiss architect, it
came under the scrutiny of Swiss government officials when he tried to import it in 1923, but rather than
he pay the hefty duties, the architect reasoned it was much cheaper to abandon the car at the bottom of
Lake Maggiore. Time, of course, has ensured that what was an out-dated vehicle quickly became a valuable
classic, with rumours of the fabled "drowned Bugatti" beginning to surface in the 1960s.
A Great Money making Idea From The
USA
I've been spending some time talking to US contacts lately and will
have a number of US biz-opp ideas to share with you on a week to week basis, starting today. I've been
talking again to Angela, who we first spoke to two years ago, about her love of ‘scrapbooking’. Bear with me,
it's a money-maker!
In the US, this is a billion-dollar business, with entrepreneurs creating scrapbooks for friends and family,
selling them via websites and blogs, running party plan evenings, teaching scrapbooking at evening classes and even
franchising their ideas so that other party-planners etc do the work and they take commission!
Basically, you put together an album of memories (photos, documents, press cuttings, cards etc) for a particular
event – a baby’s birth, a wedding, an anniversary, a school prom, a retirement presentation, and so on. You provide
the album and the expertise of putting it altogether beautifully. Your customers supply you with the contents –
baby photos and congratulation cards etc. You can often add to these, perhaps by adding press clippings of the
day’s (upbeat) events.
See if this money-maker might be for you – put together a scrapbook and see if you can sell it! You can buy lots of
art and craft materials online via eBay and other sources. But you will probably want to start by going to a local
arts and crafts shop (sourced via Yellow Pages) where you can actually see the materials you are buying; an album,
paper, glue, scissors, pens etc. Explain what you are doing and ask for materials that are photo-safe and are of
archival quality (i.e. they won’t fade and curl up as time passes).
More creative entrepreneurs will buy lots of buttons, ribbons and bows to decorate the different pages of the
scrapbook; if you were doing a scrapbook of a baby’s first year, you might like to have different colours to
reflect the changing seasons. If you need inspiration, there’s a good book called The Amazing Page: 650 Scrapbook
Page Ideas which can be bought for about a tenner at www.amazon.co.uk Google.com for websites too.
Now, I don't want to go on and on about this - it will interest some of you but not others. If it doesn't? We'll
have another biz-opp idea for you next week (and the week after and the one after that and so on until we’ve found
a money-maker just for you).
The £4 Million Pound Avon Lady!
It was recently reported that an Avon lady has sold over £4,000,000
worth of cosmetics…After taking a part time job with the company to earn a bit of extra money for Christmas.
Rebekah Testar who is a mum of three started ringing her neighbours doorbells in 2002 when her husband Tony
had to give up work due to ill health. She is now a sales leader with over £1,700 reps working under her.
Rebekah told a national paper “I can’t believe this has happened to me. It’s amazing.”
Movie Investment With Big Tax
Breaks!
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Rom Coms are the most popular movie genre and the UK has
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“Comedy is consistently the UK’s most popular genre with UK
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2009
Writer Danny King is a successful novelist with eight books in
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Seconds”) to play her nemesis.
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