Property Investors Under The Hammer | £5000+ For The Big Issue!

Last week I was feeling very odd, in the lead up to our Property Extravaganza.  It was obvious by the beginning of the week that thanks to Judith’s inspired marketing emails, the guest line up and Steve’s working the “back end” so masterfully, we were going to sell out the venue, so there was no pressure there to get more bums on seats.  Judith and Steve had done all the organising and hard work, keeping me out of that aspect deliberately as detail is not my strong point!  I realised that I was experiencing the whole event as a customer and while it was most enjoyable, it was very odd.

To distract myself, I went to the ever-excellent Martin Avis’ London Lunch for internet marketers and spent a lovely hour or so on our table with Money Gym maties Susanne Jorgensen, Tricia Stone, Matt Garrett, Tim Brocklehurst and a new gentleman called Peter who had a hard time getting a word in edgeways!

Then off to the ever enjoyable Cumberland Hotel to meet Steve for drinks and dinner in the Gary Rhodes brasserie, which was nice but not all that (compared with the restaurant which is GORGEOUS!).  Lovely hotel room overlooking Park Lane and Marble Arch.

So, where do I start with a review of saturday?  It was a totally amazing day, with about 150 Money Gym clients there, both previous and current.  Judith herself, stepping into her star profile at last, and Alexis Garnaut-Miller who was a client from pre-Money Gym days even and who has just joined the Membership Club Magic programme!  From the first year or so of The Money Gym in it’s current format, it was lovely to see Sarah Mallett and Julia McDaid.  I also met people like Oliver, a property developer from Worthing, who I knew from my first ever Russ Whitney weekend which must have been 2003 or 2004….and who also turned up recently at one of our Cashflow games.

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Over £5000 Raised For The Big Issue Foundation

We are so thrilled and proud of all our Money Gym gang – over £5000 raised for The Big Issue Foundation.  £4500 from ticket sales and donations, including one from @JennieArmato in Australia, which Judith and I matched, and the possibility of another £5000 from some of the speakers.  Here’s me and Anthony North, Head of Fundraising from the Big Issue.  The Money Gym helping The Big Issue help the homeless help themselves.  The videos will be available soon too for a small donation, so the work goes on.

Movies, Mummys, Membership Magic, Motivation

I’m in a movie!  How exciting!  I had completely forgotten about it!  Yes, I know, how can you forget that you are in a movie?  Well, I did, honest.

It’s called The Change Series (#ChangeSeries on Twitter) and it’s launching online next week.  We are all hoping it will go viral like The Secret did.  Produced by a real live TV producer Steve McNamee in collaboration with Fitness Guru Scott Tousignant.   Another great thing that came out of the Marketer’s Cruise, the benefits of going on that just roll on and on.

One of our other Money Gym clients and cruisers is in it too, Jane Lewis and she looks great.  I look tired and fat, with a lazy eye, but I don’t talk too much rubbish so I’m happy!

Off to London tomorrow at o’dark ridiculous for my first day with a new software company who are bringing me in as an online marketing advisor.  Great product which has pretty much sold itself on referrals in it’s home country, but they need some help launching it here.  We have aleady identified some fantastic long tail key words that there is a healthy demand for, and not much competition, and we’ll be looking at the next steps tomorrow.

The Property Extravaganza is rolling along relentlessly – I think we will hit the halfway sold out mark over the weekend, so get your ticket now here.  Some great audio interviews up there to listen to gratis, and I turned the first 20 minutes of Anthony North, from the Big Issue, into a couple of videos for YouTube.

Talking of videos, I’ve made available a 22 minute segment of our Membership Club Magic workshop day, where I show the delegates how to monetise their membership sites, but the principles hold true for any website.  You can get to that video via the webinar signup page and it’s the page after the webinar page.

We have nearly finished the migration of our content onto our own new membership site, and now to move the members!  Then to create a membership site to stor the Membership Club Magic content and provide the marketing front end for the product – are we in danger of disappearing up our own proverbials?

I provided a review for a great new book called “SuperMummy : The Ultimate Mumpreneur Guide To Online Business Success” and it’s launched today on Amazon.

Mel McGee, author of “Supermummy: The Ultimate Mumpreneur’s Guide To Online Business Success” is officially launching her new book on Amazon.co.uk today and is giving away fantastic bonuses, including the complete “Mum Power Business Building Course” and lifetime membership at her site to celebrate.  Read more on the blog here >>>

It’s the second month of coaching Debbie Winterbourne, winner of “Gold For Christmas” competition and I’m enjoying it thoroughly.  She’s bright, motivated, and the owner of a lovely training & meeting room venue in the Euston area, called Quantum House, which you can hire for just £200 a day.  We are going to make some major changes to the website but in the meantime, here’s a picture of the main workshop space.

There is so much potential for her to make serious money with this place, then roll it out around London certainly.  Lucky for Debbie I used to run an empty space in Mayfair called The Music Room and so have loads of ideas….I’m trying not to overwhelm her at the moment LOL

Debbie is motivated for sure, she’s taking action on just about every suggestion I’m making and that makes my heart sing.  Because at the end of the day, it’s only Debbie that can do it for Debbie.  Someone left a message on my Twitter timeline saying “Can you make me a millionaire Nicola?”  and I had to reply “No, but you can!”.  Just about sums it up really.

And I’ve booked some recurring appointments in my Outlook to go to the gym, otherwise I never get around to it.  Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings.

Always last on the list me!  But Mother’s Day coming up is reminding me to look after myself a bit better.

Have fun, we always do.

Nicola

Dawn, Daniel, Trades Descriptions & Direct Talking

A very early start on Saturday, to fly to Manchester to spend the day with an early client of The Money Gym, reviewing his business and investments and planning the next year for him. He’s asked me to meet up once a quarter as he finds a coaching relationship very motivating! Now this man does not need motivating, let me tell you, but I’ve decided he’s an entrepreneurial personality type so he thinks while he talks. And he values having someone objective to talk to! We definately came out of that day with a focused “to do” list for each of his “Lanes of the Wealth Highway”.

A lovely meal with my client and then I waved him off and had an early night at the rather nice Radisson SAS hotel, which was full of well behaved football supporters rather than hunky tough soldiers. Trades descriptions act, anyone?

Then to the Tower Thistle to speak for WIN Investing’s “Build Your Wealth” event. Very strange day, as while the response was very positive, nobody took me up on my offer, whereas with much smaller crowds in London, they’ve been beating my door down. Lots of sidling up and trying to get my private contact details as well, which was very odd.

A lovely lunch with Daniel Priestly of Triumphant Events, who I’ve heard a lot about but never met before. He caught the end of my talk and was intrigued, and I loved his presentation on Wealth Dynamics profiling, which of course we are big fans of at The Money Gym. Judith and I are Creator/Star/Mechanics (no!) and Steve is a Lord/Accumulator/Mechanic. Any Deal Makers or Supporters out there?

Then off to Manchester Airport which I always find most entertaining, where I got chatted up by a barrister en route for somewhere else. It took me a while to realise it was happening, as I’m a very friendly and outgoing type generally, but by the third compliment in thirty minutes (vivacious, lovely eyes, nice coat, warm personality etc etc) I was starting to twig. Ooo-er, what to do? Being a wimp, I couldn’t say “no” outright when he asked for my number but I figured if I took his, then at least I would be able to screen the calls. The man has a live-in lover for heavens sake, where do guys like that get off? He probably reads this ezine by now, my profile not being exactly low key, online, so, if you do, you were very nice but I’m not interested in breaking up homes OR playing second fiddle. Don’t you watch “Mistresses” – it ALWAYS ends in tears.

Talking of possibly ending in tears, check out my article on business and taking responsibility for your money, as nobody cares as much about your cash as you do. It’s a theme that Judith and I are very keen to make sure you are aware of, as the news gets grimmer and grimmer on the TV. It’s not just about jobs being in the firing line, but businesses too. And that may have a knock on effect on your earnings, your savings and your investments. Not to doom-monger but to encourage you to be aware, be pro-active and make plans for a different world than it was last year!

Back to work and it’s all been about the Property Extravaganza Day this week, with bookings pouring in. We are nearly half sold out so if you are thinking of coming along, book your place at http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property – it’s only £25, all going to the Big Issue after we pay the VAT, and eight great speakers. Loads of lovely networking and re-charging your wealth creation batteries.

This week, Judith and I interviewed the very lively Anthony North, who is the Head Fundraiser for The Big Issue, and an entertaining and moving hour it was too! I broadcast the interview on BlogTalkRadio, I’m going to podcast via the blog here on iTunes. You can listen to Anthony’s story here

I did a quick look on YouTube to see if the Big Issue had much up there already – perhaps their own channel, as they do Big Issue tours and events. Not a sausage on YouTube except some piss-taking videos of Big Issue vendors doing their best to bring a bit of Christmas cheer to their selling activities.

So I’m given myself the rather tedious job of breaking the interview down into six x ten minute segments, and getting it up on YouTube as video too. If Anthony gives me the go-ahead, I’ll create The Big Issue their own channel, so they can add our videos and those of some of the bands who have been on their tour.

While there I found an interesting video of Big Issue founder John Bird, talking about Ethical Business at the British Library and you can view that here >>>

And then I did a search on Google for John Bird and found this interesting article where John says the only solution to the homeless problem is to ……lock up the homeless!

I’m amazed at how this whole Big Issue thing is touching me actually, must be a “there but for the grace of god, go I” element creeping in. There have been many times in my life when I needed to move and have been housed by family and friends and I couldn’t help thinking yesterday, when listening to Anthony’s passion for his job, what would I have done without anyone to help and support me?

Off to London Friday ready for the next Membership Club Magic “Bonus” Workshop. All the people who signed up in September at Brett’s event are coming and the new people who signed up via the free online webinar presentation or via the Build Your Wealth events. Old friends, some not seen since 2003, and lots of new ones – marvellous.

Now, we are starting to think about taking on an intern for 6 months to a year. This would be someone, probably a college leaver or gap year person, who wants to learn how to become an internet marketer, run an online business, organise and host real world events, and discover how to develop information and software products. There would be no pay, for the internship, but all expenses covered, and the chance of a job with us, or someone we know at the end of it. I don’t think you would need to live near Sussex, as we could work remotely most of the time but the South East would probably save you some travelling.

Skills would include a thorough knowledge and use of the online world, for example, use of Bebo, MySpace or Facebook a must, and if they can use spreadsheets and type fast with good English, that would be a great advantage. Self starter, goes without saying, and outgoing with an eye for detail. Must be willing to learn HTML, blogging, shopping carts, autoresponders etc.

More to follow, as we thrash out the details, so watch your email. This is how Steve found out I was looking for someone to run the hotel, so you never know…

As he always says, he rues the day he opened that email, but he’s still here so… LOL

Money Gym Interviews | Anthony North, Big Issue

Judith interviewed Anthony North, Head of Fundraising for The Big Issue yesterday and we found out how he came to work at the Big Issue, what gets him up in the morning and what they are going to do with our donation from the rapidly filling up Property Extravaganza Day on 21st March 2009.  Book your place here >>>

Ethical Business On The Rise | Big Issue Founder Speaks

Here’s a video of Big Issue founder John Bird on You Tube talking at the British Library on the rise and rise of ethical business.

We also interviewed Anthony North, Head of Fundraising on what gets him up in the morning, and what The Big Issue plan to do with our donation.  Listen here >>>

And here’s a link to rather controversial article whre John says the only solution to the homeless problem is to ……lock up the homeless!    Read more here >>>

Money Gym Interviews | Anthony North, The Big Issue

We hosted a lively interview with Anthony North, Head of Fundraising for The Big Issue, yesterday and you can listen again here on our Blog Talk Radio show.

Anthony, as you can hear, is a raging intra-preneur for the Big Issue and is totally passionate about his work.  Listen to the show below and then…..

You can help us reach our £4500 target by coming along to our “Property Extravaganza” to hear the GOOD NEWS about property investing in the UK, right now.

Only £25 per person, eight great speakers, and a rocking day out!

Secure your seat here >>> http://www.themoneygym.com/events/property