To get 30 seconds of streaming video, you often have to have a few attempts at it! Here Nicola Cairncross from The Money Gym tries, battling against the elements, to get one take at an invitation to a Rent2Buy seminar in Worthing, for David Lee, The Cashflow Investor. I’ll post up the proper one in a moment! In the meantime, if you want to come along here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/cashflow
Sometimes I feel like a snail, the pace we are moving in the Money Gym, especially when I squint my eyes and look at some others, who have overtaken us and sprinted off into the distance - especially when some of those people were originally mentored by me LOLOLOL. Then suddenly something happens that I’ve been waiting for, for ages, and it feels like we are moving off at speed again.
Our Money Gym Gold membership has been languishing a bit, while we concentrate on getting the workshops working, and the membership of the club site working right and moving in the right direction (just about to top 1000 members - gotta be a tipping point surely?).
You may remember from previous promotions that Gold is the level at which clients enjoy 1:2:1 wealth coaching/mentoring from our team of experienced coaches - all ex cleints themselves. Not only that, but email backup from Judith and I, weekly private “Wealth Surgeries” and five of our rapidly becoming legendary workshops with our “best of breed” presenters.
Gold grew out of my original “one size fits all” 10-step coaching programme, pioneered in 1999 and evolving into The Money Gym in 2003, when I started hosting the workshops at my boutique hotel The Acacia. Back in those heady early days, clients included Marion Ryan, Mel Rosenthal, Judith Morgan, Maria Davies, Annie Kaszina, Paul Fuggle, Sara Mallett, Jacqui Tillyard, Greg Southey & Karen Knowler. Many have gone on to do great things that you will have heard about, some are just quietly getting on with being millionaires and having a fabulous life! Even Andy Shaw was an Acacia attendee for internet marketing tuition and mentoring, amazing to think he’s just become the first Brit to join the internet high flyers club, having broken all UK records for a product launch!!
Sigh, so proud of them all.
So, it was a bit of a major frustration, not having a decent promotional/info page, that summed up the amazing tesimonials, spirit and return on investment results of Money Gym Gold - it changes lives so profoundly but I found it nearly impossible to capture that excitement and potential in my own sales copy. Having lived it for so many years, all the stories felt old and tired to me and my copy felt the same!
But Alan Forrest Smith, who came to the rescue of our ebook sales page, has been beavering away on our Gold info page, and this week, we quietly slipped it up and redirected all our links to it.
Now, my next job, is to think of a hook for a product launch - the “why” in Jeff Walkers terms. Exciting times.
I’m off to Dave Lee’s workshop next weekend and I’m really looking forward to it, and to meeting Rick Otton, the many who pioneered the Rent2Buy/House For A Pound process, honed in the US, perfected in Oz and now thriving in the UK. I feel like I know Rick having listened to many hours of audio with him. He is a great presenter and trainer and his “Now, let me ask you a question…..” has sunk deep into my subconcious. I hope I will be able to use it without an Australian accent LOL.
Judith keeps joking that we can both practically speak Australian now! Scarily true.
Our last Money Gym Presents Workshop with Tim Brocklehurst & Claire Raikes was a blinder! As well as being a great, content packed day for delegates, the speakers did very well with attracting new clients from our audience. Judith is already a client of Claires and I’m a client of Tim’s but Judith’s apprroved Steve and I going on Tim’s “Freedom Class” workshop to learn how to use Tim’s dynamite software properly. That’s in June and I’m so looking forward to it.
Half term next weekend and on the agenda for a couple of days is the cinema - we like the look of “Sex In the city - The Movie” and the new Will Smith movie “Hancock”
I’ve also found a couple of live poker games locally, one at my upmarket gastro pub, and one in Worthing. You buy in for £7 and get your dinner thrown in, and you play till you are knocked out. Then you can buy into one more game for £5 and play again till you are knocked out. Nice people and very exciting atmosphere. They also play competitions with other leagues and travel around to other venues. Good practice for my forthcoming cruises I thought and a social life to boot.
My ex-business coach, Chris Barrow just posted a blog post entitled “How Can We Be Expected To Work In Such Conditions?” and really, I have to agree with him! http://tinyurl.com/5wvbbe
I woke up at 6.30 this morning to another day of glorious sunsine - and the beach just over the road.
I’m tempted to just get my swimsuit out and grab my iPod and catch some rays while listening to a bit of Rich Schefren and swotting up further on the Rent2Own concept - perfect for these market conditions and a great cashflow generator! But no, I have to go to London today.
After getting ready in a leisurely fashion, Steve will drop me off at our sleepy little station, and I’ll enjoy a largely empty train direct to Victoria.
I’m off to go to lunch at The Ivy, with Judith and Sue, Money Gym member and winner of our Women Talk Money Challenge, notably the person who increased her income by the most ££ in just three months. Sue managed £25,000 plus - marvellous!
We always like to make prizes for clients at the Money Gym things that Judith and I want to do!! Later this afternoon, we will be joined by Peter Stanley, of “Property Made Simple” fame, who is down from Manchester, and a member of my now defunct first mastermind team. Not seen Peter for ages.
Then it’s off to the Rex Cinema in Rupert St, Soho, to meet my sister and enjoy the book launch for Michelle Magorian’s new book.
My opera singing sister Heather shared a house in Walthamstow with Michelle back in th 80’s - they were so poor in those days they literally had to break the ice in the loo due to NO CENTRAL HEATING! Now Michelle is an acclaimed author with tomes including “Goodnight Mr Tom” starrring the late John Thaw in the film of, and she has a film deal sorted for the new book already.
Home again on the train, and as it will be a late night, I’ll have a lie in tomorrow, as I dont’ have to get up till the 11am Money Gym Wealth Surgery webinar for our Gold clients.
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.
As we were working with Nicola on an internet mentoring basis, how fortunate were we to be able to pick Nicola’s brain about money issues surrounding our upcoming move to the UK! Now as you all know, Nicola is not shy about sharing her passion and expertise about how buying properties as investments can create financial freedom. We had just never thought about applying it to ourselves!
That is, not until a conversation with Nicola when she heard our angst about the move and money, well, that learning opportunity turned our heads around in about 5 minutes! With her “quick grab the calculator and let’s do the numbers” attitude we realized that not only could our move be successful but that our financial future could be much more secure than we had ever dreamed. One of the things we love about Nicola is that she has the patience of a saint! She’ll explain it not once, not twice, but as many times as we needed till we got it and believed it. Nicola made it simple to understand…literally a no brainer!
So now, not only are we eager and excited to move to the U.K. for a new lifestyle and new business opportunities, we can’t wait to get started on our “property career” as well. Talking with Nicola about money issues, property opportunities, and goodness knows what more in the future has opened up an entirely new, and much larger, financial frontier for us.
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Last night I spoke for Tamkin’s Club Entrepreneur in London and I took my 12 year old Phoebe as she has never seen me speak, and I thought it’s time that she sees what Mummy actually does for a living (well, part of it anyway).
When my bit was over (I was on first) I asked her if she wanted to go, but Tamkin was introducing the next speaker, Billy Schwer, Luton born boy, boxer and previous Commonwealth & European Lightweight Champion, and former IBO Light Welterweight World Champion….
Billy told an amazing story, his own, and shared his 3-D Formula for success and it totally blew P away. When he came over to say hello she was thrilled as she was trying to pluck up the courage to go over to him and we had been practicing her handshake specially….He is a natural speaker and very comfortable on stage, articulate, funny and self deprecating. We liked him enormously!
“.. Billy Schwer, former IBO light welterweight world champion, spent two decades at the top of the most physically and mentally gruelling sport. He now works as a personal mentor, executive coach and motivational speaker. One of the most consistently brilliant fighters ever seen in Britain, for his sharp skills, courage and determination, Billy’s effort and grace in the ring attracted a huge fan base.
His engaging personality and ready wit made him a favourite amongst other boxers, promoters and the media. An engaging speaker: honest, reflective and intelligent has led to him being sought out by various journalists to contribute to radio discussions, feature articles and opinion pieces on a breadth of subjects. Naturally, being an icon in the sport of boxing, Billy has been invited to do a share of pundit work. Actively involved in many Charities since 1991 Billy finds a great deal of fulfilment in positively contributing to the community and peoples lives. He is currently working towards establishing a foundation to help children and teenagers realise their full potential and achieve their dreams……”
At the end we had our pictures taken and while she pretended to be embarrassed Phoebe loved it! Here she is with me and the wonderfully welcoming Tamkin!
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Nicola nearly didnt’ make it to her speaking engagement at the National Virtual Assistant Conference on Saturday - hear the story of the rogue singing taxi driver live here! Nicola also talks about using your intuition, how Nicola met Gill Fielding, Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire, and how to make good decisions….
I’m really really excited to bring you some very special news! If you want an example of “Attraction In Action” read on and be AMAZED!
You may not know it, but I’ve been wanting to get a holiday for ages, but what with having to move house a few times in the last couple of years, and Steve, Judith and me working our butts off (in a fun way!) on The Money Gym…..apart from a weekend in Pisa & Florence, Italy, it just hasn’t happened.
But that hasn’t stopped me thinking about it and dreaming about what kind of a holiday I would like….and with all the different ages and interests in this house, let me tell you it would be tricky to find anything that suited all. Our requirements for any dream holiday seemed impossible but include ….
1. Loads for the kids to do (suiting both a 10 year old and a 13 year old going on 16.)
2. Loads of stuff for me to do / learn - I get bored lying by a pool or on a beach all day
3. Space for us all to get away from each other
4. Lots of sun and fabulous places to visit
5. Easy to get to from Shoreham By Sea - plane ideally!
6. All inclusive - no cooking or cleaning
7. No driving
8. Great nightlifeWell, I had concluded that a cruise might be just the ticket and I had thought, well, if you are gonna cruise at all, the Caribbean is the place to go, eh? But it still seemed so far away…daunting stuff really…
Attraction In Action!!
Then, talk about the POWER OF ATTRACTION!! I had almost given up the whole idea when blow me down, if an email from Mike Filsaime, one of my very favourite internet marketers, didn’t arrive, solving ALL my holiday woes.
I am blessed to live in a tiny town called Shoreham-By-Sea, in West Sussex, looking out over said sea with the river behind us. Shoreham was always somewhere you drove past en route to Brighton, from Worthing, and I had no idea, till a friend moved here, how lovely it was.
Now I have just spotted the house I want on the foreshore - it’s art deco and beautiful, tucked between two 1970’s eyesores (which have their own charm admittedly) here it is……it’s got my name all over it. Manifest, manifest! I don’t know how yet, but it’s in my sights now and on my dreamboard.
And here’s a little video showing Sarah and I setting up from Shoreham Station one crisp sunny morning, for one of our Money Gym workshops.
"The Money Gym"
book
includes a Foreword
by
Gill Fielding
C4's Secret
Millionaire
"This book is a
template for
anyone who wants
to create
wealth... it
will tell you
the path to take
and what to
do...There is
no better
teacher and
mentor than
Nicola"