OK, so some of my valued community members were getting worried and asking me, “What’s going on, Didi? I haven’t received your e-mail since last week.”

So here I am decided to calm you all down and actually share that a whole lot has been going on.

Goodness, where do I begin?

Has it been like 2 weeks already?

I returned from Spain.

Landed in LA and didn’t have any time to do anything, but put my biz attire on and meet my friend Jerry Chen at baggage claim.

He took me to the Business Codex event mixer organized by Jorge Bueno and MaryAnne Morco.

I also got to listen to a wonderful presentation by my friend Emma Tiebens the relational marketer. That was soo much fun and the event lasted until perhaps midnight. But wait, that wasn’t the end of it all. After that Jorge, MaryAnne, Jerry, Emma and I decided to wander around the streets of LA late at night and find a place where we can eat and continue the party as you can see from the pictures below.

The following two days continued with the busy craziness.

I spent the next day on a mastermind session with Jerry and Emma and so look out world, with what these three power minds are coming up with.

The next day and that’s the coolest part of it all, and really the whole reason why I decided to come back to the States exactly when I did we went to a special cocktail party hosted by my friend and mentor Ellie Drake and her husband Charlie Drake. This was a kick off party to the coming in October RISE absolutely must attend by any brave heart woman event. In addition to that Ellie and Charlie had their 10th anniversary and that was like the cherry on top of this amazing networking event. I met so many awesome and successful people there that I didn’t even get to try what I know was a delicious cake.

Watching this video below brings a feeling of regret I didn’t get to try it. I don’t know if many of you knew this but my trip to Spain was absolutely spontaneous and I even bought just a one way ticket there. I didn’t know when I am coming back, I didn’t know where I am coming back to. But there was one thing that I knew. And that was that as long as I follow my intuition and listen closely and intently to what it’s telling me, I will know exactly when and what to do.

So when Ellie called me sometime in May and asked me if I am in LA on June 24th and if I would like to go there representing a Social Media Buzz Making team with my company Social Media Press, my intuition told me to say “I can certainly be there” So it was an amazing pleasure to have the team of people representing Social Media Press at the RISE kick of party join me. It was such an amazing pleasure to meet Katie Freiling with Unified Tribe and Glen Arcaro join me and to have met them for the first time. These are amazing and top notch people and leaders. It was awesome also having my good friend and JV partner Alicia Bausley with Empowered Business Entrepreneurs as well as Emma Tiebens The Relational Marketer join me there. Oh and of course @JerryCChen with Build a Magnetic Network.

I am so amazed by the professionalism, leadership and the quality of people as a whole that these gals and guys are. I appreciate everyone of them for joining me because I know how busy all of they are with building their own business and yet they time out of their busy schedule and decided to attend with me.

At the kick of RISE event I met people like Larry Benet the founder of SANG. If you don’t this guy he is someone to definitely get plugged in to. Actually I didn’t know him until on the way to the party Jerry was talking about him and how impressed he was with him. You see, that same week authors and speakers had flew in from all over the World to be on Larry’s stage and a lot of these people were actually at the party as well as Larry. So SANG stands for Speakers and Authors Networking Group. I find that a lot of people don’t know about it, but if your intentions are to establish a speaking career or be an authority author you would want to research SANG and Larry Benet.

I also got to meet with the wonderful Mari Smith, the Facebook queen, she is such an amazing and fun woman to be around. I am so looking forward to hanging out with her again at RISE. Goodness, there were so many other amazing people. The awesome WOW Factor woman Lynn Rose who you will heard sing at the video below. The awesome BraveHeart Women Community Dr. Sugar. This woman changed my life at her RELEASE Experience in March of 2010. I am not sure if anyone’s noticing but a lot of changes have been happening in my life since March. Well RELEASE has a lot to do with that. I have to put up my testimonial for Dr. Sugar. This is an experience EVERY WOMAN should go through.

See how much fun we had, and I promise you RISE in October 8th and 9th will be so much more fun. I invite you to join us!

Btw, watch the video on this page: http://BudURL.com/RiseWithUs to see some of us there too.

So, basically after we came back from the kick off party. I was staying with Emma Tiebens who invited me to stay in her absolutely gorgeous home! We got home at 1am and were up at 4 am getting ready to go to Portland. I think it was so cool, that Glenn, Jerry, Emma and I were all headed to Portland to attend another event…

But this is to be continued in my next article…

Please let us all know in the comments area below if there is anything exciting that happened in the last two weeks for you, that you would like to share. Also, let me know if you know of any of the people above and what have you learned from them and what your experience has been so far with them. Oh and before I forget the RISE event is going to be on October 8th and 9th in Beverly Hills, and if you would like to join me, send me a quick email so I can share the details with you. (use the contact form above) or go directly to: http://BudURL.com/RiseWithUs

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Partners in Success,
DiDi Alcheva

P.S. The title of this blog post is “The Power of Live Events” and I really didn’t address any of that directly, but that’s because I think you can alone see and feel for yourself the POWER of it. So what’s your next Live Event? I hope it’s RISE so that we can meet and connect in person. Oh, and YES this has a lot to with creating a powerful and profitable ONLINE PRESENCE and that’s why I posted it in this category here at the blog as well.