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.

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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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.

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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:

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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.

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

Join us at this link…
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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.


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To Your Success,
Didi

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

I was watching an interesting webinar today with Ann Sieg and Ty Tribble that got me inspired to write this post, next in the series Developing My New Online Presence.

In the webinar Ann shared how her 81 year old dad has told her that he thinks he needs a blog.

Which immediately reminded me of the cool conversation I was having with my mom today as we were taking a walk.

My Mom, Me and My Aunt (from left to right)

She was telling me how she read about “parabens” and the disastrous effects they have on your health, and that she immediately threw away her brand new sunscreen lotion once she read that in had all kinds of methyl and ethyl parabens inside it (btw, if you don’t know about the bad effects of Parabens in your cosmetic products, you might want to consult with my very trusted wellness coach Sharon Graham).

Bare with me here, I am not trying to sell you any paraben-free cosmetics or supplements.

But, then as we kept on walking my mom told me about these new supplements she has been using that had really helped her with a small health challenge she had experienced last month.

Then she told me about everything she has been researching about my personal individual horoscope based on my birth date and time

And finally she decided to share some wisdom bits about “the power of patience” having seen me throw a few tantrums just a  few hours ago on my desk in front of the computer. (I know sometimes I can act like a 2 year old and wanting everything to happen right now!:D)

So, as I was listening to her, I couldn’t help it, but say: “That’s it! We got to make you a blog.”

I said: “You should have a place where you can share all this stuff with people.

You are so passionate about wellness, astrology and personal development and spiritual stuff and there isn’t a single day you don’t engage in and talk about at least one of these topics. So there is no question it’s what you’re passionate about.”

In fact, I was kind of struggling with coming up with the exact words about what she was passionate about in my native language Bulgarian (believe it or not when you speak a different language for 5 years 24/7, like I did with english you could become an object of laughter amongst your own should you get back into speaking your native language. In, fact my sister already has started creating a new dictionary called “Didictionary” where she writes all the new Bulgarian words I invent so then she can share stories and laugh on my back with her friends sharing what new words I’ve invented while trying to express myself in Bulgarian.

A bit of a sidetrack there…but anyways. My mom actually was finishing up my words when I was trying to say what I feel she is passionate about, which was just the  confirmation that she was way ahead of the game and clearly knowing her passion.

So, she was listening tentatively and quietly, nodding down her head, but I could feel her excitement for sure.

She then just proclaimed “Ok”

I told her we will get her own domain name with her name. Btw, Ann Sieg mentioned in the webianr she is also starting a blog with her name soon. And so have you started one or are you planning to?

We even brainstormed a few tag-lines like “Healthy, Empowered and Balanced Living with Juliya Alcheva” (her blog would be all in Bulgarian btw!)

And then we talked about all the different possibilities she has to build her list by offering free advice, or a free report or a personal individual horoscope to people landing on her blog and subscribing to her newsletter.

I am really excited for my mom, because having a daughter who’s so much into the Social Media and online marketing world, she’s come to the realization that sooner or later she’s got to have a blog too. And that’s why she just said “Ok”, she was ready to get going, with no resistance whatsoever.

The reason I shared this story with you is because this is the absolute the next step for moving forward with establishing your own profitable online presence.

Once you know your passion, you know who you want to be perceived as and establish yourself as, then you got to start taking actions and one of the very first things you want to do is create your own blog.

Now even if you haven’t gotten completely clear on your passion and online presence vision, your next step should still be getting started with your own blog.

You’ll anyways have some things to figure out first, so while you’re getting more clear on your online vision, you can be moving forward with the stuff that’s a no-brainer.

So the first thing you’ll want to do is get your domain name. I recommend you use your name for starters (www.YourName.com). Or you can also start brainstorming names that might fit your online presence vision too. Here you’ll have to review the answers to those fundamental question we shared in the previous post. Who would you like to establish yourself as? Think about that when you are brainstorming the name of your domain.

Because the way I have decided to approach my online presence my name won’t be the best fit for the domain name and I am using it for this blog anyways.  It actually took me two months to get the light bulb and come up with this domain name http://SocialMediaPress.com. It actually ended up being a premium domain and I had to pay $500 for it, but it was worth every penny, because I knew it’s in complete alignment with where I am going next.

But don’t worry you most likely won’t have to pay more than $9 bucks for your domain domain. Yes, it’s that cheap, truly! You can buy your domain name by going to GoDaddy.com

Or if you need more help on the topic, read my article “The 7 Rules to Follow When Buying a Domain Name“

Tomorrow we are going to talk about some other steps and I will share some resources about blogs and blogging and give you some more action steps.

If you have any particular questions please submit them at the Contact Form at the top menu here at this blog.

Please share your comments and feedback below in the comments area and also share the love by re-tweeting this article!

To your success,
DiDi Alcheva

Let’s do a quick overview of what we’ve covered so far in this series. We have barely started to set up the basic foundation so that we can begin creating our online presence, but what we did go through has been some of the most important and impacting long term actions that we can take to make sure things will be running smoothly and successfully when we actually begin being truly present online and building and establishing a certain brand for ourselves.

OK, So here is what we’ve covered so far in the Creating Your Online Presence Series..

First I introduced you to the idea of creating my new online presence. I wasn’t sure if you would actually be interested in following this journey, but so many of you responded that you need it, and would love to follow it along, because you felt the need for re-establishing your online presence as well, that I decided to stick with it and share everything I was going to do to accomplish it.  Many of you are also just getting started online, and so following these series came just in time to help you get started properly and ensure the most optimized results.

Before I shared with you exactly what I am doing to create my online presence I had to cover some basics that I had actually been going over, during the past few months.  (So in a way I am bit ahead in my actions than what I’ve shared with you so far…and I am hoping to catch you up to speed very fast in the next few posts).

So I talked about the importance of making a commitment to you and to a group of people that will help hold you accountable. The importance of committing yourself to this process, and that no matter what happens, no matter what obstacles come in the way, no matter what excuses and negative self talk that try to stop you, that you will still stick with taking the action and moving forward one step at a time. That you will keep moving forward toward that place of success and achieving one goal at a time to create and accomplish your entrepreneurial dreams and establish a powerful online presence for yourself no matter what.

I also talked about the importance of allowing yourself to approach the process with a sense of calm intensity (this is a huge reminder for myself, I have to constantly remind myself of it, and I appreciate anyone who reminds me of the importance of calm intensity, so feel free to do it too, and btw my biggest challenge is the calm part ).

Why calm intensity is so important? Because, while very exciting it can also be very overwhelming at first when you are just getting started with a brand new project, a brand new venture, when you are starting something completely new. It can be very challenging sometimes when you just don’t know where to begin or what to do exactly, when you get the feeling of information overload, or you get stuck and begin feeling desperate and anxious that you are not achieving anything, when you reach that point of action paralysis. But and this is one BIG “BUT” when you remember to be calm while you still put in some intense effort to make it happen anyway, things become so much easier, the answers naturally show themselves up to you much faster and easily and you achieve a lot more than what you could ever imagine.

Coming back to basics and reviewing your plan of action can empower you to approach the building of your online presence from that state of calm intensity. And we are in the process of creating that plan of action here.

We talked about some basic fundamental and absolutely important questions that you must know the answers to before you begin seriously building your online presence.

These are questions that will allow you to know how to build your brand online and who to present yourself as and at the same time be happy and love what you do on a daily basis while you establish yourself as the absolute leader, expert and authority of the niche you’ve chosen.

These questions are also great for you to keep coming back to when you start feeling that heavy sense of overwhelm and are action paralyzed.

The real goal of these questions was to help you get in touch with your true passion so that when you decide how to establish your online presence, your passion is entirely weaved into it too. Because when you love what you do and do what you love, you never feel like working and you are able to live a happy and fulfilling life making a living with your passion.

Lastly I share how I answered these important questions and what I found out to be my passion.

So today I will briefly share what is the online presence I decided to build in the next several months and help you decide on yours. Remember I told you this would be a process of a minimum of 6 months to establish it. Nothing big and substantial happens overnight.

After realizing what my passion is and what I love to do, all of it connected to entrepreneurship, helping the Global Entrepreneurial movement forward, being good at connecting and networking and loving being in front of the camera and thriving around lots of people, I decided that I am going to establish myself as the #1 press person/reporter for the entrepreneur industry delivering the news through social media (medium), not tv, radio, or newspaper. I have already chosen a name for my blog – SocialMediaPress.com (will be up soon) and so my brand and online presence would be established around the name Social Media Press.

I am going to start taking action, building my brand and presence, my blog, and everything that I do in a way that allows me to establish myself as the person that helps the Global Entrepreneurial Movement forward by bringing the latest entrepreneur news, tips, resources and also help expand the sphere of influence of the Global Entrepreneur out there to help him/her succeed beyond their imagination.

Now this all sounds great and that’s how I first started creating the idea by first defining it a bit broadly. Since then I have become a lot more clear and detailed in my vision on lots more stuff that my online presence will actually represent and involve and I will be sharing it with you as we move forward.

(Btw, I just posted a 99design contest brief for designing the blog for it and there you can not only learn how to post design briefs but also learn more about the vision of SMP -(http://99designs.com/custom-wordpress-themes/contests/social-media-press-unique-special-wp-theme-design-45142/brief)

What I like you to do now here is to think about who do you want to establish yourself as. Remember that last question we talked about last time?

Ask yourself  “What would I love to do, and who would I love to be perceived as, with the kind of value I know I have in me to provide”

Notice how I was not afraid to say “the #1 person”. So when you reflect on what your passion is based on the questions you answered last time, think of what is it that you would love to do on a daily basis, who you would love to establish yourself online as, what kind of expertise would you like to bring to the table online? And think of it in terms of being “the #1 person” in that area. Don’t be afraid to dream big. And always know that there is always enough people in this planet and you can absolutely be “#1″ to your own following and tribe. (as we establish your online presence, you will naturally start building your tribe as well)

Please share what Online Presence are you in the process of building? Who are you or would like to establish yourself as?

Are you “The Coach of Coaches”? Are you the “Rat Race Rebel?” Are you “The Silver Marketer” Are you “The Relational Marketer?” Are you “The Video Boss?” Are you “The Renegade Network Marketer”?

Btw, all of the above brands already exist and all the people representing them have done very well with coming up with the name based upon their passion and purpose and establishing their brand around them.

Please, share your comments below. Let us know what your brand is if you have already decided on it, or who you would like to establish yourself as to best represent your passion and expertise and how you decided on it exactly.

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Are you just beginning online and still confused and lost in the maze, not knowing where to begin, not sure where and what to focus your attention on and how to actually approach the  building of your business online?

Or are you maybe someone who has been studying online attraction marketing for a while, you’ve been applying a whole lot of what you learned, you’ve been watching others succeed along the way, but somehow still you find yourself not reaching that success you know is there just waiting for you. You are honest with yourself and deep inside you know that it’s not happening yet for you, because you haven’t been focused enough and you haven’t been moving forward with a concise and consistent business action plan.

There seems to always be something to distract you, consume your attention, and bam every day time is up, and these goals you have, keep on slipping away.

But now you are ready! You know you can do this and you are making a commitment to yourself to focus and every day move one step forward toward that goal of yours following your well defined plan.

So, let me share with you where I stand from the two groups above and how I can help you, because I am ready too.

Even though I have had tremendous success in online marketing in the past and have earned the title of an expert in attraction marketing and social media, I have to admit that I had still failed to sit down and really create that plan of action that produces the higher levels of success. I did it to some degree but never with consistency and full clarity.

Some of the reasons for me have been that I’ve actually been doing online attraction marketing on the side almost as a hobby. Most of my time, energy and effort has been consumed by my work for and with Marketing Merge where I spent the last 3 years as a business/marketing/management consultant. And this is where many of you have gotten to know me from.

In that process of working with and for Marketing Merge I learned the ropes, the ins and outs of attraction marketing online, I’ve witnessed that this model really works. I have been a part of it and the creation of the huge success of two leading companies in the internet network marketing industry. I participated in organizing, managing and ensuring the success of several multi million dollar product launches, including Renegade University, Renegade Professional, Writing With Pull Course, Coaching Cognition, The First Renegade Live Event,  Leadership Branding for Direct Response and a few others in process right now you are yet to learn about.

I collaborated with the top dogs of the industry with whom I had the privilege to brainstorm and create with on a day to day basis. But it had little to do with my personal brand and presence.

And this is what these series will be about. I will be sharing with you now how I am going to create my new brand and a huge online presence by doing what I love, by doing what I am absolutely good at and I hope you follow along, not just by reading but by applying everything I share with you about your brand and your online presence. As I share my process I will be weaving in all the knowledge and skills I have accrued in the past few years hanging out with the best leaders in the internet attraction industry and everything I have used and done to help these multi-million companies’ creation.

So who is with me?

Let me know if this type of series for creating a presence online based on your passion and what you love to do is something you are interested in witnessing and applying yourself along the way. Let me know below in the comments area if you would like to learn more extensively about the steps I will be taking that you can also take to monetize your brand online.

Leave your feedback in the comments section below.

I am looking forward to start sharing my business action plan with you in the coming series of articles and posts here.

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