Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When sharing SFI with some of your prospects you are going to come across a few of them who will request that you show them that someone can make good money in this business.

If that happens don’t hit the panic button. One of the things I share with people is that SFI has been in business for 18 years as an affiliate marketing company and you will not stay in business if your affiliates are not making money.

Then using some of the testimonies I show them the success that new and seasoned affiliates are receiving. Point out how long some of the affiliates have been with SFI – some of them have been around for over 15 years. Affiliates will not stay with a company that long unless they are earning a good income.

Then I share with them that the income level is unlimited and you can earn as much as you are willing to work for. I will ask them: What kind of income level are you looking for? Are you willing to work 2 or 3 years to reach that level of financial freedom?

I tell them that SFI is not a get rich quick scheme but I also let them know that they can reach their “dream” incomes much sooner than 30 years of working a regular job, then retiring - and if your real lucky you won’t need to rely on Social Security, which isn’t enough to live on.

I always try to put the questions back into their hands by asking them a question that makes them comment on instead of getting a yes or no answer. The more they talk the easier it will be for you to share with them the benefits of becoming a SFI affiliate to grow a second income that could easily out perform any “job” that they currently have.

One mistake to avoid is to show them “proof” of income. You do not know how that will affect them. They could see the high dollar amount and get excited wanting to join right away expecting to make the same kind of money.

On the other hand, you could show them your high dollar amount and they will laugh at you and tell you that you’re a fool because they want to see money in the thousands and thousands of dollars.

Remember always keep control of the conversation and guide your prospects in the direction of them getting involved with SFI and TripleClicks to check it out for themselves.

As a last resort you can always tell them SFI is free to join and is always free without any mandatory purchasing, so there is no reason not to join and try it out for a couple of years or so. You could also tell them, “5 years from now you could be so happy that you joined SFI instead of wondering what could have been if you joined when you were first asked.”

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When sharing SFI with some of your prospects you are going to come across a few of them who will request that you show them that someone can make good money in this business.

If that happens don’t hit the panic button. One of the things I share with people is that SFI has been in business for 18 years as an affiliate marketing company and you will not stay in business if your affiliates are not making money.

Then using some of the testimonies I show them
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If you want to be successful, good communication is an absolute necessity in building your business with SFI and TripleClicks.

Communication in its self is a “two way conversation” between the speaker and the listener. With each person taking their turn in speaking and being listened to and in listening while the other person speaks.

When you are working on-line good communication can be very difficult to achieve especially with SFI and TripleClicks being a global market. Even when using Skype or other forms of face to face contact you have to figure a way to combat the difference in the time zones.

You will find that the best form of communication with those in different countries and time zones will be to use email. This will only work if you have previously made good connections with each other.

When reading your prospects/affiliates email you will have to learn how to read between the lines to figure out what the writer is really trying to say.

Learning to read between the lines is an art and takes a lot of practice to be able to respond properly. The best way to learn how to read between the lines is to put yourself in the situation that your affiliate/prospect is in and ask yourself the same question or statements, what you come up with is the starting steps of better communication between you and the one receiving the message.

As an example: someone states to you “making money”. What is your response –

• Is the person asking “how to make money?”
• Or is the person stating that “He or she is making money.”
• Is this a rhetorical statement (a statement that needs no answer or response).

I could add many more variables to what is being covered here but I believe I have made the point what to think about before trying to answer questions or responding to statements made by the responding receiver.

Of course this is all done through Emails – Face to face communication is still the best way to get any message shared between two people – of course there comes another challenge and that is reading body language – But that is for another time.

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If you want to be successful, good communication is an absolute necessity in building your business with SFI and TripleClicks.

Communication in its self is a “two way conversation” between the speaker and the listener. With each person taking their turn in speaking and being listened to and in listening while the other person speaks.

When you are working on-line good communication can be very difficult to achieve especially with SFI and TripleClicks being
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When operating an on-line home based business (or any business for that matter) you will need to have a working budget to cover the different expenses you will have in maintaining that business.

The budget you make will depend on the amount of “investment” capital you have to use and the level of profit that your business is currently at. What you will be looking for is the ROI (Return On Investment). Is your return on investment going to come about in the “long run” or will it be a quick return?

All business ventures depend heavily on advertising to grow and develop into a profitable business. So I would simply say that you need to adjust your budget accordingly.

Out of the budget that I allow for my SFI and TripleClicks business I take about 60% of it and use it on advertising in many different forms – which also includes purchasing some new PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) and for acquiring PRMs (Personally Referred Members)

The reason I place most of my budget on advertising for PSAs and PRMs is simply because that is where the money is made in SFI and TripleClicks.

The rest of my budget is used for support of my team members and personal products and services from TripleClicks.

Do not make the mistake of not forming a budget that you can work with. Without a budget you will end up short on finances when you need it the most.

Put most of you investing into products and services that will bring you a good ROI and you can’t go wrong.

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When operating an on-line home based business (or any business for that matter) you will need to have a working budget to cover the different expenses you will have in maintaining that business.

The budget you make will depend on the amount of “investment” capital you have to use and the level of profit that your business is currently at. What you will be looking for is the ROI (Return On Investment). Is your return on investment going to come about in the “long run”
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As an affiliate with SFI part of helping to make your business grow will be in getting other people interested enough in what you are doing to join up with your team. The more people you can share your business with, either face to face or other ways, the greater the chance will be that your business will expand quickly.

The greatest method to approaching people is to make friends first! Don’t make the mistake of dumping a business opportunity on someone within the first 30 seconds of meeting with them. (This applies to social networks also).

As a example a very good friend of mine has come over to my house a few times and each time he has seen some of our TripleClicks stuff around the house. It wasn’t until I saw him pick up one of the products that I shared with him where I bought it and how great the product is. Because he is a friend he listened intently and wanted to try the product for himself.

Of course that led to him being a PRM (Personally Referred Member) of mine. And to top it off he orders a large amount of products every 4 months like clockwork. When the time again is right I will bring up how he can earn money sharing the great products that he is now enjoying.

Don’t be in a hurry to sign someone up – a rushed introduction to the SFI and TripleClicks business will create a lost prospect.

Build friendships and trust first – when done properly the prospect you acquire that way will end up being one of your Diamonds in the making.

I use this kind of approach in my on-line advertising whenever possible and it works so much better than a cold landing page or gateway. Don’t get me wrong I still use all the gateways supplied by SFI whenever I can.

But my main sign-ups (and strongest affiliates) come from building relationships first.

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As an affiliate with SFI part of helping to make your business grow will be in getting other people interested enough in what you are doing to join up with your team. The more people you can share your business with, either face to face or other ways, the greater the chance will be that your business will expand quickly.

The greatest method to approaching people is to make friends first! Don’t make the mistake of dumping a business opportunity on someone within the first
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When building an Internet Marketing business like SFI you will need to be enrolling people into your program. With SFI that isn’t too hard because it is a company that is free to join. The mentoring and training is free, websites to promote the business is free and most of your marketing materials are free.

With that being said, I find it hard to even think of giving a brand new arrival, PSA (Personally Sponsored Affiliate) some kind of gift for joining your team. To me that is like a bribe and I personally would be very cautious about going any further with the program.

At the present time there are gifts being offered to new sign-ups as a testing method to see if even giving a gift when they first start will help them be active or not. You can elect to give a certain amount of TCredits to each personal upon enrollment (limits set by you) If your new arrival does not want the TCredits or they do not use them within the first 24 hours you get them back.

Or you can give them a $1.00 cash amount to be placed in their personal commission account. For each person you give a $100 to (paid by SFI) it will cost you 2 TCredits. If the new person opts out or doesn’t take up the offer of $1.00 then you do not get your TCredits returned.

I find it more profitable to give rewards and incentives to my teammates only when they have achieved certain milestones. To me it just does not make good business sense to give someone a gift for doing nothing.

In the past I had joined some Internet marketing companies that offered “free sign-ups” – your first order of products free along with free websites and rotator positions. You what I found, the amount of inactive affiliates remained the same there as they might be in your team right now.

If a newly enrolled affiliate is not ready to be serious about building their own business no amount of gifts given to them is going to keep them active. Sooner than later the gifts you gave them will “wear off” and they will either quit or they will be asking and demanding more free stuff expecting you to respond to their request because you have done it once before.

Save your “gifts” for your workers – it will go easier on your budget and it will increase your business much faster than giving new sign-ups something for nothing.

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When building an Internet Marketing business like SFI you will need to be enrolling people into your program. With SFI that isn’t too hard because it is a company that is free to join. The mentoring and training is free, websites to promote the business is free and most of your marketing materials are free.

With that being said, I find it hard to even think of giving a brand new arrival, PSA (Personally Sponsored Affiliate) some kind of gift for joining your team. To
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As you build your SFI and TripleClicks business you will learn that being in a “leadership” position is very important. The success of your business depends a lot on the structure and size (number of people) of your down-line teammates.

The easiest way for your teammates to know what to do is for you as their “leader” is to show them the path to take. This is done by you doing what you want your teammates to do.

In other words, you want your teammates to have a standing order for 1,500 VP (VersaPoints) then you have to have the badge that shows you have a standing order of 1,500 VP or higher. When your teammates see your leadership page they will see the SO badge which shows you have already done what you are asking them to do.

You only need to be “one step” ahead of your teammates to be their leader and if you are putting in the effort to build your home business with SFI and TripleClicks your badge display will tell them all they need to know.

Your badge display will not automatically get your teammates excited enough to try and acquire the same milestones that you have. You also need to explain to your teammates how to accomplish what you have.

Share with them the trials and errors you have committed and how you overcame them in your efforts to succeed. Your badges prove that you have “been there - done that” So your written/spoken instructions on how to accomplish the same things carries more weight with your teammates.

There are other activities that demonstrate to your teammates on how to lead by example. One of them is in re-assigning affiliates to your workers – If you are doing this your teammates will eventually follow.

Another way is to have “incentives” for your workers – give out Gift certificates or TCredits as rewards for accomplishing milestones in their business building activities.

Your actions is the key to leading by example – Don’t just “Talk the Talk” – but instead “Walk the Talk” - I would rather “see” a sermon than hear one.

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As you build your SFI and TripleClicks business you will learn that being in a “leadership” position is very important. The success of your business depends a lot on the structure and size (number of people) of your down-line teammates.

The easiest way for your teammates to know what to do is for you as their “leader” is to show them the path to take. This is done by you doing what you want your teammates to do.

In other words, you want your teammates
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

One of the income streams in SFI is having your own ECA (E-Commerce Affiliate) in TripleClicks. This is where you can offer products to affiliates and Members that are connected to SFI and TripleClicks.

There are many things that you must consider when putting in an ECA. Of course you will need products that are in demand (or create the demand) and then you will have to make the price of your products within a good marketing range to bring quality products at affordable prices. You will also have to consider the shipping cost and if you are going to sell products locally or globally.

Having said that and keeping the above in mind: Your main focus will need to be on marketing your ECA daily.

There are hundreds of ways to promote your ECA to the public and it would take too much time and space to list ways that this can be done. The main point is that you advertise (market) you ECA or single products in your ECA every day.

Get yourself a blog or website and set it up using the domain name of your ECA. Then use all the advertising methods that you are comfortable with using the URL of your blog or website in your advertising campaigns.

In order to build a good habit for advertising you need to set a specific time for getting on-line (or off-line) daily. Maintain this daily activity until it becomes a natural habit for you to be advertising (It takes about 20 to 30 days to become habit forming).

Promote as much as you can and as often as you can – be consistent in your advertising remember it is taught that a person reading your ads will have to see your ad around 7 or 8 times before making a decision on whether or not to purchase from you.

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One of the income streams in SFI is having your own ECA (E-Commerce Affiliate) in TripleClicks. This is where you can offer products to affiliates and Members that are connected to SFI and TripleClicks.

There are many things that you must consider when putting in an ECA. Of course you will need products that are in demand (or create the demand) and then you will have to make the price of your products within a good marketing range to bring quality products at affordable prices.
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When looking for the “big picture” in what you are doing with your SFI and TripleClicks to become a success, you need to look beyond the tools that are provided for us.

You see, you can have the greatest Internet Marketing tools in the world (which SFI freely provides) and even have the head knowledge to know the best way to use each of the tools; it will do you no good in building your business if you do not have the characteristics needed to reach success.

What is needed:

• Honesty: Using hype, false claims, and distorted facts will lead you to failure.

• Perseverance: This is the ability to stick with it no matter how the battle goes.

• Having a positive attitude: If you can’t be positive in your business I can positively tell you that failure will accrue.

• Persistence: You must never give up until success is achieved.

• Charity: (Love) – help others achieve success that will surpass what you are trying to do.

• Always lead by example: Never under any circumstances ask your teammates to do something that you are not willing to do yourself.

• Action taker: Don’t wait for your ship to come it – Swim out to meet it or make your own ship.

There are many other things that can be listed here but I believe the point has been made and that is the big picture to your success is what you carry within yourself and the ability to put it all to good use.

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When looking for the “big picture” in what you are doing with your SFI and TripleClicks to become a success, you need to look beyond the tools that are provided for us.

You see, you can have the greatest Internet Marketing tools in the world (which SFI freely provides) and even have the head knowledge to know the best way to use each of the tools; it will do you no good in building your business if you do not have the characteristics needed to reach success.

What
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I, like many new affiliates when they first join SFI and TripleClicks, went straight to gaining as much VP (VersaPoints) as possible. Because of the way I was going about it a couple of times I fell back to being a AFF (beginning affiliates).

Needless to say I became discouraged and rant and raved at my sponsor and at SFI Admin. It is to my blessing that SFI understands some of the problems new affiliates go through because they did not terminate my membership.

I wallowed around for about 6 months going from AFF to EA and then back to AFF again I was at the point where I figured that SFI was a waste of time and effort.

The good thing that happened is that I decided to read the messages and post in the forum and the stream and some of the ASK SC questions and answers. I decided to really give SFI a try and some time to see if I find a future here.

Once I got my mind off of collecting VP and obtained a mindset of building a business from scratch, I realized that a good income could be generated with this program only it will take some time to get it going.

My main focus has changed from acquiring VP and rank to building a team and to selling products from TripleClicks.

I learned the VP will come automatically if you are building a strong business foundation and the rank will also automatically increase as you focus your attention on retaining your teammates and assist them in their efforts to build.

My focus now – Sell products – and build a network of “teammates” that are helping others to do the same thing (known as duplication).

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I, like many new affiliates when they first join SFI and TripleClicks, went straight to gaining as much VP (VersaPoints) as possible. Because of the way I was going about it a couple of times I fell back to being a AFF (beginning affiliates).

Needless to say I became discouraged and rant and raved at my sponsor and at SFI Admin. It is to my blessing that SFI understands some of the problems new affiliates go through because they did not terminate my membership.


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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As you grow your home business with SFI and TripleClicks you will notice that the VersaPoints are very important in determining your rank and the amount of bonus shares you will receive from the Executive Pool.

The total versa points raised during the current month is the determining factor in your rank, achieved level as Team Leader and bonus shares. If an affiliate does not acquire the required amount of sales VP and action VP, (by the end of the month) for their current level than that affiliate will drop down to whatever level they are qualified for.

As you will notice; on the first of every month your VersaPoints for the month drop down to zero and you must regain the VP total again to keep you rank, level and perks. This is done for the reason of keeping everyone participating in growing their business.

Look at it this way; if you had a regular job that pays you weekly for your work and you get a nice check. The following week you don’t work but only two days – should you get paid for a whole week again? No you wont, to top it off you might even get fired.

Don’t worry – SFI will not fire you. This is your business and you can work it in any fashion that you desire. The point is you are going to receive money, perks and bonuses for the work you preformed each and every month.

In May you will be paid for what you have earned in April. And during the month of May you will be earning the income, level and rank that you will be paid for in June.

If every affiliate did not start from “0” VP each month and we were to keep last month’s VP - no one would have to work – SFI and TripleClicks would shut down because no one would be working to maintain their business.

With that said: be thankful that the current VP system works so well and will pay you much more than you ever expected if you work consistently at building your business on a daily basses’.

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As you grow your home business with SFI and TripleClicks you will notice that the VersaPoints are very important in determining your rank and the amount of bonus shares you will receive from the Executive Pool.

The total versa points raised during the current month is the determining factor in your rank, achieved level as Team Leader and bonus shares. If an affiliate does not acquire the required amount of sales VP and action VP, (by the end of the month) for their current
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