Let me tell you my story of a corporate assistant turned body and dance therapist turned digital networker...

My networking journey began when I realized my well-paid corporate job wasn't all that safe anymore.

And that I can only help so many people in my body and dance therapy practice - and many who needed my help were struggling to pay their bills.

At that time I'd been using my company's products for seven years. The lady who had signed me up after a presentation in my mom's health-food store had tried quite aggressively to make me do the biz. Not a pleasant experience... Especially, as I wasn't looking for another plan B... But I'd fallen in love with the high-quality products that turned out to be a great resource for my therapeutic work.

I always wanted to learn more about their usage and effects, so I attended seminars where I met other personalities in my upline who became clients of mine and one even a friend.

And when I was ready to take a serious look at the biz, my friend told me

• This is so easy!
• The key to success is to be coachable!
• Make a list of friends and family to talk to!
• Sharing is caring - and go for no!
• Do home parties and one-on-ones!
• The products are so great, they sell themselves, everybody needs them!

Which one were you told when you got started?

I was about to find out that products don’t sell themselves - people buy from people they know like and trust... But I didn't know better at the time, so I started following my friend's advice. 

• I used my products in front of family and friends hoping they would want to know more.
• I asked them to support me and many did - for a while.
• I made a list of all my acquaintances, including colleagues at corporate, my son's teachers, waitresses, people I hadn't talked to in years etc, and started calling, messaging, inviting them to home parties.

Do I hear you groan?

Well, at some point, everybody knew what I was doing.

And I kept being told: just talk to more people...

Do any of these sound familiar to you?

• Cleaning the house for hours and sending the family away to do the next home party...
• Or preparing everything and driving for hours, missing out on time with your family to do parties, and getting home too late to even wish your loved ones goodnight?
• Oh, and how often have you driven miles to do a party only to have 3 people there, two of them being you and the host? The other 10 people who’d promised to come canceled at the last minute because of some emergency...

And then there was the follow-up...
Making phone calls to customers asking them if they were ready to order more products...
(The company I was with had mainly long-lasting products so it was a constant challenge to keep people on autoship or even get more orders...)

Have you found yourself calling or messaging friends to tell them about your amazing products or opportunity, just to be told NO?

Are you being taught to talk to long-lost friends - not to genuinely catch up but to prospect them? 

The problem is: at that point, it's become about you and no longer about helping the person you're talking to... And nobody likes to be sold to...

Well, after all that - what were my results?

I had some success, my parties were fun and valuable. So much so that after a while I had people attend and enjoy the time with me - only to tell me at the end that they were already signed up with someone else...

A year into this, I could no longer ask my loyal friends to host another party or buy any more products.

Their issues were solved and it felt awkward even talking to them about buying more products or host another party...

And I also had spent more weekends without my family than ever before and I realized this was my fast-track ticket to burn-out. I got distracted at my job and short-tempered with my men...

And finally, I was told to talk to my therapeutic clients about the products and biz.

I cringed at the mere thought...

And had it not been for my one serious biz builder who'd put her trust in me, I'd have quit then and there. But I'd brought her in and didn't want to let her down.

I knew there had to be a better way to build this biz, and I'm a firm believer things happen for a reason...

I turned to different mentors, books, the online world - but I wasn't going to plaster my personal profile with company info and promos, let alone start being fake social.

I followed gurus on social media, took tons of notes, but no action... Because I felt overwhelmed and didn't quite know how to start.

And one very late night, I found a youtube video that talked about a completely different strategy I resonated with...

I discovered the secret that I knew must be out there: 

Attraction marketing!

The concept is so simple, I couldn’t believe I had been struggling offline for so long!

People are on social media to be social, not to be sold to.

If I create and share VALUE with others, people will come to me to find out more - instead of me having to chase after people!

I went all in. 

I was coachable. 

I started building online and said goodbye to parties, driving long hours to no shows, being away from my men.

I meet up with friends now to be social and not to prospect them!

I still love the products of my first company but have made the decision to join some of my mentors and friends in a company that's making waves in the industry.

I can now build a global team using social media without ever posting about my company or products anywhere...

And I'm working towards the day when I no longer have to do my corporate job to pay my bills and debt from building my practice - but I'll be able to choose whether I want to stay or leave to be home with my son and do pro-bono therapeutic work for those who need it most...

Now, whatever your hopes and dreams maybe, I'd love to support you in your journey and see you succeed and bloom...

I can't wait to connect with you and see how I can best help you reach your goals!

Here's my calendar link for you (we might be in different time zones, so if none of the available times work for you, let me know and we'll find a time that suits us both)

To your success,

Katrin