1
Nov

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“Show me the money” – a very important question in network marketing today.

 

A high percentage of people are susceptible to hype  and unfortunately that’s how many of them get into network marketing.

You may perhaps sit in a presentation and the speaker explains all the maths on the commission plan – great!

Next you sit at home and look at your bonus check and you cannot understand why it is so small.

There is a huge difference between the maths of a bonus plan and the actual way it works in combination with the policies and procedures and all the rules which need to be observed for qualification.

We call it “the hoops you need to jump through”

So when you are listening to a presentation a very legitimate question will be: “How many people do I need for a 10k walk away residual income a month”

There is a big likelihood that even the presenter will have not a clue what this number is and consequently he will either evade and  jump to other topics of he may tell you straight that he will have to work it out.

You definitely need this number as it is kind of qualifying the performance of the commission plan.

Lesson learned: Maths and  Hype are no adequate advisors when it comes to choosing a network marketing business!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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5
Feb

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Communication skills are an absolute MUST in network marketing today. After all  you are working with people from many different walks of life.

Unless you have a good grasp of how to interact your success in building your network marketing business will be down at zero.

First of all you need to meet people where they actually are and you do not want to create a situation where confrontation is the first result you trigger. You want a smooth discussion with mutual understanding so that you lay the basis for work.

Some points to help you  start out:

  • Pay attention to the situation as it develops
  • Hear what  the person is saying and show respect
  • Keep your enthusiasm in check – less may well be more
  • Stay calm and don’t be pushy
  • Listen to what the person is saying
  • Guide  them so that they reach their conclusions themselves

Paying attention to what a person is saying or how they act as per body language will give you a clue if that person is comfortable in your company and in the conversation or if the time is right for them to enter into a deeper conversation.

When you hear and recognise what somebody is saying you get some information that will help you in your argument and that person feels lifted up as a result of your interest.

When you pour all your enthusiasm about your business opportunity over them they will likely pull back as in most cases people are uninformed about network marketing today or perhaps even have a biased opinion which needs to be dispersed.

A calm conversation without pushiness or rash arguments will help open up your partner in conversation and they will feel “normal” and be less on guard. Many people have had too many experiences of the other kind which they didn’t like at all.

When you listen without an agenda you will be able to find out the reason why somebody is looking for a business – their goals they want to achieve

People have to come to their own conclusions – if you try to convince them you set them up for opposition as a rule. People do not want to be persuaded or even brainwashed – so show the facts and let them draw their own conclusions.

This summary is just the tip of the ice-berg when it comes to communication skills – this applies not only for network marketing today but also for every other situation in life where discussions, conversations or even negotiations need to be conducted between people.

To Your Communicative Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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19
Jan

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In the previous posted we have started to speak about NOs in network marketing today, especially when doing it on line.

Another very tempting place on line are the multitude of social networks which are  the perfect place for meeting people all over the world. But even if you work a network marketing business which doesn’t permit you global expansion, social networks will be a great place for meeting people and making friends.

Yes! Meeting People and Making Friends!

When you jump into social network sites like Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter it seems like people have not a clue what to do.  Lots of the unsuitable messaging which is done is the result of observing what others are doing. There is massive pitching going on messages like: "Join me in my most recent MLM pre-launch opportunity" or "Come and buy my Renegade network marketing product".

This is the safest way to turn people off. As said above – social networks are about being sociable and friendly with people, helping them on where they have not a clue what to do, giving them a hint if they pitch badly as newcomers – most have been there at some stage and why a should everyone have to make the same mistakes over?

There are many who struggle with having success in their network marketing business. Help them. It helps the reputation of the entire community.

Have fun meeting people and making friends!

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with A Servant’s Heart

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12
Jan

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Traps are not obvious!

If they were nobody would fall into them! This is common sense and yet it seems not so generally known when it comes to building a network marketing business today. Probably it wasn’t more obvious in any other period but today there is more information around as to which traps are around which might stop you from having success in building your network marketing business.

Trap no. 1

Falling in love with a company no matter what

Trap no. 2

Having no clue how much people it will take to build a 10k residual income

Trap no. 3

Is the system your mentor offers you working for YOU or for him

Trap no. 4

Were you actually told to buy leads? Ask yourself – who benefits from it!

Trap no. 5

Are the products being found on eBay cheaper than you can ever buy them?

These are only a few samples as to which traps there might be around – and none of them looks like a trap at first sight!

In network marketing today there are answers to all these topics. Your first focus needs to be to find people who will tell you the truth even if you might not like it. In order to be successful in building a network marketing business you need to act like somebody who is starting a business – you need to act like a critical thinker and not be taken in.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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12
Oct

Communicate With Your Heart!

Author: FriekeKarlovits

…oh, NO – not a love affair…………I am being serious YOU need to find your heart and finally see why we have it apart from the biological function it has in our body.

At all times in history the quality of the heart  showed up in society – in places like on this photograph an ancient tree where people go and write down their wishes on a slip of paper and put it in the string so that it may come true.   

IM000460 It reflects: “I wish with all my heart” and I hand it over to the higher power to handle it.

In a time where the rational mind is totally overrated and schools and universities have their focus on learning “the parrot way” too often this quality of listening to the heart was even ridiculed for decades and longer.

It is this shift in the quality of time which dawned many years back, which started to redirect the focus of people to their more subtle qualities, like acknowledging the gut feeling to say it the common way, which also permitted new developments in our society like the development of network marketing as a new industry with entirely different perspective. However, in a world of rational thinking and calculation it took a while until some understood what it is all about with this new industry.

Even 20 years and more back there were groups who had understood the power of thinking with the heart. They taught topics like: find your dream, live your vision, connect through the heart and I still remember that I was sitting at a seminar and wondered: “What the hell are they talking about”? I would have wanted to know more about the commission plan and how it should be presented correctly or to have detailed information about the products and how they could be sold – in fact I felt really alienated by what was going on. It took me years of failure until it finally started to dawn on me, that these people might have a clue how to do this business successfully.

In spite of all these years of failure I was still in this industry – I am not a quitter and I considered it a challenge. Having continuously watched people succeed who were normal people, with perhaps less education than I had – I simply had to figure it out!

To make you understand – I am a green personality – I want to know it all and precisely – what a predicament to be in when you are used to succeeding with your brains and now realise there are areas where it is of no practical use and it was a big “aha” moment when I finally realised and acknowledged that it is the heart quality in communication which makes all the difference.

I figured it out and eventually built a network marketing business successfully. It is this long stretch of digging and learning though, which has given me some insights which are worth while sharing.

Since this world and life are never at a stop of course and the age of the internet has changed this industry entirely, learning never stops and it is great to be in a group where you can draw from the knowledge of the most diverse people – internet savvies, communication experts, writers, top advertisers and more. You certainly need to learn from those who do it, as Michael Dlouhy, Richard Dennis and others.

It works so well as all of them have understood that communication from the heart makes the world go round, is the basis to create lasting friendships and help people achieve their goals but also their dreams.

You are more than welcome to be in touch and that way take a short cut to what took me years!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor with a Servant’s Heart

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