Our new client Chris sent me this amazing email - which as you can imagine made my day!  This is why we do what we do at The Money Gym.

“Hi Nicola,  I wrote an extended piece, feel free to do what you will with it. I have enclosed this just so you have more information. You can pick and choose or use what you have written I don’t mind either way.  Please check out the Blog at http://www.chrisogle.typepad.com/ for much more flesh on the bone of the first 10/11 days or so with The Money Gym.

The BeginningI attended the 2nd National VA Conference held at Milton Keynes on Saturday 19th April 2008.

I was there as a sponsor, 1 of 3 men in the room amongst 80 self motivated women. Our sponsorship was to promote the burgening relationship between the host of the VA Conference (Carmen MacDougall) and and IPS with our i-Tr@der business platform. i-Tr@der enables small businesses to run their entire business, accounts, document filing, email, contact management etc. within one integrated system all through a simple web browser.During the day Nicola Cairncross presented a one hour slot on the money gym. Nicola explained (in a hurry - she only had one hour) the basics of the four wealth highways. I realised I was in only one and not performing well in that either. After Nicola had finished I spoke with her briefly, gave her my card and asked her to get in touch as I wanted to meet with her to discuss how I could perhaps sort things. She replied to my email that she did not do one-on-one wealth coaching but I was welcome to come along on the 26th to the ‘Lets Talk Money’ day in London.I was in Hungary / Budapest at the time, but signed up immediately and then attended on the following Saturday.

Let’s Talk MoneyI

arrived at 9:58, two minutes to spare, the public transport system had contrived to prevent me attending but I had battled successfully through. What a fantastic day! Judith Morgan co-hosted the day with Nicola and these ladies know their stuff!! Each aspect of the 4 wealth highways was delved into in more detail. By lunchtime I had confirmed what I already suspected here is a chance to mix with some winners and a resource / support centre that would definately enable me to get what I wanted done, done. I signed up for the Gold membership seeing this as the quickest vehicle and where I would get the most assistance. This is a small investment considering the knowledge and network connections available to you, for the whole year it is effectively a single extra consulting day of my time with i-Tr@der and I committed myself to generating that extra day to pay for my year’s education and the ride!The next challenge was to work out what it was that I wanted done….

The next 10 daysI

said to Nicola, Judith and Philly (appointed as my coach with my consent) that they would be sick of me as I am an avid learner, and would pester them incessently. I tend to work long hours 6am until Midnight when I’m on a mission, and, I’m on a mission. I have given myself three months to become an Internet Marketing Guru. Not the best there is but to totally understand what is going on and how to best take advantage of it.What I discovered as I read, listened and watched was that Internet Marketing is primarily operated by either one or two man businesses. We sell into the SME market place and although our customers have already taken the plunge to use the Internet as the basis on which they run their business, none of the companies I have spoken to know anything about blogging, article submission, social networking etc. etc.So I quickly re-assessed that this is a huge market which has not even been started on yet. What had been troubling me since the start which was how could I make all of this relevent to my existing business suddenly became crystal clear. This is just as important to their business future, survival and growth as it is ours, and we have a 12-18 month window to steal a march on the competition. Even more reason to get out of bed and get cracking.

The tenth day

Closed a deal to provide £3k’s work of Internet Marketing consultancy to drive up sales from one of my customers online catalague from £1k per month to £20k per month. This has already secured the income to match what I am committed to with the Money Gym. I have also canvassed four other customers all are keen to make similar investments to use Internet Marketing techniques to increase their sales volumes.

Where to now?

I have produced a restrutured business strategy that includes Affiliate sales Products, Business Consultancy, Software deployment (our core business), and Internet Marketing sales strategy to drive up sales. Four quandrants of revenue generation all promoted through a soon to be published (end of next week) central blog. Our existing web-site is to be revamped to be totally web-friendly with carefully selected Keywords. An E-Book on ‘Running your business online’ will be written in the next two months and a backlog of 10 articles previously written will be leaked out to the internet using submityourarticle.com over coming 6 weeks.Once the next 80 days is complete I will set my sights on the Property sector and begin to build a large property portfolio. I have already had some great ideas in this area to !

Conclusion

The Money Gym has been a total revelation. The people involved here are very inspiring, you can feel that they want you to do well and the encouragement is enormous. For me it was a wake up call, get busy learning this stuff or you’ll miss out on one of the most golden moments in Internet development forever. I have made a few sacrifices to work at the speed I want, Red wine (which I love) has been put on hold for 3 months (this stuff requires clear thinking), and I am committed to starting work no later than 6:30am, writing my blog every day even if it’s midnight and I have filed the word procrastination in the bin !The possibilities in Property are even larger, but that’ll wait 3 months.

Kind Regards

Chris Ogle

(Nicola says:  follow Chris’ story and help us to boot him up the bum if he falters LOL at http://www.chrisogle.typepad.com/ )