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Relocation, Relocation, Relocation…

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Well, it’s back to school week and it’s been turbulent at Money Gym Towers, as Phoebe heads off to a so-called “better” school, Steyning Grammar.

 Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...She was happily not doing very well at her previous school, surrounded by her mates and in particular her best mate K, with her grades going down every quarter despite incentives and penalties.  She also managed to make very good friends with one of the “worst five boys in the school, heading for exclusion” according to her form tutor.  Ho hum. He looked after her, though, in the corridors.

Her father decided enough was enough and diligently hounded the Education Authority to get her into Steyning, though, and I sat by thinking “he’ll never get her in, the waiting list is too long and her record not exactly exemplary” but lo and behold, he did.  The new school is 7 miles and 30 minutes away across country, with two bus changes and a journey of an hour, while the old one was local, one bus ride and 10 minutes in the car.

So tears and tantrums ensued for a few days, while he talked her into trying it, and unfortunately the Open Day did not go well, with a bit of an incident with one of the naughtiest girls in the school putting her off, bigtime.  But her dad does not give up easily, and took her for another visit where the teacher managed to win her around to try it out.

Then a particularly nasty bullying incident, in the last two weeks of term, made her think that, perhaps it would be good to move schools after all.  Her old school handled it well I thought but it wasn’t great timing.  The summer holiday passed, and the excitement of going to France, then buying new school clothes and a handbag particularly, distracted her nicely.

She went in on her first day, as she described it “with a smile and determined to make the best of it” and came out silent, with a face like thunder.  Her friend (vaguely known via her cousin), who we were also giving a lift to, was quiet and unhappy too, having moved from another school too, and who has been put in a class with NOBODY she knew, but Phoebe….well the silence was terrifying.

Hours of tears and pleading followed, as she visited her father, then cried on me, and locked herself away in her bedroom (or mine) to endlessly text her woes to her circle of mates.

This morning she was trying to refuse to go, only the unspoken worry about being grounded (tonight is the monthly under-18 club night in Brighton)

So, how do I feel about all this?  I have to support her father, and we all agree she stands “a better chance in later life” if she goes to Steyning Grammar as it has an excellent reputation.

However, as someone who doesn’t believe in traditional education and even less in a job, or a single path career, I’m ambivalent.

The only things I learned, of use, at school were how to read, and how to type.  And I was downright cold, bored and miserable most of the time.

I was happy for her to go where she was happy-ish, nice and nearby, and to get as many O-levels as she could, then to leave school, take a boring series of jobs just to make her realise how grim it is, then for her to come to me and ask how to start the serious business of making money, probably either online, with her own business or via property.  She’s bright but not academic, artistic and entrepreneurial.

But now we are plunged into a warzone, and I’m not convinced it’s all worth it.

RELOCATION……….

1for_rent Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...My sister has had her flat in Worthing on the market for sale or rent and had it with a preferred local smaller agent first with absolutely no action whatsoever.  She isn’t so bothered about selling it as the valuations came in at something ridiculous, obviously priced to get the quickest sale (guaranteeing the agent’s commission) instead of what she knows the flat is worth in a normal market.

No action from the first agent on the rentals front either, apart from one woman on housing benefits - not ideal.  They were telling her all the usual “market’s dead”, “nobody’s moving” kind of stories.

Fed up, she called in the big boys, the biggest, most aggressive agent in town, the shark swallowing up the minnows as they go to the wall, and guess what?  Several viewings in the first few days with definite interest already.

Why is this agent thriving while all around him are losing their businesses?
Marketing, marketing, marketing!  There is no getting away from Michael Jones & Co, and love them or hate them, you bloomin’ well know they are there.

They even use email to send you property details and reply promptly to enquiries by email too!

RELOCATION……….

Brett’s here!  The McFall has landed in London from Australia and we are revving up the marketing for our “Money Gym Presents…Brett McFall” workshop on the 20th / 21st September.

Who should come?  Well, I think all of you!!  If only to donate £25 to Great Ormond St Hospital……£25 for two days?  c’mon.  But seriously for a moment…

Every time I go out to talk about Wealth Creation, especially to business people and property investors, the one burning topic that comes up again and again is the internet.  More specifically, how to harness the massive power of the internet and tap into the BILLION or so people online, on broadband RIGHT NOW.

Business Owners & Property Investors always want to know :-

1.  How to create passive income online to fund more property purchases

2.  How to create extra profit for your bottom line, without adding any overhead and with minimal investment

3.  How to find great tenants or earn money online to make up your rental shortfalls

4.  How to generate leads for your business, rentals or BMV deals, without having to pay £££ for them

5.  How to integrate your business, an online presence and your speaking activities

The rest of you just want to know :-

1.  How to replace their work income so that they can leave their day job

2.  How to use the internet to fill up rentals that holiday home that you thought would pay for itself

3.  How to look after elderly relatives or care for siblings who are struggling financially

4.  How to help your kids to get out of student debt, and create a future for themselves beyond seeking a low paid job (degree or not!)

BUT………..most of all, you say to me …..

“But Nicola, it’s all right for you, you’ve been doing this for YEARS, how do I GET STARTED, I don’t know what to do FIRST !!”

So, because I’m not that great at keeping my internet marketing workshops simple, tending to turn all nerdy and geeky, on the topic, I turned to someone who I have known for years, who has a brilliant track record at teaching BEGINNERS to get started online.

Brett McFall.

box_shot_medium Relocation, Relocation, Relocation...I begged him to help me, to help you….I pestered and I plagued him long distance to Australia…and it worked.

http://www.brettmcfalllive.com

He’s in London right now for a couple of more advanced events, which are pretty much sold out anyway AND he’s offered to stay over longer, to do a special TWO DAY event for The Money Gym.

He’s here to TEACH YOU how to get started online.  To give you his system.

http://www.brettmcfalllive.com

Have fun, we always are!

Nicola


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Only Business Sector NOT Suffering From Credit Crunch

Helen Loveless, in The Mail on Sunday reports on the ONLY business sector not suffering from the credit crunch … can you guess what it is?  She says:

“THE credit crunch has hit many companies hard, but online businesses seem to be bucking the trend.

In the first six months of this year shoppers spent more than £26 billion online – up 38 per cent on 2007 and equivalent to 17p in every £1.

Experts say this could be a good time to set up an online business.

Many software providers, such as Microsoft and Apple, include free website creation tools in their business packages, which allow users to create websites.

And from as little as £20 a year would-be business owners can buy software enabling them to build a website in less than a day.

Geoff Milner, 57, from Herne Bay, Kent, set up greetings card business Yew Tree Trading last September after buying a software package from provider Mr Site for £99 a year. The software gives him up to 99 website pages.

His business has grown so quickly that he now supplies other websites.

Geoff says: ‘I hated computers so I was surprised how easy it was to set up my site. Effectively I set up a business for £99.’

Ian Ogilvie has been running an organic food store in Camden, north London, since 1980. Last year, he set up bumblebeenaturalfoods using a basic software package.

‘The software is very simple and flexible and we can do as little or as much to the site as we want, changing it ourselves rather than having to pay a developer,’ he says.”

END OF ARTICLE

Nicola says: Any good website designer will use a system that will let you make changes to your own site, this is one way to tell if your designer has your best interests at heart, or wants to have you over a barrel with high priced changes to your site.  And remember that website designers are NOT internet marketers - it’s all very well having a pretty site, but if it doesn’t get traffic and make sales, it’s worse than useless.

And DIY can cost you money.  I have watched many clients take a year to set up a site, learning from scratch.  I recommend setting up a blog first, and filling it with good, free content, to attract the search engines, then bolting that onto various sales pages, to promote your product or service.  I always ask Money Gym clients “do you have more time or more money than time?” and then, if they are in a hurry, recommend outsourcing the setup, but then learning how to, then taking control of ongoing changes.

There are certain elements of a web business above and beyond a website though, you need an enticing offer, a range of products at different prices points, a whitelisted email list host like Total Business Cart, which also offers e-commerce facilities, Adtracking (so you know which keywords are converting to sales), and an in-house affiliate scheme.

Joint venture partners are essential, once you have grown a good list, and a professional affiliate scheme will make those easier to attract.

But more and more, we are recommending to our Money Gym clients, look for some sort of continuity programme.  A membership site adds value to your customers, lends itself to many different niches, and if you need further convincing, work it out…. just 17,000 people giving you £5 a month, makes you a million a year!

We will be covering all these steps to creating a successful online business, in an amazingly good value two-day event on 20th / 21st September….

“The Money Gym Presents….Brett McFall” where the ticket price (ex VAT) is being donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Secure your seat here http://brettmcfallLIVE.com


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Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicola’s Week

Amazing Offers, Radio Waves & Outer Space

So who moved the Bank Holiday from the traditional last weekend in August to this weekend then? First I knew about it was when GMTV started wittering on about DIY for the Bank Holiday!

It’s been a weird week without the kids - this year I’m coping better because I’m getting out and about more - except NOT down the beach obviously!! I’m playing poker live around various venues in Sussex. For £12 a night, you get two games and your dinner and last night at the Montague was a great night all round, with a fine home-cooked Shepherds Pie with peas (yum) or chicken korma with rice.

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It was odd going back there as I spent a large part of my teenage life upstairs in The Montague, they used to run a fantastic soul night there, and co-incidentally, this week on Facebook, I was contacted by Steve MacMahon, an ex-Worthing boy, who is now a DJ in New York, whose very sister used to run that soul night!!

Lee the landlord of The Montague is incredibly entrepreneurial, and is running a great pub there, with “cocktails & karaoke”, comedy and cabaret nights in addition to the biggest Texas Hold’em game in the area, up to four tables now. There’s two computers with fast internet connection, there are notices on the bar telling us who our bar staff are, and lockers to put your drink in if you need to go outside to smoke (not me!). Join The Montague’s “University of Poker” (M.U.O.P) Facebook group.

As a list building exercise, participating in the Wealth Giveaway was a great event for the Money Gym adding over 300 new people to the Money Gym MVS system. I’m hoping that many of those are internet marketers who will be interested in re-branding and giving away my free reports on their websites and blog.

I’ve had a frustrating week with technology, but we figured out why the admin area of the blog was running so slow - it was a rogue plugin. After deactivating them all, then reactivating them one by one, it’s now running along nicely. Having issues with my podcasts from Hipcast though, as soon as I post one, then go to change the category, the player disappears! I’m going to dig out Mike Stewart’s tutorials on podcasting direct from the blog later today.

New at The Money Gym is a great special offer for just £4.97, where we are bundling a great load of stuff, some audio including the first three chapters of the Money Gym book, as read by the author, four reports, the UK’s first Wealth Conference audio and a 30 day trial of the Money Gym Club site…..and folks are signing up in droves!

As I say, I’ve been recording the Audio version of The Money Gym book - listen to Chapter 1 here. I’m a reading kind of gal, but I know 30% of the population like to listen to stuff in the car or while exercising, so I’m working my way through the book, and the audio version will be available by next week as an option.

It’s made me realise that I need to rewrite it and update it - I’ve learned SO MUCH MORE since I wrote it. I think I will lose the “Day by Day” format too, and make it flow more. Must talk to Debs and Joe at Bookshaker about a relaunch…..”The Money Gym Revisited” here we come!

As part of the run up to the re-launch of the Money Gym Silver Club membership, I’ve been experimenting with some Blog Talk Radio shows. I’m veering between a “Smashy & Nicey” kind of voice, through to a “late night talk show” voice and it’s a struggle to talk normally. I’m having an issue with my headset making my voice very quiet too, but I’ll try holding the receiver today (for half an hour?) and see if that helps. Not quite brave enough to open the lines to phone in’s yet, but there is a chat facility….committed to doing a show every day till the end of next week, then I’ll swap to weekly, probably on a Wednesday at 1pm. Check it out

The sewing hobby is going well too - I’ve made two linen shirts for me, a pair of gingham short shorts for Phoebe, and cut out two nighties ready to sew this weekend. I’ve been listening to Frank Kern videos while I’m sewing so it’s not taking me totally away from the computer, but nearly!

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I had lunch with Greg Ballard yesterday, and had a good old chinwag, catching up on all the news, and a look round their new offices, which used to be those of my accountant, Mark Nicholson from Spofforths. It was great to hear that, in spite of the credit crunch, Passive are still picking up lots of great bargains for their clients.

Steve is working his way diligently through John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2.0 which is excellent and very thorough.

NK_SP-1_Saddle_group Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicolas Week He’s missing the kids but is also getting out and about more with his golf, having bought himself a driver and putter on eBay and a new pair of golf shoes, as the old ones were giving him terrible blisters!

And I’ve been enjoying wandering around the Scienceray blog - check out these AMAZING pictures of outer space here and look out for the pictures of the planned “doughnut” space station to house the whole human race if we do end up totally destroying the planet, god forbid!

Now, don’t forget to book your tickets for the very exciting two-day “Money Gym Presents….Brett McFall” event on 20th and 21st September - just £25 and all of it (ex the VAT) is going to Great Ormond St Hospital.

It’s the must-attend event for aspiring internet entrepreneurs and We can only fit 300 of you in, and we have 80-odd on our VIP pre-register list, so if all those buy two tickets….. get yours here

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Have fun, we always are!

Nicola

Nicola Cairncross, wealth coach, internet strategist, professional speaker, author

Nicola Cairncross

Wealth Coach, Author
Internet Strategist
Professional Speaker
Founder
The Money Gym Ltd

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Amazing Offers, Radiowaves & Outer Space

So who moved the Bank Holiday from the traditional last weekend in August to this weekend then?  First I knew about it was when GM.tv started wittering on about DIY for the Bank Holiday!

It’s been a weird week without the kids - this year I’m coping better because I’m getting out and about more - except NOT down the beach obviously!! I’m playing poker live around various venues in Sussex.  For £12 a night, you get two games and your dinner and last night at the Montague was a great night all round, with a fine home-cooked Shepherds Pie with peas (yum) or chicken korma with rice.  It was odd going back there as I spent a large part of my teenage life upstairs in The Montague, they used to run a fantastic soul night there, and co-incidentally, this week on Facebook, I was contacted by Steve MacMahon, an ex-Worthing boy, who is now a DJ in New York, whose very sister used to run that soul night!!

Lee the landlord of The Montague is incredibly entrepreneurial, and is running a great pub there, with “cocktails & karaoke”, comedy and cabaret nights in addition to the biggest Texas Hold’em game in the area, up to four tables now.  There’s two computers with fast internet connection, there are notices on the bar telling us who our barstaff are, and lockers to put your drink in if you need to go outside to smoke (not me!).  Join The Montague’s “University of Poker” (M.U.O.P) Facebook group here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23133628865

It’s the last day of the Grand Wealth Giveaway - Kathy very kindly extended the deadline by two days, so if you haven’t downloaded your free gifts - and there is some great property investing stuff in there, Kathy having made her money in real estate, go and get them now, as the offer is closing at midnight tonight.
http://tinyurl.com/wealthgiveaway

As a list building exercise, participating in the Wealth Giveaway was a great event for the Money Gym adding over 300 new people to the Money Gym MVS system.  I’m hoping that many of those are internet marketers who will be interested in re-branding and giving away my free reports on their websites and blog.

I’ve had a frustrating week with technology, but we figured out why the admin area of the blog was running so slow - it was a rogue plugin.  After deactivating them all, then reactivating them one by one, it’s now running along nicely.  Having issues with my podcasts from Hipcast though, as soon as I post one, then go to change the catagory, the player disappears!  I’m going to dig out Mike Stewart’s tutorials on podcasting direct from the blog later today.

New at The Money Gym is a great special offer for just £4.97, where we are bundling a great load of stuff, some audio including the first three chapters of the Money Gym book, as read by the author, four reports, the UK’s first Wealth Conference audio and a 30 day trial of the Money Gym Club site…..and folks are signing up in droves!  You can get your bundle here http://www.themoneygym.com/offer/

As I say, I’ve been recording the Audio version of The Money Gym book - listen to Chapter 1 here at http://www.MoneyGymRadio.com .  I’m a reading kind of gal, but I know 30% of the population like to listen to stuff in the car or while exercising, so I’m working my way through the book, and the audio version will be available by next week as an option.

It’s made me realise that I need to rewrite it and update it - I’ve learned SO MUCH MORE since I wrote it.  I think I will lose the “Day by Day” format too, and make it flow more.  Must talk to Debs and Joe at Bookshaker about a relaunch…..”The Money Gym Revisited” here we come!

As part of the run up to the re-launch of the Money Gym Silver Club membership, I’ve been experimenting with some BlogTalkRadio shows.  I’m veering between a “Smashy & Nicey” kind of voice, through to a “late night talk show” voice and it’s a struggle to talk normally.  I’m having an issue with my headset making my voice very quiet too, but I’ll try holding the receiver today (for half an hour?) and see if that helps.  Not quite brave enough to open the lines to phone in’s yet, but there is a chat facility….committed to doing a show every day till the end of next week, then I’ll swap to weekly, probably on a Wednesday at 1pm.  Check it out at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheMoneyGym

The sewing hobby is going well too - I’ve made two linen shirts for me, a pair of gingham short shorts for Phoebe, and cut out two nighties ready to sew this weekend.  I’ve been listening to Frank Kern videos while I’m sewing so it’s not taking me totally away from the computer, but nearly!

I had lunch with Greg Ballard yesterday, and had a good old chinwag, catching up on all the news, and a look round their new offices, which used to be those of my accountant, Mark Nicholson from Spofforths.  It was great to hear that, in spite of the credit crunch, Passive are still picking up lots of great bargains for their clients.

Steve is working his way diligently through John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2.0 which is excellent and very thorough.  He’s missing the kids but is also getting out and about more with his golf, having bought himself a driver and putter on eBay and a new pair of golf shoes, as the old ones were giving him terrible blisters!

And I’ve been enjoying wandering around the Scienceray blog - check out these AMAZING pics of outer space here http://www.scienceray.com/Astronomy/A-Handpicked-Collection-of-Ultimate-Space-Pictures-3.216589 and look out for the pictures of the planned “doughnut” space station to house the whole human race if we do end up totally destroying the planet, god forbid!

Now, don’t forget to book your tickets for the very exciting two-day “Money Gym Presents….Brett McFall” event on 20th and 21st September - just £25 and all of it (ex the VAT) is going to Great Ormond St Hospital.  It’s the must-attend event for aspiring internet entrepreneurs and We can only fit 300 of you in, and we have 80-odd on our VIP pre-register list, so if all those buy two tickets…..get yours here at http://www.themoneygym.com/brettmcfall

Have fun, we always are!

Nicola


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Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicola’s Week…

Nicola here….you might have noticed that Judith’s taken over the ezine this month!

She is feeling so passionate about her two pet projects at the moment, so we let her write her heart out this week and I hope she’s feeling much better now.

As Judith has waxed very lyrical, I’m going to keep it short and sweet, as I have a linen shirt to finish.

cruiseship Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicolas Week...Just in, this week, the news that the Money Gym / Internet Marketer’s Cruise in the Caribbean in January is filling up fast now, as Mike Filsaime swings into his marketing, after giving all the groups leaders a chance to fill their cabin allocation first. I invited Paulie Sabol (one of Mike’s protégés) and Capt’n Lou, of Little Shop of Cruises, to join me on a webinar to explain why, if you love to learn, and have fun at the same time, and if you want to strike some powerful joint ventures, and make friends for life, you HAVE to come along…..only about 4-5 Money Gym cabins left now! http://www.MoneyGymRadio.com

O yes! The new sewing machine has been given it’s inaugural run on the dining room table which is looking like an East End Sweat Shop, and my much loved and carted round from house to house overlocker has come out of it’s retirement of about 15 years. Due to careful packing, it’s in mint condition and with a bit of a dustoff with a soft paintbrush, it’s ready to overlock and trim seams just like the good old days when I made overpriced waistcoats for Duffer of St George and helped make the suits for The Pasadenas for designer Derek Lilliard.

Not sure if I will need the new shirt yet, as my special outing is hanging in the balance as usual, due to volatility in atmospheric conditions, but there is a music festival on in Shoreham this weekend so it will get used, whatever. Enough fabric left over to make Phoebe a pair of short shorts too, so that’s cool.

This week was monthly stats week and they show improvement all round so THEORETICALLY Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicolas Week... Wealth Coach Diaries - Nicolas Week... we just need more warm traffic to make more sales and Steve’s going to be working on that this week as - great excitement in Money Gym Towers - John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2 system has arrived and is sitting in pride of place on Steve’s desk ready to be worked through systematically over the next few weeks.

Google Website Optimiser is up and working, and our second headline we tested - a throw away one we wrote just to see - is converted to “click to buy” actions 100% better than the original which is a bit of a shock. The second one is less “millionaire” orientated and more “financial freedom” orientated so perhaps it suits a British audience better? We then realised that we needed to test the colours as we had changed it to red/blue rather than red/black, so we are testing the second headline against itself, in the two colourways now.

We are excited to be moving forward with a joint venture with Brett McFall, co-founder of one of my favourite internet events of the year, the World Internet Summit. Just testing interest and getting numbers for potential venues now so if you fancy joining us for two days for just £25, learning the very basics of how to create a successful online business from scratch, visit over here at http://www.themoneygym.com/brettmcfall to get on the priority invite list.

That’s it from me, have fun in the musical sun!

Nicola


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Brett McFall, Oil Prices & Me - The Truth!

brett_mcfall Brett McFall, Oil Prices & Me - The Truth!It’s official - Brett McFall and I are …………in total agreement! 

To give you a bit of background to what I’m about to tell you about Brett, I was only watching the news this morning and they interviewed a young couple with the obligatory toddler, and they were saying that if their mortgage went up any more, or prices of food or fuel went up any more they would be in real trouble…..they might not be able to pay their bills, or might even HAVE TO GET A SECOND JOB!

Good god, NO!  How awful!  End of the world as we know it for ordinary working class families to have to get a second job.  (Or - even worse - to invest a little bit of time or cash in learning how to be more useful to their employers so that they might be worth a bit more in the job they are in).  That woman with the toddler - bet she doesn’t work at all, not even from home….. infuriating.

Now….don’t get me started on this topic again - I’ve written about this before here and here and even Judith’s had a go here….am I starting to sound like John Harrison?

I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a second job going, or was learning about something that might make me more successful or more money.  WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE LIKE?

So I open my Feedreader and Brett McFall, while across the other side of the world, is getting just as infuriated as me with the whingers.  He’s just posted a blog posting that is both practical and metaphysical - one of the reasons I like Brett a lot and pay close attention to what he says is that he, like me, likes to combine the two.  Get your trackback and ping turned on though matie!

As I always say, you can sit at home and try and attract success and wealth, but if you don’t get off your butt and DO something about it, then nothing will happen.  It’s no secret that the “Big Secret” about “The Secret” is that you have to make it possible for TUT, The Universe and everything to help you.  Remember the joke about the drowning man and God?  Go watch “The Pursuit Of Happyness” with Will Smith if you don’t know that one.  Man, that film shows you that the most important part of the “Law Of Attraction” is “action”.  He never once blames anyone else - he just knows “it it’s to be it’s up to me”.

Anyway, back to Brett McFall…..he is having a good old rant on just this topic over at his excellent blog posting….go have a read!

“How to quickly and easily beat the petrol price rises while the rest of the world get’s pissed off about it”

“Yeah look, this subject annoys me quite a bit, as I’m sure you can tell by the headline I’ve used.  And it’s because I know that what you focus on most in life will dictate how you feel (and I’ll explain what I mean by this in just a moment).

So I want to help you do something about it so that you can get back to making a masterpiece of your life, instead of worrying about oil prices.
 
And right now at least, the media can hardly do a news bulletin without reminding you that oil and petrol prices (or “gas prices” if you’re from the U.S.) are “skyrocketing” and reinforcing how “bad” things are.
 
But you know what? They’re only telling you one side of the story. In case you haven’t realised, bad news sells. Switch on the TV any night and watch the news, and you’ll be guaranteed that 80% of the program will be dedicated to negative things.
 
Bad news keeps people watching. When more people watch, the TV stations can charge higher prices for the advertising spots. The stations make more money. Quite simple really.
 
So right now, they’re having a field day with oil prices that are increasing. But what I want to tell you is to forget about the prices. Yes, totally and completely forget about them……

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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 viralurl.com/moneygym/stompernetnatural2">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 viralurl.com/moneygym/stompernetnatural2">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.

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Online Income - Basics 2

Following on from my blog posting yesterday, giving you some simple resources to get you started online, here are a couple more, along with news of an exciting and totally fr*ee webinar I’m hosting tomorrow morning (Friday) at 11am, with Tim Brocklehurst, genius list builder extraordinaire!

Resource 1:

Yesterday we covered the need for a website or blog, to allow people to find you, and find out who you are, what you do, what you recommend (via an affiliate link) and most importantly, what you can do for them. 

You would be amazed how easy and cheap it is to set up a professional search engine friendly blog and we recommend Typepad for starters.  If you want the most economic package with the best features, you will need the middle package and you can get a free trial here

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Resource 2: 

The internet marketing section of The Money Gym ebook is a good place to start with the basics, and you can get that at no charge, just by subscribing to our 101 Wealth Tips on the site.  However, as a reader of our blog, if you have lost or deleted it or don’t want to wait for the internet module to arrive, you can download the whole 101 tips here as a zipped up file. 

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Money Gym Helps Alan Forrest Smith Raise $100,000 in 4 days!

Alan Forrest Smith** Find out now how to get involved in a very exciting event & get some great fr*ee gifts including some one-on-one mentoring time with Nicola **

Already the Money Gym posse are swinging into action!!  We are up to nearly $150 already - keep it coming guys!  If you missed the previous email….look lively now!

You know about the World Internet Summit and how much I rate it?

You know about Alan Forrest Smith and that I rate him as a speaker, copywriter and marketer?

You may not know that every time they do a World Internet Summit they do an online challenge and raise
as much money as possible, online, live, in the shortest possible time?

It’s to prove internet marketing works - and it does, every time.  As their list gets bigger, the amount raised gets bigger.

And when you add in all their friends and strategic partners…..cowabunga!

Well this year, it’s going to be very different!!  And EVEN MORE EXCITING!

Instead of picking one person out of the audience and making the money for them, this year they are giving it ALL away to one specific charity and it’s a great charity although I’m not allowed to tell you what it is yet…..

100% of the money raised will go to this charity - the WIS boys, Brett & Tom, have promised and I trust them to do that.

HOWEVER I can tell you that it’s a charity that affects us all and the future of this planet - more will be revealed live on Thursday.

Alan is co-ordinating this live on stage in Australia, on Thursday, and as you can imagine, it’s scary, and he’s looking for support from his mates.

On Thursday, at 4am in the morning our time, I’m going to be dialling in LIVE on behalf of the Money Gym and donating a sum of money, direct to Alan for this massive effort.  Unless I can puzzle out how to automate it *grin* I will be getting up, putting my lippie on and getting in front of my camcorder and skyping in.

My question to you is…….Will you help?

We have about 6,000-10,000 subscribers to our ezine and I’m hoping that at least 50% of you will donate AT LEAST £2 to the fundraising effort - via Paypal, to us so that we can give it to Alan live on Thursday.  We could raise £3000 to £5000 - that’s $6000 - $10,000 to help Alan in his goal of reaching $100,000 in just four days.

If only 20% of you - following the Pareto Principle - do something we could raise over £1000 or $2000 - and that would be very respectable!

And it would make us Brits look GREAT especially as I have inside info on how much some of those multi-millionaire Yanks have pledged so far!!

Our national pride is at stake here and you will be helping a great cause that affects us all.

(I would have just asked for £1 minimum but PayPal charge us for every transaction, so £2 will cover the PayPal charge and give at least £1 to Alan)

HOWEVER…………Alan is offering some great incentive special offers on the official page, for those who donate £25 or more, so if you do that via us, I will be passing on a list of people who donate £25 or more, to Alan, in order that you are still eligible to get his incentive offers.

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**  We faithfully promise, here at The Money Gym, to donate 100% of your donation, less the PayPal charges, plus our donation, to Alan’s efforts and to pass your name, email and donation amount onto him, if you donate £25 or more **

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All you have to do, to help me out, help Alan out and claim your fr*eebie gifts, is send your donation NOW to:

Send your donation to this paypal address - and mark it clearly “Alan / WIS Donation”  :
steve@themoneygym.com - remember make it at least £2 (but more if you can)

Then I will personally send you a link (which will be sent to the email address you use for your PayPal account) which will take you to a page where you can claim a very special set of fr*ee gifts - this could be a lot of work for me, but I don’t care! 

The more of you donating, the happier I will be even if I have to work all weekend!

Ok, so go do it now and make us proud !

Just send £2 - or whatever you are happy to give, to steve@themoneygym.com

And I will send you by return, as soon as possible, the link to where you can put your name and email in, to get updates on how it’s going, and get your fr*ee gifts!

Thanks!

Nicola

xxx

Nicola Cairncross 

Nicola Cairncross
Founder
The Money Gym Ltd


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The Money Gym & The World Internet Challenge

The Money Gym is getting involved with helping Alan Forrest Smith to raise over $100,000 for charity in just 4 days. Listen to the interview with AFS and Brett McFall from World Internet Summit here and check back to find out how you can have some fun and get involved!

I’ll be setting something up so that you can donate to the Money Gym fund that I’ll be donating to WIS & Alan, hopefully live on stage in Australia direct from the UK - hey!  This might mean I have to stay up all night or something!

Anyway, if you are in Oz or New Zealand (Ros!) you can get your ticket to attend live here >>>>

And from tomorrow, I’m going to be telling you how you can get your hands on a secret DVD - not a CD - a DVD with pictures and everything!!  from the UK WIS (that I attended) with five of the stars on it, performing live from the stage, absolutely free!

Come back tomorrow!


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