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CRUISING THE CARIBBEAN WITH MIKE FILSAIME, TRACY REPCHUK & SEVERAL HUNDRED OTHER TOP MARKETERS & ENTREPRENEURS

THE POWER OF INTENSE NETWORKING

Eve and I have never been on a cruise before, but one of our former mentors, Tracy Repchuk, is a VIP / speaker on Mike Filsaime’s Marketers’ Cruise around the Caribbean, so it seems a great way to meet fellow marketers and entrepreneurs in a convivial atmosphere and try cruising, plus catch up with the lovely and very talented Tracy.

We stayed one night in a pre-cruise hotel and already made new friends with the delightful Amanda and Rob van der Gulik and Emma Tiebens. We can see ourselves working with them!

We’re cruising to Cozumel (Eve and I have been diving there when we holidayed in Mexico), Belize, Isla Roatan (Honduras), and seeing Mayan ruins in Yucatan Peninsula.

Wow-first evening of the cruise and already we’ve secured a Joint Venture (JV) to write and edit a multi-authored book with a best-selling Amazon author, our old mentor Tracy Repchuk!

That’s our top tip for 2010: the power of JVs. Keep your minds open to the possibilities of working with other people to capitalise on one another’s strengths and get access to each mailing list or database.

Have a great year!

Vinden Grace and Eve Grace-Kelly

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FLORIDA – REAL-ESTATE & JOINT VENTURES

WE ONLY VISITED FLORIDA FOR SOME WINTER SUNSHINE AND A CRUISE!

Well, Eve & I needed (OK – wanted!) some winter sunshine so we spent a few weeks in Florida touring around prior to going on our first ever cruise: socialising and networking with several hundred marketers & entrepreneurs, hoping for a Joint Venture or two! We visited Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Myers, Marco Island, Sarasota and fabulous Naples, which I’d visited 20 years or so ago. It was smarter and more stylish than ever and Eve loved it too.

Having lots of time on our hands, (one of the advantages of working for yourself with a laptop!), we idly picked up some real-estate / property magazines and ‘casually’ set up a few appointments, ‘just to see what was on offer’ in the Sunshine State. The answer? Great value and loads of sunshine, the outdoor life, friendly people and great seafood. The upshot is that we’ve made an offer on a property in an immaculately maintained development.

We are off on the Caribbean cruise now, visiting Cozumel, Belize, Honduras and Yucatan Peninsula, so will have to wait and see if our offer is accepted….. Watch this space!

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