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

Hello, Zagorka Gacinovic.

Fast-Track is the high speed lane to SFI success.

One of the features that attracts many prospects to SFI is the "Free to Join".

However to see success quickly, one has to invest both financial resources and devote a significant amount of time.

What distinguish the fast earners from the rest is the ability to climb quickly the ladder and reach as high a Team Leader rank as fast as possible while building one's team to earn commissions.

I personally achieved Fast-Track when I joined and started earning commissions on my first month; And, I have earned commissions every month. I explain this, in part, because of my understanding, very early on, of the need to invest in this business, and to allocate time for its growth.

That is what Fast-Track does: it sets the affiliate to reach success faster rather than later.

Any SFI team leader will be well advised to educate their team members on the virtues and benefits of Fast-track by emphasizing all the possibilities it opens to a new sign-up: the recognition, the badge, the bonus points, the resources it makes available for speeding up the process of building one's business.

Any Affiliate who joins SFI will start earning money if they work to achieve Fast-Track, gets the New Member Pack (NMP)and focuses on sponsoring by working their warm market and advertise.
Investing and sponsoring are the two main money makers for SFI affiliates.

This has been my personal experience corroborated by many others.

Carry this messages to your new affiliates and you will see a change in their attitude.

One could also say that for those affiliates who have a vision for success, there is no need to convince them. The training provided by SFI is more than enough to enlighten anybody who is serious about this business, who wants to succeed and who has the resources as well as time to devote it.

Good luck to you and to everybody else.

Aim High! Dream Big!
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Hello, Zagorka Gacinovic.

Fast-Track is the high speed lane to SFI success.

One of the features that attracts many prospects to SFI is the "Free to Join".

However to see success quickly, one has to invest both financial resources and devote a significant amount of time.

What distinguish the fast earners from the rest is the ability to climb quickly the ladder and reach as high a Team Leader rank as fast as possible while building one's team
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You asked a very interesting and innovative question for SFI Affiliate Marketing.

It is fair to say that webinars are increasingly popular marketing tools, but few SFI Affiliates are using them.

They are definitively an advanced marketing method.

They do require resources, an autoresponder and a good sizable audience.

To run webinar effectively, you need both an infrastructure and high level traffic to bring you quality attendance

I. Webinar Infrastructure

1. You will need first a reliable, cost effective webinar hosting platform. We are not going name any here as it would appear as sponsoring them, but here are few effective ones.

The average cost maybe around $499 a month for the most effective ones. Two years ago, they were on promotion for about $99 a month.

When you search the topic, you will find that there are stand alone webinar services as well as webinar providers who bundle their services with other offerings

2. Most of the webinar service providers offer autoresponder features as, your audience will likely have to register in advance, confirm their registration to get the link and timing of your webinar, so that they can attend at the proper schedule.

II. Traffic and Quality attendance.

After you secure a solid webinar structure, your most important ingredient for success is prospect quality and level of attendance.

Both aspect matter: the number of your webinar participants as well as the quality of that attendance.

a. "The Money is on the List"

There is one famous saying in online marketing that applies here: "the money is on the list".

Simply put, you have to have a list of potential prospects. This is part of list building.

b. Adveritizing your Webinar

The second option is to advertise your webinar. You will achieve maximum impact using all available advertising methods and outlets, including paid advertising as well as social media sites.

c. Webinar follow up.

Your autoresponder would also provide you with the opportunity of following up with your webinar attendants

You may also want to record the webinar and post the proceedings in your website or your blog. This will give the opportunity to the attendants as well as those who missed the webinar to review its content

Make sure you contact your webinar attendants, few hours after the closing. Get a feedback from them and motivate them to register with SFI using your affiliate links.
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You asked a very interesting and innovative question for SFI Affiliate Marketing.

It is fair to say that webinars are increasingly popular marketing tools, but few SFI Affiliates are using them.

They are definitively an advanced marketing method.

They do require resources, an autoresponder and a good sizable audience.

To run webinar effectively, you need both an infrastructure and high level traffic to bring you quality attendance

I. Webinar
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Ritu Anand! How are you my friend?

Please, keep in mind that every SFI Affiliate is, in fact, an Affiliate of any of the ECA stores.
Visit any of the stores, and at the bottom of the page, you will see a link with your SFI ID.

Just use that link if you want to promote that ECA and earn commissions on sales made through your efforts.

The same applies to your ECA Store in relation to your downline.

The best way to make it seemingly easy for your downline is to build your business around their needs.

Take the example of Tripleclicks. Nearly all products and services you will find owned by Tripleclicks are geared towards facilitating and help SFI Affiliates grow their businesses, and increase their commission.

The same spirit should also guide you in setting up your products and services in ways that will directly benefits your dowmline members.

Next, develop an awareness of your products and services in a professional manner with full compliance with SFI rules of communication with the downline.

This is an area where ethical behavior and integrity are of paramount importance. They are in any situation. However in this context, there is a greater emphasis.

You may want to keep in mind that some ill advised methods to push your products and services on your downline may backfire. Caution and wisdom will be your best friends in this matter.

Good luck to you and to anybody else.

Dream Big! Aim High!
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Hello, Ritu Anand! How are you my friend?

Please, keep in mind that every SFI Affiliate is, in fact, an Affiliate of any of the ECA stores.
Visit any of the stores, and at the bottom of the page, you will see a link with your SFI ID.

Just use that link if you want to promote that ECA and earn commissions on sales made through your efforts.

The same applies to your ECA Store in relation to your downline.

The best way to make it seemingly easy for your
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Michael Stoker.

Thank you for bringing up this question.

The first contact with your new sign-up is very critical in setting the tone and motivating your PSAs.

I personally like to chat with them, while they are still online, working on their registration process.

When we get the SFI notification of a new PSAs, if we react quickly, we may have the opportunity to find them online and use the SFI IM to communicate with them and make them aware of a upcoming email message to welcome them and provide them with tips on how to start on the right foot and go on to be successful SFI stars.

I personally have three or four drafts available in my folders, ready for the first meaningful message with my news PSAs.

Below is one example of those drafts.

It may be useful to you as well as to other affiliate.

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I am your Platinum Team Leader (PTL)
Welcome to my team.

I am building a Diamond team of Money Makers.

You are invited to Join this Team of High Achiever.

SFI has a plan to help you make money.

A Diamond Plan

SFI/Tripleclicks offer a clear plan, a strategy and precisely defined activity for making money.

If you follow the plan, you apply the strategy and execute the activity, you will reach success and financial freedom.

This is an advanced approach but built on the day to day work every affiliate, every team leader is supposed to do. To that extent, it is actually the minimum.

I. SFI Plan

SFI has outlined a plan from start to Diamond Team Leader with steps to reach the top
You will find the plan here

https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan

II. Earning Potential: High Six Figure Annual Income

In a Forum Post, a high ranking, high achiever, very knowledgeable Platinum Team Leader has translated the plan into potential earnings.

You will find that Forum post here
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=5475&pg=1

Your earnings will depend exclusively on your activity activity and work ethics

III. How to Execute the Plan

The Plan execution requires sponsoring and selling

1. If you want your SFI Business to be on autopilot, you will need to work to develop 10 active, Smart, Go-Getter Team Leaders. They will strive to climb the ranks. You collect the Actions points and the commissions. and you qualify every month..

2. Your goal should be sponsoring and teaching duplication to those ten active Team Leaders. Take them to the level of Diamond Team Leader.
Repeat the process. Never stop and be complacent, thinking you have now everything under control

3. You can make money in your first month with SFI. All you need to do is invite your Family members, your friends, your co-workers, your business associates and everybody else you come to contact with. Tell them about SFI. Just ask them to check it out. If they join and do the same things you are doing, you will make money.

4. Make sure you get your Standing Order (so) placed and processed. Ask your team members (those who accepted your invitation to join SFI) to do the same.

IV But, First Start Working on your SFI Business, Right Away.

From your SFI Affiliate Center

(i). Go to "Start" and Watch the Video

(ii). Read "SFI Basics"

(iii). Read your first "Launchpad" Lesson

(iv). Work your "red tabs" below

(v). Do as much as you can of the "Getting Started" actions.

You may want to get the New Member Pack (NMP) as soon as you can and within your first ten days with SFI.

Reply to this message for more tips on how to make money and be an "SFI Star"

Good luck

Unquote.

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Hello, Michael Stoker.

Thank you for bringing up this question.

The first contact with your new sign-up is very critical in setting the tone and motivating your PSAs.

I personally like to chat with them, while they are still online, working on their registration process.

When we get the SFI notification of a new PSAs, if we react quickly, we may have the opportunity to find them online and use the SFI IM to communicate with them and make them aware of
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your question implies that you have sponsored enough active affiliates who may benefit from offline training. If you have affiliates from other countries, obviously, you seem to be excluding them in this local training. If this is correct, then your approach has some validity.

It is evident that adequate and practical training is critical to success with SFI. As affiliates, we enjoy a comprehensive, free of costs; self-paced training that covers all the aspects important to run a successful business.

As a sponsor, you are intending to reach out to existing affiliates, members of your team. You aim at providing them with in house, practical, hands-on training. You are targeting people who are already SFI affiliates and you want to help them grow their businesses.

For your project to have an excellent attendance and be successful, you want to make it safe worthwhile and beneficial for them to attend.

By safety, I mean to be exclusively about SFI, and no other agenda. We are SFI Affiliates and team leaders, our communication and interaction with our team members should only be related to SFI. Regardless of the settings, we are still bound by the SFI rules of communication with other members. It would not be appropriate to talk about any other topics, beside SFI, especially not other businesses and certainly not about religion. If affiliates were to attend your training sessions and hear about other subject matters, they would not be safe. Not only it would be a violation of SFI rules, it would also have a negative effect on your business relationships with your team members. The word would spread out and nobody would come to the next training.

To be worthwhile, the training has to have relevant content about issues facing affiliates. Your training program should be based on questions identified in your interactions with your affiliates: questions that arise repeatedly or important aspects of the SFI business development that you know, from experience, will benefit your affiliates. You may want to avoid topics that do not have any bearing on the current problems facing your team members.

To be beneficial, each training topic that you cover should be concluded with meaningful take-away, concrete solutions that can be implemented and that will boost attendants’ SFI business bottom line, in a relatively short time.

To motivate our affiliates, we can organize contests. You should have these contests running at any given time. Your training sessions should be the moments when you recognize the contest winners and hand them out prizes they may have won.

You also will need to give them enough notice allowing them time to make arrangements to attend. As it is exclusively related to SFI, you may want to use the internal communication channels: team mail, stream posts, your leadership page and the Region/Country forum. Outline to your team members the content of the training as well as the expected outcome. Your invitation to these training sessions should clearly show what attendants can expect, how the training is going to benefit them. You should also make them understand that they will have the opportunity to give feed backs and evaluation of the training.

To make it interesting, get some of the team members involved. Give to the most experienced ones an active role. For instance, two or more of the training topics could be introduced by other affiliates of your team. Change the active participants at every training session; make it a rotation. This will give to each team member the opportunity to introduce a topic and have some leadership role.

Make the training sessions and opportunity to “Show and Tell” about SFI and TripleClicks Direct. To be successful in this, you may want to be an SFI LocalPay. You could have SFI marketing aids and products in display. Your SFI team members would have a direct experience that would help them see the quality of the products offered. They would be more eager to sell them. All of you would benefit from this experience.

Finally, make sure you have adequate meeting facilities. The location of the training, the quality of the facility, furniture, all this should provide adequate comfort for attendants be focus on the training.

There are many ways to find such facilities: be a member of your local chamber of commerce. Use restaurants, local libraries have meeting rooms

Agai, plan your meetings well in advance, inform your team members very early to give them time to attend.

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Your question implies that you have sponsored enough active affiliates who may benefit from offline training. If you have affiliates from other countries, obviously, you seem to be excluding them in this local training. If this is correct, then your approach has some validity.

It is evident that adequate and practical training is critical to success with SFI. As affiliates, we enjoy a comprehensive, free of costs; self-paced training that covers all the aspects important to run a successful
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Recruiting PSAs and PRMs, locally, was the first approach used by SFI Affiliates, at its inception.

In 1998, the internet was far from being as developed and its use as widespread as it is today.

Those among us, who just recently joined this great business community of marketers, would benefit very well by taking inspiration from the early methods and tools used to sponsor affiliates and TripleClicks members.

Locals meetings and seminars were part of that arsenal of tools and methods.
To answer your question then, we need to look at two aspects: where to find prospects and how to get them to our meetings and seminars.

Our warm market (family, friends, co-workers and business relations) is our first natural market for finding PSAs and PMRS. One of the greatest mistakes new affiliates makes is to make assumptions on our warm market, with the idea that they may not be interested. This view is self-defeating. Because of our fear of rejection from people we know, we hesitate to offer this opportunity to people who are close to us, who, for reasons we may not know, could possibly be the best affiliates we could sponsor.

After we have started our own team and we have few affiliates, we can also help them work on their warm markets. This approach is honed and fully refined in the Insurance industry. New Insurance agents are asked to draw a list of all the people they know to submit to their hiring managers as part of their process for coming onboard.

Similarly a team leader could advise his local team members to proceed in the same manner.
To prospect beyond our warm market, we have extensive and diversified sets of marketing methods and tools available to us at the Marketing training module, at the Affiliate Center.

There are 8 (eight) marketing sub-sections within the Marketing training module. They offer marketing aids and marketing methods for beginners, intermediate and advanced marketing skills and strategies. All of these are appropriate, both online and offline, for identifying prospects for PSAs and PRMs.

Our next concern, then, is how to get these prospects to our meetings/seminars and how to make them effective recruiting sessions.

The first rule is to keep it simple and focus on the goal. It is about introducing SFI, bringing out the prospect’s interest and helping them register as SFI Affiliates and TripleClicks members.
After a thorough introduction about SFI and TripleClicks with focus on the benefits of being an affiliate and a TripleClicks members, this first part of the meeting or seminar should conclude with directing participants to express their interest to join.

The next part of the meeting is to help them register. Today, with portable devices such as iPads, iPods, tablets and smartphones, this can be easily handled.

It would also be wise to have few laptops available as well as an operational Wi-Fi for online connections. These devices should all be set at the SFI site, ready to handle registrations.

The final part of your meeting should be about helping your new recruits navigate the SFI site and to start taking action about accomplishing the most important activity for a new affiliate, such as verifying their email addresses, completing their profiles, whitelisting SFI, Tripleclicks and Pricebenders, watching the introductory video and reading the SFI basics.

If you accomplish the above in that meeting, you will have affiliates ready to go, already knowledgeable about SFI.

Your conclusion of the meeting or seminar should be about follow up, assistance and support to your new affiliates: how they can reach you and your team members for any help or questions they may have in their first days with SFI
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Recruiting PSAs and PRMs, locally, was the first approach used by SFI Affiliates, at its inception.

In 1998, the internet was far from being as developed and its use as widespread as it is today.

Those among us, who just recently joined this great business community of marketers, would benefit very well by taking inspiration from the early methods and tools used to sponsor affiliates and TripleClicks members.

Locals meetings and seminars were part of that arsenal
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Launchpad Lesson 28 reminds us that there are hundreds of methods and marketing strategies within the Launchpad and the various training modules. Any sound marketing plan should derive from them.

However, we also find there a warning by the words of Ralph W. Emerson: “As to methods, there may be a million, and then, some. But principles are few. The person who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The person, who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

The relevant principles here are embedded in the SFI “Rules of Success”. Hence, any marketing plan we create should be in full harmony with those “Rules of Success”. When we apply these rules, with discernment and relentlessness, we will, very likely, reach the success we all are looking for.

This is the ultimate combination that will yield the marketing plan you are inquiring about.
Then, first, one logical question is whether we have exhaustively reviewed all the relevant “Rules of Success” and “Marketing methods” and fully applied them.

Second, each Affiliate marketer has his own personal touch. The plan I will put together will not be the same as my closest team member’s. There will always be something unique to each plan. Thus, the comments below merely outline an approach we can use to build our own marketing plan, whether we want to focus on sponsoring, promoting the TripleClicks store, working to recruit ECAS, or inviting to the Eager Zebra (EZ games, and Pricebenders auctions.

To illustrate the above points, let’s, first, look at the “Marketing Aids and Methods” for SFI, TripleClicks and ECAs. Next, let’s review the corresponding rules of success. Finally, we will combine them in an example of a marketing plan.

For both SFI and TriplecCicks, we have a wide choice for beginners, intermediate and advanced. As for ECAs, we can find excellent inspiration at the “ECA Strategies” under Training.
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter.

This wide selection provides us with the opportunities to market both online and offline.
Most of the printed marketing aids for offline campaigns can be used as visual displays in online marketing.

To head off the Ralph W. Emerson’s warnings, we need to bear in mind few principles:
(a) Let’s think big; (b) have a realistic plan; (c) Implement the plan with focus and determination; (d) always stay positive and (e) be persistent, never allowing ourselves to think about quitting.

Many other “rules of success”, among the 20 presented by SFI apply here. We should study them, understand them and apply them in the light of Gery’s introduction. I recommend everybody to read, at least one “Rule of Success” once a week.

https://www.sfimg.com/ROS/Index

It is not by mere chance that we are reminded of the “Rules of Success” in the mailings we are getting, at least once a month, from SFI Headquarters.

Keeping the above in mind, an effective Marketing plan can be based on “Online Publishing” which encompasses several marketing methods and strategies: social media, blogs, website and press releases. They all involve, to various extents, online content dissemination to draw prospects’ attention.

To fully occupy my work day, I would like to run two or three blogs, about sponsoring Affiliates for SFI, (ii) a website to promote the Tripleclicks.com, be active in social media groups for inviting potential EZ games players, penny auction bidders, and potential e-Commerce Affiliates (ECAs) .
I also would like to use Press Releases to continuously keep the attention of members of social media interest groups and the generic online organic traffic, hereby drawing them to my websites and blogs.

I would heavily use the printed “Marketing Aids” for offline campaigns as visual displays in online marketing.

The winning marketing plan is that combination of strategies, methods, and tools with specific targets to carefully defined markets, using the most appropriate means of communication, style and relationship building.
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Launchpad Lesson 28 reminds us that there are hundreds of methods and marketing strategies within the Launchpad and the various training modules. Any sound marketing plan should derive from them.

However, we also find there a warning by the words of Ralph W. Emerson: “As to methods, there may be a million, and then, some. But principles are few. The person who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The person, who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your question is an excellent one.

In today's economy, however there is not really a major difference between Retired people and homemakers.

Let's look at your assumption:

(1) Is there a difference between those two groups?

(2) Isn't it what they have in common, much stronger than the differences?

(3) Can we find a marketing approach and is inclusive of both retirees and Homemakers

I. Difference between retirees and homemakers.

Your assumption is that retired people
(i)are in their late 50s, early 60s and beyond;
(ii)they may have some savings, a nest egg, even if it relatively small
(iii)if they would be interested in undertaking an internet business, it would likely to be on their spare time.

While, in the opposite, homemakers may have the following characteristics
(1) they are looking to build their main source of income
(2) they are willing to work harder and longer hours
(3) their commitment would stronger
(4) they are likely to spend more years on the business.

Taking into account such contrasts, homemakers would be the best target. However, let's look at what they may have in common.

II. Similarities between Homemakers and Retired People
The world economic crisis that hit from 2008 onward has significantly changed the dynamics of retirements and employment worldwide.
In many developed countries, the pensions and retirement funds have been wiped out. For instance, in the USA, 401K accounts have been depleted. As a results, workers are delaying their retirements. Active senior citizens are returning to the workplace. others are looking for ways to supplement their retirement income, or even replace it.
The distinction between retirees and homemakers is blurred.

Both retired people and homemakers are concerned with their financial security in the short term as well as in the long term

II. A Marketing Approach to Targets both Homemakers and Retirees (Retired People)
You would much more successful on focusing on the similarities and less on the differences, as these differences are now very minimal.
Both retirees and homemakers want financial stability, peace of mind and long term residual income.

Thus your Marketing strategy should focus on those aspects:
(a) long term financial security
(b) income that can be generated in a relatively short time
(c) ease and freedom to join SFI, with no upfront costs
(d) free training and wold class support

These characteristics are appealing to both retirees and homemakers.
This way you reconcile the differences and strengthen the similarities.

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Your question is an excellent one.

In today's economy, however there is not really a major difference between Retired people and homemakers.

Let's look at your assumption:

(1) Is there a difference between those two groups?

(2) Isn't it what they have in common, much stronger than the differences?

(3) Can we find a marketing approach and is inclusive of both retirees and Homemakers

I. Difference between retirees and homemakers.

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

Rating our sponsor is one way of giving him a feedback on his performance as a team leader. It has multiple impacts: on the sponsor leaderboard, potentially on the sponsor commission and more directly on the quality of the relationships between sponsor and a team member.

Nearly all of us are both a team member to our direct upline, and a sponsor to our PSAs. Thus, we experience both sides of the coin. Hence, we are all well positioned to be thoroughly aware of the issue as well as to have a strong opinion on it.

Rating our sponsor is actually a straightforward matter. SFI has made it very practical. We really do not need to go to great lengths to figure out how to rate our sponsor. We have a spreadsheet scaled from one to five stars to rate our sponsor according on how we feel they performed their work. It is in their best interest to do the best job they can. It is mostly to their own benefit.

Most affiliates have a clear opinion of their sponsor on which they base their rating. It is appropriate and has been working fine. Any bias in the rating can only come from a personal level, within the affiliate who is rating. It is not affecting the system per say. Thus, it has to be dealt within. There is no evidence that affiliates feel the need for a complex written scale. I do not see them changing their sponsor rating approach.

I personally feel the same and use a similar approach. My sponsor is not even in full-fledged activity, let alone providing any form of support. Still I rate him positively: I owe him the opportunity to be with SFI. I would even be prepared to rate him higher if he was just taking care of his business on day to day and regular basis.

If that is a bias, I am ready to keep it as is. I find it more beneficial to be generous to people in general. That way, nature will be generous to me.

However, if one wants to set up a formal, objective, detailed rating scale in an attempt to prevent bias, it is objectively feasible to define sponsoring benchmarks based the relevant guidelines on sponsoring.

The sponsor’s tasks are clearly defined in the Affiliate Manager and in the Sponsoring training module. We can give to each task a point value and add the total. This way we have an unbiased rating scale.

For the Affiliate Manager, we only need to click on one of our affiliates’ profile to get to their affiliate manager. Among the sections that make up the Affiliate Manager, we find the “Checklist”. It is a detailed description of the tasks expected from the sponsor. For the purpose of rating ourselves as team leaders or for rating our sponsors, let’s use the ‘Checklist” in reverse: We can look at each of the tasks listed, and make a determination, whether our sponsor has accomplished them.

As for the Sponsor’s “Dos and Don’ts”, they are well known. They are located in “Solutions”

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=191295

If we add these two sets of guidelines together, we will have a very comprehensive, exhaustive rating scale. One of the ways to make this work would be to add the 10 points of the Affiliate Manager’s Checklist to the 25 Does. It will give us a total of 35 points. With that number, we can give to each star in the sponsor rating page a 7 point value. We would deduct from the sponsor’s actual total any “Don’t”. If a sponsor has 35 points, he will be rated as “5 stars sponsor”. If he gets only 10 points, he will be rate 2 stars.

However, we should also be prepared to ask our own team members to proceed the same way to rate us. We cannot be this demanding against our sponsors when we are not meeting those same requirements with regard to the support we are providing to our own affiliates. That would be a total of integrity.
The proposed rating benchmarks are relatively complex and somewhat cumbersome. Other less detailed scales can also be put together. But, whatever scale it may be, it has also to be applied to the affiliate. Again, if he subjects his sponsor to any objective rating, he should ask his downline to do the same against him.

However, that would not necessarily eliminate all bias which is a subjective matter. The objective benchmarks can be ignored, misinterpreted, or not applied correctly. Only the affiliate himself would be able to face his own bias and deal with it.

The point I want to make is threeofold: first, I have not noticed a strong desire from affiliates to change the sponsor rating procedure now in place and it does not really seem to be any need to do so, except maybe, for a minority. Second, I am not prepared to apply the above proposed new rating benchmarks, or any other new system, and I have the impression that many affiliates may feel the same. Bias is a subjective, personal matter, no mechanism or benchmarks, regardless of how objective they may be, can prevent bias. It has to be confronted from within, at personal level.

Hence, very likely, the current rating system will remain in effect, company wide.
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Rating our sponsor is one way of giving him a feedback on his performance as a team leader. It has multiple impacts: on the sponsor leaderboard, potentially on the sponsor commission and more directly on the quality of the relationships between sponsor and a team member.

Nearly all of us are both a team member to our direct upline, and a sponsor to our PSAs. Thus, we experience both sides of the coin. Hence, we are all well positioned to be thoroughly aware of the issue as well as to have
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

"X-Cards are inexpensive, full-color, business-card-sized "mini brochures" that can be used in a wide variety of ways to get the word out about the SFI business opportunity, TripleClicks products or Wave3."

The above is the official definition of the X-Cards. You can find it at page 7 of the Marketing aids
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingAids&pg=7

Your question seems to focus only on SFI. It may well intentionally exclude Tripleclicks and other streams of income. It may also just be a general expression, in your mind, that covers all of the SFI group, including Tripleclicks and other income streams alike. In any case, it really does not matter what your intention is, in formulating your question. What matters is the effective use of the X-Cards to grow our overall business, not neglecting any potential source of revenues and maximizing all our streams of income.

First, let's proceed with an inventory of the X-Cards. It may be very useful to help all affiliates know what is available. Only then, will their effective use be fully rewarding.

The "Marketing Aids" section under the the grey tab "Marketing", above at the Affiliate Center, is divided in 9 sub-sections. One is specific to the SFI Marketing aids. The SFI X-Card is the one that displays the official definition. Another sub-section is for the Tripleclicks "Marketing Aids". The Tripleclicks X-Cards are found on the first page of that sub-section.

There are also X-Cards for the Eager Zebra (EZ) Games. They are located at the first page of the EZ "Marketing Aids"

Finally, there are X-Cards for the SFI PPA, similar to the SFI cards, as these income streams have closely related goals pertaining to the referral of Affiliates. Those X-Cards may be found at page 3 of the PPA "Marketing Aids" sub-section
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingAids&category=PPA&favorite=0&pg=3

This inventory is highly useful, for those of us who wish to engage in advanced niche marketing, promoting all the SFI/Tripleclick group of streams of income.

One major part of the efficient use of these X-Cards is a focus on specific markets where we can find potentially interested opportunity seekers as well as prospective PRMs who will buy from the various branches of our business. This is the way to maximize our revenue potential: not to neglect any source of income. To be very effective, we have to have a laser precision targeting strategy: searching, identifying and analysing the buying motives of our potential customers. For example, we know that there are billions of dollars spent every year on online gaming. The EZ X-Card is an excellent online tool for reaching those players.

The next question, then, is how to engage in promotion activities using these marketing aids? As discussed above, I believe that we can use both online and offline marketing.

For online marketing, we can save the pictures, and/or take screenshots we can post in all the online marketing media we are using: websites, blogs. social media groups, advertising avenues, and everywhere we can display visual aids.

As for offline marketing, in the section of "Marketing methods, SFI offers us a wide range of ideas, using printed material. We will find many ways of using the X-cards there
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods

They include the following:

(a) "Giving out X-Cards to friends, family members, co-workers, associates, etc"

(b) "Sending out X-Cards in every outgoing piece of mail we have (like electric bills, water bills, NetFlix/Blockbuster DVD returns, etc.)

(c) "Leaving X-Cards with our bill/tip each time you dine out at a restaurant"

(d) "Whenever we take a taxi or ride public transportation, "forgetting" X-Cards on the seat before we exit

In addition, the business card size of the X-Cards makes them very easy to carry and handy to give out when we interact with prospects in various settings, (1) at business gatherings, (2) when we visit car dealers, (3) at the local libraries, (4) when we strike conversations with other passengers while using public transportation, (5) at grocery store checkouts, (6) at restaurants when leave a generous tip.

In doing so, it is of critical importance that we make sure the X-Cards do have the correct information on our sponsoring and sales gateways, to ensure that we get proper credit of our promotional efforts.
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"X-Cards are inexpensive, full-color, business-card-sized "mini brochures" that can be used in a wide variety of ways to get the word out about the SFI business opportunity, TripleClicks products or Wave3."

The above is the official definition of the X-Cards. You can find it at page 7 of the Marketing aids
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingAids&pg=7

Your question seems to focus only on SFI. It may well intentionally exclude
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