Important Announcement:
These are difficult times in the world economy and to give you a leg up, I’m offering new payment options for the 2010 Castle Event in April. I have never accepted installments for payment before but tough times require new and different measures.
New 7-Day QLA Castle Seminar Experience – April 18-24, 2010
Due to popular request I have reinstated the 7 day original Castle Extravaganza. It will be up dated to the 21st Century – but as they say, "It will bring back the fire and brimstone I became famous (or infamous) for whilst giving seminars from 1993 to 2000 and is only partially exhibited in all my products.
Past Attendees
To refresh QLA devotees memories this seminar produced the likes of Ron LeGrand, Beryl Crump, Deann and George Verdier, Bruce Whipple, Bodo Schaeffer, Lucinda Burke, Casey Stephenson, Frank Slangen, Winneke Liefbroer, Errol Maynard, Tony Ward, Colin Chapman, Ron Legrand, Shawn Casey, Ted Nicholas, Heiko Faass, Martin Heller, Doris Primicerio, Dan Lok, Tim Cohn, Thelma Box, Armando Garcia, Peter Sage, Andrew Reid, Dr Bernie Shindler and countless others. See seminar outline and schedule below.
Confirm your place, sign up NOW and receive:
- QLA products worth £1500
- Get a chance to be one of the chosen few to participate in Dan's MENTOR PROGRAMME
- Entire 950 power point presentations
- Special individual consultation time with Dan to discuss your dream, vision and future.
- Notes, letters, scripts, interviews and individualized game plan of one of the most successful QLA devotees to come through the program, including hundreds of sage bits of information from someone I have written about many times – a mentee extraordinaire – Michael Pierce!
For inquiries or reservations call +44 1241 828 691 or email thelmag@guthriecastle.com or steven@guthriecastle.com.
Castle Seminar Outline
7 Steps to Super Success
- Creating your Personal Foundation for success:
- Get comfortable
- Passion – do you have it? Selling your dream
- Beyond Common Sense
- 5 Credos for Success
- New Rules – there are no rules
- Leadership and you in 21st century
- Focus on Ends not the Means whilst overcoming obstacles
- Clarify your Vision – are you crystal clear?
- Building the Perception – perception is reality
- Creating Your Dream Team for business and life
- Your Quantum Leap Action Plan:
- Growth – arithmetic, geometric, exponential, quantum
- Working Capital (Raising Capital) – OPM
- Financing – Internal Growth (Raising Capital) – OPM
- Acquisitions – External Growth (Deals and Acquisitions)
- Pay Yourself (Directors, employees) first through all cycles and why?
- Creating Your Exit Strategy (Selling, Franchising, Going Public)
What is QLA?
- Your Quantum Leap Advantage
- Building Perception to become a Reality
- Creating Your Dream Team for Success
- 11 Steps that make a Deal
- The Plan with no Escape
Who am I?
- Pay Price to Action
- No free lunch, but super success can be accomplished at a discount
- Quantum Leap Advantage Action War Plan
- The business investment "RED FLAG" Check List
- 114 Penaisms
- Sample Letters
- Sample Phone Scripts
- Sample Meeting Interview Scripts
- Redefine goals and vision
- Building Self Esteem, Self Confidence and Self Worth
- Emotional Bank Accounts and how you build up a Reservoir
- Getting comfortable with high performance
- Leadership and its importance IN QLA
- Your doubts are not products of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking
- Super success – not for everyone
- Conventional wisdom – the losers crutch
- What it means to be super successful
- Laser Beam Focus VS Ferocious Focus
- Five Credos for success
- Preparing for your Quantum Leap (15 keys)
- Achieving your Quantum Leap (8 power strategies)
- Cashing in on your success. Doing it again.
- Take Action NOW or Never!
RAISING CAPITAL
- Dispelling myths about raising capital
- Financing your dream
- Rules of the Game – there aren't any!
- How the internet has made the process easier and harder.
- Role playing financial presentations
- Forms of Finance
- Fundamentals of finance
- How to locate successful financing
- How to interview financial institutions
- Business Plans – Do's and Don'ts
- How to create/project the right perception
- How to create an instant track record
- How to present to the financial institutions?
- How and why to always position to go public – even if you don't
- How to leverage banks against each other?
- How to choose between IPO's and Private Placements
- When to use Investment Banks, Venture Capitalists, brokers, private equity providers, and others?
- How to understand the various tools of finance
- Unsecured vs. secured debt
- How to see the red flags early
- Advanced role playing
- Evaluation of business plans of attendees
- How to avoid subsequent litigation by positioning yourself for it
- Analytical model for calculating debt required
- Most common financial follies
- How not to take rejection from bankers, investors too seriously
- Financial misconceptions
DEAL MAKING AND ACQUISITIONS
- How to find an industry
- How to find targets within your industry
- How the internet has made the deal making process easier and harder
- How to make a first impression
- How to expand your Dream Team
- How to set up a system to get paid
- How to structure professional fees
- How to set up and conduct the first, second and consecutive deal meetings
- How to proceed to reviewing financials
- Role play interviewing professionals
- How to create deal flow
- How to determine if the deal is hot
- How to conduct due diligence
- How to make an offer
- How to tie up the deal
- How to finance the deal
- How to do the next deal
- Role play using attendees own deals
- And all personal Deal questions answered.
LEADERSHIP, SELLING YOUR DREAM, DEALING WITH OBSTACLES
- What is leadership
- Leadership past, present and future
- Why is leadership more important now than ever
- Can't lead without first understanding what it is to be a follower
- What do all great leaders know
- All great leaders are great salesmen first
- What is the most important part of the sales process
- How to make your selling process the same as their buying process
- What all great ideas have first.
- What is the easiest dream to sell
- How to get good/great at the sales process
- What all of your dream team must know and believe
- And all personal, leadership and obstacle questions answered
- Special meal requirements need to be requested 15 days in advance
The investment is £10,000, plus vat. There are no refunds. If additional 7 days castle seminars are given and space is available you may request attendance. If the cost has increased you will be required to pay the difference. If you have other questions don't hesitate to contact us.
We offer those who need a bit more information the opportunity to email past Castle attendees to hear from actual castle participants the benefits of the Castle Experience! This is an updated version of the 7 day seminar that produced some of the most successful QLA devotees. Virtually all that have attended have said the experience has changed their life beyond description!
And remember what Dan has said, "Every passing moment is another opportunity to turn it around!"
Daily Schedule
The event starts with a welcoming dinner the first night where all get acquainted.
Day 1 arrival 5 – 7 pm
Night 1 welcome dinner – business suit
Night 2,4,5, dinner – casual
Night 3 eat out on your own
Night 6 graduation dinner (kilts!)
Day 2,3,4,5,6:
8 am full breakfast
9 am course begins
1pm buffet lunch
2 pm course resumes
6 – 7 pm course ends
6/7 – 8 pm – relax, golf, giant TV in library and snooker room, leisure centre: free weights; running machine; stairmaster; stationary bike; and weight machines.
8 pm – drinks
8:30 pm – 3/4 course dinner (except night 3 and 6)
10 pm till ?? – giant TV, entertainment centre in tower: snooker; video games, pin ball, music
Day 7 breakfast 8 – 9 am then departure
Pricing
Dan has decided to give the New updated and expanded QLA Seminar for the great value cost of £10,000 (about $17,000) plus VAT (@ 17.5% – reclaimable by some). Obviously this is a great opportunity at a super value for a very few! From his seminar Dan chooses members for his new mentor program which is just one example of new exciting opportunities to come.
In addition to 60 plus hours of interactive seminar in the ambiance of the super successful and other high performance individuals, all attendees will receive QLA product valued at £1,500 (about $2,500), plus the entire QLA Seminar 950 Power Point presentation, FREE.
All attendees will also get individual private time with Dan to discuss their own dream, idea, project or thoughts. Dan gives you the benefit of his almost 40 years in business. He will tell you what he thinks and what can be done to make it better. No value can be put on this time, and over years many of the Castle attendees have been in business with Dan.
For inquiries or reservations call +44 1241 828 691 or email thelmag@guthriecastle.com or steven@guthriecastle.com.
Testimonials
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"Coming from a Fortune 5 corporation, I not only learned things from Dan that I never learned in all of my corporate years, but I was also able to aggressively formulate a game plane to successfully consolidate an industry using Dan's proven methodologies. Less than 90 days after meeting with Dan and outlying our intentions, we have 5 multi-million dollar acquisitions in the due diligence process. I cannot recommend ANY event Dan Pena hosts highly enough"
This is by far the best seminar I have ever attended. Dan totally walks his talk. I'll recommend his seminar to anyone who wants to make a real financial and personal difference in their lives."
"I was extremely impressed, my high expectations were exceeded! I'm re-ignited to create bigger and better, be less compromising and make a bigger world for myself!