Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

There is an old saying - If you think you can, you are right. If you think you can't, you are right.

Everyone who has the right mind set is capable of building a successful SFI business. When you see Affiliates from very poor countries qualifying as EA, EA2, BTL etc, if they can do it, anybody can. But these successful people, know what they want and are determined to get it.

All you have to do is read all the SFI literature, drive your sponsor and upline crazy with questions and do what you are told. Don't take NO for an answer. Find somebody who can help you. Just because 99% of Affiliates never progress, it just means they are not hungry or hungry enough.

If you are hungry for success you will succeed.
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There is an old saying - If you think you can, you are right. If you think you can't, you are right.

Everyone who has the right mind set is capable of building a successful SFI business. When you see Affiliates from very poor countries qualifying as EA, EA2, BTL etc, if they can do it, anybody can. But these successful people, know what they want and are determined to get it.

All you have to do is read all the SFI literature, drive your sponsor and upline crazy with questions
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

By demoted I presume dropping back from BTL to EA2 or EA2 to just affiliate or something similar for higher ranks.

It is not the end of the game. Look at why you dropped back. Did one or more EA2s fail to perform last month. If you remained in contact with them was that your fault? No.

Did you risk not qualifying by relying on Downline efforts which did not eventuate? That was your fault and you can correct it next time. Never count on others but be grateful when they contribute.

This demotion does not have to be permanent. You and you alone can make it permanent. You and you alone can pick yourself up and rectify whatever it was that caused this demotion. Everyone will suffer setbacks in this or any other business. With SFI you can correct it or start to correct it next month.

Discuss what went wrong and show ways you can help.

Getting demoted is not fatal in SFI unless you make it so. Getting demoted in a job can be fatal for the future. Not in SFI.


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By demoted I presume dropping back from BTL to EA2 or EA2 to just affiliate or something similar for higher ranks.

It is not the end of the game. Look at why you dropped back. Did one or more EA2s fail to perform last month. If you remained in contact with them was that your fault? No.

Did you risk not qualifying by relying on Downline efforts which did not eventuate? That was your fault and you can correct it next time. Never count on others but be grateful when they contribute.

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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

This question applied to me last month when for the first time not one of my PSAs made it to EA2. If you apply my formula, you will make it easily.

I assume that you are getting 1500 Sales VP by buying 125 TCredits. If this is a Standing Order you get a bonus 100 AVP.

If you go to your Daily TO-DO list every day, and you should be doing this every day anyway, there are 12 free AVP to be got every day. By using your TCredits - 1 per day on each, you can get an extra AVP on Eager Zebra Time Machine and by making a bid on a PriceBender Auction you get 1 AVP for the bid and a bonus 1 AVP for each bid. That is 2 AVP on Pricebenders for a total of 15 AVP per day or 450 AVP for a 30 day month at a cost of 60 TCredits - 2 per day x 30 days.

You can stimulate your team by making 3 STREAM messages a week and a TeamMail every week. In a 4 week month that is 92 AVP, but a desperate person will organize things to make it a 5 week month for a total of 115 AVP for the month.

By rating your sponsor/co-sponsor and SFI at the start of the month, resetting your goals for the month by the 10th and reviewing your TConnect page is another 20 AVP for the month.

Let us summarize the situation reached so far.
Bonus for Standing Order 100 VP
Daily Actions 450 VP
Weekly Actions 115 VP
Monthly Actions 20 VP Total 685 VP

You still have 60 TCredits left to play Eager Zebra games or make PriceBender bids.Each one of those will give you 1 AVP. Nearly every time you spend a T Credit you get 5 MRP and these can be used to buy more TCredits.

You should be having at least 3 daily entries (I usually manage 5) in the Daily Grand which can often give you extra TCredits. For last October I won 250 AVP in the Daily Grand which pushed me into going for Silver that month.

You can do what I am doing with this ASK SC reply, and possibly pick up 25 AVP or more if your answer is in the top 10.

Whatever, you will need to buy or somehow acquire extra TCredits, so you can use them on PriceBender bids, Eager Zebra games or downloading tunes.

Provided you can afford to top up the TCredits, getting to 1000 AVP is not that hard. Use them as your armor in bidding in TCredit auctions. If you spent 50 TCredits to win a 500 T Credits auction, this would be a very good investment.

The secret to building your AVP volume is more and more TCredits. Get them any way you can.
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This question applied to me last month when for the first time not one of my PSAs made it to EA2. If you apply my formula, you will make it easily.

I assume that you are getting 1500 Sales VP by buying 125 TCredits. If this is a Standing Order you get a bonus 100 AVP.

If you go to your Daily TO-DO list every day, and you should be doing this every day anyway, there are 12 free AVP to be got every day. By using your TCredits - 1 per day on each, you can get an extra AVP on Eager
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

Just encourage all your PSA's and CSA's to get 1500 VP every month. Take them figuratively by the hand. Analyze their VP Ledgers and tell them what they have to do to get to EA or EA2. They can't get to EA2 before they become EA, so you need as many getting to EA each month as possible so that you have something to work with the following month.

You can offer incentives to all who upgrade their rank. Try to get as many as possible to commit to a Standing Order of 1500 VP. I reassign PSA's to those who buy 125 TCredits or more. But you can't do that with CSA's. You can offer them TCredits. Just get your team active any way you can.

If they won't commit to an SO of 1500 VP, there is very little you can do for them as they will run out of ways to get to EA2 in their second or third month.

Find out from those who can't take that step of buying their 1500 Sales VP. whether there is any craft like items from their country that would sell well in Western countries and encourage them to sell these artifacts through TripleClicks to get their VP up to the level needed.

Finally, don't ignore your CSA's. Their matching volume can be very rewarding.
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Just encourage all your PSA's and CSA's to get 1500 VP every month. Take them figuratively by the hand. Analyze their VP Ledgers and tell them what they have to do to get to EA or EA2. They can't get to EA2 before they become EA, so you need as many getting to EA each month as possible so that you have something to work with the following month.

You can offer incentives to all who upgrade their rank. Try to get as many as possible to commit to a Standing Order of 1500 VP. I reassign PSA's
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

Success is relative depending on individual circumstances. Just getting to EA2 can be an enormous achievement for some but nothing for others.

Looking at the individual badges one has can be an indicator of success. Foe example.I am very proud of my 90 Daily VersaPoint Streak badge, and when I'm a bit discouraged because things might be a bit slow, I look at that badge and say to myself "you are a winner. You have achieved more than 95% of your fellow Affiliates. Tou are a Success".

Look at your Power Ranking on your Scoreboard every day when you are doing your daily actions and see whether your rankings are improving, If so that is a measure of your success.

Are your monthly commissions rising each month however slowly? If they are, you are being successful.

Are your team giving you good ratings in the monthly survey? Good ratings are another indicator of success.

If you can achieve the same or higher ranking each month, without falling back and having to rebuild, you are successful.



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Success is relative depending on individual circumstances. Just getting to EA2 can be an enormous achievement for some but nothing for others.

Looking at the individual badges one has can be an indicator of success. Foe example.I am very proud of my 90 Daily VersaPoint Streak badge, and when I'm a bit discouraged because things might be a bit slow, I look at that badge and say to myself "you are a winner. You have achieved more than 95% of your fellow Affiliates. Tou are a Success".

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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

You can but it is not easy.

As soon as you join, get into the habit of doing the DAILY ACTIONS every day without fail and reviewing your TConnect weekly. These actions are purely to get into the habit of doing them, but wait until the start of the next month before doing anything else, so that you have got a full month to work in.

While waiting for the new month to start become a WAVE 3 member. This action is not currently available while SFI re-works it but the old Wave 3 gave you 5 free TCredits monthly and 50 free MRP monthly. I cannot say for sure but I would imagine the new Wave 3 will give you something similar when it becomes available. Wave 3 membership used to cost $1.95 and the main stipulation was that you had to have a car window to stick a TripleClicks decal on and send a photo of you with the the car and decal back to SFI. Even for someone with no money, $1.95 should not be impossible to raise.

There is no point in even starting with SFI unless you become an Executive Affiliate (EA) with 1500 VP in a month and follow up with another 1500 VP in the next month (EA2).

At the start of the new month and for the rest of that month you do the following in the same order as below:
VP
Daily Actions – 30 days x 11 VP 330
Read Launchpad Articles – 1 per day for 30 days x 15 VP 450
Review TConnect page weekly 4 x 5 VP 20
Confirm your registration 150
Whitelist [email protected] 100
Complete Affiliate Profile 75
Send your SFI Commitment Message to Sponsor 50
Read Getting Started FAQs 50
Review the Marketing Centre 50
Upload your photo to Affiliate Center 35
Register as a2a Member 20
Follow SFI, TripleClicks and PriceBender Alerts on Twitter 50
Create & Upload TripleClicks Avatar 15
Buy 1 TCredit at TripleClicks for $1.99 (cash) 102
Use 3 TCredits from Wave 3 to bid on double MRP PriceBender Auctions – 3 x 10VP 3
TOTAL 1500

Spread out the above actions so that you are doing only 1 a day apart from the daily and weekly actions. This will mean you will get a minimum of 2 chances a day every day in the Daily Grand which you enter by pressing the WIN IT tab. With a bit of luck this will give you more TCredits and/or MRP. Use up the free TCredits earned from Daily Grand, with DOUBLE MRP Eager Zebra games or Pricebender Auctions to gain more VP and MRP.

Once you reach 1500 VP do not go any further except continue with your daily Actions. You need to conserve the Action VP (AVP) as long as possible. One week out from the end of the month, look at your scoreboard and see how many VP you still need to get to 1500 VP and if it is less than 80 VP to go, do not use any more AVP, apart from the Daily and Weekly Actions, to get you to 1500 VP and EA. Your daily and weekly Actions alone will get you the remaining VP you need.

Your second month of re-qualifying as EA2 is much harder, but you will help yourself a lot by conserving your VP in the first month as outlined above.

By getting to EA you will earn 10 TCredits and be re-assigned 2 CSA’s which means that you will have a team below you and you will be their leader, even though you have not yet qualified as a Team Leader and you will not get any of the Team Leader perks at this stage. You will also get another 5 TCredits and 50 MRP from WAVE 3. Wave 3 is currently unavailable while SFI revises it, but hopefully it will not be too much longer. With the 3 TCredits left over from last month, the 5 TCredits from Wave 3 and the 10 from getting to EA last month you now have 18 TCredits to use this month on double MRP PriceBender Auctions or Eager Zebra games. Each time you use a TCredit on double MRP opportunities you get 1 VP and 10 MRP. But don’t use them until you have to.

You got 50 MRP from Wave 3 last month and another 50 this month. You also earned another 30 from the PriceBenders Auctions last month, thus starting the month with 130 MRP.

Because you now have 2 CSAs in your team, you should now start sending them a Team-Mail each week for which you earn 30 VP for each one. You should also start compiling and sending Stream messages to your team 3 times a week. These messages should be short and sweet – maximum 340 characters or about 50-60 words. Each Stream message gives you 1 VP to a maximum of 3 a week.

So how do we get 1500 VP in month 2. See the table below. We cannot use any of the once-only Action VP (AVP) we used up last month. 31 day and 5 week months are a bonus and give you the opportunity to not have to use other AVP.

VP
Daily Actions – 30 days x 11 VP 330
Reviewing TConnect Page – 4 x 5 VP 20
Posting 3 stream Posts a week – 3 x 4 VP 12
Sending out Genealogy Group Mailers – 4 x 30 VP 120
Reset monthly goals before 10th of month 5
Rate your sponsor & co-sponsor 10
Enter new affiliate greeting 25
Like SFI & TripleClicks on Facebook 40
Read “About SFI” page 20
Review SFI Compensation Plan 20
Review SFI Benefits Chart 10
Check out Standing Order Central Information Page 10
Review Sponsor’s Welcome Message 10
Review Various Indexes – 9 x 10 VP 90
Read Various Articles t – 10 x 10 VP 100
Use 13 TCredits on 1/day Double MRP Auctions 13
Daily bonus on Auction bids 13
Buy 2 TCredit with 252 MRP 204
Buy 4 more TCredits for cash $7.96 408
Ask Sponsor for $2 gift card and buy 1 more TCredit 102
TOTAL 1562

Getting to EA2 will get you a small amount of commission the next month, probably enough or close to enough to buy 1 TCredit. It will also earn you another 10 TCredits and 2 CSAs. So you would be going into the next month with 20 TCredits counting the Wave 3 ones and 8 MRP left.

To keep re-qualifying EA2 after this will be impossible unless you can get some money from somewhere. At your TConnect page you have gateways where you can refer products from ECA merchants to your own contacts. You need to spend as much time as you can afford to connecting your contacts with these ECA merchants and you can get commissions from any sales made. Those same contacts can also be brought into the SFI business and you still get commission on everything they do. You only need about $20 a month in commission income with which to buy enough TCredits, the VP from which, combined with the VP earned from daily, weekly and monthly actions, will get you to that 1500 VP each month.

You can do it. It requires time, persistence and belief in yourself, but anyone with a tiny amount of money (under $10) can get to EA2 and in those 2 months, start to build a TripleClicks business.
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You can but it is not easy.

As soon as you join, get into the habit of doing the DAILY ACTIONS every day without fail and reviewing your TConnect weekly. These actions are purely to get into the habit of doing them, but wait until the start of the next month before doing anything else, so that you have got a full month to work in.

While waiting for the new month to start become a WAVE 3 member. This action is not currently available while SFI re-works it but the old Wave 3
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

Most affiliates living outside US will have contacts within US. Email contacts. Facebook contacts. Twitter contacts. They can advertise in International Magazines such as Time, newspapers circulating across the US such as the New York Times or the Wall Street Review, list on Craigs List or use banner ads on websites.
This is a very attractive product and with 300 million people in the US, there should be no shortage of buyers and with the also attractive commission no shortage of sellers.

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

This is a business not a job.

Take a retail business for example. You need to find a shop and negotiate a lease. You have to outfit the shop with say carpets, shelving, cash register etc. You need to have the power and phone connected and the shelves stocked. You may need to interview staff before opening. All of these take time and money.

On top of all these things you need working capital. If you have not got at least 3 months expenses after opening, in the bank, you will probably go broke within a few weeks. All up you will probably need a 6 or 7 figure sum of money to get started and succeed.

You will then have to spend 50-80 hours a week with the doors open.

Now take SFI.

You have a shop, TripleClicks, provided for free. You do not have to outfit it. There are approximately 90,000 items of stock already there, which you don't have to pay for. You can advertise for free, You can start selling immediately and get commissions on what you sell. You do not need staff. You do need a small amount of investment until the income starts to come in - less than $100 a month, which if you do not have, can be earned by selling stuff on TripleClicks.

SFI will take time to develop into a reliable, ongoing, passive income source that ultimately is capable of more than replacing your day job, but don't give away the day job until it does. You will need to spend 15-20 hours a week working on the business but your shop is open 24/7, even when you are sleeping.

If you only want instant money SFI is not for you, Please resign so I don't have to keep looking after you. On the other hand if you are prepared to treat it as a business and not expect instant returns I will work with you to help you make it happen.
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This is a business not a job.

Take a retail business for example. You need to find a shop and negotiate a lease. You have to outfit the shop with say carpets, shelving, cash register etc. You need to have the power and phone connected and the shelves stocked. You may need to interview staff before opening. All of these take time and money.

On top of all these things you need working capital. If you have not got at least 3 months expenses after opening, in the bank, you will
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

There are 2 ways to succeed in SFI - the hard way and the easy way.

It is quite easy to qualify EA in the first month, but having used up most of the high Action VP in that month, it is almost impossible to get to EA2 without investing money. The only ways it can be done without money are sponsoring PSA's with money who can get you to EA2 if you have enough of them or by selling stuff through TripleClicks on either TConnect or their own ECA site.

It takes a huge investment in time and effort to succeed in SFI without a monetary investment. Plenty have done it but they are the exceptional. This is the hard way.

It is much easier with cash to invest, but unfortunately most PSAs come from under privileged backgrounds or 3rd world countries and have to go the hard way.

If you have cash to invest, it is so much easier to succeed in SFI. For example $20 invested by a new member gets them to EA2 immediately, with all the perks that EA2s receive.

From then on a Standing Order (SO) of 1500 VP costs as little as $36.25 and this re-qualifies them every month thereafter as EA2. Because they have not used up any of the Action VP to get to EA, they only have to get another 1500 VP to get to Bronze Team Leader (BTL), of which only 1000 VP has to be Action VP.

100 Action VP comes from the SO, 360 VP or thereabouts comes from Daily Actions and 20 VP from weekly actions, so you are almost half way there to the minimum 1000 VP you need. So far you have not touched any of the once only Action VP. 30 Launchpad Articles is 450 VP, so you only have to use some of the 125 TCredits you got from the SO and you are over 1000 Action VP.

To save the remaining Action VP for as long as possible, you could buy anything from TripleClicks that will give you 500 VP at a cost of under $10. So for less than $50 a month you can be BTL from Day 1. That is the easy way.

Once you get to BTL, you start getting 40-60 CSAs a month and since you now have a team to lead, you can get an extra 120 Action VP a month by sending TeamMails. After a few months, commissions earned cover the expense required to keep the momentum going and if you get those commissions paid into a Payoneer card account, there's another 500 Action VP once only.

Re-qualifying as a BTL every month is a breeze if you have the cash to invest in the first place.
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There are 2 ways to succeed in SFI - the hard way and the easy way.

It is quite easy to qualify EA in the first month, but having used up most of the high Action VP in that month, it is almost impossible to get to EA2 without investing money. The only ways it can be done without money are sponsoring PSA's with money who can get you to EA2 if you have enough of them or by selling stuff through TripleClicks on either TConnect or their own ECA site.

It takes a huge investment
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165

I think a lot of answers are missing the point - How much does it cost to advertise in each country?

Free advertising is obvious - you go where you get the best result. For example take 2 English speaking countries - Australia and New Zealand. As an Australian I would go for New Zealand every time. Kiwis are very competitive and their economy is not as good as Australia's. Australians are more laid back and comfortable although very competitive too.
So I would go with NZ before Australia with free advertising.

I don't know about the US V Canada but suspect Canada would be a better market to advertise in than the US. They are different types of people.

Paid advertising is a little different. You have to weigh up the cost of advertising in each location or country. Obviously the smaller the country the cheaper the advertising. The poorer the country the cheaper the advertising. But the poorer the country the less likely are the general population likely to have computer access.

What I am saying is get away from the simple answers that tell you where to go based on signups and look more closely at national demographics, politics, culture and familiarity with MLM.



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I think a lot of answers are missing the point - How much does it cost to advertise in each country?

Free advertising is obvious - you go where you get the best result. For example take 2 English speaking countries - Australia and New Zealand. As an Australian I would go for New Zealand every time. Kiwis are very competitive and their economy is not as good as Australia's. Australians are more laid back and comfortable although very competitive too.
So I would go with NZ before Australia
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