1
Nov

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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12
Oct

image It is an open secret that in network marketing today the failure rate is above 90%. How can that be?

Most people who join a network marketing business join a network marketing opportunity as they are excited either about a product or about the chance of “owning their lives”. They sign up as they trust the person who presented the opportunity to them.

They start their work full of enthusiasm and follow the instructions they get from their sponsor, if they get any at all. Mostly it will be things like”make a list of friends and family and buy leads.

Let’s go for buying leads first – that is a treacherous way of doing anything as to be on the legal side you need to have leads who opted into YOUR offer. I someone reports you as spammer you need to be able to provide the opt in details and the opt-in IP.

Making a list of friends and family may work for some if they happen to have people around them who have a similar mindset and similar needs. It doesn’t work at all of they have their own different jobs or businesses which are totally unrelated to marketing.

Just imagine you want to have your house painted – would you  advertise for doctors to do so? Well, you may laugh but that’s just what it is if your friends and family are not at all interested in anything like network marketing it is hopeless to perhaps try and talk them into it. Just as un likely  as having a doctor paint your house.

Another big topic  will be the company you join itself.

  1. Which kind of a commission plan do they have?
  2. How many and which hoops to you have to jump through to qualify
  3. What are the policies and procedure like – are they only for the company and without consideration for you?
  4. Are their products fairly priced?

These are just 4 critical points you need to look at. Most people may require education to  be able to read a commission plan or the legal text of the contract so don’t feel bad if you are having a hard time going through this material. That is why mentoring for free is available online – an organisation of volunteers who set out to help.

You may find lots of training online on how to build a business  and there are many people who have quite good knowledge on how to work, like:

How to build relationships.well, give support to your team, help them on all levels, etc.

However, if you are an average person the best training in the world will not make you a real winner if the cards are stacked against you

and you have missed out on investigating if the company you have joined is the right background for achieving your dreams!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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13
Apr

Are You A Happy Network Marketer?

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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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

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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28
Mar

Select Your Company Wisely

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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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

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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22
Mar

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What is your definition of freedom?

Give me your feedback!

Mine is to  be able to do:

  •    What I want to do,
  •    When I want to do it and
  •    Without monetary limits.

It may seem like having the focus on money only – certainly not! However so many worthy things in life can only be effected with adequate funds.

Look at health:

Yes I understand what you mean – good health cannot be bought by money. I agree -  not in the direct understanding. However, enough money does have a direct connection with health.

If you can buy excellent food, supplements, spa recreation, long holidays, etc. because you can afford it you are far more likely to maintain your good health for a very long time.

Being free of worry is another topic when it comes to good health.

  • Worry is inclined to make people sick over time.
  • Worry of not knowing how to pay your bills,
  • Worry of loosing your job,
  • Worry of being overworked to make it all happen,
    to list but a few.

Network marketing today is designed to give you a chance for freedom.

  • Does it happen on auto-pilot? NO.
  • Does it happen with just anything? NO.
  • Does it happen in total ignorance? NO.

To gain your freedom by building a network marketing business today you will have to get educated – not by the company you might have fallen love with, but in a generic manner so that you will learn all the MUSTs and NOs of the industry.

There is too much out that will not serve you. There are too many out who will only look after their own gain, whereas the basis for true success is:

You need to give before you take.

This is a paradigm which many find hard in today’s world where everything is supposed to “happen right now”.

Building a network marketing business is very much like cultivating plants:

You need to sew, then water the seeds so that they eventually will germinate and then you have to nourish the tender seedling so that they can grow and gain strength.

If you subject them to a hailstorm or to power hosing you’ll not like be in for a harvest. Let this be your directive when you are looking at how to build a long-term lasting network marketing business.

Look to find the right seeds and follow the process.

The results will be so rewarding that you will never be sorry you did what you did. Be prepared to meet up with some “bad weather “in the process and like you would cover up tender plants resort to connect with your mastermind team to get protection, support and encouragement.,

 

To Your Courageous Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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13
Mar

“The Secret” Success Story

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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As early as 1937 Napoleon Hill wrote his “Think and Grow Rich”. It contains everything you need for creating success in life and business.

The title link leads you to the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

This topic was laid down even before then and many times afterwards, the most famous right now being “The Secret” which has become a world wide best seller.

So why is it with all that evidence of knowledge laid down in writing that there are still so many struggling to achieve success?

To be able to accept information laid down in books you need to take a close look at yourself. Everyone has received a basic programming when growing up. Most of it happened without conscious application of knowledge but just as a matter of habit, culture and environment.

We consider our basic programming “normal” and very often look at others who received a different kind of programming as “not normal”. It very likely is this fact that makes it so hard to start a process of “re-programming” in order to eventually change our lives. The basis is that we finally reach the conclusion that the programming we received does not serve us, that is stops us from where we want to go.

It is in the industry of network marketing today that these facts show up drastically.

Anyone who had success in a normal job and is starting a network marketing business has a hard time accepting that the same amount of dedicated work as was done in the job gives no to low results in building a network marketing business.

Many simply “run” and conclude that this industry simple is nothing for them. However, this is not true. It is in MLM where the “Law of Attraction” comes in fully. You achieve that which is in tune with your mindset. If you are not money minded, for instance, money will elude you. There is this observation that it is those who win who already have a lot – of course – it is law of attraction: like meets like!

To achieve long-term success in network marketing today personal development is a MUST. In order to achieve more you have to become more.

Personal development may be a lot easier if you join a mastermind group of like minded people and follow the process.

In the one I love we study Think and Grow Rich on a weekly basis. If you decide to join in and do your scheduled contributions and exercises week after week you will be surprised how much you grow in a comparatively short time. It helps  you with re-programming your mind, getting rid of outdated thought patterns which no longer serve you and integrate thoughts which will attract success – in private life as well as in business.

Doing this on a regular basis together with the training you receive in mentoring for free you will be heading for outstanding success and even be able to leave a legacy for your family.

To Your Outstanding Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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8
Mar

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“I have no time” – this is what many prospects tend to say when it comes to deciding about doing a network marketing business today and doing it successfully.

“I have no time” is simply way of saying NO.

Time is elusive and most people actually while away a lot more time than they’d ever acknowledge.

Most people consider lack of time a major problem. Some don’t as they have discovered time management.

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Today I’d like to have you take a look at how much time we actually have.

Every single person has exactly 168 hours a week.

Let’s break it down:

  • 8 hours of sleep per day              56
  • 8 hours of work 5 days per w.       40
  • 3 hours of commuting 5 d./w.       15
  • 1 hour of grooming   p.d.               7
  • Family life, house-care, food        30
  • Favourite sport     p.w.                 5

                                Totals to         153 hours a week

That leaves you 15 hours a week to do your  home based business

(and between you and me – do you really need 8 hours of sleep every night??)

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I am aware that different people have different parameters, but in general everyone ca set up such a time table.

You will see one thing – I have allowed no  space for watching TV or reading the news paper. However if you really want to do something to improve your quality of time in the long run you need to be aware that you cannot get something for nothing. Doing some sport will empower you whereas watching TV will drag you down. You need support to do this – be in touch we’ll help you!

Your success in network marketing today is waiting for you – it simply takes your decision to follow through!

To Your Well-timed Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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24
Feb

 

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“Insane Productivity”

It appears to be insane to use this expression for extremely high productivity – a real joke!

It is obvious that  to achieve high success in network marketing today you are looking out for strategies that let you explode your productivity.

You will say at once that it is leverage that creates this productivity in a network marketing business. This is true, but you need to get there in the first place.

Leverage is the result of effort accumulated over time. A new network marketing business doesn’t start with success on day one, nor does any other business in fact. You need to do all the diligent homework you do in any other business and then  get it going through persistence, personal development and nurturing team work.

In this process there are a number of things which may help you on the way:

  • Be peaceful within. High productivity needs work, no doubt, but you also need peace of mind and a relaxed approach. Love what you are doing and be focused. When you love what you are doing you will be able to see things in a positive light so that everything will flow freely.
  • Take action. There is no productivity without action! It is not enough to plan to climb the Mt.Everest – you need to go there and actually do it!.
  • Get organized. You need to have a clean workplace. Don’t push  things off and work without delays. There are some people who have the strange idea that anyone who is tidy is only too lazy to put in a good search – I think investing that search time into work will get you a lot further.
  • Be proactive. Let your creativity kick in – it may even help you to get things done a lot quicker than anticipated.
  • Do what you love or love what you do. In any work schedule there will be things you really like and others which you don’t really like that much – do them with a good mood nevertheless it will minimize procrastination. With practice you may get over this dislike.  Let work be your passion and it will be easy.
  • Communicate with nature. We are part of nature and cannot be detached from it. Food, water air and all around us are part of nature. Blending with nature will set your mind at rest and the better you manage it on all levels the healthier you are likely to be – this again increases your  productivity. Your success in your network marketing business will  benefit greatly – especially if your products are in tune with a natural aspect – like healthy food, or whatever.

Implementing these thoughts into your life-style and business building activities you will be an excellent role model for your network marketing team and you will attract awesome people as business partners.

The result will be incredible leverage and a rate of success in your network marketing business you can now only dream of

 

To Your Insanely Productive Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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23
Feb

Linear Versus Recurring Income

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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Do you actually know the definition of a recurring income?

A linear income  resembles bills which you pay once and they are done. Buy a dress, buy a meal, see a movie, things you do once at a time – they are linear expenses.

There are also recurring expenses:                 your utilities bills, your telephone bill, various insurances -                                                       amounts you keep paying again and again on a monthly basis.

In  most professions – teachers, doctors, lawyers, or in fact any other – you are exchanging time for money.  You teach, treat a person, set up a contract. When you stop working, your income stops – you have a "linear income".

  • However, if you write a book (preferably a best seller) or make a CD which will sell well or you purchase stocks to save up for your retirement your income structure is different. For each book or CD that is being sold you earn a certain amount money – month after month and year after year.
  • For a good investment you will receive dividends in much the same manner. This is a so-called "recurring" income:  you receive it for something you have done once and it goes on and on.

When you create a recurring income you can actually live the life style of the rich without having to become a millionaire first.

If you apply what you learn from Mentoring For Free in your network marketing business today you will get there.
In life, you will only ever get paid for what you DO and not for what your KNOW, but of course you have to learn: "what" to do and and "how" to do it right, before you will be paid for doing it successfully.

Would you prefer to have heart surgery done by a surgeon or by a student? No? Well why should it be different when it comes to success in network marketing?

  • A recurring income solution for a teacher might be receiving a small percentage of each student’s income after they leave school and start working, and for as long as the student works.

Crunch the numbers to see how much you would have to have to save up to be able to have a recurring income of 10 000 Dollars from interests on your account. Right now this is an interesting question  – a life time of savings would not be enough!

When you start a network marketing business you will soon be having some extra income.  As your team grows also the checks will grow. If you are wise and use that extra money to pay off your debts first, you will be debt free by the time your recurring income reaches 10 000 Dollars a month and that will already do nicely for a good life style.
It is an excellent way to create wealth – you likely do not know many people who will be able to achieve that kind of income from their interests.

Provided you are coachable and you really want to KNOW you can build that kind of income in network marketing in 2 – 10 years.

To Your Recurring Success

Frieke Karlovits
A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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22
Feb

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

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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17
Feb

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In Network Marketing Today it is an open secret that to achieve more you have to become more.

Of course every single person who is building a network marketing business has an idea about which kind of business partners they really want: They sure want the persistent and clever person who is making contacts easy and who will get many partners and customers in very quickly.

So if we know what we want, why does it mostly take time to actually achieve it?

We all keep talking about the law of attraction, of personal development, of learning the right skills, etc

However there is one key question you will have to ask yourself in this context:

Would I Like to Be in Business With Myself?

  • Yes, this is correct and the question is not easy to deal with. You need to take a hard look at yourself, not through any soft-focus lense,  but straight and true. Look yourself in the mirror and look into your eyes and ask yourself that question: Would I like to be in business with myself.
  • Consider it point for point – why should people want to be in business with you? Make note of your strengths and weaknesses – not so much professionally, but as the person who you are. It it tough? Yes, may be it is, but it is a very good way to assess what is happening around you.
  • After you have found out who you are and  who you want to be, start working on yourself. It is a personal decision you need to take and it will be very much worth while. As a result the world around you will change.

It is a fact in the industry of network marketing, that people do not join your opportunity – people join you! They join you because they want to be around you, they join you because you are a role model for them, they join you because they like and perhaps admire you and many for other reasons.

This reflects, why building relationships is the basis for success in network marketing today. Of course we make the best of efforts and get informed as to which business we want to build, but who knows even having done the best of diligence a company may go bust for which ever reasons.

Provided you have built your team according to optimal criteria of human interaction: love and mutual understanding and trust, you will have built it for good. Your  team members, who actually joined YOU will happily brainstorm with you where to go next should such an adversity happen.

Building yourself, building the best relationships you can with the people who you really relate with, is the best long-term security you can have for yourself and your team.

To Your Miracle Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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11
Feb

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“Organized Flexibility”    is this a fit or a contradiction?

 For me it is a perfect fit.

In network marketing today it is a necessity to be organized, to be  working according to your plans provided you want to achieve your goal  in the set time. 

However,  consider a successful network marketing business that grows well:

After a starting phase your organization will grow continuously. That means change is happening on a regular basis. And of course new team partners will connect with you likely on a daily basis. That is good as you don’t want to be one of those leaders who are aloof and not willing to speak to the team unless they contact you according to the set procedure of going through the hierarchy.

You want to be a leader who is there for the team and who is willing to connect and to nurture and support – a leader with a servant’s heart!

So what happens when you have a perfectly organized day – are you capable of shuffling your daily routines to that extent that people can connect with you on the phone or on the chat or is your set-up rigid and without space so that your team members need kind of a “written application” so that you give them an appointment some where distant which may bring them to a stand still in their efforts to design a good work routine for themselves?

Of course you need to make some schedule for calling in team members – you might be on a coaching call or a 3-way call with some other guys, yet having a couple of times a day which are designed to have team members call in, that would be a necessity. I say a couple of times as you might be having team members in many parts of the world, so that one timing might prove to be totally inadequate.

Most good network marketing companies today are open in many countries around the globe so a global approach is inevitable.

To facilitate this organized flexibility it might be an idea that you put your scheduled “call-in times” on your main hub – may this be your blog or a home page or your skype profile – as long as people know where to find it without effort it will be ok.

Such an approach is not only good for you, but it will also

  • set an example for your team and
  • that again will have a very beneficial effect on the co-operation of the entire team as well as on the flow of information,
  • the trust between all of them and it will alleviate the stress of new people who come into your business, as they can find out quickly who might be available at which time.
  • This boosts the flow of constructive work in a network marketing organization today and consequently your success at building your network marketing business today.

To Your Flexible and Organized  Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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9
Feb

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In network marketing today public speaking is unavoidable.

Provided you really do it as a business  you will be having a group after a while. You will have to speak up in front of others – may it be in a conference call or at a personal meeting somewhere locally or if you are really successful at building your network marketing business you will be asked to speak at the convention of your company.

Of course when you consider public speaking there may well be a fear element inside you, however, practice is the key.

I came across an interesting story about horses. Some horses graze on the side of the railroad tracks, seemingly not minding or fearful when trains rush bye them. And then there are horses who fear even their own shadows. How come?

Well, the horses who apparently graze near the railway track  obviously have adapted – they overcame their fear by habit. Seemingly the grass tastes better by the railroad tracks, so by practicing grazing in spite of the trains, they faced their fears and overcame it.

The magic wand is practice practice and practice again. Practice by saying a few words here and there on calls, by speaking up in small more familiar groups until this constant practice will turn into habit and remove any lingering fear you have of public speaking. At times someone suggests practicing in front of a mirror – well, may be until you know what you want to say that may help, but it is not the same as speaking in front of an audience, YOUR audience.

Let’s assume you stand up in front of your team for the first time -  you certainly will be having will have a supportive audience, eager to hear what you have to say. You are their role model – they know the will have to do it sooner or later.

By the time you receive the honour of being asked to speak at the annual convention of your network marketing company you will have acquired enough practice that you will be able to speak there without a fear problem.

Start at once – practice makes perfect and the more practice you get the better you will be. In the process also observe other speakers and make notes of what you like about them and what not and this will help you too.

To Your Outspoken Success

Frieke Karlovits

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7
Feb

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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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6
Feb

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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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5
Feb

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

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

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

Some points to help you  start out:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Communicative Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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3
Feb

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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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2
Feb

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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

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2
Feb

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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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1
Feb

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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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31
Jan

Let me take you through some more success           information:

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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
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31
Jan

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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
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29
Jan

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Free Company Web-shop?

Yes of course! After all as a distributor you have to abide with all the detailed company descriptions about your product. The company normally has checked it all out legally and whatever there is on their home page should be safe.

  • This is one big reason why it should make sense for any company to give their distributors a web-shop and  since the distributors are doing all the advertising so that the products are turned it would be a fair sharing of efforts between the company and the distributors.

So why are there so many companies out there who don’t do this?

As it is know that most network marketing companies hire their software/database and don’t own it – well additional web-shops might be a cost factor for them and so they charge their distributors – very likely even making profit on the web-shop.

  • The second issue about not owning the software/database is that very often the small print contains clauses that the software company owns the data base – I wrote about this before.

Another reason may be a commission plan issue – as in a binary plan, for instance,   where the payments can only be made if an adequate number of distributors fail at building a network marketing business – it may well be a welcome additional income for the company to have a fee on the web-shop – paid not only by those who make money, abut also by the big number of people who will fail in their venture of building their network marketing business successfully.

The argument of the companies may be “it would cost you a lot more to do it yourself” and that in view of perhaps policies and procedures which even contain restrictions as to internet marketing. Yes – you read correctly – this still exists. there are companies who do not like major marketing activities on line – most odd reasons given.

So spinning this thread further if you are looking at a company which will be charging you for the web-shop or perhaps even charging you  twice – also taking money  for your genealogy report, etc., then I guess you better look twice:

  • read the policies and procedures very intently and also check out the pros and cons of the commission plan. the entire package may well not be what you want to put your effort in for. After all you want to have success at building your network marketing business today!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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29
Jan

 Are You All In?

imageTrust and belief – I guess it is unusual to connect them with business, however, in businesses where teamwork is the focus of activities, trust and belief are necessities. Artists, who work high  up somewhere, are a very good example of absolute trust and belief in each other!

There are several levels to it. When you look at a network marketing company you need to ask yourself, “do I have trust in the company”? Are they having my best wellbeing at heart as they understand we, that is the distributor and the company depend on each other, as one cannot do without the other.

  • There are companies out there who use their distributors as donkeys – they let them work till the company is well off and then they are happy to dispense with some of the top earners in order to put the money they’d have to pay out into their own pocket.
  • On the other hand there are companies out there who are very much aware of this team aspect between distributors and the company and they treat their “field” well. They know about the value of your performance and they cherish you for it and see that you are thriving.

The second level of trust is your trust and belief in the team you signed up with. Are they aware that their network marketing organization is as strong as the weakest limb or are they only looking for heavy hitters and don’t care about the “normal you and me” who build success in network marketing the slow pace – slow but solid.

Do They give you the support and the friendship you need to be your best? If so, great!

The third and probably the governing of all levels is – do you have trust and belief in yourself. You need to grow as a person until you solidly believe in yourself, in who you are, in your capacity to build this network marketing business successful..

You trust and believe that any challenges which come your way are designed to make you grow as a person. You have it in you to be that person who is an incredible leader, who helps others over the stumbling stones to success in network marketing today! You deserve happiness and success – it is your destiny.

Work to become who you really are and you you need to be to be this amazing leader in your life and business!

To Your Trusting Success

Frieke Karlovits

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28
Jan

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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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28
Jan

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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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27
Jan

                                                                                                 Oh NO!!

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Are you among the 90+% of people who hate selling? And what’s more – do you even hate to be sold?

I can perfectly understand you – I am just the same!

For this very reason network marketing today is THE business opportunity for you.

Yes – it is THE business opportunity for YOU!

There is this totally wrong idea that has been roaming the business world for 40+ years by now, that network marketing is sales. It is NOT.

Of course you are right – every honest network marketing  business had products. This is where the money is coming, no doubt. BUT – do you ever buy what you need? Do you buy your groceries, your clothes, cosmetics – what ever else you may be needing? Sure, yes! So your network marketing business is another channel for your to buy products you want to buy. Right.

Does it ever happen that your mom, your friend, your spouse, even your neighbour asks you to kindly do some shopping for them since you are already going out and they are in a hurry, are sick or are having a hard time getting there? Yes? Do you oblige? So – if YOU want what you buy from your network marketing company – would you be willing to let them have it too? I am sure you agree!

So that’s what network marketing is all about – you buy what you want and let some who you interact with also have your product.

You are bewildered? You have heard that you can make a full-time income in network marketing today and even more – this didn’t sound like it….

The big and the much more vital part of network marketing is showing people that they can do the same you do! It means giving others a chance. This is how you create many many consumers for your network marketing company – they don’t  have to spend on advertising and stuff, but instead pay you for your recommendation – isn’t that neat?

It is a win- win – win situation – you win because you have products you want and you earn money – the people you recommend it to also have the joy of buying what they want and to earn money – the company has dedicated customers and need not worry about advertising and pays those who help creating turnover.

It is such an easy concept yet humans have managed to complicate it. Doesn’t matter – once you understand you will happily learn the skills you require to do all that is involved if you want to do this business on a business scale and you will grow immensely personally as a result of learning how to interact with more and more people, showing them how to own their lives by building a profitable network marketing business today.

I’ll be glad to show you the way!

To Your Network Marketing Success

Frieke Karlovits

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26
Jan

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A System for Success!

Pillar 5

A Proven System that will Work for YOU.

Network Marketing today requires a lot of work. Therefore it is a MUST  that the team you join has a system that will work for everyone. People come from so many different walks of life!

The system needs to provide training, books, videos, audios and needs to teach the system, as there are constantly new people who need to get to know it and who need to be able to use it. The more people you sponsor into your team the less you’ll be able to train them only one on one.

You need to be able to learn the required skills for building your business from the system and you need to take responsibility for it. Nobody can learn it but YOU.

In a good system you will be able to connect with all the leaders for upline advice. It make take a while till you  can operate the system successfully – nobody can read by only learning the alphabet.  
As with everything in line you need to take the learning curve and be patient and persistent.  

A good system should also have a focus on personal development.  Network marketing today is a relationship business and for building a network marketing business successfully you need to become the person who you customers and prospects want to follow as a leader.

The more aware you are of yourself as a person the better you will be able to relate with people. You will be able to meet people where they are in their lives and help them on.

 

A system should not request you to:

  • MAKE A LIST OF YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
  • BUY LEADS. 
    (Purchased leads require salesmanship. These methods do not work anymore. 
    90% of the population don’t like being in sales and most people don’t even like being sold!)

Summing up there is to be said, that checking a MLM company according to the 5 pillars makes absolute sense and it will spare you a lot of trouble, It puts you in a place where you can definitely say you will be able to have success in network marketing today and that is what most people actually want.

To Your Informed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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24
Jan

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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.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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23
Jan

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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.

To Your Empowered Success

Frieke Karlovits

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22
Jan

unfun in network marketing

 

 A Network Marketing Business is FUN!

(If it is “unfun” you are doing something completely wrong!)

In conventional business FUN is not really an attribute which is used very often – it is topics like strategy, performance, numbers, meeting pre-set turnover, economizing, labour cost and many other things, that are being discussed and handled. Mostly all of these aspects are considered seriously and control on all levels kicks in.

After all the company, the management  need to make money on the back of the work of many employees.  The present economy is bemoaned, political decisions, the international market and which ever influence which might serve as an excuse for not performing to target. The discussion focus is on “difficult and hard”, not on FUN. Or have you ever heard giving network marketing as an industry with good growth rates which can serve as an example? I bet you haven’t!

It is very different in network marketing. It is FUN! You may wonder why I say FUN should be one of the key element in network marketing today – after all I have claimed in previous posts that network marketing is a business as any other. Yes, as far as its legal status is concerned, as it may even be handed on to heirs if the company policies and procedures allow it (and very often they don’t – so beware what you chose!).

But network marketing is a business that centers around people. What’s even better – we have the choice who we take into our business – we certainly don’t need everyone nor do we want everyone! You need to see that network marketing is a business for life so anyone who comes into your business will be a person who you will be in business with for a life time.

Yes there is a work part – in fact a lot of work, focus, dedication, persistence, planning, as in every other business too. But there is this human factor of having business partners for life who become friends, good friends over time and we share conventions, company trips and more.

It would be huge “unfun” if we’d have to go on a cruise with a bunch of people who we don’t like. It would be huge “unfun” to do workshops with people we don’t like – no matter if online or somewhere in a seminar center in real life .

So when you decide to go into network marketing today, make sure you clarify all the clauses in the policies and procedures which might prove “unfun” later on and make sure you choose those business partners you can imagine to be on a 3 months cruise with,  having FUN and enjoying life!

To Your FUN – Success

Frieke Karlovits

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22
Jan

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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.

To Your Visionary Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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21
Jan

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On the one hand network marketing today is very simple, but on the other hand it is very complex.

It is simple as it always was as it is a people’s business and we have been giving recommendations all our lives. However, it is complex, as the personal aspect has to meld with a high-tech world, the world of using the internet.

In our days it is obvious that using the internet as a tool to market your network marketing business makes it easy to take your business world-wide. So of course you have to learn the right techniques to make this happen.

This is one place where greed and ego tend to kick in:  it is all about leads and it is all about tools – too many network marketers have an easy prey in their downlines when it comes to selling them leads and tools online – may it be through an affiliate scheme of may it be through a direct sales funnel – doesn’t matter – naive and untrained people are being taken advantage of.

Another area of course are commission plans. Modern computer technology makes it easy for companies to set up commission plans which are complex and involved – in the early days when bonus checks had to be worked out semi- automatic this would have been impossible. Computers make these calculations as per program, so no problem. The tricky part of it is the complexity of the commission plans – too many people don’t understand them or at least not completely – they are at the mercy of their uplines, especially those who understand crunching the numbers and who understand completely how to maximize the pay-plan.

As a result it happens that the advice given is not entirely unbiased and  newcomers may make a lot less money than they could make provided they had received the kind of advice that comes from the heart and has the best interest of the newcomers at heart. A huge delay and handicap if you are looking for success in building your network marketing business.

These are two examples where greed and ego can kick in  and I strongly advise to learn the details of a commission plan in network marketing today if you want to be sure that you are safe.

To Your Truthful Success

Frieke Karlovits

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21
Jan

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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.

To Your Responsible Success

Frieke Karlovits

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21
Jan

Independence in Network Marketing Today

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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Independence – Truth or Fake?

Today network marketing is an excellent opportunity to work for your independence. Yes, WORK!

Too many sites on the internet propagate “get rich quick” schemes online, claiming that they are network marketing businesses. However, they are not. Instead all this hype is tinting the reputation of the industry.

What is Net – Work – Marketing?

As the word implies it is a Net of people Working at Marketing. A net in a way implies that there is no hierarchy, that there are many equal “cells”. Yes, people have different levels of success in network marketing – but doesn’t very much the same also apply for any other business or profession?

It is always those who succeed, who are good at it, who apply themselves diligently, who have persistence and don’t let themselves be discouraged.

When I looked at the numbers of opening and closing businesses at the Chamber of Commerce one day, I was stunned to see how many businesses that open do not succeed and close even within their first year. A network marketing business is a business as any other, and as a result it cannot be a surprise that many of these businesses close again within a short period of time.

Does this mean running a restaurant does not work? No

Does this mean running a car sales business does not work? NO

So why the hell should it mean a network marketing business doesn’t work?

I hope you get my point. It is not the business which is not successful it is the person who is not running it successfully. Does it mean it is the person’s fault? It may be, but in many instances is it not.

Very often it is simply lack of education, as unlike in many other trades or professions, network marketing doesn’t have an established training course. Even corporate training may very well not serve the purpose, as many network marketing companies have a management who have never done network marketing themselves.  So how can they train anyone successfully?

Yes, network marketing is designed to give you independence if you play by the proven rules. Get trained by somebody who is doing it successfully now. NOW being the critical point about it as change is rapid in this industry.

Have a critical mind, choose well and claim your independence by building a successful network marketing business today!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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20
Jan

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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.

Frieke Karlovits

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19
Jan

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

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

Yes! Meeting People and Making Friends!

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

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

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

Have fun meeting people and making friends!

Frieke Karlovits

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19
Jan

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The NOs in network marketing today cannot be mentioned often enough – preferably in various ways as different people will “see” different ways of presenting things.

Human desire for success, for a fulfilled and easy life has become more pronounced over the last decades and the idea of network marketing fits this desire.

Unfortunately it is those who are lottery minded who jump at new things quickly as they are on a constant quest to find “their get rich quick” deal.

As a result all sorts of bad behaviour has developed in this industry and a lot of it on the internet, as all it takes is a bit of IT knowledge to knock up a site and make big promises. Few people are able to look behind it as critical thinkers.

Taking your MLM business to the internet has become the hype of our days. And thousands of fortune hunters are in the scene too. If you just arrive at the internet believing you can figure it out by watching others you will end up in big frustration, as it is not those who work seriously who fill the hype-pages it is those who want to dump their “get rich quick” scheme on you who you will meet up first. Let me therefore show up one of the biggest mistakes you can make taking your network marketing business on line.

Don’t jump into any of the affiliate tools which are promoted as supposedly supporting you in building your business. There are tons of so-called systems out there and you can make some money with them. The question you need to ask yourself is – do you want to make some money by promoting some system, or do I want to create wealth, which is one of the reasons why people go into  network marketing. If your decision is creating wealth then you need to build your own list of prospects, who opt in to you and with whom you build a relationship that will be the basis for a long-term business partnership. So you need an “opt-in” feature  to find leads and you need an auto-responder for professional follow up. This is easy, but not as easy for many, as these systems of course have to be set up properly, the follow up scripts have to be written and some servicing may be required – so it is a lot of work and the cost factor needs to be considered too. Another fact which needs to be considered you find in another blog post: leads – Who Owns The Data-base.

Stayed tuned to hear more!

Frieke Karlovits

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18
Jan

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

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.

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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.

 

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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!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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15
Jan

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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.

 

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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15
Jan

Network marketing needs to grow. Whatever needs to grow takes patience and persistence. Nature takes care of many growth processes when in the untouched parts of nature, however when it comes to cultivating something, patience and persistence are required.

Just imagine you put the seed of an oak tree into the ground. It will take a fair amount of time to sprout and after it has sprouted the seedling will be pretty vulnerable  for quite some time – an animal can step on it and break it, other growth may squeeze it and stop it from growing, deer may eat it, a harsh winter may cause it to barely survive. Once it has grown a but, has become a little sturdier, the likelihood that it will continue growing is pretty high – in spite of the challenges we have even oak forests!

imageOr look at mushrooms – at first the fungus mycelium grows in the soil – you see nothing, but if the soil was prepared well and if the humidity is maintained at a constant level the mycelium will spread and eventually penetrate the entire soil. Only then, with in a few hours the mushrooms will grow and they will grow fast!

To build a network marketing business you need to act in a similar way.

You need to prepare the ground (plan, get training) and then put in the seeds (create leads) now you get into the period where it takes patience and persistence (patience as your new people will have to plan and learn, and persistence, as you have to continue learning in the meantime getting in more leads for one and reaching the next level of learning second).

The business is already moving. However it cannot yet be seen. The check is still small and the group is growing slowly. but one day the potential growth curve is reached and then duplication speeds up and the business is growing fast and faster and even faster.

Your reward is there. You have something to show up. You are a leader – someone who is a blue print for others who are still working on their success in  building their network marketing business.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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14
Jan

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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.

To Your Commitment to Success

Frieke Karlovits

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14
Jan

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

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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.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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13
Jan

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.

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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!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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12
Jan

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Traps are not obvious!

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

Trap no. 1

Falling in love with a company no matter what

Trap no. 2

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

Trap no. 3

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

Trap no. 4

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

Trap no. 5

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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12
Jan

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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.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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11
Jan

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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.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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10
Jan

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Remember the days when network marketing started – 60+ years back!

In those days there were no mobile phones and land lines were comparatively expensive. Anything like the internet was not even imaginable. Consequently the idea of building a network marketing business had to be accomplished applying totally different methods than are used in network marketing today.

 

Historic Methods of Building a Network Marketing Business:

Seeing the circumstances which prevailed it was not surprising to teach things like:

  • Make a list of family and friends
  • Come to a meeting every week
  • Do presentations of the business at home
  • Take prospects to big presentations in some public place
  • Request people to give you recommendations
  • Teach everyone to do the same over

In a way it was a system as it could be taught and copied by newcomers. The hard thing about it was that personal development was non existent then and it was mainly sales people who started up in this new business venture. As a sales person as a rule works by ticking off numbers and increases the numbers to improve results this way to build the business was hard to be coped by others who didn’t belong to the few percent of people who love selling.

The rate of rejection was high and as many people in a desperate desire to make this business work for them got really “sticky” their environment even started  evading them. Of course the reputation of this new born business of network marketing suffered immensely – not only for the stickiness of those who were involved, but also because of the incredible rates of failure.

In network marketing today we still feel some of this impact of the reputation which was created over years – today’s young adults had been watching their parents struggle and fail and others in their immediate environment.

As a result  there is still a high degree of skepticism prevailing – and of course – things which used to be state-of-the-art over many years die hard. So we still find lots of groups today, even companies and organisations, who keep teaching the same old rut over and over again although times have changed.

Not only do we have mobile phones, we also have the internet and all that comes along with it. methods that actually work are a lot different from those of those early days.

Naturally having success in network marketing today means that you have to have adequate training – first of all on going personal development, plus learning of skill which are needed to move along in today’s environment. Develop the wisdom to differentiate and choose what will serve you instead of what will rip you off!

To your success in network marketing today

Frieke Karlovits

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10
Jan

History of Network Marketing – Part I

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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.

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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!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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10
Jan

Insights on Using Facebook

Author: FriekeKarlovits

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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.

To Your Success in Using Facebook for Building Your Business

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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