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

Two of the income streams that are available to SFI affiliates are derived from Personally Referred Members (PRMs) and from E-Commerce Associates (ECAs). The common point between these two income streams is that you are paid a commission through the selling/purchasing of TripleClicks products.

When you refer a PRM and they purchase some products (any products) from TripleClicks you will receive 45% of the commission value for that product. This could amount to a lot of money monthly if your PRMs are purchasing every month. The PRMs you refer are yours to receive commissions from for the life of those PRMs.

When you have referred an ECA you will receive 10% of the commission value from the sales of every product that is sold from that ECA. That is 10% of the commission value of every single sale that ECA makes no matter who they are selling products to. You will receive royalties for as long as that store is actively selling products.

We cannot know the purchasing habits of each PRM except to know “when” they do purchase you are rewarded. Some PRMs may purchase each month or once a year – the income stream is good but it is not to consistent and depends entirely on the whim of each different PRM you have referred.

The commissions from your referred ECA is lower than that of a PRM except for the fact that you will receive commissions on all products that are sold through that ECA. This income stream is much more stable because the ECA is actively attempting to sell products daily.

As an example this month if a PRM makes a 50 dollar purchase and has a 17 dollar commission value you will earn $7.65 if during that same month your referred ECA sells $1,500 in commission value you will earn $150 that month.

The highest income source will come from your personally enrolled ECAs.

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Two of the income streams that are available to SFI affiliates are derived from Personally Referred Members (PRMs) and from E-Commerce Associates (ECAs). The common point between these two income streams is that you are paid a commission through the selling/purchasing of TripleClicks products.

When you refer a PRM and they purchase some products (any products) from TripleClicks you will receive 45% of the commission value for that product. This could amount to a lot of money
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2013, Power Rank: 308 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

Which is the more potentially profitable activity … referring PRMs or ECAs?

Of course we should do both – refer PRMs and encourage ECAs to set up their TripleClicks stores under our SFI ID.

But to answer the question we need to understand the fundamental difference between a PRM (a Personally Referred Member) and a ECA (a E-Commerce Affiliate). A PRM is an individual customer whereas a ECA is a online shop.

Once we sign up a PRM they become our customer for life!
• We earn 45% of the CV (Commission Volume) for all orders that they place at TripleClicks.com;
• And we also earn all the VP (VersaPoints) on that order.

Provided we have become a EA (Executive Affiliate) once we refer a company to our ECA Gateway and they become an approved ECA they also become ours for life! It’s like we have our own online business that is being run and managed by someone else (although we should be always available to help and advice them).
• We earn a royalty of 10% of the CV on all their sales at TripleClicks.com;
• And we also earn all the VP (VersaPoints) on any sale.

A PRM can potentially become very active and buy a lot of products at TripleClicks and do this for the rest of their life – that is what we are hoping for. This will give us a good residual income – Great! But they are only one person and hence have limited purchasing power.

Of course overtime they may decide to become a SFI Affiliate – that would be even better for us because then they could duplicate what we are doing – have their own team of SFI Affiliates, PRMs and ECAs. And in this case their potential becomes unlimited (just as ours is).

But ECA has even more potential. It can sell as many approved products and services as it wants to through TripleClicks to just about anywhere in the world. It can develop its own loyal and growing customer base and other SFI Affiliates can become “connected” with it. (I am currently connected with 106 ECAs.) In effect other SFI Affiliates can become its marketers and help grow the ECA’s sales, for which they earn commissions as well.

A new ECA will also help grow TripleClicks and the bigger it gets the more successful our online Superstore will be. More products and services being offered in more countries helps make TripleClicks more popular – to become a person’s first choice in online shopping. Wouldn’t that be great? And in this case we all win because the EP (Executive Pool) will grow too.

So I think that a ECA is potentially more profitable.

But really PRMs and ECAs are intertwined and interdependent – the more there is of one the more there will be of the other.

Me? I’m just starting out in the PRM and ECA areas. Currently all my PRMs are inactive. And I have a ECA store. I set it up so that I could begin to understand it and I really need to get working on it. In both these areas I have a lot of work to do. BUT I can see the potential and I am prepared to learn and stay around to see that potential realized. In fact I am very excited about it.

So I recommend that you do the same - embrace both the PRM and ECA programs and see where they will take your SFI business.

"TO OUR FUTURE SUCCESS!"

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Which is the more potentially profitable activity … referring PRMs or ECAs?

Of course we should do both – refer PRMs and encourage ECAs to set up their TripleClicks stores under our SFI ID.

But to answer the question we need to understand the fundamental difference between a PRM (a Personally Referred Member) and a ECA (a E-Commerce Affiliate). A PRM is an individual customer whereas a ECA is a online shop.

Once we sign up a PRM they become our customer for life!
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Online shopping has steadily increased over the last ten years. The trend will continue unabated. As a result, selling online is now a requirement for survival and a condition of profitability for any kind of business. In other words, E-Commerce is, today, a multi billion industry, that is growing faster every year.

SFI offers to businesses an easy and cost effective way to be in the E-Commerce game as Affilaites (ECAs) with TripleClicks.

To cater to the shoppers, give them a personal, enjoyable experience, Tripleclicks as instituted the Personally Referred Members (PRMs). Hence, PRMs and CAs) are two major income streams, critical in building an SFI business. We have over 80,000 products and services available within TripleClicks. It is up to us to increase that number and benefit from it. We do that by opening our own stores, referring ECAs or PRMs.

As SFI Affiliates, our role is to bring buyers and sellers to meet. When a sale closes we earn a commission from both ends. A good scenario is when one of our PRMs buys from one of our ECAs. We gain from both sides of the transaction.

For the sake of maximizing my earning potential, I find easier and more beneficial to target both markets using a "common denominator" . This is the way I prefer to answer your inquiry. I promote my TripleClicks gateway:

http://www.tripleclicks.com/xxxxxxxx

This Gateway will drop off our prospective members at the main homepage. The ones who are interested in being a Personally Referred Member (PRM) will sign as such, while a business owner interested in opening their own store will join as an E-Commerce Affiliate (ECA).

I also find it worthwhile to approach the question in both angles:
(a) prospecting for ECAs more specifically using my ECA gateway, when I come across potential members who are store owners and need to expand or strengthen their online activity.

http://www.tripleclicks.com/xxxxxxxx/ECA

(b) or, pitch for TripleClicks membership, seeking PRM sign-ups, when I am interacting with prospects active in niche or segmented markets such as health food, nutritional supplements, home and gardens shoppers or penny auction bidders. In such cases I use my direct sales gateways.

The above is what explains your question. It stems from the fact that the motives are different for prospects who want to be PRMs from those who will be ECAS. In generic terms, they hold the same opportunities for income. An ECA will continue to generate commissions for us as long as they run their business through TripleClicks. So, will a PRM, as long as they are active members. But the actual results will vary from one to the other.

Any direct answer to your question will be just a mere opinion. It will not be based on facts that will remain valid in the majority of specific situations. There are no across the board benchmarks to will tell us that, overall, our ECAs will perform better than our PRMs or the other way around.

Each one of us, a promoters, will have a different experience. I will not replicate your experience and your results; nor will you replicate mine.

In terms of the commission they will generate for us the promoters, there are no established similitude that will hold true in every situation: one ECA will not be equal to another ECA; one PRM will not bring in the same amount as the next PRM, and definitely, one ECA will not be the same as one PRM.
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Online shopping has steadily increased over the last ten years. The trend will continue unabated. As a result, selling online is now a requirement for survival and a condition of profitability for any kind of business. In other words, E-Commerce is, today, a multi billion industry, that is growing faster every year.

SFI offers to businesses an easy and cost effective way to be in the E-Commerce game as Affilaites (ECAs) with TripleClicks.

To cater to the shoppers, give them
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 44 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Both PRMs and ECAs referral programs are profitable activities. Both systems have been designed to generate sales and maximize your potential earnings.

The potential profitability of both referral programs will be dependent on the following factors:

- Both referral programs can be promoted with traditional and digital marketing method.

- The promotion scheme of both referral programs are also equipped with the latest innovation in marketing strategy and are both success oriented.

- The time spent in promoting both referral programs will define the potential profitability. The more time invested, the higher the chances of achieving the potential profitability of a referral program.

- The level of intensity of PRMs TripleClicks’ products purchases and promotion which include the W3 program referring method of building networks of PRMs will determine significantly the potential profitability.

- Are ECAs products/services offered in demand and attractive to customers? Are they priced competitively?

- The level of intensity of ECAs’ products/services promotion will affect lifetime royalty commissions. This includes ECAs consistency of acquiring new customers to increase their customer base.

- Are you actively promoting ECAs to your downline? Each member of your downline you refer as ECA will increase your potential earnings.

Both referral programs are potentially profitable making it possible to establish a lifetime residual income achieving your long term goal.

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Both PRMs and ECAs referral programs are profitable activities. Both systems have been designed to generate sales and maximize your potential earnings.

The potential profitability of both referral programs will be dependent on the following factors:

- Both referral programs can be promoted with traditional and digital marketing method.

- The promotion scheme of both referral programs are also equipped with the latest innovation in marketing strategy and are both success
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

PRMs have the potential of earning you 45% of their purchases CV as well as earning you all the SVPs associated with the items they have purchased. These are the benefits to you as the referrer.

PRMs however are similar to PSAs. Just as there are possibly thousands of inactive PSAs so are the PRMs. Many of them just sign up but never purchase anything.

ECAs on the other hand are business people. Their focus is to make money. They have signed up as ECAs because they want to make money. They are already running businesses themselves or have spent money purchasing the Sellers Certificate from SFI. They have already invested money in their businesses. They want to succeed in their ECA role with SFI.

As the person who referred the ECA you will benefit as follows:

1. You will receive 100 AVPs when your referral is accepted as an ECA and they make their 1st $10 in sales.
2. Your referred ECAs will pay 15% commission to TripleClicks on all their sale. Of that 15% - 10% will come to you for life on all their sales
3. If you help promote your referred ECAs and you refer PRMs to them and the PRMs make purchases from those ECAs, you receive 45% from your PRMs purchases (and the SVPs) and the 10% of what the ECAs pay - earning yourself a neat 55% CV.
4. If your PSAs purchase from your referred ECAs, again you get 55% CV
5. If any of your CSAs buy from your referred ECAs you will receive 15% CV of their purchases plus the 10% of ECAs payment - a total of 25% of the CV.

Clearly referring ECAs is much more profitable in the long run.





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PRMs have the potential of earning you 45% of their purchases CV as well as earning you all the SVPs associated with the items they have purchased. These are the benefits to you as the referrer.

PRMs however are similar to PSAs. Just as there are possibly thousands of inactive PSAs so are the PRMs. Many of them just sign up but never purchase anything.

ECAs on the other hand are business people. Their focus is to make money. They have signed up as ECAs because they want
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

I don't think I have read a single answer to this question that brings into account the New Wave 3.
This blows away all the competition regarding commissions, royalties, etc.

With the ECA program, which I like very much, you refer one ECA at a time and there is no building upon that ECA other than what sales he can bring in with your help or other affiliates.

With the Wave 3, those PRMs you bring in may participate in the games and product referrals. Any time one of your PRMs brings in a new PRM using the Share & Win or Friend Challenge, the New PRM becomes one of your permanent PRMs. You get commissions off of the purchases of all of them plus the different bonuses when they play and win as long as you complete your responsibilities.

If your PRM opts into SFI, then his new referrals will become his PRMs from that time on. But you will still gain with a successful PSA.

So while your ECA does have an unlimited potential to make sales, he is limited to being just one person with interested customers. Some of those customers will be your PRMs, but not all depending who referred them.

You do not have the ability to really advise and encourage either your PRMs or ECAs but you do have the ability to contact the ECA seller or send a Gift Certificate to the PRMs.

So all in all, the PRM has the best potential to bring you a bigger income.










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I don't think I have read a single answer to this question that brings into account the New Wave 3.
This blows away all the competition regarding commissions, royalties, etc.

With the ECA program, which I like very much, you refer one ECA at a time and there is no building upon that ECA other than what sales he can bring in with your help or other affiliates.

With the Wave 3, those PRMs you bring in may participate in the games and product referrals. Any time one of your
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Both can produce a profit but you will need to consider which one is easier for you to do - then pursue that one first.

As an affiliate with PRM's - this can increase your income as the PRM will hopefully purchase items that will require a renewal purchase - such as products that are TripleClicks specific such as cleaning supplies or health or even any other product that is offered through ECA's.

The more ECA's you have enrol in your program the more products that you have to choose from as well as other affiliates can choose from. When you refer the ECA - they will be registered to your Affiliate ID so when they make sales you earn a commission from each sale...that is on-going re-occurring income as well.

Both have their benefits to you as an affiliate so I would suggest focusing on the program that you know you will Ace and then once you have established a flow through that program then learn how to improve your skills to use the other one. Both have their use in SFI so if possible use both at the same time as part of your business growth plan.
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Both can produce a profit but you will need to consider which one is easier for you to do - then pursue that one first.

As an affiliate with PRM's - this can increase your income as the PRM will hopefully purchase items that will require a renewal purchase - such as products that are TripleClicks specific such as cleaning supplies or health or even any other product that is offered through ECA's.

The more ECA's you have enrol in your program the more products that you have to
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Affiliate since: 04/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diane's 76 other Ask SC answers

It´s not like you really have to choose one or the other Allison.

You can do both.

ECAs are sellers. PRMs are customers. In any market, you can´t have one without the other. Therefore, they both have equal potential. It will only depend on which one you are more comfortable with, or which one you focus on more.

If I said one was more profitable than the other, would that mean you would give more attention to one and forget about the other? Then, you would be missing an opportunity.

Whichever one you refer, you also have no idea how active they will be, i.e. how much a PRM may spend or how much an ECA may sell.

If you are lucky, you may know potential ECAs personally and be able to help them set up their store, and help them promote it to increase their sales, and thus your commissions. If the product range appeals to other affiliates, they will also promote them, and you will earn commissions from those sales too.

You may have a niche market for PRMs and be able to promote certain products, e.g. you could have a health-related blog and be able to promote the health supplements sold by TC, then when they join to buy those you could benefit from commissions from those and any other purchases the PRM makes.

But really, it´s like asking if you prefer apples or pears.
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It´s not like you really have to choose one or the other Allison.

You can do both.

ECAs are sellers. PRMs are customers. In any market, you can´t have one without the other. Therefore, they both have equal potential. It will only depend on which one you are more comfortable with, or which one you focus on more.

If I said one was more profitable than the other, would that mean you would give more attention to one and forget about the other? Then, you would be missing
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Hi Allison
To answer this question is to weigh the pros and the cons of each.
If you refer a PRM, You will become a wave maker and enjoy the benefits attached to it plus enjoy immediate sales and vp from your PRMs purchases.
However, sometimes, sales may not happen depending upon your referrals country. What do i mean? If the shipping cost of purchase to your referrals country is high, the tendency is, he/she may not purchase.
I've over 20 PRMs and none have never made any purchase.
But ECAs referrals is great and highly profitable. How and why? Due to the following:
1. You'l become a wave maker too. Your ECA referral will have to become a TripleClicks member before he/she can become an ECA. So you still enjoy the benefits of a wave 3 member.
2. Your ECA referral can have good products for sale that can increase connections as well as sales.
3. Via the Featured ECA Program, the chances of your ECA referrals increasing customers and sales are very high, thus increasing greatly your income.
4. Your ECA referral can make sales everyday, thus increasing your profitability.
5. Your ECA referral can increase products indefinitely, thus increasing your income indefinitely too.
With the above differences, you'l realize that referring ECAs have high potential profitability than PRMs.
Good luck.
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Hi Allison
To answer this question is to weigh the pros and the cons of each.
If you refer a PRM, You will become a wave maker and enjoy the benefits attached to it plus enjoy immediate sales and vp from your PRMs purchases.
However, sometimes, sales may not happen depending upon your referrals country. What do i mean? If the shipping cost of purchase to your referrals country is high, the tendency is, he/she may not purchase.
I've over 20 PRMs and none have never made any purchase.
But
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Affiliate since: 07/26/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

This is a great question. There are many variables to consider namely how active you are at referring PRMs/ECAs, and how active are the PRMs/ECAs. The short answer is the most active and the highest number you have.

Of course, active PRMs/ECAs both create commissions for you. If I had to take a pick between active PRMs and active ECAs I'd take the PRMs and here's why. ECA royalties are only 10% of the CV produced. Very few ECAs produce $10000 in CV a month but if one does then the sponsor earns $1,000 bucks on auto pilot every mo the ECA duplicates this effort.

However it is easy for 10 active PRMs to produce $1000 in CV because there are over 600 auctions every month and currency of the auctions are TCredits! Even though that's only $450 dollars in commissions the likelihood is far greater that you can have many more PRMs than ECAs. Not everyone wants the responsibility of an ecommerce site but more people will engage in games online because it is contagious. I dare you just to play one and win!

In conclusion, ECAs that are top notch can be worth their weight in diamonds but they are harder to come by than the PRMs who just love to play games. PRMs don't spend but so much but you can bet that once they play they are your customers for life! The TripleClicks marketplace is also quite the online mall. PRMs can find great deals on name brand merchandise. So referring PRMs is probably the best and most profitable activity in the short term until you have about 20 super star ECAs.
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This is a great question. There are many variables to consider namely how active you are at referring PRMs/ECAs, and how active are the PRMs/ECAs. The short answer is the most active and the highest number you have.

Of course, active PRMs/ECAs both create commissions for you. If I had to take a pick between active PRMs and active ECAs I'd take the PRMs and here's why. ECA royalties are only 10% of the CV produced. Very few ECAs produce $10000 in CV a month but if one does then
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