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ISSUE 1, 2018 1
XENIA POOLE<br />
Editor’s column<br />
Every year starts the same – with a pledge, a promise, a resolve to<br />
be better. To lose weight, quit smoking, pay off debt, change jobs.<br />
If one of those, or all of those, happened you’d be a better person.<br />
You could finally start living the life you’ve dreamed about.<br />
Come February/March, resolve waning, you talk yourself down. It’s<br />
not the right time. You haven’t been logical and realistic about your<br />
pledge. You’re destined never to be better.<br />
It’s a rut that many fall into and, ruts being what they are, can<br />
become increasingly difficult to get out of. Once you don’t<br />
believe that change is possible, that you can be ‘better’, you’ve<br />
already lost.<br />
Many people (myself included) are huge advocates of personal<br />
development in helping you get to where you want to be in life.<br />
However, if you’re looking for a ‘fix’, it’s important to remember this<br />
when approaching personal development: there isn’t a book out<br />
there that can help you grow without you taking action.<br />
It’s easy to get caught up in the next best thing that’s going to help<br />
you revolutionise your life. In fact, simply by reading, watching,<br />
searching for and consuming the information that will help, you can<br />
often feel like you’ve already won the battle! It’s good to want to be<br />
better, to want to achieve your goals and create the lifestyle you<br />
want. Don’t get caught up looking externally for answers, though,<br />
when the most important part of personal development is<br />
actually you!<br />
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for being the architect of your<br />
own life. You have infinite potential and there are limitless<br />
possibilities, but it all starts with you. Yes, following a successful<br />
person’s morning routine might work for a while, but unless it’s right<br />
for you it’s doomed for failure in the end.<br />
Use personal development as a helpful pick and mix. If something<br />
resonates with you, try it. If it doesn’t work, don’t beat yourself up.<br />
Growth isn’t a one-time occurrence – it’s a constant, so if something<br />
that works for you now, it might not necessarily work for you next<br />
year. Keep learning, keep researching, keep re-evaluating. The most<br />
learned person in the land doesn’t know what is best for YOU, so<br />
make sure you keep yourself in mind every step you take.<br />
What you learn in life is always important. How you weave that<br />
learning into your life is more important.<br />
Lastly, you need to enjoy the journey and if you’re already starting<br />
off believing that you’re not good enough and that you need fixing,<br />
it’s not going to be pleasurable. Be kind to yourself, because you’re<br />
already enough. Life is to be lived and enjoyed in the moment, so<br />
make sure you’re doing that first and foremost. To live this way and<br />
pursue your goals is not mutually exclusive, in fact, you’re more<br />
likely to achieve everything you’ve ever wanted.<br />
It’s time to make personal development personal.<br />
So how can you make sure that you’re following personal<br />
development in the best possible way – a way that will help you<br />
grow as a person and not feel like you’re forever chasing a perfect<br />
state that (let’s face it) will never be attainable and more than likely<br />
make you feel worse for having tried and failed.<br />
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MICHAEL KHATKAR<br />
Managing Director<br />
In five years, Kleeneze will hit an incredible milestone – its<br />
centenary. This is a hugely exciting time, as we start the countdown.<br />
100 years in business is an achievement that not many other<br />
companies can boast about.<br />
Over the years, Kleeneze has seen wars, recessions and many<br />
moves, but it still continues to create unbelievable lifestyles for<br />
those who work it. The prospect of working for yourself, choosing<br />
your own hours and creating your own income appeals to people<br />
from all walks of life. Add into the mix that you need no specific<br />
experience or training and it means that absolutely anyone can not<br />
only start a Kleeneze business but make it a huge success.<br />
We’re nearly 100 and in that time, we’ve evolved a lot, keeping up to<br />
date with product and marketing trends. Our ranges are different,<br />
interesting and provide solutions to every day problems around the<br />
home, garden, even car!<br />
It’s such a simple system. Retail from the vast range of products in<br />
our catalogues and online and teach others to do the same. Our<br />
success lies in the simplicity of our business model, along with a<br />
Network of Distributors determined to help each other succeed.<br />
Towards the end of last year, we launched a new logo and strapline<br />
to start our centenary countdown. It was <strong>Stronger</strong> Together. For<br />
Kleeneze, this is a new era: one of commun<strong>icat</strong>ion and partnership<br />
between the Network and HQ. It’s that partnership that will take us<br />
through the next five years into an even brighter, stronger future. It’s<br />
all dependent upon us working <strong>together</strong>.<br />
They say if you believe, you will achieve. I have massive,<br />
unwavering belief in this business and the people within it.<br />
I have already seen how many lives it has changed for the<br />
better and I know that it has the power to create unbelievable<br />
lifestyles.<br />
Commun<strong>icat</strong>ion and support levels have been like nothing I’ve ever<br />
witnessed before in this industry. We’ve come <strong>together</strong> as a great<br />
force to work for the future. Your determination and effort has been<br />
powerful and inspiring.<br />
We have a huge opportunity to move forward <strong>together</strong> and take<br />
this business to the next level. We already know that this business<br />
changes lives – it’s up to us <strong>together</strong> to decide how many lives<br />
that could be. Only by working <strong>together</strong> can we make everyone’s<br />
individual success stories.<br />
We are living proof of how people can work <strong>together</strong> and succeed<br />
<strong>together</strong>. The old, made-up-by-me adage ‘Behind every great HQ is<br />
an amazing NETWORK of special people’ has never been truer as it<br />
is today.<br />
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6<br />
GO 18 IN 2018<br />
Vital training on how you can achieve this<br />
milestone or help someone else to<br />
9<br />
YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL<br />
Finding something that you love to do<br />
and fits around your family is nigh on<br />
impossible. Or is it?<br />
10<br />
DISTRIBUTOR<br />
OF THE YEAR 2017<br />
We catch up with the lady who embodies<br />
Kleeneze’s ‘<strong>Stronger</strong> Together’ vision<br />
18<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Catch up with all the latest news<br />
21<br />
THE BIGGER PICTURE<br />
Fantastic stories from throughout<br />
the Network<br />
20<br />
FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE<br />
Got a big goal? Get some tips on<br />
how to achieve it<br />
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12<br />
MY WORK LIFE BALANCE<br />
Gold Sales Plan mover, Emma Opacic<br />
tells her story<br />
14<br />
LAS VEGAS<br />
ONE LAST CHANCE<br />
An unbelievable reward is out there<br />
for you to grab<br />
16<br />
K LIFE PERSONALISED<br />
Find a unique gift for someone special<br />
24<br />
FRESHEN UP<br />
WITH SOME FREEBIES<br />
Collections 3 has 16 pages bursting with<br />
fabulous products and savings<br />
26<br />
PRECIOUS MOMENTS<br />
You don’t need to make a choice between<br />
work and being there for the moments<br />
that matter<br />
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By Clare & Chris Kinsella<br />
Go 18 is an incredible incentive<br />
that will help and impact<br />
every single business if you<br />
take advantage of it. We want<br />
to show you how you can<br />
personally achieve it or help a<br />
team member to achieve it and<br />
grow your business.<br />
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CLARE & CHRIS KINSELLA<br />
Gold Executive Distributors<br />
YOUR PLAN<br />
First things first - plan! It doesn’t always have to be the best plan, as<br />
the best plans are constantly being tweaked, but we do all need a<br />
starting point.<br />
You need to decide how much you are going to personally commit<br />
to achieving with your personal retail. Be realistic but do give that<br />
extra push. We personally recommend at least 10% (650BP).<br />
TOP TIP: Look after your account and keep it running<br />
smoothly, paying in all monies owed promptly so it doesn’t hold<br />
you back when turning orders around.<br />
You now need to look at what is left, so you know what sales your<br />
team need to generate. For example, 18 % is 3400BP, so if you are<br />
achieving 650BP, then you now need 2750BP from your<br />
team combined.<br />
Back to the plan. Break it down, have an end date in mind and work<br />
backwards. Bear in mind that you need to achieve this at the latest<br />
period 8 as you need to hold it for a minimum 6 periods.<br />
You can achieve this in 3 periods if you throw everything you have<br />
into it. Remember you all have what it takes, but it takes all you<br />
got so really push. Whether you have a team yet or not, this can be<br />
done.<br />
0 -18% in 3 periods, just take it one step at a time.<br />
Next period 13%<br />
Period after 15%<br />
Period after 18%<br />
Now keep pushing and go for GOLD.<br />
BUILDING A TEAM<br />
Building a team is now your next step if you haven’t started already.<br />
Do this with excitement. You don’t need to know everything or<br />
be an expert (yet), just run with it and keep it simple. We are<br />
showing others how to sell everyday products for every market<br />
and every budget – it’s not rocket science! If you’re brand new at<br />
this remember it’s not your responsibility to teach anyone, but it is<br />
your responsibility to learn for yourself so lead by example and your<br />
team will soon follow. Become a signpost – get good at pointing<br />
people in the direction of the people who do know the business, as<br />
well as the meetings, webinars, zooms, training days and<br />
team pages.<br />
TOP TIP: Work closely with your sponsor and/or successful<br />
upline and be coachable. Follow the steps and learn to master<br />
the mundane and give it time.<br />
Sponsor 6 -8 people a period every period and watch your<br />
business grow. Do this by speaking to 15 people a day minimum<br />
about your business, whether that’s cold or warm market - more if<br />
you want it faster.<br />
TOP TIP: A good way to work your warm market is with a<br />
third-party approach, asking do they know anyone who would<br />
like to earn any extra cash. This avoids awkwardness and all the<br />
mums hiding from you at the school gates!<br />
Put your new people at an average of £300 each in a Period. Now,<br />
it doesn’t sound like a lot, but you get some that will do a lot more<br />
and some that do less some; some will even do nothing, so it evens<br />
out.<br />
TOP TIP: Do it as fast as you can, success loves speed and it<br />
becomes much easier the faster you do it.<br />
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To get to 18%, if you do 650BP and you need 270BP from your team,<br />
with all of them doing about 250BP, then you’re looking at about<br />
11 team members. If you follow the system of 5-8 a week, you will<br />
more than achieve this in your 3 periods.<br />
TOP TIP: If you have never sponsored before, it can take<br />
about 6 weeks to build momentum, but if you consistently speak<br />
to people daily and generate enough leads it will snowball. Give<br />
it time.<br />
When you have a new team, even if you don’t know what you’re<br />
doing, look after them: hold their hand every step of the way and<br />
always put yourself in their shoes. Remember how you felt when you<br />
started - keep it as real as possible.<br />
TOP TIP: If you’re already building a team; encourage<br />
dupl<strong>icat</strong>ion, make sure they’re aware of Go 18 in 2018 and upgrade<br />
anyone who wants to achieve this. It will help you achieve it along<br />
the way, as well as your team member.<br />
TRACKING<br />
The key is to track your activity – whether you write it down on a<br />
board, on a notepad, on a spreadsheet – whatever you prefer or even<br />
all of them!<br />
Keep checking you’re on target for your goals: check you’re doing<br />
enough activity, speaking to enough people, and working with the<br />
people you have introduced.<br />
PERSONALLY DEVELOP<br />
You are paid in this business for the value you offer your team, so<br />
if you want to earn more money, become more valuable - simple!<br />
When we join this business, we are not experts in network marketing<br />
or people, handling emotions or helping others handle emotions; we<br />
must develop these skills, to learn them. This is why the saying is<br />
used a lot in this business – the more you learn, the more<br />
you earn.<br />
Our business started to have its biggest jumps when we started to<br />
develop alongside doing the actions that got our business moving.<br />
Your successful upline will advise you on what book is right for you to<br />
start you off, but remember action is the most important part. Your<br />
work ethic comes hand in hand with being able to discipline your<br />
disappointments, so do both at a high level.<br />
LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE<br />
This incentive is a great tool, not to just get to 18%, not just for a<br />
trip, but to have that turning point to grow. We have always used the<br />
incentives to grow our business using them as stepping stones along<br />
the way, so have this as your first stepping stone.<br />
If you go for this and hold it the 6 months for the incentive,<br />
you will more than likely hit Gold.<br />
If you encourage your team to go for this, it could move your<br />
business in a big way. If you achieve this quickly, you will increase<br />
your income quickly.<br />
Top tips<br />
GO FOR GOLD<br />
Have Gold as your target, not just 18%. Have<br />
the £1,500 bonus as your bigger goal and<br />
chalk off lots of other goals along the way!<br />
REWARD YOURSELF ON<br />
ACTIVITY, NOT RESULTS<br />
If you do this and go to bed feeling<br />
accomplished from the work you have done,<br />
the results will just come flooding it<br />
BE HAPPY WHERE YOU ARE<br />
RIGHT NOW<br />
Accept where you are and don’t compare<br />
yourself to others. Feel good about what you<br />
have already achieved in life and keep striving<br />
to move closer to your goal at the same time<br />
DRAW OUT WHAT YOUR<br />
BUSINESS WILL LOOK LIKE AT THE<br />
END OF THE YEAR<br />
I have a drawing on my wall of what my<br />
business will look like in January 2019, with<br />
lots of circles for our new Gold distributors to<br />
go in as they achieve it. This keeps me focused<br />
on what we’re working towards and what that<br />
will give us.<br />
WRITE OUT YOUR GOALS<br />
EACH NIGHT BEFORE BED<br />
I write my goals every night before I go to<br />
sleep so I have in my mind what we’re going to<br />
achieve.<br />
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You can have it all<br />
Kelly Mcloughlin - My Kleeneze Story<br />
A child or a career? This is a question many women feel they have no choice but to answer. Is it the<br />
priority to go out to work and earn money to give your child a better life? Or is it more significant<br />
to be there for your children, all the time struggling to make ends meet? Finding a job – any job –<br />
that will pay for childcare and allow you to take time off when you need to can be hard enough.<br />
Finding something that you love to do and fits around your family is nigh on impossible. Or is it?<br />
34-year-old Kelly Mcloughlin was working five different part-time cleaning jobs just to make<br />
ends meet to help provide for her two children, aged 5 and 7. Not only was she missing spending<br />
time with her family, increasingly she found herself using most of her wages on childcare.<br />
Something had to change.<br />
“I was going out to work at night and missing out<br />
on putting the kids to bed and reading to<br />
them,” remembers Kelly. “I had childcare<br />
bills that were taking most of my wages<br />
and that was on top of relying on family<br />
to help look after them too. I thought,<br />
‘what’s the point?’ Kelly started to look<br />
around for something else, but the<br />
part-time jobs she was already doing had<br />
been hard enough to find, as they had to fit<br />
in around the children.<br />
“I thought there must be something out there that I can do to earn<br />
money, but still be a full-time mum,” she explains. “That’s when I<br />
came across an advert on Facebook. The first thing that caught my<br />
eye was the products that were being sold. I knew I could sell them<br />
too. I responded to the advert and in January 2017, joined Kleeneze.<br />
“I love building my business. It’s so flexible that it works perfectly<br />
around the kids. They love getting involved and helping with my work<br />
too. I work it all online, trying to do at least 4 hours a day. I do a lot<br />
once the kids have gone to bed.”<br />
Now moving up the sales plan and growing her team, Kelly is making<br />
plans for the future with her Kleeneze business.<br />
“During my journey with Kleeneze, I have made some great friends.<br />
I have hit the 18% bonus level and I’ve started building a great<br />
team of my own. I have finally managed to quit 4 of my jobs and, with<br />
the extra income coming in from the business,<br />
I’m far better off.<br />
“I don’t have childcare costs anymore and, since joining, I have never<br />
missed a school play, outing or a bedtime story.<br />
“I’m now aiming on finally quitting my last remaining part-time job<br />
to concentrate on the business full time. I would love to qualify for<br />
an incentive trip with Kleeneze and I’m so excited about what the<br />
future holds. I’m doing this for my children, to have a better family<br />
life and to never miss out on them growing up.”<br />
“I thought there must be<br />
something out there that I<br />
can do to earn money but<br />
still be a full-time mum”<br />
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Gill<br />
Nicholson,<br />
Distributor<br />
of the year<br />
2017<br />
Platinum Premier<br />
Distributor<br />
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After a roller-coaster year in<br />
2017, Kleeneze came <strong>together</strong><br />
ready to start a new chapter,<br />
stronger <strong>together</strong>. In five<br />
years’ time, the business will<br />
mark it’s 100th anniversary – an<br />
incredible milestone. We’re rooted<br />
in history and throughout many<br />
changes in the business, Kleeneze has<br />
continued to create incredible lifestyles<br />
for people from all walks of life.<br />
One of the business’s biggest supporters,<br />
someone who embodies the slogan ‘stronger<br />
<strong>together</strong>’ and who has experienced over 5 decades of<br />
Kleeneze success, is our latest Distributor of the Year. It is, of<br />
course, the lovely Gill Nicholson, who took to the stage last year<br />
to tell us her story.<br />
My story is slightly different from most. Our family has been involved<br />
in Kleeneze for over half a century – 56 years. It feels like a blink<br />
of an eye. You can’t imagine how many changes I’ve seen in that<br />
time. Change for all of us is scary, but it’s exciting. If Kleeneze hadn’t<br />
changed in all these years, you’d still be knocking on doors like I did,<br />
selling your products from a suitcase.<br />
The joy of Kleeneze is just that – the ability to change.<br />
My dad started Kleeneze in 1961. Like many of us do, he started part time to help buy the kids<br />
new shoes, help with the mortgage and to afford food for his growing family. Part time agents,<br />
as they were known back then, didn’t get a suitcase to sell out of. What he got was an A4 sheet<br />
of paper, folded in half with products on them. After about 18 months, he left Kleeneze.
GILL NICHOLSON<br />
Distributor of the year 2017<br />
After he left, he was approached by the area manager to go out for<br />
lunch. He found out then that he was one of the top five salesman.<br />
He never knew. His manager never told him and, as a part-time<br />
agent, he never qualified for the monthly newsletter. Today, thank<br />
goodness, we’re recognised at every step of our Kleeneze journey.<br />
Dad returned to Kleeneze and after three years decided to leave the<br />
fire service and become a full-time door-to-door salesman, losing<br />
his pension in the process. In that last year of being a fireman, my<br />
dad earned £950 per year. His very first full-time year in Kleeneze, he<br />
earned £2,500. We had nothing like the products today, but work<br />
ethic was key. If dad was late home, it either meant two things: He<br />
was having a bad day and hadn’t hit his goal of selling £10 worth of<br />
products or he was having such a good day, he didn’t want to leave it.<br />
As is sod’s law, as soon as you decide to change and go full time<br />
with Kleeneze, something major will happen. The wheel will drop<br />
off your car or, as in my dad’s case, he got very poorly for the next<br />
9 months. Mum had taken a job to ease the pressure, because she<br />
knew how much he wanted to do Kleeneze, so we started helping<br />
with his deliveries. In 1967, dad asked if I wanted to do Kleeneze.<br />
He knew I didn’t like travelling to London to work, so he gave me<br />
extensive training on all the products and the uses around the<br />
home, a quick demonstration on the doorstep and off we went. Dad<br />
hid behind the hedge as I knocked on my first door and listened in<br />
horror as I said: “Hi, I’m Gillian, your Kleeneze agent. You don’t want<br />
to buy anything do you?” Unsurprisingly, they didn’t. Three years<br />
later, dad’s group – the Chelmsford office – lead the company. Dad<br />
became a Corporate Executive.<br />
There were many changes over the years. The suitcases<br />
disappeared, we stopped making our own products, areas and<br />
branch managers went, we moved, moved and then moved again.<br />
I think this latest move has been the best, though, I feel we have<br />
taken control of Kleeneze once more.<br />
When I was retailing at 19, deliveries were every two weeks. If we’d<br />
not cleared half the balance on the following week, we didn’t get<br />
goods after that. No bonuses and no territories. People left because<br />
the territories went. Some people left because the suitcases went.<br />
Some of those changes didn’t work, some of them were painful, but<br />
throughout it all, Kleeneze did work, which has been proven time<br />
and time again.<br />
Kleeneze has given those of us who saw the bigger picture, a chance<br />
to carve a new life for ourselves.<br />
After two heart attacks and two strokes, mum and dad asked me<br />
if I wanted to take over the business. It was 1994 and it had been<br />
a terrible year for our family. I had lost my son, Jamie, whilst on<br />
holiday in Corfu. My boss had given me an appraisal and had<br />
expressed concern about the time I had off. He felt after nine<br />
months, I should be getting over the loss of my son. At that point, I<br />
jumped at the chance to take over from mum and dad and leave my<br />
job. I made so many mistakes whilst learning – but I’ve loved my life<br />
in Kleeneze over the past 21 years.<br />
“Kleeneze has given those<br />
of us who saw the bigger<br />
picture, a chance to carve<br />
a new life for ourselves”<br />
Through Kleeneze, I started to learn my lifetime goals.<br />
I certainly have the travel bug, but with Kleeneze I can work all over<br />
the world. I can allocate leads, I can speak to prospects. I always<br />
wanted to own my own home, so in true Essex girl style I bought<br />
three: a villa in Spain, a bungalow which I rented out and my home<br />
in Tewkesbury. All my life I dreamed of owning a home in the middle<br />
of a field, so I built one.<br />
Kleeneze is an amazing journey, as is life – full of peaks and<br />
troughs. It’s what we choose to do with it that’s key.<br />
To see Gill’s<br />
full story<br />
Visit our YouTube channel<br />
www.youtube.com/kleenezeHQ<br />
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“Our quality of life<br />
has changed, and I<br />
am finally doing what<br />
I’ve tried to do for the<br />
past 8 years - be there<br />
for my children”<br />
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EMMA OPACIC<br />
Gold Distributor<br />
“I’ve been a qualified nurse since 1998, working my way up to Nurse<br />
Practitioner – a role in which I’ve been for the past 11 years. Since<br />
having my two boys, Jacob (8) and Izaak (6), I’ve changed jobs to<br />
try and fit work around them, but as a nurse you can’t just walk<br />
away, and I always ended up doing more hours than I was being<br />
contracted for. Some of the time, I wouldn’t even get paid for those<br />
extra hours. The more I worked, the more stressful my job became,<br />
as I was torn with guilt for not being around for my boys.<br />
When Tracey Payne, who I know through mutual friends, messaged<br />
me to see if I knew anyone who may be interested in joining the<br />
business, I had a look at the video and thought I could give it a go.<br />
It would give us a little extra money and I could do it with my boys<br />
at home with me. I met Tracey for a coffee to discuss it more and by<br />
the end of the meeting, I’d signed up to Kleeneze on the £50 Kit. I<br />
had nothing to lose and everything to gain.<br />
In my first full month, I hit 10%, then 13% and then 15%.<br />
I was so chuffed! That first cheque was for £293.<br />
I didn’t set big goals when I started. All I wanted to do is to get my<br />
catalogues out three times a week. However, I quickly hit all my<br />
Welcome Rewards and earned free catalogues. Plus, I finally had<br />
time with my boys. Doing Kleeneze around my current job meant<br />
that I didn’t have to do an extra nursing shift and worry about being<br />
away from my children or getting home on time. It was a novelty.<br />
I was still working 5 days a week, so I had to make sure I had good<br />
time management. I was determined, though. Failure is not an<br />
option!<br />
The six weeks school holiday rolled around, and I had to practically<br />
pack my boys off for four weeks to their grandparents due to work.<br />
Around the same time, I attended a team rally, and after that I swore<br />
that the next time school holidays came round, I would be there for<br />
my boys.<br />
Team building happened very quickly. My oldest and best friend<br />
phoned me up to see what my new venture was within a week of<br />
me starting up! I was only just getting to grips with things myself, so<br />
was grateful for being so well supported when she asked to sign up.<br />
I sat down and spoke to Tracey about what I needed to do to go<br />
Gold when we were at the next local opportunity meeting. I was<br />
still working as a nurse in a very stressful environment. I had been<br />
running at 18% for a while, but after speaking to my husband, he<br />
said he would start helping a bit more so that we could move up the<br />
Sales Plan and we could hit Gold.<br />
Work had had changed for for me me in in January. I had I had become very very frustrated<br />
with frustrated my role with and environment. my role and environment. I think I had just I think accepted I had it just for so<br />
long, accepted but all it the for personal long, but development all the personal I had development been doing had I had<br />
started been doing to work. had I handed started in to my work. notice I handed at the end in my of notice the year at and the<br />
had end finished of the year my role and at had the finished end of March. my role The at very the end next of month, March.<br />
we The went very Gold. next I couldn’t month, we believe went it, Gold. but the I couldn’t power of believe what you it, but can<br />
achieve the power when of you what set your can mind achieve to something when you is set amazing. your mind to<br />
something is amazing.<br />
My children continue to be my biggest motivation, as I want to<br />
be around for them. I’m also focused on helping my team to achieve<br />
their goals.<br />
The best part about Kleeneze has been meeting a fantastic group<br />
of people who I can now call friends. I’m able to spend time with<br />
family and be there for them. My work life balance has completely<br />
changed. I get to take my children to school every day. I work about<br />
6 locum shifts a month now to put more time in to my Kleeneze<br />
business. Yes, at some point I would love to only do Kleeneze. Our<br />
quality of life has changed, and I am finally doing what I’ve<br />
tried to do for the past 8 years – be there for my children. I don’t<br />
want to miss any more and Kleeneze has helped me to do that.”<br />
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Las Vegas<br />
one more chance!<br />
PART 2<br />
- PART 2<br />
24th January - 8th March 2018<br />
What are the odds of you being<br />
offered a five-star trip to the<br />
Entertainment Capital of the<br />
World simply for working a little<br />
harder? In a standard job, not<br />
great! However, in Kleeneze, the<br />
odds can be in your favour!<br />
On 24 January, we launched Las<br />
Vegas Part 2. The final push that<br />
will see your business grow, your<br />
income grow and the reward at<br />
the end of it – Las Vegas!<br />
IF YOU BELIEVE IT, YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT!<br />
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Las Vegas<br />
one more chance!<br />
One Distributorship from each of these groups<br />
will qualify to join us in Vegas for a trip<br />
of a lifetime!<br />
BELOW GOLD<br />
GOLD & SENIOR<br />
EXECUTIVE<br />
SED<br />
PREMIER<br />
• The main criteria is based on OVERALL GROWTH, you must<br />
demonstrate the highest increase in Bulk Sales within your group<br />
compared to Period 1, 2018<br />
• Initiate and Activate THREE new people with a minimum of 250BP<br />
• Personally retail a minimum of 500BP<br />
• Achieve a minimum of 18% PSG in Period 2 or 3<br />
The criteria is open to everyone at every sales plan level and runs<br />
from 24th January to 8th March. Winners will be announced week<br />
commencing 12th March 2018<br />
WILD CARD!<br />
After the group winners have been revealed, there will be one<br />
final place up for grabs!<br />
• Every distributorship achieving the LV 2 minimum<br />
entry criteria* will receive one entry ticket in the LV2 Prize Draw.<br />
• For every additional initiation achieving the minimum target<br />
of 250 BP you will receive an extra ticket in the draw, giving you<br />
even better odds<br />
for success!<br />
The winner will be drawn LIVE<br />
on Monday 12th March –<br />
watch this space for<br />
more details…<br />
Make sure<br />
you (and your<br />
passport) are<br />
ready to fly high<br />
in 2018!<br />
*Minimum entry requirement<br />
– Three initiations achieving 250<br />
BP, 500 BP Personal Retail, 18%<br />
PSG in Period 2 or 3<br />
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UNIQUE GIFTS FOR EVERY OCCASION<br />
The new personalised catalogue is here offering more unique, quality and affordable gifts!<br />
Whatever the occasion, you’ll find the perfect present in K Life Personalised for Spring Summer 2018!<br />
• 81 lines across 36 pages<br />
• Gifts suitable for every occasion including birthdays,<br />
wedding, Mother’s Day/Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day etc.<br />
• The front cover features the Moments Slate Clock which can be<br />
personalised with a special message and is perfect for anywhere<br />
in the home - only £28/€33.60.<br />
• Page 3 is the exclusive Work Hard Balloon Glass - personalise<br />
with name and favourite drink for just £18/€21.60.<br />
• We have ideal gifts for couples including Set of 2 Engraved Glass<br />
Flutes and the exclusive Round Chopping Board.<br />
• Keepsakes for children such as the Baby Blanket, available in<br />
Pink or Blue.<br />
• Gift ideas include a Stainless-Steel Plectrum for £15/€18, the<br />
Wind Proof Lighter (available in silver or pink) for just £15/€18<br />
and the ever-popular Decorative<br />
Glasses Case.<br />
• Also included is a stunning Diamanté Tealight Holder for<br />
£24/€28.80,<br />
which can be personalised with any message.<br />
• We have a range of personalised signs for your home and garden<br />
with prices starting from as little as £16/€19.20, as well as a<br />
beautiful Memorial Lantern<br />
to remember loved ones for only £20/€24.<br />
• On the back cover, we have the best selling Silver-Plated Angel<br />
Keyring, which can be personalised with any message.<br />
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UNIQUE GIFTS FOR EVERY OCCASION<br />
Inspiring<br />
personalised<br />
COLLECTION<br />
Order a pack of 50<br />
today using:<br />
UK code: 100765<br />
ROI code: 100773<br />
Price: £3/€3.60<br />
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NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
<strong>Stronger</strong> <strong>together</strong><br />
Kleeneze lapel badges<br />
The ‘<strong>Stronger</strong> Together’ lapel badge in now available to purchase for<br />
only £2/€2.40 which you can proudly wear as we head to our centenary<br />
in business. The 5-year countdown to our biggest anniversary is on!<br />
Order on code 100846<br />
DELIVERY CHARGES<br />
To continue to help you kick start your business in 2018, we have extended the following until the end of Period 4 (5th April 2018)<br />
Any retail order of £150/€180 or more will come with free postage and packaging!<br />
Activate. Build. Collect.<br />
The ABC incentive<br />
With our ABC incentive, you can earn extra bonuses whilst you grow and support your business.<br />
Qualif<strong>icat</strong>ion criteria runs from Period 1 to Period 5, 2018<br />
• Initiate someone into your business between Period 1 and Period 4.<br />
• For all initiations that achieve 500BP in paid retail sales, during the qualif<strong>icat</strong>ion period (Period 1 –<br />
Period 5), the initiator will be awarded with £50/€60.<br />
Furthermore, for every 500BP of paid retail orders (cumulative) your new starter achieves during the<br />
qualif<strong>icat</strong>ion period, we’ll give you £50/€60 – up to a maximum of £200/€240<br />
per new starter!<br />
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...making life easier<br />
...making life easier<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Macmillan<br />
Infinity Macmillan leather bracelet limited edition<br />
Show your support for our official charity<br />
by wearing this limited edition bracelet<br />
featuring an infinity charm and Macmillan<br />
branded tag. Presented with a card<br />
stating your edition number and packed<br />
in a drawstring gift pouch.<br />
REAL<br />
LEATHER<br />
For each bracelet (displaying the Macmillan logo) sold by Kleeneze, £1 plus VAT will be paid to Macmillan Cancer Support* a<br />
registered charity in England & Wales (261017), in Scotland (SC039907) and in the Isle of Man (604).*Paid to Macmillan Cancer<br />
Support Trading Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of Macmillan Cancer Support to which it gives all of its profits.<br />
Wall planner<br />
It’s never too late to start planning your goals!<br />
We have just the planner to help – a wall planner<br />
that has all your Period End dates included, as well<br />
as some helpful personal development tips! You can<br />
now purchase extra <strong>Stronger</strong> Together wall planners<br />
on code 100838 for just £1/€1.20.<br />
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The<br />
Bigger<br />
Picture<br />
Do you remember the last time you went on holiday? Did you show<br />
up at the airport with no idea where you were going to go, how much<br />
it was going to cost and no luggage? As adventurous as that holiday<br />
sounds, the chances are you researched it meticulously, asked friends<br />
and family for recommendations, made lists, budgeted and carefully<br />
planned your trip away. It begs the question, why do we put so much<br />
time and effort planning a 10-day trip abroad and yet leave our own<br />
life planning down to chance? Could it be too daunting a task for us to<br />
undertake? Maybe it’s time we felt the fear and did it anyway.<br />
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YOUR PLAN<br />
Planning doesn’t have to be boring – especially when<br />
it’s the plans for your life that we’re talking about. Set<br />
some time aside, grab a piece of paper and write down<br />
absolutely everything you would love to accomplish<br />
with your life. Whether you want to pay off some debt<br />
or star in a Hollywood movie – write it all down.<br />
SIFT IT OUT<br />
Which of these goals would you like to achieve in the<br />
next five years? Start imagining yourself in five years –<br />
What do you look like? Where do you live? What are you<br />
doing? What’s really important for you to achieve.<br />
BREAK IT DOWN<br />
Now it’s time to get down to the nitty gritty. How are<br />
you going to achieve your goals? Taking each goal,<br />
one by one, make a list of everything you’d need to<br />
do, learn, accumulate etc to achieve it. Set smaller<br />
manageable goals for along the way, so you don’t lose<br />
track. Take another piece of paper and split it into five<br />
– one for each year. Where do you need to be with your<br />
goal by the first year? And by the second?<br />
GO ONE STEP FURTHER<br />
The more detailed your plan is, the more likely you<br />
are to stick to it. Make those smaller goals even more<br />
manageable by breaking the steps down into monthly,<br />
weekly or even daily tasks. Get it all planned in.<br />
YOU CONTROL YOUR LIFE<br />
Know that things change. Just because you want one<br />
thing this year, doesn’t mean to say you will want it<br />
the next year! Your long-term plans can often need<br />
adjusting to fit your life and that’s ok. The main thing<br />
is that you’ve gained some focus and spent some time<br />
thinking about what you want from your life. We’ve all<br />
got only one, so let’s make sure we’re spending it doing<br />
what we really want<br />
to in life.<br />
BOOKS TO READ<br />
The Slight Edge<br />
Turning Simple Disciplines<br />
into Massive Success & Happiness<br />
By Jeff Olson<br />
The Achievement Habit<br />
Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take<br />
Command of Your Life<br />
By Bernard Roth<br />
Goals!<br />
How to Get Everything You Want Faster<br />
Than You Ever Thought Possible<br />
By Brian Tracy<br />
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People<br />
Powerful lessons in personal change<br />
By Steven Covey<br />
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FROM ALL<br />
WALKS OF LIFE<br />
Kleeneze works whether you’re young or old; live in<br />
a city or the country; whether you work it full time<br />
or part time; online or offline. It’s a simple system<br />
of retailing, sponsoring and supporting others to<br />
do the same. Anyone can do it, and many are!<br />
Have you got a story to tell? Let us know at<br />
stronger<strong>together</strong>@kleeneze.co.uk<br />
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SUCCESS SNIPPETS<br />
“25 years ago, when I was 16, I had my<br />
oldest child. Three years later, at 19, I<br />
had my youngest. Being such a young<br />
mum, I left school with no GCSEs and<br />
I didn’t have time to work, because<br />
of the children. When the youngest<br />
started full-time school, I suddenly<br />
found myself with a lot of time on my<br />
hands, so started looking for something to<br />
do. However, it was hard finding work<br />
– I had no qualif<strong>icat</strong>ions nor experience and no one wanted to<br />
hire me. That’s when I found Kleeneze. It works perfectly for me.<br />
I can take my children to school and pick them up. I don’t need a<br />
childminder. I can work when I like and earn while I sleep.<br />
I cannot wait for my family’s future now. We will have nice things,<br />
holidays and be able to say yes you can have that, without having to<br />
worry about the money. If you believe you can achieve, you can!”<br />
Keri-Michelle Soanes<br />
“Do our catalogues work? We joined this business four-and-a-half<br />
years ago with only Kleeneze catalogues; we didn’t do online and<br />
didn’t have the K Life range. I started with 250 catalogues for £160<br />
back then. It was just the one catalogue through the door and I<br />
got orders. Then my sister joined with a smaller catalogue. It was<br />
much thinner, but she still got orders. We have to remember that<br />
customers will buy from the catalogues, whether there is one,<br />
two or three books in the pack. Having less books, having thinner<br />
books – it doesn’t matter. Customers may have less to look at, but<br />
possibly more time to look at the whole book, so can often lead to<br />
more orders. Happy retailing all!”<br />
Joanna Tonks<br />
“Just wanted to say a big thank you to<br />
Kleeneze, because it has enabled me to<br />
buy tickets for a show for both me and<br />
my daughter. Let’s just say she is<br />
very excited!”<br />
Sarah Weston<br />
“These are online orders totalling £156 for one week – just from<br />
our Facebook group. We picked up a new local customer from<br />
the Facebook Live video in the same week, where all we did was<br />
unpack our delivery and show the products. The customer got a<br />
catalogue, we followed it up 48 hours later and got a £30 order.<br />
Online and catalogues; Facebook Lives and follow-ups work.<br />
Make sure you’re using all the tools you have available to you!”<br />
Becky Spink<br />
“What I really love about this business is that you can choose your<br />
own hours and you are your own boss.<br />
This week alone, we have had some amazing results from our<br />
customer base of 70, we received £540-worth of sales. We managed<br />
to blanket drop, in small chunks, 50 catalogues at a time from<br />
Monday through to Thursday and also put an extra blanket drop on<br />
top of the customer base. A whopping 320 books.<br />
So overall, we did £610 in one week, which was a complete change,<br />
because my goal was just to put out to my customer base in the<br />
time-frame I had available. Then my daughter came up with the<br />
idea of putting more books out in the evening. She’s been great,<br />
giving me lots of ideas and wanting to get involved. Even my<br />
customers say how fantastic she is!”<br />
Michelle Robson<br />
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Freshen up<br />
with some freebies<br />
2018 saw something different arrive for Kleeneze. Brand<br />
new monthly catalogues packed full of great quality products.<br />
The Kleeneze Collections catalogue is designed to give your<br />
customers more choice and seasonal variability, so you can<br />
freshen up your catalogue packs and boost those profits.<br />
Collections 3 has 16 pages bursting with fabulous products and savings.<br />
Here are some of our favourite bits:<br />
• The front cover! It includes a 2-piece cream ceramic pan set,<br />
now only £17.50 / €21<br />
• 6 pages brimming with garden products from garden preparation to décor,<br />
starting from just £3 / €3.60<br />
• With spring around the corner, update those laundry essentials with our<br />
peg bag, complete with free pegs, now only £6 / €7.20<br />
• Let us entertain you with our 3D Sudoku Set for only £6 / €7.20 or the everpopular<br />
jigsaw puzzle mat with 1000-piece jigsaw, now only £15 / €18<br />
Every time we<br />
launch a new<br />
Collections<br />
catalogue, we<br />
run an incentive<br />
alongside meaning<br />
you can get hold of<br />
a pack of these fullcommission,<br />
profitmaking<br />
machines<br />
for FREE!<br />
See the DSA or speak to your upline to find out how to qualify for<br />
Collections for free or order more!<br />
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Collections 3 has<br />
16 pages bursting<br />
with fabulous<br />
products & savings.<br />
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SUZI BLAIR<br />
Silver Distributor<br />
I’m so grateful I’m not missing<br />
out on precious moments<br />
“I joined Kleeneze when I was 8 months pregnant with my son. I remember sitting at home one day thinking to<br />
myself that I really needed to sort my life out. I couldn’t bring a new life in to this world without sorting my own out<br />
first. I was up to my eyeballs in debt and doing nothing about it. I knew that we’d need some extra income coming<br />
in to the house with me being off work on maternity leave and I needed something that would work around having<br />
a new-born baby too. I couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity and thought to myself, if it doesn’t work it’s<br />
only £25 and at least I know that I gave it a go. Boy, am I glad I did! So I joined on 29 October 2016. I got my first<br />
Welcome Reward just 2 days later and my second on the 12th November. I then got my final welcome reward and<br />
became a Kleeneze Star on 21 November - not even a month into the business. My first cheque was for £244.25 for<br />
2 weeks work (now 8.5 months pregnant!).<br />
I took some time off after I had my son, but quickly came back to<br />
the business. I started getting into sponsoring at this stage and was<br />
quickly learning all about the highs and lows of that! But from all the<br />
personal development I was reading and listening to, I was learning,<br />
and I didn’t let the setbacks phase me. In August I made the decision<br />
to not return to my full-time job after maternity leave and now I’m<br />
able to raise my son at home without having to rely on family or<br />
spend a fortune on childcare! This has been the most rewarding and<br />
satisfying thing I’ve been able to do in my adult life. Every day my son<br />
does something new I’m so grateful that I don’t have to miss out on<br />
these precious moments!<br />
I absolutely love attending our team meetings with my amazing<br />
upline Stacey Thomas and all of Team Aspiration. I love putting<br />
<strong>together</strong> trainings and book reviews and sharing them with the<br />
team. I get such satisfaction from it. I’ve decided this year to read<br />
a minimum of one personal development book a month and then<br />
do a book review on it for the team, so that’s keeping me massively<br />
inspired. <strong>Stronger</strong> <strong>together</strong>!<br />
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So fast forward to January 2018 and the Birmingham Showcase.<br />
I’d been to the Dublin Showcase before, but nothing prepared me for<br />
the ‘Keep on, Keeping on’ mindset of Birmingham. The atmosphere,<br />
the speakers, the excitement - it was all mind blowing. The speakers<br />
that day really ignited a spark in me that hadn’t been there before.<br />
That and personal issues at the time really spurred me in to action.<br />
I began reading The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen and if no one takes<br />
anything else from his testimonial please let it be that you make an<br />
effort to read this book. I promise you if you read it and implement<br />
the principles of the book, your life will never be the same again.<br />
I’ve now got 5 fabulous team members in my own team and I’m<br />
massively looking forward to sharing their successes in 2018. I have<br />
a number of goals set in place for this year; to go 18% in 2018 (June<br />
FYI). To go Gold in August (see you on stage!) and to maintain that<br />
Gold level for the rest of the year. It’s such an exciting time to be<br />
in the business. I’m focusing mainly online and sponsoring at the<br />
moment and my Facebook marketplace sales have been incredible.<br />
I retailed 10% last period in marketplace sales alone! This month’s<br />
target is personal retail of 13%, so watch this space.<br />
See you on stage!”
“This has been the most<br />
rewarding and satisfying<br />
thing I’ve been able to do<br />
in my adult life. Every day<br />
he does something new<br />
I’m so grateful that I don’t<br />
have to miss out on these<br />
precious moments!”<br />
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KLEENEZE 2018<br />
STRONGER TOGETHER