If you are a guy in my community, this article is not for you. Sorry, but it’s for my awesome girlfriends here. However, if you have women in your life that you love and would love to see be in their power please forward it to them. And know that you are very much appreciated.

Dear girlfriend, did you know that the success tips and strategies that we learn about and plug into don’t always work for both men and women?

Yes, it makes sense, we operate a little differently, therefore the strategies have to also be different.

I have been learning about prosperity and success strategies that I have been applying in my life and business as a woman over the last one year and I have to tell you it’s made a huge difference in my life.

And so having gone through a huge shift, it really hurts me to see that every day women around the world and in this community are following old methods for success over and over again that are empowering for men but really dis-empowering for women and eventually they get buried in frustration.

Instead of getting around the right people and learning and applying new feminine techniques, they continue to suffer and then their self-esteem plummets.

So they quietly struggle with their problems in isolation. Sounds familiar?

But that’s all changing now because I am going to introduce you to my support system that has gotten me out of that isolation and into my feminine leader power. And it’s not going to cost you anything.

I would like to invite you to the Summer Extravaganza for Women.

My friend and empowering mentor Ellie Drake is hosting a series of free teleconferences where she will be interviewing some amazing and successful women leaders!

She has asked 14 inspiring leaders and celebrities to be a part of this call series including Leeza Gibbons, Mariel Hemmingway, Marla Maples and Lisa Nichols of ‘The Secret’ fame and many more.

These wonderful women passionately believe in the power of collaboration and want to be a part of this global movement of bringing forth our feminine power. Now that’s exciting, isn’t it?!

Here’s some of what you’ll discover when you attend the Online Summer Extravaganza for free:

==> How ONE SIMPLE SHIFT IN YOUR AWARENESS produces
 astronomically more results in less time, with less effort (you’ll be astonished at how productive you are
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==> How the thoughts of successful WOMEN LEADERS ARE DIFFERENT from the thoughts of average women (and how those differences play out in all personal and professional achievements);

==> How to banish useless energy like GUILT, SHAME,
 and REGRET from your brain so you can stop beating yourself up (women in particular play out negative
emotions over and over in their heads, making them feel horrible);

==> How to buck the PROCRASTINATION PATTERN any of us
can slip into (you can’t step up to being your strongest self if you can’t get stuff done);

==> How to INSTANTLY shift your attitude to transform your personal ability to lead and inspire (moods and emotions don’t have to control your destiny);

==> How to easily break down and dissect the steps of
 TRUE PERSONAL, PROFESSIONAL, and GLOBAL FULFILLMENT (it’s shockingly simple when it’s laid out for you);

==> How to ‘DETOX’ areas of your life today so you can
 realize your dreams and get out of your own way (break the cycle of repeating habits that don’t serve you anymore);

==> How to quickly discover your ‘LIFE PURPOSE’ and
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And, of course… much, much, more. Get the details here:

All you need is an Internet connection and you’re in! The good news is you’ll learn real life strategies for *having it all* as a woman.

And the BEST PART is that it’s completely F*R*E*E. No strings attached.

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This is for a powerful group of women who are hungry for some
 solid information on how to have it all. It doesn’t have to be so HARD!

I wouldn’t recommend this opportunity unless I truly believed in how much it could help you and other women as Ellie and these empowered women leaders have helped me so much already.

I hope you’ll check it out now. You’ve got nothing to lose!

Partners in Female Prosperity,
DiDi Alcheva

P.S. Remember, the cost for registering for the Summer Extravaganza is
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Check out this awesome video below for inspiration. I had an amazing experience last year with most of these and more amazing other leader women and the BraveHeart Community.

Well, while I was working full time at Marketing Merge, putting in tremendous amounts of hours into the growth of the company, I always had the excuse of not having enough time to fix it.

But now that I’m working full time on my own marketing I have no more excuses left and I’ve decided to take up on Mike’s challenge.

For those of you who didn’t watch Mike’s training, here is what the underdeveloped marketing funnel sweet spot is that he referred to:

Go ahead and Google the words “network marketing leads”. What you will see is one of my videos about Twitter and Leads Generation coming up 3rd or 4th on the page, right after the paid advertising. That’s very good, btw!

Click on the video and you’ll end up at YouTube and be able to watch my video that has close to 16k (that stands for thousand) views. Btw, that’s very good as well.

Here is the not so good part about this funnel which is now fixed to a degree:

Before Mike’s training I had posted 5 different links in the description area of the video. These were 5 different directions and paths I was asking people to take, which is a very weak call to action model.

During the pre-launch of Renegade Professional last year this was actually very appropriate for what I was trying to do then, because of the training provided in these links. But now it is distracting and confusing to someone who wants to continue learning and getting more information on the topic.

Although at least 3 of the links I had there were leading to other Twitter training I didn’t make it easy for the person wanting to take some action, to really feel confident that they are doing the right move. And that’s vital. You don’t want to confuse your prospects, you want to make them confident in you, in themselves and in the action steps you are recommending them to take.

After Mike’s comment I immediately removed all the links and added a more appropriate one that I decided to leave there temporary until I create a better and more optimized for monetization solution.

But at least for now it is straight forward and there is nothing to distract or confuse the viewer/prospect with what their next step should be and where they should go.

What I have decided to do is take on Mike’s challenge and create something more optimized with this marketing sweet spot. I would create either a product, a free report or something that is related to the video that is taking the viewer/prospect one step further into my funnel and getting to know me better as a leader.

I will be sharing that with you as I create it.

I wanted to mention it since it’s a bit of a side track of my posts and the theme you are following at DiDiAlcheva.com. But, I do believe that this will also be beneficial to you so I suggest you continue to follow me along the way.

What can YOU do right now?

Many of you already have a lot of things/marketing pieces in place that you have put up a long time ago, in the beginning of your online attraction marketing journey, when you started learning and as you continued progressing. Now you have reached a completely different level, with a lot more knowledge and skills, because of that practice and the time you have invested in your business growth.

So, one of the things you could do is review your current content out there, pieces you’ve created that are spread out all over the Internet and see if there is anything you could add or remove or edit to improve and get better results from the effort already put into it.

With the higher expertise you have now, see if you can do some simple things to optimize and strengthen some of your marketing underdeveloped sweet spots.

Just like I changed the link at my YouTube video. Even though not the best solution it is a much better route than what I had there before.

How do you recognize your underdeveloped sweet spots?

Well, that’s a long topic, but here is how you can begin: by simply going through and reviewing what you already have in place and asking yourself this simple question: Is this fully optimized, am I getting the results I know I could be getting with this, when it comes to generating leads and cash flow?

Many of us have come out of old school of doing business with lots of in person to person interaction to the new school of building a business, that’s online and often with very little to no in person interaction.

We come from the chasing of friends and family, the three foot rule,  the business model that forced us to try and strike conversations in the store line, the model that got us to do a lot of cold calling and learning to connect with strangers on the phone.

And we have now moved online, consuming a lot of content, training, other people’s monologues and sometimes dialogues, the model that empowers us to develop strong and trusting relationships with our audience, tribe, prospects list, other business owners and entrepreneurs, like minded people from the same community but all of it in front of the computer where the in person one on one communication often gets neglected.

Knowing how much fear I’ve had of that phone I can see how extreme many attraction marketers who’ve come from the old school of business could be in never wanting to touch that phone again.

I would like to encourage you that you reflect on the daily business model that you are following right now. You might be engaging yourself in a lot of conversations and that’s great, but they are most likely mostly online in the social media space and in your email box.

Be open and do and experiment and see if picking up the phone and calling a fellow online entrepreneur, who you have conversations with online anyways would make any difference in any way in your business progress.

I’ve already done the experiment and I want to assure you that this kind of new school attraction marketing model of connecting and picking up of that, what used to be a 300 pound, heavy phone has nothing to do with the draining process of the old school ways of cold calling.

This kind of communication can literally change your business overnight. It’s a fun, invigorating, ideas creating and business progress making activity.

Watch my fun video on the topic below:

There you have it. Where is your phone? Think of the person you feel closest and have most things in common, from your fellow social media buddies and dial their number right now.

Let me know if you have been doing this at all and how has this phone connection, or in person connection at live events has done for your business?

Please leave your comments below and share that you care by re-tweeting this video and share with friends.

Partners in Success,
Diyana Alcheva

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”

I’ve got an announcement to make to my wonderful Renegade family! But first I’m going to go back in time and share a little bit of history.

Many of you know that I have been working together with Mike Klingler since late 2005 when he was still training the old school of network marketing ways to the community at the time with the membership site MannaCoach. At that time I was the support administrator and was also sending your information packs to your prospects. (remember those DVD’s, CD’s and personalized letters ?) We did cold calls together and held each other accountable. Those were some fine times that blessed me with the opportunity to improve my connecting skills on the phone and grow in so many other ways.

Then about three years ago I became social media and business consultant for Marketing Merge. Mike Klingler and I together with a one other person on the team Tami, our web develop at the time, worked toward building the system you have all gotten to love and know so well, Renegade University and Renegade Professional.

For a while I was also the customer support, the administrator and the tech person of the company. And as we began to grow faster I went into team building mode and started looking for and ended up finding and training a great support team of people who you have all interacted with in one way or another or have heard about.

First to join our support desk was the incredible Barbara Silva who was also the first one to apply and be accepted as a Super Guide right before that. She was shortly after joined by our amazing Australian princess Deborah Marsden. And for a short period the very autonomous and fun Eric Walker was also working at the support desk.

A year later Barbara moved into creating the best coaching program available online, and it has been an amazing journey and a pleasure to have supported her and the development of the platform and program from the technical and business standpoint.

As you all very well know, later on we moved into intense 9 month launch process with Ann Sieg and her team, and created the biggest launch our industry had seen with $1.2 million in 72 hours. This took tremendous amount of focus, dedication and sanity or maybe I should say insanity. These 9 months of intense 12-16 and sometimes longer hours labor days that continued for a few more months after the launch is a period of my life I will never forget, and would always be grateful that I experienced. It has been one of the fastest growing and skills building times I’ve been through. I learned a lot about business, marketing, building teams, collaboration, creation and brainstorming, organizing product launches and launching them. I learned a lot about different dynamics, and cultures in teams and the different types of success mindset. I improved my skills with working with web developers, designers and also learned how to and how not to work with people and of course I am still learning.

After the launch things were extremely busy and my dedication to the marketing, support, development of new projects was fully and 100% devoted to Marketing Merge.

In August of 2009 I was officially employed by the company, and that was a huge achievement for me and the goals I had and how I wanted to continue supporting the vision of it. In the following months I focused my attention on accommodating an extremely successful launch of Coaching Cognition, setting up the beautiful live event in Portland, OR many of you had the pleasure to attend, and later on helping with the launch of Leadership Branding for Direct Response by Mark Hoverson, while on the side working as support for a few still in the process of creation projects you will be hearing about soon:). A couple of these projects striked a beautiful business trip to Bulgaria to meet with the new developing team I connected with Marketing Merge, now working on brining you these projects.

So why am I writing about all of this?

Many of you have gotten to know me because of my work at Marketing Merge, Renegade Professional and all of it’s existing departments. Whether you met me on the support desk when it was just me. Or you watched one of my tutorials inside the back office, or you heard me speak at the Live Event or at RenegadeProfessionalNews.com. I want to say that I am blessed to have been a part of this wonderful journey, to have provided as much value as I have been able to and hopefully I have helped you move forward with your business in some way.

I have gotten to know and love so many of you in this wonderful community and I feel very honored to be a part of it.

So, I would like to announce today that on April 6th I am officially leaving my position and I no longer work with or for Marketing Merge.

This is a decision that I am in peace with and I have no hard feelings.

Mike is transforming the Marketing Merge’s emerging new team and I am excited and looking forward to seeing all the beautiful things that continue to happen with this company.

I would like you to know that even though I may not continue working directly with Marketing Merge I will continue to provide value and support to you as I have done in the past few years. My journey as a solo-preneur is just beginning and I will be investing my full time attention to developing training, systems and products that will serve you and your business.

I am a passionate entrepreneur and have now faced the opportunity to fully embrace that passion.

I am in the process of starting the #1 Entrepreneur News Site hosted on Social Media that will support you and all entrepreneurs out there, and will be a place you can come and feel home. You will be learning about it in the coming weeks right here at http://DiDiAlcheva.com, and I hope that you will join the movement and participate. Keep an eye on what’s coming at http://SocialMediaPress.com and this blog.

Partners in Progress,

Diyana Alcheva

Update February, 2011:

Just read this post from April of 2010 and I am wowed. Since then I’ve served entrepreneurs with my products such as Facebook Mastery Club, Twitter Mastery Club, collaborated with Glenn Arcaro on Leadership Mastery Blueprint, created the most buzzing community on FB Social Media Buzz with Video and now doing our first live event on March 19th and 20th. If I can do it… you can do it too. What could right now seem like “the world is crumbling beneath your feet” type of event or situation could be the biggest blessing in disguise in your life.

Watch this 17 minute TV show to bring you right up to date: http://LeadershipMasteryLive.com