“The worst possible thing that I used to get at workshops was this: “I know it won’t work for me, but I’ll give it a go anyway. So I’ll spend five grand to come to a workshop. I’ll give it a go. I know it’s not going to work, but I’ll give it a go. I’ll blow a grand on some of that direct mail that you talk about….. It won’t work…..” And sure enough, four weeks later the guys come back and say, “It didn’t work.”
Maybe, just for this weekend, as I was suggesting, can we just suspend negativity for the weekend? If, when you go to coffee, a guy comes up to you, and you say, “Hi, hey you doing,” and he says, “Oh, I’ve tried all this; don’t bloody work…..Oh, Internet. Yeah, I did that…… Didn’t work. That Internet thing, you know.”
I am going to bring multi-millionaires on stage today, who’ve made multi-millions of pounds or dollars on the Internet. But there’s going to be a guy out there that I think I bumped into in the hotel this morning. There’s a guy, met me out the lift. I literally got out the lift, there’s a bloke standing there with his slippers in reception asking. “You’re Andrew Reynolds, aren’t you?”
If we can just remove that negativity and you say, “I’ll give this Cash On Demand thing a go. And it is going to bloody well work. I am going to make this thing work.” These are the guys… I mean, this BT guy that’s made seven hundred grand, he can’t be a genius. All he’s done is put into play what we’re going to show you. And, in fact, I’ve got a speaker coming up after the break this morning; he’s going to show you exactly how to get into that same business. So you’re going to want to take those notes as he speaks today.
But this was the reason I stopped doing live workshops, was because I got fed up with people saying, “I’ll give it a go.” And then finally, a week later, or a month later, or even twelve months later, “Oh, it didn’t work. Didn’t expect it to. What else have you got?” But we did agree to come out today and to do this weekend so that we could raise some money for Great Ormond Street…..”
The first Entrepreneurs Bootcamp was the brainchild of Cash on Demand author Andrew Reynolds who put the event together to raise over £300,000 for the Great Ormond Street Children’s Charity.