Andy Shaw and Shaa Wassamund have been to see two potential venues for the Wealth Creation Conference - Lords Cricket Ground and Heythrop Park - and we will be making a decision this week.

Then we can let the speakers know the exact dates, tell them about the new format and start promoting it. There are many exciting ideas we have had……..Andy had the fantasic idea of GIVING AWAY total financial freedom to one lucky attendee……and there is more great ideas where that came from…..but I am sworn to secrecy just yet….

Make sure you are in the loop for the chance to win Financial Freedom by clicking here >>>>>

One of my lovely www.AutomatedMarketingMachine.com clients, Lee McCormack, send me this kind email this weekend………

"Hi Nicola, I hope you are well. two weeks today and the exam will be over - Oh I can’t
wait!!!  Anyway am i correct in thinking you have a thing about spiders??  If so , I saw this and thought of you-  Drusillas Park in East Sussex is having a special phobia day on the 16th of August www.drusillas.co.uk - might be of interest.  Speak soon, Lee"

See, this is the whole problem with desensitation of phobia…………

Why ON EARTH would I go anywhere when I KNOW they are going to have loads of spiders (eeeuuurhhhhhhhghhhhhhh - even typing the word makes me feel sick) ????????????

Thanks for thinking of me though!  (And please don’t send me lots of email about EFT and hynotherapy - I’ve tried it all…………trances, tapping, eye movement stuff, to no avail)

I wonder if there is an opportunity here however …………I use an inexpensive but fun software programme called Subliminal Power and it fires subliminal messages (which you have complete control over) at you while you are working at the computer.

I’m running the "lose weight", "positive body image" and "love pack" programmes at the moment) and you can write your own programme by creating a list of positive statements.

I wonder if you could create a positive subliminal message programme for a phobia (see, avoiding typing the word now) along the lines of all that rubbish people tell you when you are scared of you-know-what. 

Like…………….."There would be a lot more flies in the world"

I have created a Financial Intelligence programme for it!  If you would like a copy then just  enter your name in the Wealth Tips box on the right, and then let me know by sending an email to steve@nicolaciarncross.com with "Subliminal Power:  Financial Intelligence" in the subject line.

I accidentally found a great blog today on Business Start Ups and I recommend you check it out.  The author is clued up about all kinds of business and the blog is well written, interesting and balanced.  I will be syndicating it to my RSS Reader (get yours free at www.rssreader.com now).

I also recommend Bobbi Hashemi’s book on starting Coffee Republic called "Anyone Can Do It" if you are interested in this topic.

I’m so excited……….I’ve just ordered Rich Dad’s Cashflow for Kids boardgame and Cashflow 202 - the extension for the brilliant board game CashFlow 101.  My kids have seen Steve and I playing Cashflow 101 and are pestering to play, so I thought I would get the kids version, and while there I thought I would treat us to the 202 game (not sure my lil brain will get it, mind!).

I also bought the new book "OPM - Other People’s Money" while I was there as I like to keep my brain updated with the latest thinking from the Rich Dad camp.

Then I went off to Amazon to buy "Millionaire Mind" by T Herv Ecker - which everyone, but everyone I know is raving about!  And also "Wildly Wealthy Fast"  - if you want to help swell my palty Amazon affiliate income then click here to buy another book I recommend "The Richest Man In Babylon" - order that and the T Herv Ecker one - then when you have checked out, link to the USA Amazon by the links at the bottom of every page, to order the "Wildly Wealth Fast" book which is not out in the UK yet.

You won’t regret it - I regard "mindfeed" as the most important tool against "negative" or "limiting" beliefs and "scarcity thinking" which I will talk about in my next post - as I had to fight hard against it this week - in a week when the most wonderful things happened too!

Do you know what happens, nicola, when a dream comes true and you feel your joy bubbling over into wide grins, happy dances, and shrieks of "Holy @#$%!!" and the like?

Your energy actually spills over into the oceans of time and reaches into the past where it laps upon the shores of a former here and now, infusing a former unsuspecting self (who is still merrily living their life due to time’s ’simultaneousity’) with a flash of inspiration or a burst of intuition; a hope for what the future might hold.

Whew…. And that, my friend, is the truth about where dreams come from.

     The Universe

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nicola, all that you dream of already exists.

As I said in my previous postings, this has been an amazing week and one of the highlights was that Steve and I have managed to secure one of the Ballard Shaw / Passive Investments "Property Investor" places - just in the nick of time too!

Ballard Shaw / Passive Investments are reaching the end of the current property investment product - we all knew the time would come but we didn’t realise how soon!  One guy flew over from Ireland for one day….

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I’ve used Worldpay for years - first for www.artistmanager.com then for my coaching business The Money Gym (www.nicolacairncross.com ) and beyond the nightmare that it is to set it up, I’ve generally been quite pleased with them. 

Apart from the time they suddenly decided that, because I had put my prices up, they would keep my money for six weeks instead of four, before they accounted to me!  Oh, and the time I wanted my money to go into my new Ltd company bank account so they insisted that I pay the entire £600 set up fee again……….oh, and I’m not too keen that their FuturePay service doesnt’ integrate with my beloved shopping cart programme.

But apart from that………..and hey!  everyone knows that PayPal shows that you are not really a proper company or professional at what you do, don’t they? 

Well, I’m usually the first to admit when I’m wrong (unless I believe I’m still right!) and I have to confess, I’m coming round to the joys of PayPal.  As I see it the main benefits over Worlpay are:

1.  It’s free to set up

2.  It’s incredibly easy to set up (none of the money laundering proof of identity stamped by your bank and faxed/posted to get you started)

3.  You can get your money immediately someone makes a payment - marvellous

4.  You can verify your bank account with PayPal which means that if you want to pay for something and dont’ have funds in your PayPal account, they just deduct it from your bank - a bit like switch

5.  Their recurring payment facility integrates with Total Business Cart - ideal for coaching fees, memberships etc

6.  The processing fees are around 2.5% rather than 4.5%

Pretty compelling stuff, eh? 

Now anyone who knows me knows I’m a terror about customer service - and when Steve and I are out together…………well, watch out if your food, wine, service or decor are not up to our standards (which slip a bit as the evening goes on funnily enough!).  I remember a brilliant evening talking to Philly Richards about some way to reward people if they do a great job and publically humiliate employees and businesses that don’t and rather marvellously, the idea Philly had that night has taken a massive step closer to becoming reality…..Read about my potential latest hobby - Mystery Shopping - right here on Philly’s blog >>>>>

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Though I hate to admit it, I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to Google Adwords.

My www.ArtistManager.com business is just about to gain it’s 100,000 click-through over the last two years, for a total advertising spend of $5000 and an increase in business from £25 to £500 a week…………….and I increased my guesthouse business turnover by 160% on the previous year (90% increase in profits) by using Google.

I successfully set up and manage Google Adwords campaigns all the time for my www.automatedmarketingmachine.com clients - and funnily enough, I often do better with niche products and sites like a wool-shop, guinea pig cages or wheatfree cooking than the usual management/coaching/leadership stuff.

I first learned a lot from our very own Guy Levine (who has a great CD /workbook called Search Engine Secrets) and then from an e- book called GoogleCash (you can find a link on the resources/free stuff page of my site at www.nicolacairncross.com) and then from an ebook called 33 Internet Marketing Secrets (think it may have come with Googlecash but it’s still available online and has just been updated.  So here are my tips for a great Google Adwords campaign:

Nicola’s Top 10 Google Secrets:

1. Always set your Google Adwords account up on $ not £ as the minimum bid per click is $0.05 versus £0.04

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Andy Shaw from Ballard Shaw Passive Invesments has started blogging and he’s just great at it.  If you want to peek inside Andy’s mind then you should read his blog and you really must syndicate his blog to your RSS Reader.  Get your free Reader here at www.rssreader.com and then put Andy’s feed URL into it.

Andy’s feed URL:  http://feeds.feedburner.com/AndyShaw-PlanetProperty

Passive Investments next Open Day is on Monday 25 July so click here to secure your place >>>>>