Affiliate since: 01/13/2006, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michael's 101 other Ask SC answers

Excellent question Ma, thank you for asking.

One of the main obstacles to selling products online is to have customers visiting your website and buying your products. As an ECA on Tripleclicks this problem is solved for you. This is accomplished in several ways.

As an ECA you have marketers already here to promote your products for commissions and other SFI benefits. You NEED to connect with them. Through the SFI Affiliate Centre there are several ways to accomplish this.

1. If you are only able to ship to certain countries go to the Country Leadership page (https://www.sfimg.com/Leaders/Country) and request an A2A friendship with the top 20 leaders. This will connect you through A2A which also connects you through the 'Stream'. You can then post updates and specials which will then be seen on their stream (https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=stream) gaining you exposure and possible sales.

You may also consider connecting with the top SFI affiliates in different areas of achievement. These are the dedicated SFI workers who understand the benefits of promoting SFI and Tripleclicks.
Here is a link to all of the SFI Leader Boards - https://www.sfimg.com/Leaders/

2. Be sure to connect with other ECAs on Tripleclicks. They are a business just like you and a business synergy could be created between businesses.

3. If you are also an SFI affiliate you should let your downline know that you have new products available as you add them. This can also be done through the Stream or Team Mail.

4. Tell your SFI sponsor about new products. Your sponsor will benefit from any sales that your TC business achieves so it within their interests to promote and support your products.

5. Tell people who have not yet joined Tripleclicks or SFI that they can earn a commission by promoting your products. You might have a big following on one of the social network sites. Just a few of these people promoting your products could make a big difference to the success of your business.

One other thing. Make sure you are selling QUALITY products at REASONABLE prices. If you are selling low quality products or your prices are too high you will find that your business will cost you rather than earn for you.

I do hope this is helpful to you and other ECAs. We certainly need more successful ECAs on Tripleclicks.

To Your Success
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Excellent question Ma, thank you for asking.

One of the main obstacles to selling products online is to have customers visiting your website and buying your products. As an ECA on Tripleclicks this problem is solved for you. This is accomplished in several ways.

As an ECA you have marketers already here to promote your products for commissions and other SFI benefits. You NEED to connect with them. Through the SFI Affiliate Centre there are several ways to accomplish this.

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

Hi Ma Victoria,

I noticed you haven't put any information about your store on your T-Connect page nor listed any items. I'm guessing you're waiting to see what answers you get here first. It would be a good idea to put some information about yourself and your proposed products. This way you can start to build connections.

Branding is very important. A good catchy and relevant brand name can attract more affiliates to connect with you. By connecting with you, they're likely to share your products on social media and other sites.

Networking is very important, so connect with as many people as you can on TripleClicks. Join a2a (if you haven't already) and do the same there. Remember to post regularly regarding your latest products and deals both on the stream and on TripleClicks.

Place your items on your leadership page; there is a section for items you recommend. You can also send Team Mail out to all your down-line with the item number and share link of your latest products. Add VersaPoint incentives for affiliates.

The most important thing to remember is to stay connected and share often. This will provide you with maximum exposure on SFI and TripleClicks.

Good luck with your new store!
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Hi Ma Victoria,

I noticed you haven't put any information about your store on your T-Connect page nor listed any items. I'm guessing you're waiting to see what answers you get here first. It would be a good idea to put some information about yourself and your proposed products. This way you can start to build connections.

Branding is very important. A good catchy and relevant brand name can attract more affiliates to connect with you. By connecting with you, they're likely to
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Djebah's 53 other Ask SC answers

Hello VIctoria Arbelo,

ECA is an acronym for E-Commerce Associate. The ECA is a program operated by SFI/TipleClicks that allows commercial sellers to market their products at TripleClicks alongside existing TripleClicks products and also from their own, separate TripleClicks "TConnect" website.

The last time I checked, TripleClicks has 3,577 ECAs with 142 countries with ECAs, with 78,739 products listed! This is such a remarkable achievement if I may say. From your question, you obviously operate an ECA just like I do.

Presently, TripleClicks has 1,640,985 members with some to follow since affiliates are generated by the thousands on a daily basis. You can imagine the amount of sales you will generate as an ECA if all of these 1,640,985 members get to promote your product and services to the outside world via the power of the Internet or some other available means. There are ways which are within your powers that you can use to get some or all of these members to promote your product and services.

Some of the ways to get SFI affiliates to promote your product and services are:

1. List for sale only unique product and services: Make sure to list for sale only unique products that will meet the need of a wider audience. Go for popular consumable products that people will need to buy "week in, week out out" Examples of such products could be packaged groceries to meet the need of households.

2. Pricing of product and services: when you list products, you should pay particular attention to the price. Remember that there must be competition out there and the only way you could be ahead of your competitors is to make your price lower than that of the competitor. Do not make your price too low in other not to run at a loss but make it in such a way as to make even if it is a small profit margin.

3. Listing of SFI exclusive only product and services: Try as much as possible to list products that are SFI exclusives. There are so many ECAs out there selling almost or identical products and services. If you could list products that can be found only in your ECA, I think it will surely attract more SFI affiliates to market such products and services.

4. Make your product and services known to affiliates: with the over 78,739 products and services available on TripleClicks, how do you think that your own will stand out? In Order words, how would you make your products to be popular? Simple...Get them listed on " Hot Deals". By listing it on hot deals, your product will be shown more to SFI affiliates than does not on hot deals.

5. Connect to other ECAs and TripleClicks members: Try connecting to TripleClicks members, this will make your ECA and it's product to be known to SFI affiliates...if SFI affiliates do not know your product exist how can they promote it? The connect tool is available on the TConnect page of all SFI and TripleClicks members page.

These are some of the ways that you can use to get SFI affiliates to promote your product and services. With over one million TripleClicks members, having and operating an ECA is one very profitable aspect of SFI and I encourage more SFI affiliates to consider opening an ECA. It takes just a few minutes of filling the application with a valid means of identification to become an ECA.

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Hello VIctoria Arbelo,

ECA is an acronym for E-Commerce Associate. The ECA is a program operated by SFI/TipleClicks that allows commercial sellers to market their products at TripleClicks alongside existing TripleClicks products and also from their own, separate TripleClicks "TConnect" website.

The last time I checked, TripleClicks has 3,577 ECAs with 142 countries with ECAs, with 78,739 products listed! This is such a remarkable achievement if I may say. From your
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 347 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

First you must keep your ECA store out in front of them. Add new items weekly. Make ECA comments on your News Feed and the Stream section for ECAs. Connect with other ECAs and affiliates. Use your ECA store and product descriptions in your signature when writing to your team.

Tell your team the benefits that they get when they advertise and sell your products. Make a contest for your team mates to sell your products.

Then if you want to entice other affiliates to advertise your products, give TC more than the 15% minimum fee. This leaves more money to increase the vp and commissions on your products.

Choose your products wisely. Offer products that are used every month, or greatly desired products. Make sure the prices are not over-priced.Use good descriptions. And make sure your photos show what you want to show, have crisp images, are not cluttered.
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First you must keep your ECA store out in front of them. Add new items weekly. Make ECA comments on your News Feed and the Stream section for ECAs. Connect with other ECAs and affiliates. Use your ECA store and product descriptions in your signature when writing to your team.

Tell your team the benefits that they get when they advertise and sell your products. Make a contest for your team mates to sell your products.

Then if you want to entice other affiliates to advertise your
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Show them how to do it. How do you promote your products? The fastest and most lucrative way for your affiliates in SFI is to sell products. You have a vehicle to do this where you have a personal stake in the outcome. That should give you the passion you need to convince them and give them ideas as to how to do it. What are your fastest selling products? How do they compare price wise with other similar products on the web? All of this is information your affiliates need to promote these products.

First suggest that if they have local classifieds available to advertise there. Selling them locally not only will help them to sell your products faster, but will help them to sponsor because they now have contacts. Any way they make contacts selling your products gives them another person to contact for sponsoring.

Do you have articles, reviews, advertising materials you can share with them that they can use as an example and put into their own words. If you have advertising materials you can send them, that would help them sell your products.

Many inactive affiliates might become more active if they were given the idea that they can sell your products to make money today instead of doing the daily click and confirm items to make money next month.

You could base a whole newsletter on how to do this to make fast money in SFI. If you have great products at a reasonable price that sell well, you should have no trouble getting your members to sell them for you.


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Show them how to do it. How do you promote your products? The fastest and most lucrative way for your affiliates in SFI is to sell products. You have a vehicle to do this where you have a personal stake in the outcome. That should give you the passion you need to convince them and give them ideas as to how to do it. What are your fastest selling products? How do they compare price wise with other similar products on the web? All of this is information your affiliates need to promote these products.
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 47 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

I'd say - first things first, i.e. I would start with actually LISTING some of your products, because right now you don't even have the chance to make your affiliates familiar with them. I've just visited your T-Connect page to see what products you offer, and...

While the old adage "when you build it, they will come" may not suit the Internet marketing too well, it's still somewhat valid. First you build your business, then you advertise it, not the other way round.

Don't be afraid, don't be shy, just show the world what you've got in store, direct your current and new affiliates to your store, tell them about the products, and eventually you'll find a person or two to advertise your products around the world.

Having set up that, you can always announce competitions on your leadership page, which can be connected with your products - reward your affiliates for the most sales, most unique visitors (if you can track that) to your store, for the most valuable sale... these are just examples and I'm sure your creativity will suggest you a few more :) also in terms of rewards.

By the way, since you decided to list your products on TripleClicks, I think it's worthwhile to let the world now about it. Think of an adequate campaign, and if possible, also use TripleClicks marketing materials. This way you may get both new customers and new affiliates who'll be more than glad to advertise and sell your products for commissions and rewards you may offer.

I keep my fingers crossed for your success!
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Hi,

I'd say - first things first, i.e. I would start with actually LISTING some of your products, because right now you don't even have the chance to make your affiliates familiar with them. I've just visited your T-Connect page to see what products you offer, and...

While the old adage "when you build it, they will come" may not suit the Internet marketing too well, it's still somewhat valid. First you build your business, then you advertise it, not the other way
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Plane's 4 other Ask SC answers

As an ECA, it is first your duty to provide quality products affiliates would not mind promoting. This should trump commission payout and everything else.

Once good products are made available, ECAs who wish to acquire more sales should then offer a handsome payout commission. This is done to persuade more affiliates into promoting what you have to offer, because they will feel like they are getting a benefit out of promoting your products and services.

Next, a more ambitious ECA could provide marketing materials, similar to what SFI provides in its marketing training portion of this site. Materials can include, but not be limited to: graphics, text ads, social media ads, emails promoting your goods, and even blog pr article posts for the blotters out there.

In short, to achieve more sales, it's almost a no-brainer to provide as much marketing materials as you can craft, since they will make promoting what you are offering much easier, and thus create more sales, more commissions, and more happy people in the process.

Your new customer should end up happy from the goods they purchased. The affiliate who promoted the goods should be happy from the commissions earned and possibility of lifetime commissions (if the customer was new to TripleClicks). And, of course you will be happy from getting another sale, with the upside of possibly selling more to the same customer.

With the above-mentioned set in place, everyone wins!
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As an ECA, it is first your duty to provide quality products affiliates would not mind promoting. This should trump commission payout and everything else.

Once good products are made available, ECAs who wish to acquire more sales should then offer a handsome payout commission. This is done to persuade more affiliates into promoting what you have to offer, because they will feel like they are getting a benefit out of promoting your products and services.

Next, a more ambitious
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Getting SFI affiliates to promote your products and services will depends on the amount of benefits they can get in promoting them.

SFI affiliates receives Commissions(if he is your PSA),Royalties,if he is your sponsor and VPs if they sell it to non-SFI members. Therefore, my first advice is to make these things your CV and VP points attractive.

My second advice is you find a product or services that are easy to sell and cheap or free to ship. Product and services that are easy to sell are related to SFI promotion. Example is selling ready made blog or flash pages.

The first two advice are related to your products and service. My second group of advice is on how yo can bring your good product and services to your promoters, the SFI affiliates.

You must prepare a digital brochure of your products and service then you pass them around to all your SFI contacts; your up-line, your down lines and your a2a friends.

Do not make it like a shotgun shot where you will invite them as group, but do it like a riffle shot where you will invite them individually one by one. Make it personal, establish relationship as you invite them to promote your products.
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Getting SFI affiliates to promote your products and services will depends on the amount of benefits they can get in promoting them.

SFI affiliates receives Commissions(if he is your PSA),Royalties,if he is your sponsor and VPs if they sell it to non-SFI members. Therefore, my first advice is to make these things your CV and VP points attractive.

My second advice is you find a product or services that are easy to sell and cheap or free to ship. Product and services that are easy
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Affiliates want to earn as much commission as possible, so the easiest way is to set a high CV on your products. The higher the CV, the more commission affiliates will earn on each sale.

The other method of generating sales is to make sure people know about your store. Tell your team members about it, and encourage them to connect with your store. Remind them that they earn commission on any sales they make.

Also, make sure your upline are aware that you have a store. They will have bigger teams than you, so are able to tell more people about it.
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Affiliates want to earn as much commission as possible, so the easiest way is to set a high CV on your products. The higher the CV, the more commission affiliates will earn on each sale.

The other method of generating sales is to make sure people know about your store. Tell your team members about it, and encourage them to connect with your store. Remind them that they earn commission on any sales they make.

Also, make sure your upline are aware that you have a store. They
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Affiliate since: 11/15/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anderson's 3 other Ask SC answers

Hi every one,

I hope this answer gives you good direction.

First of all, your T-connect page have all the tools you need to mark products as hot deals, close out items etc. Set your best items as close out deals of any deals of your choice. That may or can even attract your down line to bye from you.

Secondly, list those hot items with 1 T-credit, post them in your stream post and use your Genealogy mailer to send messages to your PSAs and CSAs that the team now have a active store for them to buy from and promote.

Finally, let them know of the advantages of promoting the store and include in your email that, there is some hot deals in the store. Put the link to the store in the email and measure that they can check it out through the link. Keep posting the link to your store and keep the email going out for weeks till you're satisfied that all your down line must have seen the message. Good luck and have fun.
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Hi every one,

I hope this answer gives you good direction.

First of all, your T-connect page have all the tools you need to mark products as hot deals, close out items etc. Set your best items as close out deals of any deals of your choice. That may or can even attract your down line to bye from you.

Secondly, list those hot items with 1 T-credit, post them in your stream post and use your Genealogy mailer to send messages to your PSAs and CSAs that the team now
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