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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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

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

Let me tell you the story of

The Donkey Who was Tested:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Wise Choice

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

Every single person has exactly 168 hours a week.

Let’s break it down:

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

                                Totals to         153 hours a week

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Well-timed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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“Insane Productivity”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Insanely Productive Success

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

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

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

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

Let yourself be motivated:

To Your Deliberate Success!

Frieke Karlovits

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Let Go of Insecurity!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So follow the Asian concept 

– Inside Like Outside –

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

To Your Tidy Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Build Confidence in Yourself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Confident Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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

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In network marketing today public speaking is unavoidable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Outspoken Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

This particular program is called Google Sets.

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

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

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

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

To Your Well-informed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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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There is this term in mentoring for free:

 “A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Heart-felt Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Well-chosen Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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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 Are You All In?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Trusting Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Duplication – the magic word in network marketing today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The old rule

Keep It Simple

has not lost it’s validity or its attractiveness.

To Your Systematic Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Heart-felt Success

Frieke Karlovits

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A System for Success!

Pillar 5

A Proven System that will Work for YOU.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A system should not request you to:

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

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

To Your Informed Success

Frieke Karlovits

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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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Pillars have become a symbol for long-term strength and stability.

Therefore it is no surprise that the 5 pillars have become a representation of value for a network company today.

I have given a general overview about "A Solid Company", listing the 5 pillars, in a previous blog so let’s this time go into a bit more details what the 5 pillars are all about when it comes to success in network marketing today. Mind you for in-depth training on this topic you will have to go through our training.

Let’s discuss the first pillar here:

Company Management:

There is no doubt that the management of a company is a really important point – however, what do you have to look for in a company management?

Well, most important of all: does the company management have personal experience building their own networking organization and have they done it with integrity?

Why is this so important? I give you a picture: “Would you ask a lawyer to fix the brakes of your car?” – No – the lawyer is a highly trained expert and should know what he is doing? No? You’d never? Why are you against this idea? Of course the lawyer is an expert in legal matters and not in car repair! Can you see my point? In very much the same manner you need experts at network marketing run a network marketing company today.

Having made this basic requirement clear, let’s investigate “have they done it with integrity”?

Search Google for the owners of the company and see who they are, what their “story” is. Look back in their lives and you might even want to add the word ‘Scam’ to your search. The level of integrity is the goal of this search, and of course if they have personal experience at building a network marketing organisation from scratch.

The legal background, your policies and procedures also goes into this investigation with many topics, the overall one being – does the contact protect you or the company?

Another hot context in the basic legal set-up of a network marketing company is:

”If a company is publicly traded, Financial Decisions Will be made in Favor of the Stockholders at the Expense of the Distributors”.

There is lots of legal language involved in this investigation and you might want support in investigating this topic – this blog is simply to alert you about this topic.

Connect if you need this kind of support – that’s part of our free training.

We have your success at network marketing at heart!

Stay tuned for the second pillar.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Don’t Make  a List of Family and Friends!

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

Why do I claim it makes no sense:

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Empowered Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Independence – Truth or Fake?

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

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

What is Net – Work – Marketing?

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

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

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

Does this mean running a restaurant does not work? No

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Don’t Give Away Your Power – Be Yourself!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

Yes! Meeting People and Making Friends!

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

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

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

Have fun meeting people and making friends!

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stayed tuned to hear more!

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

What do you think of headlines like:

Pay attention, attention pays

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Are the data safe from being hacked?

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Traps are not obvious!

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

Trap no. 1

Falling in love with a company no matter what

Trap no. 2

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

Trap no. 3

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

Trap no. 4

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

Trap no. 5

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

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

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

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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Skills?

Yes – Skills

in

Network Marketing Today

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Attention!

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

 

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Your Success in Using Facebook for Building Your Business

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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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Today’s world is a lot different from what it was only 20 years back. There is no doubt that the methods employed for building a network marketing business have changed drastically. Old ways like making a list of friends and family are no longer functional – not that they necessarily worked well in those days,but as it was before the days of the internet options were different and one had to make do with whatever was possible.

However, one thing has not changed: If you want to build a solid and long term business which is to pay you as well as your children and grandchildren you  have to make a decision. A clear and definite decision. A life-changing decision.

There is no such thing as being married to 10 spouses or to travel to a dozen places in one and the same time, to quote just 2 drastic examples.

The same applies to business. You have to be all in. No if and when, No try, may-be or whatever in that line.

Once you have made a decision, a decision as to with whom you want to build and what size of business you want to achieve, universe will give you the support you need by way of the law of attraction.

Simply imagine – there is someone waiting who will give you service and perform for you by  fulfilling whichever wish you hand out. However, you flood this person with a dozen of contradictory requests at the same time. Imagine what will happen – that person will stay put and wait till you make up your mind what you actually want.

This is exactly what happens with universe!

Therefore – make up your mind, pass a decision and then develop your plan of action in accordance with your decision. You will be surprised how much smoother everything works out.

To Your Success

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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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.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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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!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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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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Back in the 1980-ties when MLM first came to Austria I was immediately attracted. Of course nobody knew a thing about it and within no time the media were full of reports about „the new pyramid system“ that was intruding into the market.

Being a rational person I could easily make out that this business was no pyramid but a very clever mathematical commission concept designed to let the man in the street have a chance at creating an independent income.

I had joined a team who provided weekly meet-ups – mind you the internet had not yet surfaced for everyday use – so weekly meet-ups were good by way of training. It was there that I heard for the first time things like „you have to write down your why“ . It was a very unusual thought for me and I didn’t really know`what to think of it. However I observed people who did it and who actually wrote their „why“ down. Pretty soon they appeared on stage as people who had grown business wise and as a person and I was astonished to say the least.

I had no inclination to think about my why, as the reason for it seemed to be rather „phoney“ to me. I tried to learn how to deal with the products, how to give an excellent presentation and did a lot of work in that respect – I had turnover, but my business didn’t grow. I simply couldn’t understand it as I had done good work on all levels. There were these thoughts of feeling inferior for not having success and more. My sponsor kept on at me about my why and eventually I got so frustrated that I stopped going to meetings and did my turnover and no more. I knew something was missing in my approach but I still couldn’t connect it with my „why“.

Years later when I connected with another business and another group it suddenly hit me – my „why“, I realised, that was the missing link. I wrote down my why, did personal development work very much in line with what nowadays is covered by „the law of attraction“ and… I started on my success curve!

There is no need to get this aha moment the long way as I did – write down your why and if you need to be coached so that you actually manage to do so request help. There is no doubt that writing down your „why“ is a central point for success in network marketing – so even if it sounds as „phoney“ to you as it did to me in those days – jump through the hoop and do it!

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servants Heart

PS: You are welcome to be in touch for your personal „why“ coaching session!

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Recollect – how do you interact with your best friends?  Are you talking about your dreams and visions in life, laughing, teasing, supporting each other?

Or is it all talking about the problems in your life,  complaining, worrying, gossip, and other negative stuff ?

Your self esteem and self confidence is largely determined by who you spend time with, and what you are sharing when you are together.

There is this notion that “you are the average of the 5 people” you hang around with. If these 5 people have a positive attitude and move forward in life you are likely to be on the same tack. It may get you down, however, if these friends or acquaintances have a narrow and limiting attitude towards life.  This basic rule applies to an overwhelming extent also to our success curve in network marketing or the home based business you do.

If you want to feel good about yourself, want to have success, be a glowing example you have to take a serious look at your friendships and the people you surround yourself with.

Answer these five questions for yourself:

1. Do you have healthy friendships?
Now what does it mean “having a healthy friendship”. Let us say here that in a healthy friendship both sides feel happy, content and supported and yet they don’t feel limited by the interaction as there are no conditions attached.

When you look at your friends do you feel that you need to follow their advice even if it goes against your grain, or do you occasionally let your friend down? Are you too much part of each other’s life? If so you might have to adapt your friendship a bit.

2. Do your friends support you in achieving your dreams?
Are you perfectly comfortable with your friends when you  are speaking about your dreams with  them and do they give you support and motivation ? Or do they “protect you” and point out all the possible reasons why you will never be able to achieve your dreams?

3. Can you discuss the positive aspects of life with your friends?
Do you inspire each other by discussing what is great in life and in your business? Do you brainstorm positive solutions to problems and challenges when you are together or do you tend to get hooked up in problems?

The world is a mirror, the Law of Attraction clearly says that you get what you focus on. This is spiritual  physics and your choice is to set your focus right!

4. Are your friends grateful for what good they have life?
Are your friends pleased and grateful for what they have? Do they freely share their abundance? Do they support the energy of Earth in a positive way? Are you grateful to have them in your life or even in your business?

5. Are you happy when you spend time with your friends?
Next time you have a get together with your close friends observe if you actually do feel light and happy, weighed down or irritated!

At times life and business require decisions, not every day is an easy one. A positive friend will lift you up and brighten your day, point out your strengths and believe in you till believe in yourself again.

It is a gift to have a real good friend who is fully present in a loving and supportive way. Feel blesses indeed if you have friends like that and make sure that you are such a wonderful friend too.

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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Common goals  in people today are ideas like: Fire your boss, start your own business, become an entrepreneur running a home business, having success in business, to name only a few.

In fact it is the internet which enables entrepreneurship at an entirely different level. Internet marketing is the big growth area. However, as in any other more conventional business you have to set it up professionally to take your inspiration on the path of success. You need a business plan which you ought to discuss with an expert on the topic as a consultant to make sure your basics are sound. Of course you also need a certain amount of cash flow as you need to take care of having the right software to do your work. Super efficient back offices are available on the net for very reasonable money so there is no need that you re-invent the wheel As a rule investing (time rather than money) is mainly required in the area of personal education. You need to get to know all the possible resources and free training you can find on the internet, knowledge of technology which is required to eventually get going. But also specific skills are a necessity.

What is your first goal? Help yourself by accepting help. MLM as any other profession requires specialised knowledge as well as personal development to make it grow. You need to learn about building relationships with people, about the law of attraction and  that most people today do not want to be “sold”. The motivation for this effort is rooted in your personal goal – the reason why you stepped on this path of wanting a small business of your own! After a while most people will realise that MLM in fact need not stay in the range of a small business – with the right mentoring, which lets you develop your leadership skills and your capacity for management you will be surprised about the growth you may experience.

This growth is also directly related to the coaching you hand on to the people you work with not only yourself but in the entire leadership team. You and the team with whom you work provide a business service which will “breed” growth and personal development for all who participate – provided what you do and the system you use can be duplicated by everyone who joins in. Learning of the basics should put you in a position of being able to judge if this duplication actually works – if not – search until you find a background where it does work. This is the most important details when it comes to choosing a network marketing business.

MLM is not about sales, it is not about recruiting – it is about developing people so that they will be able to do what you do. This is the secret to success in this industry.

To Your Success

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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In The Parable of the Pipeline, author Burke Hedges explains how virtually anyone can leverage their time, relationships, and money to become the millionaire next door" by using the time-tested secrets of wealth creation.

Unfortunately this author doesn’t like to get extra free advertising – the video was removed for copyright claims …

You will find it on line!

It has been one of my favourite resources in helping people understand network  marketing and combined with adequate coaching and mentoring you will achieve a level of success you now only dream of. Feel free to requests personal support!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

Listen – Learn – Prosper

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Some people are so focused on looking at the closed door that they don’t see others opening for them!

Have you ever met people and talked to them about what you are doing? Have you found out that they were actually hoping to earn more money to get bye more easily? And yet to your surprise they have said NO?

This happens when people come from a position of lack. They have a belief system which doesn’t permit them to “deserve” more so they say no, or perhaps they even have just a bunch of excuses – yet excuses are a way to say no. This is a matter of experience – they do not even dare to say no as excuses are a way of making things look better for themselves as they just said before, that they would actually want more money. By way of excuses they convince themselves that there are enough reasons not to be able to do whatever you offered them.

As Tom Schreiter says: It wouldn’t be “no” for rich people. They don’t refuse opportunity. They are not programmed to look for the reasons why something won’t work. They are conditioned to look for reasons why something can work. There are always hundreds of reasons why an opportunity will not work, but also hundreds of reasons why the opportunity will work. It is your choice where you put your focus on.

In our society many people are conditioned for lack for one reason or other. To help overcome this handicap you can join a mastermind group which will help you overcome this obstacle. Studying and discussing a personal programming which is an obstacle together with like minded people is the best way of re-writing your program. This is a secure way to achieve success! Mastermind Group

Which way are you programmed? Find out and get going on owning your life!

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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Sit down in a pub or some other place and listen to what people are talking -  There is this woman who has been on the first pages of a magazine, featured as the top business person of the year or the man who built a multi million Dollar business from scrap or that guy who actually got rich in MLM. I mean you know what I am talking about?

People who become rich always become the center of gossip. You will hear all sorts of comments like – well “she has had the right background, the right education, incredible luck,…” and a lot more along these lines. There is no doubt in people’s heads that  these are the dominant criteria for having achieved success, “luck” . Statements like these scream “ENVY” even though nobody will own up it! Attitude is a word never considered by the man in the street who spends his time in spreading gossip.

Let us investigate into this topic. What needs to be done to achieve extraordinary success:

• You need to have the mindset for success
• A written goal and dream
• A definite plan – and
• You need to take massive action

Mindset

What’s mindset to do with success? Unless your thought centers around success nothing will happen. It is our subconscious mind which has a major part in what we manifest. Yet as Napoleon Hill says, the subconscious is dumb it accepts whatever is fed to it, no matter if positive, sad, negative or whatever. It is surprising! Mostly when people meet up with negative stuff they get heated and emotional about it and it is emotion which conditions thoughts that they are readily accepted by the subconscious. No wonder that so few people manifest wealth.

To be able to manifest wealth you have to program the subconscious with  thoughts about wealth and they have to be charged with emotion to make the subconscious understand. In a world where negativity prevails this wealth programming of the subconscious is a task which has to be performed on a regular basis with the necessary emotion and faith attached to it. Only perseverance in this topic will create the required results.

Written Goal and Dream

To be able to program the subconscious well,  a written goal and dream is essential support. It keeps you focused on the regular task of programming the subconscious. Manifestation takes time so this focus is a needed tool.

Definite Plan

When we keep working with our subconscious the means how we can achieve our goal and dream will pop up and we need to implement it into our definite plan. If you don’t pay attention to the input of your “gut feeling” you may miss out on information given to you by the infinite intelligence and your manifestation may not happen or happen at a later stage after you have mastered this step.

Massive Action

It is a well know truth – it is not enough to know we need to do it – to implement what we have learned!

Most people are totally unawares of these mental laws which explains why they don’t succeed or only on a moderate scale yet some have understood these laws and succeed at an astounding rate.

In every single business you will benefit greatly when you take this to heart and particularly if you want to build  a successful MLM business.  It is a necessity! Connect with people who understand these principles and help you apply them. I want to extend my gratitude to Michael Dlouhy who teaches these principles in an excellent way.

Frieke Karlovits

A Mentor With A Servant’s Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Frieke Karlovits

Your Mentor with a Servant’s Heart

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