£10k In 90 Days Challenge – Champagne Update!
by NicolaCairncross on October 31, 2009
in Money Gym | Business
Well, a big thank you for entering our Win A Week In Champagne competition and an awful lot of you there were too
To make sure that the draw was entirely fair and unbiased I decided to ask a complete stranger to pick a number which I could then match up to the corresponding entry.
So I went to my local branch of NatWest bank and asked a cashier called Lisa to do the honours. She was delighted to do so and her only problem was that she hadn’t heard about the competition in time to enter.
Anyway she chose entry No. 10
And The Winner is Louisa Bird who will be off to Champagne in the coming few weeks, along with the friends or family she wants to take along.
Congratulations to Louisa !!
What Next? All Is Not Lost…
We promised something special to everyone who entered but didn’t win the competition.
Well, we were so amazed with the number of people who entered the competition that we got to asking ourselves what we could do for all of you champagne lovers who are dying to visit Champagne but who didn’t win the free week, so here’s what we came up with.
We will offer a huge 50% reduction off our standard tariffs for anyone who books a week at our lovely home between now and the end of March 2010
To take advantage of this superb offer bookings must be made, and the deposit paid, before November 21st.
If this offer sounds too good to miss then all you need to do is reply to the e-mail and we’ll send you the tariffs and all the information you need.
Champagne is great at any time of year but remember if you go before Christmas you can stock up on all your champagne (and wine too) and have a lot of fun selecting it – much more fun and a lot more stylish than going to the supermarket!
Please contact us as quickly as you can. We’re expecting a lot of people to take us up on this offer so, to get the dates you want, contact us NOW
Questions, Questions, Questions….
I can’t thank you enough for all the super champagne challenges you sent in. Over the next few weeks I’ll be sorting through all of them and producing a user-friendly guide that will give you all the answers you are looking for. I’ll tell you more about it as soon as it’s ready.
In the meantime you can share all the secrets of champagne that I learned when I lived there, by grabbing a copy of my e-book “The Insider’s Guide to Champagne” for £19.97, less than the price of a good bottle of champagne, by going to www.madaboutbubbly.com
That’s all for now and we look forward to hearing from all of you who want to visit Champagne
Jiles and Yvonne
£10k In 90 Days Challenge | Day 1 | Champagne
by NicolaCairncross on October 19, 2009
in Money Gym | Business, Money Gym | Competition
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The Money Gym has just launched The Boardroom, a way for your business to access a crack business team, 18 of your very own non-executive directors, plus Judith Morgan and Nicola Cairncross. As well as making a very special launch offer of a third off your first year’s membership, Nicola & Judith are hosting a daily radio show, where they help each caller create an extra £10,000 in just 90 days from their existing business.
Today’s caller on The Money Gym “£10k In 90 Days” Challenge on our BlogTalkRadio show was Yvonne Halling with her champagne related business http://www.MadAboutBubbly.com
Quick bit of background: Yvonne’s husband Jiles is an expert on Champagne and among other parts of the business, like corporate champagne tastings, they own a beautiful house in the Champagne region of France which is available for holidays, sleeps 12 and rents for £1500 a week or £125 pp if you have 12, or £250 for the week if you only have 6 of you. Very reasonable and it IS lovely, having been Yvonne & Jiles’ home previously.
Their website is currently being overhauled by Marion Ryan, Money Gym coach and blog/web expert so that’s coming along and looks great. This will give them the flexibility to add / change the site whenever they like and will be very search engined friendly (search engines love blog sites!)
Jiles has written an ebook which is garnering rave reviews, and they are working on a follow up DVD right now. They already have a number of videos on YouTube which I found by searching “mad about bubbly” although their channel is called http://www.youtube.com/user/jileshalling (see below for my comments on improving their branding).
We established on the 15 minute radio show that their fastest route to making “£10k In 90 Days” was to get let their house in Champagne for 7 weeks out of the 12 of the challenge period, and we came up with the idea of an virally marketed, online competition, using Social Networking via Twitter, a Facebook page and ideally joint venture mailings, where people can win a week in the house as a prize.
I also worked out that, if they sold 5-10 ebooks a day, they would make an extra “£10k In 90 Days” especially if they pre-sold the DVD bundled with the ebook, and that I would be looking at a Google Adwords campaign to drive extra traffic to the ebook sales page…….more on this below.
As time was extremely limited on the radio show, we have decided to take the follow up onto the blog here, where I will outline our suggestions, and my proposed plan of action, Judith can contribute, Yvonnne can add her thoughts, and get coached over the next 90 days to make the challenge actually happen!
What fun!
Money Smarts For Kids
by Nicola Cairncross on May 7, 2008
in Money Gym | Success
Money Gym Club Member Yvonne Halling has written a great article over at her blog at Well Heeled Diva’s about how tragically ill-equipped kids are to go out into the big wide world and survive financially….
“Sitting having dinner the other night with my 17 year old daughter and her boyfriend, I was listening to them talking about their lives. Both at college and looking for part-time jobs to supplement their life-style, they were bemoaning the fact that neither of them had any idea how to make money. And it’s the same for their friends too. They’re all broke and miserable. They have been taught at school to be employees – being paid what someone else thinks your worth.
In the 21st century, simply not knowing how to make money will become a serious problem, and it’s already started.
Why don’t they teach this in school? You’d think in this day and age, they’d include just maybe one class a week on ‘How to make money’ wouldn’t you? Why not? Maybe because the teachers themselves have no idea how to make money, so how could they ……………………
