Affiliate since: 08/29/2013, Power Rank: 308 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

What are some ideas for having an open house get-together to present the SFI opportunity?

I note that one of the answers submitted for this question advised “don’t do it”. But I think that is a bit harsh. Maybe you don’t find an open house get-together a very attractive way to promote your SFI business. Still, it is one way and we should be open to ALL ways. Each has its uses.

I think an open house get-together is a very effective first approach to introduce someone to SFI and that it is suitable for a small group. Keep the group small – no more than say 5 people.

It could even be used in a quite “ad-hoc” way. For instance, suppose you meet a few people and get talking to them about SFI. Wouldn’t it be a natural thing to say to them, “What about coming around to my house and I’ll show you SFI? What time would suit you?”

I think it should be kept informal too. Keep it simple. Take it easy. Take it slowly. Just talk naturally. Gather them around your computer or laptop, open up the SFI website and take it from there. But don’t forget to show them SFI on your smartphone too. And keep everything you say relevant to your group. Watch them and listen to what they say and respond directly as best you can to those things.

And I don’t think you need too many (or any) printouts. SFI is an internet business – everything is on the internet and website. Just use that. In that way you are re-enforcing the power of the website and its functionality.

But do show them any TripleClicks products you may have purchases or won and don’t forget to show them your Payoneer Master Debit Card (if you have one).

I think any group presentation situation, such as an open house get-together should only be used for a brief introduction to SFI. Just to prick a prospects interest. I would then suggest you arrange a “one-on-one” meeting with someone who shows an interest so that you can really address their particular needs, interests and concerns.

So a “sign-up” is a two-step process: -

1. The open house casual small group get-together, and
2. The follow-up individual meeting and “sign-up”.

It should be one way to obtain and build a committed team.

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What are some ideas for having an open house get-together to present the SFI opportunity?

I note that one of the answers submitted for this question advised “don’t do it”. But I think that is a bit harsh. Maybe you don’t find an open house get-together a very attractive way to promote your SFI business. Still, it is one way and we should be open to ALL ways. Each has its uses.

I think an open house get-together is a very effective first approach to introduce someone
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

If you have never done this before, I suggest that you start off small.

I suggest that you start off with a selected group of close friends. Look upon it as rehearsal and treat it as such. If at the end of the get together, there are no sign up, don't be disappointed. Just keep in contact with them keeping the subject of SFI active.

Invite them to your house and be very open about the purpose of the get together. Tell them that you are getting together for a meal and the presentation of a business opportunity for their consideration. Never ambush them and suddenly make the SFI presentation without prior warning. They may resent that and will not sign up as PSAs. You might even loose them as friends.

Have some SFI /TripleClicks pamphlets & cards available and if possible some TC products available as well.

Have video presentations or slides or power-point, whatever you feel will get your message across. You might even log onto SFI and show them TripleClicks / Auctions etc.. Show them where to join SFI and help them join if they want to do that right away. Why not - they have nothing to loose.

After the presentation, ask for feed back and suggestions. Remember these are your friends and hopefully their inputs will help you with you future presentations.

When you have refined your presentation, then get bigger with your get-together. Your friends might even help you with it.
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If you have never done this before, I suggest that you start off small.

I suggest that you start off with a selected group of close friends. Look upon it as rehearsal and treat it as such. If at the end of the get together, there are no sign up, don't be disappointed. Just keep in contact with them keeping the subject of SFI active.

Invite them to your house and be very open about the purpose of the get together. Tell them that you are getting together for a meal and the
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Hi
1. It depends upon your location whether in the city or in the local area. Your location is what will determine the kind of gathering that can hold and the kind of people you want to come.
2. Your Budget
This is the yardstick by which you determine your get together. You'l need refreshments and drinks. It should just be moderate and not necessarily elaborate. Just go by your budget.
3. With 2 above, set apart a give way prize or sovenir which can speak a lot about SFI and can create sign ups for you e.g gift cards.
4. A Speech
This could be done by any of the superior SFI Affiliate around your community, who has been long in the business and successful as well. Your guest speaker can speak of the impact and change of life that SFI has made in his /her life and what SFI is all about. This kind of presentation can go a long way to let people know that SFI indeed does change the standard of living of people. They wanted a proof, now they have gotten one.
5. A Bonanza
Depending on your budget, you can create a small bonanza or pick the price game, where the person can win either an SFI T shirt or a TC Tshirt. This helps the propagation of your SFI business beyond the confinement of your gathering. This announces your business by people who won the bonanza and the people who came. It would be much fun during the game.
6. Take Away Gift.
You can give extra take aways of X cards, flyers, stickers etc to those who come.
7. Your Family
To make it huge, you need the participation of your family. You can't do it alone. They can be your voice to invite their friends and colleagues to your get together. Besides, you can brainstorm with them.
8. Beautify The Place
Let the place you'l use be up to taste. Banners, good lights, good sound system must be in place and well organized.
These are some of my own ideas that i believe will help you in your get together endeavour.
Good luck

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Hi
1. It depends upon your location whether in the city or in the local area. Your location is what will determine the kind of gathering that can hold and the kind of people you want to come.
2. Your Budget
This is the yardstick by which you determine your get together. You'l need refreshments and drinks. It should just be moderate and not necessarily elaborate. Just go by your budget.
3. With 2 above, set apart a give way prize or sovenir which can speak a lot about SFI and
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

When I first started working in MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) I was introduced to doing open house meetings or also called “Home meetings”. At first I did not like it because I was at that time, very shy.

My sponsor would come to my home meetings and help with the presentations until I was able to do them on my own.

Home meetings can be very effective in building your SFI business in your local area. But it takes a lot of preparation to have a good turn out and sign-ups.

One of the first things you will need is to be well versed in how SFI and TripleClicks work and have a source ready if someone ask a question you have trouble with. In other words you should be able to go on-line and quickly find an answer for your prospect.

Because SFI is based on selling and/or using products then you should have some SFI direct products on hand and also be able to explain the broad product range in TripleClicks that is available to all affiliates and those who are just interested in purchasing products.

I lived in a large city so I held 3 or 4 home meetings a week and once in a while I would do a home meeting at one of my down-line homes.

For me to obtain enough people to hold home meetings I constantly ran ads in the classified section of two highly published newspapers in our city. I would book at least three times the people that I could get in my house. The reason for this is a numbers game only a small amount of people will actually show up.

From those who showed up I would convert about 10 % of them and out of that 10% only one or two would stick with the business for over a month.

If you are ready to handle a lot of “in your face no’s” and times when you have 30 people invited and you prepared finger snacks, sent the children over to the baby sitters house and no one shows up for your meeting and you can stay positive through it all then by all means start hosting open house meetings.

Don’t let what I shared scare you off of doing house meetings. I personally have had good success with using that method in the past. However; because of access to the Internet and my present age I see no need to start home meetings again.

Also remember whatever you are doing in SFI make it easy enough to duplicate so your down-line members will be able to copy your success.

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When I first started working in MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) I was introduced to doing open house meetings or also called “Home meetings”. At first I did not like it because I was at that time, very shy.

My sponsor would come to my home meetings and help with the presentations until I was able to do them on my own.

Home meetings can be very effective in building your SFI business in your local area. But it takes a lot of preparation to have a good
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 44 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Open houses are a great means for prospecting. Each time you host an open house, you can do your presentation of your SFI business and open the doors to the opportunity to meet prospects, establish relationships, and expand your network.

What are the benefits of holding an open house?

- A chance to meet interested people as your potential prospects face to face.

- It allows you to present your SFI opportunity by showcasing your achievements such as E365 champion plaque, Fast-Track Member certificate, Lapel Pin, etc. to impress your prospects.

Points to consider for having an open house get together to present the SFI opportunity:

- Who are your target audience?

Defining your target audience is a very important step for this kind of event. From this all the other decisions will fall into place in terms of format, content, cost of hosting an open house, etc. This structured approach will also help you to stay focused on achieving specific goals and not allowing the scope to become too broad or watered down.

- Jot down the details.

Make sure to include everything such as refreshments, accommodations, content of your presentation, SFI X-Cards, your business cards, etc. Everything matters, when deciding to have an open house get together event. You need to think about the program content, determine the number of people that you can accommodate and the direction where people can find your open house get together event, etc.— everything counts. And your audience will attribute everything to you and…your brand. Making a list will ensure you don’t overlook things.

- Have a clear purpose for holding the open house event.

Make sure to have a clear understanding of the purpose for holding this kind of event. Are you doing it because you want to generate leads or create awareness of your SFI business opportunity?

- Know your limitations.

Ideally your goal is throw a great live event so that your prospects will have positive experience. You should be aware of what you can or cannot realistically do, be it budget or time-wise. If you decide to throw a live event in a week’s time, plan for a more intimate affair. If the budget is small, you may have to counterbalance with creativity and a lot of do-it-yourself work.

- Getting people to attend.

Even if you’re considering organizing a small open house event, it’s important to create a marketing plan. The more organized you are, the more professional your open house event will be.

Use Facebook Events to announce to your Facebook Network that you’re holding an open house. You might want to think about promoting the post and choosing a focused demographic Facebook Audience that is local and might be drawn to this open house. Make sure that you define what you’re doing at your open house event. The key is, don’t lose the connection with why you want this particular audience clamoring to get in. Don’t forget to include date, time, contact information, and if you will include refreshments and any kind of give away.

The easier way to scare people away is by having analog registration (faxes, bank draft or at the door only). Offer online registration to secure as many attendees as soon as possible, which will help to forecast numbers and release budget soon.

Here are key points to consider during the open house get together event:

1. Set your expectations carefully – then deliver. Ensure that the audience has a great experience; and that you give them what they expected from attending.

2. Consider the relevance of your open house event to your attendees. Make sure you are offering content that is relevant to the audience. The audience must walk away being enthusiastic with your SFI opportunity presentation and they must feel your energy of enthusiasm. Speaking about your SFI business and what you do, without offering your prospects what they need, is a waste of time and money for all.

3. You know your SFI business, but do not assume that you know how to put on a presentation.
Practice giving your presentation, answering questions and handling difficult and confrontational members of the audience. The more prepared you are the better.

Conclusion:

Producing your own open house get together event to present the SFI opportunity requires forward planning. It's vital to decide what you want to achieve and who you want to attend. Be realistic about your objectives and set a budget - costs can quickly escalate.

The success of your open house get together event certainly depends on getting the right people to attend. You need to make your event attractive and convenient for your target audience. Send personal invites and customized direct mail with compelling reasons to come along. Exclusivity is a good incentive and sending an invitation-only launch can be a good strategy.

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Open houses are a great means for prospecting. Each time you host an open house, you can do your presentation of your SFI business and open the doors to the opportunity to meet prospects, establish relationships, and expand your network.

What are the benefits of holding an open house?

- A chance to meet interested people as your potential prospects face to face.

- It allows you to present your SFI opportunity by showcasing your achievements such as E365 champion plaque,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

An open house is a great idea so here are some things to consider...

1. Local musicians - connect with locals to see if they are interested in jamming a little and then work in the opportunity to share the successes of SFI enrolled musicians to show how local music can be heard world wide and paid for each download,

2.Weight Management Products - prepare a flyer to go out in your neighbourhood to have a night to discuss health, weight management or muscle development and share a few of the products that the Triple Clicks store has to offer with Peak Nutrition products,

3. ECA Night - invite entrepreneurs who sell products and services out of their own home and invite them to join in an opportunity that is easy to use to further promote and market their products to customers all over the world through the ECA program that SFI offers,

4. Stay At Home Mothers - invite stay at home mothers to join in a night of discussion about being at home and what opportunities are available to mothers to generate an income and still focus on the needs of the family - use SFI as the way for them to do this,

5. Shopping Spree at It's Best - Christmas Preparation 101 - host a night of sharing ideas with others about how to be better prepared for Christmas this year meanwhile avoiding the hustle and bustle of the crowds of people - this can be done and then share SFI as the way to do such shopping and enroll PRM's during this session,

6 Fire Your Boss Night - invitation to those who are interested in finding out a way to work for themselves and no longer be tied to the wishes of an employer but to the wishes of themselves - share how SFI can fulfill this type of life style

7. "Privacy and the Internet - Can these be in the same Sentence" - host a session to discuss how people can keep their home computers, digital identities et al safe even at work and share the Privacy Maxx product and share with others that they too can benefit from selling this excellent product too to keep loved one safe.

I am glad that you had asked this question and I look forward to reading responses from everyone else
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An open house is a great idea so here are some things to consider...

1. Local musicians - connect with locals to see if they are interested in jamming a little and then work in the opportunity to share the successes of SFI enrolled musicians to show how local music can be heard world wide and paid for each download,

2.Weight Management Products - prepare a flyer to go out in your neighbourhood to have a night to discuss health, weight management or muscle development and share
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 277 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

An open house is generally an informal affair with food being served and friendly light discussions. People expect to be able to come, relax, loosen up, and enjoy themselves, and then leave without having to remain to the very end.

If you are planning to use an open house to introduce your friends to your SFI business, you must keep the above in mind.

When sending out invitations, in addition to telling them the hours of the party, you must also tell them that you want to show them what you have been working on lately.

When planning the open-house, keep in mind that SFI is based on duplication. Do not throw such an elaborate shindig that those in attendance will not be able to copy you. If they can't, they will decide that your business is too expensive for them.

Talking about expense, you must get all the bang for your buck from this Party. You will be supplying food, drink, and information. Plan your menu to include food and drink that you purchased from TripleClicks and the ECAs. Mention to your guests that some of the food and drinks came from your new business and that you actually get paid for using them. Have xCards, brochures, etc available to hand out. Wear the advertising shirts for SFI, TC, the games, etc. Use the shirts that you have, but are not wearing, as flags, banners, or chair covers, etc.

Display as many products as you can. Be sure that you have TC Direct health and beauty aids in the bathroom and the cleaning supplies under the sinks. And not just pristine clean, full bottles, either.

Do not invite too many people at a time. Keep it simple enough for you to be able to briefly talk with each person there.Don't haul out the computer and give them the whole program. Do that at their private meeting. As I said, keep it brief, don't tell all you know. Make him want to hear more and then set up a meeting with him and his spouse.Excite them both at the same time, get the momentum rolling early. They can sign up as a couple, or one can sign up and the other help with the work.

Whether a guest displays interest in SFI or not, be sure to contact each one and do a follow up. Ask what they think of your neew business, do they have any questions, if you can show them more. If you can't sign them up as affiliates, then go for the gold/silver/green and try to sign them up as a customer.

Keep it all low, key, no pushing. Keep it professional, from the decor to, the foo,d to the discussion. Always be positive. Answer questions immediately and direct. Be worthy of their trust should they sign up as your PSAs.






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An open house is generally an informal affair with food being served and friendly light discussions. People expect to be able to come, relax, loosen up, and enjoy themselves, and then leave without having to remain to the very end.

If you are planning to use an open house to introduce your friends to your SFI business, you must keep the above in mind.

When sending out invitations, in addition to telling them the hours of the party, you must also tell them that you want to show
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Terry,

This is a very interesting question and I do hope that I would assist you the best way possible.

Having an open house get together, is actually an opportunity to publicise and present SFI as a unique business. The purpose of having an open house get together is to get new sign ups, existing customers/business associates (ECAs/some Psas that reside in your country) as well as community members together into your home to enlighting them about such business proposition.

That said, we need to itemise things needed for such event.
1. Power Point presentation slides that highlights SFI/Tripleclicks and different ways of earning.
2. Tripleclicks x cards to distribute to potential customers with your contact number and email address behind the card.
3. An internet enabled laptop.
4. A projector.
5. A programme with the list of activities.
6. Make provisions for refreshments.

Having the following information above, we can then plan an open house to showcase SFI by:-
1. Getting a central location or venue for the open house, a slated date for the event which would give you ample time to furnish, set up and prepare to accept guests on the date agreed upon.

2. Advertise your SFI business with an email newsletter to your list of contacts.Follow up emails prior to the event and encourage each person you invited to refer at least 2 people to the event. Also, we would need to make posters as well as flyers and place them on bill boards, supermarkets and the venue for the event in advance for publicity and awareness.

3. Establishing a budget for the open house by listing all the items needed for the event and setting such funds aside for the event.

4. Choose some of tripleclicks products that you would like featured during the open house get together from ECAs in your country that you have invited or products that you have ordered from tripleclcicks that you have used. Note that any featured product you are displaying, should have a form or card giving detailed information about the product being displayed as well as your tripleclicks x cards available for distribution.

5. Create a short programme of activities for your open house event which would include an introduction from you as well as introducing your key team members. From there, you can start the Power point presentation that would give an insight of SFI/tripleclicks to the new recruits. Also, we can organise some contest where the winners can get some sample products from the ECAs or Tripleclicks branded products (you order them on tripleclicks) that can be given to both the winners of the contest as well the visitors.

6. To reduce the stress on you as the organiser, you can employ the services of a caterer to cater for food and drinks for the visitors as well as an MC that would assist you run he activities in the programme.

Hope i was able to help.

Wish you the very best in your open house get together.
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Good day Terry,

This is a very interesting question and I do hope that I would assist you the best way possible.

Having an open house get together, is actually an opportunity to publicise and present SFI as a unique business. The purpose of having an open house get together is to get new sign ups, existing customers/business associates (ECAs/some Psas that reside in your country) as well as community members together into your home to enlighting them about such business proposition.
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Affiliate since: 11/11/2010, Power Rank: 371 | Read Ma leticia's 62 other Ask SC answers

Here are some ideas you can do to present the SFI opportunity in an open house get-together.

1. Make your presentation alive and fun.

A presentation that is boring will definitely fail to entice the participants to accept your business opportunity proposal. Make sure that your participants will have a great time listening to your SFI business opportunity. I suggest that you conduct a sort of tea party.

2. Select and organize your topics carefully.

Prepare a well-organized presentation complete with an opening, body, and conclusion. Design your presentation in such a way that your opening about SFI could arouse your participants’ interest. The body of your presentation must contain all the powerful reasons why they should do SFI and ignite their desire to grab the business opportunity you are offering. Emphasize the word FREE, multiple income streams, and opportunity to earn 5-figure or more monthly income, etc. And then conclude your presentation with a call for action. Let them sign up using your SFI url.

3. Give incentives or rewards to early birds.

You can use the Gift Certificates or TCredits to reward your first enrollees or 5 top new PSAs.

Lastly, be knowledgeable, confident and positive.
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Here are some ideas you can do to present the SFI opportunity in an open house get-together.

1. Make your presentation alive and fun.

A presentation that is boring will definitely fail to entice the participants to accept your business opportunity proposal. Make sure that your participants will have a great time listening to your SFI business opportunity. I suggest that you conduct a sort of tea party.

2. Select and organize your topics carefully.

Prepare
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Affiliate since: 01/29/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Louisa's 12 other Ask SC answers

Planning a get-together and want to present SFI to prospects? easy!

1) Just make a statement or two about a small presentation that would be given in the in-house get-together by placing it in either the bulk text message invite that would be sent, or the invite tickets/flyers that would be printed out and shared. This would avoid you taking your prospects by surprise so you don't miss out on true affiliates.

2) Make sure you've gotten your X-cards ready ;). I personally think it is the best sponsoring method in this case. It contains the major information you will need to get an affiliate in business from a quick spot-on situation. You want to avoid given them too much flyers and all. It may be too much information. Soon your get-together may just switch from being one to being a business meeting.

3) Another good sponsoring method is to attach Gift Certificates to the X-cards. Since it is a get-together, your friends or invites may just see it as an appreciation for coming to your party.

4) There is no harm in letting them in on a little bit of SFI fun. after all, it's a party. You could put up a projector and everyone in turn play one of SFI's EZ games. Trust me it's gonna be fun. This would keep them interested and a lot of your prospects would want to go into Tripleclicks in their free time to try out some more games. They spend TC credit as a PRM, you get your commission.

I hope these few ideas help.
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Planning a get-together and want to present SFI to prospects? easy!

1) Just make a statement or two about a small presentation that would be given in the in-house get-together by placing it in either the bulk text message invite that would be sent, or the invite tickets/flyers that would be printed out and shared. This would avoid you taking your prospects by surprise so you don't miss out on true affiliates.

2) Make sure you've gotten your X-cards ready ;). I personally think
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