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

The qualities one needs to succeed in SFI are fairly much the same qualities needed to succeed in any endeavour.

Self motivated: One needs to realise that success is up to himself - not the sponsor, co-sponsor or even the company. They can all be great, but you have to do motivate yourself and do the work yourself.

Self-disciplined: One needs to get in and do what has to be done without someone else telling you what to do and when to do it. You are your own boss, and must learn to discipline yourself to manage your time and resources wisely.

Willingness to learn: There is a lot to learn about successfully working the SFI business. To succeed you must have a teachable spirit; a willingness to learn and admission that you don't have all the answers. Must not be timid about asking for advice and then working out what is useful and how to apply it for yourself.

Good Communicator: In a business like SFI you must be able to communicate effectively with your team, your prospects - whether they be ECA, PRMs or new affiliates, and a2a friends.

Be a Team Player: Because SFI is a team business, you must be a team player and be willing to share your helpful experiences with others just starting out, or needing guidance. For any individual to succeed, the whole of SFI needs to succeed, so it is vital that we support each other.

Persistence: Anyone who succeeds at anything put many hours, weeks, months, even years into it before success finally came. The world is full of quitters who never succeeded at anything, but those who persevere are the ones who will succeed.
In SFI we need to persistently login every day and do our to-do-lists. We need to persistently keep communicating with our team, regardless if it may seem like a lost cause. We need to persistently keep sending out those advertisements...

Have a Dream: Having a dream is what gives someone a reason to do something. Dream big and don't let dream-stealers pull you down. They will never succeed because they have no reason to succeed. They don't want anything badly enough to try hard enough. The Bible says, "without a vision the people perish" and it's just as true for individuals.

Be Committed to a Plan: To succeed it is essential to have some plan in place as to how you will succeed. You can't hit a target with your eyes shut. You need to make sure that you are actually sticking to your plan, and measuring your progress against the goal you set for yourself.

Believe in yourself, the company, and God: You must believe that you can succeed, no matter what. You must believe that SFI is the vehicle by which you can succeed and you must believe that God wants you to succeed. You are his child and he loves you and wants for to have an abundant life. If you think you are worthless, and don't deserve to succeed, you won't. You will pull the rug out from under yourself.

Be a Doer, not a Procrastinator: There is no time like the present. When you get an idea, write it down and act on it as soon as possible. If you get an idea for a product you might create to sell on TripleClicks, start on it today and work out how long it may take to complete. When trying to work out how to earn the number of VP you want for the month write it down and start working towards it NOW. Don't take ages and ages to make a decision. Waiting often ends up in the decision making going out of your hands, because the end of the month will be upon you and it will be too late then to act.

Be Willing to Admit and Learn from your Mistakes: If you slip up some month, because you procrastinated or didn't follow your plan for whatever reason, don't be discouraged and beat yourself up. Admit you made a mistake and see that as a learning experience. Learn from it and do better next time.

This may not be a comprehensive list, but for the moment it's all I can come up with. I may think of something else later, but if I procrastinate I might not get my answer submitted to ASK SC. lol

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The qualities one needs to succeed in SFI are fairly much the same qualities needed to succeed in any endeavour.

Self motivated: One needs to realise that success is up to himself - not the sponsor, co-sponsor or even the company. They can all be great, but you have to do motivate yourself and do the work yourself.

Self-disciplined: One needs to get in and do what has to be done without someone else telling you what to do and when to do it. You are your own boss, and must learn
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

My first tip to help get my new PSAs started is to advise them to go for the Fast Start Bonus.

After this I guide them on the steps needed to be taken on achieving EA in their first month. I try to discourage them from rushing on and becoming a team leader right off, because without a team it won't do them much good anyway, and I feel it is best to get a good solid grounding in how the business works by taking it slowly to begin with.

Show them the SFI Basics tab and the Start tab and guide them through the Getting Started Actions and Launchpad. Tailor what each of them need to do by taking into account what day of the month they have joined, so what VP they can expect to earn from Daily Actions.
I do this so that they still have some 'easy VP' left for the second month.

I hope these ideas help.
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My first tip to help get my new PSAs started is to advise them to go for the Fast Start Bonus.

After this I guide them on the steps needed to be taken on achieving EA in their first month. I try to discourage them from rushing on and becoming a team leader right off, because without a team it won't do them much good anyway, and I feel it is best to get a good solid grounding in how the business works by taking it slowly to begin with.

Show them the SFI Basics tab and the Start
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

This is an interesting question and it appears different people have interpreted it in different ways. Some people have described the process of building your SFI business so that you become a leader. Personally I think the question is referring to the process of developing yourself as a leader - developing your own leadership skills. That is how I will answer.

Firstly to be a good leader one needs to be able to be a good follower and be teachable.
I make a point of making friends via a2a of people I think have become good leaders and asking them for their advice and guidance. I ask them how they achieved their success and see if any of what they did is a fit for me.

I attend leadership training programmes outside of SFI. There are heaps of these around and some are very inexpensive or even free to attend.

Develop your leadership skills in other area of life by taking some active role in the community and contributing to it positively - whether it be becoming a Sunday School teacher, a kids' sports coach, or joining the local school P&C association, or volunteering in any of a million ways. You really do develop as a leader doing these things and learning to communicate with other co-workers/parents etc.

You could also do a course in public speaking such as a Dale Carnegie or join Lions Club or Rotary or something similar, which can also help develop leadership skills.

And always remain open to learning from books - read, read and read some more. There is an absolute abundance of books written on leadership and I have loads of them in my personal library. Do a search on TripleClicks and you will find hundreds there too. The investment in these is immeasurable.

And finally, if you are serious about leading, then begin leading. People will begin to follow you as you learn how to lead. Communicate with people whenever you can. If someone sends you a friend request, accept it. If someone asks for your advice give it and give it ungrudgingly, but with a willing heart. And of course, it goes without saying, be a leader to your own team of PSAs and CSAs by writing to them every week and offering them any help you can.

I highly recommend you do all of the above if you really want to become a successful team leader in SFI.

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This is an interesting question and it appears different people have interpreted it in different ways. Some people have described the process of building your SFI business so that you become a leader. Personally I think the question is referring to the process of developing yourself as a leader - developing your own leadership skills. That is how I will answer.

Firstly to be a good leader one needs to be able to be a good follower and be teachable.
I make a point of making friends
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

This could be a good idea, so long as the product is related to business-building and won't cost you anything. For example if you have e-books to which you have PLR, or which you have written yourself, you could put them on your website and offer the download link to someone who has achieved one of your targets.

I guess you could do the same with CDs or DVDs in the proper format that could be downloaded. You wouldn't want to add the cost and time of production, packaging and shipping to your incentive, or it will not be worthwhile to you.
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This could be a good idea, so long as the product is related to business-building and won't cost you anything. For example if you have e-books to which you have PLR, or which you have written yourself, you could put them on your website and offer the download link to someone who has achieved one of your targets.

I guess you could do the same with CDs or DVDs in the proper format that could be downloaded. You wouldn't want to add the cost and time of production, packaging and shipping
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I would recommend every kind of marketing method, both offline and online, to new PSAs.
Encourage your PSAs to think about the possibilities available to them offline. Do they have friends and family who may be receptive to becoming involved either as PSAs, ECAs or PRMs, or whether they might even help by putting up flyers for them?
Are there places where they can distribute the $12 gift cards? Are there craft markets and small businesses where your PSAs might find ECAs?

SFI has a great range of marketing methods available to use. Encourage your PSAs to read these and work out what would work the best for them. Are they computer literate enough to set up their own blog or website. Both of these would be great marketing methods if your PSA can do it. If these are too hard, there is safelist and traffic exchange advertising, which are time consuming, especially if you have to click for credits.

Experiment with the different methods and use the banners and text ads supplied by SFI as well as creating your own. Keep track of what you do and see what is working - then do more of that!
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I would recommend every kind of marketing method, both offline and online, to new PSAs.
Encourage your PSAs to think about the possibilities available to them offline. Do they have friends and family who may be receptive to becoming involved either as PSAs, ECAs or PRMs, or whether they might even help by putting up flyers for them?
Are there places where they can distribute the $12 gift cards? Are there craft markets and small businesses where your PSAs might find ECAs?

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

When you greet your new PSAs you want to make them feel welcome, assure them of your help and support and assure them of what a great business they have joined and the wonderful opportunity that awaits them.

To make them feel welcome tell them who you are, that you are their sponsor and welcome them to your team. Tell them that you would love to get to know them and welcome any correspondence from them assuring them of your reply.

Offer them your help:
Guide them to what they need to do to achieve the fast start bonus,
tell them that you will maintain contact every day for the next few days or however long they need to help, guide and encourage them as they learn about their new business. If you have a website or blog offering any training, tell them how to gain access to that.

Tell them they have joined a great business opportunity that can change their lives. Tell them there are several ways they can earn money which they will learn about over the course of the first month. Tell them that not only have they a great business ahead of them, but they will make lots of new friends from around the world and have fun as well.

Encourage them to get started right away on earning the Fast Start bonus and that you will help unfold the business to them in more detail over the coming days.

Try not to make it too long, and sound too complicated. You don't want to overwhelm them and turn them off and you also want them to have enough time to get started on the fast start bonus actions as soon as possible.

Good luck to you.
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When you greet your new PSAs you want to make them feel welcome, assure them of your help and support and assure them of what a great business they have joined and the wonderful opportunity that awaits them.

To make them feel welcome tell them who you are, that you are their sponsor and welcome them to your team. Tell them that you would love to get to know them and welcome any correspondence from them assuring them of your reply.

Offer them your help:
Guide them to what
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

There are people in SFI who sell subscriptions to material which they produce for you to modify or even use directly. You can use this content because your payment allows you to use the copyrighted material.

You can also subscribe to network marketing newsletters and take a message from such newsletters and rewrite in your own words. You can combine messages from different newsletters to make your own unique article.

Read articles in article directories, read items from magazines, research your topic on Google. All the information you glean from a variety of such sources, can be merged and rewritten to create your own material for your posts.

If you are reviewing a product from TripleClicks to post in your blog, read everyone else’s reviews on the product. These can be included in your article in quotation marks. It would be good to have actually used the product yourself too, so that your review can be authentic and spoken about with authority.

If you find an article you really like and want to use as it is, contact the original author and ask for his permission to use it. I did this just recently and the chap was really pleased that I liked his article and wanted to share it with others in my blog. All he asked was that I credited him with the writing of it. This does not infringe copyright if you have been given the author’s permission.

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There are people in SFI who sell subscriptions to material which they produce for you to modify or even use directly. You can use this content because your payment allows you to use the copyrighted material.

You can also subscribe to network marketing newsletters and take a message from such newsletters and rewrite in your own words. You can combine messages from different newsletters to make your own unique article.

Read articles in article directories, read items from magazines,
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Personally, I don’t think this is a good idea. This is a person’s own business. People shouldn’t need to be bribed to work at their own business and earn their own incomes.

However a reward can be appropriate, and Gift Certificates, TCredits or PSA reassignments may be used as rewards for hard workers who attain certain achievements.

You have to weigh up whether you are offering these gifts as rewards or bribes. It can be a fine line. Also if you are struggling to make a go of this yourself, you may not be in a position to bribe or reward others. You need to consider whether giving out your gift is an investment for you, or whether simply another expense which you can’t afford. It is one thing to give gifts to people who work, to both thank them and encourage them, but entirely different to give gifts in the hope of getting someone who doesn’t work to start. The chances are if they haven’t been able to motivate themselves, they’ll just take what you’re giving and still do nothing. That is an unnecessary expense which you can’t sustain, and would make no business sense.

Help your affiliates by guiding them in their endeavours and answering any questions as soon as you can, but use gifts with discretion.

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Personally, I don’t think this is a good idea. This is a person’s own business. People shouldn’t need to be bribed to work at their own business and earn their own incomes.

However a reward can be appropriate, and Gift Certificates, TCredits or PSA reassignments may be used as rewards for hard workers who attain certain achievements.

You have to weigh up whether you are offering these gifts as rewards or bribes. It can be a fine line. Also if you are struggling to
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I don't think people over 50 need convincing. At that age they are getting close to retirement and know whether they have saved enough to have the retirement lifestyle they want. Most of us haven't! We are looking for something else to supplement the pension or hopefully replace it altogether. Who wouldn't want a leveraged residual income that will allow them to be free of financial worries in their old age?

A lot of us over 50 have time on our hands or are living alone after the loss of our spouse. Having SFI to do gives us something enjoyable to focus our attention on opens the way for us to make heaps of new online friends.

Computers and the internet have been around for long enough now that most over 50s are fairly IT savvy, or at least can surf the net, navigate a webpage,send and receive email and write a Word document. That is basically the skill level required to operate an SFI business.

So if you know someone over 50 who wants to make new friends, who may be lonely or bored or too ill to continue his job, or in need of extra retirement income, then SFI is the perfect answer!

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I don't think people over 50 need convincing. At that age they are getting close to retirement and know whether they have saved enough to have the retirement lifestyle they want. Most of us haven't! We are looking for something else to supplement the pension or hopefully replace it altogether. Who wouldn't want a leveraged residual income that will allow them to be free of financial worries in their old age?

A lot of us over 50 have time on our hands or are living alone after the loss
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Summing up the complexity and variety of SFI in one sentence, does not do it justice, but here is my attempt:

"SFI is an enjoyable and varied business ideally suited to those who love communicating with others and teambuilding, with the potential to make a steady income for life if you work hard to build it up at the beginning."