Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Social Media is about socializing, not advertising so be a good neighbor and friend first.

People like to accomplish 3 things in social media. They want to receive positive feedback that affirms their likes and passions. Complements, likes, shares, all feed the human ego and help break the ice. Let's face it people love to be flattered and shown love and attention.

People also look to be entertained on social media. Major social sites have proven this theory by way of sites like LOL Catz, ICanHazCheeseburger, College Humor, and Youtube. Making people laugh, and helping them unwind and relax is how you gain their attention for your own post.

The last metric is education. People use social media to get smarter. They hang out with their professional contacts, in industry forums, and on niche blogs to become stronger in their careers. They also seek product reviews and user ratings and want to find out what's new in technology. They spend hundreds of hours a year learning new things even if they claim they hate learning or hated school.

Using these 3 factors to fill needs also gains you important information about what your friends and contacts are looking for in life and allows you to build a relationship based on how you can help them reach their goals. That's where your business grows.

If you know Sarah is looking for a new computer you can send her a link to a comparison of 2 or more models or a review of a brand she has mentioned and she will never feel spammed, and will actually thank you for the information. She most likely will never know that not only did you write the review but that you also get paid if she buys through the links on the blog page or website.

Likewise you can utilize professional relationships to grow your team. You can mix post about how to do things like generate traffic to a website, or creating great blog post, and add in an occasional story about what is going well for you at SFI, and how owning your own home based business has impacted your life. Some of your contacts will have questions, some will follow links back to your blog and be exposed to your advertisements in the sidebar or header.

In no manner did you every send them anything that would make them feel advertised to and since you have filled their needs they will have a positive opinion about you and have trust for your thoughts. This builds your personal brand and how it is perceived to your prospects and clients which is called marketing.

NEVER SPAM:

Those groups that say advertise here on Facebook are SPAM forums and they not only don't work but they make it easy for social media sites to find spammers and block links of the offending companies. Most SFI gateways are blocked on Facebook, Twitter, and Craig's List because of people using these spam groups and spam tools like Facebook Auto Poster, or blog comment blasters, low grade email blasters, and FFA page networks.

Once you are publicly accused of SPAM and/or get an account suspended or deleted for it your reputation is ruined. You never, ever get ahead with this bad behavior, and the people you are sending ads too are either in the group just long enough to place their own ad or never requested to read about your business.

Not only is SPAM bad for business and a destroyer of reputations but it's also a crime in most countries carrying Fines and Jail Time. One Spammer in Canada a few years ago was fined over $4 million dollars and sentenced to 25 years in prison for his automated spamming of Facebook Members, so DO NOT SPAM.
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Social Media is about socializing, not advertising so be a good neighbor and friend first.

People like to accomplish 3 things in social media. They want to receive positive feedback that affirms their likes and passions. Complements, likes, shares, all feed the human ego and help break the ice. Let's face it people love to be flattered and shown love and attention.

People also look to be entertained on social media. Major social sites have proven this theory by way of sites
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The first thing to ask is if they have any questions about the SFI system.

If they do then get them answers as soon as possible. If they don't ask them about their favorite part of the compensation plan, or how they intend on marketing their business. Get them engaged in topics where questions are likely to linger but they have not asked and sometimes a question they forgot about will pop into their head.

Tell them a bit about you and your experience with SFI. Ask them about their family, their job, their goals with SFI. The more you know each other the more trust can form and with trust opens more questions, allowing you to increase your retention rate as your team begins to understand the business more and feel that support net around them.

The end result of the first online meeting you should find at least 3 questions to answer and learn at least 3 new things about your prospect. They should have some of their anxiety put to ease and feel informed and cared for.

These tactics are basic human resources practices used to develop new recruits by fortune 500 companies. They work because it makes your business human and responsive so there is a deeper connection with the recruit.


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The first thing to ask is if they have any questions about the SFI system.

If they do then get them answers as soon as possible. If they don't ask them about their favorite part of the compensation plan, or how they intend on marketing their business. Get them engaged in topics where questions are likely to linger but they have not asked and sometimes a question they forgot about will pop into their head.

Tell them a bit about you and your experience with SFI. Ask them about
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Once you have 5 really active movers your best investment is in helping them reach 5 of their own, and set up a co-op to help their downline as well.

Nobody stays a PTL for long without building depth to their structure. Eventually those not earning their worth will begin to have doubts and some will choose to quit. Even successful ones have left because things just didn't move as fast as they would have liked, or their own downlines started to erode in time.

Once you help your 5 get 5 and help them set up a system to help their 5 do the same you can work on adding more than 5 at the top. It's just good business to have padding in case someone falls out unexpectedly, but be sure you have a plan in place and action taken to keep your existing team happy and working before focusing too much on adding width.

Have a blessed and prosperous week.

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Once you have 5 really active movers your best investment is in helping them reach 5 of their own, and set up a co-op to help their downline as well.

Nobody stays a PTL for long without building depth to their structure. Eventually those not earning their worth will begin to have doubts and some will choose to quit. Even successful ones have left because things just didn't move as fast as they would have liked, or their own downlines started to erode in time.

Once you help
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Let's look at the worst case scenario, they never decide to duplicate themselves.

Some people enter affiliate marketing and never have the option to recruit a downline because their affiliate program is direct commissions only with no network marketing aspects to it. The median income of affiliates like this is between $34,000 and $60,000 per year and top earned make in excess of a million dollars annually just promoting sale of products.

With other affiliate programs the customer may only be your referral for 3 months to a year.

Very few affiliate programs have a customer for life system. With SFI you get a piece of every purchase made by your referred TripleClicks members for as long as they shop at TripleClicks. You can also secure ECA and earn a royalty off their sales without promoting the business opportunity.

So basically your main concern is having the PSA who does not recruit more business owners not add depth to your network.

Matching VP wise though you could still make a lot of money off the person who only chooses to be a TripleClicks affiliate and not an SFI recruiter. Every time a PRM or Personally Referred Member of their makes a purchase the affiliate will earn the VP that the referred member would have earned if they had been a PSA instead of a PRM. Since your PSA is earning the VP instead you will earn matching VP on all their sales.

Meanwhile, the affiliate reduces their need to focus on multiple moving parts of this system.

Instead of having to advertise SFI and TripleClicks they can just advertise TripleClicks twice as much, which increases the likelihood of them producing great sales and adding much needed income to the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

The affiliate will need to understand that they will miss out on network earnings but in the long run they can do very well just focusing on the sales end of the business. The system of duplication can get them to higher earnings faster and make it easier to see growth even when they can't focus time on their business but since the customers are still customers for life they too can see massive residual income.

If the do decide at a later time to build a team they will already know how to teach their team to be good affiliates and make money promoting TripleClicks which in turn will explode any results you get as an upline team leader. You don't have to be good at recruiting opportunity seekers to be a success at SFI.

Have an amazing week.

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Let's look at the worst case scenario, they never decide to duplicate themselves.

Some people enter affiliate marketing and never have the option to recruit a downline because their affiliate program is direct commissions only with no network marketing aspects to it. The median income of affiliates like this is between $34,000 and $60,000 per year and top earned make in excess of a million dollars annually just promoting sale of products.

With other affiliate programs the customer
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The secret is in Team Leadership and Matching Versa Points.

As a team leader you get to earn matching Versa Points on up to 12 levels of downline referrals. Each Versa Point is a share in the profits of TripleClicks and building a strong and active network of people in your downline can generate millions of these shares every month even if you personally have to take time off from your business.

1500 VP becomes around 73 to 75 cents in earnings most months, if you are a bronze team leader the 3,000 VP would add about $1.50 to your commissions, but if your PSA become BTL as well you would also get 3,000+ VP from each of them, so let's say you have 5 BTL in your level 1 downline. Each of them get's 5 BTL and again you get 3,000+ VP per month off each of them as well. That's now 30 people you are earning a minimum $1.50 from for $45 a month from matching VP alone.

If those 5 get 5 another 125 people will pass up 3,000+ VP to you every months. Those 5 get 5 and another 625 people pass up 3,000+ VP. This continues down 6 levels as a BTL and becomes a full time income just having 5 good people who you help get 5 good people each. Ninety percent of reaching those numbers is done at no cost or effort to you, and pays in addition to any direct sales commissions or ECA Royalties.

I have seen people who are earning over 6 million matching VP per month after only 2 years in SFI. They all started with a handful of PSA who they helped become team leaders, and taught to help others do the same. You can too.
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The secret is in Team Leadership and Matching Versa Points.

As a team leader you get to earn matching Versa Points on up to 12 levels of downline referrals. Each Versa Point is a share in the profits of TripleClicks and building a strong and active network of people in your downline can generate millions of these shares every month even if you personally have to take time off from your business.

1500 VP becomes around 73 to 75 cents in earnings most months, if you are a bronze
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Stop worrying about putting them under too much pressure.

Being a business owner means you have to be ready to do the heavy lifting, face challenges, and deal with stress. By coddling your PSA you are not helping them get prepared for owning their own business.

Sure some will leave and say you scared them off but let's face it, out of every 100 PSA 97-99 of them will leave anyhow.

The ones who can't handle the truth, or the challenge ahead, or get overwhelmed too easy fit into the 97% of people who have a hard time achieving any type of success. There is a reason the top 3% of all business owners control so much of the wealth generated and that is because the other 97% have set limitations restricting the amount of challenge, hardship, stress, and time they will afford to the quest.

We can only delay weak prospects from quitting for so long, and it will take massive amounts of our time and energy to hold their hands.

Work with the workers is about selecting those who show aptitude and determination and focusing all our energy on them instead of trying to raise the whole world up and teach them to be something that is not yet in their nature. You can try to motivate and train them but history says the 97% will still be the 97% at the end of the day, and that wont change until they decide to change themselves.

Good thing you only need to find 5 who wont quit because it's hard, it takes too long, or they are overwhelmed. You get those 5 by focusing on finding quality recruits who are ready workers and willing to learn no matter how hard it is.

Don't try to teach the sheep to be wolves, the wolves will find your flock in time.

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Stop worrying about putting them under too much pressure.

Being a business owner means you have to be ready to do the heavy lifting, face challenges, and deal with stress. By coddling your PSA you are not helping them get prepared for owning their own business.

Sure some will leave and say you scared them off but let's face it, out of every 100 PSA 97-99 of them will leave anyhow.

The ones who can't handle the truth, or the challenge ahead, or get overwhelmed too
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Christmas time is coming and I know these cards and a Gift Card would make an awesome stocking stuffer.

People like to save money and get stuff free and the combination of Wave 3 with TripleClicks gift cards is just too irresistible for most. You can use Wave 3 X Cards as a cheap alternative to leaving a gift card with your tip at a local restaurant. You can offer one to the cashier when you pay for your groceries, and leave them on the pumps at the local gas station.

These cards are really well received at community laundry facilities and you can offer the opportunity to hand them out with donated items at food banks and church functions. The gift of free and money saving opportunities is a great compliment for those currently having financial issues.

There are millions of ways to give the gift of many gifts and the X-cards help you tell about the benefits of TripleClicks membership and offer something free every month.
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Christmas time is coming and I know these cards and a Gift Card would make an awesome stocking stuffer.

People like to save money and get stuff free and the combination of Wave 3 with TripleClicks gift cards is just too irresistible for most. You can use Wave 3 X Cards as a cheap alternative to leaving a gift card with your tip at a local restaurant. You can offer one to the cashier when you pay for your groceries, and leave them on the pumps at the local gas station.

These
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

First off your welcome e-mail is about getting to know each-other. You first contact should be fairly brief and not a mountain of links with go here and do that which will overwhelm the new recruit.

I personally suggest giving them the 3 button basic which are Start Button, SFI Basics Button, and LaunchPad Button.

During the Start video the fast track program is mentioned, and paired with the alert on the member's home page and e-mail messages from SFI, the affiliate who logs in will be exposed numerous times in their first few days to the Fast Track program and the New Member Packs.

I keep seeing people talking about the NMP Benefits as being Fast Track benefits or suggesting that the only way a person will make Fast Track is by buying a $20 NMP and that is just not true. Imagine they are hearing something like that from you and something different from SFI. Immediately these new members will see you as opportunistic and money hungry as well as dishonest.

Be sure that before you talk about a vital program like Fast Track 2.0 that you know and understand the facts of the program, then give it time. Once your team member has had 5-7 days to get deep in training and start making their mind up about SFI you can send them a quick tips e-card reminding them they have x number days to generate a minimum $20 in sales at TripleClicks and complete their 5 small actions on their to-do list related to becoming a Fast Track Member. You can mention that securing the Fast Track membership can mean an extra 10% to their earnings for life.


Don't push, don't make it sound vital, but be sure they know that if they pass up the opportunity they will not get a second chance. Congratulate your FT members in your weekly team mail or stream post or even head to the forum and add their accomplishment to the appropriate recognition forum. This will encourage others in your team.
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First off your welcome e-mail is about getting to know each-other. You first contact should be fairly brief and not a mountain of links with go here and do that which will overwhelm the new recruit.

I personally suggest giving them the 3 button basic which are Start Button, SFI Basics Button, and LaunchPad Button.

During the Start video the fast track program is mentioned, and paired with the alert on the member's home page and e-mail messages from SFI, the affiliate who logs
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

First off I don't normally say great question but this one is exceptional.

For me personally I try to spend at least 1 hour doing my daily task and contributing to the forum each day. Often I spend more than that because in addition to developing my personal brand and building strong relationships with my peers it teaches me to be a better leader and keeps me in practice of being helpful to others.

Along the way I learn something new every day, which gives me even more great things to share.

I spend at least twice what I do inside SFI in marketing my business by building social media connections and writing new blog post for one of my blogs or social profiles. Every piece of content created is a new door into my shop that feeds my business with traffic. I also spend some of that time reading post and learning trends and new information from thousands of peers.

I spend a bit of time creating advertising.

Most don't know that Advertising and Marketing are two different things but advertisement is like saying here I am and marketing is educating people about who we are. You can't build a relationship through a banner or single e-mail, on a classified ad site, or on a billboard but you can bring interested people into your place of business to learn more about you, your business, your products.

I spend maybe 15% and sometimes 20% of my day advertising and at least twice that nurturing these new relationships through social gatherings, blog post, newsletters, and training events. That's marketing and it's more important than any advertisement because ads do not build trust or expand knowledge.
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First off I don't normally say great question but this one is exceptional.

For me personally I try to spend at least 1 hour doing my daily task and contributing to the forum each day. Often I spend more than that because in addition to developing my personal brand and building strong relationships with my peers it teaches me to be a better leader and keeps me in practice of being helpful to others.

Along the way I learn something new every day, which gives me even more great
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Can a good sponsor help, yes they can, but is it vital?

What would you do if you planned to open a family owned restaurant or flower shop, gift shop, or even a mobile car wash unit etc.. without purchasing an expensive franchise? Who would be your sponsor? Who would be responsible for teaching you the ropes and guiding your success?

If you were opening a brick and mortar business you would have tools to help your research.

The library
The Internet
The Small Business Administration
The Chamber of Commerce
The Bank you hold a business account with.
Newspapers
Magazines
Books
and other business owners through associations like Rotary Club or Church can all come in handy both for your offline business but also for your online business.

With online business you can find ways to apply all the lessons you would learn to operate a offline business to what you are doing now. You can learn to cut cost, to get your maximum tax credits, to advertise, how to network with other professionals, how to develop a marketing plan, how to market your business online or offline, how to license your business and cover it and you with insurance in case something happens and a loss of work is demanded etc..

With a sponsor you don't know the source of all the information, and the fact is that your sponsor might have joined SFI earlier the same day you joined SFI. In many cases they are as new to online business as you are and are blindly looking for a leader when a wealth of information exist that there is no waiting for is a couple clicks away. They could be you, and if they are lost and waiting for a sponsor to take them by the hand where could they possibly lead you that is of any help?

A strong sponsor is more of a mentor, and that you can get pretty easy for little or no cost. There are folks like me who mentor dozens of people during their careers online without seeking compensation and you can find us on social media sites. A Mentor need not be in the same business as you to be of use to you and it can often be a blessing if they have 3rd party perspective of your offers and can see exactly what your prospects would see without knowing what you know.

So don't spend all your time trying to wake up this person you don't really need, be a student of everything you can get your hands on and be a self built success story because chances are, your current sponsor will need to lean on you to learn more about their business.
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Can a good sponsor help, yes they can, but is it vital?

What would you do if you planned to open a family owned restaurant or flower shop, gift shop, or even a mobile car wash unit etc.. without purchasing an expensive franchise? Who would be your sponsor? Who would be responsible for teaching you the ropes and guiding your success?

If you were opening a brick and mortar business you would have tools to help your research.

The library
The Internet
The Small
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