I’m super excited about going to Alexandria Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop this week. We’ve got one heck of a line-up presenting to us including Bill Glazer! Yes, as in Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy, who just recently released THE PHENOMENON and one of the featured speakers is Alexandria Brown herself! This is going to be a special treat. I have met Bill Glazer in person at the Info Summit in 2006 and Super Conference in 2007 and worked with his amazing team of people. I really admire and respect him and Dan Kennedy and I’m sure that Bill is going to deliver one heck of an amazing presentation.

Plus, Ali’s amazing Platinum Mastermind Members will be in attendance, and so I’m really looking forward to seeing some old friends and sharing our good news together about how our businesses have grown over the last two years as well as connecting with new members as well.

Then I’m super excited to meet David Neagle in person. I’ve done his home study course called JUST BELIEVE and he is going to be sharing his system in much more depth and detail about the process that allows you to believe in the power of your dreams. Ali has shared it was David’s techniques that helped her to manifest her beautiful million dollar beachfront home in Marina del Rey, California. So you can bet I’m excited to participate in his presentation.

This will be my FOURTH time in attendance! I’ve been at every single one of Ali’s events and for good reason. I can’t get enough of a good thing, can I? I’ve met some of the most amazing people at Ali’s events and we’ve become great friends. What’s more, they have incredible businesses and are really wonderful people.

There’s no replacing the exceptional value of a rocking Online Success Blueprint Workshop, but I can tell you the top 10 things I’ve learned from Ali in the last 2 years that have had a profound impact on what I do daily in my business.

Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Alexandria Brown

1. Cooperation gets you a lot further than competition. Ali has done an amazing job of collaborating with her colleagues as well as bringing in special guests. I recently heard an interview with Ali where she was sharing that in the beginning she was concerned about competitors. Ironically, in the interview, she was interviewing another colleague who shares her niche and she pointed out that upon further inspection a joint venture was much more appealing as long as they could respect each other’s differences of opinion. Turned out to be a smart move as the interview was a “hot topic” and complimented her products very nicely.

2. Appreciate your peers and colleagues. One thing I absolutely love about Ali is that she gives credit where credit is due and openly shares her appreciation at events. At last year’s OSBW, she handed me the microphone to share how we had come up with the idea and created her most recent product “Workshop Marketing Secrets” which is an amazing product I highly recommend if you want to put on workshops. Then when Ali presented at the Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer Super Conference in the Spring 2007, she stood on the stage and talked about her virtual team and in a room full of hundreds of people, she pointed me out at the back of the room. But it’s not just me. She publicly honors and promotes her friends and colleagues with openness and sincerity. That is one of the things I really love about Ali the most.

3. Growth can be exponential and it requires challenging yourself to reach new milestones. Ali steps up to the plate. She announces a workshop for 30 people, designs it and sells it out, kicks off an amazing weekend and celebrates her birthday on a yacht with all of her friends. Each workshop has practically doubled in attendance and has SOLD OUT. She’s willing to put herself out there for what she wants, and the beauty is that she gets it!

4. Take good care of the people who take care of you. It would seem this one goes without saying, but how many business owners treat the people who take care of them the most and the best like what they do isn’t valuable? When in fact, the people who take care of you are the most valuable. Ali seems to recognize this and takes good care of the people who take care of her.

5. Play with the big boys. There is no point in standing back and shrinking in the world. Take up you space and fill it to overflowing. Despite sometimes being “the only girl” in a sea full of men, Ali holds her own and plays with the big boys. What’s more, they really seem to love her for stepping up to the plate like that and putting herself out there.

6. Surround yourself with successful mentors and participate in a mastermind group. If you try to reinvent the wheel, you will take approximately the same amount of time as the original inventors did. If you participate in a mastermind group, one will have road-hugging wheels, another will have an engine and a wealth of knowledge about mechanics, another will understand hydrolics and pressure, another will have a connection to companies that represent drivers and the next thing you know you’ll be driving in the Indy 500. You get the picture.

7. Invest in yourself. Success rarely occurs in a vacuum. As small business and social entrepreneurs we need to continue learning and networking. Life in the shoebox of our home office (no matter how large and elegant the home office may be) is still life in a shoebox. So I highly recommend you invest in yourself, with one caveat. Invest in products, services and seminars that are in alignment with your business vision.

8. Take care of yourself. There’s only one you. I see a lot of people invest all their energy in the outcome of their business but completely neglect themselves in the process. Some have no family or personal life to speak of while others have noticeably let themselves go.

9. Success is in the follow-up. Take time to get to know the people who are attracted to you and what you do. Stay in touch. Find out what they most need. Meet their needs. Stay connected because they will want to work with you. As Ali says, “The fortune is in the follow-up.”

10. You are in the business of “marketing your business” no matter what you do. This is the final and BIG KEY! Ali taught me that my business is really not the thing I do for a living. Instead, my business is marketing what I do so that potential clients learn about me and get to know me, so that when they are ready to move forward I’m their first choice. The business of an entrepreneur is marketing your business.

I’m off to pack and get ready for this week’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop. If you are looking to take your business online or you have an online business that is just kind of plodding along, I highly recommend you rearrange everything in your schedule and pick up one of the last few seats for this event and you can even bring your life and/or business partner for half off once you’ve registered!

You won’t want to miss it! Live into the life you’ve imagined…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N Cibula, MS
The “Live Into It!” Expert
1-on-1 Business Coaching