My Book, His Book & VIP Bookings

Last weekend I went to London to speak for Neil Asher’s clients – over 120 people in the Millenium Sloane St who were bright, interactive and well up for learning new things.  Neil had a good solid lineup of speakers and I was delighted to find Money Gym coach Philly Fuggle there as Paul was speaking about Total Business Cart the next day.

My talk went well and we attracted two new clients to Membership Club Magic.  Two other nice surprises were two people in the audience – Geoff who I hadn’t seen since the Coachville conference in Las Vegas and a lady (Carole? So sorry, I was on a post talk adrenaline high and I don’t think you gave me a card!) who had coached me back in the very early days at one of Bob Griffith’s hot seat coaching days in London – you were trying to encourage me to raise my rates from £279.50 a month to over £300 and I was very resistant apparently.

Well I’ve so got over that and she was very pleased to hear it.  I think the difference is that I know the value of what I deliver.  And of course, I don’t need personal coaching clients as my main income is via the Money Gym, but I choose to work with a few people at a time, purely on internet related stuff, because I enjoy it.

Then I stayed up for dinner – a great Indian with a crowd of Neil’s closest clients and friends, and then up early to go to Heathrow for a rather disappointing event, where they were expecting 400 but only 90 showed for the first day,and only about 45 for the Sunday.  Added to that, a couple of unfortunatel incidents made my talk popular but not very successful in terms of attracting new clients, but I enjoyed seeing Michael Young, meeting Yvonne from the African & Caribbean Business Network and it’s always a joy to hear Andy Harrington speak – he was particularly good this time!

The big news this week is that I’ve not only started to re-write my Money Gym book, but that process started me mindmapping / planning the next one.  Then, all of a sudden, it started to pour out of me!  I just couldn’t help myself!

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Bonjour Mon Ami! Free Traffic Generation Seminar tickets – déplacer vos fesses rapidement!

Bonjour Mon Ami, Here’s something good but you have todéplacer vos fesses rapidement!

But first……did you know I have an Opera Singer sister?  Her name is Heather and I’m very proud of her.

So why am I telling you this?

And why am I testing my school girl French to the max?  Some might even say “painfully”.

Because my family loyalty was put to the test this week….Bigtime!

I had to choose between going to see singing sister Heather sing at the Paris Opera House in “Carmen”, one of my favourite operas of all time…..and going for a long weekend in Paris with Sarah……

OR…….

Going to see some of my very favourite people speak at what looks like one of the biggest and the best seminars of the year.

People like Alan Forrest Smith, Jennie Armato, Guy Levine (who taught me so much back in the day), Mark Vurnum and our very own Mark Anastasi.

O yes!

Since going to the “Break Free Seminar” recently, Mark has shot into my Top 10 Speakers list.

Worldwide.

Also featured at the Summit is a little known (so far) chap called Gareth Owen who taught me one little trick that has EXPLODED my Google Adwords results. Alan Forrest Smith says Gareth is his secret traffic weapon.

Well, I was chatting with Mark Anastasi the other day, as I want to interview him to find out some of his secrets, and he mentioned his upcoming Summit.

Oh, I was so disappointed not to be able to go!  But Heather and Sarah would never speak to me again if I cancelled this trip.

Mark was cool though and he did something very special for me, even though I can’t go.

Today Mark allocated me 20 tickets to “The Traffic Generation Summit” worth £97 each to GIVE AWAY to my clients.

(each ticket comes with £1,582.00 in bonuses, by the way)

He said, “Nicola, don’t worry, get some of your very favourite clients to come along, and I’m sure they will share everything they learn with you!”

The man’s a genius!

Of course you will.

So here goes with the info…..and remember, you have to share!

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Hurry though, as there are only 20 tickets available.

And I mean TOUT SUITE!!

To Your Success & Au Revoir!

Nicola Cairncross

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Beach Dreams, Breaking Free & Board Meetings

Summer’s definitely arrived on Shoreham Beach and how do you think I know that?  Apart fromt the lovely weather, with May’s storms out of the way, the Beach Dreams tent has gone up on the Green.  Any long term reader of this ezine will know I wax lyrical about Beach Dreams every year and some may even remember the picture taken from INSIDE my handbag the first year I got my FlipVideo.  Nelson’s “Dad Dancing” video has now had 231 views and is rated 3.5 stars!

The Beach Dreams Festival and particularly The Tent is an institution round here, selling tea and cake to raise funds for the festivities and, after school, it’s always full of kids and visiting foreign students making the most outlanding costumes for the parade.

Everyone who can bake locally, does so, and drops cakes, scones, cheese straws etc in as donations, and the many home-made cake lovers on the Beach make it a point of obligation to support the Festival by dropping in on a regular basis to drink tea and sample the goodies.  Home made cakes remind me of my nanny, with whom I lived for happy years as a child, and I love the whole village feel of Beach Dreams.

Photo by the much travelled Jim Callender – see more of Jim’s photos here

While looking at our Money Gym YouTube channel to get the stats for Nelson’s video I can see, using their new Insight feature, that our MG / YouTube audience is 58% female, between 45-54 (which we knew actually).  I would have thought our audience would have been slightly younger than that, between 35 and 55, thinking about the clients who have had the most success with the Money Gym.

Success is all relative as we know, and this fact was brought up again by one of our Silver Elite clients on a call recently.  She said that she would only want to be mentored in Wealth Creation by someone who had millions in the bank and could prove it.

We gently reminded her that it’s not always about being a millionaire, but about being financially free.  And you don’t need a million to be financially free.  It’s all about not having to go to work (if you don’t want to) or doing work you love AND to spend your days growing your wealth and having fun.

Also, no self-respecting millionaire would keep millions in the bank.  For one thing, it would be losing money, and wouldn’t be safe as the government guarantee only £50,000 per person per bank, but there is also the opportunity cost to be considered.

I’ve been approached by my publishers with a theme for a new book – I was twittering on the topic and they said they had been looking for someone to write a book on just that very thing!  I’ll start a mindmap and see how it grows.  I already have a few ideas for what I would want to cover.

I love to write more than anything else I’ve discovered and I’ve got at least three more books inside me and business partner Judith Morgan says she has one too – her wealth creation journey so far.  Judith is a brilliant, funny, poignant writer and I for one would consider that a rattling good read.  I would just love to buy a house in Greece and one in Shoreham or Brighton perhaps, and just divide my time between attending seminars, travelling between the two houses, seeing the world, writing and hanging out online.

We are having an interim Board Meeting on Monday at a lovely Elizabethan Manor hotel, to discuss further the shape of the Money Gym for 2010.  Yes, I know we just did that, but certain key things are changing and we want to make sure we are all happy with the direction we are heading.  YOu can do that when it’s your own business.  The Money Gym is growing all the time, in all different kinds of ways, and we want to make sure that it continues to serve all our own individual “Primary Aims” for our lives, in E-Myth Terms.

More about that in today’s article.

Last weekend I attended the “Break Free Seminar” with Pat Adams and Mark Anastasi which I thought was totally excellent.  They are both great speakers and delivered excellent content, around using direct mail and the internet to create an information publishing business.  I took at least six page of notes and learned loads of new stuff, so even if you are an experienced business person or marketeer, consider attending their next one in June and you can book your tickets here…..

One seminar I would NOT be missing if it weren’t for a prior engagement, is Alan Forrest Smith’s appearance at the British Library at Rachel Elnaugh’s “Marketing Magicians”  Alan says: “Next Tuesday, June 2nd, I will be one of the keynote speakers for BBC and Dragons Den star Rachel Elnaugh.  Not only am I thrilled to be asked to speak for her at The British Library, I’ll also be presenting with some serious heavyweight entrepreneurs.  This gig is different, it focused on real business people or wanna-be smart, fast track entrepreneurs.  There are around 300 places (BUT I think it’s almost sold out). I am also presenting a stack of new ideas, stories and marketing nuggets that you can walk away with. It’s all here…”

My next speaking gigs?  We have a Money Gym “Let’s Talk Money” day

on June 13th which is packed to the rafters and then I’m speaking at Ambar Hamid’s Wealth Thing event on June 6th and then I’m on again for Triumphant Events, with Dr Topher Morrison on 5th July.

Have fun, we always do!

Nicola

Missed The OrangeBeetle Party?

While I was away, Alan Forrest-Smith hosted a great “recession-busting” party at a castle in Scotland – it looks brilliant and if I’d not been in the Caribbean…..next time Alan! Next time for sure!

Brett McFall Upstaged By A Seagull!

When I took Brett McFall to Brighton for lunch, we recorded a little video for Alan Forrest Smith, who was in Brett’s neck of the woods on the Gold Coast of Australia.  We were trying to concentrate and be professional but there was this seagull who just could not get enough of the camera.  Enjoy!

Trials Of An ADD Internet Marketeer

Life as an internet marketer never runs smooth and this week I tried to send out a video postcard about Alan’s workshop.  Now, while I can see it fine in the “postcard creator” software, on the blog, on YouTube, etc, you can never predict  what will happen online and lo and behold, it didnt’ seem to work.  Well not for two days anyway – it’s working fine now!

One of the lessons to learn and I have learned it.  Do your best, tell everyone what is happening, and try anyway!  Better to be out there than perfect eh?

You can view said video in it’s original form here
http://videopostcard-004.com/X.asp?5803994X1920

Or on the blog here
http://themoneygym.com/blog/2008/04/09/alan-forrest-smith-join-us/

Or on YouTube here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPItSew7d44

Bit of a story around this video postcard….in addition to the fact I now have to ring the USA at lunchtime to see what’s gone wrong and why it’s now working but it wasn’t when I sent it out grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

You may enjoy a behind the scenes look at the challenges one faces as an ADD internet entrepreneur?  Read on and enjoy!

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4 Places Left…Going….going….

Alan Forrest Smith “Maverick Marketing Masterclass” tomorrow – update…………4 places left…

Book yours now – London SE1 – 9.45 start
http://www.themoneygym.com/mgpresents/alan.htm

Alan Forrest Smith – Join Us!

It’s not too late to book – about 15    13   3  tickets left as of Friday 11th April for Saturday’s “Maverick Marketing Masterclass” with Alan Forrest Smith.  http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/MGPresents/Alan.htm

It’s going to be a dynamite day – don’t miss it.   Nicola Cairncross wants to encourage you ask questions and tell us what your biggest marketing challenge is, with your business!  Use the comments box below to ask your questions and get help with your marketing.

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We made $50,000 in just 72 hours

Well, we nearly did it!  Alan Forrest Smith’s just updated me that the World Internet Challenge raised over $50,000 in just 72 hours, and the donations are still coming in.  Here’s Alan in a little video from a real rain forest, thanking everyone who got involved.  If you haven’t heard from me with your links to my goodies, just email me now (tell me how you donated – by phone or PayPal) and I’ll get right back to you.

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Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week

** It is not to late to help The Money Gym help Alan Forrest Smith’s World Internet Challenge to save acres and acres of rainforest and the people who live there – The Money Gym readers have raised over $1000 so far towards his goal of $100,000 in just FOUR DAYS – visit here to find out more http://www.worldinternetchallenge.com/ – but don’t donate there – and then go here to find out how to claim all our free goodies too!  **

I’m keeping a running total and listing those who donate with a link to their website (good for your SEO) here and you can check out my leery taste in dressing gowns too >>>>

Apart from all that excitement, there has been more!!  My brain is completely fried this week…..

Every now and then something comes along on the internet and you just know in your heart that it’s gonna be huge and that you have got to learn it quick.  Just such a thing came along yesterday lunchtime, in between two of my internet marketing mentoring clients. 

I was idly checking my Twitter conversations and I noticed Ed Dale twittering to someone else about a live TV broadcast from one of his “Thirty Day Challenge” mentee’s (is that a word?) and saying that we had to check it out.  Something made me click and over I went.

And my life changed.  Bam!  And forever, I suspect.

I don’t think of myself as a very early adopter (took me ages to cotton onto the benefits of using Facebook, MySpace, YouTube etc) but I jumped on this one alright.  Check us out at www.TheMoneyGym.tv

From first reading about it and then grasping what it was (about 5 mins) and then from the lightbulb moment to the account / profile implementation (15 minutes),  then to live show being broadcast (4.5 hours – and that last would have been quicker if I had not had some other coaching calls). 

Bless my clients, they had to have the first five minutes or so, listening to me banging on about this too!

This is one intuitive bit of software!  I love software that you can puzzle out just by looking at it and then clicking around – does that make me Visual/Kinaesthetic, I wonder?

Especially as it auto-connects with (mashes up with?) Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter, not to mention interating with your blog (via Twitter for Wordpress and Typepad users at the moment).

So what is it?

Live TV, broadcast from your office or home……or anywhere really.  So what? You may ask. 

Well think about how YouTube has taken off – and how many accidental mega-stars have been created via YouTube. 

Gary Vaynerchuck on WineLibrary.tv for starters.  He’s getting 60,000 views per day on his wine tasting programmes on YouTube.  See Gary in action here >>>>

Well, this website – called Justin.tv after the REALLY young guy who started it – is YouTube on steroids.

Kathy Sierra at her presentation at SXSW last weekend had a great take on why Gary has become so famous and his show’s so watched. 

She thinks that Gary is succeeding not because he’s entertaining and educated about wine, but because he makes his viewers more entertaining and educated about wine. 

And not least because his viewers feel a really strong sense of connection with him because they are interacting with him on the blog in the first person, telling their stories of trying new wines and how they are enjoying their wine more.  See Kathy and Gary in action here >>>

Now, I would LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU to become more inspirational and educated.  I would really love you to interact with me more and tell me your stories.  And more importantly I would love you to tell us what you need from us, to help you in your wealth creation journey.

Here is the easiest fun ways to do that:

1. Come to one of our Let’s Talk Money days – next one in April http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/LetsTalkMoney

2. Watch and chat live with me on one of my new TV shows – http://www.MoneyGym.tv

3. Join us on one of our Wealth Surgery webinars on the 1st Tuesday evening of every month – more info at http://www.TheMoneyGymClub.com – join free, login and then register for the webinar at the “Next Events > Tele-Seminars” link on the left hand side.

4. Comment on the blog at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/Blog – after every post there is a “comments” link and if you click that, you can leave your comment (they are moderated but I get an email immediately and approve everything except Spam)

Have fun, we most certainly are this week!

Nicola

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