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

Watch the video below and discover the common thing between Email List building and Growing Avocados with my dear friend Matt Miller from How To Hollywood Video.

May I ask you a question?

What are you doing this whole internet marketing thing for? Why the heck do you call yourself an entrepreneur? What does that mean anyways?

You know, these are some quite essential questions that you might want to ponder upon at least once a week if not every day and several times a day. Because if you are connected to the reasons and the answers to the above questions, you will with no doubt reach the level of success you desire so much faster.

What about adventure-preneur? Have you heard that term before? Do you know what adventure-preneur is? Are you one, maybe?

If you are not sure about that one, hear and watch how one very passionate adventure-preneur Kari Baxter explains it all for you in 43 seconds in this video below:

You name it!

I am everything that has to do with entreprneuership.

This is totally my passion.

And if you are following my “Creating Your Profitable Online Presence” series then you know how I came to that conclusion and the direction I’ve taken to live fully my passion every day.

I am passionate about supporting your as well as my brilliant entrepreneurial journey, and I would very much love to have your support in the process too, so that we can all make a bigger impact in the world and with moving forward this whole Global Entrepreneurial Movement.

I would like you to visit The SMP Project site and Vote for me and help me move to round 2 of “The Best Brilliant Idea for Humanity” contest.

Please go to: http://SocialMediaPress.com – watch the video, click on the VOTE button and then register to VOTE. Once you do that you would be two steps away from completing the process. Just check your email box for the confirmation Email, click the link inside the email, and then click the VOTE For This Contestant Link. You would receive a message on the page saying: You Successfully Voted For the SMP Project.

One last note here: I just wanted to say that I am soo soo grateful to all of my friends and collegues who have and are supporting me in this journey. Your supprt, positive comments and uplifting messages fill my heart with joy. I very much love you all!

With Love,
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