Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

This is not called “cold” because you decide to make it so, but rather because all or almost all the people picking the phone are not expecting your call, so it will be a bit of naiveté to not research these people before hand where possible. For example you should thrive to get information only on people interested in online business or second income.

You should have it at the back of your mind that coldness may result from the response of the receiver, so you need to develop some skills that will trigger warmness from your target and a prior research may be of assistance here or by sending/dropping a leaflet, brief letter, business card etc, with a promise to call by phone at a later date, in order to build a prior relationship before the phone rings.

Another important step to a better and maybe fruitful result in your conversation is to introduce yourself, your company and your relationship with it and how you think it will be important for his attention.

Cold calling is very challenging too, so you must be prepared to be a skilful and very professional sales person in understanding the nitty-gritty of this business, with some degree of eloquence and determination not to let failure discourage you from forging ahead, because there will be a lot of setbacks. As a result you need to understand that all calls are not going to be the same because different things work for different people, so you are going to be very dynamic in your conversation in order to meet the challenges of diversity.

You must desist from unnecessary persistence especially where the person has no time to listen to you or blatantly uninterested. However, there is nothing wrong from requesting the e-mail of your prospect and asking his permission to drop a message for details of your intention and promise a call back when he/she is less busy for example. Learn to politely call it a day if permission is not granted.

From my experience in this business, I will not rule out any legitimate method to target prospects, so yes, cold calling could be one of the methods , but the goodness or badness of it depends on your attitude or approach and the results. However, I advice you may want to do the followings:

1. Be very professional, articulate and well grounded in SFI business, in order to properly position your response to concerns, issues, queries and questions in your conversation.

2. You must plan in advance the strategy and method you want to adopt, for example make calls at the likely period you think someone will respond. For example, Monday mornings and Friday afternoons are deem bad periods, while holidays that do not attract too much merriments are deem good periods according to research, but there is no perfect time actually in my opinion.

3. Always remember to highlight the benefits rather than the costs

4. You must leave a message if no one answers the phone and make a plan to call back

5. Engage in self appraisal by evaluating the success and failures of this strategy, in order to recalibrate and be more successful.

6. You must be polite in all circumstances for many reasons; change of mind, for the benefit of the next sales person, in case you mistakenly call back, avoid been reported etc


At the juncture, you should give it a try but a lot of people do not like to engage in cold calling because of some inherent problems but what sets you apart from another sales person is the way you organise yours. Go Conquer!

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This is not called “cold” because you decide to make it so, but rather because all or almost all the people picking the phone are not expecting your call, so it will be a bit of naiveté to not research these people before hand where possible. For example you should thrive to get information only on people interested in online business or second income.

You should have it at the back of your mind that coldness may result from the response of the receiver, so you need to develop some
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

I will not advice you to criticize your downline in any form because they are not your workers or rivals, but see them as partners that have their individual missions, objectives, goals, styles, strengths and weaknesses. What is actually expected of you is to guide, communicate, encourage, assist and lead them in a positive way in order to enhance their chances of success.

In this regard I think the best action will be to offer 'constructive' and selfless advice where necessary and desist from pushing hard when your advice is ignored. But the question is how do you offer this advice without putting them off?

Firstly, you must lead by example and it will be morally wrong and even annoying to advice your downline on what you do not do yourself; practice what you preach.

Secondly, it is counter productive to give an impression that your advice is based on your selfish desire rather than to help them because they may be agitated and sense exploitation.

Thirdly, rather than pay to much attention to issues that will just make them spend, emphasize the benefits and guide them to the source of information that will inform them better to make independent decisions where appropriate. For example instead to telling them to place a standing order in order to be EA, while not tell them the benefist of EA, transfer pricing, pricebender auction, promotion products to boost their businesses etc.

Fourthly, in my opinion it looks very professional to include sources of information forming the basis of your adviceor guidance, so that folks will not think your are just making things up. An example is to include the url when communicating an SFI or TC announcement, news or update.

lastly, it is important to build a reputation within your downline as a knowledgeable and well informed team leader in order to win their trust and to consequently make them react positively to your guidance.


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I will not advice you to criticize your downline in any form because they are not your workers or rivals, but see them as partners that have their individual missions, objectives, goals, styles, strengths and weaknesses. What is actually expected of you is to guide, communicate, encourage, assist and lead them in a positive way in order to enhance their chances of success.

In this regard I think the best action will be to offer 'constructive' and selfless advice where necessary and desist
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

This is very simple and I will approach it in 3 ways:

Firstly, you know the calibre of your a2a friends personally or at the Forum. If it is a personal relationship, then there is no issue of how to get them to offer help. However, the ones that participate actively at the Forum are easy to access and determine their area of strength and expertise, going by the quality and integrity with which they inform forum audience, either by their replies or their own threads. Therefore, it may be more convenient to include such individuals in your Top Friends and any time you need their help just click on their profile or use your a2a to access them. Please ensure you thank them when help is rendered because many lack this courtesy and it discourages offer of more assistance next time.

Secondly, there are those that are not very active in any forum, so it may be difficult to understand how and where they can be useful. In this circumstance, run a check through their profile. Look at what they sell, their rank, date joined and other important badges that may give a hint as to their characteristics. For example; The Date Joined may give a clue as to the a2a friend's knowledge in SFI which may be useful if you want help in understanding a particular issue in SFI. Another is Gift Card Distribution badge that will give a clue on someone you may want to ask, how to successfully distribute GC, and the list goes on and on.

Lastly, in the absence of the above, just throw the offer of support as a general request in the a2a Stream Post and you will definitely receive good and encouraging replies and from such replies, you will be able to build another profile of individual a2a friends based on their responses, in case of next time.

Please do not get me wrong, it does not mean some of these people will always help or get it right but these are my recipe to attempt to get the best out of your a2a network.


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This is very simple and I will approach it in 3 ways:

Firstly, you know the calibre of your a2a friends personally or at the Forum. If it is a personal relationship, then there is no issue of how to get them to offer help. However, the ones that participate actively at the Forum are easy to access and determine their area of strength and expertise, going by the quality and integrity with which they inform forum audience, either by their replies or their own threads. Therefore, it may be
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Mu best tips will be:

1. Be versatile in SFI business, including generally internet marketing by studying and practicing how to answer questions.

2. Do not provide irrelevant answers to the questions asked, but be on point and remember it is better to make it short and relevant than to clutter your answer with irrelevant and boring stuff.

3. Go through the Ask SC material on how to compose a good answer.

4. Read several top answers to develop an understanding on how top author is achieved in terms of quality of their answers.

5.Remember that voters may not have the time to go through an entire answer they perceive as uninteresting, so make it catchy in your first paragraph.

6. Avoid boring voters with bad and consistent grammatical errors.

7. it is very important to provide answers to questions in areas you have strength, knowledge and understanding in order to be more professional and useful in your answers.

7. Lastly, always bear in mind that providing answers is not just to earn VP, but to add to the database of knowledge that will be of immense benefit to readers who want to better their understanding of the subject matter.
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Mu best tips will be:

1. Be versatile in SFI business, including generally internet marketing by studying and practicing how to answer questions.

2. Do not provide irrelevant answers to the questions asked, but be on point and remember it is better to make it short and relevant than to clutter your answer with irrelevant and boring stuff.

3. Go through the Ask SC material on how to compose a good answer.

4. Read several top answers to develop an understanding
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

It is initially difficult especially as new members but as they start to work their businesses, you will be in a better position to see through those skills by:

1. Knowledge and understanding is the best indication of a star, so when you see affiliates who are smart and fast in understanding how this system works and really apply these to a good run in their work, then it means there could be other reasons why such affiliates should not be stars, like personal problems or lack of funds.

2. Going through their Affiliate Profiles, looking for some marketing skills and experience they have regarding this kind of businesses.

3. Though money may not be sufficient to make you a star but it may be necessary to use it to employ the services of stars that will show you how to become a star. What I mean here is looking at the Affiliate Profiles for the monthly amount they are willing to invest in building their SFI businesses. A huge budget will give an indication on how far such affiliates are willing to go.


4. With little or no assistance, you will see the eagerness to be fully engaged in various activities like sales, sponsoring and referrals, by asking very intelligent, meaningful and very challenging questions on various aspects of this business.

5. You will also be able to get an indication of future stars by monitoring their personal contributions and participation in the Ask SC, Forum and a2a network.

6. Again these set of affiliates have the hunger and determination to succeed, so they may be in constant touch with you and members of their upline to tap into the wealth of experience available.

7. Future stars have the potential to reply important and professional messages from members of their upline, with high degree of distinctiveness and probity.

8. Some of them that have money do not waste too much time investing, after figuring out what this business entails.

9. They also poses team leadership skills which you will access by the way they are building their team, including their duplication skills and how deep they are building.

10. Actually, a star cannot be suppressed or hidden for longer than necessary, so it will be easy to see in your Movers the potential stars after the fog of joining as a new member settles, so be in touch with your Movers because the future stars will certainly be there.

To conclude, there is a difference between a future star and actually becoming a star, the difference is the ability to overcome obstacles, so you have a continuous duty to realise your potential stars, instead of taking your eyes off them once you have identified then as future stars.

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It is initially difficult especially as new members but as they start to work their businesses, you will be in a better position to see through those skills by:

1. Knowledge and understanding is the best indication of a star, so when you see affiliates who are smart and fast in understanding how this system works and really apply these to a good run in their work, then it means there could be other reasons why such affiliates should not be stars, like personal problems or lack of funds.

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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Actually the best motivation for hard work is to gift someone what you think he had valued and needed, but at times we may not know and this is why I often give them options to choose from;

"You are doing wonderfully well to build your SFI business, particularly your recent E365 champion award. Like always, I reward my PSAs who achieve a big deal like this, so kindly choose from below your preferred gift...." The options will be like 10 PSAs, a promotional landing page, 50 Tcredits, free co-op membership for 3 months etc.

That is how I send some gifts and anyone that does not reply don't get any as I will assume it’s not needed. So back to your situation, a gift is a gift but the important aspect is how it is received by the recipient and if it is capable of achieving the very purpose of sending the gift. Some affiliates do not even acknowledge receipt of a gift, never the less to say thanks and I encourage SFI related gifts in order to ensure it is directed to this business. The reason for this is simple; since it is difficult to ascertain how team members will react to gifts, if it is SFI business related then it’s a win-win for both the sponsor and team member.

However, be very careful and sceptical of any of your team members who may request gifts or assistance that are not SFI related. This is because some sponsors have fallen victim to team members receiving non SFI related gifts and disappears afterwards. This is why some sponsors try as much as possible to make sure team members use gifts from them to further better their SFI business.

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Actually the best motivation for hard work is to gift someone what you think he had valued and needed, but at times we may not know and this is why I often give them options to choose from;

"You are doing wonderfully well to build your SFI business, particularly your recent E365 champion award. Like always, I reward my PSAs who achieve a big deal like this, so kindly choose from below your preferred gift...." The options will be like 10 PSAs, a promotional landing page, 50 Tcredits,
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

You may choose to encourage them if they have the potentials to consistently maintain a TL status. The major potential is if they have an active team in order to earn a good amount of Support VP to make them team leaders. Obviously, as the name team leader implies; it means you have a team.

Conversely, you may need to discourage those without an active team to becomes TLs because they may end up 'buying' their team leader status without an active team which may be unsustainable on the medium or long term. You need not be selfish by encouraging this category of your team members because of the commission you may earn from it, but there is need for you to be upright and discourage them, in order for you to benefit on the long run.

However, irrespective of your good intentions, some of them will do it their own way and disregard your advice, but remember that you have conscientiously given your best advice and you cannot do more than your best.

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You may choose to encourage them if they have the potentials to consistently maintain a TL status. The major potential is if they have an active team in order to earn a good amount of Support VP to make them team leaders. Obviously, as the name team leader implies; it means you have a team.

Conversely, you may need to discourage those without an active team to becomes TLs because they may end up 'buying' their team leader status without an active team which may be unsustainable on the
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Yes you should but your major emphasis will be to let them know first the benefits of taking their business online:

1. The world is going smaller with the internet so they should make the business receive global attention as if it is within a small village.

2. There is a lot of flexibility, including cost saving methods of promoting and managing an online business because some infrastructure and red tapes are bypassed.

3. Since the internet is a global business platform there is a huge potential to maximize revenue, hence profit.

However, the not internet savvy ones may be skeptical and this is where you come in; let them know you will assist them through the process if they register and become ECA in your organisation, SFI/TripleClicks.

The next step is to let them know the benefits of our ECA program:

1. No listing fees, just list your products and wait for orders. All you need to do when there is sales is to deliver because TripleClicks handles the processing, which includes orders, payment and verification of authenticity.

2. All the necessary infrastructure needed to operate your business is already in place, including a high traffic website with a T-Connect website to facilitates sales growth.

3. Offers payment flexibility to your customers by the various payment methods available

4. You have nothing to loose because TripleClicks retains a nominal fees only when you make a sale and that they have the prerogative to include this nominal fees in their listing price

5. Over 1,000,000 affiliates are here to help promote, sell your products in over 20,000 cities in over 200 countries and what more? these affiliates are also your potential customers.

In prospecting for such potential ECAs, start from your PSAs because you may be surprised at the number of them who have off line businesses you may convert, so include the opportunity in your newsletters.

Also make do with business directories in your area and contact them in writing using ECA specialized materials and envelopes available at TripleClicks and you may need to follow up with phone calls. Ensure you are conversant with the ECA program yourself in order to be in a position to answer their questions and avoid doubt in what you are promoting, so familiarize yourself with the FAQs in your ECA gateway here: http://www.tripleclicks.com/xxxxxxxx/ECA replace the x's with your SFI ID

Be ready to physically visit these businesses if necessary and show them a demonstration including successful testimonies of current ECAs, but you must visit when they are ready, relaxed and comfortable with your presence.

Also patronize your warm market; friends, relatives, colleagues you know that have physical business, including businesses in your main street and the ones you are a customer to take advantage of your familiarity with them.

Certainly some may be unwilling to go online because of shipping complications but this is where you come in again by letting them know of 'will-call' product pickups (local pickup)or you may encourage them to limit or determine by themselves the geographical boundary within which they want to operate.

Please always be professional both in your behaviour, attitude and dressing.
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Yes you should but your major emphasis will be to let them know first the benefits of taking their business online:

1. The world is going smaller with the internet so they should make the business receive global attention as if it is within a small village.

2. There is a lot of flexibility, including cost saving methods of promoting and managing an online business because some infrastructure and red tapes are bypassed.

3. Since the internet is a global business platform
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Payment types are run by differnt companies who cover for India. Some of the popular payment types for India are:

Pre-Paid, Cash, E-wallets;
Credit-Debit Cards;
Phone and Mobile;
Bank Transfer.

Most people choose to use the first option which is administered by Money Online (MOL).

For the entire list of payment types, countries and more information, visit: http://www.playspan.com/payment-methods?country=ID

Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

In most cases it takes the same effort to achieve the same purpose; get your message to their emails and their SFI TeamMail inbox. This happens when you use the PSA Mailer and below is SFI explanation:

PSA MAILER enables you to quickly and easily send newsletters, training,
tips, and other messages to your PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates).

Messages are sent to both the PSA's registered e-mail address AND to the
PSA's "TeamMail" inbox at the SFI Affiliate Center.

And there's no need to worry about messages going to bad e-mail addresses or
opted-out affiliates as these are automatically filtered out for you.

Source: https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/PSAmailer1

As you can see from the above, it is better to use the PSA Mailer since the message goes both ways for the following reason:

1. Your PSAs that cannot receive your messages in their email addresses for one reason or the other, can access them once they login to their SFI accounts, assuming they do at least occasionally.

2. Similarly, those who do not login to their SFI accounts but can receive your messages in their email addresses will have the opportunity to read your messages and may therefore be encouraged to login to their SFI accounts.

3. No need to worry about messages going to bad e-mail addresses or opted-out affiliates as these are automatically filtered out for you, when you use the PSA Mailer.

4. SFI is always responsible for the messages you send through the PSA Mailer which is an advantage because you will not be accused of spamming because your PSAs have agreed to receive them when they joined SFI.

5. You will only receive the weekly 30 VP for sending group support message using the PSA Mailer but no VP for messages sent directly to email addresses.

Having said this, it is still necessary to point out that sending your messages directly to your PSAs emails is not a bad idea, especially when directed to those who are very active with their email accounts. This is because some of your PSAs who are more regular and active in their respective email environments than SFI's may access, read and respond to your messages quicker.
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In most cases it takes the same effort to achieve the same purpose; get your message to their emails and their SFI TeamMail inbox. This happens when you use the PSA Mailer and below is SFI explanation:

PSA MAILER enables you to quickly and easily send newsletters, training,
tips, and other messages to your PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates).

Messages are sent to both the PSA's registered e-mail address AND to the
PSA's "TeamMail"
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