Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

As you begin building your SFI and TripleClicks business you will come across the benefits that are given to the higher ranks and levels of Team Leaders in SFI. You will be able to see the difference between an Executive Affiliate and the first team leader position being BTL (Bronze Team Leader).

Now you are at a point where you can decide to advance to the BTL or stay as an Executive Affiliate until your team building efforts forces you up into the BTL level.

The question arises as to whether you could or should invest a little more money to acquire the needed Sales VP and Action VP to reach BTL.

At this point many affiliates will advise you to stay as an EA and keep building your team until you have at least two EAs under you who are actively building their down-lines. The reason they say this is the badge states “Team Leader” and the affiliates telling you to stay as an EA are in a sense telling you that you are not a Leader in their eyes. They will also tell you that there are no benefits to being a Team Leader if you have no team to lead.

Everyone in SFI needs to understand that when you reach the EA level you are given 2 CSAs – guess what? At this point you are now a Leader and it does not matter how many people you are leading. Nor does it matter if those you are leading are CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) or PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates).

As an example – I am personally a Silver Team Leader – If I could tell you my name you could look at my profile (Which I am proud to share with others) and you would see the list of 41 badges. I also am in the top 200 of my country (The US) and in the top 500 in SFI and I am 1st in my class.

Do I have a “Team” of PSAs that has pushed me to all these levels of accomplishments – NO - But at the present time I have over 1,000 CSAs in my group and over 200 PSAs in my group and I have also enrolled over 3 or 4 hundred PRMs (Personally Referred Members). And for over the past 6 months, through my own personal efforts have increased my team members 120 to 175 new affiliates each month.

This is where a lot of SFI Team Leaders are missing the boat – You see I am a “go-getter” I do not like to sit around and wait for things to happen nor am I the type to “depend” on my team to create enough action to push me up – I am a Leader and I will take charge and show my teammates how it is accomplished – Success does not wait for those who are following the “status quo.”

My passion is to help others reach the levels of success as quickly as “they” want to and as quickly as they are capable to handle the requirements of maintaining that level of success. I will never suggest to an affiliate to sit back and wait for their down-lines to push them up to the next level

“If it is to be – then it is up to ME”

My friend – when you are ready to reach for the higher levels and you can maintain that level without damaging your business building activities then by all means – BE BLESSED – and “AIM HIGH and DREAM BIG” “The world is your oyster” - Go for it!!

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As you begin building your SFI and TripleClicks business you will come across the benefits that are given to the higher ranks and levels of Team Leaders in SFI. You will be able to see the difference between an Executive Affiliate and the first team leader position being BTL (Bronze Team Leader).

Now you are at a point where you can decide to advance to the BTL or stay as an Executive Affiliate until your team building efforts forces you up into the BTL level.


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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 783 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

As soon as you feel ready and you can do it without a mandate of having to buy your way into the rank.

If you have at least one good PSA and can pay for your standing order out of profits you can aim for BTL and grow your team more from that new status. If you have a team and some income coming in it makes sense to reach upward and start earning those valuable second home CSA who can help your income grow.

The rank doesn't just make you feel better about yourself but it also instills more trust in your team. How can someone who isn't a team leader teach me how to do what they haven't been able to do? The added spring in your step will also become tell tale in how you promote your business. The fact you have done it and achieved some degree of success will change your level of confidence and make you a better seller of the opportunity.

You will also open more levels of downline so you can start thinking of a deeper business instead of just PSA.

Your first task may be to help that 1 strong PSA get at least one good PSA under them and get into profits each month so they never burn out and never leave SFI. After all you will get matching VP on those referrals you place in your PSA's downline and their downline as well 6 levels deep as a Bronze Team Leader.

Never hold yourself back, always take chances, and always work hard and you will make a great team leader.
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As soon as you feel ready and you can do it without a mandate of having to buy your way into the rank.

If you have at least one good PSA and can pay for your standing order out of profits you can aim for BTL and grow your team more from that new status. If you have a team and some income coming in it makes sense to reach upward and start earning those valuable second home CSA who can help your income grow.

The rank doesn't just make you feel better about yourself but it also
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Affiliate since: 04/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diane's 76 other Ask SC answers

There is little financial return from you becoming a TL, until your have a team to lead.

You will earn from your Gen 1 PSAs and your CSAs as an EA2 yourself, so that is sufficient until your PSAs start building their own teams and begin seeing some activity. Then it is worth you becoming TL so you can earn Matching VPs from at least 6 levels of your downline.

Having said that, there are a couple of extra benefits, both tangible and intangible, from becoming TL earlier. These are:
- you will feel more confident when you have at least a BTL rank and badge. You may feel this will look more professional on your profile to help you in your team-building activities and drive you forward.
- you will receive Second Home CSAs every month when you are TL. You may feel the benefit of these are worth making an investment, especially if the margin to move up from EA to BTL is a narrow one, and worth the small cost.

If you are earning enough in commissions to cover that cost, then my opinion is that it is worth progressing to BTL. From then on, allow your team sponsoring activity points to drive you further up the TL ranks.
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There is little financial return from you becoming a TL, until your have a team to lead.

You will earn from your Gen 1 PSAs and your CSAs as an EA2 yourself, so that is sufficient until your PSAs start building their own teams and begin seeing some activity. Then it is worth you becoming TL so you can earn Matching VPs from at least 6 levels of your downline.

Having said that, there are a couple of extra benefits, both tangible and intangible, from becoming TL earlier. These
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 726 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

This is a very important question which has a lot to do with marketing strategy in SFI. The best time to upgrade your rank from EA to Team Leader is when you are likely to have maximum benefits as a Team Leader. To know when you are in such a position, the following are things you must take into account.

You know it is time to upgrade from EA to Team Leader,

1. When you have an active downline.
2. Your downline is at least 6 levels deep.
3. You have at least 5 active PSAs in your 1st level.
4. When you have been EA for at least 2 months.
5. When you know all the benefits of being Team Leader.
6. When you know what to do in SFI to become Team Leader.
7. When you know the usefulness of being a Team Leader.
8. When you are good and ready to lead.
9. When the benefits accruable to you as a Team Leader become significant.
10. When you have been a successful EA over consecutive months.

I do hope you will find this answer helpful.


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This is a very important question which has a lot to do with marketing strategy in SFI. The best time to upgrade your rank from EA to Team Leader is when you are likely to have maximum benefits as a Team Leader. To know when you are in such a position, the following are things you must take into account.

You know it is time to upgrade from EA to Team Leader,

1. When you have an active downline.
2. Your downline is at least 6 levels deep.
3. You have at least 5 active
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55 | Read George's 87 other Ask SC answers

It is never a bad time to invest in yourself. So achieve Rank as soon and as often as possible.

Many say there is no need to achieve rank if you do not have a team. I think that you will find recruiting a team much harder if you are not aggressively seeking to achieve rank. It is one of the most powerful things in business - momentum.

Imagine if all the EAs under you thought this way. You would have a team in no time. And you are their leader so lead the way.

The benefits of rank are numerous. More TCredits each month, More CSAs each month, More Credibility each time a person visits your Join My Team page.

More accountability too and this is good for you. People see your rank and seek your advise. Well you need to keep informed, you don't want to be answering people's questions with, "I don't Know". You must also work on your leadership page, providing valued content there. This is good for your Affiliates, but also a very good exercise for you.

One small footnote: Saying "I Don't Know" is okay the first time you're asked a tough question. It is much better than making up an answer. But it is never good the second time the same question gets asked. That means your not doing your homework.
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It is never a bad time to invest in yourself. So achieve Rank as soon and as often as possible.

Many say there is no need to achieve rank if you do not have a team. I think that you will find recruiting a team much harder if you are not aggressively seeking to achieve rank. It is one of the most powerful things in business - momentum.

Imagine if all the EAs under you thought this way. You would have a team in no time. And you are their leader so lead the way.

The
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 345 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers

Team Leader rank can be achieved even in the first month as affiliate. A team leader rank like Bronze Team Leader only requires 1500 - 2000 svps and 1000 avps. You can do this through Fast Track and purchase more tcredits to bid in pricebenders, play EZ games to gain more avps. By doing that you can achieve BTL. But can you sustain that rank every month? If can for how long to carry the financial burden as a leader without a team? An active team is a great asset to a team leader on which his income is generated.

In the first month, I can become EA easily by doing the daily, weekly, monthly and intermediate tasks in addition to earn free vps and from Getting Started, SFIbasics and Launchpad. Buy 1 unit of NMP @$20.00 investment to increase my chances in winning Daily Grand and Daily Crown contests and earn Fast Track

In the second month, I am looking forward to retain my EA. I subscribe to Standing Order of 125 tcredits with 1500 vps. With that I am EA2. At EA2 I have 2 CSAs. Now is the time to start building up my team through Standing Order- S-builder co-op to get PSAs every month. Or I can buy PSAs To Go(pack of 10 or 20) to build by team from which I hope to get 5 active PSAs who will be EAs and TLs later. With active EA2s, I can earn 100 vps from each one monthly. With 5 active EA2s, I can earn 500 avps.which certainly help me towards the road to Team Leader.
This may be achieved in a couple of months or even up to a year.

Even though I may have some contributions of avps from my active PSAs, I cannot toatlly depend on that. I need to lead the way and show a good example to motivate them
It does not matter how long it will take me to be a team leader as long I am ready for it.

To be a team leader continuously, the best time to upgrade is:
- when I have active PSAs/CSAs to contribute to my sales commission amd Matching Points to earn sustainable income as TL. Use the commission to pay off Standing Order.
- Ascertain that I can earn 1500 -2000 svps and 1000 avps to make 3000 vps every month
- Allocate sufficient time to log in daily.
- Ready to help your team member in need.
- Developed good communication skill with confidence
- Go for extra mile to reach out to affiliates- send out e-cards as TL that cares.
- Be active in Forum and ASK SC as channel of communication
- Know the role and responsibility of TL and lead by example.







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Team Leader rank can be achieved even in the first month as affiliate. A team leader rank like Bronze Team Leader only requires 1500 - 2000 svps and 1000 avps. You can do this through Fast Track and purchase more tcredits to bid in pricebenders, play EZ games to gain more avps. By doing that you can achieve BTL. But can you sustain that rank every month? If can for how long to carry the financial burden as a leader without a team? An active team is a great asset to a team leader on which his income
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

Team Leader (TL) rank comes with a lot of benefits so you can aspire to become one at any time or as soon as it becomes feasible to do so. However, you may not want to become one for the sake of becoming a TL without adequate support for a successful and more beneficial outcome.

The best time will actually depend on your objectives, goals and may be your budget, but not withstanding, I suggest the following:

1. If you can afford it, set up a standing order of around 2000 VP for the maximum sales VP required and squeeze out around 500 VP from your daily, weekly and monthly actions. If your standing order is on Tcredits then you may be able to participate in auctions to earn more VP and some MRP which you can use to purchase more Tcredits and do more auctions to increase your VP.

This approach may not be sustainable or yield good returns (without active team) apart from may be winning some business building auction products like PSA/CSAs, receiving your share of second home CSAs and some free Tcredits. However, I do not necessarily consider this a very good business option.

2. If you have an active team where some members, may be 3 PSAs are consistently maintaining at least EA2 rank monthly, then you may start prepping for a TL rank. This is because these 3 PSAs will earn you 300 AVP which will contribute towards the VP required to become a team leader, plus direct commission which you can use to partly/fully pay for your standing order or to make other business related purchases. Also, take note of any CSA who consistently maintain EA2 rank as an additional benefits plus your PSA who are at least EA2 because you will earn VP Match from the TC Executive Pool as a result, if you become a BTL provided you meet other conditions.

As you can see, this appears to be a good time to advance from EA to TL in order to increase your benefit and enjoy other TL perks/benefits as stipulated in the Compensation Plan and Benefits Chart. More so you are not going to remove your foot from the pedal, but you are going to be consistent in working your business and expanding your team of active affiliates and as you go, the potential to get more benefits and earn more income will be enhanced.

I will conclude by adding that you do not need to remain an EA until everything is ok or set before you advance your rank, but if the potential has started to manifest you can advance in anticipation that it will even get better, in order to start enjoying the benefits and to use your rank for duplication purposes. Also note that it is not a crime to degrade from a TL to an EA if circumstance dictates so, which is akin to a strategic retreat, in order to re-strategise and probably come back stronger.


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Team Leader (TL) rank comes with a lot of benefits so you can aspire to become one at any time or as soon as it becomes feasible to do so. However, you may not want to become one for the sake of becoming a TL without adequate support for a successful and more beneficial outcome.

The best time will actually depend on your objectives, goals and may be your budget, but not withstanding, I suggest the following:

1. If you can afford it, set up a standing order of around 2000 VP
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 164 | Read John's 41 other Ask SC answers

You should upgrade to Team Leader status as soon as you can afford to. Even before you sponsor anyone, upgrading to BTL gives you more credibility and will help your sponsoring. If you can afford to go BTL as soon as you join you should do this. Getting to BTL will among other things give you 40-60 CSA's every month you retain this rank. On one occasion I was given a reassigned CSA who had already reached EA2 that month before the reassignment went through.

The best way is to put in Standing order for 125 TCredits immediately to earn 1500 Sales VP and 100 bonus Action VP. You should also put in an SO for 2 shares in S-Builder Co-op for another 560 SVP, taking your total of SVP to over 2000 for a total standing order cost of $80.25. You then only need 1000 AVP to get to BTL.

Getting 1000 AVP should be approached with the idea of using as few of the once-only occuring TO-DO LIST as possible. Without using any of them and just doing Daily Actions, weekly and monthly actions and not using any of your TCredits you can gain at least 380 AVP in a full month. By using up only 2 TCredits a day - one on an Eager Zebra game and the other on making one only bid on a PriceBenders Auction, you can gain another 3 AVP a day or 90AVP over a full month, which would bring your AVP so far up to 570 AVP. The remaining 65 TCredits would get you another 65 AVP, bringing it up to 635 AVP.

The 125 TCredits will give you 8 MRP when you buy them and 625 MRP when you use them and the 2 S-Builder shares another 10 MRP. The MRP should be saved up for a few months and used to buy another S-Builder share, without spending a cent.

The remaining AVP to be earned - a minimum of 365 AVP, but it could be up to twice that, depending on what time in the month you become a member, can be easily obtained from the other items on the To-Do list.

If you follow this strategy, the To-Do List will last for many months instead of the one and a bit months it lasts for those who rush in and grab all the free AVP they can as soon as they can, and maintaining BTL over several months will be relatively easy.

If new affiliates were acquainted with this strategy before they had earned 1 AVP, the retention rate would dramatically improve, and the number of affiliates earning 150 bonus AVP for their sponsors for getting to BTL would increase by a huge margin.

All of the above assumes you can afford $80 a month. But as we all know, the vast majority of affiliates do not have this sort of money, if they have any money at all. It does not alter the fact that all affiliates should strive for BTL as soon as possible.

For those without money, they should find out what they can sell on TripleClicks, as an ECA preferably, and raise the money from sales.
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You should upgrade to Team Leader status as soon as you can afford to. Even before you sponsor anyone, upgrading to BTL gives you more credibility and will help your sponsoring. If you can afford to go BTL as soon as you join you should do this. Getting to BTL will among other things give you 40-60 CSA's every month you retain this rank. On one occasion I was given a reassigned CSA who had already reached EA2 that month before the reassignment went through.

The best way is to put in Standing
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2012, Power Rank: 256 | Read Jacqueline's 83 other Ask SC answers

The "Best" time to upgrade to a Team Leader is, when you just "Flow" into the next leadership status.

While being an EA is not a bad thing, nor does it mean that you are not "growing", within yourself or SFI and TripleClicks.

While being an EA, you can continue to learn more about SFI and TripleClicks, while you are still building up your team.

Each month that you can become an EA, you will receive two Free CSAs from SFI for your working efforts, so you are beginning to build up your team, as you continue to learn more in SFI and TripleClicks.

It is more important to be able to gain as much education and knowledge and information, in many different areas within SFI and TripleClicks being at an EA status, then it is to just rush into a team leadership status.

See, as you go along each day, learning more and more, and begin to apply what you are learning, you will just gradually advance into the next level of team leadership, because you are "growing", in both yourself and in your business.

If you go through the forum, you will find several threads about, "I was BTL last month, how can I earn more VPs?".

Well, this type of thread shows, that one had rushed into BTL status, with only wanting to gain the rewards of being an BTL, without taking the time to "read, learn, and apply", to be able to just naturally, "learn and grow", and just flow right into the next leadership status.

Being an Executive Affiliate, is one building up the "Foundation", of their own business and without a "Solid" foundation, one could crumble at any time.

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The "Best" time to upgrade to a Team Leader is, when you just "Flow" into the next leadership status.

While being an EA is not a bad thing, nor does it mean that you are not "growing", within yourself or SFI and TripleClicks.

While being an EA, you can continue to learn more about SFI and TripleClicks, while you are still building up your team.

Each month that you can become an EA, you will receive two Free CSAs from SFI for
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2013, Power Rank: 528 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

There are many viewpoints to this question but these are my observations having been in SFI for over 1 year.

- When you have an active team under you is the ideal situation to upgrade your rank because it is done automatically as you earn points from your active down lines.

For example if you are already an EA2 which means you have been in SFI for 2 months or more, and you have two EA2 in your team, you will receive additional 200 action versa points towards your rank qualification.

- Once you have identified your active members in your team, this can help you advance to becoming a Team Leader. However, you must also have a contingency plan in case circumstances change and one or all of your active members stop doing the business!

- Identifying your workers in your team is an ongoing task which you must work at so that once you have achieved your Team Leader status, you do not drop in your rank. I find that to be very demoralizing so make sure you hold onto your TL status.

- It will help you immensely if you start communications with your team members early on in their business so they are aware of the importance of leadership in SFI.


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There are many viewpoints to this question but these are my observations having been in SFI for over 1 year.

- When you have an active team under you is the ideal situation to upgrade your rank because it is done automatically as you earn points from your active down lines.

For example if you are already an EA2 which means you have been in SFI for 2 months or more, and you have two EA2 in your team, you will receive additional 200 action versa points towards your rank qualification.

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