• How to Start a Mastermind Group Effectively

    October 30, 2009 // No Comments »

    Last year I wrote a post how to start a mastermind group that has been on the first page of Google for a year.  I get a lot of traffic to this blog (that I don’t write all to often on now) from this one post.  That’s the power of SEO!   I say that to say that I’ve had a ton of interest from folks online finding me via Google and Yahoo search asking me how to start a mastermind or how to find the right one to fit in to.

    I have started 2 different Mastermind Groups for different niche markets within the last 3 years and have most of the experience in leading them.  I’ve learned from my experience and mistakes what things to understand when you are starting a mastermind group.  Before you start or join any ole’ mastermind group you will want to have at keep at least 5 things in mind (below).

    Both times the benefits of starting and participating in the mastermind groups were immense.  I was more productive, motivated and felt I had a big support system in place.  I did better financially because of them as well.

    As a matter of fact it is commonly said that the income you generate from your business(es) is a direct reflection of the top 5 people you invest your time with.  So let’s get to some masterminding rules of thumb to get you started masterminding on the right track!

    How To Start a Mastermind Group That Lasts Effectively

    From a Mastermind Leader Perspective: Learn from the Online Mastermindress…

    1) Know what your Goal for having the Mastermind Group Is .

    Ask Yourself:

    • Why do you want to start a mastermind group in the first place?
    • Do you want to find a group where you can bounce Social Media or SEO ideas and theories off of?
    • Do you want to find a mastermind group where you can fit in and have them help you with your information product launches?
    • What exactly do you hope to gain from forming the mastermind group?  Is it personal and financial development?
    • Write down your goals and create a mission statement for your mastermind group that the whole team can rally around.
    • Be clear on why you are doing it.  Don’t just follow the pack.  Your group will last longer if you all have a common goal.

    2) How Much Time will You Commit to Leading or Sharing the Mastermind Group Leadership Responsibilities?

    Leading a mastermind group not only means that you will devote an hour every other week to have a virtual round table discussion on the best way to launch an information product, build your SEO and web visibility or influence your social media fans.  It also means putting in the time to make sure you are aware of every single members’ goals and intentions for participation in the group (as well as their evolving goals).

    Be prepared to be a true leader in every sense of the word.  Care about the other members’ goals and aspirations.  Make them feel important by allowing them to run a mastermind meeting.  Leaders also have to follow in order to lead.

    Also, be prepared to invest your time in the weekly/biweekly/monthly agenda.  One thing I’ve learned is that having somewhat of an agenda or at the least outline will help you get the most out of your mastermind group meetings and will also help your partners see the value in continuing to contribute to the group.  If you are not organized it will seem like a waste of your partners’ valuable time.

    3) Build a Mastermind Group of True Givers.

    While we are on the subject of contribution… Find partners who will contribute weather monetarily or with their time and skills to help the group flourish.  Don’t accept any tire-kickers in your group.  Keep the complainers and whiners out.  You want a group of positive minded, success-driven, go-getters who are creative, and will contribute in any way they can.  These folks stick around longer and commit their time and energy into making the group a collaborative success.

    4) Don’t Just Be Mastermind Group Member.  Get to Know Each other on a Personal Level.

    This is something I highly recommend.  It can’t be business all of the time.  Besides mastermind partners are more of like business partners who are also great friends.  Think of Henry Ford , Napoleon Hill , and John D. Rockefeller .  Those folks’ mastermind partners were almost like family.  The more you know each other on a personal level, the more you trust one another and the more the group grows business wise because of it.

    5) Stay In Touch and Grow In Between Mastermind Groups Meetings.

    Depending on how rallied and committed your cause and your group is you will want to possible have accountability partnerships AKA "goal buddies."  Having someone that you can connect with on a more frequent basis in between your meetings will help you on the right path to accomplishing all of your online marketing goals.  Share tips, articles, valuable tweets etc on Facebook or FriendFeed.  Keep each other motivated by staying in touch in between sessions will make all the more difference in a cohesive mastermind group that outlasts and lives out its mission.

    Any questions on how to start your mastermind group? Are you ready to join one?  Let us hear how helpful these tips were for you.

    I appreciate you!

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    DaliBurgado.com Gets a Facelift and New Direction

    August 29, 2009 // 2 Comments »

    New WordPress Theme Tweaks, New Direction, New Life at DaliBurgado.com

    I’m back here to break the silence after a few months…yikes. So I’m blowing some new life into DaliBurgado.com.

    I’m going by my new alias here, "The Dali Blogger" (Dali Blogga if you want to put in the New York accent up in there).

    After the not so cool experience of moving this blog from an awful hosting company to my favorite folks (IX Web Hosting ) and working on my other blog at  Secrets to Web Success , I’m back!

    I’m going to give myself the goal of blogging here once a week while I work on:

    1. 5 other niche blogs
    2. Launching a blogging information product with my girls Cenay and Carol at Secrets to Web Success
    3. Recording some songs and commercials
    4. Working on a big SEO project
    5. Working on some web development projects

    Did I mention I had my plate full?  ha ha

    So please share your thoughts on the new theme tweaks I’ve made and let me know what you’re up to!

    I appreciate you.

    Dali

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    Dali Burgado Back from Hiatus

    January 17, 2009 // No Comments »

    Happy belated New Years to you!

    I’ve been taken off course by some personal challenges, which I won’t bore you with… Just know that I am all good and well.  I am so ready for all the great things in store for 2009!

    The last month or so I’ve been doing some refocusing on my priorities both personal and business.

    Since last month I’ve:

    • Launched my ebook, "Mindset Marketing "
    • Celebrated my Birthday
    • Enjoyed the Holidays with Family in NYC

    Dali Burgado with Family in NYC

      Here I am in the middle with my niece and sister.

    • Done quite a bit of local marketing and internet consulting (I actually helped a local fitness coach with a mini site and an information product that really turned out excellent for her, and made me feel good too)
    • Took an unintentional hiatus from blogging :-(
    • Went through withdrawal from not being online…

    Wow was it a challenging month.

    This month I am working on organizing and presenting a small business marketing seminar and adding content to my small business internet marketing consulting blog as well as creating a new information product.  More soon!

    This Spring, I’ll be making Mindset Marketing a course.

    Overall, this year I intend to have 4 niche blogs (one of which will be a more spiritual take on success to give you an idea of where I’m going ) and there is a possibility I’ll be moving from Virginia.

    Tons of things in the works.  Simply reconnecting with you really quickly.

    Hope 2009 is looking great for you!  Look forward to hearing how the year is progressing for you!

    More soon.

    I appreciate you.

    Dali Burgado

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    Mindset Marketing Ebook Launches

    December 16, 2008 // No Comments »

    After 1 1/2 months of intense product creation, I’ve completed and launched my first information product (e-book) "Mindset Marketing : Learn to Finally Stop Self-Sabotaging Your Success and Gain Massive Momentum in Your Online Business" and released it on Friday, December 12, 2008.  (Friday was my birthday and I totally celebrated)!

    Not only is Mindset Marketing a huge accomplishment for me just because it is my first information product.

    It’s so big because four short months ago I was a virtual unknown online, and I was stuck in "Internet information overload " land.

    Today, I have attracted significant success online despite being :

    • A newbie online marketer
    • A Mom of 2 children under the ages of 4
    • And quite frankly, a "technological dunce"

    I have - Since July of 2008:

    • Attracted a major Joint Venture Partnership (in the process of co-creating products with other more experienced online entrepreneurs)
    • Started my own Internet Consulting Business
    • Become a burgeoning Blogger, Social Media Strategist and Marketing Coach
    • Become a public speaker
    • Created my first Internet Marketing Information product (which some are calling a "Manifesto"!)
    • Created my first affiliate program
    • and more (and yes I faced MANY a challenges lol)

    In November I decided to share exactly HOW I was able to achieve these things, and a month later, here’s Mindset Marketing .

    I’ve been blessed to have received raving reviews about Mindset Marketing from dozens of online entrepreneurs who have purchased advanced copies as well as from my affiliate partners.

    One of my favorites comes from a new friend I was introduced to on Twitter , Jonathan Gillardi .  Jonathan has been online for considerably longer than I have, and has this to say:

    "I have been in and around this industry for a long while. And to read something this Dynamic and Full of Useful information , Yes I said Useful.  It was a breath of fresh air.

    Most of the so-called Internet Attraction Marketing material coming out these days is just recycled from one to the next.

    I am pleased to say I read the material in one 2 hour sitting and actually put my life on hold until I finished it, that is how much I got out of it.

    I always LOOK to find something to learn from all material. But with your Mindset Marketing e-book I learned many many things, and I didn’t have to LOOK.

    I can’t wait to be able to read the other multitude of testimonies you will be receiving and how your E-book has helped others in their business and lives.

    If someone does not purchase your Mindset Marketing e-book, in my opinion they might as well never look at ever doing any business on the Internet period.

    Jonathan’s words speaks volumes about the quality of the information here .  I poured my heart and soul into Mindset Marketing (very much like I do here on the blog - multiplied by a thousand).

    Mindset Marketing particularly dispels 6 myths to online business success, and also addresses the importance of redefining success, discovering your passions and strengths, and taking massive action.

    The 6 myths are really faulty beliefs we hold on to as a result of being accustomed to thinking like an employee instead of an entrepreneur .  Having any one trace of these 6 erroneous mindset/beliefs equals the recipe for online marketing self-sabotage.

    So this means, you can purchase all the online marketing information you can get your hands on, but if your mind is not operating and thinking like an online entrepreneur, you’ll run into serious problems.  This is not to say you don’t need any marketing savvy.  Quite the contraire, my friends.

    Mindset Marketing is a mix of super entrepreneurial mindset plus innovative marketing strategy that will allow ANY online entrepreneur to gain massive momentum in his or her own online business(es).

    To Access Online Entrepreneur Insider information - Here’s What You Do Next…

    1. Check out the rest of the social proof and testimonies here
    2. Pick up your copy of Mindset Marketing here:  Buy Mindset Marketing
    3. Become one of the next testimonies
    4. And Make Money by Becoming an Affiliate

    If you’ve been following me here on my blog, you’ll know that I take every experience and squeeze all the juice out of that experience to make it into a learning and growing lesson.  You’ll get a thousand times the value in my new e-book and will continue to get A+ content here on the blog for 2009.

    Keep posted for some behind the scenes info on product launches…

    I will most certainly have several blog posts dedicated to showing you just how simple it is to create your first information product - even with a million challenges coming at ya.

    To Our Online Marketing Success,

    Dali Burgado

    Author of Mindset Marketing

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    Joint Venturing to Online Greatness

    October 15, 2008 // No Comments »

    It’s 10:49 pm EST

    My head is spinning!  Joint venture ideas are in overdrive…and I can’t shut off my thoughts.

    I’m on a super cool and productive information overload high tonight :-)

    While half-watching the 2008 U.S. Presidential debate, I realize more and more that politics and “the economy” are of no consequence or importance to me.  (Even after having been employed on Capitol Hill years ago).

    I am creating my own economy through:

    • online entrepreneurship
    • infopreneurship
    • consulting
    • making significant connections
    • joint venture partnerships
    • investing in myself
    • and constantly learning ways I can improve upon my myself and my marketing

    As I sit in my warm comfortable king-sized hotel bed in Harrisburg, PA at an information product marketing conference, I am digesting three days worth of information marketing system brilliance.  And I am realizing just how EASY it will be for me to implement what I am learning offline AND online while putting my marketing systems on steroids.

    This marketing zen mind state wouldn’t be possible if I were working alone without the help of my Joint venture partners.

    Breakthrough after breakthrough,  I am realizing just how quickly I can accomplish some of the dreams I put on the backburner not too long ago.

    Have you ever noticed that when you surround yourself amongst big thinkers and doers success becomes contagious?

    Make you go, “hmmmmm” ? :-)

    The income we all make is reflective of the top 5 people we associate with.   And I have been super fortunate through my social network to have connected with brilliant people who are assisting me (either by masterminding with me or forming joint venture partnerships) to fill in the gaps I need filled to take me to the next level.

    One of those brilliant individuals is conducting this 4 day workshop on information product marketing now.  I am in marketing heaven right now!

    AND had I not taken the initiative to engage others online in conversation, I would not be here now in the state of marketing zen I am in now making my plan to create a ridiculous economic SELF stimulus plan ! :-)

    Would you allow me to recommend some tips for connecting with others online and forming strategic joint venture partnerships?

    I knew you wouldn’t!  :-)

    Joint Venturing Tips to Online Greatness

    1) Let go of your ego - You can NEVER learn everything there is to know in your niche.  Never allow yourself to believe for a second that you know everything.  Successful entrepreneurs realize the importance of being a perpetual student!  Even the top producers online have mentors they continue to learn from.

    2) There is no competition online

    Have you ever realized great Internet marketers and Personal Development speakers actually SHARE a stage.  Rarely will you have a great event with just one speaker representing his/her niche.  Successful online entrepreneurs realize they are their OWN competition.  Every speaker brings his/her own uniqueness to the marketplace.  Think cooperation instead of competition.

    3) Align yourself with people who know the answers - Masterminding & Live Events

    Create or participate in a mastermind group and attend live events.  When I began my journey to entrepreneurship I thought I could succeed on my own effort.  There were times I couldn’t take it.  Times I lost confidence.  The more you seek help and align yourself with like-minded leaders in your niche, the more you REALLY start to realize your greatness and start to synergistically create success.

    4) Be Genuine

    Making connections online means being genuine and sincere.  Always be genuinely interested in others and their work.  You must build relationships first before approaching anyone for a joint venture partnership proposition.  In brief, keep it real.  Genuinely care and you will outshine the online spammers.

    5) Nurture Your Relationships

    Once you befriend someone online or offline, keep in touch and ask them how they are doing in their projects.  Engage others in conversation.  Don’t wait for people to find you online.  Take the initiative to nurture the new relationships you make and you will develop a solid fanbase and open the door to Joint venture partnerships.

    Time to give the mind a rest and get ready for my last day at my information product marketing training.

    I welcome your comments, and I appreciate you!

    Your Partner in Online Success and Productivity,

    Dali Burgado

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