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

Confusion in SFI is as a result of lack of focus, not following the training schedule, and not staying in the charted path for growing the business. It is illustrated in some of the Forum posts that clearly show affiliates being confused on some important aspects about building an SFI Business and how to take advantage of the features and benefits of the major streams of income.

This could be easily avoided.

From the time we sign up, SFI Corporate strives tho show us how this business is straightforward, and makes every efforts to help us focus on what is essential, keep it simple, avoid confusion so that we understand how to grow our teams.

In the very first messages sent to new members, focus is put on helping them understand SFI Basics. If they truly follow the guidelines: watch the introductory video, read the SFI Basics, work on their "To-do-list", go through their launchpad lessons one by one, understanding the information and applying the tips, they will see how building an SFI business can be reduced to few simple daily actions, which, when executed perfectly and repeatedly, will bring positive results and help them be successful.

It is the role of the sponsor to gently steer their team member back to the proven methods and to the path of success.

When noticing confusion in an affiliate's behavior and actions, the first step the sponsor should take is clarify the situation and explain the concepts. I recently had a message from one of my Co-Sponsored affiliates (CSAs) mixing genealogy and upline. I first explained the difference and then pointed out tips on how to use both to grow their businesses. I can mention similar examples from my PSAs as well as my a2a friends.

The point is to clear out any confusion first; second, steer affiliates to reviewing the "SFI Basics"; and third, work with new affiliates to guide them in taking the training seriously so as to avoid confusion in the first place.

Leading a team requires clarity communication, open lines and availability on shot notice to provide assistance,clarification, guidance and help

In our team mails, SFI IM chats, stream posts as well as individual one-to-one communications, it is important to always present the motivational messages as well as tips in simple, clear, and easily understandable sets of actions.

To help our affiliates duplicate our team building efforts, we should focus on motivating them to take action, doing the core activity that will yield results, help them make progress and put them on the track of earning an income while improving their team leadership ranks.

A practical example is to go back to the basics of sponsoring, promoting TripleClicks, referring both PRMs and ECAs. In this context, it would be beneficial to guide and help our affiliate to review the basics of:

- sponsoring and building a team by revisiting the SFI Income Index and the Plan
https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan

- promoting TripleClicks and referring PRMs with a brush up of the methods and tools at the Marketing Center
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter, and

- sign-up E-Commerce Associates (ECAs) through a fresh reading of the guidelines on ECAs.

To sum up we need both to clear existing confusion and help our team members get back to the basics while guiding new sign-ups to take the training very seriously.
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Confusion in SFI is as a result of lack of focus, not following the training schedule, and not staying in the charted path for growing the business. It is illustrated in some of the Forum posts that clearly show affiliates being confused on some important aspects about building an SFI Business and how to take advantage of the features and benefits of the major streams of income.

This could be easily avoided.

From the time we sign up, SFI Corporate strives tho show us how this
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI has thoroughly address both sponsoring and communication with our downline. Effective tools are available to us. A clear schedule of activities is also suggested, from the moment an affiliate registers.

If we use those tools and follow up on the suggestions contained in the various notifications we received that inform us of the progress our affiliates are making, we will find that our needs of communication are satisfactorily met and its content proficient.

By doing so, we also learn and develop our skills, provided that we paying attention, taking advantage of all the training resources at our fingertips, and at no costs to us.

Hence, any lack of skills or experience can be compensated in a relatively short time.
Below, I will expand on the above.

The instant an affiliate registers, we get a notification and suggestions to welcome him or her. We are also provided with links to a draft welcome letter as well as ideas on how to start working with the affiliate. The next day, a recap of all affiliate registrations follows. It is another opportunity to reinforce the welcome message to the affiliate.

Hopefully, by that time, we have started to provide sponsoring support to our new team member
The SFI training modules on sponsoring offer excellent ideas, strategies, suggested activity and sample draft letters that allow a sponsor to effectively communicate with team members.

If sponsors use these tools and communication aids in the right context, they will build excellent business relationships with their team. The tools have to be used appropriately, in the right context and intended circumstances.

The first batch of sample letters is through the Affiliate Snapshot, at the Affiliate Manager. On that page, besides the sample welcome letter, you will find the link to the article “How to be an awesome sponsor”. This document is critical. It provides us with the basics concepts about sponsoring and how to communicate with our PSAs. We need to fully understand these concepts and how their application can help us build a successful business. You will also find there an extensive library of documents covering a wide range of topics, all central to effective communication and building the SFI business. The link below will take you to those slides

https://www.sfimg.com/PopUp/sampleMessages

When you combine your “Leadership page” and the activities suggested in the Affiliate snapshot, you will have covered most of the basic sponsoring requirements.

Use the standard communication aids and samples available. Add to them the other highly effective sponsoring and team building resources available: your Upline, training aids, Ask SC, Forum Technical support and your network of a2a friends.

If you take advantage of all that is freely available within SFI on sponsoring and communication with your team members, you will become an expert, provided that you pay attention to the content, use this material in the spirit and context it is intended and you understand the real benefits and wisdom embedded in it.

You can even be among the very best sponsors and communicators. To reach that level, get a thorough knowledge and apply the tips and wisdom you will find in the Experts Reports.
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ExpertReports
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SFI has thoroughly address both sponsoring and communication with our downline. Effective tools are available to us. A clear schedule of activities is also suggested, from the moment an affiliate registers.

If we use those tools and follow up on the suggestions contained in the various notifications we received that inform us of the progress our affiliates are making, we will find that our needs of communication are satisfactorily met and its content proficient.

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

TripleClicks.com is a powerful, effective, fast growing online commerce portal. It has nothing to envy from other similar e-commerce venues, regardless of the news these may be making at the moment.

Hence, as TripleClicks members, we should approach any business, from a position of confidence and strength. That business is merely a potential member. We are offering them an opportunity to grow with new tools they may not have, and with a sales force that is not duplicated elsewhere.

Indeed every SFI Affiliate is a TripleClicks sales agent. We all have vested interest and are handsomely rewarded for selling both TripleClicks Direct and ECAs products.
This is a very powerful argument for convincing any business to be part of TripleClicks.com

Now, it is vital to your success to fully understand the context of your target. You are in China. Thus, you should be very familiar with the specifics of Alibaba.com.

It is part of a much larger group with the same name: the Alibaba Group states its mission as “to make it easy to do business anywhere. The company is the largest online and mobile commerce company in the world in terms of gross merchandise volume… The company provides the fundamental technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help businesses leverage the power of the Internet…”

The group is made up of 8 different independent business units one of which being alibaba.com

It is as if we had here, in the SFI Group, SFI.com, TripleClicks.com, TripleClicksDirect.com, Pricebenders.com, EagerZebra.com, TCMusic.com, Wave3.com, and SFIPPA.com. Such a hypothesis may neither be farfetched nor too far from in the future, as the SFI Group grows steadily.

Alibaba.com identifies itself as China’s largest global online wholesale platform for small businesses.

From the above, it is clear that TripleClicks.com and Alibaba.com have different approaches to e-commerce and the businesses that are active in them are also somewhat different.

TripleClicks.com aims at individual customers, while businesses in Alibaba.com target resellers.
Your question then is how to interest these small businesses to join Tripleclicks as ECAs.

There are two potentially effective approaches to be successful with your idea.

One is to partner with other TripleClicks ECAs to contact businesses listed with Alibaba.com and offer them to be their resellers through Tripleclicks using our sales force of TripleClicks members, and SFI affiliates. To succeed and be profitable, this group of ECAs should be fully familiar with TripleClicks rules of business and negotiate, accordingly, representation and sales contracts with the businesses listed with Alibaba.com, so that they can provide value to TripleClicks customers and make a profit at the same time.

The second approach is to convince some of the businesses listed with Alibaba.com to open up to diversifying their sales strategy to include individual consumers. Hence, each of those businesses would have a retail department that would list with TripleClicks, according to TripleClicks rules.

In this second approach, your role and those ECAs with whom you may be working would be the beneficiary of such additions to TripleClicks, exactly like any other ECA referral we make.

What you might want to do right away is to use the East Asia Region and China Country Sub-Forums, share your ideas and some of the suggestions in these Ask SC answers. I do not know the details of these sub-forums are they do not appear on my menu, because I am not in that region
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You will have access to the best Ask SC answers by the morning of June 18th. You may find other affiliates willing and eager to work with you and put together a comprehensive approach on how to successfully address you agenda.

If is very much worth the effort to work on it.

I sincerely wish you good luck on this.
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TripleClicks.com is a powerful, effective, fast growing online commerce portal. It has nothing to envy from other similar e-commerce venues, regardless of the news these may be making at the moment.

Hence, as TripleClicks members, we should approach any business, from a position of confidence and strength. That business is merely a potential member. We are offering them an opportunity to grow with new tools they may not have, and with a sales force that is not duplicated elsewhere.

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

As a sponsor and team leader, I always put the “to-do-list”, our daily basic activity, in a wider context of goals, milestones and income potential.

It is highly important to have goals on a weekly and monthly basis as well as income targets to strive for. This is one of the most effective ways to make our affiliates understand the importance of working thoroughly the daily “to-do-list” and not miss any point.

In addition to the benefit of helping us reach our goals and meet our target income, the daily activity is also rewarded in other ways by SFI, all of which contributes to our success while making our daily tasks enjoyable.

To succeed, one has to have a plan: the daily activity is the foundation on which to build the blocks towards our success and to thread the path to reaching our goals.

I will elaborate below, on the above ideas.

The affiliate who is wise and fully understands how to build his business will strive to score at least 20 VP per day. This is the minimum for qualifying for an entry into the Daily Grand drawing. The Daily Grand offers us great opportunities to win very valuable and useful prizes all of which can contribute to helping us build our SFI business.

It will easily qualify the affiliate to rate their sponsor at the beginning of each month.

Scoring those 20 VP, while playing any of the Eager Zebra games, will also open the door for an entry into the Daily Crown drawing. In addition, it makes it easier to re-qualify at the rank of Executive Affiliate (EA2), an important monthly milestone for keeping our CSAs and starting to earn at the Executive pool. As an EA2 will always have a team, he will have the opportunity to send the weekly team mail to his genealogy.

Clearly, any activity we do here opens the doors to other benefits and rewards.

Throughout this process, the affiliate is gaining knowledge and experience critical in building a larger team of PSAs that will propel him to team leadership.

Team leaders get numerous perks. I recommend that you discuss these perks with your affiliates. You will find the detailed perks at the Reference comparison chart.

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/ComparisonChart

One of the greatest benefits of being a Team Leader is trust we build with our team members and their reliance on our sponsoring and support. As team leaders, we get handsomely and generously compensated for our efforts with direct commissions and the executive pool compensation.

Obviously, a large monthly commission is worth “grabbing the daily Action VP (AVP) available to affiliates.

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As a sponsor and team leader, I always put the “to-do-list”, our daily basic activity, in a wider context of goals, milestones and income potential.

It is highly important to have goals on a weekly and monthly basis as well as income targets to strive for. This is one of the most effective ways to make our affiliates understand the importance of working thoroughly the daily “to-do-list” and not miss any point.

In addition to the benefit of helping us reach our goals
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

We have an official, clear definition of the Executive Pool.

Every affiliate should be thoroughly familiar with the SFI compensation plan that provides the definition.

The section 2 of the compensation plan starts as follows:
“SFI's TripleClicks Executive Pool provides a simple, easy, and lucrative income stream that all SFI affiliates can tap into every month. SFI-powered TripleClicks.com is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce Website in the world, and we now put 40% of the CV of EVERY purchase–companywide–into the TripleClicks Executive Pool for our affiliates to share in!”

How to take full advantage of the Executive Pool? The answer is also provided in the second paragraph.

“How to share in the pool:
For each VersaPoint (VP) you accumulate during the month, you will receive one share of the month's pool. The more VP you score, the more you will earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool! It's that simple. Note that VP can be earned for doing a wide variety of actions (see VP Ledger for complete list of pointable actions).”

A team leader will have their share of the Executive Pool exponentially multiplied depending on their actual rank in that month, from BTL to DTL. For the details, it is always better to go to the source of the information

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/CompPlan

From the above definition and inner workings of the Executive Pool, it is clear to see what role it plays in the compensation we earn.

Basically, our compensation from a Generation 2 affiliate will be different than our compensation from our active PSAs. We get paid both direct commission and matching Executive pool earnings from our PSA and CSAs, while we get paid Executive Pool compensation from our second to twelfth generation if we are a Platinum Team Leader.

Diamond Team Leaders receive matching VP on all EA2s in their downline within 12 levels (including their CSAs), plus double matching VP on affiliates on the 12th level.

In other words, our income from the Executive Pool is based in VP/Shares acquired by each qualifying affiliate in our downline, i.e. EA2 and/or team leaders, in any given month, depending on our rank. Our compensation is the same, at all the levels for which our rank qualifies us.

This is what makes the Executive Pool so lucrative. It is the essence of our residual income. We are earning it because of the work we did to sponsor affiliates, taught them duplication, and helped them build their own teams as deep and as wide as we could.

The Executive Pool emphasizes duplication and team building. Hence, it is an excellent incentive for an active Team Leader to work in depth, providing support to all his downline. Here, we see clearly that the Executive Pool Payout multiplies exponentially as our EA2 and team leaders increase.

If you work to build a team, reach the rank of Diamond Team Leader (DTL) and help your downline duplicate your efforts to all the 12 generations on which you can be compensated, your monthly income may well be above the average earnings of doctors and dentists.

This is the role the Executive pool plays in our compensation as SFI affiliates.
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We have an official, clear definition of the Executive Pool.

Every affiliate should be thoroughly familiar with the SFI compensation plan that provides the definition.

The section 2 of the compensation plan starts as follows:
“SFI's TripleClicks Executive Pool provides a simple, easy, and lucrative income stream that all SFI affiliates can tap into every month. SFI-powered TripleClicks.com is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce Website in the world, and we now put 40%
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