Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

When you want to improve your face-to-face conversation you need to ask yourself one thing first - completely honest:

Do you really absolutely feel right now that this is YOUR very own business?

Enthusiasm alone won't do, you also need trust and confidence to be able to feel so. Once you do, it will be easy for you to tell everyone what you are working, tell them details and maybe even get them hooked.

But to get to this point, it's a long way for most.
Actions, achievements and the right mindset are best to build up this feeling.

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Here are some points that can help you achieve the feeling:

1. Action: Business Learning
Gather knowledge about SFI, SFI training and marketing, not just online but really marketing ind general. Compare what you found out with SFI, online and offline businesses and get a solid base to answer questions and doubts for yourself.
Such doubts can be thoughts like:
- 90% of online businesses are scam, this could be too
- every online marketing is a snowball system
- no marketing really cares about their customers, only wants to sell/earn commissions
- does this work really suit me?
To have confidence in your business these doubts need positive and firm answers. One thing I found out about these questions: each business has a marketing side and many clicheed doubts on it, so you won't ever get around these questions.

2. Action: Be active, but also know where to stop
Really do distribute (product)flyers, giftcards,... locally and participate online and offline in social networks, forums, clubs,... Update your blog/website at least two times a week with new content and news. There's much you can do on the activity side - mainpoint here is, don't think "Uh, not now, later" or "About SFI, I need to speak to strangers on the streets, directly". You do not need to speak to strangers - get to know them first or better let them get to know you first ;)
Of course, you'll also need to find out how much time you can invest to avoid burn out and still have leisure time with your beloveds.

3. Action: Learning different methods, choose those that suit you best
Your marketing activity is defined by the methods you use - you can under use certain opportunities (like leaving your business card at blackboards) and also mass-overuse methods (for example: 10 different methods are too much divertion for most).
Most necessary, is that you always keep up with new methods and maybe even invent some yourself. Always test them first if you feel them suitable for yourself, need to grow more before using them or aren't yours at all. Secondly, make sure to test your own stress level with each method and whether you could reduce it somehow.
For Learning, SFI training and marketing navigation as well as forums are a very good starting point.

3. Control and Achievements:
With achievement you will gain reassurance and confidence in your actions, control will allow you to find out which actions brought forth the best results and happiness for you, but also whether changes occured over the time. Strive forward with these actions, try to improve and widen their field of usage to get even more results, but also always recheck whether those methods are still feasible.

4. Optimistic and realistic mindset:
Combine a "Never give up and fight with a happy smile" with "This won't do, need to brainstorm / research for improvement/better methods". (An optimist doesn't know the word impossible but can't work that effectivly because he doesn't accept walls, a realist does accept the wall and normally gives up on it. With help of the optimist, the realist strives forward to find a way to his goals and breaks through the walls one after another.
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When you want to improve your face-to-face conversation you need to ask yourself one thing first - completely honest:

Do you really absolutely feel right now that this is YOUR very own business?

Enthusiasm alone won't do, you also need trust and confidence to be able to feel so. Once you do, it will be easy for you to tell everyone what you are working, tell them details and maybe even get them hooked.

But to get to this point, it's a long way for most.
Actions,
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

The ToDo-list is really helpful in learning the ropes, getting used to daily working and building a good base for your business.
It also enables getting EA status without having invest too much.
The ToDo-list is your starting point as well as your basic actions.

To really earn good money within SFI you need to:
1) apply everything you learn in your daily tasks
2) advertise to get PSAs, PRMs (+ musicians) and ECAs
3) be a good sponsor to your downline
4) learn even more to become a better entrepreneur/sponsor

Some samples on which points you should/could add to build your business:

1) When you see a tip or read answers to AskSC questions, check your own actions and use the new knowledge at once to improve your actions (like improving your textads, blog,...)

2) advertising:
- browse through the marketing methods and aids on SFI and look what you can realize today
- search for new adsites and adplaces (offline + online), make a list and use keycodes to see which ones are effective
- join advertising groups in social media and regularly post your ads (don't spam, watch a bit how often the others post their ads and act accordingly)
- join business/advertisement/musician/... forums and get active there (again don't spam and follow each forums rules; put a keycode modified gateway into your profiles Homepage link)
- attend business exhibitions to learn about different businesses in your region, new products and maybe catch some ECAs there
- check your advertising which ads and places were successful (or not) and what you must train in your advertising talks

3) sponsoring:
- review your basic knowledge to be able to answer questions fast, correct and explain the content to your new downline as they need
- talk and review the actions, plans, goals and backgrounds of your downline
- be ready to brainstorm ideas or research some knowledge to be able to answer your downline

4) Learn, learn, learn:
- how to make a businessplan, rules to a successful business,
- how to motivate yourself, others
- review and improve your own actions, achievements, failures
- how to lead/mentor others to become independent and successful
- what possibilities are there in SFI, advertising sponsoring?
- about taxes? what to pay attention to for your own business, what your PSAs and ECAs might have to pay attention to,...
- culture differences
- talk and voice training

... and much more.
Best is to make a professional businessplan and set your additional daily actions according to it.
Still let some place for flexibility in your plans because sponsoring takes time and nothing only goes like yu plan it ;)
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The ToDo-list is really helpful in learning the ropes, getting used to daily working and building a good base for your business.
It also enables getting EA status without having invest too much.
The ToDo-list is your starting point as well as your basic actions.

To really earn good money within SFI you need to:
1) apply everything you learn in your daily tasks
2) advertise to get PSAs, PRMs (+ musicians) and ECAs
3) be a good sponsor to your downline
4) learn
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Member Reward Points are an affiliates reward for the actions he took directly related to TripleClicks.
Seen as reward, you can use them for whatever you'd like to buy on TC and the shops here.
Like a present for yourself (like reward your efforts with a movie or something you fancy) or for someone dear to you (jewellery, books, giftcards, ...).

You can also use them to forward your business within SFI by easing your budget or get the missing VP to obtain your status.

For optaining your status, it's best to buy single TCredits from your accumulated MRPs. They give the highest amount of VP compared to all the packs.

If you like to ease your investments and don't really need the VP, you can also use the MRP
- to buy the 200 TCredit pack for auctions and games
- use them to pay for your standing order
- buy active business forwarders like traffic, PSAs/CSAs to Go, x-cards/flyers/...
- passive business helpers like training ebooks for business, traffic, language, ...

All in all, the best use is up to you and your wallet.
Whether it's for business or for fun, it is your choice and your reward.
Enjoy it and you already get the best out of it.
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Member Reward Points are an affiliates reward for the actions he took directly related to TripleClicks.
Seen as reward, you can use them for whatever you'd like to buy on TC and the shops here.
Like a present for yourself (like reward your efforts with a movie or something you fancy) or for someone dear to you (jewellery, books, giftcards, ...).

You can also use them to forward your business within SFI by easing your budget or get the missing VP to obtain your status.

For
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Losing previously active people might have different reasons.

- Private reasons: illness/death in family or close friends, not enough spare time, overworked, accidents, natural disasters, changes in private life (new living place, kids)
<<< Well, not much we can do about this situation. We can just tell them they can come back any time and we still will be there for them with even more advices and experiences they can use for their own growth

- Mentality reasons: feels unsuccessful, unrewarded, unmotivated; SFI business opportunities don't match with his ideal workplace
<<< If the affiliate still reacts, try to contact him directly and ask what's wrong. If it is just the missing success help him/her to review the actions and share new methods. If SFI seemingly doesn't match his ideal, find out what that ideal is and its equals in SFI - show him/her how funny and inspirational networking marketing can be.

- Business reasons: missing continued sponsoring, losing people, missing results
<<< What does a sponsor tell its affiliates that are already longer at SFI? Share and discuss news, ideas, experiences; find out whats going on on either side, maybe you both will find even more ideas together; review the actions not only by ToDo-list but also by checking out the advertising and sponsoring methods - maybe there's another approach better or a possibility was overseen.
If one keeps telling even advanced affiliates only the basic stuff (dailies, duplication) he won't even look at the mails anymore because they aren't the least bit useful for him.

- Communication error: affiliate does not react anymore. Communication always takes at least two people. If the affiliate did retreat (but not opt out) send him regular ecards to encourage him and to show that you are still here and will help him. Don't stop to give him incentives to communicate more with you (of course without spamming).
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Losing previously active people might have different reasons.

- Private reasons: illness/death in family or close friends, not enough spare time, overworked, accidents, natural disasters, changes in private life (new living place, kids)
<<< Well, not much we can do about this situation. We can just tell them they can come back any time and we still will be there for them with even more advices and experiences they can use for their own growth

- Mentality reasons:
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

To be able to sell products efficiently you first need to know the product yourself. Your own skills in reviewing it, will determine whether you ride on the wave or whether you create new hypes with your reviews.

For ECA products:
You can start with products you yourself are interested in, fully test and review them.
Once your budget rises, try out new products that you can fully test and review again.
An honest review blog or even better an honest review video blog will be a good advertisement for both you and TC.
For choosing products beyond your own interest watch the market what currently sells, what's hyped and what's IN. Also read/watch other peoples review about current products to get an idea how they advertise those and whether you would buy it because of their review.
When you are very persuasive in writing or talking you might try and tackle more unkown or niche products, too.

For SFI/TC and traffic products:
Those are always good to promote within SFI. Enter some reviews and tips for the usage of the different SFI/TC products on your blogs and websites including your SFI leadership blog. Teach your downline about marketing methods and tell them which products will help them to achieve their goal.
If you have a public video blog, advertise TCredits while explaining all the benefits you get with them, xcards and giftcards to start full throttle at this business opportunity from the beginning, and so on.

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To be able to sell products efficiently you first need to know the product yourself. Your own skills in reviewing it, will determine whether you ride on the wave or whether you create new hypes with your reviews.

For ECA products:
You can start with products you yourself are interested in, fully test and review them.
Once your budget rises, try out new products that you can fully test and review again.
An honest review blog or even better an honest review video blog will
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

For the explanation:
Transfer Buying is to buy your regular and daily products from the store/platform you promote yourself. With this kind of purchases with TripleClicks the worth of each share in the TC executive pool increases, thus allowing you to earn more with each collected VersaPoints.
If the shop to buy these products from is your personally referred ECA you even gain a commission on top of it.
Also, advertising a platform and your shop is easier if you are using it as your main platform and already put in some product and shop review.
To work against the argument, that it is cheaper somewhere else: with ECA commissions you can be sure to get the cheapest prize. Same if you only account your earnings through VP and getting sales of these products. Both together form already an income for you ;)

How to promote?
If there are enough ECAs in the countries of your downline, offering such standard products, just an explanation is mostly enough. But - and beware its a great BUT - mostly there aren't such ECAs in their countries, so transfer buying simply isn't possible. Reasons may be the higher shipping fees or the principle of helping the local stores and economy first.
Simple solution: tell your downline to invite local stores to TripleClicks and to advertise their products ;)
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For the explanation:
Transfer Buying is to buy your regular and daily products from the store/platform you promote yourself. With this kind of purchases with TripleClicks the worth of each share in the TC executive pool increases, thus allowing you to earn more with each collected VersaPoints.
If the shop to buy these products from is your personally referred ECA you even gain a commission on top of it.
Also, advertising a platform and your shop is easier if you are using it as your
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

An employee mentality is quite stubborn, it hinders you from taking your own stance in SFI and to make use of all the opportunities.

It is best to tackle this while the affiliate is still new. He/She needs to know that this SFI business will be his own business and that you are just his mentor. Also you yourself need to build up the mentality to be a mentor and not an employer to your downline.

What everyone needs to know:

Ones advices and teachings as a mentor can be quite similiar to that of an employer: you do want your downline to duplicate you, to copy your actions, thus they will recieve a similiar pay when they are successful in using your methods.

What is the difference then? The mentality, methods, advice and the goal within a company itself.

-> Teaching Success vs teaching hard work. A mentor gives out much more specific advice to its students than an employer will ever do. He proudly sees the success of his students as his own.
Do you know of employers that will teach you everything about THEIR business? They won't because they won't rise the competition unnecessarily.

-> Individual methods vs tasks and methodcopying
An employer just asks for duplication and hard work, he doesn't explain much how and why the things work as they do for you. A different approach of the downline is mostly disliked because the employer wants to have the upper hand in every little action. He would feel like losing the forehand otherway.
The mentor works directly on finding the best paths for his individual students even if the answer to the question does not meet with their own actions. He is respected for his shared knowledge and is also known to look at all the sides of a coin (not just front and back, but also the coin edge and specific designs and materials of each) to be able to give the best of teachings.

-> Growth vs achievement
At a normal job everything that counts at the end of the day is what you achieved at the end of your task. Growth is not the goal just a more or less necessary means to finish the work - an unnecessary limitation of oneself in SFI.
The mentor takes the growth itself as goal: if even one of his students was motivated to surpass him in growth and achieve even greater heights, it will be the mentors ultimate bliss. Restrictions will only hinder the mentors work and his own goal. Thus he shows his downline: Just by growing you open up endless opportunities, new paths and endless rewards.

What is the main difference between a boss and a mentor?
Familiarity.
An employer will always keep up a wall to his worker, so that he can make efficient decisions (fail=fired).
The mentor is more like a parent: he enjoys teaching and seeing the growth, he will be sad with you when you fail, build you up again, be firm with you when needed and will have to release you upon the world one day.

Your own words and actions are led by your own mentality. If you do see yourself rather in a mentor role instead of a boss role, your very first talk with your new affiliates sound already different and leads them away from the employee mentality.
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An employee mentality is quite stubborn, it hinders you from taking your own stance in SFI and to make use of all the opportunities.

It is best to tackle this while the affiliate is still new. He/She needs to know that this SFI business will be his own business and that you are just his mentor. Also you yourself need to build up the mentality to be a mentor and not an employer to your downline.

What everyone needs to know:

Ones advices and teachings as a mentor can
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Tricia.

As fairly new ECA, I think you mean someone that has no prior experience with an own shop?

It is quite hard and a lot to learn for a newcomer with a new shop.
He needs to learn the basic laws and regulations to owning a shop in his country (regulations, accounting, taxes, ...) as well as those for his products like detailed declarations. He also needs to present himself from day zero in the public and enter business / sales exhibitions and much more to do and learn.

Requiring about the Shipping fees is not only about the costs itself, it also includes inquiring about which of your products can even be shipped to which countries (ex: not all countries allow specific beverages) and to update the information at least each half a year. So it might take a burden off ones shoulders to wait two months with going internationally, if that is your main concern (I'd rather call it the least).

Officially stating that you are shipping internationally (i.e have a public list with international shipping fees listed) is more a question of budget:

<- For best results you'd need to enter international exhibits (not just those small local ones) and also advertise internationally. Even if affiliates advertise your business, it is always better when your shop is already existent in the world of public business. But even the smallest stall can already cost a fortune...
<- The license for international business costs more, as well as other requirements
<- You need more storage place and products to invest into (with a dropshipping company this gets even more expensive)

CONCLUSION
These additional costs and efforts are the biggest concern I'd have in opening up an international store. So, I'd rather advice you to open up a regional one first.
Don't worry, you don't need to forfeit international clients completely as long as offer your clients to ship to other countries on application/request. It still needs the research but limits the countries to the few interested clients that order from you (instead of your mainly international clientele.
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Hello Tricia.

As fairly new ECA, I think you mean someone that has no prior experience with an own shop?

It is quite hard and a lot to learn for a newcomer with a new shop.
He needs to learn the basic laws and regulations to owning a shop in his country (regulations, accounting, taxes, ...) as well as those for his products like detailed declarations. He also needs to present himself from day zero in the public and enter business / sales exhibitions and much more to do
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

How does SFI work? Be honest about it:

CORE
SFI is a network and marketing business.
Its main goal is to acquire more clients for the E-Commerce platform TripleClicks, be it sellers or buyers, at the same time offering an additional income opportunity by mentoring new affiliates.

Also stress these parts:

ANTI-SPAM Policy
While advertising and sponsoring are the core of SFI work, SFI has also a strong Anti-Spam policy and doesn't allow its affiliate to break this.
Reason is simple: Others should be delighted upon the new chances not get headaches and sore eyes.

SHARING SUCCESS
Being an affiliate in SFI does not only mean to build a downline or to get clients, it means to teach and share your success. By various communication lines within SFI one can exchange experiences and advices with all of the other affiliates all over the world giving one more approaches to a succesful business.

What do I do here?
Learning, communicating, marketing and sponsoring (= mentoring, teaching, sharing).

Growth is our success and knowledge the path's handle.
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How does SFI work? Be honest about it:

CORE
SFI is a network and marketing business.
Its main goal is to acquire more clients for the E-Commerce platform TripleClicks, be it sellers or buyers, at the same time offering an additional income opportunity by mentoring new affiliates.

Also stress these parts:

ANTI-SPAM Policy
While advertising and sponsoring are the core of SFI work, SFI has also a strong Anti-Spam policy and doesn't allow its affiliate
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

A creditcard is a reason but not an obstacle.
Normal purchases can be made by other payment kinds, too. Just the standing order is a bit of an exception, but:
Nowadays you can get online prepaid credit cards easily -and they work nearly the same as normal ccs. One just has to make sure to load enough money onto the card before the purchase.

To get the minimun sales VP, he can also advertise for TC.
Teach him how to find products to advertise,
give advice where he can put his Flyers with the best chances of being read,
how to find sellers and how to talk to those.

When action VP guide him to become a good sponsor by teaching him how to gather PSAs and how to help them grow. As direct action on your side, You could reassign active PSAs to him or invite him to your s-builder coop.

If he already put in the effort and got at least 2000VP by being a good sponsor and just the sales VP are missing, you might consider to reward him with a gift certificate. But still tell him its a one time bonus from you and that he can use prepaid cc for his standing order.



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A creditcard is a reason but not an obstacle.
Normal purchases can be made by other payment kinds, too. Just the standing order is a bit of an exception, but:
Nowadays you can get online prepaid credit cards easily -and they work nearly the same as normal ccs. One just has to make sure to load enough money onto the card before the purchase.

To get the minimun sales VP, he can also advertise for TC.
Teach him how to find products to advertise,
give advice where he can
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