Some advice from your favourite festive entrepreneur, Nicholas St Wenceslas, on how to make your profits really sing at Christmas.

2. Nicholas St Wenceslas here, CEO of Christmas LTD – your favourite festive
money machine. Today I’m going to share a few invaluable tips on how to
release an album of Christmas favourites without paying any royalties.

3. 1. Pick a collection of Christmas songs that everyone
knows and loves – carols that really pluck at the
heart strings of vulnerable consumers.

4. 2. Hire a team of highly creative and over-qualified
interns. They’re ten a penny in the current
economic climate.

5. 3. Give them a thesaurus and the lyrics to your
chosen songs and set them to work.

6. 4. Find a bunch of unsigned musicians and singers and get them
to “audition’ the songs for you in a recording studio. You’ll get
the studio to do it pro bono if you tell them it’s for charity.

7. 5. Add sleigh bells.

8. Now sit back with a cool, refreshing, well-aged glass
of egg nog and watch the money roll in.