Life as an internet marketer never runs smooth and this week I tried to send out a video postcard about Alan’s workshop. Now, while I can see it fine in the “postcard creator” software, on the blog, on YouTube, etc, you can never predict what will happen online and lo and behold, it didnt’ seem to work. Well not for two days anyway - it’s working fine now!
One of the lessons to learn and I have learned it. Do your best, tell everyone what is happening, and try anyway! Better to be out there than perfect eh?
Bit of a story around this video postcard….in addition to the fact I now have to ring the USA at lunchtime to see what’s gone wrong and why it’s now working but it wasn’t when I sent it out grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….
You may enjoy a behind the scenes look at the challenges one faces as an ADD internet entrepreneur? Read on and enjoy!
It’s not too late to book - about 1513 3 tickets left as of Friday 11th April for Saturday’s “Maverick Marketing Masterclass” with Alan Forrest Smith. http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/MGPresents/Alan.htm
It’s going to be a dynamite day - don’t miss it. Nicola Cairncross wants to encourage you ask questions and tell us what your biggest marketing challenge is, with your business! Use the comments box below to ask your questions and get help with your marketing.
Well, we nearly did it! Alan Forrest Smith’s just updated me that the World Internet Challenge raised over $50,000 in just 72 hours, and the donations are still coming in. Here’s Alan in a little video from a real rain forest, thanking everyone who got involved. If you haven’t heard from me with your links to my goodies, just email me now (tell me how you donated - by phone or PayPal) and I’ll get right back to you.
** It is not to late to help The Money Gym help Alan Forrest Smith’s World Internet Challenge to save acres and acres of rainforest and the people who live there – The Money Gym readers have raised over $1000 so far towards his goal of $100,000 in just FOUR DAYS - visit here to find out more http://www.worldinternetchallenge.com/ - but don’t donate there - and then go here to find out how to claim all our free goodies too! **
Apart from all that excitement, there has been more!! My brain is completely fried this week…..
Every now and then something comes along on the internet and you just know in your heart that it’s gonna be huge and that you have got to learn it quick. Just such a thing came along yesterday lunchtime, in between two of my internet marketing mentoring clients.
I was idly checking my Twitter conversations and I noticed Ed Dale twittering to someone else about a live TV broadcast from one of his “Thirty Day Challenge” mentee’s (is that a word?) and saying that we had to check it out. Something made me click and over I went.
And my life changed. Bam! And forever, I suspect.
I don’t think of myself as a very early adopter (took me ages to cotton onto the benefits of using Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc) but I jumped on this one alright. Check us out at www.TheMoneyGym.tv
From first reading about it and then grasping what it was (about 5 mins) and then from the lightbulb moment to the account / profile implementation (15 minutes), then to live show being broadcast (4.5 hours - and that last would have been quicker if I had not had some other coaching calls).
Bless my clients, they had to have the first five minutes or so, listening to me banging on about this too!
This is one intuitive bit of software! I love software that you can puzzle out just by looking at it and then clicking around – does that make me Visual/Kinaesthetic, I wonder?
Especially as it auto-connects with (mashes up with?) Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter, not to mention interating with your blog (via Twitter for Wordpress and Typepad users at the moment).
So what is it?
Live TV, broadcast from your office or home……or anywhere really. So what? You may ask.
Well think about how YouTube has taken off – and how many accidental mega-stars have been created via YouTube.
Gary Vaynerchuck on WineLibrary.tv for starters. He’s getting 60,000 views per day on his wine tasting programmes on YouTube. See Gary in action here >>>>
Well, this website – called Justin.tv after the REALLY young guy who started it - is YouTube on steroids.
Kathy Sierra at her presentation at SXSW last weekend had a great take on why Gary has become so famous and his show’s so watched.
She thinks that Gary is succeeding not because he’s entertaining and educated about wine, but because he makes his viewers more entertaining and educated about wine.
And not least because his viewers feel a really strong sense of connection with him because they are interacting with him on the blog in the first person, telling their stories of trying new wines and how they are enjoying their wine more. See Kathy and Gary in action here >>>
Now, I would LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU to become more inspirational and educated. I would really love you to interact with me more and tell me your stories. And more importantly I would love you to tell us what you need from us, to help you in your wealth creation journey.
3. Join us on one of our Wealth Surgery webinars on the 1st Tuesday evening of every month – more info at http://www.TheMoneyGymClub.com – join free, login and then register for the webinar at the “Next Events > Tele-Seminars” link on the left hand side.
4. Comment on the blog at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/Blog - after every post there is a “comments” link and if you click that, you can leave your comment (they are moderated but I get an email immediately and approve everything except Spam)
Here’s me at 4am - glam eh? Alan says I look like Deirdre Barlow!!
OK, as a Thank You!! we are going to list all contributors to Alan’s cause via The Money Gym from now on (and those who have donated so far)with their website links) . See Alan’s page here http://www.worldinternetchallenge.com/ but come back here to read more and donate via us - lots more freebies if you do that and you qualify for his too!Benefits to you are links from our highly Google ranked site, to yours, and search engine spiders coming from our site (crawled every hour) to yours. If you search World Internet Challenge then you will see we are No1 on Page1 of Google right now! Click the pic to see the proof!Thanks to all of you so far - we made it to $1000 ++ and still climbing we could hit the $5000 mark and that would be so brill……
Also many thanks to (and just waiting for website links from)
Carolyn Boddington
Andy Lindsay
Jean Walsh
Andaleeb Lilley
Polly MacLeod
Gary Bugden
Jo Dodds / The Hythe Handbook
Ann Harrison Life Coaching
Ken Norton
Mike Turner
Lisa Stringfellow
Christine Hanscombe
** Find out now how to get involved in a very exciting event & get some great fr*ee gifts including some one-on-one mentoring time with Nicola **
Already the Money Gym posse are swinging into action!! We are up to nearly $150 already - keep it coming guys! If you missed the previous email….look lively now!
You know about the World Internet Summit and how much I rate it?
You know about Alan Forrest Smith and that I rate him as a speaker, copywriter and marketer?
You may not know that every time they do a World Internet Summit they do an online challenge and raise
as much money as possible, online, live, in the shortest possible time?
It’s to prove internet marketing works - and it does, every time. As their list gets bigger, the amount raised gets bigger.
And when you add in all their friends and strategic partners…..cowabunga!
Well this year, it’s going to be very different!! And EVEN MORE EXCITING!
Instead of picking one person out of the audience and making the money for them, this year they are giving it ALL away to one specific charity and it’s a great charity although I’m not allowed to tell you what it is yet…..
100% of the money raised will go to this charity - the WIS boys, Brett & Tom, have promised and I trust them to do that.
HOWEVER I can tell you that it’s a charity that affects us all and the future of this planet - more will be revealed live on Thursday.
Alan is co-ordinating this live on stage in Australia, on Thursday, and as you can imagine, it’s scary, and he’s looking for support from his mates.
On Thursday, at 4am in the morning our time, I’m going to be dialling in LIVE on behalf of the Money Gym and donating a sum of money, direct to Alan for this massive effort. Unless I can puzzle out how to automate it *grin* I will be getting up, putting my lippie on and getting in front of my camcorder and skyping in.
My question to you is…….Will you help?
We have about 6,000-10,000 subscribers to our ezine and I’m hoping that at least 50% of you will donate AT LEAST £2 to the fundraising effort - via Paypal, to us so that we can give it to Alan live on Thursday. We could raise £3000 to £5000 - that’s $6000 - $10,000 to help Alan in his goal of reaching $100,000 in just four days.
If only 20% of you - following the Pareto Principle - do something we could raise over £1000 or $2000 - and that would be very respectable!
And it would make us Brits look GREAT especially as I have inside info on how much some of those multi-millionaire Yanks have pledged so far!!
Our national pride is at stake here and you will be helping a great cause that affects us all.
(I would have just asked for £1 minimum but PayPal charge us for every transaction, so £2 will cover the PayPal charge and give at least £1 to Alan)
HOWEVER…………Alan is offering some great incentive special offers on the official page, for those who donate £25 or more, so if you do that via us, I will be passing on a list of people who donate £25 or more, to Alan, in order that you are still eligible to get his incentive offers.
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** We faithfully promise, here at The Money Gym, to donate 100% of your donation, less the PayPal charges, plus our donation, to Alan’s efforts and to pass your name, email and donation amount onto him, if you donate £25 or more **
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All you have to do, to help me out, help Alan out and claim your fr*eebie gifts, is send your donation NOW to:
Send your donation to this paypal address - and mark it clearly “Alan / WIS Donation” : steve@themoneygym.com - remember make it at least £2 (but more if you can)
Then I will personally send you a link (which will be sent to the email address you use for your PayPal account) which will take you to a page where you can claim a very special set of fr*ee gifts - this could be a lot of work for me, but I don’t care!
The more of you donating, the happier I will be even if I have to work all weekend!
And I will send you by return, as soon as possible, the link to where you can put your name and email in, to get updates on how it’s going, and get your fr*ee gifts!
The Money Gym is getting involved with helping Alan Forrest Smith to raise over $100,000 for charity in just 4 days. Listen to the interview with AFS and Brett McFall from World Internet Summit here and check back to find out how you can have some fun and get involved!
I’ll be setting something up so that you can donate to the Money Gym fund that I’ll be donating to WIS & Alan, hopefully live on stage in Australia direct from the UK - hey! This might mean I have to stay up all night or something!
And from tomorrow, I’m going to be telling you how you can get your hands on a secret DVD - not a CD - a DVD with pictures and everything!! from the UK WIS (that I attended) with five of the stars on it, performing live from the stage, absolutely free!
God! Business is confusing sometimes. Perhaps it’s the drugs* but it’s been one of those weeks when everyone and everything seems to contradict each other.
Skimming the video clips from Rich Schefren’s conference in Disneyworld, I was struck by Gary Vaynerchuck’s assertion that “you are the brand” which is on message for Rich’s coaching programmes and reports, and all part of becoming a “maven in your marketplace” but pretty much the opposite of what we are taught, when building a business.
We have all known for a while, post “E-Myth Revisited” that, if you want to build a business that you can sell, you can’t be the business or it lessens the value of that business. Nobody will want to buy a business that depends on you being there for it to work. But is the business depending on you, different from you being the brand?
Gary goes on to say that by positioning yourself alongside higher placed experts - like I’m doing here in a way, with Rich and Gary - you are building their brand not yours. You need to start building yourself as the expert - and this is something I’ve been hearing from Alan Forrest Smith recently too. We’ve been working with Alan quite a bit on our marketing and it drives him mad when I’m too generous in crediting my mentors.
Well, I hear what Gary says - and he certainly has done that with his video wine blog - but Rich certainly positioned himself alongside some internet marketing greats initially, and he credits Jay Abrahams all the time.
Confused? You will be.
Hmmm, going back to the selling of the business aspect here….. [Read more →]
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