When Two Tribes Go To War… Which Online Tribe Are You?

The words of the iconic Frankie Goes To Hollywood song “Two Tribes” just about sum up the storm that’s brewing in the “make money online” world, with one tribe being the Internet Marketers and the other being the professional bloggers….

But before I tell you that story…first a bit of background…

Last weekend I went to Mark Anastasi’s ListBuilding Masterclass which, I have to tell you, was rammed to the rafters and a “who’s who” of internet marketing.  This was amazing in itself because this was a free three days, and usually when you give tickets away for free, you usually get less than 50% of the registrants turn up, while on Day 2, you only get 70% of those who were there on Day 1, with Day 3 being only 50-70% of those on Day 2.

In fact I think there might have been MORE people there on Day 3 than Day 1, as it was a Sunday!  The crowd was definitely a high proportion of self employed and business people with the employed forming perhaps a third?

Contrast  this hungry, up for it crowd at the Thistle Hotel with a much quieter little gig over the other side of town, which had been billed as a Wealth Creation seminar and was, unfortunately the gig I was booked to speak at!

The numbers  expected are usually 50- 100, only 30 odd showed up and when they found out that I was speaking on internet marketing, half left, having already booked themselves onto the stock trading workshop they wanted.

Great!  So I delivered my best material to a crowd of …….about 17.  I think they liked it!

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Karen, Co-Incidence & More Fun At The Crown & Anchor

Well I came third in our Friday night social evening game of Texas “No Limits” Hold’em last week so I was very happpy.  It was a great fun evening too, with the chill con carne and pizza going down well, and masses left for Saturday night’s X-Factor first week of Bootcamp gathering. And down to the final tables both games on Monday at the Crown & Anchor, third in the cash game – £12.50 which covered my night’s entertainment and dinner LOL.

Tickets are selling steadily and well for the “Really Useful Internet Day” next Saturday – yes! that’s right, only 8 days to go now, as I write this on Friday 2nd October.  OUr gang have had a good crack at the tickets in advance, and several of my internet marketing buddies are mailing over the weekend, including @NeilAsher and @MarkAnastasi, thanks guys!

Neil’s done an interesting promotion, where he gives value to his mailinig list by analysing my sales page, and that of another mate of his at the same time, highlighting the bits that stand out and how different styles work for different markets.  Here is what he sent to his list

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Going, Going Speedily & A Full House In More Ways Than One!

Since our Internet Day last year, and the wildly successful Property Extravagaza, we are really getting a great reputation for our events and every time we announce one, it’s getting easier and easier to fill the room.  I was reading through the great testimonials from last time, prior to putting them on the page, and I was moved beyond belief by some of the comments.  I love our community!

We’ve still got two weeks to go and we have just opened the bookings to our main mailing list and we have only got just over 100 tickets left – a third have gone already.  Martin has mentioned it a couple of times in his ezine, but Brett hasn’t mailed yet, or our joint venture partners, so I’m very confident we are going to sell out well before the 10th Oct.

If you don’t want to take any chances, here’s the link to the booking page >>

The other big news this week is that I’ve committed to a date for delivery to Debs & Joe at Bookshaker for the next Money Gym book.  I’ve been planning and starting to write this over the last couple of weeks and I’m REALLY REALLY excited and inspired about this…I never knew I had another one in me.  I’ve also been going through the existing Money Gym book and bringing it up to date, also adding brand new property and internet chapters.  I’m finding that a bit of editing / updating on the old one, inspires me to write more in the new one.

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Money Gym Interviews | Jennie Armato

As we prepare for the Money Gym “Really Useful Internet Day”, here’s another in the series of interviews with Internet succeess stories – real people making real money (and big money!) online. I first saw Jennie speaking at the first ever World Internet Summit and we have subsequently become firm friends. Jennie is a mean Texas “No Limits” Hold’em player and won the Internet Marketers Cruise tournament last year (I came in about eighth!).  This interview was recorded the night before Jennie was due to speak at Mark Anastasi’s Traffic Generation Summit in London on 29th June 2009.

You can see Part 2 of Brett’s interview when you put your name and email in the VIP Priority list at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/internetday and when we launch the bookings at the end of this week, and you confirm your attendance at the day and donate £25 to the Big Issue, you’ll get to enjoy the rest of Brett’s interview, Jennie’s interview and Martin Avis’ too.

Bonjour Mon Ami! Free Traffic Generation Seminar tickets – déplacer vos fesses rapidement!

Bonjour Mon Ami, Here’s something good but you have todéplacer vos fesses rapidement!

But first……did you know I have an Opera Singer sister?  Her name is Heather and I’m very proud of her.

So why am I telling you this?

And why am I testing my school girl French to the max?  Some might even say “painfully”.

Because my family loyalty was put to the test this week….Bigtime!

I had to choose between going to see singing sister Heather sing at the Paris Opera House in “Carmen”, one of my favourite operas of all time…..and going for a long weekend in Paris with Sarah……

OR…….

Going to see some of my very favourite people speak at what looks like one of the biggest and the best seminars of the year.

People like Alan Forrest Smith, Jennie Armato, Guy Levine (who taught me so much back in the day), Mark Vurnum and our very own Mark Anastasi.

O yes!

Since going to the “Break Free Seminar” recently, Mark has shot into my Top 10 Speakers list.

Worldwide.

Also featured at the Summit is a little known (so far) chap called Gareth Owen who taught me one little trick that has EXPLODED my Google Adwords results. Alan Forrest Smith says Gareth is his secret traffic weapon.

Well, I was chatting with Mark Anastasi the other day, as I want to interview him to find out some of his secrets, and he mentioned his upcoming Summit.

Oh, I was so disappointed not to be able to go!  But Heather and Sarah would never speak to me again if I cancelled this trip.

Mark was cool though and he did something very special for me, even though I can’t go.

Today Mark allocated me 20 tickets to “The Traffic Generation Summit” worth £97 each to GIVE AWAY to my clients.

(each ticket comes with £1,582.00 in bonuses, by the way)

He said, “Nicola, don’t worry, get some of your very favourite clients to come along, and I’m sure they will share everything they learn with you!”

The man’s a genius!

Of course you will.

So here goes with the info…..and remember, you have to share!

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Attend this special Wealth Creation seminar and discover…

* How To Produce a Steady Flow Of Buyers To Your Online Business And Break Free From The Rat Race

* How To Get a Tsunami of Traffic Through a Website To Take Over a Million Dollars

* How To Attract Hundreds of Thousands of New List Subscribers in Days

* How To Generate Hordes of Brand New Visitors Eager and Hungry To Buy Your Products

* How To Get On Page One of Google, Yahoo, and MSN

… and much, MUCH more.

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If you want to create multiple streams of income on the Internet, you really do not want to miss this unique, one-off event.

Hurry though, as there are only 20 tickets available.

And I mean TOUT SUITE!!

To Your Success & Au Revoir!

Nicola Cairncross

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Beach Dreams, Breaking Free & Board Meetings

Summer’s definitely arrived on Shoreham Beach and how do you think I know that?  Apart fromt the lovely weather, with May’s storms out of the way, the Beach Dreams tent has gone up on the Green.  Any long term reader of this ezine will know I wax lyrical about Beach Dreams every year and some may even remember the picture taken from INSIDE my handbag the first year I got my FlipVideo.  Nelson’s “Dad Dancing” video has now had 231 views and is rated 3.5 stars!

The Beach Dreams Festival and particularly The Tent is an institution round here, selling tea and cake to raise funds for the festivities and, after school, it’s always full of kids and visiting foreign students making the most outlanding costumes for the parade.

Everyone who can bake locally, does so, and drops cakes, scones, cheese straws etc in as donations, and the many home-made cake lovers on the Beach make it a point of obligation to support the Festival by dropping in on a regular basis to drink tea and sample the goodies.  Home made cakes remind me of my nanny, with whom I lived for happy years as a child, and I love the whole village feel of Beach Dreams.

Photo by the much travelled Jim Callender – see more of Jim’s photos here

While looking at our Money Gym YouTube channel to get the stats for Nelson’s video I can see, using their new Insight feature, that our MG / YouTube audience is 58% female, between 45-54 (which we knew actually).  I would have thought our audience would have been slightly younger than that, between 35 and 55, thinking about the clients who have had the most success with the Money Gym.

Success is all relative as we know, and this fact was brought up again by one of our Silver Elite clients on a call recently.  She said that she would only want to be mentored in Wealth Creation by someone who had millions in the bank and could prove it.

We gently reminded her that it’s not always about being a millionaire, but about being financially free.  And you don’t need a million to be financially free.  It’s all about not having to go to work (if you don’t want to) or doing work you love AND to spend your days growing your wealth and having fun.

Also, no self-respecting millionaire would keep millions in the bank.  For one thing, it would be losing money, and wouldn’t be safe as the government guarantee only £50,000 per person per bank, but there is also the opportunity cost to be considered.

I’ve been approached by my publishers with a theme for a new book – I was twittering on the topic and they said they had been looking for someone to write a book on just that very thing!  I’ll start a mindmap and see how it grows.  I already have a few ideas for what I would want to cover.

I love to write more than anything else I’ve discovered and I’ve got at least three more books inside me and business partner Judith Morgan says she has one too – her wealth creation journey so far.  Judith is a brilliant, funny, poignant writer and I for one would consider that a rattling good read.  I would just love to buy a house in Greece and one in Shoreham or Brighton perhaps, and just divide my time between attending seminars, travelling between the two houses, seeing the world, writing and hanging out online.

We are having an interim Board Meeting on Monday at a lovely Elizabethan Manor hotel, to discuss further the shape of the Money Gym for 2010.  Yes, I know we just did that, but certain key things are changing and we want to make sure we are all happy with the direction we are heading.  YOu can do that when it’s your own business.  The Money Gym is growing all the time, in all different kinds of ways, and we want to make sure that it continues to serve all our own individual “Primary Aims” for our lives, in E-Myth Terms.

More about that in today’s article.

Last weekend I attended the “Break Free Seminar” with Pat Adams and Mark Anastasi which I thought was totally excellent.  They are both great speakers and delivered excellent content, around using direct mail and the internet to create an information publishing business.  I took at least six page of notes and learned loads of new stuff, so even if you are an experienced business person or marketeer, consider attending their next one in June and you can book your tickets here…..

One seminar I would NOT be missing if it weren’t for a prior engagement, is Alan Forrest Smith’s appearance at the British Library at Rachel Elnaugh’s “Marketing Magicians”  Alan says: “Next Tuesday, June 2nd, I will be one of the keynote speakers for BBC and Dragons Den star Rachel Elnaugh.  Not only am I thrilled to be asked to speak for her at The British Library, I’ll also be presenting with some serious heavyweight entrepreneurs.  This gig is different, it focused on real business people or wanna-be smart, fast track entrepreneurs.  There are around 300 places (BUT I think it’s almost sold out). I am also presenting a stack of new ideas, stories and marketing nuggets that you can walk away with. It’s all here…”

My next speaking gigs?  We have a Money Gym “Let’s Talk Money” day

on June 13th which is packed to the rafters and then I’m speaking at Ambar Hamid’s Wealth Thing event on June 6th and then I’m on again for Triumphant Events, with Dr Topher Morrison on 5th July.

Have fun, we always do!

Nicola