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

Growing an SFI business continuously is a matter of determination, focus, and persistence on doing repeatedly the activity that will provide us with the results that will positively impact us.

It is achieved through excellent work ethics on the critical areas of sponsoring and duplication, sales and promotion, advertising, marketing and effective communications. They are the key criteria in ensuring that our SFI business grows continually.

Going every day, thoroughly, through the red tabs is just a warm-up. If we perform them correctly, paying attention to the information available at each page, we will find important, accurate and up-to-date resources we can use to effectively and successfully attend to the critical tasks of building our teams and making sales.

To grow an SFI business through which we can earn substantial commissions, build residual income, and attain wealth, we ought to sell TripleClicks products and services, refer members, enroll E-Commerce Affiliates (ECAs), and sponsor, as well as train affiliates whom we help duplicate our efforts.

These are the areas where we want to develop the best habits, acquire the necessary technical skills, get comfortable in taking action, being able to fine-tune our strategies, correct our mistakes and repeating the process over and over again.
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Growing an SFI business continuously is a matter of determination, focus, and persistence on doing repeatedly the activity that will provide us with the results that will positively impact us.

It is achieved through excellent work ethics on the critical areas of sponsoring and duplication, sales and promotion, advertising, marketing and effective communications. They are the key criteria in ensuring that our SFI business grows continually.

Going every day, thoroughly, through
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I am a repeat buyer and Tripleclicks satisfied customer. I have bought and reviewed numerous Tripleclicks products.

I have never experienced any issue with payment security, delays in delivery or product quality.

In past few years and very recently, many retailers, both offline and online, have experience security breaches which resulted in stolen customer information.

Over a year ago, in February 2014, there was a cyber attack against SFI/Tripleclicks. The security breach was immediately identified and dealt with.

From that experience, measures were taken and additional protection was put into place to protect both SFI/Tripleclicks business, their affiliates and their customers.

This is my personal experience, and as such I am fully aware of its limitation. However, I have not read any testimonial that differ from mine.

The only issue I have read about concerned shipping costs. But, personally, I see it as evidence of the quality service being provided. It is proof that shipping and handling is being provided by professionals who do their job well.

Now, beside personal testimonies, it is my understanding that Tripleclicks, as a subsidiary of Carson Services Inc. is an accredited business by organizations such as the Better Business Bureau and verified by GeoTrust. If there were reliable claims made against Tripleclicks, such accreditation would be lost.

Furthermore, Tripleclicks has an efficient customer service to promptly react to customers concerns and inquiries.

In conclusion, Tripleclicks is one of the most reliable online retailers with a much longer track record of customer satisfaction than those giant online store we hear about.

Thus, you should give assurance to your prospects that Tripleclicks is very safe and very secure with highly reliable shipping, handling, and delivery service.
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I am a repeat buyer and Tripleclicks satisfied customer. I have bought and reviewed numerous Tripleclicks products.

I have never experienced any issue with payment security, delays in delivery or product quality.

In past few years and very recently, many retailers, both offline and online, have experience security breaches which resulted in stolen customer information.

Over a year ago, in February 2014, there was a cyber attack against SFI/Tripleclicks. The security
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Vehbi Hoxha.

You should definitely recruit every body who is interested of joining SFI, regardless of whether they do or do not speak/read English.

Language is not a barrier for being an SFI or Tripleclicks Affiliates.

I personally have affiliates in every part of the world.

There are over 203 countries represented within SFI. Today, The majority of SFI Affiliates do not speak English.

And this is not holding them back or preventing them from succeeding in their businesses or even participating in the SFI communities such as the Forum, Ask SC or a2a

You may want to know that each page of the SFI/Tripleclicks websites is linked to an online translator that handles over 110 different languages.

In my communications with, I encourage them to use the translator.

For example, I have an Affiliate from Brazil. She does not speak a single word of English.

I solve our communication problems in two ways. One, I encourage her to translate every message she gets from SFI into Portuguese. Two, I also encourage her to translate every SFI/Tripleclicks page into Portuguese, when she is working on that page.


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Hello, Vehbi Hoxha.

You should definitely recruit every body who is interested of joining SFI, regardless of whether they do or do not speak/read English.

Language is not a barrier for being an SFI or Tripleclicks Affiliates.

I personally have affiliates in every part of the world.

There are over 203 countries represented within SFI. Today, The majority of SFI Affiliates do not speak English.

And this is not holding them back or preventing them
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The motive for prospecting is to sign-up affiliates and grow our businesses. Hence, it is of paramount importance to approach our team building efforts with the best methods so as to maximize our potential results. Only when we prospect offline will we restrict ourselves to a localized area. Any online advertising or marketing activity has the potential to reach wide and far, unless extra steps are taken to limit the range and scope of our campaigns. And, we should have valid reason for such restrictions.

There are times when prospecting offline will be more effective. In such cases, we are limiting our efforts to a town or a metropolitan area. This happens when we focus on our family members, our friends and business relationships, or specific local groups of prospects we have identified. Somebody who is not familiar with online marketing may find it beneficial to start offline.

There are advantages to focus on a localized area. We will have the ability to interact with our team members, person-to-person, visit them, reach them by phone, get to together with them in familiar surroundings, coordinate local team building efforts while using the same language. It is a good method to minimize inactive affiliates.

Besides such motives, today, even if we want to target an entire country, it may be more cost effective to use online marketing. In addition, some countries are very small, and one may quickly face the need to reach out to larger markets. One should not neglect this opportunity afforded by the entire online market as such approach may lead to the most cost effective strategy. Thus, we can aim at drawing affiliates from everywhere.

The diversity, size and scope of the social media offer great advantages. It is possible, if not easier, to aim at attracting affiliates from every corner of the world at approximately the same costs as if we were prospecting locally. It would be a lack of insight to ignore such a wide market.

Free online advertising and marketing tools can be used if there is lack or shortage of financial resources. Facebook groups, Google Hangouts and LinkedIn, just to name a few, are very friendly for such strategies.

For those who do not have yet enough online skills and/or experience, the resources available within SFI will be an efficient recourse: The S-Builder Co-op, the PSAs-to-Go, the PSAs available though the Pricebenders auctions, all these are excellent, cost effective means to start building teams.

A more comprehensive approach is to combine all the above.
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The motive for prospecting is to sign-up affiliates and grow our businesses. Hence, it is of paramount importance to approach our team building efforts with the best methods so as to maximize our potential results. Only when we prospect offline will we restrict ourselves to a localized area. Any online advertising or marketing activity has the potential to reach wide and far, unless extra steps are taken to limit the range and scope of our campaigns. And, we should have valid reason for such restrictions.

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

“Recruiting Affiliates face- to-face and one-on-one” falls into the category of personal business interactions. A large segment of the business population still refrains from closing deals unless there is a face to face exchange. The hand shake is still an excellent way to judge character, trustworthiness and reliability.

Our level of integrity and our business standards will show clearly when we discuss deals one-on-one. It is the instance where our confidence and self-control play critical roles. The positive impressions our prospects pick from us will determine whether they want to be part of our teams.

In addition to full knowledge about SFI, its potential, income streams, business building and marketing techniques, operating standards, and rules of success, the way we present ourselves is the most important success factor in a face-to-face setting. We have to be fully proficient in how to be successful with SFI. We also have to know how to convey it to others. Most importantly, we have to come across as knowledgeable, confident and successful.

Reaching such level of effectiveness requires work from each one of us. Every skill is acquired through training and practice. We have to learn, to control our emotions, to articulate ideas and convey them clearly. We have to have strong self-confidence and believe in what we are doing.
If we are aware that we may have some deficiencies in any part of these qualities and skills, we have to make the determination to work on them.

There is abundance of help to address such questions. There are specialized training institutions as well as self-help material and literature. One should fully take advantage of what is available. Most of the online resources in this area are freely accessible. We just need just run a quick search.

Physical fitness is a condition of self-control. It is a good starting point toward building that aura of confidence and success with will attract potential business partners.

We can also have one or few associates or close friends with who we practice with a series of discussions about SFI and TripleClicks to test our knowledge and give us the ability and the experience in making presentations, responding to inquiries, answering questions with accuracy, while projecting self-confidence.
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“Recruiting Affiliates face- to-face and one-on-one” falls into the category of personal business interactions. A large segment of the business population still refrains from closing deals unless there is a face to face exchange. The hand shake is still an excellent way to judge character, trustworthiness and reliability.

Our level of integrity and our business standards will show clearly when we discuss deals one-on-one. It is the instance where our confidence and self-control play
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The best way to communicate with our downline is a matter of wisdom and understand, as well as appropriate timing.

I always keep in mind how the content of a message can have various effects in holding my reader's attention, and how sending an email or an e-card can change the way my message is received

The communication tools available within SFI are enough if they are used with the intent for which they were designed. They allow us to fully provide the appropriate mentoring that will benefit our affiliates.

We only need to effectively grab the attention of our team members and motivate them to take action with the view of growing their respective businesses.

This is a very important part of our team building efforts.Timely dissemination of accurate, relevant information and the alternation of the medium will help maintain the recipients' interest.

To meet these critical needs, SFI has made "Power Tools" available to sponsors. Within these "power tools", we find the Genealogy with all the filters it offers, the PSAs and the CSAs mailers, in addition to the stream posting accessible through a tab especially built within the daily "To-do-List".

Other tools are the Leadership page and the E-Cards that cover a wide range of topics. The E-Cards give us access to diversified content that helps us reach various goals.

We also have our own email our team members are advised to whitelist to ensure that they do receive any messages we might send them.

As a result, we have very effective tools for communicating with our downline. The remainder, the best way to communicate, is a matter of "how to effectively use these tools" to maximize the benefits of our communications with our affiliates, keeping in mind that the messages we send to our first generation of PSAs, should not always be the same as the ones we may send to our second generation and down.

One of the most important aspects is to maintain open communication lines with all team members, at all times.
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The best way to communicate with our downline is a matter of wisdom and understand, as well as appropriate timing.

I always keep in mind how the content of a message can have various effects in holding my reader's attention, and how sending an email or an e-card can change the way my message is received

The communication tools available within SFI are enough if they are used with the intent for which they were designed. They allow us to fully provide the appropriate mentoring
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The Affiliate Manager, which you are describing as PSA Affiliate Snapshot, is a detailed, proactive management tool that helps the sponsor in tracking, evaluating and improving the support he provides to his PSA at the individual level.

As the most advanced sponsoring tool available, I frequently use ,it in combination with the PSA's VP Ledger, to plan the monthly support I intend to provide as well as for tracking their daily and weekly progress.

One major piece of vital information we find in the Affiliate Manager relates to their background and goals, the reason and motivation for which they joined SFI, their business experience: whether they have been in business for themselves before, and whether they are currently running another business.

Six sections make up the Affiliate Manager: (i) Start, (ii) Contact (iii) Checklist, (iv) Notes, (v) Activity and (vi) Upline.

The "Start" section gives us the PSA's email address, whether they have confirmed it, whitelisted SFI and fully completed their profile. This allows us to judge how effectively we can communicate with our team member.

The new pieces of information we find in the "Contact" section relate to their physical address, phone number and social media contacts, in addition to the email address we already have.

The "Checklist" is the most important section of the Affiliate Manager in terms of our sponsoring efforts. It provides us with a comprehensive list of all the activities we can undertake to help our PSA. In the interest of this discussion and to fully answer your question, we will come back to this section.

The "Notes" section provides us with the opportunity to save specifics we want to remember about this PSAs that may be of future use in improving our sponsoring efforts, or insights on affiliate's personal as well as business background.

The "Activity" section is a summary of (1) the affiliate's monthly goals, (2) sponsoring results, (3) scoreboard with their rank, (4) points scored thus far in the month and (5) their overall rank in their class, country and SFI Leaderboards. (6) It also gives us a view of our most recent excursions in the Affiliate's profile, especially our visits to their "To-do-List" and VP Ledger

And, finally, in the Upline section, the one major piece of information is their co-sponsor. This may come very handy when we want to co-ordinate with the co-sponsor to have the same kind of message both sponsor and co-sponsor want to direct to the affiliate. It may be very useful to avoid having the sponsor and co-sponsor offering contradicting advice to an affiliate, as it could confuse them and make it harder for them to progress.

Obviously, the "Checklist" section stands out as the major part of this sponsoring tool.
First, we are highly advised to complete this checklist within the first ten days from the affiliate start-up date.

Here, we find the definition of our sponsor's role as a friend and a mentor.

There are 10 (ten) different sets of specific sponsoring tasks outlined in the "Checklist". They form a very comprehensive plan that covers all the major aspects that impact an affiliate's success. When we follow this plan for ourselves and we duplicate it for our PSAs, we will be building a highly successful SFI business and a very strong team.

The 11th item on the "Checklist" is about our continued interaction and support with the affiliate. Indeed, sponsoring and supporting our PSA is an ongoing activity which should not slowdown until they have build a strong team and reached higher ranks such as Gold Team Leader (GTL), or Platinum Team Leader (PTL). From that point on, they will be able to duplicate our sponsoring efforts and methodology that will propel them to Diamond Team Leader (DTL).

In this sponsoring and support process, I personally combine the information available in the Affiliate Manager and their VP Ledger, which is an extended version of the "To-do-list". I like to do regular audits to help the affiliate, and point out to them where they may be missing opportunities, what are their strong and weak points. Of course, such approach requires great familiarity with the affiliate and a previous strong business relationships built on trust as well as common understanding of the affiliate's major goals.

It is highly important to avoid coming out as too critical or motivated by reasons other than the affiliate's best interest.
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The Affiliate Manager, which you are describing as PSA Affiliate Snapshot, is a detailed, proactive management tool that helps the sponsor in tracking, evaluating and improving the support he provides to his PSA at the individual level.

As the most advanced sponsoring tool available, I frequently use ,it in combination with the PSA's VP Ledger, to plan the monthly support I intend to provide as well as for tracking their daily and weekly progress.

One major piece of vital
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The new W3 program offers enhanced and improved features that are beneficial in several ways.

My team members and I have already started using them extensively. We also have begun to see results. I highly recommend every sponsor to help their downline thoroughly understand these new features and use them in their business building efforts.

First, the new W3 program simplifies and makes it easier to be a member. Previously, affiliates were required to buy a W3 pack. It was very low cost, but it took a long time to reach destination in many third world countries. In some instances, the pack never arrived because of local delivery issues.

After receiving the W3 pack, the affiliate had to put the sticker on their vehicle, take a picture and upload it at the W3 page. For some, this took a very long time. The simplifications and the streamlining took all that away. The new qualifications have also a more direct impact on business building. We only have to refer a new TC member to be eligible as W3 participants and get the badge with the additional perks attached.

To maintain our W3 membership we only have to refer a new TC member every 120 days. Hopefully, if we use effectively the promotional tools built within the new, improved and enhanced W3, we will sign up new TC members every month. We all know the value of referred TC members, and how they can positively impact our business growth and income. This is the aspect a sponsor should stress to their downline.

Second, the new promotional tools within W3 make it easier to referrer new TC members, sell TripleClicks products, promote Eager Zebra games and Pricebenders auctions. The Share and Win" feature, the "Challenge a Friend" opportunity are both very practical tools and very user friendly. They are helping my team members and I connect better with our online markets. For example, my team members ( both PSAs and CSAs) and I, have been posting on Facebook the links provided through these promotional tools.

These tools are also stretching our advertising resources (social media, websites, blogs and other online publishing avenues) to greater effectiveness. Overall, our prospects are being more much more receptive.

If you describe to your affiliates the new W3 program along the above lines, you will help them understand it better, and see the benefits in promoting it. They are likely to start making it part of their business building tools.

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The new W3 program offers enhanced and improved features that are beneficial in several ways.

My team members and I have already started using them extensively. We also have begun to see results. I highly recommend every sponsor to help their downline thoroughly understand these new features and use them in their business building efforts.

First, the new W3 program simplifies and makes it easier to be a member. Previously, affiliates were required to buy a W3 pack. It was
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Drip Marketing is a "lead nurturing" and a "customer service management" strategy based on an automated, sequential flow of communications..

It can be effectively used to grow an SFI business in lead prospecting and in affiliate training. First, it can help us interact with prospects and bring them to register with SFI..Second, it can be instrumental in training PSAs and teaching them duplication.

It is well known that Drip Marketing derives it name and strategies from Drip Irrigation, which takes into consideration soil characteristics, the plants' needs of water, and the best time for water absorption. It saves water by avoiding waste in evaporation, and delivers it only where it is most needed.

Similarly, Drip Marketing is suited for nurturing leads through the conversion funnel to increase conversion rates by delivering the right amount of information at the right time based on a "trigger". The trigger is typically the prospect's reaction to the previous message.

Applying Drip Marketing to build and nurture a list of prospects will follow a sequence of information delivery:

1. After a prospect's personal data is captured, on their visit to our website, our blog, or their click on one of our ads, we send them a first pre-written email message introducing SFI, its origin, its history and its tract record of success.

2. We follow up to present SFI as THE most lucrative and user friendly business opportunity today. We explain its worldwide reach and and its multiple streams of income, with special focus on the affiliate program, the TripleClicks store and the ECA program

2. Our third message should dwell more on the streams of income, introducing the Pricebenders auctions and the Eager Zebra Games

4. The fourth message could focus on the facts that SFI is free to join: there are no upfront fees and any out of pocket investments are made on a voluntary basis.

5. The fifth message should be an invitation to join with guidance on how to start SFI successfully by following the outline steps in "SFI Basics"

6. From this invitation, any follow up messages could use the material found in the "Frequently Asked Questions" pertaining to the subjects to which the prospect has been exposed in the first five emails.

Again, the objective of this "Lead nurturing" phase .is to keep the prospect interested until they register. The length of this phase will vary from one prospect to the next It is well know that conversion of a prospect into a customer or affiliate may take a long series of messages, up to 19 or even 29 times.

Applyng Drip Marketing to train PSAs and teach them duplication will be more effective if it follows the training sequences outlined in the SFI official training schedule from "Start" to working the "to-do-List", the Launchpad lessons, Marketing for beginners, for intermediate and for advanced affiliates, sponsoring and advertising.

After the welcome letter, all the following messages should be specifically tailored according to the PSA's personal situation, using the Genealogy filters, and the progress they are making. We have that progress recorded on their VP ledger.
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Drip Marketing is a "lead nurturing" and a "customer service management" strategy based on an automated, sequential flow of communications..

It can be effectively used to grow an SFI business in lead prospecting and in affiliate training. First, it can help us interact with prospects and bring them to register with SFI..Second, it can be instrumental in training PSAs and teaching them duplication.

It is well known that Drip Marketing derives it name and strategies
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI is a top notch, high standards business. All our business building efforts should reflect a professional attitude, using business like methods and tools. An event like this would gain more if held at a business location, except when the gathering has recreational character.

A get-together is not contradictory to this understanding as long as it complies with the above requirements. In other words, an open house get-together to promote SFI should be held in the business district rather than in a private home.

Many corporations hold open houses for recruiting. Prospects walk in without prior appointments or prior set interviews. However, the entire event remains always highly professional.

Other examples are business exhibitions and brand promotional events.

Keeping this in mind, it may be very effective to organize an open house if it is thoroughly prepared.

The most important success contributing factors have to do with the atmosphere and its welcoming nature

Some of the ideas to organize an open house get-together to promote the SFI opportunity are as follow.

- Giving appropriate prior notice to have enough attendance. Local advertising, flyers, and most of the offline marketing aids and methods described at the "Marketing Center" can be used to meet this need.

- Finding an easy access business location to host the open-house. If it was situated in the business district, it would more likely be taken very seriously and even some passers-by may join and find interest in the presentation.

- An affiliate who is also an ECA and a LocalPay with diversified inventory of TripleClicks Direct products would be an ideal location..

- If the organizer is not a LocalPay or ECA, it would still be a good idea to have TripleClicks products handy as samples, as some of the attendees may be potential TripleClicks customers.

- Making sure that there are enough marketing aids available, including charts, flyers, slides

- Adequate computer equipment with internet connection can prove to be very effective in getting your prospects to get online and explore SFI

- SFI gear such as bags, cups, hats, T-shirts and the like in display and/or to give away as gifts.

- All attendees should be encouraged to sign-in, leaving their email addresses and phone numbers, as well as some form of evaluation of their level of interest. The intent here is to make it easy and effective to follow-up and get as many attendees to sign-up.

- As much well trained help staff as possible to provide on-the-spot support and answer attendees' questions.

- The introductory presentation should be short and most of the efforts focused on facilitating one-to-one interactions.

Other potentially beneficial ideas will depend on the size of the budget available and allocation of resources for organizing such event. Drinks, both cold and hot would be excellent; marketing material to take away with relevant information for registering would be a good way to convince those who are on the sidelines and help them decide to join..
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SFI is a top notch, high standards business. All our business building efforts should reflect a professional attitude, using business like methods and tools. An event like this would gain more if held at a business location, except when the gathering has recreational character.

A get-together is not contradictory to this understanding as long as it complies with the above requirements. In other words, an open house get-together to promote SFI should be held in the business district
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