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

When a person joins SFI, he needs to give attention to the basics of the opportunity. See this in: https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics. He should immediately get involved in acquiring the knowledge of operations of the business vis-a-vis income generating actions. These actions are what ensures steady rise in rank and income in the opportunity.

For the purpose of clarity, these are summarized in 5 G's.
These 5 G's like the 5 fingers of your hand give you the grip & generate the income for you in SFI.

1. Gather Versapoints (VP)
Versapoints are the measure or indicator of your activity in SFI. Everything that you do from reading articles, completing the 30-day LaunchPad tutorials, having active personally sponsored affiliate (PSA) to generating sales are awarded with Versapoint. Your minimum goal every month is 1500VP. As a beginner, there are many actions you could complete in your Versapoint Ledger to get lots of points: www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/MyReports/VPLedger. You should vigorously pursue these tasks. If you fail to make 1500 VP in the first month, it shows you're not taking the opportunity seriously!

2. Generate Sales at TripleClicks
All the commissions really come from sales at online super store TripleClicks. With over 90,000 products, you could easily refer people to shop at TripleClicks. You earn 45% Commission Volume (CV) from such purchases from your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSAs) and Personally Referred Member (PRMs). Methods and aids here: www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?pg=1&form=MarketingMethods&goal=Sales

3. Generously Sponsor Affiliates
For you to tap into the jewel of SFI commission - Matching Versapoint, you need to build a team of active affiliates. You need 5 active affiliates for breakthrough. You may need to sponsor quite a lot before getting them. Work on those 5 each to get other 5 active affiliates and the chain continues. You can earn up to 12 levels! You also earn 45%CV from your PSA. Visit Marketing: www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter

4. Garner supplementary income
You can significantly increase your income by selling online yourself, referring Economic Commerce Associate, gathering co-sponsored affiliates, winning auctions, winning games etc. Your tapping into the numerous streams of income in SFI gives you unassailable success and income. Part of the supplementary income the beginner must not miss is the Fast-Track Bonus. Fast-Track boost your SFI income for years to come! As a Fast-Track Member, you will automatically receive 10% bonus shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool every month for all your VesaPoints and also on Matching VersaPoints (when you become Team Leader)!

5. Grow your rank
Your minimum level in SFI should be Executive Affiliate (EA) every month. However, if you have a team already, the compensation of being a team leader is enormous. Minimum - Executive Affiliate, Goal - Diamond Team Leader. You should constantly engage in activities that pushes you up the ladder. Very needful to grow your rank apart from Sales VersaPoints are Action VersaPoints. Work on those actions.

Commission of a beginner is always little but as you grow your team and activity, it sky rockets - exponential! See this presentation: www.unioneconsumatori.org/sfimg/3-step-plan-video/

These are the foundation pillars that hold forth the structure of SFI business. When they are constantly improved upon; they lead the affiliate into limelight and limitless earnings!
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When a person joins SFI, he needs to give attention to the basics of the opportunity. See this in: https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics. He should immediately get involved in acquiring the knowledge of operations of the business vis-a-vis income generating actions. These actions are what ensures steady rise in rank and income in the opportunity.

For the purpose of clarity, these are summarized in 5 G's.
These 5 G's like the 5 fingers of your hand give you the grip & generate the
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

lndeed the competition in the home business opportunity, working from home or internet income niche is great. There are a lot  of so called opportunities out there. Some may be real but lots of them are scams.

One of the things that make them so competitive at the level of advertisement is their spurious claims and bogus immediate success. However, many prospects are weary of such claims.

There are many ways you could advertise your SFI business. lt could be a text ad in a classified, you could write promotional article or blog. Also, there is Pay Per Click, website traffic exchange, posting in groups of social media, etc.

ln any advertisement whatsoever, your emphasising the distinctiveness of SFI is what stands out your advertisements. These important distinctives include:

1. Longevity of SFI. Mark of a successful enterprise is its longevity. SFI is in its 17th year and the parent body Carson Services is in its 30th year. Millions of dollars has been paid already!

2. Universality of SFI. Unlike many other opportunities that are regional or based in few countries, SFI is available in more than 200 countries.

3.  Acceptability of SFI.  Millions of Affiliates in 203 countries. Several thousands joining every month.

4.  Uniqueness of SFI. SFI had multiple platform for earnings. From the Sponsoring activities to generating sales at TripleClicks, Economic Commerce Associate program, garage sales, PriceBender Auctions, Online games etc. Multiple income streams.

5.  Compensation model. SFI compensation is without any ambiguity. Affiliates are paid through various payment platforms - Cheques, International MasterCard, paypal etc

6. Simplicity of SFI. Anybody of legal age with Internet connection can register and start earning Free. No need of credit card information.

7. Support and Training at SFI. Amazing support from Sponsor to corporate with abundance of tools, websites, products and training.

lf you summarise all these with captivating headline, well written language, attractive graphics and layout( if it's a website) and good professional finishing. Your ads would be unique, real and irresistible.  SFI itself captures all these in their ads so should you.
 
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lndeed the competition in the home business opportunity, working from home or internet income niche is great. There are a lot  of so called opportunities out there. Some may be real but lots of them are scams.

One of the things that make them so competitive at the level of advertisement is their spurious claims and bogus immediate success. However, many prospects are weary of such claims.

There are many ways you could advertise your SFI business. lt could be a text ad in a
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Every active affiliate is faced with the challenge of having too many inactive affiliates.Some start with a gush but no sooner fade away. The reasons are not far fetched:

1. Ignorance of the scheme. Many people sign up for this program because it is free to join. They do not understand the work requirement. Even though there are a lot of training articles they are just too lazy to develop themselves.

2. Inordinate expectation. Even though we try to sound it to new affiliates that this scheme is not "get rich quick" yet it doesn't enter into the subconsciousness of many of them. They expect to make big bucks in the first 2 or 3 months. They get disappointed with their meager initial earning if any at all. The bigger potential income after building their business is not appealing to them.

3. Investment withheld from the business. It is sad that people expect to make money without any financial commitment to grow the business. Rookies that have not mastered the nitty-gritty of free online marketing would not be ready to invest a dime in paid advertisement. Maintaining their rank with Standing Order (SO) is never considered. Of course, they remain affiliates without any income and thus step aside.

4. Indolence. Imagine affiliates that refuse after sometimes to complete their Daily Actions, Weekly Actions and Monthly Actions. They don't just have the steam to forge ahead. No matter how many messages you send to them, they feel these actions are too demanding.

I believe these aforementioned reasons among others are responsible for affiliates becoming inactive shortly after joining SFI.
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Every active affiliate is faced with the challenge of having too many inactive affiliates.Some start with a gush but no sooner fade away. The reasons are not far fetched:

1. Ignorance of the scheme. Many people sign up for this program because it is free to join. They do not understand the work requirement. Even though there are a lot of training articles they are just too lazy to develop themselves.

2. Inordinate expectation. Even though we try to sound it to new affiliates
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Helping our PSAs become Team Leader is a major responsibility of Sponsors.This is one of the indices that shows our success or failure. Indeed, until a sponsor is able to raise Team Leaders in his first level, he has not succeeded.

There are a number of things I do to help my PSAs become Team Leaders, which are:

1. Regular communication: Immediately I sponsor a PSA, I open up the line of communication through welcome message. It is then followed by a series of getting started mails. I make myself available to answer all his questions within 24 hours. Then, I send weekly training, tips and motivational mails through genealogy mails. I also use Stream post and personal e-mail correspondences.

2. Reaching of EA2. I encourage them to reach the status of EA2 by showing them that it is the foundation of their business. The great benefits of setting up a Standing Order (SO) is elucidated to them. 2 CSAs, 2 extra entry into Daily Grand, 100 AVP etc makes SO worthwhile. The perks, power tools access and commission e.g from CSAs make EA2 important. Also it enables him to motivate his downline.

3. Reviewing of VP Ledger: For my PSAs that are already EA2, I review their VersaPoint Ledger so as to know areas they should work on towards Team Leader qualification. Apart from encouraging duplication, playing of Eager Zebra games, bidding on auctions, distribution of Gift cards, etc would help them to become Team Leaders.

4. Rewarding COOP. One of the ways I encourage my promising PSAs to become Team Leaders is to offer them incentive of Free Coop when they become at least Bronze Team Leaders. I give a number of PSAs to them to strengthen their team as having a team is what makes being a Team Leader worthwhile.

5. Reassignment of PSAs. Reassignment of PSAs is one of the ways I use to encourage my PSAs become Team Leaders. Giving them promising affiliates is a way of encouraging them so that they can fully tap the jewel of SFI compensation plan - Matching VersaPoints.

Furthermore, I ensure I keep my Team Leader status always so as to encourage them to do so. The power of example is really awesome.

Cheers!
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Helping our PSAs become Team Leader is a major responsibility of Sponsors.This is one of the indices that shows our success or failure. Indeed, until a sponsor is able to raise Team Leaders in his first level, he has not succeeded.

There are a number of things I do to help my PSAs become Team Leaders, which are:

1. Regular communication: Immediately I sponsor a PSA, I open up the line of communication through welcome message. It is then followed by a series of getting started
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

First, we need to remember that welcome letters are sent to Affiliates immediately we receive notification of their sign up. Most of the times the Affiliates would not have completed their Affiliate profile. For an average Affiliate you need to guide them to even complete the Affiliate Profile. Thus, there is need to have a pre-written general welcome letter for our affiliates.

However, the information provided in Affiliate Profile when well completed is a wealth of information about the background, mindset and ambition of the Affiliate especially at the point of joining the opportunity.

Therefore, it is good to look into details about their background on internet marketing, leadership qualities, willingness to spend on their new business or not, what they thing is most important to their success in SFI - is it Training, Money or Prospects etc. We could then write them another welcome or tip letter to address how we may help or offer tips, training or guidance to get them get started.

Successfully utilizing of Affiliate Profile information would definitely help the Sponsor give requisite support to kick start activity and enthusiasm of the new Affiliate.
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First, we need to remember that welcome letters are sent to Affiliates immediately we receive notification of their sign up. Most of the times the Affiliates would not have completed their Affiliate profile. For an average Affiliate you need to guide them to even complete the Affiliate Profile. Thus, there is need to have a pre-written general welcome letter for our affiliates.

However, the information provided in Affiliate Profile when well completed is a wealth of information about the
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Training and supporting of our PSAs is our primary responsibility as sponsors. Our support or training is not to be discontinued because of our PSAs are advancing faster than us in ranks.

Basically, an affiliate advance quickly in SFI if he has lots of time, lots of money to invest, is a marketing guru or is internet savvy. These predispose an affiliate for speedy progress through the ranks in SFI.

However, a good sponsor would have an edge in one area or the other over the PSA. For instance, he may not yet understand SFI system perfectly. Issues concerning follow up of his own PSAs, explanation of how the compensation works, the dynamics of pricebenders auctions, Eager Zebra games, SFI Support systems etc. As a Leader, you would be able to offer accurate and precise information about all these.

Furthermore, you need to continue to support him as a way of training him to do so for his own PSAs. Abandoning of PSAs is a major reason why many don't succeed in this business. Anybody can give up at any stage if the robust and friendly business community is not there.

Also, you should know that your advice, tips and encouragement can go a long way in advancing this promising affiliate to greater heights of achievement in SFI. Just a Thank You Card, Congrats card could be an impetus for greater enthusiasm in this business.

You should never abandon any of your PSAs no matter their ranks, achievements or commissions. A father is a father, irrespective of what the son has become, play that fatherly role.
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Training and supporting of our PSAs is our primary responsibility as sponsors. Our support or training is not to be discontinued because of our PSAs are advancing faster than us in ranks.

Basically, an affiliate advance quickly in SFI if he has lots of time, lots of money to invest, is a marketing guru or is internet savvy. These predispose an affiliate for speedy progress through the ranks in SFI.

However, a good sponsor would have an edge in one area or the other over the
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

LinkedIn is a social network popularly used by professionals. It's built to attract the cream of the society: CEOs, Top Managers, professional persons and guru in one enterprise or the other. It is a home for all and professional online marketers have their place there too.

If you know the worth of LinkedIn, you would be convinced you would be missing a lot if you're not there. Consider these:
54% of LinkedIn users earn more than $60K per year and 36% earn more than $100K annually.
LinkedIn has 29% more six-figure earners than the average website.
LinkedIn users are more affluent and more educated than the average website visitor.
The 35- to 49-year-old demographic uses LinkedIn 19% more than the average website.
Almost 25% of LinkedIn visitors come back at least 30 times per month.
51% of LinkedIn users visit at least once per month.

But the question is, how do you utilize your membership of LinkedIn to build your SFI business?

To start with, you need to create a very good profile of yourself. If you are doing something else apart from network marketing and you want to depict that as your profession, then you need to add that you are into Affiliate Marketing or Network Marketing. You should inform the people that you are interested in networking.

With a good profile of yourself in place, you then need join Groups that are related to earning online, Work at home, Developing Entrepreneurship abilities and skills and such like. These groups offer you opportunity of posting. You can professionally talk about SFI without necessarily spamming the groups.

Another way to promote SFI is by replying to posts of other people. You even have the opportunity of sharing links thus helping you to get sign ups. If you tidy things well, you would get results.

Apart from these, you can do content marketing. Produce new content for LinkedIn such as white papers, infographics (minimum 1 hour, maximum 8 hours). You can write about the history of Work at home, The Basics of Affiliate Marketing, Strategies for 6 digit Income Online etc.

Answering LinkedIn Questions is another way you can use to promote yourself as a resource person when it comes to Online Marketing, Work at home etc. You can create valuable connections by answering those questions where you can even be able to out-rightly introduce the SFI opportunity.

Connecting with many people on LinkedIn gives you the platform for interacting with them. As they probe further into what you do, you would be able to introduce them to this Second and Lifetime Income Opportunity - SFI. Initiate connections and accept them. Be careful not to just spam connections!

Besides all these, you can advertise on LinkedIn. Use creative images and ad copy to get the message to target audience. Create 5 to 10 versions of the same ad (each containing different images, text and headline) so that you can find the best ideas and combinations. Run your ads and analyse your results. You can optimize your click through rate. You can get very good PSAs and PRMs from LinkedIn.

Many Affiliates are oblivious of the tremendous opportunities that abound at LinkedIn. The caliber and the financial status of members of LinkedIn makes it one of the best social networks to get good leads for Customers and Affiliates in SFI. LinkedIn is a useful resource for SFI business.


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LinkedIn is a social network popularly used by professionals. It's built to attract the cream of the society: CEOs, Top Managers, professional persons and guru in one enterprise or the other. It is a home for all and professional online marketers have their place there too.

If you know the worth of LinkedIn, you would be convinced you would be missing a lot if you're not there. Consider these:
54% of LinkedIn users earn more than $60K per year and 36% earn more than $100K annually.
LinkedIn
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

Sales is an art. It has to be developed. Since you have asked about how to become a great salesman or saleswoman; it implies one is already into sales. In order words, how do one become a better or great salesperson?

Getting into the class of great salesperson requires a lot of skill acquisition and experience. Really, it is not an overnight dream but such that is achieved through a process of learning and practice.

You become a great salesperson by:

1. Improving your person. You need to work on your self esteem. You should have faith in yourself otherwise you would lack the composure to face the customer. Even in online sales, you must exhume confidence in your write ups or mails. You should become a relaxed and cheerful person.

2. Acquiring knowledge about your products and services. You must be very knowledgeable about the products or services you are promoting. All the details, peculiarities and benefits of the products or services must become part and parcel of you. Beside, you should know details of competitors goods and services so as to emphasize the peculiarities of yours. There should be no questions or queries about your products or services you cannot convincingly answer. Faltering and recoiling before customers whether real time or online makes you look fake.


3. Developing persuasive ability. You should become assertive and persuasive. Anticipate objections and deal with it.You should be able to gently convince the customer to make the purchase without being overbearingly pushy. You become persuasive when you develop your communication skill, your ability to read between the lines and hammer the soft spot the customer shows in the course of the interaction. You can develop to the point that you can sell ice to Eskimos!

4. Ensuring transparency and honesty. You need to reveal necessary information to the customer beforehand. Hiding details or speaking of half truths would be a great push off for the customers. Nobody likes dealing with a dubious person. Honesty and integrity would stand you out.

5. Building business relationship. If you desire to be a great salesperson, then you should work not just on one off sale but building lasting relationship. Try to win over the loyalty of your client base. You should also leverage on your existing customers to win over others.One of the ways to do that is to ensure customer satisfaction always.

6. Ensuring customer satisfaction. The saying goes that customers are king. You need to ensure that the customers receive value for the money always. You should deliver even over deliver on your promise. Go over board in satisfying your customers and win their loyalty. When there are complaints, address it promptly and to the best interest of your customers always. Whatever is invested in satisfying customers comes back to you in loyalty and leverages. In fact, you should become your customer's friend.


7. Organize effective follow up of leads or contacts. Sales most of the times are not sealed the first time. It may take an average of five to six follow up mails or contacts before the sale is generated. You should be optimistic. Follow on with positive mindset. Even when sales is not made eventually, move on and you would win another time.

Really, there are so many qualities that ought to be imbibed and developed in order to become a great salesperson, but those highlighted above would be helpful among others.
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Sales is an art. It has to be developed. Since you have asked about how to become a great salesman or saleswoman; it implies one is already into sales. In order words, how do one become a better or great salesperson?

Getting into the class of great salesperson requires a lot of skill acquisition and experience. Really, it is not an overnight dream but such that is achieved through a process of learning and practice.

You become a great salesperson by:

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

Becoming a Team Leader is the dream of every affiliate. It carries perks, prestige and pay. However, it is possible to become a Team Leader without getting its maximum benefits. That is why the timing or the situation behind becoming a Team Leader becomes important.

Really, the choice of when to become a Team Leader is subjective. I'll try to elucidate.

Some are of the opinion that you should go as far as you can in your first month. They argue that the way you start determine how you last in the race. This may be true for some that start with so much energy and resources and somehow sustain the tempo for a long time. But for many others, that initial burst of energy fizzles out as from the second month when realities of the business dawn on them. Many one-time actions that gave Action VersaPoint (AVP) for the Team Leader rank will no longer be available!
If you become a Team Leader in your first month and you do not have active team immediately, the only benefit worthwhile is your share of Second Home CSAs. If these are active ones, then what a good compensation it would be, otherwise you enjoy your badges and that's all.

Some many others are of the opinion that you should become a Team Leader when you have active team. By active team we mean at least some EA2 in your first line (that is PSAs). Really, Matching VersaPoints you earn from your downline is the jewel of becoming a Team Leader. Matching VP is the term that is given for TripleClicks Executive Pool shares Team Leaders receive, based on the number of VP generated by their EA2s each month in their team up to 12th level (PTL & DTL). BTL receive Matching VP up to 6th level.
Since most people develop active team from their Second month and upwards, many opine that is the best time to become Team Leader.

It is a fact that becoming a Team Leader without a team of active affiliates is just like a minister without portfolio and such without the perks, power and gains of the office. Also, the cost of maintaining a Team Leader position without a team of active affiliates is high. Duplication gives you from 100 to 500 AVP (EA2 to PTL), which enables one to get the valuable Action VersaPoint for Team Leader qualification.

In a nutshell, there is no hard and fast rule. The best time to become a Team Leader should be immediately you have a team of active affiliate
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Becoming a Team Leader is the dream of every affiliate. It carries perks, prestige and pay. However, it is possible to become a Team Leader without getting its maximum benefits. That is why the timing or the situation behind becoming a Team Leader becomes important.

Really, the choice of when to become a Team Leader is subjective. I'll try to elucidate.

Some are of the opinion that you should go as far as you can in your first month. They argue that the way you start determine
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177

It is important to visit SFI Forum daily because of:

1. Breaking News Analysis. It is at the Forum you would get in depth analysis of any SFI news. Explanations, clarifications and objections are freely expressed by Forum users.
2. Free Business Information. The pool of information available at SFI Forum on Getting started, Marketing, Team building etc is awesome. It is a Free Business Training School.
3. Free Personal Coaching. Whatever difficulty you have in your home business, you have the privilege of getting answers from Gurus in the business. All the basics and the nitty-gritty of the business are dissolved with variety of approaches.
4. Free Business Connections. SFI Forum provides such a lovely platform to follow experts and gurus in the business. Such connections enhance free mentoring from day to day.

Yes, you would miss all these and many more if don't visit everyday because myriads of threads are submitted everyday and would not even be aware of many good threads because new ones are being posted.

I hope this helps!
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It is important to visit SFI Forum daily because of:

1. Breaking News Analysis. It is at the Forum you would get in depth analysis of any SFI news. Explanations, clarifications and objections are freely expressed by Forum users.
2. Free Business Information. The pool of information available at SFI Forum on Getting started, Marketing, Team building etc is awesome. It is a Free Business Training School.
3. Free Personal Coaching. Whatever difficulty you have in your home business,
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