Here it is! My first unique content rebrandable PDF report “How To Become A Millionaire In Five Years Or Less” for my Money Gym MyViralSpiral site. So proud. I have to confess Steve helped with the graphic, using the software recommended on the weekend but I did most of the rest of it myself.
Just click the picture to be taken to a page where you can put your name and email in, to download it for free.
Then, you will be offered the chance to sign up for the Viral Spiral service while you are downloading it, if you do, you can take this PDF report, rebrand it with your affiliate ID’s instead of mine, give it away yourself to grow your mailing list, AND make affiliate commission on the “back end” if anyone buys our ebook via PayDotcom.
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.
Some more thought provoking replies to my “Wealth Creation Is Simple, But Not Easy - Discuss!” posting on our private Google Group……
“There’s also the need for energy - lots of it and alertness and the belief that you can”
“The need for certainty is a killer for action”
“Learning new skills – challenging my worst phobias: numbers, money, technology, spreadsheets! Talk about getting out of one’s comfort zones!”
“Perseverance as opposed to a “get rich quick” concept”
“Challenging fundamental inherited beliefs about money - the only way you
make money is to go to school, work hard, go to uni, work hard, get a
good job, work hard …..”
And Sarah Rourke, the “Audio Pod Artist” contributed a brilliant posting on the topic:
“Ace topic, Nicola - here’s my tuppence worth:
I think not only challenging beliefs but managing to exist as a wealth creationist in a sea of doubters - other people’s resistance can be hard to overcome.
One of the things I’m learning to do about this is not tell people things i.e. not tell my parents what I invest in (it terrifies them) not tell others close to me when I sneakily start a new side project (all within my core business of course!). And most importantly, I’ve learnt to keep my trap firmly shut when people talk about property and crashes etc - better to say nothing than wind myself up.
Then there’s a big stumbling block for lots of people and that’s the ….
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.
Saturday 17th May – Central London (Internet Marketing)
Tim “Viral Spiral” Brocklehurst and Claire “Business Blog Angel” Raikes present an action packed day on the two most crucial skills for any aspiring internet entrepreneur - List Building & Business Blogging
In the wake of the news that the Inside Track Seminar company (not apparently the property arm) has gone into recievership (something Andy Shaw predicted would happen months ago) and the news that mortgages are getting harder and harder to find unless you have a GREAT track record. However, with 30,000 new rental homes being needed every year for the next 10 years, the market is growing and this is a short term blip according to pundits.
The traditional criteria with buy-to-let was to save a deposit of at least 15% and ensure that rental income would cover monthly mortgage repayments by 125%. As it got harder to meet these restrictions, many lenders eased them. This has shifted buy-to-let from a business based on steady rental income, to one where potential landlords gambling on house prices rising to deliver capital growth.
But the restrictions existed for a reason – to make sure landlords could cover gaps between tenancies, income exceeded bills and give room for rate rises.
The Lettings market has seen annual growth rising to 2.5 million tenants in the last 10 years, and government statistics point to the need for a further 30,000 units PER YEAR for rental, for the next decade reports wwwPropertyToday.co.uk .
That means there are three hundred thousand - 300,000 - new rental properties needed in the UK in the next decade.
Could your property portfolio contribute to this rental housing crisis? What should you buy? How can you get started? What pitfalls should you avoid?
It’s all here in this amazing series of three short videos about getting started in property investing.
In these videos Andy & Greg cover everything you see on this screen (just click to read) and much much more, like how property is essentially free (even your own where there is NO tenant paying for it)
Did you get chance to check out the video “interrogation” video of the 2 UK Multi-millionaires - my mates Greg and Andy - who I mentioned in my previous email?
I have seen them present their business many times, and I was amazed when, watching this again (coz I love some of the stories and jokes!) I realised something completely NEW because it was described in a different way again.
Sometimes we need to hear something many times in a different way, before we get it, or before it moves from the place where we say “Oh! I know that….” to the place where we can say “Oh my gosh, I really GET that now!”
For me, this time, it was - in Section 2 or 3, I can’t remember which one now, where Andy was talking about how property is essentially free, and I thought great, he’s going to explain how, if you put some money into a property then you are able to pull it out again, then that makes it free.
O no! He went on to say something I have heard him say before BUT IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT WAY and I really got it this time.
It’s about how, if you buy a house for say £200,000, and you have an 85% mortgage of say 6% (interest only), and you are paying £10,200, or £850 a month, and you live in it (so there is no tenant paying your mortgage), then your property is still totally free.
The interviewer, Rob says, but how CAN it be?
And Andy replies “how long have you had your house Rob?” and Rob says 15 years.
Andy asked (and I’m remembering the figures here so may have them slightly off but not much - watch for yourself!!)
What did you buy it for (£46,000)
And what is is worth now? (£170,000 or thereabouts)
And what have you paid in mortgage? Rob says £300 a month.
I’ve been too busy to blog much this last week but I’ve been twittering (mini-blogging) which has fed onto my MySpace, Facebook accounts, and onto my blog which has fed onto my Ecademy, MySpace and personal website. Are you getting this yet about Twittering?
Judith’s a brilliant writer and I’m her business partner and didn’t know half of this !! so read with me and enjoy the week of a serial entrepreneur…..
“I’ve been a busy little bee lately, rushing around. How does it happen that your life creeps up on you like that and suddenly its ten days full on? Poor diary management I hear you cry, and much though it pains me to admit it, I fear you may be right, Gentle Reader.
Here’s what I have packed in during the last ten days:
Monday - podcasting Ann Ross on BlogTalkRadio and producing our weekly tapping script on TapToTheTop. Malek returned to fit the curtains and blinds which are toptastic, a DebtBusting call, an EEC client, a referral from coach George who I referred onwards to coach Heather, hired a car for the week from Enterprise and went to an Ecademy networking evening at the Tower Hotel, my first despite having been a member for YONKS and living almost next door for YEARS! What are we like? Didn’t do much networking, enjoyed chums Sarah and Carolyn and the speaker Phil Calvert.
Tuesday - lunch outside in the really hot sunshine in Wimbledon then whiz up to London to meet a coaching colleague at my new, favourite central London meeting place, The Brunswick, juice al fresco. Rush back home to study teleclass with Sandra about Squidoo and Linkedin, keen as I am to get deeper into social networking online. Sandra sends me a copy of her new ebook asking for a testimonial by Thursday and when it arrives it has over 100 pages of closely typed script about Wordpress. I print it off and put it aside to take with me on my travels on Wednesday.
Wednesday begins as it always does with my cleaner, Beverley, at 10 a.m. and me dodging her hoover during The Money Gym weekly wealth creation webinar, then me rushing off to meet a multi-millionaire for lunch at Jamie’s Fifteen - my turn to pay! Whilst sitting outside in my car, I call a friend who has been abroad since selling her business last September. I call her on a hunch only to discover she’s been back in the UK for less than 24 hours and was thinking of me only 30 seconds earlier, while reading a local magazine and gazing at a photo of me in an advert in it. Synchronicity at work there. After lunch I drive to ….
A great example of the stirling support Silver and Gold members of the Money Gym Club enjoy was shown on a recent exchange between members of our private Money Gym google group.
One of our Money Gym (Gold) members was pondering whether to sell her existing house or let it out, having found her dream cottage in the country. She realised that selling and buying more 1 bedroom flats would be financially better in the long run, but the effortlessness of letting her existing house, and buying the new one with money pulled out of the existing one, which would then be paid by the new tenant, was very appealing.
She laid it out thusly to the group:
Hi everyone
I have a situation on which I would most welcome any comments, advice or insights. I have decided to move house and have found a property. I have to decide whether to sell my house or alternatively keep it, obtain a buy-to-let mortgage and rent it out. I currently have a mortgage with a draw down facility. This mortgage is portable so I could move this to the new property (unless they were unhappy about me keeping existing property with BTL re-mortgage???)
"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"
And Sarah Rourke, the “Audio Pod Artist” contributed a brilliant posting on the topic:
