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

Some SFI affiliate members believe that a new person should build their team up until the activities of their team “push” them into the Team Leader ranks. I personally find it hard to suggest this method to a new affiliate who is on fire to advance as soon as possible.

I do not believe that SFI has made a mistake in making it so someone can reach top levels within in their first couple weeks or months. There is a purpose for everything and every method that has been created for the affiliates to use or adhere to.

I would however caution the new affiliate that the following month it may not be so easy to accomplish the qualifications of Team Leader because the abundant AVPs (Action VP) won’t be available and that they will have to find ways to raise their AVPs total for the following month.

We are all in this business to make money – which we can all agree on. SFI has made it so people can spend their money and become a Team Leader without building a team first. Does this make their spending any worse? The volume in purchases is still there. SFI benefits and so will you as their up-line sponsor.

I personally have achieved the Team Leader status and I do not have an active front line large enough to push me into the leader position. But I maintain that level none the less. The perks I receive are worth the finances I must go through to qualify for that level.

I teach all my affiliates to stretch themselves as far as they can “if” they are capable of maintaining that position and it does not become a problem that will set them back enough to hurt their business building activities.

Remember our teammates are adults which and are fully capable of making important decisions in regards to their finances and what they can handle each month. Our part as sponsors is to let them know what it is going to cost them to maintain that status.

In short; I say do not discourage anyone from trying to advance in rank, but make sure that they know the cost – Then let them make their own decisions.

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Some SFI affiliate members believe that a new person should build their team up until the activities of their team “push” them into the Team Leader ranks. I personally find it hard to suggest this method to a new affiliate who is on fire to advance as soon as possible.

I do not believe that SFI has made a mistake in making it so someone can reach top levels within in their first couple weeks or months. There is a purpose for everything and every method that has been
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When sharing with prospects whether it is by an ad, email or in person, information about SFI and TripleClicks the less information you share the better the chance that your prospect will want to check it out.

• Keep your information short but keep their curiosity juices flowing.
• Your information must be exciting and truthful with no hype.
• Make your information be a solution to their dreams and needs.
• Assure them of your qualifications to teach and guide them to succeed.

When you share too much information at one time your prospect is making their decision before you even finish your explanation. The easier it is to explain your business and be excited about it, in the shortest amount of time, the easier it will be to sign people up.

The longer a person takes to give me the information that I am looking for the easier it is for me to decide that I don’t want what they have.

I don’t like long emails so I won’t answer them and I would not click on their URL.

I don’t enjoy being a captured prospect while someone continues on and on about their personal business. All the time they are talking to me I am only thinking of a way to end the situation and move on.

What I have shared is through a little experience and also my personal feelings when being approached with a business opportunity.

You need to play with your approach to prospects until you come up with a working plan that draws in contacts and sign-ups.

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When sharing with prospects whether it is by an ad, email or in person, information about SFI and TripleClicks the less information you share the better the chance that your prospect will want to check it out.

• Keep your information short but keep their curiosity juices flowing.
• Your information must be exciting and truthful with no hype.
• Make your information be a solution to their dreams and needs.
• Assure them of your qualifications to teach
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

That is a hard question to answer without covering all the different types of advertising that you may be planning to do.

One of the things I have done if it is a free site is to run a ad that you know works well for you on other sites. If it is working well then continue using them – if the results are lower than what you usually receive then don’t use them again.

If it is a paid site for advertising then use Google search to find reviews about the site. If the reviews are good you are pretty much ok in running your ads there. You can Google search reviews on any advertising site you desire including free sites.

Always keep in mind that “reviews” sometimes are written by people who have nothing to do with the site you are checking. I found out that there are services that you can pay for that will give you great reviews for a fee. Some sites pay as much as $5 for each great review that is posted in favor of the site.

The best way to find the good spots to advertise is to get out there in the Internet Market and start placing small ads, free or paid, and track the results. When you find one that is giving you the results that you are looking for by all means keep using them.

Before you judge a site as to its worth always remember that it could be your ad content that isn’t very appealing. Tweek your content and try again with the same site – also try different days of the week and different times during the day – the beginning of the month, middle and end of the month.

As you can see there are a lot of things that can determine if it is your ad or the site that you are using is lowering your results.

I have found that the only way to truly check out a site for advertising is to test, test and test again. Personal experience is the best teacher as to what sites are good for your advertising needs.

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That is a hard question to answer without covering all the different types of advertising that you may be planning to do.

One of the things I have done if it is a free site is to run a ad that you know works well for you on other sites. If it is working well then continue using them – if the results are lower than what you usually receive then don’t use them again.

If it is a paid site for advertising then use Google search to find reviews about the
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

In my years of trying to sell vacuum cleaners, encyclopedia sets and stock options I learned that it takes special skills to be a good salesperson because as hard as I tried I don’t think I ever sold more than one item from each of the ventures I got involved with.

When I got arrested for going door to door selling kitchen appliances and cooking sets in what is known as a “green” county or area, (Green county or area means it is against the law to sell door to door) I decided that being a salesman was not in my blood.

My wife and I got into having those parties for plastic containers, for cosmetics, and for a couple other ones which I have long forgotten about, none of which we did any good at.

The main problem in all of the above ventures is that my wife and I had given up when we realized just how hard it was to sell the “first” product of whatever we were involved with.

We decided that being a good sales person had to be a gift from God because it was too hard for the common folk to become good at it. We are both a little shy and did not like the idea of how pushy we thought you had to be to be a good salesperson (let alone a “great” one).

Now maybe you can understand where I am coming from when I share with you how to become a great salesperson.

First and foremost let me say that I am still learning to be that great salesperson. And that is one of the keys – “learning” – The sales field is constantly changing and evolving and you must adjust accordingly to keep up with the latest trends – You can’t be “great” if you ever stop learning.

Two: You must know your product. Know it from top to bottom, inside out, backwards and right side up. The more you know about your product or service the easier it will be to dispel any negative comments from your prospect. Your prospect will be able to tell if you’re giving them a rehearsed sales pitch or if you really know what you are talking about.

Three: Be confident in your abilities to explain your product or service. The more self-confidence you have in what you are doing the more control you have over your prospect. They will see and feel how strong you stand behind your products and how sure you are about what you are doing.

Four: Navigate the benefits of your product around their personal needs – to do this you need to ask them good questions as far as what they are looking for. Make it so your product or service will fulfill their needs.

I could go on and on with what it takes to be a great salesperson but what I have shared above will have to do for now. If you can incorporate the above four points then you will be on the road to being a great salesperson.

And the above information can keep you from getting thrown out the front door of a prospect’s house because I took the vacuum cleaner and showed them how it will suck up water by sticking the nozzle into his fish tank – it sucked up one of the fish, of course it died and my vacuum was thrown out the door and of course I was thrown out also.

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In my years of trying to sell vacuum cleaners, encyclopedia sets and stock options I learned that it takes special skills to be a good salesperson because as hard as I tried I don’t think I ever sold more than one item from each of the ventures I got involved with.

When I got arrested for going door to door selling kitchen appliances and cooking sets in what is known as a “green” county or area, (Green county or area means it is against the law to sell door to door)
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Creating individual personalized welcome letters to your new PSAs using the information they provided is a great idea. People like to see the personal touch it lets them feel like they are more of a team instead of just another “down-line” affiliate.

There is a small problem with this and that is when you might have a few hundred affiliates signing up within the month. You will not have the time to personally address each affiliate.

If that is the case then send your personal letters to those who are already busy and showing up on your movers page. Be sure to set your “movers” notice up to the top 50 this way you will be less likely to miss a new mover.

Make sure your welcome letter is a little more personalized by using the “~FIRSTNAME~” command in the begging of your letter – in the middle of the letter and at the end of the letter. People like to see their own name when being addressed this action helps to alleviate the “automated” response a little.

One of the things you might do is to take notice of is their language and then send your first letter to them using a translator to change your message to their language. This is a great personal touch that they know for sure it wasn’t an automated message.

Another tool when addressing your new affiliates is to use the “Welcome” Ecards. Send a personal short message to each new member no matter how long it takes. This is a personal touch that stands out in SFI and TripleClicks as a great free tool that is not available anywhere else (That I know of).

Any time that you can add the personal touch to communicate with your new affiliates is a sign of an awesome sponsor.

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Creating individual personalized welcome letters to your new PSAs using the information they provided is a great idea. People like to see the personal touch it lets them feel like they are more of a team instead of just another “down-line” affiliate.

There is a small problem with this and that is when you might have a few hundred affiliates signing up within the month. You will not have the time to personally address each affiliate.

If that is the
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

One of the main ingredients of getting your affiliates serious about building their SFI and TripleClicks business is to be a great example that they can follow.

I personally believe that we sponsors need to do is relax a little on trying to get our new affiliates to commit to being a “serious” business builder.

We need to give our new teammates time to work into the “serious” mode of doing business. As an example; when I first started SFI I had just finished getting fleeced from a couple different marketing programs so I was taking steps forward with extreme caution. I did not feel that I could “commit” to being serious until after a period of 6 months.

By the time I was ready to go for it (so to speak) I knew what it would take and I started acting on it. This was quite a surprise to my sponsor – who, by the way, never pushed me to advance before I was ready.

I have found that the best way to getting my teammates to be serious about building their home business is through the weekly newsletters and the stream post. You also can post articles in your SFI blog and direct your affiliates to read the blogs for information on building their business.

The need to be serious over their business will be a personal decision that they must make and they will decide that when the timing is right for them. Pushing or nudging your teammates may just delay things or upset them enough to opt out.

Teach by example – Give advice only when asked – Be an awesome sponsor.

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One of the main ingredients of getting your affiliates serious about building their SFI and TripleClicks business is to be a great example that they can follow.

I personally believe that we sponsors need to do is relax a little on trying to get our new affiliates to commit to being a “serious” business builder.

We need to give our new teammates time to work into the “serious” mode of doing business. As an example; when I first started SFI I had
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

One of the first ways to elevate your advertisements is to eliminate all hype. The more advanced marketers that you are looking for will know hype when they see it and they will avoid your ad just like I do when I detect it.

Keep your ads honest and aboveboard, this will put you above many of the advertisements that are showing up on the network today.

Be as original as you can through your ad (don’t copy the same thing everyone else is using), be creative enough where your ad is different than all the other ads in the same nitch.

Create value for the prospect by answering your ad. Your prospects are looking for; “What’s in it for me?” Also, if possible create value in the services you will provide them through mentoring or training.

Keep your ads short and to the point. The general Internet marketers are tired of reading lengthy ads and will simply delete them before attempting to read any of what is being said.

Whenever possible personalize your advertisements. Many advertising sites allow you to post the prospects name. I have a tendency to only answer ads that are directed towards me by using my name so I know if I like that so will many of your prospects.

If you can offer your prospects a free gift for leaving you their email addresses and name. I know a lot of marketers who enroll hundreds of prospects into their business by offering free items (of value) and then following up by contacting them later that same day.

If you follow and perfect the seven tips listed above I know your advertisements conversion rate will increase. The more you advertise the better you will get at it. Remember to track your results – tweek your ads until they produce – be consistent in your advertising.

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One of the first ways to elevate your advertisements is to eliminate all hype. The more advanced marketers that you are looking for will know hype when they see it and they will avoid your ad just like I do when I detect it.

Keep your ads honest and aboveboard, this will put you above many of the advertisements that are showing up on the network today.

Be as original as you can through your ad (don’t copy the same thing everyone else is using), be creative
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I really like the JMT (Join My Team) Gateway – It would be a little better if we were able to edit more of the content so a greater personal touch could be applied. Other than that I think it will work great.

I would definitely recommend this new web page to my teammates – The layout and information is good and it will take pressure off the new affiliates on what to say or what Gateway to use.

I still think it will draw a lot of tire kickers but that is to be understood when having a free marketing plan.

Some of the old SFI Gateways are wore out enough that when a prospect sees the landing page opening he/she is ready to close it before even looking at it. “Oh no, not again.”

With this new Gateway every single one of them will be unique to the one using the webpage. And it can have the effect on the affiliate using the Gateway to reach a higher Team Level so when prospects see it they will be impressed.

Another boom with this the JMT Gateway is that the affiliates using it will want to make sure they have a good photo registered with SFI. Without a photo the Gateway will be useless.

I personally believe that this new Gateway will be a great asset to the SFI affiliates.

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I really like the JMT (Join My Team) Gateway – It would be a little better if we were able to edit more of the content so a greater personal touch could be applied. Other than that I think it will work great.

I would definitely recommend this new web page to my teammates – The layout and information is good and it will take pressure off the new affiliates on what to say or what Gateway to use.

I still think it will draw a lot of tire kickers but that
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

When you present a “Free to Join” marketing plan to the Internet and you do not use any kind of qualifications that would help control the type of people who click on your sign-up page then you can receive multitudes of different kinds of tire kickers.

People sign up because it is free – when they find out that it will take some kind of effort like:

1. Time
2. Money
3. Learning
4. Reading
5. Commitment
6. Patience
7. And so forth.

They will quit or become inactive – This is the norm and should be expected by everyone who is involved with building their home business with SFI and TripleClicks.

You can lower the amount of inactive affiliates that sign up by placing key words in your ads that will run off some of the tire kickers.

“Start free and then build a fast growing business with small investments.”

“If you’re willing to work your training is free and I’ll mentor you until you succeed.”

“Spend a little on games and win big rewards.”

“while daily working your business you have a chance to win great prizes in our free daily drawings”

“We’ll help you build a great second income with the smallest amount of time, effort and investments that can be found on the Internet.”

I have given enough examples – I whipped these up while writing this answer - of course the examples can be made shorter and use whatever words you wish the main thing is: put small hints in your ads that will be red flags to those who just want to look around.

By doing this you will not receive as many sign-ups but the ones you do receive will be of higher quality.

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When you present a “Free to Join” marketing plan to the Internet and you do not use any kind of qualifications that would help control the type of people who click on your sign-up page then you can receive multitudes of different kinds of tire kickers.

People sign up because it is free – when they find out that it will take some kind of effort like:

1. Time
2. Money
3. Learning
4. Reading
5. Commitment
6. Patience
7. And
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I personally believe that if an affiliate is logging in they will automatically start reading things that are located there. As to how much they read will depend on just how active they are in the building of their SFI and TripleClicks business.

To demonstrate to your team members the importance of reading you could put blurbs in your stream post and send it to your CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) or to your PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or both.

In your stream post include some great information but only give them half of the details and then tell them where to find the rest of the information. This way they have to log in and find it themselves.

You can do the same thing in your weekly or monthly newsletters that you send to your team. Again remember only give them enough information to get their curiosity juices flowing.

When an affiliate confronts you with a question and you know it can be answered by them finding the information in the Launch pads or the Rules of Success it is better for them if you do not give them the answer.

What? - I say this because they need to find the answer by themselves. You can tell them where their answers are but do not give them the link to go there. They need to learn to look these issues up so they will be able to help other affiliates in their own team.

One thing to consider is that if an affiliate is not logging in and reading the provided information (or at least trying to read it – language problems) then I can pretty much assure you the affiliate won’t be around too long.

Work with the workers and give them the proper information that will help them be self-sufficient in their personal business.

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I personally believe that if an affiliate is logging in they will automatically start reading things that are located there. As to how much they read will depend on just how active they are in the building of their SFI and TripleClicks business.

To demonstrate to your team members the importance of reading you could put blurbs in your stream post and send it to your CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) or to your PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or both.


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