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

Because of the structure of the compensation plan I would say it is much better to be teaching your EAs (Executive Affiliates) how to help their PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) become EA2s.

This will help you build a much more solid base for your personal SFI and TripleClicks home business.

Look at it this way – If you sponsor 100s of affiliates how are you going to find the time to work with those who decide to take massive action within your group. It is true that you need the “numbers” to find the workers but at the same time you need to teach and be an example on how duplication works.

If your teammates see that you as their leader must sponsor 100s of affiliates every year that might be enough of a downer to keep them from ever trying. But if you can show them a system that will get them even one worker a month you would have an excited growing down-line.

My personal goal has been to attempt to sponsor/enroll or purchase up to 25 or more affiliates every month which I have been able to do for over the last 6 months. But that isn’t working at the level I would want it to be.

I am at this time trying to change my advertising enough to get rid of the tire kickers and the curiosity seekers. If we as sponsors learn to have higher quality sign-ups then we would not even think about sponsoring 100s of new affiliates every month.

I would rather acquire 4 or 5 active affiliates a month instead of trying for 25 or 30 affiliates not knowing if they will be active or not.

There is a small problem with pre-qualifying your sign-ups that is it will take a lot more advertising in the right places and it will take more time with much fewer responses. And if you do not have that kind of time then by all means play the numbers game and go for massive sign-ups during the year.

In a nut shell my new “sponsoring” goal is to acquire at least one worker a month and then put all my energies into helping that one worker become an EA2. When I can see that my EA2 is now working with his own PSAs then it is time for me to acquire just one more worker.

You see a building is built 1 brick at a time. If you were to purchase a 1000 used bricks to build a shed with you will have to go through a huge pile of broken and cracked bricks before you can find a good one to start the foundation with.

But if you had brand new bricks to build with you would not need to sort through any rubbish and you could build your shed much faster and it would be stronger.

As sponsors and leaders we need to be teaching our down-lines how to acquire “pre-qualified” affiliates. If we were doing that the majority of our down-lines would be workers and isn’t that that what we all want?

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Because of the structure of the compensation plan I would say it is much better to be teaching your EAs (Executive Affiliates) how to help their PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) become EA2s.

This will help you build a much more solid base for your personal SFI and TripleClicks home business.

Look at it this way – If you sponsor 100s of affiliates how are you going to find the time to work with those who decide to take massive action within your
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

You will be receiving answers that will include links where your question has been asked several times. The thing is there are many new affiliates joining every day and that question is asked by those who have not been around enough to find the answers listed in the forum or in the training material through SFI.

I personally believe that the sponsors should be teaching their new affiliates what to expect when they start receiving their own PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) and new CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates).

You will find that only about 1% or 2% of the sign-ups will become active and participate in building a home business with SFI and TripleClicks. And it does not matter where the affiliates come from i.e.: auctions, reassignments, purchased sign-ups from ECAs, second home affiliates or ones you personally sponsor.

Part of the reason for the low percentage rate on active members is because SFI is completely free to join so those who are building their business and advertising will acquire a lot of affiliates that just wanted to check out the system and they decide that SFI is not what they were looking for.

This may lead you to think that “joining free” is a bad thing. But it isn’t – Because of the fact that SFI has always been free to join and free training many people from different cultures and backgrounds have been able to join and get a new business started even though they live in a financially stressed country.

As to your question; it is imperative that you continue to include the inactive and dormant affiliates with all the team mail that you are sending weekly or monthly. You never know when someone will read your team mail and wake up to the opportunity that is offered through SFI and TripleClicks.

One inactive affiliate that wakes up can end up being your top producer in your group. When that happens all your efforts and time will more than be compensated for.

Remember as the saying goes “work with the workers” and keep the inactive affiliates in the “know” and that the door for their opportunity is always open and that they will receive your full support when needed.

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You will be receiving answers that will include links where your question has been asked several times. The thing is there are many new affiliates joining every day and that question is asked by those who have not been around enough to find the answers listed in the forum or in the training material through SFI.

I personally believe that the sponsors should be teaching their new affiliates what to expect when they start receiving their own PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates)
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

In helping your SFI business the most through Eager Zebra games or through Pricebenders auctions will mainly depend on what you are the best at.

Both the games and the auctions give you MRP and action VP. But I personally believe that you will gain much more by participating in the auctions with Pricebenders.

With Pricebenders auctions you can acquire more action VP then you can through the Eager Zebra games.

• The limit on VPs through the auctions is 200 VP every month.
• With every 50 bids you will gain one more new CSA
• The items that you win can be sold to raise more income
• You can bid and win Items that directly build your SFI business such as, PSAs to go and CSAs and S-Builder shares for new affiliates.

With the Eager Zebra games you are mainly playing for TCredits. Now here is a great thing about that and it is:

• With the won TCredits you can purchase all the items listed above that are bid on in Pricebenders auctions –
• You receive Action VP with every game you play and you also receive MRP while playing any of the games.
• Winning the Eager Zebra games will gain you huge amounts of TCredits which you can turn around and use them in the Pricebenders auctions. – Win – Win.

As you can see there is merit in both the Pricebenders auctions and the Eager Zebra games so I still say start doing both and then stick with the ones you like the most. The more you like what you are doing the better you will get at becoming the top winner.

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In helping your SFI business the most through Eager Zebra games or through Pricebenders auctions will mainly depend on what you are the best at.

Both the games and the auctions give you MRP and action VP. But I personally believe that you will gain much more by participating in the auctions with Pricebenders.

With Pricebenders auctions you can acquire more action VP then you can through the Eager Zebra games.

• The limit on VPs through
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

That is a question that everybody who participates in the auctions would delight in having a working answer to.

Personally I have won only three auctions but the thing is I have only tried about seven times so my odds at winning are running a whopping 42%. I know if I played more my winning percentage would more than likely decrease considerately.

The old saying – “Practice makes perfect” is very true when playing the auctions. You have to get in there and bump a few elbows and learn what it takes for you to win. Everyone will have their own strategy for winning.

What works for me might not work for anyone else. I enter an auction about what I guess is at its ½ point. Then I only bid when I notice that no one else has bid when the timer drops below 10 seconds left.

When I can see that there is a bidding war going on between a couple of people I back off and wait for whoever ends up on the top – when that happens I wait for the timer again to show that there is only 10 seconds or less to bid.

I personally do not do a lot of auctions because of the slow latency problems caused by my Internet provider which is by satellite. I cannot afford to switch over to the super high speed system. If I had better (and cheaper) satellite service I would participate in more auctions.

It would be advisable to go to the latest auction results for the item you are interested in and study the amount of bids it took to win the auction. Figure an average by the highest bids down to the lowest bids and see if you can afford to participate around the ½ way point. You can check the latest auction wins from this link: https://www.tripleclicks.com/games/PickThePrice.php

When on the above page go to the item you are interested in bidding on and at the bottom of the photo there will be a link there which will take you to the winning history of that item.

There are so many variables that need to be considered into picking out an average win point that the math becomes ridiculous.

When I play in the auctions it is because I have a large amount of TCredits that I need to convert to action points – this way if I win it is an extra huge bonus because I receive the AVPs that I needed and I also won the auction.

And now to help top up the prizes for bidding in the auctions is that you receive a new CSA every time you make 50 bids (TCredits).

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That is a question that everybody who participates in the auctions would delight in having a working answer to.

Personally I have won only three auctions but the thing is I have only tried about seven times so my odds at winning are running a whopping 42%. I know if I played more my winning percentage would more than likely decrease considerately.

The old saying – “Practice makes perfect” is very true when playing the auctions. You have to
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

That my friend is a good question. I have run into that problem myself a couple of different times. It is frustrating when for some reason you can’t log in and it could ruin your entire day if you were to allow it.

I start my day by logging into my Affiliate Center and taking care of all my on-site work before doing anything else. The rest of the day I spend doing advertising (and my blog) and communication by email to the workers in my team. I also surf through social websites.

When I cannot log in I will do things in reverse. I will work on my blog first when I am done there I will try to log in again.

If log-in fails again I will take the time to clean my browser, cookies and past history and try to log-in again. If it still fails then I will start working on my latest advertising campaign, which usually takes me a little over 2 hours.

Now it is time to try and log in again. This time before using the Internet I will go to my desk-top page and click to “restart” my computer. When it has restarted I will go to my browser with Firefox and try to log-in to SFI. If that fails then I will go to my Google Chrome browser and try to log in from there. If that also fails then I know without a doubt that it is not my equipment keeping me from logging in.

At this point I start doing my surfing through social sites – (only do this twice a week). I will make several small post on many different sites. This action takes about 1 ½ hours. When I am done there, I will try to log-in to SFI again.

I think by now you can see what I am doing and that is to keep trying to log in at different times during the day. It has never failed me that I have been able to finally log in and take care of my daily Affiliate Center activities.

And when or if it ever does happen, that I am not able to log in on a certain day, the first thing I do would be to put in a help ticket with the times of day that I tried to log in. This way I would be hopeful that my daily 10 VP streak of over 2 years would not be destroyed.

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That my friend is a good question. I have run into that problem myself a couple of different times. It is frustrating when for some reason you can’t log in and it could ruin your entire day if you were to allow it.

I start my day by logging into my Affiliate Center and taking care of all my on-site work before doing anything else. The rest of the day I spend doing advertising (and my blog) and communication by email to the workers in my team. I also surf through
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Using Ad Exchange sites

My personal experience with Ad Exchanges is not to good. One of the things I don’t care for is that most of the Ad Exchange sites require you to log-in and view their members ads. While you are doing that you will be earning credits or points to be able to run your ads.

With Ad Exchange system you are granted 1 view to your URL after you have viewed a members URL. Some Ad Exchange site only give you a fraction of a point for each site you visit. When that is the case you will have to view quite a lot of their members sites.

Another thing about using Ad Exchange sites free or paid the timer for viewing a members URL is extremely fast only being around 5 to 7 seconds long. This means that your Ad will have to load quickly if it doesn’t load within the time frame oh-well you lose out.

The best advertising that I find is using solo ads. You can get better results when using paid solo ads. There are quite a few Ad Exchange sites that do not allow solo ads because the timers for the reading them is too fast and your results will be near zero.

Using Safelists.

I find the use of free or paid Safelists to be much more profitable in receiving contacts and sign-ups than I ever have received using Ad Exchange sites.

When using Safelists you have a much greater choice in the type of ads you wish to run than you do with Ad Exchange sites. While on Safelists you can run banners, log-in ads, log-out ads, hot links and many other forms of advertising.

Also with Safelists you can find some sites where they are partners with about 10 or 20 other Safelists and you can pay a small fee usually under $10 to have your ad ran on all the partner sites at the same time.

Don’t get me wrong – I know there are a lot of people who have fantastic results using Ad Exchange sites. It is just my personal experience that I have shared with you on the difference between the two different types of sites.

I have always been told by some of the up-lines I have had in the many different home business’s that I have been involved with; you should find the sites that you enjoy working with – It really does not matter if they are Ad Exchange sites or Safelists.

You are better off if you personally test the different types of advertising sites using a good tracker to see the results on hits and sign-ups. When you have found the best results for the type of ads you are using then go for it in a massive way.

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Using Ad Exchange sites

My personal experience with Ad Exchanges is not to good. One of the things I don’t care for is that most of the Ad Exchange sites require you to log-in and view their members ads. While you are doing that you will be earning credits or points to be able to run your ads.

With Ad Exchange system you are granted 1 view to your URL after you have viewed a members URL. Some Ad Exchange site only give you a fraction of a point for each
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The easiest way to become an EA is and maintain that each and every month is by placing a standing order (SO) of products and or services that will bring you a total of 1,500 or more Versa Points (VP)each month.

There are several ways to acquire those VP every month, find a method that you enjoy doing and then stick to it.

One of the things I suggest when asked by someone in my down-line about what to put in a standing order I suggest to them to put only business building products in the standing order and then, things like S-Builder or PSAs to Go. blog hosting, and TCredits.

Order all you personal things (needed monthly) on separate orders - this way the receipts for personal stuff will be separated from receipts for building your business which is tax deductible. This action alone can save you hundreds of dollars yearly and save you a lot of headaches also.

To Your Success.
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The easiest way to become an EA is and maintain that each and every month is by placing a standing order (SO) of products and or services that will bring you a total of 1,500 or more Versa Points (VP)each month.

There are several ways to acquire those VP every month, find a method that you enjoy doing and then stick to it.

One of the things I suggest when asked by someone in my down-line about what to put in a standing order I suggest to them to put only business building
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Your question is one that dwells on the minds of every affiliate that is attempting to build their home business with SFI and TripleClicks.

We get excited about the potential that we see and know is possible with our new business and can’t understand why everybody doesn’t jump in there with us. It doesn’t seem logical that anyone would pass up an opportunity like SFI.

As you stated in your question that the ones who are not committing are people who have signed on as affiliates and are your PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates).

First of all we need to understand that most people will not join and commit to a company – but they will join a person and commit to what that person has to offer.

We as sponsors need to make personal contact with our new PSAs as soon as we can and not as someone who is only interested in them getting started with a business. But address them as a new found friend and teammate.

Show interest in them as a person and then business later. Within a couple of days you can confront them with support that you are willing to give to them so they can get started on their new business.

As far as getting them to commit to their new found business I must say that is out of our hands except to be the best example of an excited SFI affiliate that you can possibly be.

Incentives can help but the reality of the thing is the new PSAs must determine on their own whether or not to commit to this business. If you have to convince them to join – then you will have to convince them to purchase then you will have to convince them to sponsor others – then you will find yourself wanting to convince them to get out of the way. Don’t they say, “Lead, Follow or get out of the way?”

I didn’t commit to SFI and TripleClicks until I had been enrolled for six months. I don’t remember what pulled the trigger for me to commit to this business except for the fact that somehow I was able to know without a doubt that I could do this through SFI and TripleClicks.

It is our responsibility to get our new PSAs to this “triggering” point – when that occurs then they will either commit or they will drop out.

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Your question is one that dwells on the minds of every affiliate that is attempting to build their home business with SFI and TripleClicks.

We get excited about the potential that we see and know is possible with our new business and can’t understand why everybody doesn’t jump in there with us. It doesn’t seem logical that anyone would pass up an opportunity like SFI.

As you stated in your question that the ones who are not committing are people
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I would be super excited if any of my team members reached a leadership level and was able to perform the task expected of them.

When a member of yours becomes a team-leader it shows a deeper commitment to SFI and TripleClicks.

This in turn will bring better perks, pay and bonuses for becoming a leader. That should be one of our main goals to train our teammates to become leaders.

The more teammates you have taking on leadership roles the more solid your business becomes. This business is built on duplication and duplication is taking place when you start seeing and helping teammates reach a leadership position.

Another important factor in your teammates reaching a leadership position is that your residual income increases.

As your teammates take up leadership roles your personal involvement will not be needed as much and you can watch your personal business take leaps and bounds in growth without you working any harder than you are now.

To top off all the rewards of helping your teammates take on leadership roles the greatest benefit is knowing that you had a hand in helping to change the lives of those who followed your lead.

With that being said: That is the greatest gift you can receive in helping and encouraging your teammates to take on leadership roles.

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I would be super excited if any of my team members reached a leadership level and was able to perform the task expected of them.

When a member of yours becomes a team-leader it shows a deeper commitment to SFI and TripleClicks.

This in turn will bring better perks, pay and bonuses for becoming a leader. That should be one of our main goals to train our teammates to become leaders.

The more teammates you have taking on leadership roles
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I have learned that the fewer words included in your advertising the better the results will be.

People do not like long paragraphs nor do they like to take the time to read long advertising messages.

When people use traffic exchanges they are allowed only so many words or characters in their ads because the entire ad will only be in front of your reader for about 5 to 9 seconds. I have learned to treat all my advertising as though it is going through a Traffic Exchange site.

No matter where you place your advertising (even newspapers) keep your sentences down to only 5 to 6 words each. Keep your paragraphs no longer than 4 lines. Make sure you place an empty space between your paragraphs. People like “white space” it is easier to read.

Only provide enough information to peak the curiosity of the reader into taking the next step that you are guiding them to. – Be it to go to landing page or to your website.

Once they become your lead – (signed up for more information) then you can give them more information only word it in such a way that you will be eliminating the tire kickers.

Even if your advertising leads the reader to a phone call or instant message system keep your conversation positive, uplifting and friendly. – Don’t freely offer information let them ask questions and only answer the questions - then ask them to sign up.

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I have learned that the fewer words included in your advertising the better the results will be.

People do not like long paragraphs nor do they like to take the time to read long advertising messages.

When people use traffic exchanges they are allowed only so many words or characters in their ads because the entire ad will only be in front of your reader for about 5 to 9 seconds. I have learned to treat all my advertising as though it is going
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