Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

SFI has great resources if well tapped could greatly enhance success in the business. These resources are parts of the entire SFI system that are very valuable in business building. These resources include:

1. SFI Affiliate Center. There are a number of TABS containing many valuable information on building a successful SFI business. There are 12 of them with many subdivisions. When you go to Marketing Tab; you would see a lot of Marketing methods and Aids which you can use for your business. In Power Tools, you would find Hit Tracking, Coop Manager, PSA mailer, CSA mailer etc. These are powerful tools that could turn your business around. There are other 10 TABS apart from these two.

2. Training Articles. SFI has well written articles about every aspect of free ads, paid ads, Social media advertising, Warm market advertising, Follow up of downline, etc. There are so many other tips on how to become an awesome sponsor, how to win PriceBenders auctions, how to win Eager Zebra games etc. Great resources indeed!

3. SFI Forum
At the Forum various threads are submitted that are meant for information, training, questions, motivation etc. You learn a great deal by visiting the Forum daily. You can ask the Forumites any question and you would be answered from many informed perspectives. Only you should not use the Forum for complaints. Read Forum Rules here: https://www.sfimg.com/forum/tips

4. ASK SC
Assorted business building questions have been asked and answered by experienced SFI Affiliates. The secrets of successful SFI business, duplication strategies, advertising techniques, etc are well discussed.

5. Your Upline
Beginning from your Sponsor to other members of your upline, their is a wealth of knowledge of this business you can tap from them. In fact, if you have a responding and responsible sponsor, he/she should be the first person to contact for clarification of your confusion or answers to your question.

6. SFI Corporate
When you have issues that neither the other four channels above could resolve e.g your TripleClicks order, Accounts issues etc, you could contact Support for help.

If you effectively use all the resources, opportunities and support from these platforms, you would surely take your knowledge and success in the business to the next level.

However, there are many systems outside of SFI that can be of great help in building successful SFI business. We have autoresponder services, Great Work at Home Forums, Online Marketers Groups, Online Articles communities like WordPress, HubPages etc. These resources can greatly enhance your business: and so why should you not supplement SFI system with them as long as they don't conflict with your Affiliate Agreement?
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SFI has great resources if well tapped could greatly enhance success in the business. These resources are parts of the entire SFI system that are very valuable in business building. These resources include:

1. SFI Affiliate Center. There are a number of TABS containing many valuable information on building a successful SFI business. There are 12 of them with many subdivisions. When you go to Marketing Tab; you would see a lot of Marketing methods and Aids which you can use for your business.
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Eager Zebra game is a game involving cards. Really, it's a game of luck but these tips could be of help:

1. Ensure you start with the lowest or highest card to make choosing easier later.

2. Choose the lower score except you think that the higher score is more probable giving the remaining cards.

3. Do not waste too much time in deciding as you are given 2 minutes whether to guess higher, lower, or pass.

4. Note the 5 cards you were given initially. They let you know which cards are already out and can help you make smart choices when deciding to guess higher, lower, or to pass.

5. Use Peeks when you at difficulty of choosing the cards as they show you the odds of the cards remaining.

6. Use passes wisely. Remember you have just 3 passes in a game.

7. Play all the side games to improve your points e.g the Sidekicks

If you use these hints well with a bit of luck, you could win BIG!

Best of luck!
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Eager Zebra game is a game involving cards. Really, it's a game of luck but these tips could be of help:

1. Ensure you start with the lowest or highest card to make choosing easier later.

2. Choose the lower score except you think that the higher score is more probable giving the remaining cards.

3. Do not waste too much time in deciding as you are given 2 minutes whether to guess higher, lower, or pass.

4. Note the 5 cards you were given initially. They
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

To manage a large and active downline, you need to:

1. Master the use of Genealogy Report. Genealogy report offers you the tool to manage a large active downline. It has 10 tabs you can use for sorting e.g Basic, VersaPoint, Sales etc. It has Filters to pull up subset of your downline e.g SFI ID, Sponsor ID, Versapoint (Total), VersaPoint (This Month) etc. There are also Secondary Filters and Quick Filters you can use to segment your downline into groups for appraisals, monitoring and messaging.

2. Develop message templates. You need to have pre-written answers to common affiliates questions or problems. You should have messages on Getting started, Essentials of SFI, Free and Paid Advertising methods and means, Compensation plan, TripleClicks etc. You send these messages to segmented affiliates through your genealogy.

You can ensure personalized attention to everyone by:

1. Asking for feed backs or questions in your periodic mail. This creates a platform for one-one coaching for your affiliates.

2. Responding personally to particular inquiries or confusion of your affiliates. You should not be sending your generalized message to personal and somewhat peculiar affiliate's inquiries.

3. Recognize each of their achievements by sending E-card to them.

Use of SMS and calls can be used when absolutely necessary.

I hope this helps



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To manage a large and active downline, you need to:

1. Master the use of Genealogy Report. Genealogy report offers you the tool to manage a large active downline. It has 10 tabs you can use for sorting e.g Basic, VersaPoint, Sales etc. It has Filters to pull up subset of your downline e.g SFI ID, Sponsor ID, Versapoint (Total), VersaPoint (This Month) etc. There are also Secondary Filters and Quick Filters you can use to segment your downline into groups for appraisals, monitoring and
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Organizing and tracking your activity in SFI should involve daily, weekly and monthly plans and appraisals. SFI business is built on all the three work schedules. There are activities that should be done daily, others weekly and some monthly.

Except when absolutely impossible, you need to log in daily. You should organize yourself to put in some few minutes to the business daily. Your daily To Do List needs attention and it thus give you at least 10 AVP, but you could even get up to 14 AVP if you still have Opinion Survey for the Gold Streak game. Your not logging on daily robs you of VP streak that is one of the indices of assessing your consistency at this business.

One of the things you need to do as an awesome Sponsor is to answer your team member questions within 24 hours or less. If you don't organize your work to include daily routine, you may discourage your team by your delayed responses. Weekly logging in also robs you of benefiting from special periodic offers from SFI. It could be vital products for auctions, limited offer of CSAs (it happened recently) or some policy changes that require review of investments or settings. Do things that should done daily every day!

Practically, there are parts of the business that do not require daily attention. For instance, it would be counter productive to send correspondence to your team members daily. It would be like you're spamming them. Some investment in advertisement takes weeks to mature and deliver. You would need 7 days to be able to assess some of the fresh Affiliates as they would just not have developed the habit of working daily. You may need to review some of your posting on free sites like classified, social media for their effectiveness weekly. The effect of your team mails may require a week's assessment. Such jobs and assessment should be such organised.

Going forward, SFI itself shows you the progress you make each day vis-a-vis your monthly goal. You need to evaluate yourself on the basis of your projected goals. Goals such as no of PSAs to be sponsored, PRMs to be referred, no of EA2 in the team, PRMs sales in dollars, rank achieved for the month etc, even though may be systematically assessed from daily to weekly show full picture at the end of the month.

In summary therefore, you need to organize and track your activity in SFI daily, weekly and monthly as the task require. Your daily and weekly activities culminate into your monthly activity and success. Each day and week you fail to do appropriate tasks puncture your overall monthly achievement!
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Organizing and tracking your activity in SFI should involve daily, weekly and monthly plans and appraisals. SFI business is built on all the three work schedules. There are activities that should be done daily, others weekly and some monthly.

Except when absolutely impossible, you need to log in daily. You should organize yourself to put in some few minutes to the business daily. Your daily To Do List needs attention and it thus give you at least 10 AVP, but you could even get up to 14
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

I believe wholeheartedly that SFI is a tremendous opportunity. And for an affiliate that became EA in the first month, I see seriousness in them to earn online. The basic problem with such affiliate is that they are yet to see the big picture, the potentials and the possibilities with SFI.

To start with, you need to open up the line of communication with such affiliate. As long as they are willing to listen, you need to explain to them what SFI is.

First, you need to explain to them that SFI is a home business and not a job like filling of forms, data entry or customer care representative job etc. They need to build their business from ground zero up to the starts. One thing they should know is that all the tools, websites, products and support are available for them free.

Secondly, the need to realize as with any business, there is the time of investing. As a fresh affiliate, it would take months and for some few years before seeing appreciable income as with any business. If they put up a grocery shop, it takes a while to build the customer base to break even, build trust and loyalty. He needs patience and perseverance of a man that planted a tree. Fruits will not come in the first few months for many of the trees!

Thirdly, the returns of working in one's business is quite better than working all through life for someone. This is because, with his home business, there is no ceiling to his earning. He can take the business from 3 digit to 5 digit even to 6 digit income.

Fourthly, SFI affords him the opportunity of earning residual and leverage income. Just one-time action of sponsoring active PSAs and PRMs can result in continuous and permanent flow of income from the team. SFI allows you to come back from vacation and meet a paycheck awaiting you! Financial Security SFI offers should make it worthwhile.

Furthermore, the Freedom of choosing work hours, work volume and vacations would more than compensate for all the initial work and patience required in this business. You get all the perks of a business owner.

Even though, you make him to realize SFI is not a "get rich opportunity", yet it's a guaranteed business for achieving Financial Freedom.
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I believe wholeheartedly that SFI is a tremendous opportunity. And for an affiliate that became EA in the first month, I see seriousness in them to earn online. The basic problem with such affiliate is that they are yet to see the big picture, the potentials and the possibilities with SFI.

To start with, you need to open up the line of communication with such affiliate. As long as they are willing to listen, you need to explain to them what SFI is.

First, you need to explain
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Your question tells us that you have only identified five future PTLs, hence the first thing is that you should robustly support them to achieve PTL status. This can be achieved through training, setting up of COOP, giving them tips along the way, offering contest, rewards for milestone ..... and ensuring they develop Team Leaders also under them.

With that in place, you should concurrently continue to develop more first-level stars so as to:

1. Prevents redundancy. A time would come that your 5 PTL require almost nothing from you because they had mastered all the intricacies of the business. What do you afterwards, just your daily actions?

2. Produce more star affiliates. It is in your interest and overall interest that the masters of the scheme continues. It broadens the affiliates base of the Sponsor as well as SFI's. The more active people in the business the more profit for the Sponsor and the Scheme.

3. Perpetuate strength in your team. You can develop more PTL and later even reassign them to strengthen your chain and ensure unending residual and leverage income.

4. Profit in Leadership reward. SFI constantly organize Leadership contest every quarter. Except you continue to develop more first-level stars, you would miss out on the reward and prestige of Leadership contest winners.

5. Promote activity in your downline. If you sit idle after developing 5 PTL, you would be showing bad example to your downline. But if you continue to pursue more and more, they would do the same and the chain becomes unending!

There are more reasons but i hope these help.


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Your question tells us that you have only identified five future PTLs, hence the first thing is that you should robustly support them to achieve PTL status. This can be achieved through training, setting up of COOP, giving them tips along the way, offering contest, rewards for milestone ..... and ensuring they develop Team Leaders also under them.

With that in place, you should concurrently continue to develop more first-level stars so as to:

1. Prevents redundancy. A time would
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Yes, it is good for affiliates to have their own ECA store at TripleClicks because:

1. It serves as example to your downline. If you have a successful ECA at TripleClicks it encourages your downline to do the same. Imagine most of your PSA putting up good stores at TripleClicks; such a great overall benefit to the entire team.

2. It enhances your ability to refer more ECA yourself as you are able to convince them better than if you don't own a store at TripleClicks.

3. It gives valuable experience in the general operation of TripleClicks. You would become experienced in order handling, refund, customer complaints, shipping etc.

4. It generates additional income for you and your sponsor. TripleClicks offers tremendous opportunity to you to tap from the phenomenal growth of SFI. Imagine the profits of attracting tens of thousands of customers to your store.

5. It adds value to TripleClicks generally. The more quality products and services available at TripleClicks the more valuable and reputable it becomes.

So plug in and profit!
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Yes, it is good for affiliates to have their own ECA store at TripleClicks because:

1. It serves as example to your downline. If you have a successful ECA at TripleClicks it encourages your downline to do the same. Imagine most of your PSA putting up good stores at TripleClicks; such a great overall benefit to the entire team.

2. It enhances your ability to refer more ECA yourself as you are able to convince them better than if you don't own a store at TripleClicks.

3.
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Buying from one's country ECA is very beneficial for the affiliate and his business.

One of the problems in SFI is the shipping cost of TripleClicks direct products. Affiliates from more than 200 hundred countries cannot afford the shipping cost that is often more than the cost of the products. Buying from local ECAs means he could get products he needs from TripleClicks and earn valuable VersaPoints needed to grow his business while not incurring any high extra cost of shipping. There would be less problems of items lost in transit due to customs' delays and approvals.

Items he uses normally can now be purchased from TripleClicks and thus he works his business with no extra cost per se, we call it transfer buying. Household items, even consumables, electronics items, gift items etc can be purchased from local ECAs.

Buying from local ECAs would help him to easily introduce TripleClicks to other local Merchants and thus earn 10% royalties from them for life. His experience from the local purchases would help him to guide his prospective ECAs and answer all their questions.

Even prospecting locally is easier as he lays the opportunity of becoming ECA to the prospects as well as their ability to develop home business while transferring their normal day to day purchases to TripleClicks.

Much more, the more prosperous ECAs one has locally, the better for the image and popularity of SFI opportunity thus further enhancing prospecting and activity of PSAs.

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Buying from one's country ECA is very beneficial for the affiliate and his business.

One of the problems in SFI is the shipping cost of TripleClicks direct products. Affiliates from more than 200 hundred countries cannot afford the shipping cost that is often more than the cost of the products. Buying from local ECAs means he could get products he needs from TripleClicks and earn valuable VersaPoints needed to grow his business while not incurring any high extra cost of shipping. There
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Many affiliates have this inertia problem in SFI. Yes, many do not go beyond the Daily To-Do list. Hence, to motivate them to other activities you should:

1. Lead by Example. Motivation gets the moral courage when we are "doers" ourselves. Your badge should literally drive you downline. Grow your rank, Have a Standing Order, Maintain a long Daily Streak, Participate in PriceBender Auctions, Games etc.

2. Organise Contests. Create contests periodically for PSA and CSA. For instance, anybody becoming EA2 this month gets 10 Free PSA from the COOP. Advance your rank this month and get Gift Certificate etc.

3. Emphasize benefits of certain ranks. Some affiliates don't know the benefit of becoming EA2 - the 10 Free TCredits, 2 CSA, Share of the Executive pool. Tell them the benefits of Team Leader rank especially the matching VersaPoint.

4. Promote other aspects of the business. Tell them what they could win in PriceBenders Auctions - brand electronic items, TCredits etc. Promote Eager Zebra games and the unlimited TCredits they could win. Guide them also.

5. Recognize Achievers. You should celebrate certain milestones and achievements of your downline. When anybody becomes EA2, BTL, STL, GTL etc and when they win auctions and games, this should be announced in your Leadership page, Streams and so on.

These and some others means would definitely drive activity and competition in your downline.

What do you think?


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Many affiliates have this inertia problem in SFI. Yes, many do not go beyond the Daily To-Do list. Hence, to motivate them to other activities you should:

1. Lead by Example. Motivation gets the moral courage when we are "doers" ourselves. Your badge should literally drive you downline. Grow your rank, Have a Standing Order, Maintain a long Daily Streak, Participate in PriceBender Auctions, Games etc.

2. Organise Contests. Create contests periodically for PSA and CSA.
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Recruiting Serious affiliates should be the goal of every serious-minded affiliate of SFI. As you know at the end of the day only serious affiliate offers compensation to the sponsor.

Even though the scheme is FREE to join, you need to emphasize some facts which naturally sieves off many freebie minded prospects, these are:

1. This is a home business not a job. All tools, training, products and support are provided but it is their responsible to utilize these.

2. It in-builds great corporate and personal support.

3. It is not a "get rich quick" scheme. It takes a bit of time and effort to grow it.

4. It requires a little initial investment to speed up success. No business thrives without some sort of investment, this business inclusive. But the overall compensation comes in many folds.

5. It requires marketing. They basically need to recruit to the scheme and refer great products and services to customers. All the tools, websites, products and training are provided FREE.

6. It provides amazing earning potentials. Your income skyrockets as you reach some milestones!

7. It slowly makes you wealthy.

8. It guarantees residual and leverage income for a Lifetime.

9. It guarantees Financial Freedom.

If all these are highlighted, whosoever still signs up would most likely go all the way!


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Recruiting Serious affiliates should be the goal of every serious-minded affiliate of SFI. As you know at the end of the day only serious affiliate offers compensation to the sponsor.

Even though the scheme is FREE to join, you need to emphasize some facts which naturally sieves off many freebie minded prospects, these are:

1. This is a home business not a job. All tools, training, products and support are provided but it is their responsible to utilize these.

2.
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