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

Hey, Ritu Anand.

In retrospect, looking at my 15 months with SFI, my focus would have been completely different.

I believe strongly that success with SFI is derived from sponsoring, advertising, marketing and sales. It revolves around building a team and teaching its members the skills they need to duplicate our efforts. This is what I lacked when I started. This is what I would have done differently, with a focus to reframe the situation for a different outcome.

In my first four months, I developed, from my warm market, a core team who made it to the rank of BTLs. However, we all were inexperienced in team building and in duplication. Most of these affiliates were not able to make money fast and did not have the stamina and the drive to continue. They quit. I was not an experienced Team leader to show them the vision of SFI, vision I had, which gave me the strenght to continue. Had I had the ability to share that vision, I might have retained those affiliates.

I also wasted some time with affiliates who had neither commitment nor resources to be successful.

With the experience I have gained now, I would have found a way to avoid that.

Now I have rebuilt my team. I have EA2, BTLs and STLs. My focus is in three complementary aspects of business building and growth:
(1) helping these affiliate get confident in their ability to succeed and supporting them on a One-to-One basis;
(2) working to add new team members and providing them with similar support;
(3) giving greater attention to advertising, marketing and sales. Although the results may not be overnight, I am fully confident that my efforts will pay off soon handsomely.

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Hey, Ritu Anand.

In retrospect, looking at my 15 months with SFI, my focus would have been completely different.

I believe strongly that success with SFI is derived from sponsoring, advertising, marketing and sales. It revolves around building a team and teaching its members the skills they need to duplicate our efforts. This is what I lacked when I started. This is what I would have done differently, with a focus to reframe the situation for a different outcome.

In
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

I think all of us would be better equipped to do the business if we had to start over. Hindsight is always 20/20. For sure, most of us wasted too much time trying to figure it all out at once only to confused ourselves into inactivity. Learn then earn by application! One step at a time. SFI is solid. We can definitely rule out the question of validity when it comes to SFI. It took me years to make my first commission but now I've gotten several checks over $1000 from SFI. Now I'm not guaranteeing income, I'm just saying that there are too many affiliates who think they can't make money online because of that; they have no faith in themselves or SFI. They listen to what the skeptics say. They listen to what their friends think. But I submit to you, whose dream is it? Is it theirs or yours?

Get that fire down in your belly early on in your SFI journey for success and I guarantee you that you not only surpass what I've done in SFI, you will surpass your wildest expectations. SFI is just that powerful. But it is just like anything else. You have to put it all to work skillfully. For those that do, they reap the rewards of their labor. Those that don't wind up in the casualty pile of skeptics who blog and post about what should have been, could have been but never happened. Don't waste your time on that negative energy. Fuel your fire - Seize your success!
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I think all of us would be better equipped to do the business if we had to start over. Hindsight is always 20/20. For sure, most of us wasted too much time trying to figure it all out at once only to confused ourselves into inactivity. Learn then earn by application! One step at a time. SFI is solid. We can definitely rule out the question of validity when it comes to SFI. It took me years to make my first commission but now I've gotten several checks over $1000 from SFI. Now I'm not guaranteeing
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read John's 41 other Ask SC answers

Knowing what I know now about SFI I would do the following:

1. Immediately buy myself EA with a standing order of 125 T Credits. This would give me 1500 Sales VP and 100 Action VP. .Cost $36.25
2. I would then buy a fast track membership which would give me 500 Sales VP and 250 Action VP. Cost $20.00. So far 2000 Sales VP and 350 Action VP.
3. I would then confirm my registration - 150 Action VP, whitelist [email protected] - 100 AVP, and complete my affiliate profile - 75 AVP. So far 675 AVP.
4. I would do the daily actions on the To-Do List from Day 1 and weekly review of TConnect page and never miss from then on. Depending on the time of the month I joined this could be worth between 16 and 361 AVP.
5. I would not touch the balance of the To-Do List until Month 2.
6. I would use my TCredits on Pricebenders auctions, and playing zebra games. but only use enough of these to bring up 1000 AVP.
7. If still short of 1000 AVP,(unlikely) go into Launchpad but only read sufficient Launchpad articles to bring up 1000 AVP over all.

I AM NOW BRONZE TEAM LEADER IN MONTH 1.

I could go for STL at this point by raiding the To-Do List, but in hindsight, it is better to hang on to your AVP to maintain BTL in future months.

That gets me on the way if I have $56.25k to spend to start with. Most of our affiliates do not have this monoey.

In that case I would do:

(a) Items 3 & 4 above.
(b) Hunt around my home to see what I could sell on my TConnect Page.
(c) Investigate whether among my fiends, neighbours or colleagues, there were any artworks, artifacts, pottery etc that could supply a demand in the West
(d) Set up an ECA for yourself or your friends etc and sell these artifacts on it.
(e) Sponsor those friends etc.
(f) Use up the To-Do List until you have 1500 VP and stop.

I hope this helps all affiliates in their sponsoring.

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Knowing what I know now about SFI I would do the following:

1. Immediately buy myself EA with a standing order of 125 T Credits. This would give me 1500 Sales VP and 100 Action VP. .Cost $36.25
2. I would then buy a fast track membership which would give me 500 Sales VP and 250 Action VP. Cost $20.00. So far 2000 Sales VP and 350 Action VP.
3. I would then confirm my registration - 150 Action VP, whitelist [email protected] - 100 AVP, and complete my affiliate profile - 75 AVP.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Knowing *everything* I know now, there are several things that would have changed:

1) I would have concerned myself much less with earning as many VP as I could during the first six months because those VP disappear from your power ranking after six months, so they will not count toward your final E365 Power Ranking. To that end, I might even have saved some of those "getting started" actions as bonus points to use later, if I could.

2) I would have probably not jumped in "with both feet" until I had a better strategy for my ECA store because it takes some work to do it correctly. As it stands, I still have more that I honestly need to do with mine.

3) I would have also focused my spending at TripleClicks more on the other ECAs' merchandise and talked with them more about how they put their businesses together. This goes with #2), above, in terms of learning more about the business.

4) I would have spent more time reading the Internet Income lessons and other free information on the site before troubling myself with generating traffic because I would have been better able to target my traffic sooner that way, and I would have gotten more sales that way (and with them, more commissions).
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Knowing *everything* I know now, there are several things that would have changed:

1) I would have concerned myself much less with earning as many VP as I could during the first six months because those VP disappear from your power ranking after six months, so they will not count toward your final E365 Power Ranking. To that end, I might even have saved some of those "getting started" actions as bonus points to use later, if I could.

2) I would have probably not jumped
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Affiliate since: 02/15/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rhonda's 18 other Ask SC answers

If I were to start over in SFI what would I do different? Nothing!

I haven't been with SFI for very long but I believe so far I have followed most advice
given by the experts.

From the very beginning I logged in everyday, read and focused on what I was reading and applied what I had learned to starting my SFI business. I take notes and copy and save good advice, tips and strategies.

When I say I logged in everyday, I mean, I logged in and stayed logged in, a lot.

I went from Affiliate to Executive Affiliate (EA) within a week just by learning and acquiring VersaPoints (VP). As soon as I had advanced to EA, I purchased the New Member Pack (NMP). Got me some CSA's and 50 TCredits. I then went straight to Pricebenders and won me 50 more CSA's in an auction.

The more I learned about SFI, the more anxious I got. When I learned I could advance to EA2 within my first month just by setting up a Standing Order of 125 TCredits I jumped all in and got 1500 more VP. Now I really got me a team going cause I took those TCredits and went straight to Pricebenders and got me some PSA's with the bid&build. Oh yes and I forgot to mention my sponsor gave me a PSA for all my hard work.

I am posting ads, using traffic exchanges and other forms of advertising to gain PSA's. Now going into my third month I have purchased S-Builder. I decided to put my advertising efforts to promoting for ECA's and TripleClicks instead of PSA's. My plan is to have S-Builder build my team while I make sales and gain ECA's.

I play Eager Zebra games everyday and participate in all the contest. I have won T-Time many times because I enter at least 5 times a day (it only takes 20 seconds to enter). I have won Daily Crown several times and I am in the running for E365. I love reading in the forum, Ask SC and all my a2a friends.

I can not think of anything I would do differently. I have enjoyed my journey so far and hope to continue advancing right up to Diamond Team Leader.

Success To All...
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If I were to start over in SFI what would I do different? Nothing!

I haven't been with SFI for very long but I believe so far I have followed most advice
given by the experts.

From the very beginning I logged in everyday, read and focused on what I was reading and applied what I had learned to starting my SFI business. I take notes and copy and save good advice, tips and strategies.

When I say I logged in everyday, I mean, I logged in and stayed logged
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Affiliate since: 10/07/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Alvin's 86 other Ask SC answers

Question:
"If you were to start over with SFI, what would you do differently, knowing what you do now about this business?"

When thinking about doing this business differently, I can't help but remember how excited I was, and how I wanted to quickly learn the business. I completed Launchpad in one setting, Rules of Success in two days, and watched the video for "Getting Started".

I then began skimming and skipping around and like I had heard did myself a huge disfavor. If it had not been for the hints, tips, and alerts, I would probably still be at a huge disadvantage.

What I would do differently looking back, is to pace myself, learn in a more organized manner, and not skip around. I did regret not making "Fast Track" early on, but now that I look back and see what I was doing, deserved missing that opportunity at that time.

Now that I have established a budget, I would have done this sooner by developing my "Wishlist" much sooner, but kept putting this off because I had no concept of TripleClicks products or which to promote.

I would have used the search windows at the Affiliate Center and TripleClicks more often.

These search windows would have taught me where to find information I needed.

Then lastly, I would have asked my Sponsor what to focus on much earlier, and what was the immediate goal.

After I found out where to focus, and our immediate goal the business concept came into view automatically.

Thank you for allowing me to share.
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Question:
"If you were to start over with SFI, what would you do differently, knowing what you do now about this business?"

When thinking about doing this business differently, I can't help but remember how excited I was, and how I wanted to quickly learn the business. I completed Launchpad in one setting, Rules of Success in two days, and watched the video for "Getting Started".

I then began skimming and skipping around and like I had heard did myself
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I started and quit three times before I actually caught on what was going on and that I actually knew what I was doing well enough to become a success with SFI.

The key honestly is to never ever give up. It doesn't matter how smart, dumb, intelligent, stupid you think you are. Sometimes being smart or intelligent in this business is a huge obstacle. Be willing to do something (advertise if you can't think of anything else because advertising does more help than anything else and will never hurt your business) everyday. Add to it. SFI has multiple income streams available to us.

The other important lesson I learned: it's not about becoming rich or working your way to earning a six figure income. It's about what you are learning daily and who you are becoming on your journey.

As for your question it's a habit for me to automatically implement what I learn as I go so every time I started over I implemented what I learned. I have to think about what are the specifics of what I learned...that's how automatic it has become for me. I think the biggest lesson for me to learn was the importance of the forum. It's still difficult, but it's a habit. Now.
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I started and quit three times before I actually caught on what was going on and that I actually knew what I was doing well enough to become a success with SFI.

The key honestly is to never ever give up. It doesn't matter how smart, dumb, intelligent, stupid you think you are. Sometimes being smart or intelligent in this business is a huge obstacle. Be willing to do something (advertise if you can't think of anything else because advertising does more help than anything else and will
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I would have done differently in this way:

1. I would have logged in, on the day one, done daily activities and got VPs.
Actually I wasted 5 or 6 days initially.
Everyday, I use to open the site, see the red tag saying these many points you're below the green line. Didn't know what to do. Log out.
Next day I used to log in, expecting something should have happen automatically or magically that red line won't be there for me.
2. After a week or so, I emerged into action slowly reading, performing activities on red tabs, started getting VPs.
3. I lost the Fast Track. I had so many hurdles technical and personal accident. I became an EA on 11th or 12th day of joining.
I would have entered with Gold Fast Track.
4. I would have placed a Standing Order of 125 TCredits.
5. I would have planned a S-Builder coop.
6. All these I tried and failed because of my bank card.
7. Thru S-Builder Coop, I would have developed a better team.
8. I distributed gift cards, so far only two have utilized them out of 60.
9. I would have followed them frequently to remind them to redeem.
10. I introduced many ECAs, but they are yet to get approval. I would have followed them, as well as SFI.
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I would have done differently in this way:

1. I would have logged in, on the day one, done daily activities and got VPs.
Actually I wasted 5 or 6 days initially.
Everyday, I use to open the site, see the red tag saying these many points you're below the green line. Didn't know what to do. Log out.
Next day I used to log in, expecting something should have happen automatically or magically that red line won't be there for me.
2. After a week or so, I emerged into action
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Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Shamsina's 138 other Ask SC answers

I would start advertising and building my team earlier. You see, I was concentrating on the 1500 VPs every month not realising that I only have one income stream from that. After reading and understanding further I realise that you could also earn from matching VPs as well as the DCs and CSCs. I have also not fully explored the ECA programme which in my opinion is the best programme ever.

I understand now that it took time for me to read and understand hence I started kinda slow. But I am hoping to help my team understand faster so they will not get caught in the confusion. They might not bounce back from the confusion like I did.
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I would start advertising and building my team earlier. You see, I was concentrating on the 1500 VPs every month not realising that I only have one income stream from that. After reading and understanding further I realise that you could also earn from matching VPs as well as the DCs and CSCs. I have also not fully explored the ECA programme which in my opinion is the best programme ever.

I understand now that it took time for me to read and understand hence I started kinda slow. But I
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Affiliate since: 07/13/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Paul's 84 other Ask SC answers

I can answer this question this from my own personal experience !

I DID start all over again almost 8 months ago.

Some years ago I registered with SFI as a complete newbie.. That must be like 8 or 9 years ago, before i had my kids.
I didn't read at that time but was smart enough to figure out I needed 1500 points every month so I took a SO for IAHBE (that was the best option for a 1500 VP SO back then)..
I threw out 3 or 4 gateway-links,.. spammed some chat boxes, got kicked out of several community sites back then because i just didn't KNOW what this was all about and to me MLM, Affiliate, blogging and so on was all new.

Now I am 8 or 9 years ahead and i have no idea how SFI popped into my mind but it did.

So i registered all over again, wrote support about my previous account, learned it was still active but no psa's or csa's or nothing left because it was 8 years old.

Now knowing a little about SFI from back then I took it SERIOUS,.. I read, learned, ask everybody and most important : I BELIEVED in myself.. I really believe us "normal" people can make it.

Now I am almost 8 months in again, Have the best looking Badges, have over 10.000 people in my downline and so on..
If that does not convince anybody to stay focussed and believe in what you can achieve then I do not know anymore :)

Best wishes to all !! If You Want To Achieve Greatness Stop Asking For Permission !
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I can answer this question this from my own personal experience !

I DID start all over again almost 8 months ago.

Some years ago I registered with SFI as a complete newbie.. That must be like 8 or 9 years ago, before i had my kids.
I didn't read at that time but was smart enough to figure out I needed 1500 points every month so I took a SO for IAHBE (that was the best option for a 1500 VP SO back then)..
I threw out 3 or 4 gateway-links,.. spammed some chat boxes,
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