Affiliate since: 01/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Janet's 17 other Ask SC answers

I would suggest to people that are strapped for time but have the funds available to invest financially in SFI that they first of all set up a standing order for 1,500 VP which will earn them EA2 status automatically each month as this is the minimum level required to start earning within SFI - I assume that part of their reason for wanting to invest $$ into SFI is to get some sort of return on their investment!

At this point though I would NOT be encouraging them to use their standing order to purchase PSA's or any team building products because building a good, reliable, working team requires a commitment of time, and time is what they don't have. I would suggest that they'd be better off using their SO to purchase products they'd normally buy elsewhere (transfer buying) instead and that subsequently doing reviews on those products will earn them valuable VP and shares in the Executive Pool each month.

If they think they could find a few spare minutes every so often then I'd suggest they include a few Tcredits in their SO and look at playing some of the games when time permits or listing and selling things they might have lying around the house that they're not using anymore. This will get them involved financially with SFI without having to commit much, if any, time.

Once they've done that, they could then consider the following options:

- employ someone to research, build and maintain a blog, website or social media account for them (I assume they wouldn't have the time to do this themselves) through which they can promote and sell TripleClicks products, including Tcredits. Each time they get a new customer that person becomes their Personally Referred Member for life. Corporate looks after all PRMs so they won't need to spend any time maintaining a relationship with these people but each time their PRMs buy something from TC they'll get sales commission ie a return on their investment in SFI.

- get involved in the SFI Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA) program by investing money in highly effective advertising campaigns that bring in qualified sign-ups for which they get paid a 'bounty'.

- refer local businesses to the ECA program and earn 10% of the commission volume of sales those ECAs make through TC, for life.

- look at becoming an ECA themselves and then hire or go into partnership with someone to run their store for them if they are unable to commit the time themselves. Incidentally being an ECA does not require becoming or maintaining EA status.

These activities will all help get them involved in SFI / TC and earning a return on their investment. It will give them the opportunity to learn more about SFI and if they get curious enough and feel that they can free up the time needed to build a team in SFI then they simply build on the business they've already started.
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I would suggest to people that are strapped for time but have the funds available to invest financially in SFI that they first of all set up a standing order for 1,500 VP which will earn them EA2 status automatically each month as this is the minimum level required to start earning within SFI - I assume that part of their reason for wanting to invest $$ into SFI is to get some sort of return on their investment!

At this point though I would NOT be encouraging them to use their standing
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 152 | Read GT's 63 other Ask SC answers

Hello, Farouk:

The best way to help people that want to get involved with SFI who do not have time, but do have money to invest is to a) be honest with them about the requirements of this business, and; b) give them a plan of action.

Here are my thoughts:

a) Honesty: SFI is a hands-on business. It requires regular attention and involvement. It is not a set-and-forget business where you can do actions once, then leave them on autopilot.

b) Action Plan: Even though this is a hands-on business that requires a certain amount of daily involvement, there ARE some things that can be automated.

Daily Requirements (personal involvement):

- Visiting the SFI Affiliate Center to do the To-Do List and Red Tab actions (to earn your daily VersaPoints).

- Reading the SFI News items on the Alerts page. This is vital in order to keep up-to-date with everything.

- Following a few of the topic threads in the SFI Forum. What a person follows and participates in depends on their level of activity and interest, and on what concerns or issues they may be dealing with at the time.

- Checking messages in the SFI Message Center (in case there are new developments, or Team achievements or issues to follow-up on).

- Monitoring your Scoreboard page, Movers page and genealogy to keep up-to-date on the progress of your team members.

Automated Actions:

- Basic Standing Orders: Set up TripleClicks Standing Orders for TCredits, the S-Builder Co-op and PSAs To Go. This will automatically earn the VP necessary for Executive Affiliate or Team Leader status, and will also give you TCRedits that can be used for various purposes. You will also be adding new PSAs to your team every month.

- Advertising: While it is recommended to spend time regularly researching new advertising sources, this is one area you can automate by finding and enlisting the services of a few dependable E-Commerce Associates at TripleClicks. Set up some advertising on a monthly Standing Order.

- If you have a website or blog, you can hire a professional writer to write regular content. The content can focus on various aspects of SFI, TripleClicks and Internet Marketing in general.

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That is my perspective on the issue and a few suggestions for an affiliate with money to invest, but little time for personal involvement.

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Hello, Farouk:

The best way to help people that want to get involved with SFI who do not have time, but do have money to invest is to a) be honest with them about the requirements of this business, and; b) give them a plan of action.

Here are my thoughts:

a) Honesty: SFI is a hands-on business. It requires regular attention and involvement. It is not a set-and-forget business where you can do actions once, then leave them on autopilot.

b) Action Plan: Even
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Farouk Ishiaku.

Having resources, from the start, to invest in SFI is a highly desirable.

However, money cannot buy everything.

For instance, money cannot get you to be a highly successful team leader.

It can help you build a team. But, you have to spend some time to motivate your team.

Thus, we have to keep in mind the following:

First, anyone who wishes to be successful with SFI will be well advised to understand that there is a minimum of time, about 30 minutes, that needs to be allocated to SFI's daily activity.

Second, the best way to help people who have resources, but little time, is to bring them to understand the requirements to succeed with SFI: Focused drive and smart work backed by resources geared towards sponsoring new affiliates and teaching them duplication.

I personally invest both time and money.

For instance, this month I have a large standing order; I pay for advertisement; I buy PSAs to Go and I use services offered by some of the ECAs to build my business.

I also use gift cards to attract potential prospects.

In summary, the above is an illustration on how one can grow their SFI business.
In addition, other options to build the SFI business may be through:

(1) building a website and/or paid advertisement to sponsor affiliates;
(2) Prizes such as gift certificates, allocation of TCredits and other perks to motivate and teach duplication to their downline;
(3) taking part of all the Tripleclicks activities to earn valuable actions points with the auctions, games, product reviews, the surveys, the spin and win, just to name a few.

This is the way money can be used to grow SFI.

However, as stated at the beginning, time is also an important resource.

One cannot be fully successful with SFI without allocating time to it.
At minimum, one needs to log every day, or risk losing valuable points and the ability to build a significant daily streak.

If we want to lead others to success, we have to show them the best example.


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Hello, Farouk Ishiaku.

Having resources, from the start, to invest in SFI is a highly desirable.

However, money cannot buy everything.

For instance, money cannot get you to be a highly successful team leader.

It can help you build a team. But, you have to spend some time to motivate your team.

Thus, we have to keep in mind the following:

First, anyone who wishes to be successful with SFI will be well advised to understand that there
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Affiliate since: 10/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sarah's 1 other Ask SC answers

I would start by explaining that one of the many advantages to SFI compared with other IM business' is that they provide many amazing tools that cater to all types of affiliate, whether your short on time, capital to invest, IM experience or any other barriers you can think of there are tools already available in the affiliate centre designed to help you on your path to success.

It is a good idea to list all your strengths and limitations and armed with this information create a business plan.
In this scenario
Strength - capital to invest
Limitation - time

Business plan
1.Encourage affiliate to set up a standing order. This must have a minimum 1500 VP but higher is better especially if you have capital to invest. This ensures they will reach EA status and be eligible to earn from multiple income streams even if they are to busy to log during the month.

2. The standing order should include any or all of the following business building products
- SBuilder Co-op - earn both SFI Affiliates and TripleClicks referrals without lifting a finger just let SFI do the advertising for you.
- PSA to go - direct purchase of SFI Affiliates another way to build your downline
- Tcredits - Like currency in TripleClicks and can be used for games, auctions, listing unwanted items for sale, making purchases and more.. VP is always a good idea because you earn VP & MRP both when you purchase them & in most chases when you spend them as well.

3. Check out TripleClicks for many more IM resources like done for you ad campaigns

4. Log in whenever possible and utilise your time spent in the affiliate centre wisely, complete training & keep up to date with any news or changes to the business model assess any positive or negative changes what impacts they have on you then update your business plan accordingly

Good Luck
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I would start by explaining that one of the many advantages to SFI compared with other IM business' is that they provide many amazing tools that cater to all types of affiliate, whether your short on time, capital to invest, IM experience or any other barriers you can think of there are tools already available in the affiliate centre designed to help you on your path to success.

It is a good idea to list all your strengths and limitations and armed with this information create a business
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

They have money but not the time!

This is actually rather unfortunate because this is a people business. We may spend a lot of time on the internet and don't regularly front up to people face to face but this business is built on relationship. Relationships with other people.

To build good relationships we need to regularly communicate with our clients or customers, with our team members. We cannot be good sponsors if we do not train, encourage and help our affiliates.

The people with the money can certainly just simply purchase PSAs but if they do not connect and sponsor them, those people that are recruited will most likely loose heart and leave. Unfortunately they will take with them an unfavourable impression of SFI and quite often people do not keep these to themselves. They spread them and this tarnishes SFI's reputation.

I would try to help these people by letting them know that while they can purchase and quickly build up the number of PSAs in their teams using the power of their money, it will all come to nothing if they do not put time into the business. They need to invest not just money but also time into the business. Time to sponsor affiliates and communicate with customers.

This is not an investment business. This is a business built on relationships: people to people.


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They have money but not the time!

This is actually rather unfortunate because this is a people business. We may spend a lot of time on the internet and don't regularly front up to people face to face but this business is built on relationship. Relationships with other people.

To build good relationships we need to regularly communicate with our clients or customers, with our team members. We cannot be good sponsors if we do not train, encourage and help our affiliates.

The
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read TE Kate's 7 other Ask SC answers

This question , to me, is answered very short and directly.

1. Set-up a Standing Order of the following:
S-Builder 1 unit $22.00 VP 280.00
PSA To Go 50 pack $126.35 VP 1622.00

This Affiliate would very soon see results. Even if he was NOT active! Once he sees his team become active, trust me, he'll begin to make time to get his act together and lead!

I dream of such an Affiliate! All he really needs to do is have a WHY this reason is important to him to make it work.

Time is not required, truly.

It certainly enhances his chances of being successful, but there are some PSA that simply do NOT need daily supervision, Affiliates that see the possibilities that SFI offers, Affiliates that will succeed no matter the direction and care given from above.




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This question , to me, is answered very short and directly.

1. Set-up a Standing Order of the following:
S-Builder 1 unit $22.00 VP 280.00
PSA To Go 50 pack $126.35 VP 1622.00

This Affiliate would very soon see results. Even if he was NOT active! Once he sees his team become active, trust me, he'll begin to make time to get his act together and lead!

I dream of such an Affiliate! All he really needs to do is have a WHY this reason
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Affiliate since: 10/07/2014, Power Rank: 530 | Read Alvin's 86 other Ask SC answers

What a great question!

That is a very good situation to be in, and you are very lucky!

Here is the problem; many times we have new Affiliates who join our teams stating they do not have the time, and the tasks are too many to accomplish every day.

This should give you some idea of the danger you face in a situation where one has no time, but has plenty of money to invest back into the business. This person must learn just as we all do. Money alone will not educate anyone. It takes time to learn how to teach new members the SFI system and help them become comfortable with it.

What will you do if your Affiliate with so much money does not know how to coach or train the new Affiliates assigned to them? You will have to do it for them.

I have a person like this who decided to wait for me to send out the welcomes,and other tips and encouragement for them because they were too lazy to do it themselves. I know how tiresome this can be.

This will not be fair to you, but if you are really seriously wanting to be successful you will do it, and in turn let your lazy Affiliate know they do not deserve any new members if then new Affiliates are wiser than they are, or they have more knowledge of the SFI business because all that lazy person can do is make purchases at the TripleClicks store.

We will call this person a customer until this person takes on the initiative to make time to learn the business like every other serious minded person will do.

When the next award of PSAs through the Co-Op arrives, be sure to leave the person out, and remind that person how they could be earning income if they could qualify as a Team Member or Leader.

Make sure you post your PSA awards to your "Stream" and Leadership page. Ask your rich customer to check it out, and get back to you. Use this as an opportunity to share with your customer what they are missing.

This is what I would continue to do; work with those workers, and realize the spenders as customers only.

Thank you for allowing me to share.
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What a great question!

That is a very good situation to be in, and you are very lucky!

Here is the problem; many times we have new Affiliates who join our teams stating they do not have the time, and the tasks are too many to accomplish every day.

This should give you some idea of the danger you face in a situation where one has no time, but has plenty of money to invest back into the business. This person must learn just as we all do. Money alone will not educate
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 177 | Read Olusola's 92 other Ask SC answers

Basically, two things are essential to growing a successful SFI business: money and time. Actually, the combination of money and time give the best result as far as this business is concerned; but where that is not possible, the availability of money could bridge some of the deficiencies lack of time would generate.

Time is needed for logging in for the daily tasks, weekly tasks, monthly tasks. Beside, time is needed to read through an avalanche of Training Materials available at the SFI Affiliate Center.
Also,a bulk of the time is spent on follow up activities; and equally demanding is time spent in free advertising: posting of ads in many free classified, social media, warm markets etc.

Hence, when an Affiliate doesn't have the time for all these essential activities but have money, the ideal way to help him is to make his money do all these tasks for him as far it is possible.

Therefore, I'll advice him systematically about the essential things he needs to do with money in lieu of time.

1. Monthly Qualification. One of the essential things he needs to do monthly is to qualify for at least an Executive Affiliate status. I would advice him to set up a Standing Order of 1500 VersaPoints, preferably for 125 TCredits. This takes away the headache of qualification monthly.

2. Sponsoring of Affiliates and Referring of TripleClicks Members. Another important task is that of sponsoring PSAs and PRMs. Since he doesn't have time, I'll counsel him to go for paid advertisements. Some of the easiest ones are the ones available at TripleClicks. He should purchase some shares of S-Builder, buy PSA To Go and also purchase PSAs from verified ECA at TripleClicks. He could also graduate to using Pay Per Clicks (PPC). With regular flow of Affiliates and Customers; he is in business.

3. Following up of PSAs. One of the time consuming part of the business is following up of Sponsored Affiliates. Since he doesn't have time, the one thing he should do is prepare good follow up tutorial and subscribe to an Autoresponder. He should then ensure his PSAs subscribe to this for training.

4. Familiarize his downline with SFI resources. He should quickly introduce the Forum, ASK SC, SFI Training etc to his downline as places to get quick and guru support for their business.

To complement all these, he should just find time to periodically log in to assess his business and make relevant changes to all he has put in place as auto pilot for his business.
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Basically, two things are essential to growing a successful SFI business: money and time. Actually, the combination of money and time give the best result as far as this business is concerned; but where that is not possible, the availability of money could bridge some of the deficiencies lack of time would generate.

Time is needed for logging in for the daily tasks, weekly tasks, monthly tasks. Beside, time is needed to read through an avalanche of Training Materials available at the SFI
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thank you for your question.

I feel that the first thing we need to do is tell them that they
will definitely have to find some time for their SFI business.
It is great that they have the money to invest here but without the time
to invest, their business will not grow as they are hoping.

They will need to log in to welcome their new affiliates to SFI.
They will also need to log in to do their To-Do-List and to read all
they can about what SFI entails. SFI is not a company, that you just
invest your money and wait for your return on your investments.

SFI is all about Duplication and working to build a great business. As with any
business, you have to put the time and effort into it for the business to be
successful.

We all want new affiliates who have the money to invest in SFI so they can
set up a Standing Order for TCredits and S-builder and PSA's to go, and to become
a team leader, but if they do purchase S-Builder and PSA's to go, they will need to help them
and be there for them, which means putting in the time.


To me,to run a successful business, (any business), you will need to put in
time as well as money. That is just the way it goes.Even in big corporations, the money
was great to have, but they still had to put in the time to make their business work.


One more thing, be "Gentle" when you tell your affiliate that they need to put in the time
as well as the money for a great business, otherwise they may not take it very well.


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Thank you for your question.

I feel that the first thing we need to do is tell them that they
will definitely have to find some time for their SFI business.
It is great that they have the money to invest here but without the time
to invest, their business will not grow as they are hoping.

They will need to log in to welcome their new affiliates to SFI.
They will also need to log in to do their To-Do-List and to read all
they can about what SFI entails.
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Affiliate since: 07/25/2012, Power Rank: 179 | Read Fabrizio's 13 other Ask SC answers

This is a great question as this topic has to do with the key to success. Why?

Because there is a certitude: the vast majority of people worldwide don’t have time or don’t have enough energy, to work seriously and persistently to a part-time business. But they have money to invest!

It means that if we are not able to offer an “easy” way, particularly directed to this kind of people, we are literally wasting the 90% of the potential that our great business actually has.

That’s why we don’t have to be afraid to show people a complete strategy which shows them clearly from A to Z, how much they should invest, in what they should invest and why they should invest.

As SFI offers FOR FREE al the tools and training they need in what they should invest?

The answer sounds obvious: in advertising!

The problem is that investors only invest if they can calculate what their R.O.I. – Return On Investment, could possibly be.

So, if you are not able to show them what their R.O.I. could potentially be, forget about raising this kind of people.

That’s why I’m focusing the most of my communication efforts on the “SFI 12-month plan to financial freedom”. In just 2 short videos, this strategy is clearly explained and all SFI Affiliates could put it in practice and share it right away.

Which is the same thing you should do, if you don’t have a similar plan to show to your investors.
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This is a great question as this topic has to do with the key to success. Why?

Because there is a certitude: the vast majority of people worldwide don’t have time or don’t have enough energy, to work seriously and persistently to a part-time business. But they have money to invest!

It means that if we are not able to offer an “easy” way, particularly directed to this kind of people, we are literally wasting the 90% of the potential that our great business actually has.

That’s
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