Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

When my sponsor was working on setting up an advertising co-op, I wanted to know how much experience he had in dealing with different ad sites, what kind of ad sites he would be using. Were the sign-ups being paid to join, just click, or joining just by catching their attention? What countries were targeted, age groups, etc. And the cost and how soon he expected to see results.

These are the things that an affiliate wants to know before he buys a share of a co-op. This should be in the letter inviting the PSAs to join the co-op.

Another of my upline offered a co-op and sent this information, but I chose not to join. We all do have that right to join or not, but we should keep within our line of sponsorship.

If you are offering a co-op, it might not be the price or payment method that keeps your PSAs from joining. Fill them in on the pertinent information. No one like to tell anyone exactly where they advertise. You don't have to do that, but give them some info and tell them what experience and results you have had.
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When my sponsor was working on setting up an advertising co-op, I wanted to know how much experience he had in dealing with different ad sites, what kind of ad sites he would be using. Were the sign-ups being paid to join, just click, or joining just by catching their attention? What countries were targeted, age groups, etc. And the cost and how soon he expected to see results.

These are the things that an affiliate wants to know before he buys a share of a co-op. This should be in the
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

Many people sign in to SFI without having any idea of what a businessman has to go through to become successful. You have to prepare them, show them that ups and downs are normal and they must learn to cope with it.

1) Be honest with your affiliates. They have to pedal their own bike to succeed in this business.You are not riding a tandem bike where you do all the work and he coasts. We can guide and encourage, but they have to do the work.

2) Share personal experiences, ups and downs. Become a real person to them. Let them know that you also went through some of what they are going through. That they are not alone in this.

3) Turn the negatives into valuable lessons.
All businesses face setbacks, hardships, and, frustrations. Each one that is overcome, teaches a little about business life.

4)Give incentives. Offer rewards and contests. Remind them how they will be rewarded if they do the next step. Use the compensation plan to order your thoughts here.

5)Help them understand the different money streams offered and the way they work, the requirements, and the the solutions to what might be holding them from achieving success in each stream.
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Many people sign in to SFI without having any idea of what a businessman has to go through to become successful. You have to prepare them, show them that ups and downs are normal and they must learn to cope with it.

1) Be honest with your affiliates. They have to pedal their own bike to succeed in this business.You are not riding a tandem bike where you do all the work and he coasts. We can guide and encourage, but they have to do the work.

2) Share personal experiences, ups
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

The first step to becoming your class Champion is setting that as one of your goals. To ensure yourself of that goal, your should work diligently on finishing your To Do List and of course Doing all of the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly assignments. Do not miss a single chance of gathering in any vp that is available.

But there is a limited number of available vp on the To Do list. Everybody can do it and more than you will do it. So to guarantee that you will come out on top, you must determine early on to spend some money, buy things you will be needing or using, and buy all of your normal purchases from TC if they are offered.

Be selective in your purchases. Remember:
* TCredits and Gift Cards offer both sales vp and action vp,
* every new item you buy offers both sales vp and action vp by way of the reviews except
digital downloads.
* you only get vp when buying with MRP when you buy products direct from SFI/TC
* for a 1500 vp standing order, you also get 100 action vp
* purchasing TCredits earns you sales vp, but using them in an auction, earns you
action vp.

Why Bother? Does it make any difference? Does it Matter?Imagine that when we signed up that we had a choice of 2 or 3 people to be our sponsor. All we we to see is their profile and badge list. One choice is a fairly inactive sponsor with no earned badges, just the automatic ones. The next is fairly active with say 10 badges. The third had a long list of badges including top ASK answers and class leader. Who would you chose to be your sponsor? The almost inactive or inactive person? Or the one who is showing that he is active, knowledgeable can probably answer your questions.
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The first step to becoming your class Champion is setting that as one of your goals. To ensure yourself of that goal, your should work diligently on finishing your To Do List and of course Doing all of the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly assignments. Do not miss a single chance of gathering in any vp that is available.

But there is a limited number of available vp on the To Do list. Everybody can do it and more than you will do it. So to guarantee that you will come out on top, you must determine
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

To be a leader, you must have a team to lead. To grow as a leader, you must work at improving your leadership skills and habits. You must know which direction you are leading them and if that is the correct route to the correct destination. We must not lead astray.

These are the things that I am working on to improve my leadership skills:

> Communication skills are the most important leadership skills to hone. A single wrong word can destroy an affiliate's will to build this business. I work on showing a positive attitude even when things are difficult. Every problem has a solution and can be turned around so something good comes of it. I try to find that solution.

I work on shortening my letters, but keeping good content. You might need to work on longer letters with more useful content. I try to keep interest with a catchy subject line. I do not begrudge the time I spend working on each communication whether it is for a single person or the whole group. If it is worth saying, it is worth saying well, in a way that the affiliate will want to finish reading the letter. I hope to never bring the reaction from an affiliate that says, "oh, no, not my sponsor again."

> I am working on being a great example to my team. I participate in most all of the SFI/TC activities, buy from TripleClicks, play the auctions, read and write in the Forum, and ASK SC. I make goals, and hit my goals, and study the materials provided, and the ebooks I buy so that I can answer their questions. I help them with advertising and prioritizing. An affiliate can still feel abandoned even with lots of mail from his sponsor if the sponsor doesn't guide his PSA through the steps that he must take to actually build his business and achieve success.

> A leader works to strengthen his team, not weaken it. Coddling just one member will weaken the whole team. Helping a weak member is not coddling him. It takes a leader to decide where the boundary is and to arrive at the correct decisions about this member. I keep track of my teams vp especially when I offer help of any kind. I write the date, what I did and what his vp for that date is. Then I check it before I write to him again and base the next step on his present progress.

> Setting goals is also important. They help you see where you are going, where you must go to get there, and why you want to go there in the first place. A trip without a destination may never get out of the driveway. I am trying to encourage my team to write down their goals, as I write down mine.

> Organization is important for the remembrance of what you have said, what you have done, and what your team has said and done. I'm constantly looking for better ways to organize my in- and out- going email, and my team mails so that I can remember what I have promised, what's done, what needs doing, and correspondence from the members of my team.

Working at making your team feel liked, wanted and helped will help you have a team that is not only willing, but eager to follow you in this business.


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To be a leader, you must have a team to lead. To grow as a leader, you must work at improving your leadership skills and habits. You must know which direction you are leading them and if that is the correct route to the correct destination. We must not lead astray.

These are the things that I am working on to improve my leadership skills:

> Communication skills are the most important leadership skills to hone. A single wrong word can destroy an affiliate's will to build
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

"Cold calling" is generating a conversation with a stranger about a business proposition whether to sell him some item or interest him in joining your business. Your question asks about the use of the local telephone directory to find people to contact.

I use the phone directory to do research on local businesses for the purpose of interesting them about our ECA program. While I usually do not phone them, I will see where they are and if they have an ad in the Yellow Pages. This gives me an idea about what they sell and maybe their names, etc.

I do not just open the phone book and pick a page and begin calling people to tell them about SFI?TC. Just think for a minute. The phone book is full of names and phone numbers that are no longer in service. Remember it takes months for a listing to be added or deleted after the order was put in. We only get a new directory once a year. The same goes for businesses. They pay for an ad and it might take almost a year before the new directory is printed and distributed. So the information in it is not reliable. Why waste your time calling every number when a great many are not active.

The same goes for the addresses in the directory. When you do find a wrong address, you might call the business and check to see if they have moved. I wouldn't bother with calling people unless you are particularly interested in recruiting him.

Most young people now have cell phone which are not listed in the directories. And many do not have a stationary home phone. Those with traditional home phones use them rarely, or they are no longer friendly to anonymous business calls.

So I believe that using the phone and the directory will be a drain on your time and your attitude.

Instead, use the directory as a small part of your research about a person or business. Then meet them face to face and just chat for a moment. If you hit it off right away, you might have a longer conversation with them, and even tell them that you are excited about something you came across and found to your liking. Then make an appointment.

The idea in cold calling is to target someone you don't know, find out about them including their likes, hopes, family, etc. Chat about those things, remember them, and then relate our business with something that interests them. Turn a cold call into a warm market.
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"Cold calling" is generating a conversation with a stranger about a business proposition whether to sell him some item or interest him in joining your business. Your question asks about the use of the local telephone directory to find people to contact.

I use the phone directory to do research on local businesses for the purpose of interesting them about our ECA program. While I usually do not phone them, I will see where they are and if they have an ad in the Yellow Pages. This
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

Well, the fastest way to get a PSA to rate you is to mess up, forget to answer a question, don't send team mail, send mail to him with someone else's name, etc. And then remind him that he hasn't rated you yet and that he will earn 10 vp for spending 10 seconds venting his anger.

Ah, you want good ratings? Start by being an awesome sponsor, or at least one who is dedicated to your PSAs. Do all that you should be doing anyway to help your team to succeed one by one. Create a relationship with them that is based on honesty, trust, and respect.

Then go ahead and reward them a few TCredits for adding a comment with there ratings. Let them know that you are not just wanting to be patted on the back, but also welcome the suggestions for being a better sponsor.
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Well, the fastest way to get a PSA to rate you is to mess up, forget to answer a question, don't send team mail, send mail to him with someone else's name, etc. And then remind him that he hasn't rated you yet and that he will earn 10 vp for spending 10 seconds venting his anger.

Ah, you want good ratings? Start by being an awesome sponsor, or at least one who is dedicated to your PSAs. Do all that you should be doing anyway to help your team to succeed one by one. Create a relationship
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

SALES!!!

As soon as you get into SFI and check out TripleClicks, you can choose some listed products and advertise them by word of mouth, free ads, or paid ads. You don't have to invest any money into it unless you use paid ads. You don't have to actually own the item. Your don't have to collect the payment or package it and send it out. The purchaser must become your PRM so you may have repeat sales there, especially if you send a short term Gift Certificate that reverts back to you if it is not redeemed within the time frame you specified.

You know what type of gifts that your family and friends give. Share those types of items on Facebook where they are sure to see them. Promote local ECAs so that your friends and family can circumvent the postage and do a direct pick-up. Make it easy for them to find the item and purchase it.

Advertise where the people who appreciate the product you have chosen to sell. Pre-qualify your intended customers and match the advertising and the item to them.
Don't try to sell a hairless cat to an Alaskan using an ad in a kayaking magazine.

Be excited about this wonderful internet mall that you've found.

Other methods of gathering commissions take more time than sales and often depend on the eagerness that other people have for purchasing. You control your sales to a great extent by using your creativity and putting for all the effort that is needed to succeed in selling your goal for the month.
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SALES!!!

As soon as you get into SFI and check out TripleClicks, you can choose some listed products and advertise them by word of mouth, free ads, or paid ads. You don't have to invest any money into it unless you use paid ads. You don't have to actually own the item. Your don't have to collect the payment or package it and send it out. The purchaser must become your PRM so you may have repeat sales there, especially if you send a short term Gift Certificate that reverts back to you if
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

I learned a silent lesson from a Moderator that I befriended a few years ago. And that lesson was to use all available methods of contacting an affiliate. Without using social media, just regular eMail and all the ways that SFI provides, it keeps an affiliate on his toes.

Just think, we have:
the Team Mail from the Genealogy,
the eCards from their Profiles,
the PSA or CSA Mailer from Power Tools,
the Stream from the Home Page,
the Contact Seller from TripleClicks product Details,
and the IM (Immediate Messaging) from the yellow balloons.

The big difference between them is whether the affiliate will see the message and read it. Some inactive affiliates will not open their mail from SFI while they might open that from their sponsor or co-sponsor. Remember that some mail from SFI mailers will go both to their personal eMail and to their SFI messages. But these are both given as being from SFI.

The mail from the sponsor through his own eMail will announce his authorship. Then it is up to the affiliate to open and read.

When an affiliate is inactive, he isn't even logging in so we don't expect him to get mail sent only through SFI.

It is important that you send personal eMail to your new PSAs and then to those who respond back to you. This is one good reason why you should not overload yourself with too many new PSAs at one time.
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I learned a silent lesson from a Moderator that I befriended a few years ago. And that lesson was to use all available methods of contacting an affiliate. Without using social media, just regular eMail and all the ways that SFI provides, it keeps an affiliate on his toes.

Just think, we have:
the Team Mail from the Genealogy,
the eCards from their Profiles,
the PSA or CSA Mailer from Power Tools,
the Stream from the Home Page,
the Contact Seller from TripleClicks
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

First you must keep your ECA store out in front of them. Add new items weekly. Make ECA comments on your News Feed and the Stream section for ECAs. Connect with other ECAs and affiliates. Use your ECA store and product descriptions in your signature when writing to your team.

Tell your team the benefits that they get when they advertise and sell your products. Make a contest for your team mates to sell your products.

Then if you want to entice other affiliates to advertise your products, give TC more than the 15% minimum fee. This leaves more money to increase the vp and commissions on your products.

Choose your products wisely. Offer products that are used every month, or greatly desired products. Make sure the prices are not over-priced.Use good descriptions. And make sure your photos show what you want to show, have crisp images, are not cluttered.
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First you must keep your ECA store out in front of them. Add new items weekly. Make ECA comments on your News Feed and the Stream section for ECAs. Connect with other ECAs and affiliates. Use your ECA store and product descriptions in your signature when writing to your team.

Tell your team the benefits that they get when they advertise and sell your products. Make a contest for your team mates to sell your products.

Then if you want to entice other affiliates to advertise your
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 241

There are no short cuts to success in SFI or elsewhere. You have to do the work. But there are detours, rabbit trails, dead ends, pot holes, and water on the road which you should avoid. And there is the road map and GPS which you should pay great attention.

When you are starting out or when you are advancing, you must pay close attention to what is in the SFI training. Keep close to your sponsor and upline. Duplicate them. Do not add your own spin on it. Do not be enticed by others to add on additional affiliate businesses of any kind. Put all of your attention and effort into building your SFI business.

Obey the rules for advertising SFI and TC. Do not embellish the opportunity, nor give specific amounts of income.

As you sponsor PSAs, duplicate your sponsor and the training manual.Teach them to duplicate you. Do not allow others to privately influence your decisions in SFI. Keep on the main road and do not experiment. When you need help and your sponsor and upline are not able to help you, go to the public SFI Forum and ask for help. Or use the ASK SC venu.

A few tips that can speed you along are:

1) If it's not too late do all you can do to be a Fast Track earner.

2) While I don't want to put you in a pause, when you have done enough of the To Do List for EA, then switch to studying other of the SFI training like Internet Income that do not have vp attached. You can use this information to advantage, and you will have some of the action vp let to use next month.

3) Do all you can to purchase from TC enough to cover your 1500 or 2000 allowed Sales vp every month.

4) Aim for BTL instead of EA2.

5) As you learn all the great things about SFI, let your excitement and joy show to your prospects. They will get excited, too.
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There are no short cuts to success in SFI or elsewhere. You have to do the work. But there are detours, rabbit trails, dead ends, pot holes, and water on the road which you should avoid. And there is the road map and GPS which you should pay great attention.

When you are starting out or when you are advancing, you must pay close attention to what is in the SFI training. Keep close to your sponsor and upline. Duplicate them. Do not add your own spin on it. Do not be enticed by others to
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