Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Initiating an online chat may seem uncomfortable to most people who are not used to. Your new PSA might be needing your support at the moment or just need some clarification about getting started with SFI.

Here are basic rules before initiating an online chat:

- Start the conversation by a short introduction.
For example: “Hi (name) how are you getting along with SFI?”

- Deliver a basic line in a relatively friendly, self-assured way so as to make your new PSA feel comfortable.

- Have self-confident in delivering your message. After all your communication should reflect the role of being his/her Team Leader.

- Show rapport in your conversation.
Talk to your new PSA in the manner as if you were going up to someone you already know and are friendly with. Don't go too far and be inappropriately familiar with people, but at the same time, you don't need to be overly formal and courteous and restrained around acquaintances and strangers. By following this suggestion you'll naturally adopt a warmer, more confident attitude and put the other person at ease.

What to discuss with your new PSA:

- Ask about his/her current situation.
You can start asking questions such as: “Is there anything I can help you with? Do you understand SFI concept? It is very important to focus on the core of SFI especially for new affiliates. Often majority of newly sign-ups are confused in getting started in venturing SFI. It is of utmost important to understand the basic foundation and start building on it. SFI is all about building teams of affiliates who are committed, putting into practice the process of Duplication.

- Comment on his/her situation and offer support.
Explain clearly and simple words that there is work involved like logging in daily, performing To-Do List and so on. Don’t give so much information all at once. Give him/her assurance that he/she can depend on you for support.

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Initiating an online chat may seem uncomfortable to most people who are not used to. Your new PSA might be needing your support at the moment or just need some clarification about getting started with SFI.

Here are basic rules before initiating an online chat:

- Start the conversation by a short introduction.
For example: “Hi (name) how are you getting along with SFI?”

- Deliver a basic line in a relatively friendly, self-assured way so as to make your
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Aspiring to become a Team Leader means you’re serious to expand the growth of your SFI business. You want to create a major income in SFI by learning to lead and grow your team of active affiliates. If you’re serious in making the most – your potential - of being an SFI business owner, you should become a Team Leader.

When is the best time to upgrade your rank from EA to TL? Before answering this question, you need to know what a Team Leader is and the various roles and responsibilities that comes with this position.

Being aware of these will help you understand and identity the skills needed of being a Team Leader. Furthermore, you’ll be able to evaluate yourself if you’re ready to assume the various roles and responsibilities of being a Team Leader.

Team Leader’s Roles & Responsibilities:

- Provide direction, instruction and guidance to his/her team.

- Proficient in using the SFI tools and resources for the benefit of supporting his/her team.

- Develop a business strategy for his/her team to use to reach its goal.

- Provide training and support that are essential to the personal development and growth of his/her team members.

- Communicate clear instructions to his/her team members.

- Staying connected to his/her team members by providing latest updates, weekly support messages and one-on-one support.

- Listen to team members’ feedback.

Fortunately, Team Leaders are made not born. You learn to become a Team Leader by doing what your upline Team Leaders have done before you.

The best time to upgrade your rank from EA to TL is when you:

- Understand the concept of Team Leadership.

You value service beyond self. It is about caring and leading your team members in growing their SFI businesses requiring your time and commitment.

- Strictly follow a clear picture of what leads to success: SFI Rules of Success.

- Learn and understand the resources in Marketing and Training tabs.

- Set aside monthly budget for sponsoring new affiliates.

- Observe “Be an awesome Sponsor”

Conclusion:

Being a mentor takes a great deal of time and expertise and makes a significant contribution to the development of new affiliates. Are you ready to meet the challenges of being a Team Leader? Do you have what it takes to assume the Team Leader position? Only you can answer these questions.

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Aspiring to become a Team Leader means you’re serious to expand the growth of your SFI business. You want to create a major income in SFI by learning to lead and grow your team of active affiliates. If you’re serious in making the most – your potential - of being an SFI business owner, you should become a Team Leader.

When is the best time to upgrade your rank from EA to TL? Before answering this question, you need to know what a Team Leader is and the various roles and responsibilities
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Before you can write effective ads, you’ll need to be familiar with the Marketing Aids/Methods found in your SFI homepage under Marketing tab. Go to the Marketing Center and learn the essentials of these written/display ads.

The important elements of writing effective ads:

- Uniqueness
What makes your offer unique? In the case of SFI/TripleClicks, what makes them stand out from other business opportunities?

- Exclusiveness, Promotions including Hot Deals and Closeouts
If you’re targeting bargain hunters then say so. People look for bottom rock prices and they often use search engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo to find what they need.

- Empower your target to take action
Promote your TripleClicks store whether featuring a product or service with your contact information. You can write “Sign Up or Call today”

- Keywords
Keywords play an important role in your text ads. When someone searches for online home based business as parts of your keywords, these words are highlighted bold in your headline.

- Explore/Experiment
Write 3 to 4 ads for each ad group. Employ different messages for each to see which performs the best. Using AdWords, ads are rotated automatically showing the frequency of the best performing ads.

The Landing Page containing your ads includes a link; ensure that the information of what people are looking for are there to be seen. You don’t want to see people leaving your website because they don’t see what they expect.

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Before you can write effective ads, you’ll need to be familiar with the Marketing Aids/Methods found in your SFI homepage under Marketing tab. Go to the Marketing Center and learn the essentials of these written/display ads.

The important elements of writing effective ads:

- Uniqueness
What makes your offer unique? In the case of SFI/TripleClicks, what makes them stand out from other business opportunities?

- Exclusiveness, Promotions including Hot Deals
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

To target certain groups of people in your advertising, you must employ the following important steps:

- Who are your target audience? When advertising TripleClicks hot deals and closeouts products, try bargain hunters as your search keyword.

- What are things that people look for to fulfill their needs? Most people search for business opportunity to supplement their income. You can target this group by typing keywords like home-based business, free online business opportunity and so on. Understanding the needs is an integral part of target advertising.

- How to match the needs? In your advertising, you can highlight for TripleClicks hot deals and closeouts products or in the case of acquiring new affiliates, highlight free online business opportunity.

With these principles in mind, you can advertise effectively by targeting only those certain groups of people, who are interested.

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To target certain groups of people in your advertising, you must employ the following important steps:

- Who are your target audience? When advertising TripleClicks hot deals and closeouts products, try bargain hunters as your search keyword.

- What are things that people look for to fulfill their needs? Most people search for business opportunity to supplement their income. You can target this group by typing keywords like home-based business, free online business opportunity
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

One of the many advantages of running an auto responder is that, you do the major work at one point and then let the campaign run on its own, but it is also necessary to check it once in a while for optimization.

If you have set up your auto responder, here are ways to find out if your auto responder is working:

- Log in to your auto responder account. Depending on which auto responder account you have signed up with, for clarity I have chosen to list only an auto responder account with simple/basic features, such as Home, Email, Social Campaigns and so on. The Home tab is sub-divided into Contacts, Reports, Activity, Sign-Up Tools and Help. You can find the auto responder feature under the Email tab.

- After logging into your auto responder account, click Email>Autoresponder.

- Select the name of the Autoresponder email to preview and test.

- Click Preview and Test. You’ll find this feature on the right side of the Autoresponder Email Details page.

- Enter email addresses max. 5 in the Email Addresses field located on the left. Note: Before entering email addresses, you’ll need to inform the people you’re sending to, that you’re doing a test.

- Click to Send.

- Click Exit Preview to return to the Autoresponder main page.

- Go to your My Contacts tab> Email Lists to check the delivery of your test email. You’ll find out from this section, if your test email went through.

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One of the many advantages of running an auto responder is that, you do the major work at one point and then let the campaign run on its own, but it is also necessary to check it once in a while for optimization.

If you have set up your auto responder, here are ways to find out if your auto responder is working:

- Log in to your auto responder account. Depending on which auto responder account you have signed up with, for clarity I have chosen to list only an auto responder
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

For a clear understanding, a blog is a type of website that can be continually updated with new content or posts.

When using a blog to promote SFI and TripleClicks, you’ll need to consider the following to be effective in your promotion:

- make your blogs personal. Talk about what you like most in SFI such as The (Winter/Spring) Leadership Challenge Contest, E365, Ask SC and so on. You can talk passionately about your success in these contests. You can also post your achievements in SFI and TripleClicks.

- Post about the latest news in SFI like: Show us your stuff! Imagine showing yourself with your prize you won from the Leadership Challenge; Ask SC extends winning VP to top 10 most popular answers. Post your award of being top, runner up or 3rd to 10th place for submitting business-boosting answers.

- Write a post about Pricebenders Auctions. To keep it up-to-date includes the latest news about the Pricebenders Bonus Bar and Bid Log and the bigger, better TripleClicks search engine debuts.

- Post a summary of the latest Stats of SFI and TripleClicks. This will inspire your target readers.

With these sample contents of your blog, you’ll be communicating effectively with your prospects/customers.

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For a clear understanding, a blog is a type of website that can be continually updated with new content or posts.

When using a blog to promote SFI and TripleClicks, you’ll need to consider the following to be effective in your promotion:

- make your blogs personal. Talk about what you like most in SFI such as The (Winter/Spring) Leadership Challenge Contest, E365, Ask SC and so on. You can talk passionately about your success in these contests. You can also post your achievements
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Harnessing the power of keywords can help you reach your audience and increase your exposure, but it can also have a backlash.

What keywords to avoid when setting up your ads on search engines?

- Using keyword that leads to keyword stuffing. This occurs when you install repeating keyword phrases in a webpage. If the search engine detects keyword stuffing, it will consequently forfeit the page rank because these pages often lack useful content and create a poor user experience.
Example: Are you looking for online business opportunity? If you’re looking for online business opportunity, look no further.

- Lists or blocks of keywords in a webpage.
Example: Sign up for free, free to sign up, register for free.

- Stuffing keywords in anchor text in a webpage.
Example: home-based business, work at home.

- Using keyword phrases alternately that has the same meaning over and over again.

- Adding irrelevant keywords.
How to avoid the use of keywords above?

- Focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords naturally within context.

- Set a limit to 2 keywords or keyword phrases for every 100 words.

- Employ the long-tail method to maintain relevance as well as clear up homographs (e.g., the long-tail helps differentiate the occurrence of the same words. Example: bat, which could mean a flying mammal or a baseball bat)

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Harnessing the power of keywords can help you reach your audience and increase your exposure, but it can also have a backlash.

What keywords to avoid when setting up your ads on search engines?

- Using keyword that leads to keyword stuffing. This occurs when you install repeating keyword phrases in a webpage. If the search engine detects keyword stuffing, it will consequently forfeit the page rank because these pages often lack useful content and create a poor user experience.
Example:
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Yes absolutely. The ECA program is another opportunity of earning extra income besides having your own SFI business.

What’s good about it?

- You can create a product of your own or sell your unwanted stuff to be listed at TripleClicks.

- SFI affiliates can promote your products to increase your commissions or connect with other ECAs.

- You can potentially maximize your income by creating your niche (defining your target market) for your products.

There are thousands of products you could create and sell at TripleClicks to increase your earning potential. An important key here is to find the right niche for your entrepreneurial needs as an ECA.

For example, if you're selling women’s clothing or beauty products, your target market is consumers; if you're selling office supplies; your target market is businesses. In some cases—for example, if you run a printing business—you may be marketing to both businesses and individuals.

Who are the biggest shoppers at TC? What would they be interested in buying? Can you offer services that are in demand at TC?

Focusing on your customer’s need as an ECA will increase your earning potential and enhance the growth of your SFI business.

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Yes absolutely. The ECA program is another opportunity of earning extra income besides having your own SFI business.

What’s good about it?

- You can create a product of your own or sell your unwanted stuff to be listed at TripleClicks.

- SFI affiliates can promote your products to increase your commissions or connect with other ECAs.

- You can potentially maximize your income by creating your niche (defining your target market) for your products.

There
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

In order to really understand what is more beneficial to you in making the choice between becoming an ECA and referring an ECA, we need to look at the work involved and the benefits in each case.

What are the works involved in referring an ECA?

You can implement the marketing methods with the ECA marketing aids to start your ECA referral campaign by doing the following:

- Distribute ECA postcards, brochures and flyers to local businesses.

- Use ECA banners and text ad in your online promotions.

- Use TC envelope and letterhead in approaching local businesses

For more comprehensive ways of referring ECAs, which include Getting Started, Print Media Advertising, Telemarketing, Door-To-Door, etc, just go to ECA Referral Guide:

https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies

As you can see, you’ll need to dispense wisely your marketing efforts in referring ECAs so that you’re not short of attending your SFI business needs. But the time and effort that you invest in this income stream could be rewarding.

Referring ECAs is another excellent source of income stream besides growing your SFI business. The income potential is unlimited. Earn 10% of the CV on all of your referred ECA’s sales. As soon as your referred ECA generates its first $10 or more in sales, you’ll collect 100 VP. You’ll also be earning royalties for life.

What are the works involved in becoming an ECA?

- Perform market research before deciding what products to sell.

This is an important process, because you and SFI affiliates will be promoting your products online.

- How do you go about obtaining the products you’re selling online?

- How do you establish prices for your products?

- Observe ECA Guidelines & Tips and ECA Participation Guidelines (do's, don’ts, prohibited products and services, etc.)

- Creating & Uploading Your Company Logo

- Creating & Uploading Your Company Profile

- Posting Your Products and/or Services for Sale

- Developing Privacy Policy/Terms and Conditions

- Promoting your products/services

There’s a lot of work involved here. Going into this venture half-heartedly will be disappointing. You need to keep in mind that you’re also growing your SFI business. It requires considerable amount of time getting establish and promoting your products/services. Only you will have a firsthand knowledge if this is profitable or not.

What are the benefits of becoming an ECA?

Becoming an ECA gives you the benefit of listing your own products, promote them to your downline and to TC members. As an ECA you can opt to target a niche market. Niche markets consist of a much smaller population, but all of them have the same need, and are often much more passionate about their shared interest. For example in health and wellness category, instead of selling socks to everyone, you could focus on selling socks that are specific to those affected by diabetes. Although niche markets are comprised of a much smaller pool of customers, these shoppers tend to be much more involved with the products you’re selling.

Conclusion

In choosing between the two options above besides being an affiliate, you need to take into account your time management. Whatever option you’re going to decide, you’ll need to carefully do a balancing act in managing your time. Your SFI business requires your long term commitment. That's why I have taken into consideration the work involved and the benefits in each case to make it easier for you to decide.


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In order to really understand what is more beneficial to you in making the choice between becoming an ECA and referring an ECA, we need to look at the work involved and the benefits in each case.

What are the works involved in referring an ECA?

You can implement the marketing methods with the ECA marketing aids to start your ECA referral campaign by doing the following:

- Distribute ECA postcards, brochures and flyers to local businesses.

- Use ECA banners
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

New affiliate and SFI members can find the best ways to accumulate Action VersaPoints under the VP Ledger section, which are divided into the following:

- Getting Started Actions
You’ll be awarded Action VPs for reading all the list of things necessary to start your SFI venture.

- Launchpad
This is a very important part of learning about SFI. You’ll be awarded 15 VP for reading and answering correctly the question after each lesson.

- Daily Actions
For performing the To-Do List you’ll be awarded Action VPs. It includes Eager Zebra game, Time Machine, Pick The Price, TC Music download, Member Listing and Pricebenders Auction bid.

- Weekly Actions
For sending support messages to your PSAs/CSAs, reviewing your TConnect page and for submitting a Stream Post you’ll be awarded max. 38 VPs per week.

- Monthly Actions
For setting up a Standing Order of 1500 VP or more, for setting monthly goals before the 10th and For completing the SFI/Sponsor/Co-Sponsor ratings form

- Intermediate Actions
You’ll accumulate VPs for performing the list of actions such as, getting a Payoneer Debit Card, installing a TripleClicks banner on your personal website or blog and so on...

- For each approved/activated ECA (E-Commerce Associate) you refer to TripleClicks
Earn 100 VP for each approved/activated ECA you refer to TripleClicks. Points are awarded when the ECA generates $10 or more in sales.

- For TripleClicks product reviews
Earn 25 VP for each product rating/review ONLY on physical products and all TC Direct products (including digital products). Thirty days (45 days for International members) after ordering a product (15 days for digital products) at TripleClicks.com, you'll be requested to rate and review the product. Points are awarded upon submission of each completed rating/review.

- Team Leadership and Support
300 VP for support of each personally sponsored Platinum Team Leader, 250 VP for support of each personally sponsored Gold Team Leader, 200 VP for support of each personally sponsored Silver Team Leader, 150 VP for support of each personally sponsored Bronze Team Leader, 100 VP for support of each personally sponsored EA2 and 5 VP for each affiliate you reassign to a team member.

- Miscellaneous
50 VP for winning in the DistribuSTAR Daily Drawing VersaPoints prize, VPs varies in winning the E365 Contest, VPs varies in winning the Daily Grand, 10 VP per card in distributing the gift card and VPs varies in various uncategorized VP.

For a list of daily Action VPs, just go to your To-Do List tab. Here is worth mentioning the list of actions which will allow you to earn unlimited Action VersaPoints: ECA referral, TC product reviews and the Team Leadership and Support section.

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New affiliate and SFI members can find the best ways to accumulate Action VersaPoints under the VP Ledger section, which are divided into the following:

- Getting Started Actions
You’ll be awarded Action VPs for reading all the list of things necessary to start your SFI venture.

- Launchpad
This is a very important part of learning about SFI. You’ll be awarded 15 VP for reading and answering correctly the question after each lesson.

- Daily Actions
For
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