Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 272 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

The best way to help an affiliate invest his money into his SFI business is to teach him the different ways of making money through the many income streams that SFI provides.

While building a team is important, it will probably not bring in an immediate income. If money is needed to set up standing orders and buy marketing aids, then he must learn how to earn that money. Selling items will bring the fastest income if done properly and diligently. Teach him how to use the text ads for selling the auctions and games. Teach him how to sell items from TripleClicks and the ECAs. Stress the number of ads that must be placed regularly in order to get results.

Show him how to recruit his local businesses into the ECA program. There is a flyer that can be copied and handed out to prospective ECAs.

The main idea is to teach him to earn money through SFI, not elsewhere. Unless he can find niche jobs that will give him a temporary income like delivering papers, collecting pop cans and bottles, lawn or yard work, etc.

The next challenge you will face with him is that if he is truly short of money, then any money he brings in could be immediately lost to paying an over due bill. He will have to be able to hold on to that money until he can transfer it into his SFI account.

When he has a little money, it will be up to you to suggest what he should buy with that money. S Builders, marketing aids, TCredits, or something he normally uses that is sold by his local ECA. Help him set up a Standing Order with just enough items that he can pay for at the time. A standing order does not have to be 1500 VP large or remain the same month after month. Also, if there is no money in his account, TC won't process it. The main thing is to for his habit of having a standing order and getting money into his account to pay for it.

It is sometimes that the biggest impediment to an affiliate investing in is account is his mind set. By helping him to form the habit of a monthly SO, and teaching him how to earn the money through SFI streams, you will be going a far way towards your goal of exciting him about SFI and training him how to succeed.
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The best way to help an affiliate invest his money into his SFI business is to teach him the different ways of making money through the many income streams that SFI provides.

While building a team is important, it will probably not bring in an immediate income. If money is needed to set up standing orders and buy marketing aids, then he must learn how to earn that money. Selling items will bring the fastest income if done properly and diligently. Teach him how to use the text ads for selling
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

It’s natural for us humans to feel good when we can help others in SFI, to achieve their goals and attend success. The lack of financial investment in venturing SFI seems to pose a major challenge. We can learn from the humble beginning of SFI. SFI was launched in 1998 with just one product. Today, SFI with its TripleClicks e-commerce store has grown to more than 80,000 products/services sold in more than 190 countries worldwide. The potential of being an SFI affiliate is incredible. It’s definitely worth it to help others even with people who don’t have money to invest.

Anyone with a computer and Internet access has the opportunity to become a SFI affiliate for free. There is no obligation on purchase requirements of any kind.

If you’re a Team Leader with affiliates who don’t have money to invest in SFI, you can help them in the following manner:

- First, your affiliates must be willing to invest as much time as required in order to learn the concept of SFI (SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD).

- They should follow your lead of being passionate in logging in daily and performing To-Do List.

- They should continually invest their time in learning and acquiring the skills required in network marketing. The Training section covers all the information needed to market SFI and is a good place to start. As their Team Leader, you need to guide them and to emphasize to them to focus in learning effective free advertising. Since the only option they have in the beginning is to invest a lot of time, they have the opportunity to participate in supplemental income streams such as referring ECAs and SFIPPA.

- Communicate to them that they can start earning by generating sales at TripleClicks. They can choose from wide varieties of TC products/services to promote using the marketing methods and marketing aids from the marketing center and consequently learn how to generate unlimited VPs and Direct Commissions with TC sales.

- You can let them know about the Member Listings program. With this program they can sell their unwanted stuff.

Your affiliates can build upon those steps above and start to establish themselves. As they continue in their development and growth they’ll become stable. Less and less time would be needed and would free up some of their time. They’ll eventually be able to afford financial investment to expand the growth of their SFI business.

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It’s natural for us humans to feel good when we can help others in SFI, to achieve their goals and attend success. The lack of financial investment in venturing SFI seems to pose a major challenge. We can learn from the humble beginning of SFI. SFI was launched in 1998 with just one product. Today, SFI with its TripleClicks e-commerce store has grown to more than 80,000 products/services sold in more than 190 countries worldwide. The potential of being an SFI affiliate is incredible. It’s definitely
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 783 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

Help them learn niche marketing and get them to set up a blog to promote TripleClicks products with.

As they learn to review items listed at TripleClicks they will start to build a following of potential customers and begin to generate traffic that if free and targeted from search engines like Google and Yahoo. Making sales early with niche marketing can provide them the opportunity to pay for their standing order with profits and will give them vital skills to teach their PSA to duplicate.

It's important to make it to Executive Affiliate but it's even more important to be able to stay an executive affiliate because going back to Affiliate Rank and losing your Co-Sponsored Affiliates, and suddenly being cut back to two streams of income from 6 is tough. By teaching them to do niche blogging you are teaching them skills to earn their standing order money and even generate funds for advertising by exchanging labor of the funds they need.

The best part is that before long they will generate enough PRM sales that give your PSA the Versa Points that they wont even need a standing order to maintain Executive Affiliate.

Too many members here at SFI came here after learning a MLM Mindset.

In the MLM Mindset you join, and must pay for an auto ship of product in order to start making money. To earn money you must find other people who are willing to buy and auto ship every month on the promise that they too can make money by finding people of their own. While there is a path to some profits in that here at SFI it's the long path to earnings because every new PSA is told from day one they are not required to have a standing order or buy anything ever.

SFI is an affiliate program. You earn through sale of products priced at retail instead of earning money off people who are paying for the right to make money.

You are not limited to the commissions off 300 downline members buying a $36.25 T-credit Pack each month, instead you can bring in store owners and earn 10% of the Commission Volume or CV of all of their sales for life, and you can recruit Personally referred members who may spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a month at TripleClicks. And the best part is the ability to target market for people with money.

See the online business crowd is usually people who don't have much money seeking to earn money hopefully without spending a lot of money to do it. When you promote to shoppers you can get the high end Jewelry buyer who can spend $20,000 without batting an eye, or the fashionista who could buy a new $500 dress every week for a upcoming party.

You are limited only by your imagination and your ability to perform a little research.
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Help them learn niche marketing and get them to set up a blog to promote TripleClicks products with.

As they learn to review items listed at TripleClicks they will start to build a following of potential customers and begin to generate traffic that if free and targeted from search engines like Google and Yahoo. Making sales early with niche marketing can provide them the opportunity to pay for their standing order with profits and will give them vital skills to teach their PSA to duplicate.

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Affiliate since: 07/26/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

The best way to help people with no money is to tell them that they need to save some money so that they can invest in their business. In the meantime, they can do all of the following with no out of pocket expense:

1. Sale TripleClicks merchandise. Use the social channels and any free ads you can. Only cost is time invested. The more ads you have working for you the greater your chances of making sales which will earn you commissions. The you can reinvest those commissions to expand your advertising and marketing for greater reach and more potential commissions.

2. Log in and collect those free VPs. Remember the first milestone is EA. If you use your free opportunities wisely then you can earn VPs, CSAs, T Credits, and more. You can play Eager Zebra games for free. You odds of winning are the same.

3. Promote your SFI gateways everywhere you can to sponsor/refer members/PSAs. There are literally 1000s of free places to advertising. Track your ads so that you will know which are worth your time and event by the results they yield.

4. Provide all of the support you can to your network. You are their leader and example. If you are apathetic toward the business, don't expect them to do what you are not willing to do. Lead by example.

SFI has a powerful compensation plan an you don't have to be an EA, BTL, STL, GTL, PTL, or a DTL to earn nice commissions. Everyone earns 45% on the CV generated by the sale. Remind them of this, and use those earnings to grow your business.
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The best way to help people with no money is to tell them that they need to save some money so that they can invest in their business. In the meantime, they can do all of the following with no out of pocket expense:

1. Sale TripleClicks merchandise. Use the social channels and any free ads you can. Only cost is time invested. The more ads you have working for you the greater your chances of making sales which will earn you commissions. The you can reinvest those commissions to expand
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

As they often say, money is not everything but it makes a lot of difference in the business world, including SFI. However, lack of it is not synonymous with failure because there is still a lot you can do here to get by without money. As a sponsor, there are 2 aspects I will expect you to assist your team members who have no investment fund; the DO’s by them and the DO’s by you.

The DO’s by them:

1. Direct them to advertise in free ad sites for SFI (PSAs), TC (PRM) and ECA signups, including face-to-face prospecting and prospecting their warm market. Emphasise the promotion TC products using these methods and if they are lucky, the necessary VP for maintaining at least an EA status may be earned, coupled with possible direct commission that may be invested in their SFI business.

2. Encourage and guide them to participate in TripleClicks (TC) member listing in order to raise some cash to fund their SFI businesses. It is just a Tcredit per listing, so they may be able to afford it if they receive some free tcredits from the actions in #3 below.

3. Encourage and guide them to participate in all free or cheap to play EZ games to win various prizes like Tcredits which they can use to bolster some aspects of their business.
4. You may show them how to surf in traffic exchanges to accumulate credits which they can use to place their respective SFI gateways in rotation.

DO’s by you:

1. You may give them free participation in your co-op to generate signups to build their businesses. You have to ensure this is not a free for all assistance, but for those who show signs of interest and hard work irrespective of financial obscurity.

2. You may directly place their urls in your advertising media including your website or blog if necessary.

3. You may also use the reassignment tool to place some of your PSAs under any of these team members without cash, provided they are promising. The PSAs you will reassign should be those who have the potential to generate direct commission for them which they can invest in their SFI businesses.

4. You may issue Gift Certificates (GC) to them and ensure they use it to purchase products that will enhance their SFI businesses and not waste it on cosmetic or unnecessary things. This GC may be very handy to those who have the potential of becoming ECAs but lack the basic requirements to qualify, then a $40 GC will help. However, you are not going to also be sending a couple of GCs for shipment of the goods they sell before they are paid, so you may initially look for those who can sell e-products for the time being to avoid shipping costs.

5. Send then Tcredits to boost some aspect of their business like for member listing, playing EZ games etc

In conclusion, please do not do for them what they can do for themselves and this is why my answer is in 2 parts because you will duplicate laziness which will back fire big time. Also, whatever you are doing for them directly should not be a permanent strategy of yours, but to prepare them to eventually be capable physically, mentally, and financially to run their show themselves.

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As they often say, money is not everything but it makes a lot of difference in the business world, including SFI. However, lack of it is not synonymous with failure because there is still a lot you can do here to get by without money. As a sponsor, there are 2 aspects I will expect you to assist your team members who have no investment fund; the DO’s by them and the DO’s by you.

The DO’s by them:

1. Direct them to advertise in free ad sites for SFI (PSAs), TC (PRM) and
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

They will have a longer row to hoe, but they can also be very successful!! Do not try to deter anyone who wants to join, but has not extra funds available, they could turn into your best TL!!

You need to encourage them to do the beginning steps, reading, etc. Also begin teaching them how to parlay TCredits into MRPs (via auctions/games) into more TCredits into more MRPs, etc. This will help gain Sales and Action VPs.

Also, ensure they understand the value of doing ALL the free activities in To-do list as they come up, to clear their red tabs daily, rate AskSC answers, put their own answers in when they are qualified.

After a week or so, begin teaching them how to advertise, using all the available marketing methods that are free... flyers under windshield wipers, in lunchrooms, bus seats when you leave, bulletin boards everywhere you see one!! Do not forget their warm market, either! They might get some of their family or friends to become PRMs, gain sales from them, which would help them earn their New Member Packs! Leave no stone unturned locally that could help them sponsor PSAs and PRMs!

Encourage them to use the training materials found in the black bar tabs on SFI pages, and to explore all the sites within them.

When they are more confident, point them to free ads sites for recruiting...

These are only SOME of the methods to grow a team without investing very much money:))...




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They will have a longer row to hoe, but they can also be very successful!! Do not try to deter anyone who wants to join, but has not extra funds available, they could turn into your best TL!!

You need to encourage them to do the beginning steps, reading, etc. Also begin teaching them how to parlay TCredits into MRPs (via auctions/games) into more TCredits into more MRPs, etc. This will help gain Sales and Action VPs.

Also, ensure they understand the value of doing ALL the
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 254 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

This is a very relevant question because majority of people who are joining SFI do not have money to invest at the beginning. But bear in mind, that we can not maximize our earning from SFI without investment.

This investment however can be taken already from initial earning if we know how to earn without investment. Here is how.

1. Choose from thousands of products in SFI and sell them online. Example, SFI has has health products. What you can do is join groups in Facebooks about health and wellness and start posting SFI health products in there.

2. Earn Free TC by joining the T-Time game in TripleClicks then use the TC you earn to sell any thing that you do not use anymore in your house.

3. Recruit your friends who have credit card or paypal and explain well what is SFI and how he can earn. Once they understand the potentials of SFI they might go ahead of you because they have money. Next month you will have the commission from the purchases of your friends then you can start investing yourself.

None of these will be easy, but doable, just try it and do not quit, soon you will have your first sales that will jump up your SFI business.




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This is a very relevant question because majority of people who are joining SFI do not have money to invest at the beginning. But bear in mind, that we can not maximize our earning from SFI without investment.

This investment however can be taken already from initial earning if we know how to earn without investment. Here is how.

1. Choose from thousands of products in SFI and sell them online. Example, SFI has has health products. What you can do is join groups in Facebooks
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Affiliate since: 05/30/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Brian's 27 other Ask SC answers

It is true that if you have money for a Standing Order and to participate in advertising it will jump start your business but it is not necessary.

They can start by promoting products on Tripleclicks and earning commissions. They would do this through their natural networks.

Find items to sell that you no longer need. It only costs 1 T-credit to list the item. You can go beyond what you own too. If there is a product produced in your area that you can buy at a good price and then sell for a profit. Do not put restrictions on your imagination. It will need to be something that can be easily shipped at a reasonable cost.

Recruit an ECA from your community. I look for businesses that don’t have web exposure but would like to sell over the internet. I then explain to them that Tripleclicks provides a safe way for them to sell without all of the expense of creating their own website. Plus SFI affiliates will promote their products for them. They pay only a 15% commission on what is sold.

All of the above will take work. Make it happen.

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It is true that if you have money for a Standing Order and to participate in advertising it will jump start your business but it is not necessary.

They can start by promoting products on Tripleclicks and earning commissions. They would do this through their natural networks.

Find items to sell that you no longer need. It only costs 1 T-credit to list the item. You can go beyond what you own too. If there is a product produced in your area that you can buy at a good price
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

When they start keep an eye on their VP ledger and advise them accordingly to make the 1st two months easier to qualify as EA

Later You can help them to qualify as EA by sending them T-credits or gift certificates and then advise them how to use it best.

If you have a Co-op you can send some PSA's their way to build their team.

You can re-assign affiliates to them.

Advise them where they can advertise for free.

Encourage them to play games and educate them how that can help them.

Do not do things for your affiliates that they can do for themselves. Your role is to teach, guide and support. Provide practical tips but do not do for them. (things like logging in and doing daily tasks is not helping)
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When they start keep an eye on their VP ledger and advise them accordingly to make the 1st two months easier to qualify as EA

Later You can help them to qualify as EA by sending them T-credits or gift certificates and then advise them how to use it best.

If you have a Co-op you can send some PSA's their way to build their team.

You can re-assign affiliates to them.

Advise them where they can advertise for free.

Encourage them to play games and
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Affiliate since: 10/25/2010, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Laurie's 53 other Ask SC answers

Monetary investment is never required for SFI. It does help to speed progress, but if one is willing to use what is available, both on the SFI website and off, a person could be successful.

You could guide these people to all of the resources that are on the SFI website - gateways, online learning course, the free marketing resources, all of the training. Provide them with the link to the site directory which will show them where everything is on SFI.

You could also guide them to all of the free resources on the internet - free blogs and websites, free traffic sites, forums to participate in, etc.

Let them know that frequent articles to their blogs will increase their traffic, in fact you might want to show them ways to learn and apply SEO and keywords to their blog or website. Show them some of the free traffic sources and teach them how to tell the differences between those that will just get them hits to their site vs. conversions.

Most of all provide encouragement and inspiration. These are always free and can go a long way!


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Monetary investment is never required for SFI. It does help to speed progress, but if one is willing to use what is available, both on the SFI website and off, a person could be successful.

You could guide these people to all of the resources that are on the SFI website - gateways, online learning course, the free marketing resources, all of the training. Provide them with the link to the site directory which will show them where everything is on SFI.

You could also guide
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