Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

Having been lucky myself to have a one-team member with me when I just started and having had the experience with other members who do not have a team, I have mixed feelings regarding taking up a leadership role without a team.

You could argue that you can become a Team Leader and then develop your team as you move forward because you will become an example to your team. However, you run the risk of getting discouraged if you do not get active members under you within the first couple of months of your joining SFI. This is particularly frustrating if you are investing in SFI by way of a Standing Order and your return on investment is not showing at all.

We currently have affiliates who have invested continuously for a period of time and not received any returns, and they are Bronze Team Leaders (BTL). At times, they have found it difficult to maintain their rank and this can be very demoralizing.

In view of the above, I would strongly suggest that you decide whether it is wise to become a BTL and then develop a team that you are sure will become active or start advertising for affiliates and then ensure that they help you qualify as a team leader. This will not only bring in an income but you are all set to build a strong foundation for your business. Remember your progress is a guideline for your team members so however you proceed, always take up a positive outlook as this will be an inspiration for your team members.




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Having been lucky myself to have a one-team member with me when I just started and having had the experience with other members who do not have a team, I have mixed feelings regarding taking up a leadership role without a team.

You could argue that you can become a Team Leader and then develop your team as you move forward because you will become an example to your team. However, you run the risk of getting discouraged if you do not get active members under you within the first couple
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

Go for the Bronze and remain there. The reason why I say this is because this is the only one you can have and maintain without a team, if you want to go for the silver then you can do what I did which I cannot explain in detail here because I don't have the time so you can check out my post in the forum for the details. If you go for the silver by following the plan that I did it will be very costly every month but it gave me ten thousand sales VP.

So without a team of active PSA just settle for the Bronze so that you can co-sponsor affiliates every month when you receive a share of Home CSA . These get assigned to all team leaders when other affiliates lose their EA rank and the CSA's get forfeited soif you are a Bronze team leader you receive a share each month.

The second reason is for you to spend time Advertising to Sponsor affiliates and build a team of 5 or ten active affiliates in your first generation and then slowly but surely you get more active affiliates that you can help get 1500 VP in the first month then you reassign to get 5 points each so then you build the next 6 generations deep then this along with active Co Sponsored affiliates will give you VersaPoints Matching.

Then after. Having 6 generations deep you will be able to go for the Silver and then Gold and so on.

This is made possible if your team regularly buys products you will have money to continually pay your Standing Order.


For Sales VP needed to maintain your team Leader Rank then you have to either have a 2000VP Standing Order or you have to get this VP by selling products to your TC members.

Smile and go for the Bronze!
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Go for the Bronze and remain there. The reason why I say this is because this is the only one you can have and maintain without a team, if you want to go for the silver then you can do what I did which I cannot explain in detail here because I don't have the time so you can check out my post in the forum for the details. If you go for the silver by following the plan that I did it will be very costly every month but it gave me ten thousand sales VP.

So without a team of active PSA just
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Yes, you should go for the rank of team leader asap because when you get there you will have a team! It may be small but it really only takes 5 movers to build a 6 figure income in about 2 years! This said, will your first few members all be superstars? It depends. The key is to keep recruiting and supporting those you have.

There are so many benefits to becoming a team leader but I'll just list a few:

1. More income potential. The larger your active network, the more money you will make.

2. Your team grows on auto-pilot! Free second home CSAs are given to every TL each month.

3 Expedited ticket support. SFIMG takes care of all of it's members but especially TLs.

4. Greater resources and tools to grow your business. Check out the benefits comparison chart here: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/ComparisonChart
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Yes, you should go for the rank of team leader asap because when you get there you will have a team! It may be small but it really only takes 5 movers to build a 6 figure income in about 2 years! This said, will your first few members all be superstars? It depends. The key is to keep recruiting and supporting those you have.

There are so many benefits to becoming a team leader but I'll just list a few:

1. More income potential. The larger your active network, the more
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 197 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers

Starting as affiliate and EA you have PSAs and CSAs under you as a sponsor and cosponsor. You have a team as appeared in genealogy. You are leader and a sponsor. Any of the team members active or not active is still a team and you are leading them.

Team Leader as BTL, STL, GTL, PTL are not permanent. They depend of your month achievement. They are subjected to change. You have a monthly Standing of 125 tcredits or any other Standing Order in addition to earn a minimum of 1500 vps which automatically qualify you as EA.
Using your 125 tcredits to earn MRPs and avps, you can easily make sales of more than 1500 svps and earn up to 500 to 600 avps.

If you won in tcredits in pricebenders, would not not participate more in auctions , games etc. to earn avps? Or you have won tcedits, MRPs, VPs in Daily Grand, Daily Crown, and T-time contests? All these may contribute to your monthly AVPs and you earn 1000 avps to be Bronze Team Leader?

You earn BTL purely on your own effort and ability to manage your VPs.with daily log-in.

I would encourage you to be BTL and experience the joy and your achievement and leading a good example of a progressive leader. By this example your downline may emulate your example.

Secondly, get benefits, commissions a,d Patching Points as BTL. With persistence and determination your will have an active team..

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Starting as affiliate and EA you have PSAs and CSAs under you as a sponsor and cosponsor. You have a team as appeared in genealogy. You are leader and a sponsor. Any of the team members active or not active is still a team and you are leading them.

Team Leader as BTL, STL, GTL, PTL are not permanent. They depend of your month achievement. They are subjected to change. You have a monthly Standing of 125 tcredits or any other Standing Order in addition to earn a minimum of 1500 vps which
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

If they are ready to do what it takes to keep that rank yes.

In the first month of membership it's pretty easy to become a Team Leader, you do the actions of your training program and get started on daily, weekly, and monthly actions and you will make it to EA with no issues. You can then place a standing order and be a Bronze Team Leader or higher.

Come month two however you will have to have a plan for getting the remaining action VersaPoints required to maintain Team Leader status.

For many they just buy additional t-credits and play auctions and games to earn their action VP 1 at a time. Sure, you can maintain BTL status that way but it's going to cost you a lot of money to do and beyond your Second Home CSA share you get you wont be able to honestly say you have a team that you built. Being a BTL for a second month does have one benefit and that is a $10 bonus added to your TripleClicks members account, which can help pay your standing order or help you buy something extra, but your cost will make that look like chicken feed.

The other option is to put your focus on recruiting active PSA who become EA2 during your month 2 which means you will need to be recruiting heavy during your month of training. For most that means investing in S-builder and PSA-to-Go or other PSA sources among our ECA.

You will only need a few who reach EA2 to help you make BTL but it can take hundreds of these referrals to get 2-3 active PSA to work with. Unless they become EA in month 1 and EA2 in month 2 you won't get the 100VP or more Sponsor Bonus based on their rank in time to qualify you for BTL in your second month.

One thing that helps me maintain my status and has even lead to time as a Silver Team Leader is answering these AskSC questions. You earn Action VP for each top 10 answer but that requires that you read your training materials and comprehend all you are learning, study answers given at the forum for similar question, and be able to articulate what you have learned so others can understand your answers.

No matter what you do it will take an investment of either time or money to be a team leader every month and the easiest to sustain is by having a team. You can even save money by focusing a lot of energy on creating PRM Sales at TripleClicks to cover your Sales VP requirements. The commissions you earn can be used to pay your standing order and even buy extra t-credits so you can reach an even higher rank faster but all of this requires that you focus on your training.

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If they are ready to do what it takes to keep that rank yes.

In the first month of membership it's pretty easy to become a Team Leader, you do the actions of your training program and get started on daily, weekly, and monthly actions and you will make it to EA with no issues. You can then place a standing order and be a Bronze Team Leader or higher.

Come month two however you will have to have a plan for getting the remaining action VersaPoints required to maintain Team Leader
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 347 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

I think there is merit in becoming a team leader before one has affiliates in his team. There are some obvious monetary reasons, but they will be very small to non-existent with no real team.

The real value, I feel, of become an early team leader and maintaining it is in preparation for the time when you are actually a team leader. Most new affiliates will look at your profile, see how long you've been in, and what your rank is. They want to be lead by an experienced leader. They are more likely to contact you and follow what you say. The longer you can be a TL, the more confidence they have in you.

The longer time before you have a team filled with active members will give you more time to practice your leadership skills. Being positive and able to turn the negatives into positives. Being an encourager and helping your team to have confidence in themselves. Learning the ways of SFI and internet marketing. Developing effective letters that will be sent to your team when they get into SFI, when you reassign someone to them, when you are an encourager and must give pointers for an affiliate to change something. And so on.

Always use this time to improve your performance as a Team Leader. And someday, you will look at your Genealogy and see, not the inactives, but that it is speckled with successful people.

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I think there is merit in becoming a team leader before one has affiliates in his team. There are some obvious monetary reasons, but they will be very small to non-existent with no real team.

The real value, I feel, of become an early team leader and maintaining it is in preparation for the time when you are actually a team leader. Most new affiliates will look at your profile, see how long you've been in, and what your rank is. They want to be lead by an experienced leader. They are more
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 428 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

SFI team leadership is recognition by SFI of an affiliate’s achievements as proven by his or her record on the following basis:

TL Title Requirements
1 BTL 3,000 to 3, 999 vp with 1500 min/2000 max from sales or purchases
2 STL 4, 000 to 4,999 vp with 1500 min/2, 500 max from sales or purchases
3 GTL 5,000 to 5,999 vp with 1,500 min/3,000 max from sales or purchases
4 PTL 6,000 or more vp with 1,500 min/3,500 max from sales or purchases
5 DTL 1, 500 or more sales vp plus 5 PTLs on his or her first level.

As you can see from above, every Team Leader needs a minimum of 1500 versa points in sales or purchases. So with the exception of DTL, it is possible for anyone to reach these positions (BTL to PTL) without a team. Diamond Team Leadership on the other hand requires that besides your 1500 or more sales versa points you have at least five Platinum Leaders at your first level, implying that regardless of how many versa points you earn, you still need a team to achieve it.

A leader is someone who has influence, and in terms of SFI leadership that means influence over his team, which includes PSAs as well as CSAs. Apart from this, it also involves influence over other people and activities that lead to building a successful business. This influence on his team can also be seen by how the PSAs or CSAs rate the leader. A rating of at least 3* is recommended.

I think moving from EA to other positions is progressive and how fast you go up depends on the output of your work input, commitment, persistence and a never quit mindset. It is possible to move from EA to BTL without an active team but it is also easy to revert to EA. This is because the stability of the position of team leadership is reflected by the strength of the team. With a standing order of at least 1500 versa points (EA), it is of course still possible to maintain your BTL position through other activities like getting action versa points from Pricebenders Auction but the return on investment is not the same as that of a BTL with a strong team behind him or her.

Should one become a leader without a team?
I believe the objective should be to build a successful team or business and everything else will follow from there. Your motto should be “Behind every successful leader, is a strong team!”

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SFI team leadership is recognition by SFI of an affiliate’s achievements as proven by his or her record on the following basis:

TL Title Requirements
1 BTL 3,000 to 3, 999 vp with 1500 min/2000 max from sales or purchases
2 STL 4, 000 to 4,999 vp with 1500 min/2, 500 max from sales or purchases
3 GTL 5,000 to 5,999 vp with 1,500 min/3,000 max from sales or purchases
4 PTL 6,000 or more vp with 1,500 min/3,500 max from sales or
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Affiliate since: 03/13/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Reuben's 70 other Ask SC answers

Hi Waleed,
1. Should a person go for the rank of Team Leader if they don't yet have a team?" Well this is an interesting & tricky question. Both sides of the coin are true as far as this question goes. Off course each opinion has its own “pros & cons”.
2. As far as my experience goes, I became a BTL at the end of second month after joining SFI. I had opted for the SO of 125 Tcredits @ $36.25 during that month. During the third & fourth months, I had a couple of active PSAs( Ea-2 & BTL) & a CSA (EA-2). But the next succeeding month – i.e. the fifth month- all of those active PSAs/CSAs went to ‘sleep’. The next four months tried to ‘wake’ them up with all the sources /tool available in SFI to communicate with them; but it was of no use. I had continued this SO for eight months .Suddenly, I realized that I was investing a large sum regularly for practically no returns- low monthly income in cents not even dollars-.I realised that it was not a good idea as it costed money to maintain my BTL. I had a meager income of couple of dollars in two months since there was no benefit as my team was inactive or non-existent. Hence these circumstances forced me to cancel my SO & to revert back to EA-2.
3. Presently, I am waiting patiently to have enough regular EA2s in my team so that I will be benefited from matching VPs of my active PSAs/CSAs. Once I get two to three active EA-2, I will restart my SO! Jumping in and upgrading to a team leader before you have an active team of affiliates –minimum EA-2 rank is real, utter foolishness. Well, my opinion is that its meaningless to invest money & spend your time becoming a TL, until you have an active, well performing team!
4. Well, the other side of the coin is that becoming a TL builds your team faster for you because:
a. You have a share in the 2nd Home CSAs each month. .
b. From your investment of a SO of 125 T-credits for becoming a TL, you can buy 1-2 units of S Builder to help you in getting a team.
c. From your T-Credits bought through your SO, you can get PSAs from the Price Benders Auction or the Bid and Build Program.
d. You can also build your team through games by collecting MRP that can be used to purchase S- builder or PSAs to Go.
5. The only pre-condition is that you should be able to afford spending on a SO for $36.25
6. This option requires lot of investment. So if you are ready to invest, make sure you have a realistic plan that will sustain it for you.
7. As entrepreneurs, one should make use & recycle the profit made to run the business. Creation of a profit oriented plan will aid us in building a successful SFI business. In course of time we will realize that we are not at a loss if we become a TL without having a team. Finally, we will end up having one.
8.To summarize, the option of becoming a team leader with or without an active performing team should be left to the individual’s finances & his strategic plans!
Hope this has been useful!



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Hi Waleed,
1. Should a person go for the rank of Team Leader if they don't yet have a team?" Well this is an interesting & tricky question. Both sides of the coin are true as far as this question goes. Off course each opinion has its own “pros & cons”.
2. As far as my experience goes, I became a BTL at the end of second month after joining SFI. I had opted for the SO of 125 Tcredits @ $36.25 during that month. During the third & fourth months, I had a couple of active
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2015, Power Rank: 59 | Read Christine's 19 other Ask SC answers

I believe you should go for the rank of Team Leader even if you have no team yet.

Firstly it gives you a booster in building your self confidence.
You will automatically receive CSA's as a result of being a Team Leader,
So you can slowly start learning the responsibilities and you always have
others to help you too, like your Sponsor, Co-Sponsor and further upline.
If all that fails you still have the forum where everyone is very helpful.

There is also plenty of information on how to be a Good Sponsor.
In my opinion the more committed you are the higher you will want to go,
and the higher you want to go the more committed you become.
So why not start as soon as you can keeping yourself motivated and determined
to succeed.
It is quite common to find that you get quite a number of inactive CSA's and PSA's
so you have plenty of time, especially at the beginning to look after your active team
members as you go learning Leadership yourself.

Remember you would like your team to become Team Leaders as soon as possible,
so what better way to show them than by becoming a Team Leader Yourself.

Aim high, stay focused and put in the work to learn....
Follow the teachings of those who have a good active teams...
Above all be honest when you start receiving you down line and gain their trust.
Honest and Positive people are the best teachers...

Hope this helps




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I believe you should go for the rank of Team Leader even if you have no team yet.

Firstly it gives you a booster in building your self confidence.
You will automatically receive CSA's as a result of being a Team Leader,
So you can slowly start learning the responsibilities and you always have
others to help you too, like your Sponsor, Co-Sponsor and further upline.
If all that fails you still have the forum where everyone is very helpful.

There is also plenty
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Waleed,

Nice question and i would be quite honest with you.

Being a team leader without a team is usually not advisable cause you bear majority of the cost.

People who join sfi quickly become team leaders and end up becoming affiliates after 2 months as they feel no form of investment is needed. They loose their CSAs (which is one of the perks of being a team leader) once they become affiliate apart from the PSAs they have recruited.

My advice would be for one to learn first about the business, seek assistant from your uplines, advertise, do your daily, weekly and monthly and make a form of investment like t credits, s builder co op and PSA 2go. Purchasing s builder co op as well as PSA 2 go will help to build a team. Having just 5 active affiliate in your team would not only reduce the financial burden on your part, but also help in rising to the ranks of team leader faster and steadier.

Hope i was able to help.
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Good day Waleed,

Nice question and i would be quite honest with you.

Being a team leader without a team is usually not advisable cause you bear majority of the cost.

People who join sfi quickly become team leaders and end up becoming affiliates after 2 months as they feel no form of investment is needed. They loose their CSAs (which is one of the perks of being a team leader) once they become affiliate apart from the PSAs they have recruited.

My advice
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