How to Become a Millionaire

Learn the secrets of how to professionally decorate cakes at home and start your own business.

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Have you ever wondered how people get to become millionaires? We know that some are born to it, and others like pop stars that become an overnight success are made by you. You buy their discs and they become millionaires.

But for the man in the street it’s a different story, unless he has money to start building his empire it can be a slow climb, but it can be done.

One way of course is to invent something that every one will want and patent it yourself. Of course unless you have an imaginative mind that won’t happen.

So how can you become a millionaire without winning the lottery?

To start with you will need patience, determination, and be willing to work. It won’t happen overnight, but you can make it happen.

You have probably all heard the saying “From little acorns great oak trees grow” and this is how you must approach your quest.

Let’s just take Google as a prime example. It began with two students in their garage at home, it is now a multi billion or trillion business.

First of all most people have something they are interested in, a hobby or such like. Your hobby may be the same as what thousands of people do all over the world, but that doesn’t matter.

Let us just take another example. Jam is something you can buy in any supermarket and is bought by millions of people, but not long back someone came up with organic jam, its still just jam but because it’s made with organic fruits its become a hit and you can find on supermarket shelves.

So how can your hobby make you rich?

I enjoy crocheting and many years ago I worked in a hospital, I decided to crochet a poodle for my young daughter, this poodle was special and looked exactly like a poodle should with the ruffles of hair on the body and tail and around the mouth.

Someone saw the poodle when I had finished it and asked me if I would make one for them. This snowballed and I crotched 15 of them before I began refusing as I had enough of it. What I am saying is that with that one poodle I could probably have made a lot of money if I had carried on and maybe paid others to make certain parts of it to cut down on the work.

At that time I did not have the foresight to even dream of starting a business but I am sure I could have done so easily starting with that one poodle.

I am fairly artistic and I have had many hobbies, here is another example, I began painting portraits in oils, I painted and sold a few before I had again had enough. My problem was that I got restless and wanted a change.

I began writing and I had some verses for Xmas cards accepted which paid well, then short stories, I had one accepted and published in a magazine, that also paid well but again, once I had done it and I wanted to move on.

I began doing competitions and I was quite successful at that as well I won all sorts holidays, watches, money, and others to numerous to mention. One prize I won which I had forgotten I had ever entered came as a shock. A knock came on the front door and when I answered there was a large van outside.

Delivery for Mrs White the man said, I hadn’t a clue what he was delivering, and then he began bringing loads of large cardboard boxes in that almost filled my hallway. I had won a years supply of cat food. Not tin food but those large cartons of biscuits. I had one cat which now had biscuits forever.

Of course I narrowed it down a bit by giving some away as I had no where to keep it all.

I finally got fed up with that and started on my next project which was making and decorating cakes. I put a sign up in my front window and before long people was knocking on the door to order my cakes. I did anniversary, birthday cakes, wedding cakes and any novelty cake you could name, and I had never had any training.

I just decided I would do it and that was that.

I found I had a real flair for it. Very soon I found that room was the problem, I had a big kitchen but it was becoming choc a block, I also took over the front room of my house.

I made money and finally decided to buy a shop, my husband was always agreeable to my whims so no problems,

The shop was successful and I ended up employing three other people, I also taught cake decorating at two colleges on certain evenings.

I continued with this for a few years until I finally sold the shop and retired.

I have just been telling you about the things I did to show you that any idea you have could be the start of your business, do not be afraid to show people what you can do, and remember that what you start can grow into something big no matter how simple it may seem.