Strange Old Week (And It’s Only Wednesday!)

It’s been a very strange old week so far, but it really has highlighted the benefits of working for yourself, from home.  The benefits of not only being flexible with your time, but with your money, and getting the best help for whatever job needs doing at the time, in time.

I was SUPPOSED to be writing up the final three BlogTalkRadio live shows, where we showed three more people how to make £10k in 90 Days EXTRA from their new or existing businesses.

On each of those emails I was SUPPOSED to remind you that we have extended the deadline for expressing your interest and joining the Money Gym Boardroom, and securing your launch discount of 30% on the whole year.

More info here: http://www.themoneygym.com/boardroom

And in time to join us for a lovely dinner this Thursday night, and then at the first Boardroom meeting, the next day, this Friday 6th November.

I was SUPPOSED to be reminding you that all you need to do is email Judith by midnight, tonight, to secure that discount and your seat.

However, the best laid plans of mice and men…….and wealth coaches…….”oft gang astray”, in the words of the poet.

Monday was a day of broken hearted, love struck teenagers, living rooms full of handymen, the first visit of new math’s tutors, frantically ironing huge swathes of curtains for said handyman to put up, then in the late afternoon, of emergency doctors appointments and shocks to the system.

Tuesday was a day of more handymen, phone calls to insurance companies and doctors surgeries, contacting specialists offices and friends coming and going with large hugs and cups of tea.

Thank goodness for friends, tea and large hugs eh?

But here we are at Wednesday, and I’ve not had a chance to write a word, and I’ve not yet reminded you about tonights deadline.

Tut tut. Sorry guys.

But, as I say, being your own boss means being flexible. Looking after things including yourself and your family. And we want to help you become your own boss, or if you are already, to be the best boss for YOU, that you can possibly be.

So, here’s your reminder and, between mentoring calls today, I’ll write up the other radio shows and get them out to you and onto the blog.

Well worth a listen.

Just email Judith [at] TheMoneyGym.com before midnight tonight, if you want to secure that 30% discount no matter when you want to start OR if you want to come along to The Boardroom dinner on Thursday and then get stuck into your business on Friday.

I’ve seen the agenda, and it rocks!

It will rock your business, your money and your life.

See you there!

Nicola

Questions, Questions, So Many Questions!

Nicola here……..I just wanted to let you know about two REALLY important things.  First of all………….

** Money Gym Boardroom – 30% Discount Deadline Extended For 3 More Days **

AND……….Secondly………….

** Money Gym Boardroom – 30% Discount Secured For You No Matter When You Plan To Start **

Our first Boardroom meeting is next Saturday, 6th November and Judith and I are really excited to meet the business people we will be working with.

But as the deadline for expressing your interest and securing your place approaches (originally midnight tonight) we have been inundated with more questions and there are a few in particular that are coming up time and time again.

Q. Am I – or my business – good enough to be in the Boardroom?

A.  This one really surprised us – some of you out there are not sure if you, or your business, are ready for The Boardroom.  But the answer to that question is….mostly……absolutely yes.   We have asked a few people who cannot afford  the investment yet to give themselves a year to work their way up. And several clients have de-selected the mselves now but nailed their colours to the mast and said “I WILL be with you – later”.  But only one who contacted us wasn’t ready and that’s one of our friends who hasn’t even yet joined Silver!   Bless.   We LOVE people with big ambitions.

Q.  So, what do I have to do to qualify then?

A.  It’s quite a simple formula.   You have to be someone who demonstrates ambition, stickability, determination and follow through.  But, more importantly you have to have three goals – one for your wealth creation plans, one for your business and one for you personally, any one of which has the ability to make you an extra £10,000 in the first 90 days of the Boardroom.

Q.  Why are we making that “£10k in 90 Days” our first challenge to Boardroom members?

A.  Because we are offering you a 100% guarantee that we will refund your f ees if you don’t make at least your £9750 fees (includes launch discount) back in 12 months.   But we won’t let you continue to come to our dinners, meetings and days out if you are unable to demonstrate the ability to take some fast-start action on your part.  Judith is going to be breathing down your neck every Monday, wanting to know what you are going to do this week and every Friday, wanting to know what you have done.  If those results don’t equal £10,000 in 90 days, then we are unlikely to invite you to be our guest at a second day out in February at our expense. Does that sound fair?   We think it does.

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Shocking Truth About Judith’s Money | What Will Be YOUR “Return On Investment”?

Judith Morgan says: Nicola’s always asking me “Why won’t our clients tell us PRECISELY how much more money they have made by being in The Money Gym?”

I don’t know is the short answer!   What I do know is that in the UK we don’t like talking about money whether it’s because we’ve made less than we would like (and don’t want to share that) OR the more likely Money Gym scenario which is that we’ve made more than we think our friends and family would like (and we don’t want them to know or to show them up).

Many’s the time when we have been contacted by a particularly successful client and asked to TAKE DOWN a testimonial, because they are getting divorced, have just met someone new, don’t want to be stalked, are worried about burglars, don’t want the tax man to have any inkling….many, many differnent reasons.

This, of course, makes our Money Gym marketing very difficult, particularly for the Gold and Boardroom coaching programmes and it makes it hard to give people specific examples when they ask that age old question “How quickly will I get a return on my investment and how much will that be?”

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The Boardroom | Is It Right For Your Business?

In the run up to the launch of our Money Gym Boardroom, we knew we would be getting quite a few questions.  In order to facilitate that, we have set up an anonymous survey page, so that you can ask your questions freely, without needing to give us your name or email.  You can ask YOUR burning question about The Boardroom here:  http://bit.ly/MGBRoneq and we will answer them all on the blog over the next few days.  Here are a few of the questions we have received so far – is yours covered?

November & December are the busiest times for my business.  If I join now to secure the 30% discount, can I skip the first meeting and start my membership at the next Boardroom meeting in the New Year?

Yes, of course, that’s not a problem at all. Just go to http://www.themoneygym.com/boardroom and choose your payment option.

Can I come to the boardroom with more than one business?

Hmm.   Depends.   Who are you and are you working alone?   If you are, and you are working on multiple projects, sorry but here’s the real cold hard truth that we have observed from working with many, many Money Gym clients over the years.

By working on multiple projects, on your own, without business partners, you are pretty much guaranteeing that your projects will take a lot longer to reach success, if they manage it at all. Mike Filsaime demonstrated this very ably at the World Internet Summit 2006 (at which Nicola is speaking this November).

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£10k In 90 Days | Day 5 | Solo Samba’ing

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The Money Gym has just launched The Boardroom, an easy, quick, flexible way for your business to access a crack business team comprising 18 of your very own non-executive directors, plus Judith Morgan and Nicola Cairncross.  As part of the launch of The Boardroom, The Money Gym is offering a 33% discount on the 1st year membership (offer closes midnight 31st October) and Nicola & Judith are hosting a daily BlogTalkRadio show, where they help each business caller work out how to create an extra £10k in just 90 days from their existing business.

Today’s caller on The Money Gym “£10k In 90 Days” Challenge on our BlogTalkRadio show was Karen Jones, an award winning Dance Instructor and Choreographer, who has developed a unique style of teaching latin american dance, for fitness.  Check out her website at Live2Dance.co.uk.

Karen has developed fun, unique routines for people wishing to get fit by dancing, ensuring that you can dance alone, rather than with a partner.  Think latin american line dancing!  She not only runs successful dance classes locally, but regularly gets corporate business nationwide, where companies wish to put on fun fitness events for employees.  Corportate business can be worth around £600 for six one-hour sessions.

Karen’s plan is to license exclusive areas to dance instructors so that they can build businesses, with Karen’s help and support. She had sold two licenses so far, at £279 for the license for the area (is that per year Karen or a one off fee?) and then you can buy the Business Support Package for a further £279, and then you pay between £35-50 per month, for access to a membership site that offers further support.

Luckily for Karen, Judith has a wealth of experience, being a partner in www.TheCleaningBiz.com, a successful cleaning company that Judith perfected in Fulham, then licensed on to over 20 different areas so far, supporting each licensee to build their business locally.

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Business | What Anais Nin has to teach us about Success by Judith Morgan

Anaïs Nin was a Cuban-Catalan-French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica.

Some will be disappointed I am not addressing her erotica today (!), only what she has to teach us about being successful, being fearful of our own success and hiding our light.

One of Nin’s most famous quotes is “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”.   I know what she means, do you?

Sometimes it seems easier to restrict oneself, to limit my gorgeousness, to hide my brilliance.

Today what am I hiding from?   I am hiding from things which I fear.   My fear concerns what other people will think, how they will react.   What will they do if I leave them behind when I go to live abroad?

What will happen if I leave projects I have created or co-created?

My timidity is also around how will I be when I am different from what I already know.   If I become even wealthier and/or raise my profile, if I accept any single one of the invitations I receive to go on television (the edit of which is outside my control), would I be mis-represented?

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A Week In The Life Of A Wealth Coach: Judith

Nicola is taking a holiday from writing the Note from Nicola and you will notice that Steve is freshening up the way the ezine looks.   Nothing stands still around here at Money Gym Towers .   Our abundant coaches have agreed to been strong-armed by me into each taking a turn over the next few weeks and I get to kick the whole thing off today.   We have been well briefed by Nicola to talk about one thing we have done to move our own wealth creation forward, one thing our clients have done to do the same and a little about each of us personally.   Like a typical rebel, I am going to ride roughshod over my directions whilst trying to meet the brief all the same.

I am grateful that it has been my turn to write this particular week and it’s been a fabulous week in which to be a wealth coach, largely due to beginning every day with the adrenaline rush of a 15 minute live radio broadcast at 9 a.m.   As part of our pre-publicity for the launch of the Money Gym Boardroom on 1st November and the whopping great discount you can get if you bag your seat before 31st October, Nicola and I have worked with five clients this week – Yvonne, Rob, Karen, Suzanne and Karen (no relation).   Holidays in Champagne, honeymoons in South Africa, a body-piercing studio in Croydon, £20k from innovative new online software training and a gorgeous niche dancing business.

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£10k In 90 Days Challenge | Day 1 | Champagne

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The Money Gym has just launched The Boardroom, a way for your business to access a crack business team, 18 of your very own non-executive directors, plus Judith Morgan and Nicola Cairncross.  As well as making a very special launch offer of a third off your first year’s membership, Nicola & Judith are hosting a daily radio show, where they help each caller create an extra £10,000 in just 90 days from their existing business.

Today’s caller on The Money Gym “£10k In 90 Days” Challenge on our BlogTalkRadio show was Yvonne Halling with her champagne related business http://www.MadAboutBubbly.com

Quick bit of background: Yvonne’s husband Jiles is an expert on Champagne and among other parts of the business, like corporate champagne tastings, they own a beautiful house in the Champagne region of France which is available for holidays, sleeps 12 and rents for £1500 a week or £125 pp if you have 12, or £250 for the week if you only have 6 of you.  Very reasonable and it IS lovely, having been Yvonne & Jiles’ home previously.

Their website is currently being overhauled by Marion Ryan, Money Gym coach and blog/web expert so that’s coming along and looks great.  This will give them the flexibility to add / change the site whenever they like and will be very search engined friendly (search engines love blog sites!)

Jiles has written an ebook which is garnering rave reviews, and they are working on a follow up DVD right now.  They already have a number of videos on YouTube which I found by searching “mad about bubbly” although their channel is called http://www.youtube.com/user/jileshalling (see below for my comments on improving their branding).

We established on the 15 minute radio show that their fastest route to making “£10k In 90 Days” was to get let their house in Champagne for 7 weeks out of the 12 of the challenge period, and we came up with the idea of an virally marketed, online competition, using Social Networking via Twitter, a Facebook page and ideally joint venture mailings, where people can win a week in the house as a prize.

I also worked out that, if they sold 5-10 ebooks a day, they would make an extra “£10k In 90 Days” especially if they pre-sold the DVD bundled with the ebook, and that I would be looking at a Google Adwords campaign to drive extra traffic to the ebook sales page…….more on this below.

As time was extremely limited on the radio show, we have decided to take the follow up onto the blog here, where I will outline our suggestions, and my proposed plan of action, Judith can contribute, Yvonnne can add her thoughts, and get coached over the next 90 days to make the challenge actually happen!

What fun!

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How To Run A Great Little Business

There’s a man in my garden called Michael.   And he’s building my garden office.   Coming free with my garden office, and he doesn’t know this yet but he will, is a refresher course for me on how to run a Great Little Business.

At every step of the way, Michael has been the consummate professional, taking care of every detail.   He came to scope out the project when he said he would, on time, phoning first to check I was in and had remembered and that it was still convenient.   We decided what I wanted and it turned out I would need planning permission because I live in a flat.

Michael drew up the plans and charged me no extra for that service, and in order to do that he had to make another couple of site inspections, all on time, all when he said he would.   He is businesslike, delightful, polite and respectful to do business with.   I put in the planning application, the council asked for more information. Michael returned to site and did what was necessary, no extra charge, all part of the service, all smiles, all quick and on time and exactly to his word.

We got planning permission in early September, during the post strike.   Michael’s wife, Lucy, had been on the council’s website and let me know the good news as soon as it was posted there.   We scheduled the work to start on Wednesday this week, 14th October.   In that intervening month, contracts were exchanged, deposits paid and terms for the third and final payment were agreed to suit my personal financial circumstances.   All very neat and tidy.   He told me when the build would start and end, when and how I was required to pay the three instalments totalling £12,800.

I got up early on Wednesday knowing that workmen like to start work earlier than I do.   I anticipated them at about 08.30, they contacted me 48 hours earlier to remind me they were coming and to enquire about parking and access for their deliveries.

Michael arrived on site early at 08.20, his assistant not far behind.   I showed them the facilities, the bathroom, the kitchen and invited them to help themselves to tea and coffee whenever they wanted.   Michael already told me that he was self-sufficient with his own supplies and would only stop twice during the working day for breaks.   His assistant said the immortal words “that’s OK, I don’t drink tea or coffee!”   Neither do I, so that’s just grand.   I was able to instantly banish the thought of becoming their tea lady for three weeks.

They set about their work with relish, the first day was mainly about bringing in the tools, staking out the area on which they were going to build.   Yesterday was about concreting the base and I could begin to see the standard of Michael’s workmanship which was exemplary. I could also see he was one of those entrepreneurs I always talk about in my trainings, a perfectionist control freak, i.e. on top of every detail and here before his team, leading from the front.   Fabulous!   I instantly knew on Day One that my garden shed is going to be gorgeous as you can see anyway from the photo.   I could see from the way he was perfecting the concreting just exactly the measure of the man.

So I said to the lad when he came to fetch to two glasses of tap water “I see Michael is a perfectionist, what’s he like as a boss?”   The lad was effusive.   He knows he’s getting a great apprenticeship.   I heard Michael giving him free life advice too, as they worked.

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Business Success | £10k In 90 Days Challenge

What’s Business Success To You?  Would you like to know how to make “£10k in 90 days” from your existing business?  Of course you would!

That’s the challenge we are going to set the new members of The Money Gym Boardroom in their first 90 days!

Because we want them to get a 100% Return On Their Investment within the first quarter year of joining The Boardroom.

(We are guarantee’ing them a 100% plus ROI within a year of joining, or their money back, but thought it would be fun to set a BIG CHALLENGE!)

And because we believe it’s possible for MOST businesses, Judith and I are taking on a BIG challenge of our own!

Starting next Monday, we are hosting two whole weeks of live radio shows, where we invite a business owner to tell us about their business, and we brainstorm with them how we would go about making £10k in 90 days.

Check out & subscribe to the radio shows here http://bit.ly/10kIn90days

Mad?  Possible?  Impossible?  Or just plain exciting?

Do you fancy being one of those business owners?  Would you like us to brainstorm your business live on air?

If so, just email judith [at] themoneygym.com giving her some info about your business and she’ll get back to you.

If you want to join in the challenge fun on Twitter, just re-tweet the info and the radio URL

http://bit.ly/10kIn90days using the hashtag #MG10kIn90Days

Talk soon

Nicola & Judith

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