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

One word: INFORMATION

Information is Power

Provide your affiliates with information that will prompt them to take action.

People like to do something if they get something out of it - so provide them with the information - tell them what they will get out of doing other actions as well.

Tell them about the fun they can have playing games and bidding on auctions. It is exciting to outlast and outbid another bidder. You also stand a chance to actually winning the bid and end up with a 98% saving! To me that sounds like a great deal.

Do you know what transfer buying is? Maybe they don't know they can build their business simply by buying the things they already buy every month - instead of going to the Supermarket and standing in long queues to pay for a cleaning product they can buy it online and get it delivered.

Tell them what you do besides the To-do list and why you are doing it. The idea is that they do what you do and everybody wins.
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One word: INFORMATION

Information is Power

Provide your affiliates with information that will prompt them to take action.

People like to do something if they get something out of it - so provide them with the information - tell them what they will get out of doing other actions as well.

Tell them about the fun they can have playing games and bidding on auctions. It is exciting to outlast and outbid another bidder. You also stand a chance to actually
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I asked myself that question as well and I think it is. I think the key is not to loose your drive,
Keep on reminding yourself why you are doing this and what you want to achieve.
If you find an obstacle blocking your way - re-think your strategy and if you can't remove it - go over, around or through it. Inactive team members are just that - obstacles.
Do not give up on them - encourage and help - they might just surprise you and your most inactive member might become your biggest star.
Most of all I think we need patience - very few people start off earning big money but if you keep going success will follow
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I asked myself that question as well and I think it is. I think the key is not to loose your drive,
Keep on reminding yourself why you are doing this and what you want to achieve.
If you find an obstacle blocking your way - re-think your strategy and if you can't remove it - go over, around or through it. Inactive team members are just that - obstacles.
Do not give up on them - encourage and help - they might just surprise you and your most inactive member might become your biggest
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

At this moment in time I absolutely love the Join my team gateway to attract new PSA's so that is what I am using but your question is about the banners and not the gateways.

The best thing about the Marketing Centre is the variety of banners available. There is something for every taste.

Why choose one or two banners to use? Variety is the spice of life. One person might be a nature lover so the banner with the tree will attract their attention. Another one sees the funny side of life so he will see the Honey, I fired the boss banner. The historian's eye might be caught by the ship.

What do you want the banners to do? Yes, you want it to attract attention. You want the reader to click on it and find out more. If you want to reach all kinds of people use all kinds of banners.

You can test this with you friends and family. Show them the banners and ask them to pick the one they like most - you will get almost as many different choices as the people you asked.
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At this moment in time I absolutely love the Join my team gateway to attract new PSA's so that is what I am using but your question is about the banners and not the gateways.

The best thing about the Marketing Centre is the variety of banners available. There is something for every taste.

Why choose one or two banners to use? Variety is the spice of life. One person might be a nature lover so the banner with the tree will attract their attention. Another one sees the funny
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I view my business here as having multiple dimensions. Let me explain it by comparing it with a normal "real" business.

In a small town on a corner you find a small café. It is owned and managed by one person. It sells a limited variety of products, it does not serve meals or sell any food that is not in a can or a box. The owner goes to a merchant when he needs stock. His bookkeeping is most probably done in a notebook he carries in his pocket and it is any accountants nightmare. There is no payroll, no staff, no meetings or much of anything you expect in a business. The owner will never be rich but his shop provides enough for him and his family to have a roof over their heads, food on the table and the clothes on their backs. Simple. One dimensional.

The moment this little shop starts serving meals it gets a bit more complicated and it adds another dimension. We can now start adding to this little shop until it becomes a huge corporation with many divisions, branches. It can even become the parent company for a whole new business (much like Carson Services and SFI) It is multiple dimensional.

Each one of us have our own business within SFI. SFI is thus our parent company. It offers us different divisions - one of these will be the opportunity to have your own ECA store at TripleClicks. If you have the products to sell why would you not make use of this opportunity? I do not have physical or even electronic products of my own to sell but I encourage my PSA's with their own shops to make use of the chance to add another dimension to their shops / businesses and register as an ECA.
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I view my business here as having multiple dimensions. Let me explain it by comparing it with a normal "real" business.

In a small town on a corner you find a small café. It is owned and managed by one person. It sells a limited variety of products, it does not serve meals or sell any food that is not in a can or a box. The owner goes to a merchant when he needs stock. His bookkeeping is most probably done in a notebook he carries in his pocket and it is any accountants nightmare.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi there

Do yourself a favor and sit down with a magazine and look at the advertisements. Some of them will immediately peak your interest and you will not just glance at them but you will take a 2nd look. Some of them will immediately irritate you. Some will not have any effect on you.

Now look at them again - what drew you in the ones you liked?
What repelled you in the ones that irritated you?
Why do you feel nothing about the rest?

Personally - colors, big bold letters, interesting patterns or pictures draw me in.

A lot of reading and difficult reading because of small letters or funny fonts immediately irritate me

Boring dull advertisements make me yawn - I don't like them, I don't hate them - I see them and move on.

Your best guideline is YOU - if you hate it others will too, if you like it so will others.

Hope this helps you
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Hi there

Do yourself a favor and sit down with a magazine and look at the advertisements. Some of them will immediately peak your interest and you will not just glance at them but you will take a 2nd look. Some of them will immediately irritate you. Some will not have any effect on you.

Now look at them again - what drew you in the ones you liked?
What repelled you in the ones that irritated you?
Why do you feel nothing about the rest?

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

Without a doubt the answer is YES.

Why would you limit yourself? Why would you put a ceiling on your income and your success?

The requirements for reaching each new level gives you the MINIMUM requirements - it does not limit you as to how far you can go, does it?

I would love to have 5 future PTLs already in place but it would not stop me to guide, help and support every one of my affiliates that wants to work. If I have a team of a thousand Diamond Team Leaders I would be very happy but I will keep on developing new comers.

Of course it is always your choice how far you want to go and what your goal is.
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Without a doubt the answer is YES.

Why would you limit yourself? Why would you put a ceiling on your income and your success?

The requirements for reaching each new level gives you the MINIMUM requirements - it does not limit you as to how far you can go, does it?

I would love to have 5 future PTLs already in place but it would not stop me to guide, help and support every one of my affiliates that wants to work. If I have a team of a thousand Diamond Team Leaders
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Leave the warnings about what will happen if they do not make EA and about loosing their team members to SFI.

Send your weekly mail to them with positive quotes, acknowledgements and tips to them. You have to be positive and optimistic in your communication to them - it is contagious (like a smile). If you persevere they might eventually catch it from you.

If you can afford it - offer them incentives like T-credits or a share in a co-op.

Competitions to encourage them to compete against themselves as well as each other.

Be open and available to them and react to their mails as soon as humanly possible.

Keep your eyes open for opportunities to send an e-card or a personal mail.

It is the small things that count. If your team knows and feels that you take a personal interest in them they are more likely to react positively.

Never lie to them or make false promises you can't keep.
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Leave the warnings about what will happen if they do not make EA and about loosing their team members to SFI.

Send your weekly mail to them with positive quotes, acknowledgements and tips to them. You have to be positive and optimistic in your communication to them - it is contagious (like a smile). If you persevere they might eventually catch it from you.

If you can afford it - offer them incentives like T-credits or a share in a co-op.

Competitions to encourage
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

If you or anybody else finds the solution for that problem we will all be happy. We all want only serious affiliates but unfortunately there is no fail proof way to ensure you recruit only serious affiliates.

You can follow a few guidelines to give you a better chance but even then there are no guarantees.

This is just my opinion but I think a lot of people will agree with me. SFI is successful for many reasons but one of those reasons are also why we attract so many inactive affiliates. It is for FREE. It is a catch 22 situation. If somebody is willing to pay you can bet he or she is serious BUT if it is free they sign up in the hope of getting rich quickly and soon loose interest.

The flipside of that - a lot of very serious people will not sign up if they had to pay. I include myself in this group. We have been looking for legitimate ways to earn money from home and on the internet for a while. We came across a whole lot of false promises and scams on our journey. Some of us were actually caught by these fly by night scammers. I for one do not trust these things simply because I believe if it looks to good to be true it probably is. I would also not spend time trying to find a way to make money if I had money to pay over to a faceless entity making promises of a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

If SFI charged people to join you would get your serious affiliates but the market will shrink very quickly and at some point your market will disappear. The way it is done now - even with it attracting inactive affiliates - it is still a winner.

Everybody tells you - make sure they know the truth from the start. Make sure they know what SFI is and what it is NOT. All of these are true but it will not guarantee you attract only serious affiliates.

One way to do it that will at least give you a very good chance that your immediate team will be serious is to treat it like job openings. In other words - stick to people in your own city or town - people that you can call in and do a serious interview with them. Then you choose for example 5 people and you train them like you would train people in the normal workplace. Once they are on their way and team leaders themselves you then recruit the next 5 and keep on repeating the process. Would I do it this way? NO - not a chance.

But using this way again presents a whole new set of problems. Who will sign up for a process like this with no salary paid? Are you going to expect your recruits to do their recruiting the same way? Remember - their teams will also be on your team. Do you really want to limit your market to your own town or city?

My honest opinion? This is not suppose to be stressful. If you expect only serious affiliates you are going to be frustrated and stressed out. Do what you can to attract serious affiliates but expect and accept that you are not always going to get that.
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If you or anybody else finds the solution for that problem we will all be happy. We all want only serious affiliates but unfortunately there is no fail proof way to ensure you recruit only serious affiliates.

You can follow a few guidelines to give you a better chance but even then there are no guarantees.

This is just my opinion but I think a lot of people will agree with me. SFI is successful for many reasons but one of those reasons are also why we attract so many inactive
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

In short - You bet it is.

We have translate tools to use. TIP - try to keep it short and sweet - the longer and complicated your sentence is the better your chances of getting a very weird translation.

You can also identify a person in your team that is more proficient in a language and re-assign others to him or her that speaks the same language.

In a case like that you have to be a little more patient. Not proficient in English does not make them stupid, not being a computer wiz does not make them stupid either. They do not need to be an IT guru to do well with SFI.

They can learn the computer skills as they go and their knowledge of English will also improve when they use it every day. I grew up in a small very Afrikaans community. The English we were taught in school was all academic and we did not use the language often outside of school. After school I went to study in the biggest city in South Africa and I was exposed to English more and my English improved and when I started working it was English only - I learned quickly - how? Using it everyday helped but no as much as music - I learned to speak English by learning the words of my favourite songs (fortunately it was not rap or some of the songs we hear today.)

As for computer skills - I got my 1st computer when I was 32 years old.

Never write somebody off because they can't speak English or because they are not computer geniuses. Give them a chance.
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In short - You bet it is.

We have translate tools to use. TIP - try to keep it short and sweet - the longer and complicated your sentence is the better your chances of getting a very weird translation.

You can also identify a person in your team that is more proficient in a language and re-assign others to him or her that speaks the same language.

In a case like that you have to be a little more patient. Not proficient in English does not make them stupid, not being
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You earn matching VP as well as VP if you support them to become team leaders. VP is not a financial reward as such but it can help you to improve your own status which in turn increase your income.

When they make sales you earn a small commission - but add up all those small amounts and you will be surprised how much you actually earn through their efforts.

If they recruit and train their own PSA's you also earn income from their efforts - that is why it is so important that you teach them well.

Duplication is the the keyword - they duplicate what you do and their affiliates duplicate what they do and so the line grows and with the line your income grows.
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You earn matching VP as well as VP if you support them to become team leaders. VP is not a financial reward as such but it can help you to improve your own status which in turn increase your income.

When they make sales you earn a small commission - but add up all those small amounts and you will be surprised how much you actually earn through their efforts.

If they recruit and train their own PSA's you also earn income from their efforts - that is why it is so important that
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