MARK ALEXANDER

To earn a big income at home you have to get a clear, wide-range view of the opportunities open to you. And I say, here and now, that if you have a telephone in your home, you have that view available to you. Even if you don’t have a telephone, If you can get to a public library, you have the same advantages as a person who has a telephone.
What is this great secret? It is the single source of more than 10,000 home business ideas. This source is the Yellow Pages of any large city phone book. Which large cities am I talking about? Here are three: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles.
Recently I checked the Yellow Pages of the Chicago phone book. In it I found more than 11,000 potential home businesses listed! Just imagine that. To avoid sensational firms, I took less than one-tenth of the listed businesses as potential home businesses. Yet I sincerely believe that at least half the businesses listed in the Chicago Yellow Pages are potential home businesses for the average person. And if you take the larger listings of the New York and Los Angeles Yellow Pages, you certainly have more than 1,000 potential home businesses available to you. Now what can these lists do for you? They
can:
(1) Suggest specific businesses needed in your town or city
(2) Indicate which businesses are not operating in your town or city
(3) Show you thousands of home businesses in which many people are earning good profits
(4) Act as idea simulators for home businesses which are needed in your area, based on activities which are not listed
(5) Expand your home business horizons so you understand more about what is going on in the world of home businesses
(6) Serve as a lead on the services and products which are available to you in your present or future home business

In this chapter I want to show you where you can quickly, easily, and cheaply find lists of more than 1,000 home businesses. As you look over the lists I recommend to you, I hope that you’ll find one or more businesses that appeal to you more strongly than others. Once you find the right business for yourself you can take the actions suggested in the next chapter. Let’s start with the source of the list of products you might sell.
I am about to let you in on one of the most important home business secrets existing today. This is the first time I’ve ever revealed it to anyone. Knowing this secret could be worth at least one million dollars to you. Why? Because this secret shows you exactly how to target your home business interests so you find a product that interests you and that you’ll enjoy selling. I call this the Secret of the Century.