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Should I encourage or discourage my PSAs who want to become Team Leaders right away?

4357 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 9/18/2014 3:11 am

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
Encourage them. But point out to them that there are costs - financial and other in becoming a team leader.

Personally if you can afford $36.25 a month for an SO, BTL is easier to attain than EA2.
It is not that hard to get 1000 Action VP if you have 1500 Sales VP already. The 1500 VP Standing Order is 100 Action VP. Doing the daily actions on your To-Do list is 360 and playing 6-7 games of Gold Streak every day is another 200. Your weekly and monthly actions are another 167 VP. You
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How much time a day, approximately, do I need to invest in SFI to build a profitable business?

4342 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 11/7/2014 7:17 am

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
I do not believe we should sugar coat the time we spend on SFI.If you need to keep the figure low to keep someone's interest, they are not the sort of person you want in your business.

You cannot be successful in SFI by only spending half an hour to an hour a day, working on the business. I spend 4-5 hours a day and I sometimes wonder if that is enough.

There is so much to learn, so much to discover. It has taken me 7 months in SFI to discover the power of buying from TripleClicks
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How do Eager Zebra games factor in to building a successful SFI business?

4334 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 10/19/2014 5:47 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
Every Eager Zebra game costs 1 TCredit to play which in turn gives you 1 VP and often 5 or more WRP.

The VP go to re-qualification as an EA and the MRP accumulate. It is amazing how quickly the MRP accumulate, particularly if you are playing GoldStreak or Knockout Trivia. I use the MRP for buying more TCredits if I need them and S-Builder Co-op shares if I don't. Last month I bought 2 S-Builder Co-op shares with accumulated MRP.

The S-Builder Co-op is a great way to build your
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What are some good incentive offers for prospects to encourage people to join my SFI team?

4332 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 7/25/2014 2:47 am

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
You should never bribe people to join SFI, or incentivise them if that's what you want to call it. If you can't show them what they could achieve or what they are missing out on I suggest you go back to the SRI Library and affirm to yourself what it was that got you to join unless you too were bribed.

Reward them for what they achieve once they join SFI. I reassign 3 PSA's from the same country to everyone qualifying EA for example. I offer other rewards for 20 day VP streaks in a month
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Which is best for me to participate in...W3 or S-Builder Co-op?

4303 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 11/7/2014 1:53 am

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
They are completely different and serve totally purposes.

Everyone who has access to a vehicle should be in Wave 3. For a miserable $1.95 to cover postage and handling, there is just no excuse apart from lack of vehicle not to be in it. The benefits continue month after month at no further cost and provide cheap advertising for your TripleClicks business. Because I have the TripleClicks banner on my rear windscreen, I have been asked by several people for more details. W3 is a business
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What is the most important goal you've set for your SFI business and why?

4020 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 1/3/2015 7:02 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
Obviously the most important goal to set is to become a DTL. AS a DTL you will have at least 5 PTLs beneath you so your income and therefore your financial freedom. will not just be assured, but beyond your wildest dreams. I just can't visualize what I could do with a 7 figure annual income.

So the goal I have set for myself is to just get to the next level, in the knowledge that once I get there and consolidate it, I can look towards reaching the next rank and reset my goal accordingly.
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Is it better to build a team within your own spoken language and environment...or go beyond these boundaries ?

3958 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 1/3/2015 7:58 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
Go beyond your national boundaries or own spoken language by all means. I personally only speak English, but in the national or ethnic groups I have in my team, probably close to 70% do not have English as their native tongue. I will just keep sponsoring and take pot luck on what language they speak.

Eventually somebody within an ethnic group, will rise and become active despite the language handicap or because they may have a reasonable grasp of English as a second language. When that
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Fear of success is a major problem for many people. How do you get past this with your team members?

3773 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 1/3/2015 9:34 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
I would encourage them to show me just a small amount of success - get to EA. No big deal but 90% never even get there. But what was there to be afraid of in getting there? Show them how to get to EA2. A lot harder but no big deal.

Just do it gradually - one rank at a time. Each rank is a new success but when they get there, what was the problem? Success eventually will feed on itself and because the ascension past BTL is a long slow process, they can get used to the success they already
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What would be a better goal and why? Sponsor hundreds of new PSAs every year or teach a smaller number of EAs to each develop EAs themselves?

3690 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 11/26/2014 8:15 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
Sponsoring is a numbers game. You can turn handsprings for most new PSA's and the vast majority will do nothing after their first day or two in the business. You can send them 2 or 3 reminders about the NMP and the vast majority ignore it. If you get 5% of your sponsored PSA's to get to EA2 and stay there month after month, you have a very nice business if you can train that 5% to duplicate what you are doing.

5% is probably over generous and 1% closer to the mark.

So you just
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Which helps my SFI business the most...playing Eager Zebra games or bidding on Pricebenders auctions?

3688 votes

John Ryan, EA (Australia) 11/26/2014 7:51 pm

Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 165
It all depends on what you are good at or what suits your personality best.

For me,personally, I use my TCredits up mostly on Knockout Trivia, because my general knowledge is, without boasting, above average, allowing me to win a share in the zackpot once or twice a week, which refills my store of TCredits. If you are a runner up you also get EZ credits, which allow you to play free when a TCredit is otherwise required or when you have already used up the number of allowable games for
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