Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

There are many answers given for this question using the term "garage sale" to refer to the TC Member TConnect page. I believe that the question is really asking about the real event called garage sale, tag sale, yard sale, rummage sale, etc.

Here, products are displayed with an asking price which is discounted far below the new retail price. At the end of the sale there is usually many items that were not sold and that are too valuable to be donated or tossed out.

When visiting a sale like this, always take either a stack of TripleClicks eCards or the plastic Gift Cards. Explain to the owners why you are giving it to them, because they can advertise these items at a very low cost for as long as they want. And there are thousands of people who will be looking at their items.

If you give out the Gift Cards, they can us the TCredits to advertise 6 of their items and can buy more TCredits to advertise more items. When giving out the GC I suggest that you write out a short set of instructions about how to register and then put the items into their TConnect Page. And include your phone number.

Many sales have items that are new in the box, or still have their original price tags on them. These could make good additions to your own TConnect Page. You can also make an offer to buy what they don't sell, and put these items on your TConnect Page for a higher price. The items that are not of interest can be donated.

While at the sale, you might also ask the owner if you can leave some xCards on her table for her customers to take. If you ask her for her phone number so you can pick up the remaining cards, you have her contact number and another chance, when she is less busy, to talk to her about TC or even SFI.

Remember that there are two reasons that a person will hold a garage sale, 1) to get rid of extra belongings, and 2) to gather some money for some reason. Help them see that this opportunity can help them reach both goals. And their customers are visiting because they are trying to stretch their paychecks and still keep up with the neighbors. Their goals can also be met with SFI/TC.

Your garage sales, featuring your unwanted items plus any items you bought from an ended sale, will draw many people who are also looking for great deals and a chance to save money.
Now you can also show off the Natural Products that TC sells direct. Print up the product descriptions and pass them out with your information on them. Wear your TripleClicks T-shirt and baseball cap, and be ready to answer questions.


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There are many answers given for this question using the term "garage sale" to refer to the TC Member TConnect page. I believe that the question is really asking about the real event called garage sale, tag sale, yard sale, rummage sale, etc.

Here, products are displayed with an asking price which is discounted far below the new retail price. At the end of the sale there is usually many items that were not sold and that are too valuable to be donated or tossed out.

When
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Other answers to this question have given many criteria for measuring the effectiveness of a sponsor. These tell what we ought to see in a sponsor, but not how they fit onto the measuring stick when we rate our sponsors.

List the criteria that you wish to look at when you rate your sponsor. What are the import ones, which don't matter so much to you? Without a clear view of what your need and want in a sponsor, you can not fairly rate him.

The actual yardstick that use when rating our sponsors is 5 units long. From 1 star to 5 stars.
* 5 stars is the best. Does than mean perfect? No. It means that the sponsor is almost always reliable in helping his PSAs. He's human. Things come up that delays his communications, etc. But he is dedicated to helping his team. He reaches out to you before you reach out to him.
* 3 stars is the lowest rating where the sponsor can still be paid for his efforts. He does what he needs to do, but maybe more slowly. And nothing extra. He waits for you to reach out to him.
* 1 star means he is about useless. He didn't write at all this month, no communication, Team Mail, Stream, eCards, etc. No acknowledgements, rewards, tips.

* Stars 2 and 4 are the intermediate stars, not good enough for the best, not bad enough for the worst. They tell the sponsor that he has some work to do to satisfy his PSAs, but that they are seeing that what he does is helpful.

If you can not give your sponsor a 5 star rating, then write him a note and explain why, what he isn't doing that you think he should be doing. Open the discussion. Be nice, but truthful. If he's rating a 3 or better, he probably is trying to be a good sponsor. He just needs pointers.

You can write a comment right on the ratings page, or if you don't want it to be viewed forever, write an email.

I know that when I don't get a 5, I am upset. Because I can think back to where my shortfall was.

Be honest, but fair in your evaluations.

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Other answers to this question have given many criteria for measuring the effectiveness of a sponsor. These tell what we ought to see in a sponsor, but not how they fit onto the measuring stick when we rate our sponsors.

List the criteria that you wish to look at when you rate your sponsor. What are the import ones, which don't matter so much to you? Without a clear view of what your need and want in a sponsor, you can not fairly rate him.

The actual yardstick that use when
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

The question is how a sponsor can use the sub-forums to help non-English speaking or reading affiliates.

If a new PSA does not speak English easily, chances are that they will only read what is necessary in their opinion. That leaves out the Forum, most everything not on the To Do List, and ASK SC.

Help them at the very beginning by writing them an eCard in their own language and introduce them to their sub-forum, and to the Google translator. Then as important Forum threads And ASK SC questions and answers come out, give them the heads up to translate and read it for themselves. Explain to them that you can not enter his sub-forum room unless you are from his locality.

Many new affiliates resent the extra work. Gently tell them that successful business people do what it takes. Expand their outlook to a global business that it their business, not a job.

Encourage him to begin new threads and participate in the ones already in the room.

NOTE; if he uses periods, but no spaces at the beginning of a new sentence and no capitals, the translator can not separate the words and then translate. So then there are two words separated by only a dot and they may not make any sense.
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The question is how a sponsor can use the sub-forums to help non-English speaking or reading affiliates.

If a new PSA does not speak English easily, chances are that they will only read what is necessary in their opinion. That leaves out the Forum, most everything not on the To Do List, and ASK SC.

Help them at the very beginning by writing them an eCard in their own language and introduce them to their sub-forum, and to the Google translator. Then as important Forum threads
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

When you are in the process of referring a new ECA, ask yourself if you will be his biggest customer. If not, who are his customers now? Are there any SFI affiliates within about 50 miles from him or in the same shipping area?

Tell him we already have millions of TC Members who are looking to TC to provide products they need at prices they can afford. Tell him a little about your local advertising campaign and that there are members who live right near him. Mention to him about those people in the area who already buy most of their items from online sources because the items are shipped right to their house.

Tell him he must advertise the fact that he will be online and at the same time you will, too. Explain that as the number of local ECAs increases, then it is easier to recruit local customers for him and affiliates for you.
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When you are in the process of referring a new ECA, ask yourself if you will be his biggest customer. If not, who are his customers now? Are there any SFI affiliates within about 50 miles from him or in the same shipping area?

Tell him we already have millions of TC Members who are looking to TC to provide products they need at prices they can afford. Tell him a little about your local advertising campaign and that there are members who live right near him. Mention to him about those people
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Who are you suggesting would set up separate forums and seminars in different languages?

SFI is a US American company. That's where the home office is, that's where it's registration is. The official language is American English. The ads are written in English, the approved text ads are written in English. The main language for eCommerce is English.

The SFI opportunity is given to all nations, but the taker needs to understand that he/she is responsible to come to the terms of being able to accept that relationship. The term here being the language.With 203 countries having SFI affiliates and some using several languages, how can SFI provide forums and seminars in enough languages to cover every person? The can't, but if they could, who would pay for them? The Executive Pool would be dry if it had to come from there. Ah, let's have every non-English speaking person pay $5 each to use those services every month. Oh, that's right most of them don't even have a Standing Order for their other business needs.

If SFI doesn't provide these services (for free) then it's up to either the Team Leaders or the ECAs.

If the Team Leaders were to organize a separate language forum for each language spoken by members of his team:
1) What level Team Leader could afford the cost, time, and monitor the information given in all the different forums?
2) What would be duplicated in his team? He would fail to be the leader.

If ECAs were to offer membership in special Forums for a certain amount of money on a Standing Order basis, there would certainly be much cross-lining. Cross-lining is the sharing of information back and forth between lines of sponsorship. This is not innocent help. Just one example of how your PSAs can be affected by cross-lining is a follows. This is why we want to keep everything out in the open as with the SFI Forum, so that everybody is kept accountable to the true system.

How many times have we read Posts telling affiliates how to do this business with the least investment? We are here to make money. That money comes from somewhere. Here, it comes from sales and purchases of TripleClicks products. Why would you want to allow other people telling your PSAs to not buy their product from TC, but to skimp by with the minimum necessary to gain the EA?

I know those who give out this information want to help, but if we don't help our PSAs to get to a certain level of commission in a limited time, they will quit. So let's not let our teams become infected with misguided plots and schemes that will slow them down.
We must be able to control what is being said on the public SFI forums.

ECA forums or Team Leader Forum tend to be private, out of the reach of the team leaders. SFI Forum remains the only Forum with proven monitors.

One solution that has been attempted is setting one Topic aside for many Posts written in each of the main languages. But there again it would be very hard to monitor.

If every SFI affiliate was willing to take their responsibility to translate then the situation would be minimized. If when you get something from someone that has been translated and has an error, then you need to get back to the person and correct his understanding.This is part of your responsibility as a sponsor. It is the affiliates responsibility to understand what is being said.
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Who are you suggesting would set up separate forums and seminars in different languages?

SFI is a US American company. That's where the home office is, that's where it's registration is. The official language is American English. The ads are written in English, the approved text ads are written in English. The main language for eCommerce is English.

The SFI opportunity is given to all nations, but the taker needs to understand that he/she is responsible to come to the terms
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Since from the start of our SFI career we know that we will be promoting it to both our warm and cold markets, the real question is when to promote to each group.

Your larger group by far is those you do not know as yet. This group is endless both online and offline. You can practice and experiment with this group with both your face-to-face presentation and your written, anonymous ads.It is easy with this group to keep expanding your reach into it. But some of them will become part of your warm market as you continue to have contacts with them through follow-ups and friendship making steps.

Your warm market on the other hand is more important to you. You are emotionally attached to each member in some way or another. You have an established relationship. You have a certain level of respect for each other. You want them to get in SFI not because you want them under you, to make you money, but because you know this will be good for them.

Are you ready to promote to this group? Have you lived your life in a way that makes each of your warm market feel respect for you and what you say? Or are you the member of the family that has never made a good decision and whom they all consider you as "Poor Brother or Sister"? Consider this before you promote your new business to them.

Go ahead and let them know that you have found an interesting new business that you are grabbing onto. Then let them watch your enthusiasm and progress. You will know when they and you are ready for the whole promotion.

You must also be prepared in your mind for rejection from this group. They are rejecting the new ideas, not you. They will be watching. Never let them see your moments of discouragement.
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Since from the start of our SFI career we know that we will be promoting it to both our warm and cold markets, the real question is when to promote to each group.

Your larger group by far is those you do not know as yet. This group is endless both online and offline. You can practice and experiment with this group with both your face-to-face presentation and your written, anonymous ads.It is easy with this group to keep expanding your reach into it. But some of them will become part of
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

The secret about achieving any success in SFI is to
1. follow directions, do what the training materials
2 do what your successful sponsor or co-sponsor tells you to do.
3 put the effort into learning how to use the various ad sites and types
4 learn how to use all of the tools, reports, and communications supplied by SFI

Once you are expert at that, there is no secret in making money.
1 Start by picking one of the money streams, except PPA, and learn how to do it..
2 When you have money coming in, or feel ready, learn a second stream.
3 Place a multitude of ads
4 Never stop, never give up, never quit.
5 Don't be stingy with investing your money. Do what it takes
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The secret about achieving any success in SFI is to
1. follow directions, do what the training materials
2 do what your successful sponsor or co-sponsor tells you to do.
3 put the effort into learning how to use the various ad sites and types
4 learn how to use all of the tools, reports, and communications supplied by SFI

Once you are expert at that, there is no secret in making money.
1 Start by picking one of the money streams, except PPA, and learn how
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

There are many reasons why your team members may not receive your mail.

1. They may have given you an invalid email address
2. They may have given you a valid email address to an unused account or one specifically to receive mail that they do not intend on reading.
3. They may receive too many emails that they do not read or delete all of them before they get lost on older pages.
4. They may not bother to translate your letters into their languages.
5. They may not value your mail and just not read it.
6. They may not have a computer and find that lengthy letter on a smart phone are way too hard to read.
7. They may have blocked your email from the SFI system.
8. We hope not, but they may be invalid sign ups.

So did they receive it or not? I have found that asking for any kind of reply is not effective. Most never ever communicate with their sponsor. I believe that more PSAs and CSAs are guilty of that than the sponsors not communicating.

If your affiliates do not respond to your mailers and you don't get a notice that it can not be delivered, then you should assume that your team received the mail unless they chose not to receive it individually. That is of course if you truly posted it and it was not rejected by the team at SFI.

I have heard of a service that will tell you if your mail has been opened. I don't remember what it is called, but it shouldn't be hard to find.

But I ask you, why would you want to go to that effort and expense when they have made no effort to contact you, nor probably do any work on their To Do List? Yes, if they are not logging in and doing some work they won't be reading the IM nor looking at any of the other methods of messaging that SFI and TC have provided. But many of these messages also send out mails to their email addresses. If it goes through SFI, it will be labeled as from them, if you send it out personally, it will be labeled as from you. What more do we really have to do?

Move on to someone who is responsive.
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There are many reasons why your team members may not receive your mail.

1. They may have given you an invalid email address
2. They may have given you a valid email address to an unused account or one specifically to receive mail that they do not intend on reading.
3. They may receive too many emails that they do not read or delete all of them before they get lost on older pages.
4. They may not bother to translate your letters into their languages.
5. They may
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Decide what local is, how many mile radius from your central location, and where your intended list of attendees live in respect to the area and each other. Find a place to meet that is convenient to the most people, not to you. Set a date, an agenda, secure the meeting room, and then personally invite those who live in that area. Many people will not drive more than about 50 miles for this type of meeting. Offer to pick up those who live nearest to you.

Announce the agenda, and that you will devote time for other questions. Select topics that are of interest to several levels of participants and teach to those who come.
Also have some door prizes that you put together using the various x-Cards, brochures, etc.

At the beginning have them register. and at the end have a questionnaire asking what they gained from the training, was it worth the trip? What do they want covered the next time? Get them involved in the training. Make them feel like the training was for them. It is.




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Decide what local is, how many mile radius from your central location, and where your intended list of attendees live in respect to the area and each other. Find a place to meet that is convenient to the most people, not to you. Set a date, an agenda, secure the meeting room, and then personally invite those who live in that area. Many people will not drive more than about 50 miles for this type of meeting. Offer to pick up those who live nearest to you.

Announce the agenda, and that
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

We can start right now by bringing TripleClicks t5o the attention of our friends, community, country. and, world. It's that easy. Just spend time browsing the items for sale in the departments that interest you. As you find some that you know people would like to buy, put them in your "Wish List" for easy retrieval.

Then find a few free ad web sites that you can target selected countries and write and post some ads. You will be eventually using the item's url with your SFI ID# embedded, but you might first have to send your potential customers (PRMs) to a landing page that redirects them to your gateway Post a couple of ads every day. Dip into your wish list for items to sell.

Use your email, social media, and face to face to tell your friends and family about some products they would like. The more ads you have out there, the more friends you tell, the more TripleClicks name will be known.

Meanwhile, do your transfer buying as often as you can. Your medicine cabinet, cleaning closet, and packing boxes will speak louder to your visitors than you ever could.

Give Gift Cards to the families on your gift list. Tell them that as soon as they register, you will send them a Gift Certificate for the gift of their choice.

This all helps to bring TripleClicks to the attention of the buying public.

The other side of the coin is to bring TC to the attention of the established vendors in your locale. Study the ECA, eCommerce Affiliate, Program and begin to tell your local retailers how to expand their businesses to the whole globe.







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We can start right now by bringing TripleClicks t5o the attention of our friends, community, country. and, world. It's that easy. Just spend time browsing the items for sale in the departments that interest you. As you find some that you know people would like to buy, put them in your "Wish List" for easy retrieval.

Then find a few free ad web sites that you can target selected countries and write and post some ads. You will be eventually using the item's url with your SFI
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