Affiliate since: 02/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Barbara's 1 other Ask SC answers

One of the best tips my sponsor gave me was the initial guideline of checking and completing the "TO DO LIST" daily.
Through using this list I learned my way around the website and became familiar with it.

He also had some fantastic offers of buying your own affiliates available. Even though I didn't quite know enough about the business I jumped into it and have now my own EA's that I am training.

The best "tip" by far though is seeing my sponsor being very enthousiastic, motivated and pro-active. He is not in contact with me as such but there is just no avoiding his presence and drive. His name seems to pop up everywhere in SFI. Now THAT'S motivating.
Monkey see, monkey do!
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One of the best tips my sponsor gave me was the initial guideline of checking and completing the "TO DO LIST" daily.
Through using this list I learned my way around the website and became familiar with it.

He also had some fantastic offers of buying your own affiliates available. Even though I didn't quite know enough about the business I jumped into it and have now my own EA's that I am training.

The best "tip" by far though is seeing my sponsor being
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I know it's hard when your sponsor won't respond. I was in the same boat. Sometimes you can find another member who is willing to help answer your questions. The best advice I ever got was that even if no one gives you any advice, remember that this is YOUR business, and it is by YOUR effort that will it will become profitable. Don't let anyone else determine if you're going to succeed or fail because of their unwillingness to help you. Make a commitment to work it every day faithfully and you WILL succeed!
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I know it's hard when your sponsor won't respond. I was in the same boat. Sometimes you can find another member who is willing to help answer your questions. The best advice I ever got was that even if no one gives you any advice, remember that this is YOUR business, and it is by YOUR effort that will it will become profitable. Don't let anyone else determine if you're going to succeed or fail because of their unwillingness to help you. Make a commitment to work it every day faithfully and you
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Affiliate since: 08/26/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Shane's 8 other Ask SC answers

I never got any advice from my upline. When I first started I looked to them as being knowledgeable and able to help guide me, but they never responded to any of my requests.

Despite this I have built my team and learned from the training, forums, and A2A friends. I have committed myself to being a better help to my downline than my upline has been for me and I always respond to questions and regularly encourage my downline to keep pushing forward.

Affiliate since: 08/11/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nela's 10 other Ask SC answers

I got many good advices from my upline because a few of them are very active and they send me and all our team weekly team mails with useful information, steps, tips and advices.

And those advices helped me to understand better what is SFI business about and to move forward faster.

Because I can’t choose only one best advice, I will mention here a few best advices (under quotes):

1.) “Do NOT try to learn everything about SFI in a few days or weeks. The SFI Affiliate Center can be overwhelming for some people. If at any time you feel overwhelmed, just click the blue SFI BASICS button. Review the 4 actions in SFI BASICS and keep ONLY them as your focus. Everything else - all that stuff that looks overwhelming, are really just tools and resources to help you with the actions described in SFI BASICS. Over time, everything will begin to make sense and you will be delighted that you have so many powerful tools to build your SFI business with.”

2.) “This is not a get rich quick business. It takes time to build relationships that produces results. It takes patience, persistance, and passion.”

3.) “Keep it simple, and follow this plan!
SFI Ultra Basic 3 Step Plan:

1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month.
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This means earn at least 1500 Versa points each month. There are different ways to do that.
One of the best ways to do that is put in an standing order for 100TCredits each month. That is worth 1200VP. Log in every day to earn your daily VP, and do the weekly and monthly actions, and you will earn over 450VP, making you an EA with no problem.

2. Recruit 5 others each month to follow you.

3. Teach them step 1, then step 2. Then teach them to do the same things for their recruits.”

4.) “The easiest way to earn and maintain your EA status each month is with an IAHBE membership!
http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=5540

When you become an EA, you get 2 CSA's assigned to you, whom you can earn money from. If don't stay an EA, you lose those CSA's, so there is real incentive to remain an EA. You can earn 2 new CSA's each month you remain an EA.

If you can find 5 people to do exactly the same as you, this is what you can earn.
5 people under you called PSA's that buy an IAHBE membership creates $17.05 in commmision volume each. You get paid 45% of that commission volume, or $7.67 from each person. For 5 people, that is $38.35. For 10 people, that is $76.70. And so on. If you can find 5 new people every month that do that, you can start to get a good income....and so can your downline.

For every month that they buy that membership, you can earn from them. The more PSA's you get to do that, the more money you earn.
And you can teach each of those PSA's to do the same thing as you, so they can earn money too!

For each PSA you have that reaches EA more than once, which is called an EA2, you earn 100VP for that month. If each of those 5 people buy a membership each month, you earn 500VP from them; if you can recruit more PSA, you will earn more VP.

When you set up a standing order for the IAHBE, you get 1500VP for the month, plus another 100VP for having the standing order. If you log in every day and do the daily tasks, plus send out weekly emails to your PSA and CSA, you can earn at least another 470VP....for a total of 2070VP.

If you can get at least 10 PSA to do the same thing as you, then you will earn 1000VP from them being an EA2, and that will earn you Bronze Team Leader status, or BTL. This is where you can really start to make some money, because now you get matching VP for commission purposes on all of your PSA and CSA who are at least EA2 from the Tripleclicks Executive Pool.

The more PSA you have who will purchase that membership every month, your commissions will get bigger and bigger, and you can get to higher levels, with your ultimate goal being Platinum Team Leader.

And when you get at least 5 people that follow you, your purchase of the membership is then covered!

And when you teach your PSA to do the same thing, and they get some people under them doing the same thing, you all benefit, because once you are team leader, you can earn matching VP for up to 12 different levels of affiliates!”

5.) “Or you could get the Very VIP Website Package - a great value for getting your own website!
"International Reseller's Package for $39.95/month AND 1,500 VersaPoints for SFI Affiliates!--This package is designed for the SFI Affiliate who wants to obtain EA status without incurring international shipping charges AND gain access to the most powerful digital tools to promote his or her SFI business. You'll get all the features in the Standard, SiteBuilder, and Professional packages , plus:
* An additional three (3) complete Website systems. (4 in all!) * The complete Rocketstart System. * The complete Resellers System, designed to promote the VeryVIP Pro package to merchants. * An additional VeryVIP Pro System to use as a product demo or for your own projects.

http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=7005/10954633/ “

6.) “MAINTAIN YOUR EA STATUS FOR UNDER $20/MONTH

This plan will help you maintain your EA status and build your business for under $20 each month.
There are a few things that you should do that are totally free: Daily VP, Weekly VP,
Monthly VP.
So you now have 492 VP for the month, each and every month. You now need to earn the other 1008 VP.
Check out your ToDo list and see if there are other things that you have available to you.
Without any other VP from actions you will be able to make up the final 1008 VP with a purchase of 10 individual TCredits for $19.90. This will earn you 102 VP for each with a total of 1020 VP, for a total of 1512 VP, earning EA status.

As an Executive Affiliate, you will also be awarded 10 TCredits and 2 CSAs each month.

In order to advance to Team Leader, you will need a team to work with. You will need to advertise to build your team of PSAs. Do not count on CSAs to be your team. They cannot help you advance in rank. This will take advertising. There are thousands of places on the internet to advertise for free. It just takes work to find the ones that work for you.”

7.) “You have your own store called Tripleclicks that has over 50,000 items that you could sell to prospective clients. Your business is to advertise that store to as many people and places that you can. You earn a 45% commission on most things any of your customers buy, and you earn VP. Click on the link below to go to the advertising resources SFI offers to help you promote your business.

https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/Marketing/StandardReferralMethods “







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I got many good advices from my upline because a few of them are very active and they send me and all our team weekly team mails with useful information, steps, tips and advices.

And those advices helped me to understand better what is SFI business about and to move forward faster.

Because I can’t choose only one best advice, I will mention here a few best advices (under quotes):

1.) “Do NOT try to learn everything about SFI in a few days or weeks. The SFI Affiliate
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Affiliate since: 01/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Atanas's 1 other Ask SC answers

The best advice even not from my up line is:

- Never quit
- Be patient
- Have a plan
- Execute the plan (don't be lazy)

All of these are important but most important is to have a plan. The plan is always individual you can not copy the plan of someone else. It is depending on you how much time and efforts you want and you are willing to invest, so this should be taken into consideration while making the plan.

Hope this help!

Affiliate since: 01/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Christiana's 4 other Ask SC answers

First and foremost SFI is not a get rich quick business. So it takes time to build relationship that produces results.

secondly, you shouldn't learn everything about SFI in a few days or weeks, it takes a long process so that you can understand what is all about.

Always make sure that you remain as EA and remain an Executive Affiliates every month. In order to Advance to team Leader, you will need a team to work with.

Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Caroline's 111 other Ask SC answers

What was the best advice I ever got from my sponsor or upline?

In a nutshell the best advice my sponsor gave me was to do a better job of sponsoring than he was doing.

Apart from the Welcome email, I have never heard a thing from him. This feeling of aloneness has taught me to keep regular communications with my team. I don't want them feeling like I felt.

My sponsor has never responded to any of my questions. From him I learned to beg my team to ask me questions and actively seek my help. I learnt from his non-responsiveness to respond immediately I get a message from any of my team.

My sponsor has never once offered a reward, a competition, a placement under me, any TCredits - nothing. I have learnt from him that affiliates need to be motivated, encouraged and rewarded. I certainly would appreciate some words of encouragement.

I have never seen a Stream post from my sponsor, not once in a whole year. I have learned from this to put up a post every 3 days, and also to comment on other people's posts. I have made many a2a friends and interact with them through the Stream posts.

Two things I did learn from my sponsor came in his Best Tip which I saw when I joined. In that he advised me to log in every 10 days to keep my leadership page up to date. Of course I didn't follow that advice. I log in every day and do all the daily, weekly and monthly actions.

The other thing he advocated was setting up an autoresponder system to add value to the new affiliates' SFI membership. The emails that came to me via the autoresponder had absolutely nothing to do with SFI, but simply promoted his other programs.

I have partially followed his advice. I have set up an autoresponder to help me keep in regular daily, and then every second daily contact with my new affiliates to help guide them through the first few months until they get a handle on what to do. My personal email address is attached to these emails, and I respond personally and individually to any question that may arise from an email. My emails are totally focussed on SFI - the only other odd products I might mention are tools or e-books from TripleClicks which I think could help with advertising or some aspect of conducting an SFI business. So I learned from him to give my team useful, valuable information.

I have learned from my sponsor that we affiliates to him, are part of his gigantic money making machine, not real people with problems who need human contact, support, friendship and encouragement.

I have learned from my sponsor to try my very best to be everything he is not. Apparently that is working, as I have received 5 star ratings from my PSAs and CSAs.

I have also learned to find my help and support in many other ways. My a2a friends are a wealth of encouragement, friendship and support; my active PSAs and CSAs have become my friends and we share personal emails. I feel blessed to have so many lovely people in my SFI family.

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What was the best advice I ever got from my sponsor or upline?

In a nutshell the best advice my sponsor gave me was to do a better job of sponsoring than he was doing.

Apart from the Welcome email, I have never heard a thing from him. This feeling of aloneness has taught me to keep regular communications with my team. I don't want them feeling like I felt.

My sponsor has never responded to any of my questions. From him I learned to beg my team to ask me questions
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Affiliate since: 06/03/2012, Power Rank: 141

The best advise I got from my sponsor was treat my business like a business! DO something to grow my business every day. Spread the word about SFI and TripleClicks. Advertise, talk to family , friends, co-workers even strangers. Log in everyday, try to read the forum and daily tips to keep up with whats happening within SFI. Make a realistic goal for myself, something not so far out of reach. Stay focused till I reach that goal then set another one. Teach my downline to do the same. Most of all don't give up! Remember there is always a light at the end of the tunnel!




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The best advise I got from my sponsor was treat my business like a business! DO something to grow my business every day. Spread the word about SFI and TripleClicks. Advertise, talk to family , friends, co-workers even strangers. Log in everyday, try to read the forum and daily tips to keep up with whats happening within SFI. Make a realistic goal for myself, something not so far out of reach. Stay focused till I reach that goal then set another one. Teach my downline to do the same. Most of all don't
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

My advice when I started was to look at the basics. Since the first day I have not heard from my upline at all. It helped me to learn things on my own though. I have been an Executive Affiliate 3 months in a row now trying to get bronze team leader.

If I had a downline I would keep in contact with them at least once a week like I do with my csa's. Just to see how they are doing and if they have any questions about sfi.

Affiliate since: 01/10/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Satish's 28 other Ask SC answers

My upline has always helped me whenever i have any regarding SFI. The best Advice for my Upline is

1. Follow the SFI Basics.
2. Keep Reading and Learning. Readers are Leaders.
3. You are the boss of your business, so you have to take the initiative to lead and grow
4. Be an EA and continue being an EA till you have a team under you.
5. Teach your Team to do the same what you are doing.

This has helped me a lot and i am doing the same with my PSAs and CSAs.
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