Tim Lowe

The system Tim uses was created (or at least already used) in 2001 by Andrew Reynolds of Manhattan Direct; another UK guy.

Tim Lowe went to one of his seminars and the blurb I found quite honestly says that, in actually using the information he gained from that, "Tim did what most people never do". They freely admit, it seems, that most people who buy into this will never run with it.

So its an old established system of buying up resale rights to information (reproduced on ebooks, videos, CDs etc) that has had the first flush of success and is no longer making much money for the originators, then selling it on by placing adverts in the Sunday classifieds ("Copy this" advert in the Mail on Sunday) which directs people to a website. Once they get there they are introduced to the 'product'.

What have we got so far? It works, but for only one person in every 'who knows how many', so it seems the majority buy the training and then get stuck or go off the idea for some reason.

Tim does include what he calls a Product Finders Resource Kit which is supposed to help you find the kind of information you you sell in this way, however, as he continues to sell the backlist of Manhattan Direct products (ones made by the guy that trained him in 2001) and presumably has a monopoly on those, I wouldnt expect anyone to match him for income, even if they did everything exactly as he explains ad they would have to find and test and rate the products they want to sell, and build a relationship with the original owners.

It also seems that you will need quite a lot of start up capital to throw in to advertising.

If Tim has really decided that the classified ads in the Sunday papers are the best positioning for these kinds of advertisements, then I'd be inclined to trust that because he's had five years to work that out. What you really need to do before deciding to jump in, is to see how many other 'opportunities' use the same system.

If there are loads of them, then you're looking at your competition, which is handy, because you can also have a look at the quality of the copycat businesses - how good you can expect to get from this.

If there are none in your particular paper, then perhaps in six or more years (they could have learned from Reynolds earlier than that) nobody else has sourced enough products or made enough sales to afford regular ads in that particular national paper, so that will give you a rough idea of how likely you are to succeed at all.

The whole basis of the system, however, is to use short, sweet newspaper adverts pointing to a website 'to learn more' instead of the usual system of buying into mailing lists. Its the difference between ramming your product in someone's face and enticing them to go looking for it. When it works, it makes the customer more inclined to buy. But thats it. And even if you buy the package with the extra advice on how to source products and buy resale rights, its still down to you to decide on your focus and go out and search/research until you've bought yourself a good product or two. Its apparently not for people who want it all handed to them on a plate.