How to turn $10,000 into a LOT more.... in 2 1/2 days!

The Money Game....

As you may recall, a couple days ago I mentioned The Money Game, a TV show I saw a couple of nights ago here in Australia....

The premise of the show was that they got 3 entrepreneurs (who were all millionaires) as contestants.

They gave them each $10,000 cash, and they could keep their driver's license and the clothes they were wearing - but NOTHING else.

Their mission was to turn that $10,000 into as much money as possible in just 2 ½ days! Starting on Wednesday morning, and they all had to meet at the top of Centrepoint tower in Sydney on 5 pm Friday afternoon. The one with the most money at the end won!

I don't think there were any extra prizes.... Except that, of course, they got to keep the money they made. :)

They weren't allowed to use any of their friends, family, or former clients.

Here were the three contestants....

* Cameron Fisher, age 38, Real Estate Agency Director at www.tbm.com.au

* Pamela Noon, age 53, Cosmetic Surgery Broker and owner of "Clinical Beauty" Clinics.

* Ron Bakir - known as "Crazy Ron", age 23, high school dropout, made his money in mobile phone sales, owner of "Crazy Ron's" mobile phone (cell phone) stores in Australia.

What did they do to make money in 2 ½ days? Here's what they did!

They started them all in the Blue Mountains on Wednesday morning, which is just outside of Sydney. The first thing that all three of them did were to get themselves cell phones (mobile phones) and get themselves to the city!

They all headed to their "home turf." For "Crazy Ron" and Pamela Noon, that meant the Gold Coast, Queensland. For Cameron Fisher, that meant to Melbourne.

So they all headed towards Sydney, while on their phones calling up and preparing what to do.

Both Pamela and Ron paid local people to drive them to Sydney.

Cameron took the train, but used the time on the train to do some planning and make some phone calls. (He seemed to be the only one who planned everything on paper before-hand, as far as I could see from the TV show.)

Here were their plans.

Pamela decided to very quickly make a TV show about cosmetic surgery. She was going to film it the next day (Thursday).

"Crazy" Ron decided to hold a big party. He called up the "Drink Night Club" on the Gold Coast and was able to organize to hold his party there the next night (Thursday night). He decided to tie it in to a local event - the Indy 300 motorcycle races, and he called it "Crazy Ron's Indy Party"!

Cameron decided to organize a dinner and a business luncheon. The dinner was to happen the next night (Thursday night), and the business luncheon was to happen in 3 weeks time, but he wanted to sell all the tickets by the game deadline.

The details of how they organized these events -- and exactly where they made money from these -- is coming up in the next message.... :)

Dien Rice