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Check their goals, and pick one of them and tell them how they can succeed to meet this goal. If they don't have goals, encourage them to make them. If they don't respond, then you can take a look at their country and ask them some questions about their country, or if they have a family, and tell them that SFI can help them to meet the families needs in their own country, using the resources of the internet.

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Both are very important. The initial contact sets the stage with the prospect, and the follow-up if consistent, shows that you are a serious leader. The initial contact may come in first because if it doesn't grab their attention, the follow up takes a lot longer and much more consistency and work.

Finding the right welcome letter can make a difference with the initial contact. Try several and see which one works for you. With all of the language and cultural differences in SFI, the initial contact needs to connect with many different people. Therefore, it might be better to use a different initial welcome with each language group. The importance of translating at least some of the message into their language in your initial welcome shows that you respect their language and culture.

For follow up, I suggest the Checklist under Affiliate Manager on each persons profile page. This is a great tool, and gives you guidelines on being an awesome sponsor. Send a letter every few days while you check off the list. It is designed to be completed in 10 days. It works great by helping the leader stay on track and follow what has worked for those in the past. It also gives you something to recommend when your members have problems with following up.


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Both are very important. The initial contact sets the stage with the prospect, and the follow-up if consistent, shows that you are a serious leader. The initial contact may come in first because if it doesn't grab their attention, the follow up takes a lot longer and much more consistency and work.

Finding the right welcome letter can make a difference with the initial contact. Try several and see which one works for you. With all of the language and cultural differences in SFI, the initial
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Most leaders become so because of situations they act on. Being a leader is merely being a worker that others want to follow. To say that you have to be born a leader is a misconception. Leaders come in all different types, shapes, gender, color and whatever. They are those who take advantage of situations, take calculated risks and never give up on gaining a goal. Here are the rules that build leaders:

1. Watch for opportunities to act.
2. Do what you can to assist in any situation
3. Be there for others
4. Be consistent in doing what you set out to do.
5. Be passionate about your work and your goals
6. Convey that passion through communication
7. Don't be afraid to accept responsibility
8. Do what others won't
9. Be ahead of the crowd don't follow others stand up for what is right
10. Love what you are doing.

Not all of the people who lead are honest and upright, some of destructive to you and others. Evaluate those that you follow and be sure that they are leading you in the principles that you believe in and that are right for you.


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Most leaders become so because of situations they act on. Being a leader is merely being a worker that others want to follow. To say that you have to be born a leader is a misconception. Leaders come in all different types, shapes, gender, color and whatever. They are those who take advantage of situations, take calculated risks and never give up on gaining a goal. Here are the rules that build leaders:

1. Watch for opportunities to act.
2. Do what you can to assist in any situation
3.
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Test, and retest is the mantra of those who succeed in SFI. Test your advertising and keep very close track of what works or doesn't work. The slightest change in the heading can make a big difference as to who you draw. Test the places you advertise and see where you get the active people from.

Also test your welcome letter. I have tried many different styles, and have scoured letters I received for why they appealed to me. Then I have tried them. Some work and some don't.

Then maintain a continual messaging system about every two or three days when a person first starts. Make them short informative and to the point. Check their VP ledger for items to address.

Add to the above Skype and liking their facebook page and befriending them, finding them wherever you can on social media and reading and watching what they do there, commenting as frequently as you have time and material to do. The more you can comment on what they are doing, the better your communication will resonate with them and help improve their quality.

Being sure to compliment them on every milestone gained in SFI. List their accomplishments in your weekly newsletters.

Anything you can do to reach them on their level will improve what they are able to do.
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Test, and retest is the mantra of those who succeed in SFI. Test your advertising and keep very close track of what works or doesn't work. The slightest change in the heading can make a big difference as to who you draw. Test the places you advertise and see where you get the active people from.

Also test your welcome letter. I have tried many different styles, and have scoured letters I received for why they appealed to me. Then I have tried them. Some work and some don't.

Then
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Send them a message thanking them for their rating. Here is a sample of what I send.

"Hi, Thank you so much for your much appreciated rating. I consider feedback from my members to be my best assist. I realize that I have a lot I can improve on, so I would appreciate any help you could give me to improve my ability to serve you better.

Thanks again,

Sincerely."

I have used this with some success, and have received some very valuable information and advice from my PSA.

If they don't respond, then I take the attitude that they didn't care enough to check whether they were giving me a good or bad rating. One person wrote and said that he thought he was giving me the best rating at #1 because I deserved the highest mark. That I was #1 in his eyes. He is no longer with SFI, but he never gave me less than a 5 after that.



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Send them a message thanking them for their rating. Here is a sample of what I send.

"Hi, Thank you so much for your much appreciated rating. I consider feedback from my members to be my best assist. I realize that I have a lot I can improve on, so I would appreciate any help you could give me to improve my ability to serve you better.

Thanks again,

Sincerely."

I have used this with some success, and have received some very valuable information
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In SFI everyone has many mentors. The system itself is a mentor in that it teaches you the discipline of logging in daily that is important to succeeding on the internet.

There is all kinds of information at your fingertips available for the reading. There is an internet course, questions and answers in AskSC, support section, the daily items you click on, SFI news and much more.

There is the forum where everyone is willing to help in any way they can.

There is A2A where you can write to someone and they will answer and be a mentor or friend.

There is support you can go to with problems.

There is your sponsor and your upline you can reach out to for help.

If you can't find help in any of these places, then you can look to yourself and be your own mentor by keeping your attitude positive, setting goals and working toward them - this is an excellent way to mentor yourself.

You can find plenty in these areas to keep yourself working SFI without having a mentor set aside especially for you.
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In SFI everyone has many mentors. The system itself is a mentor in that it teaches you the discipline of logging in daily that is important to succeeding on the internet.

There is all kinds of information at your fingertips available for the reading. There is an internet course, questions and answers in AskSC, support section, the daily items you click on, SFI news and much more.

There is the forum where everyone is willing to help in any way they can.

There is A2A
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The more blogs you have the merrier. I would suggest that you have a blog about every aspect of SFI. There are at least 6 to blog about. You can then put up ads on all of the sites. By blogging at a different site every day of the week, you can keep your blogs active and with new material and not use up a lot of time. Blogs require consistent effort and daily updates to be successful.

It is more effective to have a number of small blogs than one big blog with many pages because each blog will then fit into a specific niche instead of having all your eggs in one basket.
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The more blogs you have the merrier. I would suggest that you have a blog about every aspect of SFI. There are at least 6 to blog about. You can then put up ads on all of the sites. By blogging at a different site every day of the week, you can keep your blogs active and with new material and not use up a lot of time. Blogs require consistent effort and daily updates to be successful.

It is more effective to have a number of small blogs than one big blog with many pages because each blog
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This has been the most difficult challenge for me. Some members seem to do very well recruiting and getting the PSA's to commit. It seems to be a combination of factors that lead to success. Here is a list I have complied for myself to try and achieve this goal.

1. Do advertising that gives you a better way to succeed. If you can possibly afford some paid ads, the people who respond to them seem to commit better.

2. Join every kind of social media you can, and set up a method of automatically contacting them regularly with some kind of information about you with SFI and TC wove into the mix. Use an auto-responder for this kind of messaging, the same people don't belong to everything so if you set up a universal message and send it everywhere different people will see it.

3. Use Skype, Google and any other way to contact them in person if you have a phone number.

4. Use webinars and conference calling.

5. Send a daily message or ecard for the first few days so that they know you are serious in your willingness to be helpful to them.

6. Answer any message from them as soon as you can.

7. Recognize and acknowledge any new achievement that you can. Follow them on their FB and Linked in pages and other social media. Comment whenever you can to whatever they do. Nothing is ever too small to acknowledge. People like to be noticed and validated.

8. Keep your messages short and use common words that translate better for those who are non English speaking. Sending more short and to the point messages get read better and are easier to respond to.

9. Congratulate them in the forum and on their personal social media pages whenever you can.

10. Always, always be helpful and mindful of them and their needs. If they aren't logging in, try to find out the problem and come up with a tip if you can. Let them know that they don't have to do all of SFI in one log in. They can do it in spurts if they are using a cell phone.

These are what I plan to work diligently this new year. I plan to make this the year SFI explodes for me. Last year was a personal bummer, and SFI suffered because of it.





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This has been the most difficult challenge for me. Some members seem to do very well recruiting and getting the PSA's to commit. It seems to be a combination of factors that lead to success. Here is a list I have complied for myself to try and achieve this goal.

1. Do advertising that gives you a better way to succeed. If you can possibly afford some paid ads, the people who respond to them seem to commit better.

2. Join every kind of social media you can, and set up a method
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Evaluate where you are advertising and why you are advertising before you decide on this question. Some places more information is valuable and in others less works best.

For Instance: classified ads work better if you build curiosity with your heading. Headings here are extremely important. Tweaking them will help you to know what works best. Keeping track of where you are advertising and how each ad is doing is the secret to success. Hit tracking helps, but isn't enough. Your keycodes need to be specific and detailed in some way.

Social media advertising works best if you are telling a story that builds curiosity or tells them something about you and then work in how you are doing in SFI and why it is a great program.

Newsletters are great for email advertising, let your family and friends know how well you are doing. What you have won in an auction, or elsewhere. Keep them informed of your progress just as you would do in a regular job. Consider every new badge newsworthy.

Email advertising depends on how and where you got the email. If it is the first email then you raise curiosity, if it is one of a bunch, then you can give more information. Each email should increase their knowledge about SFI and TC in some way. Let them know how you are progressing in the business.

Ezines require more information in such a way that you are not perceived as advertising your product. Give them facts about specific products you are promoting, or ideas that will help them promote on the internet in general, and then you can put your business url in the profile.

Therefore, before you can answer this question, it is important to know the where, how, why and what you want to accomplish with your specific ad.



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Evaluate where you are advertising and why you are advertising before you decide on this question. Some places more information is valuable and in others less works best.

For Instance: classified ads work better if you build curiosity with your heading. Headings here are extremely important. Tweaking them will help you to know what works best. Keeping track of where you are advertising and how each ad is doing is the secret to success. Hit tracking helps, but isn't enough. Your keycodes
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

No one can change anyone's mentality! You have to use tactics that cause them to want to change and thus do the work necessary to change. Here are some steps that might help you to convince them that being a business owner is better than being an employee catering to an employer needs.

1. Start with simple instructions on how to succeed as an SFI business partner.
2. Testify to how being an entrepreneur has improved your life.
3. Write frequent but short emails every time you have some small success.
4. Write about bargains you have gotten at TripleClicks.
5. Send them encouraging emails and ecards whenever they achieve even the smallest goal.
6. Remind them that as an entrepreneur you have more choices than as an employee concerning your personal life.
7. Let them know that taking the same amount of time and putting in the same effort and passion as they would as an employee will reward them in many more areas than being an employee. They will be rewarded financially, have more time, and no need justify your actions to anyone.
8. Explain that their work in SFI is to encourage, develop, and build a following. This may take more time and effort in the beginning than being an employee. As a business owner they are building for the future.
9. Once your downline is established, you will have much more going for you than the paycheck you get as an employee.
10. To change their mentality requires constant small encouragements, proofs and explanations that have worked for you.

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No one can change anyone's mentality! You have to use tactics that cause them to want to change and thus do the work necessary to change. Here are some steps that might help you to convince them that being a business owner is better than being an employee catering to an employer needs.

1. Start with simple instructions on how to succeed as an SFI business partner.
2. Testify to how being an entrepreneur has improved your life.
3. Write frequent but short emails every time you
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