Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

I tell everyone of my Affiliates that the fast money is in Sales and big money is in affiliates. When you duplicate yourself in your affiliates you can really start to see big money. But it may be a slow and difficult climb.

So while you are building your affiliate business you could be making some significant cash through sales. You make sales of other people's products to new people who join TripleClicks and you will get a commission. You can sell product that will help people in their online business. You can sell people products they need everyday or every month.

When I first joined SFI I listed on my TConnect Page some gift cards. I bought those cards for 4USD and sold them for 12USD. They are a handmade card but I live in a country where labor is cheap and such cards can be gotten cheaply.

Anyway, using the profit from these items I began first to place a Standing order then later I began to build my number of Affiliates. I listed more and more things in my TConnect page. I gained more and more money and reached a point where I was spending 50% of my profits on SFi business building and 50% went in my pocket.

Now I have a decent income from the combination of sales and Affiliate growth. I still list and sell products on TripleClicks and presently that is over half of my income from SFI. It is going very well and I would continue to do it even if I had no PSAs or CSAs working for me.

Hope this helps
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I tell everyone of my Affiliates that the fast money is in Sales and big money is in affiliates. When you duplicate yourself in your affiliates you can really start to see big money. But it may be a slow and difficult climb.

So while you are building your affiliate business you could be making some significant cash through sales. You make sales of other people's products to new people who join TripleClicks and you will get a commission. You can sell product that will help people in their
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

There is a benefit to the sender (upline), a benefit to the receiver (down line) and a benefit to the PSA re-assigned.

a. I have 381 Generation 1 PSAs. If I give some away, that are inactive, maybe with more personal and individual attention they will become active. The receiver has few PSAs, if any, and can give them more individual attention.
b. I can not financially offer incentives to everyone, giving some away allows me to share the incentive cost. When someone makes Fast Track I send them 2 TCredits and encourage them to buy the duplication paper (item 187187) with one of the credits. This prepares him for the patience and endurance needed in the slow but sure growth created by duplication. I have many that make Fast Track. So I am not able to offer new incentives to those who do not. If I pass these PSAs on maybe they can get better incentives from someone with just a few PSAs.
c. It builds trust, a sense that I will help and a sense that I do care about my affiliates. And any new affiliate loves seeing some PSAs showing up.
d. I look for geographic, or language commonalities between the PSAs I send, and the PSAs that receive the reassignment. For example I have a Brazilian doing very well and who is very capable. I give him my Brazilian PSAs if they become inactive. He can teach, train and communicate in Portuguese and they are much more responsive.
e. We are a team. So I try to help us work together. The receiver may have skills, interests, perspective or maybe just a style to which the latent affiliate comes alive. They may be better at following up this particular person than I am. We, as a team need to leverage each of our strengths.
f. Much is learned by the receiving PSA as he/she tries to stimulate and motivate a latent affiliate. The receiving PSA can start putting together a small library of emails that he/she will use with all their affiliates in the future.
g. I do not dump and run. If I pass on affiliates I have a few requirements. Read the articles on being a good sponsor. Develop at least the initial skills and knowledge needed to help this latent affiliate engage in minimal online advertising. And have a willingness to engage, not sit and watch, the new affiliate. This engagement will increase the receivers engagement over all with SFI.



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There is a benefit to the sender (upline), a benefit to the receiver (down line) and a benefit to the PSA re-assigned.

a. I have 381 Generation 1 PSAs. If I give some away, that are inactive, maybe with more personal and individual attention they will become active. The receiver has few PSAs, if any, and can give them more individual attention.
b. I can not financially offer incentives to everyone, giving some away allows me to share the incentive cost. When someone makes Fast
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

I rarely advertise SFI directly. I use Email Campaigns to offer value and educate my prospects I absolutely love it and the Affiliates I get from it are so much more responsive than any other form of recruitment I use.

Most forms of advertising are designed to create Brand Awareness. Unfortunately it take you and me forever and tons of money to Brand Ourselves. Most of us see advertising as a sales vehicle - it is not. It is a prospecting vehicle.

Before a buyer acts in the real world, he must see a product advertised 7 to 10 times. In the virtual world the number is much higher. Just think about how many 100s of banners you do not click on… And that tells you the chances of your ad being clicked. When you use advertising that gets you 10,000 Unique Views to your website, you have 10,000 people seeing your product once. Even in the real world this is not enough, the virtual world means you could buy 10,000 visits and get no sign ups.

A better approach is to give something away in exchange for a person’s name and email. Now they get something free. If that something is of value they will value their connection to you. The freebie was free, so the value transfers to you. Now the prospect has value, attributes that value to you and you have their contact info so you can continue to offer value.

After 10 to 15 exchanges they trust you enough to take what they value (money) and use it in ways you advise (SFI). Because your advise is proving trustworthy and valuable.

How can this be accomplished with strangers? And more specifically a large number of strangers? Email campaigns of value organized and automated – an Auto Responder.

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I rarely advertise SFI directly. I use Email Campaigns to offer value and educate my prospects I absolutely love it and the Affiliates I get from it are so much more responsive than any other form of recruitment I use.

Most forms of advertising are designed to create Brand Awareness. Unfortunately it take you and me forever and tons of money to Brand Ourselves. Most of us see advertising as a sales vehicle - it is not. It is a prospecting vehicle.

Before a buyer acts in the
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

It is never a bad time to invest in yourself. So achieve Rank as soon and as often as possible.

Many say there is no need to achieve rank if you do not have a team. I think that you will find recruiting a team much harder if you are not aggressively seeking to achieve rank. It is one of the most powerful things in business - momentum.

Imagine if all the EAs under you thought this way. You would have a team in no time. And you are their leader so lead the way.

The benefits of rank are numerous. More TCredits each month, More CSAs each month, More Credibility each time a person visits your Join My Team page.

More accountability too and this is good for you. People see your rank and seek your advise. Well you need to keep informed, you don't want to be answering people's questions with, "I don't Know". You must also work on your leadership page, providing valued content there. This is good for your Affiliates, but also a very good exercise for you.

One small footnote: Saying "I Don't Know" is okay the first time you're asked a tough question. It is much better than making up an answer. But it is never good the second time the same question gets asked. That means your not doing your homework.
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It is never a bad time to invest in yourself. So achieve Rank as soon and as often as possible.

Many say there is no need to achieve rank if you do not have a team. I think that you will find recruiting a team much harder if you are not aggressively seeking to achieve rank. It is one of the most powerful things in business - momentum.

Imagine if all the EAs under you thought this way. You would have a team in no time. And you are their leader so lead the way.

The
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

The short answer is yes. But this is a team effort. Work Together Rise Together. You are not the most capable person in every arena but you are the team leader. As such find the strengths and weaknesses of each team player and help the whole team to advance using one another's strengths.

I have a really cool situation. My PSA (fakename) Vinny is the CSA of another one of my PSAs (fakename) Bob. So I am Vinny's sponsor and I am Bob's sponsor and Bob is Vinny's Co-Sponsor. Fun yet?

Anyway Bob is a Auction Master - I am not so good. Bob advances in rank through AVP acquired in the auctions. Bob is okay at recruiting, I am better at that. I help Bob in his recruiting Bob advises me in auctions.

Guess what? Vinny gets us both... Now Vinny is brand new we will see what strengths surface in him that can help others. But we all are valuing from each other.
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The short answer is yes. But this is a team effort. Work Together Rise Together. You are not the most capable person in every arena but you are the team leader. As such find the strengths and weaknesses of each team player and help the whole team to advance using one another's strengths.

I have a really cool situation. My PSA (fakename) Vinny is the CSA of another one of my PSAs (fakename) Bob. So I am Vinny's sponsor and I am Bob's sponsor and Bob is Vinny's Co-Sponsor. Fun yet?

Anyway
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

Dave great question. I am recording many of the answers.

As others have said, one book is tough to come up with. Most the answers I have read refer to motivational books. We all need to be motivated. But I have found that greatly motivated people still succeed by engaging in right practices.

The two books I would like to offer are books that helps us engage in the right actions. They help us understand how we think and challenges us to think differently, to change our paradigm of how to succeed in our business.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work-in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police.

Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(book)


Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

Winning by not competing! This international best seller upends traditional thinking with principles and tools to make the competition irrelevant.


In an audiobook that challenges everything you thought you knew, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans" of untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.


Based on a study of 150 strategic moves, spanning more than 100 years and 30 industries, they provide a systematic approach that every company can use to render rivals obsolete and unleash new demand.

A great site that is a follow up to the book is http://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/

More on the book can be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ocean_Strategy
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Dave great question. I am recording many of the answers.

As others have said, one book is tough to come up with. Most the answers I have read refer to motivational books. We all need to be motivated. But I have found that greatly motivated people still succeed by engaging in right practices.

The two books I would like to offer are books that helps us engage in the right actions. They help us understand how we think and challenges us to think differently, to change our paradigm
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

By working you can mean two things:

1. Technically working. That is a person signs up and you are assured they are getting your email campaign.

2. Principally working. That is the efforts and emails are producing conversions. Conversions being the desired outcome of joining the email campaign. That might be, new affiliates, qualified affiliates, or perhaps trained Affiliate. Or that might be more product exposure for TripleClicks and more sales. What ever the desired outcome is.

You can usually test number 1 by signing up yourself with an alternate email address.

You test number 2 very differently. The first thing to do is write 3 or 4 questions helping you define the desired outcome and how to measure that outcome.

Then recruit 5 friends to sign up and test it for you. Give them your questions and ask them to answer the questions for you. for example,

1. Were you able to sign up, and did you start getting my emails?
2. Are my emails grammatically correct?
3. Are my emails clear and to the point?
4. Is there a call to action? Would you know what to do?
5. Are they helpful, or are they too Commercial?
6. Would you opt out after the first few emails or would you look forward to the next one?

Then you reward each person who helped you with a TripleClicks gift card and an additional $5.00 TripleClicks Gift Certificate after they sign up using the gift card.
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By working you can mean two things:

1. Technically working. That is a person signs up and you are assured they are getting your email campaign.

2. Principally working. That is the efforts and emails are producing conversions. Conversions being the desired outcome of joining the email campaign. That might be, new affiliates, qualified affiliates, or perhaps trained Affiliate. Or that might be more product exposure for TripleClicks and more sales. What ever the desired outcome
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

People who are poor in English skills can really be facing a challenge. That challenge is greater still if they are also poor in computer skills. These can both be overcome with training but both the sponsor and the affiliate need to be ready to work hard.

Here are a couple of things I do to help my English 2nd language people with their business.

1. I provide a Stream file. This is a file with many encouraging or challenging or educational posts in it that they can post in their stream message. They understand these posts but writing them out in proper English is tough so I offer this file for their stream posts.

2. I offer an email campaign that they can join that sends them advertising material for SFI. They simply cut and past it to Safelists, Traffic Exchanges etc modifying each email with their own links.

3. I provide a PSA/CSA training file which is a series of emails they can use to post in their weekly mailing.

4. I provide an excel file of SFI banner links and target links so they can easily upload ad material to traffic exchange sites. Along with this I provide and ebook that shows them the most commons banner ads and how to post them into an traffic exchange site.

5. I connect them (and sometimes reassign them) to PSAs whose english skills are strong but they share the same first language. If I have no one in my downline like that I connect them to someone I know through the A2A services.

Just this week I received a letter from a Romanian that I had to translate using Google Translate. As we all know that is not perfect. BUt I got the main point of his letter, only I did not know how to help him. I sent him to a person in my 3rd Generation from the same country who is making rank every month. Problem solved.

PS. Any affiliate of mine who is reading this and has not received one or more of the tools I mention, just ask and I will send it off.
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People who are poor in English skills can really be facing a challenge. That challenge is greater still if they are also poor in computer skills. These can both be overcome with training but both the sponsor and the affiliate need to be ready to work hard.

Here are a couple of things I do to help my English 2nd language people with their business.

1. I provide a Stream file. This is a file with many encouraging or challenging or educational posts in it that they can post in
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

Each activity is a list building activity.

If you buy PSAs they join SFI and my years of experience show, they do nearly nothing. I did not start getting PSAs active until I realized that. It wasn't until I realized that PSAs joining SFI from advertising where not joining my team but joining my list, my SFI list.

This include both activities, personal ads and purchased PSAs.

When I realized I am building an SFI list much changed. First when I purchased PSAs I received them into my Genealogy, but I treat them as prospects. I continue to sell the opportunity rather then try to train them.

In my personal advertising I seek to engage in list building efforts instead of trying to get people to join as PSAs. I provide training valuable to anyone who wants to work on-line and all my training I contextualize to SFI.

For example I send out a letter on a website called Alexa.com This website monitors the ranking of all websites on the internet. I explain how to use the information they offer, how to evaluate your own website and why it is all important. Then I share with them the alexa ratings at TripleClicks and how marketing their online products there will help their business.

This way I have people becoming PSAs who know why they want to be one. They are entering SFI with expectations that are not just, "I want to be Rich". They also enter with an idea of what is involved in SFI and how it is done. I have found this to produce much better qualified PSAs for my team.
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Each activity is a list building activity.

If you buy PSAs they join SFI and my years of experience show, they do nearly nothing. I did not start getting PSAs active until I realized that. It wasn't until I realized that PSAs joining SFI from advertising where not joining my team but joining my list, my SFI list.

This include both activities, personal ads and purchased PSAs.

When I realized I am building an SFI list much changed. First when I purchased PSAs I received
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 332

Today I received an email that caused me to reflect on this very question.

Only this guy is not going to disengage but engage more. The subject of the email was:
"An Observation"

This guy is a very good friend and one of my PSAs.

This was the basic info he shared in his letter to me:
My activity for February was significantly greater than previous months.
February VP: 21448 vs Total VP: 48091

My winnings were also much greater. I don't think it is a coincidence, What do you think?

My answer was:
As I say in my DG congrat letter, it is not luck it is the result of consistent and intentional work. There is a question in AskSC about working hard and making nothing. People here at SFI who do engage sometimes engage without intent. They must see the opportunities and leverage them. You are doing that.

For example, suppose you have a daily VP of 17. 3 more and you get 1 DG extra entry. Well play PTP 3 times. You will be in the daily crown, you may win one of the 3 PTP entries, and you get an extra drawing in the DG... Do this sort of thing everyday and the odds improve quickly.

There are so many ways to earn, some better than others, but there is always a way that will fit your personality. But this is the key. You must be intentionally engaged in revenue producing activity. Remember revenue is not what you earn, revenue is money coming into TripleClicks. Revenue is the money that comes into SFI.

Those who create this revenue reap the greatest rewards. It is this work that pays everyone.

Our Daily To Do list is important, but it is not a revenue producing activity. It is an earnings producing activity, but those earnings are VERY low and the more people are faithfully "earning" that way the less each VP is worth.

Our daily To Do List is important because it will equip us to create revenue for SFI and commissions for us and as revenue increases the value of each VP increases.

People working hard in SFI and making no money are probably engaged in time consuming rather than revenue producing activity. Each affiliate needs to take action to learn and apply skills in producing revenue, making sales, recruiting vendors, reaching out to gamers and auctioneers. This all brings revenue into TC and SFI. We cannot just get the 10 VP for looking at the documents on Marketing. We need to decide to get up today and DO one new marketing suggestion in the Training Material. And tomorrow do another one, and then another one, until we have exhausted every item on the list.

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Today I received an email that caused me to reflect on this very question.

Only this guy is not going to disengage but engage more. The subject of the email was:
"An Observation"

This guy is a very good friend and one of my PSAs.

This was the basic info he shared in his letter to me:
My activity for February was significantly greater than previous months.
February VP: 21448 vs Total VP: 48091

My winnings were also much greater.
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