A Million-pound business in ONE AFTERNOON.

We at Third Millennium Man want you our readers to have the best of everything.  To be the best at everything.  To this end, we try to provide you with tools we believe will help you to make that happen.  And boy oh boy, this article ought to put fire in your belly.  We have all dreamed big dreams; of the big car, the big bank account, the bikini-clad girls aboard our yacht in Monaco; and here is something that we believe might just make it work. This article is to show you how you – yes you – can make a start on your very own million-pound business, at your PC, in one single afternoon.

The following is an extract from a Third Millennium Man Training Course that’s currently being pieced together.  At the end, you’ll be invited to register your interest in this course; there’s no obligation, naturally, we’re just trying to get a handle on things and a little bit of feedback from this taster.  We’ll let you know when it’s ready.

You need more than just a great product to succeed in business.  Ideally, you want hordes of wealthy customers, eager to buy your product.  Work out what those wealthy customers want, find a way to give it to them, and you’ve got yourself a million-pound business.  Follow these four steps, and you will have created a great product, found the hordes of wealthy customers, and measured how likely they are to buy from you.

Before anybody asks, this article is NOT going to put a seven-figure sum into your bank account in one evening.  If that’s what you’re thinking, then read the headline again (yes there are ways in which you can put a million in your bank account in one afternoon, but that’s a whole different can o’ worms which we’ll be looking at another time).  This is about coming up with an idea for a million-pound business product that you can sell online, testing to see if the market is there for it, seeing if people can afford it, and checking it will work.  It can all be done from your PC, in one afternoon, mostly for free.  Here are the methods you need, the tools you need, and everything else. It’s about as risk-free as we can make it.   Get these things right, and the money will soon follow.  For convenience, we’ve broken it down into FOUR steps. Steps 1 – 3 shouldn’t take too long. Step 4 is worth taking a little time to get right.

Our legal team have asked us to remind you that this article is information only, and does not constitute ‘business advice’.  If you decide to act on it, then that’s your own choice.  Third Millennium Man is not entitled to a share in your profits, nor are we liable for your losses.  The success or failure of any business venture is down to you.

And if you think this article is good, remember – it’s only a taster of what’s in our Third Millennium Man course.  There’s a heck of a lot more good stuff to come.

So, are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…

Step 1: Come up with that good idea for a product.

It all starts with a good idea for a product.  That doesn’t necessarily mean knocking up a gadget with a few hand tools in the back of your garage; it means coming up with something that people will want, and will be prepared to spend their money on.

So sit down and make a list of TEN things that people might buy and will turn you a profit.

Stuck already?  Then try one of these four methods to fire your imagination:

Take a look at what the Top Selling products on Amazon are.

You can find out what the best-selling products in the UK are here; for Amazon worldwide, try here.  Don’t just take the easy option and try to copy or undercut people selling these items (if it’s already ‘all the rage’ then you’ve missed the boat) but try and think outside the box.  Can you come up with something that compliments those products, or enhances them in some way?  iPhone Apps and cases are a great example.  And look at all the complimentary books that surround the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, the DaVinci Code, the Holy Bible….

Look at the things you do as a part of your daily routine.

Anything you do over and over again has the potential for streamlining and improvement.  You use somebody else’s million-pound business ideas every day, probably without even realising it.  Remember, somebody had to invent the toothbrush, the biro, toilet paper…..

Make a note of things you use but aren’t happy with.

There are so many Apps, gadgets & whatnot that have been created through frustration, there just isn’t the time or space here to do them justice.  Pretty much anything can be made better, faster, cheaper, bigger, smaller, prettier.  Necessity?  No, desperation is the mother of invention.  Think about what seriously ticks you off, and use that as a launch pad to come up with a million-pound business idea to fix it.

Digital products are usually the best choice.  By ‘digital’ we mean something that can be downloaded or emailed.  It can be music, video, software, an App, a written document, pictures, and so much more.  The advantages are that you don’t need to buy product in advance, store unsold product, worry about postage costs; best of all, you can fulfill demand, should your hot new product sell like hot cakes.  Create your own digital product, or hire someone to do it for you.  We at Third Millennium Man like the idea of creating new Apps for phones.  You can outsource the actual creation of your App, to your design brief, for next to nothing if you know where to look (examples are SEO Clerks and Fiverr though there are loads more to choose from, at varying prices and varying qualities).  You’ll have to pay the Google marketplace and iTunes fees yourself though.

Read THIS book.

Don’t just wait for the good idea to materialise and slap you in the face; read this book, and develop the technique to get great business idea after great business idea.  It’s just over a fiver – yes, I said a fiver – and it could be all that stands between you and your business fortune.  Don’t buy that Big Mac Meal – buy this book instead.

It’s one of our recommended reads here at Third Millennium Man and we’ve even made it easy for you to click the link and get your copy.  Although we’d strongly recommend buying the printed version (for convenience, easy reference, and the ease of make notes in the margin) you can still buy the Kindle version if you’re hell-bent on getting wheels turning this afternoon.  What are you waiting for?  Order it already…

Step 2: Find £1,000,000 worth of potential customers.

So you’ve found what you think could be a great business idea?  Congratulations.  Here is the next stage where we find out if there are enough people out there who might want to buy your product.  We want to make sure that the market we’re hoping to break into isn’t shrinking, and we want to make sure it does OK when we compare it with similar markets.