It is an open secret by now: Network Marketing today is a relationship business and not a sales business!

I hear the outcry of sales people and the red  personalities who still believe that network marketing is a sales business.

They claim: that after all products need to be moved and as a result they focus on moving the product.

Yes, true, products need to be moved, but in a very different way.

First:

Even in the normal market lots of products are being moved by recommendation. Everybody will tell friends and family if they have had a good deal on something – no matte if it was a film, a pair of shoes or a lovely meal or whatever.

‘This makes a lot of product turn over in the normal market a “relationship business” – people sharing what they like.

Second:

In this fast and impersonal world people are increasingly craving for relationships. It is an uneasy feeling to have to do things alone all the time. It makes you feel good to have someone to reflect, to have confirm what you are wondering, etc.

Therefore as a customer it is nice to have someone to talk to about a product you might want to buy. Some one where you have the feeling that they know what they are talking about and who perhaps makes you feel special because you chose what you did.

Third:

When you are lo9oking fro a business you all the more want to fee l safe and wanted, to have somebody beside you who will take your hand and support and help you in the alien territory of entrepreneurship,somebody who wants YOU because of who YOU are!

So no matter what – product or business – relationships count.

And in network marketing today relationships count all the more.

It is a business of:

• people joining people, 
• training and supporting people,
• giving them incentive for personal development and growth.

To  Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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

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Finding success strategies in network marketing today is very likely one of the hottest topics.

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

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When you are building a business in network marketing today, your main focus needs to be your personal development.

You need to become the person people would want to be in business with.

This does not mean that you cannot be yourself? Certainly not– in fact you have to be yourself! But we all have strengths and weaknesses and we need to develop our strengths even further and we can learn to handle our weaknesses in the best possible way.

Dare to look at yourself and become the best you possibly can be.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Is this  provocation?

No!    You need to listen!              

This is the first rule in network marketing today!

Our loud and media dominated world listening to another person  has been lost or nearly lost.

People are lonely even in a crowd – nobody is interested any more  to listen to the joys and sorrows of another person – they are far to busy rushing through life catching – what? Mostly they don’t even know what they are after. Everyday life is eating them up.

Make a difference. Look someone in the eye and listen to what they have to say – listen without adding anything in your thought or without interfering. Listen till they have finished. They might go a totally different trail in their expression than you would have expected.

Having been honoured in such a way they will automatically want to know about you.

This kind of heart to heart communication is the foundation for trust and friendship.

Listening without an agenda and then proceeding to the advantage of the one who has confided in you – again without an agenda will set you off as a leader of a special kind.

You will grow as a person and you will build friendships and  business partners who are friends and who will stick with you anyways.

Make it an extraordinary trip. It is worth it. Be the leader you are intended to be.

Frieke Karlovits

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Happiness in Network Marketing – Hm

When we are building a business we are spending a lot of time on it.

Either we are still in a 9 – 5 job and build the business in our free time, which is a challenge in itself, as it takes excellent time management and dedication to do what is required, or we are doing it full time. Doing network marketing full time it is all the more important that you are happy with what you are doing.

Even without speaking a single work your basic attitude is transmitted to the people you speak to. They will pick up  your mindset. Happy people have something special around them and as a rule they attract people like magnets. Everyone wants to brush off such a mindset and feel a bit of that happiness.

• Considering these basics it is not a big surprise that building a network marketing business today will be a lot easier when you are happy with what you are doing.
• The law of attraction will kick in and  your team will be reflecting your mindset.

Do you think this makes sense? Yes?

So make sure that you work on your mindset and join a mastermind group where the main focus is personal development and  cleansing of the mind from old patterns and programming which is of no more value to us.

As in all our training – there is no charge, yet it takes your effort and dedication to work through the provided material and to participate on an ongoing basis.

To Your Happy Success

Frieke Karlovits

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The Tale of the Fox and the Stork

A fox had asked a stork to be his guest. He provided lovely food, but only on very flat plates so that the stork with its long bill couldn’t eat a crumb. Greedily the fox ate all himself, but kept asking the stork to help himself with the delicious food.

The stork felt betrayed, but he stayed and praised the exceptional hospitality. The next day he asked his friend to come to dinner. The fox had a feeling that the stork would take a revenge and declined the invitation. However the stork kept asking him so eventually the fox agreed to come. 

When he arrived at the stork’s place he found all sorts of delicate food  All was served in long slim  crockery. “Help yourself as I do” said the stork, “feel entirely at home” and continued eating everything by  himself, whilst the fox was annoyingly condemned to just smell and lick the outside of the crockery.

Hungry he got up from the meal and admitted that the stork had given him an adequate revenge for his wantonness.

Fact is: Don’t do anything onto others which you don’t want to be done to yourself.

When you look round and see what is going on online and at the kind of offers you see it is not surprising to see the rate of failures of well intended people who want to build a successful business online.

This is not only restricted to the internet it happens in real life on a daily basis as well.

In the long run, if you want to achieve success in network marketing you need to go for the ethical thing, so that your work is not in vain and you will be able to retire on what you have built.

To Your Ethical Success

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“Select your company wisely” – I like the pun in this title.

We have spoken a lot about what to bear in mind when you choose the company you intend to work with. when you are intending to have success in a network marketing business today,  what to watch out for and what to avoid.

It is interesting that the same topics always apply to many areas of life.

Let me tell you the story of

The Donkey Who was Tested:

A man bought a donkey, however, he arranged for a trial period with the seller. He took the donkey and walked with it to his farm. When they arrived he let the donkey loose to see what the animal would do.

There were already several donkey running around in the farm yard and as soon as the new donkey was loose he trotted around and chose to join the fattest and laziest of the donkeys on the yard at its feeding place.

When the farmer saw this he immediately put the cord around the donkey’s neck again and walked it back to its owner. The owner was surprised and couldn’t understand how the farmer could have tested the donkey that quickly.

The farmer told him that he had seen enough: “Considering the  company he chose he must be quite a bad guy” he replied.

This story is quite significant also in the human realm. You will surely know that

• people over time earn about the same as the average of their 5 closest buddies, or
• we all try to keep our children away from the influence of bad company,
• we try ourselves to stay away from totally negative people
• we will feel pulled down by evil gossip

This states only a few points, but shows clearly that this story holds a lot of truth.

Especially when striving for success at building a network marketing business today the human factor is of major importance. You need the positive support of like minded people and lots of input for your personal growth like water and air.

To Your Wise Choice

Frieke Karlovits

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For quite a while now I have been talking about most varied aspects of personal development and how it affects your network marketing business today.

There is one other aspect which is vital to your success in building a network marketing business – it is Your WHY!

You Why in a way is like the address in a GPS in the car. Start it without an address input and it will give you a failure or not perform – the same happens:

if we don’t create a Why for our life. This creates a situation where we are like floating matter in a river – we drift along where ever life takes us – no steering, no focus!

Let yourself be motivated:

To Your Deliberate Success!

Frieke Karlovits

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Let Go of Insecurity!

Insecurity in a way is the reverse side of self-confidence.

There are various ways to cover up insecurity. Some people are particularly aggressive, others are very messy and will tell you that “people who are tidy are too lazy to search for what they need” and many other showy things.

If you are the messy type who has chaos on the desk, the shelves and else where, a couple of very effective tip would be to:

• Decide to tidy up. Do a thorough clear up of all the mess around and put everything into place. You will immediately feel like having become a different person.
• Working through accumulated backlog of any kind, getting up-to-date with matters which you kept pushing on day after day or even years will create wonders in your perception of self.

Having accomplished two big tasks are two very tangible things. They make success at what you were doing visible and give you a new start.

Never forget that in network marketing today you are the role model for your business partners.

You may say – nobody can see your mess at home when you are working on the net. In a way you are right, however, the change it will create in YOU that having cleared a couple of things that kept weighing you down will be pronounced!

The attraction you are radiating will change drastically and consecutive success at building your business will manifest it.

So follow the Asian concept 

– Inside Like Outside –

get your Outside cleared and your Inside will automatically follow suit!

To Your Tidy Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Build Confidence in Yourself

This inner knowledge that you can do it, that you will achieve and that you are capable as you are.

We all have it when we are born – however the imprint we receive from our environment makes it disappear. It is not lost, but it is buried so to speak.

As long as you are leading an average life you are not conscious of this loss as a rule. You have adapted over time, except for the small percentage of revolutionaries who do not conform and who haven’t lost this inner knowledge of who they are.

As soon as you change your environment and start into independence professionally, this lack becomes obvious quickly. You wonder what is going on and why you do not perform and achieve as you have laid it out. Especially in network marketing today, where success is closely entwined with people and building relationships, it becomes quickly apparent that you are blocked for some intangible reason.

The balance is found in uncovering your inherent self-confidence. Uncovering the person who you really are. The person who attracts easily those  people who will be the right ones to achieve success through team work and mutual support.

Here are a couple of hints that may help you in this quest of finding yourself:

• Educate yourself on personal development. Knowing what it is all about will help you immediately. Mind you it will take practice, but the topic will gain shape in your mind.
• Activate your mind and body link. There is this old saying that a healthy minds lives easier in a healthy body -  one factor of it is  your posture. Keep yourself upright, straight! You will notice that your mind will appreciate it and you will feel a lot better.

There are many more factors which come into play. In part 2 I’ll give you some hints that might help you in your business environment on a more practical level.

To Your Confident Success

Frieke Karlovits

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In Network Marketing Today when worked online lots of people are side tracked by offers of quick cash – but

Quick Cash = Quick Crash

no more no less. Well perhaps at times even less as many of these offers are invalid.

Such an offer may side-track people to such an extent that they even loose sight of their dream. As a normal person with the heart in the right place you likely can’t sleep when you know very well that you  have stolen someone’s dream. So you won’t do it. But there are those who do not have this kind of awareness.

Unlike a job, which in a way is quick cash  too, as you exchange your time for money, network marketing is a business. It is a business that can pay you and your children and children’s children for the rest of their lives, –provided you choose the right company – a "5 Pillars" company. There is more on 5 pillars on my blog and of course even more in the Free Training we offer.

Too many people think they need to "build it fast". It in a way seems to be a handicap of societies today that all needs to be fast, fast, fast!

The other day I talked with a guy – he is in a binary and told me that he was placed in a spot where he has already 700 people down one leg. Well, excellent, but he was “not yet” making any money!

“Newbies” as a rule don’t understand that they are not being paid on the strong leg in a binary plan! A binary plan pays on the week leg and that is the one he will have to build himself!

Unfortunately people are blinded by that hype with the strong leg and they sign up and  as a rule it takes them a while or even longer to understand how such a plan works and how much of their effort goes down the drain!

Don’t fall for scams. Make sure you choose well and build long-term!

That is the way to achieve success in

network marketing today.

To Your Long-term Success,

Frieke Karlovits
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Thoughts Determine Who You Are.

In everyday life as well as in network marketing today this statement is valid.

In everyday life you will be seen as friendly or grumpy, helpful or self centered,  wise or dumb, and what ever it is it is the result of your thoughts. If you can live with the image you have created for yourself, fine.

In network marketing today you are also whatever your thoughts make you. Only in this business it is an  absolute necessity to work on yourself.

Working on yourself means working on your thought patterns. You require a mastermind team of well meaning people to support you in this complex venture.

As a rule we are so used to “who we are” that it takes input from outside to get our thoughts going in a different direction, to reach that point where we have that life changing AHA-moment that will brake the old rut and makes us start on a different path.

Why is is particularly important in network marketing today? Well, it is a business of people helping people and those who are searching for support are looking for role models they want to follow. Accordingly you need to become the person who you want to be in business with. Yes, as you will then be the person also others will want to be in business with.

So many people try to advertise their business in the most colourful way, yet in fact people do not follow a business they follow you. they follow “who you are”. They follow the role model they want to become.

The logic is clear. If you want to become a first rate race driver you will want to be coached by one. If you want to become a highly reputed musician, you will have to learn from the best. And of course – if you want to become successful in network marketing today you need to follow the person who is doing it successfully and in the way that appeals to you.

To Your Thoughtful Success

Frieke Karlovits

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How to use keywords for better results and to even give you ideas for blogging is valuable input for everyone who blogs on a regular basis as a marketing strategy for building a network marketing business today successfully .

We have spoken as to how to find core keywords on which to focus so that the search properties of your blog will eventually get you to the first page of google for the search on that term.

There is another free too on google that will help you determine which additional words google crawlers would like in your blog so that it will be considered of value in your particular niche.

This particular program is called Google Sets.

When you go to that site and put in your strategic key words and a few more that fit in your niche you have a choice of clicking either “big set” or “small set”.

The big set will give you about 50 keywords that google considers as associated with your core keywords and accordingly with your topic. The small set gives you up to 15 of such words.

• Of course it is wise to use a fair percentage of these words in your blogs. That way you optimize the likelihood of being considered an expert in your niche.
• Don’t be put off by the time required for doing your keyword research well. It is certainly worth while the effort.

There is a lot more detail to this information which certainly exceeds the volume of a blog, but at least you have a general idea of how to proceed. If you want more detail and perhaps even want to ask questions on t his topic or others I suggest you join into the Free Training we offer. Good training is a good share of the work you need to do, in any kind of business and especially in network marketing today.

To Your Well-informed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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There is this term in mentoring for free:

 “A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart”

and it is quite surprising how many people seem to have a problem with this mentality. Being a mentor with a heart for people is understood  only by some.

People will say – why do you do this for free or  wonder if this will end up in exploitation. No it doesn’t.

• Having a heart for  people doesn’t imply that you cannot say NO. First there is no point in just sponsoring pure curiosity and second it is not the task of a mentor to “carry” somebody.
• It is the task of a mentor to help empower people. To help them find their own self-worth and strength. To teach them skills they might not have and which are required for success online.

For valid mentorship it takes two sides – not only in school or normal life, but also in network marketing today:

There has to be the mentor with an ethical mindset and there has to be a student who wants help and co-operates.

If I find out that someone simply wants to use me – no way. I won’t permit that. I will say NO. Sometimes “tough love” will create an aha moment and after a period of reflection such a person may come back and understand. After all they want to create success in building their business.

Others need to cook in their own stew until they wake up.

As  mentor with a servant’s heart in network marketing today giving is natural. It is heart warming to see people grow as a person and in their skills which will then lead to success in building their network marketing business and will also put them in a place where they can mentor others, also showing a heart for them.

When you read “A Course in Miracles” you will see that this approach is very much in tune with our age.

We need to be the ones who make a change in the world, one person at a time.

To Your Heart-felt Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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

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The importance of being a team player is particularly hot when it comes to rock climbing in some high up mountain areas – may it be the Himalayan, the Alps or where ever.

When you look at the picture on the left you can very well imagine that a team like this will be as strong as its weakest member. All of them have to make sure that the weakest member is being heard, as the success of the tour will depend on the performance of this weakest team member.

A business like network marketing today is very closely related as far as the interaction and the success of the team is concerned.

It is those who come in new, who are like new born babies in this MLM industry, who need all the support they can get  so that they can have success in building their network marketing business.

They need to understand, then need to learn, they need to make money, they need to be “seen” and recognised.  This is what “makes” the entire organisation and consequently the reputation of the company.

In rock climbing, if the weakest team member is not supported – let’s assume it is the red on in this picture,  the ones behind him will drop or may be even the ones above him if he grabs and clings. Absolute trust and support are a MUST!

In network marketing today very much the same will happen. If the newcomers are not supported well and earn money, they will spread the bad reputation and eventually it will affect everybody in that team, organisation and company. After all bad reputation spreads like wild fire.

Apart from checking out all the technical details of a company it is therefore good to also  “listen” to what is being spread about the actions taken by a company and a team. It is another parameter which simply needs to be right when you choose a network marketing business opportunity today.

To Your Well-chosen Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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

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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
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Duplication – the magic word in network marketing today.

What is duplication – it is copying what others do successfully.

Duplication has to be simple, however, the steps that are repeated have to be valid and they have to work.

Not everybody who starts building a network marketing business is capable of speaking with other people as a matter of routine. For many this part of the business is pure stress. Mind you eventually everyone learns it, but this is part of the personal development that happens when you do this business on a constant basis.

Let’s look at duplication – what are the questions a prospect may ask:

1. Can I do this?
2. Can I make money doing this?
3. Can you help me?

To  have a positive reply to the first point the system that is used has to be simple. Your prospect needs to realise that he will be able to do it very well.

I use the book “Success in 10 Steps” by Michael Dlouhy – I let people read it. Most people can imagine themselves doing this – giving somebody a book to read.

Reading the book and  going through the following steps of the training people learn what to look for in a company so that they will be making money.

Once prospects have gone through the basics of this system they have no doubt that they are getting valid help.

If you can offer People such a simple system, network marketing suddenly becomes attractive. Struggles they had before appear in the right light. People realise that their lack of success was not their fault, but that they simply lacked training and a system to follow. Once they have both success in network marketing is attainable.

The old rule

Keep It Simple

has not lost it’s validity or its attractiveness.

To Your Systematic Success

Frieke Karlovits

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A Mentor With a Servant’s Heart has become somewhat a term in the mentoring scene for network marketing today.

It sounds good and seems easy and in a way it is. However when you look closer and a little deeper, there are aspects which do need additional attention.

People tend to smile when the discussion is around mind reading. Very often it is not taken serious, but in fact we do it all the time if we know it or not.

I think everybody has this experience that we trust somebody at first sight or we are weary about somebody no matter how long that person may be around us and even more so if the person doesn’t give any reason for this weariness.

The difference is in the mindset of the people in question. Those who approach us without and “agenda” in mind, simply being open to communicate and be friendly and eventually perhaps become friends, they are the ones where we feel comfortable spontaneously.

And those where we have this weariness, this uneasiness which persists – well, as a rule we find out at some stage that they have an “agenda” on their mind. To make this more precise – when you look at business it may be those  who offer us  training on the forefront, however, at the back of their mind they have a distinct personal desire to have us in their network marketing business. As a rule the surface wears thin after a while and the true colour shows up.

A mentor with a servant’s heart will be taken as such if there is no agenda in mind.

There is this saying in network marketing – if you help enough people your success is a direct result. Of course it is. If you help people with their well-being at heart they feel it, no matter if they acknowledge it or not. And there will be for sure some among them who are on the look out for a business opportunity and when they are comfortable around you and happy with what you provide they will gladly join in with you. In fact they will ask you if you are willing to take them into your business so that you can help them to be successful in what they are doing – it is their business even though they have signed up with you!

In a previous post I spoke about working with the volunteers – that’s how it works.

To Your Heart-felt Success

Frieke Karlovits

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The Pillars are Interconnected!

Let’s check:

Pillar number 3

We already asked – is the product part of an “upward trend”?

In addition the Product also needs to be reasonably priced in the market.

All network marketing  companies have good products and consequently the product you are wanting needs to be competitively priced .

A plan which offers you a whole sale price and a retail price is a plan which is based on “recruit, recruit, recruit…” – unless you are RED you are having a tough time to succeed in such a model.

The next question you need to ask yourself – would the product sell if there was no commission plan attached to it? Literally speaking this means will you be able to actually build a customer base? If  this point applies, the opportunity is illegal.

If you cannot pay by credit card but only cash or per money order – illegal again!

If the distributors collect the money and not the company – illegal!

If you MUST have a Retail Merchant’s account – caution – the company is scamming your!

There is an easy way to find out if the price of the product is ok – go on ebay and check if the product is sold there “under priced” – this indicates that the distributors are unable to sell it – stay away!

If it takes you a long while to talk somebody into the product you become a sales person and who wants to be sold?

ATTENTION: Network Marketing is a relationships business not a sales business! 

You see many points have to be considered for checking out pillar number 3. If you are “in love” with the product of your company, you may not be level headed enough to actually acknowledge some of these points.

If you simply want the product, forget any consideration.

However, if you actually want to have success in network marketing, then you need to consider and make decisions!

Let us know if you need independent input!

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Pillar Number 2

Is the company a start-up company or even worse a “pre-launch” company – or has it passed the “early failure” time line?

Which products does the company  offer? Are they in tune with the beginning of a massive consumer trend?

What do I mean with this – products appear and disappear and this cycle is driven by consumer demand. In the days of the “baby boomers”  baby clothes and shoes, later toys for small children were big business  – 20 years later there was the huge real estate boom – look at real estate now.

You need to have a product which is on the rising scale of demand. That is the only way to build a business with a “chance for everyone” who does the work. Outside of these periods the same products will require marketing sales experts to be turned.

And as said above – don’t go into start-up or pre-launch opportunities. Most companies don’t last even two years and the average distributor needs a 2 year learning curve before he starts making money – see what I  mean? So make sure the  company you join is at least 2 years old.

Another “rather not” are companies who have passed their prime time who have become rhinos. The big growth potential is gone there and if you actually want to  have success in building a network marketing business today you are minimizing your chances! 

There is more that can be said in this context – again you are welcome to join the free training to learn it all.

Stay tuned for the third pillar.

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Don’t Make  a List of Family and Friends!

I know – I know – there are many around who want you to do just this.

Why do I claim it makes no sense:

Look around – most kids know already when they are still attending school which profession they want to do  next. Some want to be teachers, others hairdressers, boys might want to become pilots, farmers or hunters – so many jobs around.

So why would anyone who wants to be a teacher fancy to be on your network marketing list? Or a surgeon who chose this as a vocation, or in fact anyone who chose a job out of their free will. Do you understand why they will avoid you like bad money if you keep offering your network marketing business to them?

Basically there are only about 20 % of the population who actually want to run their own business and among those you have many trades. So only a fraction of all people will be “potential” for network marketing.

As it is in network marketing today, the major percentage of people are struggling – mostly because old belief systems, like “you need to make a list of family and friends” keep being around and newcomers keep buying into it and stepping into the circle of failure of none of their fault. It is time to stop this folly and establish a valid training for network marketer that will eventually change the entire face of this industry by leading more and more people to success in building a network marketing business.

Once you are trained adequately you can stretch out your hand and help other struggling network marketers learn what you have learned and success in network marketing today will be your reward.

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Frieke Karlovits

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Vision 

the

Key Element

for an

Entrepreneur!

Vision and imagination are two or the key ingredients for success in network marketing today. Therefore it is not really a big surprise, that network marketing creates big numbers if entrepreneurs in the century and age. We are in information age – an age where material facts, like “owning machine tools” and a factory or the like is no more the sole basis of entrepreneurship.

Knowledge, service, working with people, creating visions and helping others achieving them – these are among the up-to-date scenarios which create entrepreneurs.

Yes – in network marketing you need to have a tangible product around which the business is centered. But the product is not  the business it is the “tool” for the business, so to speak. The power of network marketing is in the intangible realm of communication.

It is the attraction between people that makes it possible to build trust founded on integrity´, and it is this element which is at the base of self development programs, self-help groups and many other intangible pathways of growth.

There is this saying:

”If you want more you have to become more”.

It is a tough lesson and it in fact is the lesson which makes the difference between having success in network marketing today and not having success.

Someone who thinks that it is possible to build a successful network marketing business by selling a product and by pitching the business opportunity on line is bound to fail if they resist  looking at the other aspects.

If this has lit a light bulb for you – we are willing to help you step on the path of success. Simply click the “vision eye” and get going.

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Responsibilities – WE carry the world!

Yes – we do have a responsibility when we enter a people’s business like network marketing today.

Working with people internationally creates an increased responsibility. There is not only the trust that needs building from person to person, but there also is this element of “being foreign” that needs to be bridged, which takes building even more trust.

In this process as people get to know each other and enter into mutual growth processes, honesty, integrity, truth, having the best intention for the other, are necessities which cannot be replaced. Even slight slips, unless acknowledged and mended will have an undesirable impact

Accepting these responsibilities will build relationships strong enough that a successful  life-time business can be built together. These responsibilities work well when they are mutual. Even if one is the teacher at some stage and the other one the pupil – eventually it will be give and take as the teacher gets the pupil that fits and the pupil gets the teacher that fits.

This responsibility also extends to the business that is being built. there needs to be integrity of the field towards the network marketing company in question, but  at the same time there needs to be absolute integrity on behalf of the company towards the field too. One cannot do without the other.

And to state another point – there needs to be responsibility of how we present us, our team, our business to the world. does it happen in a “clean” way without sneaky or secretive actions? Long-term result will show up what is what and who is who.

I hope I got you thinking and you will bear these thoughts in mind when planning, working, building your network marketing business today.  The resulting rate of success will prove your actions right.

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Don’t Give Away Your Power – Be Yourself!

Another big mistake people make in network marketing and especially online – they follow a Guru.

It doesn’t meet the idea of network marketing. This business is all about YOU and the people YOU help and support. Like this tree at the side you need to be anchored with solid roots/convictions/trust/faith and  nothing and nobody will be able to shake you.

Misunderstood attraction marketing is fatal. The moment you give away your power the moment you are not attractive to people who you would want to be in business with or even sharing a 3 month’s cruise somewhere nice.

To harp again on the topic of personal development, be yourself – work on yourself and become the person you want to be, the person who is a leader who helps others succeed. Connect personally with the people who you attract, ask them how you can help them in building their business. The more you help the more success you will be having.

This is the key to having success in network marketing today.

The internet is just a tool, a “catalyst” that helps us meeting the right people.

This series gives an idea of where to go/not to go and what to do/not to do when using the internet to build your network marketing business successfully. If you want to learn more, connect and get more information which is targeted to your challenges.

It is always a pleasure to be working with people who want to own their lives.

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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!

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The slogan which you find very often is “Knowledge is Power” – this is not true!

Applied Knowledge Is Power

You can learn and study all your life – unless you take that knowledge into action, into creativity, nothing will come of it.

Just imagine – filling a watering can with water – at some stage it  will be full and will overflow. Unless you lift that can up and take it somewhere where you can pour the water onto a seeded area or to plants, the benefit of filling the watering will be lost. It may be even contra productive as it may provide humidity for weeds!

Or you can learn the best recipes in the process of becoming a chef – unless you cook them and have people eat them nobody will benefit from the effort of your learning.

The best way of learning is “learn – apply”, go to the next step and again “learn – apply” … . Doing it step by step you automatically will fall into a pattern which resembles “plan – do – review – adjust” with the simple exception that the first stage is “learn”.

The results you will be getting will be extraordinary as you will always be close to real life. Especially in network marketing this is a necessity as every learning step involves people which makes practical experience twice as important as in many other professions. Your success will be directly connected with it.

The entire life is a learning process and once we accept it we can always follow this pattern and as a result will learn lots of things which will enrich us on many levels.

Learn – Grow – Succeed!

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The power of the team cannot only be observed in network marketing. It can be observed everywhere in this world.

Let’s start with something simple – take one match and break it – well, easy, of   course! Take a bunch of matches, hold them together as a bunch and try to break it – not easy at all – depending on the diameter of the bunch even impossible.

You can also see it in the animal kingdom – herds, swarms, flocks, whatever the various groups of animals are called – they stick together, as together their chance for survival is a lot higher.

When it comes to  humans it is quite obvious – where bigger groups stick together   and follow a plan, an idea, ward off danger or whatever, it works. One person at a time would be lost, but as a team they can make it! It is a proven success principle of old.

When it comes to building a network marketing business the power of the team is of major importance.

Working together, sharing views and ideas, helping one another without an agenda – that’s what makes people succeed. In a network marketing team there should be team spirit across all organisations – no competition or hick – hack .

People who are building within the same company should always consider themselves as one team.  That way a company as well as the distributors will have a solid business success.

I’d like to span the bow wider – it is important to have co-operation and support within the entire industry of network marketing. This idea of togetherness should cause companies to offer even better opportunities so that people have more choices where to build a solid business.

It is the Power of A Team that can change the world!

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In  conventional business headlines are an entire branch of business – so it need not be a surprise that headlines make a difference also in network marketing today.

Headlines are part of communication and communication can be good and rejection free or it may scratch the people you  talk to.

Tom ‘Big Al’ Schreiter , this remarkable coach,  has an incredible wealth of information and it makes sense to go back to his site again and again for extensive and valuable learning.

What do you think of headlines like:

Pay attention, attention pays

People are at the center of our system that is build on integrity, honesty and loyalty

Read it or Delete it – it’s your Loss or your Gain!

Replace Full Time Income with PART Time effort and earn QUALITY Family Time!

This is just a tiny  example of how powerful headlines can be. Headline doesn’t necessarily mean “written format”. Also when you speak with people it is so much easier to connect when you have communication skills. It has an immediate impact on your level of success in building a network marketing business!

Network marketing is a people’s business. Excellent Communication makes all the difference.

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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.

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So WHAT if not network marketing today? Is there an option if you have a vision in life?

I give you a number of examples:                             

A JOB – “J ust O ver B roke” – working 40 hours per week for 40 years …

A Business – being tied to a loan – what you make in the first 10 years may just be enough for covering the loan and not much more? Look at the rate at which businesses are closing down – and what happens with the loan?

Being an artist or any self-employed high trained professional  like lawyers, etc, – in all of these cases you exchange work/time for money and to earn again the same needs to take place all the time – sure there may be employees – they also need their pay and the rat race goes on. 

Ok – you will say network marketers  go out of business too – yes, they do as of any other business or job too – but there is no risk – no loan that remains.

I have discussed in some previous posts all sorts of issues which need to be solved when getting into a network marketing business – provided this is done you are safe. Strangely enough people will do proper investigations with conventional business – my guess is – they wouldn’t get a loan without a proper business plan! Banks know that a business only has a chance to work when there is a proper business plan!

The big advantage in network marketing – you can build. Yes, you can build – like building a house you can add one piece to the next and over time create a solid residual income that will be stable and set you free.

After that you  – may be – work, as you love what you are doing – it becomes very fascinating and rewarding to see people we mentor grow, having success and start owning their lives. However, there is never that MUST that drives you that MUST as you need to earn money.

It will be a vocation, it will be fun, it will be worth while, to liberate more and more people by leading them to success in network marketing today.

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To be successful in building your network marketing business today you need a constant flow of leads which have opted into your offer. This is the only legal way to do it.

In order to achieve this online you need a technical back ground, a system, which has all the features compiled that are required for this purpose. Capture pages with opt in, data base where all the data of the people who opt in are collected, auto-responder, electronic diary, etc.

Most people will not be able to set all this up and make it functional so there are many offers out there and people advertising them in the brightest colours.

I am not the “techie” girl so specific techie information is not my domain, but I want to show up one important factor:

Read the small print of what ever you intend to use and see who owns the data base!

You might want to go elsewhere for some techie or other reasons – what happens with the leads you have collected with the system the used – do they belong to you? Can you export them, then remove them from that system as they belong to you? Or will the database remain with whoever created the system? Mind you – of course you may find means to have all the names and use them, but if the collected information was sold by the owners of the data base to earn extra money?

Or let’s go an other route – you might run into a money problem and not be able to pay your fee – does that mean that all your data are gone and you need to start over -  or will the data be kept and once you pay your fee again the data will be still there waiting for you?

Are the data safe from being hacked?

That’s just a hint for you. Check out this important topic – make sure you get a straight answer, best in writing so that you  and your network marketing business are on a safe road to success!

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Branding has become THE topic when speaking of marketing online. Mind  you this applies to all types of business, however how branding should be done best will vary from business to business.

In network marketing today branding is a MUST. Look around – most people try to do it one way or other – all sorts of methods are applied.

You will see people who use the brand of the product they are having, others use the company logo and more and more understand that branding yourself is the way to go.

Let us investigate why:

you use the product for branding – what happens if the product is changed, changes label or gets competition?

you use the company logo (if permitted at all) – what happens if the company goes belly up or you decide to go elsewhere for which ever reason?

Your network marketing company may decide to “dispense” with you as you earn too much money…….

Any effort spent on this kind of branding will be lost if things change!

Brand YOURSELF – you are the head of your business and  which ever company you co-operate with is your supplier – those who provide the product and who pay you for volume you create. It is that simple.

Not only in network marketing this is the way to go when you run your own company. You may have a sales agency – same thing applies – also there you “sell yourself” you gain a reputation for the service you provide, for the quality you choose to represent.

In each case it is YOU who creates the relationships with others – business partners or customers and people are reluctant to change, especially when they like you and they are satisfied with what you provide for them

Therefore: Brand Yourself!

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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.

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A Solid Company?

aren’t they all?

So – Where to Start?

This is a complex and delicate topic. Below I will list  the criteria which you certainly need to check out when choosing the network marketing company you plan to base your life on. You need to match facts which cannot be overlooked with the trust you might have in the person who presented which ever company to you.

Lots of people are too trusting, have too little background knowledge or training, and decide to join a network marketing business because they are enthusiastic about it or the perspective that they finally might own their lives. Enthusiasm often covers up rational evaluations until  the mischief arises.

What to check out when investigating a company:

1.  Company Management: do they have personal experience building their own network marketing organization and have they done it with Integrity?

2.  Time Line: is the company over their first years “childhood diseases”?  Are the products of the company in tune with the beginning of a massive trend of consumer demand?

3.  Does the company have a remarkable product at a reasonable price – excellent price/performance ratio?

4.  Does the compensation plan pay part-time people adequately for their efforts?

5.  Can your mentor offer you a system which you can duplicate as well as the people you bring in, etc…?

These are the core points that should be investigated for sure to make sure success will be possible. There are quite a number of additional points which do have an impact on your success in a network marketing business, which, however need to be discussed from case to case.

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Skills?

Yes – Skills

in

Network Marketing Today

For some strange reason the necessity of skills for success in network marketing has not become established yet.

In any other job, profession, trade it is considered normal that solid training is required. Nobody would dream of becoming a lock smith without learning it, or a teacher with out going to college, or a doctor without studying medicine, or a lawyer or anything else. Most of them have to go through additional training once they have finished the basic course.

So why on earth would anyone “think” they could do network marketing anyways?

Yea – I know – most people are aware of the fact that they are giving recommendations from the time onwards when they can speak – but that’s only part of it.

Very much like a person who has a high musical talent still has to practise playing the piano or in fact any other instrument to become really proficient, a person who wants to go into network marketing and do more than just “dabble around” needs to go through some solid training to really make it in network marketing today. It’s always been that way but today with so much internet technology being part of business activities apart from the person to person skills of communication and more, acquiring skills has become an absolute MUST:

Skills: personal development of self and helping others with it, knowing how to choose a business, lead generation (handling internet sites, social networks, blogging, advertising and a lot more), connecting with the leads in a way that a good percentage become business partners, …. the list is ongoing.

 Attention!

Not all training on the internet meets the required standards – so watch out, choose well, don’t let yourself be ripped off!

 

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Planning? Of course! Network marketing is a business as any other!

In the last few posts we have talked a bit about the importance of personal development so let’s skip that now.

What is the most important asset in a network marketing business? It’s your prospects. So how about “planning” your prospects. No this is not a joke.

Part of your planning has to be, to determine what sort of prospect you want to attract. The more detail you give this thought the better.

There are those who simply say – I want my prospects to be like me or like… – that’s easy if you have references like that.

However seeing it long-term, as network marketing is a long-term business and should be designed to pay not only you but also your children and even your grand children, a blending of a number of different qualities might prove a definite bonus for team building.

In network marketing today, where knowledge about the personality colours is not a secret, we are very much aware that people who match different colours, have different strengths and weaknesses.

Let’s give network marketing an overview:

you need those who are good at sponsoring, others who are good at training the team and giving support, but you also need products to be turned and you need to have those who know precisely how a commission plan is used best to maximize profits. And of course you don’t want the business to be totally boring but fun, with new people being attracted all the time as things are “on the move”.

You see – when you really give “planning your prospects” a closer thought there is work to be done in the workshop of your mind, the center of your imagination where your thoughts eventually are blended with passion so that they can materialise!

Let’s go into  other topics next time.

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Would you believe it – network marketing is 60+ years old! Isn’t it surprising that so many people still consider it as “this new thing which seems to be a pyramid”?

It just shows how long it takes till something sinks into the mind of a society. many people stick to their habits and thought patterns without discrimination if they still serve them or not. For all of those who have been in the industry longer this picture collection will match with memories – good ones or other.

Let me go through a fast motion  re-view of the business model of network marketing until we arrive at network marketing today.

Basic idea:

• connect a producer and the customers  with less/no steps in between.
• let the money go to active consumers rather than to advertising, trade partners, etc
• people have been giving referrals all their lives – use this capacity to create and income, to build a network marketing business
• company benefit – more money for research, as a result better products, press pressure
• customer benefit – people they know can answer their questions and provide service to them

All these points are valid and valuable. So why has this fantastic concept of network marketing still not conquered the market as the dominant way of moving products?

Stay tuned – we will talk about it!

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Network marketing today is done more and more by using the internet. The world has shrunk and most companies expand into various parts of the world. So it seems obvious to find means and ways to find people elsewhere than around your home to build a successful international business.

However, using the internet successfully for building a network marketing business is not easy – it certainly needs some basic training.

Lots of training is available and when you arrive at the internet you obviously start browsing and finding all sorts of offers for training one way or other. It takes a while  before you realise that lots of it is skillful “up-selling”  and actually not training. Sites that keep giving you bits of information only to offer you the next book, tape, program or whatever for “only so and so much” without ever getting to the point of really providing information are rip-offs, no more.

In the effort to connect with others social sites and first of all Facebook,  have become the target sites of millions of people who are looking for success online.  

Facebook has become so complex – not only as far as possibilities is concerned, but also as far a methods of posting goes – morning evening, weekday, text, pictures, etc….. Evaluations are being made all the time how to best write, post, do to get the maximum results from the time and effort spent.

Read yourself some Facebook insights which will for sure be very interesting and might even change your timing and habits on this site.

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At no point in history  was it possible to do anything just offhand.

When you start out doing something you normally should want to find out how things are to be done. It doesn’t matter if it is cooking or growing vegetables or doing business of which ever kind – you need to find out what you require to do it successfully.

With practice you’ll come to a point of competence and you’ll find yourself accomplishing your goals gracefully and confidently. 

You may even become aware that you’ll do things that you never dreamed you could do or you may discover powers/capabilities you never knew you had or even existed.
If you’re prepared, you’re able to feel confident. You will not waver from the path you have chosen.

For some strange reason when people go in to network marketing this very normal approach seems to be “invisible” to them. Most seen to think they can do it anyways and in the end they wonder why they do not succeed.

There can be no great courage when there is no confidence or assurance.
Half the battle is in the conviction that you can accomplish what you undertake.

Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s the result of constant work and dedication.

It is very much easier to accomplish when you work in a mastermind group of like minded people who will give you the confidence and the trust in you till you have achieved it yourself.

A Mastermind group will also give you support in developing your personality or in overcoming things you have accumulated in life which will not be so easy to shed or which you might even have hidden in front of yourself in order to be able to survive.

Look out and find the mentor and team you feel you can trust and you’ll be surprised how the world changes around you!

To Your Growth

Frieke Karlovits

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It may sound old fashioned to some, but courtesy is still in, especially when it comes to building relationships with people or even  friendships. It is simply much easier to come in touch with someone if your approach is courteous.

There is much being said and being written as to how to build a network marketing business the right way and in fact “relationships” is coming up more so the  hints are getting “hotter”.

However, there is no investment you’ll ever make that will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good vibes where ever you are, simply by starting out in a courteous way.

It is embedded in human nature to be not alone, to meet up with like minded people – in fact there is this craving to be appreciated.
If you treat someone like the person they might be, they very likely may become like that very person.  It is like they start seeing themselves with your eyes – “uplifted” so to speak.

As my appreciated mentor, Michael Dlouhy, keeps saying “we believe in you until you believe in yourself”. In a way being courteous is “paying it forward” and the results speak for themselves.

Everyone thrives on being appreciated, loved and needed. Growth, personal development, opening of consciousness very often starts with knowing that others believe in you.  What a way to do business too!

Applaud others when they run.
Console them when they fail.
And cheer them when they recover.

As water is to a flower, so is praise to the heart of another.

To Your Success and Personal Growth

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with A Servant’s Heart

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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

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Today I want to tell you a story which some of you will already know.

It is the story of the Frogs’ Competition.

There was a day when a bunch of frogs decided to enter a competition of who would be able to climb a high tower first.

Soon many watchers were around and bets were made and of course people started to comment.

They said things like “this is impossible, it is far to high a tower for a frog to climb, no one has the strength to reach that end, the tower is much too slippery to be climbed,….”

One after the other the frogs gave up and in the end there was only one frog left who climbed and climbed and climbed – it was obvious that it took him a lot of effort, but he continued nevertheless and in the end reached the top of the tower and so won the competition.

Of course everybody was curious how this was possible as the frog didn’t seem to be the biggest or strongest of the frogs who went into the competition. When he was interviewed it turned out that he was deaf.

This allegory clearly demonstrates, that is makes no sense to listen to dream thieves  or other negative people who want to impose their negative attitude or even attitude of failure.

When building a network marketing business it for sure happens all the time. Everybody around you will know it all and know it better and will do all so that you will give up. Your success is not wanted by the observers – it gives them the bad feeling of minority!

Therefore make sure that you close your ears to all those negative inputs, mix with positive and like minded people and do your positive self development work. That immunises you against negative crap.

To Your success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson is a secret tip for personal growth.

Personal growth is valuable in your personal life as much as it is in business – especially in a “people’s business” like network marketing, where the challenge is to lead others to success – and preferably leading by example.

This approach leaves you no choice! You have to grow!

In this book, The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson shows in a very humorous way, that little actions on a daily basis will make a critical difference over time.

For example – drink 8 glasses of water every day. Is this easy to do? Is it easy not to do? Will it make a difference after 1 day? Will it harm you if you don’t do it 1 day?

Many other basic actions are described and in each case the same questions will draw  the same replies. But in each case it is obvious that doing the same little thing over time it will make a huge difference in your life!

I warmly recommend you read this book and take it to heart

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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Roland Deiser is one of the leading people in the arena of company  training and mentoring. He is the author of “Designing the Smart Organization: How Breakthrough Corporate Learning Initiatives Drive Strategic Change and Innovation”.

Here are some tips he gave for building a network marketing business:

• Practice oriented learning should become a daily routine
• Discuss strategies and tips with your upline and leaders
• Develop a professional identity by learning as much as you can about your customers, the products, the sponsoring system as well as how to build your business.
• Create a way to mastermind with others in your organisation discussing your experience and respective tips.

It is again and again surprising, that the basic essence stays the same no matter who is summing up and investigates. We are working in a mastermind group and have been doing so for years and I can only confirm what Roland Deiser is putting out.

Have fun and success implementing tips like this!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with a Servant’s Heart

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Plan – Do – Review – Adjust was an approach which was discussed by Art Jonak at a seminar I attended this autumn. It sounds pretty simple when you see it, yet it has power – power to change your business to such an extent that you suddenly will find yourself on the road to success.

PLAN

Of course you need to plan! Most people who join a network marketing opportunity let it “flow”. As a result they find themselves in a position where they are only the observers of success. Folks – network marketing is a business not a game! there is no business which you can develop without a plan. It would be like building a house with out one. There is no way this leads to success!

DO

As the famous German poet Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe said – “It is not enough to know, you also need to apply it”!

There are so many people out there who gather information and more information, they list pros and cons and “know it all” yet they never ever make a move to pull all of it into life. Eventually some of them even claim “to have worked so much and yet they didn’t become successful” – well of course not – a house doesn’t get built by studying the plan!

REVIEW

There are of course those who plan, who do and yet realise at some stage that they are not getting to where they want to be – you need to give it some time to find out that you are actually stuck but if you do, take step 3 and start to REVIEW – list what has worked and what hasn’t ask those you co-operate with how they see certain things and then make a change

ADJUST

But be careful – make 1 change at a time only! WHY? Well if you change several things at the same time you have no chance of knowing which of the changes turned the ship around!

If you want to build your network marketing business in an entrepreneurial style you need to apply this process again and again. It is the shortest way to YOUR SUCCESS!

Have fun investigating this idea and DO it!

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

PS If you find you want external support to get this going, get into the free training that starts with the free e-book “Success in 10 Steps” – it may help you to have some other aha moments too!

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Today let’s deal with the last colour -  GREEN.

Considering that green is a topic in many contexts world wide it doesn’t seem coincidence that green personalities account for about 35% of the population. Where would we be without green – have you considered this? So let’s get  straight to facts:

What are the strengths of green personalities:

They are organised, planners, their persistence makes them follow through.

Their motto is: Let’s get the facts and figures!

Greens likely are in occupations like being accountants, engineers or even in research. Their voice is soft and polite and as a rule they dress in a formal more conservative way. They really love dealing with graphs and whys, figures and researching all details they can. In MLM they may take a long time to decide but once they have made up their mind they will go for it and never quit.

What you need to be aware of when dealing with green personalities:

Greens dislike pushy people intensely. when you talk to them and you don’t give them facts they will be displeased and they are hard to please anyways. all this dealing with facts and figures makes them loners at times and they have a tendency for being depressed.

It is great to have green personalities on your network marketing team – they will work it all out and know exactly how to use the commission in the very best manner. Ask them for facts and you will be very well served.

When you  study the colours you will realise that a good mix of all colours will be good for creating a network marketing business, especially if you know how to deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the individual tem members.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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It is one of these rare occasions when you can hear the big leaders of MLM all in one place:

Have fun – enjoy!

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor with A Servant’s Heart

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