It’s no secret that building a prospect list is the number one challenge for anyone wanting to succeed online. Much as I’d like to give you a ‘magic formula’, unfortunately, there’s no single solution. Over 10 years working for myself and others online it’s clear that you must use a range of approaches. This can put many people off. But with a little persistence and a handful of proven methods I am confident that anyone with a bit of determination can build a potentially profitable list.

I’m lazy and have the attention span of a gnat. There, I’ve said it! Maybe it’s just my generation, but my mind skips from one thing to another, forever wanting new ideas and stimulation.  Thankfully, there’s a new website that allows me to share my thoughts – specifically my money-making ideas – with others.

Every cloud has a silver lining so they say. And that’s true even in a recession. Well here’s a big black cloud that could have a nice little silver lining for you... if you follow my advice.

If you’ve been into any new car dealerships lately you’ll know things are pretty grim. Sales have plummeted. Latest figures for March 2009 new car registrations down 31% on a year ago. Hardly anyone can get credit... even people who can easily afford to pay it back. All over the country there are fields and fields of brand, spanking new cars quietly gathering dust.

I know they sound like made-up numbers, and if you’d have told me six years ago that I would be generating millions of pounds each year from my business, I would have been delighted, but sceptical. Yet that’s exactly what happened last year. And right now I want to tell you exactly how I did it... 

Hands up who remembers the Sinclair C5, the first Blind Date and Wham! Well I’ll forgive you if you don’t – or if you’re too young to remember them – but these were all big news back in spring 1985. Cilla’s Blind Date was considered daring, cuttingedge TV. George Michael’s Wham! were regularly at number one... though you had to go to the shops and buy a round, black vinyl thingy if you wanted to listen to them. And the Sinclair C5 electric car was launched as the transport of the future.