Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

I don't think I have read a single answer to this question that brings into account the New Wave 3.
This blows away all the competition regarding commissions, royalties, etc.

With the ECA program, which I like very much, you refer one ECA at a time and there is no building upon that ECA other than what sales he can bring in with your help or other affiliates.

With the Wave 3, those PRMs you bring in may participate in the games and product referrals. Any time one of your PRMs brings in a new PRM using the Share & Win or Friend Challenge, the New PRM becomes one of your permanent PRMs. You get commissions off of the purchases of all of them plus the different bonuses when they play and win as long as you complete your responsibilities.

If your PRM opts into SFI, then his new referrals will become his PRMs from that time on. But you will still gain with a successful PSA.

So while your ECA does have an unlimited potential to make sales, he is limited to being just one person with interested customers. Some of those customers will be your PRMs, but not all depending who referred them.

You do not have the ability to really advise and encourage either your PRMs or ECAs but you do have the ability to contact the ECA seller or send a Gift Certificate to the PRMs.

So all in all, the PRM has the best potential to bring you a bigger income.










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I don't think I have read a single answer to this question that brings into account the New Wave 3.
This blows away all the competition regarding commissions, royalties, etc.

With the ECA program, which I like very much, you refer one ECA at a time and there is no building upon that ECA other than what sales he can bring in with your help or other affiliates.

With the Wave 3, those PRMs you bring in may participate in the games and product referrals. Any time one of your
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

People who "have money to invest" generally are looking for a way to increase their money without having to do anything other than to provide the money. They are looking for someone else to multiply that money for them for a cut of the profits. Our SFI business is not what they are looking for.

Therefore, I think your question should be altered to read:
"How can I attract people into my team who are willing to invest their money into their own SFI business."

You need to find someone who has money that can be used towards building his business. He must has a dream or a need big enough to propel him through set-backs and discouragements. He must believe in himself and SFI. He must see leadership in what you do.

This question demands a two part answer.
1) you must qualify your prospect as to whether he is able and will be dedicated to building a SFI business, involving investing time and cash, and will take on transfer buying.
2) You must also instill confidence in him about SFI/TC and in yourself as a leader.

Whether you are best buddies, family members, or strangers, begin to build a new relationship with your prospect. Aim the relationship towards your experiences with SFI; your and his dreams, desires, needs and goals in life; and how you can reach them.

Unless your prospect is a stranger, he knows your weaknesses. Don't down play them. Just steer the relationship towards your business and what you have learned about what it takes for being a successful business person.

Keep it relaxed but don't put off showing him the full SFI business plan. You goal here is to add a good business partner, not just another good friend.

While you do not want too many irons in the fire, you do want to keep an ever-watchful eye out for new prospects. Keep a list of these people and choose one from the list to begin working with as the present one either becomes unqualified or gets established in SFI.
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People who "have money to invest" generally are looking for a way to increase their money without having to do anything other than to provide the money. They are looking for someone else to multiply that money for them for a cut of the profits. Our SFI business is not what they are looking for.

Therefore, I think your question should be altered to read:
"How can I attract people into my team who are willing to invest their money into their own SFI business."

You
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

An ECA may come into TripleClicks with hundreds of products already to be sole. But he should dole them out for approval slowly, but steadily. This will keep him on the "New at TC List" and his products in front of us at all times. When someone submits a large group of items that takes up many pages, they may not all be looked at by everyone, especially if they are all nearly the same. Recent examples are photos, coins, stamps, bed spreads, eBooks, etc. All of these have merit, but he may lose some potential sales because the potential buyers are just overwhelmed at the number of choices.

A new ECA should not delay offering items for sale because he doesn't know how to list the cost of shipping, or putting photos in his ad. People on the Forum are very willing to help.

Photos should not be blurry, cluttered, or too small. Descriptions should be complete but easy to read. Do not over-price items because you think that everyone is willing to pay the price.

Do not put so many items on that you can't service the sales. And don't get discouraged if no one buys for a few months.

Also don't forget that you need to advertise your own store. Others may advertise your items, but it's mostly up to the ECA. Make good TConnections, and a2a friends. You can not advertise in the Friends part of the Stream page, but in the ECA part. Also, friend requests often cause new friends to check your profile and ECA store. And don't forget to write some ECA NEWS FEEDS.

Do study what is already offered at TC. Don't worry if you have the same item, you won't live in the same area. Give the buyers a choice in shipping and prices.

Do keep your eye out for good deals that you can pass on to your customers. Try to partner with someone who will sell items to you at a discount when you have an order for it. That keeps your inventory down.

Try to enroll affiliates in your area so that you will have a group that will buy from you, and invite others to become ECAs so there will be more TC items in your area.

Remember to offer quality and service to your customers so they will come back to you.
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An ECA may come into TripleClicks with hundreds of products already to be sole. But he should dole them out for approval slowly, but steadily. This will keep him on the "New at TC List" and his products in front of us at all times. When someone submits a large group of items that takes up many pages, they may not all be looked at by everyone, especially if they are all nearly the same. Recent examples are photos, coins, stamps, bed spreads, eBooks, etc. All of these have merit, but he may
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

To be really succeed in SFI, you must:
1) Keep up with all of the changes that take place at SFI and TC.
2) Develop your leadership skills by reading articles like HTB an Awesome Sponsor
3) Develop relationships with your best workers, through mutual respect and good communications.
4) Read and advertise constantly, read articles about online affiliate marketing businesses.
5) Participate in blogs,
6) Advertise constantly in wide varieties of ad sources.
7) Advertise for new PSAs, ECAs, PRMs, and help your team do the same
8) Never give up.
9) Keep up with the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly activities.

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To be really succeed in SFI, you must:
1) Keep up with all of the changes that take place at SFI and TC.
2) Develop your leadership skills by reading articles like HTB an Awesome Sponsor
3) Develop relationships with your best workers, through mutual respect and good communications.
4) Read and advertise constantly, read articles about online affiliate marketing businesses.
5) Participate in blogs,
6) Advertise constantly in wide varieties of ad sources.
7) Advertise
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

The very obvious answer to this question is that with a traditional business, you have a much greater cost both to set up your business and to run it, whether you make a profit or not. With SFI, of course, you may set it up and begin doing business at no monetary cost. The training is free and you have partners in the SFI business who are willing to help you without demanding "their share" out of the business.

The obvious answer about time is that with a physical business, you must put in hours of time during open hours and before and after those hours. You have no choice about when they will be spent on the business. If you want to take a few hours off, you must pay someone to take your place or close the shop. With SFI, you choose when you will do your work. And if you need some time off, then you take it, while your team keeps working, your ads keep working, and the other affiliates keep buying and selling your products.

Here it it! The "other answer"! A brick and mortar store can never match the number of hours that can go into each SFI business, nor can it never produce a residual income. When the store's doors close, the cash register is locked up. No more money enters the system. When the employees go home, no more work is done.

With SFI, we build a team from around the world. Someone is awake and working at all times. If they make a sale, the whole upline benefits. If they make a post in their Stream, their whole downline benefits. All night, all day.

We have tens of thousands of affiliates who are always in need of products to buy and sell. They are tending ads all over the world, some with your best products in them.

It is the network that makes SFI so much better than a regular downtown brick and mortar store front, or even a web-site. Those depend on the wit, perseverance, strength, creativity of just one or two people or a small association and the limited advertising budget a traditional business allows. But each active SFI business has all the active affiliates enrolled in SFI to carry it on, even when the individual owner is temporarily disabled.

Also the traditional business more or less relies on the economic health of it's local area. The SFI business relies on the world and in fact can much improve the local economic health.

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The very obvious answer to this question is that with a traditional business, you have a much greater cost both to set up your business and to run it, whether you make a profit or not. With SFI, of course, you may set it up and begin doing business at no monetary cost. The training is free and you have partners in the SFI business who are willing to help you without demanding "their share" out of the business.

The obvious answer about time is that with a physical business, you
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

There seems to be a misunderstanding again with the translation of this question, the troublesome word being "pitch". This has happened with several previous questions where the main word that is used translates into several meanings. This "pitch" was translated to a quality of voice or sound and the question was answered as such. We must be very careful to use words that have straight forward translations when we write our questions and answers.

The "pitch" here is associated with pitching or throwing out a baseball. In this case we "pitch" an idea or question to a potential business prospect. Like asking a potential ECA, "Do you have any products that you think the whole world should know about?" If the businessperson "catches" the idea and tosses back an answer or question, he is interested in hearing about the ECA program, and the game begins of wooing him with truthful facts and enlarging his need for your service and greater financial success.
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There seems to be a misunderstanding again with the translation of this question, the troublesome word being "pitch". This has happened with several previous questions where the main word that is used translates into several meanings. This "pitch" was translated to a quality of voice or sound and the question was answered as such. We must be very careful to use words that have straight forward translations when we write our questions and answers.

The "pitch"
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

The best way to gather Action VP is to do the actions required. This will teach you how to build your business and give you a firm foundation for it. After several months, you should be able to see an improvement in your business that will last.

If you have enough money, the easiest and fastest way is to load the auto bidder with your TCredits on an item you would like to own and and hit the activate button and walk away. With this method you should end up with the number of TCredits that you desire but maybe nothing else. But it takes just a tiny amount of your time. And the results last just a tiny amount of time.

I have a few tips on how to best do the actions required to earn AVP.One method of earning a batch of AVP is to help a PSA to advance in his rank. You get at least 100 AVP for each PSA that earns EA2 or higher. To do this, you must prepare sometimes for a month or more before you will see any AVP.

The same can be true for referring an ECA. That takes some time to get the whole process done before you earn the AVP.

Back to the TCredits, we now have a number of ways to gather free or low cost TCredits through T-time, W3, Status rewards, and auctions. And we have several ways to use our TCredits that will earn us AVP. Downloading music, voting for the monthly music contest, submitting an entry in the Pick the Price and Zebra Games, auctions, etc. With these methods you can fill in where you are short of AVP in order to attain your desired rand.
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The best way to gather Action VP is to do the actions required. This will teach you how to build your business and give you a firm foundation for it. After several months, you should be able to see an improvement in your business that will last.

If you have enough money, the easiest and fastest way is to load the auto bidder with your TCredits on an item you would like to own and and hit the activate button and walk away. With this method you should end up with the number of TCredits
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

An ECA store is an added responsibility for an affiliate. The affiliate must maintain his ECA TConnect Page in an up to date and attractive manner. He must be sure that his advertised products are available and not out of stock and, for his own good, that the products are what people want to buy. He must follow all rules related to ECA business and products. He must make delivery in a timely manner, making sure that the items are packaged safely, and he must be able to pay for the postage until he gets reimbursed. And he must communicate with customers in a timely manner.

Failure to be honest or to keep up with TC standards can cost an ECA store owner his ECA license or even his membership in SFI/TC.

In addition, after the initial appearance on the "What's New at TC" list, he is responsible for advertising his store's products.

If a person does become an ECA, he will have many benefits, not the least being the extra income associated with selling his items. Also he will get sales VP and shares in the Executive Pool.

As he advertises his items, they will be picked up by the search engines and listed when someone does a search for them. These people are usually not SFI affiliates, so they may become his PRMs and maybe even sign up to SFI. The heading does give room for that type of invitation.

An ECA has the option to offer pick up at his store, knocking down the cost of shipping. Affiliates who live nearby can take advantage of this, especially in countries outside of the USA. Local economy might also be supplemented if the ECA has a thriving business and hires help.

When an affiliate has his own ECA store, he has gone through the whole process of becoming one and can then be more believable when he tells other merchant and craftsmen in his area about becoming an ECA.
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An ECA store is an added responsibility for an affiliate. The affiliate must maintain his ECA TConnect Page in an up to date and attractive manner. He must be sure that his advertised products are available and not out of stock and, for his own good, that the products are what people want to buy. He must follow all rules related to ECA business and products. He must make delivery in a timely manner, making sure that the items are packaged safely, and he must be able to pay for the postage until he
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

When you are first getting started with SFI, you have a lot on your plate just doing the To Do List and understanding everything that you are reading. To begin sponsoring PSAs at this time, the least time consuming way is to buy the services of other in obtaining PSAs.

But you have to realize that no matter who you buy them from, you have no control over what they were told about signing into SFI. The percentage of sign ups who actually do the work required is quite small, so the cost per active PSA is fairly high.

Never-the-less, if you choose to purchase PSAs, you have several choices. You can buy from TripleClicks either by the PSAs TO GO or the S Builder's Co-op. These PSAs will come to you with no extra work involved, however, the S Builder's Co-op may take you up to about 6 weeks to begin.

You can also purchase PSAs from ECA stores at TripleClicks. Some stores has much practice on recruiting and others stores may not have the skills you expect. Be sure to read all the product reviews for this type of purchase. Again, if all goes correctly with your purchase, you will not have to put any more effort into it.

The other way to purchase PSAs is to participate in an PriceBenders auction and bid to win. The problem with auctions is that you develop the skill to win, therefore you don't win everyone you enter, and they may take several hours to complete.

What I think is by far the better way to go is to do your own advertising, do it as often as you can, and always improve on your methods. You will have to learn how to do it, find places to advertise, and develop a system for tracking your results.

SFI has a great Marketing Methods section to get you started. The Internet Income articles has lots to offer, and the Expert Reports. It also provides a way to track your results by using key codes.

As you transform from being a Newbie into a business person, your advertising skills will improve and you will begin to see results.


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When you are first getting started with SFI, you have a lot on your plate just doing the To Do List and understanding everything that you are reading. To begin sponsoring PSAs at this time, the least time consuming way is to buy the services of other in obtaining PSAs.

But you have to realize that no matter who you buy them from, you have no control over what they were told about signing into SFI. The percentage of sign ups who actually do the work required is quite small, so the cost
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

The very first thing you should do, whether your sponsor writes to you or not, is to write to him. Use both your own email and the eCards. That way if his mail is not accepting mail from SFI, then he will get your letter. Tell him that you are very interested in succeeding in SFI and you desire his input.

At the same time, make sure that you are working steadily on your To Do List. After he reads your letter, he will check his Movers List and then your profile and his Genealogy. The more you have done, the more impressed and excited he will be. Most good sponsors will respond to your letter right away.

If he doesn't? You check his profile. Does he have badges? What does his VP Streak badge say?
What status is he. When did he join? What is his class rank?

Make a good guess whether he is just inactive, too busy, too new to be knowledgeable, a quitter, or maybe needed a vacation. There are lots of reason that it appears that a sponsor is not noticing you. Also remember that his own sponsor may not be noticing and supporting him, either.

If you are a go getter and a quick learner, you may write to him, in your excitement, and tell him what you are learning and thinking, etc. You may be what he needs to get going and do his own business. It may stimulate him into learning what he needs in order to be an awesome sponsor. A slow starting sponsor does not have to remain a poor sponsor, so give him a chance and don't write him off.

SFI is built on relationships and relationships are built on communication and trust. Do your best to fit in and help others to fit in. Do not be quick to give up on an inactive sponsor. Your PSAs and Generations will be watching and duplicate your attitudes.


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The very first thing you should do, whether your sponsor writes to you or not, is to write to him. Use both your own email and the eCards. That way if his mail is not accepting mail from SFI, then he will get your letter. Tell him that you are very interested in succeeding in SFI and you desire his input.

At the same time, make sure that you are working steadily on your To Do List. After he reads your letter, he will check his Movers List and then your profile and his Genealogy. The more
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