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

Hi,

Please refer below for important things you need to become a successful ECA;

1. Set your vision, goals, and strategy. Know where you are going and how you are going to get there. Invest the time to identify your business goals, strategies, and tactics.

2. Establish a business model. Understand how you are going to make money, how the various parts of your business work together, and what your risks are. (Example: Hot deals, Free Shipping locally, worldwide shipping at minimal cost, Local Pay and etc)

3. Understand your customer. Know your customers and what your value proposition is. Why do they connect with your store and ultimately buy from you and not from other ECAs?

4. Get found. Invest in search engine optimization, advertising, blogging, social media, and other marketing activities to drive qualified traffic to your TConnect website. Never assume you have all the traffic you need. Be sure to diversify your traffic sources as much as possible.

5. Offer a superior customer experience. Ensure that your website, content, merchandising, landing pages, promotions, and customer service support your sales goals.

6. Deliver the goods. Ship your products in a timely fashion. Meet the expectations of your customers. Follow-up with confirmations. Ask for feedback. A sure way to lose a customer and get a bad review is to oversell and under deliver.

7. Build relationships. Try to convert a one-time buyer into a repeat customer. Encourage through online activities.

8. Stay fresh. Post offers, provide timely insights, and provide small gift or bonus for return buyers to your store.

Hope the above helps. Good Luck!
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Hi,

Please refer below for important things you need to become a successful ECA;

1. Set your vision, goals, and strategy. Know where you are going and how you are going to get there. Invest the time to identify your business goals, strategies, and tactics.

2. Establish a business model. Understand how you are going to make money, how the various parts of your business work together, and what your risks are. (Example: Hot deals, Free Shipping locally, worldwide shipping
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The internet is the largest market place in the world.
Each day thousands of people around the world open up
an online store to sell their products and become a
profitable business online.

The ECA Program allows commercial sellers and companies
of all kinds, from around the world, to market their
products and services. These sellers and companies can
immediately take advantage of the exposure and growing
traffic of TripleClicks.com.

To become a successful ECA, you will need the same skills
of any successful business owner.
If a person wants to open an online store, they need the
following:
1. Domain
2. Shopping Cart Software
3. Products
4. Customer Service
5. Marketing Strategy
With the ECA Program, the domain, Shopping Cart Software,
and Customer Service are taken care of as part of the
ECA Program. An ECA participant has only Products and
Marketing Strategy left to focus on.

Products

1. Check your emails from SFI customer service and your
suppliers on a regular basis. Answer inquiries promptly
within 24-48 hours. Fulfill orders in a similar time
frame.

2. Develop relationships with the suppliers provide products
for your store. Agree on pricing and delivery terms that
allow you to make a modest profit on the products you
are selling.

3. Monitor your inventory levels frequently(at least once a week)
Order more products when your inventory is low.

4. Update your product listings weekly.

5. Create pricing promotions from time to time. Send email
updates to your past customers.

Marketing Strategies

1. Use keyword advertising

2. Place ads in e-newsletters that cover a topic related to
your products

3. Use banners on traffic exchanges, blogs, etc.

4. Use Social Media like Facebook or Twitter.

a. Set up a Facebook Fanpage and link it to your ECA store
b. Use direct promotion of products, events, and services
c. Run contests, giveaways, and special promotions

The possibilities are endless and are the same as those used
by any successful business online or offline.

I hope this is helpful.
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The internet is the largest market place in the world.
Each day thousands of people around the world open up
an online store to sell their products and become a
profitable business online.

The ECA Program allows commercial sellers and companies
of all kinds, from around the world, to market their
products and services. These sellers and companies can
immediately take advantage of the exposure and growing
traffic of TripleClicks.com.

To become
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

I am recently become an ECA and I am brainstorming with the same question. I came up with few success factors that I want to share.

1. Product -

If we don't have have product yet to sell, we must look for product that are easily available in our place and repackage it to suit TripleClicks Store.

Another product and services that is worth considering are those that are related in SFI business. Example, if you know how to make website then offer that service.

If we already have products to sell what we need to consider is the packaging that would suit the TripleClicks's business environment.

2. Price -

Our price must be competitive specially if there are same product and services offered in Tripleclicks. We can have high price on something that is unique and we don't have competition.

3. Shipment -

We must consider the shipment of our product, its cost and ways to ship our products. Its the reason why many are resulting to selling downloadable items.

We need to consider seriously selling only to our own country if we are selling physical products because shipping them abroad will cost more than the item.

4. Advertising -

We must constantly advertising our products and services within SFI, we can do this through a2a friends, through stream and messages. Prepare an ads for every item you sell in TripleClicks and send them to your contact at SFI.

Once the authors of answers are revealed you are welcome visit my ECA store later and see what I came up.


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I am recently become an ECA and I am brainstorming with the same question. I came up with few success factors that I want to share.

1. Product -

If we don't have have product yet to sell, we must look for product that are easily available in our place and repackage it to suit TripleClicks Store.

Another product and services that is worth considering are those that are related in SFI business. Example, if you know how to make website then offer that service.

If
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Affiliate since: 12/03/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jasmina's 6 other Ask SC answers

The way that internet has revolutionized shopping brings endless opportunities to ECA. Many businesses have become extremely profitable through online sales. To become a successful ECA you need:
-Good traffic (attracting enough of the wright visitors to your TC store)
-Good products (having the wright product at the wright time)
-Ability to convert traffic into sales
Have your store named as close as possible to what you are selling. Be competitive with the prices, also prices can be lower, since you do not need to maintain a physical store. Upload a hi quality photos, so potential costumers can see your product clearly.
When you describe (details) your product be honest and realistic, focus on benefits not just on features. Ship goods in a timely fashion once you get order. Be flexible when it comes to returns and refunds (if the person is not happy with the purchase).
And don't forget to promote and advertise your TC shop on internet and social networks! Every day!
Wish you a good luck and happy sales!


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The way that internet has revolutionized shopping brings endless opportunities to ECA. Many businesses have become extremely profitable through online sales. To become a successful ECA you need:
-Good traffic (attracting enough of the wright visitors to your TC store)
-Good products (having the wright product at the wright time)
-Ability to convert traffic into sales
Have your store named as close as possible to what you are selling. Be competitive with the prices, also prices
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Caroline's 111 other Ask SC answers

Hi Milica,
First of all, you need a product. A product that would have wide appeal would obviously sell more. You would need to consider where your market will come from – whether mostly SFI affiliates, or the general public.

If you hope to sell mainly to SFI affiliates, then products that would help them in running their SFI businesses would be top sellers. If you can create these products yourself, then you aren’t only relying on commissions, but get the sale price of your product. Also you only have to make the product once and you keep on being paid for work done once. You could add back end offers with your product as well. Lots of SFI affiliates do this very successfully with advertising co-ops, how to ebooks, sets of emails, blogging services etc.

As an ECA promoting mostly to SFI affiliates, you would need to become an SFI affiliate yourself so that you could connect with as many other affiliates as possible. You would need to have as many people connect with your TConnect page as possible and write regular news which your connected affiliates would see on their Stream pages. You would also need to make many a2a friends and then share new product releases and special buys in your Stream posts.

If you were going to sell outside of SFI to the general public, you would need to work out an advertising campaign to guide people to your product. You could possibly also use your product as an enticement to draw new affiliates into your business.

You need to figure out the packaging and postage costs of your products to various countries and make sure you deliver as soon as possible.

You need to figure out the price of your products and how much percentage you are willing to give TripleClicks. This determines what VP your product will have. People will more likely buy something with a higher VP value than something of a similar price with a lower VP. There is a calculator on the page where you list your products where you can play around with different prices and what profits you would make. Check up on TripleClicks to see if anyone else is selling the same product as yours and what price they are selling at. You will be competing with them.

You need to take good photos of your products and upload these, and write compelling descriptions of your products to encourage people to buy them.

Thanks for the question, Milica. Now that you have got me thinking about all this, I’ll have to go and put my answer into practice!

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Hi Milica,
First of all, you need a product. A product that would have wide appeal would obviously sell more. You would need to consider where your market will come from – whether mostly SFI affiliates, or the general public.

If you hope to sell mainly to SFI affiliates, then products that would help them in running their SFI businesses would be top sellers. If you can create these products yourself, then you aren’t only relying on commissions, but get the sale price of your
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Affiliate since: 02/19/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sanda Florentina's 211 other Ask SC answers

An ECA is advantaged by the fact that he has something to sell, so success is not very difficult. However, there are indeed some things he should consider, to obtain very good ratings. So:
1-the ECA should take care to write enough and accurate information about his products,shipping fees and warranty included and the information should be attractive, tempting
2-the prices should be low enough to reach the consumer who needs them the most and has not too much available to purchase
3-even if the prices are good for the consumer, they should forsee a good amount
(approx. more than 15% of the price) for the site which promotes a certain desired product to be sold (here we speak about the SFI site), so that the respective product to be arranged in top among other products
4-the ECA should keep a good communication with his upper line and ask for help regarding posting links with his products when he needs more sales for a certain merchandise; actually, the upper line is directly interested in increasing the sales of the ECA in its downline, so the SFI system is advantageous for the ECAs
5-to post regularly his products on different sites and on SFI (sometimes in Streams, too, for example)so that both the upper line and the downline to see and promote them
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An ECA is advantaged by the fact that he has something to sell, so success is not very difficult. However, there are indeed some things he should consider, to obtain very good ratings. So:
1-the ECA should take care to write enough and accurate information about his products,shipping fees and warranty included and the information should be attractive, tempting
2-the prices should be low enough to reach the consumer who needs them the most and has not too much available to purchase
3-even
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Milica

To become a good ECA, I suggest that you read all the ECA information first.
You can find all the answers at;
https://www.sfimg.com/Support/index?category=26469&folder=4752g7
and http://eca.tripleclicks.com/index.php?m=05&y=10&d=28&entry=entry100528-102911

Once you've become an ECA member, you'll want to have other people see your store. You can go to.
https://www.sfimg.com/ECAreport to connect with ECA's that have joined TripleClicks.
You can also have messages sent to you when new ECA's join.
Stream about your new store and products on SFI.

You'll want advertise your store, I suggest you use social media, blog, tell friends and family, e-mails, texts, & pass out flyers, just as you advertise SFI.
Once more people see your ads and know you have a store, you'll have people connecting daily.
I suggest you continue to advertise new items to the same people. Many won't check it out your website at first, but will if they like an item. You can also give out gift cards as an incentive.
Good luck on your business.
I hope this has helped you.

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Milica

To become a good ECA, I suggest that you read all the ECA information first.
You can find all the answers at;
https://www.sfimg.com/Support/index?category=26469&folder=4752g7
and http://eca.tripleclicks.com/index.php?m=05&y=10&d=28&entry=entry100528-102911

Once you've become an ECA member, you'll want to have other people see your store. You can go to.
https://www.sfimg.com/ECAreport to connect with ECA's that have joined TripleClicks.
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Affiliate since: 04/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vanja's 21 other Ask SC answers

Hello Milica Andonovic

If you don't want to pay anything for promoting your ECA that's fine because you can sell your products from your ECA successfully like you would pay for it, and maybe you're asking yourself how to do that, well it's not that hard but you need time.

The best way:
- Go on google and type in "forums" and any product that you're selling or you can also type in "forums for promoting store".
Then you will have to register. After that, almost on every forum ( 90% of them ) have the topic about introducing yourself, from where you are, what's your job and you know just the stuff about you that you want to share with everyone. Don't just go on on a new topic and immediately promote your ECA, it won't work like that because people want's to know more about you.
When you do that, introduce yourself, wait a couple of days and then maybe someone will already contact you on forum and asking about what do you sell and if not, no worries, then open a new topic and there you will promote your ECA, tell them what products you sell and you can say everything that you think is important. Leave a link from your ECA and maybe a links of some products so that people could check of course.

- You can also find forums about some of the products that you sell ( if you sell more different products ) and there you will go the same way like in a first example, but this time when you come to the topic about promoting products, you will need to put links only from a products that the forum is all about.

- You can also type in on google "free classified ads for your store". That's also one of the good ways to show people what do you sell. There you don't need to type too much, but you will need at least one or two picture in that add from some products that you sell and just a small text and of course the link of your ECA.

- If you have friends in some other countries or some relatives, tell them about your business and that you need help, give them the link and I'm sure at least one person will tell about your store and you never know who will like it.

- You can also make a blog or a website about your ECA store. It doesn't need to be so much into details, but it will help you when you want to promote your ECA, a lot.
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Hello Milica Andonovic

If you don't want to pay anything for promoting your ECA that's fine because you can sell your products from your ECA successfully like you would pay for it, and maybe you're asking yourself how to do that, well it's not that hard but you need time.

The best way:
- Go on google and type in "forums" and any product that you're selling or you can also type in "forums for promoting store".
Then you will have to register. After
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I used to believe the lie that if you open up a shop, customers would come. That is sooooo false. As a matter of fact, not only is it false, but it is such a widespread lie, that it is sometimes taken as truth.

To be successful, you will need 4 things...

1. A plan - What is your purpose in opening this online shop and who will it benefit...
2. A product - What do you have in abundance that you could offer to the public...
3. A market - Who are your buyers...
4. A mentor - Who has done what you want to do and been successful...

What I have noticed is that too many people try to become successful on their own. Aside from die, there aren't too many things that we can REALLY be successful at by ourselves. Find someone to help you, individually, who isn't afraid that you are the "competition," and work under them - let them walk you through the process of your new business.
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I used to believe the lie that if you open up a shop, customers would come. That is sooooo false. As a matter of fact, not only is it false, but it is such a widespread lie, that it is sometimes taken as truth.

To be successful, you will need 4 things...

1. A plan - What is your purpose in opening this online shop and who will it benefit...
2. A product - What do you have in abundance that you could offer to the public...
3. A market - Who are your buyers...
4.
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Affiliate since: 04/17/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kouame Lambert's 15 other Ask SC answers

I think you need first to behave as a serious company which has product or services to promote or to sell.

So:

- Sell what you think people need or will need. It means search and discover their need before finding the good product or services to satisfy those needs.

- Be profesional ; I mean you need to have a marketing strategy to communicate with TC visitor and with your twitter , facebook contacts, etc...

- Use good picture to attract people. Pictures are very important to sell online as you can see, bad picture never attract visitors.

- Be smart to satify your clients: when you see a pending order, do all your best to delever the product to your client. People don't trust 100% when they buy online. They all time think that the ECA will scam them. So keep communication, inform your client that he /She will receive his /her product in few minutes or few hours. Tell them something to calm them.

- Be honest: if you think you can send the product, please refund the money and apologize for the inconvenience. They will trust you more and will continue to order other item from your ECA.

- Use Gift cards, people need to try TC item with gift card and know how it works . They don't like taking risk. So gift cards will help them to trust and later they will use their debit cards to shop on your ECA. Then you will make profit.

- Inform your SFI downline about your ECA. Your PSAs and CSAs will be happy to deal with their upline or Sponsor / Co-sponsor.

- Submit your Item to HOT DEAL and TC will promote them on the home page. This will help you to inform TC visitors about your items and trust me, you can boost your sales in few weeks.

I hope you will apply this and have success.
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I think you need first to behave as a serious company which has product or services to promote or to sell.

So:

- Sell what you think people need or will need. It means search and discover their need before finding the good product or services to satisfy those needs.

- Be profesional ; I mean you need to have a marketing strategy to communicate with TC visitor and with your twitter , facebook contacts, etc...

- Use good picture to attract people. Pictures
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