Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

Remember the old fashioned way of teaching a child to swim? You throw him in the pool and watch him flounder. When he gets more relaxed, he will concentrate on the actions he needs to take to get to the safety of the pool side. His arms and legs work together to get the forward motion, and he learns to open his eyes to see where he's going. And he holds his head above the water so he can breath. All the while you are near and watching lest he needs your help.

When I began in SFI there were many words that I did not understand. But as I kept reading, I began to learn how everything fit together, the words became defined. Ideas started to connect together. I began to learn the actions needed and began to see what SFI is all about. In addition, the arms and legs of SFI began to fit together and I learned how to use them.

Once my head was out of the water and I could begin to breath easier, I explored the vast web-site.

My sponsor was there near me and we did discuss some of the points and hurdles, but I worked for where I am and I could rely on my sponsor at all times. But I had worked with my sponsor for years before SFI and he knew what I was capable of understanding and doing.

Our PSAs and CSAs are from around the world and from many backgrounds. I would suggest to give them the instructions to begin at the grey Start button and follow the suggestions from there. As we watch their progress on the To-Do List, we can make short suggestions as well as cheering them on.

Make sure that they understand that the money really comes from TC sales. That is not to be overlooked. No sales, no commissions. The largest Team in SFI will not make money without sales from TC.

I also encourage them to begin a very simple ad campaign even before they finish their To-Do List complete with Text Ads. I also tell them to study the Key Coding and Hit Tracking sections.

I still keep an eye on them and write when they slow down or have earned some praise.
I have found that many of my team members have not explored the SFI site. And not the TC site either, In fact I think that many do not order because they are too unwilling to explore the sites ans learn how to place and pay for an item.

I have give out some Gift Certificates to the workers and told them what $5 will buy, but I still leave it up to them to learn how to use it. Of course I would answer their questions if they should want to ask.Please note here, Gift Certificates are returned if not spend within the expiration date, TCredits, once they are given are not returned if they are not used.




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Remember the old fashioned way of teaching a child to swim? You throw him in the pool and watch him flounder. When he gets more relaxed, he will concentrate on the actions he needs to take to get to the safety of the pool side. His arms and legs work together to get the forward motion, and he learns to open his eyes to see where he's going. And he holds his head above the water so he can breath. All the while you are near and watching lest he needs your help.

When I began in SFI there
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

To engage your team members, you must write something meaningful to them, and then get a response back. The response may be a written reply back about your statement or it may be an action taken because of the original statement.

To get them to reply, your statement must catch their attention, cause them to think about it, and stir them to action.

Whether you are congratulating a member for a job well done, announcing a contest, explaining new SFI policy, or giving a great tip, you can be engaging and ask them to respond to you.

They can do it very easily by using the comment lines. This allows the Stream to become a type of chat. And you may respond or add to your original statement.

When your team is not responsive, it is very disturbing. Even our doctors tell us when someone is near death that he is not responding to treatment. At that point you must diagnose the cause. Are you too boring, your subjects of little interest or importance? Are you hard to understand? Are they too untrained to see what is important? Have you totally relied on their ability to read and understand the training materials?

Take a hard look at both sides and make changes where they are needed. If something has not been working for awhile, then change it.
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To engage your team members, you must write something meaningful to them, and then get a response back. The response may be a written reply back about your statement or it may be an action taken because of the original statement.

To get them to reply, your statement must catch their attention, cause them to think about it, and stir them to action.

Whether you are congratulating a member for a job well done, announcing a contest, explaining new SFI policy, or giving a great tip,
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

To get re-energized toward your SFI business for 2016, you must align yourself with the positive aspects of this business.

Begin with a positive mental attitude. Find a few testimonials about people who built businesses from the ground up.For short stories, do a search for popular tourist stops and attractions. Many tell about their founders and what they endured to make it through the tough times.

With a positive attitude look at your goals for 2015, your successes, and shortcomings. Determine what goals to keep, what to add, and what you need to do to reach them. What do you need to do differently? What "stepping stone goals" do you have to adopt to help you reach the important goals?

This is time to think about change. Change yourself, change your goals, change your methods, and change you attitude.Keep your changes within your ability to accomplish them.At this point, you see the big picture and should be feeling pretty energized for the coming year.

Set some rewards for reaching certain goals. Remember the gold star stickers your mom used to put on the refrigerator when you remembered to make your bed? Let your rewards be visual so you can see them any time you begin to doubt.

Keep doubt out of your thoughts. When it creeps in, read another testimony.
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To get re-energized toward your SFI business for 2016, you must align yourself with the positive aspects of this business.

Begin with a positive mental attitude. Find a few testimonials about people who built businesses from the ground up.For short stories, do a search for popular tourist stops and attractions. Many tell about their founders and what they endured to make it through the tough times.

With a positive attitude look at your goals for 2015, your successes, and shortcomings.
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

The most obvious answer here is that it gives you one more way to earn money using the SFI opportunity. But it also gives you the experience of setting up and running an ECA store so that you are able to recruit new ECAs and to encourage and help your own PSAs to become ECAs.

When you own an ECA store, you have the power to choose which products to offer and their prices. You have the whole world of products to choose from, including those that affiliates need but are not offered, or not offered locally. This becomes important when you have a strong local team.You want several ECAs in the area of your local team so the members will be able to buy most of their weekly and monthly needs from TC stores at reduced or no cost for shipping.

While you can sell any TC/ECA item singly, your own ECA store will provide you with another landing page/gateway that you can use for advertising and to bring your friends and family to meet the TripleClicks mall.

Most people have a JOB of some sort when they enter SFI. Are there products or services that you can either offer, or have the owner to offer? Do you have any hobbies that would easily tie into an ECA store? There is a certain emotional contentment when you are able to tie your other life to SFI and see some income from it in addition.

Your ECA is the place for you to use your creativity. You write the product details, the News Releases and ECA Streams, the Weekly Letters that TC sends out to your contacts,and you write the heading of your ECA store where you describe your store and put in an invitation to join you in SFI.




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The most obvious answer here is that it gives you one more way to earn money using the SFI opportunity. But it also gives you the experience of setting up and running an ECA store so that you are able to recruit new ECAs and to encourage and help your own PSAs to become ECAs.

When you own an ECA store, you have the power to choose which products to offer and their prices. You have the whole world of products to choose from, including those that affiliates need but are not offered, or not
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

When you format an ad campaign, do it with a no nonsense determination. Make then want it even if they didn't know they wanted it before they saw it. Tell them to do it now before they lose the need for it

1 Match the product to a targeted group that is interested in this type of product.
2 Locate ad sites where these people are apt to be looking.
3 Get their attention with a lead statement that interests them enough to join TC so they can get the details..
4 Show a photo of the product and tell why they should buy it from you.
5 Make a call to action that reaches their heart and brain.
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When you format an ad campaign, do it with a no nonsense determination. Make then want it even if they didn't know they wanted it before they saw it. Tell them to do it now before they lose the need for it

1 Match the product to a targeted group that is interested in this type of product.
2 Locate ad sites where these people are apt to be looking.
3 Get their attention with a lead statement that interests them enough to join TC so they can get the details..
4 Show a photo
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

Remembering that the Standing Order can be edited, the items changed from month to month, I like to vary the products that I order. Of course the TCredits are the Big Easy. They give lots of vp and carry no shipping fees.

But I like to keep a good stock of business aids on hand. So I have lots of needs and so little VP to fill. We can of course order as many products as we have funds for, but generally people stop at 1500 or 2000 VP per month.I think a limit of 2000 vp per month is putting a big restriction on yourself and your business. If you need it, can pay for it, then buy it. Don't worry if you go 500 vp over your goal.

As far as items go, and as I said before, TCredits are the staple, in any size pack, Then an S Builder, a pack of Gift Cards, various X-cards, post cards, and brochures. Then your personals: vitamins, cleaning supplies, etc.

You will never run out of items to purchase if you change your order to fit your needs. The idea of the Standing Order taking out the possibility of your forgetting to place that big order is so that if you forget to place the order, there will be one to automatically be filled and save you from loosing your status.

One tip, if you want to make a change do it before your shipping date. Also, add the new products, then delete the ones you do not want on the next order. That way you will never lose your SO Badge. Even a few moments without that badge can give someone, who happens to see your profile at that moment, the idea that you don't have a SO.

Use the Standing Order for your convenience and benefit, that's why we have it.
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Remembering that the Standing Order can be edited, the items changed from month to month, I like to vary the products that I order. Of course the TCredits are the Big Easy. They give lots of vp and carry no shipping fees.

But I like to keep a good stock of business aids on hand. So I have lots of needs and so little VP to fill. We can of course order as many products as we have funds for, but generally people stop at 1500 or 2000 VP per month.I think a limit of 2000 vp per month is putting
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

As a senior myself, I would be most likely to engage in a conversation about extra income with a person who took some time to get to know my hopes, dreams, family life, and how I spend most of my time.

Seniors either have enough money for their needs and wants or they are looking for a way to supplement what they have. They are often worried that they haven't put enough money away to last until the end of their life. They are facing their mortality and do not want to get into anything that sounds like it will take forever to materialize, though most of them are wise enough that there is no such thing as overnight riches.

Most have made plans before they retired. Are they able to do the things they planned? Many like to travel for extended times. SFI being an internet networking business fits right into that kind of lifestyle. They can promote their business where ever they go and have an ever increasing warm market.

Seniors with hobbies often incorporate their hobbies into their travels and therefore have instant rapport with many strangers. They already hve a large warm market and it is easily enlarged.

By showing your senior prospects how SFI would fit into their already established daily habits, you can show them that joining will be almost like slipping on a pair of shoes. When showing them the money angle, don't stress the big bucks, but what they can expect in the near future. They are looking to make ends meet or pay for nice vacations, not endless wealth.

Seniors can make time for this business if they want to. They don't want an 8 hour a day job again, so stress the time leveraging and available income streams we have with SFI. Stress that it is portable. They can take it anywhere they go that offers internet service.


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As a senior myself, I would be most likely to engage in a conversation about extra income with a person who took some time to get to know my hopes, dreams, family life, and how I spend most of my time.

Seniors either have enough money for their needs and wants or they are looking for a way to supplement what they have. They are often worried that they haven't put enough money away to last until the end of their life. They are facing their mortality and do not want to get into anything
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

No matter what stage you are in at building your business, you must ask specific questions of your upline to get the maximum support from them.

If you leave it to your sponsor or upline to guess what you need help with, he may choose a topic that you are well versed in. If you want the weekly letters to have more meat in them than what a beginner needs, then tell your sponsor what you want to read about. Ask the questions. That makes it much easier for an upline to write a letter and know that it is going to help someone. And then answer him back and give him some feedback on his advice.

A team leader does not want to appear pushy or bossy, but at the same time, he feels like an old mother hen, trying to tuck everyone back into the safety of the group. By replying to his contacts, you are focusing his wisdom on things you want to know.

It also helps to continue going forward earning VPs, using the TCredits he sends you, doing as he suggests, and asking more questions.
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No matter what stage you are in at building your business, you must ask specific questions of your upline to get the maximum support from them.

If you leave it to your sponsor or upline to guess what you need help with, he may choose a topic that you are well versed in. If you want the weekly letters to have more meat in them than what a beginner needs, then tell your sponsor what you want to read about. Ask the questions. That makes it much easier for an upline to write a letter and know
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

A student is one who spends his time learning. Some topics he learns just enough to be familiar with the subject. Other topics are more important to his life and he becomes much more knowledgeable about them. Sometimes, he becomes an expert in a subject .A student learns best the things that are important to his own life.

We all became students at the moment of birth, or even before that. We learned a tremendous amount in our first 4 years. We learned by instruction, by trial and error, by repetition, and from watching others.

Later on when we went to school, we learned how to teach by comparing all of our teachers and coming out with the best methods. Some of us acquired the art of teaching better than others. But we will always remain students as long as we have contact with the world.

At SFI we must transition from just being a student to also being a teacher. What we teach is what we have learned about doing business as an SFI Affiliate. Our main students are our PSAs, CSAs, and our Generations. And if we reach out through a2a, ASK SC, the Forum and through advertising, we extend our sphere of teaching influence.

We will know if we are successful students when we either know the answers or where to find them. We will know when we are successful teachers when we can give our team the correct answers and be able to help their team to put the answers to good use. And as a further proof of success as a teacher, their team will show strong examples of duplication.
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A student is one who spends his time learning. Some topics he learns just enough to be familiar with the subject. Other topics are more important to his life and he becomes much more knowledgeable about them. Sometimes, he becomes an expert in a subject .A student learns best the things that are important to his own life.

We all became students at the moment of birth, or even before that. We learned a tremendous amount in our first 4 years. We learned by instruction, by trial and error,
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 348

As you discuss the business with your new PSA, or even a face-to-face prospect, it is less important to give the bullet points of what they will receive for being FastTrack. Instead, tell them that it is important that they get a fast, but solid beginning in their training and their business.

Momentum and excitement will carry them a lot farther than telling them they will get a badge that they don't understand and a list an arm's length of other things. Don't overload him by telling him everything, he will eventually find it in his training. It will only confuse him and may convince him that it will be more than he can handle. Instead give him clues about how it will help him do his business, the results.

So how does it help to go for FastTrack? At the beginning a person is either excited or skeptical about this new opportunity. They know what they were looking for when they signed up. It is fresh in their minds why they need more money. If they take time to really read the training, the whole thing makes perfect sense. It's a no lose situation unless he allows himself to get bogged down and discouraged and quits.

The FastTrack and E365 gives him small goals to reach and rewards for reaching them. He is more likely to finish his training while he is still excited and be guided into placing ads for sales and PSAs.

Once he begins to enroll PSAs and find TC customers who are buying or selling TC items, then he will see an income and become more excited. About this time he will appreciate the rewards from being a FastTrack affiliate and understand why it was important that he committed to earning it.
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As you discuss the business with your new PSA, or even a face-to-face prospect, it is less important to give the bullet points of what they will receive for being FastTrack. Instead, tell them that it is important that they get a fast, but solid beginning in their training and their business.

Momentum and excitement will carry them a lot farther than telling them they will get a badge that they don't understand and a list an arm's length of other things. Don't overload him by telling
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