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

Dear Norman

As per my experience, one generally experiences a loss (small or bigger) in the first year.
Because one is trying to build one’s team of active members by recruiting, sponsoring, purchasing or through ‘Bid & Build’. There is definitely a certain amount of financial loss, and moreover, you are in the process of in and outs of your SFI Business. But one should not quit if he had read the Launch Pad Lesson 11 properly and thoroughly that gives the example of great Internet Gurus and MLM marketers.

The main reason is that only 3% or less members get activated and they also need the same understanding that they will be bearing loses in their first year. How difficult it becomes to tell someone that he will be in loss for the first year, but still he should not think of quitting, as your success depends directly on their success.

In my opinion, unless, you keep them motivated by giving TCredits, Cash Certificates etc. they are going to run away leaving you in a ditch. You need to further bear some more loses to keep them moving, till they become BTLs or more. Then you can leave them off their own.

So, your real income starts coming in the third year and within 6 months you almost break even. Then here onwards once your team also become self-reliant, you can think of making some good money as Direct Commission and commissions from your CSAs. By now you should have more than 200 active and somewhat active PSAs and around 800-1000 CSAs.

So, safely we can come to a conclusion that in the fourth year there is no looking back and you can be a silver, gold or platinum member as per your funds available to you.


Hope it helps!
Have a wonderful day!!

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Dear Norman

As per my experience, one generally experiences a loss (small or bigger) in the first year.
Because one is trying to build one’s team of active members by recruiting, sponsoring, purchasing or through ‘Bid & Build’. There is definitely a certain amount of financial loss, and moreover, you are in the process of in and outs of your SFI Business. But one should not quit if he had read the Launch Pad Lesson 11 properly and thoroughly that gives the example of great
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 21 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

Realistically, you should allow yourself at least 2 or more years to expect to produce significatn income from SFI.

Success is not going to happen overnight or without work.

LaunchPad, Day 11 - Overnight Success - NOT!

A lot of new affiliates ask why they're not earning yet and the person asking has just joined, or been in SFI for only a few weeks, and has not really begun to even understand how the whole SFI system works.

Even after six months or a year, it’s still much too early to be expecting to receive a significant income except for times when one makes a big sale from promoting TC products and services.

But if you’re willing to give a business at least a year, build a strong team who are seriously duplicating your efforts, then your success of producing income from SFI is assured.

It takes time to get to know how to run a business and to get to know the products as well. It takes time to develop a strategy and to figure out what marketing activities will work best for you.

It takes time to even get started properly if you have not followed the SFI Basics and learned the 4 things you need to do to succeed in SFI.


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Realistically, you should allow yourself at least 2 or more years to expect to produce significatn income from SFI.

Success is not going to happen overnight or without work.

LaunchPad, Day 11 - Overnight Success - NOT!

A lot of new affiliates ask why they're not earning yet and the person asking has just joined, or been in SFI for only a few weeks, and has not really begun to even understand how the whole SFI system works.

Even after six months or a
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The "Income Index" provides us with a clear and detailed answer to the question "Where do I learn about earning income with SFI?". It offers a plan, not only for producing income, but also for being an SFI Top earner.

Furthermore, "SFI Basics" describes four important sets of activities that summarize what we need to focus on to successfully build our businesses. When we apply this information, we will start producing income with SFI.

Some of us will make money with SFI only after a while, whereas others will start earning commissions in their first month. It is all commensurate with our personal work ethics and focus.

When we join SFI, we are guided towards starting on the right foot by reading SFI Basics and applying the information. In addition, this introductory material gives us a simplified form of our SFI business in three steps:

* Qualifying for the rank of Executive Affiliate and maintaining it;
* Sponsoring affiliates and teaching them duplication; and
* Selling TripleClicks products and services.

Every new affiliate can do the above in their first month, using the beginners' marketing aids and methods; and whoever does this successfully will start producing income with SFI.

Hence, there is neither a secret nor time frame about it. It is merely a matter of following the charted path of building an SFI business and keeping oneself at it on a daily basis, while setting one's sight on the long term of sponsoring a strong team of active affiliates whom we help to be successful. By helping our PSAs reach their goals, we also will reach our goals and make money.
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The "Income Index" provides us with a clear and detailed answer to the question "Where do I learn about earning income with SFI?". It offers a plan, not only for producing income, but also for being an SFI Top earner.

Furthermore, "SFI Basics" describes four important sets of activities that summarize what we need to focus on to successfully build our businesses. When we apply this information, we will start producing income with SFI.

Some of us
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Affiliate since: 10/03/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rana Jahandad's 1 other Ask SC answers

According to my understanding if you are following these steps it would not take too long to get there:

1. Maintain at least an EA status with a simple standing order of 125 T-credits, which gives you 1500 VP required.

2. Try to duplicate your efforts as early as possible. Then, ask your PSAs to stay EA and teach them to duplicate themselves. It could be done by using your own referrals, by marketing and influencing others, or by participating in S-builder or by placing a 50 PSAs To Go order each month for at least 12 months.

3. Also, look for ECA opportunities.

Although you could see a small income after the first or second duplication, I would advise to wait two to three years to see a big stream of income from all of your generations.
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According to my understanding if you are following these steps it would not take too long to get there:

1. Maintain at least an EA status with a simple standing order of 125 T-credits, which gives you 1500 VP required.

2. Try to duplicate your efforts as early as possible. Then, ask your PSAs to stay EA and teach them to duplicate themselves. It could be done by using your own referrals, by marketing and influencing others, or by participating in S-builder or by placing a 50
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This question brings to mind two thoughts:

1. Are you asking when you can expect to receive any income at all from SFI?

or...

2. Are you asking when you can expect to receive substantial income from SFI, like maybe enough to make a new car payment, say $500 per month?

The answer to number one is simple: when you qualify as an Executive Affiliate you also qualify for shares in the month's executive pool--one share for each VersaPoint earned each month you qualify as an EA.

No, it's not a lot of cash. My executive pool earnings for the first two months have been less than $20. But don't overlook it as insignificant. You can consider it proof that SFI does work and the company does deliver on its promises. I have been involved in several online business opportunities in which I have NEVER received any cash earnings...ZERO...ZILCH...NADA!

The answer to question number two is not quite so easy to answer. There are several factors at play here, for example:

* How many TripleClicks product sales have you generated personally?

* What leadership rank have you reached?

* How many active downline PSAs have you been able to recruit?

* How many active CSAs do you have on your team?

* How many TripleClicks product sales has your team generated?

While I can't determine exactly how much you can expect to earn each month, I can make these predictions with confidence:

1. At first you can expect to invest a lot of time to earn a little money. I have seen it said over and over: SFI is definitely not "Get Rich Quick!" The problem is a lot of new affiliates seem to disregard this statement.

2. At first you can expect to invest more money into your business than you will earn. You must understand that this is true in any business, online or offline. I have a friend that invested his life savings to start his own "cabinet shop" business. He never did turn a profit, and lost his entire investment.

Would you call a "cabinet shop" business a SCAM? Not at all! So why do people call a failed online business a scam? Two reasons: either they don't have realistic income expectations about their business, or they don't want to put forth the work necessary to achieve the success they want. Then, rather than accept the responsibility for their business failure, they put the blame elsewhere. In either case, it does not affect the viability of SFI as a business opportunity.

So, where does that leave you? You need to make the commitment to invest the time, effort, and finances to make your SFI business a success.
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This question brings to mind two thoughts:

1. Are you asking when you can expect to receive any income at all from SFI?

or...

2. Are you asking when you can expect to receive substantial income from SFI, like maybe enough to make a new car payment, say $500 per month?

The answer to number one is simple: when you qualify as an Executive Affiliate you also qualify for shares in the month's executive pool--one share for each VersaPoint earned each month you
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 32 other Ask SC answers

With SFI, you start accumulating income as soon you start earning VP!

There are many ways to generate lucrative income through SFI. The sooner you start with these actions, the sooner you will start generating a proper income:

1. Referring customers to Tripleclicks (ie. PRM sales). These can sometimes end up creating generous commissions for you!

2. Referring a business to become an ECA (e-Commerce Associate) with Tripleclicks. Here is a simple statistic: all the top income earners on SFI have an average of 10 active ECAs. I believe it's safe to say that having active ECAs will generate the best income SFI has to offer!

3. Cultivating an active team of affiliates. Having an active team will also accumulate leveraged income in a couple of ways (eg. whenever your PSA makes a purchase at Tripleclicks, you will get the commissions)

Again, the sooner you start generating sales though these three simple steps, the sooner you will start seeing lucrative income.
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With SFI, you start accumulating income as soon you start earning VP!

There are many ways to generate lucrative income through SFI. The sooner you start with these actions, the sooner you will start generating a proper income:

1. Referring customers to Tripleclicks (ie. PRM sales). These can sometimes end up creating generous commissions for you!

2. Referring a business to become an ECA (e-Commerce Associate) with Tripleclicks. Here is a simple statistic: all the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Allowing something means letting it happen. You are the one in control of what you allow or don't allow.

Your question makes me want to ask questions of my own:

What were your thoughts ahead of this question? What is your plan if you don't make a specific amount of money in a specific time period? Would you think of quitting SFI if you don't make that amount in that time? Would you extend your original estimated time period and continue working towards a specific income amount that you have in mind?

Next, what sort of income amount are you thinking of or asking about?

Are you asking how long it took for others who were already happy with the income they're receiving from SFI? How long it took somebody else depends on the time they had available to work, what they did, and, sometimes, also how much money they invested, on luck in winning things to help them with their SFI business, and on the specific amount they wanted to earn at the end of it all.

You need a plan. How much time you have available each month to work at SFI; what amount you'd like to earn monthly, a list of the things you can do and how much income each action might generate for you, amounts of money you may want to spend to help you, and how long it will take to do all these things. Add up the income each action might generate for you, as well as the hours or days or week or months of the time needing to spent on different things you'll be doing, and then you will have answered your own question.

You are the best person to answer this question. Only you know the answers to some of the things that will contribute towards determining how long it will take you to achieve what you want to.
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Allowing something means letting it happen. You are the one in control of what you allow or don't allow.

Your question makes me want to ask questions of my own:

What were your thoughts ahead of this question? What is your plan if you don't make a specific amount of money in a specific time period? Would you think of quitting SFI if you don't make that amount in that time? Would you extend your original estimated time period and continue working towards a specific income amount
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Affiliate since: 09/28/2015, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question because everybody else who joined SFI actually joined in for this main reason and that includes ""Me"".

When we joined SFI, we have been provided with all the tools we need to be able to learn and train ourselves to do the business, more than that we have been given team leaders which are our sponsors and co sponsors as well. On top of the forums, launchpads, and affiliate sponsors, we even have access to youtube clips for step by step tutorials.

I watched a very interesting video recently talking about a 12-step plan from Fabrizio an SFI Platinum Team Leader and what he teaches on the video makes a lot of sense.

If we are to follow earning our 1500 versa points on our first month without investing money, then we have to add in more time and effort exposing SFI and triple clicks on every funnel on the web to drive traffic towards our SFI site.

I did not know anything about this at first but everyday as I devote 4 hours on the business learning and re-learning, I discovered some really amazing things the internet can do to widen our network.

Now the first answer to your question is......in as little as "One Month" you can start earning income profit or whatever you call it if you devote a significant amount of time and effort learning how SFI works, how to advertise, how to reach people, how to increase web traffic, and most of all how to actually sign them in to be a fellow affiliate or to buy products from Triple Clicks.

I personally lack the talent on Web advertising so I am taking the long route......however......I am willing to put in some money to make my SFI business work. there are a few steps I am adapting to use including the 3-step plan and 12 month plan both by Fabrizio, after all I have nothing to lose........I am sure to earn what I want to earn because I am motivated enough to make this work for me.

So the second answer would be give yourself 2 to 3 months to really get a good grasp of SFI, invest in your business and that will start bringing in income for you.

A month after you joined would be really amazing! But let's be realistic and not knock ourselves too hard........this is how cleverly SFI was designed with realistic results. The more time you spend learning and relearning and the more you know about how the system works, the more it will be easy for you to achieve the Income Level. Well all of us are aiming for that.

Invest a little time everyday and it will take you more time to earn, invest more time everyday and it will give you a faster result.

I hope this one helps...

Goodluck and More Power to us all!
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This is a great question because everybody else who joined SFI actually joined in for this main reason and that includes ""Me"".

When we joined SFI, we have been provided with all the tools we need to be able to learn and train ourselves to do the business, more than that we have been given team leaders which are our sponsors and co sponsors as well. On top of the forums, launchpads, and affiliate sponsors, we even have access to youtube clips for step by step tutorials.

I
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 272 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

Whoa! What's with the A-L-L-O-W? Allow, and what happens if it doesn't happen? You're going to let time pass, and if enough times passes and you don't see an income, you'll quit? How much income are you looking for? How much time will you allow?

There is nothing in building a SFI/TC business that allows you to wait passively for something to happen.You have to be aggressive in doing your work. Every day. Train. Lead. Duplicate. Advertise. Refer. Sponsor. Without doing these consistently, you will probably quit before you see a profit.

But your work isn't the all of it.You must also sponsor and refer quality prospects who will do their work and purchases. 1000 affiliates who don't even log in will get you no where. The same for 1000 PRMs, they have to buy if you expect them to help you.Look for these people with care. You will find workers where workers hang out...where they spend their money.

Finding an active team, educating them, teaching duplication, and encouraging them to buy from TC will take many months. Maybe the often suggested 3-5 years.You must be patient and diligent and not give up.

You will see a small amount of money when you earn EA. It gets bigger when you are BTL with EA2s who sell or purchase products from TC. This amount will convince you that there is more to come.

You must realise there are several income goals:
1. Your first little bit that shows up on your Commissions Report.
2. The break even when your commission is even or greater than what you spent and all the adverting you paid for, plus travel, etc.
3. The amount equal to your day job pay.
4. The amount that will cause you to quit the day job.

How much time are you willing to let pass?
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Whoa! What's with the A-L-L-O-W? Allow, and what happens if it doesn't happen? You're going to let time pass, and if enough times passes and you don't see an income, you'll quit? How much income are you looking for? How much time will you allow?

There is nothing in building a SFI/TC business that allows you to wait passively for something to happen.You have to be aggressive in doing your work. Every day. Train. Lead. Duplicate. Advertise. Refer. Sponsor. Without doing these consistently,
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ayesha's 6 other Ask SC answers

As many affiliates have already said, it varies.

I have however put in no more effort than communicating with my down line, which has proved mostly inactive and done my to-do list daily, weekly and monthly. I've also participated in the auctions and games and have a standing order for 1500VP.

I started earning three months in and now (after seven months) am earning enough to cover the cost of my standing order. I don't mind because I enjoy working on SFI everyday.

I have no doubt that if I was to actively pursue more PRM's, PSA's and ECA's, I would be earning quite a bit more.

All in all, it depends completely on you and the time and effort you are willing to invest in your business.




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As many affiliates have already said, it varies.

I have however put in no more effort than communicating with my down line, which has proved mostly inactive and done my to-do list daily, weekly and monthly. I've also participated in the auctions and games and have a standing order for 1500VP.

I started earning three months in and now (after seven months) am earning enough to cover the cost of my standing order. I don't mind because I enjoy working on SFI everyday.

I
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