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Dunedin Consultants / Vinden Grace – Travels In 2010

November 30th, 2010 • By: admin • Internet Marketing

Places Vinden Grace Visited For Dunedin Consultants In 2010:
The Perks Of The Internet Business Lifestyle!

January 2010: a month in the USA & the Caribbean – Florida, America; Cozumel (my wife, Eve, and I have dived there when we holidayed in Mexico a few years previously), Isla Roatan (Honduras), Belize, and seeing Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula. 

This long vacation was followed by lots of separate trips, some business and some holidays but let’s face it, when you own online businesses, so long as you have a laptop and an Internet connection, you’re ’in business’! 

 

In 2010, we’ve visited these places in addition to those above (USA & the Caribbean):  

  • Bulgaria
  • Luxembourg
  • Ireland
  • Portugal
  • France

Paris in November for my birthday was fantastic. The sun shone and it was really warm. Paris looks so very beautiful on a clear, sunny day such as we had.

Here’s to more travel to fun places nex year!

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Cruising With Top Marketers And Entrepreneurs In 2011

November 28th, 2010 • By: admin • Announcements, Internet Marketing

Caribbean Cruise In 2011 With Mike Filsaime, Tracy Repchuk & Other Top Entrepreneurs & Internet Marketers

We’re heading off in mid-December to Florida, USA to chill out for 3 weeks until we head off for our 2nd Caribbean Cruise with over 400 top internet marketers and entrepreneurs from around the world.

People fly in from all around the globe: Eve and me from UK and Belgium; folks from Australia, New Zealand and Canada; from elsewhere in Western plus Eastern Europe; the Far East; and all over the United States. They go repeatedly to network with like-minded people, learn other marketing techniques that are currently working, see what the latest trends are forecast to be, plus to get to know potential Joint Venture (JV) partners. Eve and I formed a JV with one of our former mentors, Tracy Repchuk, on the very first evening of 2010′s Caribbean cruise! We’re editing and co-authoring a multi-author coaching and mentoring book of life lessons (‘Ultimate Life Lessons‘) from experts in their fields from around the world. A number of other excellent folks on the cruise also feature in our co-authored book: Emma Tiebens, Dr Jane Lewis, Dr Joe Kasper, et al.

Later during 2010, we als established 2 other JVs with great, dynamic people we met on the cruise: Kelly Morissey and Susanne Jorgensen, both top rated in their respective fields of Divorce Coaching / Recovery  and Dating / Relationship Coaching. We’re also delighted to have them as co-authors of our life lessons book.

There’s usually great sunshine in Florida, especially in gorgeous Naples, which we loved so much when we spent Christmas and New Year here last year that we bought a property here to winter in ‘The Sunshine State.

Roll on the cruise on the 6th of January to more exotic Caribbean destinations!

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Even Mentors Should Have Their Own Mentors!

September 7th, 2010 • By: admin • Business Coaching, Internet Marketing

Why Do We (And You!) Need A Mentor?

As my wife , Eve Grace-Kelly, and I are both trained and experienced coaches and mentors, it may seem peculiar that we would contemplate hiring a high-priced mentor, but it seems pretty simple to us:

Here’s our rationale: Never Assume That You Know It All!

The moment that you do believe you are, or feel you need to be, expert at absolutely everything, you have made a fatal mistake. You’ll get into work overload, try to learn far too many skills, probably fail to master many, and slow down the date when all your hard work pays off. Outsource non-core work, get expert guidance or input, plus seek Joint Venture (JV) partners and build an amazing team.

Eve encountered Jonathan Jay when she was training to be a coach and he was the founder and at that time was MD of The Coaching Academy, the world’s biggest coach training school. After some years, he sold this for many millions and coincidentally, one of our JV partners, Bev James, is now the MD.

Our thinking was that, if Jonathan can achieve that, he must really know his stuff!
His current venture is SuccessTrack and NABO, the National Association of Business Owners, where he and his team of excellent mentors help people take their businesses to the next level and beyond.

 So, this year, 2010, we’ve signed up with them to accelerate the growth of our coaching, training and personal development company, Quantum Coaching and Consulting Group.

 Here’s to a really challenging but incredibly rewarding 2010 & 2011!

  Jonathan Jay

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The UK Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy & Our Wedding Anniversary

July 28th, 2010 • By: admin • Internet Marketing, Self-improvement

The UK Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy (The EBA)

The co-founder of The Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy (The EBA), Bev James, kindly invited us to attend one of her London-based Saturday events that introduce people to The EBA’s recently launched mentoring programme.

Her co-founder, James Caan, of BBC TV series Dragons’ Den fame, was also there, speaking to the several hundred people who had made the journey into London on a Saturday. (Additionally, it was our wedding anniversary and we had travelled over from the capital of Europe, Brussels in Belgium, so we felt we had gained plus points for effort :-)   )

Bev had earlier agreed to write part of our multi-authored book that we’re currently working on, Ultimate Life Lessons. We’re so pleased to have someone of Bev’s standing and generosity as a part of the book. (She’s also MD of the world’s largest coach training school, so, given that we are fellow coaches and entrepreneurs, there’s great synergy with Bev.)

She was also kind enough to introduce us to the delightful Penny Power, co-founder of the reknowned Ecademy.com, who was also speaking at the event as one of the EBA’s expert mentors. Penny was also gracious enough to agree to be in our book. It’s such a rewarding experience to work with people like Bev and Penny, who are both lovely warm people and very generous with their time and wisdom.

Our central message here is simply this: it’s not necessary to try to do everything all by yourself: build a team around you. Seek out top-notch Joint Venture (JV) partners. Network with helpful and successful folks. Work with top quality mentors. Plus, when you’ve made it, give back to others who need help!

And the anniversary? After the EBA meeting, we had a glass of Champagne in a fab 5 star hotel nearby to toast our wedding anniversary and how well the day had gone, then we had a really nice meal in Quo Vadis, recommended by another EBA mentor. A fantastic end to a superb day!

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Progress Report On Our First Joint Venture Of 2010

May 17th, 2010 • By: admin • Announcements, Internet Marketing, Self-improvement

The Phenomenal Power Of Joint Ventures (JVs)

Joint Ventures (JVs) are amazingly powerful for leveraging your skills plus complementary ones of other people into new geographical areas and business markets.

They’re also a great way to get introductions to new people to do business with, as we’ve found to our delight, gaining fantastic introductions from a number of very helpful co-authors of our latest book,  a multi-authored coaching or self-improvement / personal development book co-edited and managed with best-selling Amazon author, our old mentor Tracy Repchuk.

Particular credit must go to:

  • Bev James, CEO, and co-founder with James Caan, of BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den fame, of the UK-based Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy and MD of The Coaching Academy, the world’s largest coaching organisation.
  • Mindy Gibbins-Klein, our publisher and a speaker and author
  • Penny Power, co-founder of Ecademy.com and also a speaker and author
  • Stephanie J Hale, publishing expert and writing coach
  • Jonathan Jay, founder of The Coaching Academy above, who sold this and now runs SuccessTrack and NABO, the National Association of Business Owners.

The book is progressing well, but these multi-authored books take much, much longer to pull together than writing a book by oneself, so be aware if you do something similar!

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