Annie Kaszina says:

Ok, so first off let me say I am not in Venice with Andy Shaw himself, just with his book.  And what a book it is.  It is almost enough to distract me from the splendours of Venice.  It and Andy’s voice have accompanied me through Venice proper, the Lido and even to Padua.

So what have I learned as I march through Venice deep in thought, revising my property strategy?

First off, it has brought home to me the power of property, far more than my own investments ever have.  It’s as if, finally, I get it. 

I get exactly why I have been doing what I have been doing and why I really
want to do more, all of a sudden.  It has led me to feel that the time
has come to pursue my property strategy far more actively than I have
until now.  (Well done, Andy.  Not a lot of people could have done
that!)

Andy’s comment that even if you…

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Sarah says:

While looking for some inspiring stories on the internet, I came across the website of Randy Gage - I’ve heard of him but never read anything by him before.  Browsing around his site I found his writing to be funny and insightful and thought you may like it too!  This one was a favourite of mine…

Success Programming by Randy Gage

www.randygage.com - Succss & Prosperity Lessons

I was behind a one-armed man at the sub shop. He was
complaining about the fact that the lady cut the tip off of
the bread she was making his sandwich on.

The attendant explained that they cut the bread exactly, so
regular subs are six inches long, and large are 12. He kept
whining about the ¼ inch tip she had cut off. She explained
that he would receive the same standard portion of meat and
other fillings. He wasn’t impressed.

In fact when the sandwich came out, he insisted that he
wouldn’t pay for it unless they found the tip she had cut
off, toasted it, and put it in the bag. Standing behind him,
with my blood sugar dropping, and my blood pressure rising,
it was all I could do to refrain from smacking him upside
the head. Of course he left without leaving a tip. I watched
him get behind the wheel of a taxi parked in front and begin
his dining experience.

So what kind of success programming do you think he had?

I bet he’s proud of himself for cadging that extra bite of
toast. In fact, I’m sure he sat in that taxi, congratulating
himself for his assertiveness and savvy consumerism.

What do you think about his priorities, and where he expends
his energy? Is he focused on abundance or lack?

It’s a similar kind of situation with you. I think the
programming you’ve had is what determines your approach to
just about everything in life. But instead of being
programmed for success—most people are programmed to avoid
failure.

Now perhaps you think I make too much of our cab driver’s
thriftiness. I think not. Your programming controls how you
react to hundreds of situations, each and every day. And the
way you react reveals what your programming really is.

Another example . . .

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Nicola received this lovely email recently:

Nicola,

I am sure you have been inundated with people you’ve helped, and I
don’t even know if you remember me. But you gave me space and time,
free, when I was a bankrupt, trying to get out of an awful marriage
and earning about £200 per month, if that, some months.

I have never forgotten how you helped me and I would be very
grateful for the opportunity to tell anyone and everyone how you
started me and helped me on the road to recovery.

It can still be precarious but I am now in my own house, pay the
kids school fees by myself, have even managed to go on holiday in
the last two years.  I have gone from absolutely nothing to
having a business and a consultancy to live off now.

You put me on the right path, you took the time and trouble to coach
me when I couldn’t pay you a brass farthing and you did it for
several months on the trot.

Thank you and best wishes
- you are a true inspiration.
Geeta

Geeta Sidhu-Robb
geetasidhurobb@yahoo.co.uk

Would you like to get your finances, goals
and aspirations off to a flying start in 2007
with Nicola and The Money Gym team?

Then visit

The Money Gym and discover the special
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by Nicola Cairncross

I was wondering what topic would be appropriate for the
ezine between Christmas & the New Year and I was feeling
drawn to the "Old Father Time" concepts, then I saw a quote
from one of my favourite authors M. Scott Peck that tied in
nicely with my feeling about wealth creation, time
management and self worth.

M.
Scott Peck said "Until you value yourself, you will not
value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do
anything with it"

Now, anyone who has been following the ezine and the blog
recently will know that I’ve been very struck by the Rich
Schefren documents called the Internet Marketing Manifesto
(with the accompanying "Missing Chapter" and "Final
Chapter").  Find out more and download your copy at

http://www.strategicprofits.com/manifesto/

Rich’s Manifesto is not just about the Internet - it’s
really about business and it’s had a profound effect on the
way I’ve been thinking about

The Money Gym - my main focus for 2007.

Rich was actually already phenomenally successful in real
world business by the time he ventured online, and he’s been
mentoring all the "big dogs" of the internet world on how to
create real sustainable, lasting, scaleable business’ that
don’t need them to be there 24/7/365.

I really feel that this is possibly one of the most
important reads for ANYONE in business, any business, second
only to "E-Myth Revisited" by Michael E Gerber,
"Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership" by Joseph
Jaworski, and the last third of "Rich Dad’s Guide To
Investment" which I consider to be three of the most
important business books on the planet.

On Rich’s blog where he invites discussion on the contents
of the Manifesto, he asks:

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"I
saw Nicola speak at Petersfield Ecademy recently and
she was awesome. Her presentation was packed with
practical hints tips and strategies for creating
passive income. Well worth the journey and
entertaining too. She certainly seems to know what
she is talking about.

Gavin Meikle,

Inter-Activ

Would you like Nicola to
speak your event?

Email details to

steve@themoneygym.com and subject to
availability and her expenses being paid, she’ll be
there!

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Just got this from AWeber and as I’m obsessed with website and ezine stats at the moment, I thought I would share……and read on to find out about a fairly radical experiment going on in the way we do things around here as a result of a very interesting conversation with Vanish Patel a couple of weeks ago

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Newsletter Personalization Statistics & Tips:

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Subject line personalization using the date generated an average open rate of 51.4% compared to personalization using the subscriber’s first name generating 40.9% open rate.

Newsletters sent without personalization of any type in the subject line generated average open rates of 28.9%.

17% of newsletter subject lines sent in the last 30 days contained date personalization while 19% used the subscriber’s first name.  56.3% of subject lines did not contain any type of personalization.

Interestingly, using the subscriber’s full name or last name generated lower average open rates at 20%.

Sincerely, Tom Kulzer

CEO & Founder

AWeber Communications

http://www.AskNicolaCairncross.com/Recommends/AWeber

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BACKGROUND

Now, I don’t want to upset you all – because I know I got pretty upset when I realised the implications of the following - at the thought of yet more work and change and getting my head around new ways to do things, but I’m going to share with you something that has rocked my internet marketing and ezine publishing world recently……….

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Many of my clients ask me how to do ezines, blogs, and websites.  Their questions are always along a common theme…

What should I say?  How should I be?  How much should I share?

So hard to answer.  But so easy when you look at the best blogs / ezines / websites.

So I thought I would share which ezines / blogs that I IMMEDIATELY drop everything to read - how much more compelling is that?? 

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Christmas is one of what I call the “hidden expenditures” – a bit like holiday suncream and mossie repellent, buying toiletries all year, cappuccino and haircuts. Nobody ever budgets effectively for Christmas or really knows what they spend.

It’s not just the presents, it’s the cards, the wrapping paper, the extra bottles of wine to take to the parties, the mince pies hurled in the trolley at Tesco’s the weeks leading up to Christmas, the extra tree decorations.

For example, do you know how much exactly Christmas Dinner costs?

We do this year, because Steve is cooking for 20 of us, and we are all chipping in.  A full Christmas dinner, with all the courses, choices of sweets, white and red wine, bucks fizz – but excluding crackers and table decorations – costs £30 a head per adult, £15 per head per child.  He’s costed it up professionally so we know.  You should add a tenner per person because, not being an ex-professional chef, you won’t buy as well.  And you will be buying other food for the whole week, so you should perhaps double it at least!!

The other way to tell what you will be spending, is to….

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