Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The PPA (Pay Per Action) system has been set up so you can earn money by enrolling affiliates for SFI. You make a “bounty” (income) based on how advanced the affiliate you gave to SFI proceeds in building their business.

If you are good at enrolling several affiliates and can afford to give some of them to SFI then by all means go ahead and do it – it could put money in your pocket.

If you are like me, having trouble enrolling new affiliates that want to work the business then I would suggest that you keep them for yourself.

You must realize that once you place an affiliate in the PPA program they are no longer your PSA – once you are paid your bounty it is over as far as earning any more income from that affiliate. And you must also realize that if the affiliate you gave to SFI does nothing you will not earn any income.

Because of the level I am at right at this moment I need all the income and “team” that I can get so I am not using the PPA system. I do not want to pass up commissions and matching VP from an affiliate I sponsored to be going to someone else.

When I am at a good level (the top) I will use the PPA system because it is another income stream. If I learn how to do it well then I can teach the system to my teammates.

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The PPA (Pay Per Action) system has been set up so you can earn money by enrolling affiliates for SFI. You make a “bounty” (income) based on how advanced the affiliate you gave to SFI proceeds in building their business.

If you are good at enrolling several affiliates and can afford to give some of them to SFI then by all means go ahead and do it – it could put money in your pocket.

If you are like me, having trouble enrolling new affiliates that
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When you are dealing with people face to face it is easy to find out what products they would be interested in by simply asking them. I have found that the majority of the people that I asked about their product interest would state items that I know are listed in TripleClicks.

When dealing with people on a NON personal level, like through the Internet, classified ads in newspapers, and the like. It is next to impossible to determine what products they are interested in without searching for specific groups of people that are already using similar products that you wish to sell.

This is done by using demographics designed to target the customers that you need to reach. Most of this kind of advertising is going to be costly if it isn’t done correctly. The more you know about your customer and your product the more effective your ad will be in attracting those who are interested in your product.

You can try targeting “groups” that would be most likely using a similar product in social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in and many more. This can end up being time consuming and expensive if using paid ads.

The way I am getting set up now – is to build my own website-blog combination which will promote the products I wish to sell.

When I advertise I can run email campaigns targeting specific groups who would be interested in the line of products I have to offer and use the URL of my site or blog. When they visit my site they will find a host of products listed that they may be interested in. Using this method I will not have to depend on “one” specific product.

One other way that does not cost as much as demographic targeting is to purchase a mailing list of people who have used a similar product in the past 3 months. You purchase the list and mail post cards to the people leading them to your site or subscribe to your post on your blog – and when you can gain their friendship and trust you can offer your products. This is an old system but it still works, and usually with better results than email campaigns.

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When you are dealing with people face to face it is easy to find out what products they would be interested in by simply asking them. I have found that the majority of the people that I asked about their product interest would state items that I know are listed in TripleClicks.

When dealing with people on a NON personal level, like through the Internet, classified ads in newspapers, and the like. It is next to impossible to determine what products they are interested in without
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

One of the things that set SFI to a higher standard compared to other Internet marketing companies is the ability to communicate several different ways with the affiliates in our teams.

The Stream system is for those times when you need to send a short news blast or an uplifting quote and recognition notices to our PSAs, (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or our CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) or send the message to both groups or send your message to only your team members on the 2nd level and lower.

We also have the forum and ASK SC (SFI Community) where questions can be presented and answers given by top affiliates who know the business well. Both of these communications systems can help tremendously in building our personal business.

We also have the ability to send small Ecards of support or congratulations for work well done. It is a great way to send a short uplifting note to your teammates.

In answering your question as to what form of communication with our teammates is best I would have to say using the Team mailers for our PSAs and CSAs. Because of the many different filters that you can use to narrow down who you want to receive your message or to broaden your outreach with your team.

Also when you send a team message through the mailer system within SFI your teammates will get the message at their personal email address and in their inbox at their Affiliate home page. You’re getting “twice the service with half the effort – that’s a great deal!

I will only use my teammates personal email address if I have established a trustworthy bond with them. My reason for this is that many affiliates are getting hundreds (or more) emails a day in their personal inbox and receiving more from me may be enough to send them running or end up blocking me.

Also many of our teammates personal email addresses are not correct for one reason or another and we do not know if they are getting the messages they need.

Some affiliates are concerned that if we use the team mailers and our teammates don’t check in or don’t read their inbox mail at their Affiliate Center then they will miss out on anything I am sending them.

Like I stated above SFI mailers go to their personal email account as well as their SFI inbox. If your teammates are not checking in to their Affiliate Center then you shouldn’t be to concerned about them not getting a message – That is why we work with the workers.

I do have a dedicated personal (hosted) email account set up just for my teammates and some of my down-line use this to contact me when they do that, their name and email address is automatically added to my SFI mailer address book within that hosted account.

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One of the things that set SFI to a higher standard compared to other Internet marketing companies is the ability to communicate several different ways with the affiliates in our teams.

The Stream system is for those times when you need to send a short news blast or an uplifting quote and recognition notices to our PSAs, (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or our CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) or send the message to both groups or send your message to only your team members on
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Sounds like you would want to have a worry free vacation – and rightly so. At the same time you want to keep your position and VP streak in good standing.

One of the first things you should do it to inform your team that you will be off line for x-amount of days. Encourage your teammates to use their co-sponsor, forum and a2a friends to get the answers to any questions they have while you are gone.

You will want to make sure your SO (Standing Order) will not be shipped to you while you are gone. You may need to change the day they process your standing order to co-inside with the time you will be returning or before you are leaving Do that here: www.tripleclicks.com/myaccount/ModifySO.php..

If your SO is all electronic (TCredits, S-Builder and the like) then you will not need to change anything your products and services will be waiting in SFI when you get home.

Now you are going to want to set up your affiliate membership to “vacation mode.” This is a new service that was started this year (07/14/2014). And I personally had to use it once and it was really nice not to lose everything I had worked so hard to obtain.

Here is the question about setting a vacation mode: Can I preserve my VP streak if I go on vacation or am unable to access the Affiliate Center for a few days? –

The answer: (https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=197071&referrer=search)
Absolutely! If you're going on vacation, have a family emergency, or experience any other disruption, you can preserve your VP streak and not have to begin your count over. Just go to your My Account index and select the "On" option in the VP Streak Vacation Mode section. Turning on Vacation Mode will remove one day from your streak each day this mode is enabled, so be SURE to turn it off when you return!

Set vacation mode: https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/index?referrer=search#vacation

Using the vacation mode is the only way I can think of keeping everything in good standing if you choose not to use the vacation mode (although I wouldn’t know why) keeping everything in good standing means you will have to find a way to keep logging in daily.

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Sounds like you would want to have a worry free vacation – and rightly so. At the same time you want to keep your position and VP streak in good standing.

One of the first things you should do it to inform your team that you will be off line for x-amount of days. Encourage your teammates to use their co-sponsor, forum and a2a friends to get the answers to any questions they have while you are gone.

You will want to make sure your SO (Standing Order)
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a good question and it will cause a lot of readers to stop and think just what the best business building techniques to focus on are?

I am quite sure that the answers that are presented for this question will very a lot – due to the fact that affiliates “focus” will have to be determined by what is needed most in their personal business...

If you are not in a leadership position yet your main focus should be in sponsoring new affiliates to increase the size of your team.

As you are signing up new affiliates you need to also focus on training them how to duplicate what it is you are doing. And you need to start helping them to build their business.

Once you have established a fair size of members in your team you will have to shift some of your focus to selling TripleClicks products and services. Remember affiliates only get paid if products are sold to customers and/or used by you and your team.

As you can see the point of “focus” will have to change as you are growing your personal business. There really isn’t any “best” action to focus on unless you want to generalize it all into one category and that would be to:

Focus on duplication and teach your team to do the same.

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This is a good question and it will cause a lot of readers to stop and think just what the best business building techniques to focus on are?

I am quite sure that the answers that are presented for this question will very a lot – due to the fact that affiliates “focus” will have to be determined by what is needed most in their personal business...

If you are not in a leadership position yet your main focus should be in sponsoring new affiliates
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I personally believe that you should promote the Fast-Track 2.0 in your welcome letters to your new affiliates.

The reason I say this is because you are their sponsor and you would want your affiliates to know what you think is worth doing. When first entering a company many affiliates are leery about information coming from the company. So I suggest you use a more passive method than directly promoting it with all the details.

SFI Admin will be sending your new affiliates information about the Fast-Track 2.0 shortly after they sign up. And this is why I would take a passive approach so that your new affiliate is not bombarded with the same info over and over again.

I would say something like this:

“Soon SFI will be sending you information about a new Fast-Track system that can help you get your business off to a great start that will pay you dividends for as long as you remain an active affiliate with SFI.

Participating in the Fast-Track system is completely optional. I suggest you take the time and study the information about the Fast-Track 2.0 system – I think you will be able to see the potential benefits that can be obtained by using this system.”

I would blend this message somewhere in the middle of your welcome letter. At this point your main object is to let the new affiliate know who you are and that you want to know more about them so you can help them in a more personal manner.

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I personally believe that you should promote the Fast-Track 2.0 in your welcome letters to your new affiliates.

The reason I say this is because you are their sponsor and you would want your affiliates to know what you think is worth doing. When first entering a company many affiliates are leery about information coming from the company. So I suggest you use a more passive method than directly promoting it with all the details.

SFI Admin will be sending
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Every day I spend about 1 or 2 hours in promoting my SFI and TripleClicks business. I do this through “free solo safe ads” – paid solo safe ads – I have continuous classified ads running also paid and free.

When I make a trip anywhere during any time of the week I will take with me W3 cards – Gift Cards – Garage sale cards and hand them out to people who I strike up a conversation with. I also leave the cards at gas stations, our bank, grocery stores and so forth. I usually give out 30 of each every month.

I work on my blog every day – either adding post or changing the banners around so something is different every day. I ad new post to the blog about once a week.

I started a fan page on Facebook so that I can place banners and advertising on my page without Facebook blocking me. I use direct links to SFI and also links to my blog posts.

You can never do too much advertising – Promoting your personal business with SFI and TripleClicks should be your number one activity. When you make it to the top level in SFI then you can relax a little on the advertising because by then your team is large enough to be “self” sustaining.

I also had a rotator placed on my SFI blog so I can use it to co-op with my teammates in advertising or use it to do split testing on ads to see which one worked the best. I use this rotator about once a month because that is how I set up my ad campaigns (a month at a time)

Be creative find new ways to advertise that don’t cost you much in time or money. The usual stuff – post on bulletin boards – fliers – post card advertising and local newspapers.

I do not get out very much so I do most of my advertising using the Internet there are thousands of different places to run free ads. Google “Free advertising” and you will get a list of over a couple thousand free sites to use.

Advertise daily – be consistent in the sites you use. It is said that someone will have to see your ad at least 7 or 8 times before they respond. The shorter the time between your ads the better chance you have of gaining new contacts.

On top of all the above listed advertising methods I also will talk to whoever I come in contact with- “Hey could you use a little extra cash?” Breaks the ice – works great.

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Every day I spend about 1 or 2 hours in promoting my SFI and TripleClicks business. I do this through “free solo safe ads” – paid solo safe ads – I have continuous classified ads running also paid and free.

When I make a trip anywhere during any time of the week I will take with me W3 cards – Gift Cards – Garage sale cards and hand them out to people who I strike up a conversation with. I also leave the cards at gas stations, our bank, grocery stores and
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The many tools that are made available by SFI and TripleClicks are all important for reaching the levels of success that each and every affiliate desires.

As the new affiliates gain knowledge and skill in Internet marketing the need for certain tools will change as far as being the most important tool at that time.

If the affiliates in SFI would utilize all the tools that have been freely given to us, there would be a lot more people making the top levels and the big incomes. All the tools are needed to build a strong team and a stable (and ever growing) residual income.

To just pick one tool as the “best” to use, I would have to say that it must be your personal goals using the goal setting form that SFI has provided for us. The reason I say this is because if you do not have any real goals set then no matter how good the other tools are, you will not succeed in this business.

It is the goals and desires that burn in our heart that drives us to using and obtaining the best results from the tools that SFI has so generously provided all the affiliates with.

It does not matter how powerful your bow is or how straight your arrows are or even how much of an expert archer you are, if you have no target to shoot at then your tools are useless.

Your dreams and desires are the goals in which your target is set, the bow and the arrows (SFI tools) are what is needed to hit the target.

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The many tools that are made available by SFI and TripleClicks are all important for reaching the levels of success that each and every affiliate desires.

As the new affiliates gain knowledge and skill in Internet marketing the need for certain tools will change as far as being the most important tool at that time.

If the affiliates in SFI would utilize all the tools that have been freely given to us, there would be a lot more people making the top levels and
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Time is costly – once spent it cannot be redeemed – we as business owners need to budget out time so that we can gain the most out of each hour that we use.

In order to accomplish good time management you will need to set a budget on your time allotted for your activities in building your SFI and TripleClicks home business.

It would be next to impossible for me to suggest any certain amount of time needed to build a profitable business. The reason I say this is because not everyone will be at the same level of commitment or in building skills.

My personal time management goes something like this.

1. First thing in the morning – 2 hours in my affiliate center and SFI and TripleClicks web site.
2. I do a lot of advertising on “safe list” so I get a lot of emails to read for getting credits for running my ads – each day I give a hour in reading emails for these credits.
3. I now take a break and do things around the house or outside until 2PM in the afternoon.
4. I now log back in to my affiliate center and read forum post and answer some of the questions. About 1 hour spent here.
5. Now I work on advertising in several different forms – taking about 1 and ½ hours.
6. After dinner around 7PM I log back into my affiliate center and do a quick check on any new news and internal messages that need to be answered. At this time I also write my ASK SC answers – which usually take me to around 10PM.

Now I must tell you that I am retired so I have that kind of time to spend on building my home business with SFI and TripleClicks.

The amount of time you personally invest will be determined by how much you are driven to get into a better lifestyle and higher income brackets.

If your time at this moment is scarce than I say you need to be very proficient in the use of your time. (We should be anyway). And do what you have allotted for building your business.

If you can see that you’re not moving forward as fast as you would like to then you need to take a serious look at your time management and see if you can squeeze in more for business building.

The thing is we all only have 24 hours a day – and once spent it is gone forever this makes time very valuable so use it wisely.

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Time is costly – once spent it cannot be redeemed – we as business owners need to budget out time so that we can gain the most out of each hour that we use.

In order to accomplish good time management you will need to set a budget on your time allotted for your activities in building your SFI and TripleClicks home business.

It would be next to impossible for me to suggest any certain amount of time needed to build a profitable business. The reason
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

“When it comes down to describing our fantastic store, TripleClicks, I have trouble keeping my explanations short, mainly because of the different aspects that TripleClicks offers in its games, auctions, ECA platform and huge selection of products and services.

That goes without even mentioning about the 98,000+ different products and over 2 million members purchasing and selling those products globally in 180+ countries.

The best way to see all that TripleClicks has is to join as a free member and use this gift card to list an item you would want to sell, play a game or have fun at an auction. “

The three paragraphs listed above are what I usually tell people when they ask me about TripleClicks. At this point I can tell that they are reading the excitement that I am displaying while sharing my brief script because they usually have a smile on their face and they ask more questions.

And I continue to insist that they just use the card and check out TripleClicks and that I will contact them in a couple days for their opinion and answer any more questions they may have.

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“When it comes down to describing our fantastic store, TripleClicks, I have trouble keeping my explanations short, mainly because of the different aspects that TripleClicks offers in its games, auctions, ECA platform and huge selection of products and services.

That goes without even mentioning about the 98,000+ different products and over 2 million members purchasing and selling those products globally in 180+ countries.

The best way to see all that TripleClicks
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