Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

I don't know of any fact that is a turn off.

SFI is a great program and the aspects of it appeal to serious online business owners. Nothing about the program should be hidden or played down because it's not the quantity of sign-ups that matters but the quality of them.

Here is what happens if you try to deceive or hand pick information about a program from your prospects.

# They learn the truth once they have signed up.
# They stop trusting you. They stop trusting SFI.
# They leave.
# They tell friends why they left.

So why not be honest and save yourself months of e-mailing the wrong person, hoping they change their mind? Most wont, and the ripple effect could hurt your long term reputation and cause you to lose as many as 20 quality prospects for every 1 prospect you alienate.

We are not a used car.

Don't drop in stop leak and downplay the slip in the transmission. It will come back to bite you in a big way. SFI has powerful selling points. We offer a Affiliate program for over 5,000 online merchants and over 95,000 different products from over 190 countries with local options just about anywhere in the world today.

The prospect has to understand that they have to successfully promote the sale of goods to generate commissions. They need to understand that if they can create sales and refer others who they will teach to generate sales, they will be able to leverage their efforts and generate limitless income.

Where other affiliate programs such as Clickbank, force the affiliate to go it alone and generate 100% of their sales, at SFI they have the ability to build a team and profit from their sales as well. When the Clickbank affiliate get's stuck around $30,000 to $100,000 in commissions a year, their SFI business will continue to grow viral and almost on autopilot.

They need to understand that while the program is free with no upgrade required they will need to invest time and money into promoting their business and it will take them a minimum 3-6 months before they start to see a return on their investment and could be 2-3 years before they reach their goals, but that is what they will get no matter what program they join.

None of these is a reason to not join SFI and if it is for them, they wouldn't be happy here.
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I don't know of any fact that is a turn off.

SFI is a great program and the aspects of it appeal to serious online business owners. Nothing about the program should be hidden or played down because it's not the quantity of sign-ups that matters but the quality of them.

Here is what happens if you try to deceive or hand pick information about a program from your prospects.

# They learn the truth once they have signed up.
# They stop trusting you. They stop trusting
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

There seems to be some confusion among respondents.

Some grasp the word Help, others are confusing it with frequency of contact, and it's sad the number of people who would discourage efforts to improve your team. If they are serious about the business your team will have desire to learn daily and enjoy working closely with you and being in constant contact.

They will join Facebook Chats and Skype Groups, give you a phone number to call and connect on social media.

There is however a limit to the amount of help you should give and that is the thin line between teaching the team member and doing the task for them. Another line is don't pay their way, if they don't have a stake in the reward it will not hold the same value and soon will be taken for granted. You also will have your own business expenses and can not do anything but damage it's stability subsidizing another member's standing order etc...

That's not to say you can't reward or gift members.

I fully agree with sending a serious affiliate a Gift Certificate to use to get their Wave 3 kit. I also think having performance based contest among your team is a runway to success. But make sure they feel that they have earned the reward when they win one. It will help you keep them motivated when you set the bar a little higher the next time.

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There seems to be some confusion among respondents.

Some grasp the word Help, others are confusing it with frequency of contact, and it's sad the number of people who would discourage efforts to improve your team. If they are serious about the business your team will have desire to learn daily and enjoy working closely with you and being in constant contact.

They will join Facebook Chats and Skype Groups, give you a phone number to call and connect on social media.

There
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

Success without investing any money is a challenge but can be done.

You never have to buy anything from TripleClicks in order to earn income here. We are not an MLM, and a Standing Order is not mandatory, but as earnings start to flow you are best served to re-invest them into higher quality paid advertising or co-op shares until your business reaches a point where it can provide an income and sustain investment.

How do you proceed as a free member promoting what you have access to for income streams?

I don't recommend using PPA because you are supposed to be running a business not working a job and PPA is designed for those who can't break away from the EMPLOYEE mentality that tells you to do a certain amount of work for a set amount of pay. The reality is most of the active referrals you send to PPA will earn you 50 cents to $3 based on their action and rank in the recording period. Very few will start fast enough and achieve a high enough rank to give you the $10 maximum reward and if you do get a $10 PPA award you will have given up a PSA that would have already earned you way more than $10.

In PPA you don't become the person's sponsor so you give up direct commissions, matching VersaPoints, and Matching VP on their downline for life. For a maximum of $10 one time you could lose out on thousands of dollars of profits for your business. If you have no active PSA you are hard pressed to get residual monthly income with long term sustainability.

So where is the money at?

The big money and fastest path to profits is referring TripleClicks members through either consumable standing order recommended items like TripleClicks Advanced Liquid Nutrition, High Potency Megavites, or Tcredits for PriceBenders auctions and Eager Zebra Games. By promoting these types of items your customers are apt to place the item on standing order to have every month and if they are married they may order in multiple quantity on the health aids increasing your commissions.

When you promote items like these that go on a standing order you are building residual monthly income, a flow of money that happens every month into your business. A residual monthly income helps you establish consistent advertising which leads to that advertising gaining traction and resulting in more sales.

The sale doesn't end at the standing order items. with nearly 90,000 products and growing through 4,000 vendors in nearly 200 countries, your customers will have access to other needed items, gift ideas, and home building items like furniture and home design or decorations. There are birthdays and holidays like Christmas that can have a customer spending hundreds of dollar at TripleClicks and you will be in place to earn 45% of the commission Volume.

The last stream of business growth is recruiting Personally Sponsored Affiliates to SFI.

I put this last for a reason, despite most putting it first. When you are early in your business as a free member with no money to invest you are probably looking to earn some money. Since your PSA will duplicate what you do, if you don't have a standing order it is harder to get them to place a standing order so don't count on a fast path to direct commissions.

Like you, your downline will want to know how to make money sooner and not later. If you know how to promote TripleClicks products for sale, and are making money doing this they can copy what you are doing and start making money themselves. A PSA who is making money generates more matching VP for you once you reach EA2 rank or higher. That in turn means more income for you that is residual and not dependent on your actions. These are funds that come in even if you are sleeping or on vacation just like the Standing Order items you promote at TripleClicks.

A PSA who is making money seldom gives up, and tends to work harder to make even more money so by helping them earn a pay day sooner you will have fewer inactive PSA so your generation 2-12 will grow faster as well. Amplify that by everyone being able to afford to opt into a paid advertising co-op and your growth could be massive, especially since you can now promote TripleClicks sales via the advertising co-op manager.

What do I use to market my business?

A Blog is a must. A Blog is your own website where you can do product reviews and update readers on the deal of the day, or Yesterday's WOW auction winner and you can build a following. You can build strong promotion pages for products that will convert into sales and you are not penalized by the risk of 1.6 million other SFI Affiliates getting a gateway URL blocked.

With a blog you can add a autoresponder and capture e-mail addresses and contact details for readers by adding them to a daily or weekly newsletter. Offer them instant updates in their inbox and you will increase repeat traffic and repeat purchases as well. This method also produces traffic with every post because every post gets indexed in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Every indexed page is a new door into your business and that means more visitors to your business.

Since you are constantly adding more post you will see your traffic climb higher and higher, the longer you own your blog. I highly recommend the most used Blog platform in the world which is Wordpress.com . Since you are not able to invest at this time I told you .com because you can learn to operate Wordpress including installing themes and plugins and when you are ready you can upgrade to premium and add a domain name of your own and everything will transfer over smooth without losing traffic or regular readers. Always follow their Terms of Service and you will be fine.

You also need to learn to market using social media.

Social media marketing is not advertising. If you want to destroy your business go off and join a bunch of Facebook Groups and post ads to them like the other spammers who wont be there to read ads, only to place them. Instead learn to create a free business fanpage you can share updates on your TripleClicks store through and set up a hosted domain with the gateway hosting manager as soon as you can afford the $10.50 to register one so you can occasionally share the SFI opportunity with your fans as well.

Note: Regular SFI Gateways are blocked for SPAM by Facebook and using cloaking links is highly unprofessional and damaging to your business long term.

On your fan page don't be all about the sale. Occasionally share that favorite or trending YouTube video, or that breaking news story, and share joke, and informative articles so people come to your page and get entertained instead of coming there and getting advertised to. You will thank me for this advice.

On your main profile make real friends. Do not make my early mistake and blindly add 2,000 people who have Home Business mentions somewhere on their profile. For one, you are not looking for people already in a home business they see as the next big thing, you want people seeking one for the first time or who don't even know they want to start a home business yet and you want Retail Customers for TripleClicks.

By adding real friends and building real relationships you will build real trust and real engagement. engagement is when a person actually pays attention when you make a post and wants to read what you are sharing and trust is vital to the buying process. Nobody spends money with someone they don't trust.

This information has lead me to a dozen years of success online and thousands of dollars in sales generated. It is also information I will be including in a coming e-book and will be part of os team build and advertising co-op for SFI, so it has my full trust and I hope it will help you grow your business as well.
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Success without investing any money is a challenge but can be done.

You never have to buy anything from TripleClicks in order to earn income here. We are not an MLM, and a Standing Order is not mandatory, but as earnings start to flow you are best served to re-invest them into higher quality paid advertising or co-op shares until your business reaches a point where it can provide an income and sustain investment.

How do you proceed as a free member promoting what you have access
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

In a perfect world my team would all adopt Skype or let me put them on a list for Google Plus Hangouts, or in a Facebook Chat.

Reality is each of the members will use one of these, some of these, or none of these. Some will give me an e-mail address that works and some will even provide a phone number I might be able to call from my cell. There will also be some who have the audacity to think they can run a business with no human contact or interaction.

So where I am at in my business I ask the ones by direct e-mail who will respond, which method is best to reach them, and if they are willing to try Skype or join a Facebook Chat. Daily contact is always best to keep a team on track and motivated. Even if you aren't talking about the business you will be a reminder of the work they aren't doing or part of the reason they continue doing the work.

I had a successful Skype Group managed business for over 7 years and the level of teamwork and dedication was second to none. Trust was built, and a lot of work got done and everyone looked forward to turning their Skype on daily. I would love to have my team all have Skype or a similar tool and work together like that, we would be unstoppable.

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In a perfect world my team would all adopt Skype or let me put them on a list for Google Plus Hangouts, or in a Facebook Chat.

Reality is each of the members will use one of these, some of these, or none of these. Some will give me an e-mail address that works and some will even provide a phone number I might be able to call from my cell. There will also be some who have the audacity to think they can run a business with no human contact or interaction.

So where I am at in my
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

Watch lots of auctions and track what a particular items averages selling for at various times of day and in various auction types.

A item in a 1 WA auction will usually sell for less than an item in a DP or double Points auction. An item auctioned at 3AM SFI time will usually sell for less than the same auction held at 3PM SFI time.

It's a law of averages game. You need to know average prices for the type of auction, time of day, and type of item and then make your best educated guess as often as you can afford to. For many it's a science for others dumb luck, but for all a great opportunity to earn some extra T-credits.
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Watch lots of auctions and track what a particular items averages selling for at various times of day and in various auction types.

A item in a 1 WA auction will usually sell for less than an item in a DP or double Points auction. An item auctioned at 3AM SFI time will usually sell for less than the same auction held at 3PM SFI time.

It's a law of averages game. You need to know average prices for the type of auction, time of day, and type of item and then make your best educated
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

Start out with a tour of TripleClicks Direct products using the filter for SFI related items.

Show them that there is a range of offline promotional materials for both SFI and TripleClicks as well as the E-commerce Associates program. Since most Internet issues come from having limited access instead of limited connections I can assume that most of these users either don't have a computer of their own and share one with family or friends, or they own a laptop or smart phone and can only access the internet when they are at an Internet Cafe or a place with Free Wifi like a library, or the office at work.

Most of the issues relate to income. They can't afford to have Internet service turned on at home or do not own a device to connect to the net so they need the ability to earn money to pay for these things.

Since the affiliate needs money sooner rather than later and is low income focus on getting them aids to build TripleClicks PRM or ECA referrals. If possible and they don't have the funds order them a pack of ECA brochures or TripleClicks X-cards they can use when meeting people on the street, door to door, on the bus, in the store, at the post office, at work and more.

It is far easier to find shoppers than it is to find people who are both willing to consider a home business and ready to work hard to build it, and even harder to find one that also has money for a standing order each month than it is to find shoppers.

Tell them to not think of people in the same financial position as themselves but instead, go out and make contact with people that would be ideal customers. Too many fail to make this adjustment so they waste time and money reaching other people who are too broke to take action instead of reaching the ready buyers with a lot of cash to spend. To that end I like leaving TripleClicks X-Cards at the Doctor's Office and a couple on the check signing desk at the local bank or on the ATM machine outside, any restaurant I happen to be in and on shelves at higher end retailers.

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Start out with a tour of TripleClicks Direct products using the filter for SFI related items.

Show them that there is a range of offline promotional materials for both SFI and TripleClicks as well as the E-commerce Associates program. Since most Internet issues come from having limited access instead of limited connections I can assume that most of these users either don't have a computer of their own and share one with family or friends, or they own a laptop or smart phone and can only
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

I have a plan that works wonders and is really simple to do.

1. Tell them about the 3 buttons at the top of the page and make sure they go through the 30 days of training in the Launchpad because they will not be a success if they don't understand their business.

2. Make sure they are committed to working daily at least 1 hour a day and becoming an EA2 because these are the minimums needed for their success and by minimum I mean encourage them to do more if they can.

3. Make available a Paid Advertising Co-Op but give new affiliates a chance to earn a share of it for free. You can offer something like $20 per share or generate $20 in TripleClicks Sales in the month.

4. Help them set up a blog, preferably on their own domain name or a subdomain off a Wordpress powered blog you own. Don't recommend trashy free sites like Wix because you will be penalized for the acts of every SPAMMER and Scammer that uses them, and be looked at as amateur and unprofessional.

5. Show them how 1 blog post that get's 10 visitors a day can add 300 visitors a month to their banners. Show them that in a year they could have 52 such post writing just 1 a week or 365 such post writing one a day after just 1 year. Teach them how to use Jetpack by Wordpress to syndicate and socially share their post so they build links with each new article and have a chance of their content going viral.

6. Be sure when they are writing blog post they are writing great content and not advertisements. Nobody clicks on a blog to read an advertisement, they will however click on a link to go to a article on cooking pea soup that has an ad on the page and if the ad appeals to pea soup lovers it will get clicks and generate sales and sign ups.

7. Help them teach their PSA to do the same.

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I have a plan that works wonders and is really simple to do.

1. Tell them about the 3 buttons at the top of the page and make sure they go through the 30 days of training in the Launchpad because they will not be a success if they don't understand their business.

2. Make sure they are committed to working daily at least 1 hour a day and becoming an EA2 because these are the minimums needed for their success and by minimum I mean encourage them to do more if they can.

3.
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

If you are looking for affiliates you promote SFI, if you are looking for sales commissions you promote TripleClicks.

Affiliates will frequent job listings and business listings, may be seeking franchise opportunities or looking at business property listings, they may also be found looking for entrepreneur training online like budgeting and human relations articles. Some will also be looking at financial sites as curious future investors looking for the right opportunity to make their spare income make them more money.

Shoppers or PRM are generally looking for a product that services a specific need.

If you look at popular products and start advertising them you will fail to make money but if you take a product, figure out who wants it and for what needs and write an article for your blog that speaks to them and answers their questions you can make 5-7 figures annually, with little effort as your reputation as a great reviewer grows.
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If you are looking for affiliates you promote SFI, if you are looking for sales commissions you promote TripleClicks.

Affiliates will frequent job listings and business listings, may be seeking franchise opportunities or looking at business property listings, they may also be found looking for entrepreneur training online like budgeting and human relations articles. Some will also be looking at financial sites as curious future investors looking for the right opportunity to make their
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

Incentives for Action:

Develop your network of web properties, and business listings so you are generating a stead stream of sign-ups. Use the Co-Op Manger to distribute and reward team members who reach certain performance based goals every month. A Great example is give them 1 share for referring 5 people in a month and another share for becoming an EA2 or above.

Be generous with praise:

People like to hear the words, "Keep up the good work" because it shows the work they do is important to someone. Recognize wins of the daily grand and achievements like Executive Affiliate or Fast Track Membership with a post in the recognition forum and/or a SFI E-card.

Be inspiring:

Work your business hard and don't stop striving for results, then share the work you do and the results you get with your team. People love a good success story even if the triumph is seemingly small. Look how people fawn over a baby taking their first steps and you can see how the little things matter.

Be Available:

Keep communications open and regular through multiple streams. The better and more freely a team communicates the higher moral will be and easier it will be to stay motivated. I love to have constant contact with my team and would really love to get them all on a Skype Chat or Google Plus Hangout for building relationships as well as team training and support.

Staying motivated will require some ability to self motivate. You can't just do it when you feel like it, you have to be consistent. Find that place in your business and it will be easy for your team to follow.

Have a safe and Happy New Year.

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Incentives for Action:

Develop your network of web properties, and business listings so you are generating a stead stream of sign-ups. Use the Co-Op Manger to distribute and reward team members who reach certain performance based goals every month. A Great example is give them 1 share for referring 5 people in a month and another share for becoming an EA2 or above.

Be generous with praise:

People like to hear the words, "Keep up the good work" because it
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785

Please remember before you make too many golden years plans that retirees often have special needs to be able to participate. The older the recruit the higher the chances are of them having some degree of computer literacy issues, they may also be on a fixed income, and they may have commitments that make them available only certain times of the year or have a lifestyle that puts them on the road without an internet connection for weeks at a time.

Retirees tend to only need supplemental income so they are often more committed to a business that seems stuck earning just a couple hundred dollars a month, and they often have tremendous networking skills and a large established warm market in which to start their business.

The things that attract Seniors to an offer are typically as follows.

1. Part Time - You can do this in a few hours a day around your busy lifestyle.
2. Mobility - You can do this from any location or device with an Internet connection.
3. Low Start Up Cost - the program itself is free to join and you can invest under $100 a month to grow your business steadily.
4. Estate Ready - This business can be passed on to heirs without estate tax or major paperwork hassels.
5. In depth training - We cover every issue so you can be well informed about your new business.
6. Simple - the core operations are easy to accomplish and require no manual labor.
7. Reliable - SFI pays monthly, like clockwork when you have earned $20 or more in commissions and bonus.

You can interest them with ad text like the following.

Living on a fixed income?

A few hours a day could turn into the additional cash you need every month. Low start up cost, full training, and you can take this business anywhere there is an internet connection.
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Please remember before you make too many golden years plans that retirees often have special needs to be able to participate. The older the recruit the higher the chances are of them having some degree of computer literacy issues, they may also be on a fixed income, and they may have commitments that make them available only certain times of the year or have a lifestyle that puts them on the road without an internet connection for weeks at a time.

Retirees tend to only need supplemental
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