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

I'm not sure that this is any different from "leading a horse to water," If he's not thirsty, he won't drink. If it smells bad, he won't drink. If he's nervous about it he won't drink. If it is stagnant, he won't drink. And if it rushes at him, he won't drink. He has to believe that the water is good. He has to trust that you will lead him to good water. He has to feel safe while drinking.

Many of our affiliates do not ever take a sip of SFI. They do not trust it because of prior experiences with other opportunities. And if they do begin to read it, they do not read long enough before it begins to come together and make sense to them.

WE must help them to see the big picture, believe what SFI promises, believe in themselves, and motivate them to dig deeper into the training, and to guide them as they begin their building of their SFI Businesses.

We can do this because we have been there and we believe fully in ourselves and in SFI. If we don't have that belief, there is no way that we can instill it into others. In that case some of them will grab ahold of SFI and surpass what we have done ourselves.
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I'm not sure that this is any different from "leading a horse to water," If he's not thirsty, he won't drink. If it smells bad, he won't drink. If he's nervous about it he won't drink. If it is stagnant, he won't drink. And if it rushes at him, he won't drink. He has to believe that the water is good. He has to trust that you will lead him to good water. He has to feel safe while drinking.

Many of our affiliates do not ever take a sip of SFI. They do not trust it because of prior
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

First you need to take a look at the reason you want to create your own business card. Remember that SFI provides several different cards for your use. Do you even need to create your own card? Does that show that you are duplicating your sponsor, or what the program promotes?

If you still feel that you need your own card, you must decide what purpose your card will fill. Is it to be used as an introduction to you and your promotion? Will this be the first thing someone will see when you first begin to recruit him? Then the card must be eye catching, simple to read at a glance, and grab his interest.

Is your card to be used as a reminder of what you have talked to him about? Then the card must be attractive, easy to read, and have a few points that will grab his memory of what he can get from the business.

Both cards should include your name, the name of the business or products, and some of your contacts. Here is where you have control of how he will get in touch with you. If it is not usually convenient for you to have phone calls, then don't give him your phone number. Use an email and a gateway, or web page.

Keep the card simple. A card with too much information on it gives the impression that the business is too complicated.

You can have more than one business card. In fact, you may want one for each aspect of SFI/TC that you wish to promote. You can create them all yourself or use some of those provided by SFI and create the others. Using a do-it-all business card is like fishing with several kinds of bait on your line at once, the fish can't decide which to grab, so he doesn't grab any of them.

Know what you want before you invest in any. These cards will brand you when you do face-to-face promoting. Your prospects will remember you by your card.

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First you need to take a look at the reason you want to create your own business card. Remember that SFI provides several different cards for your use. Do you even need to create your own card? Does that show that you are duplicating your sponsor, or what the program promotes?

If you still feel that you need your own card, you must decide what purpose your card will fill. Is it to be used as an introduction to you and your promotion? Will this be the first thing someone will see when
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

After you have decided to go with SFI and not ZippieQuickieRichie then you have an idea about the value of doing business with SFI. You must be certain that you believe that this the way to success for you.

Investments are comprised of both time and money and include the cost of the future assets of the business. In the case of retail, the cost of the building, furnishings, stock, etc. Have you ever watched as a new business prepared a building that had a previous use? They may have gutted the building and started from scratch. Or they used cosmetic methods to clean it up. They brought in tables, racks, etc., and furnishings even before they ever brought in one piece of merchandise. All of this investment, even before they got started.

SFI is no different in this except our price to invest is much less and our assets are different. Our hard assets are mainly our internet device and later on our PSAs and CSAs.

We need a place out of the weather. It can be anywhere. We don't need to provide parking, bathrooms, or electricity. And not even visible products.

We do need to invest our time in learning how it is done, setting up our business, advertising, and training our team. This might turn into many hours, but they are hours that we choose or invite our team to choose. We don't have a time clock to punch, or a boss. How much is that worth to you? Not in money, but time you spend apart from your family's activities. Do you think your business would flourish without this investment?

The money issue!!1 If you have not one penny to invest and you really want to succeed with all the effort that you can give, you can build this business without investing cash. But it usually takes too long to do it that way before most people give it up.

Yes, it is free to sign up and get started, but SFI is a business that is fuelled by sales of products found at TripleClicks. The whole Comp Plan is based on sales and purchases. You don't make much money unless your team is fully engaged in buying and selling. And you should be buying and selling products yourself, too. If you don't, your sponsor is being shorted, and your team will duplicate you and short you, too. Play the game, find a way to move products. You will also benefit from the sales or purchase of these products.

It's been proven many times that advertising is necessary to buildup a business. We have free advertising and paid advertising. We can advertise for new affiliates, or we can advertise products or services found at TC. We don't have to invest anything for the privilege of advertising someone else's products and we get a commission when we sell it. The more we advertise, the more we make. Invest some cash into advertising not only on the internet, but hard copy, too.

Investing time and money will speed you along the road to success.
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After you have decided to go with SFI and not ZippieQuickieRichie then you have an idea about the value of doing business with SFI. You must be certain that you believe that this the way to success for you.

Investments are comprised of both time and money and include the cost of the future assets of the business. In the case of retail, the cost of the building, furnishings, stock, etc. Have you ever watched as a new business prepared a building that had a previous use? They may have gutted
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

By leaving x-Cards on bulletin boards, tables, washrooms, in library books on marketing, with tips, etc., you are getting them out to where the public is, but is this the most effective way to use them? Chances are that most of them will be thrown away without being read.

The most effective way to give them out is by doing it face to face with some words about the opportunity. "I've been in this for some time and I am looking for a few more people who want help setting up their own home business." If you leave it at that, they may or may not check it out. At least they have a face and an impression about your honesty, integrity and ability whether they are right or not. It's up to you to give a good impression. Ask them to give the card to someone they know is looking for that kind of opportunity.

Go two steps further, offer and do put your name and phone or email on the cards for his convenience. Don't put this on before you talk to him. That way you have a little control over who has that information. And then ask if he would give his contact information to you. Write that on another X-Card so that you know what he is looking at.

Now you have the information you need to make a follow-up call and thank him for taking your card. Ask him if he checked it out and what he thinks about it. Did he give the card to another person? Will he introduce you to that person?

This all takes practice but you will get better as you go. There's no guarantee that this card won't be thrown away, but you might get two birds with one shot.

And don't forget to use a key code on the cards that you personally hand out and another key code on the ones you leave places.
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By leaving x-Cards on bulletin boards, tables, washrooms, in library books on marketing, with tips, etc., you are getting them out to where the public is, but is this the most effective way to use them? Chances are that most of them will be thrown away without being read.

The most effective way to give them out is by doing it face to face with some words about the opportunity. "I've been in this for some time and I am looking for a few more people who want help setting up their own
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Have you noticed that this question is categorized under Duplication, but almost none of the answers even touch on duplication?

Yes, some Affiliates concentrate on sponsoring, sponsoring, sponsoring. And of course they do get a number of PSAs who will grab on and work the business and gain status levels. But their business is mainly in width and not in depth. This does not generate a downward momentum that duplicates strong leadership. It does duplicate its sponsoring affiliate, but not in a way that gives strength to and profitability from the team. This does insure a solid team that will supply a residual income, nor sustain its membership.

That way is very expensive in time and money. And it thrives by continuing to advertize in quantity.

There is at least one Affiliate who has hinted on the Forum that he works at duplicating himself. He doesn't have hundreds of PSAs, but fully trains the ones he has and helps them to become securely established with sponsoring a team of their own. And he helps them organize the management of those down line teams. He invests much time and money to his business and keeps aware of the business community, SFI, TC, and the internet.
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Have you noticed that this question is categorized under Duplication, but almost none of the answers even touch on duplication?

Yes, some Affiliates concentrate on sponsoring, sponsoring, sponsoring. And of course they do get a number of PSAs who will grab on and work the business and gain status levels. But their business is mainly in width and not in depth. This does not generate a downward momentum that duplicates strong leadership. It does duplicate its sponsoring affiliate, but not
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

SFI provides plenty of training for the novice internet advertiser. There is so much more that can be learned from eBooks, search engines, and other sources, but you will never know it all, let alone be able to comprehend it and organize it all in your mind.

So, instead of wasting your time and thinking that you are accomplishing something, use the marketing ideas that SFI supplies to novice, intermediate, and advanced advertisers.

You learn best by doing. And as you do, you will see new avenues that you will feel comfortable taking.

Set goals with your advertising. Don't chase every rabbit in the field. Start with one type of advertising and stick with it until you are ready to explore and learn about the next.

The most important thing is just do it. Be sure to use the text ads, key codes and hit tracking.
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SFI provides plenty of training for the novice internet advertiser. There is so much more that can be learned from eBooks, search engines, and other sources, but you will never know it all, let alone be able to comprehend it and organize it all in your mind.

So, instead of wasting your time and thinking that you are accomplishing something, use the marketing ideas that SFI supplies to novice, intermediate, and advanced advertisers.

You learn best by doing. And as you do, you
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

I am assuming that this question goes past using your To Do List or VP Ledger. There is a lot of information saved here. But not all is saved forever and not all is well documented. I am also assuming that this question goes past the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks found on the To Do List.

There are other places in your SFI Affiliate site that record your personal activities. Your sales and purchases and the purchases of your PSAs and CSAs are recorded in your My Account reports, as are your commissions, your PRMs, etc.

TC Member tab takes you to a copy of all your orders, also your TCredit, VP and MRP Ledgers. Your Wish List, also there, lets you remember the products that caught your eye while viewing the new product at TC.

These records are being kept for you by SFI. There is one important place at SFI where you can keep records, but you have to do it yourself.

This is the Notes section on the Profile pages of your PSAs and CSAs. I keep records of what I mail to my affiliate, if he responds, his VP when I mailed it. What rewards or incentives I gave or promised. And anything else that might help me in the future with his success.

I also keep lots of files in my email account. I save everything that might be important in the future. I also save a copy of what I send to my team in the mail because sometimes I reuse the letter for the next group.

All of this should cover most anything you are hoping to record and save.
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I am assuming that this question goes past using your To Do List or VP Ledger. There is a lot of information saved here. But not all is saved forever and not all is well documented. I am also assuming that this question goes past the daily, weekly, and monthly tasks found on the To Do List.

There are other places in your SFI Affiliate site that record your personal activities. Your sales and purchases and the purchases of your PSAs and CSAs are recorded in your My Account reports, as are
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

I'm not sure I know what you mean with offline tools for marketing. Are you asking about the SFI/TC x-cards, post cards, brochures, flyers, and gift cards? Or do you mean local newspapers, restaurant place mats, car signs, cash register receipts, and T-shirts?

I am assuming that you don't just mean recruiting PSAs, but also PRMs and ECAs.

The best SFI/TC marketing tool is the one you have with you at the time you meet a good prospect. You can do wonders using any of them, just be creative, but honest. Show the prospect that you are both fun and professional and will help them if needed.

On the other hand if you are going out on a safari hunt where you will meet all kinds of people, you must make some plans. You can't shoot at every thing and come up a winner. You must chose who you want to recruit and prepare for that one type of prospect. And take the marketing aids that will supplement your talk. Just make sure that it has a gateway with your SFI ID# on it.

The ideas I listed above and others will cost you some money. Some will cost lots of money. For those you need to know if your targeted prospects use or read these items. Spend your money wisely. The best ones of this nature, if you are new at it, are those which are convenient and near for you to use, as long as the people are suitable for the business.

I'm not saying that everybody can't do SFI, just that there are some that can do it easier. Those who have a computer at home, those who can and expect to buy from their TC store, those who do not sit at home or loiter downtown doing nothing but expecting to be given everything.


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I'm not sure I know what you mean with offline tools for marketing. Are you asking about the SFI/TC x-cards, post cards, brochures, flyers, and gift cards? Or do you mean local newspapers, restaurant place mats, car signs, cash register receipts, and T-shirts?

I am assuming that you don't just mean recruiting PSAs, but also PRMs and ECAs.

The best SFI/TC marketing tool is the one you have with you at the time you meet a good prospect. You can do wonders using any of them, just
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Begin right in your welcome letter to your new affiliates. Tell them to expect it to take a few months to get the framework of your team formed and a few years before it is producing a steady and solid residual income. But in the meantime they will see an agreeable progress including some income develop before that time.

Assure them that this is a tried and true business and that there is no need for them to reinvent the wheel, In fact it is better to study what the up line is doing and to duplicate what they do.

Tell them this is their business and while duplicating what you are doing, there is still much room for them to brand it as their own, become recognized.

As they come to the end of the first month, recognize what they have done and tell them the importance of that. If they did not make EA, then what did they do? Did they finish the LaunchPad? The Set Ups like whitelisting, profile and photo? Did they log in Daily and form a valuable habit? Did they begin to participate in the Forum or ASK SC? If they are active at the end of the month, they have done something important.

Warn them about the small commission for the first month if they bought or sold nothing. Explain that businesses need an exchange of real money to be able to produce real commissions. Why do we even have a tiny commission? Because it show the new affiliate how it will work when they earn some real money. At this time aim them towards BTL. That's where the bigger money begins. Why stall out at EA2 when the excitement is so close?
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Begin right in your welcome letter to your new affiliates. Tell them to expect it to take a few months to get the framework of your team formed and a few years before it is producing a steady and solid residual income. But in the meantime they will see an agreeable progress including some income develop before that time.

Assure them that this is a tried and true business and that there is no need for them to reinvent the wheel, In fact it is better to study what the up line is doing and
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 349

Which disability a person has, will influence the answer here.

Those persons who are employable usually have a good idea of what they can and can not do. Someone besides themselves has confidence in them and their abilities. So if you are thinking of promoting the business to him, just engage him in a conversation and ask what his strengths and weaknesses are.

Those who are not employed may very well be bored to tears and be looking for a way to be useful. If they are able to learn, use a computer, read, communicate either in writing or verbal, and see, then they probably can build a successful business.

Recruit them and build a relationship. Encourage them to promote and advertise both on and off line. No one online needs to ever know this person is disabled if his disability is not evident in his work.

If his disability requires periods of treatment where he is unable to do his work, then perhaps his sponsor will write the weekly communications until he returns. At a certain later time in his business, his Team Leader PSAs can take over most of his leadership role. That's what time leveraging is all about.

Most of these people have all the time in the day to do the work, crave human contact past their own walls, and may have been successful in former years.


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Which disability a person has, will influence the answer here.

Those persons who are employable usually have a good idea of what they can and can not do. Someone besides themselves has confidence in them and their abilities. So if you are thinking of promoting the business to him, just engage him in a conversation and ask what his strengths and weaknesses are.

Those who are not employed may very well be bored to tears and be looking for a way to be useful. If they are able to
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