Brett McFall Live – A Delegate’s View

Here Cris shares his thoughts on our Brett McFall event – Brett really rocked over the whole weekend and Cris really enjoyed Brett McFall, Nicola Cairncross & Tim Brocklehurst’s presentations!  He recommends the Money Gym Live events a lot!

Find out what else is coming up at http://www.themoneygym.com/events.htm

Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week

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

Marcus De Maria Taken By Surprise

When we arrived at Tim Brocklehurst’s Freedom Class last week, at 8am on a Saturday morning, imagine my surprise when we bumped into Marcus De Maria from Investment Mastery and his team!

Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week

This has been an AMAZING couple of weeks for lots of different reasons. It’s been so busy that, not only have I not had time to play with my new sewing machine, but, for only the second time this last year, I was unable to write the ezine!!

My twitterings kept the blog updated and my Twits also fed out to my Facebook and MySpace profile. The blog being updated by Twitter also fed out to my Hubpages and Ecademy, so all major social networking went on as normal.

The weekend before last saw the “Money Gym Presents…Property” with the ever popular property multi-squillionaire and all round good bloke, Greg Ballard, holding forth about property investment and the property market in general – dynamite stuff as ever. Judith and I updated everyone on our Rent2Own exploits and the band of merry Money Gym rent2own devotees grows and grows – David Lee, what have you started?

Later in the day, my old matie from Las Vegas and Sussex, Maria Davies, came to show us how we could buy a luxury villa in the Caribbean for just £1000, and invited us to one of her open evenings. I’ve never been very keen on overseas investing, but the combination of luxury, Caribbean, and Maria buying TWO herself (she ain’t no property fool!) has got me very very interested. It’s an income strategy after the first four years too, with demand for Caribbean holidays growing and growing all time. Maria has another fr*ee Open Evening coming up in London and you can book your place and find out more here at

http://www.caribbean5starinvestments.co.uk
Talking of Caribbean holidays, I’m hoping that our Money Gym Wealth Creation & Internet Marketers Cruise (with Mike Filsaime) in January will take us to a couple of the islands that Maria’s lot are building on, so I can have a look while I’m out there! Just £500 per person for eight nights, the return flights to Miami are £400, so it’s a dirt cheap holiday in the sun. There are six Money Gym allocated cabins left (and there are some that hold three so bring the kids even if you are a single parent – they will be well looked after in the kid’s club) so secure your cabin (and all the extra Money Gym goodies) here at http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/holidays

Then……….felt really sick with a 24 hour bug on Thursday but recovered in time for Tim Brocklehurst’s Freedom Class weekend on Saturday/Sunday/Monday. This was an intensive three day workshop where he taught us how to use the amazing Viral Spiral system to grow our lists virally. We were amazed by the incredible and inspirational Ange Wayne, and some of the othere excellent speakers included ever exuberant marketing maverick Alan Forrest-Smith and Martin Avis, who gave a great presentation on how to build excellent relationship with your subscribers.

By the end of the three days, we walked out with a turnkey online business, although some of us were not sure how we did it! Brillaint “over shoulder” back up from Matt Garrett and Rob O’Callaghan

We stayed at the TOTALLY FABULOUS Hoxton Hotel in Great Eastern Road I think it was, and while it only cost about £97 per room per night, I was blown away by the rooms, the bathrooms, the funky lounge, bar and restaurant, the hot and trendy guests/locals, the live dj’s on Friday and Saturday, but the best thing by far was the staff. They were not just helpful, can-do and smiling, they positively beamed fun and job satisfaction. You just can’t bottle that – if you could, service in this country would be an amazing thing. See http://www.TheMoneyGym.tv over the coming week for some videos….very funny when I caught Marcus De Maria at 8am, who was hosting a workshop at the same venue.

I talked to the Bar/Restaurant Manager – Richard Moul who was frighteningly young and energetic (and a real whisky expert!) to find out what his recruitment policy was, only to find that he recruits for attitude and personality and then whips them into shape after. It only bloomin’ works. We had some fantastic customer service experiences there and I will be staying there as much as possible in future even if I have to get taxis about to my workshops and meetings.

The Freedom Class was amazing – what can I say? Many many thanks to Tim Brocklehurst for his patience, his organisation, laying on of three great speakers – one of whom Ange Wayne, Change Strategist, flew over from Australia especially. She was amazing, Alan Forrest Smith was on fire! Martin Avis was wonderful on how to build a great relationship with your virally fuelled list (it was great to meet him properly at last) and one other who has asked not to be mentioned for her own reasons.

Genius move, putting Ange on, on the first day, as we were struggling a bit and she talked in a compelling, almost hypnotic way, about success, choice and responsibility. Tragic that Steve missed that bit as he was carted off to A&E when his heart went into Atrial Fibrillation – they kept him in overnight at the Royal London, but he still managed to win the challenge on the Monday, having done so much homework beforehand.

Luckily Tim had a camera crew on hand, so Steve can catch Ange on the DVD’s. You can find out more about her at http://www.AngelChange.com – a play on her name (it’s not all about angels, phew!) and her home AND office is based in Angel Place Building too! Amazing speaker, awesome.

From Tim’s mailing for Steve (his prize) Steve has gained over 250 new signups and his blog and first email has attracted a new client already – someone who owns a Champagne business – NICE!

I’m so thrilled because I managed to come home, take one of my articles and turn it into a rebrandable free report, working through the process. From putting up my free report in three places so far, I’ve picked up 10 new double opted in subscribers today already and it’s only lunchtime. That’s amazing.

I’m also thrilled because I have created my first ever Facebook application. I was making a Blidget (widget for folks to feature the Money Gym blog on their websites) and it offered me the option to make a Facebook application out of my Blidget. Of course I clicked yes, and was walked through several stages to create my app. Now, if you don’t realise how exciting this is, just think about how viral this could go. If even half my 447 (as of today) friends feature the Money Gym app on their profiles, and half of their say….50 friends like what they see and feature it….that’s our blog on 5587 profiles….man, that’s powerful.

My brain was FRIED after all that techie, detail stuff, but I still managed to make it to my Monday Night Poker Game at the Crown & Anchor in Shoreham. On Tuesday I took it easy and fixed Head Chef, Andy Quinn’s laptop for him (well, Steve did) and set up a Facebook group for the Crown & Anchor, whose new website is taking ages!

Had coffee with one of my poker buddies, Paul Stanford from 4Momentum on Tuesday, he’s a business consultant and we talked about how to take The Money Gym to seven figures from six, and how to get him blogging and how to wrest control of his website and hosting from the current designers who want to charge him for every little thing and won’t give him access to his own CPanel.

Kids off school today (yet another Insect Day!) and off to play poker live again tonight, private game, first invite so honoured and a fixed buy in, for those of you who are worried about a wealth coach apparently gambling. My Monday nights cost me £12 and inclued dinner, for heaven’s sake. It’s cheaper than the pictures.

When this ezine is written, I’m off to check my property messages and see if the deal that fell out of bed due to a solicitor offering business and not legal advice, has come back on. The vendor turned out to be someone who used to work for me at The Acacia, as a maid! How small is this world really?

Have fun, I will be when I slow down!

Nicola

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 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 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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Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week

I’ve hosted two absolutely fascinating webinars since last week’s ezine, with Claire Raikes, the “Business Blog Angel” and Tim Brocklehurst “MyViralSpiral”. Covering wide ranging topics from internet marketing to business success, it was interesting to note that I don’t “know” either of them in the traditional sense, but because of their web presences, their recommendations and the fact that the Money Gym is a client of Tim’s and Judith is a client of Claire’s, we not only felt comfortable, but had a rocking good time!

You can hear both webinars at http://www.MoneyGymRadio.com.  I could have talked to Claire for hours for sure (but we had another call lined up!) and Tim and I did over-run somewhat…….I can’t wait to see them both in action at the “Money Gym Presents……The Internet” workshop next Saturday. Why not see if there are any early bird places left?

Steve has revamped our Affiliates page too, which looks much better and easy to use now. There are some graphics to use – book covers and banners for the site, and some code for videos you can put on your site very easily. The membership site makes layout a bit tricky but Steve is really getting his head around it – combination of techie and arty – so it’s much easier to use now. If you want to recommend The Money Gym, there are lots of ways to do that and earn some passive income so check out his new page – renamed the Affiliate Center

Summer, as usual, has taken me completely by surprise, this year, although my first born, Phoebe’s birthday on 3rd May, traditionally signals a burst of hot weather…….I well remember labouring through the hot night in my water bath overlooking Wormwood Scrubs (o yes!) which combination of pain and heat did NOT make for very attractive after-birth photos!!

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Money Gym Interviews: Tim Brocklehurst

Nicola Cairncross, Wealth Coach & Founder of The Money Gym, interviews Tim Brocklehurst, creator of MyViralSpiral, and The Freedom Class, on internet marketing success, the importance of viral list building, online business and how to stay focused!

Wealth Coach Diaries: Nicola’s Week

The last two weeks have been SO hectic with my speaking gigs (two in one week) and two Money Gym workshops back to back, that we missed an ezine – quelle horror! My business partner, fellow blogger and now twitterer extraordinaire, Judith Morgan, sums it all up brilliantly here (makes me feel quite exhausted reading it) – she is so funny!

We are hosting the first fr*ee webinar to kick off the marketing for our next Money Gym workshop (all about the internet) this Friday at 2pm so if you want to find out more about using blogging to enhance your business check out the info here, you can listen later if you can’t make it live.

I have made time (while travelling and before nodding off) to read two AMAZING books this week – the first is called “The Money Making Magic of A Funfair Goldfish (& Other Get Rich Quick Secrets Of A Mattress Bound Millionaire)” by John Harrison, owner of Streetwise Publications. Awesome, practical and funny, you need to treat yourself to this one. His take on the people who hang out in kiddies ball parks nearly made me laugh out loud on the train to London.

The other has had a most profound effect on me, and it’s called “The Love Trap” by Annie Bennett. Recommended by my first ever coach, Rachel Turner, who also banged on about “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” for ages before I bought it…..duh!

It’s a true story of the author’s repeating patterns of falling in love too quickly and choosing the recipients unwisely, culminating in a certain situation that has to be read, to be believed!. She then goes onto explain how her childhood had influenced her choices and why, and as a trained psychotherapist and counsellor, she knows what she is talking about!

It’s all about how certain childhood traumas such as “abandonment” and “enmeshment” can have such a dramatic effect on your adult relationships – leading to your becoming either a “love addict” or “love avoider” – the two being remarkably similar in lots of ways, and often drawn to each other. These two personality types are quite liable to become addicts in other ways, and again, I found it very interesting as I’m on my diet again and doing really well except when I get into certain lonely/abandoned type situations – hotel rooms for example!

I found the book gripping, moving, fascinating and enlightening, having grown up with a mentally ill mum, who simultaneously used to disappear for periods of time with no warning or explanation, then come back, turn my world upside down and then lean on me totally for everything from looking after the babies, to supporting her through relationship turmoil.

I felt quite set free, by reading this book, because it’s great to know that the way you are and feel is not unusual, and I feel the benefits are only just starting.

What else is happening?

Oh, on a much lighter note LOL the sales of the cabins on our Money Gym Holidays cruise are going well – I think there are about 6-7 cabins left. So if you fancy coming away with us, and some top line internet marketers, bringing the family (kids are really well looked after on cruises) and having a great time in grey old January, visit http://www.themoneygym.com/holidays and secure your place. Loads of great Money Gym bonuses including the chance to learn how to play Texas Hold’em with me!

Off shopping in Brighton now, a 13 year old’s birthday is looming!

Have fun, we ALWAYS are!

Nicola

Nicola Cairncross Wealth Coach, Author Internet Strategist Professional Speaker Founder, The Money Gym Ltd Email us to have Nicola speaking at YOUR event >>>

Free Blogging Webinar

What do anoraks, leading entrepreneurs and wannabe writers have in common? They blog.  You probably know what a blog is – but do you know about its hidden talents?

Or how important it is for your business?  People buy from people they know, like and trust and a good blog goes a long way towards creating that trust.

Would you like to know just how easily you can combine 3 simple social media tools to maximise its impact?

Social Media Marketing specialist, Claire “Business Blog Angel” Raikes, does and she’s in the mood to share!

Join us on this fr*ee one-hour webinar at 2pm British Summer Time / 1pm GMT on Friday afternoon (or listen to the recording later) where Nicola (no mean blogger herself) will grill Claire about the best and latest ways to use blogging and social media to explode your profits!

Do feel free to put in your questions about blogging for business before the call and we will cover as many of them as possible.

http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/MGPresents/BlogAngel

See you there!

Cheers
The Money Gym Team

p.s. And on that page you can also secure your early bird place at our “Money Gym Presents….” workshop on 17th May where Claire and Tim “Viral Spiral” Brocklehurst will be sharing their secrets  to our lucky Money Gym delegates.