Mums, Moms, Money Gym Allstars & Marvellous Myles Phago,

A lively week after a quiet weekend online, catching up with all those emails that came in over the weekend!!  I’m thinking of investing in RescueTime.com as seen over at Chris Barrow’s blog where it charts which windows you are using then produces a sexy little graph that tells you where you spend your time – scary stuff.  I suspect it would be too scary though.

He’s also got two, count them, two PA / VA’s, one for admin & diary type stuff and one for financial stuff.  Well done, Chris – at last eh?  And well done Philippa, one of his VA’s who has just won National VA of the Year Award (under 18 months in business).  See our testimonial/inspirational story box this week for what Phillippa had to say about that in Chris’s ezine this week….

I really need a VA just to take my email and only send me the stuff I really need to see / deal with – it’s such a distraction.  I have mine set up to only send me stuff every half an hour from my spamfilter, but I till click send and receive every few minutes.  Pathetic.

Wednesdays are now renamed Webinar Wednesdays as I like to cram them all into one day.  This is both a time management and a week zoning ploy and it works for me.  10am on Wednesdays is now for our 25 odd Silver Elite pioneers, 11am is either Silver/Gold members (1st Wed of month) or Gold (2nd, 3rd & 4th Wed) where they come and “get coached live” by Judith and I, in addition to working with their own coach.

Karen “Timebomb T-Shirts” Gilbert, one of our Gold clients, has done incredibly well in her first year in Gold (we let them stay for life remember!) and she has turned up to just about every one of her 52 webinars and she credits that with SOME of her amazing progress.  Her coach must also take the credit LOL.  Sometimes she has been the only one on the webinar pretty much, so got our full attention, welcome or not!

1pm is Membership Club Magic support calls, probably for the last time, as I’m recording the video presentations and discussions afterwards, for watching back by new MCM Members.  I will support them thereafter by email in their own Google group.  One of our potential clients was complaining that he had to watch the whole video to find out what’s included in our offer for that, but it’s selling so well from the stage, I’ve not had time to write a sales letter for it.

3pm is supposed to be the live Money Gym TV show, but I can’t get my Edirol UA microphone to work with my new laptop, in spite of Steve’s best efforts *sob, sob*.  I might have to ring the Roland helpline. Must be something to do with the 32 / 64 bit systems in my laptop.  Causing no end of problems that.

BABY / NEW MOM WEBSITE UP FOR AUCTION

One of my Money Gym clients is thinking of auctioning off his website due to the pressure of his other commitments – he just can’t give it the brain space it needs.

It’s set up to attract traffic and then funnel it through ebay and amazon affliate links at the moment but is producing minimal income due to lack of love and attention.  Averaging around 400-500 unique visits a month over the dot com and dot co uk versions.  Not many subscribers as yet because unknown to my client, the subscribe box wasn’t working right for a year (!!)

If you are in a baby / new mom niche, have your own product and would like to buy and develop this website (it needs a blog, regular communication with subscribers, ongoing promotion perhaps via Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page) and you have your own product to sell via the site, this could be one for you.  A ready made search-engine friendly front end for your product / coaching / membership site back end products.

You will need to move the site to new hosting and integrate the site with TotalBusinessCart to run the subscribe function, but if you have a tame techie they will know how to do that, or we can help you find someone.

The site is well indexed by Google, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Live, Ask and the top key phrases bringing traffic right now are “pregnancy books”, “pregnancy videos” and “good pregnancy books”.

Check it out at http://www.PregnancyBooksAndVideos.com (or .co.uk) and in the first instance contact nicola [at] themoneygym.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Pampers PR Company are flying me to Dublin on Sunday for a Monday morning launch of the Pampers Village Parenting Panel in Ireland, loads of journalists, mums and babies, what fun – I do love a nice baby!!  Sounds like an interesting new format for a launch too so I’ll try and take some video for the blog.

This week coming, we have our next Cashflow Game which I believe is nearly sold out.  If you have always wanted to play Robert Kiyosaki’s seminal game, book your place here http://www.themoneygym.com/events.

And then on Friday week, we are hosting our first “Money Gym Business Surgery”

But this weekend is the biggie – it’s the “2nd MYLES PHAGO APPRECIATION SOCIETY DEEP STACK INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT” at the Royal Sovereign Pub in Brighton and I’m so excited

I love these days out, which pull marvellous and miscellaneous players from all over Sussex, with a wide variety of prizes including much-coveted Myles Phago mugs and all sorts of other lovely Myles-orabilia.

This is an interesting exercise in online marketing and branding actually, and it’s all the more interesting because Russ, the guy behind it, is not a marketeer by job, but is obviously a natural.

The Tournament was created by Russ Cochran, clever micky-taker extraordinaire, in honour of our Apple Poker area manager Myles Phago, who is the only person we actually all know, to have played in the World Series of Poker!!  (incidentally one of my “100 Things To Do Before I Die”)

Myles is rapidly becoming an immortal brand, thanks to Russ’ efforts, and now has his own Fan Page on Facebook  and is described there thusly:

“Myles Phago owns the greatest Poker Face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 World Series of Poker despite him holding just a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoly card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game Uno!!!”

And finally if you play No Limit Texas Hold’em, join our new Twibe in order to be able to find a friendly game, via Twitter, no matter where you are in the world, right now.

Oooh, that’s just all given me an idea, a “wealth creation allstars” texas hold’em networking tournament….I’ll just create a Facebook page to gauge levels of interest…here it is!  Instant market research.

Have fun, we always do!

Nicola

Movies, Mummys, Membership Magic, Motivation

I’m in a movie!  How exciting!  I had completely forgotten about it!  Yes, I know, how can you forget that you are in a movie?  Well, I did, honest.

It’s called The Change Series (#ChangeSeries on Twitter) and it’s launching online next week.  We are all hoping it will go viral like The Secret did.  Produced by a real live TV producer Steve McNamee in collaboration with Fitness Guru Scott Tousignant.   Another great thing that came out of the Marketer’s Cruise, the benefits of going on that just roll on and on.

One of our other Money Gym clients and cruisers is in it too, Jane Lewis and she looks great.  I look tired and fat, with a lazy eye, but I don’t talk too much rubbish so I’m happy!

Off to London tomorrow at o’dark ridiculous for my first day with a new software company who are bringing me in as an online marketing advisor.  Great product which has pretty much sold itself on referrals in it’s home country, but they need some help launching it here.  We have aleady identified some fantastic long tail key words that there is a healthy demand for, and not much competition, and we’ll be looking at the next steps tomorrow.

The Property Extravaganza is rolling along relentlessly – I think we will hit the halfway sold out mark over the weekend, so get your ticket now here.  Some great audio interviews up there to listen to gratis, and I turned the first 20 minutes of Anthony North, from the Big Issue, into a couple of videos for YouTube.

Talking of videos, I’ve made available a 22 minute segment of our Membership Club Magic workshop day, where I show the delegates how to monetise their membership sites, but the principles hold true for any website.  You can get to that video via the webinar signup page and it’s the page after the webinar page.

We have nearly finished the migration of our content onto our own new membership site, and now to move the members!  Then to create a membership site to stor the Membership Club Magic content and provide the marketing front end for the product – are we in danger of disappearing up our own proverbials?

I provided a review for a great new book called “SuperMummy : The Ultimate Mumpreneur Guide To Online Business Success” and it’s launched today on Amazon.

Mel McGee, author of “Supermummy: The Ultimate Mumpreneur’s Guide To Online Business Success” is officially launching her new book on Amazon.co.uk today and is giving away fantastic bonuses, including the complete “Mum Power Business Building Course” and lifetime membership at her site to celebrate.  Read more on the blog here >>>

It’s the second month of coaching Debbie Winterbourne, winner of “Gold For Christmas” competition and I’m enjoying it thoroughly.  She’s bright, motivated, and the owner of a lovely training & meeting room venue in the Euston area, called Quantum House, which you can hire for just £200 a day.  We are going to make some major changes to the website but in the meantime, here’s a picture of the main workshop space.

There is so much potential for her to make serious money with this place, then roll it out around London certainly.  Lucky for Debbie I used to run an empty space in Mayfair called The Music Room and so have loads of ideas….I’m trying not to overwhelm her at the moment LOL

Debbie is motivated for sure, she’s taking action on just about every suggestion I’m making and that makes my heart sing.  Because at the end of the day, it’s only Debbie that can do it for Debbie.  Someone left a message on my Twitter timeline saying “Can you make me a millionaire Nicola?”  and I had to reply “No, but you can!”.  Just about sums it up really.

And I’ve booked some recurring appointments in my Outlook to go to the gym, otherwise I never get around to it.  Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday mornings.

Always last on the list me!  But Mother’s Day coming up is reminding me to look after myself a bit better.

Have fun, we always do.

Nicola

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

Money Gym Webinar – Silver/Gold Clients

Join the Money Gym Silver & Gold Level clients as they reflect on their wealth creation journey this month!

Webinars, WVD’s & Workshops

A very quick note to let you know that…..

1.  The webinar recording with Claire Raikes “Business Blog Angel” is up at http://www.moneygymradio.com/ – listen or download now!

In this webinar we cover the difference between blogging to enhance your existing website, online or offline business, build relationships and create trust with your existing and potential future customers, versus blogging to create an independent income stream.

2.  By 2pm this afternoon, the webinar recording with Tim Brocklehurst, fresh back from speaking at World Internet Summit in Sydney, experienced business person and founder of “My Viral Spiral” – this will be up shortly at http://www.moneygymradio.com/ – listen or download now! 

In this webinar we hear about Tim’s traditional corporate background, his MBA and how that has helped in online business, how he first got interested in the internet, where he first got hooked on internet marketing (clue:  it was at one of the World Internet Summit’s that Nicola never misses!), who he was mentored by, why you need a list, and how to build a viral list, among many other things.  Towards the end of the call we cover the three crucial characteristics of successful online entrepreneurs and Tim also shares the five roles in a successful online team and how to find those key strategic partners.

3.  Don’t forget you can order your exclusive gift from The Money Gym and Brett McFall, the fr*ee DVD from the last UK World Internet Summit (you just pay the P&P) featuring five of the speakers from WIS2007 – dynamite stuff, Nicola was there!  To secure your limited numbers copy just visit http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/WIS2008

That’s if for today……….watch out for the Ezine later!

Have a hot, hot, hot weekend!

Cheers
Nicola

p.s.  If you like what you hear, then you can still join us next Saturday and find out about the two most powerful tools to create passive income online right now, blogging and viral list building….

http://www.TheMoneyGym.com/MGPresents/internet1.htm  

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Saturday 17th May – Central London (Internet Marketing)

Tim “Viral Spiral” Brocklehurst and Claire “Business Blog Angel” Raikes present an action packed day on the two most crucial skills for any aspiring internet entrepreneur – List Building & Business Blogging

More info >>>
Listen to Claire live here >>>

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Friday, 9th May – Gatwick
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Watch them in action >>>

Techie Disaster – Or Was It?

Well, there I was, on my landmark groundbreaking webinar with two silent callers and the heroic Linda.

Thank gawd for Linda or I would have been on my own and it was also Linda that supplied the answer to what was going on. Somehow, the Webinar ID for the Free call tonight had become transposed with the ID for tomorrow’s Gold & Silver call.

Bummer.

The worst thing about it, apart from the disappointed callers (who at least can listen to the recording – and let me tell you! Linda was great!) was that I had spent 2 hours working out the optimal combination of camcorder and microphone to be able to record and speak to camera, while hosting a telephone webinar.

So much for recuperating from my operation slowly – what was I thinking?  Apparently Marion, one of our coaches has already sent an email to Steve saying “What is she doing!!??”

Anyway, the edited version of the recording (minus my tuts and gasps of exasperation) will be available.

The other thing I realised halfway through was that while the people on the video could see my screen, and me, chatting in
an animated fashion “to camera” they would not be able to hear what was happening on the phone.  My end yes, the other end no.

LOLOLOL

Right, back to basics for tomorrow.

Recording up on the blog tomorrow – just click this link http://www.MoneyGymRadio.com

Cheers
Nicola (& Linda obviously)

Money Gym – Behind The Scenes!

Wealth Creation Expert Nicola Cairncross says:  You know that phrase “Feel the fear and do it anyway”?  I’m going to do just that at 8pm tonight on our Money Gym Wealth Creation Webinar for all members.   What’s the score?  I’m going live on camera and I’m going to give you a peek behind the scenes at The Money Gym….

Judith is moving house and I’m on air alone and I thought I would have some fun.

Not only will I be hosting the 8pm webinar and fielding questions that come in via the webinar page, but I will be answering questions live on air! 

I’ll be filming myself at the same time and will be able to swap back and forth from the camera to my computer to let you see behind the nitty gritty of the webinar.   I got the idea from reading Gary Conn’s blog http://www.garryconn.com so thanks Gary!

A phone-in come TV show!  Then I’ll be broadcasting the recording on our blog here at www.MoneyGym.tv but also on our TV channel on YouTube www.YouTube.com/wealthcoach  If it works, I will do it regularly.

Phew!  I’m scared stiff but I think it will be fun. 

To register for your place just visit http://www.themoneygymclub.com/categories/20070529 - and click the button link (it’s a free product so you will have to fill in your details but NOT your credit card details!)

Then, please email me your biggest wealth creation question – use the subject line “my burning question” and send it to nicola@themoneygym.com and don’t forget to verify yourself via Spamarrest.

If your question is of interest to all, I will check to see if you are on the phone line, or webinar (you will have to say hi via the question box if listening online) and if so, I will answer you question for you, right there and then.

As I say, scary but fun!

To register for your place just visit http://www.themoneygymclub.com/categories/20070529 and then send your question in.

See ya tonight!

Nicola