Holland rocks!

If you want to see enthusiasm, go to Holland! The Dutch Nikken Consultants livened up the Stansted convention in May, a week later they added spice to the Paris event organized by Jean-Marie Gilbert and the Desroses. Last weekend they had 48 pumped up Consultants at an HBM and there is a new one coming up soon.

I very much look forward to trying our new 2 day format BDT in Busum next week.

Today, a leadership meeting with Platinum Danice Dorrepaal, Diamond Reini Beverdam and their team of key people. Tomorrow morning I meet Jo, Ann and Jantien at Schiphol airport. Also a very committed team with great leadership.

There is great promise for growth for Nikken in Holland. Keep going, guys! We believe in you and will support you all the way to the top.

Greetings everyone from Amsterdam.

Janne

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Polish eNikken coming...

Csesz!

Great news for all of you who are looking into building in Poland or already have started recruiting on the Polish market. We are in the final stages of translation and proofing of eNikken to Polish and it will be released in a matter of days! Also... you can look forward to the launch of some nutritional products early fall. Finally!

Poland is a market with huge potential for the right person who takes leadership there. A lot of materials for Poland is in production and next we will be translating and setting up the Connect web site for Poland.

Another great event in Wiesbaden

Wolfgang Sonnenburg did a splendid presentation in Wiesbaden this Saturday, just before leaving for his 2 month tour of "the beaches of the world". Enjoy Bahamas, Hawai, Florida and California, Wolfgang!

Gert van Briel, Diamond Consultant, did a fantastic job as a host of this business workshop. Christiane von Bredow gave a very inspired presentation on water. I don't know how many times I had to fill my water glass while she was explaining the importance of drinking a lot of PiMag water... but it did fell really good afterwards! Drink more!

This was the first time we gave a thorough explanation of the upcoming Rhythm of Nikken. I pointed out the benefits of the tools and concepts in development to support an orchestrated , company supported approach to building the business that will take the German speaking markets by storm and lead our success to new heights in the months to come.

This was also Steffi Heim's first official appearance in her new role as German Network Development Manager. She did it perfectly of course. Then we had to leave for the airport to embark on new adventures.

See you again next month! On 14 July, Sven Cirnski will join the show as a guest speaker.

Gunhild did it again!

Congratulations to Gunhild Haga from Norway for doing it again! She has won all our incentive trips lately, includong a double win to Dubai when there were very few winners from Europe.

Now Gunhild is the first one to already have qualified for a first ticket to the Kick Off in January 2008 in Tenerife, at the fabulous Bahia del Duque.

You can also win your ticket to participate at the event on 12-15 January with half-board service at this luxury hotel. The competition runs until 31 October!

See you there!
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Nikken on YouTube

I found myself on YouTube the other day... while searching for Nikken. It's the interview that was made after the events company who helped us produce the European Convention 2006 in Amsterdam had won several awards for the production.

Find this interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTGJU8HLohY

Tony forwarded this one to me, a clip about the Wellness Home:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKRLh6M_7GE

Another great evening in Germany

The second event featuring Prof. Zacharias was a great success. This time we were in Munich and we also got to see Royal Diamond Claus Nagel use the new business opportunity Power Point from Nikken. He did a brilliant job presenting the business using this new tool. The presentation is still in a test phase while we are updating some of the images for Europe and doing a final check on translations and so forth... But soon you will all have access to a great new presentation tool that I'm sure will help you in your recruiting.

Thank you all for attending. See you in Wiesbaden on Saturday!

It's a small world after all...

I bumped into Lars, a colleague from Amway, on Friday again. We always meet by luggage belt no 6 at Copenhagen airport after having been on the same flight from Heathrow. We even share the same executive travel company to drive us from Milton Keynes. Lars is doing really well, great guy. I just had to warn him about climbing the hills of Kullaberg in southwest Sweden which he should be doing today. Summer in southern Sweden doesn't start properly until a Dane falls off the cliffs there, usually with a fatal result! I guess Denmark is too flat for them to be able to cope with even the tiniest Swedish cliffs.

Steffi and I are on our way to the office right now. Good ol' Gary, the same driver that drove Lars on Friday is taking us there. Good traffic conditions today, the M1 can be horrible. Well, it is going southbound. Big accident and traffic just standing still but we are heading north.

Last week on return from my Hamburg trip, I called my sister. She works as a flight attendant and had just landed in Helsinki. She told me she had been in Hamburg for two days. Had she read my blog which I updated from a restaurant there, she could have joined us!

Small world...

I don't know what the bridge is here but I guess it is that there is no such thing as a co-incidence. Reminds me that I had the most amazing experience of the "law of attraction" a few weeks ago. You will have to ask me personally though. But the bridge here is to recruiting. The people are out there. They need you. They need the products and they need the business. Is it your fate to find the next Royal Ambassador? Create that fate. Go talk to them!

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Planning great momentum

Some really groovy things are going on here... we are planning the future of the business. Specifically the next generation of business support from Nikken to our Consultants.

This fall English and German speaking countries will be the first to experience a new "rhythm of the business"... The Luton event on 26 August sparks this off and in November you will see more...

From left, me, then our Operations Manager Phil Woodcock who is also Head of Marketing, then Mari Daly, fellow Finn and Marketing Executive and on the right our Managing Director Anthony Chaplin.

4,2 million new Consultants!

Professor Michael Zacharias is the leading academic authority in Europe in the fields of direct selling and especially Network Marketing. He has been teaching a course in Network Marketing at a German university for years and is the author of the definitive source book of information about our industry.

On 6 June Professor Zacharias was the guest speaker at a Nikken presentation. From a purely scientific point of view, based on his studies, he pointed out the enormous potential for recruitment of new Consultants in Germany. To match the US levels of number of distributors in network marketing companies as percentage of the population, Germany needs 4,9 million people in the business! Today the figure is around 700,000 which means there is 4,2 million distributors / Consultants to recruit for Germany to even match the US levels. Then we are still not comparing with the markets where the penetration is the highest in the world, countries like Taiwan and South Korea.

Also the statistics on the percentage of the population that is positive to buying through network marketing was good news. The potential is huge. The timing is right. Let's go get our share of those millions of Consultants and create even more millions of Wellness Homes!

Nikken on Channel 4

My excellent PA Donna Russell just emailed me that Nikken products were featured on UK television tonight. PiMag Maxi, Air Power 5 and our life changing sleep system were shown as part of a "healthy home". Finally some intelligent content on "the electronic income reducer" called television. With this type of shows I would even take up TV again... By the way, Donna should be elected the PA of the year. I will certainly nominate her.

Emailing this from a dinner with Felix, Steffi and Prof. Michael Zacharias in Hamburg. They send their greetings, we had a great meeting tonight! Pics on my blog tomorrow, or check out Steffi's or Felix. Links below.

Don't miss München on 11 June and Wiesbaden on 16th.

Janne
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Our new recognition web site

It's finally there! Our Nikken recognition web site is now functional and loaded with photos of all of you that have sent them to us. Can't find your photo? Make sure you e-mail them to recognition@nikken.co.uk

Please note that we have only uploaded those people so far whose photos we have on file. All the rest of the names will be up there very shortly, as soon as we have attached pics of the corresponding pins to their names... so within days or a few weeks all of you will be listed that have achieved new ranks or other achievements since our Amsterdam Convention last year.

Have you booked your tickets to this year's Love Life - Live Nikken - Nordic Convention yet? If not, please act now! The event is all in English so you might want to attend even if you are not one of us Nordic folks.

Yesterday we spent a good deal of time planning some really cool stuff to be launched later this year... maybe I can mention a few more words about it tomorrow...

My Team - Your Team

Here you see some of the good looking and terrific members of my team... dedicated and professional guys and gals who work hard to support all of you out there who are making a difference through the Nikken products, technologies and business.

From left; Rod Greenwell, Training Manager and Regional Network Development Manager for UK, Ireland and Holland, Sven Cirnski, Regional Network Development Manager for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, Telsche Reed-Simpson, our Customer Services Manager, then me, then Steffi Heim (welcome Steffi - good to work with you again!) who is the new Regional Network Development Manager for Germany and Poland, Felix Puzio from Team Europa, and the lady on the right is Gabrielle Haubner, Retail Business Developer and Regional Network Development Manager for Austria, Switzerland (German part) and Hungary.

We are still looking for a French speaking person to join our team... If you know anyone with direct selling experience, both from the field and corporate, is based in France, Belgium or Switzerland, and loves communication, training, challenges and is passionate about Wellness... let us know!

Check out the blogs of my team members and follow their adventures all around Europe!

• Sven Cirnski has a Swedish language blog...
• Steffi Heim has a German one...
• ...so does Gabrielle Haubner
• ...as well as Felix Puzio
  

Adventures in the World of Wellness

Welcome to my new Blog of Five Pillars. Stay up-to-date as I travel the world of Nikken, live the philosophy of Five Pillars of Health, visit events, meet Consultants all around Europe and share my experiences from our mutual effort to create ONE MILLION WELLNESS HOMES by the year 2010.

When you want to know more about the Wellness Home and how it can enrich your life, you simply visit www.nikken.co.uk/connect or www.nikken.com. It's amazing how easily you could improve your life starting today by incorporating the latest Wellness technologies into your life.

Who shouldn't breathe clean, energizing air in their home or office?
Why wouldn't you sleep better every night and wake up feeling totally relaxed and recovered?
Why wouldn't you share these opportunities with others and start your own business in the booming Wellness industry?

Be back often for the latest news!