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I have mentioned these facts in almost every issue of P2p News but I have decided to repeat them once again, as I am constantly looking for new markets and I am striving to introduce new people to the concept of making an online income. The biggest growth industry is crime and the second largest is crime prevention. The second is catching up faster than ever before. Good or bad news? It would be very good news, if natural evolution was proceeding at an optimum rate. When the rate of change is too fast, the consequences can be disastrous. Biological and financial predators follow the same evolutionary patterns. When the dominant predator develops weapons of destruction, the hunted evolve more deadly defences. I was surprised to learn that many species of rattle snakes have evolved into a species which has no rattle, in only a few decades. The snake’s rattle, which used to act as a deterrent and warn the predator to keep its distance, was no defence against man, who hunted them for fashionable clothing. Many species have only survived, because they have stopped issuing the warning rattle. They are striking without any warning now and they have developed a more potent venom, which can kill prey the size of man faster than ever before. This venom is one of the most effective weapons against diseases such as cancer, strokes and heart failure but finding the snakes to milk this resource has become more and more of a problem for the herpetologist. It makes a great deal of sense to ask yourself what ploys have the cyberspace predators developed to abscond with your money in the last year or two?

The most recent have been the weapons used to bring e-commerce web sites down with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and the dreaded but least understood i-threads. There are not many defences against DDOS and those that do exist are often breached by the criminal community, fairly quickly. It is advisable to understand the hackers modus operandi before investing in any online venture. A great explanation is given here. HackAttack. I-threads are becoming less common but they will be back and they will be more dangerous than ever before, so once again it is advisable to know your enemy’s tactics. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Diagnosis and treatment for this least understood con trick should be read, absorbed and inwardly digested. I-thread diagnosis.


The answer to that is very simple. Nature always introduces an unprecedented factor when the rate of change becomes too fast. Nobody can predict which direction global markets will take, but nature has also equipped us all with a vastly under rated asset, common sense. USE IT. Do not follow the herd and get taken in by dreams of riches, which are perpetrated by those, whose only intention is to spread stories with no more validity than the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes. If any of you are Terry Pratchett fans, you will will be familiar with the old crone, “Granny Weatherwax” and her philosophy of “headology,” which she claims, beats any form of magic, even “Wizard Magic” and “Invisible Runes.” Use Granny’s brand of “headology” and you will not need the best program since sliced bread, to help you make money. Walk down your local High Street and identify gaps in the market. Do you have any local traders that are selling the sort of things which would be cheap and easy to deliver to a person’s home computer? How about sheet music, vegan fashions, knitting and crochet patterns, subscriptions to expensive magazines, old maps or steam train pictures? Steam trains have an extraordinary calming effect on little boys and grumpy old men. Many old grannies like me, will cough up a fair bit of cash for yet another enchanting cat picture. Identify your market then start resourcing products. More about getting your online business started on my Newcomers page.


What industries could survive in a global recession? Merchants who trade in second hand goods usually have a field day. Many readers will remember the early 1990s, when anybody with a basic knowledge of antiques or collectibles could pick up bargains to sell at auction from car boot and garage sales. Look out for astute second hand merchants. I would love to start trading antiques again but those days have long gone. I have found a second hand merchant who is selling liquidated electronic stock on e-bay and other auctions sites. This looks like the hall mark of business that will survive the recession. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This merchant owns a paid advertising program. You could get a chance to share in his success by advertising your products on his site and you can get paid rebates for doing just that. Too good to be true? Maybe but he is not promoting the 99% of ponzi programs and get rich quick schemes that have fooled so many in the past. MyGoldVault advertises and sells real products and services online.

If you sign up for a program like MyGoldVault, you will need a product to advertise and sell in the site’s rotation. Select one which the owner of MyGoldVault, (Kirk) can evaluate and recommend from his own experience. He and his sales executives need to negotiate media contracts. I was very surprised to learn that a fantastic product like Milliput is not, as well known in Canada, as it is in the UK. Who could tell you if Milliput can plug up leaks in freezing or scorching temperature better than Kirk? It is also an ideal product to sell to fossil enthusiasts or porcelain restorers.

You may not be able to compete with local wholesalers and sell Kirk’s electronic stock in your area but he is a second hand merchant who buys anything saleable. He uses, what Granny Weatherwax would describe as “headology” rather than magic formulae to resource products. He looks out for niche products like odd size bras and offers them to his members. There are plenty of people in my part of London who will buy 34E or 38A bras at a reasonable cost. Join his program even if all you need is cheap bras for yourself, wife, girl friend, mother, grandmother or neighbour who can’t find any to fit her in your home town.

I have mentioned the advice of one “old crone”, the fictitious Granny Weatherwax in Terry Pratchett’s novels. Use Granny’s brand of “headology” and stop searching for “Wizard Magic”. Leave the big boys in the “multiverse” to create fire spells and spread smoke screens. Granny’s brand of headology or common sense is a great asset. Bloated plutocrats such as the Emperor who displayed his New Clothes in public have been around for donkeys years. Somebody with some common sense will show them up for what they really are. What is female emancipation in this day and age. An ageist or sexist remark? Granny says it is a female complaint which should not be discussed among men! What do other old crones have to say on this matter?

I have quoted a lascivious old crone as being the one who postulated the 1# rated business model for Internet marketing and web site promotion. I stand by that statement. The fictitious “Fanny Hillman” had something to say on the matter in her cartoon book, “Memoirs of a Jewish Madam.” I have not heard of any wizard, who can devise a better formulae for Internet sales and marketing than “Fanny”, whose immortal words are quoted here. THIS IS BUSINESS. “You have got it. You sell it. You keep it. You sell it again.” I am not suggesting that network marketers should try to sell the same assets as Fanny but there are marketing tools which you can be buy, keep and and sell over and over again. There must be some creative artists, who can create a cartoon book which equals or surpasses the works of Fanny Hillman. If so he or she has a market for a great talent in this day and age.


Is there a third old crone who could add a few words? There could be. What pacifies little boys and grumpy old men? I mentioned something at the beginning of this newsletter. Can any of my readers come up with better steam train pictures than two of my favourite men friends who resource saleable goods for the not so wealth to sell on Internet auction sites? What do you have up your sleeve Kirk? What does John from Crewe in Cheshire, UK have in his trouser pockets to defeat your opening gambit?