Affiliate since: 05/16/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Velma's 12 other Ask SC answers

An SFI affiliate has the opportunity to begin a business with free registration. All learning tools are free. All you have to do is to read all information properly, so that you gain knowledge of how to progress and be successful. With any business, you have to invest TIME and MONEY. Investing money in SFI helps you to accelerate your progress to success. Because its a home-run online business, you work at your own pace without anyone looking over your shoulder, but you have to be consistent.

A traditional business needs upfront investment. If you do not own your own place, you have to pay rent, utility bills, all overhead expenses, workers if necessary, cash to buy stocks, display units/advertisement, etc. Whenever you decide to do a traditional business, the most important thing is to get the right location, considering vehicle parking at the same time. You also have to ensure that what you plan to sell will be marketable in the said area, especially if someone else is doing the same thing at the same place, unless its a vastly populated area.

It can be very stressful running a business on your own, as you have to physically work very hard to open at a set time everyday, replenish stocks before they run out, treat your customers well and keep them satisfied.

So considering the difference with both businesses, I believe that being an SFI affiliate is much better. You work (use your computer) at your own pace and if you really want to be among the top, it will not cost you gold or silver, but a little INVESTMENT and your TIME of course, will go a far way into securing your future.

I hope this help you in some way.

Best wishes.


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An SFI affiliate has the opportunity to begin a business with free registration. All learning tools are free. All you have to do is to read all information properly, so that you gain knowledge of how to progress and be successful. With any business, you have to invest TIME and MONEY. Investing money in SFI helps you to accelerate your progress to success. Because its a home-run online business, you work at your own pace without anyone looking over your shoulder, but you have to be consistent.

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Affiliate since: 07/19/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Chrystina's 43 other Ask SC answers

One of the differences is that SFI is Internet Based, mostly and Internationally based, and another brick-and-morter business is located and operated mostly from one building called the Headquarters building, and have more limits as to who they do business with. There are more rules and requlations how and where their business can be run. There are less restrictions on an Online company.

However, SFI is just as good as a traditional business. It has a headquarters, and has a physical office it is run from. It also has a great rating at the Better Business Bureau like other traditional businesses. Some people even consider SFI as a traditional busines, such as eBay, and UBid and other auction websites that are comparable to TripleClicks.

SFI does not have as high a starting cost as most other companies have. There are team members that help with advertising costs with co-ops, buying power, and other incentives. The SC Question and Answer team is helpful, too which not too many other companies have offered. We even get contest entries for rating the answers, this is great...and unique to SFI.

However, some other companies offer unique services with their companies as well. I believe to answer your question which is better, SFI or another traditional business...this is actually a matter of personal preferences.

The best way to answer this is write a list of all the pros and cons of one of your favorite companies, and write another list of pros and cons about SFI which is actually (Your Home-Based-Company), then compare your TripleClicks Store, your ECA Stores, Your Wave3 Company, and all the other companies with SFI with the ONE business you have to compare it to...and you may judge which one is better.

When I did the research, the one company I compared it to did NOT have as many contests, newsletters, Guess-The-Price and win prizes cothests in PriceBender's Contests, did not have as good products for sale than the members offer at their ECA websites, as well as the better cleaning supplies as SFI, and their unbeatable prices for everything, the vitamins are even better than store bought which do not even come close to the high levels of vitamins and minerals contained in the vitamins at the SFI websites, and their cleaning ingredients are even more eco-friendly than any that I have seen. There are wholesale prices and SFI shares a percentages of their sales dollars with SFI members, and most rewards programs out there cannot even match those with SFI...so, I hope when you compare your one company to SFI, and do the research I have done, I hope you come to the same conclusion as I have. And you may agree that in my opinion...SFI is actually better.

I wish you well with finding the answers to your question...but, do realize it is really a matter of opinion which company is better. Some people also consider SFI as a traditional home-based-business, so you are kind of asking them to just compare two traditional businesses side by side, and provide you their opinion, which I have done. I cannot tell you which business I compared SFI to, as it would not be fair to the other company and it could also be considered a form of cross-solicitation. However, in my opinion SFI is a very unique company, and it is like 6 companies under the name of SFI, TripleClicks, Wave3, ECA, PriceBenders, and others...so, it was actually difficult to find a company to compare SFI to, fairly. But, I hope you have as fun a time as I have researching your question to find an answer to it.

I hope you enjoy SFI just as much as I do, and after you do the research to form your own opinion, I hope you grow to enjoy SFI even more, and realize how unique SFI is, and learn to appreciate it that much greater.

Hope to see you at the top, with SFI!

To your Success
Another SFI Member!
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One of the differences is that SFI is Internet Based, mostly and Internationally based, and another brick-and-morter business is located and operated mostly from one building called the Headquarters building, and have more limits as to who they do business with. There are more rules and requlations how and where their business can be run. There are less restrictions on an Online company.

However, SFI is just as good as a traditional business. It has a headquarters, and has a physical
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

The difference between being an SFI affiliate and having a traditional business is clear when you give it some thought. Nonetheless there are some similarities as well. Just to be balanced, let's example a few of the similarities as well as the differences.

Here are just a few of the similarities SFI has to a traditional business.

1. They both are businesses and as such they should be operated with profits in mind.

2. They both require strong dedication and commitment to reap the rewards.

3. They both require a considerable amount of time to build. There really is no get rich quick when it comes to business. There are risks involved. The risks must be diminished by the return.

4. The both require a operating budget. While the budget for SFI will be much lower than for a traditional business trying to operate either without capital is like trying to drive your car without gas!

5. The both promise great rewards if all the variables fall in place properly. The sky is the limit in either case.

The list above is in no wise conclusive so I challenge you to explore other similarities so that you can appreciate them both.

Next, let's explore some differences. Below are just a few of them:

1. SFI affiliates can usually start their business without having to have a permit. Traditional business come with all kinds of regulations. Now their are regulations for SFI affiliates as well but fewer than with a brick & mortar business.

2. SFI affiliates are not employees nor do they have employees. The buck starts and stops with your decision to act or not. Most traditional businesses have employees.

3. SFI affiliates have greater flexibility to work when it is convenient rather than have 'store hours'. TripleClicks is a 24 hour virtual store within a store. Most traditional businesses have operating hours.

4. SFI affiliates have low overhead and no inventory to maintain unless they decide to become an ECA that inventories certain items. Traditional business have huge inventories to maintain at great cost to profits.

5. SFI affiliates earn 45% on the commission volume while traditional businesses gross 100% of what their mark up is.

Therefore in light of the aforementioned similarities and differences I must say the the SFI affiliate has the greatest flexibility of time and lower overhead expenses. However, a traditional business is going to become very profitable sooner rather than latter because they gross 100% of the markup on the cost of their inventory.

If you are well financed why not have a traditional business? You stand to get more money sooner rather than later. But if you are cash poor, becoming an SFI affiliate is just the right thing for you to do to earn money selling products and services. Businesses have enough cash to tie them over in low economic periods. Being an SFI affiliate means that if you are not growing your network AND producing commission volume then you have little or no money to show for your efforts. I'd definitely say having a traditional business that is productive is far better than being an affiliate of SFI. Yet, the choice is up to you. So are you in or are you out? Either way you must decide.
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The difference between being an SFI affiliate and having a traditional business is clear when you give it some thought. Nonetheless there are some similarities as well. Just to be balanced, let's example a few of the similarities as well as the differences.

Here are just a few of the similarities SFI has to a traditional business.

1. They both are businesses and as such they should be operated with profits in mind.

2. They both require strong dedication
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 347 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

The very obvious answer to this question is that with a traditional business, you have a much greater cost both to set up your business and to run it, whether you make a profit or not. With SFI, of course, you may set it up and begin doing business at no monetary cost. The training is free and you have partners in the SFI business who are willing to help you without demanding "their share" out of the business.

The obvious answer about time is that with a physical business, you must put in hours of time during open hours and before and after those hours. You have no choice about when they will be spent on the business. If you want to take a few hours off, you must pay someone to take your place or close the shop. With SFI, you choose when you will do your work. And if you need some time off, then you take it, while your team keeps working, your ads keep working, and the other affiliates keep buying and selling your products.

Here it it! The "other answer"! A brick and mortar store can never match the number of hours that can go into each SFI business, nor can it never produce a residual income. When the store's doors close, the cash register is locked up. No more money enters the system. When the employees go home, no more work is done.

With SFI, we build a team from around the world. Someone is awake and working at all times. If they make a sale, the whole upline benefits. If they make a post in their Stream, their whole downline benefits. All night, all day.

We have tens of thousands of affiliates who are always in need of products to buy and sell. They are tending ads all over the world, some with your best products in them.

It is the network that makes SFI so much better than a regular downtown brick and mortar store front, or even a web-site. Those depend on the wit, perseverance, strength, creativity of just one or two people or a small association and the limited advertising budget a traditional business allows. But each active SFI business has all the active affiliates enrolled in SFI to carry it on, even when the individual owner is temporarily disabled.

Also the traditional business more or less relies on the economic health of it's local area. The SFI business relies on the world and in fact can much improve the local economic health.

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The very obvious answer to this question is that with a traditional business, you have a much greater cost both to set up your business and to run it, whether you make a profit or not. With SFI, of course, you may set it up and begin doing business at no monetary cost. The training is free and you have partners in the SFI business who are willing to help you without demanding "their share" out of the business.

The obvious answer about time is that with a physical business, you
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Affiliate since: 01/30/2010, Power Rank: 10 | Read Scott's 63 other Ask SC answers

I have owned a business before, and the first difference is start up costs. There can be huge costs involved in starting a business, from obtaining a location, remodelling it for your type of business, inventory purchases, up front least payments...I could on and on.

With SFI, your start up costs are $0.00.

Your traditional business will probably need employees. With SFI, you don't need anyone but yourself.

A traditional business will need constant investment in inventory. With SFI, the inventory is supplied, free of charge. You earn commissions by selling the products.

As an SFI affiliate, you can attract other people to the business, and earn income from their efforts in building their own business. This is called leverage. You don't do that with a traditional business.

With SFI, you can work from home; while you're on vacation; on the beach if your phone has a good connection. In short, anywhere in the world. With a traditional business, your location is always in one place.

The list could go on forever.

Which is better? SFI of course!
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I have owned a business before, and the first difference is start up costs. There can be huge costs involved in starting a business, from obtaining a location, remodelling it for your type of business, inventory purchases, up front least payments...I could on and on.

With SFI, your start up costs are $0.00.

Your traditional business will probably need employees. With SFI, you don't need anyone but yourself.

A traditional business will need constant investment in
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Affiliate since: 08/05/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sarinah's 3 other Ask SC answers

SFI is your business, and just want to make sure that you understand this, SFI is not a get-rich-quick schemes and definitely not a paid-to-click site. In every business you need products to sell and you earn money when someone buys those products. Similarly SFI products can be found in the TripleClicks store. As SFI affiliates you will earn 45% direct commission of CV, see part one of the compensation plan.

So let's compare SFI with a traditional business.

Traditional business, you need quite a huge amount of money to start which is your Capital. You will need rental fees for your shop, products expenses, employees’ fees, utility bills and much more.

SFI business, your cost is zero or minimal depending on how far or how much you want to succeed. You are free from rental fees, employee’s fees or other bills. There are no product expenses; SFI affiliates can earn handsome commissions promoting products and services available at TripleClicks.

The only similarity between SFI and the traditional business, No Sales No Gain! You can earn from sales of TripleClicks products and with minimum $20 earned, you can check outs your commission every month.

There is so much advantage with SFI business and if you are serious, you must have the desire and willingness to work hard so that your business will grow and continuously to grow in years to come. The best part of SFI business is residual income, which is income that keeps coming in, around the clock, month after month, and year after year. It's like a royalty where you write a book or record a song and get paid indefinitely on it. For this you need to take action on the SFI Basics 3 Step Plan and follow the MAP (Minimum Action Plan); become an EA, recruit 5 affiliates and teach these 5 affiliates to be EA.

So how serious and how much further you want to succeed with your SFI business, it all depends, it is all up to you! You are in control and responsible for your actions! Just to let you know, whether you have a high budget, low budget or no budget... Pick Up Your Map and Start Your SFI Journey!

Wish you much success....Aim High, Dream Big!

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SFI is your business, and just want to make sure that you understand this, SFI is not a get-rich-quick schemes and definitely not a paid-to-click site. In every business you need products to sell and you earn money when someone buys those products. Similarly SFI products can be found in the TripleClicks store. As SFI affiliates you will earn 45% direct commission of CV, see part one of the compensation plan.

So let's compare SFI with a traditional business.

Traditional business,
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rosafilipina's 109 other Ask SC answers

The answer to your question would depend upon your personal life desire, goal and your choice.

However, I would answer your question based on my viewpoints.

Being an SFI affiliate is far more different from having a traditional business. The differences are:

1. Getting Started

There is no initial monetary capitalization needed to start business in SFI, registration is absolutely free, no purchase requirement and no obligation to think off if one decide to cease membership with SFI. One need to invest his spare time to do actions needed to earn VersaPoints and be a shareholder of the Executive Pool of SFI.
To compare SFI Affiliate with a traditional business, one requires to invest money for initial capitalization that would be use to secure necessary business permits to operate, purchase of stocks, payment of rental for an establishment, and other expenses needed to start.

2. Nature of Business

SFI Affiliates offers diversified business opportunities or programs at any level of business interest one might got in mind. An affiliate got various choices as to what he would engage himself into (recruit to sponsor, recruit to refer customers to TripleClicks, recruit affiliates to act as SFI Advertiser in the Pay Per Action Program, engage himself as a business entrepreneur in the ECA Program, devote himself co-sponsoring, or engage himself on sales. He can engage with various business programs at the same time if he wanted to. Engaging oneself in any of the offered business programs is risks free since marketing training, aids and tools are provided for free. Business growth is faster in SFI Affiliates since the nature of business is networking.

In a traditional business, one can only engage in one nature of business at the start. It would costs him a lot on marketing training, aids and tools if he engages himself in various businesses at the same time. It would take a length of time for one to expand his business and can be done if the first one has been successful.

3. Business Operation is Online.

You need not hire employees to assist you with your business. An affiliate are provided with personal mentor to guide you build your business with SFI and a 24-hour 7 days a week personnel support staffs handling your business orders, deliveries, sales collections, remittances of commission to your sales staffs. Remittance of your sales is at one’s country currency. Business transactions are conducted online and operating on a 24-hour 7 days a week with no headaches and least risks involvement.
In a traditional business, one need to handle business operation himself and costly to have a 24-hour 7 days a week continued operation. One need to hire employees to handle operations with a 24-hour 7 days a week business operation and need to built in trusts among employees before he can entrust his business.

4. Building Business of Legacy

SFI Affiliates has built its business legacy worldwide and is in its 13th year. Legacy in business is not a question. SFI Affiliates would provide you everything needed to help you make your business success with an expanded worldwide market and variety of products. SFI Affiliates is well known business provider worldwide.

It takes a length of time to have varieties new products to sell with an expanded market worldwide in a traditional business. Business legacy need to be established in a traditional business before being known worldwide.

With the above-mentioned justification, one would tell which is far better.

Business success would be on monetary gains and stability. One would be able to attain business success if he would engage oneself to both be a SFI Executive Affiliate with Team Leader Rank and have a traditional business. Joining SFI Affiliates would not be an added cost on one end, provides free training, marketing aids, handles business for you and gives you a opportunity to expand marketability worldwide. SFI Affiliates would help you build your pyramid of business success. Why then would you choice just one? Take both, be a SFI Executive Affiliate Team Leader and have a traditional business under the umbrella of SFI Affiliates.

I hope was able to answer your question.

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The answer to your question would depend upon your personal life desire, goal and your choice.

However, I would answer your question based on my viewpoints.

Being an SFI affiliate is far more different from having a traditional business. The differences are:

1. Getting Started

There is no initial monetary capitalization needed to start business in SFI, registration is absolutely free, no purchase requirement and no obligation to think off if one decide
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Affiliate since: 06/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sarah-Jane's 12 other Ask SC answers

I view SFI like a franchise and/or small business. I once had a conversation with a business owner who had nothing but negative criticisms of SFI so I asked him how much money he initially invested just to get his small business up and running... and this is before he even began seeing any financial gain from his business. He said he had to invest $60,000 dollars Canadian to get his business started. With SFI you don't even have to invest 1 cent to get your SFI business started.

Also, with SFI there are no boarders and so you virtually have a global market out there right at your fingertips unlike a traditional business where there is so much red tape that you have to get through in order to venture into the international market.

And, if you were to utilize the 3 step plan with SFI you will see financial gains that you will never see with a traditional business. With a traditional business when you stop working you stop making money AND you have to pay employees to work for you. Owning a traditional business will not enable you to cultivate both residual and leveraged income to the extent that SFI allows.

Finally, SFI allows you the flexibility and freedom that owning a traditional business will never allow. The stresses it takes to build a traditional business is not present with SFI. You spend thousands and thousands of dollars and there is no guarantee that spending thousands and thousands of dollars will prove to be lucrative. Whereas with SFI, you can invest a few hundred dollars and still be guaranteed you will see the financial gains you are looking for. SFI works if you work! You can't say that with a traditional business. Many people work and work and work but if you don't market your business right or buy a business with a bad location, and have to deal with paying out rent to house your business and land taxes etc often times when you are having to pay rent and pay for your employees you are making just enough to break even. I knew one coffee shop owner who really didn't have a life because he was always working crazy hours because his employees would either quit or end up getting fired. The fact is, your affiliates in some way take the place of your employees when it comes to leveraged income however, your affiliates are getting greater benefits then regular employees would ever receive.

For reasons of all of the above SFI is way better than owning a regular business simply because you cut out a lot of the stress you would normally encounter with a traditional business and you maximize residual and leveraged income in ways traditional business does not allow.
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I view SFI like a franchise and/or small business. I once had a conversation with a business owner who had nothing but negative criticisms of SFI so I asked him how much money he initially invested just to get his small business up and running... and this is before he even began seeing any financial gain from his business. He said he had to invest $60,000 dollars Canadian to get his business started. With SFI you don't even have to invest 1 cent to get your SFI business started.

Also,
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Affiliate since: 07/14/2001, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Susan's 20 other Ask SC answers

Having a business is not for everyone. Should you have a traditional business, or try a program like SFI? In each case, you can be your own boss. But with a traditional business you will spend WAY more time and money to get started, meaning it will take you a lot longer to break even and start making money.

SFI affiliates can start for free, and increase their participation with modest investments. There is no overhead, no employees and the resulting expenses, no inventory, no office/store space to rent, no product line to develop. SFI affiliates have thousands of products to sell from all over the world, and a proven system that works if they will resist the temptation to "reinvent the wheel."

All you need are five or six great people on your front line, and a willingness to learn the business yourself and then teach them how to do what you do.

That isn't as easy as it sounds. For one thing, other people will encourage you and be eager for you to succeed with a traditional business. They may not be supportive at all if you join a network marketing program - they may tell you it is a pyramid scheme or try to destroy your dream some other way. I'm not sure why some people see foolishness when others see opportunity.

But it also isn't as hard as it sounds. If you are teachable, willing to follow instructions, and willing to take the time to learn what this program is about - you can make money with a minimal investment and meet some of the best people in the world. It has been working for me for years. Don't give up!


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Having a business is not for everyone. Should you have a traditional business, or try a program like SFI? In each case, you can be your own boss. But with a traditional business you will spend WAY more time and money to get started, meaning it will take you a lot longer to break even and start making money.

SFI affiliates can start for free, and increase their participation with modest investments. There is no overhead, no employees and the resulting expenses, no inventory, no office/store
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Affiliate since: 06/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Virginia's 3 other Ask SC answers

Let me start by saying that SFI is better than any other traditional business. This is why:

1. You can target various markets unlike in a traditional business you have to focus on a single one lest your business collapses.You are targeting the products to an international and not just local market.

2. You do not have to carry physical products with you everywhere you go. Traditional business requires that you have a brick and mortar store.

3. It is cheap to start because it is absolutely free,for you to set up a traditional business you would need to save for months to get the required capital.

4. You do not need rigorous paperwork. In a traditional business you require to be registered in your local government, industry and get certification of safety and health, depending on the kind of business, before you can operate.

5. There is no time limit on when to conduct your SFI business. You can do it 24 hours unlike the traditional kind where you may be forced to operate from 9am to 6pm.

6. You do not have to spend your whole day working on SFI. An hour per day is simply enough. Traditional businesses require that you are present at least for 8 hours.

I hope I answered to your satisfaction.

Best Regards!

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Let me start by saying that SFI is better than any other traditional business. This is why:

1. You can target various markets unlike in a traditional business you have to focus on a single one lest your business collapses.You are targeting the products to an international and not just local market.

2. You do not have to carry physical products with you everywhere you go. Traditional business requires that you have a brick and mortar store.

3. It is cheap to start
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