In a few days’ time every­body – both dis­trib­u­tors and ENERGETIX staff – will be mak­ing their way to Berlin, to the 2013 ENERGETIX Cat­a­logue Launch. It will be the first time in Germany’s trendy cap­i­tal. And Rea Gar­vey, Ingo Nomm­sen, Joey Kel­ly, Ralf Bauer and many more will also be board­ing their planes, trains and cars in order to appear on the big stage on time on 31 August.

Every­one at ENERGETIX head­quar­ters in Bin­gen is work­ing – hand in hand -– to make it an unfor­get­table week­end and the excite­ment is almost tan­gi­ble. How will dis­trib­u­tors and guests react to the atmos­phere and ambiance of the Estrel Con­ven­tion Cen­tre and to the items on the train­ing and the gala pro­grammes? Can this year’s Cat­a­logue Launch in Berlin be even bet­ter than last year’s awe­some event?

And what will be the reac­tions to the eager­ly await­ed jew­ellery in the new col­lec­tion? At an in-house pre­sen­ta­tion to the ENERGETIX staff a few days ago the new cre­ations met with a great reception.

We will know more in a few days’ time: let the show begin!

NB: To get in the mood, you can take anoth­er look at the high­lights of the 2012 ENERGETIX Cat­a­logue Launch here.

The ENERGETIXDRIVE Dis­trib­u­tor Car Pro­gramme con­tin­ues to be in vogue: a num­ber of oth­er dis­trib­u­tors were delight­ed to receive styl­ish new cars over the last few weeks.

We wish Mar­lies and Frank Hems (G), Wolf­gang and Dag­mar Schirhu­ber (G), Bet­ti­na Seel­bach (G), Eri­ka Ulrich (CH) Tama­ra and John van Assel­donk (NL) and Andrea Wein­schenk (G) a lot of plea­sure with their styl­ish new cars.

ENERGETIX Bin­gen is a mem­ber of the lead­ing direct sell­ing asso­ci­a­tions: BDD, FVD, DSA USA, Sel­dia and DSA UK. The com­pa­ny was recent­ly hon­oured by the Unit­ed States Direct Sell­ing Asso­ci­a­tion (DSA).

The Amer­i­can trade asso­ci­a­tion DSA USA rep­re­sents the inter­ests of about 200 mem­ber com­pa­nies involved in direct sell­ing. This DSA cer­ti­fi­ca­tion hon­ours ENERGETIX Bin­gen for its activ­i­ties in pro­mot­ing aware­ness of the asso­ci­a­tion’s Code of Ethics. ENERGETIX Bin­gen was one of the 52 mem­ber com­pa­nies award­ed a cer­tifi­cate for their com­mit­ment to con­sumer protection.

This recog­ni­tion is based on com­pa­ny activ­i­ties dur­ing the peri­od March 2012 to March 2013 and enti­tles ENERGETIX Bin­gen to use the cor­re­spond­ing seal.

You can find fur­ther infor­ma­tion and the DSA Code of Ethics on the DSA web­site.

Joey runs through deserts and on one occa­sion ran right across the Repub­lic, to men­tion but a few of his feats. We even report­ed here on FROGBLOG about his not-to-be-imi­tat­ed moun­tain (!) bike chal­lenge in the Baltic Sea. Now there is fur­ther news about this Irish bun­dle of ener­gy who nev­er tires of tak­ing on almost any sport­ing chal­lenge, no mat­ter how unusu­al it may be.

Togeth­er at the summit
So Joey Kel­ly dared to climb to the sum­mit of the Lienz Dolomites with Andy Holz­er, an Aus­tri­an who has been blind since birth. The report on this event will be broad­cast by ZDF at 5.45 pm on Sat­ur­day, 10 August.

Along the North Sea Coast Cycle Path
„It was fan­tas­tic, we had a great time!“ Togeth­er with ex-pro­fes­sion­als Jean­nie Lon­go (13-time wom­en’s world cycling cham­pi­on and Olympic gold medal­ist) and Rudi Altig (for­mer world cycling cham­pi­on), Joey Kel­ly embarked on the North Sea Coast Cycle Path, the longest cycle path in the world. The trio cov­ered 2,500 of the 6,200 km long trail. The high­lights of their tour through Scot­land and Eng­land have been sum­ma­rized in a five-part Arte documentary.

Arte will be repeat­ing parts 1 — 3 on 17 August, start­ing at 2.55 pm (parts 4 and 5 have already been repeat­ed on 8 and 9 August — both at 7.45 am).

Guest of Ingo Nomm­sen on the „Volle Kanne“ programme
This enthu­si­as­tic sportEX wear­er encoun­tered long-time ENERGETIX Launch pre­sen­ter Ingo Nomm­sen on ZFD’s „Volle Kanne“ pro­gramme. The pair talked open­ly and gen­uine­ly about past chal­lenges — such as, for exam­ple, Joey’s extreme fast (which we would also ask you not to imi­tate) — and about planned activities.

Click here to view the infor­ma­tive con­ver­sa­tion between Joey Kel­ly and Ingo Nommsen.

Pan­el mem­ber on „Die 25“ 
Any­thing else about Joey Kel­ly? Joey also appears as a pan­el mem­ber on the RTL rank­ing show „Die 25“ host­ed by Son­ja Ziet­low, which depicts bizarre and „incred­i­ble“ events.

Fash­ion jour­nal­ist and media coach Tan­ja Bül­ter will enhance this year’s Cat­a­logue Launch with her charm­ing­ly pre­sent­ed insid­er knowl­edge of the industry.

A fash­ion-con­scious Berlin­er, she has been host­ing numer­ous events — char­i­ty galas, press con­fer­ences, soci­ety reports, vernissages — for years and is known to a wide pub­lic through her appear­ances on n‑tv and RTL TV. ENERGETIX Bin­gen has now man­aged to hire this media pro­fes­sion­al in 2013 to host the jew­ellery show. This young moth­er will con­tribute valu­able infor­ma­tion and expert tips on ENER­GETIX’s eager­ly await­ed new jew­ellery col­lec­tion. The inter­na­tion­al par­tic­i­pants in the Launch can already look for­ward to her appear­ance in the Estrel Berlin on 31 August 2013!

The visu­al­ly appeal­ing and bal­anced dis­play of select­ed pieces of jew­ellery is an extreme­ly impor­tant fac­tor at fairs and mar­kets and also at home par­ties. The dec­o­rat­ing work­shop held dur­ing the Bin­gen event (already report­ed in FROGBLOG) served to demon­strate the sales-enhanc­ing effect of a jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tion arranged accord­ing to pro­fes­sion­al stan­dards. It is impor­tant for begin­ners to acquire this knowl­edge and put togeth­er a pre­sen­ta­tion as effec­tive­ly as possible.

The­o­ry…

The first intro­duc­to­ry part of the work­shop con­sist­ed of a talk by expe­ri­enced ENERGETIX jew­ellery design­er Janine Eisen­hauer. She out­lined the basic rules of jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tion that need to be kept in mind when arrang­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion of goods in a pro­fes­sion­al man­ner. A par­tic­u­lar high­light of her talk was the pre­sen­ta­tion of the new ENERGETIX price tick­ets that com­ple­ment the ENERGETIX range of infor­ma­tion materials.

… and practice

The sec­ond part of the work­shop was devot­ed to putting the tips into prac­tice. Par­tic­i­pants were divid­ed into groups of two or three and arranged their own pre­sen­ta­tions. With the help of ENERGETIX sales aids like busts, box­es and dec­o­ra­tion dis­plays – and apply­ing the „gold­en sec­tion“ rule – all the dis­trib­u­tors suc­ceed­ed in cre­at­ing pro­fes­sion­al jew­ellery pre­sen­ta­tion tables.

The „basic dec­o­rat­ing“ out­lined at the work­shop — togeth­er with oth­er care­ful­ly placed dis­play mate­ri­als for pen­dants, bracelets and ear­rings — can cre­ate a good eye-catch­er at fairs.

Here’s wish­ing all dis­trib­u­tors con­tin­ued fun and suc­cess in putting these ideas into practice!

The shoot of the new 2013/2014 col­lec­tion was held in secre­cy at the ENERGETIX head­quar­ters in Bin­gen am Rhein. The stills of the new jew­ellery are still under lock and key of course and will not be pre­sent­ed until the Cat­a­logue Launch in Berlin on 31 August – as part of the pre­sen­ta­tion of the new catalogue.

How­ev­er we looked over the shoul­der of the pho­tog­ra­phy team and exclu­sive­ly show here the first pho­tos of this sev­er­al-day session!

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The two-day event orga­nized espe­cial­ly for new ENERGETIX dis­trib­u­tors took place at the begin­ning of July. The 34 dis­trib­u­tors from Ger­many, Den­mark, the Nether­lands and Switzer­land who qual­i­fied met in Bin­gen on the banks of the Riv­er Rhine for a train­ing ses­sion spe­cial­ly adapt­ed to the needs and wish­es of newcomers.

The train­ing trip also con­sti­tut­ed a team-build­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty as it also offered the chance for the new­com­ers to get to know each oth­er in a relaxed atmos­phere, for instance, dur­ing a vis­it to the Eber­bach Monastery, which has been famed for its wine estates for cen­turies, dur­ing fun activ­i­ties and dur­ing the live per­for­mance by Men­na Muluge­ta, who became known to a broad audi­ence in Ger­many through the „Voice of Ger­many“ tele­vi­sion programme.

The sec­ond day focused entire­ly on the busi­ness and, besides a tour of the com­pa­ny, includ­ed an infor­ma­tive speech by the CEO and Sole Share­hold­er, Roland Förster, as well as a home-par­ty work­shop pre­sent­ed by an expe­ri­enced dis­trib­u­tor and a dec­o­ra­tion work­shop giv­en by the jew­ellery design­er, Janine Eisen­hauer. A selec­tion of pho­tos of the event is avail­able for online view­ing here.

Only very few peo­ple get to meet extreme ath­lete Joey Kel­ly like this. He had invit­ed 20 dis­trib­u­tors who had qual­i­fied in the Jew­ellery Par­ty Com­pe­ti­tion to his home estate on 19 July.

„Super, fan­tas­tic! Get­ting to know him was a tremen­dous expe­ri­ence,“ is how Brit­ta Hart­mann, one of the mem­bers of the par­ty, summed up her impres­sions. It was not only the men­tal strength and dis­ci­pline of the celebri­ty host but also his obvi­ous respect for his guests and his gen­uine mod­esty that impressed Brit­ta and all the oth­er par­tic­i­pants so strongly.

Joey took the group around his farm, a for­mer monastery that he is restau­r­ing lov­ing­ly, talked about his event­ful life as he did so, gave a pas­sion­ate talk on the „hys­te­ria of the body“ and act­ed as pro­fes­sion­al guide on a 12 km hike to a riv­er dam. Extreme­ly gen­er­ous hos­pi­tal­i­ty and per­ma­nent respon­sive­ness in a very cor­dial and friend­ly atmos­phere. An excep­tion­al day that came to a roman­tic close around the campfire.

After this once-in-a-life­time expe­ri­ence, all the par­tic­i­pants are fever­ish­ly look­ing for­ward to see­ing Joey again at the Cat­a­logue Launch — this time as a charis­mat­ic train­er in front of a large audience.

„Thank you, Joey Kelly!“

… that you can cre­ate a classy and attrac­tive XXL neck­lace by com­bin­ing neck­lace ele­ments (1832) of dif­fer­ent lengths?!

You can con­jure up this extra-long, expres­sive, fash­ion­able look­ing neck­lace with a size M neck­lace, two size L neck­laces and a size XXXL neck­lace – linked togeth­er with 4 clip loops (1560). Just per­fect for casu­al­ly wear­ing as a dou­ble strand necklace! 

All imi­ta­tions welcome!