In my last post I showed how “cheap” it was NOT, just to start a business using franchises which is the road that a lot of people go down when wanting to start up their own business. As a business model there are many advantages to the franchise model, you are already or should be buying into a successful business model. They will have their own manuals on virtually every task so that it is easy to find solution s to any problem. They will also have a team or individual that will be there to support you through your start up franchise.

But all this comes at a cost; Bryan McHeyzer in a comment on Part 1 gives the figure on $1,000,000 to set up a McDonalds in Australia. Now that’s rather too rich for my blood I think limiting the risk to $100 or less is the better option I think you will agree.

There are even some businesses that you can start for nothing. Not silly ones like stuff envelopes and make a fortune, my brother tried that when he was a student, he was the one who got stuffed! Or make….. [insert amount here], don’t you always know its going to be a MLM (Multi Level Marketing) “opportunity”.

Now if you want to lose friends fast and become a social outcast just follow the helpful instructions “Start by selling to your friends and family” or you could just hang a placard around your neck and ring a bell shouting “UNCLEAN” it’s just as easy.

What about drop shipping, just sell on eBay we ship for you! Yes of course I want to sell stuff on eBay at a much higher price to the drop shipper than I can source it myself. It does have the advantage of paying people to lose money on your behalf so that you don’t have to put the effort in yourself.

If you have an Internet connection you practically have every thing you need to start with now.

No BS ALERT!

I have just completed my new product 12 Roads to Success, 12 proven Blueprints for online success, and I am going to make this available at a special subscriber discount at only $17 for a limited time only. Here’s the best bit I have made available a leaked chapter for you to test drive, get it here by clicking the link below.

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You don’t need to spend a fortune on the “Gurus” latest  make a fortune online and oh and by the way there’s another one you really need coming along in 2 weeks which will cost the other arm and leg but if you don’t have it you won’t make a penny product. Phew what a long sentence.

12 Roads to Success reveals several ways of starting your online business without spending a penny, here’s just 1 simple idea for 12 Roads to Success. Start with some simple blogging techniques by constructing a review blog for other people’s products. You can get a free blog at Blogger.com I show you how to set this up. Want to know more, then click the link for you copy at my special discount rate.

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To your success..Rob

You may well ask how long is a piece of string (11 ¾ inches I have one at home!). Because this really depends on what type of business you want to run. There are several options.

Open a shop, let’s consider the costs, find a business model and research it, find some premises pay out for the lease, stock the premises use your own capital to stock it or get a bank loan if you can. Then there is insurance, rates and utility bills to find the money for. Simple just open your shop and wait for the passing trade to drop in and spend a few quid on the items you have for sale simple.

Well may be not this approach could prove to be very expensive huge amounts of capital tied up in stock especially if no one wants what you are selling plus the added bonus of working 7 days a weeks. If you are not there every minute how can you make any money?

Perhaps an easier way is to buy a business franchise; this has many advantages over going it alone. With a top franchise you are buying into an already successful business model, you will get the support and training you need from a proven business formula.

You may baulk at the price of a franchise but are the very cheap ones worth the investment; unfortunately all franchises are not created equal or indeed offer the same value. Lets take a well know high street brand and a respected franchise Subway.

Why Subway? Well one has just opened in my home town and the shop it moved into was formally a charity shop. This has been fitted out in the Subway corporate image I have no idea how much this has cost but it will not have been cheap.

A subway franchise costs about £6,000 for the franchise fee plus the fitting out of the premises, and all the other costs above. So how much this will cost in the end could be frightening but I saw a figure on a franchise forum listing £120,000.

If the though of preparing all those sandwiches and working long hours 7 days a week is your bag and you have the funds it could be the one for you! NO? How about this?

Clean out wheelie bins, this one is £16,750 now if you charge £6 a bin then you will only have to wash about 3,000 bins to get your franchise fee back! I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to get started on a cold January morning cleaning out stinking bins.

With too many of these franchise opportunities all you are buying is a minimum wage job for years to come. Believe it or not you don’t have to risk your children’s inheritance on the words of Theo Paphitas you can start off for just a few pounds, you can minimise the risk to yourself and you can work the hours you want.

“It sounds too good to be true, but tell me more”.

You can start an eBay business for just a few pounds in listing fees, start by selling the stuff you no longer want or need and use the money you make as your starting capital to purchase some new products to sell. Did you know that you can sell the same products on Amazon? In some categories you will get a better price than you will get on eBay.

To me for the small retailer without a unique selling point and a hungry market the retail model is flawed and you will always be waiting for your customers to come to you.

What about working for yourself online? Easy to use template drive e-commerce packages are available at a very modest monthly cost for most hosting companies, why pay eBay’s extortionate listing and final value fees if you don’t need too when you can keep the profit for yourself. Sound good to you?

Watch out for Part 2 where I show you how to change your whole perspective about business. Rob..

Just follow the simple advice given below if you want to kill your eBay business stone dead.

Building your business can be hard work, very hard work, but do you know what is easy? Killing it stone dead is easy; all you will need to do is follow my 10 point plan to success.

• This is easy! Just lie about the product you are selling, if it doesn’t work just say it does, if it’s not in perfect condition say it is. How easy is that to start with? Incidentally your customers will hate you but hey you could even get banned from eBay so no need for the other 9 points.
• Don’t bother posting your items until you feel like, after all everyone knows the postal service is slow and patience is a virtue so don’t bother putting yourself out just let them buy from someone else.
• Don’t bother about planning the end time of your auctions, if anyone wants your item why can’t they stay up until 3 am just like you, even les work to do.
• Find some real rubbish to sell and try and squeeze every cent you can, after all it’s well know that people pay top prices for garbage on eBay.
• Any old listing will do make sure that you never spend more than 5 minutes on it. Don’t forget the gaudy colours and the “cool” fonts and ALWAYS USE CAPITALS. If you really want to impress, find some poor animations and some low quality audio. Make sure that people remember your listing.
• Never reply to e-mails, I mean its all in the listing isn’t it. Surely people can just read it.
• Don’t add a photo, too much work, if they want it they will buy it anyway. If you do add a photo make sure it is blurred and the lighting is poor (you may have to wait for exactly the right conditions for this).
• Write a short description like this. Saves loads of time.
• Never give a discount, the cheek of it! What’s the problem with paying for two lots of postage, discount for multiple purchases if they want that they can go elsewhere. They will.
• Don’t list your items for sale, just as easy as the first. You can them blame everyone else because the item did not sell first time.

Congratulations if you have followed the plan you have now destroyed your business. If for some strange reason you want to succeed in your eBaying then completely ignore this advice. Rob…

This post is late, over 3 months late! It should have been online on April 10^th this was my birthday and the intended launch date of my new E-course 12 Roads to Online Success. So at last here it is better late than never.

What is 12 Roads to Success? It is a new e-course that gives you 12 different Blueprints to kick start your online business the fast way. Each one follows a proven simple step by step formula that works in almost every market. Apply the simple step by step formula to multiply your chance of success. Some of these businesses can be started at NO cost whatsoever.

The information in 12 Roads to Success is 90 pages of good solid content, no padding, no fluff. It shows you how to operate in niche markets and so eliminate most of your competitors, it is in niche markets that the real money is made. Best of all, I will show you how to run this business on AUTOPILOT working just a few hours a day. As he says it’s about work life balance, less work and more life.

So here is the deal, 12 Roads to Success is not yet on sale, so I am going to run a competition to win a copy. All you need to do is to leave a comment under this blog post telling me why I should give you a free copy of this course before I release it, simple. I will be closing the competition on Thursday 22^nd July. Good luck Rob…….

“The Challenge.” “What is it?” Absolutely the best FREE training on the web today.

“Hey look Rob we have heard all about so called free training before, so what’s the catch?”

“None”.

“Is it a $1 free trail to an expensive continuity program?”

“No.”

“Oh right, I have to give my credit card number for something hidden away in the small print.”

“No”.

“Tell me more, there has to be a cost somewhere right, so what is it?”

“Ok I’ll come clean, there is a cost, the cost is in your time and some hard work, all the training, all the support and all the information you will need is 100% free.”

“If you are really serious about building an online business instead of just dreaming about it then you really need to grab this with both hands.”

If you are really up for the challenge then here’s what to expect. You will need to give up 30 minutes a day to view the training materials and complete the tasks set. Unlike its predecessor, “The 30 day Challenge” you will get some “days off” before the next phase starts.

There will be video training, audios and top class information from top class marketers showing you how you can build you can build your online business fast, it really does not matter what your online interests are.

“Wow, will it suit everyone?”

“Sadly not, only those people who are will to take the action step and give it a real go.”

This is seriously life changing stuff, to join “The Challenge” click the link and sign up, already you will have taken the first action step! Hope to meet you in “The Challenge Forum”. Rob…..

“SIGN UP FOR THE CHALLENGE HERE”

Affiliate marketing is immediately associated in the mind with the marketing of information products through such organizations as clickbank, commission junction and paydotcom. This is often seen as an easy way to start a business as an affiliate. I have prepared a special product Affiliate Marketing Know How as a gift for you to enjoy and profit from.

Top affiliates can earn a considerable income from recommending these products but for most people affiliate marketing is just one string that you can add to your business that will produce an income. As my mentor John Thornhill has said on many occasions many stream make a river. The more streams of income you have the more that you will make, it is better to have many small income streams than rely on just one or two sources of income.

What is not often appreciated is that there are large amounts of money to be made as an affiliate promoting physical products or services. Most big name companies selling branded or household name products have their own affiliate programs.

A simple search using Google or any other search engine for “affiliate programs” should unearth an extensive set of possibilities. A word of advice simply don’t promote every single thing you can this scatter gun approach is often counter productive. Find a series of products and services that you have a knowledge of or are passionate about you will have more empathy with the product of service you are promoting and this will come over in the promotions that you are involved with.

You can promote products via a website but that mean you will have to have some means of driving traffic to that website, one of the easiest ways of doing this is by article marketing which allows you to link back to your web site via a resource box at the end of the article.

You can also drive traffic back yo your website via forums for your chosen niche, on the website you will need some method of collecting e-mail addresses so that you can mail out your promotions to your list. Giving away a free eBook is often an easy way of capturing these.

Affiliate marketing of physical products is a very easy way to start a business in Affiliate Marketing Know How reveals in more depth at how this is achieved. I am making this product available as a thank you to all my subscribers and visitors to my blog, enjoy. Rob…

Update.

You may find these MP3 files a useful resource to help you with your affiliate marketing. There are 10 altogether I think these are excellent.

MP3 1-5

MP3 5-10

Rob..

Why do people want to start their own business? I suppose that the answer is as individual as the person, but the basic reasons are usually.

• I have always wanted to be my own boss
• I hate the idea of being a wage slave
• To give me a sense of achievement
• To do something I am really interested in
• To make lots of money
• To give me the life style I have always wanted
• I want to work from home
• I want to work around my family
• I want to sack the boss!

For me it’s all about life style, I like to work when I want to and the idea of not answering to anyone is the real appeal. I have run many different types of home business from selling computers to Information Marketing. The great advantage of the ones I run now is that they run on almost complete auto pilot. So much so that I have taken few days off to visit the Costa Del Sol Spain last week and the only thing I did in that time was answer one e-mail.

Me at Benamadena Marina with my New Toy (not!)

On the Prom

Mijas Village One of the many “White Villages” in Spain

I love the laid back life style and the sun but the best bit is that due to the Internet I can run my complete business from anywhere in the world where I can access the Internet. That to me is a powerful motivator.

How many people go on to start their own businesses and how many people are put off by thinking that starting their own business means a huge amount of cost and that there are a lot of different skills that need to be mastered. Well it rather depends on the type of business you choose to start, some of the best and most profitable businesses have grown from very modest beginnings.  Rob….

Auto Article Profits is a short report written by John Thornhill that shows you how you can become a success with article marketing.

 The product claims it can show you how you can earn anything between $10 and $500 per month from a single article. I must say I was quite sceptical at these bold claims so decided to purchase the report to investigate further. As the report only cost $10 and had a 60 day refund policy I knew I wasn’t taking a big risk.

 The report itself is only a few thousand words long but let me assure you it was full of golden nuggets, no fluff here and the fact it only took me 20 minutes or so to read it was not a problem as the information is straight to the point.

 As with most stuff written by John the content is solid and your head will be spinning with the ideas the report generates. Let me tell you most of what you think you know about article marketing will be dispelled once you read this report.

 What I also love about Auto Article Profits is the fact it covers a technique that involves no capital outlay. You could read this report and be putting the information it contains to good use within a matter of hours at no cost. How many products can claim that.

 Is the information contained in Auto Article Profits life changing? perhaps not but for a $10 investment you really can’t go wrong. I have seen courses that charge 50 times more than the cost of this report contain less information.

 Auto Article Profits receives my highest recommendation and I urge you to check it out.

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eBay is THE marketplace, you can buy and sell almost anything to almost anyone. It, therefore, provides an unrivalled way to make money quickly and easily without the tedious commute, the long hours, the unsympathetic boss.

Most people are excited when first discovering this vast and vibrant marketplace, excited but confused!

“What do I sell?” is the most common question budding eBay entrepreneurs ask when faced with the thousands of eBay categories.

Stuart Turnbull faced the same challenge 4 years ago before he chanced upon the basis of his strategy. He spent the next 4 years researching, testing and refining his idea into a plan that ANYONE can follow to make incredible eBay profits. Stuart is now revealing the secret of his success in Prints Make Profits for less than $20 you can be running your own successful eBay business.

No special equipment is required, you can be up and running within days for a few dollars and an hour or 2 a day is all that is required to operate this business successfully. This must be one of the easiest business start ups ever.

So now you have the secret to the perfect eBay product there really is no excuse for not grabbing your slice of that pie!  You can even test out Prints Make Profits  for 60 days RISK FREE. Be the change you want to see in your life, start your own business today…… Rob

I think of all the questions I get asked about eBay this in the most common. I think that all too often we get seduced by the “eBay myth”. “eBay is a licence to print money”, well if you are a share holder it is, but as a user it is more complex than this. The myth and the reality are quite different, let us take a few scenarios and examine them in more detail.

Myth: Put anything up for sale on eBay and it will sell.

Reality: Less than half the items for sale on eBay will sell on the first or even second attempt.

Myth: Look for the “HOTTEST” selling products on eBay and sell the same, you will make money.

Reality: Unless you are an established seller don’t try and compete in the areas of high competition, don’t try to run with the “big dogs”. Some categories and sub categories have dozens of competing pages and thousands of competing products. These big powersellers have huge powerseller discounts from eBay and can buy in there products in bulk at a much lower price than someone who is trying to muscle into the market. This makes your profit margins razor thin or even non existent.

Myth: You can only make money selling product that are well known brands.

Reality: There is a vast market for non branded products on eBay (and Amazon). Non branded products can be sourced cheaper, sold cheaper and yet make more money than the branded product.

 So how do I start making money on eBay? Find a niche area to trade in, now this may seem daunting at first so I am going to give you my FREE report “Successful Online Selling” This will show you step by step how you can easily find profitable niche markets 

Inside there is an example of how to research a niche, for it is in the niche areas that the profits are to be made. Download your FREE report “Successful Online Selling” now are find your own profitable niche areas.

Don’t follow the herd, make them follow you….Rob

 P.s. Find out more about successful selling on eBay sign up for my FREE 8 day mini course….Rob