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

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

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

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

First:

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

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

Second:

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

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

Third:

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

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

And in network marketing today relationships count all the more.

It is a business of:

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

To  Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

Here’s a check list for you:

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If Not Network Marketing – What?

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Is this  provocation?

No!    You need to listen!              

This is the first rule in network marketing today!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frieke Karlovits

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Happiness in Network Marketing – Hm

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

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

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

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

Do you think this makes sense? Yes?

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

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

To Your Happy Success

Frieke Karlovits

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The Tale of the Fox and the Stork

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Ethical Success

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There is this big contrast between some people who seem to be having massive success in network marketing today and the others who keep struggling in spite of lots of effort.

The difference between them is attitude!

Just recently I made a YouTube on attitude where I sum up about it – you might want to check it out.

Attitude is a personal quality which  to a large extent is programmed by our environment from early childhood onwards. However, once we grow up we have it in our hands to replace those parts of our basic programming which we find do not serve our purpose in life.

Attitude can be “re-programmed” too. It is a process you cannot do it by pressing a button, but once you are alerted to the need of it and you actually want it you can do it.

The first step will be to spot the bits you want to change. Are you perhaps one of those people who in a conversation with others find it easy to agree on the surface by saying “yes, BUT”? I give you an example. I show you a way how to create leads in network marketing today. You listen carefully and then you reply: Yes, I perfectly understand where you are coming from, but don’t you think I could do it that and that way? Hm – as a matter if fact you have only humored me,  however, you  have said NO between the lines.

This kind of attitude is not very obvious and most people will consider it charming behaviour and  interaction, yet it is limiting. It limits your willingness of being coachable. Does this serve you? Certainly not!

Once you are alerted to the topic you will start noticing it when you are interacting. At first perhaps a little annoyed, then over time you will grin and know you have “caught yourself” once again in the old pattern. You will start noticing the same behaviour in many others and eventually you will stop it.

Wow – you have grown! Spot the next handicap in your programming and start working on it.

You may say this is hard – yes, may be it is, but it is very well worth your time.

If you are willing to accept support in this venture find yourself a mastermind group of like-minded people.Your progress will be a lot faster and it will be more fun to share and learn, as you won’t feel alone in the desert with a task which is a challenge.

The best thing, if you are stepping into this process because you want to have success at network marketing, would be to join a mastermind group of network marketers – that will cover two topics in one stroke. You will grow and you can improve other skills at the same time, no matter in which business you are.

To Your Attitude of Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Let Go of Insecurity!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So follow the Asian concept 

– Inside Like Outside –

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

To Your Tidy Success

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Build Confidence in Yourself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Confident Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

Quick Cash = Quick Crash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That is the way to achieve success in

network marketing today.

To Your Long-term Success,

Frieke Karlovits
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Contracts!

What are contracts in Network Marketing Today? 

The contracts are 

the Policies and Procedures!

Talking to network marketers of today you will quickly learn that only few people  ever read their policies and procedures- what a plight! This is a huge handicap for success!

Have you ever heard that somebody who invests into any kind of business will not read their contract carefully or even have it checked by a lawyer who specializes in business contracts? Not really. The reason for it is that the investments to be made are far too high to take any risk.

There is not so much difference between conventional business and network marketing today.

• In conventional business you invest lots of money and then pay back for years until you reach the break even point when you finally start  making money that actually belongs to you.
• In network marketing you are investing your time till you finally reach the point where you earn good money as you have finally reached success.

In either case the risk is the same, if you have not made sure you are in a good contract. In conventional business you might be out of business long before you reach the break even point and in network marketing you might wake up with a big bump when you finally realise that your efforts only benefitted the company you are with as they can terminate you any time as they desire to in accordance with the policies and procedures which you have never read.

You never even realised that they contained clauses like “ongoing support for your downline” or “termination at the sole discretion of the company” or “contract renewal  at the sole discretion of the company” and many more. It might even be so bad that your check stops without forewarning for any of the stated reasons or many others in fact and you only realise then the mistake you made.

Do you  start “seeing” the importance of reading your contract? Find it now and read it to at least minimize damage! If you need help say so!

To Your Safe Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Law of Attraction is not a Magic Wand from a Fairy Tale, it’s in a way Universal Physics

When you consider a “magic wand” of  performing magicians it can , however, be likened to the law of attraction.

To perform a magic show you need to  be the master of your “tricks” – know exactly what you do when and that you need to do it just right to keep you audience in awe.

And of course we all wish it was simple but making the law of attraction work for you is just as tricky. Physics work, so do universal physics, but we have to figure out to make it work for us so that we actually get what we want and where we want.

The question is not if you  believe in the law of attraction or not. If you do what is required  the law of attraction works anyways, very much like you can drive a card yet don’t know how to make it if you get it as a load of all the single parts of it. So let’s look at some basics.

• Start your day with positive thoughts,
  instead of thinking about having to get up once again so early  and all the stress of the new day which is waiting for you. Starting your day on negative thoughts is setting you up for failure. You are switching on the “magnetism of negative experience”. Make the effort of starting your day on positive thoughts.
• Visualize already at the end of the day  what your next day will be and how much you will get done and achieved. Such a positive picture will let you rest a lot better and it will provide the grounds for relaxed waking up as you have it all in place ahead of time.
• A good way not to get hooked on negative thoughts is to not  think at all or to think of minor, trivial things – nice ones, like the good joke you heard a couple of days back or whatever.
• Then stretch, take a deep breath and think of something you like, something that gives you joy or positive expectancy – may be an outing you have in mind, a person you love, your pet, there are so many options and everyone will choose different.
• Keep you mind away from negative thoughts. The best way to do it is to keep the mind occupied with what you are doing. This has a dual benefit – first you don’t fall into negative thoughts and second when you focus on what you  are doing your performance will be excellent and you have another positive input as a result.

I guess this sounds easy – it is, but it needs practice, it needs applying the Slight Edge Strategy:

All easy things can be done easily, but they can also easily not be done.

So don’t worry about more complicated approaches you might run across – do the simple thing but do it.

When you apply this slight edge strategy also to your success in network marketing today you will find, that there are many simple things which need to be done to get you successful and every single one can be done easily, but can also easily not be done. And for the sheer fact that it is all so easy, the long-term importance tends not to be seen and considered in the right way.

To Your Slight Edge Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Thoughts Determine Who You Are.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Thoughtful Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Keyword Search

Techie Instructions

by a

Non-techie Person – me!

We all know that in order to  be found on the internet by people who are typing in keywords, we need to find the right keywords for our niche so that we end up in the forefront – best of all page 1 of google.

When I first considered this concept I thought it would be a hopeless case, but it works.

• First you need to think of a number of keywords which you might be using to search for information about your niche. Once you have them you need to establish which of them are the best to be used in your blog on a consistent basis.
• There is a free Google Tool where you can enter your keyword or keyword phrase in a box, you can select the region where you want to search – I use worldwide, and you select the language, put in the captchas and click search.

Using the free google tool you will get 100 answers you will see how often your keyword is put in by someone. Ideally your keyword should be in a range of 300 – 1500, I found. If it is not you need to sort the 100 key words the tool gave you by search number and that gives you the chance to get ideas which keywords that google associates with yours, will be in this range – proceed to check all your keywords and in the process you will find 2 or 3 keywords you might want to use on a consistent basis.

However, there is a second step which you have to do in this process. Once you have a keyword which might fit the search criteria you need to make a search for it in google. See how many “answers” show up. Next you put quotation marks around your keyword – like “keyword search” and search again. The number of replies should drop down. Ideally to 5000 – 10 000 – that is the competition you are facing for your exact phrase.

Have fun checking this out, for more training in this line connect and join into our free training.

Let me know how you are doing with establishing your target keywords .

All that is needed now is that you start massive blogging for a few weeks – twice a day would be good so that you will be found by the google crawlers.

To Your Targeted Success

Frieke Karlovits

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 Life-style

Life as you want it

Network marketing today

…how do they relate? Let’s look at real life today and let’s be honest.

The world   is changing at a rapid pace and change even keeps accelerating.

• We have come from hundreds of years of being either independent or totally dependent. Independent either through inherited wealth and status or else through being a landlord and farmer or a trades man who made his living through proudly working the trade of the family or the one that was learned. Dependent as a servant, slave, owned peasant and the like.
• Then the industrial age dawned which as any major change in society brought not only added opportunities but also a shift in wealth/poverty and status. It was in the sixties of the past century when general income reached a level that people considered themselves well-off. However as everything in life also this period gave way to the natural cycle of up and down.

It was in those days when the idea of network marketing dawned. So by now it should be quite established in the minds of people, however it is not.

Like in any independent business or trade the scope of variety is so big and of course also the “hang-ons” have discovered this new branch which has made it difficult to create an excellent reputation. Adventurers and hang-ons tend to get into everything which can be done at low cost in their constant quest of finding something that might give them and income for nothing and network marketing requires none of the investments you normally have when you start your own business.

Let’s look at the essence. What do most people want in life? they want happiness and an income that gives them a life-style of freedom. Freedom to enjoy life, to be with family and friends, to travel, to have a lovely home – whatever, let your imagination play…

Can you have all of this in a job? Not easily nowadays and not really in the best of days either. Of course there is always a small group who will make it anyways, but that is not the major part of the population.

In network marketing today:

• do you have to work? Definitely.
• does it take time to become established? Definitely
• do you need to be educated? Definitely – Apprenticeship on the job!
• do you have a long-term perspective? Definitely
• do you create a life-time income? Definitely, provided you do it until then

And: you don’t have a boss, you don’t have a 9 to 5 job, you will not be fired (instead you can fire your boss at some stage), you have no limitation as to how far you want to grow it, you can have success at network marketing today by doing what is required.

Network Marketing Today is both:

A Blessing – you are running your own business

A Curse – you have to do it yourself (none kicks you to be active)

Network Marketing Today is all about YOU, your will to achieve your goals and your motivation to do the required work. If you do create success in network marketing today you will be living a life you could only dream of whilst you were an employee.

To Your Well-organised Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Create

Your

Dreams

Make a Vision Board !

You are not sure how to make a vision board?

• One that actually works?
• One that helps you manifest your dreams, your visions?
• One that will speed up the process of achieving your goals?

Do you wonder what to put on such a board that your dreams come to life?

This is really easy. Simply put anything on it which reminds you of your dream, of your vision. Making a vision board is an anchor to continuously reminding you of your vision, your goal. It is important that you place it somewhere where you constantly see it – consciously and also subconsciously. It is the constant input and the emotions it creates in you that will “create” and draw your vision into life.

If your big dream is to retire early on a residual income then make a graphic of your network marketing organisation and put it up. Put in the pictures of the key people you already have in place – if you are just starting, make precise descriptions of the people you want to attract. You will be surprised how it works!

• There may be some vision boards which get a bit crammed at times. It may be an idea to clear yours up once in a while and structure it so that you have your priorities set well.
• Making a vision board is a personal experience – you need to work with it and amend it as you grow as a person. Have your priorities there, so that the goals are clear and obvious, and add some details that might be important for the “journey” to get there. Don’t put several layers of information on – only what you can see straight on.
• As an alternative you might be making one board per goal, especially if the goals are very different from each other and not leading to one end. Which ever way you choose to go – make sure it makes you feel good and you have fun preparing them.

Making a vision board is a very effective and useful tool to achieve your dreams your goals – not only for having success at building your network marketing business today, but for for every other business and personal venture too. Use this tool for your success!

To Your Vision of Success

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

Footprints which are worth following!

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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 Mistakes? This sounds terrible!

You will meet up with it again and again that some  heavy hitters tell their downlines that they definitely need to change. They  tell these newbies to get out and moving to sell the product.

This statement in itself needs to make you alert. Network marketing to day certainly is no selling business. It is  business of “building people”

We tell you that YOU are perfect as you are. Everybody is perfect in their own way. There is no need to change and become a sales person! It wouldn’t make sense, especially when you know that ninety-two percent of all people absolutely dislike these aggressive and pushy sales people.

• Shopping has become an outing. People wander through malls, look and check what they can find, sometimes even take several visits to various places until they make up their mind. They definitely want to “buy” and not be sold. So why on earth should you want to become a pushy sales person?
• Now the story is totally different when you need some information. when you need someone who is knowledgeable about the thing you want to buy. May be you want to buy a camcorder or a new TV and you want to know all the different features. In such a case it may well happen that in a mall you are looking in vain for a person who will be able to give you a professional reply or even a recommendation as to what to get best.

Recommendation is one of the magic words in network marketing today. It is not “go out and sell” as some of those heavy hitter type leaders proclaim, but recommend. You have been doing this all your life anyways – from early childhood onwards. So with some additional skills at communication and  some personal growth you will be able to pickup a check for what you have been doing all your life.

Fortunately the number of leaders is small who proclaim selling as well as making a list of family and friends to persuade them to join you in your network marketing business. These approaches don’t work. Someone who is not a sales person will not become one and family members are very poor prospects.

Instead look out for a system that helps you create a steady stream of prospects who are wanting to talk with you, who will be happy to get trained and supported.

Once you have created success in your network marketing business then friends and family will suddenly come round and perhaps even applaud you and tell others that they had always known you were meant for something better. Some may even join you in your network marketing business at that stage hoping that they will also be supported to achieve success as yours. What a joke!

Don’t listen to the wrong kind of advice! You are perfect the way you are!

To Your Perfect Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Smart work – there is no doubt that we have to be dedicated to whatever we do. However the old perception that hard work is giving you the income you dream of has not proved valid. Just look around you how many people are working hard and try to even work harder – it is the rare person who will make an excellent income that way.

It is the concept of “work smarter not harder” that creates success stories. A very recent example is the creator of facebook. It was an idea and of course the guys dedicated their time and effort – but it was the idea which actually was the key factor.

There is no doubt – as an employee you cannot make the kind of money as you can make when you run your own business. Why? It is very obvious. Those who employ you use your work force to make money themselves and a small share of it is your wages! They are the ones who have had the idea, who have had the courage and the gut to create a business. They for sure have a vision why they are doing it.

Do they need all the specialised knowledge that is required in their business? Nope – all they need to know is where they can “hire” or “buy” it. They hire people like you and many others who are hanging out and waiting to get a JOB [Just Over Broke]. People who have the false illusion that a job breathes security.

Where is this security? Would you mind explaining it to me?

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• If you come to the conclusion that it is time to start working smarter instead of harder there is one thing you need to bear in mind: After having created your vision of where you want to go in life make sure you get educated. Especially if you intend starting a business online. You do not have a formal education that will meet the requirements for such a business!
• No matter what you intend to do – you will need marketing and you will have to learn to do it in the state-of-the-art way. But you may also want to learn which kind of business will be the right vehicle to let you realise your vision – your dream. Make sure you avoid the pitfalls which are around on the internet.
• You certainly better not build a business which keeps you tied down to working constantly day after day so that success is permanent. You need a business where you can duplicate your efforts instead of exchanging time for money.

The concept of network marketing today is for sure one of the very big chances to make it in business online. To have success and to have the time after a certain period of growth, the time that will permit you to live a life you now probably can only dream of.

Make sure you start working smarter not harder – get informed.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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In network marketing today you are building a business for a life-time and longer. So why would you want to persuade someone  to come along who has no personal inclination to do something or to change his situation in life.

You want to work with people whom you have an excellent resonance with and who are “all in “ as far as business is concerned.

Your marketing has to be targeted to the people who know what they want in life, who have a vision and the drive to achieve it! The volunteers!

A good target group are people who already are in network marketing. they are pre-sold. They show it to you through the fact that they have already tried to do something, that they are searching, that they want to make a change in their circumstances and that they are prepared to “move”.

It is wise to connect with this target group – build relationships and friendships and help them on with what ever questions they may be having or what ever their struggles might be in their business.

Among those with whom you connect there will be some who are actually looking for the right business to settle down with. They either have just arrived at the conclusion that network marketing is exactly what they are looking for and they are overwhelmed with the amount of companies out there that are seemingly potential partners.

This is the first topic where you can be of immense help as very few people actually know what to look for and what to watch out for. My last series on the 5 pillars goes into this topic.

Then of  course there are those who have been struggling in this industry for ages. Connecting with them it is fairly easy to find out if their struggle is the result of doing nothing or of simply doing the wrong things or perhaps of being in a company where failure is “part of the program” so to speak.

You feel you are in one of  the groups of people I describe here? Well, that’s easy – get yourself educated! Get started with the free training which starts with the free ebook in the side bar of this blog and then proceed step by step till you can find our yourself which reasons apply for your failure. Mostly you will find out that your lack of success in building your network marketing business is not your fault.

To Your Informed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Where is the Money?

Pillar 4

Does the  compensation plan pay part-timers?

Seeing that network marketing by now is 60+ years old some general statistics are available of course. Therefore I can safely say, that 95% of all networkers are pert-time people.

With this in mind it is obvious that a compensation plan needs to provide an income for these people or attrition will be booming.

The money for the paid out commissions of course has to come from turning products, which regulates the possible payout. When a company is advertising big how many millionaires they have created – have a close look if this was not done on the back of the part-time people.

The people at the bottom should never be the donkey on which the big ones ride to their success!

When you investigate a compensation plan, ask yourself the question: how many people do I need to consistently make $ 500 a month. The span you find out there is between 500 and only 20. Some well established companies will have compensation plans where you need between 150 to 350 people – and yet they manage to attract new people – they must be “in love” with the product!  They are still able attract new distributors – Amazing!  They must be sold on the product!

Ask your upline how many people you will need in your company – they don’t know? Well that might be an incentive to RUN!

When the commission you are making on the product is something like 5 – 8%, then you are really underpaid!

The bigger part of your commissions need to come from products being sold to end consumers. You don’t want to be in a scam – correct?

Also here there are more points that are worth while being discussed. Just ask!

Make sure you investigate what you are doing, after all you want to have success in network marketing today, you want to build a long-term business which will not only pay you but also your children and grand children. And a point that is important now and long-term:

You want to maintain your credibility!

To Your Long-term Success

Frieke Karlovits

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The Pillars are Interconnected!

Let’s check:

Pillar number 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you simply want the product, forget any consideration.

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

Let us know if you need independent input!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

Applied Knowledge Is Power

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn – Grow – Succeed!

Frieke Karlovits

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Skills?

Yes – Skills

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Attention!

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

 

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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You may wonder why I connect network marketing and gut feeling. The reply is very simple. Network marketing is a peoples business and especially when you work with people your gut feeling is indispensible.

This does not only  apply for “sensing” who you want to connect with and who not. It is also important, and that is the first priority, to determine who you are.

Working on your self worth and intuition or gut feeling are connected and interactive. You may wonder where your intuition is coming from – does it come from inside or from outside of you? Do you connect with it at all? For some gut feeling belongs in the realm of superstition but more and more people realise that listening to the gut feeling can be very helpful, even sharp.

Napoleon Hills says again and again that intuition, gut feeling is one way how infinite intelligence connects and gives us input. Considering gut feeling from that angle it is the highest wisdom we can follow.

In the old days gut feeling was normal. Our ancestors relied on their intuition and way back reading subtle energy patterns was part of survival strategies. They were connected to animals and nature – only look at the many stories you will be able to find where the weather, for instance, is connected to animal behaviour, such as: “the ants go deep down into the ground – there will be a hard winter” and many others. 

In order to become really successful in network marketing start working more with your intuition, your gut feeling. Become who you really are. The magnetism you will be creating within yourself will attract whatever you need. Let it help you for creating your mastermind, bring people to you who are just designed as life long business partners and lots more.  Be relaxed when your gut tells you to “do something different”!  The law of attraction works.

To sum up – work on your personal development, trust your gut, your intuition, connect with your mastermind group, work with people on your heart level, which is the centre of your “magnetism”. When you act from your heart your communication will be “heart felt” and your results in network marketing will become incredible.

This is the great difference of network marketing today and all sorts of old, even outdated business building techniques. This is the first part of a number of posts that will follow to this topic.

To Your Heart-felt Success

Frieke Karlovits

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How do you find out “who is who”?

In the old days we used to say in German: “Paper is Patient” – which means  that anything can be put on paper and unless you have the knowledge or the means to find out you can believe it or not. It may be the greatest of wisdom, yet it may be the greatest of rubbish. The sheer fact that something was written down is not a sign of quality.

Today the internet is a far more challenging place to be when in comes to searching for information, people, a business, or whatever comes to your mind. Anyone has the possibility to put up anything and it is up to the user to distinguish what is what.

So what is happening? At all times there were quite a lot of people who were born actors – they can produce themselves in a way that makes a lot of noise, a lot of glamour; they write/speak big words, yet when you think what they say it is hot air. I am sure you know what I mean.

Anyone who looks for information on a topic and or person  within their own sphere of training and knowledge will find it comparatively easy to select and find the right thing; there are enough templates in the mind to give the guide lines.

However, when you go out and try to find out about a topic you are not familiar with –  what do you take for true and what do you take for false?

Especially in new business areas, where many people do not even know the precise definition of what they are looking for – for instance, who will be able to distinguish precisely between affiliate marketing, direct selling, internet marketing or network marketing. Most people very likely will not be able to specify these business models – all the more so as each model has so many varieties again. It is obvious that those who scream at the top of their voice how excellent their offer is and how advantageous newcomers will find it, that they will make the newbie a millionaire in less than no time and many other flashy things  are wide spread on the internet…

It doesn’t surprise me  that so many people are taken in, are trustful believers until they are burnt heavily by loosing money and more.

You need to be aware – opportunity comes on cats paws – those who are excellent as a rule are not showy, they see the big picture and they are far too busy building their business in a thorough and solid way. They have learned to make the law of attraction work for them and pick up the volunteers and train them well so that they can walk in the footprints of success they have left as a trail.

Real personal achievers are humble – they know how life works, they have faith in the process and follow it with dedication and ethical methods.

This doesn’t only apply to modern business you find it everywhere – those who are really knowledgeable need not speak big words, they can, as a rule explain the most complicated things in simple words so that even the man in the street can understand. they don’t look down on people who haven’t learned as much. They actually practice that the only time you can look down on a person is when you help them get up!

Resume – when you are looking for something worth while, don’t fall for the boasters, the screamers – take  the solid, ethical and long-term variety of the offers, those which you might have to find!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Growth

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success and Personal Growth

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Law of Attraction works.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

PLAN

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

DO

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

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

REVIEW

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

ADJUST

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

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

Have fun investigating this idea and DO it!

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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

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

What are the strengths of green personalities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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….Only The Sky is the Limit….

This week it is colors again! RED RED RED…

They are just 15 % of the population and they can be recognised easily. They have somewhat of a temperament. They mostly show their colour even after a longer acquaintance – so not much guess in this case.

The motto of REDs:

Get Out of My Way!

Their Strengths are:

Being well focused and goal oriented.

Professionally Red Personalities are CEOs, Attorneys, Pilots, Military Colonels.

In network marketing they will be very likely “sponsor monsters” although they rarely have the patience to look after their team – they think everybody is like  them. In combination with other colours in the team who take care of that, like yellows, they will likely build the business big.

Reds have a forceful voice with a lot of volume and they dress for success.

What do you need to watch when dealing with a red:

They definitely don’t like indecision, chit-chat or loosing control. Since their focus is MONEY and power all you need is getting to the point by giving them a short presentation as to “where the money is”. “Bottom line” that’s all they need  to get going.

Bonding with them will take nourishing their ego, being  careful to arouse their temper – they can be rather short-tempered and impatient.  And you are not likely to teach them things as it is either their way or no way.

Their strong desire of reaching their goal will keep them on the move anyways.

Red personalities are very direct and outspoken and their impatience will not allow them much understanding for people who cannot handle this outspokenness very well, like yellows or greens.

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Let’s make a break of colours and reflect on  another topic.

Since you are reading this blog I assume you have been surfing on the internet for quite some time. I am sure you know some of these definitely eye-catching ads which you find everywhere. They scream phrases as "Make Thousands of Dollars, 0 Investment, We Build for You!" or "Earn $5000 work Fifteen Minutes A Day!" Such ads are enticing to most people, especially those who are looking for ways to improve their lives.

Such ads appeal to the base traits in us and when greed comes in, rational reflection doesn’t kick in. As a  result there have always been people who were tricked out of their hard-earned money.

Le’s Investigate the Mechanism of Network Marketing Scams

In the network marketing arena a lot of manipulation is going on. This is easy as the majorities of people who enter into MLM businesses are inexperienced in business affaires. Often, they stumble into it as they answered an ad in a newspaper, on TV, or on the internet.

Most people have an abundance of common sense, but when it comes to making tons of money, most people seem to forget their common sense altogether, they are inclined to want to know for sure. After all,  this could be the opportunity to finally become rich.

Most network marketing scams are presented as being simple and easy. Simple and easy or even “on autopilot” are the marketing tricks employed. In their normal jobs people work very hard as a rule, spending  time and energy on what needs to be done. It’s the sad state, however, that all this hard work doesn’t get them where they want to be financially.

And now they see that ad that promises everyone that they can make lots of money with a minimum of work. They become victim of an emotional short circuit and jump for the offer that might be the key to a finally better life.

Being Cautious is The Cardinal Rule In Business!

Warren Buffett, the famous investor, states: "you can’t do good business with bad people." This should be everybody’s golden rule.

If you want to go into business with someone, be absolutely sure you are dealing with a person of integrity. Intelligence and ambition are fine, but more important is a good, moral character. If the last quality is not there, you are asking for  mischief.

We live at a time when people have become transparent – it may not be easy to check them out on the internet, but it is possible. don’t shy  away from this due diligence – it may decided over success or failure.

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

Have fun – enjoy!

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Let’s continue with the colours training.  You will draw  real value once you get to compare the 4 main colours, once you have the full picture.

As a rule you can recognise the basic, the dominant colour of a person best when you get to meet them first, as with growing acquaintance people get more comfortable and show more sides of themselves and consequently the prevailing colour doesn’t show up that clearly anymore.

What are the strengths of blue personalities:

They are convincing and enthusiastic, natural promoters, their energy level is high and they are very creative.

The motto of blue personalities is: FUN, FUN, FUN, …

Professionally they are in sales and entertainment and they  can be public speakers. Network marketing is a good choice for them as they work in a team and there will be others who complement them. As a rule they have a powerful and loud way to express themselves and their appearance will be stylish, colourful – even flamboyant. Whatever they do it is all about fun and excitement.

What do you need to watch when dealing with a blue personality:

No facts and figures, no details, nothing that is not FUN.

Don’t ever go into detail with them. They hate facts and figures and figure things out as they go along. Being alone is “unfun” for them and they always need fun and excitement. So tell them what fun they can expect  when they start working in the team with you, …

Bonding with them will always be action in a way. They need to see the fun and then the world is ok. It is good to have “blues” in the team – they will move forward and be dynamic but will leave the details and the fussy work to those who like it, like the yellows or the greens.

Although yellows and blues are open, you will realise quickly that the yellow personalities are indirect in their expression, whereas blues are very direct.

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Frieke Karlovits

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I have already touched on personality colours in past months, as it is one of the success secrets in referral marketing.

Today let’s go into detail with the first colour, the yellow personalities.

In private life and in business, and especially in network marketing, it is a key factor of success to know how to handle the people we deal with. The knowledge about personality colours will be huge in terms of success ideas.

What are the strengths of the yellow personalities:

They are dependable, team players, patient, supportive and nurturing.

Their motto is: Let’s Be Friends!

In life they will be teachers, nurses, counselors, therapists. Things like communication, motivation and time management may be resources for them to dig into. They deal with people in a soft and gentle voice and their dress is casual and comfortable. They are as a rule well liked.

What you need to watch out for when dealing with yellow personalities:

They are touchy, tend to be followers and they are not goal oriented. AND they despise pushy people, bullies and conflict.

So, whenever you deal with someone who you consider a yellow personality focus on all the options where you can show them the support, mentoring and help they will be giving as a result of what you are offering them. Be gentle and soft and very casual. Simply be their mirror. this is how you will be able to bond with them.

You know that creating relationships, bonding with people, is one of the big issues when building leadership in a successful network marketing business. So make sure you handle your contacts  the right way.

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Frieke Karlovits

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Article marketing is considered an effective way of promoting your website. It is popular and often used. But what are key elements of effective article marketing?

How do you know that your network marketing article writing is good enough to be used as a promotional method? Check out the following hints:

• Quality: As you want your article to be noticed and read, quality is a necessity. You want your articles to be seen and read. Your article certainly needs to be interesting and informative, however, to achieve results you need to make sure that the the article is readable. Quality needs to be measured in many ways. First you need to make sure that the content is consistent with the main topic. But grammar and spelling are important as well. Even small mistakes such as spelling slips or grammatical errors have big impact on the overall impression of the article.
• Quantity: To be successful with this marketing strategy you need to write more than a handful of articles. It is very important to publish a good and constant supply of articles to have an ongoing promotional flow.
• Eye-catching title: It is important to give the title of the articles sufficient consideration. Catchy titles are more likely to get the attention and consequently the interest of potential readers. Excellent titles may even draw the attention of people who you thought would not be interest in the specific topic. A catchy title will boost the capacity of the article to attract more readers.
• A good number of well chosen key words: One of the core elements about articles as a success strategy is the presence of key words in the articles. They are the trackers in the articles. Your articles will be found as a result of the chosen keywords. Using a good number of these key words within your articles assures the readers that they are still on track reading the right article. The adequate density of keywords helps with the search engines as well.

Implement these great tips for article marketing and get going with writing your articles.

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Frieke Karlovits

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Building a network marketing business there are a few things which scream “scam” – yet they need to be understood.

• The worst technique you can ever use for building your business is to create fear of loss. It tops everything else in business development. Sure, it does works. It does get people in. But your business will be totally wrong to begin with. You are attracting the type of people none of whom will ever work.
• Next there are many companies that do a powerline, a binary or a matrix. As a rule their focus is on promoting spillover. Of course there are actually people who have got spillover, no doubt. BUT – the people that “arrived” as spillover never ever worked. Why’s that?

That’s an easy one: The promise of "spillover" creates a welfare mentality! There are bunches of people out there who are looking to get something for nothing. That’s the kind people you attract when you tell them: "Get in NOW, and you are going to get spillover!"

They are triggered by the fear of “losing something for nothing”.

So they get in right away and then they sit like cats, keeping quiet watching for the mice, waiting patiently for that spillover that’s going to make them rich.

What a great Business Plan!

The same happens when joining a binary because you are offered a position that already has a million Dollar volume in one leg. Fact is you don’t get paid unless you build the weak leg. But people with a lottery mentality will jump for such a position", they join – but never do anything, and never earn a dime.

Be aware of the words, powerline and spillover. Whenever you see them you know their purpose is to promote welfare mentality. Something for nothing, something for nothing, something for nothing…

Fact is, YOU are in Net-“Work” Marketing. Net-“Work” Marketing is a business and it takes WORK – net-WORK marketing, not net-free marketing, right?  It’s not net-spillover marketing nor is it net-zero marketing. The topic is WORK! A "something for nothing" mindset will not work. Period.

You’d be like giving a bunch of couch potatoes welfare aid directly to their account. It lets them stay on the couch, drink their beer and watch a football game. No problem.

Those Two Words Are A Hot Tip!

When you hear them from a company or from a distributor – that’s not the company or person to build your life on long-term. They will not be successful. Move on and keep on looking. There are lots of good companies & network marketers out there. You will for sure find the right mentor.

To Your Success,

Frieke Karlovits
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Today topics like mental cleanse or mental hygiene are very popular. The law of attraction has opened the consciousness for this thought on a wide scale.

In Japan the 3 monkeys on the image  symbolize:

   * don’t hear bad things

   * don’t see bad things

   * don’t speak bad things

Does this ring a bell?

The Law of Attraction is as old as mankind! It is fascinating that we re-discover this basic law at this time.

And at the same time it is the age of business restructuring – the new industry of network marketing is growing constantly and with this new understanding of how  human interaction works it will grow to the reputation it is designed to have.

An increase in ethical understanding is about to eliminate more and more companies which were designed for rip off and pampering of ego.  Clarity is about to increase. People with increased ethical awareness will come on board and succeed.

Look at the good things, propagate the ethical ideas and don’t listen to those who want to spread crap.

Be in touch if you need support with your personal mental cleanse!

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Frieke Karlovits

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Colours for success is one of the most fascinating as well as FUN topic in communication and everywhere where communication applies, such as MLM.

Where does it apply? Everywhere – THERE IS NO SITUATION IN LIFE WITHOUT COMMUNICATION – verbally, non-verbally, by gestures, etc. – you need it in your personal life, but you also need it in business.  Learn how to handle people and the world will evolve around it. Request the information for the interactive training for mentoring for free.

Network marketing is the most sophisticated application of communication in normal life. The right communication will half the effort you need to make to build a team. It creates attraction! People will start calling you and this is where it gets hot.

Simply get going on the colours’ puzzle and have all the success you deserve.

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Frieke Karlovits

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Generating leads is crucial to anyone who wants to develop a network marketing business successfully. Creating a lead lead means acquiring contact information of people by giving them the chance to express their interest in what you have to offer. Such leads are “opt-in” leads and you can market to them without being accused of spamming. It is a top most necessity in the industry.

When you look up and down the internet you will find tons of offers for so-called “opt-in leads”, however, when you consider what was said above you can see at once that such leads are scams

• they have not opted in to your personal offer accordingly
• they are no “opt-in” leads for you.

If you want to do business properly you also have to make sure that such opt-in leads have the option of opting out of your information if they find it isn’t what they were looking for after all.

There are millions of people out there who may not even know about your offer, but who would be interesting in it. Unless you consider generating leads as part of your marketing strategy, you are not likely to meet them on line. Sitting back in your chair doing nothing after you have created a web-site won’t get you anywhere!

It is a simple way of generating leads for network marketing or in fact any other business,  to set up a subscription service to every advertisement or site you create. Also add a mailing list to your website. People who subscribe inform you that they are interested in your information, products and services. People who sign up for your mailing list express their  interest in your offer. Now all you have to do is contact these leads and present your offer to them or find out which kind of information they were looking for. Chances are, that they will be happy to be in touch with you and eventually even work with you.

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Frieke Karlovits

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You can ask yourself one of the most powerful questions:

"Do I inspire people ?"

People who venture into network marketing will quickly  understand that

“to achieve more they have to become more”

Emotionally intelligent mentoring and leadership development, for leaders who want to achieve success with their team is an absolute MUST.

How to Spark Change

There are so many ideas and suggestions for this question. Many experts state that leadership is based on your inner most belief systems:

You must be a leader – deep down in your heart.

There are plenty of other approaches:

• Become the person others will want to follow
• Locate your strengths
• Boost your self-awareness and authenticity
• Live what you preach
• Become emotionally and socially intelligent
• Visualise to materialise
• Be true to yourself, and change will happen

In reality, change doesn’t occur by extra-sensory perception alone. The quoted points all add to your charisma -  it stimulates the attraction you radiate. As a leader with an inner commitment to change, if you want to have any effect, you must communicate.

Good communication is the bread and butter in network marketing – it sets an example to those they aspire to lead.

Leaders’ actions – their attraction speak louder than their words, but nevertheless it’s what leaders say – or don’t say – that has an impact. It’s the right words that can create:

• Enthusiasm
• Energy
• Bonds
• Momentum
• Motivation to last

The wrong words, careless words or even words said in the wrong place, can undermine your best intentions, your plans, other good work and kill initiative on the spot. They turn people off so to speak. This is true for any kind of leadership, all the more so in MLM which is a profession with a high emotional element.

Start getting your “how to say” right and not only the “what to say” – it will facilitate your life and success in building your business.

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Frieke Karlovits

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Building people, as we do in network marketing, is an environment where honesty and integrity have to be rated even higher than normal.

Author Jeff O’Leary, in The Centurion Principles, writes, " ‘Honor’ encompasses the virtues of integrity and honesty, self-denial, loyalty, and a servant’s humility to those in authority above as well as a just and merciful heart to those below."

Today “honour“ sounds a bit old-fashioned. But living a life of integrity and character is timeless and a MUST for a leader. It’s about choices, and a person’s choices determine their life.

This doesn’t say a leader needs to be perfect. Perfection in  life is not possible nobody is an exception. However, a leader must continually work toward perfection in spite of this.

The most effective leaders throughout history have led with their hearts, in trust, and with honour.
If a leader cuts corners, misuses people, or distorts the truth, a time bomb begins ticking to go off at some unknown time. In our times we see too often: Public figures at the height of power and fame crash and burn in the cloud of self-inflicted shame. From political scandals to high-profile corporate frauds – this is the result of a lack of honor in the leadership.

It is honour that holds a leader’s greed in check it prevents a leader from focusing on is own interest. It makes leaders productive. Another seemingly old-fashioned word, “duty”, is the result.

George Washington said of duty, "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

Leaders with honesty and integrity will find happiness in the fulfillment of their duty to others. It is the character of a man which is being remembered.

A leader needs to act true to his word!

A leader must devote himself to matters of the heart if he wants to leave a legacy for the world. Character is developed in the valleys and the peaks of life and that’s why  such a person can overcome obstacles and deal with success.

Abraham Lincoln observed, "Nearly all men can handle adversity, but if you really want to test a man’s character – give him power." Character connects a person to what is right and true.

People will follow a leader only as far as they feel they can trust him.

People will not follow a leader they can’t trust. R. Ruth Barton states: "We set young leaders up for a fall if we encourage them to envision what they can do before they consider the kind of person they should be”.

People are not removed from [leadership] positions for lack of technical competence, but for lack of judgment and character" – as Heraclitus said: "Man’s character is his fate."

Last but not least it takes courage to be a leader with honesty and integrity as not all he does will be popular!

It is very obvious why personal development is a key factor in the free  training we offer. You need to believe in yourself and act with honesty and integrity to become a leader in network marketing.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Hm – I blink my eyes and look at the window – huh what a day – grey sky and rain – no way I don’t like that and turn round for yet another round of sleep. It is awesome to have thrown out the alarm clock. The only time I dig it up is when I want to catch a plane!

For the last couple of days the weather turned wonderful – sunshine and blue sky. What’s  more, my  pc  packed up  too. Poor me  enjoys a wonderful time in the garden –doing another run of landscaping and reorganizing and I also started to restore a couple of old chairs too! It is so nice to simply take time off without having to wonder if the remaining days of holidays will be enough  for the rest of the year…

When I choose to take the car and drive out somewhere for a few days – so what – I have all the time in the world, no boss who will harass me for not having been there, the money coming anyways – what a  wonderful life.

Time to go to USA  again for about 3 weeks in only 2 months and lots of other things till then.

A life which doesn’t have to follow a fixed schedule imposed from outside is best you can have.

Of course I also work – I love my team and helping others but I do it at my rate and in my case a lot of my schedule is determined by the weather LOL – gardening is my life – that’s unquestioned.

Got side tracked – of course I work –especially coaching people is so rewarding. We work in an international team so that everybody will be able to find a coach and mentor they like or else – none of us has to know it all – each and everyone has a specialty and for specific questions we connect with colleagues. This is not only convenient for us, but also shows people that team work is important  if they want to achieve success. Since we are a team and each of us is in network marketing, the mastermind team we have in place as a result  is exceptional – and what’s even more exceptional we do the entire training for free – we can afford and we explicitly want to make a difference.

Hm- you like what you read?  Simply join in. Start with the first step – the free e-book “Success In 10 Steps“ and we take it from there.

Have a wonderful day and I do hope you enjoy the same freedom as I do!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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What is your present situation? Are you having the success you have always dreamed of? NO? Well very likely it is not your fault.

What are you being taught by your upline or even the company – does it sound like:

• make a list of family and friends
• go back in your life to make the list bigger and add
• class mates,
• fellow workers
• the postman, the milkman and the neighbor’s cat….

If your training looks roughly like that I suggest RUN! This is network marketing as it was done 25 years back or longer, way before the internet.

In Modern MLM there is no need to do any of this. Keep your family and friends. It can’t be fun to see them avoid you only because you have confronted them with your business “umpteen” times.

There is no doubt – not everybody will do everything. That’s good. After all we do need teachers, nurses, bus drivers, lawyers, to name only a few – if they all would be network marketers where would our society be?

The solution is to look out for people who have already expressed an interest in network marketing. See that you connect with them, that you build a relationship, best by learning together how to succeed in a dedicated mastermind group.

Learning in a team builds relationships and some of the people you met and bonded with will be happy to join you also in your business and for the others be happy that the work you did together let them succeed in what they are already doing.

You will say that this sounds easy – well it is in a way, but  you need to learn the skill required to act respectfully on the internet so that you will connect with the people you want. And of course  communication skills and personal development will play a part in the process.

Network Marketing as life is a trip. Very much the same way as you climb a mountain where you get higher up with every single step you take, the steps you take in this business will get you on. And as in the mountains you will run in to level spaces where you take steps but you don’t rise up – in the business these are periods of personal growth. Once you have developed to the next level also your business will get moving again.

You like the idea of modern MLM? Well, you are welcome to be in touch to be guided to a training platform which meets this standard!

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Frieke Karlovits

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Today network marketing is an excellent chance to make money online. Once you focus, learn the required skills, take control of the work you do in a collaborative team you should be able to achieve your desired goal.

You agree? – Well , why do you think statistics tell us another story?

Signing up  for a network marketing business – no matter if online or on paper – what you are required to check-mark the policies and procedures as accepted. Everybody does so. However only a very small percentage of all people ever read them in the first place and of those who read them quite a number don’t fully understand them and accept them as “legal  talk that is required”. It is a fact, however, that it is the contents of these policies and procedures which lets many people fail in network marketing.

There are all sorts of tricky clauses which are not taken serious in the process. People miss the awareness that these clauses are contained to be used and they will be the victim. I want to give you a few examples:

• Renewal: There are companies who claim they need it to be able to get rid of the “black sheep among the distributors – hm…
• Termination clauses: for the most varied reasons – mind you – as a rule these are applied once you start earning more money – when you are terminated then it saves the company a lot of money!
• Your Spouse is forbidden to have another business – it is enacted by companies but it is not within human rights to forbid a spouse to  have another business of their own – it is – hm -  like “slavery”.
• A great number of subtle “hoops” not easy to see or find

The above list is are hints and it is by far not complete. To really know what you are  in for you might need help to analyze.

I do hope you are now aware of the importance of policies and procedures and you will make sure you investigate them thoroughly so that you will not be in for a major surprise at some stage of your career.

If you have not had the success you dream of so far this might be one of the things you need to look into – in most cases your lack of success is not your fault.

To have a healthy business with  long-term stability, where teamwork, flexibility, respect, collaboration, both within the team and with the company are part of the everyday business culture you need to know that you have a good balance on all levels of the business you are working.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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You are right – a commission plan is a normal feature in MLM.

Unfortunately too many people don’t ever take the time to investigate the commission plan in detail nor in fact their policies and procedures. Both of these items are equally critical when it comes to securing success – none can be given priority – it’s kind of a question “who comes first the egg or the hen”. therefore let’s simply  discuss commission plans today.

• The very first question for you to ask is:  “What do I have to do to earn my first money”. If the answer to this question is jumping through hoops and finding a number of people – RUN
• Next: “Which qualification do I have to meet to stay qualified for commissions”. So if you have to do more than just a certain personal sales, like having to sponsor one two or more, or even if the required personal sales is too high – RUN
• Another critical point is that in some plans personal requirements increase with increasing income – that is where I ask you – how will you ever be able to retire on such a plan? Some people tell me they simply throw away the products they need to buy – this seems an awful waste if you ask me. But often you also need to sponsor people in the process. Say you have built a fair income and now you want to go on a 3 months’ cruise with your family – how will you do this if you have to sponsor, e.g., a couple of people per month to be eligible for commission. Might be an idea to RUN before you get into this tight spot!
• How about this one: You need to prove that you are an active coaching and training partner for your team on an ongoing basis…

An these are just a few examples of what you may encounter when you study your commission plan.

A good question to ask yourself or rather whoever wants to sponsor you into a business is: “How many people do I need for a 10K residual income” – and watch out – this doesn’t comprises bonuses which as a rule are one time payments!

I hope this gets you thinking about the topic! If you need help to analyze the commission plan you are in, simply be in touch – we gladly will help you for free.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Look at a healthy tree.:

First of all the young tree has to be planted. To grow well it needs a well developed system of roots which keeps continuously expanding to guarantee good supply of water and nutrients to its crown. Of course the good supply will only be there if the soil in which it grows is fertile and humid. If all this applies the growth of the crown with ample of foliage happens automatically.

After a certain period of growth also blossoms will develop and eventually fruit – the harvest!

Now look at network marketing:

First of all the business has to be started. To have it grow well, a team has to be developed which of course will only develop well in a nurturing environment of teaching and of support, were all the requirements regarding tools as well as loving personal support are present. As a result the team will continue growing, the turnover will grow as well and eventually the income you expect to develop will be there.

After a certain time this income will be substantial and will be residual – the harvest!

Can you see the parallel? The tree as well as a network marketing business take time to grow and need a good basis of support to finally yield fruit year after year after year.

Now ask yourself this question:

Since you know that a tree takes years to really give ample of fruit for years to come, will you plant just any tree or will you choose carefully so that you can be sure the fruit will be all you want?

That’s why you also need to choose carefully when you look for the business you intend to base your life on. You want it to be honest and solid, trustworthy, legal and long-term – after all it is your life that is at stake!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant`s Heart

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