Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Hello Helen Great Question!

the best ways to sell TCredits are to

1. sell them to your active PSA's and CSA's

2. get some active PRM's and sell to them

3. start a website or blog and have a custom banner from TripleClicks as well as describing what PriceBender and TripleClicks are and how to use TCredits

and the best place to advertise TCredits? well that depends where you live and if you have a place to post flyers around town such as laundromats supermarket bulletin boards, gyms, college dorms, and anywhere that will allow you to post a flyer.

also going back to your website or blog its a great place to drive traffic to your TripleClicks storefront just post some messages about what TripleClicks and PriceBender are and describe how to use TCredits as well as placing a couple of banners (one at the top and one at the bottom) of your page, you can create a page just for TripleClicks and TCredits and PriceBender Auctions separate from your SFI page

also a lot of people have said that FREE traffic exchanges are not worth the time and effort but I disagree traffic exchanges are a great place (especially for beginners) to get free traffic to your gateways including your banner ads for TCredits!

you just have to go and find a traffic exchange that you like and is easy to surf on to earn credits so do a google search for "traffic exchange" without the quotes

another good place to advertise your ad or banner for TCredits would be free classified ad sites some will even allow you to post a banner you just have to follow their posting rules and you will be fine.

one other way to advertise your TCredit offer would be to hand out gift cards at garage sales around your town ask them if they would like to sell their belongings on a national/international level and whatever does not sell at their garage sale they can list on our site for free (with the gift card) and then can get the money for it in their PayPal account

also you can give them a small stack of flyers to pass out to people who stop to look at the garage sale and that can be an additional way to get people to buy TCredits from you.

OR you could ask them to put your (professional looking) "yard sign" in front of their property saying if others are interested in garage sales to come by and check out our "worlds largest online garage sale" and provide a link that's easy to remember like our custom domain names or your personal website for TripleClicks

I hope this has been helpful
my kind regards
and good luck
I will see you at the top
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Hello Helen Great Question!

the best ways to sell TCredits are to

1. sell them to your active PSA's and CSA's

2. get some active PRM's and sell to them

3. start a website or blog and have a custom banner from TripleClicks as well as describing what PriceBender and TripleClicks are and how to use TCredits

and the best place to advertise TCredits? well that depends where you live and if you have a place to post flyers around town such as laundromats
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Hello Keith and all SFI Affiliates

This is a great question especially for new team leaders because they will start to receive second home CSA's and sometimes they are inactive.

What I recommend is the same thing I tell everyone treat them like they were active and keep sending them your weekly newsletter as well as an occasional individualized letter addressed to each CSA who is inactive, from your personal e-mail address. I would send it from that address because it is a little more personal to see a standard name in the from box instead of being from SFI Corporate.

If you have a support website and have made some training videos or articles I would send them the link to your website that has them posted so if they wanted to view them and possibly become active again

The thing to remember is you never know what their mindset for being inactive was/is until they start back up again and you never know what will trigger them to become active with their business in the future maybe it was your newsletters you sent out weekly or maybe it was one of those personal letters you sent them or maybe it could have been they were having a family issue or was working a lot at their 9-5 job and just was too tired to work on their SFI Business and now that they have a little more time are rededicated to their business with your help they might have the resolve to get back in the game. or they could have thought that it was too hard to earn any money with SFI which it's not it just takes a lot of time patience and perseverance to get through the rough times till we all have our team of 5 or more dedicated downline to be making a good commission check each month you just need to explain that to them from the beginning. we all start out receiving low commission checks its with time that it grows.

And If you know what their main goals are then try to focus on them in an e-mail say if their goal was to get out of debt them send 1 message a month to see if they have gotten out of debt without SFI and focus on how over time they can actually be debt free and be making a residual and leveraged income every month if they wanted to put forth a little time and energy.

You could also talk about your goals and how far you have come so far in SFI and what your next goal is and how you are going to achieve it. Be very descriptive like I will advertise at this certain site every day or multiple sites every day, buy advertising co-ops from my upline, whatever you do think about how it could motivate your inactive CSA's or even your PSA's for that matter

I try to treat all my teammates as if each of them were my only member. I try to give them the individualized attention they need and deserve some respond others (most do nothing ) but I still send out my weekly messages to everyone

I hope that this answer has been a little helpful

thanks
see you at the top!
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Hello Keith and all SFI Affiliates

This is a great question especially for new team leaders because they will start to receive second home CSA's and sometimes they are inactive.

What I recommend is the same thing I tell everyone treat them like they were active and keep sending them your weekly newsletter as well as an occasional individualized letter addressed to each CSA who is inactive, from your personal e-mail address. I would send it from that address because it is a little
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Hello Svetlana,
what a great question!

In my honest opinion I feel both are best. my reasoning is sometimes an ad on a free site can be upgraded to a paid ad to be a featured ad even though there are hundreds of free ads on that site having yours up on top so it is seen first can really improve the odds of the potential PSA to see it more often and we all know it takes anywhere from 5-10 pageviews of your ad before anyone clicks on it or not (some less some more).

But I have had the exact same results from both free and paid it is just a matter of preference and having a few extra dollars to buy the upgrade.

Personally I still prefer all my ads to be free because of my budget, but when I have a little extra cash I spend it on ad space on select sites that I know are high traffic sites that will produce the best results for my campaign.

so to summarize one is just as good as the other its just a matter of finding the right places to place your ad to get the best results


Good luck with your ad campaign

I hope that my answer was helpful

Thanks
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Hello Svetlana,
what a great question!

In my honest opinion I feel both are best. my reasoning is sometimes an ad on a free site can be upgraded to a paid ad to be a featured ad even though there are hundreds of free ads on that site having yours up on top so it is seen first can really improve the odds of the potential PSA to see it more often and we all know it takes anywhere from 5-10 pageviews of your ad before anyone clicks on it or not (some less some more).

But I
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Hello Stephen and all SFI Affiliates,

Since I joined SFI 16 months ago I have learned many valuable things such as it takes a little money to make money (sometimes), "read read and then read more" is also key to building your business, how to be an awesome sponsor, how to place different types of ads online, how to build a website, and to place at least 1 ad a day to help get the word out about SFI and get your website seen by as many people as possible.

But I think the number 1 valuable thing I have learned is to sponsor sponsor and keep sponsoring, However and whenever you can always keep a lookout for new people to be on your team

Then the 2nd most valuable thing I have learned is duplication this goes hand in hand with sponsoring if you just keep sponsoring people but they do not duplicate what you are doing then you will be at square 1 all over again.

The key is finding a balance of both sponsoring and duplication. See if you just sponsor and do not teach your team how to duplicate you make very little money. The goal is to maximize your efforts by finding the right places to advertise for free or to buy advertising from a good source either way the best thing to keep doing is trial and error till you find the right places to advertise

I could keep on going but I think you get my point!

I hope this has been of help to everyone
thanks
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Hello Stephen and all SFI Affiliates,

Since I joined SFI 16 months ago I have learned many valuable things such as it takes a little money to make money (sometimes), "read read and then read more" is also key to building your business, how to be an awesome sponsor, how to place different types of ads online, how to build a website, and to place at least 1 ad a day to help get the word out about SFI and get your website seen by as many people as possible.

But I think
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Hello Stephen Great question!
That is the question on lots of peoples minds when we first sign up as well as every month we are here.

First things first why did you join SFI?
Was it to get out of debt, to be wealthy or just to live a better lifestyle?

second how much money can you "realistically" earn per month in 6 and 12 months and 2 and 5 years they can be adjusted at any time but for now set the 6 month goal at $50 per month and in all reality you may easily earn more but for this example I am using low ballpark numbers. your 1 year monthly goal could be $100 per month, your 2 year goal could be $200 per month and your 5 year goal could be $500 per month.

You will have to adjust these goals every month if you choose to, to better align with what you are actually making and what you hope to one day be making every month with SFI.

all are great goals and reasons to join SFI but setting up your monthly goals is your key to success you want something realistic especially so if you are new to marketing and sales.

when SFI first came out with monthly goals several months back I had already been with SFI almost 8 months approximately all of my goals were simply to try and recruit 10 people into SFI, have 1 EA2, to have my overall power rank to in the top 500 my country ranking to be top 200 and my class power rank to be in the top 10 (I'm 3rd right now)working my way up to number 1. and VersaPoints to be in the top 500 as well as in the top 550 for VP streak,and The rest were zero's

But for beginners your goals should be something like recruit very few people your first month as this is a learning month 5 people your second month, do not worry about having an EA2 sine you are just starting out, to be in the top 5000 overall, to be in the top 500-1000 for your country, and to be in the top 20 in your class, for your VersaPoints top 1000 and VP Streak can be, say 1000, the rest I would try to get at least 1 PRM a month and if you wanted to set a goal for PRM sales say $10 and for distribuSTAR right now the last person on that list has given out 1 gift card and is in 611th place so go for 2 gift cards making your rank at or about 538-566.

Of course each month that you are with SFI you get better and better at marketing and sales so these numbers will go up it may take a while but they will go up!

just keep focused on your daily to do list and your VPLedger and whatever you do DO NOT give up!! Just keep reminding yourself the reasons you joined SFI in the first place and what that would mean for you and your family, to be financially set for the rest of your life. As many people before me have said Rome was not built in a day try to keep that in mind when you are running your business, time is your friend. You have waited a long time to reach this plateau in your life it will take lots of effort to continue going up that steep hill. Keep moving daily do something for YOUR business either find a free source to place an ad on a new site at least 3-5 times a week minimum, buy S-Builder monthly, or if your upline offers it a co-op that they can place you in either free or paid

I know that last paragraph was a little off topic but needed to be said, to me it pertained to your overall goals in how to achieve them as well

I hope this has been helpful to you and everyone in Ask SC

Thanks
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Hello Stephen Great question!
That is the question on lots of peoples minds when we first sign up as well as every month we are here.

First things first why did you join SFI?
Was it to get out of debt, to be wealthy or just to live a better lifestyle?

second how much money can you "realistically" earn per month in 6 and 12 months and 2 and 5 years they can be adjusted at any time but for now set the 6 month goal at $50 per month and in all reality you may
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 215

Paul Great question,

in my opinion the best way to approach a new PSA regarding their goals is to have an open ended conversation with them through genealogy mailer and E-mail as well as skype start off slow but build up to asking about their goals they have with SFI see what they had in mind as to when to get them accomplished and how as well as a time line for the next set of goals when these are complete

Here is more of a break down


Step 1.

first check their affiliate snapshot and see if they even have goals set up yet if they do great set one is complete if not you can send a personal message to them saying I am happy that you made the decision to join my team but in reviewing all of my team members goals I see that you have not set yours up yet. Your goals are there as a reminder of why you signed up for SFI and what you want to accomplish with us here. And should be updated at least every 3-6 months to reflect changes you have made and goals that were accomplished already

Step 2.

Now that we have our goals set up. we can now discuss how to achieve them and make them more Realistic so say the first goal is to earn $1,000 a month in the first 6 months now that can be done BUT you need to stress to them that it will take A LARGE AMOUNT of effort and might require you to step up and actually buy some paid advertising say in a co-op or two and they will see quicker results than just through free advertising and sponsoring friends/family

otherwise they might get disappointed when 6 months comes around and they are not making lots of money you should also remind them that this is NOT a get rich quick program and work has to be done in order to achieve even the smallest of goals

step 3.

ways to achieve your goals

the best way to achieve your goals is to print them out and post it on your desk so you can see them every time you are on the computer or you can post them as a background on your computer so every time you log in you will see them waiting to be looked at

make sure you set aside time to advertise and post blog messages and if you have a website to update it regularly with fresh content


step 4.

communicate communicate communicate!

communication is key

keep in constant contact via e-mail or skype of just through our genealogy mailer 3-5 times at most per month and go over their goals every so often say every 3 months maybe at the beginning of the month and see what has been accomplished and what needs to be pushed back a few more months maybe they are not ready to be a Team Leader yet so give it another say 6 months to see if their downline can be built up enough that will qualify them to reach BTL assuming they have already achieved EA2 and just do not have the required VP to advance yet.

step 5.

results are in

As long as your team member continues to be active in SFI and working on their goals daily then the results should be that they are starting to see money coming in (and you too) as a result of your ongoing efforts as a sponsor and Team Leader

good luck and I will see you at the top!!
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Paul Great question,

in my opinion the best way to approach a new PSA regarding their goals is to have an open ended conversation with them through genealogy mailer and E-mail as well as skype start off slow but build up to asking about their goals they have with SFI see what they had in mind as to when to get them accomplished and how as well as a time line for the next set of goals when these are complete

Here is more of a break down


Step 1.

first
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