Affiliate since: 12/18/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Manohar's 240 other Ask SC answers

Dear Mary

Thanks for asking such a nice question. How do I allocate my time for SFI and Triple Clicks is as under:

1. Just after login I read the ‘Alerts’ and roughly browse through the page (in one minute). Then I visit Forum to read at least 1-2 interesting threads (in about 10 minuets) and finally click on Blue Tab to get an additional Daily Grand entry.

2. I go to “To-do-List” and read the info on “Tip of the Day”. I copy the whole page and paste it in a separate folder to read it thoroughly. Its an important page for me. (5 minutes)

3. Steam tab is important for reading Gery's & Stone Evans tips along with various updates from different affiliates. (2 minutes)

4. Triple clicks is for New Products, Deal of the Day, Close outs etc. & for bidding on various items (it may consume my time depending upon bidding – 10 minutes to 30 minuets)

5. I take about 2-3 minutes to check my Score Board. See how much more points are needed for qualifying at least BTL.

6. A2A takes only 30 seconds to check if you need to connect with some one on some one wants to connect with you.

7. Movers is the place to communicate with your down line and is the most important tab. I devote maximum time here (may be I hour)

8. Then about I hour is devoted to Asc_SC to learn more about SFI and answer some question if I can.

9. Now coming to advertising, frankly speaking no much time is left for advertising although it’s the most important job for the newbies. I depend on S-Builder Co-op and CSAs from being a BTL.

Hope it helps
Success to you all !!

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Dear Mary

Thanks for asking such a nice question. How do I allocate my time for SFI and Triple Clicks is as under:

1. Just after login I read the ‘Alerts’ and roughly browse through the page (in one minute). Then I visit Forum to read at least 1-2 interesting threads (in about 10 minuets) and finally click on Blue Tab to get an additional Daily Grand entry.

2. I go to “To-do-List” and read the info on “Tip of the Day”. I copy the whole page and paste
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

First off I don't normally say great question but this one is exceptional.

For me personally I try to spend at least 1 hour doing my daily task and contributing to the forum each day. Often I spend more than that because in addition to developing my personal brand and building strong relationships with my peers it teaches me to be a better leader and keeps me in practice of being helpful to others.

Along the way I learn something new every day, which gives me even more great things to share.

I spend at least twice what I do inside SFI in marketing my business by building social media connections and writing new blog post for one of my blogs or social profiles. Every piece of content created is a new door into my shop that feeds my business with traffic. I also spend some of that time reading post and learning trends and new information from thousands of peers.

I spend a bit of time creating advertising.

Most don't know that Advertising and Marketing are two different things but advertisement is like saying here I am and marketing is educating people about who we are. You can't build a relationship through a banner or single e-mail, on a classified ad site, or on a billboard but you can bring interested people into your place of business to learn more about you, your business, your products.

I spend maybe 15% and sometimes 20% of my day advertising and at least twice that nurturing these new relationships through social gatherings, blog post, newsletters, and training events. That's marketing and it's more important than any advertisement because ads do not build trust or expand knowledge.
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First off I don't normally say great question but this one is exceptional.

For me personally I try to spend at least 1 hour doing my daily task and contributing to the forum each day. Often I spend more than that because in addition to developing my personal brand and building strong relationships with my peers it teaches me to be a better leader and keeps me in practice of being helpful to others.

Along the way I learn something new every day, which gives me even more great
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Joseph's 53 other Ask SC answers

To spend time for SFI and TripleClicks is not consistent and it depends on individual situation and working environment. Time is very precious to everyone and we have to be very smart in allocating our time, to divide our time to do in our daily task in our life. Everybody is busy with their full-time career and this is considered we have to manage our time. We have 24 hours a day. Working hours sometime 8 to 10 hours and time managements are very important here.
 
I can say that I always login to SFI every hour. My upline and my downline can see my Chart bars (SFIIM) always in online status. My tablet and my cell phone are always in my hands, wherever I go, I never left those things behind and that is why SFI is easy to do. My SFI office is in my hands and everywhere.
 
Allocate time for SFI - Every single day, I try to select the best or free time, which is sometime in the morning, afternoon, break time, evening or night time to log in to SFI.
 
1. Allocate time for SFI Daily task.
-Mostly I spent 15 minutes to 30 minutes for Daily task to earn 12 VersaPoints which needed fasts and quick review for one time. After spending 30 minutes, I notice which part of the daily tasks I need to focus make a small note and I will be back to set it or to be continued after 1 hour when I have free time for the day.
-And 30 minutes at VersaPoints Ledger and this is to make sure that my entire task is completely especially in Weekly Action.
 
2. Allocate time for SFI marketing.
-Marketing is never a completely spontaneous activity. By its very nature, communication with target audiences requires a level of knowledge (stemming from data and insight) about what the audience wants and how the product or service offered meets their needs. This :-) processing of knowledge to decide on how to engage with audiences cannot happen to planning. Any calculation or assessment, whether doby man or machine, requires some time periods to be executed.
- But the advent of new technology has meant that marketers are now looking to do this calculation and assessment near instantaneously, in order to benefit from the fact that their target audiences are now always on and always connected. I recommend spending time always is the better for your business strategy.
 
3. Allocate time for my SFI training.
-For me, time for training is, by the time I received them, I have to make sure that they are responding to my message such as SFIIM, email or other message and of course this is need really need a very fine job to do. Training and personal development is important as it stimulates new affiliates by making them learn new skills, and keeping them interested over a longer term. Mostly I spent 1 to 2 hours a day of training a session which is separate time categories.
 
4. Allocate time for communications in SFI.
-SFIIM depends on the event, Team mail, Stream Post. . - If you are sponsoring PSA or CSAs, by the time you receive them, this will take time to welcome them one by one. Mostly I spent 3 hours to communicate with them. This is to ensure that you are really welcome them to your team. I will stay focus to answer their question, if they shoot me a lot of questions about SFI.
 
5. Allocate time for TripleClicks.
-Allocate time for TripleClicks is almost the same as per above. You can do window shopping survey while you are surfing in SFI too. That said mean you can open more than 3 tabs at a time and this is how I do to save my time. Unless I participate in the Auction or many TripleClicks Eager Zebra Games, then I stand to focus for many hours especially day off until I win in auction.
 
This is all I have to do until many years to come.  You never count how much time you need to do, if you are willing to do.
 
Good luck
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To spend time for SFI and TripleClicks is not consistent and it depends on individual situation and working environment. Time is very precious to everyone and we have to be very smart in allocating our time, to divide our time to do in our daily task in our life. Everybody is busy with their full-time career and this is considered we have to manage our time. We have 24 hours a day. Working hours sometime 8 to 10 hours and time managements are very important here.
 
I can say that I
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Affiliate since: 09/17/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Julito's 20 other Ask SC answers

This is a very interestung question. The answer varies depending on ones priority. I will answer this according to what I do in different stages.

STAGE 1. As a newbie for 10 days. 90% SFI, 10% TC
When I first joined SFI, I almost spend my time doing tge basics, reading, training myself, doing the daily, weekly and monthly tasks. I seldom visit Tripleclicks, except when I need to open my Tconnect page to get points and check new products.

STAGE 2. As a motivated Affiliate. 60% SFI, 40% TC
After a few days, I became motivated and earned my next level (EA) in few days. Registered with wave3 and learned about playing Ganes and participating in Auctions.

STaGE 3. As a serious entrepreneur. 40% SFI, 60% TC
After a month with SFI, I saw a big opportunity to earn, not only by accumulating points and duplication, but also by tapping on the business opportunity of setting up your own store in TripleClicks by posting Member Listings.

As for the follow up question, here are my answers.
1. Marketing - 20%, this can be done one time by settung up your own Website or Blog
2. Training - 40 %, this is a never ending process, as we need to learn new things with the fast changing technology and innovations.
3. Communications - 40% equally important as training, as we need to constant communication and contact with our PSA, CSA and leaders if we intend to build a strong and robust team.


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This is a very interestung question. The answer varies depending on ones priority. I will answer this according to what I do in different stages.

STAGE 1. As a newbie for 10 days. 90% SFI, 10% TC
When I first joined SFI, I almost spend my time doing tge basics, reading, training myself, doing the daily, weekly and monthly tasks. I seldom visit Tripleclicks, except when I need to open my Tconnect page to get points and check new products.

STAGE 2. As a motivated Affiliate.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Two good questions. The answers will vary slightly depending on your circumstances, but here's what I do, and it seems to work for me.

Question 1;

The first thing I do when I log in to SFI is complete my regular tasks to gather my VP, send out any group mails I have planned for that day, and check my MOVERS list, to look for changes in activity patterns, so I can contact those involved and offer a hand if needed, or just a word of encouragement. If there is any other business to take care of at that point I do it.

Then I send out any scheduled training emails that are due to be sent to my newest PSAs, and respond to any emails received from my downline. The rest of my time is spent marketing, checking my email several times during the day for any new developments, and responding ASAP.

Question 2;

The percentage of your time you spend on each task depends on where you are on your journey with SFI. At first, I spent 90% of my time on self-improvement, and 10% setting up a marketing strategy. As I gained confidence in my understanding of the system, those numbers changed, spending less time on self-improvement and more on marketing, until they were completely reversed - 10% on self-improvement, and 90% on marketing.

When I start getting new PSAs, training and communication entered the equation. It eventually settled down to the following, (varying slightly from day to day);

10% self-improvement/admin
20% communication
20% training
50% marketing (split evenly between SFI and TripleClicks).

Hope this helps.
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Two good questions. The answers will vary slightly depending on your circumstances, but here's what I do, and it seems to work for me.

Question 1;

The first thing I do when I log in to SFI is complete my regular tasks to gather my VP, send out any group mails I have planned for that day, and check my MOVERS list, to look for changes in activity patterns, so I can contact those involved and offer a hand if needed, or just a word of encouragement. If there is any other business
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Mary, I will tell you what I do. Not for everyone but adjust it to suit yourself. I treat my SFI business as though it was my career. I will not use the word Job as I think Job means you are going out to work for someone else.

My career is my lifeline. My income. The way I will be looking after my family. I need to dedicate both time and some money to it to make it work. Now if you were going out to a Job, you would need possibly a uniform (Costs money) and fares to and from work (Costs more money). So inputting a little money into SFI is not all that bad.

Back to the important task of time. I divide my day into 2 parts. I spend 3 hours every morning doing something with SFI. It could be messaging my team to tell them something important. Updating my website. Drafting my Newsletter. Reading the SFI daily news. Going through the Internet Income Lessons and checking out what is going on at TripleClicks and more. Then I have a few hours off.

In the afternoon, I spend another 3 hours and this is mostly playing games but also includes (between games) answering emails from my team and anything else I didn’t get around to in the morning.

I am spending around 6 hours daily on my SFI business. It is satisfying and income earning. It is also very flexible. I can suit the hours I work. I can have a day off at any time by activating my Vacation Mode. I can increase or reduce the hours I work to suit myself and what I have to do.

SFI is just so very flexible and can be adjusted to suit everybody. Just make a list of things which you think you need to do. Allocate a time next to each one, say 10 to 15 minutes and then tick them off when you have done it. There is nothing so satisfying as seeing your business building succeeding.

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Hello Mary, I will tell you what I do. Not for everyone but adjust it to suit yourself. I treat my SFI business as though it was my career. I will not use the word Job as I think Job means you are going out to work for someone else.

My career is my lifeline. My income. The way I will be looking after my family. I need to dedicate both time and some money to it to make it work. Now if you were going out to a Job, you would need possibly a uniform (Costs money)
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I allocate time for SFI and Tripleclicks this way: first thing in the morning I get my to do list out of the way and make sure I vote on 30 ASK SC questions. This only takes me 10-15 minutes if I say focused and do not allow disturbances.

Later on during the day either in the morning or afternoon (I always keep my schedule flexible) I will take time to advertise: FB, twitter, pinterest. Not too many say: three groups on FB, 2-3 tweets on Twitter, 2-3 pics on pinterest. I alternate one of these a day although my preference is ... well twitter is definitely a tie with FB now:) I also take time to do TE. I have five different sites and I usually alternate three of them since I have two favorites:) This takes me longer because it's manual and I don't see purchasing traffic as valuable to me right now as purchasing PSA's. When I have 5PSA's in EA2 or BTL2 I will consider purchasing traffic. This in total is approximately an hour-2hours depending on focus and discipline.

Training and communications take me half an hour (an hour in one week), but that's because I already spent several hours on the emails I send in the first 24hrs, the emails I send to them in the first week about what I do to be successful in SFI, and than there's my weekly newsletter. I like to keep things simple so I'm not requiring them to walk into info overload, but I like to ask them to keep my emails for when they are ready to read it if they're not ready when they receive it.

I'm real big on keeping things as simple as possible and as flexible as possible because life is really good at throwing curve balls and the faster we can respond to them the greater the chance of us using it to create an awesome opportunity and the less chance we are of getting hurt:)

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I allocate time for SFI and Tripleclicks this way: first thing in the morning I get my to do list out of the way and make sure I vote on 30 ASK SC questions. This only takes me 10-15 minutes if I say focused and do not allow disturbances.

Later on during the day either in the morning or afternoon (I always keep my schedule flexible) I will take time to advertise: FB, twitter, pinterest. Not too many say: three groups on FB, 2-3 tweets on Twitter, 2-3 pics on pinterest. I alternate one
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

It's fair to say that when I get onto SFI and TripleClicks to perform my daily, weekly, and monthly actions, it generally takes about an hour--two if there are new Ask SC questions to answer. The rest of of my time will vary depend on what else I have going on in my life. I mention most of the products and TripleClicks itself in the process of my day because I frequently meet people who will enjoy aspects that I do. I also know that this will also generate commissions for me, which is the bulk of my income. I personally don't have a great number of affiliates, which means that I don't have to spend a great deal of time on them (although of course I train them and show them some of the things I do).

I do spend a great deal of my time promoting away from the computer--putting up fliers, giving out gift cards, and so on, but for the most part, I make that incidental to what I'm doing during the day. I find that I enjoy this more when I take this type of leisurely pace... and it also makes me look and feel all the more free and abundant, which nets me that much more interest.
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It's fair to say that when I get onto SFI and TripleClicks to perform my daily, weekly, and monthly actions, it generally takes about an hour--two if there are new Ask SC questions to answer. The rest of of my time will vary depend on what else I have going on in my life. I mention most of the products and TripleClicks itself in the process of my day because I frequently meet people who will enjoy aspects that I do. I also know that this will also generate commissions for me, which is the bulk
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Affiliate since: 09/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Priya's 6 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

The 3 things that you have mentioned is the key to each and every affiliate's success. Marketing, Training and Communications. I will also add "Sales" to this.

Marketing, training and communication are all connected. You have to advertise to build your down-line. Once they are in, you need to train them and then have the communication channel open all the time.

For me, 25% time should be allocated to marketing, 50% time in training and 25% in communication. If you work 8 hours a day, 2 hours for Marketing, 4 hours training and 2 hours communicating to your down-line.

Getting people to join your team is easy. You can even buy PSAs from ECAs or from TripleClicks. As far as I am concerned, training the new joinees is the most difficult part. Making them understand the business and its potential, it's going to be tough. I do not think anybody will disagree with me in this. Constant communication with your down-line and supporting them is another major task and have to devote equal amount of time as marketing. Reason being, only one or two out of 100 will be active. So the conversion rate will be <=2%.

As you can see, hundreds and thousands of affiliates are joining SFI every day. So the competition will also be tight. So converting the leads that you are getting as well as supporting your team and helping them succeed are the key things that we need to do.

If we want to succeed, then we have to do all these 3 things diligently. Day in and day out..

Hope this helps.

All the best!

Thanks

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Hi,

The 3 things that you have mentioned is the key to each and every affiliate's success. Marketing, Training and Communications. I will also add "Sales" to this.

Marketing, training and communication are all connected. You have to advertise to build your down-line. Once they are in, you need to train them and then have the communication channel open all the time.

For me, 25% time should be allocated to marketing, 50% time in training and 25% in communication.
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

I cannot answer this without first declaring that I do not have a regular job for 3 years I was disabled and now I am retired. So the “hours” I spend building my SFI Business cannot be copied unless someone has the same freedom of time as I do.

At the moment most of my time is spent on acquiring new affiliates. This will be my top priority until I have a large active team in my down-lines. I could easily state that at least 50% of my time is spent on marketing for new affiliates.

I use two different times for training – The first one is my personal training – which is accomplished by reading pertinent information pertaining to Internet Marketing and SFI training articles, and forum questions and answers as well as Ask SC questions and answers.
The second time is for the training of my team which is done through blog post and personal contact with affiliates who have asked questions of me during the day.

My communication is a mix through all the other activities that I participate in daily. By using the Stream, my leadership page, Ecards, weekly newsletters and personal contacting using affiliates email address. This takes upwards of 15% of my free time.

My activities with TripleClicks is broken up through; product browsing, ECA visiting, purchasing products – Giving out W3 cards and Gift Cards and advertising for PRMs (Personal Referred Members) and ECAs (E-Commerce Associates)

Marketing – 50%
Personal & affiliate training – 20%
Communication – 15%
TripleClicks activities – 10%
Playing games – 5%

The values above are subject to change due to the variables that pertain to on-line marketing and only represent an approximate value as to the percentage of time used for each activity.

I allocate my time in three different sessions:

1. Somewhere around 2 ½ hours in the morning. On the SFI and TripleClicks site.

2. Approximately 3 hours mid-afternoon. My advertising time for Affiliates, ECAs and PRMs.

3. Another 1 or 2 hours in the evening. Checking movers list and contacting affiliates and other forms of communication with in SFI system.

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I cannot answer this without first declaring that I do not have a regular job for 3 years I was disabled and now I am retired. So the “hours” I spend building my SFI Business cannot be copied unless someone has the same freedom of time as I do.

At the moment most of my time is spent on acquiring new affiliates. This will be my top priority until I have a large active team in my down-lines. I could easily state that at least 50% of my time is spent on marketing for
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