I Can Make You Rich contest!!!

[Michael Neill]

Hey, genii -

My friend Paul McKenna has agreed to join me on "You Can Have What You Want" on Thursday, October 4th to discuss his newest bestseller, "I Can Make You Rich".  We've decided to have a little contest - prize is a free copy of the book and CD delivered to your door!

Here's the question:

If you woke up one morning in a place where you knew no one, with $100 in your pocket, how long would it take you to double your money and how would you do it?

You can post your responses on the board - we're looking for creativity, innovation and fun. 

We'll read the winner(s) out on the air on the 4th!

love,
michael

PS - Thanks to Martin White for catalyzing the idea elsewhere on the boards!

[happylife]

I'd buy Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Rich book, do what he says in it and will surely have doubled my money within a couple of hours of finishing the book!
love
Etty
xx

[D - J]

oh yeah I forgot to say how long , mm, maybe a day or two (depending on finding location to draw and people who want a portrait,). 

[Baka]

I'd find something that is only available in one shop in the place but is needed every day (e.g. bread or milk), buy it all and sell it for twice as much as I bought it for.

Supply and demand!

[Jay Budzynski]

I would buy a big sack of potatoes which holds about 250-300 potatoes per sack and would cost about $15- turn them in to baked potatoes- buy several copies of the book and for every 50 baked potato that I sold would give a copy of the book away- lol  I would sell the backed potato for $1.50-

Jay 

[D - J]

Brilliant idea Jay!, and the least amount of work to, Both ideas.

[happylife]

My hubby Martin says he'd buy lots of beer and by the time he'd finished drinking it he'd be seeing double the money 
etty
xx

[D - J]

buy some face paint and hire some fancy dress (like clown suit or charlie chaplin suit) do some miming or just stand still - in a rich part (or middle  )of town. Just doing a bit of brainstorming...

[Jay Budzynski]

Ok- I would buy big 500g instant coffee tub- which on average- you would get 150 cups out of- would set up a coffee stand- within a business area and sell the coffee cups of coffee for $2.00 a cup- a good 500g coffee would cost $22 or less as I am doing a bit of guess work converting a UK price to a US price- again would buy a number of copies of the book and for every 30 cups sold would give a copy of the book away-

Jay 

[happylife]

I'd find a toyshop and buy the cutest cuddliest toy puppy I could find, give it a very unusual name (Paul McKenna maybe?), buy lots of sweets and chocolates and put them in a basket.

Then I'd stand near the toyshop, cuddling the toy puppy with a sign round his neck saying "guess my name for 50p - and you can take me home".  When they failed to find the name I'd let them take a couple of sweets from the basket anyway and cuddle the puppy too. 

That would double my money in no more than a day or two.

I could supplement my income by saying, as the child cuddles the puppy and reluctantly hands it back, "that shop over there sells puppies just like this one". Then once a few people had gone into the shop to buy the puppy and probably other stuff I'd go in and let the owner know what I was doing and ask for commission!

etty
xx

[aniinl]

Etty, maybe it's a good idea to make the deal about the commission *beforehand*

I would either try and find a *very* good copy machine - but that might take some time...
So for fast money I would buy a second hand wedding dress and then stand on the street crying that my purse got stolen and begging for money for a cab to the church... Depending on how high the cab fares are in that place "where I know no one" I might have doubled the $100 in less than an hour.
... and then I would continue!

Anja

[D - J]

Buy the best candy floss or pop corn making machine and relevent ingredients for under a hundred obviously, hire a place in a fete or car boot sale I(or stand at the entrance at the car boot sale asking permission and paying whatever fee for a spot I have to  ) - if and sell portions 2.00 a bag..., hopefully a day or two, finding that car boot sales are usually on sat and sundays now and fetes usually in the afternoon -if its summer that is.

[Jay Budzynski]

Ok I would buy a karaoke machine - and people would pay to stop me singing- I think some one would give $200 just to move on- I am thinking about 2 hours out side a really high class restaurant would do the job lol

Jay

[D - J]

Buy some fimo, make a hundred  and 50 or even more ... little animals/creatures etc sell them at 2.50 a pop (ask a restaurant or coffee shop or one of those seaside shops with cafe attached to them who sell lots of little bits and sovenirs etc, if I could borrow their oven to bake the fimo (this needs to be done to complete the process) give the shop the 50pence from each one. Now depending on how long I take to find a shop and make the animals sell them - this may take a couple of weeks mmm,  or  could find a shop straight away (make them in a couple of days) and they sell like hot cakes  iit could take just a day or so. Hey I could hire a car and sell them at a car boot sale ....do that for the pop corn as well.

[Michelle Young]

I would call Britney Spears, then tell her she can Feel Happy Now as I Changed Her Life In 7 Days whilst using some Instant Confidence and I Can Make Her Thin with using some Hypnotherapy she can Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway as she would Stop Smoking Now and I Can Mend Her Broken Heart and with some Supreme Self Confidence she will Sleep Like A Log, whilst she Eliminate Stress and she Can Have What She Wants and I Can Make Her Rich......... Wont she ..... as she makes me rich 

[D - J]

Hire a van, park outside Ikea, offer to take to the persons home any furniture they want that they didn't plan on getting (eg - can't fit in their car/van) and/or offer to assemble the item for them - if Ikea did not like this then just make business cards or put advert in Yellow pages or hand out leaflets 'near the store... Say 40 pounds for delivery and assembly or if large items 70pounds. There could be a radius of say 30 miles - could adapt prices and negotiate distance if need be.. May take a weekend  more or less to double the 100 pounds (due to assembly times ect may take a few days longer - could get help for that).

There are always people who see (in store) something they want and haven't planned for. Or people who see the advert just want it delivered and /or assembled. If the company has its own delivery system then just the assembly part would be a good idea.

[D - J]

Buy a light sabre and a 'how to be a jedi (master)' book learn all the moves of the jedi and then teach who ever wants to learn diffferent moves with a lightsabre. 10 pounds (20 dollars) a lesson for 1 hour.  This could be done on the beach or in a park or preferably at a Star Wars Exhibition  lasting 3days for 8 hours a  day - phew! 10 pounds a day for my pitch  The  padawans can use sticks  .

[D - J]

A summer one -

Buy a tub of suncream, walk round the beach offering massage - whilst rubbing in the suncream (suncream optional) perhaps buy some massage oils aswell as an alternative to suncream, 5 pounds a go for 20 minutes. Plus some Jedi tips thrown in for free.

[aniinl]

There are always people who see (in store) something they want and haven't planned for.

I know what you did last weekend... 

[D - J]

I know what you did last weekend...

? Thats over my head...

[D - J]

Buy a ladder, sponge, bucket, water - clean windows  20 pound a time - 10 houses later...

[happylife]

Well I'd buy or borrow a cheap chair and start by offering a passer-by a free session of one of the two incredibly original, innovative and fun therapies I practise (Metamorphic Technique and BodyTalk System).    They're original and innovative because they're little known and few people in the UK practise them.  Fun? Well...I could always wear a red nose or tell a few jokes...    Once I have a real person sitting down and I'm giving them this treatment, other people will stop out of curiosity so I then offer them a 10 minute taster session for ?5.

In a busy street it would only take a few hours to double my money. 

For further income, if they liked the taster session I tell them that if they book a full session in the next 3 days they can have ?5 off.

If none of that works, I could always give Riff Fingers a call - you're overflowing with great ideas!

love
Etty
xx

[aniinl]

? Thats over my head...

Ok I have never heard that expression before :-) but from the questionmark I'm assuming that my comment needs more explanation?
I just found your Ikea idea so good and so true that I thought you must have been at Ikea yourself recently, to have come up with this

[D - J]

yeah yeah  and guess what theres a bit missing  from my filing cabinet and they can't replace it because the part is to big to post...I've been told I need to go back to the store to collect the part but they can offer compensation (not that I asked for it) well it is an hours drive, I don't mind really, however...I could provide a service for this aswell! collect the parts for people they can't deliver themselves....

[Baka]

I had the Ikea experience once- bought a chest of drawers at the start and a load of other stuff on the way around. Got to the car and realised the stuff we got was bigger than we thought. So the dilemma- leave the kids behind or leave some stuff? Luckily we managed to get it all in but I had to have my seat pushed right forward. Ever seen a 6ft man driving a VW Golf with his knees touching the dashboard? Me neither but a lot of people in North London did that day and I got some pretty strange looks!

Another service for Ikea- A seat outside, a CD player and headphones and charge people a fiver to sit and listen to the CD "Overcome Emotional Spending" that Paul McKenna did for The Sunday Times a couple of weeks back before they go into the shop.

CD- Free in the paper
CD Player and Headphones ?20
Chair from Ikea ?20
Batteries ?10

Total outlay ?50 so could double up and have two customers at a time.

?5 a listen which lasts approx 15 minutes= ?20 per hour.

With two sets of equipment, you could double your money in approx. 5 hours.

Once finished, you could then take the chairs back for a refund ;-)

[D - J]

 Like that, that and the potato one

Very good Lee.

[aniinl]

It's amazing with Mr. Ikea being one of the richest men in the world - there still seem to be some money making ideas that he hasn't thought of yet... 

[aniinl]

... so that means you really are genii  forgot to mention that...

[D - J]

hop on the ferry to France, buy a handful of those light up Eifel towers, back on the ferry go to Blackpool - sell them twice the price in the winter - with the rest of the Blackpool illuminations going on around the place Ok a silly one, but what the hay..(besides wasn't the Blackpool tower based on the top part of the design of the Eifel tower?)

[D - J]

Buy a step ladder, a saucepan, a football, some stickytape and binoculars, tape the binoculars onto the football put the football in the saucepan (make sure it fits, maybe just slightly to big) then put the saucepan on the ladder, now you have a homemade telescope ...to look at the stars! of course, can't really think of how to draw the crowds with this, perhaps on bonfire night, but the sky will be pretty smoggy I guess you could look at the fireworks ! Or just buy some potatoes (ask Jay) and sell jacket potatoes.... with 5 mins on the binocuscope a time ... and a sparkler thrown in (not literally) say 2 pounds per person all in all... how long  a few bonfire nights (there are always more than just the one nowadays)

[D - J]

Does anyone know if Mcdonalds or Burger king do deliveries? If not.....hire a moped etc...(now I can use some profits from previous ideas ..perhaps)

[happylife]

  Neil I just love your saucepan/telescope thingy.  I can't even figure out how it would work but your description really made me giggle and anyway, if I was walking along the road on a beautiful autumn bonfire night, and was told that for a couple of quid I could have a sparkler in one hand, a hot jacket potato in the other and look at the amazing starlit sky and fabulous fireworks through some crazy contraption made out of a saucepan, a football and some sellotape...well I'd pay up straightaway!

The other day I was hoping you'd win just for the sheer number of ideas you've come up with.  Now I want you to win because you're completely off the wall (that's a compliment ) and you've given me a real laugh, and nice warm memories of many bonfire nights through the years (still want that hug emoticon)

I can't wait for your next suggestion!

Etty
xx

[happylife]

so you already have the book???  maybe there's a chance for me yet     I'd better get thinking....
I know the books are only a tenner in Asda but it seems more special if you win something.  I remember winning a toothbrush when I was very little.  How I loved that toothbrush...
xx
oh and thanks for the hug emoticon - i'll use it soon!

[martinwhite]

Riff,

Surely the answer is to win the book, read it and then sell it to someone else on here?

 

Martin

[D - J]

   

[D - J]

Face painting - not just for kids but say for any party, again print of leaflets and cards - even advertise on own website advertising it (set this up in an internet cafe) 35 pounds approx for the website and hosting for a year etc (ask internet cafe owner or find one where the same computer can be used) ...the leaflets can be posted into cinemas, pubs, post offices,  business offices etc as the face painting could be used inconjuction with say an office party fancy dress (I've been to a few) or end of 'event' company parties (I've been to a few) and or especially great at haloween and Christmas ...and at bonfires. Best over the christmas period?

[happylife]

I'd phone my older brother who looks uncannily like Paul McKenna, ask him to come and meet me, give him a copy of I can Make You Rich, get him to read it and learn it very quickly (he's very clever  ) while I went looking for a large friendly empty coffee shop.   I'd tell them Paul McKenna is in the area and would like to give free "I can make you rich" talks through the day.  The manager and I would agree on a percentage of the takings and since the coffee shop was empty when I went in, I could negotiate a pretty good cut for me (and my brother).  The manager would gladly set up a board outside announcing the free talks to draw in the crowds as English people (well...some) are real suckers for anything with the words "free" and "rich" on it, and by the end of the day we'd have more than doubled our money.

When the newspaper reporters turned up hoping for a scoop on Paul, my brother would be really boring and have nothing of interest to say so that they never bothered to write it up in the papers and the real Paul would never find out and couldn't come and sue us and deprive us of our hard earned money.  Unless of course they decide to publish a picture of Paul with the headline "Is this the most boring man in Britain?"  (    to the Vicar of Dibley)

Etty
xx

[D - J]

now how to double it again.... Breakdown at the bottom of the page

So if I was for instance to take the window cleaning idea...

I found myself in a place with a 100 pounds not knowing anybody, I would go to the Library, use the internet (free) look up accomodation - for piece of mind, I mean it is also an idea not to do this and get straight on with it but.. ok, so then I found out the cheapest is 13 pounds a night for the weekend (one night not available so the next cheapest with availability would be 16.50 on a Friday) so this would be 42.50 -thats my accomodation covered - also has internet access and a phone (for contact etc). Okay hire a ladder for a week would cost 30pounds - weekend 18.75 so lets say a weekend. (add a day 7.50) lets say 2pounds sponge, window cleaner couple of bottles 10 pounds, washing up liquid 80 pence, 3 pound squeegee  thing, 8 pounds towels and dish cloths ect.. reciept book 2.50, notebook 20pence, couple of pens 20 pence each (or get a few from Argos -  free..who me? )

okay -

20 pounds per house - 10 houses = 200 pounds  so roughly 20 mins per house (can be a bit flexible with this say up to 30 min - 45 min) say  5 hours work 10 houses - 30 min each, okay well thats doubled my money already, in just one day. (I could do another 5 with half hour lunch break) extra 100 pounds = 300.


So

42.50 Accom
18.75 +
 7.50  Hire ladder + extra day
4.00 sponges
10.00 window cleaner (few bottles)
.80p washing up liquid
3.00 squeegee
2.00 bucket
.50p notepad
.30 pens
2.50 receipt book

=
91.85 pence enough left over for lunch or any spare things.

2 days work = 600 pounds (if I wanted I could always do 5 hours on the Friday - lets say this is included in the total - just incase the Saturday and Sunday won't fill my schedule - if it did then that would be a bonus!)

Now I have made 600 pounds, all going well.

Now I can eitheir carry on with this or  try something different. Like ... in my celebration I would maybe have a drink down the pub or a few pubs (not getting  to drunk - who me ? ) find the best service I have been given by the bar staff, Then hire a hall (or even the pub) for lets say a halloween party (if its haloween) where I could then proceed to - sell beer (if its a hall - buy a keg for 140 pounds - some wine etc, soft drinks) , charge on the door, have my binocuscope going on - any one for baked spuds? hire a face painter, DJ, Hire a jedi trainer, a mime artist a magician a few fireworks have free party games and buffet (baked spuds 50p though) .....etc....etc ....

eventually having enough money to open a youth hostel, charging 17 pounds a night (with a jedi training -optional), with my own music studio and artists studio on the premises somewhere...and knowing lots of people  

[footreader]

I could double my money within two hours.  I would position myself in the busiest shopping centre, write a sign saying "$25 for Foot Reading" and then I grab a passer by and offer the first reading for free, so that others could see what is going on and form a curious crowd.  It would take 20 mins per reading and I would probably do it in under two hours, now I think about it.
I know it is possible because although I live in England, when I was in Hawaii on a two month trip, I did similar by asking a nail bar if I could do the readings there and they let me do it for a 20% cut.
Jane Sheehan
www.footreading.com

[D - J]

I could increase interest (therefore perhaps increase inflow of profit - maybe) with offering a free glass of wine and or massage just for the adults  while posing for a portrait drawing and instead for the kids, a  free balloon or badge.

[Gordon]

 If I woke up one morning in a place where I knew no one, I had $100 in my pocket, and I wanted to double my money, I imagine something amazing would happen. How long would it take to double my money? How would I do it? Well ... the "hows" become clear.... when I start to imagine it happening now ... as I type and read along ...

...  imagine I am standing on a busy sidewalk ... and ... I am near an outdoor public square and market next to the water ... where lots of people are gathering to eat ... sight see ... and shop ... and there is a small hardware store just accross the street that runs parallel the market ... I walk over to the hardware store and purchase the item that drew my attention to the hardware store in the first place ... a $12.00 fold-out picnic chair ... (you know the kind with the beer holder pockets built right into the arm rests) ... and I bring this chair back to the market area ... unfold it ... sit down ... and start to relax ...

... I notice that there are benches surrounding the market square ... for people to sit on and I am slightly dissappointed about my purchase ... until ... I realize what I really like about this chair ... it's really comfortable ... and this comfort I feel ... starts to warm the idea that ... I really belong here ... even if I don't know where I am ........... In my comfort ... I begin to imagine the money I have growing like a tree in front of me ... I imagine the piles of money getting larger and larger ... trading it with people for  things I want ... and helping others plant their own money trees and watching them help others do the same ... images of handshakes and laughter fill my mind ... I then bring my attention back to my surroundings and just start to watch and listen ... to the people eating ... and walking ... and talking ... and laughing ... and feeding the birds ... and  eating ... and walking ... and talking ... and laughing ... and ... comfortably spacing out a little bit ... all of a sudden ... a thought rises  spontaneously ... I hear myself say  "I could be very useful to some people here ... and I'm sure somebody would love to pay me for it " ... Just then ... I see a man unloading boxes of vegetables near the loading area of the public market ... I notice he is stacking the boxes half way between his truck and a produce store that is located further down in the market ... I walk over and start to carry these boxes closer to the produce store ... " Good good " ... the man running the produce store says, as I stack the boxes right in front of him . " You must be new ... finally someone who delivers my boxes right to me ... this saves my back you know "...... " I'm just here to make things easier " I say ...  and I assume that he thinks I work for the delivery company. I then walk over to grab another box from the pile the delivery guy is making ... " Thanks man " the delivery guy says to me ... and I assume the delivery guy thinks I work for the produce store ... the delivery guy continues " Hey ... your boss over there has yelled at me before for not bringing these boxes right to him ... but I don't think he realizes I have a tight schedule to keep ... I have deliveries to make. " ... I then reply ..." Hey ... I know what your saying man ... we all have schedules to keep .... I'm just here to make it easier. "  ... after helping with the boxes ... I walk back to my chair ... get comfy ... and wait to see who else I could possibly  help ...


Two days have passed ... I've spontaneously and freely helped out ... in some way or other ... 15 out of 30  businesses that surround this public market area ... I've learned many people's names that work in the area ... I have followed my curiosity  and fascination ... and have learned something unique and interesting about many of these individuals  and businesses ... and on this second day ... after revisiting these people  ... talking to them a little bit more ... letting them know I would  love to help them out any time they needed ... I received 3 job offers to start immediately ... I met some really cool people that I could easily see myself developing friendships with ....


double my money -- 3 days approximately (depending on what I get payed) -- quadrupled my opportunities -- with the people I've met -- and having experienced the evidence that ... comfortably imagining a specific goal and spontaneously following my curiosities ... can sometimes ... really quickly lead me to creating the opportunities I want in life ... priceless I say ... priceless ... maybe I'll try this .... Does Australia have any good public Markets ... it's getting cold here in Vancouver ...


Gordon

[D - J]

big bit of cardboard a stick, sticky tape and a black marker pen make a 'protest board' reading:

HAS ANYONE ELSE WOKEN UP IN THIS PLACE WITH 100 POUNDS (DOLLARS etc)
AND DOESN'T KNOW ANYONE?

 

[happylife]

I'd go up to the strange guy with the protest board and say "what a coincidence, me too!! and then we'd go off and find Gordon and offer to help him out on his excellent mission to make things easier for people and between the 3 of us we'd have a great multi-talented, fun, creative and original team capable of helping anyone with anything.
  We couldn't fail to quadruple our money within hours. 
And if we didn't at the very least we'd have made new friends and had fun along the way.

xx

[Gordon]

 With the popularity of reality shows on television ... as I'm sure we're all aware of ... I can't help but to get curious about the possibility of a new television show called ... "Double Your Money" (does anyone know? ... is there one already?) ... if we do create this show ... we will transport contestants ... leaving them only with the clothes on there back and a 100 dollars in there pocket ... into an area where they've never been ... where they know nobody ... and we see how long it takes to double there money ...

... the camera people would spread-out ... film from a distance ... just to ensure there is no extra attention brought to the contestants ... (the contestants would have lapel mics on ... and the general public would be unaware of there situation) ...

... first person to double (or maybe even ... first person to $1000 ... just to make it interesting ... wins) ... and I think it might be very interesting to notice ... the difference between the ones who made the money quickly and those who took a little longer ... the beliefs they have ... challenges/opportunities they faced ... there people skills ... and so on ...

.. hosted by Michael Neill would be good ... oooh ... another dynamic all together ... there could be little prizes for people ... if they accomplish certain tasks ... like if they help another contestant earn a certain amount of money ... they could be awarded a mini coaching session with Michael that we get to see ... and the contestan's coaching sessions could possibly help them with the goal of making there money grow and potentially winning the game .... wow ....

... anyone else curious about investigating the opportunities of creating a show like this ... or know anyone that would?

Gordon

[D - J]

That and/or a board/Dvd/computer game ...

[lorna]

The place is strange? I know no person? Then I will start by meeting people. I'd find out if I was the only person who found herself in this strange place knowing noboby. I'd ask the people I meet about their dreams and what makes their hearts sing. I'd ask them who they know and what they can tell me about the people they know. I'd become interested in how I can participate in this strange place.

Then I'd go for lunch 

I'd take my time over lunch. Really chewing the food and appreciating the textures and the tastes.

Yeah - this could take some time! 

I've met some really lovely people and enjoyed a great lunch and it's only the first day - so there is some pogress .... 

I know, I need a plan! So I'd go and buy a huge piece of paper and lots of coloured pens and find a cool spot in the sunshine in the park and settle down to make a plan. (this place is sunny and hot, right?)

Then I'd make a plan 

Then I'd go for a beer so I can think about the plan some more in a different kind of way. Then I'd get a little bit drunk and tell people in the bar about my plan. And they'd think it was the coolest plan they'd ever heard of.    I'd have guessed they possibly would have, because I was talking to their freinds earlier in the street.

They'd say, "God, Lorna, that's a great idea, I'm so pleased I met you this afternoon in this bar. What are the chances of that?!" And they'd give me their money and say thay wanted to join in my plan. I'd be delightfully surprised and happy at this result as I thought the plan was potentially a bit cookie and might be received with cynicism when I came up with it 

However all's well that ends well.

The plan? To have a paper aeroplane making frenzy in the park. Adults only.

Do you think they'd buy it? 

Hope so - I think I may have spent a good bit of my ?100 by this point, and I've got a healthy appetite. 

By tea-time, all going well I'll have doubled my money. 

The good thing about the day I've had is if people don't buy the aeroplane making frenzy - I'll have met lots of lovely people who'd be happy to put me up for the night! Tomorrow the ?100 for the next money game will arrive and this time I'll know loads of people.  Good odds huh?

PS Michael I think you're marvellous x
PPS Paul I think you're elegantly masterful x  ... which is also marvellous ...

[bhouncy]

1. Find Internet cafe.

2. Find most populated forum on the net in an age range that will suit the plan. Of course it would have to be in English as I see the largest is a Japanese site and it would take quite a bit of time to learn Japanese (accelerated learning or not).

3. Phone up large companies and offer to display their click able logo as a large banner that directs users to their site in all my posts. Once we agree on a price for each banner clicked or a fixed price ($200 for the day say for the purposes of this exercise) and get the owner of the cafe to be paid the money to his account in return for giving me the cash I can then... after messing around with some technical issues... I would dive for the forums.

4. Post like crazy and make as many friends as possible. I will laugh at everyone's jokes. I will complement as many people as possible on their posts. I will add sweet but short comments.

At the end of the day I would collect my money and be on my way 

Another idea is to...

1. Find an Internet cafe.

2. Ask the owner if he would agree if I set up a website that he would give me an agreed amount of cash if I let him take the takings from my venture.

3. Get in contact with someone who is selling domain names and work out a price (I read that you can get them for about $70 for 2 years).

4. Phone up lots of companies and find if they would like to advertise on my site. (I've not looked into how this is done on the web although it might be a good idea to find out just in case I find myself lost with $100 in my pocket).

5. Quickly set up fairly basic site with a list of banners and links to other companies.

6. Find that very large forum again and be the most likable guy on the net 

Both ideas still have to be investigated for their practicality and time frame although I think the tried and tested method of advertising through clickable links makes busy websites very rich.

[D - J]

Thats so cool, I didn't know about clicking banners thing.

Another idea would be to buy a magic set and learn magic (may take a week or little less), Ask around for an assistant, make a few friends in the process (audience and future business partners or just friends)  a few business cards sent out etc (flyers) pubs, parties etc...oh and a top hat maybe made from  cardboard or it may come from the magic set. Double my 100 pounds in no time...Magic.

[aniinl]

So, who won??? I missed the show... went shoe shopping.. (sorry Michael, priorities...)
Did I win a book, so I can buy more shoes?

Anja 

[martinwhite]

When does the show appear in the archives? I just checked and it's not there yet? I have a long trip on Monday/Tuesday and I wanted to burn it to audio CD to take in the car with me.

Thanks,

Martin