Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

Sometimes, it’s good to be skeptical to prove if a business opportunity is legit or not. If I’m presenting the SFI business opportunity whether offline/online or to newly sign ups, I’ll consider the following steps:

1. Show them the facts about SFI. Direct them to the SFI website page: About SFI. They can find the important facts, the legitimacy and the 16 successful years of SFI operation.

2. Explain to them that starting requires no financial investment, no credit card, just the computer and Internet connection.

3. Show them that upon joining, they will receive free websites, extensive tools and resources and 24/7 customer support.

4. Explain to them that SFI requires long term commitment and there’s work involve. It’s a real business opportunity. You can even offer them Gift Cards to find out for themselves before joining. They can explore the TripleClicks’ Pricebender auctions that will probably cause them to think and consider.

That’s all you need to do. Let them experience the warm atmosphere and spirit of helping one another in the SFI community.

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Sometimes, it’s good to be skeptical to prove if a business opportunity is legit or not. If I’m presenting the SFI business opportunity whether offline/online or to newly sign ups, I’ll consider the following steps:

1. Show them the facts about SFI. Direct them to the SFI website page: About SFI. They can find the important facts, the legitimacy and the 16 successful years of SFI operation.

2. Explain to them that starting requires no financial investment, no credit card,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

It is better to have a separate blogs about SFI and TripleClicks, so as not to confuse your visitors (readers/customers) and for clarity. By doing this, you can focus on each subject SFI or TripleClicks.

When blogging about SFI or TripleClicks, consider the following important factors:

- Provide information about SFI or TripleClicks with a personal touch.

- Its content should be up-to-date providing valuable information to your visitors . Include links and banners of SFI or TripleClicks. The contents should be in chronological order and event oriented. They should contain links to each original source of the information that is being summarized.

- It should be appealing to your visitors that will bring them back to your blog sites over and over again.

- It should create a relationship between you and the visitors to your website.

In creating a blog whether it is about SFI or TripleClicks, your goal is to establish relationship to your repeat visitors so that you can provide them information about SFI business opportunities or TripleClicks products and services and eventually join you.

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It is better to have a separate blogs about SFI and TripleClicks, so as not to confuse your visitors (readers/customers) and for clarity. By doing this, you can focus on each subject SFI or TripleClicks.

When blogging about SFI or TripleClicks, consider the following important factors:

- Provide information about SFI or TripleClicks with a personal touch.

- Its content should be up-to-date providing valuable information to your visitors . Include links and banners
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

SFI is designed for any affiliate to discover his/her potential to achieve his dreams and goals. Our interaction in dealing with each other whether we are in a team or affiliates alike will determine what kind of environment and atmosphere we are portraying in the SFI community and on the online /offline world.

How do you relate yourself to your affiliates, despite your unconditional support will rate you poorly? Consider the following points:

1. Being a Team Leader/Co-Sponsor, don’t get irritated because of the poor rating but politely send a message and ask for clarification that caused your affiliates to rate you poorly.

2. Focus on your responsibility of being an awesome sponsor.

3. Look at the poor rating as a learning experience to improve your leadership. It might be something that you can’t see and only by addressing the matter will help your dealings with your team move up to a higher level, earning you respect and will build close relationship in your team.

4. Be sensitive to their needs. The rating is a feedback on how you can improve your service. If you want loyalty to your customers then create a value for your team.

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SFI is designed for any affiliate to discover his/her potential to achieve his dreams and goals. Our interaction in dealing with each other whether we are in a team or affiliates alike will determine what kind of environment and atmosphere we are portraying in the SFI community and on the online /offline world.

How do you relate yourself to your affiliates, despite your unconditional support will rate you poorly? Consider the following points:

1. Being a Team Leader/Co-Sponsor,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

Both Eager Zebra games and Pricebenders auctions are essential for your SFI business.

How can Eager Zebra games contribute in growing your SFI business?

- You earn MRPs and TCredits which you can use to redeem almost any TC products.

- You collect action VPs for your entries (max. 200 AVP/month), which helps towards your action VP requirements to become a Team Leader (TL).

- You earn cool badges that will increase your popularity, inspire your downline and attract your prospects when you advertise through your website/blog.

How does Pricebenders auction contribute in growing your SFI business?

- You earn MRPs for each bid, double MRPs for auction with DP feature for each bid.

- You collect action VPs for your biddings (max. 500 AVP/month) which helps you in fulfilling your action VP requirement for becoming TL.

- You can participate in SFI auctions items such as 15, 25, 35, 50, 100 PSAs/CSAs, TC Gift Cards, S-Builder Co-op, etc to grow your business.

- You can attract your prospects through “SHARE IT” button when you advertise your winning bid auction through your website/blog,

Both Eager Zebra games and Pricebenders auctions are important part in growing your SFI business. They are designed to keep your entire organization active by having fun with their winnings and participation as they conduct their day-to-day business operation.

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Both Eager Zebra games and Pricebenders auctions are essential for your SFI business.

How can Eager Zebra games contribute in growing your SFI business?

- You earn MRPs and TCredits which you can use to redeem almost any TC products.

- You collect action VPs for your entries (max. 200 AVP/month), which helps towards your action VP requirements to become a Team Leader (TL).

- You earn cool badges that will increase your popularity, inspire your downline
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

In order to find out which is best to use in your marketing campaign - Text Ad Exchanges or Safelists - and why, you need to lay down the facts (best usage, pros and cons, etc) for both advertising methods and then decide which one is best for you. You may need also to take into consideration your time and financial investment involved in choosing between the two advertising methods.

What is Safelist and its pros and cons?

A safelist is an email list membership which you can join, enabling you to send your email offers to all the other members. There are two types of membership: free and paid safelist.

Advantages of Safelist:

- Registration using double opt-in method. This ensures that a member sends his/her personal posts and not an autoresponder. Your message will get to your intended recipients without spamming them.

- You can send your email to one, ten or thousand safelist members. Even a small percentage of thousand ensures good amount of traffic to your website/blog.

- A good place to test your ads before investing in other methods of advertising.

- Generally free safelist pays commissions for referrals while paid safelist offers higher commissions

- Low membership fees for joining paid safelist, send emails more frequently, offers ad tracking services, and post personalized messages.

- The frequency of sending messages is regulated, so that members are not overloaded with too many messages or spam.

- Email addresses are maintained carefully to avoid bouncing resulting in a safelist membership of valid email addresses only.

Disadvantages of Safelist:

- Receive thousands of email offers to read and is time consuming.

- Because safelist is affected by the numbers game, there is a possibility that only a small percentage will respond or even read your offer. You might think that you have written your best ads in your message and still get ignored.

- Since you don’t know the profiles of your recipients, they might not be interested in your offer.

- You need to join several safelist memberships and invest vast amount of time reading offers and posting messages every day to attract customers/prospects and get results.


Safelists can be a very effective way of promoting your SFI business online. The key is, choose safelists that are targeted to get the most out of your every effort. For example, if you're targeting homeowners, avoid safelists that have mostly businessmen and marketers for members. To ensure an effective campaign, advertise only to people whom you think will be interested.


Text Ad Exchange

Members view ads and receive credit points and use them for their own advertising purposes. You can send your email to one of the members’ list in a Text Ad Exchange site and in return they’ll get credits for reading your ad.

The main benefit of Text Ad Exchange (TAE) is you’ll need to pre-enroll before its launching to get a higher level of membership at no cost. This special offer will run until the site reaches a certain number of members before raising the price of membership.

Signing up in the early stage will give lots of free advertising and top level commissions for referring new members who upgrade to premium level of memberships or advertising at a later date.

TAE generates a lot of emails depending on the number of members joined, so it is recommended not to use your personal email address in your membership.

Usually TAE sites have built in business builder, which allows you to promote your SFI business and there are list of other exchanges for you to join and add your referral links. When you promote your link and get referrals you’re also building your text ad exchange downlines at the same time.

To benefit in this method, you’ll need to increase membership activity in your Text Ad Exchange. This will require your creativity in designing your strategies that will bring results.

TAE could be an effective method to market your SFI business if employed correctly. There is work involved in planning and executing a successful marketing plan.

Every marketing tool has its pros and cons. Only you can find out and decide which one is best for you. Give safelist and TAE a try for a while to see how it works one at a time. Pursue the one that you find beneficial. You can get around the cons of each method and benefit a great deal from the pros.

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In order to find out which is best to use in your marketing campaign - Text Ad Exchanges or Safelists - and why, you need to lay down the facts (best usage, pros and cons, etc) for both advertising methods and then decide which one is best for you. You may need also to take into consideration your time and financial investment involved in choosing between the two advertising methods.

What is Safelist and its pros and cons?

A safelist is an email list membership which you can
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

Who wouldn’t want to attain the highest level of being a Team Leader by becoming a Platinum Team Leader (PTL) in SFI? I believe every SFI affiliate should aspire to become one in order to enjoy the benefits.

First I’m going to show you the benefits of being a Platinum Team Leader to give you an inspiration and be motivated to go for it. Here are the benefits:

- Direct Commissions 45% CV from your PSAs/PRMs, including earning VPs from purchases made by your PRMs and 15% CV from your CSAs.

- You’re entitled to earn additional income through SFIPPA (SFI Pay-Per-Action).

- Participate in TripleClicks Executive Pool. As PTL you’ll have the opportunity to receive matching VPs on all EA2’s in your downline within 12 levels including your CSAs.

- Earn ECA royalties for life by referring companies selling products.

- You’ll get all the privileges of being an SFI affiliate which includes access to affiliate center, free TripleClicks membership, VIP title, free 20 TCredits/month starting on EA2 level, get paid instantly to your TC MasterCard, access to wholesale prices at TripleClicks, receive 2 CSAs/month, 4 shares of Second Home CSAs, express affiliate support, create own SFI-approved ads and promotions and so on.

Now that you have seen the summary of benefits above, what’s the best strategy to achieve that rank? By reviewing the requirements of becoming a PTL you can create the best strategy for you. The best strategy for me might not be the best for you. You’ll have to consider factors like geographical location, your economic situation and so on.

To become PTL:

- accumulate 6000 VPs or more. The VP requirement is consist of 1500min/2000max Sales VPs and 4000 Action VPs.

- maintain Leadership Page and a minimum 3-star sponsor rating. The 3-star rating requirement is waved if TL has less than 5 ratings from PSAs.
Most of the work involved in fulfilling the requirements above lies in the accumulation of 4000 Action VPs and this should be your main focus.
The best strategy to achieve the PTL rank:

- set a goal of sponsoring certain numbers of new affiliates. This will depend on your time and effort, budget, advertising media and methods of advertisement.

- Train and support new affiliates to become EA2s. This will require your time and effort as you establish trust in your team building.

- Encourage EA2s to become TLs by using the power tools, such as S-Builder Co-op, PSAs To Go, Reassignment/Gift Certificate Mgr and so on.

- Train and support them in building their own team.

- Communicate and follow-up your team’s activity consistently.

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Who wouldn’t want to attain the highest level of being a Team Leader by becoming a Platinum Team Leader (PTL) in SFI? I believe every SFI affiliate should aspire to become one in order to enjoy the benefits.

First I’m going to show you the benefits of being a Platinum Team Leader to give you an inspiration and be motivated to go for it. Here are the benefits:

- Direct Commissions 45% CV from your PSAs/PRMs, including earning VPs from purchases made by your PRMs and 15%
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

When I joined SFI over ten years ago, I have no idea and didn’t understand SFI’s concept. I have the willingness to learn and strong desire to achieve my goal of quitting my job and attaining financial freedom. I was new to Internet and I have tried to contact my sponsor. He responded and taught me how to set up autoresponder, opening an email account and so on. I was so confused that I keep asking him. He finally gave up and I became dormant. I checked one time my email and I received a message from SFI admin asking me to commit or opt out.

I did not give up but confirmed my commitment to remain EA2. With that decision, I learned in my first year not to give up but commit to SFI. I did not regret my decision. I belong to SFI because; I’m passionate in helping and sharing my experience to reach out to others.

I believe that successful people are humble and ready to help. They are sincerely interested in their work and success, they are eager to see that their works lives on and that somebody capable succeeds them when they retire.

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When I joined SFI over ten years ago, I have no idea and didn’t understand SFI’s concept. I have the willingness to learn and strong desire to achieve my goal of quitting my job and attaining financial freedom. I was new to Internet and I have tried to contact my sponsor. He responded and taught me how to set up autoresponder, opening an email account and so on. I was so confused that I keep asking him. He finally gave up and I became dormant. I checked one time my email and I received a message
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

Here’s how you can benefit in building a second income with SFI:

- Build your network to maximize your income. Sponsor new affiliates and harness the power of duplication to create your monthly income stream.

- Generate sales at TripleClicks.com with 99,000 commissionable products to increase your income. Apply the marketing methods and start earning.

- Refer ECAs and earn royalties for life or sponsor PRMs/ECAs.

- Participate in SFIPPA program to earn $12 per action.

- You can depend on the 16th year of SFI successful operation and 14-year Bronze member of Better Business Bureau

- Avail of 24 hr. a day SFI desk support, order processing, payments, product shipments and customer service (including live chat) all at no cost.

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Here’s how you can benefit in building a second income with SFI:

- Build your network to maximize your income. Sponsor new affiliates and harness the power of duplication to create your monthly income stream.

- Generate sales at TripleClicks.com with 99,000 commissionable products to increase your income. Apply the marketing methods and start earning.

- Refer ECAs and earn royalties for life or sponsor PRMs/ECAs.

- Participate in SFIPPA program to earn
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

As per my experience, when new affiliates signed up in SFI, the majority are first timers in doing an online business. It could be that through advertisement, they might have gotten a wrong impression, because of the phrases such as free to join, no credit card needed and so on, so that they joined SFI. On the other hand some of the new affiliates are enthusiastic in getting started and some have no experience at all and needed guidance.

As a Team Leader of your new affiliates, it is very important to send them your welcome message with simple instruction of how to get started. Don’t squeeze all the information on your first message of how to run the SFI business or telling them how to become a Team Leader. Communication is of utmost important in the beginning between Team Leader and his/her new affiliates. As a Team Leader, you’ll need to lead them consistently especially in their first month. Your new affiliates need to be taught and understand the SFI BASICS as simple as possible, so that they will not fall under the following circumstances:

- Feeling overwhelmed and confused on their first day

- Feeling overloaded with information

- New affiliates doing all action VPs i.e. rushing in their first month, just to collect more VPs, without really understanding each topic found in their SFI homepage.

- New affiliates not asking questions and therefore lack understanding about “the more VersaPoints collected means more commission”

If you as a Team Leader succeeded in establishing trust within your team, your new affiliates will most likely follow your lead and avoid those circumstances mentioned above.

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As per my experience, when new affiliates signed up in SFI, the majority are first timers in doing an online business. It could be that through advertisement, they might have gotten a wrong impression, because of the phrases such as free to join, no credit card needed and so on, so that they joined SFI. On the other hand some of the new affiliates are enthusiastic in getting started and some have no experience at all and needed guidance.

As a Team Leader of your new affiliates, it is very
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 308

My reason for persevering with SFI and not quit might be different from you. Every SFI affiliate who joined has his/her reason or motivation behind for joining SFI.

Here are the thoughts, which are so strong and powerful, that make me persevere with SFI and never thinking of quitting:

- Strong determination to quit my full time job and work at home.

- Attain financial freedom and spend more time with family and friends.

- I fully believe that SFI is the right opportunity for me that can deliver my goals and vision.

I have been with SFI for over ten years now and it works. My experiences are strong motivation for me not to quit. Considering the full potential of being an SFI affiliate blows my mind for I have just started to discover it.

Here are other facts that motivate me and keep me going with SFI:

- 16th successful year for SFI (29th for SFI's parent company)

-14-year Bronze member of Better Business Bureau

- 1.5 million affiliates (29,349 new added recently)

- 2.7 million TripleClicks members

- 99,000+ commissionable products (627 new added last week)

- 6,963 E-Commerce Affiliates (in 167 countries)

- 202 LocalPay Merchants (in 46 countries)

- 1,990 - TripleClicks.com's global popularity rank (source: Alexa.com)

- Millions - Commissions paid out to our affiliates (in US Dollars)

- Getting started is easy; accumulate VPs and begin earning income from the TripleClicks Executive Pool and anyone can do it.

- Generate sales at TripleClicks to increase your earnings.

- Sponsor and duplicate to maximize your income. Imagine sponsoring affiliates who will become ECAs or affiliates, who keep building their network passionately.

- Multiple income streams: Refer ECAs, Co-sponsor affiliates to add 15% monthly commissions with matching VPs and SFIPPA (SFI’s Pay-Per-Action) allows you to earn $12 by getting others to take actions like filling out forms.

SFI provides the opportunity for me to achieve my goals and vision which makes me persevere and never quit.

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My reason for persevering with SFI and not quit might be different from you. Every SFI affiliate who joined has his/her reason or motivation behind for joining SFI.

Here are the thoughts, which are so strong and powerful, that make me persevere with SFI and never thinking of quitting:

- Strong determination to quit my full time job and work at home.

- Attain financial freedom and spend more time with family and friends.

- I fully believe that SFI is the
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