Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

With such a limited amount of time and money, you must be very careful about how you use them both. It takes me about a half hour to do my daily actions, which includes reading the Ask SC answers, but not play any games or participate in auctions. This leaves a half hour in which you can advertise, play games, participate in auctions, write in your blog or Facebook page and write to your team.

I suggest changing the way you spend that second half hour each day, so as to give you opportunity to do some of everything each week. For example, you could plan to write an article for your FB page every Monday, spend a half hour posting ads on Tuesday, send your team mailout every Wednesday, another half hour of posting ads on Thursday, and maybe picking an auction and participating in it on Friday. Perhaps you could spend a little more time on the weekend studying the rules of success and the internet marketing lessons, and or in time developing a website or blog.

Maybe you could also grab a few extra minutes at different times throughout the day. I enter the T-Time draw every hour by setting my phone alarm to go off every 2 hours. I start at 5:55, then 7:55, 9:55 etc. When it goes off at 5 minutes to the hour, I hit the snooze button which is set for 5 minutes. I enter the draw for that hour and in 5 minutes the alarm will go off again and then I enter the next draw. Sometimes I do some of my daily actions or read an Ask SC answer in the 5 minute interval. Doing this doesn't take long or intrude much into the day, but it ensures I am always in the T-Time draw, and this is a great source of TCredits for me. If you don't have time to play the games, you can still get your VP for the game entry, but not playing. I sometimes do this if I'm rushed, but it's not much fun!
Likewise you can enter a PB auction when you do your daily actions, but you must only make 1 bid and not be tempted to stay. This 1 bid will get you 2 VP.

Now for the $50. If I had $50 per month to invest, I'd vary it each month also. You can set up a standing order for $36.25 for 125 TCredits for one month, and use the remainder of the money either making a purchase from TripleClicks or buying advertising. On another month you could buy 2 units of SBuilder co-op. This will cost you $44.00, but only gain you 560VP. However this is a good way to begin to grow your team. Possibly you could do a combination of 100 TCredits for $29 and 1 unit of SBuilder. This will cost you $51. Standing Orders can be changed, so you could swap them around as you desired. These are my best suggestions for your $50.

I hope my ideas may be a help to you.

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With such a limited amount of time and money, you must be very careful about how you use them both. It takes me about a half hour to do my daily actions, which includes reading the Ask SC answers, but not play any games or participate in auctions. This leaves a half hour in which you can advertise, play games, participate in auctions, write in your blog or Facebook page and write to your team.

I suggest changing the way you spend that second half hour each day, so as to give you opportunity
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

How would you convince an affiliate who has abandoned SFI to restart again?

This is a good question, and one that I've been wondering about myself.
I think the strategy would be different depending on your relationship with the person and how much they had been involved in SFI before they quit.

If the person is someone you know whom you personally led to SFI, you could talk to them over the phone, or arrange a meeting to talk over their problems with them. Remind them of the long term vision they had and why they joined in the first place, which you may already know. Reiterate that this is a business and must be worked every day, and that growth will be slow, not overnight. Hopefully you can show some growth of your own that will be motivating.

If they have problems that are not related directly to the business, perhaps you can help them through these - have some ideas for time management, organisation, a place to work etcetera.

If the affiliates are people whom you have never met, which is the usual case, the situation will be a lot harder because you have to rely on them opening their emails from you. How do you get people to open their emails? The only way is to have a subject line that grabs their attention. I need to start working on those. You can send a please don't go e-card. I haven't had any positive responses yet from those I've sent, but some people have.

If you have established some kind of relationship with the affiliate, then you will have a better chance of persuading her to stay, because you may have contact via Skype or Facebook, or even a phone number and can speak more to her as if she were a friend, which she very well could be.

As soon as someone responds to your initial welcome letter, respond immediately and begin to establish a friendship with that affiliate. Communicate regularly with the active members of your team at a personal level so that you do develop strong friendly bonds. People will tend to stay and persevere with something if they feel that they have a friend beside them.

More than likely you will become aware of problems when you have established friendly relations. Your affiliate will feel comfortable to share things with you and you may be able to help them through these issues. You can be an encourager and motivator as with your personal friend.

If however, your affiliate really decides this is not working for him, for whatever reason, I think you should gracefully accept his/her decision without any more pressure. Try and keep the doors of communication open between you and every now and then let him know of your successes. You never know something you share sometime in the future, may draw him back. It is against the rules to pursue someone who has dropped out, so you could only do this because you have an established friendship and the person doesn't want to lose contact with you even though he wishes to leave the business - a bit like keeping in touch with a work colleague after he has moved on to a new job.

If despite repeated attempts to contact someone via facebook or skype, you are ignore, you just have to accept that they don't wish to pursue the business and want to cut off all contact with it, including you. It hurts but there's nothing you can do any more, so go out and find some more people to work with and help.

I wish you all the best.

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How would you convince an affiliate who has abandoned SFI to restart again?

This is a good question, and one that I've been wondering about myself.
I think the strategy would be different depending on your relationship with the person and how much they had been involved in SFI before they quit.

If the person is someone you know whom you personally led to SFI, you could talk to them over the phone, or arrange a meeting to talk over their problems with them. Remind them
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

To help TripleClicks compete with our larger competitors you could wear TC branded T-shirts or caps and be willing to talk about TC to anyone who asks about your gear. Have leaflets ready to give with your TripleClicks gateway on it.

You could also give gift certificates to friends and family so they can browse and choose something for themselves.

A couple of days ago I gave my link to the jewellery dept to a family member with a birthday coming up. I asked her to choose something she likes and I will get it for her birthday. Hopefully she may see things she likes that she may like to give her friends and other family members. I intend to do this for all my family's birthdays and or Christmas.

I can browse TripleClicks and find items I think are really great Christmas gift ideas and promote them on my blog and Facebook page.

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To help TripleClicks compete with our larger competitors you could wear TC branded T-shirts or caps and be willing to talk about TC to anyone who asks about your gear. Have leaflets ready to give with your TripleClicks gateway on it.

You could also give gift certificates to friends and family so they can browse and choose something for themselves.

A couple of days ago I gave my link to the jewellery dept to a family member with a birthday coming up. I asked her to choose
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

We are all told to be awesome sponsors and co-sponsors, and I do my best to be that. I have a five star rating from my team, so they seem to think I am doing a good job. However, the question is how important is it to have a good sponsor and co-sponsor?

It is an advantage to have a good sponsor and have someone to go to for advice, and someone who will go in to bat for you when you can't get results from an ECA or something like that. (I had to do this for one of my team)

Although it is an advantage and probably makes one feel good to have a good sponsor or co-sponsor, I don't believe it's that important to your success in SFI. I have a sponsor who doesn't even know of my existence - he's never sent me an e-card or congratulated me on becoming EA, or ever answered a single email I've sent him. My co-sponsors change frequently, and I've only ever heard from one of them, but he basically said, "well you seem to be doing okay without me," and that was about the end of it.

I do not let this attitude from a sponsor hinder me. I find out everything I need to from SFI's training, from my a2a friends, from the Forum and Ask SC. When all else fails and I can't find an answer, I send an email to support. Our support team are fantastic and have sorted out a wide range of problems for me. Once I didn't get the VP for a sale to one of my PRMs. Somehow she had been registered with another affiliate. But Bonnie persevered and sought it out and fixed the problem. They have explained things to me that I didn't understand and really gone the extra mile for me. I would appreciate a relationship with my sponsor, but it's not really that important. I can do very well, and will do very well without him.

If you are in the same situation as me with a sponsor who is so far removed from you as to not know you are there, don't use it as an excuse or reason to fail. You can succeed without him/her, by using all the other great resources SFI has provided us with!
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We are all told to be awesome sponsors and co-sponsors, and I do my best to be that. I have a five star rating from my team, so they seem to think I am doing a good job. However, the question is how important is it to have a good sponsor and co-sponsor?

It is an advantage to have a good sponsor and have someone to go to for advice, and someone who will go in to bat for you when you can't get results from an ECA or something like that. (I had to do this for one of my team)

Although
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

This is tricky if you've been in multiple business ventures, especially if they haven't proven successful. You will already have gotten yourself a reputation and the response is likely to be, "Oh no, not another scam. You're always getting scammed."
Or words to those effects. I am in this position myself, having tried Amway, Mannatech, Nuways and a whole host of other things.

I have been very cautious about SFI because I know what their response is likely to be. I suggest keeping reasonably quiet and low-key about SFI for a while until you are beginning to make some money. Don't be pushy to tell them all about it, but gradually feed them small pieces of information as the opportunity presents itself. A great opportunity is there when you have won something really good for a phenomenal bargain on Pricebenders. When you can show a mobile phone or Ipod or something that they would like themselves and say you got it for $4 or some crazy price playing Pricebenders auctions at your TripleClicks store, they will take notice and show interest. Bit by bit as they see your enthusiasm they will begin to ask you questions and then you can lay the whole thing out before them. Don't go beyond what they're asking unless they keep asking for more.

Also if you find a product in TripleClicks that you know is of particular interest to one of these people, just pop them a short email telling him briefly what you found. Ask if he's interested in having a look at it and would he like you to send him the link. Give him the chance to say "yes, please". If you just send the link without being invited, he'll probably just delete the email without even getting back to you about it.

I think this low-key strategy is best in these situations when people have been turned off by previous opportunities. I can see my family gradually becoming interested at last.

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This is tricky if you've been in multiple business ventures, especially if they haven't proven successful. You will already have gotten yourself a reputation and the response is likely to be, "Oh no, not another scam. You're always getting scammed."
Or words to those effects. I am in this position myself, having tried Amway, Mannatech, Nuways and a whole host of other things.

I have been very cautious about SFI because I know what their response is likely to be. I
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The best free ways of promoting SFI and TripleClicks are through list builders and traffic exchanges.

You write a good advertisement in the form of a sales letter and can post this on lots of list builders for free. You can write different letters for each gateway and send the readers to which of your gateways you choose. The catch is although you can post thousands for free every few days, they are only free in money terms. They cost you time in viewing other people's email sales letters to earn credits. These can also be a distraction because naturally they want you to join their business.

With traffic exchanges you can place banner ads and text ads for free. You can choose which gateways your ads point to, but again you have to surf other people's pages to earn views for your ads.

Look for free ads in classified ads in both online and offline sources and put up flyers around your neighbourhood.

If you have a blog or website of your own, that is a great place for free advertising because you can say what you like in your blog and post banners and articles which lead people to your gateways. You could even build your own lead capture page for free and set up an autoresponder campaign where you explain about the business in a few emails. There are some free autoresponders available which you could google, and hosting your page and buying a name for it are relatively inexpensive.

I hope those ideas are a help.
Good luck!
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The best free ways of promoting SFI and TripleClicks are through list builders and traffic exchanges.

You write a good advertisement in the form of a sales letter and can post this on lots of list builders for free. You can write different letters for each gateway and send the readers to which of your gateways you choose. The catch is although you can post thousands for free every few days, they are only free in money terms. They cost you time in viewing other people's email sales letters
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

"I feel my welcome message to PSAa is stale. How can I freshen it up? Sample welcome letters appreciated."

My advice regarding the welcome message is make it fairly brief and friendly. Offer to help the affiliate get started, mention the Fast Track bonus, and give the affiliate some means to contact you. Sound enthusiastic about SFI and make them feel they are now part of our 'family.'

Here is my welcome message:

"Dear xxxxx,
Congratulations on joining SFI! This will be one of the best
decisions you ever make in your life, apart from getting right
with God and being sure of going to Heaven!

I'm thrilled that you have joined my SFI team, and I warmly
welcome you. I am your sponsor, xxxxx, and it is my
pleasure to guide you and mentor you so that you achieve your
goals in your SFI business.

Running your own SFI business and being part of the great SFI
family could be the key to your financial success. It is possible
for you to make this your primary income and live the lifestyle
you've always wanted; or it can provide a second income, or that
nest egg for your retirement. It's really up to you what you do
with this wonderful opportunity.

As part of my support to you, I have written a series of short
messages to provide you with a step-by-step guide for the first 4
months in SFI. By then you will have a good handle on the day-
to-day running of the business.

To receive these, please just click this link,
http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and enter your
details in the online form.

If you click on the link now, you could have the first message to
get you started in about 5 minutes. I really hope you do that, and
I'm looking forward to working with you and getting to know
you.

There is a Fast Track Bonus which is only available for a
very limited timeframe. I explain this in the first newsletter, so
please sign up for it now and learn how to get this.
Being a Fast Track Member will set you off to a flying start in
your new business!

If you have any questions about anything I've written, or
anything you read on the SFI website that you don't understand,
please send me an email and I'll try and answer you within a day.
It may not be able to be quicker due to time differences, but I will
answer as soon as I can.

I am also happy to chat with you on Skype and this is a great way
for us to work as a team. My Skype ID is xxxxxxx.
If you decide to call, please first check the time in xxmycityandcountryxxx.

I once had a chap from xxxxxx call me at 4:00 A.M., and I don't
think too well when I'm asleep! lol!

Well, I won't hold you up any longer, as you are probably keen to
get started. I'll see you again, as they say in internet jargon, "on
the inside."

To a long and prosperous journey together!

Kindest Regards,

xxxxxxx"

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"I feel my welcome message to PSAa is stale. How can I freshen it up? Sample welcome letters appreciated."

My advice regarding the welcome message is make it fairly brief and friendly. Offer to help the affiliate get started, mention the Fast Track bonus, and give the affiliate some means to contact you. Sound enthusiastic about SFI and make them feel they are now part of our 'family.'

Here is my welcome message:

"Dear xxxxx,
Congratulations
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I contact my downline every week via the genealogy mailer as recommended.
I also send an individual message via email or team mail to people in my Movers page, if they haven't been there for a while, just to encourage them or congratulate them.
If I see the yellow bubble next to someone's name when I'm on, I drop a short 'hullo'.
If someone who was previously active drops out of my Movers page, I send that person an individual email asking if everything is okay and do they need help.

If I see anyone in my team or even my a2a friends, who I consider 'team' as well, wins in the Daily Grand, or is in the top enrollers list, or has become the newest EA, BTL etc, I send that person a congratulations message as well.

I have also set up a step-by-step email campaign via autoresponder to guide new affiliates on a day to day basis if they would like it. These messages are tailored to the person's level of knowledge about SFI, whereas the weekly team messages are more general and appropriate to everybody. I offer this service in my welcome email to both PSAs and new CSAs. Some of my new a2a friends who are struggling with inadequate help from their own sponsors have gladly accepted these as well.

If someone responds to my emails or messages, I always write back. This helps to build relationships with your team. Once you have established relationships with your team, you can chat to them about anything and feel that you have become friends. I think this is the best way to be.

Nobody has ever complained that I contact them too much.

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I contact my downline every week via the genealogy mailer as recommended.
I also send an individual message via email or team mail to people in my Movers page, if they haven't been there for a while, just to encourage them or congratulate them.
If I see the yellow bubble next to someone's name when I'm on, I drop a short 'hullo'.
If someone who was previously active drops out of my Movers page, I send that person an individual email asking if everything is okay and do they need help.

If
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When pitching to people face to face about SFI, TripleClicks, or Pricebenders it first depends on how well you know the person or whether they are a total stranger you've just met. You will need to spend some time building a relationship with a total stranger before making a sales pitch. Also be interested in the person you're talking to. Find out where they're at and what their needs are before you go launching into a sales pitch. Then you will be better equipped to match what your presentation to the person's particular situation.
If you have discovered that the person is looking for an extra income and you have opportunity to go into a full explanation, then you can share with them about what you have found in this wonderful opportunity. Explain that this is a real business, not a get-rich-quick scheme and that quite a bit of time, effort and some money will need to be outlaid to make it a success. I think honesty is always the best policy; don't mislead them with false promises of fast riches.

If you know the person loves ebay, you can tell them about our fantastic bargains available on Pricebenders. Take them to the page and show them what some other people have won. I've never found anyone who wasn't impressed with that.

If the person is already in some kind of business that sells, you can ask them whether they would like another sales outlet and go on and explain TripleClicks and waht being an ECA entails. Tell them that if they join as an ECA, that you will be very actively promoting their products and encouraging your team to do likewise. Tell him that there are many thousands of active affiliates in SFI who would be keen to sell his products for him.

Make sure you always carry literature and business cards with you in the event of opportunities to talk about the business come up. Get the names and contact details of people you talk to so that you can follow them up afterwards. Always ask them when would be a good time to get back to them and stick to what you agreed on.

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When pitching to people face to face about SFI, TripleClicks, or Pricebenders it first depends on how well you know the person or whether they are a total stranger you've just met. You will need to spend some time building a relationship with a total stranger before making a sales pitch. Also be interested in the person you're talking to. Find out where they're at and what their needs are before you go launching into a sales pitch. Then you will be better equipped to match what your presentation
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I have thought of quitting in SFI because I am spending a lot of time and money and not making the money back each month to cover my standing order and my advertising. I feel discouraged because I haven't won in the Daily Grand and many of my a2a friends win several times in a month. I don't have a sponsor or co-sponsor who even know I exist, so they are no help at all.

So why haven't I quit yet?

Several reasons:
1. I believe in the potential of the business to make money, and this is evidenced by the fact that there are many successful people in it.

2. I have looked at the people at the top and tried to figure out what they have done differently to what I'm doing. I see that they are not really trying to duplicate themselves at all, although that is what they SAY they are doing. I have observed that each of these people have developed their own strategies for marketing and sponsoring. Some have produced training videos, some have written training e-books, others hold group meeting, some have Facebook groups, some have really great blogs. They are not simply doing the daily and weekly actions, buying standing orders, and joining up affiliates in the hope of finding 5 who will do the same. I believe that really only helps the guy at the top. I have decided that the top earners have created their own products which they use as free offers to get people to join their teams, and also sell these on TripleClicks. So I will try and create my own product and go into competition with these guys at the top.

3. I believe that if I keep on trying and developing a plan that eventually I will be rewarded. I believe that you reap what you sow, so I will sow into this business with my time, effort and creative thinking.

4. I don't have money to keep spending on SO and advertising, so I am trying to figure out alternative ways to achieve my goal, such as focussing on TripleClicks sales and getting ECAs.

5. I don't like to admit that I failed or quit, so I will motivate myself to keep going and think big and think positively.

6. If I quit, I would feel that I had wasted all the time and money so far invested, and that if I had stuck it a little longer, I might have succeeded, but I would never know.

7. I remind myself that this is not a get-rich-quick scheme, and that nothing worthwhile was ever won without effort and commitment.

8. Lastly, I have made some lovely a2a friends, and enjoy communicating with them. I write things which encourage me and in the process, find myself encouraging others. Many of them have expressed that they find my posts encouraging, and I wouldn't like to let them down.

So how would I convince someone to stay with SFI?

I would draw on my own experiences and share the above thought processes I have gone through and how I plan to make a success. I would assure him that it is possible and that we can do it together. Of course it would depend on my relationship with that person. Some people never respond to any of my communications so I can't offer them any hope other than the team mail which goes to everyone and may or may not speak to their individual needs. More than likely these people don't even read the team mails anyway.

The people who respond are different. I build friendships with them and discuss all sorts of things with them besides SFI. With these people I am aware of personal problems in their lives that may hinder them. I honestly share with them my difficulties and what has kept, and is keeping me going in SFI. I am not in a financial position myself to help by giving them anything at this stage that costs me money, but I share what I have learned, and give them my time and my caring. I have given useful e-books which I have managed to find for free on the internet.

If there was time pressure that was not of a permanent nature, such as moving, or sickness, I would offer to log in for them for a short period and do their daily actions, so that they don't lose motivation by a period of forced inaction.

I would ask them what skills they think they have, and try to figure out a strategy with them of something they could do utilising their own particular skills. Are they good at writing? Perhaps try blogging, or training emails. Are they good at speaking, do they look good on camera, can they make PowerPoint presentations? Perhaps they could make a video or a PP training presentation on some aspect of SFI.

I would ask who do they know that they could possibly market to? I would try to stimulate their thinking as to crafty people who might want an outlet for their craft work, or small business owners or market stall holders etc. Do they have friends who 'waste' hours on frivolous Facebook chatter? Such people might become SFI Facebook marketers and have some purpose to their time spent there.

I have offered to help people in my team who may have good ideas, but lack confidence in their writing ability, with editing their written work, if they want to develop a written product. After all, if one of my team can produce a product and sell it on TripleClicks, that will obviously help me too.

Of course if the person feels that their difficulties are such that they feel they have to quit, I leave the door open and still try to keep in touch with friendly chatty emails. I don't try to push SFI in these at all - just try and maintain the friendship. I ask if they believe in prayer and whether they would like me to pray for them in their situation. Those who have said yes, I make sure I do pray for them and every now and then I send them an email letting them know they are still in my prayers, and ask how things are going for them. You never know, when things change for them, they may still want to come back.

If they don't want to keep a relationship going after they decide to quit, that is their decision, too, and although it can be a little disappointing when your friendly emails get ignored, you must accept their decision, and move on to build new relationships with new team members. Even in that instance, however, you can be wrong. I was continuing to send emails for a while to a particular person, asking how she and the children were doing etc, and got no replies. I stopped writing thinking she didn't want to keep contact, and then out of the blue she wrote saying she had cancelled the internet for a few months because they couldn't afford it. She had just had it reconnected, and really appreciated all my emails that she found waiting there. So you never know a person's circumstances. Don't shut the door on anyone.

I'm sorry I have made this so long, but I have written honestly from my heart and my own experiences. I hope it may be a help to you if you are thinking of quitting or have someone in your team who may be thinking of it. This is one time where stubbornness is a blessing! Don't give up until you have tried all kinds of other avenues. There are many ways to succeed in SFI - you just have to find the one that suits you, and then run with it.

To your success, and mine!

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I have thought of quitting in SFI because I am spending a lot of time and money and not making the money back each month to cover my standing order and my advertising. I feel discouraged because I haven't won in the Daily Grand and many of my a2a friends win several times in a month. I don't have a sponsor or co-sponsor who even know I exist, so they are no help at all.

So why haven't I quit yet?

Several reasons:
1. I believe in the potential of the business to make money,
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