Amazing Offers, Radiowaves & Outer Space
by NicolaCairncross on August 23, 2008
in Money Gym | Diaries
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
Wealth Coach Diaries – Nicola’s Week…
by NicolaCairncross on August 9, 2008
in Money Gym | Diaries
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.
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
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
Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week
by NicolaCairncross on August 3, 2008
in Money Gym | Diaries
Last week I kicked off my weekend by having lunch with Paul stanford, of http://www.4Momentum.co.uk who is both a poker buddy and whom I am mentoring on his business internet marketing strategy. We tried out Andy Quinn’s “infamous” Pork & Leek sausages with Apricot Mash and a rich jus, at the Crown & Anchor, and very nice it was too! Combining business with pleasure in lots of different ways. Paul’s invited me to Ladies Day at Brighton Races on Thursday so I really must get shopping and look for my big straw hat.
Just as we were finishing there, I got a call from my little sister sarah to say she was off to Rugby to a house (music) party with some DJ mates of her’s from http://www.Dogglounge.com who have a club in Second Life, and there were a bunch of nutty Dutch Second Life maties coming over too, and did I want to come. As I had no kids for the weekend, I thought I may as well (as my only plans previous were to go and buy some fabric and make a shirt, with a quiet dinner in).
So I jumped in the car, packed a bag, got picked up and the next thing I know, I’m in a sunny courtyard garden in Rugby, grooving to some seriously deep and funky house music with sis and some new best friends including Martina who used to be resident DJ at Pasha, Ibiza for a few years. Then we all bundled off to a three floor nightclub in Leamington Spa where we took over the middle floor and partied till …..well, it must have been about 4am.
I would show you the pictures on Flickr but then I would have to…LOL
Waking about lunchtime, in the B&B attached to the offices of Mark, the DJ/Entrepreneur who organised the whole thing, we hung out for a while, eating bacon and eggs the dutch way (very tasty) washed down with some virgin Sea Breezes, and some not so. Home down a very hot M1 to arrive just in time for a barbeque at my friend Kim’s where I briefly saw a rare species in the distance – the lesser spotted 13 year old daughter.
The kids are running wild, moving from house to house on the beach, swimming all day every day (the towel washing load is horrendous but hey!) and just hanging out with their mates, which is great fun. This is why we moved here!
Even my 11 year old is cycling around daily to hang out with his friends – not opened his laptop for a week – and I have introduced them all to the joys of the one-bus-an-hour-but-not-on-Sundays so they can stop begging for lifts all the time.
Actually one of the reasons he has not opened his laptop was because he coudn’t find it. He usually carries it about in a Yanik Silver “Underground UK” event bag – just the right size and very cool. It disappeared on Monday and after 5 days intense questioning of said son and the various mothers of the houses he had been staying at, retracing of steps etc., finally it turned up in ANOTHER Yanik Silver bag, in the WARDROBE in his bedroom.
Nobody had thought to look in there because, of course, they NEVER put anything away.
Monday night was poker night, and I missed the first game because something was kicking off at home, can’t remember what now, and I played terribly in the second but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Quiet kind of rest of the week till today, except for a Steve tippy top notch bar-be-que on Tuesday, first of season, but managed to get down the beach once….and if the weather picks up I fully intend to go down every day now it’s August.
Today was a big product launch day, with notification from John Reese that his “Traffic Secrets 2″ is being shipped today, and also, Tim Brocklehurst’s DVD boxed set, from the Freedom Class weekend we went on, was launched today after a hiccup with the payment gateway yesterday – I can only IMAGINE how stressful that was!
I love a good product launch – well, watching them anyway!
Having fun in the sun…..
Nicola
