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

Like me when I was just starting, my new affiliates also need training and guidance. Just like me, and to create duplication, they have to be leaders of their own team. They have to be role models in order to build authority and influence on their downline affiliates. We can train and organize our team by applying the five-step empowerment:

1. I DO IT—> I Model

As a leader, part of your job is to inspire your downline affiliates to push themselves to greatness. To do this, you must show them the way by doing it.

I have standing order of 1500 VPs, currently have S-Builder Co-op share, establish power rank overall, country and class, actively participate in Ask SC, Wave 3 member, IAHBE member, pricebenders winner, daily grand and etc.

2. I DO IT AND YOU WATCH—> I Mentor

My downline affiliates will from time to time refer to my leadership page and see how I'm doing in SFI. The badges will act as a proof of my activities. Thus, whenever I send the geanology mail to explain how things to be done, it is more encouraging as "we walk the talk".

3. YOU DO IT AND I WATCH—> I Monitor

By using My Movers, I can concentrate on those active affiliates. Specific attention can be given to these affiliates especially for fast track affiliates and reach EA status. From this point, offer them an incentive by setting up standing order of 1500 VPs.

I can still remember when I first joined SFI, my initial aim was to reach the 1500 VPs to qualify as EA. But I'm clueless, what should be the next action. Upon reaching my 1500 VPs, I received e-mail from my sponsor offering reassignment of 20 affiliates if i setup a standing order of IAHBE or 125 Tcredit.

I was so excited and immediately the next day have standing order of 200 Tcredit. As promised by my sponsor, I received the 20 affiliates and immediately become BTL. My sponsor congratulate me and suggested for me to buy targeted advertising shares of affiliates. I was so thankful to my affiliates.

Leaders will always monitor their affiliates progress.

4. YOU DO IT—> You Move Forward

You know what, from the 20 reassigned affiliates that I received, only 1 was active. Soon, I realize I need to sponsor more affiliates to build my SFI business foundation. First, I setup SO of 25 affiliates, then setup SO of S-Builder co-op, bought another 500 affiliates from ECA, then another 50. Now I have about 1000+ affiliates (PSAs, 2nd and 3rd Gen, and CSAs) with only about 20 actives affiliates.

The main thing is that I do it and move forward.

5. YOU DO IT WITH SOMEBODY ELSE—> We Multiply

The duplication process will be repeating by YOU and your affiliates.

By applying this, I'm not only developing the potential skills of downline affiliates, I'm also building a strong and effective team that will also create duplication. I can nurture them by believing in their skills, encouraging them to grow, sharing my ideas and thoughts with them, and trusting them to do the same to others.
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Like me when I was just starting, my new affiliates also need training and guidance. Just like me, and to create duplication, they have to be leaders of their own team. They have to be role models in order to build authority and influence on their downline affiliates. We can train and organize our team by applying the five-step empowerment:

1. I DO IT—> I Model

As a leader, part of your job is to inspire your downline affiliates to push themselves to greatness. To do
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Affiliate since: 06/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read David's 28 other Ask SC answers

I think the best kind of plan to set your PSA's in their first day is:

Get the 500 VP's get the FastTrack Badge plus 200 VP's Bonus within the 1st 24 hours.
700 VP's gained in first day! Just 800 VP's to go to get EA Status, Sweet!

In first month, you should advise them to get the 10 VP's daily from the To-Do List.
10 x 30 days = 300 VP's, that Just leaves 500 VP's to get in that first month.

There are 30 LaunchPad Lessons to do 15 easy VP's each Lesson 30 x 15 = 450 VP's
As you know that leaves you with just 50 VP's to get for the first month to get your EA Status.
(Plus you gain 300 VP's for staying in the E365 contest, can't remember if you get these VP's in you first or second month?)

Second Month little harder to keep your EA Status, But we can pick up more VP's from all the tasks VP Ledger if you look for the actions you didn't do in your first month these are again easy VP's to be gained, I have had an Affiliate who didn't quite stay in the E365 only by about 70 VP's or so, I need to focus on getting him back to EA Status again this month!
VP's you can get there with minimal investment in your second month.

Third month, you need to get them if they can to set up a Standing Order, IAHBE = 1500 VP's each month?
TCredits cheapest way to do it is work out how many VP's you can earn in the third month then buy some single TCredits for $1.89 each one has 102 VP's and for every single purchase you can also review and gain another 25 VP's for that purchase/review.

Set a plan of some kind for your New Affiliate something they can refer back to if he or she gets stuck, Plus give them a congratulations message if the do something that is fitting to do so?

Communicate with them, my Sponsor and I talk quite a few times every week sometimes every day?
This is how people who follow by example do so much better than people who don't!
Little effort every day can go along way into our future success!
Good Luck and stick with it!
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I think the best kind of plan to set your PSA's in their first day is:

Get the 500 VP's get the FastTrack Badge plus 200 VP's Bonus within the 1st 24 hours.
700 VP's gained in first day! Just 800 VP's to go to get EA Status, Sweet!

In first month, you should advise them to get the 10 VP's daily from the To-Do List.
10 x 30 days = 300 VP's, that Just leaves 500 VP's to get in that first month.

There are 30 LaunchPad Lessons to do 15 easy VP's each Lesson
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 226 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

In my case I will rather show my new affiliates the stages I designed and follow. Different person (PSA) can accomplish different level depending on his skills, enthusiasm and resources.

Here are the stages that I identify that I used to my self and share with my Affiliates. Of course in Day 1 I always include the opportunity to be a fast tracker and earn that badge and 200 additional VP.

From thereon onwards I share these 5 stages in building your SFI Business:

Stage 1. Learning while earning. The objective here is learning.

The summary of lessons that you need to learn is found in your TO-DO list, together with some tasks just to keep your SFI office in order. While doing this you are also earning Versa Points (VP), This VP will earn you a rank that will qualify you to share in the executive pool and badges as recognition of your achievement. Two of the most important things that you should learn at this stage is SPONSORING and how to become an AWESOME SPONSOR.

Stage 2. Building your Foundation: The objective here is massive sponsoring.

From the lessons you learn from Stage 1 you need to lay down your foundation as wide as possible by sponsoring/recruiting a lot of members/affiliates under your organization. This is a number game, you need massive sponsoring because only few of them will really understand the potential of SFI business, and because SFI is a long-term business building many of those who wants instant money will drop out. Expect from 80 to 99% of your affiliates will be passive members.

Stage 3. Working with the Workers: The objective here is coaching

This is working with the 1 to 20% of your members who are actively working their way to be successful like you do. You will use lots of your knowledge gained in stage one to help these workers. You need to support them to become successful because your success will largely depend on their success. You should take lead so that they can follow. They can copy what you have done and become like you. This called duplication.
You will still do stage 1 with lesser intensity you should be aware of changes in policies and new opportunities brought about by SFI. You will also continue to do stage 2 with the same intensity in order to widen your base for bigger organization that in turn gives you bigger income.

Stage 4. Exploring other streams. - The objective here is to explore the other income streams and pass it on to your workers.

At this stage try to explore recruiting sellers and be a seller yourself of any product you have at Triple Clicks. If you learn massive recruitment, you can channel some of your recruits to SFI via SFIPPA.

Stage V - Maintaining Growth - You still do stages 1 to 4 in parallel to stage 5 probably in lesser intensity, but never stop doing it because of atrocity, some of your worker may also stop for some reason, there should be a replacement for them and allowance for your growth.

Some affiliates can learn 2 or three stages in a month, but others barely master the first stage. So, I just have to journey with them in their pace. What is important is the clarity of route to success.
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In my case I will rather show my new affiliates the stages I designed and follow. Different person (PSA) can accomplish different level depending on his skills, enthusiasm and resources.

Here are the stages that I identify that I used to my self and share with my Affiliates. Of course in Day 1 I always include the opportunity to be a fast tracker and earn that badge and 200 additional VP.

From thereon onwards I share these 5 stages in building your SFI Business:

Stage
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Affiliate since: 01/23/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rob's 36 other Ask SC answers

I think the best way to help them get started is to:

1) Encourage them to get 500VP in the first day for Fast Track.
2) Encourage them to read the LaunchPad series where they will learn all about SFI.
3) Continue to remind them of these two things:
a) Keep things simple - there is so much training here and different ways to build your business, but in the end it's a very simple 3-step program - become EA and stay EA, find 4-5 others to do the same, teach those 4-5 others to do the same thing as you (to find their 4-5 others!)...
b) Remember that it is not a get-rich scheme - it takes some time, possibly even months or 1-2 years depending on the motivation of the affiliate to build a successful business and income stream.

So encourage them to stay persistent, and do something each day and most of all - not to give up, but instead to give it a few months.

Hope this helps... and wishing you the best of luck!!!

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I think the best way to help them get started is to:

1) Encourage them to get 500VP in the first day for Fast Track.
2) Encourage them to read the LaunchPad series where they will learn all about SFI.
3) Continue to remind them of these two things:
a) Keep things simple - there is so much training here and different ways to build your business, but in the end it's a very simple 3-step program - become EA and stay EA, find 4-5 others to do the same, teach those 4-5
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Melvin,

In my welcome letter, I make sure that the new affiliates know they need to show up to work everyday. That this is not an internet scam, but a real job.
To be on the fast track, they must above the green line right away, so they will be eligible to you receive the ways to get the perks that will be available to them.
I send the following information to all the new affiliates a few days after the welcome letter,so they know what to do.
1) There's a language translator on each page of SFI and TripleClicks, so you can read everything in your language.
2) The SFI website is confusing at first, but if the following steps are followed, it will help you learn the website and what is expected.
3) If they haven't gone into the website and done the first 2 steps it needs to be done now. Go to the Start video in black at the top right hand corner of the SFI website and then go to the Basics
4) Now do the Launchpad, To-Do List, and the red tabs daily.
5) If you read 20 extra answers on the Ask SC you get an extra point for the Daily Grand.
6) Enter the Daily Grand to be eligible for prizes.
7) Read the Alerts and Forum. Important information is here too.
8) Watch this SFI training video: http://sfitrainers.com/video/
9) Be patient, learn something new everyday and have fun.
Not quitting is the secret to any success.

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Melvin,

In my welcome letter, I make sure that the new affiliates know they need to show up to work everyday. That this is not an internet scam, but a real job.
To be on the fast track, they must above the green line right away, so they will be eligible to you receive the ways to get the perks that will be available to them.
I send the following information to all the new affiliates a few days after the welcome letter,so they know what to do.
1) There's a language translator
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Victor's 1 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion, the first month is completely reading and learning the business.
How?
Convince your affiliates to work hard from the start, filling their profile quickly, uploading their photo, whitelisiting their most important contacts, etc. That way they will get Fast Track extra VPs.
Once they have done that, they should read and UNDERSTAND as many Launchpad lessons and articles as they can (not necessary to read all of them in the first month, but more important to understand and start putting in practice them).
Of course, get their Daily Actions 11 VPs.
That way they will be EAs from the first month.

From the second month, they should place a Standing Order for 125 TCredits and start taking part in the Auctions with small budgets (10 or 20 bids) until they understand how they work and later become expert bidders. This will give them extra VPs and MRPs that they will save for the future.
Being sure that they will become EA2s, they can start building their downline team by getting PSAs via direct purchase in Tripleclicks or buying S Builder co ops.

For the third month, they will be very busy sponsoring their good PSAs, while they receive their automatic 1500VPs from the Standing Order.
This might be the most complicate task, as they have to be very consistent to encourage their PSAs by being their example: collecting badges, participating in Ask SC and forums, in two words: Being Present for their PSAs and, of course, e-mailing them constantly supplying Tips and answering their questions.

This schedule will make them take off quickly and see the benefits come in the medium term.
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In my opinion, the first month is completely reading and learning the business.
How?
Convince your affiliates to work hard from the start, filling their profile quickly, uploading their photo, whitelisiting their most important contacts, etc. That way they will get Fast Track extra VPs.
Once they have done that, they should read and UNDERSTAND as many Launchpad lessons and articles as they can (not necessary to read all of them in the first month, but more important to understand
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 47 other Ask SC answers

The best plan to give your new PSAs is the one you follow yourself (if it is successful). Being with SFI for over a year, you must have found your path, you certainly know what investments in time, money, and effort are required, and this is the knowledge to pass to your Affiliates.

Why?

More probably than not, you'll get hundreds of answers like: tell them to log in daily, do the TO-DO list, set a standing order, blah, blah, blah, from people who very often do not perform any actions concerning financial engagement, but would like their Affiliates to do them in order to generate commissions.

You will certainly also get valuable tips from the really successful SFI members, but before you pass that on to your Affiliates, have a closer look at them, and if possible try them out yourself.

SFI is very transparent and one of the principles at SFI is "leading by example", so if you recommend something you don't do/use/buy yourself, you may lose your credibility. Remember, every Affiliate has access to your profile… So, be always honest with your Affiliates!

If what you currently do, works - share it with your new Affiliates in a series of letters disclosing YOUR plan step by step. Do not cram it into one letter, because it may be too much to digest at once.

If you find a better idea among the answers to your question, try it out yourself and if it works, share this one, too, with your downline and make it the current plan for the new Affiliates.

As for the plan I share with my successful Affiliates:

1. In month 1 I ask my Affiliates to do the VP Ledger tasks and I explain what 1500 VPs are for and how they expire each month, and how they can get those 1500 VPs (more or less) automatically by setting up a Standing Order (I have two financial plans, one that involves smaller investment of ca. $19 and requires doing TO-DO LIST tasks daily for missing VPs and the other for those who can set up a larger monthly budget)

2. Next, I teach my Affiliates that the most important thing here is not buying and/or selling, but building their own team of Affiliates. Since I rely on automation, I suggest a product from TC store that I use myself to get 25 (currently) PSAs each month.

When they follow these two points, they hit two birds with one stone - automation and duplication. Automation, since they get 1500 VPs to remain EAs, plus new Affiliates without any recruiting, and duplication since they can then concentrate on leadership and teach their Affiliates do the same.
Of course logging in daily, doing the TO-DO LIST task to get an entry in the Daily Grand drawing go without saying. And people do them.

I also contribute to this duplication by making my letter series available to all my Affiliates who are free to use them in their campaigns.

One more thing – no matter what brilliant plans you share with your Affiliates, teach them also this: SFI is a long-term commitment not a get-rich-quick scheme. The results will come but not overnight, probably after a few months, but more probably after a longer period.

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The best plan to give your new PSAs is the one you follow yourself (if it is successful). Being with SFI for over a year, you must have found your path, you certainly know what investments in time, money, and effort are required, and this is the knowledge to pass to your Affiliates.

Why?

More probably than not, you'll get hundreds of answers like: tell them to log in daily, do the TO-DO list, set a standing order, blah, blah, blah, from people who very often do not perform any
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Affiliate since: 05/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Malisha's 6 other Ask SC answers

I will tell you what has worked for me and my PSA's.

The plan for the first month is to learn everything they can about the business. They can do this by reading the launch pad lessons and all the items on the to do list. I tell my PSA's to get on the fast track so half the VPs needed to become an EA are completed in the first day with SFI. For my PSAs that can't afford to set a standing order or choose not to set a standing order in the first month I let them know it is okay for now but in order to advance in rank and become a TL (team leader), a standing order of 1500 VPs is the easiest way to do it. I also let my team know early that vps are harder to come by after the first month. I am totally honest with them about the second month, third month, and beyond. They will have to invest either time or money if not both. For thoes that don't have a lot of time I suggest the 1500vp standing order. For the ones that are not able to do a standing order right away I direct them to the free advertising and sponsoring pages.
I also encourage them to stay focused and to not leave money on the table. They must check their home page daily and do the items on their to do list everyday.
Also, in the plan for the second and third month is letting them know about tripleclicks, the penny auctions, and ECA and how to advertise them.

So in a nutshell, month one should be read and learn, read and learn, and read and learn some more. Months two and three should be start investing whether it be time or money if not both. Then from then on they should be advertising, sponsoring, and talking up all that this business has to offer.


Hopefully, this helps you as much as it has for me.
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I will tell you what has worked for me and my PSA's.

The plan for the first month is to learn everything they can about the business. They can do this by reading the launch pad lessons and all the items on the to do list. I tell my PSA's to get on the fast track so half the VPs needed to become an EA are completed in the first day with SFI. For my PSAs that can't afford to set a standing order or choose not to set a standing order in the first month I let them know it is okay for now
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I really like the way the question is worded, "...plan to give your new PSA to help them get started...".

Planning is the key to success with any endeavour that someone will take on. A business is successful when there is a plan in place to provide support with the why, what, and how with running a business with SFI as an affiliate.

The first month, in my opinion is taken care of through the completion of the Launch Pad Lessons provided by SFI. The Launch Pad lessons are great as these are easy to read - daily mini-training sessions for all new affiliates as well as great materials to review for affiliates with more than one-month's experience with SFI.

During the first month that the PSA is part of your down-line, I have found is the best time to communicate with them directly to better understand "their why-purpose" for joining SFI and then support them with the design of a goal and plan that keeps "their why - motivation" alive for the months to follow after their first month.

The "plan" is best designed when it is meaningful to the individual who will follow it. Every affiliate has a "why" for joining SFI so getting to know "the why" of the PSA enables a joint effort to design a plan for success.

The value added service that a sponsor/Team Leader may offer is to coach PSA's and even CSA's to better understand "their why" for becoming an affiliate. A plan that fits their "why" will provide a source of motivation for affiliates to follow their plan to achieve their goals and dreams in life.

A plan that fits "the why" as expressed by the PSA will not only provide a purpose for daily business activity but will also provide a source of motivation for the affiliates for the months and years to follow to become their best.
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I really like the way the question is worded, "...plan to give your new PSA to help them get started...".

Planning is the key to success with any endeavour that someone will take on. A business is successful when there is a plan in place to provide support with the why, what, and how with running a business with SFI as an affiliate.

The first month, in my opinion is taken care of through the completion of the Launch Pad Lessons provided by SFI. The Launch Pad lessons
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

For me it depends on the type of PSA;

I send a welcome letter using Teammail so that it comes from SFI which is the one place they recognise so far.

I introduce myself and give my personal email so I can start sending personal emails if they agree otherwise I continue with Teammail.

I try to suss what kind of person they are:

- a competitive person will want to do well in their E365 class so I will explain to them about making VPs to maintain themselves above the green line whilst not passing the EA line while they have no downline, for fear they might use all their easy VPs in the first month when they can save some for the following months where it is not as easy to collect them. I will explain about combining the routine following of the to-do list with a standing order, in their case preferably S-Builder unit in order to start a team that will help them become a team leader. They should play on the Win tab and join Wave3 to maximise their chances of winning additional VPs and TCredits which they can then use in auctions or in rewarding their working affiliates or in getting their friends and family to post items on TripleClicks!

- a laid back person or a person with less financial means might want to take their time. They can still ensure they are above the green line so that they are finalist in their E365 class but what is most important is that they don't miss a free VP where there is one. The to-do list routine is vital and it only takes 30 minutes in average. Slowly but steadily they can build their fortune and stop themselves from burning up too quickly. I give them tips to remain in the race without running too fast which their means or preferences might not allow. I point them to the many free resources on SFI and show them how they can share an SFI/TripleClicks sales or auction once a week or more on Facebook if they think someone might be interested. Any new user who gets one will get them commissions from then on!

- a person that joins SFI/TC as an ECA needs to make contact a lot and list their products in the clearest and most attractive way possible. I speak to them about putting their products up, advertising and making their online prices attractive enough to make even their offline users attracted. I explain that the more people they get online to (their store in) TripleClicks, the more they benefit as having attracted these people to SFI/TripleClicks make them earn commissions on their buys for life. I show them the forum where they can mingle and understand their potential customers. I also show them the many ways of advertising that SFI offers and the many ways that they can get their own customers to earn commissions on the ECA products they advertise by being an SFI affiliate for free!

There are many more types of people, I am sure. I am learning as I get more PSAs and so will you. Understanding people and how they can harness SFI for their own success depends on making sure we have had a conversation with them to understand what they like doing and what, in the long term, will continue to work for them. We don't want anyone to burn their energy or money too quickly for our instant gratification because everyone's success and happiness in our teams makes our success and happiness with SFI.

Hope this helps. All the best
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For me it depends on the type of PSA;

I send a welcome letter using Teammail so that it comes from SFI which is the one place they recognise so far.

I introduce myself and give my personal email so I can start sending personal emails if they agree otherwise I continue with Teammail.

I try to suss what kind of person they are:

- a competitive person will want to do well in their E365 class so I will explain to them about making VPs to maintain themselves
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