Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

You can build a successful SFI business even with inactive affiliates and doubtful customers for your TripleClicks store. This is because “success” in SFI is a relative term. What constitutes success for me may not be what constitutes success for you. Besides, inactive affiliates and doubtful customers may be temporary setbacks which can change with time and experience in the business.

Having said that, I tend to believe from your question that you may be thinking like the farmer who blames his farming tools when he experiences poor crop performance. That is about why I strongly recommend that if you have the problems outlined in your question, you just have to look inwards to yourself first and the way you are running your SFI business second. Try to identify what you are doing right and what you are doing wrongly then make amends. That done, there is no doubt that things are bound to improve in terms of more active affiliates and dutiful customers.

As an affiliate, you are no doubt aware that when people visit any SFI Gateway, what they see is an invitation to join a “very strange” affiliates’ program FREE. Many of these sign-ups may be new to Internet business while others may just be “scammers” looking for how to make tons of money on the Internet. After getting involved with SFI and to start off on the launchpad, many may be disappointed that SFI is a legitimate online business with slow but steady results. That could put off quick-bucks hunters who many of us affiliates do refer to as inactive affiliates. There may also be hundreds of other reasons for their inactivity which your business acumen as their sponsor can help you to get around.

Now consider these questions:
What did you promise new affiliates before they signed up?
How excited and energetic are you in your first contacts with new sign-ups?
How supportive are you when they eventually signed up?
How promptly and honestly do you respond to their fears and concerns?

I believe that if you can answer the above questions very honestly, you may discover that your inactive affiliates and doubtful customers may not take all the blame for the poor performance of your business. Even with the best SFI marketing tools and efforts, you will be lucky if you get up to 5% of your affiliates active. That is why you need just this 3-step plan to succeed in SFI.

1. Become an Executive Affiliate, EA and remain an EA every month.
2. Recruit 5 Affiliates using every convenient marketing method.
3. Teach your 5 Affiliates to do these same 3 steps.

That’s it! You can earn a full-time income or more with this 3-step plan. To me, that is SUCCESS even with hundreds of other inactive affiliates and doubtful customers in your team.

I do hope this answers your question. Best wishes.


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You can build a successful SFI business even with inactive affiliates and doubtful customers for your TripleClicks store. This is because “success” in SFI is a relative term. What constitutes success for me may not be what constitutes success for you. Besides, inactive affiliates and doubtful customers may be temporary setbacks which can change with time and experience in the business.

Having said that, I tend to believe from your question that you may be thinking like the farmer who
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

First, start by sending your Team a regular Newsletter. Once per week or once per fortnight is sufficient.

Outline in your Newsletter how you would like to help them succeed as their success is also your success. Further outline how to advertise the TC store items to help them in their race to the top.

Single out the team members who have earned VP and who at least log in from time to time and send them some TCredits or a $2 Gift Certificate. (More if you can afford it).

Send an ecard to members who are logging in and make it a little light hearted. Something like, "just to say hello and how are you going" "do you need any help this week"

Your store needs advertising. If you do not advertise, people can't find it. There are dozens of free advertising places on the internet - just Google "free advertising" and spend the day putting ads on all of them.

There are some ideas on what to say in your advertisements and in your Newsletters. Just go to the new search bar at the top of your login page and choose advertising.
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First, start by sending your Team a regular Newsletter. Once per week or once per fortnight is sufficient.

Outline in your Newsletter how you would like to help them succeed as their success is also your success. Further outline how to advertise the TC store items to help them in their race to the top.

Single out the team members who have earned VP and who at least log in from time to time and send them some TCredits or a $2 Gift Certificate. (More if you can afford
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Affiliate since: 10/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read HERCULANO's 34 other Ask SC answers

How can you build a successful S F I business when I have a team of inactive Affiliates and Doubtful customers for my TripleClicks store?

This is a very good tough question; I will just tell you what I did, do and will do because we are in the same boat. I joined S F I for 5 months now and I have more than 50 PSAs for my first 3 mos. and more than 200 CSAs in 4 mos but all of them are inactive.

I continue sponsoring new PSAs monthly and I send weekly mailers to all inactive PSAs and CSAs. If I have extra time, I did send them individual e mail so that they can still read my message if they are not logging in S F I. I continue inviting friends and casual friends for products of TripleClicks. Even they said that our products is too expensive due to shipping charges but still I did not stop. I'm still convincing them to participate in auction bidding so that the price is so low.

I still continue looking for my workers; because I believe that everyone has its own share of workers but it will be given to you in due time. Right now, I continue studying in preparation of the coming of my workers.

Hope you can get some ideas of my own story
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How can you build a successful S F I business when I have a team of inactive Affiliates and Doubtful customers for my TripleClicks store?

This is a very good tough question; I will just tell you what I did, do and will do because we are in the same boat. I joined S F I for 5 months now and I have more than 50 PSAs for my first 3 mos. and more than 200 CSAs in 4 mos but all of them are inactive.

I continue sponsoring new PSAs monthly and I send weekly mailers to all inactive
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Affiliate since: 02/07/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Henti's 2 other Ask SC answers

Hi Imelda.

This is my personal opinion so make of it what you will.

Don't worry about the inactive affiliates. Check your movers tab and focus on the ones that wants to make a success. With your movers and genealogy tabs it is easy to see who are taking business serious.

I acknowledge that many people don't have the capital. So I would strongly recommend you look at your down line in respect of Versa Points. Especially when it comes to the newbies. An affiliate can rise quickly in rank at the beginning with SFI's very well laid out plan, without spending one cent. My sponsor gave me 2 gift vouchers one month after I joined. I can not over specify how much it meant to me. It enabled me to buy shares in the SBuilder co-op.

That brings me to the next point I want to bring across. I believe the people in SFI who run the SBuilder are far superior than example me, in "hooking the big eager hungry fish". I think quality far outways quantity when it comes to down line.

My suggestion is that if you can afford it buy yourself SBuilder shares as well as for the movers in your down line they will greatly appreciate it and both you and them will benefit almost 1OO% guaranteed, residually for many years to come.

Of coarse there are other ways to encourage and motivate your down line as well. Kind words, a "thank you" or "congratulations" when they achieved some milestone or anything they succeeded in. There are many ways but what I am saying is focus on people who want to succeed and communicate strategies which let you to success as well as the successful strategies of your down line members respectively. Lead by example and acknowledge every great action that takes place in your down line. Let them know that you notice what they are doing.

Have a great time at SFI and NeVeR QuiT.
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Hi Imelda.

This is my personal opinion so make of it what you will.

Don't worry about the inactive affiliates. Check your movers tab and focus on the ones that wants to make a success. With your movers and genealogy tabs it is easy to see who are taking business serious.

I acknowledge that many people don't have the capital. So I would strongly recommend you look at your down line in respect of Versa Points. Especially when it comes to the newbies. An affiliate
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Affiliate since: 12/13/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dragoljub's 1 other Ask SC answers

Never give up! If 50 affiliates does not work, 51th may work. If not he .. somewhere in the world there is someone who believes in self, who believes in your success, who believes in SFI .. Maybe just waiting for you. Never give up .. Each job can be done the easy and hard way to fast or slow. Start, continue, to read it and You will succeed. Believe in yourself and in SFI. First you, then eventually your affiliates. Be a leader. First, you do what you would like to do they. And you will succeed.
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Building this business is like building any other. The key lies in branding and liking. What is your brand? YOU! You are the only thing that is distinct about your business. So you must brand yourself. How do you position yourself in the psyche of your customer? It called value propositioning. What benefit added qualities does your product or service have? If you are selling lotion you bet someone else is too! So what decides on where people shop? Positioning.

You have to position yourself as a business that offers solutions to the problems that your customers have. The way this works is simple. Coca-Cola use to have a slogan that said "Have a Coke and a smile." The marketing team made a nice jingle using that slogan so that you would remember that when you are ready for a refreshment - "Have a Coke and a Smile." The whole idea is that drinking Coca-Cola will refresh you and make you happy when you are thirsty. Who doesn't want to be happy? Get it?

Water would would probably quench your thirst just as well as a Coke and it's cheaper and healthier than Coke. But there was no jingle that says drink water and smile. Today Coca-Cola is one of the No.1 selling beverages in the world! So it really boils down to branding and liking. Get your customers to like you. Give them a reason to like you by solving their problems and you will have good success.
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Building this business is like building any other. The key lies in branding and liking. What is your brand? YOU! You are the only thing that is distinct about your business. So you must brand yourself. How do you position yourself in the psyche of your customer? It called value propositioning. What benefit added qualities does your product or service have? If you are selling lotion you bet someone else is too! So what decides on where people shop? Positioning.

You have to position
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 2 | Read Leon's 55 other Ask SC answers

The fact that you're asking empowering question(s) means you're on the right path! Building your SFI and TripleClicks businesses, like all businesses, is a process. You'll find that when testing everything in your business that some strategies work well and others do not work well at all. Your challenge is to use the 80/20 rule and keep what works and while discarding what produces unacceptable results. I would suggest:

1) Consider the source(s) of your leads and how each source affects your results. If you find that a high percentage of your Affiliates that do EA the first month don't EA2 the second month then that means they don not have any funds to invest in a business. I recommend you closely examine the demographics of those leads and make some different advertising choices.

2) Use a/b split testing to improve your entire marketing process from the placing of ads to the converting of leads to Affiliates and/or Sales. You may see this referred to as the "sales funnel". You want leads to go into the top of the funnel and sales to come out of the bottom. It's a system!

3) Develop a support strategy that you apply to your business no matter what the level of activity may be at any given point. In other words if you email a weekly newsletter then everyone gets it and not just your active Affiliates. You never know when the time will be right for someone to become active in "their" business.

4) Stress different benefits in your support system to try and wake-up as many different personalities as possible. Some Affiliates are looking for more income, some for more time, some for location freedom and some for all three! There's an old saying that your prospect's radio station is tuned to WIIFM (What's In It For Me).

5) When it comes to product and service marketing the #1 strategy to focus on is learning how to impart the benefits of what you represent in a way that causes your customers to purchase. The bottom-line is that you're in the problem solving business and your customers must believe your product or service will, in fact, solve their problem. If you compete on price alone you'll NEVER survive! Features tell, but benefits sell!

If you use the 80/20 rule, a/b split testing and you develop your own lead and support system then it's not a matter of if it's a matter of when you'll be successful! What are "you" working for: Income, Time or Location Freedom?

KEEP ASKING EMPOWERING QUESTIONS!
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The fact that you're asking empowering question(s) means you're on the right path! Building your SFI and TripleClicks businesses, like all businesses, is a process. You'll find that when testing everything in your business that some strategies work well and others do not work well at all. Your challenge is to use the 80/20 rule and keep what works and while discarding what produces unacceptable results. I would suggest:

1) Consider the source(s) of your leads and how each source affects
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Affiliate since: 06/30/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Irina's 9 other Ask SC answers

I think that all of us have the problem with inactive affiliates. It is a lottery to get active affiliates and you never know when it is going to happen. At first, you should try to contact them, to explain them the steps they are to undertake...But, after a while you, you can contact them on weekly basis via Genealogy messenger. But, at the same time, keep making your team, advertising in all possible ways and trying to get new affiliates...This is the process that should be continuous.
As for the TripleClicks store, the process is similar with building your team. Never give up advertising TripleClicks products and never give up~
You never know when the right affiliate or TripleClicks customer will arrive...
Good luck!
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I think that all of us have the problem with inactive affiliates. It is a lottery to get active affiliates and you never know when it is going to happen. At first, you should try to contact them, to explain them the steps they are to undertake...But, after a while you, you can contact them on weekly basis via Genealogy messenger. But, at the same time, keep making your team, advertising in all possible ways and trying to get new affiliates...This is the process that should be continuous.
As
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Affiliate since: 11/08/2012, Power Rank: 326 | Read Johnny's 264 other Ask SC answers

Well my thought on this will be based on The Pareto principle that is the 80/20 rule applies where 80% of the sales will be done by only 20 % so what is key is to keep touching base build rapport with everyone and once you have identified the movers or workers work with them hand in hand and motivate each other to greater success with all available resources be it simple ecards, emails , incentives or TC gift certificates and or reassignment of PSAS who can boost them and encourage them to be ECAs for additional recurring royalties and VPs .

Meanwhile keep sponsoring posting ads and recruit thru all available channels daily globally and consistently and continue to do what you can to motivate everyone and never ever give up for all you know you can be inches away to that pot of diamond affiliate .

That's all for now persevere and see you guys at the top real soon

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Well my thought on this will be based on The Pareto principle that is the 80/20 rule applies where 80% of the sales will be done by only 20 % so what is key is to keep touching base build rapport with everyone and once you have identified the movers or workers work with them hand in hand and motivate each other to greater success with all available resources be it simple ecards, emails , incentives or TC gift certificates and or reassignment of PSAS who can boost them and encourage them to be ECAs
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Affiliate since: 07/07/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Preston A.'s 18 other Ask SC answers

It takes PATIENCE and PERSEVERANCE and mix them up with SELF BELIEF. Though it can be frustrating, you just have to carry on doing your business being fully persuaded that you will make it. This is where SELF BELIEF comes in.
Continue doing your daily, weekly and monthly SFI chores. Keep on advertising both online and offline.
Do everything and anything that will grow your business, and do all you can to succeed because your success will make your PSAs become active.
See you at the summit.
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It takes PATIENCE and PERSEVERANCE and mix them up with SELF BELIEF. Though it can be frustrating, you just have to carry on doing your business being fully persuaded that you will make it. This is where SELF BELIEF comes in.
Continue doing your daily, weekly and monthly SFI chores. Keep on advertising both online and offline.
Do everything and anything that will grow your business, and do all you can to succeed because your success will make your PSAs become active.
See you at the
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