Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

Having a co-op does not guarantee your down line will be active but it does help them to get active and stay active. The reason behind this is simple. Many affiliates, especially newbies, have no idea about internet marketing. They don't understand the concept of network marketing, promoting products online, etc. Thus in the earlier days of enrollment, affiliates are trying to grasp the basics alone. Even though they have a sponsor and a co-sponsor, I venture to say that at least 95% of new affiliates fail to contact them for help.

Disillusionment and the sea of information that is known as the world wide web contributes further to the disconnect between affiliates and their sponsors. We all experienced this seemingly endless dismay while trying to understand the basics. Good sponsors & co-sponsors react quickly to bring clarity to a plan of action that will move disconcerted affiliates from inactively caused by the 'paralysis of analysis' due to information overload.

Therefore its imperative that sponsors/co-sponsors connect with their affiliates within 24 to 48 hours to welcome them and congratulate them for making that first step - signing up. Once registered, then; affiliates need to be able to see a simple and clear plan of action that will help them achieve what they desire for their SFI business. If so many have no internet marketing experience, there is no better way to motivate your down line as letting them know that YOU with help THEM build their business.

Moreover, I support my down line 150% with tools, materials, and reassignments of affiliates. Those working toward TL qualification receive further co-opt assignments as a benefit of achieving TL qualification. The main reason having a co-op helps your down line stay active is because it saves them money on advertising. This is encouraging because it costs to maintain EA2. Whether you spend more time than money or otherwise, it will take a concerted effort. Through teamwork the journey toward SFI success is made easier and the burden lighter.

This creates positive energy that polarizes your down line. They soon they begin to understand the meaning of network marketing. The realization of the UNLIMITED possibilities begins to foster even more success. The is nothing quite as gratifying as personal achievement. The more of it we have; the harder we all strive to reach our goals. A team co-op simply states that no affiliate has to work alone but you are apart of a team and every member should do his/her part.

A team co-op has this kind of effect. If sponsors are reasonable with their affiliates about the rules of engagement with co-opts, it will get them active and help them to stay active. The more active EA2s, the more versa points for TL qualification. It is soon very clear that it is a numbers game and a balance between cost & profit. Duplication through co-op participation will eventually lead to multiplied commissions. This is what we all are working toward while strengthening vendor relationships with in our team. - Aiming Higher & Dreaming Bigger - Wilg
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Having a co-op does not guarantee your down line will be active but it does help them to get active and stay active. The reason behind this is simple. Many affiliates, especially newbies, have no idea about internet marketing. They don't understand the concept of network marketing, promoting products online, etc. Thus in the earlier days of enrollment, affiliates are trying to grasp the basics alone. Even though they have a sponsor and a co-sponsor, I venture to say that at least 95% of new
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

The best way to inspire a sense of team participation is to be highly visible and accessible to your network. Following the recommendations for being an awesome sponsor is a great resource. Here's the link: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor. As everything else in business, you must connect with your down line. In addition to the tips above:

1. Send a personable welcome message to every new affiliate in the first 24 to 48 hours. This is HIGHLY important! Use the affiliate manager to connect with them about their dreams, goals, ambitions and tell them a little bit about why you are in SFI. Provide your contact info in every communication.

2. Follow up with recommendations based on their vp ledger. ALWAYS recommend that affiliates complete enough 'Getting Started' actions to get on the fast track!

3. Within 3 days of your recommendations follow up with them to check on their progress. Let them know that you are there to answer any questions they may have.

4. Be active overall in the forum, auctions, and Ask SC. Brand yourself as a leader and the person to go to when their are questions.

5. Support all of your affiliates by helping them recruit, promote, and by rewarding those who achieve milestones.

6. Suggest products that you have used that help grew your business. Nothing is quite as powerful as a personal endorsement by a proven leader!

7. Always address concerns with a snap shot of the affiliate's vp ledger in mind. This will give you the best information to help keep each affiliate on task toward their goals.

8. Provide all of the knowledge that you have to your affiliates. Teach them to do exactly what you have done to achieve success.

By following these suggestions you will not only win over all of those 1 percenters on your team but also you will inspire those 'fence setters' to get off of the fence, take charge, and aim high! - Aiming Higher & Dreaming Bigger! - Wilg


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The best way to inspire a sense of team participation is to be highly visible and accessible to your network. Following the recommendations for being an awesome sponsor is a great resource. Here's the link: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor. As everything else in business, you must connect with your down line. In addition to the tips above:

1. Send a personable welcome message to every new affiliate in the first 24 to 48 hours. This is HIGHLY important! Use the affiliate
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

While using your SFI mailer is sufficient, you can maintain a separate list of active affiliates by using your own business email. Communication with your down line should always have an objective. You are the team leader so you need to set the expectation for your entire network of active affiliates. No matter how effective your communication method, 50% of your affiliates will not respond or show any concern. This is not a reflection on you but rather a reflection of them.

That said, you should communicate with your down line at least 3 times within a 7 day period but no more than 5. Your active members need your support and direction so 3 emails will do for them. Those that are not as active need to see that you are actively engage in your efforts to help them.

Another reason you want to use your own business mailer is that that html is available as well as basic formatting. Your sfi mailer is just plain text. If you include reference links you must explain that affiliates need to copy and paste the link into their browser. With POP mail, links are automatically blue and clickable. Moreover, their is a certain degree of privacy that your own personal mail affords that using the team mail does not. Every team mail is subject to scrutiny and if sfimg thinks that your message is to 'spammy' they won't approve it and all the work you put into it is lost.

In conclusion, team mail works like a charm for those active affiliates that just need a short reminder of tasks that have not been completed. A more detailed message may be need for those affiliates that are not as savvy with browsers and how they work. By using your how personal email, you can include many reference links and they will all be just point & click. I recommend that you use both. Besides, you can earn 30VPs each week by sending team mail. You can do this with your personal mail plus you do have to maintain that list. So when affiliates fall by the wayside, you have clean your contact list. Overall effectiveness of any message is 50/50.
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While using your SFI mailer is sufficient, you can maintain a separate list of active affiliates by using your own business email. Communication with your down line should always have an objective. You are the team leader so you need to set the expectation for your entire network of active affiliates. No matter how effective your communication method, 50% of your affiliates will not respond or show any concern. This is not a reflection on you but rather a reflection of them.

That
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a good question - thanks for sharing your concerns. Internet marketing like riding a bicycle has to be learned. While I understand that every newbie is overwhelm by the vastness of opportunities on the net as well as the everyday pressures to pay the bills, this is where effective sponsorship will make all the difference in the world.

Therefore, as effective team leaders, we must connect with affiliates asap - within the first 24 to 48 hours. Most newbies don't have the focus needed to see that EVERYTHING is laid out in the affiliate center. How to start, what to do, when you get paid, and all of the other 1001 questions that plug the forum everyday - as real testament to the poor leadership that exist overall. Now don't get me wrong, many affiliates struggle with marketing new and old. It's a challenge for the most seasoned of internet marketers. However, my point is that affiliates need to contact their sponsor first or at least hear from their sponsor.

That said, the best advice that you can give to a newbie is the truth. The truth about earnings, versa points, and the mechanics of SFI and internet marketing as a hold. Too many affiliates are unwilling to put forth some effort in lieu of capital. If you don't have money to invest then fine. Let your affiliates know that their is no purchase requirement but there is a work requirement! You just can't haphazardly do internet marketing and get good results. It takes work. It takes logging in regularly. Not once a week, or once a month. But really it takes everyday you can get to build momentum with your promotional efforts. So, just 1 day every once in a blue moon is just not going to cut it. As the team leader you should set the expectation high enough to demand consistent, persistent ACTION!

After setting the expectation, you should let your affiliates know that internet marketing is a numbers game. The more promotion you do the better results you will get. All promotional efforts should be tracked carefully for performance over time. When it comes to free advertising, we are talking 30 to 90 days of consistent advertising. I've have recruited 20 to 30 affiliates per month using free advertising. But, I send thousands upon thousands of ads. It's the nature of the business - you must persist.

Finally, sponsors should emphasize a singular focus on the task at hand. There is no way you can effective promote 1001 different things. We are apart of the best internet business in the WORLD - settle it in your mind, heart, and soul. Such focus is needed because in your promotional efforts you will inevitably run across flashy sites, empty promises of quick riches, the next best thing since chocolate cake, and all the rest. Nothing more that marketers pitching to marketers in a effort to redirect your focus! Settle it in your mind - SFI is going to work for me. If you use safe lists, your mindset needs to be that I need to earn promotional credits in order to promote using the list. If you promote effectively, safe lists work. That's why everyday I receive over 1000 pieces of email! All effective marketers know that you must first build a list before you can really make money online. Consequentially, you must recruit PSAs, ECAs, and PRMs. If you are not going to use the safe lists, then how do you propose to promote?

Email marketing is the no.1 form of promotion because it is still FREE! Safe list exist to deal with the issue of spam. All marketers on the list agree to recieve offers in order to promote to the list. So sponsors should advice their affiliates that if they use safe lists, they will get useless offers but if you use credit based safe lists then you can start to build your own list to build your SFI business. This is the purpose for joining safelists. However, focus is need to achieve the objective of recruiting affiliates and referring TripleClicks members. If you as the sponsor use safelists, make your copy available to your affiliates and tell them to adapt it for their personal use. The same applies with any other form of advertising. Give your team examples of ads that you use that work for you. With the right approach it will work for your affiliates! - Aiming Higher & Dreaming Bigger! - Wilg
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This is a good question - thanks for sharing your concerns. Internet marketing like riding a bicycle has to be learned. While I understand that every newbie is overwhelm by the vastness of opportunities on the net as well as the everyday pressures to pay the bills, this is where effective sponsorship will make all the difference in the world.

Therefore, as effective team leaders, we must connect with affiliates asap - within the first 24 to 48 hours. Most newbies don't have the focus
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

Getting down line members to understand SFI and what to do is not a problem. The problem is that so many are in desparate economic need and are looking for a quick fix. There is no quick fix except maybe hitting the lottery! Besides your odds of making $100,000.00 in SFI compared to the odds of winning the lottery are far greater.

So the key to helping affiliates understand SFI is to connect with them in the first 24 to 48 hours. If you fail to do this, it's going to be an up hill battle from there! Once you can get a dialog going, then it is a matter of referring the affiliate to the SFI basics. You must be able to walk them through step by step. The most effective way to do this is by using the affiliate manager. It allows the sponsor to see the affiliate's profile including the versa points ledger. From the ledger, sponsor can determine actions taken and make suggestions for action to take to achieve the desire versa points. Once the affiliate is on the fast track, you must still monitor their progress. Answer their questions as needed.

The next step is to get the affiliate to EA. Make appropriate suggestions and review the affiliates versa points ledger to ensure that they follow your recommendations. Then, reward them for their work. Be sure all of the getting started actions are taken as well as launch pad training and intermediate actions. Answer their questions as needed.

Once the affiliate becomes EA, celebrate it like it's your birthday! Congratulate them in the stream and send them a personal thank you. Explain to them that each month they need to earn 1500 points at least to maintain this status. If you have done a good job of communicating with them, they don't want to let you down. It's humbling to have members explaining their situations as to why they can't maintain their status. When this happens, empathize with them and do what you can to help. Assure them that you have a strategy that will help them get back their EA status. In this case, support them 150%

Contrarily, if you never get a dialog going with new affiliates; it's difficult to teach and mentor. You'll have better luck rehabilitating a drunk! This is true because the drunk will sooner or later sober up and you will be able to explain how destructive drunkeness can be. Affiliates that don't log in, don't write, don't call, don't email - just plain don't care and neither should you. You can't revive a dead horse nor can you make a living horse go where he is determined not to go. Be encourage - keep prospecting! Some will, Some won't, So what, . . . NEXT! - Aiming Higher & Dreaming Bigger! - Wilg
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Getting down line members to understand SFI and what to do is not a problem. The problem is that so many are in desparate economic need and are looking for a quick fix. There is no quick fix except maybe hitting the lottery! Besides your odds of making $100,000.00 in SFI compared to the odds of winning the lottery are far greater.

So the key to helping affiliates understand SFI is to connect with them in the first 24 to 48 hours. If you fail to do this, it's going to be an up hill
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

To get more upgrades, people need to know what is in it for THEM! They already think that you are in it for your own reasons. So simply, invest in people and it will make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. You, as their sponsor take the lead to grow their network, build their business, and answer their questions. When people know you genuinely are there for them then they will reciprocate the favor by going all in. Let's all go Platinum!

Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

Bronze Team Leader is an accomplishment so congratulations. You need not worry about making milestones as much as you should focus on team leadership and support. You will find that if you support your team they will support you. So as a team leader this should be your central focus. Although, it's nice to have 10 EAs who are committed to their SFI business remember that having a mix is always better than having everything riding on those versa points. For example, I've seen a STL & a GTL just quit. No real explanation given other than they just felt like SFI was a waste of their time. For them it probably was.

On the contrary, you want to maintain your BTL status and go even toward higher milestones. On top of providing top notch support, follow all of the rules listed here: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor Moreover, develop a detailed plan that will fit into your budget of how you are going to acquire those points every month. Here's a recommendation:

1. Standing order worth 1500VPs - Plus you 100VPs Bonus
2. Home page action tabs including links - 492
3. Recruit ECAs and help them sale products(3) - 300VPs
4. Assuming that you have 3 EAs that are committed - 300VPs
5. PriceBender Auction VPs - 500VPs
6. Do I need to go on here?

I think you get my drift. Daily consistent action to supporting and building your network will make you a Platinum Team Leader! So now you have some ideas to go put into action and I know that you will - Aiming Higher & Dreaming Bigger - Wilg
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Bronze Team Leader is an accomplishment so congratulations. You need not worry about making milestones as much as you should focus on team leadership and support. You will find that if you support your team they will support you. So as a team leader this should be your central focus. Although, it's nice to have 10 EAs who are committed to their SFI business remember that having a mix is always better than having everything riding on those versa points. For example, I've seen a STL & a GTL
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

I am glad that you asked this question, thank you. The turning point for me with my SFI business came in December of 2010. After being in SFI for 3 years, I hit and miss with my efforts. I was not as determined to see my plans all the way through to the end. I was like many SFI affiliates, looking for 'quick riches'. After 3 years, let me tell you that I did not find them!

The one thing that I did even back then was to learn as much as I could about 'the game'. I read many manuals on the subject of internet marketing, ecommerce, affiliate marketing, and you name it. I spend several thousand dollars trying this and that. I think about it everyday and it reminds me not to waste my time and money chasing after 'ghosts' but solid strategies that are proven to work in time with persistent action.

Then, it happened! I logged into my account one day in November 2010 and I earned $6.33! After seeing $0.00 for over 72 months! It proved to me that I could make money online. SFI was not just hype and fluff but the real deal. You see, I set up a small test ad and I made $6.33! Now, all I had to do was to refine the process and do it over and over again until I earn the type of income that I desire.

Today, I still don't make the kind of money that I desire! But I do make a lot more than $6.33! Every month, my income is getting better. It pays for my standing order and that's how I maintain EA2! I still have commissions in my account right now.

So now, I try to teach affiliates to do what I do everyday. Stick with the basics. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Everything you need to grow a solid SFI business is right in the affiliate center. We must master to tools of the trade. Aiming Higher& Dreaming Bigger - Wilg
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I am glad that you asked this question, thank you. The turning point for me with my SFI business came in December of 2010. After being in SFI for 3 years, I hit and miss with my efforts. I was not as determined to see my plans all the way through to the end. I was like many SFI affiliates, looking for 'quick riches'. After 3 years, let me tell you that I did not find them!

The one thing that I did even back then was to learn as much as I could about 'the game'. I read many manuals
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

You know that you are on the right track when that path produces the desired results. SFI has a long and successful history and we have a world-class business model for any affiliate to succeed if they take the necessary actions required. Everything from promoting products to building a down line is accessible to every affiliate. SFI has done an excellent job of providing resources now the choice is ours to stay the course and follow the dream through to reality.

Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999

Thanks for asking such a great question! The best way to evaluate traffic exchanges for SFI is to determine which produce the best results. Best results would be to get affiliates that are actively involved in their SFI business. They don't have to be 'heavy hitters' just responsive! Hence, you need to quantify the metrics that you are going to track for each gateway. What metrics are important to you? Let's say that you are testing 2 sites to see which produces the most hits to our free gateway. Then, set the duration of the test. Hits are not all sign-ups. Sign-ups are not all 'movers'. So, let's suppose traffic exchange A produced 500 hits and 10 signups. Traffic exchange B produced 1000 hits and 3 sign-ups. The duration was set at 30 days and you promoted equally on each exchanges. On first examination site A appears to be the winner but upon closer examination, you found that of the 10 signups you got on site A, only 1 became EA2. Whereas, site B produced only 3 sign-ups but they all became EA2. The more you examine beneath the numbers you will find these types of discrepancies. Site B is the winner! You would have to continue to monitor this because numbers change! Test, retest, and test again! There are 100s of thousands out there - good luck.
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Thanks for asking such a great question! The best way to evaluate traffic exchanges for SFI is to determine which produce the best results. Best results would be to get affiliates that are actively involved in their SFI business. They don't have to be 'heavy hitters' just responsive! Hence, you need to quantify the metrics that you are going to track for each gateway. What metrics are important to you? Let's say that you are testing 2 sites to see which produces the most hits to our free gateway.
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