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

Whether they have the skills when they start or not is not really important - what they don't know they will learn as they discover SFI's lessons. What you have to identify is whether they are serious or not.

The skills they already have does not need to be developed, it is the ones they do not have that they need to learn and develop.

Some people have skills that comes naturally and others that they have to learn and put some effort into. Let me use myself as an example. My natural brain profile is very much right sided. I just understand people and languages better than mathematics and logic thinking. Then I found myself in a very left sided job and guess what? I learned the skills I need to not only do my job, but do it well. Why did I manage to learn it? Because I am serious about my job and I am serious about not doing the minimum or delivering an average performance.

If your affiliates are serious they will ask you how to do things if they don't know how to do it. So don't concentrate on what they can do, concentrate on what they can not do by answering their questions.
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Whether they have the skills when they start or not is not really important - what they don't know they will learn as they discover SFI's lessons. What you have to identify is whether they are serious or not.

The skills they already have does not need to be developed, it is the ones they do not have that they need to learn and develop.

Some people have skills that comes naturally and others that they have to learn and put some effort into. Let me use myself as an example.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I use both.

I use the mailer to send out my weekly newsletter / tutorial to my entire team. You will probably have more inactive than active affiliates in your team but you can not give up on them but it is wise to spend more time and energy on your working / active affiliates.

Apart from my weekly mail to my team, I use e-cards and personal e-mails to communicate with my movers. I handle their questions as they come up, communicate one on one, send e-cards with tips when needed, to motivate, congratulate and encourage. When I see they are not logging in and working as usual I send a short e-mail to offer help and to find out what the reason is. I do the same with my CSA's - if they approach me I help, if not I just send e-cards to congratulate.

The whole idea around my approach is to let every person in my team know I am not giving up on anybody and to let my movers (PSA and CSA) know their hard work is noticed and appreciated and that they are important to me.


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I use both.

I use the mailer to send out my weekly newsletter / tutorial to my entire team. You will probably have more inactive than active affiliates in your team but you can not give up on them but it is wise to spend more time and energy on your working / active affiliates.

Apart from my weekly mail to my team, I use e-cards and personal e-mails to communicate with my movers. I handle their questions as they come up, communicate one on one, send e-cards with tips when
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your personal circumstances will determine how much time you invest in building your SFI business.

If SFI is your only way of earning an income you need to put in a full days work - like you would if you were employed by a company. You need to set your "office hours" and treat it like you would treat any other job. What would you do in this time? You would spend an hour or so doing your daily tasks and earning the much needed VP. The rest of the day you will spend playing the games and recruiting new affiliates, advertising products, helping your down line, answering e-mails and handling whatever comes up. In other words - you need to promote and advertise - sell SFI and TripleClicks. You can do this via printed media, electronic media and word of mouth or even radio and tv when your business grew strong enough to carry the costs. There is really no limit as to what you can do and organize - as long as you do not break the law of course.

I would also suggest you put time out every day to learn. Learn something new every day - read the lessons SFI offers, learn from others that is successful with SFI. You can never learn too much.

If you have a regular job and you are doing this as a 2nd income or preparing for the day you retire you will have less time available to invest in SFI but you still need to invest enough time every day to do at least your red tabs and earn the maximum VP possible. Some people will get through this very quickly because their 1st language is English and they don't have to spend time understanding or translating while others need to spend a little more time to get value out of the lessons and advise they read. I have a regular job so during the week I do not have that much time but I spend more time over weekends to advertise and promote. I am not growing as fast as I would like to, but it is understandable because I spend less time working on my business than some other affiliates.

Take your business serious, draw up a plan for yourself, manage your time to optimize every minute you spend working on your business. You are a unique individual with your own unique circumstances and reasons for being here - what works for me might not work for you - but you can make it work in your own way.
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Your personal circumstances will determine how much time you invest in building your SFI business.

If SFI is your only way of earning an income you need to put in a full days work - like you would if you were employed by a company. You need to set your "office hours" and treat it like you would treat any other job. What would you do in this time? You would spend an hour or so doing your daily tasks and earning the much needed VP. The rest of the day you will spend playing
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I do not have a lot of money to spend - the eager zebra games came to my rescue on a few occasions. I made EA partly because I played the games

When you win t-credits you can use them to earn MRP

You can use both t-credits and MRP to purchase items - which earns you VP

You can use t-credits to play more games and win more t-credts

Playing the games and using your winnings to grow your business is like a merry-go-round. The more you play the better your chances are to win more and so it goes on.

Bonus point about laying games? It is FUN!!
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I do not have a lot of money to spend - the eager zebra games came to my rescue on a few occasions. I made EA partly because I played the games

When you win t-credits you can use them to earn MRP

You can use both t-credits and MRP to purchase items - which earns you VP

You can use t-credits to play more games and win more t-credts

Playing the games and using your winnings to grow your business is like a merry-go-round. The more you play the better your
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

How much time do you have to invest in your business?

If you do not have a lot of time you will review your red tabs every day and do whatever you can to earn the VP.

Do the advertising and promoting spread out over the week. Eg. On a Monday you can place advertisements, On a Tuesday you can follow up on advertisements you placed - and so you allocate some time for every aspect of your business.

I would suggest answering e-mails on a daily basis.

You need to analyse your efforts and see where you are having success and where you are wasting your time. Once you determined that you can spend more time doing the actions that proved a success and building on that.

If you have a lot of time you can do more on a daily basis. You can advertise every day. You talk to people every day - so you can do word of mouth on a daily basis - whether you have a lot of time or not. Try to support your down line as they need it - if a member of your down line has a problem - try to help them as soon as possible or at least acknowledge their e-mails on a daily basis and get back to them with an answer as soon as possible if you can not help immediately.


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How much time do you have to invest in your business?

If you do not have a lot of time you will review your red tabs every day and do whatever you can to earn the VP.

Do the advertising and promoting spread out over the week. Eg. On a Monday you can place advertisements, On a Tuesday you can follow up on advertisements you placed - and so you allocate some time for every aspect of your business.

I would suggest answering e-mails on a daily basis.

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

I don't think you can really concentrate on either. I try to divide my time between the two as balanced as possible, but because of the requirements I end up spending more time on SFI.

You need to advertise to recruit affiliates because you need a strong team to earn residual income. To advertise and recruit them is not enough either - you have to follow up and make sure they are trained and supported - you don't want them to give up because they feel lost and overwhelmed.

You need to advertise Triple Clicks to earn commissions on sales. I place more adverts for Triple Clicks because there is not much to do after placing the adverts.
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I don't think you can really concentrate on either. I try to divide my time between the two as balanced as possible, but because of the requirements I end up spending more time on SFI.

You need to advertise to recruit affiliates because you need a strong team to earn residual income. To advertise and recruit them is not enough either - you have to follow up and make sure they are trained and supported - you don't want them to give up because they feel lost and overwhelmed.

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

It might work for some but I would say it would not be the best way to go. If you want to do marketing over the phone your best bet would be family and friends.

Think about it - how many people do you know actually likes telemarketers? Even though they are also trying to make a living like the rest of us, they still irritate the living daylights out of most people.

A practical point - you have to make sure they click on YOUR link - how are you going to do that? Let them write it down?

You can always give it a go and see what happens - but I hope you've got one thick skin because I have a feeling you are going to need it with 8 out of 10 calls.

That is my opinion - others might disagree.
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It might work for some but I would say it would not be the best way to go. If you want to do marketing over the phone your best bet would be family and friends.

Think about it - how many people do you know actually likes telemarketers? Even though they are also trying to make a living like the rest of us, they still irritate the living daylights out of most people.

A practical point - you have to make sure they click on YOUR link - how are you going to do that? Let them
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

To cover yourself while you are gone - use the facility SFI provides you to place your account "on ice" - that way you can continue with your business when you return - like your Versa Points streak - if you "put in leave" you wont loose your streak but simply carry on where you left off.

As far as your affiliates are concerned - we all have a sponsor co-sponsor and so on. Make sure you inform your team that you will be gone for a while - give them dates. Remind them that they can contact other members of their up line should they need urgent answers. Also make sure that your up line is also aware of your absence so that they know to expect that one of your affiliates might need help.

There is also Forum - they can always go and ask their questions there and they will probably get many answers quickly.

Enjoy your holiday
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To cover yourself while you are gone - use the facility SFI provides you to place your account "on ice" - that way you can continue with your business when you return - like your Versa Points streak - if you "put in leave" you wont loose your streak but simply carry on where you left off.

As far as your affiliates are concerned - we all have a sponsor co-sponsor and so on. Make sure you inform your team that you will be gone for a while - give them dates. Remind them
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Becoming EA and after that a team leader implies that you have a team. Yes - you get CSA's when you qualify but that is not enough by far. You need your own recruits, your own PSA's.

When you advertise and you recruit affiliates you have a team. When you advertise and you make sales you earn commission. A Team means you can earn VP and money that you can in turn use to qualify as EA.

You will actually invest in both - maybe time into earning VP and money into advertising.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Criticism is a field of landmines that I would avoid at all costs. You might intend for it to be positive but it might be seen in a totally different way than the way you intended it to be seen.

The reason why I am saying this is - language. My home language is not English but I think I am not doing too bad expressing myself and understanding others but I can tell you one thing - it can sound extremely harsh if you do not know the language. I remember when I was still learning the language - I thought that English speaking people are so aggressive and always fighting. It was only when my English improved that I realized they are not fighting all the time!!

Rather give your team tips and ideas on how to achieve their goals. Instead of telling them for example - if you do not log in every day you can not expect to make a success of your business, tell them - log in every day and do as much as you can. You are still saying the same thing - just in a positive way. In other words - don't tell them what they are doing wrong and how to rectify it, just tell them what to do - if they are doing it wrong they will realize it themselves just by reading what they should be doing.

I hope I am expressing myself well enough now to give you the idea of what I am trying to say - don't criticize - positive or negative - it might not turn out the way you want it to.

Good luck.
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Criticism is a field of landmines that I would avoid at all costs. You might intend for it to be positive but it might be seen in a totally different way than the way you intended it to be seen.

The reason why I am saying this is - language. My home language is not English but I think I am not doing too bad expressing myself and understanding others but I can tell you one thing - it can sound extremely harsh if you do not know the language. I remember when I was still learning the language
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