Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Spend most of your SFI budget on what can earn you the most at SFI.

What can earn you the most at SFI is a combination of being at least BTL (Bronze Team Leader) rank and having a large team of active affiliates several generations deep.

Although you can become BTL - and can build and support a large team of active affiliates - at no out-of-pocket cost to you, doing it this way will take you a long time. Speed up how long it will take by spending most of your SFI business budget on it.

Know your goals, and the requirements:

1. To be BTL rank:
At least 3000 VersaPoints, of which at least 1500 must be obtained through purchases or sales, and you must have at least one EA2 PSA in your team.

2. To have a large team of active affiliates, several levels deep:
Recruit many new SFI affiliates, and help them become at least EA2s. Teach and help them to do the same as you. Encourage them to teach and help their own PSAs to do the same as them.

What will your SFI budget be spent on to achieve the above goals and meet the above requirements?

1. To be BTL rank:
One or both of:
- TripleClicks purchases of your own
- Marketing for new ECAs and/or PRMs

2. To have a large team of active affiliates, several levels deep:
- Advertising costs
- Rewards for your affiliates

Combine your SFI business budget with time, effort, and patience, and soon you will be enjoying a fantastic return on investment.


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Spend most of your SFI budget on what can earn you the most at SFI.

What can earn you the most at SFI is a combination of being at least BTL (Bronze Team Leader) rank and having a large team of active affiliates several generations deep.

Although you can become BTL - and can build and support a large team of active affiliates - at no out-of-pocket cost to you, doing it this way will take you a long time. Speed up how long it will take by spending most of your SFI business budget
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 346 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

When thinking about spending money on your SFI business, you must remember that the money spent on items that you are buying as gifts and household use can not be considered as money spent on your SFI business (no matter how much your spouse disagrees). This is transfer buying and no matter that the credit card says it went to SFI, it is still personal expense.

So, looking at your budget, you must determine just how must you dare to put toward building your SFI business. Each month this amount might vary, and after awhile you can add your commissions, etc.

In the beginning, you will do well to buy business tools such as cards, brochures, TC stationery, hats, shirts, car magnets, Gift Cards, PSA incentives and rewards, and other items. Buying 60, 100, or 125 TCredits is an option and you can earn 60 extra VP by playing one game and bidding once each day of the month.

As you get your business organized, you will be doing more and more advertising. You can do this for free or by buying into ad sites such as classified sites, newspaper ads or inserts, SBuilders Co-op, PSAs To Go.

As your team begins to blossom, you will want to spend more time and money in their edification by sponsoring contests, adding rewards for jobs well done, and reassigning PSAs that are active.

Whether it is time or money, you will be spending more on advertising than anything else. It is the coal for a steam train, the grass for a dairy cow, the wind for the wave.

How to decide what to advertise depends on the dynamics of your team and your commissions.
Advertising SFI builds your team. Advertising TripleClicks builds your income whether you showcase products, PriceBenders, EagerZebra games, Wave3, or just TCMembership.




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When thinking about spending money on your SFI business, you must remember that the money spent on items that you are buying as gifts and household use can not be considered as money spent on your SFI business (no matter how much your spouse disagrees). This is transfer buying and no matter that the credit card says it went to SFI, it is still personal expense.

So, looking at your budget, you must determine just how must you dare to put toward building your SFI business. Each month this
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

If you read and understand the Ultra Simple Plan (www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics3Steps) you will know how to plan your spending and grow in SFI business.

It’s very simple.

1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month (You require 1500 VP to do it);
2. Recruit 5 affiliates as per guidance given in the Plan;
3. Teach your affiliates to do these 3 Steps.

The idea behind these is: Building your Team and helping them to duplicate your actions.

4. To become an EA and remain an EA you need to have 1500 VP. Apart from doing the various actions given in the To Do List, you may require more VersaPoints to achieve and retain your EA status every month.

5. Keeping this in mind, you may either have a Standing Order or buy appropriate products that match your VP requirement every month.

6. Buying is not Essential. You can meet your VP requirement through other means like Selling of TripleClicks products, etc. For broader understanding of this subject, please visit this link: (www.sfimg.com/EA1010)

7. Since Team Building is quite necessary to succeed on a long term basis, please focus your spending towards:

- Advertising & Promotional activities (For Marketing Methods/Aids, please visit & read at (www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods)

- Look for Paid and Free Web Sites to place your advs. that seek fresh sign ups;

- Study the Marketing Aids provided by SFI and indulge in actions based on them on a regular basis.

- Take part in Pricebenders Auction for PSAs and CSAs and try to win by following the Success Tips created by SFI. Even if you lose the Auction, you will be able to take part in Bid & Build to win brand new PSAs;

- You can take part in S-Builder Co-Op through a Standing Order by which you can get new PSAs. Because of this, you will be able to buy unlimited number of PSAs through Special Offer-PSAs to GO at $1.99 per PSA;

Like these, keep exploring all possible sources to build your Team with PSAs and CSAs regularly. Team Building is quite essential to win and for that to happen, have a clear budget for advertisements and other promotional activities and spend your money wisely.

8. Once you build your Team with strong and active affiliates, please focus on the people who really work and perform well month after month.

9. To encourage and support such strong performers, you need to recognize them with TCredits, Gift Certificates and other inspiring gifts from our own TripleClicks Stores. Since these too require spending on your part, please include them in your Budget.

In short, your Budget should include funds allocations:

a. To maintain or advance in your Status that involves meeting of VP requirement;
b. Team Building;
c. Advertisement & Promotional Activities;
d. Incentives for your performing Team Members;

10. With these kind of funds allocations you will be able to build/grow and succeed with your team. How much you want to spend towards these? Its left to your discretion!

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If you read and understand the Ultra Simple Plan (www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics3Steps) you will know how to plan your spending and grow in SFI business.

It’s very simple.

1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month (You require 1500 VP to do it);
2. Recruit 5 affiliates as per guidance given in the Plan;
3. Teach your affiliates to do these 3 Steps.

The idea behind these is: Building your Team and helping them to duplicate your actions.

4. To become
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Affiliate since: 05/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lawal's 156 other Ask SC answers

With the recent developments at the SFI, purchasing only at the Tripleclicks store will not earn you the desired income you hope for. SFI is an affiliate business, which would require you to have active Downline. So the main aim of the budget is to increase income. Now, if am to begin writing my SFI business budget, I will start with

1. Advertising and Marketing
For anyone to grow fast and go far in any online business, you must advertise and market, directly or indirectly. How do you get people to know a product if you don't advertise it and how will they like it if you don't market? So, I will have to make advertising and marketing one of my first priority on my budget. On this option is where the following comes in

- Payment for SFI ads and Traffics
- Maintenance of website/Procurement of website
- Printing and Distribution of SFI E-cards and SFI Business Cards
- Printing and Distribution of Flyers and Banners etc

2 Sponsoring of Affiliates
The result from marketing and advertisement is PSA. SFI has recently designed a mean where Sponsors can welcome there new affiliate's with Tcredits Gift, and it require you to spend. And most times it's difficult to keep new affiliate's with less knowledge about SFI business. So you need to encourage the with Training materials, Gift Certificate and etc And it's good to budget for team incentives. So do include this in you SFI budge.

For Sponsors who want to go TL, must have at least two EA2, and sometimes to advance further you need to support the team as well.

3. Requalifying as EA2/Team Leader
It is very important to have the on budget the means to qualify as at least EA. To requalify as EA, a VP 1500 is needed, for TL a minimum of 1500VP is needed from sales. So, making a Standing Order of 1500VP cost about $36. So it's very wise to include it in budget.

4. SFI Power Tools
To make building business easier, SFI has put in place tools to help affiliate's grow faster at building their businesses. Just in case budget is not enough to run a paid advertisement outside Tripleclicks. Few of the tools are

- S-builder Co-op
- PSA 2 Go and etc

4. Budget for Pricebender and Uber Games
Not everyone make Tcredits their SO, because I have seen few active affiliate's, long in business with less participation in Tripleclicks activities. So if your are participating in Auction you need to budget for the amount of Tcredits to be used.

5. Budget for Team Co-op
Not every of you Affiliate will be able to recruit PSAs themselves, and many also will love to be encouraged, by having a share of you Co-op. Budget to help your team members, as when they grow,-you grow as well.

The list can go on and in, but you need to keep your budget short and simple. So you can have a balance expenditure/income sheet at the end of the month.



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With the recent developments at the SFI, purchasing only at the Tripleclicks store will not earn you the desired income you hope for. SFI is an affiliate business, which would require you to have active Downline. So the main aim of the budget is to increase income. Now, if am to begin writing my SFI business budget, I will start with

1. Advertising and Marketing
For anyone to grow fast and go far in any online business, you must advertise and market, directly or indirectly. How do
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Affiliate since: 01/01/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gyanendra's 56 other Ask SC answers

Depending on your budget you can do the following on priority basis :

1)Buy Standing Order of 125 TCredits. This will qualify you to become Executive Affiliate every month and now you can focus on building your team.

2)Buy PSAs to Go for first 4-6 months. This will immediately build your team. You can then work with the Movers and guide them.

3)Buy S-Builders Co-Op as a Standing Order. This will ensure regular flow of PSAs in your team.

4)Buy items from tripleclicks which you were already buying from outside. This is known as Transfer Buying. No extra budget is to be allocated for this. There are many things you can buy as Transfer Buying. Some products which I can suggest are Smartphones, Laptops, LED TVs, dresses for self and family. Toys for kids in the family. You can even gift these toys for kids of your friends on their birthdays.

5)Buy Gift Cards to send as gifts to prospective PRMs. This will ensure you have some regular customers.

6)Buy Gift certificates to reward your movers and encourage them.

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Depending on your budget you can do the following on priority basis :

1)Buy Standing Order of 125 TCredits. This will qualify you to become Executive Affiliate every month and now you can focus on building your team.

2)Buy PSAs to Go for first 4-6 months. This will immediately build your team. You can then work with the Movers and guide them.

3)Buy S-Builders Co-Op as a Standing Order. This will ensure regular flow of PSAs in your team.

4)Buy items from
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rosafilipina's 109 other Ask SC answers

I suggest you spend most of your SFI business budget purchasing TCredits.

Why?

You are like hitting many birds in one stone.

You earn 1,500 VPs purchasing 125 packs TCredits worth $36.25 at the same time earning Executive Affiliate for doing so;

You can use your TCredits for bidding where in you earn 1 VersaPoint per bid at the Pricebender;

You can build your team if you win PSAs or CSAs at the Pricebender Auction;

You can bid and build your team with the Bid and Build Program. For every 10 bids, you are guaranteed to win a PSA or in partial of 10%, 20%, 30% or more in spinning.

You are assured that you earn VersaPoints and Membership Rewards Points for whatever you make use of the TCredits you did purchase.


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I suggest you spend most of your SFI business budget purchasing TCredits.

Why?

You are like hitting many birds in one stone.

You earn 1,500 VPs purchasing 125 packs TCredits worth $36.25 at the same time earning Executive Affiliate for doing so;

You can use your TCredits for bidding where in you earn 1 VersaPoint per bid at the Pricebender;

You can build your team if you win PSAs or CSAs at the Pricebender Auction;

You can bid and
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

To start up your SFI business and decide a budget, we must have done alot of reading and taken a look at the Tripleclicks store to know what we can order monthly (especially if its a daily or weekly product in order to do transfer buy) and at the same time help in your SFI business. This is killing 2 birds with a stone.

I believe if we do transfer buy, we are going to be working within the household expenses as well as miscellaneous expenses. SFI business will come under miscellaneous expenses. Its at this junction we would work out a budget to balance both expenses.

For our SFI business budget, we can invest in $60. This amount $36.25 Standing Order of 125 T credits which gives you 1500 versa points (automatically become an EA) and $22 S builder Standing Order will give 280 versa points. The totals 1780 versa points for your Standing Order and amount spent will be $58.25. If your budget isn't up to that, you can go for 100 t credits Standing Order at $29 and S builder co op $22 combined with your daily, weekly and monthly tasks. Which you will spend $51 and Sales Versa Point of 1480vp. If you have limited resources, $22 for s builder co op and 8 single t credits Standing Order $15.12 combined with his daily, weekly and monthly tasks will make you an EA at the cost of $37.12. With the t credits purchased, you can list unwanted items in your home, bid for some PSAs/CSAs or S builder co op and spin for a full or part PSA for each 10 bid. Team building is very vital as the benefits are numerous and aids you in your SFI business.

Alternatively, if you are good with offline marketing and you can get at least 5 active affiliates from your friends, relatives or colleagues at your place of work and they partronise Tripleclicks, then you can actually use the commissions derived from their purchases to invest into your SFI business and support them so that they feel appreciated and don't loose focus. With 5 active affiliates in your team, it helps you increase higher in ranks, greater commissions especially if your team is active and make alot of sales from Tripleclicks.

This will help you get a suitable budget and a win -win situation as you can re invest commissions gotten into your business as well as support your team.

In summary, what I would advise is that you simultaneously make purchases of t credits or do some transfer buys as you still get the Sales VersaPoints attached to these products and build a strong team of affiliates so that you don't break the bank, support your downlines so that they can duplicate your actions
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To start up your SFI business and decide a budget, we must have done alot of reading and taken a look at the Tripleclicks store to know what we can order monthly (especially if its a daily or weekly product in order to do transfer buy) and at the same time help in your SFI business. This is killing 2 birds with a stone.

I believe if we do transfer buy, we are going to be working within the household expenses as well as miscellaneous expenses. SFI business will come under miscellaneous
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 428 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

This is a very interesting question because when one makes an investment, how much he or she gets in return is often what is of outmost importance on his or her mind.
Investment looks at both short and long-term returns.

It is good that you have a budget to invest at SFI and since you already have a standing order, I would suggest that you could spread your expenses to include advertising. In my view, in building a strong SFI team, this what is likely to take up most of your budget and advertising should be seen as long-term rather than short-term investment because in most cases the reward or the impact of newly enrolled PSAs or Tripleclicks clients is not always immediate.

If you are to take part in activities at Tripleclikcs such as placing your listings, Pricebenders auctions and Eager Zebra games, just to name a few, then your budget should also include spending on Tcredits and most people find it convenient to have Tcredits covered in their standing order as in this way they are able to kill two birds with one stone; that is while enjoying rewards that come with Tcredits, with a standing order of 1500 or more versa points, they also have their EA status regularly under control.

Having said that how one spreads his or her costs is a matter of personal preference and other people’s ideas or suggestions only helps one to make an informed choice.


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This is a very interesting question because when one makes an investment, how much he or she gets in return is often what is of outmost importance on his or her mind.
Investment looks at both short and long-term returns.

It is good that you have a budget to invest at SFI and since you already have a standing order, I would suggest that you could spread your expenses to include advertising. In my view, in building a strong SFI team, this what is likely to take up most of your budget
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Affiliate since: 03/24/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Peter's 5 other Ask SC answers

Hello and thank you for the opportunity to give you the answer to your question from my perspective, as a one year affiliate that continues to love the excitement of SFI, and hopes to relay that excitement to my Team.

12 months ago, I was like most people that join and was totally oblivious to how to earn, and even if I could earn, so I began to study all I could and "within my budget" began to invest in what is necessary to advance. Now this is not my first rodeo, as I am 66 yrs old and have attempted to earn on the internet since it began. Like with DOS 2.0--yuk, yuk and that's right I have been through literally 100's of opportunities that were not. Plain and simple. So when arriving at SFI, I was skeptical to say the least. One of my first reactions was to be upset that SFI was asking me to spend money, when I had just begun to learn the ropes and of course, like so many, I balked.

But out of curiosity, I decided to have a look at the NMP pack at TripleClicks and things immediately began to change in my thinking. I was wow'd that this company would actually reward me instantly for spending $20 to acquire the tools necessary for me to earn VP, and also begin to advance immediately. In all of years of hunting on the internet, I had spent thousands that I did not really have, on "opportunities" that gave nothing in return but a promise, to find out the promise was a lie. This company actually "wanted" me to earn, and was willing to invest in the hope that I would be an asset. Wow!!

So to your question, the first and most important expense with SFI is simply to earn your Gold Fast Track (NMP Pack or through a Fast Track Extension) from your Sponsor, and set your sights on your Class Championship through the E365 competition. Doing this is so important as I learned early through studying, and these two "honors" will stick with you, your entire SFI career! We learn to attend the Forum each day for as much time as possible, so that we stay up with all of the new announcements etc. Each time you post in the Forum, Gold Fast Track and E365 Champion will be under your name! For Life! The very small expense, becomes truly Priceless over time.

To finish, be absolutely sure to set up your 125 TCredits SO, which assures your EA status each and every month on the first of the month (if you set it up accordingly) and this business of building a Team becomes a thrill and a passion. This expense is critical to success in Team Building with SFI. Remember you can sell over 95,000 products and sign up PRM's to make much more than it requires to actually build a Team, for residual earnings that come from their success. Direct Commissions are unlimited. When you "set the example" for what to do, others will believe in you and join you in this amazing quest. Beyond this basic, do what is possible within your budget, to use the amazing "referral finding" products that not only SFI offers, but also many ECA's that also are able to bring in large amounts of referrals (doing all the investment and work) and then sell them to us.

Other than telling your immediate circle of life, it is the "numbers" that you bring on to your Team, that will have a great affect on how fast your Team builds. You purchase an S-Builder Share or even more shares if you can budget it, and referrals to your Team will begin to drip in on a steady basis. From there it is the example you set, that will give them hope when they join.

Summing my answer up would be as so:

1. Set up a Standing Order for 125 TCredits, and then use these TCredits each month wisely to bid, buy and earn PSA's at TripleClicks. Find someone that does this each month in your upline. They will help you, allot correctly.

2. Purchase the "one-time" offer of the New Members Pack and follow the requirements through to Gold Fast Track if you are still within your first "ten days" of sign up. If not ask your Sponsor to arrange a Fast Track extension for you, and you can even then purchase your NMP Pack and start with a gusto! Remember, the tools that are acquired by purchasing an NMP Pack are huge and discounted steeply, to help us get started correctly!

3. Get at least 1 Share of S-Builder each month. Having referral's appear randomly as Team Members of yours, is really exciting and when you are able to receive one that responds to your help, there is no words to describe the happiness and joy that comes. Remember, just 1 EA2 on your Team, qualifies you to be a Bronze Team Leader with the VP requirements met. Anything that is possible during the month, to earn the VP necessary to become a Team Leader of any rank, will prove to be the catalyst that puts you over the top, and allows you to earn more than the budget, that you have dedicated to your Business each month. All purchases to build your Team earn VP, and this makes becoming a Team Leader fairly simple with a steady budget.

Hope this helps you. Don't believe that somehow you will get rich quick. Nobody does that! Make your Goal to "earn" more than you "invest from your budget." Simple as that. Once that happens, I can assure you the true excitement begins!!
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Hello and thank you for the opportunity to give you the answer to your question from my perspective, as a one year affiliate that continues to love the excitement of SFI, and hopes to relay that excitement to my Team.

12 months ago, I was like most people that join and was totally oblivious to how to earn, and even if I could earn, so I began to study all I could and "within my budget" began to invest in what is necessary to advance. Now this is not my first rodeo, as I am 66
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

What do you need when you join SFI at first?

You need a team first.- your team is your life line. To get a team you can advertise or you can buy them or buy shares in a co-op.

Just as important is sales. Sales bring in money that you can use to build your team even stronger and once you earn you can stop using your own money to build your business and rather use your earnings.

When you have a team you can use a share of your budget to help your affiliates to grow and a little less to keep on getting more affiliates and more sales.

You also need to buy T-credits so you can play games and bid on auctions. Using T-credits also earn more VP

A standing order for T-credits is a good investment to make sure you qualify as EA every month

Once you have an established team you can do transfer buying and spend some money on things you would buy on a monthly basis or special gifts - that way you earn VP and commissions as well..
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What do you need when you join SFI at first?

You need a team first.- your team is your life line. To get a team you can advertise or you can buy them or buy shares in a co-op.

Just as important is sales. Sales bring in money that you can use to build your team even stronger and once you earn you can stop using your own money to build your business and rather use your earnings.

When you have a team you can use a share of your budget to help your affiliates
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