Here is a fun idea!

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this and having you join me on Wednesday in this little experiment.

With Thanksgiving weekend just a few days ago and the feeling of being more connected to family and friends and acknowledging life’s blessings more than we do all year long, I thought it would be cool to make an attempt and extend this energy trend.

You see we should really have Thanksgivings every day.

The energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful, contagious and empowering vibrations you could tap into.

Why? Because when you acknowledge and feel gratitude toward what you have in your life, from big to the very little things, from things we acquire to things that we come out of the womb with and we take for granted… like breath, sight, scent, ability to feel… LIFE itself and this amazing Universe we are participants in… when we do this, when we acknowledge with grace and thanks what we have in our lives, the noise, mind chatter, clutter, and reasons to complain and feel any dysfunctional emotions at all – vanish. Life starts to suddenly change… we start seeing shifts in what’s happening on a daily basis to us, for us, with us, and in our lives, in a very positive way.

When we feel grateful, we have more to feel grateful for. And that’s that!

So this Wednesday I would like to start a new trend. I truly hope you join me!

At 11 am till Noon PST tomorrow, I would love you to join me and many others on my Facebook page at http://Facebook.com/DidiAlcheva and share what you feel grateful for in your life right now.

Even if it’s just for two minutes, pause, take a deep breath, connect with your inner being, your infinite limitless spirit and allow yourself to feel the energy of gratitude, breath it in with every cell of your being. Then share it with us at 11 am till Noon PST at http://Facebook.com/DidiAlcheva so that we can feel it too.

Let us all know what makes your heart sing… what lights up your life? What are you grateful for?

Please come anytime between 11 am and NOON PST and share with us. Let us all connect during this Gratitude Hour and together expand this beautiful energy not just for and within ourselves but collectively for everyone around. Let us create a movement.

I feel grateful for you and hope to have you join me on Wednesday Thanks Day for the Gratitude Hour! And then again next week!

Are you in?

DiDi

P.S. I would love it if you post a beautiful picture with your gratitude post as well! It’ll light up the page and help us attract more beautiful souls vibrating and ready to engage in with the energy we’re giving out.

I’ve been talking a lot about the concept of input vs. output lately.

I first heard it in these terms from Rich Schefren.

Most people tend to focus on way more input i.e. devouring education, training after
training rather than emphasizing on the output, the action, the implementation of all that new knowledge.

For the last few months I’ve certainly have been the other way around where I started to
feel like I seriously needed some more input.

Creating a balance between the two and finding the “sweet spot” should be the goal.

So today, while I encourage you to spend time on output, make sure you get in some
good quality input too.

There’s all sort of flashy distractions out there when it comes to input.

What you want to make sure is that you’re getting your daily input from a reliable and
quality source, plus on training that actually matters for the progress of your business.

The training that I’m devouring today is focusing on TRAFFIC.

I think we all know that without traffic, there’s no leads, nor there’re sales.

And this industry has been a little bit on a dry traffic spell ever since the Google slap.

So I’m super happy to see some new quality traffic training and for free out there.

My friends Ferny and Ray from SEO networker just released a series of 4 videos on the topic of traffic, and the 1st full hour video is now available.

Inside they are teaching on the different traffic sources and strategies, they’ve focused on researching for the last couple of years, as well as what’s worked best for them and how you can too best utilize their new found secrets.

I am in the middle of watching video #1, and I am blown away by the value, this seriously should cost money…

Anyways, since it’s getting late here in Bulgaria, I thought I would send you this quick email so you can join me too in watching it.

Click here to get your share of input today.

This is truly valuable training so make sure you remove all distractions and focus intently on everything Ferny will be sharing with you.

Oh and don’t forget your pen and paper, you’ll need it to take notes, so you can then turn around and get into output mode.

Ferny and Ray are seriously promising that if you do everything they tell you to do in these 4 free videos, you’ll be getting some substantial results when it comes to traffic, leads and sales.

And I know these guys to be oozing in integrity! So I trust them when they make such huge claims.

To Your Success,
DiDi

Last year I consciously decided to make a huge change in my life. For some this would have been the whole world crumbling beneath their feet kind of change. I decided to perceive it as the best thing that ever happened to me.

What forced these changes were not necessarily the most pleasant string of events… let’s just say it that way…. In fact they were quite unpleasant! But I decided to look at them as the kind of events that were necessary to happen so I get shaken up so profoundly that I finally realize that I’d long ago outgrown my current situation and I was disempowering and keeping myself stuck.

Have you ever been there?

Have you ever been in a place where you know you’ve got to make a change?

Perhaps it’s time now?

These decisions for change were not easy to make for me nor were the actual changes.

But when I decided to make them, I started seeing constantly the numbers 1:11 and 11:11. I started seeing them so often and all the time that it kind of freaked me out.

I did some research and decided to stick with one numerology theory that I saw as best serving my life journey.

Anytime I see this number I now know that I am going in the right direction and that my spirit guides are supporting me. 

I know it might sound a little lalala for some. But I believe in “my mind creates my reality” and I decided to look at 1:11 and 11:11 as just one more reminder of how important it is to look at things in a positive way, no matter how hard they may seem, to think positively and know that everything happens for a reason. 

‎11.11.11 is approaching and it’s a special date for many in the World.

With this date we’re going into the Aquarius age.

It is the beginning of shifts happening in our consciousness as we get out of an age of individuality and get into an age of community and oneness. 



I can feel this new energy arriving, I can smell it, I can sense it.

I would love for you to feel it too in this beautiful Sunday!

Take a moment right now, stop what you’re doing and allow yourself to feel the peaceful inner being that you are beneath all that crazy mind chatter.

Stop trying to get some place else or better than what’s here and now, and feel the peaceful sacred being you’re deep inside.



See the love and light that you truly are, see the divine energy radiating at your core.

You are a divine being!

We are all just that. 

 

Stop worrying and surrender to your true divine energy that’s been within you all this time, all along. 

Realize that the only change you might need to make is surrender…

Be present! Know that everything is for a reason, and whatever experiences you are going through right now, it’s all with a purpose to help you learn a life lesson that will move you forward in your journey.

Surrender!

w/Love, compassion and courage…

DiDi

How would you like to tap into the secrets that will allow you to not only attract real love in your life but also true, powerful and tangible success in your business? Would that make you happy, and give you everything you’ve always wanted?

Good, because what I am about to reveal are the two most fundamental secrets that not only work for love but true business success as well, and when you apply and follow to a tee will 100% guarantee that you will get both.

So here is how this article got inspired.

Last week I listened to a tele-class by Maria Andros with her guest Annie Lalla, a love and relationship coach who recently had a fairy tale wedding with the love of her life Eben Pagan. I’d watched a clip of them exchanging their vows, and the powerful energy of love that could be felt in the room, even through my computer screen, gave me goose bumps.

On the call, Annie talked about some of her fundamental secrets to attracting true love into your life and how she also successfully did it.

One thing you must first realize is that  “everything you do is either pulling love towards you or pushing it away, there is no middle ground”. 

And it all begins first on an internal level. It begins with your emotions that create thoughts that create reality.

How are you feeling and what are the thoughts that are pushing love away from you?

Do you believe that you deserve real love, and that it’s possible for you?

There’s a reason why Annie’s number one fundamental and most important secret to finding true love is that “you have to believe true love is possible in order to find it.”

So #1 BELIEF!

And if you have not found true love yet, you must start looking deep inside for the cynic in you, the part of you that just does not believe true love is possible, or that you deserve finding real love.

And if you are not able to find that cynic in you, than you have to just keep on looking deeper because the “best disguise for a cynic to hide in is in an avid believer”.

If you are not finding the cynic in you then you are not looking hard enough. If you don’t have love in your life, it’s because you don’t believe it’s possible.

No matter how much you think you want love, there are parts of you, that are afraid of it and you don’t want it. But this is all unconscious.

We do this all the time. We eat things we know are bad for us, say and do things we don’t want to say and do and so on.

So what you want to do is identify what are those limiting beliefs and what thoughts you have that are keeping you away from surrendering to love.

So get into your mind and find out how are you unconsciously sabotaging getting true love?

One effective way to do this is ask the question “What might you lose that you value if you find true love?”

We are all afraid of love for different reasons, and as long as we keep being afraid without knowing about it, that part will secretly continue to sabotage your dream of being in love.

So “What might you lose that you value if you find true love?”

I was thinking pretty hard on this question… and I am willing to open up and be vulnerable here… and I hope this would allow you to do the same.

I tried to identify my limiting beliefs and the conclusion I came to is that the biggest thing for me that I value that I am afraid to lose is trust!

When I am alone or I have walls up around my heart keeping true love away, I know I can trust myself, there’s no one there to hurt me.

But if I am in a relationship and surrender to true love, I open my heart fully to love; I am afraid that I might get hurt, that something might happen that will break my trust in the other person. I realize that when true love is present you must surrender and fully trust the other person, and this is the hardest thing for me to do, because my biggest fear is that I will lose that trust.

What is your biggest fear?

Losing your freedom perhaps? That’s a big one for guys.

The reason why I am opening here, which took a lot of guts, is because when you share you allow for the old patterns and limiting beliefs to slowly dissolve. You acknowledge them and it’s easier to let go. You become aware of them, and it’s easier to know when you are coming from a place of fear and when you are coming from a place of surrender and trust, and then you can make the conscious decision to go forward in the more empowering for love way, leading with trust.

I hope you share your fears here too or at least with someone you feel comfortable, for the reasons I mentioned.

This will be the first step to pulling love toward you instead of the other way around.

The second step is to never, never, ever give up, never settle for anything smaller than true love. 

Steve Jobs said it just right: “Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. -Steve Jobs

Start taking risks, surrender and allow yourself to belief in love even with whatever fears you have in you, they will slowly dissolve as you bring them up to the surface.

Know that without risk you’ll always be playing small and never really ever feel truly fulfilled.

Yes you may get hurt, but you also may have just found the love of your life.

Now how is this related to Success?

Well, just like with love you have to belief in success in order to create it. That’s the #1 fundamental secret!

And if you don’t have the level of success you desire in your life, then again you have to go through the same process just like with love and look for the cynic in you. Find out what those limiting beliefs are related to success that are keeping you away from it.

Identify them, and then just let go of them. Release, surrender and take the risk to take action and go forward despite those fears.

Find that little flame of belief inside you and blow hard on it, make it burn!

Take a chance, take the risk to go all out and make success a part of who you are.

Entrepreneurship is about taking risks.

Barbara Walters did an excellent special last week on self-made billionaires.

Her first guest was Guy Laliberte, founder of Cirque du Soleil. Laliberte, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion, struggled early in his career as a street performer in Montreal before venturing out as an entrepreneur. Today, his multibillion-dollar business showcases in 271 cities worldwide, employing tens of thousands of people in the process.

When Walters asked Laliberte if he still takes risks, he quickly responded, “Every day.”

So take the risk too! I am going all out, are you?

w/Love, Compassion and Courage…

DiDi

Please don’t laugh when I tell you this story. It’s not really funny, it’s sad and ironic but it’s the reality for many.
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Before I start make sure you join Glenn Arcaro, Mark Hoverson and I on a industry 
special live webinar this Thursday at 6 pm PST and learn how you can get more results,
 faster.


https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082

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About a couple of weeks ago… I was getting ready to fly to Florida for the Live 
The Dream event. 

It’s about midnight, and I was still packing my bag. I had to be at the airport at 5:30 am.

Shower… check
Suitcase… zipped

Doorbell??? Not expecting that one…

“Who can be in this late hour? I am not expecting anyone, and people don’t show up
at my door unannounced like that at midnight.”

You see I’m currently staying in a 6 floor building, the common what we call “block” in
Bulgaria built during the Soviet union kind of old building. And let’s just say the isolation of the walls can feel like a Chinese torture chamber.

So I open the door, and whom do I see – An angry looking woman in her PJ’s, my neighbor from the top floor. She starts yelling at me furiously, “I am tired of this circus. Your house is like a “wh*re house”… (literally she said that) I hear all this moaning every
night… it’s unacceptable… I have to go to work tomorrow and I can’t fall asleep.”

“Hmm, wow… moaning… what is this woman talking about?” I was in shock a little bit, because there was no noise that I could hear myself, and I was in the actual apartment.

She was either crazy or some of the other neighbors were just making “nicee nice” with
each other if you know what I mean?

I politely excused myself and sent her off and started thinking…

Wow, a while back, I would have probably gotten myself all wrapped up in the drama of this lady, probably would have started fighting with her and would have consumed my
time, thoughts, energy for maybe even days to come, sharing this story with friends,
complaining about the woman, maybe even making some actual real noise, to get her
even more pissed off for knocking on the wrong door. You get it.

But not now!

I now know what the consequences for allowing that sort of energy into my life are.

You see, this is called drama… and most people try to drag you into their drama so
they are not miserable alone. Miserable, although the ego deep inside is quite satisfied and that’s why it’s hard to let go of the drama, unless you become highly aware of what’s happening and how much automatic the response to run toward drama has become over the years.

Just think about it… Do you have people in your life who constantly live for the drama
and try to involve others in it too?

I know some and I tend to stray away from them. Some are very easily identified… they
are always dealing with something… flat tire, somebody broke their house window,
they are always in some sort of pain, they are always late for work, dealing with some
sort of disease, etc., etc.

Unfortunately, the majority of our society lives in their daily personal drama, they live FOR the drama.

But if you are in business, and you consider yourself an entrepreneur I highly encourage
you to become alert and aware of whether you’ve got your “daily drama pattern” on. I am serious!

Drama is ok for people with a J.O.B, especially if they hate it. Hey maybe it’s
even good for them, it keeps them entertained, and distracted from their miserable reality of doing something that they don’t love. Just playing…

Drama isn’t good for anyone. 
It’s just a beautiful way to keep yourself distracted from what truly matters.
Maybe you don’t knock on your neighbors door trying to pick a fight, or have a black 
cloud following you around type of drama always raining on you.

But here is some of the drama that I see many entrepreneurs get involved in, and I’ve 
Done it plenty of times…

Let’s call it mindset drama… negative chatter, or should I say limiting beliefs and excuses.

Let’s be honest, these are just pure laziness in disguise. But sometimes they are 
legit. I shouldn’t say legit, but more so habitual thoughts that just need a little 
bit more consistent effort and desire to get rid of.

Some of my “drama” or limiting beliefs in the past have been telling myself “I am not
confident, I am not good at connecting with people, or I am not a good writer, I am not
good on the phone, I don’t feel confident in teaching others and creating my own products, or I am not a good presenter, I am scared of getting on a webinar, I won’t 
succeed”… etc., etc.

I am sure that if you haven’t obtained the success you want in your business, you most
likely have some of these or similar limiting beliefs. Similar drama that goes on in your
mind, that most likely attracts real tangible drama in your life that keeps you away and
prevents you from taking real results-producing action.

This is real simple stuff if you think about it and break it down to the core of where
inaction and distraction come from.

The challenge is that sometimes it’s very subtle, it goes on in our subconscious mind
very quietly, you could hardly hear it… and that’s why you must truly LISTEN.

Now, I know you’re like me if you are still reading this email and you don’t want to
keep being stuck.

All the time, you think about a way out of the misery and anguish you put yourself in every single day, that prevents you from taking action toward achieving that financial
freedom and happiness you want in your life.

I want you to get unstuck and join thehundreds of conscious entrepreneurs who are
moving forward and achieving success after success every single day.

And so I’ve put together with my collaboration partner Glenn Arcaro, something special for you that I think you’ll enjoy very much, because it is your golden ticket to success, if you choose to grab it that is.

We are holding a live webinar this Thursday with Mr. Mark Hoverson.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082



Mark is an 8-figure entrepreneur who’s lived in some of the worse situations you could be in, VERY nurturing to drama… like living in a trailer with pregnant wife and young kids, qualifying for welfare, car breaking down in the middle of highway… etc. etc.

But now he’s seeing some of the best… he somehow learned to immune himself, vaccinate himself against drama and reach the levels of success he desired and is still going strong.

On a side note: once you get on a new pattern and in a momentum you’ll be set, it’s just how it works.

Come create these new patterns with us:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082



We’re going to be going with Mark over some of the fundamentals that you as an entrepreneur must be focusing on to get yourself out of whatever internal and/or
external drama you’re living in right now, that’s blocking you from success.

This will be action oriented call. You got to take action if you want to see changes. You
have to start doing things differently, if you want to see different results.

Mark, Glenn and I will show you exactly what actions you must take in order to see the
results you are looking for in business.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082



So block the drama for an hour this Thursday at 6pm PST and come with a completely open mind!

Join us at this link…
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082



Know that there is a way out… You don’t have to keep being stuck.

How much do you really want it? Success?

Freedom? Happiness?

Just come and grab it, it’s yours.

See you at this link on Thursday, 6pm PST…
Grab your seat right now and come in on a few minutes early as it’ll be a full house.


https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248988082

To Your Success,
Didi

A Marketing Funnel is the foundation of your business. It allows you to multiply your income by marketing your products with the same amount of energy and time invested.

Imagine a funnel with the wide end at the top and the narrow end at the bottom. And your goal as an entrepreneur and marketer is to drive as many people through the funnel from one end to the other.

Your funnel structure can vary, but you’ll make the most money, by investing the same amount of energy to drive the traffic, if you have multiple products set up in your funnel.

Here is an example of what a successful marketer’s funnel might look like. It’s very likely you’ve been through one of these or you’ll be through one eventually. (when you go through a funnel next time, go ahead and study it… Don’t fall entirely into the marketing trap… Be conscious that you are being marketed to, admire the process and learn from it, so that you can duplicate it.)

http://YourInfoMarketingBlueprint.com

So a marketing funnel might look like this. In fact, let’s imagine for a second that this is your successful marketing funnel.

1) First you offer a free item such as an Ebook, Report, video training series…

2) Once your prospects have exchanged their information (email) i.e. opted in, you can now sell them your low and mid-priced product or service.

3) Moving on, now that they have handed you their credit card and paid for your product, you can continue the what’s called a “1 Click Upsell” process, by offering other products or OTO’s (One Time Offers)… These are called Upsells and Downsells. Usually, the upsells are higher priced than the first product and downsells are offered when the customer declines the Upsells or in addition to their purchase of the Upsells.

If this sounds too complicated for you, don’t get overwhelmed.

Realize that developing a fully expanded funnel takes time, effort, commitment, and willingness to reach higher levels or leadership and income.

(As a side note: That’s the kind of funnel that also attracts great and profitable JV partnerships.)

This is all achievable and can make you a lot of money if you go for it. But making a huge leap sometimes like this could be a tough route for someone who’s just getting started and doesn’t have the experience.

However, a small leap makes a lot more sense and progress could be made much faster. Just like with anything in life. If you’re trying to lose wight by running, you wouldn’t start with 20 miles if you’ve never run 2 miles in your life. You’ll start in steps.

What I teach my students and clients is to begin with their free (for leads generation) and low end products (for monetization) first and go from there. And if you are my client, that’s what I would tell you to do too.

The biggest mistake that I see online marketing entrepreneurs make out there is that they are afraid to jump and join the leaders in this industry by embracing the courage and creating their own assets – their own products. It seems scary, there’s self esteem issues, there’s that limiting belief of “Oh I am not an expert” or “I don’t know enough yet”.

If any of this is going through your mind, just take it out of there and throw it in the garbage. Realize that this is achievable for you too.

In fact, you know that you’ve been wanting to step up for a long time, and now it’s time to step out of that fear and into courage. You too can have your name and face printed on your own product design, you too can share with the world all that knowledge that’s inside of you. And if you feel like there’s nothing you can teach, don’t worry. There’s a way we’ll help you dig it out and make it available for the many who are out there desperately needing your leadership and guidance.

So you might be wondering, where do I begin?

My friend Mark Hoverson is on a mission to change these limiting beliefs in the industry.

I have been making a change on a smaller scale helping my private clients and mastermind partners. However, Mark has partnered with another industry giant Magnetic Sponsoring and together they are making it incredibly affordable and achievable for everyone to be able to gain the knowledge while being taken through the process of creating their products – their own assets.

Mark’s got a whole blueprint that will walk you through the steps and make it easy and effortlessly for you to identify your strengths, current assets like knowledge and investments of time and money so that you know what to package as your first product.

Learn from Mark in his Irresistible Info Marketing Blueprint.

http://YourInfoMarketingBlueprint.com

I hope this all makes sense to you, and if you truly want to succeed in your business you will drop everything you are doing right now, and focus your energy and time on creating your own first product.

DiDi

With so many people out there marketing their business the “old school” way, I wanted to take the time to write this post about the cheese in people’s marketing.

There is a “new school” way of marketing your business. While the old way is out, there are still loads of people who still have plenty of cheese in their marketing. Hare a 2 cheesy examples that you might want to steer clear of.

1. Have you ever thought that you were going to either connect with someone on Facebook or Skype like “real people” do, only to be pitched a product or service right off that bat. This is just one example of cheese marketing and a pretty common one in fact.

This way is actually kind of sneaky and comes disguised usually as someone who is “pretending” friendship in an attempt to drop a bucket of cheese on your head by pitching you that whole time while clearly not caring anything about you or your concerns whatsoever.

2. Lets call this the “my product is the greatest thing ever created in the history of all mankind” technique. I’m sure you’ve seen this one because it might be the most common.

The problem is that most people see traditional marketing out there like Coke or Nike and think that they should be copying what they do. Bad move. Get this straight. Your business is not Coke or Nike, nor should it be compared to any of these companies.

Companies that large have so much brand awareness already, they are only marketing to keep the brand in front of your face. It’s ubiquitous in a way. They are no marketing to solve their customer problems which is what you should be doing. They are simple marketing because if they don’ keep the brand in front of your face, you WILL forget about them. Yes, even big names like Nike and Coke.

It’s important to be your authentic self in your marketing or you’ll quickly turn off your prospects and soil your brand in a hurry. So create marketing that actually helps people solve their problems. This is a much better way to get people to like, trust and ultimately buy from you.

Didi

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The price to Leadership Mastery Live keeps climbing but you can get it for far less than what it will end up costing. We’re giving you $100 FREE but only until Wed. @ 12pm pst. It then leaps to $497. Check out the 17min. TV show Glenn Arcaro and I created. This is the type of video ninja goodness we’ll be teaching you how to master in L.A. http://leadershipmasterylive.com

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So yesterday, we had a great on Saturday.

Applause and reviews are still flying in as we splash into 2011.

If you missed the call yesterday…

Well 2 things.

#1 Unfortunately can’t slip you a recording because it’s going into a product that we’re putting together right now.

#2 We decided to run a contest.

Glenn Arcaro and I will be giving prizes away to the top 3 people who can throw out the most creative testimonial video for the “How To Create Social Media Buzz With Video” Series.

Fist the rules, then onto the prizes.

A. The video has to mention Glenn Arcaro and Didi Alcheva by name.

B. Call out the video series by name. “How To Create Social Media Buzz With Video”

C. Mention at least 1 benefit you’ve taken from the series. (After almost 10 hours of laser focussed social media and video content we’ve put out over the last 6 weeks, that should be a problem…

D. Post the video in our group “Social Buzz With Video” (request to be added if you’re not in and we will add you up)

Also post the video on Glenn’s and my Facebook pages.

http://www.facebook.com/didialcheva and http://www.facebook.com/glennspage

Make it as creative as you can and make it fun. This doesn’t take any special video skills, just an open mind.

Prizes… (All products graciously provided by XShot Inc.)

First Place Prize:

An Xshot extender so you now don’t have to shoot weird videos with your arm sticking out. Check it out.

http://budurl.com/pocketxshot

and

The Iphone 4 Case with Tripod attachment so you can protect your
little baby and set it up to shoot videos. It’s pretty cool.

http://budurl.com/iphone4casetripod

NOTE–If you don’t have an Iphone you can take a 30 min consult with Glenn Arcaro and I on video marketing or any other aspect of your business.

Second Place Prize:

1 Xshot Extender

Third Place Prize:

1 Xshot Extender

Again, these videos don’t have to be slick by any means. Just use your creativity and do something fun.

(Skydiving would be cool but I don’t think the audio would work out.)

Just kidding but you get the idea…

Looking forward to seeing your videos!

Didi

You don’t want to miss this one.

But more on that later this week…

Back in 1862 the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in Fathers and Sons in 1862), “A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.”  (source Wikipedia)

Today we say it this way – “a picture is worth a thousands words”.

And especially in marketing.

It is believed that the modern use of the phrase stems from an article in the advertising trade journal Printers’ Ink, promoting the use of images in advertisements that appeared on the sides of streetcars. The December 8, 1921 issue carries an ad entitled, “One Look is Worth A Thousand Words.”

So yes, in marketing “a picture is worth a thousand words” but change is inevitable and in this digital age going into 2011 we can certainly say “a video is worth more than thousand words”.

That is the power of online video marketing.

While no amount of sophisticated technology will take away the power of the in person, belly to belly, eye to eye contact, when you can shake hands and feel a persons energy today the closest thing to that is video.

So, are you integrating video into your marketing strategy?

Let me ask again.

Is video a part of your marketing arsenal?

If not, and you are not taking action to change that you might be very well left behind.

Cisco predicts that by 2013 Video will be 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic and 64 percent of mobile. No wonder they bought the maker of the Flip video camera.

Big companies are taking action. Are you?

Hollywood TV producer/editor Glenn Arcaro and I are continuing with our Saturday live webinar series on “How to create social media buzz with video”.

These are available for free only at the time of the broadcast.

I want to remind you that we will be packaging them into a product we sell later. We are giving you an opportunity to move your business forward by creating social media buzz and mastering video for free right now.

So come and join us this Saturday at NOON PST. Reserve your spot at this link now: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/393285734

Partners in Success,
DiDi Alcheva

I know it’s been a while and and finally the time has come to reveal
the lucky ones who are getting the exciting bonuses Glenn Arcaro
and I put together in relations to the Get Traffic 3.0 launch.

Before I announce the winners, I wanted to try and convey a very
important message today that hopefully will stay with you and have
an impact on you for the rest of your life.

During the past week I had the amazing pleasure to be a guest
speaker at the EBE Live Summit hosted by my good friends Alicia
Bausley and Lisa Hanfileti together with Emma Tiebens and Elaine
Starling. It was a great experience, lot’s of great content and value.

There I also launched my Facebook Mastery Club
training course, which I am very excited to dive into with the
founding members and students. I will be extending you an
invitation shortly so that you can join us too if you choose to.

During the past week, I also went through a major emotional
turmoil after learning about the tragic death of my 18-year-old
cousin, Toni who I loved dearly. It’s been a few days now and
I’ve shed many tears for him and my family, my aunt and uncle
and my grandparents. I had never experienced the loss of a close
one, except my dog Rexy a few years back. I guess I am only 25
and I was expecting that when I begin to experience this natural
to the cycle of life thing called death, it would be involving
the oldest people in my life.

Toni’s sudden death has completely shocked and shook my world.
It is making me realize on a completely new level that life is
truly short, and for some much shorter.

I’ve heard it said so many times by my mentors and inspirational
speakers that we have only one life to live and every moment counts.

It is true, but I don’t think it had really sunk for me on a
deeper level until now.

How I wish I was able to hug my cousin Toni right now, and yet
that would never happen, because he is gone. And it brings tears
to my eyes and it makes my heart hurt so much.

But life for all of us continues.

It is a precious life.

Every breath is precious.

So take a deep breath and enjoy it with all of your senses, because
you are alive and you have the blessing to breath and feel alive.

You are alive, so choose to feel alive.

So many of us tend to dread through live almost as if we are
waiting for the last moment to come. Not realizing that it will
come and when it comes, this is it. It’s coming anyways so why
not live your live ALIVE.

As I make this decision for myself today, I invite you to join
me, to live your life with love in every moment, to count the
blessings in your life each day. To love and adore the people in
you life and to show that love fully and in every moment.

I know we as entrepreneurs have goals and dreams and we want to
reach success.

But what is success?

How have you defined success for yourself?

Have you even defined it?

I realize that being able to spend time with my family is
success for me now. It hadn’t been one of my priorities because
I thought I had the time, and that I first had to make the
money. Now I realize that my priorities need to be revised.

I also want to contribute and impact other people’s lives in a
positive way.

And what I realize is that all the big dreams and goals that I
have, and I am sure you do too are something that I can actually
experience on a daily basis, on the way to achieving them, in
every moment, on the journey toward them.

You and I can experience our dreams…

While on the journey toward our dreams.

While on the journey toward our mini and major goals.

While on the journey of living life….

…if only we remembered to live life “as if today is the last day of my
life, so when it is the last day of my life it is the best day
of my life”

So as you start working on your business today, make sure you take
a deep breath and enjoy every moment of the day, enjoy the learning curve,
the making of the mistakes along the way and the new small successes along
the way.

Now, I would like to announce the winners of our contest related to
Get Traffic 3.0.

The Grand PRIZE $5k branding video goes to – Tony Dempsey!

Congratulations, Tony! We are very excited to working together in
creating an outstanding and jaw dropping video featuring your brand.

Prize #1 & #2 – Everyone who purchased Get Traffic 3.0 through our
link gets a free access to my Twitter Mastery Club and my brand new
Facebook Mastery Club training courses.

Prize #3: Sherry Prince, Scott Cabell and Narindra Raharitsifa
get 3 hours of personal one on one coaching with me.

Prize #4: Sherry Prince, Scott Cabell, Narindra Raharitsifa, Tony
Dempsey and Howie Resenberg get 1 hour of personal one on one
coaching with Glenn Arcaro – The Hollywood Video Guy.

Prize #5: Ronald Streed, Michell Oliver and Indalecio Perez get
a super cool looking Facebook banner design for their profile
or/and fan page.

Congratulations to you all and I am very excited for each one of you.

Partners in Success,
Diyana Alcheva