Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

You will initially establish a cordial relationship with your a2a friends, before seeking any support or advice. See whether your a2a friend is generous enough to offer any sort of assistance. Some a2a friends may be open to share their views or experiences with you. Others may offer lip sympathy, but may be reluctant to give you any positive support.

Once a proper relationship is established and once you have identified your a2a friends who would be helpful, you can seek advice or support by specifying your issue that needs to be settled.

The successful and experienced a2a friends of yours will definitely share their experiences and will guide you on the path of success.

New affiliates at SFI will find their a2a friends as a very rich resource, which they can tap with immense benefit, if they can only locate suitable ones among them.

Hope this answer is helpful.
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You will initially establish a cordial relationship with your a2a friends, before seeking any support or advice. See whether your a2a friend is generous enough to offer any sort of assistance. Some a2a friends may be open to share their views or experiences with you. Others may offer lip sympathy, but may be reluctant to give you any positive support.

Once a proper relationship is established and once you have identified your a2a friends who would be helpful, you can seek advice or support
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a difficult proposition.

Initially, I do send them a welcome letter, give them guidance as to how they can proceed and progress at SFI. I also ask them to respond by just acknowledging the receipt of my message. Most do not respond at all.

My weekly messages receive no response at all. At least, this is my experience so far.

I can do my best to engage my affiliates in order to encourage them to communicate with me on a regular basis. But it is like attempting to move a mountain, for most affiliates are inactive, like inanimate things. They won't respond to your best communication.

However, there are some other affiliates who join SFI with great expectations, get super-active in the first few days, get on to the fast-track, accumulate maximum points and also are very communicative with their sponsor/co-sponsor. They are very eager to earn, and earn quiclkly. But like a volcano that gets suddenly spews out lava and as unexpectedly goes dormant, these affiliates vanish from the SFI scene without a word, the moment they see that SFI is a serious business that does not give them instant riches. Their communication may initially be regular, but that is all.

There are, of course, a few dedicated affiliates. These respond to all communication from their up-line. Some of them even initiate the conversation on their own, as there are in a learning mode. They ask questions to clear their apprehensions or doubts. These always engage themselves in good communication and are regular in everything.

So in my view, the quality of my affiliates is an important factor in the matter of conversing regularly not only with me, but also with their upline, downline and a2a friends.



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This is a difficult proposition.

Initially, I do send them a welcome letter, give them guidance as to how they can proceed and progress at SFI. I also ask them to respond by just acknowledging the receipt of my message. Most do not respond at all.

My weekly messages receive no response at all. At least, this is my experience so far.

I can do my best to engage my affiliates in order to encourage them to communicate with me on a regular basis. But it is like attempting
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

A good question, for the information overload at SFI so overwhelms the new-comers that they are easily confused. Most of these get drowned in the flood of information.

One should be able to make this information long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to retain the prospect's interest.

What are the essentials, you might ask. The earning potential is an essential feature. For this, SFI's compensation plan must be mentioned. Prospects must know that the best way to earn at SFI is to become an EA2, retain it, and then duplicate their work through recruiting more people like them.

Besides, there are competitions, draws, auctions etc. which make doing this online marketing business through earning VersaPoints both interesting and fun.

The rest of the information could wait for the prospects to become affiliates. After that they themselves could find out more details through the SFI Basics and Launchpad Lessons.

Hope this answer is helpful.
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A good question, for the information overload at SFI so overwhelms the new-comers that they are easily confused. Most of these get drowned in the flood of information.

One should be able to make this information long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to retain the prospect's interest.

What are the essentials, you might ask. The earning potential is an essential feature. For this, SFI's compensation plan must be mentioned. Prospects must know that the best way
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

If you wish to be an awesome sponsor, one of the things you have to do is to support your PSAs/CSAs to the best of your ability.

New affiliates need your support in the form of encouragement, advice and explanation of the various strategies they have to adopt in order to prosper in this business. While most of them may not even care to log in everyday, there could be some who continue to follow your advice and keep accumulating VP day after day. Out of these, a small percentage of affiliates might reach the EA status in the first few days and demonstrate their hunger to advance in the SFI ranks, but might not have the dough to invest and gain valuable VP.

In such cases, if you are of the opinion that the transferring of some TCredits may help them establish themselves in SFI and advance in their rank to EA2 or even BTL, you may offer the required help. In my case, my sponsor had thought of transferring as many as 100 TCredits to me so that I could get to the BTL level. Of course, it was not required, as I managed the whole thing on my own.

The bottomline in offering Tcredits to your down-line is that it is all in your interest if they advance, as your income is augmented in the process.

When you support your EAs/ BTLs /STLs and others in your downline, you will also gain VP, income, and reputation as an awesome sponsor.
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If you wish to be an awesome sponsor, one of the things you have to do is to support your PSAs/CSAs to the best of your ability.

New affiliates need your support in the form of encouragement, advice and explanation of the various strategies they have to adopt in order to prosper in this business. While most of them may not even care to log in everyday, there could be some who continue to follow your advice and keep accumulating VP day after day. Out of these, a small percentage of affiliates
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

I think I would tell them that not knowing very many people is NOT a constraint to join SFI. In actual fact, not knowing many people may work to their advantage.

Even if they know many people, what is the guarantee that those people would be interested in SFI? Their warm market may turn a cold-shoulder to their proposal about SFI. I tell them that they would be saved from a lot of discouragement emanating from their friends, family, acquaintances and others that they assume they know.

Basically, SFI is a network marketing business. That only means that they can recruit people into SFI through the internet, provided they use the right or effective advertising methods.

Strangers become associates or affiliates in this multi-level marketing enterprise. So not knowing many people could not be the criterion for not being interested in SFI. I tell them if they are really interested in making good money from SFI, they could sign up, whether they know or not know very many people.

Hope this helps.
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I think I would tell them that not knowing very many people is NOT a constraint to join SFI. In actual fact, not knowing many people may work to their advantage.

Even if they know many people, what is the guarantee that those people would be interested in SFI? Their warm market may turn a cold-shoulder to their proposal about SFI. I tell them that they would be saved from a lot of discouragement emanating from their friends, family, acquaintances and others that they assume they know.

Basically,
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

A very good question.

It is not at all easy to convince skeptical prospects about the genuineness of SFI, especially when they themselves have fallen prey to the fraud on the internet.

However, it is not impossible, if you adopt the right approach. If you are aggressive in your approach, you may find that your efforts are only increasing the suspicions of the prospects, and may prove counter-productive.

"Show, don't tell" seems to me to be the best way. Show the growth graph of SFI and the ever-widening popularity of TripleClicks and the ever-increasing number of its products, making it one of the best online marketing portals on the net.

Show them the Pricebenders auctions and how they could win several products of great value for unimaginably low prices (at times, to the extent of 99% of their market value).

Show them that SFI has the backing of the Best Business Bureau.

Show them your own success and the success of your a2a friends, your upline and your downline.

Show them that without any investment whatsoever, they could be successful at SFI, if only they work hard at marketing SFI and TripleClicks' products, although this could take longer. Show them the online training that SFI provides for FREE.

Despite all your sincere attempts, however, the success rate at convincing skeptics might not be very encouraging. Keep at it, and after some time, hopefully, a few of those skeptics will be converted into believers.

Hope this answer helps.


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A very good question.

It is not at all easy to convince skeptical prospects about the genuineness of SFI, especially when they themselves have fallen prey to the fraud on the internet.

However, it is not impossible, if you adopt the right approach. If you are aggressive in your approach, you may find that your efforts are only increasing the suspicions of the prospects, and may prove counter-productive.

"Show, don't tell" seems to me to be the best way.
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Goals are like milestones on a road that leads to your destination, which itself is your lifetime goal ( or, as they say, the big picture).

'Proper' goals are those that are realistic, achievable and for achieving which you have some plan, some worksheet, that guides you step by step towards them.

SFI has done most of the job for you in order to help you set your goals on the proven path of success.

It could have set the goal for you and made your job easy and effortless as far as goal-setting is concerned. It did not do so. The simple reason is that you will not be motivated if others set your goals.

It is YOUR business and YOU have to set your own goals, taking into consideration your background, your skill-set, your circumstances etc. You can then set proper goals for yourself and get inspired to achieve them.

Too easy goals are not worth their name. Too difficult goals might cause despair, when you fail to reach them. Proper goals are those that are nether too easy nor too difficult. They should be such that you will try hard to exceed your limits in order to achieve them. Such goals motivate you to do your best. Such proper goals, once reached, are a source of excitement, satisfaction and pride.

General goals like,"I want to improve my standard of living" are ok, as long-term broad goals. They are your wishes.

You should chalk out specific or precise action-oriented and time-bound goals, if you wish to succeed in life (or at SFI).

Without proper goals, your life (whether in general or at SFI) will just drift like a rudderless boat that is at the mercy of the winds and the waves.

Every goal needs reviewing periodically. SFI has made provision for this too.

With the help available at SFI (at the GOALS tab, even novices can set proper goals, if they are serious about achieving success in this business.




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Goals are like milestones on a road that leads to your destination, which itself is your lifetime goal ( or, as they say, the big picture).

'Proper' goals are those that are realistic, achievable and for achieving which you have some plan, some worksheet, that guides you step by step towards them.

SFI has done most of the job for you in order to help you set your goals on the proven path of success.

It could have set the goal for you and made your job easy and effortless
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

It is natural for people to feel bad when they face rejection. In the marketing field, the frequency with which one receives a "NO" is much higher than in other areas of life.

Network marketeers must have experienced receiving more than 95 negative responses out of 100 attempts. But this is normal, it must be noted.

Inexperienced marketeers presenting the SFI opportunity to strangers usually get disheartened after a few vain attempts. So much so they might give up their attempts at promoting SFI altogether.

I would definitely do the same thing myself, but for the fact that I know that if my target-persons do not show any interest in SFI for the first time they get to know about the business opportunity, there could be other times when the same persons might show some interest.

I understand that hundreds of my attempts might yield only a few positive results.

Besides, I would re-examine my own strategies of presentation and would try to see if a better and more effective presentation could get me some more acceptances.

One golden principle of marketing is to take rejection in one's stride and move on.

The reasons for rejection could be many. You might have approached the wrong persons.
You might have chosen a wrong time to present SFI as a business opportunity. You might not have put the focus on how or how much the prospects would benefit from the opportunity, if they take it.

I think if you show concrete results that you have yourself got from SFI, it will be a lot easier for you to get a better acceptance percentage.

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It is natural for people to feel bad when they face rejection. In the marketing field, the frequency with which one receives a "NO" is much higher than in other areas of life.

Network marketeers must have experienced receiving more than 95 negative responses out of 100 attempts. But this is normal, it must be noted.

Inexperienced marketeers presenting the SFI opportunity to strangers usually get disheartened after a few vain attempts. So much so they might give up
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