Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

To answer this question, you first have to understand what an Action VersaPoint is.

If you go to the To-Do List tab, you will see a Type code in the listings. It is either and S or an A. Those sources of VP that are sales based are coded S. Those sources that are action based are coded A.

So, your question hinges on the sources of VP that have an A designator.

I preach to clear out the red tabs in your shop each day. These actions are Action VP. There is a limit as to how many points you can earn each month doing these actions, so I do not think we could label them as the "best," but ignore them at your peril...

If you duplicate yourself and give those EA2+ support to the point that they give you good ratings, you get a minimum of 100 action VP each month from each EA2+. If they are also duplicating, then the action VP you get from their rank increases. This is the best way to get the Action VP that you need for your rank increases.

Thus I hope that you can see that the best way to get AVP is to duplicate, and then teach them to duplicate. When you do this, the AVP from supporting your downline can blossom and grow.
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To answer this question, you first have to understand what an Action VersaPoint is.

If you go to the To-Do List tab, you will see a Type code in the listings. It is either and S or an A. Those sources of VP that are sales based are coded S. Those sources that are action based are coded A.

So, your question hinges on the sources of VP that have an A designator.

I preach to clear out the red tabs in your shop each day. These actions are Action VP. There is a limit
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Step One:

Set up an email account somewhere other than your main one. Gmail.com and Mail.com are free and are good for this.

Step Two:

Send an email to the responder from the new account, or use the new account on the form that causes the autoresponder to be activated.

Step Three:

Check the new email account for the receipt of the first in the series of emails that you have set up the autoresponder to send out. Then check it again at the proper intervals for the messages and delays you have set up.

If no message comes to the new account, there is a problem with the autoresponder that needs to be resolved. Rinse and repeat from Step Two.

Step Four:

You got the message at the new account, so you are now assured that the autoresponder is functioning properly.


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Step One:

Set up an email account somewhere other than your main one. Gmail.com and Mail.com are free and are good for this.

Step Two:

Send an email to the responder from the new account, or use the new account on the form that causes the autoresponder to be activated.

Step Three:

Check the new email account for the receipt of the first in the series of emails that you have set up the autoresponder to send out. Then check it again at the proper
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

First of all, Congrats on winning your class competition. I saw that the other day and want to publicly give you Kudos for it.

So you already have 5 future PTL's. What is stopping you from having 10, or 15? Continue to help and support those first 5, but after a few months, they will perceive you as a broken record. Time to move on and check back with them every once in a while.

A large part of your income comes from those first line sales, so why limit yourself to only 5? 10 or 15 people who are generating volume and commissions each month is better than 5, so keep doing what got you the first 5.

YES, you should generate as many first-level stars as you can. It helps you, and it helps them. Think of the life changes that being an SFI PTL brings. Why would you only want to give those benefits to 5 people? All this is predicated on your ability to support more than 5 people who are developing a downline of their own. If you can do it, you should not limit yourself, and your success to just 5 individuals.
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First of all, Congrats on winning your class competition. I saw that the other day and want to publicly give you Kudos for it.

So you already have 5 future PTL's. What is stopping you from having 10, or 15? Continue to help and support those first 5, but after a few months, they will perceive you as a broken record. Time to move on and check back with them every once in a while.

A large part of your income comes from those first line sales, so why limit yourself to only
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Earnings come from purchases made by your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA), purchases made by your Co-Sposored Affiliates (CSA) and from the VersaPoints (VP) that you earn each month. There are a few other sources of income that you can use but I feel that these three are the main ones I feel that a serious person should consider.

Each PSA that makes purchases at TripleClicks earns you a commission. You also get a commission on the purchases made by CSAs. Encourage them to purchase TCredits and S-Builder shares to help them score on auctions and build up their business with PSAs that they did not have to work to recruit. Encourage them to Earn Executive Affiliate (EA) status in their first and subsequent months. The more EA2 you have the higher you will progress in the Team Leader ranks. That will get you more VP each months. A single VP is not worth much, but thousands of them have value and as a Team Leader, you get matching VP from your EA2 downlines with the reach increasing with each level.

PSA and CSA pruchases will give you income. Each PSA that qualifies as EA2 will give you more points towards Team Leader status and that will increase your CSA count and your VP... So get out there and recruit, or purchase S-Builder Shares, or purchase PSAs from the vendors in TripleClicks looking for those EA2s as they are where the income you seek comes from.
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Earnings come from purchases made by your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA), purchases made by your Co-Sposored Affiliates (CSA) and from the VersaPoints (VP) that you earn each month. There are a few other sources of income that you can use but I feel that these three are the main ones I feel that a serious person should consider.

Each PSA that makes purchases at TripleClicks earns you a commission. You also get a commission on the purchases made by CSAs. Encourage them to purchase
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

The answer to this question depends on you!

A real go-getter does not need any input from a sponser or co-sponser to become an EA2 and be successful here at SFI. Active people to fill these roles might be able to guide and encourage, and if the affiliate needs that, they can provide that, but the program is so clearly laid out that the active participation of the sponsor or co-sponsor are not needed at all.

I started with a sponsor who quit within a month or two of my joining. I won my class E365 competition and am building a business, all without a "good" sponsor.
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The answer to this question depends on you!

A real go-getter does not need any input from a sponser or co-sponser to become an EA2 and be successful here at SFI. Active people to fill these roles might be able to guide and encourage, and if the affiliate needs that, they can provide that, but the program is so clearly laid out that the active participation of the sponsor or co-sponsor are not needed at all.

I started with a sponsor who quit within a month or two of my joining.
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

If this is your goal, then you will have to ignore all the free advertising and the ECA's that sell PSAs. You will have to interact with each recruit before you give them the join link. That means that you will have to contact them before they join. This is a very difficult thing to do. You would have to have your advertising point them to a page that pre-qualified them. I would estimate that you would lose over 90% of the people that made it to the qualification page, which might not be a bad thing as the 10% that are left might be serious.

I would counsel you to just go with the flow and work with those that join who show that they are interested, but also send out an email to everyone at least once a month.

Trying to pre-qualify each lead will involve a lot of work on your part. Working with the good leads once they have joined would be much easier.
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If this is your goal, then you will have to ignore all the free advertising and the ECA's that sell PSAs. You will have to interact with each recruit before you give them the join link. That means that you will have to contact them before they join. This is a very difficult thing to do. You would have to have your advertising point them to a page that pre-qualified them. I would estimate that you would lose over 90% of the people that made it to the qualification page, which might not be a bad
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Daphne,

Be happy that you have affiliates who are doing the To-Do list! I can count on one hand the number of people that are doing that on my downline that is approaching 500. If you really need to motivate these people, send them tidbits that you find from Ask SC and the other pages that they are not doing, but the To-Do list forces them to clear all the red tabs each day to update the counters, so by doing that, they are doing all that can be done! What more can you ask of them other than setting up a Standing Order and qualifying as a Bronze team leader? That, however was not the question. If they are doing all that is on the To-Do list, congradulate them and help them get to EA2 each month.
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Daphne,

Be happy that you have affiliates who are doing the To-Do list! I can count on one hand the number of people that are doing that on my downline that is approaching 500. If you really need to motivate these people, send them tidbits that you find from Ask SC and the other pages that they are not doing, but the To-Do list forces them to clear all the red tabs each day to update the counters, so by doing that, they are doing all that can be done! What more can you ask of them other
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Confirmation comes on two levels: reciept and reply.

Using the the SFI mails always sends a copy to you, so if you get it and they have a valid email address, they are getting it too. If they respond to your message then you have a confirmation that is better than any other using SFI mail.

Using your personal email account, you can use features that send you a return email when the email is opened. Usually their email client will ask them if they want to send the return receipt, so you will have a confirmation that they got the message.

The gold standard for either method of sending out an email is if they respond. They cannot respond without getting the emails. I think that part of your question is: I am not getting a lot of response from the emails I am sending out... so I ask you, are you asking for responses? If you do not ask, there is a very low probability that there will be a response.

Newsletters and other general mailers should not generate a lot of responses, but are very necessary to keep your group working. As long as you are getting your copy in your personal email account, you can rest assured that everyone who has given SFI a valid email address is getting the email, now the question is if they are reading it or acting on the contents.

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Confirmation comes on two levels: reciept and reply.

Using the the SFI mails always sends a copy to you, so if you get it and they have a valid email address, they are getting it too. If they respond to your message then you have a confirmation that is better than any other using SFI mail.

Using your personal email account, you can use features that send you a return email when the email is opened. Usually their email client will ask them if they want to send the return receipt,
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Excellent Queston! SFI has so many ways of earning money and VersaPoints that it can be bewildering. I take the position that you should be doing things that will build your income long term.

My suggestions:

Earn monthly VersaPoints (VP). They fill several purposes. They are where your qualifications for Executive Affiliate (EA) and Team Leader (TL) positions come from. They are a major source of income when you are earning lots of them via matching. Develop the habit of logging in daily, clearing the red tabs and learning something new, along with earning a minimum of 10 Action VP per day, and enter the Daily Grand. Action VP are needed in addition to Purchase VP as you qualify for Bronze Team Leader (BTL) and above. You want that qualification since it gives you Matching VP from your downline. Do not worry about Team Leader status until you have a few EA2 downline affiliates, as you do not get Matching VP until they are EA2. Setting up a 1500+ VP Standing Order is critical to getting the VP that you need for your own EA2 qualification each month and to set an example for your downline.

Personally Enrolled Affiliates earn you money from Direct Commissions and when they qualify as EA2 status, they propel you to Team Leader status and matching VP. You need a constant flow of new PSA in order to find the diamonds among the rocks. Every PSA says that say that they want to earn money, but over 90% will not do anything to earn it. SFI requires long term effort before the money starts to flow and the something-for-nothing crowd is most of what you will see. Greet every PSA and offer to mentor each and every one, then do so with the 1% who reply.

I decided that I will buy an S-Builder share a month, buy some TCredits every month, participate in PriceBender auctions for stuff I want, for PSAs. My standing order gets me 2000 VP which is the max I can use towards BTL each month. I am working on getting several EA2 qualified downline affiliates, as the VP from them will help me towards BTL. I am committed to doing this for 2 years, then re-evaluating. I am trying to get a PSA a day.

Depending on the time you have to advertise, and how your life is going, you will have to make your own decisions. PSA that have decided to build a business and are making a small investment each month are what will propel you to a decent income. Learning to find and then motivate those PSA is where your money will come from.

I hope that these ideas will be useful to you. They represent the distillation of my learning over the last 6 months.
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Excellent Queston! SFI has so many ways of earning money and VersaPoints that it can be bewildering. I take the position that you should be doing things that will build your income long term.

My suggestions:

Earn monthly VersaPoints (VP). They fill several purposes. They are where your qualifications for Executive Affiliate (EA) and Team Leader (TL) positions come from. They are a major source of income when you are earning lots of them via matching. Develop the habit
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

To answer this question properly, we must know what you mean by "modest."

In internet advertising, 1% response from an ad is considered good. 3% is fantastic. In the case of Safemail lists, this is the number that even look at your ad. 1% of them might click through and sign up as a PSA. That says that you need to put the SFI spash page or an ad in front of at least 1 million people a day to get 100 PSA.

The question then becomes how to get an SFI ad in front of 1 Million people a day on a modest budget. My answer to that one is that it cannot be done. It is impossible.

To get 100 PSA from the vendors is over $100, and they do not promise to deliver in a day. To get 30 days worth of 100 PSA contracts, you would have to buy 30 contracts. That is a cool $3,000 which I do not think meets the definition of a modest budget.

Now, if you have lots of computers and a large family, it might be possible to get them sending to safelists and surfing the click surf sites to generate a LOT of hits to a splash page, but you would run up against the 1 Million credits a day again. Even at 10 seconds per credit - that is a heck of a lot of surfing on a lot of click surf sites. That is also a lot of safelists and earning credits at those safelists. Even though a lot of safelists give you 1,000 impressions upon joining, you have to earn by actions or wait a long time before you can mail again - and joining enough of them as a paid member would quickly drain even a modest budget.

I think you need to change your question to: How can I get 5 EAs and train them to each get 5 EAs in less than a year. That is what your goal should be: Duplication. That is what will get you to STL and GTL and enough VP matching to get a decent monthly check.
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To answer this question properly, we must know what you mean by "modest."

In internet advertising, 1% response from an ad is considered good. 3% is fantastic. In the case of Safemail lists, this is the number that even look at your ad. 1% of them might click through and sign up as a PSA. That says that you need to put the SFI spash page or an ad in front of at least 1 million people a day to get 100 PSA.

The question then becomes how to get an SFI ad in front of
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