Happy Valentines Day!

Recently Facebook introduced their Timeline… their brand new look for your profile. 

The slogan for it is “Tell your life story with a new kind of profile”…

And it is definitely optimized for  you to easily be able to share important, fun, and memorable life events with your friends and even include them in on it.

From your birth, to first kiss, getting engaged, meeting an influential person in your life, first job, graduation, getting married, having your first, second and third child… and the list goes on….

I haven’t spend much time going back and entering any events really, but when I recently lost a client to leukemia, I didn’t want to ever forget about him and the amazing and giving, and energetic person he was… I did create a special space for him on my Timeline. 

It was a truly sad event, and writing this got me sobbing again. 

But it’s not the purpose of this email. 

I just noticed that only about 1450 of my close to 5000 friends, have activated their Timeline. 

So that means that there’s a big chance you haven’t done it as well. 

I know, so many of us are afraid of all the changes that Facebook, introduces. 

But if you are in business, I want to share with you just one of the reasons why I love my Timeline better than my old profile. 

With the new Timeline you now have more precious real estate to advertise your business or anything you want to really. And you can easily through images express yourself and who you are.

And you do this by the very first huge image at the top of your profile.

It’s called the cover. 

You can use any image from your FB albums, or upload a brand new one, or there are plenty of sites, that offer great, fun and funny and cool covers. Just search for FB covers on Google. 

But if you’re in business you might want to use your cover a bit more wisely.

You can use it just like a Billboard, that advertises you and your brand, your website, an online or offline event, a brand new product, your FB business page… or anything else. 

And as you can see in the image below, I’m utilizing it quite effectively to promote my upcoming online webinar. Check it out:

So if you haven’t activated your Timeline but you’re in business, not only do you want to show you are staying ahead of the curve with the newest technologies, but you also want to start utilizing it in the most effective way. So just make the move… it’s not so scary!

If you want to leverage Facebook, this year like the Pros go ahead and head over to:

http://ewebinars.com/4203/ncn8zeg2ci/webinar-register.php

…so you can join me on this special complely FREE online event this Saturday at NOON PST where I will be sharing strategies like this and many more on how to effectively make Facebook work for you in 2012. 

Stop wasting your time on Facebook, and join me on this webinar so you can discover a fast, easy and time leveraged strategy that will create consistent,  visibility, engagement and profitability for your business in 2012. 

Seating is limited so go ahead and reserve yours here right now. 

I’ll see you on Saturday at Noon PST. 

To your success, 

DiDi

How much time do you spend on Facebook?

Based on some of the latest stats you may easily be spending anywhere between 1 and 3 hours on Facebook each day.

Yikes! That’s a lot of time…

Question is, how much of that time you spend is actually productive and with the clear purpose to create results in your business?

Perhaps indeed your intentions and attempts are to accomplish exactly that, to create results and be productive, but it isn’t working quite like that, is it?

I want to change this for you, and help you spend a lot less time on Facebook that what you’re spending right now, but make it three times as lucrative for your business than it is rigth now.

I am putting together a webinar this Saturday the 11th at NOON PST, where you’ll discover how you can totally leverage Facebook in 2012 and create consistent visibility, engagement and profitability for your business with a simple, easy and leveraged strategy.

Join me at:

http://ewebinars.com/4203/ncn8zeg2ci/webinar-register.php

See ya soon, 

Didi

First of all I want to say, Thank You my friend! Thank you for being you, and for all the amazing support that you’ve been over the last few years in my entrepreneurial journey. I hope that I’ve been able to bring immense value and positive energy into your life.

If there’s one thing you should do today then give thanks to all today because it’s International Thank You Day!

January 11 is marked as International Thank You Day, a day to be deliberately grateful, in words and deeds, to people and for things. So go ahead and share your deepest thanks with the people who deserve them, and for the things that you have benefited from.

“Gratitude is the essence of good mental health and spirituality.” Anon

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed.  If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude (Robert Brault).

I am extremely happy to know that this day happens to be on our regular Gratitude Hour Wednesday Thanks day.

And if you haven’t done so please do come over to http://Facebook.com/DidiAlcheva and shine your light by expressing what you’re most grateful for.

Grateful people have higher levels of control of their environments, personal growth, purpose in life, and self acceptance. Grateful people have more positive ways of coping with the difficulties they experience in life, being more likely to seek support from other people.

Grateful people sleep better, and this seems to be because they think less negative and more positive thoughts, just before going to sleep.

Gratitude has also been said to have one of the strongest links with mental health. Numerous studies suggest that grateful people are more likely to have higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress and depression.

And the goal of the Gratitude Hour at http://Facebook.com/DidiAlcheva is to help you as an entrepreneur develop the right mindset and attitude so that you can open up energetically to receive more in your life that brings you and the people around you fulfillment.

See you at http://Facebook.com/DidiAlcheva please come over and share what are you grateful for.

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

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

It’s amazing how the surrounding environment affect us on a emotional level and I realize that when I’m in nice and peaceful place my energy is shifting, and I feel this urge of feeling happy.

So I wanted to suggest you to find place like that in your area.

Watch the video below and you can feel it like I do.

With Love,

DiDi Alcheva

In this video you will learn an incredibly effective productivity improvement strategy that if you begin applying will move you closer toward being that successful entrepreneur that you are striving to be. You will accomplish so much more in so much less time and will feel like you totally own the process of building your online or any kind of business successfully. In this video you will learn about the power of the law of straight line and how it works. So go ahead and tune in and write down your thoughts and comments below after you are done watching the video.

To your success,

Didi Alcheva