Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 226 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Depending on the knowledge of our ECA, we should ready to give a sensible advise to our ECA whenever they ask us.

To be able to have a sensible advise, we must be an ECA ourselves and study not only the steps and process on how to be an ECA, but the strategies how to generate sales.

This question is correct because sales in TripleClicks largely depends on the products and the price.

There are two strategies in making sales as far as the product is concern.

1. If the ECA has existing products the strategy is to find the people who need or want that product. Inside SFI, its quite difficult to find them, what you do is just promote it to your uplines, downlines and a2a friends. But outside SFI, in social media like FaceBook and Twitter it's easier to find people with interest on certain product. Because you can search them using keywords.

2. If you don't have product yet then the strategy is to determine the demand. Inside SFI for example, the obvious demand are those that can help affiliates to find more affiliates. So, products like ebooks for online marketing, selling sign-ups, clicks and visits to SFI gateways and blogs about SFI, maybe the good products to sell.

As far as the Pricing is concern, the shipment cost is the biggest issue. When you sell internationally, the price will not be attractive when you add the shipment cost. So you can also adopt two general strategies to mitigate the shipment cost issue.

1. Sell products and services that can be delivered digitally to international market.

2. Sell physical products that need to be shipped in the local market.
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Depending on the knowledge of our ECA, we should ready to give a sensible advise to our ECA whenever they ask us.

To be able to have a sensible advise, we must be an ECA ourselves and study not only the steps and process on how to be an ECA, but the strategies how to generate sales.

This question is correct because sales in TripleClicks largely depends on the products and the price.

There are two strategies in making sales as far as the product is concern.

1.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thank you for raising such a timely question, Sharon.
It comes up on the forum very often, pointing to issues such as too high and non competitive prices, poor description of items being offered and lack of clarity on the benefits of what is being sold.

Your question is important and vital. It touches on two critical e-Commerce aspects: pricing and market niches. It shows your interest and commitment in helping your ECAs succeed. That success will reflect not only on you but, on all of us as it would show Tripleclicks as a competitive e-Commerce portal, attractive to customers and other potential ECAs.


Without this, we all will struggle to bring in ECAs.

On pricing:

The ECA is an e-Retailer who is going to compete with every website offering similar products. Thus, the prices need to be competitive. In the case of brick and mortar retail stores, customers use their handheld devices to compare prices. When products are very similar, customers will of course choose the least expensive.

The same goes for the ECA. A customer will search the worldwide web and compare prices. For that reason, savvy ECAs need to do heir their homework, price their products competitively and readjust the prices frequently to remain competitive.

On market niches.
Market research must be conducted to determine trends and customers' preferences. The world wide web has specifics of which successful sellers need to be aware. A well informed ECA will conduct such market analysis and tweak their offerings to respond to market demand.

This is in a nutshell the foundation of e-Commerce success and Tripleclicks ECAs need to be aware of them.
They also will benefit greatly and enhance their success potential by offering clear descriptions, including benefits and advantages of what they are offering.
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Thank you for raising such a timely question, Sharon.
It comes up on the forum very often, pointing to issues such as too high and non competitive prices, poor description of items being offered and lack of clarity on the benefits of what is being sold.

Your question is important and vital. It touches on two critical e-Commerce aspects: pricing and market niches. It shows your interest and commitment in helping your ECAs succeed. That success will reflect not only on you but, on
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Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 284 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers

ECAs at SFI get free listing and exposure of their products and services to millions in more than 200 countries and over 20,000 cities. If they have the right mix of products with competitive pricing they can make a good income.

I will advise my ECAs that your choice of products is the most important thing for ecommerce. Sell what you know and your ecommerce products should be something you believe in. The products should be something you feel confident in selling to other people.

Sometimes you have a hook-up with a wholesaler or manufacturer that’s just too good to ignore. If you can work with a local manufacturer you have tremendous advantage. You will be able to save on freight costs, thus making it easier to compete on a price basis.

Consider the durability of the product and ease of use. You do not want to spend the whole day dealing with returns and customer support. Consumer electronics are going to result in a lot of both. Also consider the potential for breakage, difficulty in packaging, and the potential for needing to provide customer support.

Having an effective ecommerce pricing strategy is crucial if your business is still to make revenue and profit in the long term. A significant number of people shop online because of lower prices. Therefore promoting your fair prices makes sense. You have to make sure that the products that you sell are priced appropriately for you to make profit and also retain customers and not scare them away.


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ECAs at SFI get free listing and exposure of their products and services to millions in more than 200 countries and over 20,000 cities. If they have the right mix of products with competitive pricing they can make a good income.

I will advise my ECAs that your choice of products is the most important thing for ecommerce. Sell what you know and your ecommerce products should be something you believe in. The products should be something you feel confident in selling to other people.

Sometimes
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2011, Power Rank: 7 | Read BABU's 113 other Ask SC answers

ECAs you refer to TripleClicks are also the part of your team so in every step of their growth, they require your valuable advice and guidance.

An ECA with some products without customers is like a closed shop with some junk goods. To avoid this, you should prompt them to list some items which are always in demand and can be sold internationally rather just domestically at reasonable prices.

With regard to the pricing matter, then your economic acumen should prevail over any other factors. In my opinion, an ECA who can sell their products with a reasonable profit margin of 20% or little more can sustain in the Market and attract huge chunk of customers over a period of time. While pricing, the following factors should be adequately calculated and cared.

1) Actual Shipping Costs to different countries
2) Competitive pricing in comparison to other competitors
3) Actual costs in procuring the items
4) Other hidden costs before they list their products on TripleClicks
5) Quality of products
6) Sales policy

Moreover, it is their duty to give enough publicity and advertising through various social networking sites and their blogs. If they can give adequate attention to all these factors, then an ECA can not only sustain for long but also reap the long term dividends comfortably.

Always do remember, vision id dandy, but sustainable Company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Wish you good luck.

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ECAs you refer to TripleClicks are also the part of your team so in every step of their growth, they require your valuable advice and guidance.

An ECA with some products without customers is like a closed shop with some junk goods. To avoid this, you should prompt them to list some items which are always in demand and can be sold internationally rather just domestically at reasonable prices.

With regard to the pricing matter, then your economic acumen should prevail over
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Affiliate since: 08/26/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dr Sudhanshu's 155 other Ask SC answers

Before advising to your ECA, ensure you have made a good survey on the products available in TripleClicks. Find the most popular products with average price range for your ECA listing. However, I can give you few products category of my choices.

1. Product which helps affiliate building a team. As per my survey, products which offer PSAs are the most popular in TripleClicks. But you must be a GTL to list these products. Also, ensure you supply real time and quality affiliates as promised. You can set price about $2-4 per affiliate.

2. Electronic items with FREE shipping world wide. Most of the time we found in TripleClicks that the cost of shipping becomes more than cost of products. If you can find drop shipping products which can be supplied world wide for FREE shipping, it will increase the number of sales marginally.

3. Advertising products are also have high popularity in TripleClicks. Because, although there are huge number of affiliates joining SFI, there are very few who knows the trick of quality advertising. So, if you can list advertising products which can provide some real time PSAs to affiliates, they are certainly going to love it. Ensure, you do not raise the price very high as many people can not afford it. A starter pack around $10 is a good way to start.

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Before advising to your ECA, ensure you have made a good survey on the products available in TripleClicks. Find the most popular products with average price range for your ECA listing. However, I can give you few products category of my choices.

1. Product which helps affiliate building a team. As per my survey, products which offer PSAs are the most popular in TripleClicks. But you must be a GTL to list these products. Also, ensure you supply real time and quality affiliates as promised.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

TripleClicks already greatly aspires to become one of the world's best Online stores with lots of Variety of products to sell globally.

ADVICE TIPS:

Make sure they have clearly read and understood the ECA Rules. In summery:
They should be reputable, established companies that sell quality, non-controversial products or services. Companies that have a physical retail store or who create or manufacture their own products. Companies must also be responsive to SFI requests, they must process orders promptly, and they must stand behind their products with appropriate return policies.

Aside from the Strict rules stipulated by SFI policy about what products can/can't be sold at TripleClicks such as porn, drugs, etc which every ECA prospect must adhere to, your ECAs can sell any products of choice and the following tips will help give them a heads up

1.Hot sellers

Ask them to list products starting with the one's that are the best sellers in their local store. Since these products are already selling well locally it will not be difficult for them to sell likewise in their online store. some of these products could be everyday products like lotions,toothpaste, soap, sugar, salt etc
These products because of the frequency of their use attract possible monthly SO's earning you lucrative sustained residuals

2.Market research

If your ECA has products that are highly competitive in the online world such as those in the ever green niche like weight loss, dieting etc, it would be a good idea to find out which of those products are selling the most and advise your ECA accordingly based on your findings. You can also help them boost sells by promoting those very products through a referral link generated for you by paid advertising like PPC, PPV etc

3.They Can sell Unwanted stuff but in GOOD condition

Yes! Your ECA might have great stuff sitting in their attic and yet have no idea how to sell them. Give them the option of listing those items in their store for sell for FREE. That way the product gets great online exposure for a possible buy out.

WHAT PRICES?

Suggest Lower Competitive Prices for Quality Products

TripleClicks is simply another sales outlet for most ECAs. Most ECAs I would imagine tend to charge the same or somewhat lower prices than they offer elsewhere. There are also options for ECAs to create special weekly sales, designate closeout prices, and so much more.

Generally, products that have a lower price range even by a penny down provided it's a quality product always wins. Why do we all scramble to bid at Pricebenders Auctions? Simple! Because the item can be won for pennies on the dollar. That's just human nature. Better prices will reward your ECAs with customer loyalty and will keep them coming.

TIP: ECAs are required to pay a minimum of 15% of the sale price of their products to TripleClicks. Now try suggesting to them about the benefits of why they should consider a higher percentage price markup and if they do, two good things happen.

1. The higher the percentage, the higher TripleClicks displays their products in search results.


2. TripleClicks has tens of thousands of affiliates who will be promoting their products and will naturally gravitate toward the products with the highest margins because this earns them higher sales commissions and VP.

And that is a beautiful thing Indeed!










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TripleClicks already greatly aspires to become one of the world's best Online stores with lots of Variety of products to sell globally.

ADVICE TIPS:

Make sure they have clearly read and understood the ECA Rules. In summery:
They should be reputable, established companies that sell quality, non-controversial products or services. Companies that have a physical retail store or who create or manufacture their own products. Companies must also be responsive to SFI requests,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Sharon,
this is a very interesting question.In my opinion, most of potential ECAs already know what kind of products they are going to sell in their stores.But if you want to help them,do some research about the best selling products.
You can advise them to choose between:
1.products of everydays use
2.products that are useful in SFI & TC business
3.new,rare and unique products.
Maybe,the combination of all of them could be an interesting idea.
When it comes to prices I would suggest some cheap and some expensive iteams,because among over 2,2 millions SFI & TripleClicks members there should be different kinds of customers.Your ECAs shouldn'n limit themselfs on just some of them.
And the best thing you can do for your ECAs is to advertise and promote their stores and products in order to increase the sell.After all,that will benefit both of you.
Hope this answer will help you and wish you a lot of success.
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Hello Sharon,
this is a very interesting question.In my opinion, most of potential ECAs already know what kind of products they are going to sell in their stores.But if you want to help them,do some research about the best selling products.
You can advise them to choose between:
1.products of everydays use
2.products that are useful in SFI & TC business
3.new,rare and unique products.
Maybe,the combination of all of them could be an interesting idea.
When it
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

As an ECA they can charge any price they think will sell product, cover cost, and provide them the profits they desire.

What they need warned of is:

1. Low end commissions make it less attractive for SFI Affiliates to promote their products and services.

2. Prices that are too high though will not sell as often because people online are pretty good at checking more than one price before deciding to buy anything.

3. Settling for less profit per item may seem like it's counterproductive but when you are selling 5 times the product you were last year it all comes back to you.

Be fare with TripleClicks members and affiliates and you will find a ton of profits in your future.

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As an ECA they can charge any price they think will sell product, cover cost, and provide them the profits they desire.

What they need warned of is:

1. Low end commissions make it less attractive for SFI Affiliates to promote their products and services.

2. Prices that are too high though will not sell as often because people online are pretty good at checking more than one price before deciding to buy anything.

3. Settling for less profit per item may
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sunildatt's 150 other Ask SC answers

Hello Sharon,

If you have identified ECAs to be part of Triplclicks and you are going to be their referrer, you certainly stand out from rest of the members of SFI/ Tripleclicks. Congratulations to you for achieving this.

Since you know which product they are manufacturing or they can source, you can advice them only about the products they have now. Let them study the products already available on TripleClicks store and decide which products from their own set up suit TripleClicks shop.

If you are capable enough to advice them which product they should sell, I would recommend you to become ECA yourself.

Same goes about the pricing of their products. It will be their business. To be successful in their business they have to take major decision.

You will earn royalties for sure. So do not worry about helping them in selecting products and pricing.

Still want to advice them on product selection and pricing? You will be missing your focus then. Better focus on adding More ECAs

Congratulations once again. and good luck
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Hello Sharon,

If you have identified ECAs to be part of Triplclicks and you are going to be their referrer, you certainly stand out from rest of the members of SFI/ Tripleclicks. Congratulations to you for achieving this.

Since you know which product they are manufacturing or they can source, you can advice them only about the products they have now. Let them study the products already available on TripleClicks store and decide which products from their own set up suit TripleClicks
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Affiliate since: 12/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Janette's 24 other Ask SC answers

Hello, a very sensible question.

The most important is to make sure that they have done their research on what would be new, unique, do the buyers want to buy it and pleasing to look at. Doing research before hand may take time, but than you will ensure that the products you have will be taken into a variety of considerations by the buyers and guarantee sales.

Next is look into the prices, the cost of shipping and the mark up you are willing to put up or down, to ensure a sale is made.

Ensure that you have covered your bases with the exporting authorities in the country you are shipping from, so that no delays are experienced.

Honesty is best, always be honest about the products that are being sold.

All the best in getting the ECA's business up and running.
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Hello, a very sensible question.

The most important is to make sure that they have done their research on what would be new, unique, do the buyers want to buy it and pleasing to look at. Doing research before hand may take time, but than you will ensure that the products you have will be taken into a variety of considerations by the buyers and guarantee sales.

Next is look into the prices, the cost of shipping and the mark up you are willing to put up or down, to ensure a
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