I went with a few friends mountain biking in North Wales and then played squash again on the Saturday…it’s the second time playing since rupturing my ankle at the beginning of last year. No aches or twinges this time although I’ll certainly keep it strapped up for future games!

** Come and meet up with us **

Over the coming weeks Neil and I are speaking at various places across the UK with two speaking engagements in London next week.

You can read more here.

Saturday April 25th

http://www.wininvesting.co.uk/BuildYourWealth/index.php?lid=2860&st=e

Sunday April 26th

http://www.internetmillionairesbootcamp.com/neilstafford

I highly recommend you come along to one or even both of them. Neil and I will be available all day at both events and we’ll be in London on the Saturday evening for a meet up if you’re around.

** Can You REALLY Think And Grow Rich **

If you haven’t read the seminal book by Napoleon Hill, think and Grow Rich I urge you to do so. The book was started by Hill in 1917 and is widely recognised as one of the best success books ever.

However, some people take the title at face value and believe that you can become successful just by thinking…this in my opinion was the fatal flaw in the mega hit ‘The Secret’.

Thought alone will not get you anywhere except…no where!

It it is thought combined with action and behaviour that will get you where you want to be…and even where you don’t want to be (with the wrong thoughts and wrong actions).

Thinking should stimulate ideas, ideas into action, action into behaviour and the right action & behaviours into success.

There is far too much emphasis placed on the do nothing lifestyle…or the laze on a beach reaping the rewards of you working just an hour a day.

Sorry to burst the bubble….not true.

While it is very achievable to live life on your terms all and I mean ALL successful people have put the work in to reap the rewards and benefits they have.

The really important part is understanding how to structure your life to live how you want to using the tools and resources available to you such as automation of tasks, outsourcing mundane chores and delegating where possible.

(I’ll be covering more about this in the Internet Marketing Review soon)

I am, deep down, a lazy person…there’s nothing I like more than to jump on a plane and visit my favourite place in the world…Barbados.

However, to allow me to do this I need to put in the work now to reap the rewards…show me a successful person and I’ll look underneath to see a person who has put in the work.

Personally I’ll out work most people so I can be lazy when I want to be.

It’s up to you to decide what you want from life and then structure your business to support that aim. No one else can do it for you.

Exciting isn’t it!

I was watching Dragons Den and Deborah Meaden said something that really struck home. During the program she was talking to a business owner who wanted investment in his business and said this… (Paraphrased)

"As a business owner it is YOU that is totally responsible for the success of your business, no one else. Failure or success is down to you, no excuses."

That says it all really, no matter what the economy, the business you are in or the customer/clients who buy from you your success ultimately relies on you.

I agree.

Now, if you want to see a prime example of someone who couldn’t run their own business, never mind the economy of the country you only had to listen to Alistair Darling’s comments about the UK economy last week. In one sweeping statement he gave everyone who needed a one an excuse to blame anything but themselves.

I am not debating political allegiance here, or policy, I am lambasting his comments that did more potential damage to how the UK business and public view this so called credit crunch.

To quote…."It is not the job of a Chancellor to talk down the economy – be realistic by all means, but being gratuitously alarmist is unforgivable"

The media over the recent months have done more than fair share of negative reporting about this economy that it didn’t need a politician, who should know better, to spout off and drive in the imaginary knife further.

Give me Deborah Meaden’s view anytime.

One set of people who have grabbed the bull (and economy) by the horns and made a success of their businesses are the Gold & Gold+ Members of the Internet Marketing Review who will be speaking at this years UK GOLD Event in November.

This is your chance to come and listen to, meet with and ask questions of people who are JUST LIKE YOU, running information marketing businesses in niche markets and doing very well thank you.

http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

Last year’s event was a great success and the overwhelming opinion was to run another one this year.

This year we have people in different markets from leisure to crafts and animals to assets!

The website will be live towards the end of this week as we are in negotiations to bring in a very special guest as a Keynote Speaker for the event. This is someone who has built, run and sold Internet Businesses worth millions, and is UK based.

You can sign up for the early bird notification list on the site now http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

We are already over 50% full due to past attendees ringing Karen to reserve their place BEFORE the website went live. We will be holding the event at our normal hotel and as such will be limiting the numbers. (Call Karen to reserve your place and claim the ‘August early bird discount’ in September today Tel. 01257 472120)

If you’ve been to one of our events then you know when we say limited numbers we mean it!

Visit http://www.UKGoldEvent.com today.

At the UK Gold Event this year Neil and I will also be presenting several new sessions on different parts of our business including our new ATAC(tm) traffic & profit system and our ‘Recession Proof Your Life’ project.

New Team Member

We will have a new full time team member join us on September 29th as our Web Content and Business Development Manager. You’ll ‘meet’ him online closer to the date however, if you’re in the UK then you may already know of him as he has been around the Internet world for a couple of years and has his own online presence.

Watch this space!

Don’t forget to always check who is influencing your thoughts whether it’s a politician, your friends & family or successful UK Entrepreneurs….YOU choose your input which will determine your output…positive or negative.

I know who I choose.

In Life, Aim High, Inspire and Smile

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And we are no different
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Neil T and I have a number of people who we consider mentors, some we have met and worked with personally, others we have never met but have bought their products and are ‘members’ of some kind in their organisation.

However, there are two people who have played a significant part in both of our business lives and have been responsible for us bringing in over £1.75m (sales) over the years in part of our business…and we know them on a personal basis.

In fact when we were last in the USA one of them joined us for a ‘quick beer’ one night and went home several hours later to a less than pleased wife

Although she has since forgiven Neil and I!

We still keep in regular contact with both of these people and regularly ask for guidance in parts of our business.

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If you had the chance, what questions
would you like to ask them?
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If the chance arose would you like to ask questions of the two people who help and guide us in parts of our business?

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Well, now you can
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One of the speakers at our upcoming UK Gold Event (http://www.UKGoldEvent.com) has arranged for our mentors to be on a LIVE conference call with everyone in the room and to take LIVE QUESTIONS from the audience.

This was a genuine great surprise for us, we didn’t know that he was arranging it as both of these gentlemen live in the USA.

Now, I don’t know if you realise the significance of this opportunity because one of these two people NEVER agrees to speak anymore outside of his own VERY small workshops.

He is considered THE person to go to for product development both on and offline and is the reason I launched my own information marketing career back in the mid to late 1990′s.

So, not only will you be able to hear how Neil and I run our business, the projects we undertake AND the new techniques we are using…Plus get to listen to, learn from and meet our guest speakers who are people JUST LIKE YOU who have launched their own successful Information Marketing and Internet businesses….

…..You also get to listen to and ASK QUESTIONS of not one, but two of the most influential people in our businesses.

To find out more about the first ever UK Gold Event please visit:

http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

And reserve your seat today.

I look forward to seeing you there.

PS We will be holding two individual calls with our mentors, so you get to ask specific questions to each one of them when they are on their call LIVE in the room.

Reserve your place today: http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

In Life… Aim High, Inspire and Smile

It was the email subject line that drew me in…an email from one of our members asking who were the secret six?

It had me stumped.

I read further and I then found out that they were referring to the speakers at our up coming UK Gold Event.

Now, I WISH I’d thought of that title…The Secret Six…but I didn’t, it was Gold Member, Susan Miles.

But it got me thinking, The Secret Six is a VERY good term for the people we have speaking as guests at the event.

You see, not one is a person you will have heard of…they ALL operate in niche markets as diverse as sewing, singing, riding the ocean waves and more.

Plus, not one of them will be selling anything to you.

Not a thing…in fact, we’ve several surprises to give attendees, you won’t leave empty handed!

So thank you Susan for a great title…The Secret Six.

Plus Neil and I will be showing you inside our business, new projects, how we run the business and more.

Have a read of the full letter here.

http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

Best wishes

Neil

PS The early bird price ends on October 15th. Come and join other UK Entrepreneurs who are actually making a living online selling into niche markets. http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

I knew the vast majority of people in the room were either brand new or hadn’t yet started generating a profit online.

There were also some seasoned veterans, and like all successful people they were taking notes too.

The beginning of our talk focused on two points I think many people forget when starting a new business or even a new project.

They are vital to do BEFORE you even make a start on your project.

What are they?

1) You MUST make a decision to start

Put the date and time down on paper and commit to it…if you don’t then I guarantee you’ll waste weeks, months and even years talking about it, making notes, buying products..in fact everything but starting!

And number two…

2) Allow or make time to work on your project

If you’re still working full time, or have your own business, then you must look at your week and see where you have the time to work on this new project.

If you’re week is full then it will only lead to frustration as you mentally beat yourself up about not having worked on your new business.

There will be give and take required…remember you are creating a business that will provide additional income for you and in many cases replace your current job income allowing you to work for yourself.

Having an Information Marketing business, and utilising the Internet, gives you the freedom of choice to decide what you want to do with your life.

You can automate a lot of your tasks, but as with all profitable businesses you will need to put work in.

So, make your decision to start and then allow time to work on your projects.

Best wishes

Neil

PS The UK Gold Event is where you can meet, listen to and learn from other people just like you who have set up their own web businesses in niche markets as diverse as sailing to sewing and health to software…read more here..

http://www.UKGoldEvent.com

You can read more about it here London Internet Success Bootcamp

This is a free event, no cost to attend and as well as us you also get to see and hear:

Marlon Sanders
Mike Filsaime
Greg Ceaser
Armand Morin
Kirt Christensen
Nick James…among several others.

A great weekend for networking.

We’re speaking on the Friday and will be around for all of the weekend…come over and say hello.

Register your free place today – London Internet Success Bootcamp

I’ll pull together some comments from the day and even some of the video for the blog.

The attendees also go to see a secret project Neil and I are working on that Gold and Gold+ Members of the Internet Marketing Review will get to take advantage of soon…all as part of their existing membership.

Watch this space