Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi there, I would personally suggest you allow your ECA to have more exposure, prior to shipping internationally. If you have the means of course to provide for your anticipated customer base, by all means, Ship Internationally.

This will require alot of work on your part, in determining:

-Cost to ship product based on particular weight of item
-Cost to ship product to a particular location
-Are other charges associated with regions you want to offer services to? Ie: remote, transfer, storage, etc.
Are your international customers willing to pay the prices associated with shipping charges of your products?

All this will have to be determined, or more based on your personal and particular business situation.

Good Luck
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Hi there, I would personally suggest you allow your ECA to have more exposure, prior to shipping internationally. If you have the means of course to provide for your anticipated customer base, by all means, Ship Internationally.

This will require alot of work on your part, in determining:

-Cost to ship product based on particular weight of item
-Cost to ship product to a particular location
-Are other charges associated with regions you want to offer services to?
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Affiliate since: 07/25/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jacob's 23 other Ask SC answers

Hi Tricia,

First part of the question
Motivation is very important for all members of our team. This is something that every leader needs to do. First be self-motivated, discover your inner strength that will lead you to the desired goal
First you should be an example to them by becoming a team leader and more and doing your daily, weekly, monthly goals and to be sure to set to set a time limit for the execution of objectives! It helps to that fire burning, to keep your downline from quitting and giving up on SFI.
You must always contact them via mail, chat and be willing to help them who ask for help. When they need information or guidance you must always be there to help them. The faster you answer them the more credible you become and will probably stay because of the genuine service they get.
You must give them gift certificate, Incentive for the go getter. Make a monthly promotion and reward them with TCredits .
You should show them the benefits chart of the specific benefits of each level of SFI-. More points= bigger pay-outs, better perks and more power.


Second part of the question

If you are fairly new ECA then it advisable to limit shipping to your region while your business grows. The reason being:

Purchaser always looks for products with very minimal or free shipping charges.
For example: if the cost of product is say $5 and shipping cost is $15. Will he be ready to buy that product of course “no”, he will opt for some local ECA.

Local customers can choose to pick up the order at your store instead of pay for shipping?
Shipping cost will be very less or nil.

There is also ‘will call’ option for local pickups of The ECA orders.

Once your business grows and get fairly better idea about ECA and shipping then you can make a strategy and find out cost of shipping of your various products to go international.


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Hi Tricia,

First part of the question
Motivation is very important for all members of our team. This is something that every leader needs to do. First be self-motivated, discover your inner strength that will lead you to the desired goal
First you should be an example to them by becoming a team leader and more and doing your daily, weekly, monthly goals and to be sure to set to set a time limit for the execution of objectives! It helps to that fire burning, to keep your downline
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Affiliate since: 11/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ophelia's 15 other Ask SC answers

I think it depends. It depends on the type of products or items you are selling. If your product is UNIQUE and you think people anywhere in the world will like it, will benefit from it, and it is not so heavy or bulky to ship, then probably, you can offer it internationally. And digital items like ebooks, services that can be done online like website designing can be offered internationally.

Basic and common items like soaps, apparel,household products and the like should be offered locally because these items are mostly cheap or affordable but adding the cost of shipping will make it expensive.

Shipping cost and handling is something you need to consider when you will sell internationally.
Maybe for a start, you can sell locally first to test the demand for your products.



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I think it depends. It depends on the type of products or items you are selling. If your product is UNIQUE and you think people anywhere in the world will like it, will benefit from it, and it is not so heavy or bulky to ship, then probably, you can offer it internationally. And digital items like ebooks, services that can be done online like website designing can be offered internationally.

Basic and common items like soaps, apparel,household products and the like should be offered locally
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abdulquadir's 7 other Ask SC answers

For a fairly new ECA, my recommendation will be to limit shipping to your region pending when you will be familiar with the different rates to different zones and regions.

Besides, limiting shipping to your region will also mean that you will have to work hard within the region by marketing and creating awareness on TripleClicks. You have to make people within your region cultivate the habit of doing their shopping online and with TripleClicks rather that conventional shops.

This may help you enlist as many as possible in your region on SFI as PSAs which will equally generate VersaPoints and matching VersaPoints. That will mean killing several birds with one stone.

Hope this helps a little.
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For a fairly new ECA, my recommendation will be to limit shipping to your region pending when you will be familiar with the different rates to different zones and regions.

Besides, limiting shipping to your region will also mean that you will have to work hard within the region by marketing and creating awareness on TripleClicks. You have to make people within your region cultivate the habit of doing their shopping online and with TripleClicks rather that conventional shops.

This
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Tricia.

It is better to ship internationally. Your business will grow up faster and is easier to reach customers. If you limit your sale locally, customers from the rest of the world will realize that you can not buy in your ECA and will never look back at your store. No matter how high-quality product you offering, your business will grow much more slowly. Sales worldwide costs you nothing (customer will be paying for the shipping). I do not see why you would limit sale locally. Only if you sell something that is not profitable to pay for delivery (eg. furniture). In any other case it is better to ship internationally.

I hope that my answer will be helpful.

Sincerely
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Hi Tricia.

It is better to ship internationally. Your business will grow up faster and is easier to reach customers. If you limit your sale locally, customers from the rest of the world will realize that you can not buy in your ECA and will never look back at your store. No matter how high-quality product you offering, your business will grow much more slowly. Sales worldwide costs you nothing (customer will be paying for the shipping). I do not see why you would limit sale locally. Only
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Before you can even offer your products to overseas customers you have to make sure you've got all your ducks in a row regarding shipping costs. Also you have to make sure you do not break any laws and stay within the rules of the countries you plan to export to.

If you have a well researched plan and you know exactly what your obstacles will be and you have a plan to solve any problems that might pop up - you are ready to spread your wings and start exporting.

If fear is part of why you are not exporting yet - shake if off by doing your homework / research. This will give you the knowledge to make a good decision for you and your business.

Good luck
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Before you can even offer your products to overseas customers you have to make sure you've got all your ducks in a row regarding shipping costs. Also you have to make sure you do not break any laws and stay within the rules of the countries you plan to export to.

If you have a well researched plan and you know exactly what your obstacles will be and you have a plan to solve any problems that might pop up - you are ready to spread your wings and start exporting.

If fear is part
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 132 | Read GT's 63 other Ask SC answers

Hi, Tricia:

My opinion is if you are new to Internet Marketing, then get some experience marketing within your region before you branch out further.

In addition to giving you some experience, it will also help you to build your confidence as well as your ability to deal effectively with any challenges that may come up, including "customer service" when buyers have questions or issues.

Eventually, you will definitely want to include marketing beyond your region. All in due time! :-)
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Hi, Tricia:

My opinion is if you are new to Internet Marketing, then get some experience marketing within your region before you branch out further.

In addition to giving you some experience, it will also help you to build your confidence as well as your ability to deal effectively with any challenges that may come up, including "customer service" when buyers have questions or issues.

Eventually, you will definitely want to include marketing beyond your
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Affiliate since: 11/08/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Johnny's 264 other Ask SC answers

Well I would say that being a fairly new ECA it will be a better option to embark on a local PIck UP service coupled with shipping regionally as well as ship out internationally especially work out with reliable drop shippers who can offer free international shipping all at the same time making the best of both worlds and learn from it as the business start to pick up.that is learn and go .

We must do the necessary due diligence and research to check out the best postal and shipments rates with the optimum lead time arrival to the various destinations so that we can offer the best deal to all .

However the decision lies with you whether you wanna opt for local and regional shipments first before going for shipping globally so do your sums and do try it out one way or the other

All the best and see you at the top
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Well I would say that being a fairly new ECA it will be a better option to embark on a local PIck UP service coupled with shipping regionally as well as ship out internationally especially work out with reliable drop shippers who can offer free international shipping all at the same time making the best of both worlds and learn from it as the business start to pick up.that is learn and go .

We must do the necessary due diligence and research to check out the best postal and shipments
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This question depends primarily on the range of products that you offer for sale. Whether it is a physical product, or those that are easy to send by mail (e-books, manuals, web sites, enabling traffic to your SFI link, etc.)

Furthermore, much depends on the cost of shipping the product, if the price increases the cost of products that are sent overseas (outside country of origin), of course it is much better for those who still have not made a decent profit by selling through its ECA, of course it is better to distribute their products locally, because that automatically means low cost of shipment.

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This question depends primarily on the range of products that you offer for sale. Whether it is a physical product, or those that are easy to send by mail (e-books, manuals, web sites, enabling traffic to your SFI link, etc.)

Furthermore, much depends on the cost of shipping the product, if the price increases the cost of products that are sent overseas (outside country of origin), of course it is much better for those who still have not made a decent profit by selling through its ECA,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I would say to make your shipping international from the start if you are familiar with international shipping. The one thing that I would add is that the shipping prices tend to be a deterrent, so, depending on your business, you may want to maybe start with international shipping for items where you can remove the shipping costs.
As an electronic seller, it was easy for me, but I have seen quite a few ECA around shipping non-electronic products internationally for free and that is a lot more appealing. You do not have to do so for all your products but to some only, in order to not push some potential buyers away.
Wishing you great sales!
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I would say to make your shipping international from the start if you are familiar with international shipping. The one thing that I would add is that the shipping prices tend to be a deterrent, so, depending on your business, you may want to maybe start with international shipping for items where you can remove the shipping costs.
As an electronic seller, it was easy for me, but I have seen quite a few ECA around shipping non-electronic products internationally for free and that is a lot more
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