Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

As a US ECA you can have TripleClicks automatically calculate shipping to ensure you are giving the recipient the best deal possible. Just be sure to get an accurate weight for your item and when possible dimensions of the packaging you will be shipping in.

There is a lot of call for overseas members for items listing free shipping but I have seen countless ECA burned on adding in too little. For one you will have no choice but to increase your price to cover the shipping and that can make it appear that you are overcharging because you have to figure not all orders are going to be the cheap inside the U.S. rates.

It's better I am finding out to go ahead and lose the one or two sales a month who demand free shipping than to price yourself out of the market completely trying to calculate shipping cost into your final prices. You will find most who demand the free shipping are from countries where shipping to them is most expensive. They are trying to take advantage of you by getting a flat rate instead of paying the full shipping cost.

We manufacture several of our products and based on doing free shipping we have to nearly triple the selling price to cover international orders to Africa or Pakistan etc..


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As a US ECA you can have TripleClicks automatically calculate shipping to ensure you are giving the recipient the best deal possible. Just be sure to get an accurate weight for your item and when possible dimensions of the packaging you will be shipping in.

There is a lot of call for overseas members for items listing free shipping but I have seen countless ECA burned on adding in too little. For one you will have no choice but to increase your price to cover the shipping and that can
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

Teach your loved ones how to operate the business in your absence as they will someday inherit this business when you reach a point where you decide to relax and stop working to enjoy the success you have built.

If the kids or grand kids want a share of what has been built they will need to take part in doing at least the minimum to maintain an active account and productive downline. If the business is big enough they can hire someone to handle correspondence and marketing but keeping it in the family will offer greater security and longevity.

Warn them that if they just leave it dormant the business will eventually fall off as others retire or move on, and new recruits are no longer being found. The income they take for granted will dry up without effort or desire so make the best of the business and work it hard.

The best time to start planning for their future is right away. In my case I have 7 children and as each becomes old enough to work in the state of Arizona they will be taught to blog and refer, and learn to operate my business. I would love to see them earn at least a portion of their early incomes from the family business and be a part of it's growth so they know what it has taken to build it.

I want them to value every hour and cherish the opportunity to work with me like I loved working with my dad at fourteen.

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Teach your loved ones how to operate the business in your absence as they will someday inherit this business when you reach a point where you decide to relax and stop working to enjoy the success you have built.

If the kids or grand kids want a share of what has been built they will need to take part in doing at least the minimum to maintain an active account and productive downline. If the business is big enough they can hire someone to handle correspondence and marketing but keeping
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

You are an independent contractor who offers marketing services to SFI and TripleClicks.

That is the legal definition and what you agreed to become by starting your business here. I see too many affiliates who state they work for SFI and that this is their job and that's not true.

You are a business owner. You get paid when the job you do supplies the desired results of your client. SFI offers all private contractors a lucrative opportunity to earn with them but offers you no salary, does not dictate a schedule, nor do they pay sick time, vacation pay, or benefits for you. Your retirement package is the fruit of your enterprise and profits from a job well done.

You have control, there is nobody telling you do this, do that, be here, you can't this and nobody decides how much your time is worth except you.

Good luck in your business my friend,
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You are an independent contractor who offers marketing services to SFI and TripleClicks.

That is the legal definition and what you agreed to become by starting your business here. I see too many affiliates who state they work for SFI and that this is their job and that's not true.

You are a business owner. You get paid when the job you do supplies the desired results of your client. SFI offers all private contractors a lucrative opportunity to earn with them but offers you no
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

I have been using mine to buy individual t-credits for the past few months but now it's time to start looking at Christmas shopping and 5 birthdays in the family in January plus my wife and my 14th wedding anniversary on December 28th.

As such I am now realizing that I traded thousands of valuable MRP for a handful of extra dollars and could potentially have bought a few of those gifts with the MRP I have spent. So now I am focused on saving MRP to get something really nice for the family like maybe a I-pad Air, or Laptop Computer for the kids.

I saw some nice perfume the wife would enjoy and some collectables my oldest son would really get excited about like the sports cards and memorabilia offered by some of our ECA. There are also collectors coins and silver and gold bars, as well as some nice clothing items and jewelry our girls would be giddy for.

Your MRP are you chance to get something nice back for being a loyal customer at TripleClicks. I can't tell you how to spend yours but I know mine will be spent to enrich the quality of life for my family.

Best wishes with making your choices,
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I have been using mine to buy individual t-credits for the past few months but now it's time to start looking at Christmas shopping and 5 birthdays in the family in January plus my wife and my 14th wedding anniversary on December 28th.

As such I am now realizing that I traded thousands of valuable MRP for a handful of extra dollars and could potentially have bought a few of those gifts with the MRP I have spent. So now I am focused on saving MRP to get something really nice for the family
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

How to maximize the benefits of being a Bronze Team Leader.

Being a BTL means nothing if you have no team to lead or if you don't lead the team you have.

Many will talk about the power of getting 40-60 free Co-Sponsored Affiliates each month and some will talk about opening all 6 streams of income to your business but I want to focus on the biggest benefit which is matching VP.

As a Team Leader you need to know how to generate sales at TripleClicks.

Once you know this, you can teach your PSA and help those personally sponsored affiliates start earning money with SFI. If they are making money they will be active and they will not leave, so you need to get them on the right path as soon as they come through the door.

When you know how to generate sales on Triple Clicks you will get Versa Points and 45% of the Commission Volume or CV on those sales.

When your PSA get CV and commissions on TripleClicks Personally Referred Member sales they generate more VP that feeds up to you through matching VP.

As a Bronze team leader you get matching Versa Points on 6 levels of referrals and you 5 hard working, well trained affiliates who you taught to refer 5 and teach 5 will soon become hundreds or even thousands of well trained affiliates feeding you millions of VP from sales they generate.

Given the choice of having hundreds of PSA with a few of them buying a standing order and having just a few PSA who have a few PSA who know how to generate sales I will gladly take the latter and enjoy my bigger paycheck. I will watch my team grow exponentially and our sales volume reach legendary levels long before I move from my current BTL to STL or Platinum Team Leader.

Tou all our success and record breaking sales at TripleClicks.

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How to maximize the benefits of being a Bronze Team Leader.

Being a BTL means nothing if you have no team to lead or if you don't lead the team you have.

Many will talk about the power of getting 40-60 free Co-Sponsored Affiliates each month and some will talk about opening all 6 streams of income to your business but I want to focus on the biggest benefit which is matching VP.

As a Team Leader you need to know how to generate sales at TripleClicks.

Once
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

For me there are two top VP task to focus on, because of their effect on your earnings and long term success.

By far the largest share of VP earned will come from sponsoring new PSA to SFI, because not only do you make 100 or more VP per month when they achieve EA2 or higher rank, but once you become a Team Leader you will earn matching VP off the actions and sales of all EA2 or higher you have referred, and any in their team, and those on several levels, (up to 12 levels) below you. Every EA2 in your 1st Generation is worth a minimum 1600VP per month and those in the lower tiers are worth a minimum 1500 VP per month each but getting there requires favorite source 2 to be achieved first.

Source 2 in terms of favorites is actually the first thing you need to figure out for long term success in SFI.

Sales VP are where income is generated and money saved as well. As nice as transfer buying is in theory a lot of things you simply pay more for buying online, because of shipping cost. A Transfer buy is usually limited to things that are comparable price after the shipping is done or that don't require shipping. Some products like this are nutritional and weight loss items, vitamins, some cleaners, magazine subscriptions, website hosting, content creation services, paid advertising etc..

Generating sales however is not limited to a budget as some people online have massive budgets or no limits at all to what they can buy and spend massive amounts on electronics, gifts, jewelry, clothing, art, collectibles, automotive parts, and more. When you learn to reach the people who are actively buying the products we sell at TripleClicks you will achieve a couple things.

The first is that you will be in profit faster as it takes time to have a large enough downline of active members to generate life changing amounts of Versa Points, but as little as one good customer can put you in profit every month because of the 45% of the Commission Volume you get as a Direct Commission. Get a couple hundred regular shoppers with sizable gift list and you could make $30,000 a year or more just from tier 1 commissions.

The second thing you achieve is experience in selling that you can teach your PSA to duplicate and pass down to their PSA etc..

When you teach you will help these affiliates earn money faster and nothing motivates you more than getting that first commission check except getting your first [b]BIG COMMISSION CHECK.[/b] The fact is 80% of the affiliates who quit after 1 to 3 months of working their business do so because they haven't made any money at all, not even a couple dollar to show them they can earn commissions. They keep promoting SFI and hoping someone will place a standing order and are crushed by the 97% who wont.

By teaching them to promote TripleClicks and generate sales they will get a paycheck faster, and be more motivated and as they get to generating more sales you will earn far more VP than if they just focus on recruiting PSA and praying they place a standing order or practice transfer buying on a grand scale. A team that sells makes more money from bottom to top.


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For me there are two top VP task to focus on, because of their effect on your earnings and long term success.

By far the largest share of VP earned will come from sponsoring new PSA to SFI, because not only do you make 100 or more VP per month when they achieve EA2 or higher rank, but once you become a Team Leader you will earn matching VP off the actions and sales of all EA2 or higher you have referred, and any in their team, and those on several levels, (up to 12 levels) below you. Every
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

Success to some is different than success to others.

I personally see success in the number of people I can help to do better in their business. It's why I am very active in the forums and always pack my team mail with training, and my stream post with solid business tips.

I am like that on every site I am on so I technically spend more time teaching than I do advertising but when you do that it's called marketing so my business wins anyhow.

I count success in the number of customers served. From my ECA Store clients to my Personally Referred Members I value bringing value to their shopping dollar and hope to touch each with great customer service.

I count success in the things I learn in a month. Did I learn at least one new thing or new method a day? If I did, that teaching done in the first part gets a lot easier to do.

I measure success in terms of impact on my family. If I was able to devote more time to our 7 kids and my loving wife and be there for things I would have missed in a 9 to 5 world, then I am a success at being a dad and husband.

I measure success in dollars as getting closer to having enough. I don't need excess, and riches, but I need enough to pay the rent, cover the bills, feed the kids, and maybe even save some for retirement. Each day I operate my business I get closer to having enough and that's a far cry from being flat broke last November.

This year my biggest goal is to not go a 3rd year without being able to buy at least one gift for each of my children at Christmas. I have done broke for as much of my life as most will do in two lifetimes and I had success and learned valuable lessons about not putting aside for a rainy day and a bad economy.

Success is learning from my mistakes and arrogance and building something that will last this time around.


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Success to some is different than success to others.

I personally see success in the number of people I can help to do better in their business. It's why I am very active in the forums and always pack my team mail with training, and my stream post with solid business tips.

I am like that on every site I am on so I technically spend more time teaching than I do advertising but when you do that it's called marketing so my business wins anyhow.

I count success in the
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

If they are ready to do what it takes to keep that rank yes.

In the first month of membership it's pretty easy to become a Team Leader, you do the actions of your training program and get started on daily, weekly, and monthly actions and you will make it to EA with no issues. You can then place a standing order and be a Bronze Team Leader or higher.

Come month two however you will have to have a plan for getting the remaining action VersaPoints required to maintain Team Leader status.

For many they just buy additional t-credits and play auctions and games to earn their action VP 1 at a time. Sure, you can maintain BTL status that way but it's going to cost you a lot of money to do and beyond your Second Home CSA share you get you wont be able to honestly say you have a team that you built. Being a BTL for a second month does have one benefit and that is a $10 bonus added to your TripleClicks members account, which can help pay your standing order or help you buy something extra, but your cost will make that look like chicken feed.

The other option is to put your focus on recruiting active PSA who become EA2 during your month 2 which means you will need to be recruiting heavy during your month of training. For most that means investing in S-builder and PSA-to-Go or other PSA sources among our ECA.

You will only need a few who reach EA2 to help you make BTL but it can take hundreds of these referrals to get 2-3 active PSA to work with. Unless they become EA in month 1 and EA2 in month 2 you won't get the 100VP or more Sponsor Bonus based on their rank in time to qualify you for BTL in your second month.

One thing that helps me maintain my status and has even lead to time as a Silver Team Leader is answering these AskSC questions. You earn Action VP for each top 10 answer but that requires that you read your training materials and comprehend all you are learning, study answers given at the forum for similar question, and be able to articulate what you have learned so others can understand your answers.

No matter what you do it will take an investment of either time or money to be a team leader every month and the easiest to sustain is by having a team. You can even save money by focusing a lot of energy on creating PRM Sales at TripleClicks to cover your Sales VP requirements. The commissions you earn can be used to pay your standing order and even buy extra t-credits so you can reach an even higher rank faster but all of this requires that you focus on your training.

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If they are ready to do what it takes to keep that rank yes.

In the first month of membership it's pretty easy to become a Team Leader, you do the actions of your training program and get started on daily, weekly, and monthly actions and you will make it to EA with no issues. You can then place a standing order and be a Bronze Team Leader or higher.

Come month two however you will have to have a plan for getting the remaining action VersaPoints required to maintain Team Leader
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

The best method is the SFI method.

SFI has this amazing button that reads START. Clicking that button gives an affiliate a brief over view of what they will learn, where they will learn it, and how long it will take. It leads you to the SFI Basics button and then the Launchpad button.

If they follow the instructions they will learn about the E-365 contest and how to stay above the green line. They will learn about the Fast Track program and how it explodes their earnings potential. They learn both of those in plenty of time to accomplish the take and generate the sales VP required before losing either opportunity.

One mistake I see from a lot of people when responding to the, "Where do I get started?" question is they tell them to go to the VP Ledger or ToDo List, give a list of 12 or more links, say go here, go there, do these daily, and never once mention the Start Button, or either of the other two.

These buttons are needed in order so the new PSA knows what they are doing, where they are supposed to go, and what they are supposed to learn, and how fast/slow they need to go to get the most out of SFI's pre-planned training system. Sending them any place else is just going to confuse them. Telling them to clear their red tabs doesn't tell them what the tabs are for and the information they are supposed to gain about their business, or even what a VP is and how eventually these will become a major boost to their income.

I say eventually because the 500VP earned from doing the daily, weekly, and monthly task only equals around 25 to 28 cents in earnings and it takes hundreds of people doing those actions to become any kind of income. If they follow the training program they will see in the SFI Basics that learning to generate TripleClicks Sales comes first, before building a downline because another reason people quit is they are getting referrals but nobody is making any serious money.

If they click Start they will be sent on a path with a defined list of objectives to achieve, each in their own time, during the first 30 days of membership and should come out of it at least an EA member with a Fast Track Badge who is a Finalist in the E365, and understands the value of getting started with a standing order, and doing their red tabs daily.

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The best method is the SFI method.

SFI has this amazing button that reads START. Clicking that button gives an affiliate a brief over view of what they will learn, where they will learn it, and how long it will take. It leads you to the SFI Basics button and then the Launchpad button.

If they follow the instructions they will learn about the E-365 contest and how to stay above the green line. They will learn about the Fast Track program and how it explodes their earnings potential.
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 784

The PriceBenders gateway is a great landing place if you write a review on the penny auction format on your blog or regularly share the results of at least one WOW Auction from the previous week. Beyond that it is better to promote individual products than to try and market a store as a whole.

Pay attention to how big retail chains like Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon etc.. spend their advertising dollars. When you do a search for one of these giants by name they have the number 1 listing so they don't pay for advertising on that listing which is a gateway to all of their products. If you see a paid ad for them on that listing it is always an affiliate or someone promoting a review of the service.

Instead they spend millions of dollars promoting all their popular products, and product categories on an item by item basis.

SFI has a power tool for promoting TripleClicks items and that is the dynamic build your own banner tool. You can choose the items you wish to promote on your site or page and have a dynamic banner that list them in order and the viewer can click on the product they want and be taken directly to it's sales page.

If I am reviewing a product on TripleClicks I create a banner with that product at the top and 1-2 related products is applicable and insert it into the post or in a custom sidebar. I love the way they look on my Wordpress blogs when I promote an item and they get people's attention with their sleek but well branded design.

They are the reason I have so many straight PRM referrals and are a big part of my plans moving forward.
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The PriceBenders gateway is a great landing place if you write a review on the penny auction format on your blog or regularly share the results of at least one WOW Auction from the previous week. Beyond that it is better to promote individual products than to try and market a store as a whole.

Pay attention to how big retail chains like Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon etc.. spend their advertising dollars. When you do a search for one of these giants by name they have the number 1 listing so
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