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

How would you approach the CEO or other VIP of a large, national company to become an ECA?

Firstly be very selective about the company. Are you familiar with the products? Do you love them? Would you be enthusiastic about selling them yourself?
If the answer is 'yes' to these questions, then carefully write a business letter to the CEO.

Make your letter business like. Use TripleClicks letterhead paper (which you can purchase at TC), and use the correct business format. If you are unfamiliar with business letter formats read the information here: http://auspost.com.au/education/letterwriting/students/business-letters.html

Now what to write: Tell the CEO that you have used the company's products and would love to have the opportunity to promote them for him through an online business in which you are involved. Tell him that TripleClicks has been in operation for 17 years and is rapidly growing. Tell him that besides yourself, there are about 1,000,000 affiliates who could also potentially try to sell his products for him.

Don't go into all the details about how to become an ECA in this letter. This is just to introduce yourself and TripleClicks. A CEO is busy and will not want to spend much time reading a long-winded pushy sales letter. Instead ask him if he is interested in meeting with you to learn more about how to do this. Also tell him that you will call on a certain date and time to arrange a meeting. You may possibly only speak to the secretary on this call, but she can tell you if the CEO is interested or not, and schedule the time for a meeting.

When you go to meet the CEO be prepared! Dress professionally and be on time. Take with you a folder in which you have printed out everything about becoming an ECA. Perhaps you could make a flip chart to give him a presentation, or prepare a powerpoint presentation with bullet points on each slide. Make sure you know enough to speak about each point. Rehearse before you go and time yourself. Make it as brief as you can; you may only get 10 - 15 minutes so use them well.

Try and get him to join on the spot, but if that doesn't happen be sure to follow-up with another phone call or email. Ask if he will need assistance to upload products to the site, and be available if he does. He may already have a web team who could do this, but make the offer regardless.

Those are my ideas and I hope you find them helpful.
I wish you success in your efforts.

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How would you approach the CEO or other VIP of a large, national company to become an ECA?

Firstly be very selective about the company. Are you familiar with the products? Do you love them? Would you be enthusiastic about selling them yourself?
If the answer is 'yes' to these questions, then carefully write a business letter to the CEO.

Make your letter business like. Use TripleClicks letterhead paper (which you can purchase at TC), and use the correct business format.
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

"How can being an SFI affiliate change your life?"

Being an SFI affiliate can change your life in many positive ways:

• You learn about internet marketing - in fact you are constantly learning, and this is extremely good for you as you get older. I want to keep working on SFI if for no other reason than to keep my brain active and creating new neural pathways.

• You have a feeling of independence and can build a retirement income for yourself, so that you are not dependant on the government for an inadequate pension.

• You make many friends from around the world,

• You are never alone, you can't feel alone as part of the SFI family

• You have the chance to be financially able to assist your family or donate to charities as you would want to without feeling unable to help because you can't afford to.

• You have the chance to make a positive contribution to someone else's life - whether your team members, a2a friends, or by making helpful contributions to the Forum.

All the above are real ways that SFI can change your life and for those reasons I love this business and will keep on going with it until I see those changes. Of course, I will not stop then, but go on from strength to strength.


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"How can being an SFI affiliate change your life?"

Being an SFI affiliate can change your life in many positive ways:

• You learn about internet marketing - in fact you are constantly learning, and this is extremely good for you as you get older. I want to keep working on SFI if for no other reason than to keep my brain active and creating new neural pathways.

• You have a feeling of independence and can build a retirement income for yourself, so that
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When talking to prospective ECAs I tell them that TripleClicks is an online mega-mall where they can have their own shop. I tell them that TripleClicks has a sales force whose task it is to find customers for the ECAs in TripleClicks. I explain that SFI is the sales and marketing arm of TripleClicks and that all SFI affiliates are actively trying to promote and sell the products of ECAs.

My prospects are told that when they join TripleClicks, they will have over a million people seeing their products who may either buy for themselves because they earn valuable points and member reward points for buying from their own store; or they will be actively looking for new customers outside of TripleClicks to buy their products. I explain that SFI affiliates are trained in sales and marketing, and many build their own websites promoting products within a certain niche in which they are interested, or regularly explain about and advertise products from TripleClicks' ECAs in their own niche blogs.

I tell my prospective ECAs that they have absolutely nothing to lose by opening a shop in TripleClicks, and will have the marketing strength of a million SFI affiliates at their service for free. They can only stand to gain.

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When talking to prospective ECAs I tell them that TripleClicks is an online mega-mall where they can have their own shop. I tell them that TripleClicks has a sales force whose task it is to find customers for the ECAs in TripleClicks. I explain that SFI is the sales and marketing arm of TripleClicks and that all SFI affiliates are actively trying to promote and sell the products of ECAs.

My prospects are told that when they join TripleClicks, they will have over a million people seeing
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

What tips do you give to your PSAs in your welcome letter to them?

The focus of my welcome letter to new PSAs is to introduce myself as their sponsor, encourage them that this is a real business, share enthusiasm for the business and excitement for their success in the business, open the lines of communication, and make sure the new PSAs are aware of my full support whenever they need it.

I tell my new PSAs that there is a Fast Track Bonus and direct them to the Getting Started actions with the jet icons next to them. I also tell them that they will need to log in every day to make this business a success.

I don't use my welcome letter to give any more tips than those basic first day ones. In subsequent days in further emails I explain in more detail about New Member Pack, Versa Points, TripleClicks Executive Pool and direct them to the Launchpad and SFI Basics, and gradually share more information over time.

My welcome letter is more focused on making the new PSA feel welcome, with the immediate first things to do, and not wanting to make them feel overwhelmed.

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What tips do you give to your PSAs in your welcome letter to them?

The focus of my welcome letter to new PSAs is to introduce myself as their sponsor, encourage them that this is a real business, share enthusiasm for the business and excitement for their success in the business, open the lines of communication, and make sure the new PSAs are aware of my full support whenever they need it.

I tell my new PSAs that there is a Fast Track Bonus and direct them to the Getting Started
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I would say that you should put all your inactive CSAs who are not from your own country into the new CSA exchange.

Apparently when CSAs and their co-sponsors are from the same country, this can help the inactive CSA to become active, as they can communicate better with someone from their own country and culture.

As every CSA is someone else's PSA, this can only have a positive effect on the business of his sponsor. If an inactive CSA can become active through being transferred to a co-sponsor in his own country, that will have a wonderful effect on the sponsor who will now find that his inactive PSA has become active!!

It's a 2 way benefit isn't it? Nothing may come of it at all if the person was just a tyre-kicker and not interested in working the business. Nothing bad could come of it - things would just stay the same. But on the other hand, there may be some wonderful positive outcomes.

Imagine if you managed to swap inactive CSAs and gain new ones from your own country whom you could activate. That could be great for your business. Imagine if your inactive PSAs could be given to a co-sponsor from their own country and suddenly start becoming active. Bring it on!!

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I would say that you should put all your inactive CSAs who are not from your own country into the new CSA exchange.

Apparently when CSAs and their co-sponsors are from the same country, this can help the inactive CSA to become active, as they can communicate better with someone from their own country and culture.

As every CSA is someone else's PSA, this can only have a positive effect on the business of his sponsor. If an inactive CSA can become active through being transferred
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

To help your affiliates understand the importance of communication in SFI, you must communicate with them! Send them a welcome email or e-card as soon as they join and let them know that you are there to help and guide them.
Communicate with your team in every way possible through SFI - Stream, team mailouts, chat, SFI messages and your leadership page.

You can also communicate with your team via your blog and facebook group. A webinar would be a great way of communicating also. Even more important than the medium is the actual message. Make sure you present valuable information to your team whenever you communicate.

When you send useful information regularly to your team you are demonstrating to them the importance of communicating and as they then begin building their own teams, they will follow your example and communicate with their own teams.

The main way of demonstrating the importance of communicating is by doing it yourself regularly and in a variety of ways.

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To help your affiliates understand the importance of communication in SFI, you must communicate with them! Send them a welcome email or e-card as soon as they join and let them know that you are there to help and guide them.
Communicate with your team in every way possible through SFI - Stream, team mailouts, chat, SFI messages and your leadership page.

You can also communicate with your team via your blog and facebook group. A webinar would be a great way of communicating also.
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

There are a few ways you can use your testimonials gateway to generate interest. You can simply paste your gateway link on your social media sites or into your blog. Or you can be more specific and copy the address of a particular country you wish to promote to. Some social media sites won't post the address as it is with SFI on the front. You can take your link to a link cloaking service or tracking site and hide it by making up a new name. Make sure the original link you use contains your SFI ID within it, or someone who joins from the link will not go to you.

You can also copy and paste a particular testimony and put it into a Word document. You need to be quick at this as each testimonial goes by fairly quickly. I can't read them fast enough as they are, but if you can copy the page you can then read it at your leisure. When you paste it into Word, you won't be able to see it. Don't stress - the text is white. Just highlight everything and then clear formatting and the text will become black and readable. Now you can use the text and the person's photo and create your own banner and post it wherever you like. You can link it to your splash page or to any of the SFI gateways you choose.

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There are a few ways you can use your testimonials gateway to generate interest. You can simply paste your gateway link on your social media sites or into your blog. Or you can be more specific and copy the address of a particular country you wish to promote to. Some social media sites won't post the address as it is with SFI on the front. You can take your link to a link cloaking service or tracking site and hide it by making up a new name. Make sure the original link you use contains your SFI
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The biggest mistake in advertising is to make sweeping claims and promises that you can't fulfil. Don't tell a person he can make money while he sleeps, or make any specific amount of money in any certain timeframe.

If you do this kind of advertising you will attract people who will drop out very quickly when they realise that it will take a long time and a lot of work to achieve your promises. You will also give SFI a bad name. These disillusioned people are likely to write articles on their blogs or FB pages calling SFI a scam. We definitely don't want that because these negative reviews show up when future prospects do a search for themselves.

Other advertising mistakes concern focusing your ad on features rather than benefits as well as placing ads in the wrong places. If your ads aren't being seen by qualified prospects, you are wasting your time and advertising dollars. However I don't think these mistakes are anywhere as bad as making wild claims and misleading people.

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The biggest mistake in advertising is to make sweeping claims and promises that you can't fulfil. Don't tell a person he can make money while he sleeps, or make any specific amount of money in any certain timeframe.

If you do this kind of advertising you will attract people who will drop out very quickly when they realise that it will take a long time and a lot of work to achieve your promises. You will also give SFI a bad name. These disillusioned people are likely to write articles
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The most valuable thing to spend your TCredits on would have to be bidding in double MRP auctions. If you spent one TCredit per day you would earn 2 VP and 10 MRP per day. All other bids in that same day would earn 1 VP per bid and 10 MRP per bid.

Another good use is to play Double MRP KO Trivia. Here you earn 10 MRP when you use a TCredit in the game, but you only earn 1 VP for the game. If you use more than 1 TCredit in the game you still only earn 1 VP, so if you want the best return on your TCredits resist the urge to spend more and be willing to drop out of the game after you've spent your first one. This is hard to do if you like to win like I do. lol.

The best return on TCredits is undoubtedly the DP auction.

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The most valuable thing to spend your TCredits on would have to be bidding in double MRP auctions. If you spent one TCredit per day you would earn 2 VP and 10 MRP per day. All other bids in that same day would earn 1 VP per bid and 10 MRP per bid.

Another good use is to play Double MRP KO Trivia. Here you earn 10 MRP when you use a TCredit in the game, but you only earn 1 VP for the game. If you use more than 1 TCredit in the game you still only earn 1 VP, so if you want the best
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

To be successful in SFI, what attributes do you need the people on your team to have?

I think the most important attribute to be successful in SFI or any online business has to be a belief that the system will/can work. We don't want to have to waste time convincing a skeptic that an online business is possible and that affiliate marketing programs are not pyramid schemes. If I have to explain that SFI is not a pyramid scheme, I don't bother with that particular person any more.

Our team members need to have faith that they will reap what they sow and faith that the business can provide them with an income if they stick at it long enough.
Therefore our team must be people who are diligent, persistent and perseverant who will not give up after only 6 months, but be willing to put in the hard yards for a couple of years before necessarily seeing much reward.

Other important attributes are self motivation and organisational ability.
People who need someone else to tell them what to do and when to do it are not suited to run their own businesses. They need a job and a boss to give direction. So our team members need to be self starters. Team members also need to be able to organise their time and daily activities to make room for SFI. They need to be able to plan their time and tasks without having someone to be accountable to. Being a procrastinator is very bad for business.

I hope you find such people for your team and I'd better hurry up and become that kind of person myself! lol

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To be successful in SFI, what attributes do you need the people on your team to have?

I think the most important attribute to be successful in SFI or any online business has to be a belief that the system will/can work. We don't want to have to waste time convincing a skeptic that an online business is possible and that affiliate marketing programs are not pyramid schemes. If I have to explain that SFI is not a pyramid scheme, I don't bother with that particular person any more.

Our
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