Kilts, Coaching Your Coach & Kicking 2009 Into Touch

So we missed the great “recession busting” OrangeBeetle party at the castle in Scotland, but we don’t have to miss out on Alan’s stirring speech for business owners in 2009 which was captured for YouTube of course.

I hope I can persuade him to make sure the next one doesn’t clash with the Internet Marketers Cruise next year, as I love a bit of tartan and scottish country dancing (well, I did go to school in Scotland for a while…).

It’s weird how things work out isn’t it?

While I was on the cruise I decided to put it “out there” that I wanted to speak more on stage, particularly at big multi-speaker events, selling Money Gym products and raising the awareness of The Money Gym.  When it was my turn on the mic, I thought I would use the opportunity to ask the event organisers in the room, what info they would want me to send them, to get a chance at a gig.  That resulted in two offers, while on the cruise, Jennie Armato’s event in April in London, and Robert Puddy’s event with Paulie Sabol and Donna Fox in September.

But the very act of saying it out loud, in public, resulted in ole TUT stirring himself and I got back to an email from someone who I knew of, but didn’t know very well, offering me a trial speaking gig.

Last week I spoke for Darren Winters at his “Build Your Wealth” event in London, and he’s asked me back for London on 14th / 15th February and Manchester on 21st / 22nd February.  Why not come along

And then I got an email from Brett, asking if I’m coming to his Next Level event on the Gold Coast of Australia, also in April.  He also thinks he could fill a room of people interested in membership sites…..and Oh, and by the way, did I want to speak at his “Make Money While You Sleep”event in Sydney too?  How EXCITING is that??

So I’m on a Money Gym Silver & Gold Webinar and we are talking about goal setting and planning for success, and about how the biggest obstacles to achieving your goals are sometimes what Mark Forster calls your “anti-goals”.

For example, I really want to speak more and travel the world doing that, but I’ve realised while thinking about the possibly Australia trip, that one of my “anti-goals” around that are “but I don’t want to be away from home too much”.

I’m imagining that Steve would mind, and the kids would even notice I was gone!  I got coached myself fairly robustly by Judith and the clients and realised that I was probably hallucinating it all, so I spoke to both and they all said “go” it’s a brilliant opportunity!”  You can listen again here >

Duh!  Of course it is.  And of course I will.

While i was actually ON that call, I got a message from Mr OrangeBeetle himself, and Alan’s asked me to speak at an event he’s organising in March.

And THEN, when I finished the webinar and put the phone down to Alan, I get another call and it’s Darren again, booking me for the two other gigs he’s running in February.

Very, very odd.  But great!

All of this makes me realise that I really do have to go back on a diet again, with all these speaking gigs coming up.  The weight’s been creeping back on over the last two years or so – I’m not as big as I was when we all went to New York for T.Herv Ecker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive, but it’s going that way.  Unfortunately I just love good food and wine, the social aspect that comes with all that, and Steve’s good food is better than most.

But I must find a way to resist his spatch-cock’d chicken, his potato dauphinoise and particularly his molton chocolate pudding.  God help me!

The cruise wasnt’t great for that either – the food was so good and the constant partying…oh my goodness.

But you can’t have everything can you?  And I’m getting to the age when, according to popular folklore, you have to choose between your face and your bum, look after one and the other goes haywire apparently.  Thin bum, you get wrinkles.  No wrinkles, you get a fat bum.

Whatever you are dreaming of for 2009, have a good think about the possible anti-goals or reasons why you might NOT want to achieve them.  Get them out in the open, throw some light on them and ask yourself “are they real or just hallucinations?”

If your goals include a website that makes money, why not register for my free Webinar this Wednesday – Membership Club Magic ?  Book your place here >>>

Have fun
We always do!
Nicola

Work At Home – A Step By Step Plan

There is a movement going on. A major shift in the working behaviour of people all around the world. Some even call it a revolution.

It is a move towards working from home, using The Internet as a means for creating wealth. In many cases, this begins as a supplementary income, a means of topping up a poor salary, or to earn the money required for a holiday or a car.  But as women particularly increasingly decide that they have had enough of doing low paid jobs just to be able to have a family, or new mums (mom’s in the USA!) decide they don’t want to go back to the corporate rat race, they start to look at a home-based business.

And the internet, with it’s low start up costs, is perfect for that.  Increasingly, people are moving home and conducting their online business activities full-time.

But it’s like the wild wild west, in America at the turn of the century….there are many people out there waiting to sell you a useless map of where to find the gold rather than sell you a shovel and some way to figure out the gold for yourself.

Just as many are failing as succeeding.

It seems that an aptitude is needed, some call it a certain mindset, in order to succeed with an online business.  Many people completely underestimate the work involved, the steep learning curve, the ability to keep growing and learning.  And so they give up at the first hurdle because they just don’t know what to expect.

Nicola Cairncross, founder of The Money Gym is regarded as a bit of an internet marketing expert – whether you want to take your existing real-world business online, or create an income online from a hobby or a passion.

She says “Something all online successes have in common is Viral Marketing. This phenomenon thrives on The Internet. In previous worlds it was known as word-of-mouth marketing, or growth by recommendation.”
But whatever we call it, The Internet has taken this form of growth to a new dimension by lubricating the means of pass-on.

All too often, Internet Marketers imagine they have got the next YouTube or Facebook, but because they have omitted some valuable viral marketing principals in their business plan, they fail.

So how can you learn what these principals are, and how can you be sure to include them in the plans for your online venture?

Well – it is possible to read about viral marketing, and there are numerous sites and services for applying the viral factor to your business. But to really understand it, and be sure of using it well, there is The Freedom Class.

This is a live laptop seminar held over a weekend at exclusive venues around the world, by Tim Brocklehurst, a recognized expert in the field.

In two days, delegates of these Freedom Classes – including Nicola & Steve and many Money Gym clients, learned and put into action, a complete business plan so that they can move forwards with a virally-growing business, and experience what it means to have exponential growth.

For full details of The Freedom Class go to this link:

http://www.tinyurl.com/actonfreedom