The best way to start building your SFI Team is by sponsoring affiliates and duplication. Learn all you can on the SFI site and follow your sponsor's instructions. Teach your team the same. Invest a little money if you can, or at least reinvest your earnings into your SFI business.
Affiliates can be PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates), CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates), ECAs (e-Commerce Affiliates), PRMs (TripleClick's affiliates), or Wave3 Affiliates.
PSAs: Sponsor people you know, advertise for free or paid online or in your community (see 'Marketing' and internet under 'Training') Their are several levels of marketing. You could also purchase SBuilder, PSAs to Go etc. from your TripleClicks Store. Or, win them at the Pricebender Auction. With each bid you start earning new PSAs. (See below.) Then set up a co-op under 'Power Tools' to earn 100 VP. You can do it just for yourself to begin with and add other people afterwards.
CSAs: Co-Sponsored affiliates are great as long as you get 1500 VP every month. I make as much from them as I do from my PSAs. The advantage is that they already have a Sponsor. You can help too. Every month you get to EA (1500 VP) you earn 2 CSAs. When you are a Team Leader you win lots from the pool. You can also win some at the Pricebender Auction
ECAs: Sponsoring an eligible ECA will give you 100 active VP when they list their first product. It's a good idea to become an ECA yourself so you understand how it works, even if you don't end up selling much. You will earn commissions and royalties from your ECAs for as long as you are both in SFI.
PRMs (TripleClick's Affiliates): These are affiliates who shop at TripleClicks and play games and bid at the Pricebender Auction. You can earn VP and commissions.
Wave3 - Everyone should join Wave3. It’s only $1.99 to join and you get monthly benefits.
This what you do in general:
1.Become an executive affiliate (EA) & earn 2 extra chances to win the Daily Grand Prize.
2.Earn two CSAs immediately & send out team mail every week for 120-150 VP/month.
3.Qualify as an EA every month automatically and easily work your way up to BTL and beyond.
As an EA you will earn 10 TCredits and 2 CSAs per month. As a team leader you also earn a share of CSAs from the pool, and more TCredits.
The SO of 125 TCredits will cost $35 x 12 = $420.00 over 12 months. In the meantime, however, you can be earning enough income from SFI to invest in other options and to use your TCredits to earn PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates), VPs (versa points), and MRPs (member reward points.)
An example would be to bid on the Pricebender Auction. Even if you don’t win an auction, you can earn 5 or 10 MRPs, 1 - 2 VPs, and add to your option to Spin-and-Win PSAs with just one bid. With your MRPs you can make purchases at your TripleClicks Store and earn even more VPs.
DistribuStar gift cards are great to get people on TripleClicks, earning you commission. You can earn 10 VP every day by tracking one card. If you do this and your daily actions, you will have 2 entries more into the Daily Grand Prize. Add that to 2 from SO, 1 from the Alerts Page, and you have 5 entries! You also are automatically entered into the DistribuStar Contest. I usually win VP or more Gift Cards. This all continues to perpetuate itself into free VP, up to 300 per month from tracking alone.
Play Zebra games for up to 200 VP per month and chances to win. Play at least one that requires a TCredit (or EZ credit) per day for 1 VP and an entry into the Daily Crown Contest. If you win a game(s) you could also earn a lot more.
Some of your money should go to either advertising for affiliates, or purchasing PSAs, once you are ready to support them. You will need to train your affiliates once you get them, so be prepared at some point to set up contests to win TCredits and/or gift certificates (different from DistribuStar.) If new affiliates don’t get help you could lose them very quickly.
The most important thing to do at first is to be an EA or BTL every month and to learn the business.
I have been in SFI for about 3 years now and always re-invest my earnings. This has paid off in spades. Whatever level you are at, keep this in mind.
Wishing success to you!
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