Twitter Updates for 2008-05-24

• annoyed I’ve woken up at 7am on a Saturday! Best play some poker I spose #
• @garyvee I tried but could only access one page? Is there an ebook version somewhere? #
• @leawoodward welcome back, how was Devon? The thought of you without a computer – cheesus #
• @garyconn – your debt people might like my ebook…..gotta Alan Forrest Smith sales page convering well and also on clickbank – just a t … #
• getting ready to party like it’s 1994 – which I remember well LOL #
• I am ready to think bigger, much much bigger with The Money Gym. Create thoughtful strategic partnerships and remember to trust my gut! #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-23

• wirting my wealth creation ezine and thinking about potential long term strategic partnerships #
• @simonelli what did you have in mind? #
• ezine – tick! about to listen to phone messages about buying property in Worthing for £1 using CI method http://tinyurl.com/574rzb #
• @sarahnewton upload a pic to twitpic then Sarah #
• What If You Don’t Know? /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – I talk about intentions all the time, but what if you … http://tinyurl.com/593d4m #
• high from looking at 5 props where sellers are desperate, knowing I make money from helping but not beating them down on price #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Pride, Passion & People Going Gold

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. 

See what you think at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/Gold

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.

Have fun, we always are!

Nicola

Joint Ventures RIP! Long Live Strategic Partnerships

This week has been an interesting one in the world of both business success and internet marketing.  The excellent Stompernet faculty has opened it’s long closed doors to a limited number of new students and what is rapidly growing into the “must join” membership site / online university has been following the classic “product launch formula” method of giving away great content before selling anyone anything. 

Attraction marketing at it’s finest.

One of the things that Stompernet have been giving away, is lots and lots of free videos on improving your rankings in the Search Engines.  Check out those and their fantastic new and totally free tool to find out what Google sees when it visits your site here >>>

Another is Brad Fallon, founder of Stompernet, together with one of my mentors Rich Schefren, discussing on some great videos on why you should stop thinking in terms of quick and dirty Joint Ventures (where you just mail for them and they mail for you) and start thinking in terms of value-adding strategic partnerships.

Think about who you could work with on a long term basis, that you

1.  Like – this is very important
2.  Respect – you have to feel happy recommending them and their company
3.  Know have unique content that you don’t have that your subscribers / members would enjoy/benefit from

We have long been a fan of this in The Money Gym, with our existing alliances with those who we consider to be the best in their field, such as our “Money Gym Presents….Our Favourite Experts” workshop presenters, but specifically Passive Investments, Tamkin Riaz, Marcus De Maria, Alan Forrrest Smith and now Tim Brocklehurst, Brett McFall, Claire Raikes, and Dave Lee, The Cashflow Investor (see Wealth Highway article today).

But it’s all been a bit informal and I’m starting to think about making it more formalised and also more reciprocal in some cases.

Read more..

Playing Property Snakes & Ladders

The rather interesting headline in todays Worthing Property Weekly was…”A Return To A More Steady Market”

Damn, damn, damn!  We all wanted another year of doom and gloom about house prices – never have there been so many empty houses with motivated sellers and prices being slashed.

The article goes on to say “The property market is correcting itself rather than heading for a spectacular crash, according to the National Association of Estate Agents.  It based it’s claims on information contained in the latest report by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors…….The house price falls are modest and the picture is still patchy with some areas of the country finding it tougher than others….credit crunch affected confidence….underlying factors that support property market remain:  low unemployment, historically low interest rates and a pent up demand for houses.”

As I say, Damn, Damn, Damn!  I was rather hoping for those 15-30% drops my friends (non-property investing) boyfriend is confidently predicting and I told you about last week.  On her usual entertaining note, Judith has written about her personal rather up and down property investing story here.

“My history with property investing is somewhat checkered to say the least. In 1979 my Dad lent me £500 towards buying my first home which cost £9,000 and on which Ken Livingstone, then Leader of the GLC, gave me a 100% mortgage. I sold the flat in 1983 for £21,000 and bought a house costing £43,000. I sold that in a sealed bid in 1987 for about £85,000 and bought a house for £125,000 and then rented it out in 1990 as an HMO (house of multiple occupancy) even before we knew what such a thing was, and bought a flat to live in costing another £125,000. So at that point I owned two properties worth a quarter of a million, following nothing better than instinct, naivete and native cunning.

And then interest rates went to 18% and I struggled manfully with the cashflow of my business in difficult market conditions and to pay both mortgages for about three years until I finally caved in and in 1992 both my homes were re-possessed and I found myself in debt to the tune of about £300,000 and facing bankruptcy. Snakes and Ladders. Back to Zero. Er, make that £300k below zero.

So, if I suffered so badly in the last “crash”, how are things different now?  Why am I buying, buying, buying and more to the point, how am I doing it?”

(Nicola’s note:  Our next Money Gym Presents day is on Property, and not only will the best thing since vienetta Ice Cream be presenting there – Greg Ballard – but Judith and myself will be sharing the “Top Five All Time Ways To Make Money From Property” – find out more here.) 

Judith says:  One of those ways is something we only came across this year, but has blown us – and many of our Money Gym clients – away.  Dave & Rick’s Cashflow Investor plan means you don’t acquire more assets – or “slumbering giants” as I call them – and don’t get me wrong… you do need some slumbering giants.

But what if you have no equity to leverage, no inheritance to invest, no savings deposits and no good credit rating? How are YOU going to make large lumps of cash in the property lane of the Wealth Highway?

Read more..

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-22

• Looking at property deals while waiting for first Internet Mentoring client of the day – always love it when I get into it…. #
• How I Attract Women /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ –  It happens every time. I’m at a book store, book … http://tinyurl.com/425d8o #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-21

• Join the Money Gym crowd on CrowdStatus.com – nice little app http://snurl.com/29w5t #
• Ooooo, and I really like http://www.TweetLater.com for the ability to thank folks for their follow #
• Gosh, you can see how things can go viral VERY QUICKLY! Hope Twitter gets their next round funding and can have less downtime! #
• @hamlesh – hi there. The Money Gym teaches bright energetic people how to become independently wealthy through business, property, internet #
• ….and the Stockmarket. Whether it be creating extra income streams or investing for the long term, we teach them what is not, at school #
• @hamlesh – check us out at http://www.TheMoneyGymClub.com or the blog at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/blog – been at it since 1999 #
• Save Your Own Life? /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ – My friend John Wood of www.oldtimestrongman.com shared … http://tinyurl.com/4yktcm #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-20

• Text Donny Deutsch /Dr. Joe Vitale at Zero/ –  I signed up for this free service and love it. Every weekday … http://tinyurl.com/4fo85g #
• thrilled that I pushed through the fear and went to play my first live game of No Limit last night – nice people, won 1 pot and had fun #
• Now I have something to do on a Monday or Thursday night – my social life might be improving. Onward on my quest to work less! #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Twitter Updates for 2008-05-19

• Adding all my twittering Ecademy contacts to Twitter – this will increase our reach exponentially surely? #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Despair Of Ever Investing In Property?

This post was written before the demise of Passive Investments.  Read The Latest Money Gym Statement Here>>>>

Every so often a wealth creation concept or different way of doing things comes along, that just blows my mind.

A few years ago, when I came across the way my mates Greg & Andy invest in property, my head nearly exploded with excitement, and I couldn’t wait to share their ideas with my readers.

However, Greg & Andy’s way of doing things does depend on three things

1.  A good credit rating
2.  A pot of cash to use over and over again for deposits / refurb
3.  Ability to get a mortgage (lots of “buy to let” mortgages still ask for proof of earnings)

Now this is great for a large majority of our Money Gym members and hundreds of them have availed themselves of Greg & Andy’s services, via Passive Investments or learned how to do it themselves, via Andy’s book.

BUT………..

I knew there was about 30% of our subscribers who couldn’t “do property” the Passive way, or even buy their own home, due to

1.  No pot of cash
2.  No credit rating
3.  No proof of earnings

Now, I know that there are several other ways to make money from property, without having to buy any yourself, but sadly people just seem to give up at that point, and don’t go on learning about what makes a good property deal, if they haven’t got even one of the above three things in place.

So you can imagine how delighted I was when I met David Lee, via Tamkin Riaz, at the last World Internet Summit.  I really think that the heavens were conspiring that night, because I had met David several times before, but never really fully grasped what he did.

On this occasion, I ended up sitting next to him, his wife and son, in the pub, and out of politeness really, asked him again to tell me what he does…..an hour or so later, I still didn’t really get it, but dimly grasped enough to realise that it was a totally different way of making money from property, and to tell Judith we should invite David to speak for The Money Gym.

In January David did a VERY powerful presentation – and he would be the first to admit he’s quite new to public speaking – and his concept and content blew us away.

Can you imagine being able to make money from property without needing a deposit, a mortgage or a good credit rating?  Where you are not competing with all the “below market value” boys, and where you are not only making big chunks of cash, but helping two sets of people?

Let me repeat that……where you are making what we in the Money Gym call “life changing sums of money” while helping two sets of people.

A geniune win/win/win situation.  It takes a bit of a mind-shift, a bit of a leap of faith, and access to some minor cojones to get started, but if you are open-minded and determined…….

I tell you now, this is dynamite stuff.  Judith and I both love it!

Several Money Gym clients signed up on the spot and we have all been working our way through the materials – the detailed “how to” workbook, the many hours of audio with real people, case studies, and student stories.  I have rarely seen a better put together home study course and the backup support from David is superb.

David is doing a presentation soon, and there will be a very special guest there – Rick Otton.

Rick is the guy who learned how to utilise this way of making money from property, firstly in the USA, then Australia, and he mentored David to make it work here.

I have no idea where Maidenhead is, but, if you have despaired of every becoming a property investor, but you want to be, I suggest you get your map out and make your way there pronto!

http://tinyurl.com/574rzb

Don’t delay, places are limited and David’s last events in Ealing and Manchester sold out very quickly.

Take action now and I personally promise you, you will be amazed!

http://tinyurl.com/574rzb

« Previous Page — Next Page »