Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

There are all the listed benefits that have been mentioned already. But there are two other benefits that I think has been overlooked and underutilized.

1. The promotional benefit.
2. The financial surge to your business.

What is NetWork Marketing all about? Well the owners tell you it is about sharing the Marketing Revenues with Affiliates. They say, "Instead of paying for marketing we pay our affiliates."

Let me translate that for you, "You pay for all your own marketing with CASH or TIME (Clicking away) and they will give you a commission on every sale. Problem is 90% of Marketing is not about sales it is about Brand Recognition. And you do not get paid for Brand Recognition you only get paid for SALES.

Imagine for a minute NBC or FOX or any other TV/Cable company giving you advertising time on the TV and you only need to pay them on the basis of the sales generated. You think they would do it???? No Way. Why do you?

At SFI we have a Brand Recognition program, Wave3 and you get compensated. That is right, not a commission on a sale, but compensated every month for Brand Recognition.

It is Simple. You receive a sticker from SFI. You place that sticker on your car. Every month that sticker remains on your car you get Paid. I have received both purchasing power and hard cold cash. This is not commission it is branding not sales. I brand the Tripleclicks store, I get paid. Now suppose I do make a sale through my advertising for the company, I get a commission. Perfect.

Now you can cut, modify and use those paragraphs in some promotional emails recruiting new people to TC to engage in the Wave3 advertising kit.

I even tell people I will buy the kit for them. Why? $250 that is why.

And that is the second reason to be a Wave3 member. I won the $250 very early in SFI. First I accepted the money into my TC account, and that means you get 300, not 250. Then I share $10 with each of my EAs that had become wave3 members helping me to win. I encouraged them to use the 10.00 to buy 5 wave3 kits for their Gen 1 PSAs.

I used a good portion of the rest of the money to build my team. And today I am very comfortable in SFI.

Those are a couple big benefits.

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There are all the listed benefits that have been mentioned already. But there are two other benefits that I think has been overlooked and underutilized.

1. The promotional benefit.
2. The financial surge to your business.

What is NetWork Marketing all about? Well the owners tell you it is about sharing the Marketing Revenues with Affiliates. They say, "Instead of paying for marketing we pay our affiliates."

Let me translate that for you, "You
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

When you measure your success you must measure all aspects of your gains in SFI. I have an Excel file in which I keep track of my growth and graph that progress.

In my file I have 4 tabs:

Tab 1: PSAs
Tab 2: CSAs
Tab 3: PRMs
Tab 4: My Financial Growth.

In the first three I put the number of people who join each month. With CSAs and PRMs the number remains very consistent. But with PSAs my numbers should be bigger each month, because it reflects the work of all my Affiliates, not just me.

These are the things I measure every month in my forth tab:

TCredits won and earned (based on the value stated scoreboard)
MRP Awarded and Won
Commissions
Earnings in TC from my sales
Value of CSAs as stated in scoreboard)
Savings on products won in PriceBenders

I track all these because this is my true growth. It also shows me where I need to put some extra work.
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When you measure your success you must measure all aspects of your gains in SFI. I have an Excel file in which I keep track of my growth and graph that progress.

In my file I have 4 tabs:

Tab 1: PSAs
Tab 2: CSAs
Tab 3: PRMs
Tab 4: My Financial Growth.

In the first three I put the number of people who join each month. With CSAs and PRMs the number remains very consistent. But with PSAs my numbers should be bigger each month, because it reflects the work
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

This addresses a recent question in AckSC as well, which was how to I help people who think they can earn money fast in SFI.

The ways I attract attention to my TConnect page is to offer the $12.00 gift card to friends in Facebook on their birthdays. I also offer it to friends in Linkedin on significant dates, like new job, or anniversary dates for their current job.

I then include in my offer reference to my TConnect page and why they will find something there that they will like.

I also share my TConnect page on Facebook, LinkedIn, Skills Pages and Twitter whenever I offer a new item.

I also share my TConnect page in Traffic Exchanges. I focus on "How you can effectively sell your products online...see my store" This is a nice change, I think, to all the million opportunity or ad sites offered on these exchanges.

I remember the very first item I listed on my TConnect page when I first joined SFI. It was a set of Saa Paper Christmas cards. The price was very competitive, but gave me a good profit at the same time. The one sale covered 1/2 my Standing Order costs. I was very excited by that first sale.

As of this writing, these strategies have gotten me 642 PRMs.
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This addresses a recent question in AckSC as well, which was how to I help people who think they can earn money fast in SFI.

The ways I attract attention to my TConnect page is to offer the $12.00 gift card to friends in Facebook on their birthdays. I also offer it to friends in Linkedin on significant dates, like new job, or anniversary dates for their current job.

I then include in my offer reference to my TConnect page and why they will find something there that they will
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

This is what I send to new affiliates that ask me that question:

Remember if you do not want to read this long email you can also click the Start button (https://www.sfimg.com/start) or the SFI Basics button (https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics) to learn more.

Here is the BIG Picture:

The first 2 months you can make 1500 VP a month without buying anything. With 1500 VP you qualify for the Executive Profit Pool Payout. Just do the items listed in your VP Ledger. go to HotSpots menu tab and at the bottom is My VP Ledger. Click it and see all the points you can still claim.

After 2 months of Learning you are now rewarded for DOING. You see. The first 2 months you make VP by Learning (and a little money). But after that you make money and VP by working (Big Money). There are 2 primary streams of revenue from working.

1. Product Sales
2. Affiliate training and growth.

The first 2 months SFI rewards you to prepare and learn to do these 2 thing online. I too will help you.

But after the 2 months your points come from doing these things, having learned them. The first 2 months all the points you gather are directed at teaching you about all the tools SFI offers to accomplish these two things. After month 2, all the points are gathered by doing the things that aid to accomplish these two revenue streams.

For example, product sales, you can get 1 point a day for just looking at the new products listed in TripleClicks. This makes you familiar with products and makes it more likely you will share and sell these products.

Example of Affiliate training and growth. You can get 30 points a week for emailing your affiliates with helpful ideas, guidance and direction. This improves the likelihood of Affiliates successfully engaging in SFI. An affiliate with a mentor encouraging them on is a great benefit when combined with the excellent training material already in SFI.

Now revenue from sales. This is fast cash.

a. You can sell other people's products and get a commission. Notice the share button with every product making it easy to share that item on Facebook, email, Twitter, or cut and paste the link to any social media site.

b. Sell your own used and like new products as an individual. Profiting from the sale.

c. Open a store on TripleClicks and make multiple listings of new products to sell.

d. Buy products you are already buying (tooth paste, shampoo, coffee....) from your TripleClicks member site. Spending money in TripleClicks costs you nothing if it is money you already spend elsewhere. So buy all you necessities in YOUR TripleClicks store and earn VP.

e. Recruit new TripleClick members (buyers) using exciting products or the TC $12.00 Gift Card.

f. Recruit stores to sell their products on TripleClicks. You receive a commission on any and every item they sell to anyone anywhere anytime. You do nothing but recruit them to sell on TripleClicks. This last one is huge. It is huge and once recruited you just get paid...

Revenue from Affiliate growth. This is slower, but it is BIG money.

a. Recruit and train affiliates to buy and sell products on TripleClicks. You are not the trainer but the mentor. You learned SFI so you can point them to the training they need, when they need it. You may not be able or need to answer their question, but you can point them to the training that provides the answer. You receive commissions on your Personal Affiliate's purchases and you match their VP and gain many many more shares in the profit pool based on their total VP values. This is slow at first but becomes very BIG money.

b. Advertise all over the place to get new Affiliates.

c. Recruit WAVE3 members. You and people in your downline need to be WAVE3 members. It is an advertising campaign run by SFI. You put a sticker on your car, simple. I actually put one on my car, motorcycle and laptop cover. It really works. Anyway, they pay you each month for doing this advertising. You get Credits and MRPs (loyalty points) both of which can be used in the store to buy stuff. You get them every month. You also can win stuff once your a member and last week I won $250.00 cash to my paypal. It cost 1.95 International (US I forget the price but it is less) to receive the kit. If you make EA2 next month, just to show your serious, I will buy the Wave Kit for you. It is that good. I will buy it for EVERYONE of my personal affiliates.

So this is not pie in the sky, but real business online. With all the support and infrastructure to succeed.
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This is what I send to new affiliates that ask me that question:

Remember if you do not want to read this long email you can also click the Start button (https://www.sfimg.com/start) or the SFI Basics button (https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics) to learn more.

Here is the BIG Picture:

The first 2 months you can make 1500 VP a month without buying anything. With 1500 VP you qualify for the Executive Profit Pool Payout. Just do the items listed in your VP Ledger. go to
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

There are several ways to transfer your buying habits. But most people do not because of shipping cost.

For me, Here is what I do, and what I encourage my PSAs to do.

1. I am an american living in Thailand. I have parents in the USA, siblings, and children. My wife and I send them all gifts for holidays, mother's day and birthdays through tripleclicks. No matter what we send we will need to ship it. So TripleClicks has saved me on several occasions providing an easy way to show my extended family I still love them and think of them.

2. Locate fellow SFIers in A2A who live in your area, even your city. Then set up a co-op using TripleClicks. For example, I eat beans (dried beans) and I buy beans at the supermarket for 2.00 a pound but if I buy 10 pounds I get them for 1.00 a pound. I open an ECA, sell beans (ship locally only) I sell in 2 pound packs for 4.00. To the buyer it is = to the supermarket price, to the seller is a small profit. But more importantly, the buyer is getting VP. Now the buyer does the same thing with another common, local product and the bean seller buys from him. Do this with say 5 to 10 people and every month you buy 5 to 10 products for the local price. No one gets rich selling but we are all making EA status by buying from one another rather than the supermarket. and Bulk buying makes it possible.

You could do the same with all kinds of offerings, not just food.

For more ideas on co-oping google business cooperatives.

3. Recruit new ECAs to your SFI business from whom you would buy products. Tell them how to list a product that is "pick-up". Buy the product on TripleClicks and then walk down to your local store and Pick it up. You could bring 10.00 to that store and buy your product or you can pay 10.00 on tripleclicks, get VP, get your ECA commission, and walk to the store and get your products.

Working together to succeed as one.
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There are several ways to transfer your buying habits. But most people do not because of shipping cost.

For me, Here is what I do, and what I encourage my PSAs to do.

1. I am an american living in Thailand. I have parents in the USA, siblings, and children. My wife and I send them all gifts for holidays, mother's day and birthdays through tripleclicks. No matter what we send we will need to ship it. So TripleClicks has saved me on several occasions providing an easy way to show
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

A part of my answer is get them engaged in revenue producing activity.

Most new affiliates engage in 2 things, chasing VP and wanting new affiliates.

The actions for which we receive VP are actions that are meant to educate us, motivate us, and get us to produce revenue. But many do the actions without the intent. They are not trying to grow their business they are trying to get more Versa points.

But new affiliates that stay active engage in revenue producing activity.

Engaged in TripleClicks
List items in your members area. List one new item a week. You list an item that costs you $3.00, sell it for $14.00 and after selling such an item 2 or 3 times in a month you can afford your SO. So list items for sale in your members area.

Make a few sales and that affiliate will keep doing it.

Engaged in PriceBenders
I have a mailing meant to help and motivate people to engage in PB auctions. I have an affiliate that did all her SFI work on a mobile phone. She won a iPad Mini for $1.70. Now she does all her work on her Mini. She LOVES it.

Win a few auctions and that affiliate will keep doing it.

Engaged in Advertising
I have a mailing that I offer to all my affiliates that I use to promote SFI to my prospects. I tell them sign up, steal the email, rewrite it and use it yourself. I give my affiliates five or six free advertising sites to join. I show them how to set up Banner ads and email ads and text ads. And once they start doing it I encourage them to join one new site every few days and load up on all the ads that are free.

Once they start recruiting their own PSAs they will keep doing it.

Engaged in taking steps that build their Business.
I encourage them to sell and buy in TripleClicks business building products.
I encourage them to bid in Pricebenders on business building tools, CSAs, TCredits, Sbuilder, PSAs to Go, and iPad Minis ;-)
I encourage them to see every VP they "chase" as a means to build their business. Use the Genealogy Mailer to build your business, not to get 30 VP. Use rank to build your business. Use your badge board to demonstrate your success. Use your steam message to build you business, build credibility and build confidence.

If they see their business growing they keep on doing it.
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A part of my answer is get them engaged in revenue producing activity.

Most new affiliates engage in 2 things, chasing VP and wanting new affiliates.

The actions for which we receive VP are actions that are meant to educate us, motivate us, and get us to produce revenue. But many do the actions without the intent. They are not trying to grow their business they are trying to get more Versa points.

But new affiliates that stay active engage in revenue producing activity.

Engaged
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

I do three things with fliers/business cards.

1. I go to the local English Study schools and I distribute business cards with nothing on them but my prestige domain link for SFI gateway. it is finally(dot)profitsonline(dot)com self explanatory and received by people who want to learn and use English.

2. I print a bookmark for local English 2nd hand bookstores. On one side is the bookstore info, on the other is my prestige domain or a free gift card offer. They stick the book mark in every book sold.

3. I take business cards or write down the email of local shops. I visit there website, if they have one, so I know more about their needs. Most have items for sale on their website, but no way to purchase the item electronically. And the website has dead links or is incomplete. I then email them and say. "I was visiting your shop and think that you have many products you could sell to a wider audience online. Do you current sell products online? I would like to stop by your store and show you what I do. No worries, I am not looking for you to buy my services. It is free." Then I hand deliver an ECA flier.

I hope this is helpful.
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I do three things with fliers/business cards.

1. I go to the local English Study schools and I distribute business cards with nothing on them but my prestige domain link for SFI gateway. it is finally(dot)profitsonline(dot)com self explanatory and received by people who want to learn and use English.

2. I print a bookmark for local English 2nd hand bookstores. On one side is the bookstore info, on the other is my prestige domain or a free gift card offer. They stick the book
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

Mindsets of an employee and entrepreneur are worlds apart. To become an effective entrepreneur takes a total paradigm change.

I have been in an entrepreneurial status since 1986. I have owned many business. I have partnered in some, and been sole proprietor in others.

I believe a key characteristic in being an entrepreneur for me was, my Father was one. I had trouble being an employee I worked overtime without pay, I worked on pet projects that became the property of my employer with no financial recompense to me, why? Because I was an entrepreneur. I wanted to do it. I wanted to see if it could be done.

Here are the first 5 thoughts that come to mind about the difference between an Entrepreneur and Employee.

1. An entrepreneur must learn to say NO.

Employee says yes all the time. They have a boss. That boss tells them what to do and they say yes. The boss tells them when to say no, and they say yes boss I will say no at this time. But an entrepreneur needs to know what is and is not important. He must know when to say yes, and when to say no. He must make sure he is engaged in the activities that produce revenue.

An example that I am aware of: There are some people who send a stream message 3 times a week. Those messages are meant to produce encouraged, effective, and trained affiliates who take that stream, that piece of news, that new idea and put it into action. The entrepreneur says, use the stream to encourage and train. The employee says, use the stream to get 3 points a week. So the employee says, "Hi" three times a week. He gets his point but misses THE point.

2. Forget perfection. In the workplace you focus on quality and perfection. But as an entrepreneur you must focus on the 80/20 rule. 20% of my activity generates 80% of my revenue. Perfection makes trying new things very, very hard. You find a new online marketing tool. Because you do not know how to use it "right" you do not use it at all. You do not experiment. An employee mentality says , there is a manual, training, or some other means by which I will be shown how it is done right. Someone else did the learning and experimenting to see how best to do it, and they will tell me what to do. An entrepreneur thinks "Just do it". Try it. Play with it. Mess with it and see what we can do.

An entrepreneur is improvement oriented, not perfection oriented.

3. An employee waits for instructions. An entrepreneur looks for solutions. Employees ask. Entrepreneurs figure it out. True entrepreneurs have no one to ask.

4. Forget the clock - long hours is what an entrepreneur uses. An employee is all about, payment for services rendered. They get paid for their time, even if that time is not producing revenue. That is why so many affiliates chase VP and wonder why they are not making lots of money. They are using their time, but they are not producing revenue. The only place where there is money to be had is by producing revenue. No revenue, no money. An entrepreneur only gets paid to produce revenue. An entrepreneur sees that and knows that to create a revenue stream takes a lot of time and a lot of work. So you must love what you do. You must not do it for the money. The money will come when the stream is flowing.

5. Multiple hats. In the employee world most problems faced is someone elses problem. Electricity goes off and you laugh and chat with your buddies, it is someone elses problem. The entrepreneur gets on the phone to the electric company. most affiliates say to me, Tell me the step by step way to success, what is it? Well there is not one. Market online? Yes. Market locally with fliers? Yes. Free marketing? Yes. Paid marketing? Yes. Email marketing? Yes. Social marketing? Yes. We as entrepreneurs do not do just one thing. We do it all.

6. I said five, but this is number six. Sow now, reap later. Employees expect to receive immediate compensation for their time. Entrepreneurs expect to achieve future recurring income for their work. My first year in SFI I invested as much as I could, and everything I earned into my business growth. Now I am reaping.
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Mindsets of an employee and entrepreneur are worlds apart. To become an effective entrepreneur takes a total paradigm change.

I have been in an entrepreneurial status since 1986. I have owned many business. I have partnered in some, and been sole proprietor in others.

I believe a key characteristic in being an entrepreneur for me was, my Father was one. I had trouble being an employee I worked overtime without pay, I worked on pet projects that became the property of my employer
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

It is of great value to use SFI Tools to cultivate your affiliates. And the Stream Message is a good one.

I see people wasting their stream message with meaningless dribble. I had one guy who posted every three days "Hello there". Sometimes he changed it to "Hi". This guy was after the VP, not the cash. A strong well educated and capable affiliate team earns you cash. Here are some stream messages that may help you to do just that.

Stream messages should generally be one of 5 types, Motivation, Affirmation, Information, Acclimation and Education. Affirmation, Acclimation and Information are usually time sensitive.

Affirmation: "Sally congratulations on winning the Daily Grand today."

Information: "Did you see the News Release concerning the new Genealogy update? Click here to learn more: http://news.sfimg.com/2015/07/23/new-genealogy-feature-send-e-cards-directly-to-your-affiliates/"

Acclimation: "Got an email today that was great to see. It said I won T-Time today - 2 TCredits added to my account. Are you playing T-Time? You can win 2 TCredits a day."

Education and MOtivation can often be sent anytime. Below are some Streams you can post anytime and are meant to motivate and educate your affiliates

1. Need to improve and increase your advertising? Contact me, your sponsor, and I will quickly and easily get you set up with SFI Banner ads all over the web

2. Rapportive — another free Gmail plugin, links people’s social profiles directly within your Gmail. It pulls Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Angel List, GitHub and other profiles directly into Gmail. In an instant, you can literally see who you’re chatting with, and what they’re all about.

3. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." James Cameron

4. Did anyone know that you can put several photos into your goal's page?? If you do they rotate through the pictures. I just took my Goals pics and made an ad page sharing my goals. What are your goals. Take another step toward them everyday.

5. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau

6. LinkedIn – I had a LinkedIn profile for years before I realized how to leverage the platform. It’s free, and if you’re diligent about inviting everyone you meet, within a year you will be one or two connections away from a truly astounding number of people. I can’t imagine building a business without LinkedIn.

7. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." John Wooden

8. HootSuite — is a favorite social media management tool. Manage Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more all from one dashboard. You can setup alerts and tags, incorporate analytics, and auto-schedule posts and Tweets. There are other tools out there, but HootSuite is pretty solid — and Free

9. "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos

10. Are you posting to facebook? Post regularly.I use a tool that creates a redirect link, that allows me to post many good things to Facebook. I'll send you an example.

11. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn

12. What it comes down to is that there is a difference between just joining a company and being a real entrepreneur. And if you want to really succeed in network marketing you will need to put yourself firmly in the entrepreneur category.

13. "People who stick with one company for the long haul are 20 Times more likely to succeed!" Andre Vatke, Founder, Leaders Club, Jump Start You Business

14. A perfect quote for SFI: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas Edison

15. The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. - Joe Girard
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It is of great value to use SFI Tools to cultivate your affiliates. And the Stream Message is a good one.

I see people wasting their stream message with meaningless dribble. I had one guy who posted every three days "Hello there". Sometimes he changed it to "Hi". This guy was after the VP, not the cash. A strong well educated and capable affiliate team earns you cash. Here are some stream messages that may help you to do just that.

Stream messages should
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55

I provide my downline with an Excel File that includes both the Graphic Banner Link and the Target Link that I use for my advertising online.

I have several banners that I have designed that display and promote TC products that I use and like. I teach each of my ECAs how to make their own Banners. And these are included in the File.

I encourage my ECAs to send me an email campaign (5 letters) teaching me about their product, not selling me. I encourage them to tell their story. Where is the product from? What is the cultural significance of their product? Who is helped by the sales of this product? Etc.

Then, through the excel file, I make the Banners and links available to any PSA who wants them and use my auto responder or teach the PSA to use email Campaigns in the promotion of the product.

This little "ToolBox" encourages and enables the PSA to promote TripleClick Products. It also encourages my ECA as they are making sales. Finally, the work of email and Banner creation is distributed among us all and some great ideas surface.

Hope This Helps
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I provide my downline with an Excel File that includes both the Graphic Banner Link and the Target Link that I use for my advertising online.

I have several banners that I have designed that display and promote TC products that I use and like. I teach each of my ECAs how to make their own Banners. And these are included in the File.

I encourage my ECAs to send me an email campaign (5 letters) teaching me about their product, not selling me. I encourage them to tell their story.
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