Should I encourage or discourage my PSAs who want to become Team Leaders right away?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
9/18/2014 3:11 am
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
Encourage them. But point out to them that there are costs - financial and other in becoming a team leader.
Personally if you can afford $36.25 a month for an SO, BTL is easier to attain than EA2.
It is not that hard to get 1000 Action VP if you have 1500 Sales VP already. The 1500 VP Standing Order is 100 Action VP. Doing the daily actions on your To-Do list is 360 and playing 6-7 games of Gold Streak every day is another 200. Your weekly and monthly actions are another 167 VP. You could play Knockout Trivia every day for another 30 points. With the MRP earned from GoldStreak and Trivia you can buy more T Credits and use them on PriceBemder Auctions until you reach 1000 Action VP and BTL.
Among other things BTL's receive 40 - 70 CSA's every month and these can be a big bonus.
Yes encouraging them to team leadership is a WIN for you but a bigger WIN for your PSA's.
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Encourage them. But point out to them that there are costs - financial and other in becoming a team leader.
Personally if you can afford $36.25 a month for an SO, BTL is easier to attain than EA2.
It is not that hard to get 1000 Action VP if you have 1500 Sales VP already. The 1500 VP Standing Order is 100 Action VP. Doing the daily actions on your To-Do list is 360 and playing 6-7 games of Gold Streak every day is another 200. Your weekly and monthly actions are another 167 VP. You
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How much time a day, approximately, do I need to invest in SFI to build a profitable business?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
11/7/2014 7:17 am
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
I do not believe we should sugar coat the time we spend on SFI.If you need to keep the figure low to keep someone's interest, they are not the sort of person you want in your business.
You cannot be successful in SFI by only spending half an hour to an hour a day, working on the business. I spend 4-5 hours a day and I sometimes wonder if that is enough.
There is so much to learn, so much to discover. It has taken me 7 months in SFI to discover the power of buying from TripleClicks things other than TCredits. S-Builder Co-op shares etc. In nearly 100,000 items, there has to be things your team will want to buy, and by alerting them to specific items, you can rapidly grow your commissions.
So tell people that if they are serious, they will need to spend 4-5 hours a day to get the results we all look for. You may scare a number off, but the ones that come in, knowing what is required, will be the sort of team members that eventually will make you rich.
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I do not believe we should sugar coat the time we spend on SFI.If you need to keep the figure low to keep someone's interest, they are not the sort of person you want in your business.
You cannot be successful in SFI by only spending half an hour to an hour a day, working on the business. I spend 4-5 hours a day and I sometimes wonder if that is enough.
There is so much to learn, so much to discover. It has taken me 7 months in SFI to discover the power of buying from TripleClicks
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How do Eager Zebra games factor in to building a successful SFI business?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
10/19/2014 5:47 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
Every Eager Zebra game costs 1 TCredit to play which in turn gives you 1 VP and often 5 or more WRP.
The VP go to re-qualification as an EA and the MRP accumulate. It is amazing how quickly the MRP accumulate, particularly if you are playing GoldStreak or Knockout Trivia. I use the MRP for buying more TCredits if I need them and S-Builder Co-op shares if I don't. Last month I bought 2 S-Builder Co-op shares with accumulated MRP.
The S-Builder Co-op is a great way to build your team which you need to do if you want to duplicate.
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Every Eager Zebra game costs 1 TCredit to play which in turn gives you 1 VP and often 5 or more WRP.
The VP go to re-qualification as an EA and the MRP accumulate. It is amazing how quickly the MRP accumulate, particularly if you are playing GoldStreak or Knockout Trivia. I use the MRP for buying more TCredits if I need them and S-Builder Co-op shares if I don't. Last month I bought 2 S-Builder Co-op shares with accumulated MRP.
The S-Builder Co-op is a great way to build your
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What are some good incentive offers for prospects to encourage people to join my SFI team?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
7/25/2014 2:47 am
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
You should never bribe people to join SFI, or incentivise them if that's what you want to call it. If you can't show them what they could achieve or what they are missing out on I suggest you go back to the SRI Library and affirm to yourself what it was that got you to join unless you too were bribed.
Reward them for what they achieve once they join SFI. I reassign 3 PSA's from the same country to everyone qualifying EA for example. I offer other rewards for 20 day VP streaks in a month or those having Standing Order for 1500 VP, but I never bribe them to join. It would be just creating unrealistic expectations for them and the thought that if they do what you do how much it was going to cost them.
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You should never bribe people to join SFI, or incentivise them if that's what you want to call it. If you can't show them what they could achieve or what they are missing out on I suggest you go back to the SRI Library and affirm to yourself what it was that got you to join unless you too were bribed.
Reward them for what they achieve once they join SFI. I reassign 3 PSA's from the same country to everyone qualifying EA for example. I offer other rewards for 20 day VP streaks in a month
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Which is best for me to participate in...W3 or S-Builder Co-op?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
11/7/2014 1:53 am
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
They are completely different and serve totally purposes.
Everyone who has access to a vehicle should be in Wave 3. For a miserable $1.95 to cover postage and handling, there is just no excuse apart from lack of vehicle not to be in it. The benefits continue month after month at no further cost and provide cheap advertising for your TripleClicks business. Because I have the TripleClicks banner on my rear windscreen, I have been asked by several people for more details. W3 is a business builder for you but quite subtle.
The S-Builder Co-op is the only way I now recruit new PSA's to my business. I have tried other ways and the quality of the PSA's recruited through the Co-op is infinitely greater than those obtained through PSA's To Go. If you can afford it, you should make S-Builder Co-op a Standing Order. It is a lot easier to handle the drip-feed of PSA's coming in over time than having to try and look after 20 or 50 ay a time bought in an Auction or direct.
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They are completely different and serve totally purposes.
Everyone who has access to a vehicle should be in Wave 3. For a miserable $1.95 to cover postage and handling, there is just no excuse apart from lack of vehicle not to be in it. The benefits continue month after month at no further cost and provide cheap advertising for your TripleClicks business. Because I have the TripleClicks banner on my rear windscreen, I have been asked by several people for more details. W3 is a business
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What is the most important goal you've set for your SFI business and why?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
1/3/2015 7:02 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
Obviously the most important goal to set is to become a DTL. AS a DTL you will have at least 5 PTLs beneath you so your income and therefore your financial freedom. will not just be assured, but beyond your wildest dreams. I just can't visualize what I could do with a 7 figure annual income.
So the goal I have set for myself is to just get to the next level, in the knowledge that once I get there and consolidate it, I can look towards reaching the next rank and reset my goal accordingly. When I get there I can reset my goal again.
Setting goals towards rising in the SFI hierarchy, means setting duplication goals. There is no other way of progressing than by sponsoring others who hopefully will copy what you do. SFI literature says to find 5 affiliates who will do what you do. Finding 5 who will do what you do is the difficult part and while some say it will be around 1% of those you sponsor, others say it could be as little as 0.1%. That is between 500 and 5000 that need to be sponsored for you to gain financial freedom.
So the most important goal I have set for my SFI business is to keep sponsoring and never stop. My 5 Platinums are in there somewhere but until they surface, just keep working the business. When they surface, just work with them, and work with them and keep working with them.
Point of Interest: Why do PTLs like Fabrizio Perotti and Bing Obaldo, who have obviously made it, sponsor thousands of affiliates every month?
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Obviously the most important goal to set is to become a DTL. AS a DTL you will have at least 5 PTLs beneath you so your income and therefore your financial freedom. will not just be assured, but beyond your wildest dreams. I just can't visualize what I could do with a 7 figure annual income.
So the goal I have set for myself is to just get to the next level, in the knowledge that once I get there and consolidate it, I can look towards reaching the next rank and reset my goal accordingly.
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Is it better to build a team within your own spoken language and environment...or go beyond these boundaries ?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
1/3/2015 7:58 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
Go beyond your national boundaries or own spoken language by all means. I personally only speak English, but in the national or ethnic groups I have in my team, probably close to 70% do not have English as their native tongue. I will just keep sponsoring and take pot luck on what language they speak.
Eventually somebody within an ethnic group, will rise and become active despite the language handicap or because they may have a reasonable grasp of English as a second language. When that person arises, I start to pour into that person's line of sponsorship all the people from that ethnic group. It strengthens the active affiliate, and he can then work with his fellow ethnics. All of a sudden, a group that had been inactive starts to produce activity, because their leader works with them in their own language. It might just be this previously inactive group that produces the magic 5 you need to reach financial freedom.
Don't reassign all of your particular ethnics to one affiliate at once, in case their enthusiasm wanes, but say 5 a month for a few months until it is plain they are going to go the distance. That way if someone else in that group who comes forward can also be rewarded for activity.
AS they say - the world is your oyster.
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Go beyond your national boundaries or own spoken language by all means. I personally only speak English, but in the national or ethnic groups I have in my team, probably close to 70% do not have English as their native tongue. I will just keep sponsoring and take pot luck on what language they speak.
Eventually somebody within an ethnic group, will rise and become active despite the language handicap or because they may have a reasonable grasp of English as a second language. When that
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Fear of success is a major problem for many people. How do you get past this with your team members?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
1/3/2015 9:34 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
I would encourage them to show me just a small amount of success - get to EA. No big deal but 90% never even get there. But what was there to be afraid of in getting there? Show them how to get to EA2. A lot harder but no big deal.
Just do it gradually - one rank at a time. Each rank is a new success but when they get there, what was the problem? Success eventually will feed on itself and because the ascension past BTL is a long slow process, they can get used to the success they already have and look on the next level as something that will happen if they keep working.
Try to instill fear of failure and fear of success will disappear.
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I would encourage them to show me just a small amount of success - get to EA. No big deal but 90% never even get there. But what was there to be afraid of in getting there? Show them how to get to EA2. A lot harder but no big deal.
Just do it gradually - one rank at a time. Each rank is a new success but when they get there, what was the problem? Success eventually will feed on itself and because the ascension past BTL is a long slow process, they can get used to the success they already
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What would be a better goal and why? Sponsor hundreds of new PSAs every year or teach a smaller number of EAs to each develop EAs themselves?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
11/26/2014 8:15 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
Sponsoring is a numbers game. You can turn handsprings for most new PSA's and the vast majority will do nothing after their first day or two in the business. You can send them 2 or 3 reminders about the NMP and the vast majority ignore it. If you get 5% of your sponsored PSA's to get to EA2 and stay there month after month, you have a very nice business if you can train that 5% to duplicate what you are doing.
5% is probably over generous and 1% closer to the mark.
So you just have to keep sponsoring heaps of PSA's, because you just do not know which ones will actually fire up. I am probably not the best sponsor in terms of looking after my team, but I do welcome every one on their first day, answer all their queries and get out a teammail every week. My team is now over 1400 in 7 and 1/2 months but so far only 3 have got as far as EA2.
So all I can say is sponsor as many as you can, and when the rough diamonds appear polish them and polish them until they sparkle just like you.
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Sponsoring is a numbers game. You can turn handsprings for most new PSA's and the vast majority will do nothing after their first day or two in the business. You can send them 2 or 3 reminders about the NMP and the vast majority ignore it. If you get 5% of your sponsored PSA's to get to EA2 and stay there month after month, you have a very nice business if you can train that 5% to duplicate what you are doing.
5% is probably over generous and 1% closer to the mark.
So you just
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Which helps my SFI business the most...playing Eager Zebra games or bidding on Pricebenders auctions?
John Ryan, Aff (Australia)
11/26/2014 7:51 pm
Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999
It all depends on what you are good at or what suits your personality best.
For me,personally, I use my TCredits up mostly on Knockout Trivia, because my general knowledge is, without boasting, above average, allowing me to win a share in the zackpot once or twice a week, which refills my store of TCredits. If you are a runner up you also get EZ credits, which allow you to play free when a TCredit is otherwise required or when you have already used up the number of allowable games for the day. Every time I play I get 1 VP and on average 15-20 MRP - much more when you play Big Dog and Double MRP games. So much so, that the buildup in MRP usually allows me to buy 1 share in S-Builder Co-op every month for 3429 MRP and build up my team.
With the other Eager Zebra games, I think too much luck is involved.
Bidding on Pricebenders Auctions requires a lot of skill and a lot of practice. Otherwise you are just wasting your TCredits. You do however pick up 1 VP for every bid and 5 MRP, so if you are looking at ways to increase your VP to re-qualify for whatever rank you are seeking, you can very quickly build your VP by bidding on the auctions.
The maximum VP on Eager Zebra games is 200 and on bidding on Pricebender Auctions is 500 VP, but when you combine them with your Daily Actions for over 300 VP a month, you can buy your way to at least qualify as BTL, which is what I try to do.
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It all depends on what you are good at or what suits your personality best.
For me,personally, I use my TCredits up mostly on Knockout Trivia, because my general knowledge is, without boasting, above average, allowing me to win a share in the zackpot once or twice a week, which refills my store of TCredits. If you are a runner up you also get EZ credits, which allow you to play free when a TCredit is otherwise required or when you have already used up the number of allowable games for
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9/18/2014 3:11 am