Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Every Team Leader will want to motivate his/her downline to become TLs and not to stay EAs. There are important points that a Team Leader must take into consideration before taking into action to motivate his/her downline to move up from EA to TL and not stay at EA level.

Points to consider:

- Pushing your downline to move up from EA level to BTL, so just to benefit as their Team Leader without building their own downline will not work in the long run. This is achievable but duplication, which is the core of your SFI business, is out of the picture therefore it will not work.

- Educating your downline will take time. Don’t ignore the time factor needed to increase the knowledge base of your downline. Pressuring them to become TLs without the knowledge of implementing the SFI tools and resources will not work.
Assuming you have taken into consideration the points above, you can go ahead in employing the best way to motivate your downline to become TLs and not stay EAs.
Motivating your Members:

- Tell them about the benefits of being a Team Leader as laid out in Compensation plan and Benefits Chart. More VPs means bigger payouts, better perks and more power. This includes higher commissions, VP Matching, monthly free TCredits, Second Home CSAs allotment, access to Power Tools to grow their SFI business, etc.

- Organize a contest such as, Sponsoring Affiliates, referring TC/W3 members, generating TC sales, and so on offering Gift Certificates, TCredits or shares of your Ad Co-op.

- Recognizing achievements of your downline ranging from winning in the Daily Grand, E365, Power Ranks and so on. Send them E-Cards and post their achievements at SFI Forum Recognitions section.

- Assure them that you are committed to their success in helping them to achieve their goals to attain residual income.

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Every Team Leader will want to motivate his/her downline to become TLs and not to stay EAs. There are important points that a Team Leader must take into consideration before taking into action to motivate his/her downline to move up from EA to TL and not stay at EA level.

Points to consider:

- Pushing your downline to move up from EA level to BTL, so just to benefit as their Team Leader without building their own downline will not work in the long run. This is achievable but
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

With that amount of money as a SFI business owner, you need to think of the ways how it can provide you the best possible ROI (Return on Investment).

If you’re getting started with your SFI business, you need to set up your business plan and marketing strategy taking into consideration the following points:

- You should not fully invest that amount of money on your short term goal, but think how you can invest it the best possible way in accordance to your long term goal.

- Focus on maintaining your monthly EA status

In your first month become a Fast-Track member and enjoy the membership benefits. To qualify, you’ll need to perform the five Getting Started actions associated with becoming a Fast-Track member and purchase TC New Member Pack (NMP) for $20 up to 5 times max. The NMP is packed with TCredits, MRPs, EZ game tokens, 3 CSAs and 500 VP. This is one of the best ways to achieve your EA easily.

- Focus on learning the skills required for sponsoring effectively

You need to concentrate your efforts in going through the Training tab. It contains invaluable information of marketing your SFI business. The most important activities that continuously bring growth in your SFI business are lead generation and follow up. You should know of lead generation techniques in order for you to build your downline. The process generally involves the use of several methods to generate leads. Leads are basically people who have potentials of participating in your business, whether as a customer or as a member of your downline. It should be of your greatest concern to find more people who can become part of your downline since some downline members might come and go, or even be inactive and inefficient. With lead generation, you get to know more people that might be willing to be part of your downline and actually have excellent skills that will help you and your business flourish.

You need to invest time and money on these activities to support the growth of your SFI business. Invest on domain name, building your website/blog, and on web hosting. It might help to purchase targeted traffic from reputable ECAs. You should be able to establish a step-by-step system that covers lead generation, follow-up and conversion. These are the three most important elements in marketing your SFI business.

You can also consider investing on S-Builder Co-op.

An important part of your long term goal would be to have a sustainable and profitable SFI business.

- Become a Team Leader

As you continue to sponsor new affiliates, you’ll be able to identify your movers. Invest your time and money on your movers. Encourage/motivate them by organizing contests. Emphasize duplication to your downline via an easy-to-follow SFI BASICS.
Let them follow your example and your initial $500 investment will go a long way. You’ll easily achieve the TL rank in no time.

Maintaining Focus

Focus allows for more effective utilization of the scarce resources of your time and money investment. Your budget will bring you greater return if you use it effectively by narrowly defining your target objectives with your initial investment.


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With that amount of money as a SFI business owner, you need to think of the ways how it can provide you the best possible ROI (Return on Investment).

If you’re getting started with your SFI business, you need to set up your business plan and marketing strategy taking into consideration the following points:

- You should not fully invest that amount of money on your short term goal, but think how you can invest it the best possible way in accordance to your long term goal.
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

In designing a website one should consider the latest technology used in online advertising, which brings more traffic and a high response from visitors. An easy navigation of the site is a must.

In particular, a good SFI website should contain the following:

1.Well designed Home Page - Includes text and sign up buttons pointing to your SFI gateways and social networking links.

2. TripleClicks Store Page - Includes random products from TC Direct, ECA Listings and Auction Items.

3.Opportunity Page-It should contain your business offer with brief description and blogs about Tripleclicks,SFI,ECA,Wave3 and PB Auctions and SFI/TripleClicks links and banners.

4. Contact Page-Your contact information

5. Webstat button to track all the information on your site visitors such as number of visitors, country, time spent on site pages viewed etc.

6. Translation Features-The site could be read in any language.

The editing system especially in keeping up-to-date the blog site should be integrated with SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This is of utmost importance in maintaining the website.

It is also very important to consider a flexible designed of your website by using wordpress. This means that no matter what device your website is viewed on, whether it is an iPad, Android Smart Phone, Tablet, Desktop, Laptop or netbook, it should not cause any problem. Your site should fit and look like it was designed for any of the device mentioned.

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In designing a website one should consider the latest technology used in online advertising, which brings more traffic and a high response from visitors. An easy navigation of the site is a must.

In particular, a good SFI website should contain the following:

1.Well designed Home Page - Includes text and sign up buttons pointing to your SFI gateways and social networking links.

2. TripleClicks Store Page - Includes random products from TC Direct, ECA Listings and
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

The W3 program has been redesigned to make it easier spreading the word about TripleClicks.

How does the new W3 program work?

- Refer a new TC member every 120 days to keep your W3 membership and become eligible for all W3 benefits.

How to attract PRMs through W3 program in Social Media?

- Find friends and followers

In promoting W3 program in social media using the POR (Points of Referral) found on all TC product details pages, all ECA TConnect pages, all Auction Details pages, Eager Zebra “game over” recap pages, TC Music Player, etc., shouldn’t stop with friends and family.

You’ll need to actively posting valuable content that matters to your audience to ensure fresh supply of prospective TC members. Finding friends and followers will you get more exposure and increase your chance of signing up TC members. When you find friends and followers, your priority is to develop close relationship with them, not pitching the W3 product right away, which lead you to the next step below.

- Post on a regular basis to keep your content fresh and engage friends and followers

Provide valuable information that matters to your audience. Engage with friends and followers by asking them to share their opinions on topics that are relevant to TripleClicks products and yet very much speak to their needs. Post pictures of TC products that people have enjoyed using and at the same time offer them solutions of what they’re looking for.

You have to actively build and nurture your social media page with timely, relevant content that’s helpful to your audience in order to increase exposure.

One thing to add … don’t make your content all about you. People get tired of seeing promotional content constantly – and eventually, Facebook won’t even show your posts in your fans’ newsfeeds. Try to make the majority of your posts serve your friends/followers and prospective friends/followers’ interests – it’ll make them more likely to read your next post.

How can W3 program benefit you?

1. Exclusive W3 Member badge.

2. Free monthly Member Listing.

3. Free monthly download of the TC Song of the Month.

4. Additional 5% discount on any one day's Deal-of-the-Day of your choice each month.

5. For each TCredit spent by referrals, you'll earn a free bonus entry in the Daily Crown drawing for that day, for a full year (maximum 5 free bonus entries per day).

6. Earn unlimited MRP Bounties: Earn MRP when referrals buy and win. Example: If you challenge a friend to play Card King and they post a top-50 score within 10 days, you automatically earn 300 MRP! Note: Each POR (point of referral) may have different MRP amounts and/or qualifications for earning the MRP Bounty.

7. Win unlimited TCredits! Lifetime 10% Zackpot Matches of any Eager Zebra Zackpot winnings of your PRMs. Qualifications: Personal minimum $20 purchase at TripleClicks (cash purchase, no MPR or TCredits) AND played same game on same day or period as the winning PRM.

8. Additional recognition (e.g. badges/leaderboard for active "wave makers"--those who refer lots of TC members).

9. Free W3 promotional aids (banners for blogs, etc.) at https://www.tripleclicks.com/Wave3/makewaves.php.

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The W3 program has been redesigned to make it easier spreading the word about TripleClicks.

How does the new W3 program work?

- Refer a new TC member every 120 days to keep your W3 membership and become eligible for all W3 benefits.

How to attract PRMs through W3 program in Social Media?

- Find friends and followers

In promoting W3 program in social media using the POR (Points of Referral) found on all TC product details pages, all ECA TConnect
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

My experience about which effective promotion or incentive I have implemented is as follows. First I made a list of criteria, what are the qualifications for the promo/incentives

Whose kogging in daily and performing the To-Do List, communicating regularly, showing active participation in SFI Forum and ASK SC. Who is determined and committed to follow the duplication system?

Reviewing my movers how far they are doing to move up, helps a lot in the evaluation of who deserves the reward. So far, I have offered $20 Gift Certificate, a share in S-Builder Co-op and 5 PSAs. I have now several EA2s and I'm very satisfied with this method of promotion/incentive.
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My experience about which effective promotion or incentive I have implemented is as follows. First I made a list of criteria, what are the qualifications for the promo/incentives

Whose kogging in daily and performing the To-Do List, communicating regularly, showing active participation in SFI Forum and ASK SC. Who is determined and committed to follow the duplication system?

Reviewing my movers how far they are doing to move up, helps a lot in the evaluation of who deserves
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

The TC Member Listings is an excellent tool in bringing customers/prospects information about your list of items for sale.

What are the benefits of TC Member Listings?

- sell your unwanted stuff, gain more space inside or around your house and convert them into cash.

- global exposure of your listings to SFI/TC members or to prospective customers online.

- cost only one TCredit per listing, more than enough space for each item description (up to 700 words) and three photos each item.

- TC maintains your listings as long as you like.

- Excellent customer service support from TripleClicks such as e-mail notification and payment processing each time someone purchases an item on list.

Tips for successful listings:

- Include only clear digital photos of your items list.

- Item description should provide clear and simple to understand information.

- Terms and Conditions, Refund Policy should be stated clearly to avoid misconception.

- Don’t forget to include your contact information.

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The TC Member Listings is an excellent tool in bringing customers/prospects information about your list of items for sale.

What are the benefits of TC Member Listings?

- sell your unwanted stuff, gain more space inside or around your house and convert them into cash.

- global exposure of your listings to SFI/TC members or to prospective customers online.

- cost only one TCredit per listing, more than enough space for each item description (up to 700 words)
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Whether you’re using free or paid advertising in marketing SFI, it’s important to know what’s working and what’s not.

In launching your marketing campaign with a solid combination of media such as online classified ads, social media, e-mail, direct mail, etc. you’ll be getting leads and responses coming in just about everywhere. How would you know which of your marketing ads are stellar performers? And which ones need to be refined or replaced?

SFI has provided affiliates an invaluable tool in order to track their marketing responses. Save on your marketing budget by eliminating any non-performing media.

The best way to track your advertising responses is to key each ad with a unique code, so every lead can be identified according to its original source.

Here are three effective ways to make every lead identifiable:

- Use key codes

Use key codes in all your advertising campaign, whether you’re marketing SFI online or offline. Choose your own unique key codes and append it to the end of your SFI Identification number. For example: you’re promoting one of your SFI Gateway links, which features listings of SFI latest enrollments and earners with brief information about TripleClicks and have chosen a unique code 123, your link will appear like this: http://www.sfi4.com/SFIID.123/FREE.

By adding different key codes to your Gateway links, you’ll be able to identify quickly and easily the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.
Do not use the following key codes which are currently reserved for SFI corporate:
1101, 1104, 1200, 1300.

- Provide a URL

If you’re tracking responses from an offline campaign, another method is to provide unique URLs. You can use Lifetime Custom Prestige Domain through your Custom Domain Manager for setting up. You can have multiple versions of your domain name (5 unique custom domains or different URLs) that all point to a designated landing page on your website. Let’s say, respondents to an offline ad campaign about TripleClicks Pricebenders Auction will type a simple URL which is easy to remember, such as auctions3c.com and then be instantly forwarded to your primary site: TripleClicks.com/SFIID/PBWin. Your web logs will show the number of responses.

- Use Hit Tracking

Whether you’re monitoring the results of your online marketing campaign or e-mail ads campaign, you need to employ tracking codes. You can track the web hits to your personal SFI Gateway using Hit Tracking provided by SFI. Use the hit tracking results and performance summaries of your key codes you have incorporated during your advertising campaign to tweak, refine and perfect the details of your marketing campaigns for better results.

By tracking all responses according to their sources, you can test individual ad campaigns to see which marketing approaches and offers produce the most profitable results for your SFI business.

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Whether you’re using free or paid advertising in marketing SFI, it’s important to know what’s working and what’s not.

In launching your marketing campaign with a solid combination of media such as online classified ads, social media, e-mail, direct mail, etc. you’ll be getting leads and responses coming in just about everywhere. How would you know which of your marketing ads are stellar performers? And which ones need to be refined or replaced?

SFI has provided affiliates
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

When new affiliates joined my team, I’m very much excited. I send them my welcome message right away. I get my new PSAs through my website/blog. S-Builder Co-op and through purchase from ECAs.

I have been in that situation, where some of my PSAs were very much active in their first month then gradually slow down becoming less active. Some of them have maintained their EA status every month and moved up to TL rank. I have experienced from this group of most active affiliates after attaining the TL rank stopped logging in and became inactive. I have been closely working with them (they’re my movers).

I felt sad for not seeing them in my Movers tab and Genealogy. I would like to be a part of their success and to see them experience the fruits of their labor as they grow their SFI business. We have been keeping in touch at least two to three times a week. We motivate and encourage one another, even though we were separated thousands of miles from one another, yet we have established trust in our relationship and became close.

I’m going to answer your question based on my experience. What do you do about PSAs that start off great but then suddenly become completely inactive?

- Your course of action will depend on your PSAs situation.

From the day your new affiliates signed up under your team, your messages, which include welcome message, weekly support messages should focus on building and establishing trust between you and your new affiliates. By doing that, your PSAs will most likely share both business and life challenges. In my experience, I was able to find out the following reasons why some of my TLs stopped logging in.

1. Coping with illness, including close relatives

2. Career change.

3. Additional responsibilities and obligations in the family making it difficult to invest time with SFI.

- Have a positive attitude. Don’t try to push your luck in changing other’s opinion. Set a good example instead.

When your active downline suddenly become inactive because life has got in the way for them – what do you do?

When you’re trying to set up a blog and your widgets or plugins or apps just won’t work properly, or you’re trying to do something that you just don’t understand – what do you do?

When your children or family need you or when your job is very tiring but you know you need to call your leads, do a training or create a blog post – what do you do?

You see what I found out was that the only real difference between me as a success and me as a failure was my own personal mindset, persistence and commitment.

You see when your head is in the right place – the technical obstacles become immaterial, because you just know that a solution will present itself. It always does.

When the leads start to come in, then eventually the income starts to come in too, the self doubt disappears – have you noticed that? It is only when there are very little or no activities of your downline that the self doubt starts to creep in, you start doubting yourself and then finally it cripples your SFI business if you allow it too.

Does this mean that if you just start thinking positively you can just sit back and wait for everything to work on its own?

No of course not. I have worked very hard this year to achieve my goals but having a strong reason/motivation, a disciplined approach to my SFI business, and the persistence to see things through have helped me enormously to remain positive and focused on my goals.

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When new affiliates joined my team, I’m very much excited. I send them my welcome message right away. I get my new PSAs through my website/blog. S-Builder Co-op and through purchase from ECAs.

I have been in that situation, where some of my PSAs were very much active in their first month then gradually slow down becoming less active. Some of them have maintained their EA status every month and moved up to TL rank. I have experienced from this group of most active affiliates after attaining
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Before you come up with the best strategy in attracting younger people aged 21-35, you’ll need to find out what they are interested in. What kind of activities most of them are engaging in? Do you have something that they want in order to get their attention? Can you provide solutions to their needs? Are you targeting this age demographic in your region or worldwide? Geographical demographic is another key factor that must be taken into consideration when developing your best strategy.

Aside from these important questions above, you need to consider when developing the best strategy that works for you the following:

1. Gather all the facts related to network marketing using the Internet or your local library about the history and the present trend of this age group in attracting them.

2. The 21-to-35 age demographic may have faced a distinct set of economic, communication and market variables completely different than any previous group of young generations in your region.

3. You can also look for government sponsored full-service marketing research in your region about study results of this age group and about their socio-economic needs. Generally, this demographic has less disposable income and is often saddled with student loans, so if you’re offering TC products to attract them, you might not be getting their attention, because they don’t have the money to invest. You’ll most likely get results when you offer them the opportunity to earn income by generating sells at TripleClicks without investing money from their own pocket.

4. You also need to consider the effectivity of the advertising channels you’re going to use. It is apparent that the traditional communication vehicles of direct mail and newspaper and radio advertising are extremely outdated for the young demographic. A benefit of the new social media platforms is that online business like SFI can reach their target audience on a 24/7 schedule, instead of hoping that they see or hear a random advertisement. The younger demographic does not mind receiving information after standard business hours, late-night or even overnight so they can review it when they wake up in the morning.

The younger prospects are embedded in the digital age and seek deeply connected and interactive content via ever-changing social channels.

5. The younger demographic are very much connected with the element of social interaction. The Pricebenders Auction and EZ games offer social interaction and fun online. They’ll have much fun playing with other people around the world.

SFI offers a lot of value for this age group of 21 to 35, who do not have a lot of money in their pocket and who have not come close to reaching their earning potential.

The key to integrating the next generation of becoming active SFI affiliates is to adapt your strategy towards their habits and preferences instead of exposing them to traditional marketing promotions, which are less relevant to them.

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Before you come up with the best strategy in attracting younger people aged 21-35, you’ll need to find out what they are interested in. What kind of activities most of them are engaging in? Do you have something that they want in order to get their attention? Can you provide solutions to their needs? Are you targeting this age demographic in your region or worldwide? Geographical demographic is another key factor that must be taken into consideration when developing your best strategy.

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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Motivation and knowing how SFI works are big factors in keeping your downlines from quitting. In regards to communicating with them: The more you learn about other people- their ideas, interests, viewpoints-the better job you can do in serving them. Attitudes do make the difference. When our attitude is right, our abilities reach a maximum of effectiveness and good results inevitably follow.

What is it for them that, they have to stick with SFI. What’s the point of being consistent, determined and committed? Are you communicating to them these important requirements of their journey with SFI clearly?

Have you asked them this question: “Can SFI change my life?” You’re the best example to them as their Team Leader. The display of your badges in your Leadership page, your frequent participation in SFI Forum and ASK SC, Power Rank and so on, speak of you. You’re an example before them that they would want to follow you.

For me, in regards to promotion/incentive I reward, those PSAs, who excels in sponsoring, accumulating VersaPoints to become a Team Leader and those who are logging in daily, showing their strong desire by communicating often in regards to their advancement to the next level.

If they could see the high level of enthusiasm, your passion in you in doing your SFI activities and that may depend also on how you communicate to them, then you have won their hearts.

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Motivation and knowing how SFI works are big factors in keeping your downlines from quitting. In regards to communicating with them: The more you learn about other people- their ideas, interests, viewpoints-the better job you can do in serving them. Attitudes do make the difference. When our attitude is right, our abilities reach a maximum of effectiveness and good results inevitably follow.

What is it for them that, they have to stick with SFI. What’s the point of being consistent,
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