What are the benefits of using the new AFFILIATE E-Cards...and what are some good ways to use them with my team?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I tried these E-Cards and find them one of the best inventions in SFI. They can be used virtually for any occasion when you just feel like sending short message.
If you send a bare email it may run like that:
- do that and that and you get that and that... informative but very cold, or
- here's a link, it's great, check it out... first thought: is it really so great to waste my time?
Or
- don't quit, why are you doing nothing?... does anyone think this affiliate will feel like doing something now?
But!
If anyone gets almost same messages on funny E-card, the first reaction is most likely a smile. The second might be something like that: ...curious what is so funny, let's read.:-)
Right?:-)
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I tried these E-Cards and find them one of the best inventions in SFI. They can be used virtually for any occasion when you just feel like sending short message.
If you send a bare email it may run like that:
- do that and that and you get that and that... informative but very cold, or
- here's a link, it's great, check it out... first thought: is it really so great to waste my time?
Or
- don't quit, why are you doing nothing?... does anyone think this affiliate will
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How often should I communicate with my Sponsor and Co-Sponsor?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Basically SFI itself provides you with all you need.
In quite other area of life, I teach in the following manner:
I ask questions, apprentice has to find the answer. No direct queries to me allowed, guesses only. Why am I doing it like that?
Simple. If he/she finds the answer after several futile tries, this knowledge will be burnt in his/her mind forever. If I just tell them, they will forget it in 5 minutes.
Yes, it is not easy to become my apprentice and even harder to stay, but that's another story.
I told this just to show you that only knowledge you dig for yourself is really yours. A good mentor will show you where to dig and help you when you are really stuck. But do not expect from your mentors to walk the way instead of you.
And this is the answer to you question. Ask your sponsor, co-sponsor or any other mentor to show you where to go and what to do. Then proceed further on your own. Do not ask anything you cannot solve yourself. But if you are really stuck, do not hesitate to contact them any time.
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Basically SFI itself provides you with all you need.
In quite other area of life, I teach in the following manner:
I ask questions, apprentice has to find the answer. No direct queries to me allowed, guesses only. Why am I doing it like that?
Simple. If he/she finds the answer after several futile tries, this knowledge will be burnt in his/her mind forever. If I just tell them, they will forget it in 5 minutes.
Yes, it is not easy to become my apprentice and even harder
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If you had an extra $100, what would be the best way, specifically, to use it to maximize and help grow your SFI business?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
2/14/2014 3:17 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Actually nothing. I presume you have your own optimized budget and follow it. Exceeding it just because you can will most probably bring suboptimal results is any.
If you don't have a team yet and spend it to get higher rank somehow - hm, where the required Action Points will come from? Only 500 VP-s from bids, not enough. Houston, we have a problem.
OK, you have a team and they are enough to supply you with these Action Points, so the VP-s for extra bids will make you BTL. So what? BTL for 1 month and money spent? You may try to intensify you recruiting simultaneously, but no guarantee you will succeed in time. So, ended up with USD 100 spent and nothing changed?
OK, you have a team sufficient to maintain your TL status. Do you really need money to invest? Wake up, you are earning already!
Paid promotions? OK, you can arrange one minor campaign and what now? Most probably you get few extra PSA-s, but will they be active? Sure?
So, you don't need extra money. What you need, is stable inflow of funds to finance your optimal budget in first months. So... (give it to me:-DDD I'm joking, of course) the best you can do is probably put it aside to overbridge eventual minor holes in your normal SFI budget.
That is my personal opinion only.
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Actually nothing. I presume you have your own optimized budget and follow it. Exceeding it just because you can will most probably bring suboptimal results is any.
If you don't have a team yet and spend it to get higher rank somehow - hm, where the required Action Points will come from? Only 500 VP-s from bids, not enough. Houston, we have a problem.
OK, you have a team and they are enough to supply you with these Action Points, so the VP-s for extra bids will make you BTL.
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When I am fully self-employed with SFI, and someone asks what I do for a living, what do I tell them?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Delicate question. I am a person who separates his private and business affairs quite sharply. Actually in physical life I am not interested in too many people knowing what I really am. Therefore I usually answer: internet marketer and I do not even always know for which countries I work, just definitely not for my resident country. That is true, as I am in a number of businesses, not SFI only.
Usually no one asks more and all of us are happy with that.
As far as promotion is concerned, I do not believe in warm market and prefer using online methods - no close contact. I don't want my private life to be messed up by too much information given away.
That's a special case, perhaps, but this viewpoint might be also interesting, I hope so.
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Delicate question. I am a person who separates his private and business affairs quite sharply. Actually in physical life I am not interested in too many people knowing what I really am. Therefore I usually answer: internet marketer and I do not even always know for which countries I work, just definitely not for my resident country. That is true, as I am in a number of businesses, not SFI only.
Usually no one asks more and all of us are happy with that.
As far as promotion is concerned,
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What are the benefits of organizing a contest for your downline?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
2/14/2014 3:52 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Frankly speaking I doubt there are any. First of all it has a negative resemblance with competitions organized normally by "onland" multinationals. They are nothing else than additional push from behind, because if you never win them, you may even encounter adverse effects. I know it is different in SFI but the psychological stench is still there.
Another reason: e.g. personally I do anything I do because I want to have a successful business one day, not to get few TC-s or even bucks tomorrow. So it changes nothing in my behavior.
The opposite example is an inactive affiliate - do you think he even reads anything about these contests? I even gave some minor unannounced TC rewards to some PSA-s who made a kickstart. If they were not completely absent-minded, they should have guessed from my personal messages to them that they can expect more if they carry on. I haven't got even a single "Thanks!" in return and they are still sleeping somewhere and waiting for something good to happen to them, not caring of rewards here at all.
Sorry for the sceptic opinion.
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Frankly speaking I doubt there are any. First of all it has a negative resemblance with competitions organized normally by "onland" multinationals. They are nothing else than additional push from behind, because if you never win them, you may even encounter adverse effects. I know it is different in SFI but the psychological stench is still there.
Another reason: e.g. personally I do anything I do because I want to have a successful business one day, not to get few TC-s or even bucks
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What is the best strategy to win the E365 Championship for my class?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
2/24/2014 5:11 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
What do you want to achieve? Easy to answer - see your own profile and check out your primary goal. No such specified? Then you must have dropped out from 365 Contest and everything else long ago and do not even know what you are doing here - this question is irrelevant for you.
Ah, you have one! OK, what is it? To win 365 contest? I do not believe that. So why don't you focus on your primary goal? You may win this contest just because it enhances your progress, but not for the contest itself. But no tension, no anxiety, just efficient work. If you don't do it now, you do it next year and so what?
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What do you want to achieve? Easy to answer - see your own profile and check out your primary goal. No such specified? Then you must have dropped out from 365 Contest and everything else long ago and do not even know what you are doing here - this question is irrelevant for you.
Ah, you have one! OK, what is it? To win 365 contest? I do not believe that. So why don't you focus on your primary goal? You may win this contest just because it enhances your progress, but not for the contest itself.
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What is the best and least expensive way to build a personal SFI Website?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
3/17/2014 1:14 pm
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Least expensive? Would zero cost do?:-) There are lots of domains offering free hosting and quite decent service. I use one of these, it allows 5 pages, HTML and link insertion in very easy-to-handle way, using images and many other things. If you are more professional, you may even edit the source code directly. Plus you have Guest Book and Contact Form. Good enough?:-)
As far as content is concerned, I would advise you to focus on SFI, but still give your audience wide choice, or at least an illusion of that.
E.g. I do it in the following way:
The site is not about SFI, but you get the impression it is on the top. No sites competing - I mean mostly other affiliate progs - are offered. But I offer variety of promotion tools I use myself - PTC-s, Traffic Exchanges, Mailers, some other facilities.
The result is the reader may feel like in a store and the question is not whether to sign-up, but where to sign-up. As SFI stands in the focus, it is most probable target, but if your visitor joins under you somewhere else, I think you won't object too.
Draw your visitors' attention that you always update your offers. The simplest way is to use one of your pages as kind of blog with recent news.
Hope that helps.
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Least expensive? Would zero cost do?:-) There are lots of domains offering free hosting and quite decent service. I use one of these, it allows 5 pages, HTML and link insertion in very easy-to-handle way, using images and many other things. If you are more professional, you may even edit the source code directly. Plus you have Guest Book and Contact Form. Good enough?:-)
As far as content is concerned, I would advise you to focus on SFI, but still give your audience wide choice, or at
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Among the popular Standing Order items (IAHBE, S-Builder, TCredits), which is best and why?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
2/14/2014 4:30 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
None. This is like asking which is better, a jetfighter, a pineapple, or BitCoins.
The 3 products mentioned serve absolutely different purposes and cannot be compared. The only reply that has some sense may be that for TCredits you may get the other two but not vice versa, so if you want them all, you probably have to choose TC-s.
Like getting BitCoins first in my example and buying with them what you wish.
SFI represents multiple income earning opportunities. Should I focus on just one, some, or ALL?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
3/18/2014 5:36 pm
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I think you could focus on all. Just take into consideration ECA is a special kind of fish. If you are an ECA, you have a lot of work with proper presentation of your products, descriptions, setting right prices and discounts, offering deals of the day etc.
If you closely support ECA-s, you have all this burden too plus building good personal relationships with each. So consider all pro and cons here carefully. You may simply promote their links - in that case it is as simple as any other SFI income stream, but your profits will be much lower too.
I think it is a question of individual affinities.
As far as all other income streams are concerned, I don't see any obstacle of running all together.
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I think you could focus on all. Just take into consideration ECA is a special kind of fish. If you are an ECA, you have a lot of work with proper presentation of your products, descriptions, setting right prices and discounts, offering deals of the day etc.
If you closely support ECA-s, you have all this burden too plus building good personal relationships with each. So consider all pro and cons here carefully. You may simply promote their links - in that case it is as simple as any other SFI
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Besides the requirement to qualify, what is expected of me in becoming a team leader?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
12/23/2013 2:35 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Maybe I will sound strange, but SFI is primarily not about team leadership. If it were, it would not differ from any offline MLM, which are even worse to participate in than in "regular company". I tell this as an ex-banker where I really used to be a Manager Team Leader and know how teams work in such semi-military organizations.
I hear so many times "your should lead by example", but that is simply impossible here, as SFI offers very wide variety of plausible solutions for members in almost any situation. Your example may be useless for majority of your team.
Instead of that you should just build your own business and the best way of this might be trying to touch the strings of the members of your downline by variety of tips and ways of motivation. All of these should be applicable in certain circumstances. Sooner or later you will make a hit and get a really active PSA/CSA. Another approach would bring you another active downline member, maybe when you even do not expect it.
So, I think SFI is rather about individual patronage and self-development.
Keep trying and you will succeed.
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Maybe I will sound strange, but SFI is primarily not about team leadership. If it were, it would not differ from any offline MLM, which are even worse to participate in than in "regular company". I tell this as an ex-banker where I really used to be a Manager Team Leader and know how teams work in such semi-military organizations.
I hear so many times "your should lead by example", but that is simply impossible here, as SFI offers very wide variety of plausible solutions
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