Recollect – how do you interact with your best friends?  Are you talking about your dreams and visions in life, laughing, teasing, supporting each other?

Or is it all talking about the problems in your life,  complaining, worrying, gossip, and other negative stuff ?

Your self esteem and self confidence is largely determined by who you spend time with, and what you are sharing when you are together.

There is this notion that “you are the average of the 5 people” you hang around with. If these 5 people have a positive attitude and move forward in life you are likely to be on the same tack. It may get you down, however, if these friends or acquaintances have a narrow and limiting attitude towards life.  This basic rule applies to an overwhelming extent also to our success curve in network marketing or the home based business you do.

If you want to feel good about yourself, want to have success, be a glowing example you have to take a serious look at your friendships and the people you surround yourself with.

Answer these five questions for yourself:

1. Do you have healthy friendships?
Now what does it mean “having a healthy friendship”. Let us say here that in a healthy friendship both sides feel happy, content and supported and yet they don’t feel limited by the interaction as there are no conditions attached.

When you look at your friends do you feel that you need to follow their advice even if it goes against your grain, or do you occasionally let your friend down? Are you too much part of each other’s life? If so you might have to adapt your friendship a bit.

2. Do your friends support you in achieving your dreams?
Are you perfectly comfortable with your friends when you  are speaking about your dreams with  them and do they give you support and motivation ? Or do they “protect you” and point out all the possible reasons why you will never be able to achieve your dreams?

3. Can you discuss the positive aspects of life with your friends?
Do you inspire each other by discussing what is great in life and in your business? Do you brainstorm positive solutions to problems and challenges when you are together or do you tend to get hooked up in problems?

The world is a mirror, the Law of Attraction clearly says that you get what you focus on. This is spiritual  physics and your choice is to set your focus right!

4. Are your friends grateful for what good they have life?
Are your friends pleased and grateful for what they have? Do they freely share their abundance? Do they support the energy of Earth in a positive way? Are you grateful to have them in your life or even in your business?

5. Are you happy when you spend time with your friends?
Next time you have a get together with your close friends observe if you actually do feel light and happy, weighed down or irritated!

At times life and business require decisions, not every day is an easy one. A positive friend will lift you up and brighten your day, point out your strengths and believe in you till believe in yourself again.

It is a gift to have a real good friend who is fully present in a loving and supportive way. Feel blesses indeed if you have friends like that and make sure that you are such a wonderful friend too.

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Residual income is not new. The conventional perception of a residual income are e.g. : Income from investments,  royalties, income from renting out real estate, etc. This in itself explains why a residual income was not something everyone could have – either you had to have a fair amount of money to make investments or buy real estate or you had to be a very talented writer who even had the capacity  to land a best seller. That’s why the term residual income has only become wider known in context with new business models like mlm, network marketing, multi level marketing – or which ever way you want to call it.

Working from home is nothing new either – in the old days lots of people worked from home doing handicrafts of some kind, like making shoes, sewing, making pieces of furniture and lots more. The big change which made people go out for work on a large scale was a result of industrialisation. And now the market is  changing again. More and more people want to work at home as it increases the quality of living considerably.

Buying a franchise doesn’t really fall into this category even though you may be able to make big money with it. There are two big handicaps – first you cannot start it as a part time income and second you have a high investment and in spite of making money the payback will eat up your profit for a long time.

This desire of people to have a chance at creating some extra income, earn money, preferably creating a residual income has become a real boom with the possibilities of the internet. There are thousands of offers for work from home, income streams, creating wealth, it’s become hard to know what and how to choose. As a result of this flood if information a massive amount of scam has also appeared.

For some reason making money online is considered something anyone thinks they  can do anyways – but it’s not like stuffing envelopes or other minor work from home of old.

A home based business is a new category of professionalism which has to be learned, studied, to have a change of success and to eventually end up creating a residual income that will permit you to retire. Entrepreneurs who start an online business have to know which resources to use, how to achieve a respectable or better even – first rate search engine ranking, how to create leads as the scam of buying leads will get you nowhere. Creating leads, custom leads is critical for making money online. Building relationships, teaching the people who come in by plugging them in a system they can duplicate is a must.

It certainly is possible to build a six figure income with a web marketing business opportunity, provided you do not get carried away with some hype screaming scam. Be a critical thinker and learn how to think and not what to think and you will succeed!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Common goals  in people today are ideas like: Fire your boss, start your own business, become an entrepreneur running a home business, having success in business, to name only a few.

In fact it is the internet which enables entrepreneurship at an entirely different level. Internet marketing is the big growth area. However, as in any other more conventional business you have to set it up professionally to take your inspiration on the path of success. You need a business plan which you ought to discuss with an expert on the topic as a consultant to make sure your basics are sound. Of course you also need a certain amount of cash flow as you need to take care of having the right software to do your work. Super efficient back offices are available on the net for very reasonable money so there is no need that you re-invent the wheel As a rule investing (time rather than money) is mainly required in the area of personal education. You need to get to know all the possible resources and free training you can find on the internet, knowledge of technology which is required to eventually get going. But also specific skills are a necessity.

What is your first goal? Help yourself by accepting help. MLM as any other profession requires specialised knowledge as well as personal development to make it grow. You need to learn about building relationships with people, about the law of attraction and  that most people today do not want to be “sold”. The motivation for this effort is rooted in your personal goal – the reason why you stepped on this path of wanting a small business of your own! After a while most people will realise that MLM in fact need not stay in the range of a small business – with the right mentoring, which lets you develop your leadership skills and your capacity for management you will be surprised about the growth you may experience.

This growth is also directly related to the coaching you hand on to the people you work with not only yourself but in the entire leadership team. You and the team with whom you work provide a business service which will “breed” growth and personal development for all who participate – provided what you do and the system you use can be duplicated by everyone who joins in. Learning of the basics should put you in a position of being able to judge if this duplication actually works – if not – search until you find a background where it does work. This is the most important details when it comes to choosing a network marketing business.

MLM is not about sales, it is not about recruiting – it is about developing people so that they will be able to do what you do. This is the secret to success in this industry.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Quite recently I asked this question openly – strangely most people don’t seem to understand – so let me explain.

You are invited to a special dinner – all is ready and you just need to sit down with relish. So what happens – does the waiter dump the entire dinner including aperitif, starter, soup, main course, desert, all the belonging drinks and wines as well as coffee in front of you and leaves?

I am sure you laugh – certainly not – you get it all nicely served in due course, they will ask you what you prefer and will ask you if all is ok and they give you nice breaks in between to enjoy and let it settle – otherwise you might be getting indigestion instead of  having had an enjoyable evening.

Now let’s consider the steep learning curve in comparison. Every person will enter a course at the personal level of knowledge – not two persons are equal as far as knowledge and background is concerned.

When you look round you will find plenty of courses where you are simply dumped with a heap of resources and that’s it. Yet like with a delicious meal if you really want to make the most of it you need to get your information – first adapted to “where you are” and second in portions which you can digest and you need someone with whom to discuss the material, who will point you here and there to facilitate the training.

Especially in an industry as network marketing where a comprehensive education is not state of the art and lots of people seem to think they can do it anyways – well this situation as well as attitude is reflected in long-term numbers: 97% of all network marketers never make it, it is vital to make people increasingly aware of this situation.

Good coaching and mentoring is a necessity!

It is the easiest and one of the best ways of learning to lean “a bit” then put it into practical use and then learn again. This way you become proficient step by step, you learn the “trade” as an apprentice and after a year or two you are a network marketing professional who will be on the road to success, building a team based on relationships and trust, you will be able to give your team the same kind of training you received and you have a mastermind group at hand – the people who trained you – what an enjoyable ride. Success is the direct result of this approach and you will love it.

You want to start today? Simply be in touch or download the first step of this wonderful training, the free e-book,  from this site.

Your Friend and Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Frieke Karlovits

Someone recently told me he’s joining an MLM company because of the promised spillover. I said, "They are lying to you!"

As a result the guy point-blank asked them if he’d get people put underneath him, and of course he was told that there was no guarantee for it!

Spillover is creating a welfare mentality.

Good people want to build it themselves. They want to learn the skills they need to build this business and create residual income, money that’s coming in week after week, year after year, that will pay even their children’s children.

MLM websites containing that word "spillover" as a rule say one way or other "get in now, today, and you’ll get all this spillover".

If you look closely at the compensation plans of the companies that promote spillover, you’ll find out that you don’t get paid on spillover as a rule. You need to qualify to get paid on that spillover, and  people who opt for spillover rarely ever qualify.

What a surprise – also here it is the people who do the work who get paid!

When You Say "Spillover", You Are Targeting Quitters! People who think they get something for nothing.

A network marketing company that promotes spillover is attracted welfare-minded people. You can’t build with these people, unless YOU do all the work! And when you don’t build their business, they’ll be off somewhere else, looking for a better welfare plan. As a result the failure rate will be 100%.

There is the next connected scam:

The quickest way to build a huge list is to offer something for nothing (no money, no work, no purchase) in return. You will see again and again  things like: “we’ve signed up more people faster than anybody else in the history of network marketing." But nobody ordering any product. It’s just names on a list – but they can call these people "network marketers."

Next they sell this huge database of worthless names (an "MLM genealogy list") for $10,000 each to 10 different list brokers. That’s $100,000 profit! And then the list brokers sell these "leads" to all the people in network marketing who want to build their business – including YOU!

You pay $2-$3 per lead for these people. When you call them they tell you they’ve never been in network marketing! They don’t even know what it is. They just opted in to some “something for nothing” list, hoping for the miracle of getting rich over night.

Conclusion? Run fast from any company focused on "spillover".  ALWAYS generate your own leads. How?

Get yourself seriously educated and you will do awesome!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Today I would like to share with you a thought which struck me in an interview with Tony Robbins. It is a closed circle of parameters which have to be in place for success.

Success Formula:

One cannot do without the other.

We all have a potential.

Yet unless our potential is backed by belief and we take action next, results are not likely to appear.

This is a life formula which applies for every area – personal life, personal development as well as professional life.

It is surprisingly simple – yet all truths are simple – gurus, however don’t like it – they tend to complicate things to have a basis for rip off!

Observe the Golden Rule – follow the simple steps and have success in what you are doing. Simple doesn’t mean it is is easy.  

• Take personal responsibility for yourself first of all – to achieve more you have to become more!
• Strengthen your belief in yourself to be able to stand up against the harsh winds around you. Those who are part of the grey masses do not like your “light”, they do not like you moving on your path of success, they do not like you to “own your life”, to have your long-term residual income, to live the life of your dreams
• Take massive action – join forces with a mastermind group which reflects your set of mind. It will support you when the storms hit you and your convictions are severely tested. We will believe in you when you run into a spell of doubt about yourself and point the way for  you again!
• Reap the results of your unwavering efforts! Never forget the envy of the people around you has to be earned! When you live in the warm bath of your achievement cold winds will not be important any more. You have reached the ultimate belief in yourself and the way you live life and can generously reach out and offer a helping hand for those who want to follow your example.

Are you ready for the journey? Reach out, we will help you to achieve your dreams provided you are willing and coachable and we can afford to do it for FREE!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Life and all that is part of it is prone to accumulating clutter. We are so used to our house, environment, office, wardrobe, shelves, business, network marketing business, that we become blind to its subtle change, the blur that comes in and eventually becomes so dense.

We may stop seeing the outlines, the necessities and may wade in the fog wondering why we are not having the success we dream of.

Of course we are aware we need targeted leads, build relationships with our prospects, make sure they get training and are plugged into a network marketing system that duplicates.

The blur, however, will haze our mind and the whole concept may be or become overwhelming that we cannot focus on what needs to be done next.

In the corporate world much the same happens in companies and as a rule when things  are going down management calls in outside experts who are not “involved” who will see clear, who will give support in analysing which things have gone wrong…

Well you can do the same – accept an offer for free coaching, take a hand offered and follow the guidance.

• start with the basics and check your policies and procedures, your commission plan and consequently become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your business. It happens that the entire situation is “not your fault”.
• check if the way you do your work is a system that duplicates. You need a system which will adapt for every personality type if you actually want to succeed.
• and check if the system you are working is up to date, because if you follow instructions which may have worked some 15 or more years ago – they are very likely outdated today

To make sure that your “love of the products, business, work environment” doesn’t blur your perception you need this outside input.

Warning:

The truth may not be pleasant – but better to know it now than later if you want to base your life and future on what you are doing.

You deserve the best – nothing but the very best!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

In The Parable of the Pipeline, author Burke Hedges explains how virtually anyone can leverage their time, relationships, and money to become the millionaire next door" by using the time-tested secrets of wealth creation.

It has been one of my favourite resources in helping people understand network  marketing and combined with adequate coaching and mentoring you will achieve a level of success you now only dream of. Feel free to requests personal support!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Listen – Learn – Prosper

Perhaps you wonder about this heading?  It is all about perception! Just imagine an ant crawling at the foot of a big tower as shown here.

    Imagine just for a minute what its horizon will be

   – how far will it see the world around?  Not so very far!

    And asked to describe what it sees. It will very likely talk about a mountain of stones, grass blades hindering its path and the like.

Now take that ant and put it on top of this very big tower. Perhaps it will even make the effort and crawl up – feeling the hard work of doing so..

    Imagine what its horizon will be   – how far will it see?

Let’s give the comparison with network a thought.

When you start out with a network marketing business, a good one, you will receive network marketing coaching from your sponsor and your team. You will read books on network marketing and perhaps do some mlm online training. Very likely it will strike you that a major focus of it all is personal development. They will talk about creating your dream, working on your goals, widening your perception. And very similar to the ant crawling up that tower you will have to put in some effort working through it, learning, wondering, perhaps not fully understanding the why behind it all.

You will be reading network marketing success stories, will be receiving tips and dig into network marketing secrets. You start building your network marketing business step by step. All of a sudden when you have “crawled” up the tower a bit you will start seeing the bigger picture. Your perception, your awareness of why you are doing what you are being told – like using your road to success tools, your system diligently will fall into place. You start seen the bigger picture. Your belief in your success in network marketing becomes stronger, you start understanding the reasoning behind the advice you are getting.

When you have finally climbed the tower of of awareness, of mastery in what you are doing – creating targeted mlm leads, helping other people understand what you have already learned, using your network marketing resources consistently and with persistence – you are overwhelmed. You understand. Now you can spread your wings and roar to success.

Grasp a helping hand, get expert training, remember the parable of the ant and get flying!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

MLM software is expensive. That’s why most MLM companies rent their software. In most cases it cannot be adapted fully to fit their business model, and the distributor base suffers as a result.

Let me tell you a story about a network marketing company. They had a binary compensation plan, which is a plan where you build two legs – a left one and a right one. Unfortunately the software they rented did not permit changing from left to right and vice versa and they had to have programmers in to do it and of course that cost time as well as money. It took them about half a year to get it sorted out.

In the mean time there were people who had already built one strong leg. In a binary plan you then need to re-adjust in your back office and get the new sign-ups on your weak leg so that you get paid. You get paid on your weak leg! And in that case people thought that the new sign ups were going in your weak leg.

What happened with that company was that this change over just didn’t work and after a while distributors found out and approached the company to move the new people. The company hired lots of people to handle the changes yet couldn’t cope. They even started to charge the distributors per change-over although it was the company’s mess and in the end they stopped doing it altogether.

This is a perfect example of buying software which doesn’t fit the purpose at all.

On the other hand when you rent the software, you better read the fine print, as you don’t own the database! You have heard right:

You Do Not Own The Database!

Michael Dlouhy told us that he saw a downline genealogy for sale on the internet and he happen to know the owners of the company. So he called them and asked them what was going on – if the company wasn’t doing well. He heard that the company was doing great yet had had to rent the software and the software company owned the data base.

This software company made a nice lump sum of money by selling the data base to a bunch of companies. It had been in the Policies and Procedures, that the software company owned the genealogy!

 How would you like to build your business and then have your organization for sale on the internet?

It has to be one of the critical questions when you check out a company, if they own their software. Renting is a lot cheaper and most companies don’t have the 2 million dollars to buy it when they start.

It certainly is the best choice to opt for a company who had their software custom built! When the company had it built and owns it, the distributor base is safe. Instead, for starting a network marketing company quickly, the owners rent the software and are in business in no time. If it is your business – what do you do?

They know that network marketing is a tough business. They know that most companies don’t survive the first 2 years. So renting software minimizes the risk. But how about you? This is a dangerous secret!

What about another well kept secret: The software company will be a partner of the MLM company – it means that the MLM company builds an organization, a leg,  for the software company. It creates a retirement income for the software company on the backs of the distributors. Is it a problem for the owners of the MLM company to move all their orphan distributors underneath the software company so they receive a nice check? What a secret!

It is one more reason why you need to base your future on a company with an owned custom made software!

Do you start realising why education in this industry is critically important – especially when you are capable of building a downline well. Background knowledge saves you from having to cry over spilled milk  at a later stage!

To Your Success!

Frieke Karlovits

A mentor With A Servant’s Heart