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

Everything one does today will have an effect on one's business at SFI and is therefore of importance for tomorrow.

I'm new to SFI, so my answer is limited by my present limited knowledge of SFI (which is growing in leaps and bounds daily!) - but as a new Affiliate, I believe that I'm planting the seeds of a successful business each day and I understand that the harvest can only be reaped after days and weeks and months of nurturing. But there won't be any harvest if I don't start by planting the seeds of success today.


As a new Affiliate, those daily seeds that need to be planted include:

1. Increasing knowledge by:
* completing the daily To Do list
* systematically going through all the other information on the SFI site (such as Training, Ask SC and the Forums where an abundance of knowledge is shared by others who provide new seeds that one can sow in one's own business)
* leaning more about the tools that are easily and readily available for network marketing on SFI
* speaking to others who are gurus in the business world and especially those who have experience in online marketing

2. Increasing my down-line team:
* using your enthusiasm about the possibilities on SFI when communicating in everyday situations
* speaking to family and friends to get new leads about potential PSAs
* advertising to find more potential PSAs
* investing some finance to increase your list of PSAs and CSAs

3. Expanding the TC list of ECAs:
* making contact with family and friends to find potential new small businesses (easier to approach smaller businesses for a newbie - once one knows more about SFI and TC, then one can more confidently approach bigger businesses)
* phoning businesses with products that one already supports and/or knows something about (again, for a newbie it's easier to begin to make contact with some personal background knowledge about a company's products)
* advertising targeted at small businesses who might be interested in expanding their market

While there are clearly a great deal more things that one should do to expand your business, at first those 3 steps are the ideal seeds to plant in order to begin to nurture the business.
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Everything one does today will have an effect on one's business at SFI and is therefore of importance for tomorrow.

I'm new to SFI, so my answer is limited by my present limited knowledge of SFI (which is growing in leaps and bounds daily!) - but as a new Affiliate, I believe that I'm planting the seeds of a successful business each day and I understand that the harvest can only be reaped after days and weeks and months of nurturing. But there won't be any harvest if I don't start by
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think you have to keep in mind that some of the correspondence received from upline Sponsors or Co-Sponsors doesn't lend itself to responses.

To illicit a response from your down-line Affiliates you need to ask a question - and make the correspondence brief so that the leading question is what they see.

A great deal of correspondence is being sent out to Affiliates every day - wonderful reminders from SFI to get things done and all of these reminders we know are valuable and can help us expand our business using SFI and TC.
But we need to keep in mind that if an Affiliate is already at the point of opting out - these regular bits of information can actually be deleted without even being review or read through. The more correspondence received, the more likely this is to happen.


If you keep in mind that the Affiliate joined with the idea of creating a potential income, then you need to work with that same idea to attract that uncommitted Affiliate back to the daily reviews and responses on the To Do List.

For that reason I believe you have to keep the following in mind when sending out messages, especially to Affiliates who appear to be losing interest:

1. Make the TITLE to each message RELEVANT and IMPACTFUL
A message entitled: "More about SFI" is unlikely to elicit a response from an Affiliate who is already losing interest.
Whereas, a message entitled: "Yay! I just made $100 on SFI" is much more likely to once again get the Affiliate at least curious about reading that message

2. Make the message BRIEF
Messages that are long-winded and difficult to read tend to lose the attention of the reader.
If you need to bring to their attention several points use point form to make it easier to read
So the content of the message could be:
"I just won 200 TCredits by bidding on the Pricebenders Auction and it only cost me 1TCredit (the equivalent of $0.29).
Now I can use those TCredits to play EZ games and bid on more Pricebender auctions.

Contact me and we'll set up an online meeting so I can tell you how you can do the same and expand your business and start earning money."

3. Always include CONTACT DETAILS
While those of us who have spent time learning about the SFI site can probably fairly easily find our Sponsor and Co-Sponsor contact details, we tend to forget that at first it seemed like a really confusing and difficult task. So make it easy for your down-line Affiliates.


Another way to get more active in communicating with your Affiliates is to offer them the opportunity to meet with you on a weekly basis.
If you set up a weekly online meeting (using Skype or a similar chat room - I use GoToMeeting which is a facility that I invest in because I find it the most useful in helping new Affiliates as it give me the opportunity to view their screens and provide them with real-time assistance as they are doing their daily To Do List or something else that they're finding a little confusing.


Then always remember to ask yourself the question:
"Do I respond to every message I am sent?"
The likely answer is "No"
Which means that if you're not doing it, others are unlikely to do it either.


Communicating with Down-Line Affiliates is selling and marketing - so keep in mind that:

80% of sales occur after at least FIVE follow-ups
BUT
92% of sales people give up before FIVE "No's"
SO
8% of sales people are making 80% of the sales

Don't get disheartened and don't give up!
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I think you have to keep in mind that some of the correspondence received from upline Sponsors or Co-Sponsors doesn't lend itself to responses.

To illicit a response from your down-line Affiliates you need to ask a question - and make the correspondence brief so that the leading question is what they see.

A great deal of correspondence is being sent out to Affiliates every day - wonderful reminders from SFI to get things done and all of these reminders we know are valuable and
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

As a new Affiliate on SFI and based on the few days experience that I have, I think the answer to that question lies in what your budget allows and in what you need to learn.

Always keeping in mind that while spending money will certainly help move you up the ladder, it isn't essential at all.

To new Affiliates the SFI site can be quite intimidating and overwhelming because there are so many awesome tools and there is so much information about starting and running your business, so I believe that the emphasis for a new Affiliate should be on learning first and then taking easy steps into the program, rather than rushing headlong into everything and becoming entangled in all the information.

If you have a budget that you can allocate to your SFI/TC business, then I believe that you should spend it in the following way (remembering that this answer is specifically aimed at NEW Affiliates):

1. TCredits (or a New Member Package) - so that you can participate in the PriceBender auctions and Eager Zebra games and just generally immerse yourself in the Triple Clicks site and find out what it has to offer (you can't encourage others to join as members unless you have a feel for the site to begin with)

2. Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSAs) and Co-Sponsored Affiliates (CSAs) - I think these are easier to attract at first (on the limited knowledge that we "newbies" have because if we're excited and we're learning then our excitement will be contagious and others will easily follow the steps and duplicate our own actions


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As a new Affiliate on SFI and based on the few days experience that I have, I think the answer to that question lies in what your budget allows and in what you need to learn.

Always keeping in mind that while spending money will certainly help move you up the ladder, it isn't essential at all.

To new Affiliates the SFI site can be quite intimidating and overwhelming because there are so many awesome tools and there is so much information about starting and running your business,
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