1 A thought provoking question,Ritu
2. You can become an accomplished business owner in SFI by owning your own store. By the way, I would like to list a few advantages /benefits of affiliates owning their own stores at TC.
a) Triple clicks is a large, global platform for advertisement of your products you intend to sell.
b) There are over a million affiliates from various countries around the world who possess the powerful marketing tools free of cost to market our products and services.
c) Having an ECA store at TripleClicks makes a lot of difference. It’s similar to opening a store in a big & famous shopping mall on a main road. This is different from other online shopping /merchantable organist ions. Customers who visit the neighboring store have the chance of seeing our store. After a few visits, the same customer may or will buy some product or other at our ECA.
d) Triple clicks has readily equipped us with a very unique, attractive, very much useful and ready -to-start system. For eg, each and every product at Triple Clicks has an in-built marketing tool of “Share It” which facilitates to share the product features with social media like Facebook and Twitter ;we simply have to copy the url of the product and send emails to our friends, relatives; copy the same in our own personal website/ blogs ettc . As a matter of fact, this is the beautiful ready made advertising tool for anyone without any prior sales or marketing experience.
e) Opening an ECA store in TripleClicks provides easy option of paying through our debit card or by PayPal. These secure methods of payment will ensure that we attract more customers as they would feel more secure.
f) If we open an ECA store In TC, customers will perceive us as a part of a corporate and will have utmost faith in us. They will feel free to transact online, since TC is a secured website, courtesy our founder, Gery..
g) As TripleClicks provides info about all the seller contact details besides the product, customers can contact your ECA store without any difficulty!
h).Both .ECAs and Affiliates are mutually benefited at TripleClicks .ECAs are supported by affiliates by getting connected with them in the TC homepage and promoting their products.
i) One can comfortably upload the digital photographs of his/her products and services for sale!
k).You can opt for selling products which are not available at TripleClicks or sell the fast moving products which have more demand and less supply. Or else you can use both the options!
l).One can serve their local customers in their respective regions, in their own country. Local customers need not pay shipping charges and receive their selected products in a very short period of time!
m) You can earn extra commissions from promoting the products in your own store.
n) You can sell any products of your choice approved by SFI.
o) You can earn sales VP from what every product you sell in your store.
3. However, there are a few pre-conditions one has to meet before opening an ECA Store. These are highlighted below:-
a)The affiliate should be ready & willing to take the sole added responsibility;
b) The T-connect page of ECA is to be regularly updated & maintained in an attractive manner.
c) The iems ordered should be delivered in a specified & promised time with proper packaging to prevent any damage during transit!
d) Rules & policies of TC/SFI and its business should be followed strictly by the ECA owner.
e) He must ensure that all his advertised products are available and not out of stock . Out of stock items should be immediately removed from the ‘virtual’ shelf.
f) An ECA store owner can lose his ECA license or even his membership in SFI/TC, if he fails to be honest or does not maintain the TC standards. Triple- clicks has the right to close his store for any disciplinary reasons.
g) A bit of retail online experience would go a long way in him running his ECA store in TC. These stores require focus, service, and promotion and a novice will certainly require a lot of tips and plenty of time to become a good seller!. One can't just open a a store before knowing the basics about your product he is selling , how to price it, or what can be the margin of profit etc.
h) Finally, if the PSA/CSA is not already in retail having a license, they will have to pay an amount of $40 for an ECA License, before opening their own store!
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