Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

An online entrepreneur is someone who is doing an online business taking all the responsibilities for its success including its risk.

The best way to learn how to become a successful entrepreneur is:

First read a lot. Read and understand your business. Example our SFI business, we need to understand how we can earn from this system. Read all the pages in the websites (SFI and TripleClicks), get the big picture and be able to connect each part of program to the Big picture.

Second do not be afraid to try. Take calculated risk for you to experience the real thing. Experience is always the best teacher.

Third find a person who could mentor you. Be wise however in finding a mentor because most of those who are presenting themselves as mentor are actually just want to earn from you. There is nothing wrong with that as long as they are transparent.

Fourth concentrate on the success factors. Although there are different types of online business, there are common factors that can make you become a successful online entrepreneur. Let me share these factors with you.

1. Finding the right product or services or program that is profitable.

2. Finding the person who would be interested to buy your products or services or join your program as affiliate.

3. Convincing that person to take action and finally buy or join your program.

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An online entrepreneur is someone who is doing an online business taking all the responsibilities for its success including its risk.

The best way to learn how to become a successful entrepreneur is:

First read a lot. Read and understand your business. Example our SFI business, we need to understand how we can earn from this system. Read all the pages in the websites (SFI and TripleClicks), get the big picture and be able to connect each part of program to the Big picture.

Second
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

The success factors in our SFI business does not change. It is still depend on three factors namely.

1. Earning Versa Points to get the highest rank possible.

2. Finding and having different types of affiliates; PSA, CSA. ECA and PRM.

3. Leading/Teaching/Mentoring affiliates to follow what you are doing and become active. We call this duplication.

With the new requirements for ranks starting January, this should guide us on what to do differently in the coming year 2016.

Let me review these new requirements.

For BTL you need to have at least 1 EA in your PSA
For STL you need at least 2 BTL in your PSA
For GTL you need at least 3 STL
For PTL you need at least 4 GTL
and for DTL you need at least 5 PTL.

For me this suggests that I should shift more of my efforts and resources on finding PSA and help them attain the highest possible rank they could. So I will now double my efforts on Duplication and invest more on getting PSA rather than just earning VP.

Practically what I am saying is this. If I was investing $75 to earn VP and $25 in finding PSA now I will exchange the amount I am investing on earning VP and Finding PSA respectively.

If I am taking lots of efforts in earning VP now I will take more efforts in mentoring and leading my newly found PSA.

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The success factors in our SFI business does not change. It is still depend on three factors namely.

1. Earning Versa Points to get the highest rank possible.

2. Finding and having different types of affiliates; PSA, CSA. ECA and PRM.

3. Leading/Teaching/Mentoring affiliates to follow what you are doing and become active. We call this duplication.

With the new requirements for ranks starting January, this should guide us on what to do differently in the
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

Transfer Buying is simply identifying what you regularly buy from groceries or other stores and buy them from TripleClicks if the are available. In this way, you also earn the VP you need for your rank without extra cost because its item from TripleClicks carry with it a certain VP.

The logic is simple but how do we make it attractive to our affiliates? The main issue here is the price.

So here's how I tell my affiliates:

1. Search for the item that are sold in their country using the advance search Shipping From and Shipping to, put your country in both.

2. From the result see if there are items that they use regularly. In my country, I found detergent powder, bath soap, dishwashing detergent and coffee.

3. Compare the price from the store where you usually buy them. If is lower or the same price then go for it. Make it as SO.

4. If it is a little bit higher, try to compare it with the price of 1TC pack that will give then 102 VP. If it is lower that $1.99 then go for it.

5. To have items when you need it, its better to set an Standing order so that it comes regularly.
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Transfer Buying is simply identifying what you regularly buy from groceries or other stores and buy them from TripleClicks if the are available. In this way, you also earn the VP you need for your rank without extra cost because its item from TripleClicks carry with it a certain VP.

The logic is simple but how do we make it attractive to our affiliates? The main issue here is the price.

So here's how I tell my affiliates:

1. Search for the item that are sold in their
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

YES it's possible to earn money from SFI without investing money from your OWN pocket,
SFI has many different sources of income and many of them do not require you to spend money from your own pocket.

1. You earn 45% of commission value (CV) by selling products from TripleClicks to anyone even if they are not an affiliate of SFI.
2. You can earn 45% of CV from the purchases of your recruited affiliates.
3. You earn all the sales for selling your own old stuff but you need to earn Free TC first.
4. You earn by finding affiliates from free websites and send them to SFIPPA link.
5. You earn By recruiting people to sell at TripleClicks through ECA program.

Any of the above do not require you to spend money.

But if you want to tap on the gold mine of SFI, which is the "executive pool" you need to spend part of your income in order to qualify.

Your share at the executive pool depends on the number of Versa Points (VP) you earned. There are two kinds of VP that you need to earn in order to qualify. Action VP (AVP) which is from your daily activities and VP from sales (SVP) which is from your own purchases. So if you don't purchase then you will not qualify for the Executive pool.

The BIG source of your VP will be coming from matching points so you also need to build your downlines because you have the potential of harvesting matching points up to 12 generations.

Building your downlines can be done without spending money but you need to be very skillful in affiliate marketing and it will require you lots of time to build your team. To hasten this process and make it faster you also need to spend money to advertise on paid sites or buy affiliates from TripleClicks vendors.





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YES it's possible to earn money from SFI without investing money from your OWN pocket,
SFI has many different sources of income and many of them do not require you to spend money from your own pocket.

1. You earn 45% of commission value (CV) by selling products from TripleClicks to anyone even if they are not an affiliate of SFI.
2. You can earn 45% of CV from the purchases of your recruited affiliates.
3. You earn all the sales for selling your own old stuff but you
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

First of all let me define what we mean by ads that yields best results. There are three levels of results that we expect when we put ads across the internet.

1. Exposure or Impression - meaning our ads was seen by our prospective affiliates. This will depend on how good we are in positioning our ads across the internet.

2. Hits or Clicks - Meaning our prospective affiliates click on our link or ads. This depends on how good we are in making our ads. Which includes our wordings and images.

3. Sign-Up - This time, our prospective affiliates filled up the form and submit. This depends how good we are in making or using a landing page.

These three should happen before we can say that we are effective in our advertising.

In SFI what we can track are the hits/clicks and the sign-ups. You can find it here https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking.

But before you can use that tool you need to put a keycode in your gateway link. Keycode is any number you add in your SFI ID found in your link. You put dot (.) between your ID number and your chosen key code.

Example You use gateway http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxxxxx.4000/Real2. xxxxxxxxx is your SFI ID the 4000 is the Key code you assigned.

Every time someone clicks on that link it will be recorded on the Hit tracking page I gave above. everytime the one who clicked signed up you can see it on your genealogy with Key code 4000.

Now, This is important. You must assign different Keycode in all your ads. So to keep track on all your keycodes you must record them in excel.

This is the way I record them in excel.

First column - I put any name of my ads that I can easily recall. Example. PTC 1 - If my ads is put at PTC site.

Second column is the Date when I places my ads.

Third column is the Website name example: Ojooo

Fourth column is the Website URL.

Fifth column is the Gateway link I used.

Sixth Column is the Keycode I used.

Seventh Column is the number of hits

Eighth Column is the number of sign ups

Ninth column is the Date when I counted the number of hits and the number of sign-ups.

By this I exactly know which ads is the most effective.

Note: Do not use these key codes because this is use by SFI.

1101 for affiliates from S-Builder.
1104 for PSAs To Go/PSAs won at Auctions
1200 for affiliates who were not referred to SFI by anyone.
1300 for TripleClicks members via the TC Tell-A-Friend feature.
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First of all let me define what we mean by ads that yields best results. There are three levels of results that we expect when we put ads across the internet.

1. Exposure or Impression - meaning our ads was seen by our prospective affiliates. This will depend on how good we are in positioning our ads across the internet.

2. Hits or Clicks - Meaning our prospective affiliates click on our link or ads. This depends on how good we are in making our ads. Which includes our wordings
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

There are two types of affiliates who buy from TripleClicks.

1. Those who are buying out of their desire to have rank.

Some these affiliates do not see the big picture of SFI business thinking that money will come if they have lots of personally earned VP or have attained certain rank. This kind of buyers will not last, because later they will realize that they are spending rather than earnings. So do not develop this kind of buyers.

2. Those who are buying as strategies to grow his SFI business.

These are the kind of buyers that we want to develop. He buys because it is part of His strategies. We know that our SFI business grows if we have active affiliates. So, his buying pattern must be related to finding affiliates and encouraging these affiliates to be active. On the process of course he also accomplish the VP requirements.

Example of a strategy is to win PSA's and CSA's from bidding. So he buys TC to win more affiliates. Or he buy PSA directly. Then he buys Gift certificate to help and motivate his affiliates to be active.

So the buying is related to growing his SFI business by finding more affiliates. I believe this is more lasting. He will continue to buy specially if he has found 1 or more active affiliates.


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There are two types of affiliates who buy from TripleClicks.

1. Those who are buying out of their desire to have rank.

Some these affiliates do not see the big picture of SFI business thinking that money will come if they have lots of personally earned VP or have attained certain rank. This kind of buyers will not last, because later they will realize that they are spending rather than earnings. So do not develop this kind of buyers.

2. Those who are buying as
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

Yes, there is such thing as helping our affiliates too much. There are three instances that I would say that helping becomes too much that in can undermine long term sustainability.

1. When we help someone develop dependency - We should never encourage affiliates to depend on us. We must teach them to do it themselves not you doing things for them. No matter how slow it will be teach them how to fish rather than giving them fish.

Example: He needs to put an ads somewhere and he ask you to do it for him by giving you his link, because he don't understand the process. Well instead of putting the ads yourself, help him to understand the process and let him post his ads.

2. When the help you give only have a short term or insignificant effect. You will find this very common in your affiliates who will ask for money or gift certificate or TC so that he add to his VP.

Even if he will become EA for the amount you give but you know that he can not maintain it the following month (unless you give him again) without having active affiliates, or worst no affiliate at all.

The best to do is really to encourage him find affiliates first so that when you help it can be sustained the next month.

3. When you they are already annoyed because you are bombarding them with not so valuable information and unsolicited advice. - We must only have 1 or two messages per week for everybody and the rest should be personalized according to the need of the individual.


Aside from these three, give all the help you can to those who need and ask for it. It will never be too much.
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Yes, there is such thing as helping our affiliates too much. There are three instances that I would say that helping becomes too much that in can undermine long term sustainability.

1. When we help someone develop dependency - We should never encourage affiliates to depend on us. We must teach them to do it themselves not you doing things for them. No matter how slow it will be teach them how to fish rather than giving them fish.

Example: He needs to put an ads somewhere and
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

I can see the fire, focus and determination to succeed in this question. I know that many will advice that the next objective is to be a BTL. I want to deviate from that because it may lead to disappointment and unnecessary expenses.

My advice is maintain first your EA2 status until you have at least 1 active affiliate who is EA like you.

So your next objective is build your Team of affiliates. You can fulfill this objective in these steps.

A. Recruiting Affiliates - Building a team starts with recruitment. There are many methods of recruitment.

1. Start with you network of relationships - relatives and friends, classmates and workmates. Find out who among them have interest in online earning. Then present to them SFI. In my experience they are have the highest percentage to become active.

2. Learn all kinds of online marketing and recruit affiliates through this method.

3. Buy PSA's if you have resources.

B. The next step in building a team is being an awesome sponsor. Assist, help your Affiliates to get established until they start doing what you are doing. We call it duplication.

C. Once you have your team, slowly adjust your rank, the role of thumb is you must be at least 1 rank higher or the least is same as the highest rank in your team.
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I can see the fire, focus and determination to succeed in this question. I know that many will advice that the next objective is to be a BTL. I want to deviate from that because it may lead to disappointment and unnecessary expenses.

My advice is maintain first your EA2 status until you have at least 1 active affiliate who is EA like you.

So your next objective is build your Team of affiliates. You can fulfill this objective in these steps.

A. Recruiting Affiliates
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

We need to understand that we have basically three types of Affiliates. We should know their characteristics so that we know how to deal with them and what advise to give.

Let me mentioned the three types of affiliates first and I will elaborate on the type of affiliate that is being asked.

1. Those did not bother to be active - this will be the biggest part of out affiliate about 90- 98% of them are like this.

2. Those who are active from the beginning until they become successful - This is about 1-5% of our affiliates.

3. Those who have started well but quit and become completely inactive.- they are about 1 to 10% of our affiliates.

I would like to share the third type because the question is about them. These type of affiliates are usually:

1. Do not have money to maintain their status. - during first month they easily get into EA because of so many free VP that they can earn. But on the second month they have to buy to maintain their status.

2. Those that can not recruit affiliates - the foundation of successful SFI business depends on our active affiliates. If for sometime, our affiliate observed that he spending rather than earning then he would quit.

3. Those who wants quick money without building the foundation - These people will join try for the first month and if they can not earn they leave the program.

My suggestion is, we affiliates should prevent this to happen by address the issues I have written above as early as possible while they are still active.

If they do not have money to invest its good for them to concentrate on selling or finding affiliate first. Those who do not know how to recruit affiliates its good for us to teach them how. And explain to those who want quick money that SFI is not like that. So, prevention is better than cure.

For those who have already quit just continue to send them message address the three issues that I mentioned above. If you are able to give solution to the problem why they quit, probably they would be encourage to log in again.



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We need to understand that we have basically three types of Affiliates. We should know their characteristics so that we know how to deal with them and what advise to give.

Let me mentioned the three types of affiliates first and I will elaborate on the type of affiliate that is being asked.

1. Those did not bother to be active - this will be the biggest part of out affiliate about 90- 98% of them are like this.

2. Those who are active from the beginning until they
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227

The basic principle of marketing is give what they need or passionate about.

For this age group they are usually ambitious, they are pursuing something that would ensure their future and they love challenges. These are the general characteristics of this group.

Therefore; prepare your materials, ads and presentations that will address these characteristics. Prepare short, medium and long ads and articles for your online marketing and prepare power point presentation for your warm, face to face marketing.

Find your audience. In social media for example you can find groups and hobby groups where these group of people are going. In your locality you can also observe where these group of people are hanging out. Be with your target people and relate to them.

Present SFI as you have prepared it.
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The basic principle of marketing is give what they need or passionate about.

For this age group they are usually ambitious, they are pursuing something that would ensure their future and they love challenges. These are the general characteristics of this group.

Therefore; prepare your materials, ads and presentations that will address these characteristics. Prepare short, medium and long ads and articles for your online marketing and prepare power point presentation for your
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