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Once upon a time I used to look at the cost of TC products, compare them to the same products elsewhere and, not exactly despair, but certainly wonder how these ECAs could possibly think they were going to sell too many of them BUT then I changed my thinking. Now as an SFI business owner I actively look for products that are going to benefit me, usually by 'rewarding' me with more VP, for purchasing them. Once you start doing that, you'll find yourself automatically calculating what it would cost you to get those additional VP by other means compared to the extra few $$s you'd be paying for this "costs a little bit more than other ECAs or elsewhere" item.

As an example, I have been looking at luggage scales and for an extra $2 or $3 I can purchase one from an ECA who offers 3 times the number of VP than other ECAs. Well worth the few extra bucks in my view. And as an aside to this, when I decided I wanted a set of luggage scales, the first place I went looking was TC. Sure, I can get those same scales for a lot less and a lot faster from other online platforms BUT doing that wouldn't be investing in MY business. Furthermore, I'd need to spend that money in SFI anyway, or find another way, to get those same VP. So I figure why not kill two birds with one stone by buying something I need AND getting the VP I also need.

This is the type of 'transfer buying' mindset you need to start a) developing yourself and b) developing in your team. Sure, it may not help them sell luggage scales in particular to the general public but it WILL certainly help them build their own business. Think TC Executive pool, sales VP and so on....!

Another way to motivate your affiliates is by showing them all the unique, handmade products that are available at TC. Many of these items are not available anywhere else in the world; they are TC EXCLUSIVE products! What price do you put on such exclusivity and on that 'one of a kind' type of product?? So present TC to them as a high class boutique shopping mall with dozens and dozens of specialist retailers offering high quality products they will not find anywhere else online. There are plenty of customers out there who prefer to patronize this type of quality retailer over the mass produced chain stores; your job is to find those customers and promote TC to them.

Or you can advise your team to start actively looking for, and recruiting, ECA's in their own locality. 'Click and collect' is now a very popular way of shopping - all the big grocery chains and supermarkets in particular are doing it. You order and pay online, then go pick up your purchase from the retailer. Or you may find that local ECAs are quite happy to provide a local delivery service for a small fee. This avoids shipping fees, currency exchange rates, long delivery times and all those other little things that people use as an excuse to shop elsewhere.

Obviously there are always going to be some products in TC that will be unfeasible from a cost perspective for many people outside the ECA's area or country to purchase BUT if you (or your team) think some of those products are worth having, find a local business that does, or is prepared to, offer similar products. Or become an ECA yourself ....

So to answer your question - there are any number of ways to motivate your team to stop being discouraged by the world economy's impact on the cost of products at TC. Start by changing your, and their, mindset. Once you've done that successfully, you'll be amazed at just how much opportunity you'll find to promote TC products both within your team and to the general buying public. Opportunities that get around the 'it's too expensive at TC' mindset that ultimately ends up contributing to our competitors' pockets.
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Once upon a time I used to look at the cost of TC products, compare them to the same products elsewhere and, not exactly despair, but certainly wonder how these ECAs could possibly think they were going to sell too many of them BUT then I changed my thinking. Now as an SFI business owner I actively look for products that are going to benefit me, usually by 'rewarding' me with more VP, for purchasing them. Once you start doing that, you'll find yourself automatically calculating what it would cost
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Marketing SFI to people who use mobile devices instead of computers requires pointing out exactly what they can do with their mobile devices to work their SFI and TC business. Currently, many of these people may think that you need a ‘real’ computer to function effectively in the online business world but it’s simply not true. So your job is to let them know just how easy and effective they can be even 'just' using a mobile device, and what options SFI and TC have that work well on these.

First of all, the SFI and TC sites are optimised for mobile devices. This basically means that they are ‘mobile friendly’, which allows those accessing the sites from these devices to effortlessly and comfortably navigate their way around. In the case of SFI affiliates, mobile users can easily and efficiently perform all the tasks required of them each day without ever switching on a computer. In the case of TC members, they can navigate the TC site to find products, play games, participate in auctions and so on, all from their mobile device.

If they’re like the vast majority of mobile users, they’ll be carrying their mobile ‘office’ around with them most everywhere they go. Show them how easy it is to log in and do their daily tasks, buy, promote and sell TC products through online classified sites, safe lists and traffic exchanges, play games, bid on auctions and so on, all whilst they’re ‘on the go’. Whenever and wherever they have a few minutes of free time - whilst waiting for, or travelling on, public transport, during a work or shopping break or any of those other multitude of times during the day when a few spare moments present themselves.

Demonstrate how to use mobile apps such as WhatsApp, Skype, GoToMeeting, Slack, Webex and other mobile conferencing and communication apps to communicate with their team members at any time of the day or night. Apps like Webex also allow you to arrange and host webinars - show them how they can utilise apps like this to train their team and promote SFI and TC.

Illustrate the many ways in which they can turn their mobile device into a powerful business tool by using mobile apps. There are apps available that will:

§ allow them to connect with current and potential customers,
§ market TC products and offer deals (great for ECA’s in particular),
§ provide customer support (an app called Desk for example monitors emails and social media and collects important alerts in real time, allowing for a prompt response to customers / audience / followers),
§ manage social media promotion (HootSuite springs to mind – schedule Tweets and posts, keep in touch with industry influencers etc)
§ provide regular updates to customers and team members
§ manage accounts and tax obligations
§ create and manage blogs and websites
§ write articles and blog posts

and many many more. Just do a Google search and let them see for themselves just how powerful a business tool their mobile device can be with the addition of a few simple apps.

No doubt these mobile users are already using their mobile devices to connect with FaceBook and other social media platforms. Show them how to use social media to promote SFI and TC using the tools they’re already using now.

If they’re concerned about being able to create marketing documents such as advertisements, build a website and/or blog and/or landing page, or write articles and blog posts, point them in the direction of productivity apps that will allow them to do this easily and efficiently. WordPress and Tumblr for example have apps that allow mobile users to create and post on the go, and many other platforms have built-in mobile services (ie TypePad). Also show them where to find all the marketing material in SFI that is already optimised and ready to go.

Their mobile device undoubtedly has a video camera built in. These days some of these devices are capable of producing good quality video footage and also have basic video-editing functionality. Demonstrate how they can use these features to create their own promotional and training videos for YouTube and other similar platforms. For instance, they can purchase TC products and then produce how to demo and product review videos. They can create training videos for their team. And so on….

In other words, the mobile devices of today are more than capable of performing all the business functions, and more, of traditional desktop computers. In fact, mobile users have a distinct advantage over those who rely on traditional computers because they can work their business any time, anywhere, when it suits them. That has got to be one big MASSIVE advantage right there for any business owner, online or bricks and mortar. Use that as your core strategy when marketing SFI and TC to mobile owners and then simply demonstrate to them how easily and effectively their mobile device can be turned into a very powerful business tool. A tool that they already have (so no need to buy a computer) and already know how to use (so no steep learning curve - they can concentrate on learning the business instead of learning how to use their mobile device).
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Marketing SFI to people who use mobile devices instead of computers requires pointing out exactly what they can do with their mobile devices to work their SFI and TC business. Currently, many of these people may think that you need a ‘real’ computer to function effectively in the online business world but it’s simply not true. So your job is to let them know just how easy and effective they can be even 'just' using a mobile device, and what options SFI and TC have that work well on these.

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In order to understand how we can use Attraction Marketing to build our SFI business we first need to understand what Attraction Marketing is.

Attraction Marketing, believe it or not, is a skill most of us are born with. We all know how to communicate with other people in a way that makes a connection and that’s fundamentally what attraction marketing is.

Attraction marketing is about establishing a relationship and making a connection with other people. It’s about providing value and valuable information, about building trust and empathy, and about becoming an authority figure or an expert that others look up to. When people trust you, when they believe in you, when they feel you’re sincere and genuine and honest, and that you know what you’re talking about, that’s when they’re more likely to take up your recommendation to buy a product or sign up for something. In other words, you sell yourself first, not whatever it is you’re trying to sell. And once you’ve successfully sold yourself, people will be a whole lot more likely to buy what you’re trying to sell.

So how can we apply this to our SFI business?

The most obvious way to use attraction marketing to build your SFI business is through blogging or a website. These are extremely powerful tools in the right hands. If you don’t know to do it already, learn how to write so that your words make a profound connection with your audience. Provide value with what you write. Become an expert and offer (free) expert advice and experience to your readers. Supply information that they can use - in your posts, by way of a giveaway e-book or similar (preferably in exchange for their email address) or by newsletters that your readers can subscribe to.

Also don’t, or try not to, make your blog or site specifically about SFI and/or TC. There are thousands of those types of sites already out there – sites that exist purely to plug a particular opportunity or product and offer very little in the way of value. Instead, make your site a stand out by offering awesome information and advice about topics such as:

* being an online business owner,
* the advantages of working from home,
* the positives of Internet and network marketing,
* building a residual income in order to generate a full time income over time

and so on. General tips and tricks that anyone can use. Regular posts that are chock full of all-purpose advice to help make your readers better marketers and business owners in general.
Imbue your writing with your own personal experiences, share your passion and enthusiasm for this business, tell everyone how much it’s changing your life …. This is what people are ‘attracted’ to and that’s the vital ‘attraction’ part of Attraction Marketing. Put one or two SFI / TC banners or links to the side and maybe a couple of in-text links where you may be providing an ‘example’ of a company that does such and such or provides what you’re talking about and leave it at that. Let your readers get drawn in by your content to the point where they can’t help but want to find out what it is that has made you such an authority and fills you with such enthusiasm for what you’re doing.

You can also share your successes in the games and auctions in such a way that it makes people want to join in the fun and have what you’re having.

The same principles will also work with marketing TC products. Find products that you’ve used, and you’re excited about using. Talk about the benefits of using those products, how they work and why you love using them so much. Nothing sells better than GENUINE firsthand experience and passion about something. If you’re a clever writer you can also do the same thing with products you haven’t necessarily used before, that you know do provide value. Just do your research beforehand so that you are producing a credible, genuine and useful product review. Also provide negative feedback when necessary – this helps to build your credibility.

Social media is another vitally important platform for attraction marketing. Again, it’s all about creating relationships, building up a following of people who trust you, who are interested in what you have to say, who hang out for the valuable information and advice you regularly provide. Put social media buttons on your blog / website so that your readers can share your valuable content. Make a point of sharing your content yourself on your social media pages.

Create helpful webinars and How To video tutorials about the TC products you’re promoting or about SFI. Link to these from your site and social media pages.

Join forums, groups and business platforms associated with the topics or products you’re writing about. Offer helpful, informative advice that adds value to a discussion, create tips and tricks threads and just generally be a useful, helpful, authoritative forum or group member that other people enjoy ‘listening’ to and whose opinions they respect. If you’re allowed to, include a link to your blog or website in your signature. But never try and plug your business or your products directly in these places.

Make sure your presentation is consistent across the platforms you’re using. Use the same photo of yourself and make sure you’re immediately identifiable anywhere on the Internet. Brand yourself so if you can’t include links in your signature in forums people will still recognise who you are from your photo.

All of this works with face-to-face marketing too. If you prefer to market that way then become the local expert. Be that go-to person everyone seeks out. Have an information stand at appropriate functions in your area where you provide information and advice that is not overly promotional. Have SFI brochures, business cards and the like available should people want to take one but your stand should appear to your visitors as being there to help them, not market your business. Be a regular contributor to your local newspaper if possible. Make yourself available as a guest speaker at functions. And so on. There are plenty of ways you can market yourself so you stand out in your community in a positive way.

In other words, regardless of whether you're using a blog, a website, social media, video marketing or face-to-face marketing, the best way to use Attraction Marketing to build your SFI business is to brand and sell yourself first. And once you’ve successfully sold yourself, people will be a whole lot more likely to buy what you’re trying to sell or sign up for whatever you’re promoting – in this instance SFI and TC products.
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In order to understand how we can use Attraction Marketing to build our SFI business we first need to understand what Attraction Marketing is.

Attraction Marketing, believe it or not, is a skill most of us are born with. We all know how to communicate with other people in a way that makes a connection and that’s fundamentally what attraction marketing is.

Attraction marketing is about establishing a relationship and making a connection with other people. It’s about providing
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I saw this quote recently and was reminded of it when I saw this question. “There was life before social media.”

For today’s younger generation who have grown up taking FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and the various other social media platforms for granted, this might be hard to believe, but it’s true. So how and where did businesses advertise and sell their products before the advent of social media, and how might we use those same methods to promote TripleClicks products?

Professional website and / or blog – this is pretty much mandatory in today’s marketing world whether you’re selling online or have a bricks and mortar business. Create, or have created for you, a quality, professional looking website / blog. You can use one of the free website platforms but be aware that many of these now discourage or delete marketing websites so there’s not much point in creating an awesome site or blog only to have it taken down without notice. Platforms like Wordpress are much easier to get along with and also provide a much more professional looking product and they have plenty of plug ins to help. Then provide quality GENUINE TC product reviews (give the negatives as well as the positives) and create a relationship with your audience.

Email marketing – this tool has been swept under the carpet somewhat in recent years but it’s still an extremely valuable way of advertising products and services. If an email newsletter (ezine) for instance is appealing and exciting enough for the reader to open, many will scan through it looking for special offers or interesting products / information. Provide those – valuable information, great advice, relevant products and so on. You can use safe lists and various other free and paid advertising platforms to circulate your emails but your best option is to build your own email list by providing valuable content on your website or blog and getting your readers to subscribe to your newsletter. Word of caution - DO NOT SPAM or include content that is worded like spam.

Traffic exchanges, pay to click, solo ads, banner exchanges, text exchanges etc – some of the first places most people think of when looking for advertising alternatives to social media. They do work but be prepared to spend a lot of time looking at other people’s sites and opportunities in return for being able to present your TC products to them. Or else pay to upgrade your membership in some of them.

Media marketing – this is a very good way of creating awareness and advertising TC products but some methods will require having the funds available to invest. Places to advertise include:

§ online classified ads – there are hundreds of these sites available for both free and paid advertising.
§ paid classifieds in your local newspaper – this could be either a print or an online publication or both.
§ circulars and newsletters belonging to groups associated with the types of products you are promoting. For example – a pet owners club may allow you to advertise pet care products if they put out a newsletter, a mothers group circular would be a great place to advertise infant and young children’s products, an athletics or sporting group news bulletin is a good place to promote health and sporting equipment and so on. This would work especially well if you’re a member of the group or club concerned.
§ magazines and periodicals related to your product’s target market – again, paid classifieds
§ television advertising – great way to promote if you have the budget to do it
§ radio advertising – as for television advertising
§ press releases
§ article marketing – be careful with this one because most article places will not accept marketing pieces so you’ll need to actually provide value first and foremost
§ have a brochure or flier made up (use the TC Collections function) and pay to have it circulated in local newspapers or non-profit organization / interest group circulars and newsletters or popped into people’s mail boxes (country postal regulations permitting). This is what many big retailers do and it obviously works or they wouldn’t keep doing it.

Host a product event – sure, this will likely only give you limited exposure but it will provide you with invaluable face to face contact with your potential customers in order to get feed back and do some personal one on one marketing. Also consider teaming up with other businesses in your local area to run something like this. This would work particularly well for an ECA. Promote the event on your website / blog and via your ezines.

Hire someone to hand out brochures or fliers promoting your selected TC products in public places (there are people on places like Fiverr that will do this for a few $$s). Or hand them out yourself. Leave them at restaurants, on public transport, in rest rooms, on notice boards where permitted and so on. Put a flier in or on your car in a prominent location when it’s parked where lots of people will see it. Just use your imagination – you’ll find plenty of places for this type of advertising.

Mobile apps, text messaging etc - mobile phones provide one of the best ways to reach people because nearly everyone in developed countries has one and most keep them switched on and within easy reach 24/7. You can send very targeted messages via texting - statistics indicate that most people will read at least part of most text messages they receive. Just be sure to make the messages interesting, informative and worth their while reading.

Good old word of mouth – still the greatest and most effective advertising method there is. Get your customers talking positively about products, provide them with memorable phrases with which to describe your products (a catchy byline or jingle for instance) and encourage them to be your mouthpiece.

And always keep your eyes open for possibilities and places to promote. Think outside the square. Go where no marketers have gone before!

Of course all the advertising in the world won’t do you much good if you haven’t done your market research first, identified a niche and a need and selected products that will solve that need….
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I saw this quote recently and was reminded of it when I saw this question. “There was life before social media.”

For today’s younger generation who have grown up taking FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter and the various other social media platforms for granted, this might be hard to believe, but it’s true. So how and where did businesses advertise and sell their products before the advent of social media, and how might we use those same methods to promote TripleClicks products?

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Essentially, brainstorming is a process by which new ideas are created. The initial objective of a brainstorming session is to write down as many ideas as possible about a particular objective or interest, without judging or analyzing the initial worth of those ideas. That comes later during the evaluation phase.

Brainstorming can be a group process or it can be done by an individual working alone, but either way the objective is to generate productive ideas and solutions to a specific objective.

So yes, brainstorming is a great way to help build your SFI team. The following can be applied equally to brainstorming on your own, with your team via one of the many available communication channels or with other SFI members in your area. You’re only limited by your imagination.

Start by writing down your objective. What is the problem you want your brainstorming session to resolve, or alternatively, what is it you need a solution for. This may sound obvious but you’d be surprised at how off track a brainstorming session can get if you don’t have a clear objective in mind for doing it. A likely objective or solution with respect to building your SFI team would be that you want to come up with an effective way of signing up new affiliates. Therefore you would make sure the ideas generated are aimed at this specific objective and not at how to encourage them to become EAs, which is an entirely different, although obviously related, objective. The reverse would also be true. If you want to brainstorm ways to get your PSAs to EA status, you wouldn’t write down ideas on how to recruit new PSAs in this particular brainstorming session.

Once you’ve worked out what problem you need to solve, identify what you want the solution to achieve. IE the problem you want to resolve is that you need to come up with more effective ways to attract and sign up new affiliates. So now you ask the question ‘What do I really and truly want to achieve by finding more effective ways to sign up new PSAs?’ Answer: ‘I want to build my team in order to be able to generate a good residual income. How am I going to do this – by signing up people who are going to be active and who also want to build themselves an active team and online business.’

So now your brainstorming focus has shifted from a vague 'just wanting to find an effective way to get new PSA’s', to a more laser targeted 'wanting to find an effective way to get new PSA’s that are more likely to understand what SFI is about and who want to work at building their own teams and online business'. This is a much sharper objective for your brainstorming – you now know you really need to attract a certain type of sign up to achieve your objective so you can focus your brainstorming ideas on how to best get those types of people to sign up.

Then give yourself a set time frame (ie half an hour) and let the ideas start flowing. Don’t attempt to analyse or judge them at this stage; you just want to get them all down on paper (or on the computer) as they occur to you. The aim is quantity, not quality but because you’ve given yourself a clear objective, you’ll be getting a lot more quality anyway than you perhaps otherwise would have.

Next, clarify and condense the ideas until you have a nice neat list of unique ideas. Then it’s time to evaluate and edit, armed with that important objective you’re already figured out. This is where you start discarding the ideas that don’t align with that objective. For instance, you may have written ‘spend more time in traffic exchanges’ but when lined up against your objective, you realise that you’re not likely to find the types of people you’re looking for in most TE’s.

Eventually you should end up with a list of great ideas that are all focused on allowing you to achieve your pre-determined objective, which is to find effective ways of signing up people who are going to be active and who also want to build themselves an active team and online business.. Now you can use those ideas to work out a laser-targeted course of action.

If you’ve been doing a group brainstorming session, each of you can take away the final list of ideas and come up with a plan of action that suits each individual.
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Essentially, brainstorming is a process by which new ideas are created. The initial objective of a brainstorming session is to write down as many ideas as possible about a particular objective or interest, without judging or analyzing the initial worth of those ideas. That comes later during the evaluation phase.

Brainstorming can be a group process or it can be done by an individual working alone, but either way the objective is to generate productive ideas and solutions to a specific
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One of the first things you can do when you receive a new CSA is check their sponsor and have a look at his or her badges. This helps give you a bit of an idea about how active the sponsor may be. Obviously this is not fool proof by any means because the badges don’t tell you how active someone may be outside of SFI's communication systems.

For instance, a seemingly inactive sponsor may be communicating with their team via social media, personal emails and so on. They may also be logging in and communicating with their team quite regularly through streams, e-cards, emails, newsletters and chat but just not doing their daily actions or participating in games, auctions etc which would give them ‘active’ badges. However, it should nevertheless provide you with some information which will then allow you to work out the best ways to help that CSA without (hopefully) overstepping too many boundaries.

If you can see from their (sponsor's) badges that:

· a CSA appears to have an active or ‘great’ sponsor (some indicators of this would be a SO, EA2 or above, designated diamond, current games badges and so on) or
· you know their sponsor is active (regularly seen in the forum dispensing help and advice, answering Ask SC questions etc)

then it’s probably best, unless you receive information to the contrary, to limit your interaction with that CSA to basic communications. These communications would include:

· a "warm welcome to my team, I'm here to help" e-card when you receive notification that they’ve joined your team,
· stream posts – these may include tips and advice, links to Ask SC answers and Forum topics that may be of interest to them, inspirational quotes, congratulations for wins and achievements etc
· congratulatory e-cards when or if they achieve or win something (the Daily Grand, achieving EA2, BTL etc),
· weekly newsletters - the same ones you send your PSA's,
· a quick chat if you see them online when you are,
· the link to your leadership page where you update your blog regularly with useful information for your team. You'll find your leadership page here: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/LeadershipManager.

These types of communications, which are the very basics you should be providing for all your team, will let them know you’re there if they need you, that you’re following their progress keenly and are genuinely interested in them. At the same time they are basic enough so as to avoid possible conflict with their sponsor.

You may also like to consider the following if you think it appropriate but these may well come close to overstepping that boundary you speak of if they already have a good sponsor:

· an invitation to join any social media groups you may have set up for your team,
· an invitation to join any co-ops you’ve got going,

What I DON’T recommend you do when your CSA has a good sponsor are things like:

· setting goals for them
· providing rewards and incentives for achieving goals and various other milestones,
· inviting them to join any training groups you have set up,
· providing them with any links to training material you may use for your own PSAs.

An active sponsor should be doing or have these things already in place for them so you do risk overstepping the boundary if you provide it as well.

Obviously it goes without saying that if they do ask for your help then willingly provide it.
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One of the first things you can do when you receive a new CSA is check their sponsor and have a look at his or her badges. This helps give you a bit of an idea about how active the sponsor may be. Obviously this is not fool proof by any means because the badges don’t tell you how active someone may be outside of SFI's communication systems.

For instance, a seemingly inactive sponsor may be communicating with their team via social media, personal emails and so on. They may also be
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This question reminds me of that age old question "How long is a piece of string?" The fact is that we know a piece of string always has a length. If it didn't have any length at all, we wouldn't be able to see it ie it wouldn't exist. Applying this to SFI, we can then say that if you knuckle down and do some work (which equates to starting to create that piece of string), even if it's just doing your daily actions, you'll 100% be able to earn money. If you do nothing, then like a non-existent piece of string, you'll earn nothing nor will you have any success.

How much you'll earn and how successful you'll be again depends on how much work you put in, how hard you work and how savvy you work. Like that piece of string - if you continuously add to its length it gets longer and longer. If you don't, or if you stop, it remains static and doesn't get any longer. So too will your SFI business.

And if you want cold hard proof that with SFI you WILL earn money, just take a look at your Scoreboard tab. This shows you exactly how much you're earning through every single action you take, whether it's Action VP from doing your daily actions and various other activities, or Sales VP from promoting, selling or buying TC products. The information is all there, in black and white (and in purple, blue and orange too). Those facts don't lie and if you do your calculations (SFI provides a tool for this too) you'll be able to see exactly how much money, and therefore how 'successful' you will be IF YOU PUT IN THE HARD YARDS.
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This question reminds me of that age old question "How long is a piece of string?" The fact is that we know a piece of string always has a length. If it didn't have any length at all, we wouldn't be able to see it ie it wouldn't exist. Applying this to SFI, we can then say that if you knuckle down and do some work (which equates to starting to create that piece of string), even if it's just doing your daily actions, you'll 100% be able to earn money. If you do nothing, then like a non-existent
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First of all, if no one spends money at TC, no one makes money full stop. No sales commission, no VP, $0 value Executive Pool shares which makes personal VP and matching VP worthless and so on. Therefore, promoting and selling TripleClicks products should be one of the very first activities affiliates are encouraged or taught to start doing for more reasons than one.

Selling TC products:

For those wanting to start earning as soon as possible, and by that I mean more than the few cents received (once you reach EA) from shares of the Executive pool for earning VP, the best and most obvious option is selling TC products. You can start doing this from day 1 and earn 45% of commission volume for each item sold, plus earn VP which will help boost your share of the Executive pool. Obviously though you will need to know how to sell online, or at least be prepared to start learning (and earning) and putting into practice what you've learned. If you can do that, and do it successfully, there is virtually no limit to the amount of income you can earn.

TC's commission system is far and away superior to those of the big guns, where you earn a pittance by comparison AND your customers are only your customers for that one sale. Compare that to TC where your customer is your customer for life, meaning that you continue to earn from every single purchase that customer makes - FOR EVER!! That's pretty awesome.

The new TC Collections feature in particular is a fantastic addition to TC and is a very powerful way to promote entire groups of products through blogs, product reviews, advertising and the like. Used effectively, it will greatly increase our earning power through the sale of TC products.

Recruiting and building a team of affiliates:

Recruiting and building a team of ACTIVE affiliates takes most people a lot longer. The key word here obviously is 'ACTIVE'. However, once you've built the foundations of a strong active team and you have duplication happening (duplication of transfer buying, duplication of standing order, duplication of TC promotion and sales as well as duplication in recruiting and team building) the benefits of a residual income really kick in. Then there's the power of matching VP - imagine earning over 1 million matching VP every month courtesy of a very active team!

So recruiting and building a good solid active team certainly has the potential to earn you a LOT of money down the track as your team grows and becomes more active. However, it's still hugely dependent on selling TripleClicks products. For matching VP (one of the real gems of the SFI affiliate system) to be worth anything, we go right back to the first thing I said, which is - if no one spends money buying products from TC, no one makes any money anywhere, from anything.


Promoting and selling TripleClicks products then, even if it's only to your team members, is at the heart of SFI. That's where the money comes from. If this stops happening, the money stops. Yes, you can earn a lot of money recruiting and building a team of affiliates but your team needs to be buying, promoting and selling TC products (to their teams) in order for that to happen. Yes, you can also earn a lot of money successfully promoting and selling TC products without worrying about building a team but in both cases, the common element is selling TC products.

Therefore, the only way you can make any money at all is through the sale of TC products. Whether you promote that as part of your team building or you do it as a standalone exercise is entirely up to you. Work out whichever one you're best at and focus on that because invariably that's the one that will earn you more money.
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First of all, if no one spends money at TC, no one makes money full stop. No sales commission, no VP, $0 value Executive Pool shares which makes personal VP and matching VP worthless and so on. Therefore, promoting and selling TripleClicks products should be one of the very first activities affiliates are encouraged or taught to start doing for more reasons than one.

Selling TC products:

For those wanting to start earning as soon as possible, and by that I mean more than the
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Affiliate since: 01/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

I would suggest to people that are strapped for time but have the funds available to invest financially in SFI that they first of all set up a standing order for 1,500 VP which will earn them EA2 status automatically each month as this is the minimum level required to start earning within SFI - I assume that part of their reason for wanting to invest $$ into SFI is to get some sort of return on their investment!

At this point though I would NOT be encouraging them to use their standing order to purchase PSA's or any team building products because building a good, reliable, working team requires a commitment of time, and time is what they don't have. I would suggest that they'd be better off using their SO to purchase products they'd normally buy elsewhere (transfer buying) instead and that subsequently doing reviews on those products will earn them valuable VP and shares in the Executive Pool each month.

If they think they could find a few spare minutes every so often then I'd suggest they include a few Tcredits in their SO and look at playing some of the games when time permits or listing and selling things they might have lying around the house that they're not using anymore. This will get them involved financially with SFI without having to commit much, if any, time.

Once they've done that, they could then consider the following options:

- employ someone to research, build and maintain a blog, website or social media account for them (I assume they wouldn't have the time to do this themselves) through which they can promote and sell TripleClicks products, including Tcredits. Each time they get a new customer that person becomes their Personally Referred Member for life. Corporate looks after all PRMs so they won't need to spend any time maintaining a relationship with these people but each time their PRMs buy something from TC they'll get sales commission ie a return on their investment in SFI.

- get involved in the SFI Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA) program by investing money in highly effective advertising campaigns that bring in qualified sign-ups for which they get paid a 'bounty'.

- refer local businesses to the ECA program and earn 10% of the commission volume of sales those ECAs make through TC, for life.

- look at becoming an ECA themselves and then hire or go into partnership with someone to run their store for them if they are unable to commit the time themselves. Incidentally being an ECA does not require becoming or maintaining EA status.

These activities will all help get them involved in SFI / TC and earning a return on their investment. It will give them the opportunity to learn more about SFI and if they get curious enough and feel that they can free up the time needed to build a team in SFI then they simply build on the business they've already started.
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I would suggest to people that are strapped for time but have the funds available to invest financially in SFI that they first of all set up a standing order for 1,500 VP which will earn them EA2 status automatically each month as this is the minimum level required to start earning within SFI - I assume that part of their reason for wanting to invest $$ into SFI is to get some sort of return on their investment!

At this point though I would NOT be encouraging them to use their standing
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SFI's banners have been designed with a range of target audiences in mind so it really boils down to choosing the one that best suits the people you're reaching out to with your advertising. For instance, if you're advertising in places where people are looking for a way to earn some extra money with a second source of income, you'd use the ones featuring the pot plant and promoting the 'Grow a Second Income' concept or one of the ones that mention earning a 'second paycheck'. If your target audience is retirees and pensioners, you'd probably go with the 'Worried about your retirement' and 'Worried about the economy' banners. For a more upbeat approach try the 'Earn income around the clock', 'Millions of people around the world...' or my favourite 'over 100,000 ways to earn'. And then there are the 'Honey I fired the boss' banners which would suit ads geared towards people who are looking for a new adventure in life or just want to find a great alternative lifestyle that doesn't involve losing 8 hours of your day working for someone else plus a daily commute.

You'll also notice that there is a fairly even sprinkling of banners featuring either men or women and young or mature people. If your advertising where more women are likely to see the ad, consider using the ones featuring women plus the most appropriate message. Same deal for the others.

But bottom line - test, test, test then test some more. Never stop testing! If one banner doesn't seem to be working, try another one and so on until you find the one that works best for that particular advertising campaign. And remember to keep track of your hits for each particular one.
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SFI's banners have been designed with a range of target audiences in mind so it really boils down to choosing the one that best suits the people you're reaching out to with your advertising. For instance, if you're advertising in places where people are looking for a way to earn some extra money with a second source of income, you'd use the ones featuring the pot plant and promoting the 'Grow a Second Income' concept or one of the ones that mention earning a 'second paycheck'. If your target audience
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