How can you build your SFI business on a tight budget?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
12/22/2013 5:59 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
This is a question of precise calculation mostly. Principles to follow:
1) Take all free VP you can and calculate exactly how much it will make in the particular month - take care, numbers for different months will differ!
2) Calculate the lacking amount.
3) Search for the cheapest and most useful alternative to get these VP. Maybe TCredits are best. If you choose them, don't be irrational and don't buy them by 1. Next month will come and they come handy.
4) Take all opportunities you have - games and auctions, bonuses etc.
Sorry to say, Standing Order is most convenient, but suboptimal from tight budget point of view. You may win VP or auction and that will make the whole picture different.
Hope it helps.
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This is a question of precise calculation mostly. Principles to follow:
1) Take all free VP you can and calculate exactly how much it will make in the particular month - take care, numbers for different months will differ!
2) Calculate the lacking amount.
3) Search for the cheapest and most useful alternative to get these VP. Maybe TCredits are best. If you choose them, don't be irrational and don't buy them by 1. Next month will come and they come handy.
4) Take all opportunities
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How can we shift from quantity to QUALITY with our sign-ups?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I have read a lot of answers and would like to start with what is NOT a solution:
- "Advertise in right places." I am quite familiar with the world of elite PTC-s, Traffic Exchanges and Mailers and can assure you that even the best PTC-s and Pro Only TE-s do advertise scam. The best example is the infamous Paypal trick "turning your Paypal into ATM". You sell there the trick itself, so this is a classic pyramid scheme. Still, net is full of this rubbish, including elite and pro sites too. So forget the "right place" concept.
- "Explain them BEFORE they sign up SFI is not an overnight scheme." How can you do this advertising online? If you write a novel in mailer, they may still open your link for credits, but be sure they won't read a word from your composition. Or you mean we should use warm market only? Do you know that warm market is less efficient than cold according to some specialists? It is due potential affiliates know or see/hear you personally and either don't take you seriously, or sign up just to make you a favor, with no personal interest at all.
So the right answer seems to be:
- include some crucial points in your ads: no overnight riches, free to join and run, some impressive figures, but be brief!
- advertise everywhere you feel comfortable and the more the better - it is really game of numbers, as some of you already pointed out!
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I have read a lot of answers and would like to start with what is NOT a solution:
- "Advertise in right places." I am quite familiar with the world of elite PTC-s, Traffic Exchanges and Mailers and can assure you that even the best PTC-s and Pro Only TE-s do advertise scam. The best example is the infamous Paypal trick "turning your Paypal into ATM". You sell there the trick itself, so this is a classic pyramid scheme. Still, net is full of this rubbish, including elite and
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Should I buy PSAs or learn how to sponsor them myself?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
1/25/2014 6:10 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I think this is not the real question. You have to build a team anyway at the end of the day and you need at least 1500 VP each month. These two goals have to be harmonized somehow, so the real question is: how should I get 1500 VP to build my team most efficiently?
Now the answer is much simpler. If you have to buy something anyway for 1500 VP, you may try buying PSA-s directly, buying co-op shares or buying TC-s and try to win the same in auction. Even less direct approach is buying hit packs for your blogs or SFI splashpages - it is already closer to sponsoring yourself.
If you have these 1500 VP, direct purchasing is not necessary and your decision is about whether you better trust professional recruiting methods you don't control or perhaps "less pro" but fully controlled by you.
The latter has certain advantages: if you use mailers, blogs or your own splashpages, you may transmit your personal message, "brand yourself" and stay out from the crowd even before sign-ups.
Therefore my final answer is: sponsor yourself anyway, you cannot avoid that. Buy PSA directly for VP-s sake or bulk purchases only.
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I think this is not the real question. You have to build a team anyway at the end of the day and you need at least 1500 VP each month. These two goals have to be harmonized somehow, so the real question is: how should I get 1500 VP to build my team most efficiently?
Now the answer is much simpler. If you have to buy something anyway for 1500 VP, you may try buying PSA-s directly, buying co-op shares or buying TC-s and try to win the same in auction. Even less direct approach is buying
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How do you deal with PSAs who you offer unconditional support but still rate you poorly?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I have been never rated here yet and have 4 PSA only at the moment, but the general principle is that YOU should know what you are doing well and where are your flaws if any.
Both the business and other sectors I come from are quite merciless - nothing like here in SFI. Therefore I am likely to expect too much from my team - not more than from myself, but what is normal for me, may be painful for them.
I should be aware of that and be ready to get dissatisfaction in exchange. But does it mean I should be distressed about that? No. I should analyze e.g. why they do not reply to my mails and don't ask anything, even when they work. Maybe I overwhelm them? OK, let's make a correction and give them less information. They could have earned a lot of VP with that and they did not. Perhaps they did not want to. OK, I cannot help anyone who does not want to be helped. Another correction. Etc.
To summarize. You should not care about ratings given to you. You should care about the performance of your PSA-s and your real role in improving it. Nothing else matters.
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I have been never rated here yet and have 4 PSA only at the moment, but the general principle is that YOU should know what you are doing well and where are your flaws if any.
Both the business and other sectors I come from are quite merciless - nothing like here in SFI. Therefore I am likely to expect too much from my team - not more than from myself, but what is normal for me, may be painful for them.
I should be aware of that and be ready to get dissatisfaction in exchange.
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What is the best way to convince my PSAs that they should set up a Standing Order?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
1/25/2014 5:00 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Unusual answer, as always. I never tell obvious things, you can read those in hundreds of places.
The best way is to advise them NOT to set up SO at the beginning of their journey. If they work and are not just sitting and waiting for something good to happen to them, first two months they make 1500 VP free easily.
From third month SO is really the most convenient way, but in terms of cost it is suboptimal. First of all, they do not need SO for 1500 VP, as they can gather 400 VP at least free of charge. They may also win on draws. They may buy 50 TC-s once and win on auctions. So many possibilities, I won't list them all.
SO is a must when they have already built a team covering the SO cost regularly. The best is probably 125 TC, as you need them in any case for multiple purposes.
But if you want to keep your expenses on the floor when you are still speeding up only, do not use SO. Calculate precisely and use your mind.
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Unusual answer, as always. I never tell obvious things, you can read those in hundreds of places.
The best way is to advise them NOT to set up SO at the beginning of their journey. If they work and are not just sitting and waiting for something good to happen to them, first two months they make 1500 VP free easily.
From third month SO is really the most convenient way, but in terms of cost it is suboptimal. First of all, they do not need SO for 1500 VP, as they can gather 400
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There is a lot of fraud on the Internet. How do we convince skeptical prospects that SFI is legit and real?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
In some promos I just quote some figures, like 15+ year track record, huge number of members, articles sold and countries served, but this is just for their information. They may believe it or not.
I also tell them SFI is free or next to free if they want to run it like that, there ate no bosses and obligations.
All this may sound good, but it is not enough, because of counter-arguments like that:
- All MLM is scam, so SFI is no better.
Or even:
- Everything coming from internet is fraud.
If you face this attitude and you will, it is useless to argue, as you would argue not with common sense, but with fixa idea plainly.
Still, there is one thing that may help: tell them next to nothing about SFI and suggest them to make their own investigation - use Google or anything they want.
Some of them would do that - just to prove SFI is scam and you are idiot. And here they fail to find anything against SFI and realize it was not you who was an idiot. They will never admit that, but may register and start to investigate further inside. Finally they may find themselves working and be quite comfortable with that.
Hope this helps.
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In some promos I just quote some figures, like 15+ year track record, huge number of members, articles sold and countries served, but this is just for their information. They may believe it or not.
I also tell them SFI is free or next to free if they want to run it like that, there ate no bosses and obligations.
All this may sound good, but it is not enough, because of counter-arguments like that:
- All MLM is scam, so SFI is no better.
Or even:
- Everything
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Which is the best way to receive your SFI commissions (Payoneer, PayPal, check, etc.)?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
3/18/2014 5:04 pm
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I would prefer Payoneer just because it is a real bankcard and can be used in all ways other bankcards can. Paypal? May be fine, I use it myself, but sometimes I have a feeling my counterparty there is not a kind of banker, but a kind of inquisitor. So many restrictions, overdone "security measures" and bureaucracy. As far as payment processors as such are concerned, Payza is better, they are friendly and don't consider you member of Al-Qaeda if you buy Golden membership in some elite PTC. But still, you cannot pay with any oh these in physical shops - you still have to extract your money somehow to your card or bank a/c and that costs.
So I think Payoneer is best.
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I would prefer Payoneer just because it is a real bankcard and can be used in all ways other bankcards can. Paypal? May be fine, I use it myself, but sometimes I have a feeling my counterparty there is not a kind of banker, but a kind of inquisitor. So many restrictions, overdone "security measures" and bureaucracy. As far as payment processors as such are concerned, Payza is better, they are friendly and don't consider you member of Al-Qaeda if you buy Golden membership in some elite PTC.
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I see that there are ECAs in my local area who have not yet listed any products. How can I/we encourage them to become active ECAs?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
12/26/2013 5:53 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Actually I also have such. I do only one thing: connect with them still, so if they finally do something I see it immediately and start to promote them.
However, I do not think I have any reasons to convince or push. Same principle: "Some will, some won't. So what? Next!"
You may even consider this phase as their first trial as ECA-s, or pass exam if you like that better.
Task: to complete all formalities and create this very list of products, even if it will contain one item only. Can they cope with that? No? How can I expect them to cope with the sales then? I cannot hold their hand all life long.
Oh, they can? Fine! Than they are prepared to make real business and here my help may come in and be quite handy. Not earlier.
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Actually I also have such. I do only one thing: connect with them still, so if they finally do something I see it immediately and start to promote them.
However, I do not think I have any reasons to convince or push. Same principle: "Some will, some won't. So what? Next!"
You may even consider this phase as their first trial as ECA-s, or pass exam if you like that better.
Task: to complete all formalities and create this very list of products, even if it will
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I need a mentor. What's the best way to find a mentor for SFI?
Alexander Kuklin, Aff (Hungary)
1/25/2014 3:44 am
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Non-standard answer again:
Why do you need a mentor, to motivate you or to inform you and give tips?
It is good to have a mentor to encourage you, but I don't think that SFI should be started at all with insufficient motivation. So here YOU are your first mentor and no one else.
SFI has more information available to learn than you probably can process at once, so you do not need mentor for this either.
What you may really need is someone who will show you some ways not so highlighted by SFI. Examples: how to get Fast Track the easiest way, or how to keep EA status without SO and keeping your costs near zero. Where to find some additional online income to finance even these petty expenses. Where to advertise and what to stress in your text ads or on your splash pages.
Use Forum or a2a. Mark me as your a2a friend and I tell you more.
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Non-standard answer again:
Why do you need a mentor, to motivate you or to inform you and give tips?
It is good to have a mentor to encourage you, but I don't think that SFI should be started at all with insufficient motivation. So here YOU are your first mentor and no one else.
SFI has more information available to learn than you probably can process at once, so you do not need mentor for this either.
What you may really need is someone who will show you
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What do I need to do to make myself the best SFI affiliate possible?
Affiliate since: 10/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Could I be little harsh?
First of all not to submit such questions. But you are innocent, someone who have chosen it should think about meaning of life.
What means best? Best to whom? What was your aim when you joined SFI? Are you best if you feel you achieved it? Who will judge? And so many similar questions.
My answer is: do not try to be the best. Just perform your best without straining yourself, right?
No detailed recipes, they are individual for everyone.
Hope that helps you to find yourself.:-)
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Could I be little harsh?
First of all not to submit such questions. But you are innocent, someone who have chosen it should think about meaning of life.
What means best? Best to whom? What was your aim when you joined SFI? Are you best if you feel you achieved it? Who will judge? And so many similar questions.
My answer is: do not try to be the best. Just perform your best without straining yourself, right?
No detailed recipes, they are individual for everyone.
Hope
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12/22/2013 5:59 am