Affiliate since: 06/08/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Emmanuel's 49 other Ask SC answers

If I were to explain to my downline or team members why the Versa Points are being reduced to zero at the end of the month, here are my responses:
1.) Basically, the Versa Points are reset to zero at the beginning of the month to provide a fair playing field among the newcomers and the veteran affiliates.
2.) Resetting VP to zero at the beginning of the month provides incentives to both old and new affiliates. The long staying affiliates strive to retain his power ranking position, hence, he is motivated to create more action VPs and sales VPs. Meanwhile, the newcomers strive to get level with the oldtimers by doubling his/her efforts towards achieving his desired total VP at the end of the month.
3.) As a result of more activated efforts by both long-staying affiliates and the new recruits as a result of resetting the VP to zero at the beginning of the month, the executive pool is likely to increase, hence, all qualified or entitled affiliates into this fund will be benefited.
4.) Motivated affiliates resulting from receipt of increased executive pool fund would likely result in increased TripleClicks sales bringing monthly success not only among affiliates but also to SFI’s business growth to reinforce its hold as an international internet marketing firm.
5.) Resetting VP to zero at the beginning of the month would get rid of stagnant affiliates since most of the affiliates would not rest on their laurels during their previous months achievements.


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If I were to explain to my downline or team members why the Versa Points are being reduced to zero at the end of the month, here are my responses:
1.) Basically, the Versa Points are reset to zero at the beginning of the month to provide a fair playing field among the newcomers and the veteran affiliates.
2.) Resetting VP to zero at the beginning of the month provides incentives to both old and new affiliates. The long staying affiliates strive to retain his power ranking position, hence,
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

First let us understand the importance of Versa Points before we can explain why the total for the month (VP) sets to Zero.

Versa Points help to:

1. Determine your rank qualification within 3 categories, your Class (people who joined on the same day you did), your Country (how you are placed within your region) and Overall (what is your progress in SFI)

2. Establish your position in the E365 Entrepreneurial Challenge at the end of your 1st year within SFI. The highest collection of Sales (maximum 40,000) and Action points will get you to become a Champion, a recognition that is highly valued.

3. Calculate your commissions based on your rank qualifications and those of your team members (through matching VPs)

These 3 main factors determine your progress within SFI. It is inappropriate to expect to be part of such a ridiculous system where you want to be paid commissions on points you have already earned the previous month in the current month - this is the situation if the counter does not set to Zero.

This is very similar to a scenario where you have been paid for a project last month but you expect to be paid again this month for doing nothing.

Therefore everyone starts at Zero in the new month.

Once the new month sets in, your goals and targets change. The targets of your team members also fluctuate. It would be impossible to think and believe that you could continue being paid for on the previous month's points and not work in the current month. If this was the case, everyone would be waiting for a pay-check without doing anything!

In some months you may have team members who qualify to PTL or DTL while other months they may not qualify-so how would you see this differentiation - through Versa Points! Affiliates do not earn the same commission because their Versa Points accumulated during the month change. It is not a constant figure.
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First let us understand the importance of Versa Points before we can explain why the total for the month (VP) sets to Zero.

Versa Points help to:

1. Determine your rank qualification within 3 categories, your Class (people who joined on the same day you did), your Country (how you are placed within your region) and Overall (what is your progress in SFI)

2. Establish your position in the E365 Entrepreneurial Challenge at the end of your 1st year within SFI. The
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Affiliate since: 02/13/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Taso's 3 other Ask SC answers

VersaPoints must reset and expire.

It is important to understand the difference between “reset” and “expire”. VersaPoints “reset” monthly, but they do not “expire” until 180 days from receipt.

VersaPoints reset monthly. SFI pays us for commissions earned on a monthly basis. After the period ends, the system resets to zero to begin the next month’s activities, but the points do not expire (for 180 days). SFI benefits and payment is based on your rank, and your rank is based on your VersaPoints accrued during the month.

More VersaPoints earned for this month gives you higher rank and greater SFI benefits. At the end of the month, each of us must start new and do the daily tasks that are required to run and grow our business, and this will again build VersaPoints for the current month, and the cycle repeats. Keep in mind that you are rewarded each month with Action VersaPoints for EA’s etc on your team so your work to recruit and support affiliates keeps paying back month to month. This helps you build your monthly rank easier/higher/faster, and gives your business a solid foundation. This is important to understand since there are only so many Action VersaPoints available in the Affiliate Center.

VersaPoints expire after 180 days. VersaPoints accrue month to month (for 180 days), and your total points is how your position is determined in the leader boards, overall, country, and class. This means that if you are consistent with your business month to month, you are rewarded for that and will consistently climb the ranks. Those who grab up all the initial Action VersaPoints and soar to the top but don’t do the work to build the business consistently will slide down and make room for those who work consistently to build a solid, lasting, profitable business.

So…log in daily, build your team and duplicate… duplicate… duplicate!

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VersaPoints must reset and expire.

It is important to understand the difference between “reset” and “expire”. VersaPoints “reset” monthly, but they do not “expire” until 180 days from receipt.

VersaPoints reset monthly. SFI pays us for commissions earned on a monthly basis. After the period ends, the system resets to zero to begin the next month’s activities, but the points do not expire (for 180 days). SFI benefits and payment is based on your rank, and
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Affiliate since: 07/16/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Darla's 53 other Ask SC answers

Hello Bamidele.

Your versa points are not taken away they just simply reset to zero every month giving everyone an opportunity to re-qualify.

The monthly 1500 VP re-qualifies you to earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month, you must earn them every month. Furthermore, if there was no re-qualification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. You need to work in order to earn.

You can earn points for reading training articles, playing games, uploading your photo and more.

But once the first month is over you should look for other actions to earn points so that you may earn a larger, more substantial income.

You can earn points from your Daily, Weekly and Monthly To-Do List.

In order to guarantee your 1500 you could always have a standing order for 1500 VP.

I really like the 125 TCredit Pak as I use them in auctions and games to earn even more points!
http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=212474


Always have a strong focus on generating TripleClicks sales and sponsoring affiliates this will also help you earn!

Advertise, Advertise, Advertise!


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Hello Bamidele.

Your versa points are not taken away they just simply reset to zero every month giving everyone an opportunity to re-qualify.

The monthly 1500 VP re-qualifies you to earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month, you must earn them every month. Furthermore, if there was no re-qualification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. You need to work in order to earn.

You can earn points for reading training articles, playing games, uploading
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Affiliate since: 02/08/2020, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michael's 202 other Ask SC answers

Hi Bamidele!
You can tell your team that VersaPoints are points awarded to affiliates for a variety of actions, as outlined on the VP Ledger. The more points we earn each month, the higher our SFI commissions can go. Tell them that, VersaPoints helps us to qualify for our ranks/levels for each and every month. They also help TC/SFI to calculate our earning at TripleClicks executive Pool. We get benefits and bonuses through them every month. So all in all, the points we earned last month qualified us for last month. We won't get paid for them this month. We only get paid once for those VersaPoints, so we don't need them for the present month.
So for TC/SFI to be able to calculate everything for the present month, we all need to start from zero and re-qualify for the present month, since we can not be paid this month for work we did last month.
I hope and believe that your team will understand this.
Thank you.
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Hi Bamidele!
You can tell your team that VersaPoints are points awarded to affiliates for a variety of actions, as outlined on the VP Ledger. The more points we earn each month, the higher our SFI commissions can go. Tell them that, VersaPoints helps us to qualify for our ranks/levels for each and every month. They also help TC/SFI to calculate our earning at TripleClicks executive Pool. We get benefits and bonuses through them every month. So all in all, the points we earned last month qualified
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Affiliate since: 03/13/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Reuben's 70 other Ask SC answers

Hi Bamidele,
1. The Versa Points expiring at the end of each month & the VP count being reset to zero at the start of the succeeding month has the following valid reasons.You may accordingly explain the same to your team members after going through these reasons enumerated below.
a)Starting every month with a clean slate makes it ‘a fair & a level playing field ‘for all affiliates to participate afresh very month with equal opportunity to reach the top levels of Power Ranking.
b) This makes the affiliates to keep logging in daily to score VPs every month and clearly tells us how much effort the affiliates are putting- in ,every month to get to the next level.
c) Commission is calculated on the accumulation of VPs by an affiliate every month. The VPs earned reflects the efforts put in by him/her during that month.
d) If the earned VPs are carried forward to the next month, commission needs to be calculated again for the same VPs we had been earned in the previous month, which is not financially logical or fair. How can you reward again an affiliate for his efforts of last month without any effort put by him for the present month!
e) Therefore, this policy of reset”0” every month, begins a new qualification process to earn SFI commissions and rank. The individual starts from scratch to attain & move from Affiliate, to Executive Affiliate, and through the five grades of Team Leadership: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. The rank which an affiliate finally ends up with at the end of a month will continue for the succeeding (next) month However, he has to score the respective versa points in the next month for maintaining that particular rank; if not he will lose this rank.
f) There is also a genuine problem of data storage space in the SFI infrastructure. Storing millions of versa points long after they have been earned for that month just takes up so much valuable space and slows down the entire SFI System.
2. All said & done, you will also find the answer to your question at the “To Do List” Icon in the SFI Affiliate Home centre page, under important notes # 2. “Why Do Versa Points Expire?” . You may also visit url: https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?catid=26444&id=18074 for getting the answer to your posed question.
3. You will however,notice that your monthly VPs are not totally ignored. They are added to calculate your standing/ ranking in Leader boards. It's only your monthly totals that reset, though the points you earn each month remain in your Power Ranking for six full months (180 days), which is used to determine your ranking within SFI. Thus, it is to be noted that though the VPs earned by an affiliate the previous month does not have any bearing on his present month’s earning process, he does not lose it either . However, other than one-time action points, all others VPs acquired, expire after 180 days.
Hope this will satisfy your team members!
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Hi Bamidele,
1. The Versa Points expiring at the end of each month & the VP count being reset to zero at the start of the succeeding month has the following valid reasons.You may accordingly explain the same to your team members after going through these reasons enumerated below.
a)Starting every month with a clean slate makes it ‘a fair & a level playing field ‘for all affiliates to participate afresh very month with equal opportunity to reach the top levels of Power Ranking.
b)
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Affiliate since: 11/01/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Reva 's 13 other Ask SC answers

Attention Affiliates:

Thank you, SFI Business, CEO for maintaining your online site!
For your ongoing information, the following
will apply to your Affiliate Center "Scoreboard"
every month:

The VersaPoints earned by you will reset to zero.
If you want to earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month, you must earn them every month. Furthermore, if there was no requalification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. Surely you do not want to invest your time and effort building a team of people who do nothing (which would mean no override commissions for you)?

Points that were awarded to you in a previous month are included in your cumulative VersaPoints total-to-date.

With the exception of permanent, one-time action points, all points expire 180 days from the date they're awarded (points that expire shown in red).

Your total cumulative VersaPoints total is how your POWER RANK (for your class, country, and overall) is determined. We love the Power Rankings and so do thousands of our affiliates; we of course wouldn't want to get rid of this.

The easiest way to make sure you re-qualify as an EA (Executive Affiliate) every month is to set up a Standing Order (SO) with at least 1,500 points. With a SO, you'll automatically receive your favorite SFI products each month (without the hassle of reordering), you'll get them at an exclusive discount price, AND you'll always have your EA-qualifying minimum of 1,500 VersaPoints monthly. For complete information and easy directions on setting up a Standing Order, see the Standing Order Central Information Page at:

www.sfimg.com/Reference/StandingOrders

Strive to best your last month's VersaPoint total!




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Attention Affiliates:

Thank you, SFI Business, CEO for maintaining your online site!
For your ongoing information, the following
will apply to your Affiliate Center "Scoreboard"
every month:

The VersaPoints earned by you will reset to zero.
If you want to earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month, you must earn them every month. Furthermore, if there was no requalification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. Surely you do
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read John's 41 other Ask SC answers

Everything SFI does is on a monthly basis. It pays its commissions on a monthly basis. It awards CSAs on a monthly basis. VP is the measurement stick by which qualifications and other awards are made.

If you had 10,000 VP one month and nothing the next, you would expect to be rewarded for your first month but not for your second.

The only way SFI, your sponsor and you can tell immediately how you are going at any particular time is from your VP count. So it just makes sense for your VP count reverts to Zero each month.

If you examine the way the other MLM companies, such as Amway and Herbalife, work, and SFI is an MLM company, they all start their measurement of productivity, whether points, product numbers or dollar value, afresh at the start of each month at zero. Fortunately for all SFI Affiliates, the performance hurdles we have to jump to be rewarded in SFI are much easier than for the other MLMs, and as a previous member of over 10 other MLMs before settling on SFI, I believe I can speak with some authority on this.

So stop complaining about losing your precious VP at the start of each month. Just go out and get some more.



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Everything SFI does is on a monthly basis. It pays its commissions on a monthly basis. It awards CSAs on a monthly basis. VP is the measurement stick by which qualifications and other awards are made.

If you had 10,000 VP one month and nothing the next, you would expect to be rewarded for your first month but not for your second.

The only way SFI, your sponsor and you can tell immediately how you are going at any particular time is from your VP count. So it just makes sense
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The monthly VP number resets to zero because a new calendar month has begun. Your ranking for each month is determined by the number of VP you accumulate in that calendar month. For example, points earned in March will not count towards your April ranking. Only points earned in April will count.

If your team members are concerned that they are losing those points, you can explain that there are two sets of numbers in the top right hand corner of their home page. One is the number of points they have earned this month, and the other is the total number of points they have accumulated, so they can see they have not actually lost the points. It's just that they no longer relate to the current month.

Eventually they will notice that the second number (total VP) will start to drop as well. This is because some VP only last for 6 months (the ones shown in red on the left side of your to-so list). This is done so that people who have been around for years are not the only ones who can reach the top of the leader-board. In the leader-boards, SFI want to recognize those who are active now, not those who were once active.

Hope this helps!
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The monthly VP number resets to zero because a new calendar month has begun. Your ranking for each month is determined by the number of VP you accumulate in that calendar month. For example, points earned in March will not count towards your April ranking. Only points earned in April will count.

If your team members are concerned that they are losing those points, you can explain that there are two sets of numbers in the top right hand corner of their home page. One is the number of points
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Bamidele Oluwole.
There are two major aspects to your question.

Both aspects are fully answered within SFI “Solutions” posts as well as “QA”.
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1. Every month, begins a new qualification process to earn our SFI commissions and rank:

We start again from Affiliate, to Executive Affiliate, and through the five grades of Team Leadership: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. Our next month’s rank will be wherever we end this current month.

Tell your affiliate team members that it is to their advantage. It is to help them compete on fair grounds in SFI leadership. The facts that VersPoints are counted on a monthly basis, and the count restarts from ground zero, offer to every affiliate the opportunity to rank as high as their monthly achievements.

The official SFI explanation is under the link below.

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?catid=26444&id=18074

Thus, our standing on the monthly leadership board is not affected by anything else expect what we do in that month.

Direct your team members to the monthly VP Leadership board

https://www.sfimg.com/Leaders/VersaPoints.

For example, if you follow the link above, your will see that, today, April 13, 2015, the # 1 top ranking affiliate joined SFI only a year ago. You will notice, below him, other affiliates who have been here 15 years earlier and who have higher team leadership rank.

This monthly leadership ranking can change every day. If you were to take massive action today that yields enough results, you can find yourself tomorrow at the top of the monthly leadership board.

Our monthly sales and sponsoring results determine also our monthly commission. The activity we and our team (downline, up to 12 levels, and CSAs ) generate is the basis of our monthly commission. Again, this is truly to the advantage of the affiliates who joined SFI at later stages.
There are no specific perks attached to the fact that one has joined SFI 5 years, 10 years, or 15 years ago, except the fact that they have built teams and are earning matching EA2 points from the work that team does on a monthly basis.

A new SFI affiliate has the same opportunities to build their team and earn commissions in a similar fashion.

All the relevant data is monitored and made easily accessible and comprehensively presented to us on our daily “Scoreboard” tab. From this tab, we can see where we stand each day of the month. We have no excuse if we miss our monthly goals or we fall below our own expectations.

We have all the information we need to take action for better results.

I personally find this very exciting and very stimulating: knowing that nothing is writing in stones. We decide what our rank is. We can change it every day.

Although what we earned the previous months does not have any bearing on this monthly process, we are not losing it. It is counted in our overall power rank, SFI wide. Your question refers to this part.

2. Other than one-time action points, all others VP expire within 180 days.

This is the second major aspect concerning VP longevity, which your question does not explicitly address.

The reasons why VPs expires after six months is fully explained in solutions.

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?catid=26444&id=77222

The fact that VPs expire after six months does not affect our earnings at all.

Those reasons of this expiration can be summarized as follows:

(i) To save database space and allow faster loading of all the pages on which we work on a daily basis.
(ii) To level the playing field so that all affiliates have the same opportunities to rise in monthly ranks. This has been explained above in details.

The total VersaPoints that remain are the basis for determining our overall Power rank within SFI, our country rank and our class rank.

3. Class Rank is the third aspect of VersaPoints value

Class rank pertains only to all the affiliates who joined SFI on the same day. For example, all affiliates who will join SFI today, Monday, April 13, 2015, will have the same class.

The E365 Competition is based on class. At the end of the 365 days period, the affiliate who has the largest amount of VP will be the Class Champion, regardless of their overall rank or team leadership rank.
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Hello, Bamidele Oluwole.
There are two major aspects to your question.

Both aspects are fully answered within SFI “Solutions” posts as well as “QA”.
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1. Every month, begins a new qualification process to earn our SFI commissions and rank:

We start again from Affiliate, to Executive Affiliate, and through the five grades of Team Leadership: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond. Our next month’s rank will be wherever we end this current month.

Tell
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