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

Thanks for an excellent question, Emmanuel!

There is nothing wrong with advertising for quantity because there are many diamomnds out there among the rough so to speak. However, you have asked a very good question and it is a question I asked too when I was starting out.

Building relationships are very important to recruiting quality affiliates. While you're out there surfing, it is a very good idea to join in the conversations in the chat columns in traffic exchanges. You cannot give them a link in the chat but once you've found a connection with someone, you can send them a private message inviting them to SFI. Once you have built a relationship with another, you will have gained some trust and that person will be more likely to believe your business is genuine than if they were to just come across your splashpage in the advertising area.

Another approach is to set up a Facebook page and post quality content on it daily. Don't go looking for hundreds of likes from those 'like for like' sites. Be patient and build relationships with other people looking for paid work on-line. You can find tons of pages dedicated to making money online. I suggest frequenting these pages and making comments regularly. You will find that some will like what you say and reply. Try to keep the conversation between you and these people going and when you feel that you have formed a bond through common interests, ask them if they would like to see your page. You will already have things from SFI, TripleClicks & Pricebenders on the page. This will give them the chance to peruse your page and ask questions about this great affiliate program you're with.

These are just a couple of examples. You will have your own but the main point is to build relationships with people both on-line and off-line. Build trust between yourself and your network and this will go a long way to ensure that anyone you recruit in this manner will know through speaking to you that SFI & TripleClicks is a long term business that you need to build like any business.

I hope this goes toward answering your question.

Log in Daily & Prosper!
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Thanks for an excellent question, Emmanuel!

There is nothing wrong with advertising for quantity because there are many diamomnds out there among the rough so to speak. However, you have asked a very good question and it is a question I asked too when I was starting out.

Building relationships are very important to recruiting quality affiliates. While you're out there surfing, it is a very good idea to join in the conversations in the chat columns in traffic exchanges. You cannot
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You've come to the right place, Damien!

By coming and asking here, you've made your all important first step. I'm assuming you have already sought a mentor through your upline and have failed to find a suitable candidate. I'm sure you will get more answers than you could have imagined. At Ask SC you get a very varied response to your questions because of the diversity of the community and their differing experiences.

You can also try asking this same question in the forum. There are many dedicated forum users who may not come to Ask SC. I have seen that some have suggested a2a as a means to find a mentor. This may also be a route you could chose but I highly recommend Ask SC & the forum first.

My final suggestion is by no means the least. It is a video put together by one of our very successful affiliates. He explains how SFI & TripleClicks works in great detail and he demonstrates (with stats) how you can make money easily with commitment. He also shows you how to make accurate earning projections using the value of the VersaPoint against the number of PSAs and CSAs you have.

I don't think I am allowed to give out names here but if you check my Facebook fanpage (my name) or my blog (my name dot com) when my name becomes available, you will find the video there. It has been the most valuable tool I have used to date and it has surpassed my upline for the help it has provided me.

Finally...seeking out a mentor is great but also you can train yourself extensively by visiting the training tab daily; there is a plethora of valuable nuggets there.

Log-in Daily & Prosper!
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You've come to the right place, Damien!

By coming and asking here, you've made your all important first step. I'm assuming you have already sought a mentor through your upline and have failed to find a suitable candidate. I'm sure you will get more answers than you could have imagined. At Ask SC you get a very varied response to your questions because of the diversity of the community and their differing experiences.

You can also try asking this same question in the forum.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi David,

You have asked a very important question here. By asking this question, you have given many of us the chance to explain to new affiliates the importance of sticking with it and logging in daily doing a little more each day to reach their goal.

Are you aware of the business funnel?

You can have 100 000 people coming in the top (people who see your site or people who you approach). Out of those people you may only get 10 people who sign up to your program. These 10 people are the ones who you focus on. The funnel works both ways also. From these 10 people you begin to build a downline and your funnel takes on an hour glass shape. This is a very crude concise view of the business funnel but I urge you to look it up and familiarise yourself with it. It will help you to become more comfortable with "rejection" (as you put it).

The word "rejection" brings me on to my next point.

Please don't look on it as rejection. Just because someone is not interested in your program it does not mean they are rejecting it as a negative thing. They simply are not interested or do not have the time to invest or the need to invest. There are billions and billions of people in the world and not all want to start their own on-line business and out of those who do, not all of those will be interested in this type of marketing. If you are dealing with a prospect face to face, simply Thank them for their time and move on to the next until you find someone who is interested. Persistence persistence persistence is the key to marketing. Now regarding advertising....be seen as often as possible, in as many places as possible, using as many resources as possible. You will start to see results when people start to see your ads more than once or twice.

Rather than viewing it as rejection over and over, maybe it would be better to see it as sifting through the masses until you find the people who are interested in this kind of enterprise. One way to increase the chances that the audience you're reaching out to are looking for work on-line and not the get-rich-quick schemes is to use targeting methods. I would suggest reading up on targeted ads and looking at the many tools out there that can help you to reach the right audience.

Finally...and for me, the most important part of internet marketing is relationship building. People don't like to be bombarded with offers no matter how great they are. Especially from someone they've never met. May I suggest that you invest in an autoresponder. This gives you the chance to work your way up to the sale through a series of emails. You could get people to subscribe to your blog for instance then slowly introduce them to the benefits of multi-level marketing. Maybe you could introduce them to one aspect of SFI and let them think about it for a few days. I always believe it is important to ask people what their interests are...what are their views on on-line marketing...would they be interested if I could show them how to start their own business with no start up costs and very little investment thereafter?

Remember...stick with it and you will start to see results. Log in daily and advertise as often as you can, in as many places as you can, in as many ways as you can. It is inevitable that there will be people who are not interested and the reasons for this are as many as there are people in the world. You deal with it by Thanking them for their time and maybe leaving them your contact details if they should change their minds and move swiftly on because the golden nugget could be the very next person.

I really hope I have been some help to you David and to anyone else that feels the same. The art is to learn from your experiences and use them to keep improving your strategies.

Stay long and prosper



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Hi David,

You have asked a very important question here. By asking this question, you have given many of us the chance to explain to new affiliates the importance of sticking with it and logging in daily doing a little more each day to reach their goal.

Are you aware of the business funnel?

You can have 100 000 people coming in the top (people who see your site or people who you approach). Out of those people you may only get 10 people who sign up to your program.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Anna,

This is the $64Million question!

I explain to my Personally Sponsored Affiliates(PSAs) the value of VersaPoints(vp); they are like gold dust so don't squander them all in the first month.

It may be better to advise them to do enough just to attain Executive Affiliate(EA) rank in the first month. Make sure this includes completing the Launchpad and re-reading it to become familiar with the business. It is also important to advise them that it is not necessary to reach Bronze Team Leader in their first or even second month. The first month should be seen as a training month where one gets to know the basics. The second month is where one can put into action all that they have learned and reaching EA2. EA2 opens up lots of opportunities for them like being able to earn 100vp for submitting the top answer in Ask SC.

By the time they have reached the end of the second month, you will be able to analyse whether they are going to 'stick it out' then you can help them with re-assigned PSAs to help them accumulate more VPs through matching VPs and group mailer etc.

To summarize: 1st month->attain EA rank and save vp for month 2

2nd month->maintain EA rank (EA2)

3rd month->maintain EA2 or look towards attaining rank of BTL

This is just my view but I hope you can glean something from it.

Wishing you a successful future with SFI


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Hi Anna,

This is the $64Million question!

I explain to my Personally Sponsored Affiliates(PSAs) the value of VersaPoints(vp); they are like gold dust so don't squander them all in the first month.

It may be better to advise them to do enough just to attain Executive Affiliate(EA) rank in the first month. Make sure this includes completing the Launchpad and re-reading it to become familiar with the business. It is also important to advise them that it is not necessary
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Bernadette,

This is one of the best sources of information in SFI. You can come here to gain answers from such a huge pool of knowledge. People in SFI come from all walks of life, from all four corners of the globe. They all have their own views and insights which help to provide a very rich experience here.

Why should you participate?

Its OK to come to Ask SC to look at all the answers and often-times you will see the answer to your own question has already been answered but there is no substitute for participation in the learning and development process. When you are the one who is answering the question, you are having to process the information in your brain before committing it to words on the screen. Similarly...when you ask a question yourself on Ask SC, you will be seeing that answer as being addressed to you personally. This participation will help to stamp the knowledge onto your memory because your memory is linking the data to your sense of self. Memories are enhanced when linked to other senses. We know this when we hear a song and it reminds us of a particular time in our lives or a smell that triggers of the memory of a place or person.

This certainly doesn't make it any less for those who aren't participating in the Q & As personally. What I do when I see a question and answer that I think I can use is share it immediately. I will either go to my blog or a social media site and write in my own words what I have just learned. By explaining what I have just learned to others, I am processing the information and committing it to memory.

So you can see why Ask SC is one of the most powerful tools for the new affiliate. It is also a very powerful tool for the seasoned SFIer. No matter how much you think you know, you will always learn something new or something seen from a different perspective will open your mind to new possibilities.

I don't want to blabber on so I will just say this, "There is a wealth of information to be had from a huge diversity of people right here in Ask SC. If you want to be successful in SFI, learn from those who know...other affiliates"

Wishing you a very successful future!


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Hi Bernadette,

This is one of the best sources of information in SFI. You can come here to gain answers from such a huge pool of knowledge. People in SFI come from all walks of life, from all four corners of the globe. They all have their own views and insights which help to provide a very rich experience here.

Why should you participate?

Its OK to come to Ask SC to look at all the answers and often-times you will see the answer to your own question has already been
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Sim Lay Yong,

Great question to compliment the new 'Goal Setting' action.

Goals are achievements, targets or destinations. Although they sounds finite, goals in business should be open-ended so that we may expand on them once they have been reached.

Why are they so important?

Goals provide us with a structured framework from which we can build upon. Without them, we would be wondering around aimlessly without direction. For the moment, think of your business as an epic journey. In order to go far, we must set goals. The goals are our stepping stones...a place where we can take stock, analyse the things that have brought us to this point and use that data to plan our next step.

Goals provide us with drive and ambition, they give us a target to work towards. Without this, we're in danger of becoming complacent or even losing interest altogether. We must remember that the goal isn't the be all and end all. If we do not reach our goal at a specified time, we can either move the goal back or change its parameters. You set your goals so you can change them.

Goals also provide us with a sense of accomplishment. Achieving our goals is the perfect time to pat ourselves on the back for a job well done. This will give us the motivation to move on to the next goal.

Motivation can be strengthened through reaching our goals. Just having a goal to work towards will conjure up the motivation we need to press on.

Finally, our goals should be shared. We should discuss our goals and the goals of our team members with our team members and help each other to reach them. This can be a very powerful trust building exercise and motivational tool.

I hope this has been helpful!
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Hi Sim Lay Yong,

Great question to compliment the new 'Goal Setting' action.

Goals are achievements, targets or destinations. Although they sounds finite, goals in business should be open-ended so that we may expand on them once they have been reached.

Why are they so important?

Goals provide us with a structured framework from which we can build upon. Without them, we would be wondering around aimlessly without direction. For the moment, think of your
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is an excellent question, Isaiah!

Firstly, I would ensure I tool advantage of the Fast-Track badge and VersaPoints. You can never get those VersaPoints or Badge again. When I started, I was a little overwhelmed by the amount of information laid out before me which is why I tell all my new recruits to focus on three buttons under their profile: Start, SFI Basics and Launchpad.

Secondly, I would take it slower and treat my VersaPoints like the gold dust they are. By this I mean:

Step 1: Achieving Fast-Track on day one

Step 2: Aim to reach Executive Affiliate by the end of the first month. This can be done by doing the Launchpad, daily task and a few of the intermediate actions.

Step 3:In month 2, purchase a standing order so my EA status is secured leaving the rest of my initial VersaPoints to easily propel me into BTL in month 3.

Taking ones time has many advantages. Apart from the above mentioned, it enables us to get to know the business inside out before we take on the Team Leadership role. This makes duplication far easier and in those first three months, we should have gained enough friends through our up-line, a2a and the forum to help us with any support we need in advising our downline.

I hope this has been helpful!



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This is an excellent question, Isaiah!

Firstly, I would ensure I tool advantage of the Fast-Track badge and VersaPoints. You can never get those VersaPoints or Badge again. When I started, I was a little overwhelmed by the amount of information laid out before me which is why I tell all my new recruits to focus on three buttons under their profile: Start, SFI Basics and Launchpad.

Secondly, I would take it slower and treat my VersaPoints like the gold dust they are. By this
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Sarena,

I don't know about the best pitch but I can certainly share one with you that I use when cold canvassing:.

Have a table with cards and leaflets at my local shopping mall and a catchy slogan. When someone looks the slightest bit interested ask them:


"Have you ever wondered how you could make a little extra money on-line with little to no investment?"

"What would you say if I showed you that you could start your own on-line business with an extensive training program and all the marketing tools you need to succeed all free?"

"Is that something you think you would be interested in?"

If yes, start to show them on your laptop what SFI and TripleClicks is all about. Show them how they can set up their own store or sell other ECA's products. Explain that you will be there personally to guide them through and how you have an incentive program in place for all your active members. This way you will have already formed a personal relationship with your new PSA and they will have the memory of your encounter every-time they see your name at the top of the page.


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Hi Sarena,

I don't know about the best pitch but I can certainly share one with you that I use when cold canvassing:.

Have a table with cards and leaflets at my local shopping mall and a catchy slogan. When someone looks the slightest bit interested ask them:


"Have you ever wondered how you could make a little extra money on-line with little to no investment?"

"What would you say if I showed you that you could start your own on-line
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Marlene,

The best is not necessarily the fastest and vice versa. It is also true to say that what is best for you may not be best for me. Once you've discovered which method you're most comfortable with, you find your skills will greatly improve.

If you're more at home with advertising rather then recruiting or setting up a store, you will find that-as time goes on-your skills improve and this becomes not only your best way but also your fastest way of making money.

Albeit a good idea to be well versed in all the income streams, I believe in adopting Pareto's 80/20 principle which translates in this instant: you get 80% of your results from the top 20% of your sources. So instead of spreading oneself out too thin, focus on the 20% that you're strongest in and you will get 80% of your results from this. There will be a lot who disagree with this and many who don't but surprisingly, it works in so many different applications.

You need to find out where your strength lies and build from there. As I said before, "What is the best method for one person, is not necessarily the best for another...and when you apply yourself to a method and become skilful in that method-this will become your fastest.

This is just my opinion but I sincerely hope it helps you.
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Hi Marlene,

The best is not necessarily the fastest and vice versa. It is also true to say that what is best for you may not be best for me. Once you've discovered which method you're most comfortable with, you find your skills will greatly improve.

If you're more at home with advertising rather then recruiting or setting up a store, you will find that-as time goes on-your skills improve and this becomes not only your best way but also your fastest way of making money.

Albeit
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