Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

Picking one tool as the most important one and neglect or pay less attention to the rest of the tools will not make you successful. SFI tools are carefully designed and provided for the sole purpose of supporting the implementation of Duplication.

SFI provided affiliates tools for the purpose of fulfilling and achieving the three underlying principles of SFI BASICS:

1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month.

2. Recruit five affiliates using the tools (Marketing Aids, Marketing Methods) available at Marketing Center.

3. Teach your five affiliates to do these same three steps.

Let me categorize these important tools for clarity:

- Tools for expanding your network are as follows:

S-Builder Co-op, PSAs To Go, Co-op Manager, SFI/TC Gateways and Lifetime Custom Prestige Domains.

- Tools for team management and communication:

Genealogy, PSA/CSA Mailer, Affiliate Manager, Reassignment Manager, Gift Certificate Manager, SFIM and Team Mail

- Tools for marketing/advertising:

Key Codes, Hit Tracking and Marketing Aids

As you can see clearly all these tools are important and they complement each other. And when implemented fully, will give you strong support in establishing and maintaining the process of Duplication.

I will not be contented using only one or two of the tools and say the Genealogy tool is best for me, because I’m very much familiar with it or the Reassignment Manager is good for me because, I can accumulate 5VP and so on and so forth. These tools are provided for a purpose to keep you on the right track. Instead of looking for a tool preference, we should be mastering each one of them and if we discover any bug, then submit a support ticket/feedback for the benefit of the whole SFI community.

You just need to commit on your part of becoming and remaining EA every month and use these tools accordingly as the need arises in growing your SFI business.

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Picking one tool as the most important one and neglect or pay less attention to the rest of the tools will not make you successful. SFI tools are carefully designed and provided for the sole purpose of supporting the implementation of Duplication.

SFI provided affiliates tools for the purpose of fulfilling and achieving the three underlying principles of SFI BASICS:

1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month.

2. Recruit five affiliates using the tools (Marketing
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

Since the question asked how to respond in one sentence, I'll respond in a short but informative way.

I'm involved with SFI (Strong Future International) Marketing Group, an Internet home based business, allowing anyone with a computer and Internet access to tap into the worldwide e-commerce revolution, more details at: http://www.sfi4.com/SFI ID#/FREE.

Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

I’ll answer this question in light of how you present your SFI business before your prospects. In order to become a great salesman or saleswoman, you need to understand how great salesman/saleswoman approaches his/her prospects.

How you can become a great salesman or saleswoman?

- Versatility

You can learn to modify your approach depending on what your prospect prefers. Having the skill of being able to shift your behavior to create better relationships with a wider variety of people is being versatile.

I’ve observed in the sales technique that people who can flex their approach as the situation demands – to make prospects more comfortable or to best accomplish the task at hand – are much more likely to be successful in influencing others. You need to be versatile, especially in your approach or doing presentation of your SFI business opportunity if you want to be great salesman/saleswoman.

Here's how you can possess this great quality of being versatile:

- Note the behavior of your prospects when you first meet with them. You’ll find out if they are friendly or reserved, fast-paced or slower, etc.

- Approach your prospects accordingly

If some of your habitual behaviors are very different from those you observe, try shifting them as you interact with your prospect. For instance, if he or she is fast-paced and loud, and you tend to be more soft-spoken and quiet, try speaking up and speeding up a little. If you’re meeting other prospect who is more formal and reserved, while you’re naturally more friendly and informal – try holding back a little on the friendliness; be willing to engage on a level of formality that your prospect uses.

- Don’t get mixed up in how you act with who you are

For some people trying the method of ‘flexing’ will mean being unnatural or inauthentic.

Here’s how to understand: You’re not being encourage to change your beliefs or values, or to say anything untrue: this is being versatile - simply shifting your behaviors. For instance: if you were conversing with someone from Italy who knew very little English, and you spoke pretty good Italian – would you insist on speaking English with this person because it was more comfortable for you? Would you feel you were somehow compromising your integrity if you spoke Italian?

If you make the habit of taking this approach of shifting your behavior when meeting new people as the situation demands, you’ll be in that sweet spot of interpersonal flexibility where great salespeople and great leaders – live and thrive.

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I’ll answer this question in light of how you present your SFI business before your prospects. In order to become a great salesman or saleswoman, you need to understand how great salesman/saleswoman approaches his/her prospects.

How you can become a great salesman or saleswoman?

- Versatility

You can learn to modify your approach depending on what your prospect prefers. Having the skill of being able to shift your behavior to create better relationships with a
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

Leading your affiliates to become serious business builders in SFI requires skills and good qualities of leadership.

As their Team Leader you should exhibit the following skills and qualities if you want your affiliates to follow you and become serious in building their own SFI businesses:

- Passion

Sharing your passion and enthusiasm with your affiliates can help you motivate them to become more productive. Passion comes in many forms ranging from:

1. Being keen about your affiliates accomplishments giving them praise no matter how small could that be.

2. Showing constant positive attitude to keep your affiliates motivated and keep the energy levels up. You can share your positive thoughts through the Stream Posts as well as your enthusiasm about the latest news in SFI.

3. Being an inspiration to them.

One way of showing them that you’re a serious business builder and inspire them is through your badge. As a Team Leader you’re a living example to them. Direct them to your Leadership page to see for themselves your achievements in building and expanding growth of your SFI business. You should always include your Leadership page link in every time you communicate with your affiliates. Your Top Enroller badges, Power Rank, VersaPoints leaderboard, etc are means of showing your determination, persistence and most of all your commitment. Your badges as displayed in your JMT gateway is another indicator how serious you are in building your business.

- Communication

You need to be able to describe clearly and succinctly how to build and expand the growth of owning their SFI businesses. Training your affiliates and creating a productive work environment all depend on healthy lines of communication. Make sure that they understand SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD, which are very important principles in establishing and building upon their SFI businesses. Always offer your support and be consistent in sending them your tips and advice. Ask how you can help them, to show that you care for them.

Encourage them to participate in SFI Forum and become and active contributor in Ask SC. This will create an environment of connection where your team members feel valued.

- Acknowledge and Reward

People love recognition, but are most appreciative of respect. Take the time to give your affiliates the proper accolades they have earned and deserve

At a time when people want to feel as if they are making a difference, be a thoughtful Team Leader and reassure your team that you are paying attention to their efforts. One way of showing this is by reassigning active affiliates to one of your most active EA2s or awarding Gift Certificates/TC Credits for maintaining EA2. You may also reward your affiliates when they become Team Leaders by offering them to your Ad Co-op or S-Builder. As Team Leaders of their own profitable teams, they have their own vested interest in keeping their businesses. Your action shows that you’re serious in building your SFI business, an example to them.

Being genuine in your recognition and respect goes a long way towards building loyalty and trust. It organically ignites extra effort!

When your affiliates are acknowledged, their work brings them greater satisfaction and become serious business builders in SFI.

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Leading your affiliates to become serious business builders in SFI requires skills and good qualities of leadership.

As their Team Leader you should exhibit the following skills and qualities if you want your affiliates to follow you and become serious in building their own SFI businesses:

- Passion

Sharing your passion and enthusiasm with your affiliates can help you motivate them to become more productive. Passion comes in many forms ranging from:

1.
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

When you are considering to introduce S-Builder to your affiliates, consider the following points:

- Make sure that you have established regular communication with them.

- Make sure that you have reviewed the SFI BASICS, especially the subject of Duplication

- Make sure that you have explained to them that in order to be sucessful, they need to continually sponsor.

Only then, you can start mentioning about the S-Builder Co-op. Discuss with them the benefits of having the S-Builder Co-op and how your team can split the costs in buying shares. It is like enlisting the service of highly experienced Internet marketer to provide you with quality affiliates.
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When you are considering to introduce S-Builder to your affiliates, consider the following points:

- Make sure that you have established regular communication with them.

- Make sure that you have reviewed the SFI BASICS, especially the subject of Duplication

- Make sure that you have explained to them that in order to be sucessful, they need to continually sponsor.

Only then, you can start mentioning about the S-Builder Co-op. Discuss with them the benefits
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

Personalized welcome letter can work wonders when it comes to welcoming your new PSAs and informing them what to expect as a new members of your team.

Start by letting your new PSAs know that their action to join your team was successful and greatly appreciated – give a sincere thank you.

Yes, it is worthwhile to send a personalized welcome letter to your new PSA, most especially when you as his/her Team Leader receive a PSA profile notification. This shows his/her interest in getting started in his/her SFI journey. As his/her sponsor, you should ensure in your personalize message that you’re here to offer friendly guidance and support in a timely manner.

Personalized welcome letters demonstrate to your new PSAs that you value them. As the saying goes, "Win friends and influence people. Your personalized welcome letters will provide useful information and convey the value you put on your PSAs. Make them feel appreciated and needed.

Your personalized welcome letter further cements your brand name into your new PSAs consciousness. Remember, you have an engaged audience and their interest level fades with every hour that goes by after signing up. The sooner you can re-engage your new PSAs, the more likely they are to open your message and click on the links within and most likely also with your succeeding newsletter.

Lastly, sign the message with a personal touch and never forget that a first impression can only be made once!

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Personalized welcome letter can work wonders when it comes to welcoming your new PSAs and informing them what to expect as a new members of your team.

Start by letting your new PSAs know that their action to join your team was successful and greatly appreciated – give a sincere thank you.

Yes, it is worthwhile to send a personalized welcome letter to your new PSA, most especially when you as his/her Team Leader receive a PSA profile notification. This shows his/her interest
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

The SFI Affiliate Center contains tools and resources, which you can use extensively to build and expand the growth of your SFI business. Understanding the SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD will help you establish a solid foundation to build upon.

In expanding the growth of your SFI business, you’ll need to educate yourself and widen your knowledge base. When you widen your knowledge base and start applying what you learned, you earned your badges.

For example, if you want to earn a badge of being a Top Enroller, you’ll need to be among the top 10 enrollers of PSAs and PRMs during any time in the last 30 days. Before earning the badge of a Top Enroller, you’ll be going through the Training and Marketing section mainly to learn how to sponsor. This won’t happen overnight. These two sections require a lot of reading, understanding and applying. You need to manage your time in going through to these sections. You’ll need to login daily and read the topics under each section, before you acquire the skills you need.

Here are ways to demonstrate to your team members the importance of reading and learning a little daily at the SFI Affiliate Center:

- Communicate to your team members the importance of reading a little daily to learn and earn their badges. The more badges they earn the better for them in attracting their prospects.

- Explain to them that they need to allocate time in reading a section of SFI Tools and Resources until they learn and acquire the skill.

- Let them know that acquiring the skills needed in order to grow their own SFI business will require logging in daily, and choosing a topic to read, to learn and to apply.

You need to learn and apply what you have read in order to accomplish a goal. It is through the display of your badges that shows to your team members your achievements.

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The SFI Affiliate Center contains tools and resources, which you can use extensively to build and expand the growth of your SFI business. Understanding the SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD will help you establish a solid foundation to build upon.

In expanding the growth of your SFI business, you’ll need to educate yourself and widen your knowledge base. When you widen your knowledge base and start applying what you learned, you earned your badges.

For example, if you want to earn
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

Managing your team that's spread out in many locations worldwide can present huge challenges, even for the most experienced Team Leaders. How do you ensure that each of your team members feels they're treated fairly? How can you prevent your remote team members from feeling isolated? And how do you get all your team members to buy into the team's objectives and stay on track?

How to manage your team with many cultures and time zones to navigate:

- Establish a strong communications strategy

This is especially important if your team members are in different time zones and speak different languages. SFI provides excellent communication tools, such as instant messaging SFIM, PSA/CSA, Genealogy Group Mailer to get in touch with your team members who are scattered across the globe. As a Team Leader, you need to communicate team’s objectives clearly and frequently.

- Emphasize to your team members the importance of being a team player.

You’ll need team members who can demonstrate reliability, communicate constructively, being active participant and so on to help each everyone achieve both short and long term goals.

- Give frequent, fair, and appropriate feedback to everyone in your team, and make sure you're always available to them, so they know that they’re valued.

Following these important points will keep a dispersed team unified and motivated.

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Managing your team that's spread out in many locations worldwide can present huge challenges, even for the most experienced Team Leaders. How do you ensure that each of your team members feels they're treated fairly? How can you prevent your remote team members from feeling isolated? And how do you get all your team members to buy into the team's objectives and stay on track?

How to manage your team with many cultures and time zones to navigate:

- Establish a strong communications
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

If I have an extra $100, how I would spend it to maximize the growth of my SFI business?

After meeting all my necessary obligations to operate my SFI business such as maintaining my TL status, gving incentives/rewards to my movers, meeting monthly expenses in advertising or purchasing affiliates, I will invest the extra $100 effectively in Duplication. Investing in duplication means looking at the factors that contribute to promote the system I've been doing to grow my business.

Specifically, I would allocate the $100 in the following manner:

- Boost the rewards/incentives to sweeten the pot to bring more encouragement to your active affiliates. If you are offering $5 GC, to your EA2s who renew, make it $10, if you are offering $10 to your BTL make it $20 and so on. By doing so, you're encouraging your active affiliates to be more productive and move up to the next level.

- Invest in your advertising or purchase PSAs from high rated ECAs at TripleClicks. Your objective is to find quality affiliates.

If you invest this extra money in helping, encouraging your active PSAs to duplicate you or acquiring new affiliates, you have made use of this extra money effectively.



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If I have an extra $100, how I would spend it to maximize the growth of my SFI business?

After meeting all my necessary obligations to operate my SFI business such as maintaining my TL status, gving incentives/rewards to my movers, meeting monthly expenses in advertising or purchasing affiliates, I will invest the extra $100 effectively in Duplication. Investing in duplication means looking at the factors that contribute to promote the system I've been doing to grow my business.

Specifically,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 436

In my opinion, when a prospect joins SFI, he/she is very much interested to earn money to supplement his/her income and be able to improve his/her standard of living.

First of all he/she needs to understand how SFI works, so that he/she will be able to start laying the foundation of his/her own SFI business.

I would recommend him/her therefore to do the following most important list of things to do:

- SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD

As new affiliate he/she needs to focus on SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD to understand core business principles of SFI. He/she needs to acquire these knowledge in order to start on the right path. By doing this, he/she is establishing an important foundation of his/her SFI business. It is only logical to follow the business set up created by SFI, which is a proven system running for over 15+ years now.

- Getting Started Actions
As new affiliate needs to become a Fast-Track member to jumpstart his/her SFI business and start gaining momentum as a business owner. To qualify, he/she will need to perform the following To-Do list:

1, Confirm his/her registration

2. Whitelist [email protected]

3. Complete his/her affiliate profile

4. Send his/her SFI Commitment Message to his/her sponsor

5. Upload his/her photo to the Affiliate Center.

By performing these series of actions, he/she is sending a message to his/her sponsor that he/she is serious in venturing SFI. As his/her sponsor you should respond accordingly by applying the principles stated in “Be an Awesome Sponsor” to start building and establishing close relationship among your team members.


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In my opinion, when a prospect joins SFI, he/she is very much interested to earn money to supplement his/her income and be able to improve his/her standard of living.

First of all he/she needs to understand how SFI works, so that he/she will be able to start laying the foundation of his/her own SFI business.

I would recommend him/her therefore to do the following most important list of things to do:

- SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD

As new affiliate he/she needs
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