Kevin and the Giant Peach

How does a young girl in Bulgaria leave everything she knows, comes to the United States and begins to dominate in the highly competitive arena of internet marketing?

That’s what I discuss with Diyana (Didi) Alcheva in the latest segment of Kevin and the Giant Peach.

Didi is from a small town in Bulgaria where she lived for the first 12 years of her life. Her whole family moved to the capitol, Sofia, after she accepted into a prestigious high school, there. After some restless teenage years, she decided that she wanted to be an entrepreneur.

She started a few small businesses in Sofia but realized that to truly realize her dreams, she had to move to the U.S.. So, in 2005, Didi left everything that was familiar to her and did just that.

In her first month in the U.S., she was introduced to the network marketing industry. Although she struggled to accomplish much in the company she had signed on to, she was fortunate to be in the downline of Mike Klingler. At the time, Mike was venturing into the world of “attraction marketing” on the internet and formed Marketing Merge, a company dedicated to educating network marketers on the tools needed to attract prospects rather as opposed to the old tactics of multi-level marketing.

Didi went to work for Mike’s newly formed company as the “librarian” but went on to play a more important role when Marketing Merge partnered with Ann Sieg. Ann’s breakthrough product, Renegade Network Marketer e-book had captured the imagination of Mike Klingler. Although the Renegade Network Marketing System was a complete system it was missing just one thing. That thing was a simple-to-follow tutorial program. Mike and Didi and the Marketing Merge team set themselves upon the task of creating a series of 200+ video tutorials designed to train Mike’s downline on how to use the Renegade System. The original series was named, Renegade University – a name created by Didi – which was and is still offered for free at http://kevinmastaw.renegadeuniversity.com/. In the spring of 2009, Marketing Merge rolled out Renegade Professional which was an even more comprehensive training program built on the Renegade University platform.

In the following year, Didi Alcheva had become a brand name on internet marketing in her own right. She has garnered 100,000 followers on Twitter.com, almost 5,000 friends on Facebook and hundreds of thousands of people have viewed her down to earth educational videos on YouTube.

Now, Didi has left Marketing Merge and is venturing out on her own to create the Number 1 Entrepreneur News site at http://SocialMediaPress.com. While that’s exciting, what’s also exciting is that Didi will be developing this new online presence and offering to allow interested people to watch her do it, step-by-step, through her mailing list at http://www.DidiAlcheva.com.

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