Affiliate since: 09/06/2011, Power Rank: 3 | Read BABU's 113 other Ask SC answers

Always try to find the positives even in the negatives and then the life is more beautiful.

There may be pessimistic and not much optimistic people in your team, but how you can convince them and make them active to do positive things, from there your success starts.

If you need to attract your inactive and doubtful customers to your ECA, it is for you to take all the positive steps. Shed the lethargic attitude and move forward with all the confidence and determination. Have a perfect plan with a vision; convince the lot about all the goodness and benefits of shopping in your ECA without any ifs and buts. If you can succeed in this mission at least half the way, then you are a good business man with a vision and a plan. I am sure; they will throng your stores not with pessimism but with great wisdom and willingness to know and what you can offer to them through your ECA.

Never expect the success easily and if you can try hard to convince your potential customers and if you can succeed in the mission to a certain extent, then I will say, you have started scaling the summit of success.

At the same time, you should show your leadership skill to make your inactive affiliates to become active. I am not saying that you can make all of them be active but definitely you can make a section of those inactive ones to become active with real, positive and sincere efforts.

The success in SFI relies on our own ability how you respond to the situation and how effectively.

I do believe, there is no word IMPOSSIBLE, if you look at closely, you can see that even the word IMPOSSIBLE itself says that I M POSSIBLE.

Keep trying and explore the success !!!

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Always try to find the positives even in the negatives and then the life is more beautiful.

There may be pessimistic and not much optimistic people in your team, but how you can convince them and make them active to do positive things, from there your success starts.

If you need to attract your inactive and doubtful customers to your ECA, it is for you to take all the positive steps. Shed the lethargic attitude and move forward with all the confidence and determination. Have
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Affiliate since: 10/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Carolyn's 16 other Ask SC answers

"How can I build a successful SFI business when I have a team of inactive affiliates and doubtful customers for my TripleClicks store?"

Building a business of any kind is plagued by challenges of different kinds. For those of us who are serious about building our business here at SFI, we have to deal with having numerous inactive affiliates. As we all know our success is determined by the level of our affiliates’ activity or lack thereof.

I must say it takes patience, lots of it. I am struggling with this too. However, working with those willing to work is a start. We only have to rely on them being and keeping motivated. Sending uplifting messages and Team Newsletters with the hope that some who are inactive will become active is one way of showing them that SFI is a real business, while at the same time motivating those who are working. We must bear in mind that some people joined because of curiosity. If you continue sending updated news and success stories to your affiliates then chances are that some will be encouraged to return. When they have return, the task is to keep them working and motivated. Keep the lines of communication open, use different means of communication, share your duplication strategies, and accept suggestions. This way your team members will feel valued and will eventually work!

By nature we are doubters and in our quest to find something that works we second guess and even triple guess a program if it seems workable. In terms of TripleClicks, purchase items and wear them or take them along with you when advertising. Using your computer or handheld device to show what the platform looks like, how it operates, the current number of ECAs, the number of listed items on sale, and even giving them a gift card for them to experience TripleClicks. These are just some great strategies that can be used to show the legitimacy of the program.

All in all, only your best is good enough! In time your level of determination will pay off.

Keep focused and have a good week!

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"How can I build a successful SFI business when I have a team of inactive affiliates and doubtful customers for my TripleClicks store?"

Building a business of any kind is plagued by challenges of different kinds. For those of us who are serious about building our business here at SFI, we have to deal with having numerous inactive affiliates. As we all know our success is determined by the level of our affiliates’ activity or lack thereof.

I must say it takes patience,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Imelda,
thank you for this question.You are not alone.Most of us are having a lot of inactive affiliates in our team.You have to keep working on finding at least five really hard workers and teach them to do everything you're doing.And,believe it or not,every now and than,they do come along.Duplication is the key.
Recently,there was a post on Forum written by an affiliate who joined SFI a long time ago.He was inactive for 9 years.And than suddenly,he decided to start all over again,from the beginning.And he is very successful now.It happens.You never know when some of your inactive team members will wake up and start working.So,don't give up on them.Send them your weekly team mails,offer your help and support,share your experience and some positive thoughts.There's a lot of power in positive thinking.
When it comes to your TripleClicks store,check out your offer,enlarge it,list some new items.Check out your prices,too.There's a lot of ECAs here.You have to offer something new,original and interesting to your potential customers.Use all possibilities,such as Hot Deals.Besides that,there's only one more thing you can do - ADVERTISE!
Advertise a lot,use social networks,place some new ads every day,find new Websites to place your ads,use Key Codes and Hit tracking.
SFI provides us with all techniques and tools - we just have to use them.
Don't give up.You'll never know how close you were from achieving your goals at that moment.
Keep up the good work!See you at the top!
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Hi Imelda,
thank you for this question.You are not alone.Most of us are having a lot of inactive affiliates in our team.You have to keep working on finding at least five really hard workers and teach them to do everything you're doing.And,believe it or not,every now and than,they do come along.Duplication is the key.
Recently,there was a post on Forum written by an affiliate who joined SFI a long time ago.He was inactive for 9 years.And than suddenly,he decided to start all over again,from
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 293 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

You have posed a question that most of our affiliates are facing and therefore a big challenge in their SFI venture.

Here’s what you can do:

- Recall why you joined SFI and TripleClicks in the first place, do you have the passion, do you have what it takes to stick to your primary goal as you stated in your profile when you joined?

- Focus on your vision. SFI encourages us to “Aim High and Dream Big!”. Are you losing your focus on this and paying much attention to your current situation which makes you feel down?

- Make a plan depending on your budget to advertise and sponsor certain numbers of affiliates every month. Receiving new affiliates every month is uplifting and encourages you to want for more.

- Don’t forget to treat your PSAs as though they are a part of your family. Communicate, let everyone feels the importance of working closer together as a team and it is essential in achieving everyone's success. Emphasize to them to get involve.

- Continue to send encouraging messages to your inactive affiliates and doubtful customers regularly, your positive attitude might turn them around to your favor.

- Surround yourself to like-minded people. Request and connect with your a2a friends, participate in the SFI Forum. It’s very important to have the right people around you!

Finally:

How to overcome limitation, how to start again, how do we deal with life? Our self-image determines our success. Be a believer of your dreams! You must have a clearly defined goal to succeed.

Find your inner self and ask what is it that you want? Ask yourself about your goal, do you want this in life? Create in yourself a self-image of a millionaire. Our attitude and feelings determine our success. You should understand what you want to achieve in life.

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You have posed a question that most of our affiliates are facing and therefore a big challenge in their SFI venture.

Here’s what you can do:

- Recall why you joined SFI and TripleClicks in the first place, do you have the passion, do you have what it takes to stick to your primary goal as you stated in your profile when you joined?

- Focus on your vision. SFI encourages us to “Aim High and Dream Big!”. Are you losing your focus on this and paying much attention
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Greetings Ms. Imelda Borrega.
Your question is the crux of all SFI business development and success achievement. SFI has been in existence for 15 years. It has been very successful. From the inception of SFI, one can safely say that every affiliate has had his/her fair share of inactive affiliates and skeptical prospects, being potential Tripleclicks customers or people seeking to launch their own home based business.

Despite such constraints, all the currently active and successful Platinum Team Leaders are a testimony of the real possibility to have great achievements. They dealt with those aspects to which your question is pointing.

Then, the question becomes: How did they do it? Can a rookie SFI Affiliate duplicate their success. The answer is yes.

First they are in your upline. You just need to reach out to them and they will gladly give you guidance. Your success is in their vested interest.

Second, SFI provides training on sponsoring, marketing and selling Tripleclicks products. All those training modules address the issue of inactive affiliates and show to potential clients the value of Tripleclicks. It is the duty of every SFI Affiliates to be very familiar with those training modules, if they want to succeed.

Third, to put into practice, the tips and wisdom learned from both our upline and the training, a series of strategies, tactics and actions and be formulated, devised, planned and executed to enhance the potential of a successful SFI business.

Today, SFI is truly an international business more so than it was at the beginning in 1998 up to approximately 2007. In the last seven years or so, SFI has grown to a worldwide reach. Such growth increases the potential of success in many folds and in many ways.

Yourself, Imelga, are an illustration of this fact. Your sound Hispanic. You are possibly from the Philippines or at least of Hispanic descent. You live in Taiwan and you are part of the SFI Family. Today every affiliates comes to SFI through a process, similar to the one you used.

This is very important to keep in mind for find solutions to the problem you are raising. In other words, simply use the same methods as your sponsor did to bring to SFI. You will have some affiliates that may not be so active. But, you will also have affiliates that will be SFI stars. You only need a handful of those very active affiliates for your business to be successful.

SFI has provided us with tools on how to deal with inactive affiliates. The weekly genealogy mailer, in addition to the PSA and CSA Mailers are great communication tools to reach out to dormant affiliates.

SFI Corporate also regularly send newsletters to all affiliates.

Now some practical points.

1. Advertising is the supports that reach to the most active countries countries is a must.

2. Perseverance and steadfastness as well as consistent actions are a requirement.

3. Never give up. Success is one step at a time. The "No" is one step closer to yes.
This is part of the laws of sales. We are in sales. Success is achieved by being fearless and willing to work hard.

Good luck to you Imelda.
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Greetings Ms. Imelda Borrega.
Your question is the crux of all SFI business development and success achievement. SFI has been in existence for 15 years. It has been very successful. From the inception of SFI, one can safely say that every affiliate has had his/her fair share of inactive affiliates and skeptical prospects, being potential Tripleclicks customers or people seeking to launch their own home based business.

Despite such constraints, all the currently active and successful
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very good question.
It is easy to get discouraged with SFI sometimes when you have inactive affiliates.
Here is what I tend to do to divide the movers from the in actives.
1. I send a welcome email as soon as any new person joins.
2. the second day I send an e-card encouraging them to remain active and participate in the E365 contest.
3. I send out a weekly email to all my genealogy with the news of the week and or encouraging tips to get any in actives interested.
4. Then I focus on the ones who actually are and continuing to be active. Those are the ones who you can help and who will help you in the long run.
Those are the ones who see the vision of SFI and want to pass that vision on.
My belief is that a business or job one has to work and work hard to get money. Money doesn't grow on trees and isn't free. Sadly that is what a lot of the in actives probably thought when they signed up.
But those who see the vision you do will make all the difference. Wait for those. Don't be discouraged. Internet marketing is still rather brand new.
Be patient. Give time. Contact your affiliates regularly and eventually you will begin to see things move up.

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This is a very good question.
It is easy to get discouraged with SFI sometimes when you have inactive affiliates.
Here is what I tend to do to divide the movers from the in actives.
1. I send a welcome email as soon as any new person joins.
2. the second day I send an e-card encouraging them to remain active and participate in the E365 contest.
3. I send out a weekly email to all my genealogy with the news of the week and or encouraging tips to get any in actives interested.
4.
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

I am assuming that your inactive affiliates have come to you online, perhaps you need to change your approach and try out a different method of duplication.

For your business to be successful you need the following
- a regular stream of affiliates who will take the business seriously and therefore support your initiatives to become successful
- recruit affiliates who you know personally and who share the same passion as you do to earn a living online
- introduce customers to your online store and make a few purchases yourself to understand the system and become confident of buying from your own store. This increases the trust on this site from which you purchase and you can provide your own examples to help your customers not be doubtful.
- focus on affiliates who can also invest in the business after the 3rd month or earlier.
- provide incentives to new affiliates such that they will be in the business long enough to get serious about it ; maybe after 2 months you can give them gift certificates upon them becoming EA2
- use the Genealogy report to concentrate on affiliates who are inactive as well - maybe they are having language difficulties and your email might pinch a nerve to get them active!

The success of your business is in your hands and you cannot continuously think about not being successful because that is exactly what will happen. Put in your maximum effort and go back to the Basics and other learning modules that are available online. There is absolutely nothing that is not achievable once you put your mind to it.

Good luck
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I am assuming that your inactive affiliates have come to you online, perhaps you need to change your approach and try out a different method of duplication.

For your business to be successful you need the following
- a regular stream of affiliates who will take the business seriously and therefore support your initiatives to become successful
- recruit affiliates who you know personally and who share the same passion as you do to earn a living online
- introduce customers
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Affiliate since: 02/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Derek's 210 other Ask SC answers

One of the unfortunate things about the internet is the number of people who still think once they have joined a program the money will come rolling in even if they do nothing.

You will get those that sign up because they have come through a pay per sign up program. they actually get paid to sign up. A lot of them have not even read anything about the program they are joining and are very unlikely to even log in after the initial sign up.

There are also those that will sign up for anything because it is free, with no intention of doing anything after the sign up. There are also those who do sign up full of good intention and then something happens to distract them and they forget all about SFI. There are also those who sign up, look at the program, do a little bit on the first day or two and then decide it is too involved for them to bother with.

Anybody working on the internet has to accept the fact that these people do exist and it is our job to try and convince them of the advantages they will be getting by following the program. They are the ones that are missing out! You need to work very closely with those in your downline that are showing some interest in the program and while not ignoring the others spend less time with them. Certainly send out weekly team emails to all of your downline as you may well be able to convert some at a later date. The fact that they are getting emails on a regular basis could spur them into action.

I hope you find this both interesting and useful and wish you success in your endeavors with SFI
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One of the unfortunate things about the internet is the number of people who still think once they have joined a program the money will come rolling in even if they do nothing.

You will get those that sign up because they have come through a pay per sign up program. they actually get paid to sign up. A lot of them have not even read anything about the program they are joining and are very unlikely to even log in after the initial sign up.

There are also those that will sign
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2012, Power Rank: 257 | Read Jacqueline's 83 other Ask SC answers

Hello Imeda,

Your question has two parts, so I am going to start with the first part about building a successful SFI business when I have a team of inactive affiliates.

I'm sure that you do realize that if you do not have active members than you cannot build up a business, right?

Please don't put all of your focus on your inactive team members.

Yes, keep the communication open each week by sending your weekly group mails, because you do not know if one will start to work their SFI business again.

Put more of your focus on being able to gain new PSAs on your team. The way you do that is to do a whole lot of advertising every single day.

Working the type of business that we are in, is a "Numbers Game". Which means that we will gain many new members on our teams, but...they all will not work this business.

We must keep on searching for new members and keep working with the ones we do have.

If you keep at it, you will be able to build up a good strong team of active affiliates who want to succeed just as much as you do.

To help you to build up your confidence, please read Gery's Rule of Success, Rule # 19 -- Some Will, Some Won't. So What?! Someone's waiting! Next!

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Now, for the second part of your question. Doubtful customers for my TripleClicks store?

I wonder why you say the term "Doubtful" customers. Do you believe in the products that you are selling?

You must also advertise your ECA store, just like you would your SFI business. Advertise Everywhere!!!

Also, you can let other members of TripleClicks know about your store by connecting with other ECAs and you can also send out a Newsletter when you add a new product or you are offering a discount on a product. So right off the bat of opening up your store, you can connect with thousands of other ECAs.

You also can create a "News Post" from your store and it will be seen on the Stream page of SFI.

Please try to shift your negative thoughts into Positive thoughts.

You WILL get many active team members and you WILL grow your Team.

You WILL sell your products and you WILL build up your ECA store.

All you have to do is just stay Positive and just keep on Advertising, Advertising, and Advertising.

Hope this helps.
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Hello Imeda,

Your question has two parts, so I am going to start with the first part about building a successful SFI business when I have a team of inactive affiliates.

I'm sure that you do realize that if you do not have active members than you cannot build up a business, right?

Please don't put all of your focus on your inactive team members.

Yes, keep the communication open each week by sending your weekly group mails, because you do not know if one
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Affiliate since: 05/24/2017, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Forex's 136 other Ask SC answers

First of all, I wanted to say that I LOVE the way that you made that question.

Now, on to the answer to your question.

The truth is that you are 100% correct, it is impossible to build a successful SFI business with inactive affiliates & doubtful customers. It doesn't matter how great a plan, if you don't have people to help you implement it, it won't work.

For that reason I am saying, keep advertising. You see, if you have many inactive affiliates, you should keep on advertising so that you will attract the RIGHT affiliate. Marketing is a game of numbers; which means that if you continue marketing, someone will eventually be a winner.
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First of all, I wanted to say that I LOVE the way that you made that question.

Now, on to the answer to your question.

The truth is that you are 100% correct, it is impossible to build a successful SFI business with inactive affiliates & doubtful customers. It doesn't matter how great a plan, if you don't have people to help you implement it, it won't work.

For that reason I am saying, keep advertising. You see, if you have many inactive affiliates, you should
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