The “How to Make £1,000 per Day Before Breakfast” manual arrived on Saturday morning but unfortunately I didn’t hear the postman so I had to go and collect it today.

First things first, the package contained:

(a) An A4 printed manual, 96 pages long called “How to Make £1,000 Per Day Before Breakfast: Discover how to receive sacks full of money, each and every day – delivered direct to your front door!” This is the manual which is apparently written by Terry Wilson

(b) A short (25 page) A4 printed report entitled “£45 in 3 Minutes… Or Less!” and

(c) A 3 page introduction letter from John Harrison, the publisher and co-owner of Streetwise Publications.

I’ve been able to read about 40 pages of the manual so far and it seems very good.

In my initial blog post about Terry’s book I noted that the sales letter promised a technique which Terry used to make £5,000 in his first month:

“… without any selling, with no staff or premises and without any start-up capital…”

Reading the manual, it is about information publishing and especially selling via Direct Mail. There is probably more to it but direct marketing certainly does need start-up capital.

Also, you definitely will be selling as you will be producing information products to sell to the general public.

Still, the manual looks very detailed and I will be reading the rest this week. Some of the text does look strangely familiar – perhaps from one of John Harrison’s books?

Does Terry Wilson even exist? Is this another made up person like “Vicky Smith” aka the author behind the Golden Backdoor?

The latest issue of the What Really Makes Money newsletter popped through the door yesterday.

Nick Laight’s newsletter is published 10 times a year and delivered for just £37 for the first year.

This month the features included:

– Investing in Romanian property for 15% – 100% annual returns! Unfortunately, I still need to get on the UK property ladder but still very interesting…

– Building an email list. Nick explains why you should build one and how you can make £10-£30 per year, per name

– A review of Peter Walters’ “Cash From Your Camcorder” which apparently is like Bill Myers’ 10 DVD set released about a year ago

Yet again, another excellent newsletter, it is well worth taking a look if you are not already a subscriber:

Click here for Nick Laight’s What Really Makes Money newsletter

Issue 11 of Iain Maitland’s Passive Income Newsletter arrived yesterday and, as usual, there were a couple of sales letters in the envelope with it.

First of all there was the small advert for the Driver’s Handbook:

“Drivers – Here’s the Insider Information the Police Don’t Want You to Have!”

Streetwise Publications have recently been pushing this in the National Press with huge, full page advertisements which I doubt are very cheap.

Second was an 8 page sales letter from Janine Stafford about self defence – selling a £97 DVD showing you how you can defend yourself from violent attack.

However, the third sales letter was my favourite because it’s a new product which is called

“How To Make £1,000 A Day Before Breakfast”

The letter is written by an ex-factory worker called Terry Wilson. I’ve never heard of him before but his story is quite interesting.

The sales letter explains that Terry was working one day, as usual, in his job at a car parts factory where he had worked for 23 years. His boss came by and made a flippant remark to him and he walked out.

Just like that, he’d had enough.

Anyway, the story goes that his wife is very, very mad at him and tells him to go and pick up his son from school the next day where he is helping with a car-boot sale.

When Terry gets there he finds a book which he buys for 25p.

This book reveals a remarkable “lost system” for creating cash. Terry’s research on Google finds that the book was used by someone in the 20s, a couple of people in the 30s, one person in the 40s and the book’s previous owner in the 50s and 60s.

All of them became fabulously rich from following the books teachings:

“How Two Words Scrawled in a Jumble-Sale Book Took Me From
Brush-Wielding Joke to Complete Financial Freedom in Just 180 Days!”

The remainder of the sales letter describes how Terry made £5,000 in his first month from the technique without any selling, with no staff or premises and without any start-up capital.

This system is apparently so good that Terry admits he would be “suicidal” if he made as little as £5,000 in a month nowadays.

As with all Streetwise’s products, there’s a lengthy guarantee period for this one – 90 Days. If I don’t think it’s worth at least 100 times the £39.95 I paid, I can return it for a full unconditional, no-questions-asked refund.

So, I have fallen for the sales letter. To tell you the truth I am intrigued about what it could be.

I’m guessing it’s some kind of “middle-man” opportunity where you use someone else’s money and goods or where you match up people with needs with people with products; something of that variety.

We’ll see.

Stay tuned.

Although I have been actively buying Business Opportunities for about 2 years now I had never managed to get on Streetwise Publication’s mailing list.

Reading a review of John Harrison’s book “The Money Making Magic of a Funfair Goldfish” I decided to contact the company and buy the book.

I knew that by buying a product from Streetwise, I would get onto the mailing list.

The book was very good, full of interesting stories mixed with money making tips and ideas. A full review will be available shortly.

After buying this in January, loads of offer for various Business Opportunities have come through the door. And, of course, all of the sales letters have gone into my swipe file. The sales letters are excellent, John Harrison knows how to write good copy.

I must admit that I haven’t purchased much from Streetwise – just 2 books and the following newsletters:

(a) The eBay Kommando newsletter, edited by Oliver Goehler and
(b) The Passive Income newsletter, edited by Iain Maitland

So far I have had several issues of each. The Passive Income Newsletter (PIN) is very good and the editor, Iain Maitland, does a great job in my opinion.

He recently contacted me to say:

“Hi Ben,

I just stumbled across the review you’ve done of PIN – thanks for kind words. It is a bona-fide product and we do put a lot into it.

We have opened up a little from passivre income as the feedback from readers suggests they want to know lots about all sorts of things and I have tried to meet that in the newsletter and weekly emails.

Cheers

Iain”

You can see the review of PIN at:

http://www.BizOppsUK.com/iain_maitland.php

I’ve put up a little information about Streetwise Publications on the site:

http://www.BizOppsUK.com/streetwise_publications.php