Affiliate since: 12/18/2011, Power Rank: 63 | Read Manohar's 240 other Ask SC answers

Hello William

Any financial budget is good to start with SFI as explained below:

OPTION 1 - FREE:

It is a myth that you need a budget to start your SFI business. As we know Time equals Money. That means if you do not have money to invest in SFI, you would require more time to invest and build your SFI business. You need more free advertising daily. Advertise of FREE safe lists daily. Also use traffic exchanges to rotate your gateways on Traffic Exchanges free every day. You can become an EA when you start earning more than $30 per month. It may take months/years depending upon your aggressiveness of your campaign

OPTION 2 - $60 per month

Purchase a standing order of 125 Tcredits for $ 36
Purchase a S-Builder unit for $ 22/24 a month.
This type of option gives you more time and funds for other activities such as playing Eager Zebra Games, bidding on Price Bender Auctions, downloading TC Music etc.

OPTION 3 – Any budget more than OPTION 2

You can have higher Standing Orders. You can purchase PSAs to go. You can bid more on Price Bender Auctions. You can play Eager Zebra Games more frequently. You buy Gift Certificates etc.
CONCLUSION: There is no fixed best option to start SFI business. You can even start your business free. Also you have unlimited investment opportunities in SFI. It depends upon your choice & circumstances.

Hope it helps you.

Have a nice day, William

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Hello William

Any financial budget is good to start with SFI as explained below:

OPTION 1 - FREE:

It is a myth that you need a budget to start your SFI business. As we know Time equals Money. That means if you do not have money to invest in SFI, you would require more time to invest and build your SFI business. You need more free advertising daily. Advertise of FREE safe lists daily. Also use traffic exchanges to rotate your gateways on Traffic Exchanges free every
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 272 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

When you are just beginning to start doing SFI , once you have belief in it's plan and system, you should set the goal of quickly becoming an EA and holding that position each month until you move up to BTL.

The quickest and easiest way, for many people, is to make a plan for earning a steady 1500+ VP and for providing some form of advertising. This will require spending money and you are wise to set a financial budget to do that. And then keep to that budget, don't go over and don't slack off.

A good financial budget is not full of minimums. Don't be stingy. Doing minimums will get you to a minimal success. If you want good success, then plan and budget for it.

As a beginner, you probably don't know much about advertising and don't have time at this point to set aside time to learn about it. You are studying the ways of SFI but you will still want to advertise. So set aside $24 for a Standing Order of a share of S Builder co-op and 280 VP. You will also want to have cards to pass around to people you meet. A $30 stack of Gift Cards will bring you 400 VP, and x-Cards cost about $4 plus shipping and give you 50 VP per stack.

You don't have to use them the month you get them, so it is best that you save some for the next month and so on. Each month order these except change the marketing aids until you have all of them, and enough to keep handing out.

To finish off your monthly budget, buy 100 pack of TCredits for $29 and 1200 VP.

This plan will give you an easy EA month after month. With your To Do List and the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly tasks you will become very close to BTL. By saving back the Gift Cards and TCredits, you will have enough to become BTL without spending more money.

Why aim for an early BTL? You get a good handful of CSA that may start off an active team for you and there by cut down on your financial budget or allow you to redirect the available money.
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When you are just beginning to start doing SFI , once you have belief in it's plan and system, you should set the goal of quickly becoming an EA and holding that position each month until you move up to BTL.

The quickest and easiest way, for many people, is to make a plan for earning a steady 1500+ VP and for providing some form of advertising. This will require spending money and you are wise to set a financial budget to do that. And then keep to that budget, don't go over and don't
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

A good financial budget for SFI depends on your financial situation. Regardless of your situation investing in the first month is often followed by despair when the person discovers how small the return is on VP earned. Therefore: here is my recommendations.

1. First month place a standing order. My preference is for one hundred Tcredits. You don't need to invest any more. Go to Tripleclicks and help them set up their transfer buying items and purchase them to increase their first months commissions, as that will give them more incentive to stay.

The first month it is very important that your people make EA, which can be done with no investment. This is the month to use your Tcredits to check out TripleClicks, and to study. Caution them to save some of the launch pads because the second month it is much harder to make EA. Advise them to study about marketing and advertising offering them good ideas and help for this. First month will set the stage for their business if they spend it studying and learning the system. If they want to invest more suggest Sbuilder Units.

2. Second month. By now they should be familiar enough with the SFI system to gauge how much they want to invest, have some idea as to where their investment should be spent. Their knowledge in this area will determine how much they should invest. Since they are already transfer buying, using the Tcredits in auctions and games, and keeping up their SO, they will be EA2. Now is the time to take advantage of any PSA's added in the first month, and strive to gain more through advertising. Expanding their advertising to the products that they have purchased in transfer buying, by advertising how well these products worked for them, should give them even more commissions their second month.

Third month. This is the time to invest whatever you feel you can in gaining new PSA's and advertising TC products. Now that they have some indication of how well they can work SFI, and where their strengths lie in building this business; is the time to begin to invest more by purchasing more products, and more advertising.

A part of their investment should be spent in helping their PSA's gain EA2 and them becoming a BTL. If they have build a solid foundation in the first two months, becoming a BTL and an ECA should be the goal to gain the most profit from SFI available to them. If they are fortunate to have 1 or 2 active PSA's they could strive for Silver.
Many people don't stay in SFI because they haven't learned the ins and outs of building their business using their strengths.They are striving and working hard doing the dailies and some advertising, but haven't established a strong foundation to work from. Investment in SFI doesn't build a solid foundation if you are spending your investment where it isn't working the best for you. SFI can be worked free for two months and still provide a small commission. Why invest in something you have little knowledge about? Study and learn to make your investment work for you.
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A good financial budget for SFI depends on your financial situation. Regardless of your situation investing in the first month is often followed by despair when the person discovers how small the return is on VP earned. Therefore: here is my recommendations.

1. First month place a standing order. My preference is for one hundred Tcredits. You don't need to invest any more. Go to Tripleclicks and help them set up their transfer buying items and purchase them to increase their first months
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 164 | Read John's 41 other Ask SC answers

If you want a good start with SFI, I think you need the ability to afford an investment of $80 - $100 a month. $36.25 on a Standing Order gets you 125 TCredits, 1500 SVP and 100 bonus AVP. a further $44.00 a month gets you 2 shares in the S-Builder Coop for another 560 VP.

With that you only need another 1000 Action VP a month to get to BTL, and by doing Daily, Weekly and Monthly actions, over a full month, you would need less than 400 AVP over the rest of the month to qualify as and retain BTL status.

Within 6 months your S-Builder Co-op shares should have given you 30 - 50 PSAs, who hopefully will start generating an income for you. By that time you would also have received 200-300 CSAs who will also be generating an income for you.

By that time you should be selling things on TripleClicks for extra income, and hopefully you will not need that budget of $80 - $100 a month.

If you do not have this for your budget, you should start selling on TripleClicks as fast as possible to raise the funds you need.
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If you want a good start with SFI, I think you need the ability to afford an investment of $80 - $100 a month. $36.25 on a Standing Order gets you 125 TCredits, 1500 SVP and 100 bonus AVP. a further $44.00 a month gets you 2 shares in the S-Builder Coop for another 560 VP.

With that you only need another 1000 Action VP a month to get to BTL, and by doing Daily, Weekly and Monthly actions, over a full month, you would need less than 400 AVP over the rest of the month to qualify as and retain
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Affiliate since: 11/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read VIVEK KUMAR A's 129 other Ask SC answers

Budget is a tool that helps you manage your financial expenses over a period of time.

Factors that are prominent to construct a budget are:
1. Your aspirations or what you want to do?
2. Your priorities determine how and when you allocate your funds for a certain goal?
3. Third and most important factor is your financial capacity towards a particular goal.

On the basis of these parameters let us see how we arrive at a good financial budget for SFI.

Your two prime most goals should be:
1. To determine a level or rank you want to achieve and allocate funds towards realizing it. It would be almost constant every month.
2. You would like to allocate some funds to grow your team. May vary each month.

In next step, determine the various tools and products available and choose the best out of them which would become part of your budget purchasing in months to come to fulfill your above goals.

T Credits pack that comes with good amount of SVP should be one included into the list. You can choose from Pack of 100 T credits with 1200 SVP; 125 T credits with 1500 SVP and 100 AVP for SO and so forth depending upon your rank requirement. You can utilize them well enough to be active on Tripleclicks, bidding for products; playing games and winning exciting prizes for yourself.

To grow your team you should have either PSAs to go; S- Builder co-op; or any other products ECAs has to offer to build your team. This would also help you start your commissions check from the word go.

I would say you start these two things from the beginning i.e. from first month and keep adding products as per the financial limit of expenses you have drawn for a month.

This draws a conclusion that:
1. If you want to be as EA in the beginning you should have a minimum budget of $51 to create a SO to take care of your rank and growth.
2. If you want to be as BTL from the beginning you should have a minimum budget of $58.25 to create a SO to take care of your rank and build a ever growing team.

Beyond this sky is the limit and you can spend as much as you are comfortable with?

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Budget is a tool that helps you manage your financial expenses over a period of time.

Factors that are prominent to construct a budget are:
1. Your aspirations or what you want to do?
2. Your priorities determine how and when you allocate your funds for a certain goal?
3. Third and most important factor is your financial capacity towards a particular goal.

On the basis of these parameters let us see how we arrive at a good financial budget for SFI.

Your
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

A budget is as good as how much you can afford and your strategic objectives because as you may know, you are not required to spend anything her unless you want to, which is why I said it is as good as you can afford. This means there is no budget too big especially if you came with some experience and can get off to a big start. Conversely, you may just need to budget for at least a minimum of 1500 VP standing order may be from your second month, but ensure you have learnt and received pertinent training in you first month.

A standing order of at least 1500 VP of 125 Tcredits is about $36 which will ensure your monthly EA status and you start receiving some Executive benefits as a result. These Tcredits will help you participate in some activities here like the auctions, EZ games, member listing etc which are necessary in building your SFI business.

Another important aspect that may require attention may be to invest about $20 for prospecting for PSAs, PRMs and ECAs signups. You may opt to buy PSAs from reputable suppliers at TC or you may place ads in affordable sites. Alternatively, you may invest about $24 for S-Builder subscription for PSA/PRMs. These are important for generating income as well as building you downline/business.

As you can see, you may need around between $56 and $60 monthly budget to get off to a reasonable start, however, this is not a silver bullet to achieving success because you may experience some ups and downs along the way consistent with any genuine business, so you need determination and patience to pull through, after all success does not happen overnight.


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A budget is as good as how much you can afford and your strategic objectives because as you may know, you are not required to spend anything her unless you want to, which is why I said it is as good as you can afford. This means there is no budget too big especially if you came with some experience and can get off to a big start. Conversely, you may just need to budget for at least a minimum of 1500 VP standing order may be from your second month, but ensure you have learnt and received pertinent
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Hi William
My answer to you will be the New Member Pack that costs $20. Why is this so is because it is not how you begin that matters but how you end.
The purpose of your NMP is to start you off on a good start. Through the NMP,
1. you are able to qualify as a silver fast tracker and it comes with all its benefits.
2. You begin building a team of CSAs that enables you to make profit in your investment through their purchases.
3. It makes you to become an EA faster reserving more vps for you for your requalification the next month which may not require any investment at all.
4. You make 750vp at a go. 250vp for being a fast tracker and 500vp from the NMP. That draws you closer to becoming an EA immediately which is a very good start in earning at the Tripleclicks Executive Pool plus the 10% additions that come with it. That boosts your earning power.
5. The 30 daily crown drawing affords you the opportunity of earning your $20 back through the $20 which comes from the drawing which you can use later to boost your rank. You can earn this more than once if the drawing favours you plus you can win TC and MRPs which you can use to purchase at Tripleclicks. I'd this once and it saves me a lot of money. I literally didn't use my money later after the purchase. It was what i earned from the drawing that i used for my requalification later. So it is good to start with the $20 NMP.
6. Through the 10 EZ games tokens, you've the chance of winning, which enhances your business via the TC, MRP or CSA won. Through the TC, you can list your items for sale at TripleClicks which increases sales for you and as a result reduces cost for you or none at all.
7. Through the 50TC, you can participate in the pricebender auctions using the bid assist and following the rules at the auction, win it, resell it and gain back your money with profit.
8. With the 200MRP you can purchase 1TC to play games again repeating the procedure on games above which drastically reduces cost for you in the business when you win. The remaining MRP can add up later with other MRPs you'l get from the auction to make additional TCs for you later or accumulated to later buy one of those Apple ipads at TripleClicks and that means you didn't actually use your money to buy it, your accumulated MRP did it. This item bought through your MRP can be a sponsoring tool for you that can yet build your business through your recruits of PSAs.
Through the above, you'l realize that $20 is a good deal to start because you'l make so much profit from it and that is when you are really doing business and you are a true Entrepreneur .
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Hi William
My answer to you will be the New Member Pack that costs $20. Why is this so is because it is not how you begin that matters but how you end.
The purpose of your NMP is to start you off on a good start. Through the NMP,
1. you are able to qualify as a silver fast tracker and it comes with all its benefits.
2. You begin building a team of CSAs that enables you to make profit in your investment through their purchases.
3. It makes you to become an EA faster reserving
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

When thinking about a good financial budget to start with for your SFI business, you need to look at the core business principles of SFI. SFI BASICS provide a solid foundation for your SFI business. As you maintain and abide on your SFI business foundation, you’ll be able to establish a good financial budget for growing your SFI business.

As a SFI business owner, you need to ensure the growth and momentum of your SFI business by following these important steps:

1. Become and maintain your EA status.

Becoming and maintaining your EA status every month must be included in your budget. You are in a real business, you no longer have a boss holding you accountable. Your success is dependent upon you and your actions.

A sustainable business plan should include the Fast-Track membership. By becoming a Fast-Track member, you’re boosting your SFI income for years to come. There are great benefits that come with being a Fast-Track member. It includes 10% bonus shares of TC Executive Pool per month, 250 bonus VP, etc.

If you’re just starting in SFI, a good strategy to implement in becoming a Fast-Track member is by doing the following:

- Complete the five Getting Started actions, which are indicated with JET icons.

- Purchase the New Member Pack (NMP) which costs $20.

You should strategically collect your Getting Started Actions VP accordingly. Most new affiliates collect all their free action VPs in their first month without financial investment to achieve EA, making it difficult for the following month to maintain their EA status. Doing the two steps above to become a Fast-Track member will yield 750 AVP, which is half of the 1500 VP requirement to achieve EA. You can collect the remaining required VP by performing your daily To-Do List and collecting the AVP associated to the next step.

2. Sponsor to build your downline.

Sponsoring should be the focus of your activity and it should occupy a substantial amount in your budget. You should have a marketing plan and a marketing strategy in place for your lead generation if you are to succeed. Your SFI business requires your long term commitment and establishing a sound budget to support the momentum and growth of your SFI business is an important part of a success-driven business practice.

You’ll need to set aside certain amount for your advertising needs. Your financial budget is well spent as you invest in:

- Your domain name, which includes web hosting

- Lead generation tools (SEO, A/B testing platform tool, LinkedIn Advertising suite, Email capturing tool, etc)

- Driving traffic to your website/blog.

There is no faster, more immediate way to get targeted traffic to your website/blog on a consistent basis than with Paid Search Marketing, also known as Pay Per Click. Google AdWords provides the most popular pay per click platform for advertisers looking to get valuable exposure on Google’s search results pages as quickly as possible. Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing both take some ramp up time, which is where Pay Per Click marketing can become extremely valuable.

- Strategic email marketing campaign.

Use an email marketing system that allows you to use professional looking email templates, track the effectiveness of your email campaigns and auto-schedule email messages to be sent at set times in the future. You can sign up for a web-based email marketing services to help you design email newsletters professionally, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use and track your results.

Conclusion:

It is very important to establish a good financial budget with your SFI business to produce the kind of results you’re looking for. It will require hours of consistent time and effort and certainly a marketing budget to maintain the growth of your SFI business successfully.

There are many ways to market a business these days; however, there are only a few ways now to get the most of your financial budget and for your time. The most cost effective and far reaching methods have been outlined above and should bring a very clear picture for you on what you need to start doing today to market your SFI business smarter.

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When thinking about a good financial budget to start with for your SFI business, you need to look at the core business principles of SFI. SFI BASICS provide a solid foundation for your SFI business. As you maintain and abide on your SFI business foundation, you’ll be able to establish a good financial budget for growing your SFI business.

As a SFI business owner, you need to ensure the growth and momentum of your SFI business by following these important steps:

1. Become and
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 37 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

I am sure you will receive a wide variety of answers to your question.

The bottom line is your budget will be dictated by your financial capabilities.
My primary recommendation is to put yourself in a continuous Executive
Affiliate Status. This will require 1500 VersaPoints.

This can easily done with doing your Daily Actions, each day.
And, by purchasing 100 TCredits on a Standing Order.
This will put you over the minimum of 1500 VP, easily.
Cost $29.00 per month.

If you budget will allow it, I would recommend, buying at least
one S-Builder each month to bring a few high quality sign-ups into your
downline each month.
Cost $22.00 per month.
It will, also, allow you to buy PSAs to Go at a discounted price.
Starting at $1.99 each, review the TC Products, SFI Section for other options.

The above will allow you time to learn and become familiar with all the income
earning options available in the SFI Program and selling the TripleClicks store,
it's products and ECA merchants.
You may well decide to become a merchant yourself.

In time you will find a budget that suits you, your income from SFI and
to maintain the Status level of your choosing.

To your success!
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I am sure you will receive a wide variety of answers to your question.

The bottom line is your budget will be dictated by your financial capabilities.
My primary recommendation is to put yourself in a continuous Executive
Affiliate Status. This will require 1500 VersaPoints.

This can easily done with doing your Daily Actions, each day.
And, by purchasing 100 TCredits on a Standing Order.
This will put you over the minimum of 1500 VP, easily.
Cost $29.00
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 783 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

I won't answer a dollar amount because each of us has different means and ability but I will say that the best budget is every penny you are willing to sacrifice.

A business grows on sacrifice. If you are willing to take risk, willing to give up the little things to put more money into your business, and can turn every task or expense into an opportunity to save and invest you will see a much higher return on investment.

To say I wont spend more than $100 a month means your business is limited to $100 a month in success, and that success could take more time and effort than if you turned out the added lights in the house, and turned up the thermostat in the summer and down in the winter to scrape together $125 a month.

Your investment should be a risk because you will fight more if you have something to lose than if it's just spare money.

You need to focus on what you spend the money on too. If you listen to half these folks and buy more t-credits to spend on auctions you are taking dollars away from recruiting PSA and PRM. Growing your marketing reach and recruiting more people to your business should always take the lead over playing games or bidding in auctions. These people largely haven't realized that the 500VP for bidding in auctions and 200VP for playing games is only a surface scratch to the potential of their earnings.

They haven't realized that generating PRM sales at TripleClicks is a path to a 6 to 7 figure business and teaches you skills that can be passed on to your PSA so they make money, stay motivated, and don't quit. In the same breath these purchases from non affiliates will bring thousands of Versa Points to your business as well as sales commissions for the same kind of money that it cost you to earn 700VP between games and auctions.

Not being mean, as I said most of these respondents just haven't seen the big picture yet and are clinging to the piece they understand which is more VP equals more earnings, and are reaching for the one method they control the outcome on to gain as many VP and as high of a rank as possible.

Your business though has so much more potential so invest wisely.
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I won't answer a dollar amount because each of us has different means and ability but I will say that the best budget is every penny you are willing to sacrifice.

A business grows on sacrifice. If you are willing to take risk, willing to give up the little things to put more money into your business, and can turn every task or expense into an opportunity to save and invest you will see a much higher return on investment.

To say I wont spend more than $100 a month means your
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