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I Just Love Gary Vaynerchuk! Telling It Like It Is Again…

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:07:44 +0000

If you seek business success or are a new startup, you need to watch this. Gary Vaynerchuk in Stockholm, Sweden. I was scribbling down quotes from the first couple of minutes of this corking video. “If you’re not marketing your business via a Facebook page in 2012, you’re grossly negligent” Respect!

Business Diary | Yep! It’s Definitely A Start Up

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:55:50 +0000

Week 2-3 into our new Business Startup and I know that a) it’s a startup and b) it must be serious as we are using Basecamp! At the moment it feels like just one more thing to learn / do but it’s very intuitive which is good if you are learning it on the [...]

The Voice UK Triggers Historic Event | Judith Morgan & I Agree On A Musical Performance!

Nicola Cairncross — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:11:16 +0000

In spite of many people being very sniffy about The Voice UK – including a singing member of my family – Sarah and I absolutely love it!! Tip For The Final Of The Voice UK # 1 I don’t know about you but I absolutely love Tyler James! Really, really liked his audition too. Tyler [...]

Business Diary | Interesting Emails, Streamlining & Bootstrapping

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:22:16 +0000

I was interviewed on Monday by Ben Hulme of Scaleogy.com – great concept, great website, shaping up nicely. Tricky to say though! Take a look and you can listen to my fairly in-depth interview about “My Road To Becoming An Entrepreneur” there too! He grilled me on how I got started on being an entrepreneur, [...]

Are You A Fan Of This Blog?

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:01:08 +0000

Are you a fan? Do you read this blog regularly? Do you like my style or hate it? If so, would you be kind enough to write a quick review of it on Amazon for me? It’s not an income play but an SEO / leverage / traffic / marketing exercise for me – an [...]

My Road To Becoming An Entrepreneur

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:46:33 +0000

I was interviewed yesterday by Ben Hulme of Scaleogy.com – great website, take a look and you can listen to the rest of the interview there too! He grilled me on how I got started on being an entrepreneur, what the low points and high points have been, what I’m working on now and how [...]

Business Diary | Gill Fielding At The Worthing & Adur Chamber On Business Planning

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:35:25 +0000

I’m off to the Worthing & Adur Chamber of Commerce AGM (Annual General Meeting) tonight which I’m really looking forward to as their patron is Gill Fielding, my ex business partner and one of C4’s first Secret Millionaires (first series) and Gill is speaking tonight. This whole Chamber / AGM thing might sound a bit [...]

Top 5 Things I Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:17:28 +0000

Over at the rapidly becoming “Must Read!” blog Entrepreneur Soul, I’ve been asked what my Top 5 favourite things about being an Entrepreneur. Here’s No 1…. 1. Running My Diary To Suit My Working Style. My idea of real freedom is a diary with no appointments in it. That would leave me able to respond [...]

Business Diary | Synchronicity & Keeping Your Business Brain In Training

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:12:43 +0000

Less frantic than last week but more momentous as we have pretty much got to the point where we’ve sealed the big deal we’ve been working on. It’s a go-er! And it’s big, it’s very, very big. It’s so big as it is, but has the potential to go so much bigger, that it makes [...]

The Dirty Little Secrets About Overnight Business Success

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:14:30 +0000

Over at FastCompany expert blogger Josh Linkner reports that “Angry Birds, the incredibly popular game, was software maker Rovio’s 52nd attempt. They spent eight years and nearly went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit.” This article goes brilliantly with a recommendation for a great book that I read over the last weekend called “Getting [...]

Are You Asking Yourself The Right Questions?

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:18:25 +0000

My business mentor hosts mentoring call-in days for clients, just like I do, and he always says the same thing at the beginning of the call which is “come on the call and ask the biggest question you have, the question that, if you got it answered, would help you move your business forward right [...]

Business Diary | Sharing Your Business Story & Being The Change

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:28:10 +0000

This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking as well as a lot of doing. I’m always doing, and most of the time I’m always thinking too, but I’ve been doing some EXTRA thinking this week. Perhaps that’s because I’ve been undergoing a course of hypnosis AND I’ve been using meditation MP3’s to hypnotise [...]

Interview: I Bring The Gelignite To Blast Away Your Obstacles To Online Success

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:12:24 +0000

I’ve been interviewed over at the Entrepreneur Soul Superblog by Judith Morgan, an ex-client, ex-business partner and forever friend. Judith says: “In the first of a series of interviews with our entrepreneur members, bloggers and pals, here’s Nicola Cairncross, Internet Mentor, who describes herself as your own personal gelignite. I asked her five key questions [...]

Should We Be Using Linked In More Than Facebook Or Twitter?

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:26:52 +0000

Over at the ProfKRG blog Kenna Griffin is asking if we should be using Linked In more than Facebook or Twitter? I’m an avid user of the latter two but can’t get to grips with Linked In at all, so the post caught my attention (on Twitter natch!). Her friend Steven Chappell is the student media [...]

Are You An Amazing? If You’re Retired & Know Something About Anything You Probably Are!

Nicola Cairncross — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:57:18 +0000

Over at the wonderful Entrepreneur Soul Superblog (rapidly becoming a daily must visit), Marion Ryan shared the story of The Amazings which I absolutely loved. She says “If you live in East London you have probably heard of them already but if not, it’s a brilliant idea dreamed up by entrepreneur Adil Abrar, to connect [...]

Ray Of Hope For Entrepreneurs? Banks Lending Target Smaller Businesses

Nicola Cairncross — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:40:09 +0000

The BBC reports: “A £20bn government scheme to try to boost bank lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been launched by the chancellor. Under the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NLGS), such businesses will be able to access loans with interest rates one percentage point lower than those available outside the initiative. Barclays, Santander, [...]

Would You Rather Do Without Sex, Chocolate Or Your Broadband?

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:27:27 +0000

The BBC reports that “The internet contributes to 8.3% of the UK economy, a bigger share than for any of the other G20 major countries, a new study suggests. The “internet economy” was worth £121bn in 2010, more than £2,000 per person, researchers at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said. That made it bigger than [...]

Business Diary | Camouflaging Cats, 7 Days To Online Biz, Jazz Albums On iTunes & Streaming Live

Nicola Cairncross — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:01:26 +0000

It’s been mad, mad, mental, totally sic (sic) for this entrepreneur, with my business, in the last few weeks around here. Now, Imagine that said in the tone of voice used by the surprised cat in the “Camouflage Cat” translation video (and if you haven’t seen that yet, you are in for a real TREAT! [...]

Crowdfunding | Could It Work For Your Business?

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:11:43 +0000

This last week, I ventured into the world of Crowdfunding via IndieGoGo to try and raise the dosh needed for the Brighton Jazz Festival to put on a great headline act, pay for the PR and provide a cash prize and trophy for the winner of the “New Jazz Composition” competition. I first heard about [...]

Business Diary | My Manifesting Streak Continues, Getting Productive & Pinterest

Nicola Cairncross — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:18:44 +0000

By Tuesday I’d already had an amazing week, with one of the most productive Monday’s I’ve spent for a while. This was triggered by my writing a blog post about how stuck I felt, listing the areas I hadn’t moved forward in, doing which exercise either unstuck something or shamed me into taking action. I [...]

Should You Be Paying Attention To Pinterest In Your Business?

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:22:09 +0000

Over at Marketing Profs they are talking about whether you should be paying attention to Pinterest if you are in business. My immediate reaction last week, when Pinterest started popping up on my radar was twofold: Who needs (or can keep up with) another social media platform! What is the point of posting pictures in [...]

Business Diary | What Were YOU Doing Two Years Ago This Weekend?

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:14:42 +0000

Two years ago this Saturday I boarded a plane at snowy Gatwick bound for Greece, not entirely sure if I’d be coming back to the UK, to live permanently at least. I had just sold the entire contents of my big house on Shoreham Beach, sent my teens to live with their dad for a [...]

Building A Brand For Your Entrepreneurial Venture

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:32:34 +0000

I don’t have very much time for logos and stuff, as you may recall from my previous experience of someone telling me how awful my branding was and offering to rebrand this website while all my clients pretty much 100% hated the proposed changes. Click that text link above and scroll down to “Does My [...]

Entrepreneurs | How To Successfully Dodge Failure

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:41:43 +0000

One of my favourite entrepreneurs blogs in the whole wide world is Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and today there is a brilliant post by Nathaneal Mohr with two short videos on the topic of how you can successfully dodge failure as an entrepreneur. He’s very serious in the first video but in the second he’s much more relaxed [...]

Entrepreneur? Pay Attention! Here’s A “Secret Of Success”

Nicola Cairncross — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:54:08 +0000

If you are new here, you might not know it but one of my obsessions, as a self taught entrepreneur, is my quest to find out what makes some people more successful than others. What ARE the real secrets of success? This paragraph from Joseph Riggio comes close to summing it up surely? “….Folks who [...]

What Comes Even BEFORE The Law Of Attraction

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:18:50 +0000

When I make my mind up to do something in business, I don’t just sit around waiting for the Law Of Attraction to work for me, I start to take action and I’ve often considered that to be the most important part of the word Attraction……….Action. So you could say that even BEFORE the Law [...]

Business Blog Diary – Why Bother?

Nicola Cairncross — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:30:50 +0000

After I wrote my Business Blog diary post yesterday I was left feeling a little bit unsatisfied with myself. Sure, adding new original content each week to a business blog, which is always going to be naturally full of key phrases, is always good for the search engines, but a Business Blog Diary style post [...]

Business Diary | Willpower, MacDonalds, Podcasts & Flashmobs

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:41:46 +0000

Feeling A Bit Lacking In Willpower As January Finishes? I’ve just finished the most amazing book for aspiring successful entrepreneurs called “Willpower – Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength” by Roy. F. Baumeister & John Tierney. Recommended by my business mentor, I started reading it in my quest to succeed in some of my personal goals for [...]

Successful Entrepreneurs | 5 Surprising Traits They All Share

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:24:54 +0000

“There is no such thing as a “typical” successful entrepreneur” According to Adelaide Lancaster, Co-founder, In Good Company Workplaces & Author, The Big Enough Company. “We come in all shapes, sizes and flavors. Still, myths abound, and most of us walk around with a specific caricature of what an entrepreneur is like in our minds. Most [...]

TBSF 016 | Entrepreneur Insights | Never To Have To Sell Yourself

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:22:19 +0000

It breaks my heart how many would-be entrepreneurs never get started because they don’t like the idea of marketing and sales. If you constantly worry about having to sell yourself in order to be successful in business, this podcast is for you, as I’ll reveal how you can never have to sell yourself ever [...]

TBSF 015 | Entrepreneur Insights | You Know Best About Your Business

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:43:41 +0000

Every Wednesday I host three webinars for my internet marketing mentoring students and internet marketing services clients. The first one is a Mastermind type call, for strategy and accountability, then the other two are free-for-all Q&A sessions. Just recently I’ve been expanding on my entrepreneurial thoughts for 10 minutes or so, at the beginning of [...]

Business Diary | Getting To 103 While Trying Not To Get Distracted By A Really Big Idea!

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:58:51 +0000

What a great week last week was! I hardly know where to start, as somehow, everything has just been coming together this last week, so perhaps I should just make some headings and pile in? Before I do though, I wanted to alert you that these are the last few days of my “Gold For [...]

2011 | My Business Year | Roles & Goals For 2012

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:59:14 +0000

It is with a sigh of relief (which I’m sure is heartily reciprocated!) that I come to the end of what turned into a bit of a marathon slog of an exercise covering my thoughts about my business year over 2011. But I’m pleased that I pushed myself to finish them, even if nobody reads [...]

2011 | My Business Year | How Have I Held Myself Back & How Can I Avoid Doing It Again?

Nicola Cairncross — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:41:38 +0000

I’m sharing my musings on business success and internet marketing on 2011 and over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing my thoughts about my business year over 2011 including the answers to the following questions. These questions were originally asked of me, in his ezine, by my mentor Rich Schefren, and you can subscribe [...]

Business Diary | Coughs & Colds Mean Greater Clarity & Focus

Nicola Cairncross — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:59:06 +0000

I’m writing to you today from Neil Asher’s dining room table in his lovely open plan living room overlooking the sea and the cliffs of Rottingdean near Brighton – it’s an amazing view! Especially now the sun is going down and the lights of the traffic from Brighton are starting to twinkle far below… He’s [...]

Here’s How To Double Your Business Income In 1 Year – 100% Guaranteed!

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:00:54 +0000

Welcome! Now pay close attention, this is serious. This really could be the most important thing you see all year. Now that The Business Success Factory is trundling along nicely, attracting traffic, subscribers and mentoring clients, I’m ready to look more medium to long term. And with it being New Year and all, I hope [...]

Best Of 2011 | Nicola’s Marketing Blog Posts That WILL Make You Money

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Several of my favourite internet marketing & business success blogs have been doing a roundup of their best blog posts of 2011 and it was such a good idea, I thought I would have a little mooch around mine and see if I could pull a little list together. Particularly the blog posts that WILL [...]

2011 | My Business Year | Top 3 Things I Learned (The Highly Distilled 40% Proof Version)

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:44:34 +0000

I’m sharing my musings on business success and internet marketing on 2011 and working out how I can do better in 2012. I’m following a set of questions originally asked of me, in his ezine, by my mentor Rich Schefren, and you can subscribe to his excellent ezine here >>> What Are My Greatest Achievement [...]

2011 | My Business Year | What Have I Learned? Part 2 – About Myself & Business

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:38:36 +0000

I’m sharing my musings on business success and internet marketing on 2011 and if you click the link to the left there, you will see the image that’s been on my computer desktop all through 2011. That icon has kept me on track during 2011 and I would like to thank Bud Cardell from WhatConsumesMe.com [...]

2011 | My Business Year | What Have I Learned? Part 1

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:10:23 +0000

Well, I said I’d share my musings on business success and internet marketing on 2011 but on reading them, because of course they are written in my beloved Moleskine journal first, I’m thinking that I’m not sharing some of the more personal stuff, even though that’s what I’d be wanting to read if I was [...]

2011 | My Business Year | Greatest Disappointments

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:21:43 +0000

I said I’d share my musings on business success and internet marketing on 2011 but on reading them, because of course they are written in my beloved Moleskine journal first, I’m thinking that I’m not sharing some of the more personal stuff, even though that’s what I’d be wanting to read if I was you! [...]

2011 | My Business Year | What Are My Greatest Achievements?

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:13:54 +0000

Business Diary | Ignoring The Haters But What To Do About The No-Shows?

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:55:12 +0000

At the end of this blog post I’ll share my one best single tool for happiness and productivity in 2012. But in the meantime, I’ve got my tree up had a lovely Christmassy and social couple of weeks, culminating in a rocking good night out at Suters Yard wine bar in Shoreham, with my sister [...]

Piers Morgan Interviews Gary Vaynerchuk – A Must Watch For Any Business Owner!

Nicola Cairncross — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:18:59 +0000

Here’s a never-before-seen interview with Piers Morgan and Gary Vaynerchuk, aka Gary Vee, of WineLibrary.tv and Vaynermedia.com. It’s a must watch for any business owner wondering about how to use social media to explode their business success. I first heard about Gary Vaynerchuk listening to an interview he did with Rich Schefren, one of my [...]

Business Diary | How Jazz & Internet Marketing Is Helping Kari Neth Of Star Wars

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:41:13 +0000

What a week that was! Last Tuesday, as part of their promotion of the BBC Money “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” and “Couples” programmes, my book The Money Gym was featured on the BBC News website as NUMBER ONE on a list of wealth creation books – not just on the list as I [...]

BBC Money | Couples | Making Money & Staying In Love

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:56:33 +0000

Tonight BBC Money continues it’s series on Money & Wealth Creation with a programme about couples and their money. This should be fascinating! Here’s an extract: “The second episode in Vanessa Engle’s three-part documentary series exploring our personal attitudes to money. This film about couples looks at how money affects our personal relationships. The top [...]

New Google Analytics | Improve Visitor Flow Up 7% Overnight

Nicola Cairncross — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:34:36 +0000

If you have logged into your Google Analytics account recently, you may have noticed the new Google Analytics dashboard options. As with all changes and like many people, I’ve resisted using the new Google Analytics interface option, preferring to stick with the old version as long as possible. However there is an option to change [...]

Business Diary | BBC News Features My Book As One Of Top 10!

Nicola Cairncross — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:24:39 +0000

Highlights of this week include my book “The Money Gym” being listed for a few days on the BBC News website as one of their Top 10 Wealth Creation books, which resulted in a surge of traffic to all of my websites. This was part of their promotion for the BBC Money programme “Who Wants [...]

WordPress Plugin Review | SEOPressor

Nicola Cairncross — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:58:22 +0000

I have just this week tested Daniel Tan’s SEOPressor WordPress Plugin and I can only say, it is totally brilliant and a really useful tool for bloggers! One to add to any “must install” list. I’m also testing EasyWPseo and I like it a lot but it’s a bit more complicated to use, but if [...]

BBC Money Programme | Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Nicola Cairncross — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:26:58 +0000