Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

Recruiting serious affiliates is what we all desire and while what we tell them is important, but where we get them is also critical. However, in order not to digress from the topic, I will attempt to highlight what has worked for me based on my experience recruiting serious affiliates:

1. Be very frank and honest when discussing the opportunity in SFI because one of the reasons some affiliates are inactive is because what they see when they join is different from what they were told as prospects.

2. Tell them we have various ways to earn income and that our activities are not necessarily monolithic in nature, so individuals have choices when it comes to areas of this business they are interested in.

3. Tell them that investment is not a requirement, but that the decision to invest is their prerogative, so they are at liberty to make investment decisions. This will encourage them to come in with open minds to see things for themselves.

4. Tell them we do not have bosses looking over their shoulders, but rather they are their own bosses, who work at their on pace and time of their choosing. This promotes a sense of freedom and independence many serious prospects crave.

5. Tell them they don't have to spend all their time if they do not want to because this system is about quality time and not quantity time, thereby preparing them to have the believe that we are not time wasters.

6. Tell them we offer free resources and materials, including real time assistance that will help them build a successful business here, so that the prospect is aware that he/she is not being led into an abyss where the potential of survival is remote. You see serious people appreciate sense of hope and ability to succeed.

7. Let them know that you are successful and that you will be available to guide and assist them to be equally successful because serious people like identifying with successful people.

8. Where possible, you can organise an event where you may need to introduce your prospects to SFI website, which is very simple and attractive and since seeing is believing, you will then tell them that what they see is what it is and nothing more.

9. It is always professional when you meet people face-to-face to encourage them to ask questions if any after you have done your promotion, the exchange gives an indication of how serious a prospect is or may potentially turn an unwilling person into a serious affiliate.

10. Finally, do not take any thing for granted, be very professional and maintain a high level of integrity when telling prospects about SFI because this has the potential effects to be taken seriously and to also signup serious affiliates in return.
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Recruiting serious affiliates is what we all desire and while what we tell them is important, but where we get them is also critical. However, in order not to digress from the topic, I will attempt to highlight what has worked for me based on my experience recruiting serious affiliates:

1. Be very frank and honest when discussing the opportunity in SFI because one of the reasons some affiliates are inactive is because what they see when they join is different from what they were told as
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Affiliate since: 09/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Patlam Kalliyil's 12 other Ask SC answers

Thanks Alvin asking for a very valid question.

In fact, we cannot identify who are the very serious and who doesn't at the beginning but soon they signed up, we would come to know that who are the very interested affiliate. This can be identified in their few actions:-

1) Soon they sign-up, they will go through each and every step and try to find the very best way to move further.
2) Immediately they confirm their email and willingness to move further
3) They will opt to move slowly, by task by task and would attempt to complete the lessons in a way that they read and understand rather than eager to attempt all lessons in order to collect the versa point to become EA.
4) They seriously move to ask questions to the sponsor most often.

The above are the signs of seriousness and once you identify this, then the next step is related to your second sentence in the question. "What should I tell....?"

- Just start with your winning history and the path you walked in and moved on.
- What are the goods and bads happened in your stay with SFI
- How did you achieve your current status
- What you did to attract more affiliates to join you
- How your genealogy build-up with large numbers? Have you directly recruited or opted through other meanings?

Then start with the SFI Business prospectus clearly and transparently. Never promise or fabricate any wealth development with SFI as with the other fake programs since most of the affiliates (as human nature) looking for "overnight flying money making" and please ensure this very clearly to each of the affiliates.

Always tell them to follow the basics and move slowly to the next level. Also, you have to give them a real support, the best way is to communicate with them over the phone as the other means of communication sometime shown as little impact.

Give them the important links where most of the affiliates talk about their winning / success stories with SFI.

Don't give them up until they are actively playing as Team Leaders.

Hope, you will have a winning team under you.

Greate Day!

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Thanks Alvin asking for a very valid question.

In fact, we cannot identify who are the very serious and who doesn't at the beginning but soon they signed up, we would come to know that who are the very interested affiliate. This can be identified in their few actions:-

1) Soon they sign-up, they will go through each and every step and try to find the very best way to move further.
2) Immediately they confirm their email and willingness to move further
3) They will
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Affiliate since: 02/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philippus's 100 other Ask SC answers

We have dealt with many other questions concerning this subject like “Why do so many PSA’s become inactive?”, etc. There are many reasons for that, but I think mostly because the prospects don’t get what they expect. To get MORE (impossible to rule out all the tire kickers completely) serious prospects to enroll you’ll have to have a way of screening them before enrolling them.

One way to do that is by telling the whole truth about the business in your ads with a link to one of your gateways. Don’t hold back any crucial information. You will still get some tire kickers, but surely less. When advertising or promoting in any other way, mention the following:
• That this is a real and serious business that requires an investment in the form of time (like any other real business). You have to unlock the front door of your “shop” everyday so that you can manage it properly. You do this by logging in everyday and do your Daily, Weekly and Monthly Actions. This is how you manage your business.
• It also requires a certain level of knowledge which is going to need a time investment. You learn how the business work by logging in everyday, because there are News, Tips, Forum Posts, ASK SC questions and answers and Training Materials on the SFI site, for the taking. Read it and use it.
• It requires an investment in the form of money to become really successful. Although SFI is free to join and you can earn without investing any money (many sources of income in SFI, like selling TripleClicks products or your own unwanted stuff, etc.), you can only really tap onto the best source of income in SFI, namely the Executive Pool, by investing some money in advertising (advertising to get PSA’s, ECA’s and PRM’s is what this business is actually about), buying from TripleClicks yourself (especially business building products and services like shares in SBuilder Co-op or PSA’s or promotional material), setting up a Standing Order for 1500VP or more (to qualify as EA at least every month) and although SFI have extensive training materials also in other sources of training as on-line courses for Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing and Affiliate Marketing.
• This is not a Get Rich Quick Scheme. It takes hard work and dedication to make it work. It’s not for the faint at heart and it’s definitely not for people who want to make a quick buck.

Another way to screen your prospects before you enroll them is to place a link to your website on the add where you can ask for them to fill in their email if they are interested. After receiving their details send them further info about the business and start communicating with them. Find out what their interests are and only after satisfying yourself that they might stick it out, send them the link to enroll. Another way is to ask them to send their email directly to you in exchange for more info and start chatting to them. Do the same as above.

Yet another way (maybe the best) is to do in person presentations one on one or for groups and in that presentation don’t beat about the bush. You want real prospects, so tell them the real truth, as above and then sign up only the ones that are still really interested.

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We have dealt with many other questions concerning this subject like “Why do so many PSA’s become inactive?”, etc. There are many reasons for that, but I think mostly because the prospects don’t get what they expect. To get MORE (impossible to rule out all the tire kickers completely) serious prospects to enroll you’ll have to have a way of screening them before enrolling them.

One way to do that is by telling the whole truth about the business in your ads with a link to one
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olawale's 109 other Ask SC answers

Dear colleague, this is everyone's wish in SFI.
Infact if it is possible to pay more for serious affiliates, I am willing to do just that,
but the truth is that recruiting new affiliates is like the biblical parable of the sower;
some fell among thorns and were choked, some fell on by the way side and were eaten up by birds,
others fell on good ground and brought forth in twenties, thirties, sixties, eighties etc.
Good ground affiliates is what everyone desires, but you cannot determine until you bring them in.
However, the following steps can add some chance of success to your recruitment drive:

1) Introduce yourself as his sponsor in SFI

2) Make him/her feel welcome to SFI

3) Talk about his/her timely decision to join SFI and the prospects ahead:

a. 250 Bonus Action VPs
b. 30 free entries in the Daily Grand drawing
c. Fast-Track Bonus Shares (For every 100 VP you earn, you’ll earn 10 additional bonus share of the Executive Pool for a lifetime )
d. Exclusive Fast-Track Member badge for your home page
e. Your name and photo added to our Fast-Track Wall of Fame
f.Exclusive Fast-Track Member Lapel Pin (after three months of Fast-Track qualification)
g. Fast-Track Member certificate.
etc;

4) Talk about what he/she may enjoy in SFI - both short and Long term benefits

a) Co-sponsored affiliates to strengthen his/her team and help you earn more cash rewards;
b) Up to 20 FREE T-credits (worth US$ 39.80) for his/her purchases online at TripleClicks.com;
c) US$ 10 Cash reward in your second month as TEAM LEADER;
d) US$ 50 cash reward he/she can WIN in daily draws for one full year when he/she makes E365 FINALIST;
e) Thousands of dollars in direct commission on sales made through your TripleClicks referral, SFI affiliates etc.
f) If you are a business person, you can bring your business to the world for FREE by becoming E-Commerce Associate (ECA);
g) Let him know that he/she can earn mouth-watering RESIDUALINCOME for life from this business.

5) Explain to him/her how to get started quickly and how the system works:
a) Training materials - SFI Home Page > Training Menu
b) Access to the VPLedger - Hotspot Menu > VPLedger
c) Engaging in daily actions - On the To-Do List, Scoreboard, Movers etc.

6) Explain to him the purpose of a T.E.A.M (Together Everyone Achieves More)

7) Let him know you are willing to help him/her grow as a member of your T.E.A.M

8) Conclude by referring him to your blog and Leadership page

Best of luck in your business!
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Dear colleague, this is everyone's wish in SFI.
Infact if it is possible to pay more for serious affiliates, I am willing to do just that,
but the truth is that recruiting new affiliates is like the biblical parable of the sower;
some fell among thorns and were choked, some fell on by the way side and were eaten up by birds,
others fell on good ground and brought forth in twenties, thirties, sixties, eighties etc.
Good ground affiliates is what everyone desires, but you cannot
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Affiliate since: 10/31/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Glenn's 9 other Ask SC answers

Without knowing how one is recruiting others into SFI, I would have to say that a screening process might be in order. A little explanation beforehand in the splash page or gateway page could alert the potential affiliate of the daily responsibilities involved in being successful in SFI before they sign up. You could go as far as letting them know that this program is not a get rich overnight process. In reality, as Gery Carson states, it takes a few years to build up a team of executive affiliates, and it also involves purchasing items at TripleClicks and setting up your own store to sell your items. This does not happen overnight, but the stability of this program is better than most of the "fly by night" programs being promoted on the Internet. Although SFI is presented as a program that requires little financial outlay, in my opinion, to be successful requires one to spend a limited budget on promoting your SFI business and making purchases, such as T-credits, PSAs, gift certificates for your achievers, and some advertising expenses.

I mentioned to my sponsor the notion of having live public meetings in your area to present the SFI opportunity. This would afford one the opportunity to outline exactly what this business opportunity involves and exactly how one would work the business. Then, the prospect goes into the business as an affiliate with his or her eyes open, knowing what to expect and what is expected of them to be successful. He seemed to like this idea.

In my limited experience in surfing the Internet, I have become aware of just how many individuals are looking for a quick fix without much effort on their part. SFI is definitely not a quick fix solution. It requires work and dedication. Rewards will come to those who understand this. Gery stated that some individuals don't make any substantial money until their third year ins SFI. I guess the question to pose the prospect is, 'Is your financial future worth spending three years working a proven program to attain your financial goals?

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Without knowing how one is recruiting others into SFI, I would have to say that a screening process might be in order. A little explanation beforehand in the splash page or gateway page could alert the potential affiliate of the daily responsibilities involved in being successful in SFI before they sign up. You could go as far as letting them know that this program is not a get rich overnight process. In reality, as Gery Carson states, it takes a few years to build up a team of executive affiliates,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

To ensure you only recruit serious affiliates, you need to either concentrate on recruiting in person, or, if recruiting online, start using your ads as filters rather than magnets.

- If you use the SFI banners, point them towards a blog or web page, which is set up to filter out freebie-seekers before sending them to your gateway.
- Use the Join My Team gateway. It talks about working on building a business.
- Make sure you use the word 'WORK' when describing how to build a business in SFI.
- Offer to help your recruits build their business using matching incentives. This could be an offer to reassign 1 PSA for each one they personally recruit in their 30 days, or to refund 50% of the price of an S-Builder unit, or a matching gift certificate if they buy the NMP in the first 10 days, or something along those lines.
- Say that your time is valuable, and you only spend it helping people who are willing to put in the time and effort to help themselves.

No matter how hard you try, you will still end up with a few people who don't take the opportunity seriously. But you will know by their actions (or lack thereof) who they are, and you can then focus your attention on those who do take it seriously.


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To ensure you only recruit serious affiliates, you need to either concentrate on recruiting in person, or, if recruiting online, start using your ads as filters rather than magnets.

- If you use the SFI banners, point them towards a blog or web page, which is set up to filter out freebie-seekers before sending them to your gateway.
- Use the Join My Team gateway. It talks about working on building a business.
- Make sure you use the word 'WORK' when describing how to build a
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 434 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

This is a very important question dealing with the quality of affiliates joining your SFI organization. In order to have higher probability of recruiting only serious affiliates, you need to develop a marketing strategy that target serious online business seekers, who are open and honest, goal oriented, self-motivated and results driven.

This is a matter of how you present SFI to your prospects in order to find out, if they are serious or not.

How do you go about in presenting SFI to your prospects, so that you have higher chances of sponsoring only serious and committed affiliates?

1. Before going to the content of what you’re going to tell to your prospects about SFI, first address the issue of sponsoring quality affiliates (serious affiliates).

It’s a waste of time to use the typical “prospecting” methods most network marketer are taught. Those methods tend to be more solicitation, and less attraction. Plus, most people you prospect are simply “suspects”. So don’t spend your time trying to convert suspects into prospects – simply learn how to attract true prospects, and you’ll skip a wasteful step most other network marketers always make. Generating qualified leads in your marketing campaign will increase your chances of finding only serious affiliates. After finding your true prospects, you can then go to the second step.

2. Communicate clearly to your prospects that SFI is legit and true home based business opportunity.

If you’re doing presentation before your prospects, you can distribute to them “SFI Grow A Second Income X-Card” or you can provide your SFI Gateway link on your flyers or online ads.

3. Communicate to your prospects that if they join SFI, they are not joining you but they are starting their own SFI business and that you are always there to support them.

4. Present the recent SFI facts and figures, showing that SFI is a real business and the earning potential is unlimited.

You can also mention briefly other sources of supplemental income streams such as ECA, SFI’s Pay-Per-Action, etc.

5. Discuss briefly SFI Compensation “The Plan” and be ready to answer any of your prospect’s questions.

6. Emphasize to them that you’re committed to their success.

Key Points to Remember:

To sponsor effectively and increase your chances of finding serious affiliates in your team, you’ll need to focus on your prospects getting what they want. Your function is to simply guide them through that process in a consultative way.

If what your prospects want to accomplish or achieve lies in what you offer, just lead them to that in a direct, but never pushy way so your prospects get what they want and you in turn you get what you want.

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This is a very important question dealing with the quality of affiliates joining your SFI organization. In order to have higher probability of recruiting only serious affiliates, you need to develop a marketing strategy that target serious online business seekers, who are open and honest, goal oriented, self-motivated and results driven.

This is a matter of how you present SFI to your prospects in order to find out, if they are serious or not.

How do you go about in presenting
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Hi Alvin

You can never guarantee what people will do after they join.
It's important to read and learn the Training information to help you make your team stronger.

Your job as a team leader is to give information about SFI as:
1) SFI is a real working internet business. Not a "get rich quick scheme"
2) Give prospective PSA an opportunity to become a business owner.
3) There is no investment to join.
4) Every affiliates is given, for free:
a) Marketing Strategies and Training - https://www.sfimg.com/Training/
b) Marketing Tools - https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter
c) Websites - https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayList
5) SFI is owning a business that you must work daily and learn by doing these actions:
a) Watch The "Start" video
b) Read "Basics"
c) Read and Answer "Launchpad"
d) Doing the To-Do List daily
e) New working affiliates receive products and a paycheck from the first day joining, learning and working. It will be slower with no investment, but this is an option. The sky is the limit!
f) Making a small investment within 10 days puts them on the "Fast Track"
To check out the Fast Track at: https://www.sfimg.com/FT

6) Some turn offs for many new or prospective affiliates are:
a) 'Network Marketing"
This is just another word for advertising. Even owning a brick & mortar business means having to advertise being open or specials, etc. SFI is no different.
Posting for new Affiliates or showing specials that are on TripleClicks is "Marketing" or advertising.
b) "Multilevel Business"
Multilevel is how you receive your paycheck. If you work hard you will receive a bigger paycheck and benefits.
Many people say, "I'm not going to work for someone else to become profitable!"
But every company works on the multilevel system for a paycheck.
For example:
I) If you are a teller in a bank or a sales person at a store, you receive a paycheck on what you do.
II) The Manager, President, Owner and/or Stock Holders receives a bigger check from the profits you have helped make.
III) Each person receives a percentage of the profits on the business, this is called Multilevel.
IV) To check out SFI Benefits go to:https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/ComparisonChart

7) ) What is TripleClicks - https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=20134
a) To increase your income sell on your T-Connect page or an ECA
b) What is ECA? https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=20134&

8) Teaching your team to become leaders of their own team will make them and yourself happier. Also, making your team more successful and stronger.
a) Learn how to do this by reading "How To Be An Awesome Sponsor" at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=191295
b) "8 Lessons of Leadership" on the Forum at: https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?post_id=26773
c) "How to attract Affiliates" at: https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=20134
d) "How do I get my downline to focus on duplication? Read "How do I explain the importance of duplication to them?" on Ask SC at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=ask_sc_question&id=720

Please don't overload anyone new with all this. I believe you need to know this to answer questions and help solve a problem they are having.

I hope this is helpful. Much Success and Many Blessings

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Hi Alvin

You can never guarantee what people will do after they join.
It's important to read and learn the Training information to help you make your team stronger.

Your job as a team leader is to give information about SFI as:
1) SFI is a real working internet business. Not a "get rich quick scheme"
2) Give prospective PSA an opportunity to become a business owner.
3) There is no investment to join.
4) Every affiliates is given, for free:

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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

To filter out those prospects who are ‘only looking’ and recruit only the serious affiliates, you need to be very deliberate about how your ads are worded and what you communicate to your prospects and new affiliates.

You need to be absolutely honest will all your prospects and tell them about SFI as it is. There is no need to sugar-coat the truth. By all means highlight the positives but the point is to simply give them the facts about SFI. Your prospects and new affiliates will decide for themselves if they want to join/stay with SFI or not. I suspect that you will recruit only the serious ones by doing this.

The last thing you want to do is spend hours trying to coach someone who is not really interested or serious about SFI. You also don’t want a large ‘team’ full of deadwood who are never going to go anywhere with their businesses. So if you can screen these people out early the better.

In my ads, I always include the fact that after joining, they can opt-out without obligation. I also include the fact that SFI is free to join and they do not have to spend any monies if they do not want to.

In my welcome letter, I spell out the following:
- SFI is free to join but it is not a free ride.
- They run their own businesses and how much they earn depends on their efforts and drive
- SFI does not pay them anything, they earn their own money.
- This is not a ‘Get rich Quick’ scheme. There is no such thing. They have to be patient, determined and persistent in growing their business. It takes time.
- If they don’t work, their businesses will not grow and they make no money.

I ask them to have a look at http://www.sfimg.com/ReviewSIM/SFIComparisonChart.pdf, comparing SFI with other similar business opportunities. I also at the same time give them the option of opting out.

Like you, I want to recruit only serious affiliates and that is why I am very deliberate in what I tell them from the word go. I am brutally honest with them.

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To filter out those prospects who are ‘only looking’ and recruit only the serious affiliates, you need to be very deliberate about how your ads are worded and what you communicate to your prospects and new affiliates.

You need to be absolutely honest will all your prospects and tell them about SFI as it is. There is no need to sugar-coat the truth. By all means highlight the positives but the point is to simply give them the facts about SFI. Your prospects and new affiliates will
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lazar's 69 other Ask SC answers

We all lay our hopes high in almost each PSA we get,I know it.However,it turns out that many of them are not so serious about SFI,for different reasons.

When searching for new PSAs,maybe you can look more for quality then only for quantity.That should be common goal for everyone.


Basic things you should ask prospects are:
- if they have a computer and internet connection
- do they know basic English
(the late is not necessary,since there's Google,but still it's quite welcome if they are OK in English)

That alone won't bing you serious affiliates,but as I said that would be basic criteria.Furthermore,you can tell them (or ask them) some of the following:
- if they are able to work constantly (each day)
- if they are willing to learn more about SFI and this business in general (self-training)
- if they are able to invest their time and some of their money (not much)
- if they are able to promote their business online and offline (or,if not,are they willing to learn it)
- if they are able to work in a team (the winning team),possibly consisting of different persons (man and women,young and old,people from all the world)
- do they realize this is not "get quickly rich" scheme
- do they have dreams and goals


If the new prospect meets all above criteria,I would say that chances are pretty high that you have a very,very serious prospect in front of you.Try not to loose him or her.
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We all lay our hopes high in almost each PSA we get,I know it.However,it turns out that many of them are not so serious about SFI,for different reasons.

When searching for new PSAs,maybe you can look more for quality then only for quantity.That should be common goal for everyone.


Basic things you should ask prospects are:
- if they have a computer and internet connection
- do they know basic English
(the late is not necessary,since there's Google,but still
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