Marketing for Women

"My mission is to bring credibility and fun back into the profession of network marketing."  

Over the last 15 years, Kim has been the lone voice in the network marketing wilderness, training people to sell without hype, jargon, or promises.  Instead, she shows people how to lead with their own hot buttons and develop a community of customers and colleagues.

This mission evolved from her intense personal experience building her own distributorships in five network marketing companies. In her first attempt as a professional direct seller, Kim retailed more water filtration units than anyone in the company's history -- nearly $60k in her first month alone. Five years later, when she found another product she loved that people bought month after month after month, she built an organization of 31,000 people in 13 months, and made it to the highest possible position in the shortest time in the company's history. (http://BananaMarketing.com/aboutus.html)

Kim has been selling things she loves since she was eight.  The little Dutch girl with broken English sold more Christmas cards door-to-door in her neighborhood than all her friends.  After a stint in academia which ended with a Masters degree from Harvard, she wrote academic textbooks and articles, then slowly moved into sales - first real estate, then direct sales and network marketing.

Since she started in network marketing in 1989, she has been entertaining direct marketers, first in her own group, then at national conventions. Her radical approaches and fun style are all based on an uncanny understanding of how to open people's minds, and a masterful use of language.
Her romance with language began at MIT in 1970 where she nearly failed the introductory linguistics class taught by the world renowned Noam Chomsky.   She turned her near failure into a book -- From Deep to Surface Structure, which was published by Harper & Row, New York, in 1971, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.  It became the basic textbook for the introductory linguistics course at MIT and other universities across the U.S.  At Harvard she wrote cartoon-style language tests for children published in 1972 and 1973 by Harcourt Brace, NY, and used for many years by elementary schools throughout the U.S.
 
In 1996, responding to thousands of requests to make her attitude and tips available to anyone looking for alternatives to the status quo, Kim gave up her interest in specific networking companies and founded her own production company.    
Now she shares her secrets and insights with the entire industry through her books, CDs, tapes, websites and classes. She maintains a blog especially for women and evolved men in marketing (kimklaverblogs.com), and is the creative force behind a podcast community of enlightened marketers (yourgreatthing.com).

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• "If My Product's So Great, How Come I Can't Sell It?" by Kim Klaver

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