Welcome to Edition 2024 #37 of our Lifestyle Business Tips Newsletter... a newsletter designed to help you build a lifestyle business you can run from home or anywhere in the world 🗺️you choose 

Hi Chris and Susan here...

Hope you had a great weekend.

Did you do anything fun?

Here in the UK the weather was as usual for a Bank Holiday Weekend

It rained ☔

But we did have an evening of sunshine on Saturday and sat outside with a glass of Prosecco in the garden

On Friday we went up to London to A Place In The Sun expo as we continue to explore our options to live either in Spain 🇪🇸 or Portugal 🇵🇹

As you know if you regularly read our newsletter we've been trying to get a visa to work as Digital Nomads in Spain where we already own an apartment and would really like to live but it's quite new and there's a lot of bureaucracy both in Spain and the UK 

Always a good idea to explore a Plan B 

For us that's investigating getting a visa to live and work in Portugal

Speaking of a Plan B 

One of the things that is important is that we have enough money to do the things we want to do 

We have a very active Tik Tok Channel where we talk about retirement 

We've got a good following and over a million views of our videos

And we do speak to a lot of people about their Plan B (many of whom do not have sufficient savings or private pensions) and quite rightly are concerned about what they will do when the time comes...

And it's genuinely not their fault they don't have the savings they want 

We didn't as you probably know as we talk openly about it

Just today while it was raining cats 🐈 and dogs 🐕 outside we talked to a lady we met on Tik Tok who had watch some of our videos and who wanted to find out if we were real 

She told us about what she had tried (some affiliate stuff) but wasn't sadly making money from it 

She realised there were many scams and people out there saying how easy it was to make money with affiliate marketing but just wasn't really sure and didn't want to waste her money (quite rightly)

We spent almost an hour with her explaining exactly what affiliate marketing was about and why it really was one of the simplest ways to get started

But that anyone going that route needed to learn the essential skills 

We know this first hand because when we began our online business we joined a program that fortunately taught us marketing 

It cost us $3,000 but for us worth every penny because of what we learnt and the mentorship we received 

That program is no longer around but what we learnt was pivitol to our success and why we are here 14 years later... 

Showing people 50 plus in or approaching retirement how to generate an additional income online 

Back to our conversation with this lady...

We explained why passive income is quite honestly the best income for us at this stage of life and why it's what we teach

We've referred her to the program we promote which will teach her the skills she needs to be successful and we'll help her begin her journey towards making a good retirement income and she'll get those all important skills 😉

Which brings us back to today's headline 

💃The Kind Of Emails You Want To Be Receiving

The same program we shared with her is one where we generate passive income because it's what's known as a subscription or continuity program

You pay for it monthly for as long as you need it which is great

It might take 3 months, 6 months, a year...

We have our own subscription to it because we like to keep our skills up to date and help our students and clients

And as a result while someome is learning we regularly receive emails saying :

"Way to go Chris And Susan !!!

Someone you referred to The Home Business Academy just purchased a product and that means you earned a commission! " 

And we're proud to be receiving these emails knowing we've shared something that will truly help someone achieve their goals and dreams 

You have to have integrity and know you can genuinely help someone and then making money doing so actually feels good 

At the end of the call she thanked us for our time and was really glad she had taken that first step...

Discovered we were genuine and actually went and shared that on our Tik Tok Channel 

So all we can say is that if you are genuinely determined to build a retirement income you will need to learn the skills needed as an affiliate marketer...

And once you do then you can promote any product or service you want because you will now know how to get leads, make sales and generate the income you want 

Have a great rest of the week and we'll see you in the next email 

And if you want to have a call with us just like she did then you can see what's available in our calendar here