What exactly do you do other than the Daily To Do List to really succeed in SFI?
If you just do the Daily To Do List you will not succeed in SFI.
Please understand what the purpose of the Daily To Do List is. The list is an aid to management and administration. It is not a profit-making activity in itself.
SFI recognizes that most people who sign up as SFI Affiliates are new to running a business, new to internet marketing, and in particular new to the SFI system. So SFI have introduced this list to help us review the most important aspects of our business daily. And they even reward us for doing this.
We can earn 12 free Action VersaPoints (AVP) each day just for ticking each tab. Hence, together with the weekly and monthly lists, we can earn about 500 AVP each month, that’s 1/3 of the VP we need to become an EA (Executive Affiliate) just by FAITHFULLY doing each of these daily tasks.
It’s a great system too because it encourages us to log into SFI each day and spend time looking at every aspect of our business. Those of us who do this, learn the SFI system, become familiar with what is involved in running our own business, and learn about the different aspects of online marketing. So working in our business becomes an essential but enjoyable habit.
No, to be successful in SFI we need to be doing the two things that will generate income for us: -
1. Market (that’s purchasing yourself and selling to others) the products and services in our TripleClicks Superstore, and
2. Grow a team of ACTIVE SFI Affiliates, TripleClick Members and ECAs.
I’ve put marketing first because if nothing is purchased or sold there is no profit (Commission Value [CV]) from which to pay commissions.
Whereas in SFI it seems to me that the emphasis is on signing people up (team building). That is all very well but if they don’t do anything it is a complete waste of time, effort and expense.
So the best piece of advice that I can give you if you want to be successful in SFI is “LEAD FROM THE FRONT!”
By that I mean BUY SOMETHING YOURSELF.
How can you expect to others to buy if you don’t?
If you do that AND each team member does that then you will have a successful SFI business.
Now, I’m not going to give you a list of things to do. There are heaps of these listed in the marketing section of your SFI Homepage. And these will change over time too.
Instead let me give a simple example of the power of us purchasing something from TripleClicks and having a team that duplicates that.
I’ve had a Standard Order (SO) each month I have been in SFI (over 2 years now). The contents of that SO have varied a bit in that time but it has always generated the 1,500 VP I need to become a EA each month. (That’s a pretty basic requirement if you don’t want to loose your CSAs and you want to participate in the Executive Pool [EA].)
Let’s say that the SO is for 1 pack of 125 TCredits. This costs me $36.25 and earns me 1,500 SVP. It also earns my Sponsor a Direct Commission (DC) of $7.95 (and my Co-Sponsor a CSC of $2.65). And let’s suppose that it was the only thing I purchased or sold all month. That’s not working too hard, is it?
Now suppose each of my team did the same thing: -
As of today I have 239 PSAs and 389 CSAs in my team. If each were just to do the same thing I would earn DC of $1,900.25 per month from my 239 PSAs and CSC of $1,030.85 from my 389 CSAs.
That’s a total commission of $2,931.10.
WOW! I’d be so happy if that was to happen each month.
And I see my task is primarily to help my team understand this fundamental principle and to strive to achieve it themselves.
We all want to be successful. Well, this is all we have to do.
Of course, we can apply this principle to all purchases and sales me make; and to any of the activities we do in SFI, such as partaking in EZ Games and in the Pricebenders Auctions. If this principle were extended to all these activities our incomes would grow exponentially.
How do we get this SIMPLE message across to our teams? That’s the big question.
Me? I try and use my Stream posts and weekly TeamMails to encourage my team. And I’m just so grateful to the few team members I have who have grasped this. It’s a start and the “Skies the limit!”
May I wish you every success in your leadership too.
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