Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

SFI has the perfect platform for larg group management. As we have all been shown, it is important to work with your workers. We only need 5 committed affiliates to build a large team from. There are tools that allow us to reasign other active affiliates under each committed affiliate in our first line. Only assign affiliates to committed active team leaders or very active Executive Affiliates.

Bronze Team Leaders in my opinion are Team Leaders in training. They are active Excutive Affiliates that are committed to signing in every day, complete all their daily, weekly and monthly actions, and participate in as much of TripleClicks, Egar Zebra Games and Pricebenders as much as possible; having a standing order is also asign of thier commitment to invest in their business each month regularly. These are the leaders that can build and manage a team of five more.

It may take thousands of affiliates to find those five committed affiliates. This is why re-assigning affiliates to only Team Leaders is important to me. It is also important because managing their downline is not nessasary, they are doing the job of managing thier own team. Hopefully they are looking to duplicate the same system. This makes team management much easier and much more effective than micro management.

After all, this system begins with You. Become a bronze team leader based on your own actions, give your team a Leader to Follow.

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SFI has the perfect platform for larg group management. As we have all been shown, it is important to work with your workers. We only need 5 committed affiliates to build a large team from. There are tools that allow us to reasign other active affiliates under each committed affiliate in our first line. Only assign affiliates to committed active team leaders or very active Executive Affiliates.

Bronze Team Leaders in my opinion are Team Leaders in training. They are active Excutive Affiliates
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

Find others that are committed as you are to make EA, maintain EA every month and look for others to do the same. This is the only way you can become platinum.

Duplication is all about doing what you want others to do.

Becoming a Bronze Team Leader is more about being a fully participating EA, doing as much as possible, not the bare minimum to make EA. Max out on purchases, place at least 500 bids, Play Pick-the-Price or other Eager Zebra Games at least 200 times, Post 50 items and download 50 songs. Check your T-Connect page every week. Never miss a day to sign in and do every tab, vote on 30 Ask SC questions and give your answer to as many questions as possible.

Don't forget to send out your group mails once each week, rate your sponsor once each month. Make sure your standing order is at least worth 1500 VP. Then buy gift cards every month and pass them out. Join the Wave3 program and advertise in as many places as you can both on and off line. Purchase S-Builder units as often as possible, bid on them at auctions and PSAs and CSAs.

Before you look for followers be a leader.

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Find others that are committed as you are to make EA, maintain EA every month and look for others to do the same. This is the only way you can become platinum.

Duplication is all about doing what you want others to do.

Becoming a Bronze Team Leader is more about being a fully participating EA, doing as much as possible, not the bare minimum to make EA. Max out on purchases, place at least 500 bids, Play Pick-the-Price or other Eager Zebra Games at least 200 times, Post 50 items
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

Not knowing the particulars concerning your situation makes it difficult to advise you. Basically one might suggest that you not do what you did the previous year. This would not be fair or accurate. You may have tons of inactive affiliates or perhaps none at all. You may also have invested thousands of dollars or just enough to make your grade. You and your up line may be the only ones to know, if they are active and engaged.

This past April was your anniversary. It is time to reevaluate all that you have done and redetermine your definition of success. Set goals you know you can reach, make success a habit. This month you earned the thirty day streak badge, strive for 60. Set a goal to become a Bronze Team Leader and invest a little more in building a team. Making Bronze is like being a Team Leader in training, you have to DO all there is to do as an executive affiliate; contribute to Eager Zebra games, invest in PriceBender Auctions, and put money in S-Builder each month. I know it sounds crazy, why throw more money at anything that does not pay you.

First, this is not a job. You have to do more than show up every day. Lots of employees do and get little done. You have to be the boss, the example, the one to set the pace. You have to do all those things you would want your star affiliate to do, invest in your business. Few are successful their first, second or third year. It's easy to quit but you will spend the rest of your life paying for it. It's like marriage; for better or for worse... Till death do us part. SFI Works because it follows a very basic formula, we profit from sales and those who succeed are dedicated to buying from their own store. This includes advertising and marketing aides.

S-Builder co-op is a slow road to take but builds momentum. I try to purchase as many as I can during the month. It took a full month before I saw the first PSA but now it's a few more each week. You enter each month for the advertising campaign starting the next month. The amazing thing is the results from that advertising campaign can last months, so results might began to over lap.

I set the standing order for the minimum, one 125 T-Credit pack each month. This made it more do-able. Each month I receive 1500 VP and an extra 100 VP just for having a Standing Order. If five of your affiliates are doing the same your cost is covered.

I invest in at least one S-Builder each month and try to buy 30 Gift Cards, both digital and physical cards. This brings in anther 300 VP, approximately. And 300 more if I need it by passing out the gift cards. This is recruiting for both PSAs and PRMs. Marketing takes time to learn and even more time to get results. I received a new TripleClicks member today from a traffic exchange I have been slack in a few months. Advertising should be a daily process of letting people know what you have to offer. Twitter is my main portal, traffic exchanges and mailers are also part of my marketing strategy. Most results come S-Builder but it's not my only plan. A second S-Builder unit puts me well over the 2000 VP sales / purchase limit we are allowed.

Signing in everyday regardless of the se mustaches has been my goal. I make sure I have access to the Internet at least once each day and complete the minimum, all the tabs and to-do list items, enter the Daily Grand and tweet new products and the WOW Auction from the previous day.

I lose the mark once in a while. I spend more than my budget and throw away t-credits. Past experience has thought me that excess seldom results in abundance. It always works better for me to stick to my plan and dray within my budget. Instead of beating myself up over it, I re-evaluate, re-set my objectives and start over the next day or month. Discipline is painful for me.

Eventually I will find others that see the potential I do. They will duplicate my efforts and each find their own workers. I have a handful of affiliates that show up like clock work but no one has committed to placing a standing order. I just keep setting my pace. My objective each month is to make Bronze a Team leader, I get more CSAs each month and at least two PSAs.

This past month I have participated in PriceBender auctions more than planned, played in more Trivia games then anticipated and fear not making my monthly standing order. Make your plan and do your best to stick to it. When you fail to reach your mark, pick yourself up and move on. Above all, hang in there...you will be glad you did.

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Not knowing the particulars concerning your situation makes it difficult to advise you. Basically one might suggest that you not do what you did the previous year. This would not be fair or accurate. You may have tons of inactive affiliates or perhaps none at all. You may also have invested thousands of dollars or just enough to make your grade. You and your up line may be the only ones to know, if they are active and engaged.

This past April was your anniversary. It is time to reevaluate
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

To become a team leader:

Become a functioning Executive Affiliate

Becoming a Bronze Team Leader is like being a leader in training.

As pointed out in the Rules of Success, treat SFI as a business. Complete your Getting Started, Intermediate and most of your Advanced Actions within your first two months. Finish your Launch Pad Lessons within your first 30 days. Take these lessons seriously and follow the Rules of success. Lead by example.

You will recieve additional points your first two months for staying above the Green Line. There are benefits of becoming a Bronze Team leader as soon as possible but it is not nessasary. SFI AWARDS you second home CSAs and a$10 bonus (TL2): becoming a Bronze Team Leader is the foundation of SFI Leadership Training, not so much about BEING an awesome leader! Set the example and become an awesome sponsor.

Sign in everyday and complete your to-do list

Complete all the weekly and monthly actions

Maximize your sales and purchasing VesaPoints (2000)

You can make Bronze or Silver within your first two months but we recommend not stressing over it. Use your first two months being an active Exexcutive Affiliate. By the end of your second month becoming a Bronze Team Leader is the next logical step and very close at hand. We have not even set up our standing order yet, have acquired one active PRM and have been awarded 7 CSAs; this is our second month. It looks like we will make Bronze at the end of this month by buying 3 T-Credits, set to make TL2 by the end of Next month.

We plan to achieve Bronze every month after our first two months by:

1. Completing our daily, weekly and monthly actions (over 400 VP)

2. Maximizing our sales and purchasing VP (we will set up our standing order: 2000VP for our order of T-Credits and 100 VP for having a Standing Order)

3. Participating in Pricebenders Auctions by maximizing the number of bids to VP (500 bids for 500 VP). As part of our building strategy we will focus first on T-Credit Auctions, then CSA and PSA auctions and Gift Cards and Items we can resell; in that order.

Again, this is more about setting our example of what we expect from CSAs and PSAs on our extended team. We plan to meet the requirements of Silver team Leader by finding PSAs that are willing to follow our example and recruiting CSAs in our area that can help us advertise for more PRMs.

We will continue to advertise and expose the SFI opportunity as often and in as many places as possible. We will continue to review our lessons and read new material for our personal growth and development. We will always be grateful and supportive: working hard to reach our goals and staying focused.
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To become a team leader:

Become a functioning Executive Affiliate

Becoming a Bronze Team Leader is like being a leader in training.

As pointed out in the Rules of Success, treat SFI as a business. Complete your Getting Started, Intermediate and most of your Advanced Actions within your first two months. Finish your Launch Pad Lessons within your first 30 days. Take these lessons seriously and follow the Rules of success. Lead by example.

You will recieve
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

I send a PSA team mail through the PSA mailer each week. SFI regulations allow us to send our PSAs information and suggestions we may not be allowed to send our CSAs and the PSAs that are not in our front line.

Sending a message through the mailer ensures they recieve the message both at there registered email with SFI and at there Affiliate Center. All the messages will still be in thier affiliate mail box for review until they delete it, even if they decide not to get started months down the road.

SFI automatically removes inactive affiliates after a year or if they opt out or if they violate SFI rules. It keeps us in compliance so we are not sending emails to people who have chosen no longer to receive emails from SFI.

If someone is not signing in they probably have little interest in what I have to share anyway. I work with my workers when they ask for help. I answer emails ASAP and reward those on my team if they complete the work as lined out in my leadership blog, and it is required that they send me an email.

Last but not least, SFI immediately rewards the PSA mailer sent weekly, with no review of the message: they are Your Personally Sponsored Affiliates. Work with your workers and send a weekly mail to every PSA at least once each week. Use the PSA mailer, it is a great tool.
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I send a PSA team mail through the PSA mailer each week. SFI regulations allow us to send our PSAs information and suggestions we may not be allowed to send our CSAs and the PSAs that are not in our front line.

Sending a message through the mailer ensures they recieve the message both at there registered email with SFI and at there Affiliate Center. All the messages will still be in thier affiliate mail box for review until they delete it, even if they decide not to get started months
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

I believe you should encourage affiliates that want to become team leaders. Some might believe that the emphasis is having a team but I put the emphasis on Leader. If an affiliate wants to be in front, showing how to lead I support that one hundred percent. I have been a Bronze Team leader since the second month in SFI.

I see a leader as someone out in front, not the bourse carriage driver snapping the whip on a team of horses taking me to my destination. When an affiliate chooses to be a leader, they have made a commitment to be the best Executive Affiliate, Assume Sponsor, engaged in as many activities as they can, investing time and resources in building their business and present at TripleClicks as well as completing their daily tasks. Consequently, becoming a Bronze Team leader is unavoidable if your Doing the daily, weekly and monthly actions and not just clicking on the tabs and hoping someone else will make the investments.

Be a team leader and encourage your team to follow in your footsteps.
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I believe you should encourage affiliates that want to become team leaders. Some might believe that the emphasis is having a team but I put the emphasis on Leader. If an affiliate wants to be in front, showing how to lead I support that one hundred percent. I have been a Bronze Team leader since the second month in SFI.

I see a leader as someone out in front, not the bourse carriage driver snapping the whip on a team of horses taking me to my destination. When an affiliate chooses to
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

Losing sight of your objective is dangerous. When we are focused on controlling the activities of others we stop building duplication. Day 16 of our a Launch a Pad Lesson points out that we need to focus on building our team by constantly recruiting and allowing those willing to do the work funnel out of our filtering process. Let those with less commitment find their own way. Work with the workers: rule number 4 of the Rules of Success.

We do not need many workers to duplicate our efforts to develop a remarkable income stream. Just keep recruiting and your go-getters will rise to the surface.
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Losing sight of your objective is dangerous. When we are focused on controlling the activities of others we stop building duplication. Day 16 of our a Launch a Pad Lesson points out that we need to focus on building our team by constantly recruiting and allowing those willing to do the work funnel out of our filtering process. Let those with less commitment find their own way. Work with the workers: rule number 4 of the Rules of Success.

We do not need many workers to duplicate our efforts
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

Keep in mind your target market. College students studying business, marketing and sales might be very interested in an opportunity to show how smart they are. We are competitive and SFI is set up perfectly for students looking for a challenge. It is less about money and more about practical application of marketing theory, it was one of our teachers in school that told us about TripleClicks.

Because an investment is not required SFI makes the perfect class project where teams of students can compete against each other to squire the most VersaPoints in the most cost effective way. Serious fun !
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Keep in mind your target market. College students studying business, marketing and sales might be very interested in an opportunity to show how smart they are. We are competitive and SFI is set up perfectly for students looking for a challenge. It is less about money and more about practical application of marketing theory, it was one of our teachers in school that told us about TripleClicks.

Because an investment is not required SFI makes the perfect class project where teams of students
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Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

SFI has spoken on how long we should expect to work on building our business before seeing a significant return. 2 to 5 years. It is not realistic to expect a quicker return or a short cut to success. Reading the Launch pad lessons, following the rules of success and completing all the activities given in the to-do list is the way to go.

Affiliate since: 02/27/2014, Power Rank: 328

Setting up on auto pilot :

1. Making EA - complete everything. Makes sure you have read as much as you can possibly read; complete everything you can possibly do in your VP Ledger.

2. Maintaining EA: set up your Standing Order. I like TCredits but in this case you should set it up with the IAHBE, it's the the most cost effective way to make EA every month.

3. Recruit others that are willing to do the same. Here is the most important ant step. During the course of the month you should buy SBuilder Units, go big with it. Buy as many as you can every week. Don't waste your hard earned money on anything else, this is your primary source of PSAs since you will not be doing this yourself.

Now, be sure to post your "Best Tip". Give the three basics: Make EA, Retain EA, Teach Others to do the same. Tell them exactly what your doing and let them know you not likely be available for assistance since you are on auto pilot ( perhaps an auto responder loaded with weekly emails).

If you get everything done the first month you will make Silver Team a Leader. You won't see this position again for a few months because you are on auto pilot. You will get rewarded with a lot of CSAs the next month. Your investment in SBuilder will build your team and the numbers will take care of themselves. It's ok to be lazy if you can afford it, you WILL pay for it.

Let us know how this works for you;-)
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Setting up on auto pilot :

1. Making EA - complete everything. Makes sure you have read as much as you can possibly read; complete everything you can possibly do in your VP Ledger.

2. Maintaining EA: set up your Standing Order. I like TCredits but in this case you should set it up with the IAHBE, it's the the most cost effective way to make EA every month.

3. Recruit others that are willing to do the same. Here is the most important ant step. During the course of
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