Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

Both being an ECA and referring an ECA will be more beneficial. These are two income streams among the many ways to earn in SFI.

If you have your own ECA store, you earn from the profits of the products you are selling. If your PSAs and PRMs buy from your own ECA store, in addition to the profit you are making from selling your own products, you also earn 45% of CV Direct Commissions. Plus you also earn all the VP attached to the products bought by your PRMs. Take note you don’t earn commissions and VP, if you, yourself, purchase from your own store; you earn only the profits from your product sales.

If you recruit ECA merchants, you earn 100 VP per approved ECA and 10% royalty fees from their monthly sales for life.

The ECA program can help boost your SFI business. It can generate more VersaPoints to upgrade your rank and increase your monthly commissions,

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Both being an ECA and referring an ECA will be more beneficial. These are two income streams among the many ways to earn in SFI.

If you have your own ECA store, you earn from the profits of the products you are selling. If your PSAs and PRMs buy from your own ECA store, in addition to the profit you are making from selling your own products, you also earn 45% of CV Direct Commissions. Plus you also earn all the VP attached to the products bought by your PRMs. Take note you don’t earn
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

If you can, I believe that the best time to upgrade your rank from EA to Team Leader is during your first month. Why? Positioning is the key to your SFI business success.

Only Team Leaders have the opportunity to tap into the jewel of SFI’s Compensation Plan - the Matching VersaPoints. Only Team leaders can receive the 2nd Home CSAs shares. And Team Leaders enjoy more power, perks, and higher commissions than EAs.

Others will advise that because you cannot earn Matching VP if you don’t have EA2s in your team, you should wait until you have EA2s in your team before you move to the Team Leader rank. You might not have EA2s in your Gen 1, but how do you know that you don’t have EA2s down from Gen 2 to 12? If you are just an EA, you only see in your Genealogy your Gen 1 PSAs and CSAs. Only Team Leaders depending on their rank can see Gen 1 to 12 EA2s.

And also, you should walk your talk. How can you motivate your team members to upgrade to Team Leader status, if you yourself is not a Team Leader?

So my advice is the sooner you can become a Team Leader the faster you can propel your team to greater heights.
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If you can, I believe that the best time to upgrade your rank from EA to Team Leader is during your first month. Why? Positioning is the key to your SFI business success.

Only Team Leaders have the opportunity to tap into the jewel of SFI’s Compensation Plan - the Matching VersaPoints. Only Team leaders can receive the 2nd Home CSAs shares. And Team Leaders enjoy more power, perks, and higher commissions than EAs.

Others will advise that because you cannot earn Matching VP
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

Motivating lazy and unmotivated affiliates is a big challenge. You have to decode first the reasons why they are inactive and not doing SFI. The number reason for this is they put very low value on SFI.

The magic formula is you help your affiliates put higher value on SFI. In your mails to them give them the reasons …

1. Why they need to login daily and complete their daily, weekly and monthly actions?
2. Why they should keep on reading and learning everything about SFI, TripleClicks, and internet marketing?
3. Why they should take advantage of becoming a Fast-Tracker via the New Member Pack (NMP) before the 10-Fast-Track window disappears?
3. Why they should establish an open communication with their team members, sponsor, co-sponsor, uplines, and a2a friends?
4. Why they should promote and advertise their SFI/TripleClicks websites?
5. Why they have to qualify and maintain their Executive Affiliate (EA) rank each month?
6. Why they have to upgrade their rank to a team leader status?
7. Why they have to do Sponsoring & Duplication, TripleClick sales, and ECA program?

The more your affiliates understand how to make a lot of money and residual income with SFI the higher value and level of importance they can put on why they have to do SFI actively and seriously.

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Motivating lazy and unmotivated affiliates is a big challenge. You have to decode first the reasons why they are inactive and not doing SFI. The number reason for this is they put very low value on SFI.

The magic formula is you help your affiliates put higher value on SFI. In your mails to them give them the reasons …

1. Why they need to login daily and complete their daily, weekly and monthly actions?
2. Why they should keep on reading and learning everything about
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

I will tell affiliates who got knocked out of the E-365 challenge contest not to easily get frustrated because win or lose we are all winners in any contest. We always gain and learn something from any contest. It makes us stronger and become more creative.

Remember, it’s trying to win in a contest that is more important than winning. For example, in the process of trying to stay above the green line in the E-365 challenge contest, we learn more about how SFI works. We see how important it is to earn as many VersaPoints every day.

I will advise my affiliates who got knocked out of the E-365 challenge contest to move to Bronze Team Leader status to get back to the E-365 contest track. And then find more ways how to earn more VersaPoints so that they could end up with the highest VP score at the end of the contest period.

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I will tell affiliates who got knocked out of the E-365 challenge contest not to easily get frustrated because win or lose we are all winners in any contest. We always gain and learn something from any contest. It makes us stronger and become more creative.

Remember, it’s trying to win in a contest that is more important than winning. For example, in the process of trying to stay above the green line in the E-365 challenge contest, we learn more about how SFI works. We see how important
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

The best way to teach your downline how to build their downline is gain their trust first. Let them know that you are sincere in your desire to help them. Show your sincerity through action. Lead by example. Show them what you mean. Walk your talk. You are the role model and mentor of your downline. Share to them what you know and whatever building, communication or marketing strategies you are implementing to build a strong team. Give them the step by step instructions on how to build and grow their business successfully.
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The best way to teach your downline how to build their downline is gain their trust first. Let them know that you are sincere in your desire to help them. Show your sincerity through action. Lead by example. Show them what you mean. Walk your talk. You are the role model and mentor of your downline. Share to them what you know and whatever building, communication or marketing strategies you are implementing to build a strong team. Give them the step by step instructions on how to build and grow
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

The best way to convince your PSA not to quit is to empathize with his/her predicament. See the big picture from your affiliate’s perspective. Make use of language that shows you care and help him figure out why nothing comes from his effort and hard work. There is no way that investing time, effort, hard work, patience, perseverance, passion, and money would not produce SFI success.

If you want to have a team of serious affiliates, EA, EA2s, TLs, CSAs, and PRMs, sitting on the sofa is not going to make it happen. Investing in advertising your SFI & TripleClicks gateways and/or buying PSAs is not also going to make it happen. Success in SFI and in life has something to do with the Law of Sowing and Reaping and the Law of Cause and Effect.

What you sow, you reap! You invest time in reading the SFI Basics, LaunchPad Lessons, Ask SC answers, Forum discussions, etc. you gain knowledge and skills. You invest time and effort teaching, guiding, and nurturing your affiliates, you gain quality team members. When you sow negative thoughts, you quit SFI when things are not happening the way you envisioned it to be. When you sow positive thoughts, you will never quit SFI because you believe in the notion, “There is no failure – only feedback.”

SFI success is about sowing and reaping; and quality seeds of knowledge, skills, value, and beliefs when planted and properly nurtured, produces bountiful harvests of EA2s and Team leaders.

So if you quit, it's your loss! The rule of the game is "Never, Never Quit!"

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The best way to convince your PSA not to quit is to empathize with his/her predicament. See the big picture from your affiliate’s perspective. Make use of language that shows you care and help him figure out why nothing comes from his effort and hard work. There is no way that investing time, effort, hard work, patience, perseverance, passion, and money would not produce SFI success.

If you want to have a team of serious affiliates, EA, EA2s, TLs, CSAs, and PRMs, sitting on the sofa
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

Your question inspired me to be playful with my answer. I am just trying to make the explanations simple and fun to read. Here it is…..

I am the brightest star in SFI. Set your highest goals in SFI, if you want to get me. I assure you I am not easy to reach and during the process of grabbing me, you will definitely encounter some difficulties and frustrations. It will test your patience, creativity, and determination. Your endurance to survive the test would depend on how much you want to get me. Although, I’m too far from you and difficult to achieve, believe me, if you can reach me, I’m worth it!

I want to be generous to you. I want you to have me. So I will give you some hints to make it easier for you to reach me. It’s up to you, if you do it or not.

Your 1st 10 days in SFI is the most crucial time to make a decision whether you want to be a Fast-Track Member or not. If you decide to be a Fast-Tracker, you have to choose whether you want to be a Silver or Gold Fast-Track Member. If you are aiming for the brightest star in SFI, of course, you should go Gold and immediately become an EA2 in your first month.

SFI recently revealed the “Plan” affiliates can follow to achieve success. If you really have that intense desire to reach the brightest star, I suggest that you do Step 1 & 2 in the Plan during your first month. This means, in addition to your Gold-Fast Track, you have to earn 1,500 Action VersaPoints (VP) by finishing the Getting Started, LaunchPad, and Intermediate Actions so that you become a Bronze Team Leader during your first month.

Others will tell you not to be a Team Leader, if you don’t have a team to lead yet. Just stay an EA until you have active PSAs under you. This is the mindset of an affiliate who does things only when sure of success but business-minded affiliates think otherwise because they are willing to take the risk. And If you truly want to reach the brightest star, you need to have the “Diamond Mindset” and strictly follow the “Plan.” The plan says, “Develop 5 PTLs (Platinum Team Leaders) on your first level.” How can you convince your PSAs to follow the “Plan,” if the footsteps they are following are from their mediocre sponsor? And it is not true that you gain nothing, if you don’t have active PSAs in your downline. In addition to the inspiration you can give to your downline, if you are a team leader, you also receive 2nd Home CSAs shares every month and Matching VP from all your EA2s both PSAs and CSAs.

Do you know that if you can follow and able to complete the plan as explained at https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan you can earn 36, 095,000 VersaPoints in one month? And if we convert that in dollars as per Fabrizio’s computation in his Forum post at https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=5475&pg=1 that can give you $14,438 monthly TC Executive Pool Bonus or $173, 256 yearly Executive Pool Bonus.

What is this TC Executive Pool Bonus? Well, that’s me! Your Brightest Star! I’m one of SFI’s lucrative income streams. Learn more about me at SFI’s Compensation Plan at https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/CompPlan.

Do you know that I shine the brightest through the Power of Duplication?

Remember, 1 VP = 1 TC Executive Pool share. And if you are a Fast-Track Member, whatever VP you earn both personal VP and Matching VP, you earn an additional 10% of the Executive Pool. For example, if during the month you have 10,000 VP, your TC Executive Pool shares is also 10,000 plus you will automatically receive an extra 1,000 shares, if you are a Fast-Tracker.

Can you imagine how bright I could be in your hands, if you are a Diamond Team Leader and a Gold Fast-Tracker at the same time? Can you compute how many VersaPoints are added to 36, 095,000 VersaPoints, if you receive an extra 10% Fast-Track Bonus shares? Do you realize now the importance of becoming a Gold-Fast Track member?

I sincerely want you to have me! Actually, the truth is, when you became an EA, I quietly landed in your hands, though my luster was not bright enough for you to notice and appreciate me. I want to be the brightest star in your SFI business. I know I have other competitors in your income streams such as Direct Commissions from TC sales, 10% Royalty Fees from your ECA’s monthly sales, Profits from your own ECA store, etc. but can you make me your brightest star in SFI?

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Your question inspired me to be playful with my answer. I am just trying to make the explanations simple and fun to read. Here it is…..

I am the brightest star in SFI. Set your highest goals in SFI, if you want to get me. I assure you I am not easy to reach and during the process of grabbing me, you will definitely encounter some difficulties and frustrations. It will test your patience, creativity, and determination. Your endurance to survive the test would depend on how much you want
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

When starting out in SFI, the best is to treat SFI as your own home-based global business online. How would you treat a grocery or coffee shop business, if you are the business owner? You will both invest in start-up capital and in advertising your coffee shop, right? Otherwise, you have items for sale on the shelves but no customers to buy them.

You also do the same with your SFI business. In your first 10 days, your first investment is $20. You buy the New Member Pack (NMP) and become a Fast Track Member to enjoy the following benefits: 1) 250 VersaPoints; 2) 30 free entries in the Daily Grand drawing, 3) 10% Fast-Track bonus shares; 4) Exclusive Fast-Track badge.

The 2nd investment in your first 10 days is for setting up a Standing Order (SO) of any item with 1,500 VP. The most popular SO item is the 125 Pack TCredits, which can give you the following benefits: 1) Earn 1,500 Sales VP; 2) Earn 100 SO Bonus Action VP; 3) Additional 2 entries to the Daily Grand; 4) Use the 125 TCredits to bid at the Pricebenders Penny Auction and earn 125 Bid Bonus Action VP and 2 PSAs from Bid & Build; 5) Gold Fast- Track badge; 6) Immediately upgraded to EA2; 7) Receive 10 free bonus TCredits ($5.90 value) monthly starting immediately; 8) Start earning Eager Zebra Zackpot 10% matches, plus other valuable EA2 matches; 9) Your name and photo will be added to the Fast-Track Wall of Fame; 10) You will receive Fast Track Certificate; and 11) Fast-Track Member Lapel Pin.

The 3rd investment is for advertising your SFI & TripleClicks gateways to flow new Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA) into your downline and Personally Referred Members (PRM) into your TripleClicks store. I suggest that you include SBuilder and PSAs to Go in your Standing Order. You can also do free or paid advertising.

If you want to tap the jewel or gold mine in SFI’s compensation plan, invest in both advertising and in attaining your Diamond Team Leader rank as explained in “The Plan” at https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan

Dream Big! Aim High!

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When starting out in SFI, the best is to treat SFI as your own home-based global business online. How would you treat a grocery or coffee shop business, if you are the business owner? You will both invest in start-up capital and in advertising your coffee shop, right? Otherwise, you have items for sale on the shelves but no customers to buy them.

You also do the same with your SFI business. In your first 10 days, your first investment is $20. You buy the New Member Pack (NMP) and become
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

Some affiliates think that since we can work from home and it is fun to do, SFI is a hobby, but is it?

Of course not!

Prove to that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential … and not just a hobby.

Are We Trying to Earn a Profit with SFI?

If our main reason why we build our SFI business is to earn a second income, then we are viewing SFI as a business because we have a profit motive. Now the next question is …

Is SFI a serious business with serious earnings potential?

It may help our affiliates to see SFI as a serious business, if we can provide them valuable information such as:

• The amount of time we put into the business

If we spend enough consistent time and energy on sales, accomplishing To-Do list actions, earning VersaPoints, upgrading rank, marketing, advertising, sponsoring, teaching how and what to duplicate, follow ups and follow through, team building, leadership, effective communication, e-commerce, etc., SFI business can give us multiple leveraged and residual income.

• The percentage of our total income that comes from SFI

Let our affiliates know where our SFI revenues come from such as: 1) Signing Bonus, 2) Direct Commissions, 3) TripleClicks Executive Pool, 4) Fast-Track bonus, 5) 10% Royalty Fees, 6) DD Signing Bonus, 7) Milestone Shares, 8) Profits from owned ECA store, 9) PB wins, 10) Games and Contests wins, etc.

• The reason for any losses

If we failed to log in daily and claim our FREE Daily Action VP, we lost all missed FREE Daily AVP forever.

If we are not at least an EA, we lost the chance to partake from the TC Executive Pool Bonus, the gem of SFI’s Compensation Plan. We also lost the chance to earn TCredits, 2 CSAs, Royalty Fees, use of SFI power tools, etc. We also cannot be invited to become a Designated Diamond to earn $200 DD Signing badge and a DD badge. We also lose the chance to receive our milestone shares and many more.

If we are not a Fast-Track member, we lost the 10% of our total VP Fast-Track Bonus added to your total VP every month plus other benefits given to Fast-Trackers.

If we are not a Team Leader, we lost the chance to earn Matching VP to increase our TC Executive Pool bonus and 2nd CSAs shares. The lesser our Team Leader rank, the lesser are our power to increase our income and access to power tools designed for serious Team Leaders.

• Changes and improvements we’ve made to the business

With the new additions and changes that is happening in SFI, let our team members know the changes and improvements we have made to work our business differently in 2016.

• Evidence of our SFI knowledge

Our badges, contents of our messages, Forum comments, and Ask SC answers are evidences of how much we know how SFI and TripleClicks work.

If we understand how to SFI effectively and successfully, we can shout to the whole SFIlandia that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential!


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Some affiliates think that since we can work from home and it is fun to do, SFI is a hobby, but is it?

Of course not!

Prove to that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential … and not just a hobby.

Are We Trying to Earn a Profit with SFI?

If our main reason why we build our SFI business is to earn a second income, then we are viewing SFI as a business because we have a profit motive. Now the next question is …

Is SFI a serious
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371

Affiliates want to achieve success and become stars in SFI, but that is easier said than done. To earn big commissions and profit, we know that we need to do the following: 1) Earn as many VersaPoints as we can to achieve the highest rank possible in order to increase our SFI perks, power, and monthly income; 2) Advertise and recruit to flow new PSAs & PRMs into our downline and TripleClicks store respectively; 3) Sell TripleClicks products; 4) Recruit ECAs and /or open our own ECA store; 5) Participate in the Pricebenders Penny auctions, Forum, Eager Zebra games; and contests such as E-365, Daily Grand, Distribustars,Wave 3, Leadership Challenge and many more.

But are these all what we need to do to achieve SFI success?

Leonardo da Vinci sees first in his mind his “obra maestra” and then paints it. An engineer sees first in his mind the building and builds it. We can be the Leonardo da Vinci or the engineer of our SFI business in 3 steps.

Step 1: Set SFI Goals, Make a Plan for success, & Visualize

First in the list of our plan of action is to devote few minutes every day visualizing our ultimate SFI goal that when achieved can give us a sense of satisfaction and self-fulfillment.

Step 2: Execute Plans

Identify the essential tasks and skills that need to be developed and accomplished to attain SFI success. Then while focusing on the main goal, start executing the small objectives or short term goals such as:

1) Set a timeline as for when we can achieve our short term goals as well as our long term goal.
2) Focus on SFI and TripleClicks tasks that are absolutely essential to propel our SFI business to success.
3) Practice time management and outsourcing.
4) Develop advertising, marketing, and team leadership skills.
5) Work harder with passion.
5) Stay away from distractions as much as possible.
6) Surround ourselves with other successful and highly-driven affiliates, uplines, a2a friends, and forum friends.
7) Study successful Team Leaders and if possible, model some of their strategies.
8) Develop a strong team of serious and active affiliates, PSAs, TLs, and CSAs.
9) Reward active team members for a job well done.
10) Offer help and guidance to new affiliates both within and outside our team.
11) Gather as much information as we can to increase our knowledge base about about SFI, TripleClicks, affiliate and internet marketing.

Step 3: Review and Redo the Plan of Actions

Many SFI affiliates quit even before they have started doing SFI. As soon as they discover that SFI is not a get-rich quick plan, they become inactive or worse they opted out.

Be persistent! If your first approach or strategy didn’t work, NEVER GIVE UP! Don’t let failure or frustration define you. Remember, Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb. When asked about his failure, Edison said, “I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Failure taught Edison to repeatedly innovate.

If you failed, don’t blame SFI or your sponsor or yourself. Learn from your mistakes. Know that failure is upside down success. It’s an opportunity for you to learn, re-think or re-do your goals and plans to increase your chances of success. Let failures help you identify what you need to change. Don’t make the same mistakes again. Like Thomas Edison, try to innovate.

Aim High! Dream Big!

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Affiliates want to achieve success and become stars in SFI, but that is easier said than done. To earn big commissions and profit, we know that we need to do the following: 1) Earn as many VersaPoints as we can to achieve the highest rank possible in order to increase our SFI perks, power, and monthly income; 2) Advertise and recruit to flow new PSAs & PRMs into our downline and TripleClicks store respectively; 3) Sell TripleClicks products; 4) Recruit ECAs and /or open our own ECA store; 5)
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