Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

With the new requirements for Team Leader status, it is much more necessary to help your PSAs to move upward. You will not move upward if some of them do not.

Basically what we want to do is to encourage all of our PSAs and at the same time, all of our generations, to follow the SFI BASICS, which includes sponsoring, buying and selling TC products, and teaching duplication.

We must stop being afraid of telling them to invest cash into their business. Sure they can do it without cash, but why take them down the harder path? A business only survives when it sells products or services. SFI is no different.

For those who begin to duplicate what you are doing, as seen by their level of SVP, their sign-ups, and log-ins, and communication with their generations, you should reward them in various meaningful ways.

If your active team is not more than 5 wide, you can give Gift Certificates or put them on your co-op rotation and make sure the the co-op has a steady supply of PSAs either by advertising or purchase of P
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If you do have an excess of active PSAs, then begin to reassign them to your best active PSAs. The idea is to fill out the Team of your Dreams. This team will eventually consist of solid PTLs except for the newest generations who will have a great idea about their part in the business.
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With the new requirements for Team Leader status, it is much more necessary to help your PSAs to move upward. You will not move upward if some of them do not.

Basically what we want to do is to encourage all of our PSAs and at the same time, all of our generations, to follow the SFI BASICS, which includes sponsoring, buying and selling TC products, and teaching duplication.

We must stop being afraid of telling them to invest cash into their business. Sure they can do it without
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

A prospective ECA will want to know if there will be enough customers to make it worth his while to take the time to set up his store and TConnect pages.

It will be his responsibility to advertise his online ECA store but SFI will be bringing to the table a large number of affiliate customers who are looking for products to buy in order to earn their SVP. They will mostly be looking for home and personal care, gifts, electronics, etc. The more Affiliates who live in the prospective locality, the better.

Also tell him that one way our affiliates make money is to advertise his products and they get a portion of the 15% he pays to TC for that sale.

Do your homework and find out how many Affiliates live in his country, how many ECAs are in his country, and how many sell TCurrency. Take it slow, do not confuse him with too much too soon. Explain that while you are out recruiting ECAs, you are actively recruiting local affiliates. And be doing it.

I have seen some confusion on the point of what TripleClicks does and what SFI does for the ECA. SFI and TC have separate web sites. Therefore the TConnect pages, the ECA store site, the TC product lists and description pages are the only pages that an ECA sees since he is only a member of TC unless he becomes an SFI affiliate.

So, SFI basically only supplies customers and advertising, while TC supplies the web site and it's use, takes the orders and the money sends out orders to the ECAs, pays them, approves products and ECAs, etc.

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A prospective ECA will want to know if there will be enough customers to make it worth his while to take the time to set up his store and TConnect pages.

It will be his responsibility to advertise his online ECA store but SFI will be bringing to the table a large number of affiliate customers who are looking for products to buy in order to earn their SVP. They will mostly be looking for home and personal care, gifts, electronics, etc. The more Affiliates who live in the prospective locality,
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

Habits are actions that with practice become almost automatic in your daily life. They can be good habits or bad. Watch which habits you develop and work on loosing the habits that take away from your success.

Instincts are also actions, but they come naturally without practice. there are good and bad instincts and the bad should be eliminated.

1) Form the habit of evaluating your previous day.Pick out the good things and try to do them the next day. Name the bad actions and try to not do them the next day.

2) Try to remain positive in all of your communications. It is important to always be positive when talking with your team. They are all ready looking for excuses for failure. Send any questions and doubts upline but still do not be negative. Just ask for the answer or discussion.

3) Develop the habit of passing out x-cards where ever you go, advertising online everyday, talking to your warm market, and developing your cold market. Your business will not keep growing if the members quit faster than you recruit.

4) Develop the habit of being on time with your communications, both to sponsor and to your team.When telling a PSA or CSA to do something differently, make it as a suggestion for betterment rather than pointing out mistakes.

5) Get in the habit of setting goals: yours and your PSAs. Keep track of those goals and reward for completion.

6) Develop the habit of always looking for another TC product to buy or sell, and teach your team to use and sell TC products.

Teach your habits to your team and it will become strong and successful, and grow.
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Habits are actions that with practice become almost automatic in your daily life. They can be good habits or bad. Watch which habits you develop and work on loosing the habits that take away from your success.

Instincts are also actions, but they come naturally without practice. there are good and bad instincts and the bad should be eliminated.

1) Form the habit of evaluating your previous day.Pick out the good things and try to do them the next day. Name the bad actions and
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

This depends on where you are in your business and how strong are your finances. It is very wise to put some of your earnings back into the business. All, most, or some. You decide by what you can do with the amount in hand and what you can add from you other income.

Anything you can use your money on for building your business is great, but don't spend it willy-nilly. Have a plan and purpose for each use of this precious asset. Remember that transfer buying, while not viewed as an investment because you were spending that money previously on the same products elsewhere, do help to build your business. And you can consider any cost of shipping as an investment or cost of doing business.

You can spend your commissions and signing bonus on business related products such as x-cards, brochures, magnetic car signs, TCredits, web sites, splash pages, ads, etc.

Or you can reward yourself. Remember the quip, 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' Look to the ECAs for something you can buy as a reward to yourself. Or keep your money in your account for something really special.

Though it is easier and faster to buy TCredits and play the auctions, if your money is tight, use it for buying business tools.
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This depends on where you are in your business and how strong are your finances. It is very wise to put some of your earnings back into the business. All, most, or some. You decide by what you can do with the amount in hand and what you can add from you other income.

Anything you can use your money on for building your business is great, but don't spend it willy-nilly. Have a plan and purpose for each use of this precious asset. Remember that transfer buying, while not viewed as an investment
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

I am at a more advanced level than a newbie and my answer will be based on what I do now. You see, my time is more limited as I have more communications to write, etc.

Since by now I have a firm grasp of much of SFI, I do not spend time reading all of the Threads. There are two main reasons one reads the Threads at the Forum: 1) To learn something you don't know, and 2) To help answer the questions when you do know the answers.

My daily habit is when I log-in, I first check the list of live threads on the Alerts Page and go to the ones that interest me and read all the posts. I will reply to the thread when the answer I have has not been brought out, or when someone makes a false statement. This is important because many businesses could be adversely affected by a bad answer.

I start with the oldest thread at the bottom so I will not lose any of the most recent ones.

Before I move on, I check my own posts to see if there is any further conversation there. And reply to it if necessary.

Then after I have worked some of the red tabs, I do the red Forum tab. This tab brings up the posts by my upline, downline, and those I follow. Again I read the whole thread and make my comments if needed.

Throughout the day when I log-in, I will check the Alerts Page for new threads that interest me and check on those that have not been answered.

I do not spend time on those threads that ask the same questions that always get the same answer. I also do not give the links, but will tell how to find the links. This helps them to develop the habit of doing a search before asking.And for doing the work involved in a search.This helps them to get the most out of their trip to the Forum.

I also in addition to bookmarking great posts, I will copy and paste with the author's name the great posts into my Leadership Page blog. These posts may be for my downline or for myself when I know that I will need the information in the future.


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I am at a more advanced level than a newbie and my answer will be based on what I do now. You see, my time is more limited as I have more communications to write, etc.

Since by now I have a firm grasp of much of SFI, I do not spend time reading all of the Threads. There are two main reasons one reads the Threads at the Forum: 1) To learn something you don't know, and 2) To help answer the questions when you do know the answers.

My daily habit is when I log-in, I first check
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

I have no interest in sports and do not wish to spend the time necessary to learn enough to play the Uber-Picks. But my husband does like football, basket ball, etc.

I plan to set him down at my computer with what ever TCredits he needs and have him learn the rules, and methods, then play each day. I will find out how it works, how good a player he is, and then tell all the people I know who like to follow the sports.

Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

In a sport's team everyone is taught how to play their own position and what every other member of the team will be doing. They work as one body made up of individuals. They are acknowledged for their accomplishments and publicly cheered. They know their own goals and those of the team.They follow the advice of the coach who is paid for keeping the team trained and in shape for the game.

In our business we have a coach, called a sponsor. While most SFI teams do not work together as a sports team does, we are all trained, kept in shape (attitude), have similar goals, and hopefully listen to our sponsor, who also is paid for keeping us in the game..

To keep the team strong and successful, the sponsor must help set goals, teach game plans, keep up the morale, and dole out lots of praise for successful actions. While it may be easier to praise one, it is important to praise, encourage, or reassure the others.

Do it publicly in the Stream, Group Mailers, and with e-cards, without using full names. Respect their privacy but build a bond between them. And let them know that you are always available for them.
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In a sport's team everyone is taught how to play their own position and what every other member of the team will be doing. They work as one body made up of individuals. They are acknowledged for their accomplishments and publicly cheered. They know their own goals and those of the team.They follow the advice of the coach who is paid for keeping the team trained and in shape for the game.

In our business we have a coach, called a sponsor. While most SFI teams do not work together as a sports
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

I have to ask a question in return. Valuable in what regards?

Your short term use of TCredits is to complete your monthly gathering of enough VP to earn your desired status. The fastest and most profitable way to use TCredits to build your business is to play the auctions. You get VP and MRP, a free PSA and a free Daily Grand entry for every 1-100 bids from the Bid and Build. And valuable products if you win the auction. Plus the MP can be traded for more TCredits. You also get one VP for every day that you spend a TCredit on an auction.

For your long term business plan, you would do best to use your TCredits as rewards or prizes to your downline for winning your contests or for achieving certain goals. Of course with a 10 TCredit limit per affiliate, you will not be giving out the majority of your TCredits, assuming that you have TCredits on your Standing Order.

In between these two stages in your business, there are two more uses of TCredits that bring back a good return. As with the auctions, if you play one game and spend a TCredit each day playing a game, you will earn two VP from the first TCredit used each day.

The other profitable use of TCredits is for non-ECA members to list on their TConnect pages as many items as they can from their no longer wanted items, gently used of course. Depending on the items and your location, you may or may not be able to earn a good amount of money. This money can be used for Standing Orders, paid advertising, rewards to your team.


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I have to ask a question in return. Valuable in what regards?

Your short term use of TCredits is to complete your monthly gathering of enough VP to earn your desired status. The fastest and most profitable way to use TCredits to build your business is to play the auctions. You get VP and MRP, a free PSA and a free Daily Grand entry for every 1-100 bids from the Bid and Build. And valuable products if you win the auction. Plus the MP can be traded for more TCredits. You also get one VP
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

When I first signed up for SFII was excited about my new business. I knew my sponsor and I knew he would have done his research on SFI before he talked to me about it. As I was reading mt training, I knew that it would work if we did not quit when things looked bad.I had worried that I could never learn what I needed to learn. But as I kept reading and doing the daily tasks, I knew that I was up to it.

As time went on, I became more and more convinced. I got off the strict path a nd added time on for SFI website exploration. There is tons of materials on the web-site that are not included in the training. I knew that I could always get as much knowledge from there as I could need.

I began sending tickets and saw the actions of the support team including a2a, Forum, ASK SC, sponsor, co-sponsor, upline, the Help Desk, and Gery and his helpers. Who can go wrong as long as they read, listen and do, ans speak up and ask?

This question is not what do you do to ensure success like most are answering this question, but how do you know in your heart that you will succeed? When you find reason to have faith in yourself that you can and will be able to do what is necessary, then you will know that you will succeed if you do not quit.








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When I first signed up for SFII was excited about my new business. I knew my sponsor and I knew he would have done his research on SFI before he talked to me about it. As I was reading mt training, I knew that it would work if we did not quit when things looked bad.I had worried that I could never learn what I needed to learn. But as I kept reading and doing the daily tasks, I knew that I was up to it.

As time went on, I became more and more convinced. I got off the strict path a nd added
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277

Many people have answered that there is nothing to overstep. These people do not fully understand the dynamics of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing an bring us great riches if we apply the principles that make it work. I will not cover all of the principles, just what apply to this question.

In order to rake the burden off of each person of earning all the money, doing all the advertising, training all the team members, etc., we learn and teach each active affiliate to teach and train their own affiliates. This puts lots of hours and advertising into the whole organization. The money you decide to spend on advertising, incentives, rewards, etc.will also be duplicated if you teach it.

You will end up putting in many hours and cash to build a strong team. As a sponsor and team leader, you will have much invested in each affiliate.

Now, enters the gung-ho co-sponsor of one of your best workers. (This is not bad for those with no money to invest as a new affiliate.) He teaches how to get by doing SFI with the least investment in time and cash. What will this route do for your affiliate's and his team's earnings calculations and their actual earnings? What will it do for you?

What if the co-sponsor lure's the affiliate into following so many of his contrary methods that your affiliate opts out and rejoins under him? You have lost your good worker and maybe his team. You lost your investment in him.

This is an example of cross-lining. SFI has rules against that.Another overstep that some co-sponsors have been guilty of is called cross-solicitation where he tries to get a CSA to join another opportunity. SFI also deals strongly with that.

It all boils down to being ethical. The sponsor is the one with the vested interest (time and money invested) in the affiliate. He should be given all rights to do the training and advising of his PSAs. In that case the co-sponsor should back off and give encouragement and praise, even if the CSA receives his help.

An inactive sponsor is another thing. It is why we have co-sponsors.The co-sponsor should make an effort to contact the sponsor before he takes over the training of the affiliate.

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Many people have answered that there is nothing to overstep. These people do not fully understand the dynamics of affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing an bring us great riches if we apply the principles that make it work. I will not cover all of the principles, just what apply to this question.

In order to rake the burden off of each person of earning all the money, doing all the advertising, training all the team members, etc., we learn and teach each active affiliate to teach and
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