Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

You can promote SFI to friends, family and even strangers if you think you can get them to be interested in the business. What matters the most is getting people to pick interest in the business whether you have any prior relationship with them or not. Having said that, I recall one SFI lesson which reveals that if anyone finds something good, it is logical that the first point of call are friends and family. There is no doubt that SFI as a business is something good. On that score alone, I think it is better to promote SFI first to friends and family before strangers. This position is further strengthened by the following reasons:

1. It is easier to build trust quickly among friends and family.
2. Friends and family are everyday people you see and interact with so you can easily promote any business to them.
3. With friends and family, it is easy to know very quickly who will be interested in the business.
4. With close proximity of friends and family, sponsoring is easier, cheaper and more productive.
5. With friends and family, building team spirit is a given.
6. Offline promotion is easier with friends and family.
7. Not many people are bold enough to approach strangers but with friends and family the barrier is off.
8. With friends and family, there is already “something” that bonds the relationship which can be extended to business conveniently.
9. Suspicion and skepticism are lowest with friends and family.
10. It is by far easier to promote any business to friends and family than strangers.
11. Communication is easier and more productive with friends and family.

For these and many other reasons, I believe it is better to promote SFI first to friends and family before strangers.

I do hope you find this answer useful.

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You can promote SFI to friends, family and even strangers if you think you can get them to be interested in the business. What matters the most is getting people to pick interest in the business whether you have any prior relationship with them or not. Having said that, I recall one SFI lesson which reveals that if anyone finds something good, it is logical that the first point of call are friends and family. There is no doubt that SFI as a business is something good. On that score alone, I think
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

If you are talking of cost-effectiveness and how to succeed, what you should be looking at are FREE actions and CHEAP actions which can lead to success in SFI.

Let me begin from FREE actions. As I always tell my downline, do the following and you will succeed in SFI. Here are some free actions I recommend.

1. Log in to SFI every day, every single day.
2. Check out all tabs on your Home Page and remember to click on the "I have reviewed the information on this page" tab at the bottom of every page!
3. On the "To Do List" tab, click on "check out the latest items at TripleClicks" every day.
4. On the "To Do List" tab click on "reviewing your TConnect page" weekly.
5. On the "Win It" tab - enter the "Grand Daily" after you did all the tabs.
6. Send out weekly emails to your team.
7. Promote TripleClicks products and learn a bit more about SFI every day. There really is a lot to learn and benefit from.
8. Promote your Gateways in free advertising sites and also use any other free ads methods.

For cost-effectiveness, all you are looking at is to do things which can give you maximum results at the lowest cost. Do the following:

1. Set up a Standing Order of a minimum of 1500 VP at the lowest cost.
2. Promote Tripleclicks products at the lowest cost.
3. Promote your Gateways at the lowest cost.
4. Participate in pricebenders auctions.
5. Play the time machine games and other games.
6. Use the cheapest means available to acquire PSAs and to build your downline.
7. Become an ECA if you have products to sell.

These are some of the most cost-effective ways I can think of right now which I believe you can use to increase your chances of success in SFI. I have no doubt in my mind that if you are able to follow these tips diligently, it is possible for you to succeed in SFI without spending too much money. Good luck!!!




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If you are talking of cost-effectiveness and how to succeed, what you should be looking at are FREE actions and CHEAP actions which can lead to success in SFI.

Let me begin from FREE actions. As I always tell my downline, do the following and you will succeed in SFI. Here are some free actions I recommend.

1. Log in to SFI every day, every single day.
2. Check out all tabs on your Home Page and remember to click on the "I have reviewed the information on this page"
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Vladimir,

Every SFI affiliate who seriously wants to succeed in the business needs a very active and viable downline. That is where PSAs come into the picture. The interesting thing about SFI is that every affiliate who has a downline also has an upline. That means someone’s upline is somebody else’s downline. Coming to your question, the “Golden Rule” of that relationship is….”Do not do to your downline what you will not want your upline to do to you.” If you adhere strictly to that rule, you can manage to avoid nearly all the mistakes your question seeks to find out.

Arising from that conclusion, I am inclined to draw your attention specifically to the following common mistakes:

- Dealing with your downline as if they are your employees instead of business partners.
- Bossing it over your downline.
- Getting too personal.
- Prying into your PSAs personal life.
- Dealing with your downline as if they are not human beings.
- Misleading your downline.
- Not attending to their concerns promptly.
- Attempting to run the business for your downline.
- Too frequent/meaningless communications with your downline.
- Pushing your downline to do the things they are unwilling to do.
- Totally ignoring your downline.
- Inducing your downline with financial rewards.
- Criticizing your downline.
- Finding faults with your downline.

In SFI, nearly all affiliates have at one time or another made some or even all of these mistakes. As a new affiliate who wants to build a viable downline, it is always advisable to take the advice of SFI as it relates to sponsoring affiliates. Check it out on this link:

https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor?

In there, you will be acquainted with the Dos and Don'ts of sponsoring. If you study them very well and keep to them, you will manage to avoid many of the common mistakes most new affiliates make when building their downlines. Hope this answers your question?



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Hi Vladimir,

Every SFI affiliate who seriously wants to succeed in the business needs a very active and viable downline. That is where PSAs come into the picture. The interesting thing about SFI is that every affiliate who has a downline also has an upline. That means someone’s upline is somebody else’s downline. Coming to your question, the “Golden Rule” of that relationship is….”Do not do to your downline what you will not want your upline to do to you.” If you adhere
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Initiating an online chat with a new PSA is a very good way to help such a PSA to “settle in.” Since you are the one who initiated the chat, please give plenty of room for the new affiliate to ask most of the questions. You must avoid a posture which portrays you as lecturing the new affiliate. Engage the affiliate in a few chit chat first to put them at ease before you go into the real business. Among many other issues you can discuss with a new PSA, the following to my mind appear to be the most pertinent,

1. Find out why the new PSA joined SFI, and how she is doing presently.
2. Find out if she has been through the LaunchPad and what she learned.
3. Let her know the importance of the “to-do” list.
4. Find out if she routinely sets goals in SFI.
5. Let her know the importance of logging in to her site every single day.
6. Find out how she is promoting her business.
7. Discuss participating in the forums.
8. Discuss how she is doing in a2a.
9. Let her know how she can make minimum of EA monthly and the benefits.
10. Discuss duplication in details and the awesome benefits.
11. Discuss the trivia games and the benefits.
12. Discuss the benefits of forming and joining co-operatives etc, etc.

Hope you find this answer useful.

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Initiating an online chat with a new PSA is a very good way to help such a PSA to “settle in.” Since you are the one who initiated the chat, please give plenty of room for the new affiliate to ask most of the questions. You must avoid a posture which portrays you as lecturing the new affiliate. Engage the affiliate in a few chit chat first to put them at ease before you go into the real business. Among many other issues you can discuss with a new PSA, the following to my mind appear to be the
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Well, i have heard it said that "successful people do not do different things, they simply do things differently." That in a nut-shell may just answer your question.

SFI to the best of my knowledge provides all affiliates equal opportunities in a level playing field. Even the rules are clear and they apply to all affiliates equally. These Team Leaders who happen to have tens of thousands in in their down-lines may simply be very good at what they do which in my opinion every affiliate is also allowed by SFI to do anyway. I have no doubt that these Team Leaders do the same things we all do as affiliates but they must have some skills for doing these things differently and better than many of us. That may account for why they are so successful.
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Well, i have heard it said that "successful people do not do different things, they simply do things differently." That in a nut-shell may just answer your question.

SFI to the best of my knowledge provides all affiliates equal opportunities in a level playing field. Even the rules are clear and they apply to all affiliates equally. These Team Leaders who happen to have tens of thousands in in their down-lines may simply be very good at what they do which in my opinion every
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

WAVE3 X-Cards are awesome SFI business promoting tools. They are cute, trendy and very easy to use. You can hand them out easily or give them as gifts to friends and relatives as well as rewards to some of your affiliates. For best results, it is good to hand them out physically to people you know or are acquainted with. You can routinely hand them out:

1. To strangers in public transportation, pubs, gyms and social events.
2. To family members at home.
3. To friends and acquaintances in their homes or offices.
4. To your neighbors in their homes.
5. To teachers and other workers in your children’s schools.
6. To co-workers in your office.
7. To professional care givers like Doctors and Lawyers in their offices.
8. In restaurants to fellow diners.
9. To your employees if you are a business owner.
10. To members of your social club, sports club or religious organization.

Hope you find this answer useful.


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WAVE3 X-Cards are awesome SFI business promoting tools. They are cute, trendy and very easy to use. You can hand them out easily or give them as gifts to friends and relatives as well as rewards to some of your affiliates. For best results, it is good to hand them out physically to people you know or are acquainted with. You can routinely hand them out:

1. To strangers in public transportation, pubs, gyms and social events.
2. To family members at home.
3. To friends and acquaintances
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

As always, I insist that the best way to motivate affiliates is to lead them by examples. Be proud to point out to them what you do, why you do it and the results you are getting. Specifically, let them know how these results are helping your SFI business. Many of your affiliates will always like to emulate you and be motivated to do so if they see these facts as self-evident.

Aside from logging into your affiliate center and doing the To-Do chores, here now are some other things you should encourage your affiliates to do and the benefits they stand to derive there from.

1. Read all information in the Alerts page TO get up-to-date information on what is new and hot in SFI and at the Forum.

2. Play the Trivia Games TO have fun, compete with fellow affiliates and win valuable items.

3. Participate in Pricebenders Auctions TO win valuable products/items at up to 95% off shelf price. You also get VPs, MRPs and PSAs as rewards.

4. Promote your SFI Gateways daily TO help you enroll new PSAs to meet your duplication efforts and deepen your downline.

5. Promote your TripleClicks and other Gateways TO generate sales, help enroll PRMs, ECAs, Wave 3 Members and earn real commissions.

6. Become a Wave3 Member TO get products at special reduced prices, earn TCredits, Download music and get many other benefits.

7. Advertise your SFI business like hell TO help grow it rapidly.

8. Read all the lessons/information/articles available in SFI TO help broaden your knowledge about the business. As you already know, “readers are leaders.”

9. Be a member of and participate at the Forums TO help you interact with fellow affiliates, learn the business and share valuable information.

10. Join the a2a for friendship and social interactions TO help you get invaluable assistance and advice from fellow affiliates.

11. Communicate regularly with your Team Members as an invaluable responsibility you owe them as their sponsor TO inform, encourage and motivate them in the business.

From the foregoing, if your affiliates know what they can also do in SFI and the benefits available to them for doing so which you are getting yourself, that from my own thinking is enough to motivate them to get involved in these other things besides the To-Do list.

Good luck!!!


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As always, I insist that the best way to motivate affiliates is to lead them by examples. Be proud to point out to them what you do, why you do it and the results you are getting. Specifically, let them know how these results are helping your SFI business. Many of your affiliates will always like to emulate you and be motivated to do so if they see these facts as self-evident.

Aside from logging into your affiliate center and doing the To-Do chores, here now are some other things you
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Permit me to refer you to SFI Success Rule 3. It says “Lead by Example.” That means if you want the affiliates in your downline to sponsor affiliates, then make sure you are doing so yourself. You must be able to sponsor affiliates and become proficient in it before you can show and teach your affiliates the best ways to do so. You must realize that in the key area of duplication, your affiliates are definitely watching! Show them what it means to be a strong, active sponsor and they too will become strong, active sponsors and help you further your growth and profits. Whatever you want your affiliates to do, you must habitually do it also, because they are following your lead.

Encouraging your downline affiliates to do what you are doing is the best way to teach them how to build their downline. That means, if you are unable to build your downline yourself, you can not possibly teach anyone how to build their own downline.

I hope this answers your question?

Good luck!!!

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Permit me to refer you to SFI Success Rule 3. It says “Lead by Example.” That means if you want the affiliates in your downline to sponsor affiliates, then make sure you are doing so yourself. You must be able to sponsor affiliates and become proficient in it before you can show and teach your affiliates the best ways to do so. You must realize that in the key area of duplication, your affiliates are definitely watching! Show them what it means to be a strong, active sponsor and they too will
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

From SFI archives, you will learn that one of the reasons why SFI is so successful is because it's so easy to get started. In fact, you can immediately begin earning income from the TripleClicks Executive Pool just by scoring VersaPoints for doing simple actions that help you become successful in SFI. These actions are called Action Versa Points, AVP.

Each time you complete an action on your SFI To-Do List, you instantly earn the points attached to that action. Some actions are worth 10 points, some 20 points and some as much as 150 points.

So, your first objective in SFI is to earn as many VersaPoints as you can each month. The more VP you score, the higher your rank and the more you can earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool. Here now are some of the best ways to earn AVP which can be further divided into Daily Action Points, Weekly Action Points, Monthly Action Points and Unlimited Action Points.

1. Daily Action Points.
- 1 VP/day for reviewing each of the red tabs in your home page.
- 1 VP/day for checking out the latest items on TripleClicks.
- 1 VP/entry for each Eager Zebra Game entry.
- 1 VP/song for each TC music.
- 1 VP/listing for each Member Listing.
- 1 VP/bid, Bonus VP per each Pricebenders Auction bid.

2. Weekly Action Points.
- 30 VP/week for sending group support messages via the PSA Mailer, CSA Mailer, or Genealogy Group Mailer.
- 5 VP/week for reviewing your TConnect page.
- 3 VP/week for submitting a Stream post.

3. Monthly Action Points.
- 10 VP/ month for completing the SFI/Sponsor/Co-Sponsor ratings form.
- 5 VP/month for setting your goals by the 10th of the month.

4. Unlimited Action Points.
- 100-300 VP for each rank of Team Leadership Support.
- 5 VP for each affiliate you reassign to a team member.
- 100 VP for setting up an advertising co-op for your team.
- 25-100 VP for submitting most popular/second/third-10th most popular Ask SC answer.
- 25 VP/purchase for reviewing purchases at TripleClicks.

These are some of the very best ways to routinely earn Action Versa Points in SFI. Hope this answers your question?



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From SFI archives, you will learn that one of the reasons why SFI is so successful is because it's so easy to get started. In fact, you can immediately begin earning income from the TripleClicks Executive Pool just by scoring VersaPoints for doing simple actions that help you become successful in SFI. These actions are called Action Versa Points, AVP.

Each time you complete an action on your SFI To-Do List, you instantly earn the points attached to that action. Some actions are worth
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

The straight answer to this question is YES. It is very good for affiliates to have their own ECA stores at TripleClicks if they want to take full advantage of the good business model that SFI represents. SFI itself envisaged it and therefore encourages affiliates to have their own stores by providing easy access and facilities to do so. As an affiliate, having your own store gives you the following benefits.

1. You can earn sales VP from what you sell in your store.

2. You can make tangible income from the profits in your store.

3. You can promote your own store easily on and offline.

4. You can offer sales promos and even discounts in your own stores to attract buyers.

5. You can offer competitive prices even at reduced rates as you wish in your own store.

6. You can earn extra commissions from promoting the products in your own store.

7. You can sell any products of your choice approved by SFI.

8. You become an accomplished business owner in SFI by owning your own store.

9. SFI helps you to announce and promote any new products in your store.

10. You get an additional communication channel from your ECA store to affiliates.

I hope you find this answer helpful.


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The straight answer to this question is YES. It is very good for affiliates to have their own ECA stores at TripleClicks if they want to take full advantage of the good business model that SFI represents. SFI itself envisaged it and therefore encourages affiliates to have their own stores by providing easy access and facilities to do so. As an affiliate, having your own store gives you the following benefits.

1. You can earn sales VP from what you sell in your store.

2.
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