Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

First you should determine what niche market you want to go and target on. Do some research on what is trending on google and then use the advanced search options in TripleClicks to find matching products.

You do not necessarily have to find only one product to market. In a certain niche, when you enter the search terms in TripleClicks, you get an entire list of products. At the right top corner you will see a blue SFI Affiliates button which you should click and it will generate a special shortenend link for you to promote. That link will automatically generate the search results you got when doing your search. That way people can choose something they like from a varied number of products. For every sale you generate, you will earn Commission Value and VersaPoints.

Good luck in your marketing efforts.
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First you should determine what niche market you want to go and target on. Do some research on what is trending on google and then use the advanced search options in TripleClicks to find matching products.

You do not necessarily have to find only one product to market. In a certain niche, when you enter the search terms in TripleClicks, you get an entire list of products. At the right top corner you will see a blue SFI Affiliates button which you should click and it will generate a special
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

It is the sponsor duty to help all affiliates, including ECAs, to get the habit of working in their member areas. This doesn't mean that you have to do everything for them, in fact, I wouldn't advise that, it is actually not allowed that you work anyone else's account at SFI.

Rather, the best idea I can come up with is to train your ECAs with video. Better than writing long e-mails which they may not understand fully anyway, make a video about how to register for being an ECA, how to post their products etc. This gives me the idea to make one video for my downline as well. I made a couple of videos which I posted on Youtube about how to manage your account, daily actions, PriceBenders auctions etc. Now you've given me an idea for another video. Thanks.

Hope this helps.
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It is the sponsor duty to help all affiliates, including ECAs, to get the habit of working in their member areas. This doesn't mean that you have to do everything for them, in fact, I wouldn't advise that, it is actually not allowed that you work anyone else's account at SFI.

Rather, the best idea I can come up with is to train your ECAs with video. Better than writing long e-mails which they may not understand fully anyway, make a video about how to register for being an ECA, how to
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

First of all, let's say it is always better to keep your e-mails personal. I suppose you are intending to set up a squeeze page to gather leads and then regularly update them with some information about SFI?

Always make sure you follow the rules & policies and Rules Of Success as given by Gery Carson. There are good ideas you can find on your Reference Tab at your homepage member area. Gery Carson even has an article there about writing effective e-mails. More ideas about how to follow up with your potential affiliates are to be found at this page in your member area: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/SponsoringTraining

The follow up is the crème de la crème of your SFI Business. I wish you a lot of success in finding good workers as your affiliates.

Keep up the great work.
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First of all, let's say it is always better to keep your e-mails personal. I suppose you are intending to set up a squeeze page to gather leads and then regularly update them with some information about SFI?

Always make sure you follow the rules & policies and Rules Of Success as given by Gery Carson. There are good ideas you can find on your Reference Tab at your homepage member area. Gery Carson even has an article there about writing effective e-mails. More ideas about how to follow
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

What should a new ECA do and not do in their first month?

First and above all, since you registered as an ECA, your goal is to sell your own products, thus you should submit as many products for sale as you can. You can also sell products from other businesses as long as they are in line with the rules set by TripleClicks.

If there is a demand for it in your country, you may also request to be a local reseller of SFI products and set yourself up for local pay options. There is an additional fee to register for this, but if you think you can sell those products, you should surely do. You can set up your own price so that you can make a small profit.

Then, promote your ECA referral link anywhere you can. Your link will show your page with all your products listed on it, similar to your TConnect page. This link will not only sell your own products, but will make new PRM's for you as well, and may also attract new ECA's to register under you. Among all gateways to promote, your ECA link is one of the best.

I wish you all the best.
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What should a new ECA do and not do in their first month?

First and above all, since you registered as an ECA, your goal is to sell your own products, thus you should submit as many products for sale as you can. You can also sell products from other businesses as long as they are in line with the rules set by TripleClicks.

If there is a demand for it in your country, you may also request to be a local reseller of SFI products and set yourself up for local pay options. There
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

Hi Rogelio,

Nice hat!

I'm happy to share with you some earning tactics which I developed to get the best out of SFI and its various features. It will depend a lot on how much a budget you have to invest in your business. But it's definitely worth it to set some money aside monthly to work out one of these plans.

Plan 1 – Standing Order TCredits 200 – Best if you have money to invest and want to bid on Pricebenders auctions
TCredits purchase by MRP has the cheapest ratio at a 200 TC pack. Go on a Standing Order of TCredits pack 200 each month for $58 and after 6 months you can buy one extra pack from your MRP savings. (MRP remain valid for 1 year) After 5 months, you can buy another extra pack of 200, and so on. Each purchase earns you another 72 MRP to slowly accelerate your earnings. With 2 purchases you earn enough to buy one extra Tcredit from your extra MRP. Of course, add to this the Tcredits you may be winning in auctions and the Bonus Tcredits you get each month as an EA.
This is the best plan if you focus on bidding for Tcredits or goods, but not the best if you are building your downline. Each 200 pack earns you 1661 versapoints, just enough to be EA each month.

Plan 2 – Maximum versapoints – Best to build your downline
Let’s focus on getting a maximum of versapoints in this plan. At the same price of the TCredits pack 200 ($58), you can buy 2x TCredits Pack 100 and get 2x1200 versapoints= 2400 versapoints. Same advantages as Plan 1, yet it will be easy to get to Bronze Team Leader and earn more on your downline, since you will have the maximum of 2000 vp from purchases at Tripleclicks going towards your Bronze Team Leader status. Plus, by being a Bronze Team Leader, you will get extra benefits like a share of Second Home CSAs each month. But, you earn only 2x5 MRP per purchase, so it will take you longer to buy an additional Tcredit from your savings. If you have more money to spend, there is no limit, you can buy 3x, 4x a Standing Order.

Plan 3 – Cheapest Plan For Starters
Buy as many 1 Tcredit packs as you can afford (1 or 2, otherwise buy a 10 pack for $5.60 or 20 pack for $9.20) and build up from there.

Plan 4 – Intermediate Plan

Plan 4a - According to your budget, go on a Tcredits pack 50 or 100 ($19.50 or $29 with SO). Always choose the Standing Order option, it is cheaper. Bid on DP auctions, earn resp. 500 or 1000 MRP each month. After 2 months, buy an extra package of 10 or 20 Tcredits from your MRP. Then accelerate your earnings by buying more Tcredit packages from your MRP. Remember, the higher Tcredits packages, the better, so it rewards to save your MRP and wait. The cost in MRP per Tcredit gets lower for the higher packages. So you could save your MRP for 5 months with a 100 Standing Order and buy 50 Tcredits. Or you could wait 8 months or 10 months to buy a Standing Order of 100 or 125 Tcredits resp.

Plan 4b. Get a Standing Order of 125 Tcredits ($36.25). You will be EA without any extra work and be able to build up to BTL more easily. Gain 1250 MRP each month from DP auctions. In 6 months, buy a Standing Order 100 TCredits from your MRP. You’ll gain 1000 more MRP plus it should be possible to earn the remaining MRP from your bonus credits to buy your next package at 5 months. This way you also start to accelerate your earnings.

Of course, you never know what you could win in the Pricebenders auctions to accelerate your earnings. You may win an extra 300, 400 or even 500 Tcredits in an auction.

Good luck.
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Hi Rogelio,

Nice hat!

I'm happy to share with you some earning tactics which I developed to get the best out of SFI and its various features. It will depend a lot on how much a budget you have to invest in your business. But it's definitely worth it to set some money aside monthly to work out one of these plans.

Plan 1 – Standing Order TCredits 200 – Best if you have money to invest and want to bid on Pricebenders auctions
TCredits purchase by MRP has the
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

The ECA program is kind like getting your own store at ebay or amazon, except at TripleClicks you get your store free of cost and you can upload as many products as you desire free of cost, so there is no better way to go than to become an E-Commerce Associate at Tripleclicks.

Also tell them that there will be thousands of local members (depending on the country if products can be shipped only locally) who are potential customers who will be looking at their products and may buy from them.

All that is required for them is to scan your documents, complete the registration form online at your ECA gateway link and send in your scanned documents. Help them with this, a personal helping hand is sure to get them signed up.

They will get a personalized link showing all their listing. This is like havind a personal store online without all the hassle of having to go through all the steps of buying domain name, buying hosting, getting an expensive design and paying processor etc. It can become an expensive thing to run your own e-commerce site, but at Tripleclicks you get everything for free. What a generous offer.

Hope this helps.
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The ECA program is kind like getting your own store at ebay or amazon, except at TripleClicks you get your store free of cost and you can upload as many products as you desire free of cost, so there is no better way to go than to become an E-Commerce Associate at Tripleclicks.

Also tell them that there will be thousands of local members (depending on the country if products can be shipped only locally) who are potential customers who will be looking at their products and may buy from
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

If you are talking about your custom prestige domain, it would help to choose a name for your domain which is a word that appears a lot at the page you choose to direct it to.

People search for all kinds of stuff on Google. You can look into your Adsense account, if you have one, and see which keywords are being searched the most. However, all of this doesn't guarantee a first page placement on Google search results. It depends on many factors, including the amount of traffic you send to your domain name. Therefore, just keep advertising your site in free and/or paid advertising resources like traffic exchanges, safelists, facebook, twitter etc which are much more likely to drive people to your SFI website than Google.

Personally I wouldn't advise using Google Adwords unless you have a good amount of money to spend for it. Yet it may leave you disappointed and go broke on advertising this way.

If you don't have a custom prestige domain from SFI yet, and are thinking of using your SFI gateway with your user number in it, there is even less chance Google will ever pick up your link.

So my advice to you would be to get a custom prestige domain and advertise it wherever possible through free and some paid resources, yet make sure you set yourself a budget to avoid disappointment and keep going with SFI membership. You may also look the Tripleclicks store for ways of advertising.
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If you are talking about your custom prestige domain, it would help to choose a name for your domain which is a word that appears a lot at the page you choose to direct it to.

People search for all kinds of stuff on Google. You can look into your Adsense account, if you have one, and see which keywords are being searched the most. However, all of this doesn't guarantee a first page placement on Google search results. It depends on many factors, including the amount of traffic you send
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

One of the best tactics to apply in this regard, which has given me the best results so far, is to put an ad on google adwords or similar sites. Advertising your gateways in this way will attract many signups, since you ad is shown over a wide range of websites and people will click your ad if you make it look attractive. You can use SFI banners to advertise this way too, though I would advise to concentrate on text ads. Use the examples you find under the Marketing Aids tab to remain compliant with SFI policies.

The strong point of this advertising is that it is scalable. You can set your budget as you like, from a few dollars a day to hundreds of dollars. Of course, like in all advertising, the quality of signups is never guaranteed, you may have active affiliates, you may only have lots of inactive ones, yet...

It's the numbers that count!
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One of the best tactics to apply in this regard, which has given me the best results so far, is to put an ad on google adwords or similar sites. Advertising your gateways in this way will attract many signups, since you ad is shown over a wide range of websites and people will click your ad if you make it look attractive. You can use SFI banners to advertise this way too, though I would advise to concentrate on text ads. Use the examples you find under the Marketing Aids tab to remain compliant with
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

Since I am currently at the top of my own E365 Championship, I will not tell you my secret. LOL

Yet, let me tell you this. To be the Champion at your own E365 contest, it is important you keep track of how your competition is developing. I often look how my ranking is doing. In your first month, during the first 5 Rounds, SFI shows you the green line at your E365 page. After that, you have no clue on that page how your competition is doing. However, use the Leaders - Power Ranking tab to see the top 50 of your E365 class. Then you'll know how far you are behind or ahead of your competitors. All you need to do is to find out how to make more VersaPoints than the others. But that's up to you!

Now I hope the others in my Class don't read this! LOL
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Since I am currently at the top of my own E365 Championship, I will not tell you my secret. LOL

Yet, let me tell you this. To be the Champion at your own E365 contest, it is important you keep track of how your competition is developing. I often look how my ranking is doing. In your first month, during the first 5 Rounds, SFI shows you the green line at your E365 page. After that, you have no clue on that page how your competition is doing. However, use the Leaders - Power Ranking tab
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 330

Hard to say which is best. Everything SFI provides is there to help you advance your business, so you have to see which part you like the most.

Personally I prefer to have a Standing Order of 100 or 125 TCredits. TCredits and the Pricebenders auctions is what makes the whole difference for me. I have been an affiliate before and had an IAHBE membership for my Standing Order at that time, but I quit. This doesn't mean that IAHBE is bad, in fact I am considering to add it to my Standing Order when I earn some more commissions, but I probably wasn't using it properly before.

In any case, TCredits and the Pricebenders auction are what keeps me alive now that I have re-activated my SFI membership. I love the way SFI rewards me, even if I am unsuccessful at winning an auction, with Member Rewards Points. It is a kind of solace, when you lose, you can still buy what you like with MRP.

Working this way has taken me to the top of my E365 Contest and I'm very happy with this.

So, yes, absolutely, TCredits are the best. Buy more TCredits with your MRP, or S-Builder Co-op shares, or Lifetime Custom Domains, all of which are giving you a good number of VersaPoints.

Hope this helps.
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Hard to say which is best. Everything SFI provides is there to help you advance your business, so you have to see which part you like the most.

Personally I prefer to have a Standing Order of 100 or 125 TCredits. TCredits and the Pricebenders auctions is what makes the whole difference for me. I have been an affiliate before and had an IAHBE membership for my Standing Order at that time, but I quit. This doesn't mean that IAHBE is bad, in fact I am considering to add it to my Standing
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