Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Bamidele Oluwole!

First of all it is important to understand that our earning consists of Direct Commissions (DC), Co-Sponsor Commissions (CSC), ECA Referral Program and TripleClicks Executive Pool (EP). Each of this items is reset to zero every month. This happens so that everyone can have a fair and correct calculation of their commissions, and so that all SFI affiliates are equally treated.

The amount of VP we earn each month determines whether we will earn shares from TripleClicks Executive Pool and how many shares we will have. SFI puts 40% of the Commission Value of everything bought from TripleClicks into the TripleClicks Executive Pool. For each VersaPoint you earn during the month, you receive one share of that month's pool. The more VP you score, the more you can earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool. To be eligible for shares from the Excecutive Pool you need to score at least 1500 VP each month. You can also earn more shares by becoming a Team Leader. As a team leader you also earn Matching VP from everyone in your downline ranked EA2 or higher.

So, why are our VersaPoints reset to zero every month? Because VersaPoints determine a part of our monthly earnings. SFI can calculate exactly how much each of us has earned in a previous month by checking how much VP we accumulated that month, and adding the value of the EP shares we earned to DC, CSC and ECA referral royalties we earned.

However, the VersaPoints we earned in previous months are not completely erased and gone. They are also accumulated and determine are Power Rankings: Global, Country and Class.

So, all our efforts in SFI are noted and valued. No need to worry.

Hope this answer is helpful. Best regards.
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Hello Bamidele Oluwole!

First of all it is important to understand that our earning consists of Direct Commissions (DC), Co-Sponsor Commissions (CSC), ECA Referral Program and TripleClicks Executive Pool (EP). Each of this items is reset to zero every month. This happens so that everyone can have a fair and correct calculation of their commissions, and so that all SFI affiliates are equally treated.

The amount of VP we earn each month determines whether we will earn shares from
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Jose!

One of the advantages of SFI business is that you can run it in the way that best suites you, as long as you don't violate the provisions of the Affiliate Agreement. This means that you can do most or all of your marketing offline, or in other words, using the traditional marketing methods. These methods are sorted into 4 categories:

1. PRINT: Includes advertisements in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, classifieds, and other printed material for distribution.

2. BROADCAST: Includes radio and television commercials, as well as specialized forms like on-screen movie theater advertising. In this particular case, a short commercial on a local radio station would be most convenient and affordable.

3. DIRECT MAIL: Includes fliers, postcards, brochures, letters, catalogs, and other material that is printed and mailed directly to prospects.

4. TELEMARKETING: Includes requested calling and cold calling of prospects over the phone.

Other than these traditional marketing methods, I would also point out these two techniques, which are more personal and quite effective:

1. Warm marketing - promoting business to your friends, relatives, generally people you know.

2. Face To Face Marketing - approaching your prospects or buyers on the street, in the coffee shop, in the grocery store, at hairdresser's, wherever you feel comfortable doing it.

As for the computer and Internet access for completing actions from To-do list, greeting affiliates, checking out company news, receiving and replying emails, there are public computers that can be used for this purpose, e.g. in libraries and coffee shops. If a person owns a smart mobile phone, they can use it as a substitute to a classic computer.

Also, affiliates who have limited access to a computer can save Launchpad lessons or other valuable training materials to a data storage device, when they are near a computer, and than print it out in a printing shop. In this way they can have access to training materials all the time.

Sponsors can also greatly help their PSAs. I have an affiliate who doesn't own a computer and is doing his SFI business from a smart phone. But it was very difficult and nerve-racking for him to create an advertising blog or a website using his phone, so I just made it for him. I created a one-page-website or a splash page for him to use. This is something that is not too difficult or time-consuming for a sponsor to do, and it's an immense help and booster for the PSA.

Hope my answer is helpful. Best regards.

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Hello Jose!

One of the advantages of SFI business is that you can run it in the way that best suites you, as long as you don't violate the provisions of the Affiliate Agreement. This means that you can do most or all of your marketing offline, or in other words, using the traditional marketing methods. These methods are sorted into 4 categories:

1. PRINT: Includes advertisements in newspapers, newsletters, magazines, brochures, classifieds, and other printed material for distribution.

2.
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Vehbi,

Yes, of course you should recruit people to become SFI affiliates even if they are not English speakers/readers.

As for the sponsor-PSA communication, you can recruit people from your own language speaking area or people that speak any other language/foreign language that you can also speak. As long as you can communicate with your downline efficiently, it is not important in which language are you communicating.

As for the navigating through their SFI account and understanding all the important information and training materials, your PSAs can translate their complete interface in 90 different languages by using the implemented Google Translate tool which is located at the bottom of their profile pages. So, there is no language barrier there, either.

There are also so many training materials in so many languages available on the Internet, especially on YouTube. You can find training SFI videos in different languages, or even without any speech, so it can be understood by anyone worldwide.

By targeting only English-speaking prospects you would be needlessly narrowing your possibility to build a strong team. There might be some great marketers and some very hard working people among those non-English speakers. There is no need to exclude them. They might be just the people you need for your team.

Hope my answer is helpful. Best regards.
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Hello Vehbi,

Yes, of course you should recruit people to become SFI affiliates even if they are not English speakers/readers.

As for the sponsor-PSA communication, you can recruit people from your own language speaking area or people that speak any other language/foreign language that you can also speak. As long as you can communicate with your downline efficiently, it is not important in which language are you communicating.

As for the navigating through their SFI
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello,

I am very motivated to answer your question, because I am also a shy person and I used to be very clumsy in face to face communication. So, I would like to share some tips that helped me and might also help you. I divided those tips into two categories: preparation and practice.

PREPARATION

1. First of all prepare your marketing aids, such as x-cards, flyers etc.

2. Think of few sentences which you would say while giving an x-card or a flyer to someone. Write down those sentences.

3. Now, think of some additional questions that a person might ask you. Write them down. Answer those question in a short and concise manner. Write down the answers too.

4. Now, read out loud everything you wrote. This will help you memorize your speech, but also to hear yourself talking about your marketing aids and how it all sounds. After hearing yourself, maybe you will want to make some changes to your speech.


PRACTICE

1. Stand in front of a mirror and act out a conversation. You can use your notes if you need to. Try to concentrate on what you are saying, but also on how you are saying it. Practice your speech, your voice pitch and your body language.

2. Now go a step further and practice this conversation with someone close to you, e.g. a spouse, sibling, parent or a close friend.

3. Next step is to try to promote your business to people you know but you are not very close to, e.g. acquaintances, neighbors etc. In this step, pay attention to your body language, especially to eye contact. This is very important, because people know you are truthful when you look them in the eyes.

4. Now, try approaching the strangers in the street. Since you are thoroughly prepared, it should now be much easier for you. And even if you still don't feel very comfortable talking to strangers, you should know that it gets easier every time.

Good luck!
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Hello,

I am very motivated to answer your question, because I am also a shy person and I used to be very clumsy in face to face communication. So, I would like to share some tips that helped me and might also help you. I divided those tips into two categories: preparation and practice.

PREPARATION

1. First of all prepare your marketing aids, such as x-cards, flyers etc.

2. Think of few sentences which you would say while giving an x-card or a flyer to
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello!

Affiliate Manager is a very powerful tool and it's used to monitor your affiliate's progress, view contact information, save private notes about them, etc.

Affiliate Manager tool is divided into six tabs:

1. START - In this tab you can check if your downline member has confirmed his registration, completed his affiliate profile and whitelisted [email protected]. You can also see the affiliate's email address.

2. CONTACT - In this tab you can view detailed contact information about your downline member, such as physical address, email address and phone/cell phone number. You can also access SFI Instant Message service if the affiliate is currently online or send him a TeamMail message.

3. CHECKLIST - This is the tool used to monitor and check your own progress you make being the affiliate's sponsor. It is used by simply marking the actions you completed and saving the list. It can also be used as a guide to what you should do as a sponsor, or what you should be doing next, with each of your affiliates.

4. NOTES - This tab is used to input and save your own notes and comments about the affiliate. Personally, I use this tab to save notes about the rewards I've sent to the affiliate or as a reminder to do something, or discuss something, or send him a reward in the future.

5. ACTIVITY tab is used to check your affiliate's activity and progress. Here, you can review how many affiliates has a person sponsored in total and how many ranked EA, BTL, STL, GTL, etc. You can also have a quick view of the affiliate's VersaPoints acquisition (for more detailed view you should check VP Ledger), Power Rankings and what he/she actually did to reach current month's goals in the last ten days (the brief report we write each day in our Goals Tab).

6. UPLINE tab is where you can see the upline members of the affiliate, up to sixth generation. In my opinion, this is mostly useful in case the affiliate is your CSA and you need to contact his sponsor or other upline member in order to help your CSA or for any other reason. In any other case, your affiliate's upline is your own upline, so you already know who they are.

In other words, the Affiliate Manager tool is used to manage your own work with your affiliates in order to provide the best support and help you can, by approaching, monitoring and managing each one of your affiliates separately. Since every affiliate has his own progress pace, own capacities, own needs, and having in mind that they haven't all been in SFI for the same period of time, it is very important to know what kind of help and support does each one of your downline members need and have a customized approach to each one of them. And that is, in my opinion, the best way to use Affiliate Manager.

Hope this answer is helpful. Best regards.
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Hello!

Affiliate Manager is a very powerful tool and it's used to monitor your affiliate's progress, view contact information, save private notes about them, etc.

Affiliate Manager tool is divided into six tabs:

1. START - In this tab you can check if your downline member has confirmed his registration, completed his affiliate profile and whitelisted [email protected]. You can also see the affiliate's email address.

2. CONTACT - In this tab you can view detailed
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello,

My top tricks for using Genealogy are using filters to group my sponsored affiliates and creating a unique message for each group.

Most of the time, I use Quick filters to reach a specific group of affiliates, e.g. New PSAs today, My movers etc. Then I contact each group by sending them a customized message. I prepare these messages in advance and save them in Notepad, so I can easily copy and paste them when needed.

I also use Genealogy to monitor activity and progress of my downline.

I hope this answer is helpful.
Best regards.
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Hello,

My top tricks for using Genealogy are using filters to group my sponsored affiliates and creating a unique message for each group.

Most of the time, I use Quick filters to reach a specific group of affiliates, e.g. New PSAs today, My movers etc. Then I contact each group by sending them a customized message. I prepare these messages in advance and save them in Notepad, so I can easily copy and paste them when needed.

I also use Genealogy to monitor activity
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Kolawole Oni!

The best way to promote SFI to prospects who have no experience with online business is to provide them with these important information:

1. Tell them they will be needing a computer, or a tablet, or a smart phone with Internet connection in order to do online business in SFI.

2. Tell them, in the shortest terms possible, what their job would be and in which ways they can earn commissions in SFI.

3. Tell them that commissions are processed the 10th day of each month, and they are payed out a few days later, either by check (for USA citizens) or through Pay Pay or on a Payoneer Prepaid Debit Master Card which they can receive through SFI once they earn $20.00.

4. Tell them that SFI provides all the necessary training to all affiliates, so no previous experience is needed.

5. Tell them that SFI provides all the tools necessary to do successful business and that many of these tools are completely free.

6. Tell them that everybody can succeed in SFI, no matter where they come from, how old they are, how much experience or education they have. As long as they are persistent and take their business seriously, everybody can succeed. That's what makes SFI the unique online business opportunity.

I had no previous experience with online business, and these where the information that my sponsor provided me with before I signed up. It worked well for me and it cleared all my doubts about SFI. It made me realize that SFI is really a genuine business. I acquired all the other important information after signing up, through reading and learning step by step. So, this was just the right amount of information to make me interested: not to much to confuse me and not to little to make me mistrustful. I hope that my experience will be helpful to others.

Best regards.
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Hello Kolawole Oni!

The best way to promote SFI to prospects who have no experience with online business is to provide them with these important information:

1. Tell them they will be needing a computer, or a tablet, or a smart phone with Internet connection in order to do online business in SFI.

2. Tell them, in the shortest terms possible, what their job would be and in which ways they can earn commissions in SFI.

3. Tell them that commissions are processed
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Andres!

There are many ways to attract big traffic to your SFI website. Here are just some of them listed:

1. PPC advertising - especially with Google AdWords. With Google AdWords, you get instant traffic with no waiting. Because as soon as you put the money down on your keywords, your ad goes up and starts working for you.

2. Give away irresistible free content, e.g. free articles that include a "pass it on" link; giving away gift cards, etc.

3. Use e-mail marketing to attract repeat visitors. Getting lots of traffic to your site is great, but if you aren't collecting the contact information, the names and the e-mail addresses of visitors, you're wasting every single click. If visitors leave your site without signing up there's a good chance they won't ever be back and you'll have absolutely no way of following up with them. Collect visitors' contact information using an opt-in form on your home page. Then send them e-mail messages to follow up and keep them thinking about your website. You can send monthly or bi-weekly newsletters that include tons of tips and information, answers to common questions people ask about SFI, etc.

4. Get your content into circulation. Social networking sites are not just for networking — they are ideal places to get your content (blog posts, videos, free reports, etc) in front of other people. Use Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ to share links to your website content.

5. Borrow someone else’s audience. Writing high-quality guest posts for popular blogs in your niche is one of the most effective ways to get yourself on the radar of the people you want to reach. Your ‘payment’ is a link back to your site — make a great offer and you could land hundreds of new visitors with every guest post you write.

6. Get free traffic from search engines like Google. Optimize your headline and content URL for the search engines. Use the Google Keyword Tool to find popular keywords.

7. Run a YouTube channel. YouTube is one of the web’s largest search engines, making it a great way to expose new audiences to your website. As an added bonus, your videos may be listed in Google’s blended search results, leading to even more traffic.

Hope this answer is helpful. Best regards.

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Hello Andres!

There are many ways to attract big traffic to your SFI website. Here are just some of them listed:

1. PPC advertising - especially with Google AdWords. With Google AdWords, you get instant traffic with no waiting. Because as soon as you put the money down on your keywords, your ad goes up and starts working for you.

2. Give away irresistible free content, e.g. free articles that include a "pass it on" link; giving away gift cards, etc.

3.
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi John,

Thank you for asking this question. In my opinion, if you do not know your prospects in real life, if you are promoting SFI to strangers either online or offline, it's hard to really know what can be a turn-off for a particular prospect. However, I generally tend to avoid giving too much information to my prospects so I don't confuse them. Too much information can also be intimidating for most people and they may come to think that this job is very hard and complicated and that they will not be capable of doing it. Of course, that is exactly the opposite of what we want.

What I usually do is:

1. Give a list of job benefits, because this is what most people want to know.
- Free to register,
- Free training and world-class support 24/7,
- No monthly fees,
- No experience required,
- Working from your own home,
- Working when you want and as much or as little as you want,
- Possibility of advancing and unlimited earning,
- Long-term commitment job.

2. Give a list of job requirements:

- Having a computer, tablet or smart phone with the Internet connection,
- Basic knowledge of English,
- Determination and will to work and succeed.

I hope this answer is helpful. All the best to everyone reading.
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Hi John,

Thank you for asking this question. In my opinion, if you do not know your prospects in real life, if you are promoting SFI to strangers either online or offline, it's hard to really know what can be a turn-off for a particular prospect. However, I generally tend to avoid giving too much information to my prospects so I don't confuse them. Too much information can also be intimidating for most people and they may come to think that this job is very hard and complicated and that
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Michael!

In your first email to new affiliates you should include these kinds of information:

1. Introduction - Tell your affiliates who you are, your rank, how long have you been in SFI, why did you join and how did SFI change your life.

2. Benefits and perks - Briefly inform them about the most important benefits of the SFI business, such as being able to work from your home, being able to work as much or as little as you want, being able to control how much money you can or want to invest in your business, being paid by Payoneer Master Card or Pay Pal, free training, etc.

3. Give guidelines - Tell your affiliates what they can do in their first days in SFI. Tell them to check out their To-do list and start doing the Getting Started Actions. Also, point them to daily and weekly actions. Tell them to read SFI Basics and Launchpad Lessons. Tell them about the T-Time game. Inform them about the Fast Track. Just don't go too deep into details, because they will be confused and might get scared off. So, no excess information, your guidelines should be only on the need-to-know basis.

4. Offer help - Tell your affiliates that you are there to help: now, when they start their business, but also throughout the whole journey. Make sure they understand that they can turn to you when they need a helping hand or support and that your success is only as big as the success of your team.

5. Give your contact information - Provide email address, Facebook profile, Twitter profile, Skype, whatever service you will use for your further communication.

So, basically, I believe that, in your first email to your new affiliates, other than providing guidelines for starting business, you should focus on establishing communication and building trust. The manner in which you will address your affiliates can differ and can and should be unique to you. Whether you will use humor, or make it sound strictly professional, or somewhere in between, it's up to you. But I believe that, in whatever way you greet your affiliates, every first email should contain these five ingredients.

Hope this answer is helpful. Best regards.
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Hello Michael!

In your first email to new affiliates you should include these kinds of information:

1. Introduction - Tell your affiliates who you are, your rank, how long have you been in SFI, why did you join and how did SFI change your life.

2. Benefits and perks - Briefly inform them about the most important benefits of the SFI business, such as being able to work from your home, being able to work as much or as little as you want, being able to control how much
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