Affiliate since: 01/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read William's 32 other Ask SC answers

EA status is the key to SFI success!
You can invest in advertising while gaining VP towards your EA status in many ways:
Purchase PSA'a or even CSA's directly!
purchase "hits" form one of our ECA's
purchase S-Builder shares
use your T-Credits or awarded MRP to make your purchases.
a single T-Credit purchase won't get you much leverage but you can use the 102 vp to get to that magic 1500
or you can purchase a larger T-Credit pack and gain even more MRP and Action points by using them to bid, buy or play games, download great music etc and learn all or the great products that are available in SFI which earns you commissions and sales points when you include the proper gateways in your free or purchased advertising1
my advice do both in whichever way suit you but always maintain the EA status... EA2 is truly where it is at, when it come to your success!
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EA status is the key to SFI success!
You can invest in advertising while gaining VP towards your EA status in many ways:
Purchase PSA'a or even CSA's directly!
purchase "hits" form one of our ECA's
purchase S-Builder shares
use your T-Credits or awarded MRP to make your purchases.
a single T-Credit purchase won't get you much leverage but you can use the 102 vp to get to that magic 1500
or you can purchase a larger T-Credit pack and gain even more MRP
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

When starting out in SFI, I think you should take your time to do some learning first. As soon as you get the hand of what SFI is all about, then investing should be a major consideration.

I think your investment money should be equally divided between EA qualifying purchases and advertising. Both of these avenues of business building are just as important as each other.

Consider using PSAs to Go as a form of advertising and investing in this aspect of your business will bring you in team members who you can work with. Setting up a standing order for PSAs to go is a great form of advertising which can also qualify you for EA status.

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When starting out in SFI, I think you should take your time to do some learning first. As soon as you get the hand of what SFI is all about, then investing should be a major consideration.

I think your investment money should be equally divided between EA qualifying purchases and advertising. Both of these avenues of business building are just as important as each other.

Consider using PSAs to Go as a form of advertising and investing in this aspect of your business
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ma leticia's 62 other Ask SC answers

When starting out in SFI, the best is to treat SFI as your own home-based global business online. How would you treat a grocery or coffee shop business, if you are the business owner? You will both invest in start-up capital and in advertising your coffee shop, right? Otherwise, you have items for sale on the shelves but no customers to buy them.

You also do the same with your SFI business. In your first 10 days, your first investment is $20. You buy the New Member Pack (NMP) and become a Fast Track Member to enjoy the following benefits: 1) 250 VersaPoints; 2) 30 free entries in the Daily Grand drawing, 3) 10% Fast-Track bonus shares; 4) Exclusive Fast-Track badge.

The 2nd investment in your first 10 days is for setting up a Standing Order (SO) of any item with 1,500 VP. The most popular SO item is the 125 Pack TCredits, which can give you the following benefits: 1) Earn 1,500 Sales VP; 2) Earn 100 SO Bonus Action VP; 3) Additional 2 entries to the Daily Grand; 4) Use the 125 TCredits to bid at the Pricebenders Penny Auction and earn 125 Bid Bonus Action VP and 2 PSAs from Bid & Build; 5) Gold Fast- Track badge; 6) Immediately upgraded to EA2; 7) Receive 10 free bonus TCredits ($5.90 value) monthly starting immediately; 8) Start earning Eager Zebra Zackpot 10% matches, plus other valuable EA2 matches; 9) Your name and photo will be added to the Fast-Track Wall of Fame; 10) You will receive Fast Track Certificate; and 11) Fast-Track Member Lapel Pin.

The 3rd investment is for advertising your SFI & TripleClicks gateways to flow new Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA) into your downline and Personally Referred Members (PRM) into your TripleClicks store. I suggest that you include SBuilder and PSAs to Go in your Standing Order. You can also do free or paid advertising.

If you want to tap the jewel or gold mine in SFI’s compensation plan, invest in both advertising and in attaining your Diamond Team Leader rank as explained in “The Plan” at https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan

Dream Big! Aim High!

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When starting out in SFI, the best is to treat SFI as your own home-based global business online. How would you treat a grocery or coffee shop business, if you are the business owner? You will both invest in start-up capital and in advertising your coffee shop, right? Otherwise, you have items for sale on the shelves but no customers to buy them.

You also do the same with your SFI business. In your first 10 days, your first investment is $20. You buy the New Member Pack (NMP) and become
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Affiliate since: 01/23/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rob's 36 other Ask SC answers

Hi Ana!

It really depends on how you want to grow your business, but I believe the best investment is in the EA-qualifying purchase. This is because the greatest opportunity for income comes through sponsoring and duplication and, once a team leader, the matching VP shares of the Executive Pool for all of those in your downline. In order to get any of that at all - even just to get YOUR piece of the Executive Pool, you need to be EA. So it's very important to get EA as soon as possible in my opinion.

I suggest making sure you are EA (and encouraging others to do the same), and then invest in advertising after that based on what you have available to invest. (Because also you can always advertise for free through free internet ads, warm marketing, leaving cards and flyers around at places, etc., until you can afford to invest in some of the paid advertising methods).

So I always propose making sure you are EA first AND, even better, becoming fast track (so you get the 10% extra VP for you and all matching VP shares in the Executive Pool).

Hope this helps and have a wonderful week! :)

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Hi Ana!

It really depends on how you want to grow your business, but I believe the best investment is in the EA-qualifying purchase. This is because the greatest opportunity for income comes through sponsoring and duplication and, once a team leader, the matching VP shares of the Executive Pool for all of those in your downline. In order to get any of that at all - even just to get YOUR piece of the Executive Pool, you need to be EA. So it's very important to get EA as soon as
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Raymond's 64 other Ask SC answers

Hi Ana,

This is an excellent question, though not such an easy one to answer as both are important, and indeed, I would highly recommend both if your budget allowed.

But were I started over and had to choose, then without any hesitation, I would set myself up to quality for and remain qualified for EA status. This ensure that you have access to multiple income streams so that you can start earning a return on your investment while you are learning about building a team and being a team leader.

The nice thing about the internet is the fact too that there are numerous ways wherewith you can advertise your SFI business for free, so it is not necessary to invest in advertising right away.

I hope my answer has helped.
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Hi Ana,

This is an excellent question, though not such an easy one to answer as both are important, and indeed, I would highly recommend both if your budget allowed.

But were I started over and had to choose, then without any hesitation, I would set myself up to quality for and remain qualified for EA status. This ensure that you have access to multiple income streams so that you can start earning a return on your investment while you are learning about building a team and being
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 102 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

When starting out in SFI there are two things you need to consider if you are serious about building a successful SFI business.

You have a better start in SFI if you combine your investments in advertising for PSAs and in EA-qualifying purchases.

You invest in advertising to have PSAs to build a team. If you can do this, you stand a good chance of finding Workers early on, and help you with your plans and strategies.

At the same time you want to ensure that you qualify as an EA month after month by investing in an EA-qualifying purchase of TC product, such as the very popular choice of 125 TCredit Pack for standing order. You then have 125 TCredits to use for bidding at auctions. With the improvements made on Bid & Build, you can earn more PSAs to add to your team, in addition to the VPs, MRPs and Flash Drawing win of 4 TCredits. With extra TCredits, you can also enjoy the new Card King game, as well as the other Eager Zebra games, or purchase business-building TC products which will earn you 25 VP for review.

Do both, and good luck!


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When starting out in SFI there are two things you need to consider if you are serious about building a successful SFI business.

You have a better start in SFI if you combine your investments in advertising for PSAs and in EA-qualifying purchases.

You invest in advertising to have PSAs to build a team. If you can do this, you stand a good chance of finding Workers early on, and help you with your plans and strategies.

At the same time you want to ensure that you
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Obviously, every answer to this question will be someone's personal opinion!

I think it's better to invest in an EA qualifying purchase, and here is why ...

Becoming EA (and then going on to become a Team Leader) is an important part of progressing in the SFI business. If you're going to encourage your new PSAs to maintain EA rank, you need to first lead by example, and that means being an EA yourself.

The simplest way to guarantee your EA rank every month is to set up a standing order for 1,500VP at TripleClicks. This means you become EA automatically when your standing order processes. You don't have to think about it, and you don't have to spend time searching for ways to earn those last few VP at the end of the month.

That leaves you time to focus on building your SFI business through free methods. There are lots of ways to market for free, and they include forum marketing, article marketing and social networking. You don't need paid advertising to build your team (although it is a time saver if you have money to spend but very little time). I have several active PSAs, and all but one have come from free advertising methods.

Once you have started to build a team and your commissions are enough to cover your standing order, you can start to reinvest your commissions in paid advertising to build your team faster.
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Obviously, every answer to this question will be someone's personal opinion!

I think it's better to invest in an EA qualifying purchase, and here is why ...

Becoming EA (and then going on to become a Team Leader) is an important part of progressing in the SFI business. If you're going to encourage your new PSAs to maintain EA rank, you need to first lead by example, and that means being an EA yourself.

The simplest way to guarantee your EA rank every month is to
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Affiliate since: 09/30/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read James 's 13 other Ask SC answers

To make an income in SFI you have to be EA2 at least to even start making a small profit and do not expect to make an income fast as it all takes time.
But I see no reason why you cannot do both at the same time.
In the first month you can qualify EA just by completing your initial training, so I would recommend that you advertise your business with all the funds that you have available or purchase PSA's to go or PSA;s from other source with any money you have available.
Don’t forget the fast track program; it is worth its weight in gold with 10 % extra in the Triple clicks pool. Which is income for life?
In subsequent months ensure that you reach at least EA2 preferably a TL rank, If you make purchases of T Credits and other advertising through Triple clicks you get MRP you can purchase single T credits for 126 MRP which will give you 104 VP. 15 T credits will allow you maintain EA status.
ECA’s sell various advertising mediums throughout the internet, web page traffic, traditional advertising and don’t forget S Builder Co-op which gives VP and adverting for 72 cents a day.
So in conclusion I would like to say do both, through triple clicks you can both advertise your business opportunity and get you qualifying VP for EA status

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To make an income in SFI you have to be EA2 at least to even start making a small profit and do not expect to make an income fast as it all takes time.
But I see no reason why you cannot do both at the same time.
In the first month you can qualify EA just by completing your initial training, so I would recommend that you advertise your business with all the funds that you have available or purchase PSA's to go or PSA;s from other source with any money you have available.
Don’t forget
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2008, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olusola's 92 other Ask SC answers

Advertising as an Affiliate is one of the major activities that generates income in SFI. EA is a minimum rank any serious Affiliate should maintain. Actually, becoming an EA as well as advertising should not be mutually exclusive. They suppose to go pari passu, that is hand in hand (together).

To be able to arrive at a conclusion, let's briefly consider the benefits of being an Executive Affiliate especially Executive Affiliate 2 (EA2):


1. Earning from TripleClicks Executive Pool. Each time an affiliate becomes Executive Affiliate after the first month (EA2), he automatically qualifies to earn each VersaPoint (VP) he accumulates during the month.

2. Allocation of Co-Sponsored Affiliates (CSA). EA2 qualifies you to earn 2 CSA every month.

3. Earning from Co-Sponsored Affiliates. 15% of CV from many CSA could become so significant.

4. Earning of 10 Free TCredits.

5. You enjoy better perks at SFI. Your access to SFI tools and resources are widened when you maintain EA2 status.

6. Achieving EA2 through placing a Standing Order (SO) gives many extra benefits.
If you are E365 finalist, you qualify for the drawing everyday without need to pick up 10 VP required otherwise.

7. Your Executive Affiliate status every month is good direction for your downline to follow.

8. Executive Affiliate status gives you the foundation of becoming a Team Leader.

If you are only spending on advertising you'll lose all of these! Also, when you get sign ups from your ads and they see you're just an Affiliate, many of them may not be motivated to press further to becoming EA or Team Leader. Example!

However, it is advertising that bring in Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA) and Personally Referred Members (PRM) that generates income for you.

The wise thing is to find a way to balance advertising and becoming EA. You can choose advertising purchases e.g S-Builder shares and look for a means to make it up to 1500 VP from other actions and small purchases.

Your sure bet is to invest in advertising on your way to becoming EA. That's winning from both ends!

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Advertising as an Affiliate is one of the major activities that generates income in SFI. EA is a minimum rank any serious Affiliate should maintain. Actually, becoming an EA as well as advertising should not be mutually exclusive. They suppose to go pari passu, that is hand in hand (together).

To be able to arrive at a conclusion, let's briefly consider the benefits of being an Executive Affiliate especially Executive Affiliate 2 (EA2):


1. Earning from TripleClicks Executive
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

First, I believe I would be sure to buy a New Member Pack (NMP) - which carries an automatic EA qualifying 1500VPs - within my first 10 days with SFI. During this time you will learn about the value of NMP as well as about the value of a Standing Order (SO).

Among other things, NMP will give you some benefits that will last your entire career with SFI, even though it is a one-time purchase at the $20US price. SO is an easy way to maintain your EA2 status (minimum qualifying purchase is 1500SVPs) thereafter. Most affiliates include 125Pak of TCredits (1500VP, $36.25US) as part of their SO as TCs are a currency in TripleClicks enabling you to bid auctions, play games, and/or make purchases, among other things.

Once you have your NMP in place, spend rest of first calendar month learning SFI system by reading as much of the training materials in LaunchPad lessons and black tabs across middle of SFI pages as you can. All the information you need to proceed successfully are contained therein.

As you read and learn, begin to explore the trainings about advertising, and search "Advertising" in AskSC also as there have been many questions on the subject. When you are ready, begin advertising.

Suggest you set your SO shipping date for 1st of month so you will always have your EA2 working for you!

Best of success to you and your team!!:))...


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First, I believe I would be sure to buy a New Member Pack (NMP) - which carries an automatic EA qualifying 1500VPs - within my first 10 days with SFI. During this time you will learn about the value of NMP as well as about the value of a Standing Order (SO).

Among other things, NMP will give you some benefits that will last your entire career with SFI, even though it is a one-time purchase at the $20US price. SO is an easy way to maintain your EA2 status (minimum qualifying purchase
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