Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

I'm fortunate and blessed to be one of those TLs. SFI is a team business which means that no one individual is responsible for a "huge" downline. However, there's a few things you can do to position yourself to have such a business...

1) I strongly recommend you focus on learning to generate and convert your own leads. Your ability to build lead systems will greatly increase your chances of building a business with tens of thousands of Affiliates.

2) Co-oping with your PSAs is a great way to leverage your own advertising skills and start building depth. Leverage is important!

3) Building depth through duplication is a critical part to having a large group. Duplication does NOT mean that every Affiliate does everything exactly like their upline. This is a myth! Duplication is a commitment to the business building process using one or more of the hundreds of systems and tools available. After almost 30 years, 20+ years full-time, in this type of business I have NEVER seen 100% duplication in any group or company.

4) Keep your system simple so your Affiliates can emulate some or all of your efforts.

OK, here's the real secret to building a group numbering in the tens of thousands. The secret is momentum! You need to put enough effort into building your Affiliate group that momentum sets in and suddenly your group is growing beyond your span of control. There's no magic to this business and there's no reason why you can't have a group in the tens of thousands. You just need to put forth sustained and ever increasing effort over a long period of time. Sticking with it is the hard part!
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I'm fortunate and blessed to be one of those TLs. SFI is a team business which means that no one individual is responsible for a "huge" downline. However, there's a few things you can do to position yourself to have such a business...

1) I strongly recommend you focus on learning to generate and convert your own leads. Your ability to build lead systems will greatly increase your chances of building a business with tens of thousands of Affiliates.

2) Co-oping with
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

I would not recommend this as part of your SFI business building strategy unless you're some type of professional consultant. There's only so many hours in the day so focus on the 80/20 rule to grow your business as fast as possible. Do the things that produce the best bottom-line results in the shortest period of time.

The fact is that prospective ECAs should have an established business with products already competing in the market place. Your responsibility is to show them the BENEFITS of becoming an ECA and then give them guidance and support is setting up their account.

Be effective AND efficient!
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I would not recommend this as part of your SFI business building strategy unless you're some type of professional consultant. There's only so many hours in the day so focus on the 80/20 rule to grow your business as fast as possible. Do the things that produce the best bottom-line results in the shortest period of time.

The fact is that prospective ECAs should have an established business with products already competing in the market place. Your responsibility is to show them the BENEFITS
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

First of all... It's important to understand that you must balance your time between helping those who want to help themselves and prospecting for new Affiliates. Use the 80/20 rule (google it) to help guide you in managing your time and other resources. You're looking for 5 Team Leaders minimum that are willing to also go through the process of finding their 5 Team Leaders. You want Affiliates who are willing to take personal responsibility for their current situation. After decades of making a living in this industry I can't stress this enough!

If you have an Affiliate that is taking action and getting results you should give them as much attention as possible. What you'll find is that inspired and motivated Affiliates mostly need direction and their questions answered in order to produce results. What you're looking for is an Affiliate that asks action oriented questions. This tells you that they're taking action in search of results.

IMPORTANT: Inspired and motivated Affiliates will ask a lot of questions at first, but the volume of questions will decrease over a very short period of time. Be prepared to focus your support on those Affiliates!

"...is there a point you should not go beyond?"

Yes!

1) You should not build their PSA business for them! You should lead them and then walk beside them in that journey. However, there's NO issues with helping to build beyond their PSA level. Help drive their business deep as long as you're building leadership!

2) You should not be your Affiliates "main" source for financial support.

You want your Affiliates to develop their leadership habits so they can then duplicate your efforts. Start with the end in mind!
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First of all... It's important to understand that you must balance your time between helping those who want to help themselves and prospecting for new Affiliates. Use the 80/20 rule (google it) to help guide you in managing your time and other resources. You're looking for 5 Team Leaders minimum that are willing to also go through the process of finding their 5 Team Leaders. You want Affiliates who are willing to take personal responsibility for their current situation. After decades of making a
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

My recommendation would be to focus on:

1) Put 80% of your time and resources into your lead system.

2) Produce as much VP as you can each and every month. Focus on your daily and monthly tasks. Max out every VP option you have!

3) Purchase everything you can personally justify from TripleClicks. For example shift your monthly purchases from all other sources to TripleClicks.

4) Extra Credit: Put some time and resources into the Price Benders auctions with a focus on winning the PSA auctions.

If you balance your lead system efforts with your TripleClick efforts you stand an excellent chance of being the E365 Champion of your class. Keep asking yourself "what can I do now" and keep at it. TAKE MASSIVE ACTION!
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My recommendation would be to focus on:

1) Put 80% of your time and resources into your lead system.

2) Produce as much VP as you can each and every month. Focus on your daily and monthly tasks. Max out every VP option you have!

3) Purchase everything you can personally justify from TripleClicks. For example shift your monthly purchases from all other sources to TripleClicks.

4) Extra Credit: Put some time and resources into the Price Benders auctions with
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

If you have a modest budget, to begin with, this will require that you start where you're at and build to the point of producing 100+ PSAs per day. The way you do this is to devote 80% of your time and resources to building, testing and then expanding your lead system.

The key strategy you need to learn about is called "pyramiding your profits". The idea is that you continue to invest your profits into your productive marketing efforts until you reach the point that you're producing 100+ PSAs per day. You should now have momentum in your business so it's time to enjoy your profits!

I've used this exact strategy for several decades to build full-time incomes, including SFI, with only a small initial "out of pocket" investment in my system. It works!
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If you have a modest budget, to begin with, this will require that you start where you're at and build to the point of producing 100+ PSAs per day. The way you do this is to devote 80% of your time and resources to building, testing and then expanding your lead system.

The key strategy you need to learn about is called "pyramiding your profits". The idea is that you continue to invest your profits into your productive marketing efforts until you reach the point that you're producing
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

The "ONE THING" that has made a difference in my success with SFI would be creating "LEAD SYSTEMS".

After having earned a full-time income with SFI for over a decade (since 2000) I would recommend focusing on producing and then converting leads to Affiliates (lead systems). If you give yourself enough time you will have a team of Affiliates from every country in the world and the sun will never set on your business!

The benefits to "you" would be:

1. Income Freedom

2. Time Freedom

3. Mobility Freedom
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The "ONE THING" that has made a difference in my success with SFI would be creating "LEAD SYSTEMS".

After having earned a full-time income with SFI for over a decade (since 2000) I would recommend focusing on producing and then converting leads to Affiliates (lead systems). If you give yourself enough time you will have a team of Affiliates from every country in the world and the sun will never set on your business!

The benefits to "you" would be:

1.
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

The S-Builder Co-op pools the collected funds and then invests those funds into the advertising process. There's no guaranteed results! If you're considering a Co-op that guarantees a certain number of Affiliates you risk that most of your leads will not be demographically suitable for your SFI business. I'm trying to put this nicely!

If your upline Team Leader has a Co-op that is producing good results then there's nothing wrong with TESTING their system. You can test other sources while also using S-Builder. Marketers test everything and go with the winners!
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The S-Builder Co-op pools the collected funds and then invests those funds into the advertising process. There's no guaranteed results! If you're considering a Co-op that guarantees a certain number of Affiliates you risk that most of your leads will not be demographically suitable for your SFI business. I'm trying to put this nicely!

If your upline Team Leader has a Co-op that is producing good results then there's nothing wrong with TESTING their system. You can test other sources while
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

Building your SFI business on a tight budget will require long-term patience and focus. The process will take time!

The most important word that you need to understand is leverage. You need to get your business to the point that it grows no matter what you do or don't do! The most effective, long-term, way to accomplish this is through sponsoring PSAs.

1) Login to SFI everyday and go through your "to-do list". Earn all of the VP that you can! Qualify your position at the EA2 level during the last few days of the month to minimize your out-of-pocket costs. BTW - Later, when you can afford it, make a statement of commitment and set-up a standing order for the first of each month. Show your commitment!!!!!

2) Develop an advertising strategy using free and paid advertising. Run several ads at the same time. Modify your ads using split testing to determine the best ads. Keep track of your results. Increase the use of successful ads. When you can, start placing paid advertising to learn the process so that you're ready to increase the number of ads at a moments notice. Important!

3) Develop your offer! Don't just refer leads to SFI and not have a little something extra to offer. No-cost or low-cost incentives would include your direct support, specific information or "eventually" some type of co-op. Co-ops are important leverage tools!

4) Reinvest ALL profits back into advertising! This is called "pyramiding your profits" and it's critical that you leverage your results by adding more and more back into advertising.

5) Communicate with your personally sponsored Affiliates every week. Work with the workers. Do NOT worry about those that don't work. You can't change other people as they must change themselves. Don't take it personally. Critical point to understand!

6) If you stay focused then one day your group will suddenly take on a life of it's own and start growing beyond your span of control. I can say this because I've actually seen the process work many, many times over the last 25+ years. Stay focused!

The most important direction I can give you other than building your own lead system is to ask empowering questions and then take action on the answers. One of the biggest mistakes I've observed over the years is the desire to have a turn-key system without any personal growth. Building a system has a learning curve and no one has all of the answers. Carve out your own unique marketing (lead) system and your security will come from the fact that you can stand on your own two feet. The only security in life comes from our own competence!
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Building your SFI business on a tight budget will require long-term patience and focus. The process will take time!

The most important word that you need to understand is leverage. You need to get your business to the point that it grows no matter what you do or don't do! The most effective, long-term, way to accomplish this is through sponsoring PSAs.

1) Login to SFI everyday and go through your "to-do list". Earn all of the VP that you can! Qualify your position
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

I keep it simple and state that "SFI is the business opportunity and TripleClicks is our store".

There's an old saying in marketing that "features tell but benefits sell". You would want to follow your simple statement with some BENEFIT statements. For example if you state how long SFI has been in business that's a feature, BUT if you state that being in business for so long indicates reliability that's a benefit. What does a certain feature "mean" for your prospect or Affiliate?

Learn to focus on benefits and you'll affect your prospects emotions! Most of us make our purchase decisions on emotion and NOT logic and reason!
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I keep it simple and state that "SFI is the business opportunity and TripleClicks is our store".

There's an old saying in marketing that "features tell but benefits sell". You would want to follow your simple statement with some BENEFIT statements. For example if you state how long SFI has been in business that's a feature, BUT if you state that being in business for so long indicates reliability that's a benefit. What does a certain feature "mean" for your
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 1

I started working full-time, as a home-based marketer, on December 7th 1992. My experience these past 21 years with "Why is creating duplication in your SFI business important?" would be:

1) Financial Freedom: duplication creates financial freedom.

2) Time Freedom: duplication creates time freedom.

3) Location Freedom: duplication creates location freedom.

My "personal" experience has been that the most important benefit from duplication is Time Freedom. Why? If you have thousands of Affiliates all emailing you with questions you have no Time Freedom. If you have Team Leaders that are motivated to build their own businesses and those same "thousands" of Affiliates are under you and them then your Team Leaders are also answering those emails. The result is that your business grows, your Team Leaders businesses grow and you have time to do what's import in your life. No sense in having Financial or Location Freedom if you have NO time to live your life. Your Team Leaders will also pursue their Time Freedom which results in your business becoming stronger as this process works it's way down your group.
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I started working full-time, as a home-based marketer, on December 7th 1992. My experience these past 21 years with "Why is creating duplication in your SFI business important?" would be:

1) Financial Freedom: duplication creates financial freedom.

2) Time Freedom: duplication creates time freedom.

3) Location Freedom: duplication creates location freedom.

My "personal" experience has been that the most important benefit from duplication
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