Searching on line you will find thousands of system offers. When checking them out you should be a critical thinker and ask yourself: Who will benefit most from this offer?

A huge number of offers you will find to be of no value to  you, however, those who sell them for sure profit from each and every sale.

Here’s a check list for you:

• Who is offering the system and are they experienced in network marketing
• Will everyone be able to duplicate what you are looking at
• Who owns the data base if you have a lead collecting function included
• what is the package price
• Which kind of training, if any, is offered as part of the package.
• Will you be able to get educated about it upfront?

These are only a few critical questions you ought to ask yourself when looking at an offer you have found.

For me it is highly important to know who I am co-operating with, if the people are decent and honest. After all it is a lot of  work that goes into building a list for one and then it is highly  important to know how to deal with those people well so that you can make the most of your work,

This is intended to make you reflect and I am open for questions on the topic.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Network Marketing Today – when you  make the effort of learning this trade well is the solution for a life in freedom and abundance.

You hear it right – it is a trade that you have to learn and you have to learn it well. It requires a bunch of communication skills, but in today’s world also a bunch of internet skills.

AND – you are self employed in it, which is your benefit as much as it may be your curse.

To make the most of it you have to develop into the person you need to be: self loving, caring communicator who will listen at least twice as much as speak. It is the trusting relationship you create with people that will take you far.

In addition you have to provide your own working schedule and stick to it no matter what. There are many distractions in life at home that may take your time and since you are self employed you need to be careful that you are not carried away. Time is racing and the tasks you have missed out on are missed out on.

For me it is freedom to be able to work in the early mornings or at night so that I can make the most of being outside working in my garden which is my passion. However, it takes dedication to sit down at the pc for work after a long and tiring day out.

There is this cynical statement: “tomorrow I will do this or that” or “tomorrow I will start my diet” – that’s the kind of attitude that will get you nowhere. It will create nothing and you will not make a good role model for the people who are watching you.

Attention – people are watching you – your team will be watching you closely and unless you give them a good example what ever unproductive example you give them will spread in your group like wild fire.

This is what I mean when I say “curse”. 

The conclusion is: do your homework well, establish a lifestyle that you want to set up as a role model for your team and help them learn and grow and you will agree:

If Not Network Marketing – What?

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Real success in network marketing today can be traced, can be “googled”, can be read up, people talk  about it…. It literally leaves footprints in the sand.

Footprints which are worth following!

It makes sense to duplicate what has worked already. It is far easier than re-inventing the wheel.

Follow the lead of true leaders and success in network marketing today will be yours!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Are you feeling your success is as far away as the stars – you can barely see it with a telescope?

Let’s sum up a few points which you will find in more detail in some other posts on my blog.

It is a very frequent situation that  people are having a hard time helping themselves, even though they might be good at giving advice to others.

What does this imply – if you belong to that category you are constantly having your focus on others and not on what matters to you. You don’t give yourself credit by looking at yourself and actually asking yourself:

“what do I want from life” “where do I want to go” “what are my dreams and my goals”?

It might be an idea that you sit down and delve deep down to yourself to find out if you have an issue of self worth – that perhaps you feel you don’t deserve abundance in life! If there is a likelihood that you are suffering of lack of self worth you can work as hard as you please you will never really make it or if you do you will not be content as you will still believe that you are “not there yet”. You may end up a “driven” personality, who is constantly searching and running!

Let this be your first and foremost quest: Am I giving myself credit and do I have self worth, a feeling that I deserve all the good there can be in my life?

You may want support with this issues. It happens very often that we have become masters at hiding such issues from ourselves. There is this Forum where you can go and simply read and study what others have to say in this context, or you can  register and participate. It may change your view of yourself and propel you on the road of personal growth and allowing abundance in your life.

Let me know what you think and what results you are getting over time.

Once you have embarked on this road of personal development the obstacles that stop you from achieving success in building your network marketing business today will disappear!

To Your Personal Growth and Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

For a number of posts I have been speaking about all  sorts of odds in network marketing today.

Many of these odds have been around for a long time.

Hopefully some of them will eventually die and disappear as more and more leaders are stepping up to educate people so that they will no more be doomed to failure in having success in their network marketing business.

Time is constantly moving and everything in life is  subject to evolution – may it be positive or negative. Therefore, to stay “on the pulse” of network marketing today it is good to hear from YOU!

Let us know what your biggest challenges are!

Where are YOU stuck and need help?

It is the willingness to speak up about such issues which opens the path to getting some answers which may well break your obstacle.

You can speak up by posting a comment to this blog post or you can send me a private email with “my biggest challenge” in the subject line.

I’ll do my utmost best to give you answers and support if you feel you want it so that you can start your success in building a network marketing business today.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

There are only 5 steps – but still there is much to know about them – and it is only the tip of the “ice-berg”

4. Sponsoring.

“Sponsoring” – it’s always good once in a while to go into the dictionary and check out a word – even if we think we  know it’s exact meaning. “Support, help” -  that’s why  I take that word differently than most people.

I have YOUR success at heart!

When I sponsor you, I am your sponsor for life. I’m 61 years young and in 40 years or so, I’ll be going to your funeral, or you’ll be going to mine.  You and I will be in business for the rest of our lives.

You need to choose the people you want to be in business with!  My upline mentor keeps saying, "Only sponsor people that you’d want to go on a 1-month cruise with." This is so crucial – choose your business partners for life well. I said the other day – “choose a company with as much care as if you were choosing a spouse. Very much the same applies to your business partner!

5. Training.

The sheer fact that formal education is missing for network marketing it is still an absolute necessity to teach, train, coach and mentor you bring in so that they have the best possible knowledge on how to do network marketing today!

A team website and a step-by-step action plan come in handy as you have got  to train them. Most people need  a reference where they can update what they have heard and repeat it again and again.

To build a network marketing business successfully to day you need the skills which will let you do so. It will not help you to study your product details.Most people don’t want to be sold anyways.

Instead “study people”. Learn to apply the personality colours. Learn how to listen to people – never forget we have two ears and only one mouth! These are the skills that help you move on in business so that you will reach your dreams.

You teach them to deal with their prospects as you have just dealt with them and the cycle repeats itself.

It is like a ring: Step 1 flows smoothly into Step 2. Step 2 into Step 3. Step 3 into Step 4. Step 4 into Step 5. And step 5 into Step 1.  There is no edge and no end.

There is nothing to hinder the prospect in moving forward. Keep working on yourself and help them to do the same.

To be long-term successful, you need to have such a smooth marketing system for your business.  I love the one I use because it is complete and offers total training in the skills of working with people. Everyone can get better and better‚

When everyone is using the same system it is much easier for you to help them -  you increase your experience, so do they,  and the cycles moves up and up, creating success in network marketing today for all who co-operate.

To Your Success,

Frieke Karlovits
A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

2. Automated prospect follow-up.

Following up with people on your list is one of the secrets in network marketing today. Life today is so incredibly busy for everyone. Therefore setting up automatic follow up emails to prospects is an ideal solution. It is best if the are written by a professional copywriter who knows what he is doing, how to answer questions and create a relationship in print. You want your automatic follow-up emails to establish a relationship with ad copy.

You have to have a system in place that does  follow-up with people on autopilot. You’d be doing nothing else otherwise. After all you might be on vacation or even better, on a company-sponsored and paid-for, one week trip to Italy!

Follow up has to be done with an automatic system.

3. One-on-one relationship building.

It is the probably most important sponsoring secret in network marketing today that network marketing is a relationship business. You sponsor people one at a time and you bring them into your business one at a time.

To make this work for you, you need to build relationships with your prospects, one at a time – no way around it, no short-cuts, etc..

On the internet you see y lot of hype: sponsor, sponsor, sponsor or recruit, recruit, recruit, as a rule they are promoting some kind of downline generating system. I was there when I started on the internet – 800 people in my downline and no results. Why? There’s no relationship between you and them. There wasn’t even a chance to pick up contact with any of them -  some even had fake details!

For building a successful network marketing business to day you need to build relationships with your people.

This step is so important that we are constantly training people to do it. We even have a live, generic "relationship-building" training calls every week where people can join in. No company or product is EVER mentioned on any of these calls.

You are welcome to find out more about them.

If you build people, then people will build your business!

To Your Success,

Frieke Karlovits
A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

To achieve success in network marketing today  a system has to have 5 basic steps:

1. Targeted lead generation
2. Automated prospect follow-up
3. One-on-one relationship building
4. Sponsoring and
5. Training

Sounds easy, doesn’t it?

If these points are not taken care of by the group you are working with or your upline, you have to set them up yourself. But of course it’s a lot easier to work with people who understand these MLM sponsoring secrets and already have a tested system in place.

I am happy to say that I use a system that has all of this in place, so I can specify on the individual points.

1. Targeted lead generation.

You will agree that people who want to go into network marketing are driven by a dream, a vision of where they want to be in life. Since it seems to be beyond anyone’s reach “to make somebody dream” you need to talk to people who already have a dreams, a vision and are striving for success.

It wont be those who are happy to put their feet up and watch TV, crunch pop corn and discuss sports and politics. Leave them there, they are also part of this world.

Talk to people who have their dreams and visions in place. They will build their network marketing business business as they want to change their lives. Target those people. You will love working with them as they are coachable and focused. Working with those targeted people will create massive duplication and your business will grow.

How do you find them?

You need a lead generation system which is designed to bring in qualified people. Readers are far more likely to have long-term success in network marketing.  After all they need to be willing to learn! How would they do it otherwise?

You get there if you promote a website that is designed to capture contact information. Do your best to make your visitors an offer they cannot refuse. As leaders are readers. I offer a free e-book – if they want it they need to leave their details.

Stay tuned for more information on the other 4 points!

To Your Success,

Frieke Karlovits
A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Why Commitment?

No matter where we are or what we do in life we are bound to be meeting up with some obstacles.

The topic which needs to be ventilated is the relationship between a vision and commitment.

A vision in life is the driving force in life. It can be strong and compelling and it can be vague.

Most people start working towards their vision at some stage in their lives, however only those who make a full commitment to go for it will eventually achieve their dreams.

Let me give you an example. Bill has a normal job. He is ok with his work and he and his family can pay their bills. As far as extras are concerned, like having a nice holiday somewhere, a better school for their children they have to compromise. Their decision in a way was conditioned by the programming they had received  from home. The make themselves subconsciously believe that all is well and they are content – and it is ok.

But there is Bills friend, Josh. He has a similar background as Bill, but somehow all his life he had a vision. A vision of freedom, spending time with his family, following his favourite hobby and making nice trips to get to know the world. He  also works  and gets bye with his family, but he is at the same time looking round as to finding a “vehicle” which would permit him to achieve his dream.

And this is it – Josh is the kind of person who will be an ideal prospect for a network marketing business. He will be ready to learn and do all he is taught and he will be in it with commitment. This commitment to success will help him over hard times  when people will criticize him or make fun of him for what he is doing. He won’t mind, he will have his vision before him and his commitment to reach his dreams.

To Your Commitment to Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with A Servant’s Heart

Whatever we do in life, energy is at the bottom of it if we realise it or not.

- Having energy is the first rule of success. It is more important than any other aspect.

- Know how to concentrate energy. You must focus your energy on important matters. it is the only way to make sure you don’t disperse it!

Take a laser beam – it can be used for cutting, even for surgeries and many other highly specialised applications.

Accordingly nothing will add more power to your life than concentrating your energy on your goals.
To achieve success you need to create this laser focus of bundling all your energy directing it on your burning desire. This will let you achieve success.

Draw from all your resources, use all your talents and faculties, boost your energy, focus all you know and can do on your objective.
We cannot walk up and down a hill in the same time – so when we really want to achieve, there is only one way – bundle your energy and focus.

This attitude is a necessity in life and business in general, but even more so in network marketing, where your success is a direct reply to who you are.

The Law of Attraction works.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart