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

When preparing for your retirement in SFI, you have to evaluate your retirement needs.

1. Do I still want to receive money from SFI when I retire from it? If the answer is yes, then you need to be sure that you have at least 3-5 active PSA's. It would be to your advantage if one or two of your PSA's are family members, such as your children, who also have an interest in keeping your retirement income strong. Family members are more apt to stay with the program, especially if you transfer some active PSA members to them. You will still receive a percentage of money from the SFI downline, while helping to build their business.This just transfers the daily work from you to them.

2. When is immediately; make retirement one of your goals. That way you will be keeping in mind this need. Decide what you want to spend your SFI money on for your retirement. For instance some of these retirement goals might be - Paying off your home, accumulating a years income in some form of retirement program, planning for trips, planning for how you want to live.

3. How you prepare is to evaluate your current position. How much money do you currently have set aside for your retirement? What is your health situation, what will you need in the future to maintain your health, what do you enjoy doing that will help you fill your time in retirement, and how does my family fit into my retirement plans.

4. Look at what you are getting from SFI. For instance - Do I enjoy the SFI program, do I have SFI members that I enjoy, does SFI still give me something of value, and does SFI make my life fuller, more enjoyable.

SFi is structured so that you can continue it throughout your life. As you grow older, you can work SFI if you are homebound, unable to get out of bed, or any other circumstance you find yourself in because of your age and circumstances. If you are still active, you can continue to be an SFI member doing very little every day as long as you keep up your SO. This makes it possible for you to be an active member when you are at home or away. If you don't want to log in daily just put yourself on vacation, and when you want to check in maybe for a day or two, take yourself off of vacation. There is no reason to retire unless you want to.

I retired formally from my career of 35 years in 1987. I have been retired now almost as long as I worked as a teacher/social worker. Since then I have worked at many jobs. 10 years with Radio Shack, 5 years as a Senior Companion (volunteer), 4 years now as a Foster Grandparent (volunteer) and in between I worked 5 years as customer service representative because my daughter earned more money if I worked there too. I also substitute taught in between jobs. I have been with SFI for almost 5 years doing Foster Grandparenting for 15 hours a week, (love working with children, they keep me active and healthy), while working SFI. I also take care of my husband who has macro degeneration, and too many other health problems to list here, and do all of my own housework and cooking.

Filling time constructively in retirement is something you have to plan for, or the days get long and drag. SFI is my outlet to the world, it keeps my mind active and involved in something constructive. I wake up at 4:30 AM almost every day. SFI is something I can do when my husband sleeps. I watch some TV, but I am no long able to track and follow movies.

Retirement is just like anything else in life, you do need to plan for it. Just as children need to plan for their education and think about what they are going to do in life, when you are in your early earning and later working years, you need to begin planning for retirement. What will you do for an income? What ill you do to fill your time? These are two very important questions to consider.

Therefore, I suggest that you never retire from SFI.
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When preparing for your retirement in SFI, you have to evaluate your retirement needs.

1. Do I still want to receive money from SFI when I retire from it? If the answer is yes, then you need to be sure that you have at least 3-5 active PSA's. It would be to your advantage if one or two of your PSA's are family members, such as your children, who also have an interest in keeping your retirement income strong. Family members are more apt to stay with the program, especially if you transfer
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Sell them on the benefits emphasizing the fact that these benefits outlast the New Member Packs advantages. Once they have used up the pack they will receive 10% bonus share for life. This alone is worth the $20.00 for the NMP.

I also offer to help them with partial payment $10.00 on the NMP.

Here are the benefits from SFI Fast Track information.

"Once they’ve taken the necessary action (e.g. a $20 purchase/sale or setting up a 1500 VP Standing Order within the 72-hour window), they’re in! They will immediately receive the prestigious Fast-Track badge; 250 Bonus VersaPoints, Fast-Track Member Certificate (suitable for framing); and 30 free entries in the Daily Grand drawing.


The beautiful Fast-Track lapel pin will also be earmarked for them. They’ll also immediately have the $40 or $100 Signing Bonus added to their account!


And the biggest benefit of all…they’ll now be eligible every month for the 10% Bonus Shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool (this alone is potentially worth hundreds of extra dollars in commissions every year).


One more thing: Anyone who goes Fast-Track Gold will immediately earn EA2 status for themselves!"



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Sell them on the benefits emphasizing the fact that these benefits outlast the New Member Packs advantages. Once they have used up the pack they will receive 10% bonus share for life. This alone is worth the $20.00 for the NMP.

I also offer to help them with partial payment $10.00 on the NMP.

Here are the benefits from SFI Fast Track information.

"Once they’ve taken the necessary action (e.g. a $20 purchase/sale or setting up a 1500 VP Standing Order within
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Since signing bonuses are tied to commission sales, it is imperative that we help our new affiliates make sales. This requires that we put sales as the number one priority, and signing up affiliates as secondary. Letters need to be short and to the point to keep a new members interested in our program. If we concentrate on sales for them, they will earn more money faster. Then we can help them grow their affiliate list.

How do we do this? Send them ways to make sales or purchase for themselves.

1. Make a list of TCECA items that are in the $2.99 price range that have free shipping. There are many of these items available. Ten or twelve should be enough to start them out.
2. Go to their country and check out the TCECA's there and pick some of the inexpensive items and put them in a list.
3. Make a list of urls they can promote by including the new affiliates ID number in the urls for the items.
4. When you send the list give them information on how they can make their own list.
5. When you have these lists, advise your new affiliate to put this information in emails to their families, friends and web acquaintances.
6. Encourage them to place items one by one on social media mixed in with other posts so that their followers don't become inundated with sales lists.
7. Encourage your new affiliate to set up their own TCECA. They can find products to sell in various places on the web or by talking to stores where they already shop.
8. Help them with advertising products and information about tracking their advertisements.
9. Direct your welcome and weekly letters toward making sales and direct commissions.
10. After you help them to make direct commissions so that they can get the bonus, then work on subscribing affiliates.

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Since signing bonuses are tied to commission sales, it is imperative that we help our new affiliates make sales. This requires that we put sales as the number one priority, and signing up affiliates as secondary. Letters need to be short and to the point to keep a new members interested in our program. If we concentrate on sales for them, they will earn more money faster. Then we can help them grow their affiliate list.

How do we do this? Send them ways to make sales or purchase for themselves.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Communicating adequately is one of the most powerful ways.

1. Utilize every resource in SFI available to you for communicating. Such as: SFI messaging, SFI chat, Ecards and anything else that SFI might develop.

2. Have a Skype phone, Google or something similar that you can contact your members by phone. Don't be afraid to take up the phone and call them. This is a personal touch that no amount of emails can touch.

3. Text them if you have a cell phone and they have given you permission. This is great for tips and idea transfers.

4. Email them directly.

5. If you can afford it, and have a group run a webinar that you can brainstorm ideas together.

Think outside the box as much as possible. Imagination is a powerful tool in building a business.

1. Establish a radio station where all of the members can participate in advertising products and their SFI agenda.

2. Develop a group website giving each member a page, where they can place their ads and blogs.

3. Set up a system where each person has the opportunity to get back up for sales from someone else such as a testimonial. For instance: You are helping a member establish an ECA. Be willing to contact the potential TCECA and add your testimonial to your member's sales presentation.

4. When you have a group, each person has an expertise that they can contribute. It might be in knowing people of influence, being able to translate ads and other materials into a language that their audience or country will respond to or something else that can benefit everyone.

5. Members can assist each other by going to the websites of the individuals in the group, and looking for areas that can be improved or if changed would get more business. You can use each others websites for back links and SEO purposes.

6. Cooperate on advertising. Each member can set up a coop and every other member of the group could join in the coop drastically increasing the number of PSA's and PRM's for the entire group.

6. Send each other tips and information that will benefit the entire groups bottom line. We are all connected through TC. If you run across an item that would sell well for an ECA in a different country than yours, let one of the members closer to that country know about it.

7. Perhaps you could set up a purchasing cooperative that would allow all of your members to have an ECA and purchase through the group. For instance, there are pallet sales available, one member could buy a pallet of one item, and another member a different pallet, and then both could advertise both products in different countries and each drop ship to the other members customer.

8. Work together on selling the same item of one member. Then when the member gets sales, it might be possible for them to ship several sales to one of the other members cheaper than shipping one at a time. Then the other member could send it on to the customer less expensively in their own shipping area.

Some of these ideas may be so far out as to not be feasible, but when brainstorming as I did here, a group will come up with ideas well worth pursuing. If not in the same way as presented, but the basis for another way will be presented or the ideas presented will spark an idea that will be useful.



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Communicating adequately is one of the most powerful ways.

1. Utilize every resource in SFI available to you for communicating. Such as: SFI messaging, SFI chat, Ecards and anything else that SFI might develop.

2. Have a Skype phone, Google or something similar that you can contact your members by phone. Don't be afraid to take up the phone and call them. This is a personal touch that no amount of emails can touch.

3. Text them if you have a cell phone and they have
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The best way to build your own successful blog or website is to look at sites that other SFI members have placed on the web. There are a number of good sites that can help you evalute your own site.

1. Be sure that your information is accurate and up to date.
2. Leave lots of white space so that your web page isn't cluttered looking, you can have banners and still be easily read.
3. Have an up to date blog on your site.
4. Use a color scheme that is coherent so that it is pleasing to the eye.
5. Take advantage of as many apps as you can to make your site easy to navigate.
6. Make frequent posts to your own site of information about SFI.
7. Use TripleClicks products and review them in depth on your site.




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The best way to build your own successful blog or website is to look at sites that other SFI members have placed on the web. There are a number of good sites that can help you evalute your own site.

1. Be sure that your information is accurate and up to date.
2. Leave lots of white space so that your web page isn't cluttered looking, you can have banners and still be easily read.
3. Have an up to date blog on your site.
4. Use a color scheme that is coherent so that it
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Definitely brainstorming can help build an SFI team. Brainstorming takes two way communication, especially when members are from such different cultures, countries and still have so much in common.

One way to brainstorm is to send emails asking one or two questions, and making suggestions, then asking members how these suggestions would work in their area, have they tried them, do they have any ideas or suggestions to add to yours. Remember several short, to the point emails usually get a better response than long complicated messages do.

Use conference calling and if possible have an interactive webinar. Throw out some ideas and get the members responses.

For brainstorming to work, you must have someone dedicated to write down any and all responses without judgment. Then collate the responses in whatever order seems appropriate, and then send the collated responses to the members asking for their comments and ideas as to how to implement the suggestions in the list.

Once you get a cohesive compilation of suggestions, ideas and comments. Then you send that to all the members and have them vote 1-5 on feasibility for their area. After this you can make up a plan. Part of it everyone can follow, and parts will have to be done country by country or region by region.

Some people may find the suggestions valuable even if the group doesn't, and put them to use for themselves. This is what makes brainstorming so valuable in such a diverse group.






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Definitely brainstorming can help build an SFI team. Brainstorming takes two way communication, especially when members are from such different cultures, countries and still have so much in common.

One way to brainstorm is to send emails asking one or two questions, and making suggestions, then asking members how these suggestions would work in their area, have they tried them, do they have any ideas or suggestions to add to yours. Remember several short, to the point emails usually get
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Proper communication is whatever they will accept. The question is how do you find this out? Ask them. Send them a list of ways you can be contacted in your welcome email and ask them what is most convenient for them.I realize that if they don't respond this is very difficult, but you can try and find them in some social media situation and ask them if emailing is the best way to contact them. If you don't get an answer then, drop it, and continue sending them emails.

If they contact you after the first email in which you sent a listing for the different methods of contact, use the one they suggested. Perhaps you could do a survey, using the methods available and send it to all of your PSA's and then you would have a better idea what is best for them.

Never,never make assumptions in any kind of sale situation. Use what is available to you and ask what is best for them.If you contact your new PSA in every way you can utilize, the one they respond to is probably the one they would prefer, but ask anyway. Give them control whenever possible so you can find out what is best for them. If they don't respond, the most beneficial way is to do the weekly letters. Some people who don't respond at first might respond when they feel they can trust you to contact them regularly.

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Proper communication is whatever they will accept. The question is how do you find this out? Ask them. Send them a list of ways you can be contacted in your welcome email and ask them what is most convenient for them.I realize that if they don't respond this is very difficult, but you can try and find them in some social media situation and ask them if emailing is the best way to contact them. If you don't get an answer then, drop it, and continue sending them emails.

If they contact you
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Make advertising YOUR number 1 priority in SFI. Don't just give it lip service actually do advertising yourself. Helping an affiliate earn the money in SFI to make EA2 every month is to assure that they will remain EA2's. One way to improve their ability to become EA2's is to run contests every month that cover the cost of being an EA2. For instance have advertising contests - Your affiliate places 20 ads every day for ten days. Sending you lists of where and how the ads were placed. If an affiliate is doing this with products, he will probably earn enough DC to be an EA2.

Do your very best to teach them advertising. Do some advertising for them, even if you have to purchase some.

Advertising for them in areas where you have had good response in the past allows them to see that advertising does work.

Send them to places where they can see your ads so they know that you are advertising. Send them subject lines and ideas that have worked great for you.

Help them locate niches that are suitable for advertising products, then find products in TCECA that would sell in that niche.This improves their chances of selling enough to make EA2.

Send them lists of places to advertise, with instructions on how to use these advertisements to their benefit. Send them letters and ads you use to get a response.

Help them set up a biz page in Facebook and other social media sites. Have them join your biz page.

Help them with a web site, and then each of you advertise for the other on your sites.

Many of these suggestions can be promoted in an auto responder, so you can send out many letters at once and don't spend time writing them for each individual.

Remember that sales of products brings in the most money the fastest. Developing a downline is more profitable in the long run, but will be easier for them if they learn how to earn their EA2 without having to make an investment because TC is paying the way.
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Make advertising YOUR number 1 priority in SFI. Don't just give it lip service actually do advertising yourself. Helping an affiliate earn the money in SFI to make EA2 every month is to assure that they will remain EA2's. One way to improve their ability to become EA2's is to run contests every month that cover the cost of being an EA2. For instance have advertising contests - Your affiliate places 20 ads every day for ten days. Sending you lists of where and how the ads were placed. If an affiliate
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Use social media yourself to promote your SFI business. Be sure that you have a business page on Facebook and are building a following that is beyond your SFI membership. You can put SFI banners there and give information. Then share what you have done with your downline. Let them know of every posting.

You can use an auto responder to place your messages on several social media platforms such as Facebook, Google, Manta, Linkedin and many smaller ones. Get your information out to as many types and social media that you can. There are a number of different programs that can help you do that, the most popular being Hootsuite. It is free to try.

You can put your members from your own page on your business page to build your market. There are excellent videos on You Tube and many ebooks on this subject you can purchase and read. Several are available on TripleClicks.

Before you can promote social media to your downline, you have to use it yourself. That way you can help them understand and give them a model to follow.
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Use social media yourself to promote your SFI business. Be sure that you have a business page on Facebook and are building a following that is beyond your SFI membership. You can put SFI banners there and give information. Then share what you have done with your downline. Let them know of every posting.

You can use an auto responder to place your messages on several social media platforms such as Facebook, Google, Manta, Linkedin and many smaller ones. Get your information out to as many
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

1. Purchase the product yourself and use it.
2. Take advantage of SFI's share system
3. Tell your friends and neighbors, show them the product and ask them to be a PRM
4. Got to article web sites and write an article about the product.
5. Look for Niche people interested in your product. A group or web page.
6. Advertise your product on every free site you can find
7. Take advantage of paid ads. FB, other social media, Google ads
8. Use paid advertising PPC, PPV, CPV, PPT, Media Buys, Contextual POP UPS, Domain and Mobile Traffic (List courtesy of Warrior Forum.
9, Write an email to your list of people and use a landing page that transfers them to TC product.
10. Write about the product on all of your social media sites, post pictures and show yourself using the product.
11. Be creative, put together a comprehensive plan and follow the plan.
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1. Purchase the product yourself and use it.
2. Take advantage of SFI's share system
3. Tell your friends and neighbors, show them the product and ask them to be a PRM
4. Got to article web sites and write an article about the product.
5. Look for Niche people interested in your product. A group or web page.
6. Advertise your product on every free site you can find
7. Take advantage of paid ads. FB, other social media, Google ads
8. Use paid advertising PPC, PPV,
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