Most of the companies we worked with were on monthly service agreements. That teaches you very quickly what working with customers really means. One good sale was not enough. Month after month, we had to answer calls, solve technical problems, keep our promises and make it easy for the customer to continue working with us.
SHCHOKIN.PRO BLOG
Articles
I write about FitLine, health and energy, working online and building a partner business with PM-International. I share my own experience in network marketing: how I started, what a partner actually does and what the work looks like in practice. I also write about family, personal decisions, growth and life in Norway.
My professional life has never followed one straight line. There was a service business, a team and customers, then websites, SEO and online promotion. There were also periods when I took on completely different work alongside that. Network marketing is not new to me either, but only now have I decided to approach it seriously and see how it can work together with the skills I already have and genuinely enjoy using.
After moving, I started looking at stability differently. Before, it was easy to connect it with work, income, a familiar city and knowing how everything around you works. When the country changes, part of that has to be rebuilt. That is when you see more clearly that a family is safer when it has more than one thing to rely on.
We had been living in Norway for almost three years, but until that day I had never actually hiked up a mountain. We spent plenty of time outdoors, went for walks and sometimes followed paths with a bit of elevation, but I had never done a real mountain hike. I kept putting it off because of my back, the physical effort and the question of how I would feel afterwards. This time my wife Olena and I went with the team, and I finally found out in practice instead of guessing how my body would handle it.
I have spent more than 15 years working with websites, SEO and online promotion. Yet I kept putting off a proper website of my own because Facebook, Instagram and YouTube seemed sufficient. SHCHOKIN.PRO appeared when I realised I wanted more than another place to post content: I wanted one site where everything was organised properly and where I was responsible for every word.
I want this business to generate income. But for me, it is not only about money. I have understood the basic idea of network marketing for a long time. What is different now is that I am actually trying to build it consistently and learning skills I had hardly used in practice before.