Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read bolajoko's 18 other Ask SC answers

Well well well, really this is an interesting question, well to some affiliate some activity could either be over or underrated depending on how you see things. But generally this is what i think:

MOST OVERRATED ACTIVITY

The activity i consider overrated is Logging it to SFI everyday just to do the To-do list and viewing the VP ledger

My reason being that, affiliates see this as the only point to getting or gathering VP alone and not paying attention to other means of making their SFI business grow or getting VP.

Also for those who are busy will out of no time create time just to get the 10/11 vp for the day without reading the alert for the day which could help them.

MOST UNDERRATED ACTIVITY

There are so many activities that are underrated, but the one that stands out mostly not sponsoring and duplication as many has said but everything that has to do with sales.

There is a gold mine in referring people to buy stuff at TripleClick and also getting ECA's product listed and advertising for them. That is where the big money is. People don't know that by advertising TripleClick product gives them more advantage to earn VP and commission on product bought from their referral.

You can get up to 40% on any product you advertise to anyone who ends up buying that product and if such a person is not a member of SFI, you earn the VP on such product.

So sales of TripleClick product is highly underrated and it carries most of the advantage in SFI. You are at rest even if you miss a day without logging into SFI but you are sure of how well you have advertise its product and results are coming in.

Lets try and focus on how we can make more sales and referrals.
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Well well well, really this is an interesting question, well to some affiliate some activity could either be over or underrated depending on how you see things. But generally this is what i think:

MOST OVERRATED ACTIVITY

The activity i consider overrated is Logging it to SFI everyday just to do the To-do list and viewing the VP ledger

My reason being that, affiliates see this as the only point to getting or gathering VP alone and not paying
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Affiliate since: 06/08/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Richard's 36 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion, chasing VP is way over-rated. Sure, as a new person, getting that 1500VP seems really important. Clicking buttons isn't the best way to earn VP.

The whole purpose of SFI is to sell products. I know some people extoll the virtues of recruiting to no end. But if nobody sells anything, then nobody makes any money. Selling people on the idea of earning money online is easy. Selling real products is much harder. So we end up with people who sponsor masses of recruits who don't know a thing about what they should be doing. And all that those new recruits see is that they should be earning VP and sponsoring more bodies. Nobody teaches them how to sell the products. Some will learn on their own, a few will actually read the training, but most of them will end up thinking that by sponsoring a lot of warm bodies, they'll get rich. So to me, sponsoring is also a bit over-rated, especially if you're not selling products.

As you may guess from the above rant, I think selling products is severely under-rated. Most of the marketing material doesn't really touch on the idea of selling products.
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In my opinion, chasing VP is way over-rated. Sure, as a new person, getting that 1500VP seems really important. Clicking buttons isn't the best way to earn VP.

The whole purpose of SFI is to sell products. I know some people extoll the virtues of recruiting to no end. But if nobody sells anything, then nobody makes any money. Selling people on the idea of earning money online is easy. Selling real products is much harder. So we end up with people who sponsor masses of recruits who
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion, the most over rated activity is the daily actions. The daily actions do not seem to achieve the purpose for which they are designed. This is no fault of SFI anyway but the lack of interest shown by some affiliates, to adequately utilise the very essence they are intend to serve.

Some of my affiliates for example, ask questions on how to go about performing certain actions to earn the VPs allocated. Surprisingly, the answer to their question stares them in their faces, right on their homepage. This means that, there is no willingness on their part to go through available materials, but believe in clicking off the points.

The most under rated activity is the power of knowledge, which comes through reading, and the power of persuasive inquiry. I recognise that internet awareness,the level of formal education and language can constitute various levels of obstacles to affiliates who want to seek this knowledge. However, there should be more emphases on the benefits of reading and understanding as a prerequisite for success in any business, including SFI.

Personally, I am just a month in SFI and my level of understanding of this business is surprising to some of my PSAs. This is so because I read a lot.

I labour seriously to impact this way of thought on my PSAs, while at the same time emphasising my quest for more knowledge to them. I read everything SFI throws out; tips of SFI great affiliates and high achievers. I also go through all daily forum and ASK SC questions and answers while also contributing. In one of such adventures, I stumbled unto an article by 2 top enrollers on the benefits of Autoresponders. I am presently studying this to see how I can benefit, regarding advertisement.

In conclusion, affiliates should be encouraged to seek knowledge, even as you mentor them and this should be brought to the front burner. Create the awareness that knowledge facilitates success, and once you are knowledgeable, every other addition is a bonus.

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In my opinion, the most over rated activity is the daily actions. The daily actions do not seem to achieve the purpose for which they are designed. This is no fault of SFI anyway but the lack of interest shown by some affiliates, to adequately utilise the very essence they are intend to serve.

Some of my affiliates for example, ask questions on how to go about performing certain actions to earn the VPs allocated. Surprisingly, the answer to their question stares them in their faces, right
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The most overrated method used in SFI is earning VP's as your monthly income, or using methods to get VP's outside of the practice of logging in daily and completing your todo list. This is promoted as a way to earn money from the executive pool, but the pool extends over so many people that the money for each is very small and can be discouraging when this is the major focus.

The most underrated method used in SFI is advertising the ECA products outside of the SFI community. If we all picked an ECA niche that we were comfortable advertising and made niche web pages with blogs for these products, our executive pool would increase as well as our CV and DC income. Since there are so many countries involved, advertising within individual countries the products that are sold by members of their country is also underrated. There is so much that could be done in advertising that is overlooked. You don't have to be rich or spend a lot of money, you just have to find something in SFI you are passionate about and advertise it every where you can. It would be easier to sign up ECA members if we could show them this kind of activity and how it is paying off.




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The most overrated method used in SFI is earning VP's as your monthly income, or using methods to get VP's outside of the practice of logging in daily and completing your todo list. This is promoted as a way to earn money from the executive pool, but the pool extends over so many people that the money for each is very small and can be discouraging when this is the major focus.

The most underrated method used in SFI is advertising the ECA products outside of the SFI community. If we all
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

The most overrated activity are the S-builder Co-ops.

They are great for points but not good for immediate action of generating affiliates. It takes some time to get results from these co-ops. When starting out, time is against you if you want a fast start. In the long run the co-ops are a good activity but I think extremely overrated in the short run.

I think the most underrated activity is looking for similar results that the co-op is supposed to provide and that is looking for deals by ECAs who can provide affiliates for a price literally over night and range anywhere from 10 to 100s and the pricing is fantastic, When you go into TripleClicks and deals you will see these great opportunities to obtain quality affiliates for a decent price and obtain the result in 24 hours and not 5 weeks.

I highly recommend everyone looking for new affiliates take a look at these ECAs as they are very high rated and delivery quality affiliate leads. I call these golden gems because they are just that gold to those affiliates looking for a solid fast start with reliable results and a reliable and affordable price. You can't beat these discounts.

This former activity alone along with your daily to-dos and keeping up your qualifications can provide a solid leap to team lead and very quickly at that.

I hope this provides some value for you.
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The most overrated activity are the S-builder Co-ops.

They are great for points but not good for immediate action of generating affiliates. It takes some time to get results from these co-ops. When starting out, time is against you if you want a fast start. In the long run the co-ops are a good activity but I think extremely overrated in the short run.

I think the most underrated activity is looking for similar results that the co-op is supposed to provide and that is looking
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Affiliate since: 11/09/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Milan's 15 other Ask SC answers

About overrated activities for us I don't see too big differences of any here, even if probably there are. At SFI we have VPs system for measuring and valuating our activity. From my point of view, this is a very good system, which needs only to be regularly updated with the SFI and TripleClick news to keep VPs rewarding on the track fair between all of our needed activities to follow successfully our, SFI and TC goals and visions.

All activities are important here:

- from the start with learning about SFI system from all free training materials we have there, to become familiar with SFI first, with all the advertising knowledge included
- from doing daily, weekly, monthly actions to be in touch with the system and all the news at SFI and TripleClicks
- from sign-uping to grow our SFI family and quality share this knowledge and help to our downlines
- from auctions as a part of TC purchases
- from other sales and purchases with implementing in practice all the knowledge we've learned.
- from Forum, ASK SC, a2a etc. to exchange our knowledge, skills, experience and help between us, members

Here I see the most underrated activity especially the last (Forum, ASK SC, a2a etc.).
I see there a lot of members, who are ready to share unselfishly their rich knowledge and experience with others everytime and almost for nothing. When you meet some obstacles on your way and you need some useful advice as soon as possible, this could be very important for your quality work and finally for our common, SFI and TC success.

For example, just try to comparise input work and knowledge needed for 100 VPs earned at Pricebenders auctions and 100 VPs earned from Forum, ASK SC, a2a etc. together.
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About overrated activities for us I don't see too big differences of any here, even if probably there are. At SFI we have VPs system for measuring and valuating our activity. From my point of view, this is a very good system, which needs only to be regularly updated with the SFI and TripleClick news to keep VPs rewarding on the track fair between all of our needed activities to follow successfully our, SFI and TC goals and visions.

All activities are important here:

- from
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Affiliate since: 12/27/2016, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Susan's 13 other Ask SC answers

This is a very good question. As a fairly new addition to the SFI family, what I find to be overrated is the Daily To-Do List.

1)I understand it is a good way to draw your attention to specific information and it ensures that you view every page on the site. The problem being, I find some days when I am short on time, I really only click and earn. I don't spend the necessary time to read and learn.

2) Pricebender Auctions are another overrated activity. I have tried and tried to win an auction but with no avail. It appears that alot of the same people win the auctions. Most of us do not have time to sit at our computers for hours and continuously click to win.

Now for the Underrated activity.

As stated, I am fairly new in the SFI family. I have read and read and read about Duplication. I have attended powerpoint presentations by my upline and they have been great. The problem being:

1) It is okay to state we need to duplicate but we need further information on how to actually do it. I am new to the internet, probably like many. I am sure this holds true for many of us who have joined due to "Retirement? Money?" etc. options.

What would be great is more Step-by-Step lessons with videos to learn how to do proper advertising or setting up Marketing Campaigns.

So although we have many lessons in our library I feel that Advertising and Marketing with the intent to Duplicate is underrated.




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This is a very good question. As a fairly new addition to the SFI family, what I find to be overrated is the Daily To-Do List.

1)I understand it is a good way to draw your attention to specific information and it ensures that you view every page on the site. The problem being, I find some days when I am short on time, I really only click and earn. I don't spend the necessary time to read and learn.

2) Pricebender Auctions are another overrated activity. I have tried and
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Affiliate since: 03/03/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ernst's 7 other Ask SC answers

I think if one quickly just thinks about which activity in SFI gets the most attention and are mentioned the most in support mails, it must be the Daily To-Do-List. Everyday and everywhere we will be reminded about the To-Do-List. And the fact that the Daily To-Do-List by itself does not guarantee an income can quickly lead to the easy conclusion that the Daily To-Do-List is the most overrated activity in SFI. But is it really?

Let’s think more about the tasks involved. Let us try to find the real value behind these tasks. Because in my mind that is exactly what they are, value adding actions. In what sense do they add value you might ask? I would say these tasks add value both to SFI as well as to you and me.

The benefit of some actions is more obvious to see than others. The TIPS tab is obviously to give you ideas to implement in your SFI business. So is the STREAM Tab to a certain extent. With STREAM posts lots of useful information can be published which can answer lots of our questions about our SFI business. ASK SC fit in here beautifully! Knowledge is the keyword. The value-adding benefit of useful information will serves us well in building a successful SFI business, which in turn will add value to the company SFI. The power of a knowledgeable and successful affiliate team will strengthen the stableness and sustainability of the company.

The TripleClicks actions ensure that we as affiliates are up to date with the backbone of our business, our online store, TripleClicks. After all, the marketing and selling of the products of TripleClicks can be seen as one of the most important aspects in earning an income as a SFI affiliate. Shouldn’t we then be up to date everyday with new deals, new listings etc.? And by exposing this information to us on a daily basis, SFI ensures that TripleClicks and its products stays fresh in our minds, the more we market and sell the products the stronger the store becomes. Value adding benefits to both the company as well as the affiliate.

The SCOREBOARD is all about motivation which will serve you and me, as well as SFI, good for years to come. To keep track of your own performance, earnings and bragging rights will add benefit to you in the sense that you are being motivated. Obviously a company with strong motivated people will be able to sustain its growth.

That brings us to the GROWTH Tab. One thing I wanted to know, before I joined SFI, was how sustainable is the income opportunity, meaning is this a fly-by-night venture. To be constantly updated with the company’s growth bring a feeling of security to the affiliate. This adds value to the company to the extent that the company is more likely to retain its affiliates.

In essence the Daily To-Do-List engage us on a daily basis with SFI as well as with other affiliates, building a strong, knowledgeable, informed and motivated team of affiliates, who are strengthening the sustainability of the SFI company, in order for it to ensure lucrative financial rewards towards the affiliates.

Regarding the most underrated activity. I would really say that the Duplication factor does not get the same attention as the Daily To-Do-List. And according to me it should be the main focus point.

The moment I joined up the first thing that I was made aware of was the Daily To-Do-List. I think that the Duplication factor should be stressed more from the start. The focus on the Daily To-Do-List is such that new affiliates might think that that is the alpha and omega of what it takes to earn an income in SFI

I get the feeling that people in there first two months and even longer are quite happy to just click through the Daily To-Do-List and leave it at that, maybe thinking that that is enough to ensure an income at the end of the month.

If we are not going to build a big, strong and active down line (duplicating ourselves) we are not going to earn to our full potential with SFI. Qualifying to share in TripleClicks’s Executive Pool and Matching VP’s will not happen if clicking through the Daily To-Do-List is our only activity in SFI.

For this reason I think, right from the very start, a new affiliate’s focus and main activity should be to generate sign-ups and to duplicate oneself. That should be the first thing about SFI, which is instilled in our minds when entering the SFI world.

The promotion of the Daily Generation-of-Sign-ups actions should be the main message in all the training, emails, team mails, SFI support mails, reminders and newsletters which are populating a new affiliate’s inbox as well as the Affiliate Center.

My feeling about how the focus should be prioritized:


? Most important: Generate sign-ups and Duplicate yourself.
? Also important: Do the Daily To-Do-List.


My feeling is that at the moment it is the other way around and that is causing the Daily To-Do-List to be judged an over rated activity, which it should not be.

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I think if one quickly just thinks about which activity in SFI gets the most attention and are mentioned the most in support mails, it must be the Daily To-Do-List. Everyday and everywhere we will be reminded about the To-Do-List. And the fact that the Daily To-Do-List by itself does not guarantee an income can quickly lead to the easy conclusion that the Daily To-Do-List is the most overrated activity in SFI. But is it really?

Let’s think more about the tasks involved. Let us try to
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

To me none of the activities are overrated at all. Everything that they keep telling us is important for us to do better and keep going in this business.

The activity that is mentioned most I believe is to do everything on your To-Do-List. I feel that this is important so you can see what is going on in the business and it also helps you to become more knowledgeable too.

I feel the most underrated activity is sponsoring or duplication. It really isn’t underrated, but you don’t hear as much as you do about the To-Do-List.

Just remember that it is important to show your down-line that the To-Do-List is important in helping you build your business, while sponsoring or duplication is also very important. If you don’t do both you won’t be growing your business.

So for me nothing that is said or advertised is overrated or underrated. It is all important to help us grow our businesses.

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To me none of the activities are overrated at all. Everything that they keep telling us is important for us to do better and keep going in this business.

The activity that is mentioned most I believe is to do everything on your To-Do-List. I feel that this is important so you can see what is going on in the business and it also helps you to become more knowledgeable too.

I feel the most underrated activity is sponsoring or duplication. It really isn’t underrated, but you
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Affiliate since: 11/22/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stephen's 6 other Ask SC answers

An objective answer to this question requires that we understand ‘what are SFI activities’, and who is doing the rating let alone how. The activities are carried out by affiliates.

Rating of activities can be done by SFI or by affiliates. To a large extent this is through perceptions regardless of who is doing the rating. Once the activities are identified and the rating agency known then it is possible to identify the most overrated activity and the most underrated activity.

Rating by affiliates is difficult to quantify. However rating by SFI can be seen from the way VPs are awarded for the different activities. Therefore my answer to the question will be based on perceptions of rating the different activities by SFI as seen by affiliates when they complete the different activities.

The most overrated activity is purchase of 1 TC using 126 MRPs. MRPs (Member Reward Points’ are awarded for different types of activities and can only be redeemed by purchasing items from the TripleClicks store. If an affiliate accumulates 126 MRPs from any source, those MRPs can be used to purchase 1 TC. This in turn qualifies the affiliate to earn 102 VPs. No other activity beats this for earning VPs on a regular basis hence it qualifies as the most overrated activity by SFI.

The most underrated activity is participating in Ask SC whether by submitting a question, answering a question or rating submitted answers. There are no guaranteed VPs for submitting or answering a question. Only 1 VP is awarded for rating 10 answers which are often lengthy hence qualifying this activity to be the most underrated by SFI.

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An objective answer to this question requires that we understand ‘what are SFI activities’, and who is doing the rating let alone how. The activities are carried out by affiliates.

Rating of activities can be done by SFI or by affiliates. To a large extent this is through perceptions regardless of who is doing the rating. Once the activities are identified and the rating agency known then it is possible to identify the most overrated activity and the most underrated activity.

Rating
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