£10k In 90 Days Challenge – Champagne Update!
by NicolaCairncross on October 31, 2009
in Money Gym | Business
Well, a big thank you for entering our Win A Week In Champagne competition and an awful lot of you there were too
To make sure that the draw was entirely fair and unbiased I decided to ask a complete stranger to pick a number which I could then match up to the corresponding entry.
So I went to my local branch of NatWest bank and asked a cashier called Lisa to do the honours. She was delighted to do so and her only problem was that she hadn’t heard about the competition in time to enter.
Anyway she chose entry No. 10
And The Winner is Louisa Bird who will be off to Champagne in the coming few weeks, along with the friends or family she wants to take along.
Congratulations to Louisa !!
What Next? All Is Not Lost…
We promised something special to everyone who entered but didn’t win the competition.
Well, we were so amazed with the number of people who entered the competition that we got to asking ourselves what we could do for all of you champagne lovers who are dying to visit Champagne but who didn’t win the free week, so here’s what we came up with.
We will offer a huge 50% reduction off our standard tariffs for anyone who books a week at our lovely home between now and the end of March 2010
To take advantage of this superb offer bookings must be made, and the deposit paid, before November 21st.
If this offer sounds too good to miss then all you need to do is reply to the e-mail and we’ll send you the tariffs and all the information you need.
Champagne is great at any time of year but remember if you go before Christmas you can stock up on all your champagne (and wine too) and have a lot of fun selecting it – much more fun and a lot more stylish than going to the supermarket!
Please contact us as quickly as you can. We’re expecting a lot of people to take us up on this offer so, to get the dates you want, contact us NOW
Questions, Questions, Questions….
I can’t thank you enough for all the super champagne challenges you sent in. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sorting through all of them and producing a user-friendly guide that will give you all the answers you are looking for. I’ll tell you more about it as soon as it’s ready.
In the meantime you can share all the secrets of champagne that I learned when I lived there, by grabbing a copy of my e-book “The Insider’s Guide to Champagne” for £19.97, less than the price of a good bottle of champagne, by going to www.madaboutbubbly.com
That’s all for now and we look forward to hearing from all of you who want to visit Champagne
Jiles and Yvonne
£10k In 90 Days Challenge | Day 1 | Champagne
by NicolaCairncross on October 19, 2009
in Money Gym | Business, Money Gym | Competition
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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!
Skimboarding, Silver Elite & Susanne In Spain
by NicolaCairncross on August 23, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
This week has been absolutely mad! We saw off five of them (phew!) at Malaga Aiport on Monday, and Susanne Jorgensen of The Singles Gym joined us for a week as we packed them off at Gate 222. She’s taken the town – no, the Costa – by storm and even the most grumpy waiter has not been able to resist her charms.
Nelson had to stay behind because he was three months too young to travel on his own, but he’s had a great time learning to skimboard and Susanne has turned out to be a great skimboard coach.
I had a great time turning the video footage and photos into a YouTube video for him as he’s all fired up now. View his video and encourage him in his latest passion here
Puerto Banus, Puerto De La Duquesa, Photos & Parasols
by NicolaCairncross on August 16, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
I’m very proud that I’ve managed to blog each day, while on holiday in Casares.
Why am I bothering you may ask? Because one of the elements of the deal I’ve struck with my friends Rona & Adrian, who lent us their lovely house for three weeks, is that I’ve made them a Wordpress driven website to help them promote the rental of their property in Casares, short-term and long-term over the winter.
Casares Holiday | Day Eleven
by NicolaCairncross on August 14, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
Spud definitely wants to go home, Nelson’s not happy about staying on his own, a couple of the girls have offered half-heartedly to stay too to keep him company (but not his sister!). We are talking to the airline now, to see what our options are.
After a bit of coaching/straight talking from Judith, I’ve discounted sending one of us home with him and then coming right back the same day, and neither of us are willing to cut our holiday a week short. He can jolly well stay, get all the attention from the grownups, and play Farmville and Runescape endlessly. I’ve also offered to take him on a trip to Selwo Adventure park or anything else he would like to do. I fancy Ice Age 3 myself but he says it’s for babies!
Holiday In Casares | Day Ten
by NicolaCairncross on August 14, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
So the ladies arrived this morning – Raquel and her sister – to do a mid-holiday clean for us. Roger had emailed the time over, but it had gone into my Spam Folder for no discernable reason, so we were caught on the hop a bit trying to get the kids up and dressed so we could vacate for a few hours.
They moaned horribly about having to get up early even though we had got them to bed earlier last night in preparation!
We drove down to have breakfast at Puerto De La Duquesa and sat and looked at the boats while eating bacon, scramblers, toast and chocolate milkshakes (not me and Sarah obviously, we had fresh orange juice!)
Holiday In Casares – Day Nine
by NicolaCairncross on August 13, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
We attempted to get the kids up early, as it was Chloe’s birthday and we wanted to go to the beach at Puerto Banus.
As usual it was a bit of an adventure, as I wasn’t 100% sure how to get there, but I remember managing it before so how hard can it be? Roger said to avoid San Pedro turnoff, so we went as far as Marbella, before we turned off the E15 Autopista, then followed the coast roads till I saw signs for Istan, then Puerto Banus. We came down the main avenue, parked in a convenient multi-story, then headed for the beach where we found the most FANTASTIC waves! Like surfing waves, so the boys started asking for boogie boards.
Holiday In Casares | Day Eight
by NicolaCairncross on August 11, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
Bit cloudy today after a sunny start and the maid service isn’t coming till Wednesday so we let the kids lie in again while we got on with some work – largely editing, tagging and uploading photos to http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoupaproperty and http://www.flickr.com/photos/casaresspain
We are going with Flickr being the best place to upload photos to, as they feed directly into the lovely little widget Sarah found. All we need now is a photo gallery widget for the photo gallery page but every one we have found requires onerous form filling if your site is for commercial gain. Forms? Nah!
Holiday In Casares – Day Seven
by NicolaCairncross on August 10, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
The kids woke up seriously late today – we had to winkle them out of their beds at 2pm local time! Then it was a debate about “pool or beach” and after a bit of to’ing and fro’ing the beach won, and as it was by then about 3pm, we tried Sabinillas but it being a Sunday, no parking nearby.
So we drove to, and through Puerto De La DuQuesa, where we used to live incidentally (long time readers of my ezine will remember) and found the little beach with the chiringuito that I remembered from before. Lots of sardines drying on washing lines!
Holiday In Casares – Day Six
by NicolaCairncross on August 10, 2009
in Money Gym | Diaries
Sarah and I are on a roll now, working together at the dining room table, the lovely view helps! I’m starting to forget what day it is, and have given up wearing my watch entirely. Today is…..Saturday, I think!
Working till lunchtime, that is, when the brats wake up, turn on Big Brother and generally kill the peace and quiet, and then, once they have “brunched” we all head down to the municipal pool around 2pm when the lifeguard arrives to open up. He’s cute actually – one for the ladies, though, not the girls!
