Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

We all want good affiliates, active affiliates, affiliates that understand SFI and see the possibilities and work hard to be successful. Just like you.

Whatever method you use to recruit affiliates, you can not be sure if those who join you will in fact excel. There are no guarantees. The success of your team will partly depend on your skills as an awesome sponsor. And then luck will play its part. Are you lucky enough to get the next top rank in the Power Ranks in your team?

Ways to recruit:

SFI has a vast amount of tools to help you market the SFI opportunity:

Your own gateway
Banners
Text ads
SFI X-Cards
Flyers
…and many more

SFI also has the S-Builder Co-Op. If you are still new in the SFI Business or do not have the time and means to market, this is an excellent tool for you to utilize. In TripleClicks, there are similar co-ops that you can buy into--other people recruit your affiliates for you, people who have the necessary know-how of big time marketing and recruiting.

A Website and blog will do wonders for your recruitment if set up effectively. SFI’s Training Course, Internet Income, discuss Websites at length. On the Internet, there are countless Web design methods with all sorts of packages.

If you want to go the free way, look at Classified Ad sites. There are plenty! Look for ones that have lots of traffic and where you have an account where you can see how your listings are performing regarding hits or views. Paid Classifieds expose your ads to even more visitors. Pay Per Click advertising also offers some action.

Offline marketing will get you some interested people. Start with family, friends, and colleagues--people you trust and know. Warm marketing can work wonders. Personal, one-to-one communication about the SFI opportunity with people close to you will go a long way in ensuring possible action in your downline.

The social networks like FB and Twitter where you might have a large circle of friends who know you, can also be utilized to recruit Affiliates.

Which marketing methods to utilize?

It's best to put effort into every method out there. Get marketing going in different ways so you can investigate which method or methods are the more effective recruitment tool.

Which is the best?

You will only know where you succeed the most after you've utilized every method out there. You will know where your Affiliates are coming from. As you become aware of which method you benefit most from, start utilizing that path more. Increase your efforts towards that method.

Never forget the importance of SFI’s Forum and ASK SC. In these platforms, you will have access to every question you have about how best to recruit affiliates. Use the Forum to ask the advice of old hands in the fields of marketing, Websites and blogs.

Best of luck!

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We all want good affiliates, active affiliates, affiliates that understand SFI and see the possibilities and work hard to be successful. Just like you.

Whatever method you use to recruit affiliates, you can not be sure if those who join you will in fact excel. There are no guarantees. The success of your team will partly depend on your skills as an awesome sponsor. And then luck will play its part. Are you lucky enough to get the next top rank in the Power Ranks in your team?

Ways
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi!

I personally feel that we must get ourselves to get a grasp and a good understanding of the bigger picture about what SFI is all about.

We must clearly understand our role. The simple bottom line must first be instilled in all of us.

I have made up for myself what I believe SFI is all about and what my role is in this business and I want to share it with you:


? TripleClicks is the backbone of our company.

? My main role is to market and sell TripleClicks's products.

? To improve my marketing and sales:

? I must build a team of people who must also market and sell TripleClicks's products.

? My team members must build their own teams to market and sell the products.

? I must support, coach and assist my team members in doing that.

? To fully share in the different income streams created by the sales of TripleClicks's products, I must become an Executive Affiliate and stay an Executive Affiliate.

? And here are the "make it or fail it" deal: I must motivate, coach, assist and support my team members to also become Executive Affiliates and to do what I am doing.


Never let all the smaller overwhelming detail about SFI, makes you loose focus of this bottom-line-role of yours, in our company.

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Hi!

I personally feel that we must get ourselves to get a grasp and a good understanding of the bigger picture about what SFI is all about.

We must clearly understand our role. The simple bottom line must first be instilled in all of us.

I have made up for myself what I believe SFI is all about and what my role is in this business and I want to share it with you:


? TripleClicks is the backbone of our company.

? My main role is to market
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

I think if one quickly just thinks about which activity in SFI gets the most attention and are mentioned the most in support mails, it must be the Daily To-Do-List. Everyday and everywhere we will be reminded about the To-Do-List. And the fact that the Daily To-Do-List by itself does not guarantee an income can quickly lead to the easy conclusion that the Daily To-Do-List is the most overrated activity in SFI. But is it really?

Let’s think more about the tasks involved. Let us try to find the real value behind these tasks. Because in my mind that is exactly what they are, value adding actions. In what sense do they add value you might ask? I would say these tasks add value both to SFI as well as to you and me.

The benefit of some actions is more obvious to see than others. The TIPS tab is obviously to give you ideas to implement in your SFI business. So is the STREAM Tab to a certain extent. With STREAM posts lots of useful information can be published which can answer lots of our questions about our SFI business. ASK SC fit in here beautifully! Knowledge is the keyword. The value-adding benefit of useful information will serves us well in building a successful SFI business, which in turn will add value to the company SFI. The power of a knowledgeable and successful affiliate team will strengthen the stableness and sustainability of the company.

The TripleClicks actions ensure that we as affiliates are up to date with the backbone of our business, our online store, TripleClicks. After all, the marketing and selling of the products of TripleClicks can be seen as one of the most important aspects in earning an income as a SFI affiliate. Shouldn’t we then be up to date everyday with new deals, new listings etc.? And by exposing this information to us on a daily basis, SFI ensures that TripleClicks and its products stays fresh in our minds, the more we market and sell the products the stronger the store becomes. Value adding benefits to both the company as well as the affiliate.

The SCOREBOARD is all about motivation which will serve you and me, as well as SFI, good for years to come. To keep track of your own performance, earnings and bragging rights will add benefit to you in the sense that you are being motivated. Obviously a company with strong motivated people will be able to sustain its growth.

That brings us to the GROWTH Tab. One thing I wanted to know, before I joined SFI, was how sustainable is the income opportunity, meaning is this a fly-by-night venture. To be constantly updated with the company’s growth bring a feeling of security to the affiliate. This adds value to the company to the extent that the company is more likely to retain its affiliates.

In essence the Daily To-Do-List engage us on a daily basis with SFI as well as with other affiliates, building a strong, knowledgeable, informed and motivated team of affiliates, who are strengthening the sustainability of the SFI company, in order for it to ensure lucrative financial rewards towards the affiliates.

Regarding the most underrated activity. I would really say that the Duplication factor does not get the same attention as the Daily To-Do-List. And according to me it should be the main focus point.

The moment I joined up the first thing that I was made aware of was the Daily To-Do-List. I think that the Duplication factor should be stressed more from the start. The focus on the Daily To-Do-List is such that new affiliates might think that that is the alpha and omega of what it takes to earn an income in SFI

I get the feeling that people in there first two months and even longer are quite happy to just click through the Daily To-Do-List and leave it at that, maybe thinking that that is enough to ensure an income at the end of the month.

If we are not going to build a big, strong and active down line (duplicating ourselves) we are not going to earn to our full potential with SFI. Qualifying to share in TripleClicks’s Executive Pool and Matching VP’s will not happen if clicking through the Daily To-Do-List is our only activity in SFI.

For this reason I think, right from the very start, a new affiliate’s focus and main activity should be to generate sign-ups and to duplicate oneself. That should be the first thing about SFI, which is instilled in our minds when entering the SFI world.

The promotion of the Daily Generation-of-Sign-ups actions should be the main message in all the training, emails, team mails, SFI support mails, reminders and newsletters which are populating a new affiliate’s inbox as well as the Affiliate Center.

My feeling about how the focus should be prioritized:


? Most important: Generate sign-ups and Duplicate yourself.
? Also important: Do the Daily To-Do-List.


My feeling is that at the moment it is the other way around and that is causing the Daily To-Do-List to be judged an over rated activity, which it should not be.

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I think if one quickly just thinks about which activity in SFI gets the most attention and are mentioned the most in support mails, it must be the Daily To-Do-List. Everyday and everywhere we will be reminded about the To-Do-List. And the fact that the Daily To-Do-List by itself does not guarantee an income can quickly lead to the easy conclusion that the Daily To-Do-List is the most overrated activity in SFI. But is it really?

Let’s think more about the tasks involved. Let us try to
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

I believe that to be a good SFI Leader to your team one should effectively answer their questions about SFI.

This means as a Team Leader one should know your way around the Affiliate Center. A Team Leader must be able to quickly look up answers and the appropriate URL where the answer can be found.

And in all your communication to your down-line one should have one aim in mind: to help and to empower your down line to succeed in SFI.

What I did was to make sure I research the Affiliate Center. I am still doing it daily, and after three months, I still find new (to me) info.

I also make a point to read as many posts in the Forum as possible. There are lots of experience here in SFI, and we can learn a lot from the old hands.

In the STREAM posts, I also do not miss the posts of my Up Line. I am lucky to have two very experienced SFI Platinum Team Leaders in my Up Line.

I make sure to study my Up Line Team Leaders and Sponsor and Co-Sponsor’s Stream posts, Blogs, Web sites and Leadership Pages.

Not only for what they are saying, but how they are saying it.

What I get from studying their Stream Posts, Blogs, Web sites, Leadership Pages and Newsletters:

1. How they set up messages to help their down line.
2. What is the content and how they use content to solve problems of their down line.
3. How they do not just tell us what to do, but always tell us how to do it.
4. How they educate us by always including URL’s to visit, in order for us to get to answers ourselves eventually, by navigating the Affiliate Center.
5. How the tone of all their content is always about help, advice, how to and guidance.
6. How they set an example for us to be Team Leaders just like them by employing above mentioned points.

I learn how to be a good Team Leader by researching and studying the Sponsors and Team Leaders in my Up Line.

They are my hero’s here in SFI, and I want to be like them!

I want to empower myself in order to help and empower my down line.

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I believe that to be a good SFI Leader to your team one should effectively answer their questions about SFI.

This means as a Team Leader one should know your way around the Affiliate Center. A Team Leader must be able to quickly look up answers and the appropriate URL where the answer can be found.

And in all your communication to your down-line one should have one aim in mind: to help and to empower your down line to succeed in SFI.

What I did was to make sure I
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Since duplication is the key in SFI to achieve big financial rewards, let’s focus on what qualities we need to have, or to develop, to duplicate ourselves successfully.

I think the qualities of a Teacher, a Coach, a Motivational Speaker and a Priest or older Family Member are the qualities that will ensure duplication.



Teacher:

A Teacher has strong knowledge of the subject he or she is teaching. We cannot duplicate ourselves if we, ourselves, do not have sufficient knowledge of the SFI program. Our own poor knowledge of SFI will weaken our down line and the possibility of duplication will suffer.

A Teacher is good at explaining info and teaching material. And in some cases Teachers have to simplify aspects in order for their learners to better understand the content.

We must be able to logical, and when unnecessary, in simpler terms, explain SFI’s aspects to our down line in order for them to understand it and for duplication to happen.



Coach:

What to DO with all this theoretical knowledge? Like a Coach we should coach our down line to put into practice the knowledge they were taught.

Most good Coaches were or are good players themselves. We should coach our down line the steps we followed, to achieve success. It is one thing just to tell somebody to advertise, and totally another thing to guide them (coach them) through the process of setting up a Blog or a Classified ad.



Motivational Speaker:

So now our down line has the knowledge that we taught them and we coached them the steps to put this knowledge into practice. But will they do it? Or will they keep on doing it? We will have to keep our down line committed.

We will have to have the motivational skills to motivate them. We must bring them to action and keep them doing what we do to succeed in SFI. We must instill an excitement and a positive drive in our down line.

Our own enthusiasm and positive motivated drive must be an example to our down line.



Priest or older Family Member

And overall we will have to have the patience to listen to our down line. Always lend an ear to whatever question or complaint is coming from them.

Our down line must trust us to come to us with any issue they’re having. We must be the “tear-wiper” and the “shoe lace tie-r”. Offer warm encouragement when the SFI journey looks like an uphill battle to them.


In summary, duplication is more likely to happen in a knowledgeable, practical, motivated and encouraged down line.

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Since duplication is the key in SFI to achieve big financial rewards, let’s focus on what qualities we need to have, or to develop, to duplicate ourselves successfully.

I think the qualities of a Teacher, a Coach, a Motivational Speaker and a Priest or older Family Member are the qualities that will ensure duplication.



Teacher:

A Teacher has strong knowledge of the subject he or she is teaching. We cannot duplicate ourselves if we, ourselves, do not
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Apart from the obvious benefits like extra VersaPoints for you with your weekly mail, practice with newsletter writing etc. re-assigning of a “non-active” PSA also holds a deeper, more personal value.

Since you and your up line, as well as you and your down line is one team, re-assigning is a team building exercise.

Your Team Leader wants more action from a “non-active” PSA. Among other reasons, because you proofed to him/her that you are an active, positive and motivated team member, he/she choose you to re-assign somebody to.

He/she sees possibility and he/she is confirming your potential as a successful SFI Affiliate. He/she shows trust in you.

You feel appreciated as part of his/her team and proud that you were chosen. This will motivated you to confirm, through action, your value in the team.

These positive feelings and trust relationships between up lines and down lines are adding value to SFI.

Remember how you feel each time you get the message that a new PSA has joined up in your team? What a rush! You feel exited and elated! It gives you a new purpose and drive!

And this good feeling motivates you to work hard in getting you new re-assigned PSA to start participating in the SFI program.

Immediately after you received the “non-active” PSA, sent a message, let your message reflect your excitement. A personal message showing sincere positive interest goes a long way to possibly get a spark going in your new “non-active” PSA!

This also keeps you sharp as a Sponsor and Team Leader. You want to proof to your Team Leader that he/she made the correct decision to re-assign to you. You want the new PSA to get active again since his/her participation in the team will add value to you and your up line, his/her re-started actions will be a way in which you give back to your Team Leader.

Remember that people in you down line keeps hope alive and challenges fresh.

Therefore re-assigning is not only a team building exercise but also an opportunity for you to grow in yourself as a person.

Did you notice that I use inverted commas when I talk about a “non-active” PSA? There is a reason for that.

Is a PSA that gained 600 VersaPoints in the last 90 days really “non-active”?

I have a PSA who log in maybe twice a week, but consistently. And after each log-in his VersaPoints grows with 10 points or more. He is now at 600 VersaPoints in about 3 weeks! Slow yes, but not “in-active” and surely not on his way to the opt-out list. Why would he bother logging in and doing something if he did not decided to stay with us?

If they did not yet opted-out, hope is alive and kicking!

In summary, careful, well thought-through re-assigning of a “non-active” PSA, add value to you, to the re-assigned, to your up line and at the end of the day to SFI.

Good luck!

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Apart from the obvious benefits like extra VersaPoints for you with your weekly mail, practice with newsletter writing etc. re-assigning of a “non-active” PSA also holds a deeper, more personal value.

Since you and your up line, as well as you and your down line is one team, re-assigning is a team building exercise.

Your Team Leader wants more action from a “non-active” PSA. Among other reasons, because you proofed to him/her that you are an active, positive and motivated
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Juliet,

Dormant affiliates! Yes don’t we all have them? At least they are just dormant and did not yet opt-out.

Obviously each one of our dormant team members will have different reason why they are not active. But first we must differentiate between levels of in-activity.

I am sure you have also experienced the sign-up that did absolutely nothing from their join date and still just sits at zero VersaPoints. The reasons why they joined are questionable. Do you need to spend valuable time to keep on trying to get some action into them? Very much debatable. But you will loose nothing by including them in your regular Newsletter through the PSA and CSA Mailer. On the contrary, there will always be the possibility that one of them might see the light, the SFI light! Remember that they did not yet decide to opt-out.

Then we have affiliates that do go through the start-up actions and do start eager and collecting VP’s where they can. But slowly they start to log in less regularly and eventually completely dies down. This is where your awesomeness as a Sponsor is needed. These are the affiliates that need serious motivation, guidance and a little bit of magic, which each one of us should acquire to be an awesome Sponsor.

And the saddest of all is the affiliate that became EA and maybe Team Leader and is with you already for a long period and then suddenly something happens which makes them to become inactive. These are the team members with which you should already have established a personal and trust relationship with over time.

So how to encourage?

I believe you can not encourage if you do not know the reasons for inactivity. So engage with the dormant affiliates and ask the question: why? Some might confide in you and that will open a door for you to help this person. Whatever their reason, you should try to come up with a solution, or if not a solution to their problems, then a way for them to still stay with SFI despite their problems.

Some will not confide in you and you will never know their reasons. There might be zero communication from their side. Does this mean that they are totally lost to you? No, remember, not opt-out yet.

Bottom line is, from day one start building a trust relationship with your down line. Send regular Newsletters and other messages. The aim of all your communication with your down line should be to help and to support and to teach and to guide them to succeed with their own SFI businesses. They should clearly be aware that that is what you want to do with your communications to them, not just to earn your weekly VersaPoints. This will build trust. And when difficult times comes, your down line might easier confide in you about their problems.

And finally, I am sure that an affiliate who does not log in regularly and eventually becomes dormant, might also not do more reading, self-training and exploring the SFI Affiliate Center, meaning the benefits of SFI might not be very clear to them.

This is where your Newsletter and communication (PSA and CSA Mailer) becomes very important. You should set up your Newsletter to be an active reminder and recourse about the SFI benefits and it should be a training tool about building and growing a SFI business. So if the dormant affiliate is not bothering to log in to our Affiliate Center, he/she will still constantly be getting your SFI-content rich Newsletter in their personal e-mail in-boxes.

At the end of the day we should ask ourselves: Did we do everything possible in our power to present the SFI opportunity in such a way to convince our dormant down line members to get back on our SFI bus?

I hope this goes a long way in answering your question.

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Hi Juliet,

Dormant affiliates! Yes don’t we all have them? At least they are just dormant and did not yet opt-out.

Obviously each one of our dormant team members will have different reason why they are not active. But first we must differentiate between levels of in-activity.

I am sure you have also experienced the sign-up that did absolutely nothing from their join date and still just sits at zero VersaPoints. The reasons why they joined are questionable.
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This question brings memories of early days. Thanks for that!

I think most of us will immediately, on day one, ask about how the ASK SC Tab works, how to get that 1 VersaPoint from ASK SC?

I will save some of the Start-Up Actions for month two, to help me to get the next 1500 VersaPoints easier. Will do in the first month just enough of the To-Do’s and Start-Up actions to get to 1500 VersaPoints.

I will put more value-adding items on my Standing Order. A Co-Op and TCredits. This bring value to you business in the form of people in your down line and opportunity to bid for CSA’s and PSA’s, which in turn means possibly more people in your down line.

I will learn much earlier how to bid more cleverly in the auctions and to only bid for items that can add value to my business, PSA’s and CSA’s.

I will start immediately with a web site or Blog to promote SFI. Probably the most powerful tool to promote and grow your business.

Regarding MRP’s: All those that you get for each bid, use it to buy some more TCredits, giving you lots of extra VersaPoints as well as another opportunity to bid, as well as to earn some more MRP’s. I did not know this when I joined SFI.

I think that is it.

Keep well.

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This question brings memories of early days. Thanks for that!

I think most of us will immediately, on day one, ask about how the ASK SC Tab works, how to get that 1 VersaPoint from ASK SC?

I will save some of the Start-Up Actions for month two, to help me to get the next 1500 VersaPoints easier. Will do in the first month just enough of the To-Do’s and Start-Up actions to get to 1500 VersaPoints.

I will put more value-adding items on my Standing Order. A Co-Op
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