Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 869 | Read Djebah's 53 other Ask SC answers

Hello,

You have raised a question that probably affects a lot of affiliates who are unable to hold or keep an executive affiliate status because of money problems.

I have good news for you. You do not have to necessarily become an executive affiliate to earn an income in SFI. So here is a solution that may shock you and probably other SFI affiliates.

1.0 No Cash, no EA plan

This plan is good especially if you do not have any active CSAs.

I would advice you to forget about your EA status ambitions if you do not have any active CSAs at the moment as you would have nothing much to lose for not making EA. It happened to me too in my 3rd month here. I took one long look at my inactive CSAs and decided to rather use my money for paid advert rather than use it for making EA that month. My decision paid off as i got a PSA who made BTL the following month. Though i lost all my CSAs who were inactive, i gained an active PSA.

Hope you do realize that you can still earn from your PSAs while you are just an affiliate? The only thing is that you will not get the normal 2 CSAs and any share of the executive pool. Not to worry, you still have time to become an EA in the future.Concentrate on building your active PSAs! You will be on a roll with just 5 active PSAs.

2.0 The $2US per month plan.

This is the best plan only if you can afford just $2 per month.

Setup a standing order for 1 Tcredit. It costs $1.99.

Find 5 people to do the same thing, you will have a profit. The
more people you find, the more profit you will make.

Then, when you reach a point where you are getting $30US profit, you can start to be an EA.

For each person you sponsor that does the same thing, and sets up a standing order for $1.99 you earn $0.61 commission. For every 5, that is $3.05. That would cover your cost right there. And you make $1.06 profit.

From my response above, you can see that you can still earn even as an affiliate. Lots of people do not know this. This is the best you can do believe me and it is the best advice i can give to you since you are broke.

Have fun building your business even if you are not going to make EA this month. Bye



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Hello,

You have raised a question that probably affects a lot of affiliates who are unable to hold or keep an executive affiliate status because of money problems.

I have good news for you. You do not have to necessarily become an executive affiliate to earn an income in SFI. So here is a solution that may shock you and probably other SFI affiliates.

1.0 No Cash, no EA plan

This plan is good especially if you do not have any active CSAs.

I
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Complete all the red tabs every day by reading them and clicking on the Blue bar at the bottom. Click on the TO-DO list and do everything you can in there every day.

Visit your Team Leader page and complete all the info you can there. Remember, that part of becoming successful involves already doing the things that successful people do.

Spend time in the forums reading every day. Spend time posting also. Writing your own articles will also help you to learn more and figure out ways to earn action points. When you associate with people who are making the business work, you will learn how to do it also. Everyone is able to offer different information based on their experience and perspective. It's good to talk to a variety of people and read posts because you will gain a wealth of information.

Sponsor as many people as you can and teach them to do what you are doing. The beauty of SFI is that you can make it even if you have little or no money. Granted it will take longer, but it is not impossible. One of the people I know once said, if you don't have the means to build an MLM business, sponsor people who do. Their activity will help build your business. You can find people where ever you go, just be cordial and friendly with them. Have the attitude that you are already successful. Remember, success is not measured in dollars. Success is the progressive realisation of a worthwhile dream. As long as you are working SFI and seeing progress, you are successful. Take that attitude with you in a friendly manner and go out and meet people. Don't dump a bunch of information on them, just give them a little and let them ask the questions. Make them curious about what it is you do. Be happy, be positive and know your stuff. Logging in every day to SFI will help you accomplish this.

You have two ways to build this business, with money or with time, or both. If you don't have one or the other then you are left with one option and you can use that to your greatest ability. If it's your passion to make SFI work, then you will be successful.
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Complete all the red tabs every day by reading them and clicking on the Blue bar at the bottom. Click on the TO-DO list and do everything you can in there every day.

Visit your Team Leader page and complete all the info you can there. Remember, that part of becoming successful involves already doing the things that successful people do.

Spend time in the forums reading every day. Spend time posting also. Writing your own articles will also help you to learn more and figure
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Before accepting that you are broke, have you done a financial analysis to your current situation? Look around what you have, what you don’t need, maybe you can convert your unwanted stuff into cash. You can list your unwanted stuff through your TConnect page for just 1TCredit. If you have a laptop or desktop and an Internet connection, then you are not broke at all. Analyze your monthly budget and find out your monthly basic needs. You might be surprise to find out that you can find additional cash by tightening your monthly budget. If you can afford to cover your basic needs, like food, rent, and utilities including your Internet connection, then you are not broke.

With this in mind, you can apply the 1TCredit Strategy to achieve EA and for next month renewing to EA2. Log in daily and perform your To-Do List,..click on red tabs earning 11VP. If you have PSAs then add 30VP/week (120VP/month), reviewing your TConnect page 5VP (20VP/month) and posting in Stream 3VP/week (12VP/month), Sponsor rating 10VP/month and Goals Setting 5VP/month. This will give you 497VP. You can accumulate the remaining 1003VP for a total of 1500VP to achieve EA2 by purchasing 1TCredit for $1.99 for a quantity of 10. This will give you additional 1020VP and 1260MRP. You can use your 10TCredits for auction. Look for auctions that offer 2x5MRP/bid. With this bid you can accumulate double MRP, which you can use for buying 1TCredit for next month. You can also participate in the daily T-Time draw every hour for 2TCredits. Whatever you can afford and how many quantities of 1TCredit you can purchase per month, you can start to move up to EA2, it may not be the following month but if you are consistent, determined and committed, you will succeed.

No one can stop you in moving forward, in achieving your goals, except you alone. Your passion will drive you to succeed.

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Before accepting that you are broke, have you done a financial analysis to your current situation? Look around what you have, what you don’t need, maybe you can convert your unwanted stuff into cash. You can list your unwanted stuff through your TConnect page for just 1TCredit. If you have a laptop or desktop and an Internet connection, then you are not broke at all. Analyze your monthly budget and find out your monthly basic needs. You might be surprise to find out that you can find additional
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Affiliate since: 05/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lisa's 13 other Ask SC answers

I have some suggestions:

1. Check out your MRP points to see, if you can purchase something with that.

2. Use your Triple Credits to purchase something, if you have any. Or use them to list items.

3. Make sure you review all of the "allowed" purchases for 25 versa points each. Basically, not any digital stuff, as SFI does not consider these items worth reviewing.

4. If possible, print out some fliers and hand them out to random strangers in a parking lot, bus stop, or other public and allowed place. These can just be black and white from your printer if you have one.

5. Go to public places and start talking about SFI. Bus stops, parks, public places with people. Make a large cardboard chart, get permission from the public place, get phone numbers, email addresses etc of anyone interested to call later.

6. Call friends and relatives to sign up to help you out.

7. Get a phone book and call random strangers - called cold calling. this does work if you put a lot of time in it.

This should get you started.
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I have some suggestions:

1. Check out your MRP points to see, if you can purchase something with that.

2. Use your Triple Credits to purchase something, if you have any. Or use them to list items.

3. Make sure you review all of the "allowed" purchases for 25 versa points each. Basically, not any digital stuff, as SFI does not consider these items worth reviewing.

4. If possible, print out some fliers and hand them out to random strangers in a
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gordon's 8 other Ask SC answers

Tami.
I know where you are coming from. When I joined I was flat broke. I read the training and then kept rereading it until I started to understand. I then made sure I followed these steps.
Before you get started you should think about where you are at in life now and where you want to be in ther future and set goals. What I did is I set my goals to a point that I knew it would take work and patience but that I would be able to obtain them. As I drew closer to my goals then I would raise them a little bit higher, (Iam still doing this).
1. I joined wave3 for a one time payment of $1.95 and put the decal on my car.
2. If you haven't been in for 24 hours yet do all of the items that give you vp to get 500 vp before 24 hours and you also get 200 free vp and some extra benefits at the same time.
3. Make sure you log in to your account every day and do your to-do list each item completed gives you vp and read more of the training.
4.A2A and connect with people that are already becoming successful and pick their brains for all of the info you can get. People in this company are always eager to assist others.
5.
Posting ads in the classifieds are a great help.
I am not to sure about how original and creative, but listed below are the top ten websites that allow you to post your ads free of charge:
Craigslist.org
ClassifiedAds.com
USFreeAds.com
DomesticSale.com
Classifieds.Yahoo.com
ClassifiedsForFree.com
Kijiji.com
Kudzu.com
EZClassifieds.com
iNetGiant.com

Another great way to advertise your SFI business is to submit articles your customers may be interested in to reputable websites, such as Ezinearticles.com, Articlesbase.com or TheFreeLibrary.com
6. When you log in you will see this grayish black bar with different headings like Home, hot spots, income marketing and 7 more. The home tab will always bring you back to where you first log in. Each of the other tabs have drop down lists with tons of training go through them all but do it at a slow pace so as not to get overwhelmed by the amount of training.
7. Advertising any business is always a necessity. Sfi has provided an abundance of gateways for you to advertise. Go to https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayList and you will see your gateways with your id number already there. Then go to https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/RefTextAds and you will see several pre written ads if you want to use them instead of writing your own. More help go to https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingTools. We have the option of doing paid ids (if your budget allows it) or you can do a Google search for free sites to advertise on and advertise for free. It is important to post as many ads as you can as often as you can.
8. As I said earlier I was penniless but I did each of the activities above on a daily basis. I didn't have money to use paid advertising so I used all of the free sites listed and did a Google search and found more. I placed ad after ad after ad and started getting results. Track your ads so you know which ones are getting responses.
9. ALWAYS be positive and try to assist everyone in your down line as much as possible.
10. Remember that this is not a get rich quick scheme this is a true business. As in any business weather it is on the internet or if it is in a building like a grocery store, it doesn't start off with a bang. It takes lots of time and very hard work and careful planning. Be patient it will begin growing. It doesn't matter if it takes some time to build because you aren't spending any money, just your time and energy. As your business begins to grow and you start receiving some compensation then it is wise to start investing some of it back into your business!
11. Never be afraid to ask questions. Go to your up line and ask for their advice if they don't assist you go to their up line and to your A2A friends and ask them.
12. Go to the forum and you will see just about every question asked and answered.
13. Again always be positive and upbeat and whatever happens NEVER GIVE UP!
God bless and don't worry you will succeed!
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Tami.
I know where you are coming from. When I joined I was flat broke. I read the training and then kept rereading it until I started to understand. I then made sure I followed these steps.
Before you get started you should think about where you are at in life now and where you want to be in ther future and set goals. What I did is I set my goals to a point that I knew it would take work and patience but that I would be able to obtain them. As I drew closer to my goals then I would raise
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Margaret's 15 other Ask SC answers

I know how you feel, I didn't think I was going to make it last month. Keep in mind that nothing is impossible and don't give up hope.

But, I want to repeat something that someone else put in their answer before I continue. Unless you have a downline working the system, the financial gain isn't that much that it justifies the expense. Only you can decide weather that expense is justified.

So here is my advice for the financially challenged. Some of which I learned from the mistakes I made last month.:

1. Use what little resources wisely. Spending TCredits and MRPs don't give you versa points if you are buying from an ECA.

2 Collect every VersaPoint you can get or you might be kicking yourself at the end of the month if you find you are just a few shy and know that you would have made it if you only had rated those answers in Ask SC or some other simple item.

3. I have been using my commissions for reinvestment, so it's just left in my account. Keep in mind, if you have done the same thing, if it falls below I believe $7.00, you cannot spend that money.

4. Use MRP's to buy TCredits, and then use the TCredits to bid to if you find it will make a difference at the end of the month.

5. If you are EA2, answer some of the questions on Ask SC. You might find some extra points in your ledger before the month's end.

6. Log on as often as you can and enter into the T-Time contest. Enter the Daily Grand every day.

7. Promote the heck out of the TripleClicks products.

8. Go through your VP Ledger and see if you've missed anything.


Remember when I said that it was my downline that carried me through? A good downline will not only give you some commission to work with but will also give you extra VersaPoints when they reach EA2 and Team Leader positions. Yes, you can make EA without a downline, but it will be a struggle month after month to do it unless you can sell or buy enough TripleClick Products to get the needed VersaPoints. The advice I gave above would be some of the short term answers to the problem. But, for the months down the road, building that downline and developing your abilities as a sponsor so you can lead them to their own success is required.

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I know how you feel, I didn't think I was going to make it last month. Keep in mind that nothing is impossible and don't give up hope.

But, I want to repeat something that someone else put in their answer before I continue. Unless you have a downline working the system, the financial gain isn't that much that it justifies the expense. Only you can decide weather that expense is justified.

So here is my advice for the financially challenged. Some of which I learned from
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Affiliate since: 07/02/1999, Power Rank: 168 | Read Richard's 132 other Ask SC answers

Well I did pick the price game at all auctions, ttime when they started it, I place my SFI url every where even on Craigs List even thought they don't allow it on jobs places guess what I got signups even a few ECA's from it, I put tripleclicks on garage sales on CL and got my first ever sale in tripleclicks for 200 tcredits, you name it I was doing it because I wanted my SFI Business to work. I fellowed SFI Rules to success all my 14 years in SFI, I will not do anything wrong mislead people to get then to join us.
Yes you can start out for FREE and make money doing it if your willing to do what others isn't willing to do. I am proof of that.
1. Do all daily task, weekly task, monthly task, and all 1 time task.
2. Start advertising from day one don't wait please get out there and start running
be willing to do what others isn't doing.
3. Be willing to lose sleep to do your business
4. Focus on what you want
5. Join all the mailers or safe list, traffic exchanes you can and post your banner for SFI and url's for SFI most are free to join.
6. Ask your sponsor and upline for places to advertise to.
7. Do TTime as much as you can each hour you can win 2 credits aday
8. Do pick the price games at all auctions you can (win 50 or 200 if right or closest)
9. Used your tcredits to bid on auctions but leave some for next day pick the price I say used 25 to get 25 VP and save 25 for ptp to win more next day. Used mrp to buy more tcredits best value is 1 tcredit = 102VP your wanting to make EA2.
I hope that helps you out.

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Well I did pick the price game at all auctions, ttime when they started it, I place my SFI url every where even on Craigs List even thought they don't allow it on jobs places guess what I got signups even a few ECA's from it, I put tripleclicks on garage sales on CL and got my first ever sale in tripleclicks for 200 tcredits, you name it I was doing it because I wanted my SFI Business to work. I fellowed SFI Rules to success all my 14 years in SFI, I will not do anything wrong mislead people to get
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Tami!
I am broke too!! And I have no job so I have a lot of time to invest here.You know how they say : TIME IS MONEY and SFI is a GREAT place to do such a TRADE!!!

My first and second month I became EA with no problems using the free VP that SFI provides for us.Third month is the REAL challenge!!! That is the time when you show what you have learned in the past two months.

So far I take the following actions :
-I read a lot!!Not only SFI training program but other business articles.

-I do the daily/weekly/monthly tasks (approximately 500VP FOR FREE!! If you do that you need 1000 VP more to reach EA)

-I play T-Time for about 7-8 times a day if I am online and I win 2 TC average every 2-3 days (12 wins each month for sure!! 12 x 2 TC =24TC). And also Daily grand (10TC if you win but I wouldn't count on that for now)
*NOTE:If you play more times you can easily win over 30TC. I am using some average numbers

-I convert those TC into MRP (each time you bid at an auction you get 5 MRP,but I search for double (10MRP) auctions and I get 24x10=240MRP PLUS 24VP (1 VP per bid) .
Later I use those MRP to buy TC. 1TC=126MRP (with that purchase you get 102VP!!!) I do miss few MRPs to buy 2 TC (and get 204VP) but since I was EA2 last month I get 10 TC FREE as a reward from SFI.I also will get 5 FREE TC and 50 FREE MRP every month (including a chance to win $100's in the weekly W3 cash drawing) because I joined WAVE3 for ONLY $1.95 (PLUS...for each W3 member you refer, you instantly receive 5 more TCredits and 50MRP)
So that's additional 15TC and 50MRP.All combined : 39TC ---> 390 MRP when converted plus 50MRP =440MRP
You can buy 3 TC(378 MRP) with those points and earn total 345VP (306VP plus those 39VP from the bidding).After purchasing those 3TC you can again bid on double MRP auctions and get another 30MRP.You will be left with (440-378= 62)62+30 =92MRP.You can get few more TCs by sending a postcard to SFI (or ask your sponsor to send you 4TC) to complete another purchase of 1TC for 126MRP so you can get TOTAL 451VP
*NOTE :you can send 1 postcard everyday ( possible 30TC every month).
To send postcards: https://www.tripleclicks.com/PBhowItWorks.php#PTP

-So far you would have around 1000VP if you logged in everyday ,played T-Time,joined Wave3,sent postcards and bought at least 4TC with MRPs.That would leave you around 500VP short to reach EA rank.Here are several ways to get them for free:
1.Submit answers at Ask SC ( I won 100VP so far but the amount of submitted answers is unlimited so give it a try)
2.Advertise TripleClicks products.More you advertise greater the chances to make a sale ,hence get VPs.
3.Advertise ECA Program.Each time someone opens a shop and enlists a product you earn 100VP
4.Find members and build a team.You get matching points as well as 100VP per EA2 member (or more for Team Leaders)and you won't have to worry about achieving your rank every month.I usually put this as first option but as I assume you are beginner you can't have those points before reaching EA2.Same goes for your members.

-Of course you can't relay 100% on these 4 ways.Most certain way is to buy enough TCredits to get those 500VP plus the MRP conversion 10TC or 20TC pack-depending of how many exactly you need to reach total 1500VP.Or maybe to buy something worth 500VP.

* And finally if you don't succeed to reach EA it's not the end of the world.Most important is to BUILD YOUR TEAM and ADVERTISE.After a while points will start coming in on their own.Before you know it ,you might wake up as a Bronze Team Leader :)))
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Hi Tami!
I am broke too!! And I have no job so I have a lot of time to invest here.You know how they say : TIME IS MONEY and SFI is a GREAT place to do such a TRADE!!!

My first and second month I became EA with no problems using the free VP that SFI provides for us.Third month is the REAL challenge!!! That is the time when you show what you have learned in the past two months.

So far I take the following actions :
-I read a lot!!Not only SFI training program but other
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Affiliate since: 04/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vanja's 21 other Ask SC answers

Hi Tami Idoniboye

I will just give you my own example how I do it and I hope it will help you.


I'm on SFI for five months now and without paying or buying anything I always confirm EA status every month.
There's only one exception because in one month I have spent only $2 to confirm my EA status.
So everything is possible,don't think it's impossible to confirm your EA status because If I can do it,you can too.

From a first day I was playing T-time,always at least two entries into Daily Grand Rewards.
At the beginning I was using TCredits that I got from a T-time on DP auctions,but since SFI introduced us with a new rule about PTP I was always playing PTP because you get 5 MRP and you can win up from 25 TCredits to 100 TCredits.
Which is,everyone must admit,much better to play than to bid on normal auctions for 5 MRP's. (For those who don't like auctions or for those who don't have so much luck on them.)
I was risking of course,but I got lucky. Sometimes I win too on PTP. So there's more and more TCredits which can help you a lot with confirming your EA status.
I got rewards from Daily Grand too. Also,every month you get 10 TCredits for confirming EA status.

So,my advise is as you can see,play T-time as much as you can,always check twice if you Entered the Daily Grand Reward and at the end of every month make a plan for the next one.
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Hi Tami Idoniboye

I will just give you my own example how I do it and I hope it will help you.


I'm on SFI for five months now and without paying or buying anything I always confirm EA status every month.
There's only one exception because in one month I have spent only $2 to confirm my EA status.
So everything is possible,don't think it's impossible to confirm your EA status because If I can do it,you can too.

From a first day I was playing T-time,always
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 16 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

Here's my take on this. Being broke is not forever. It's temporary. What do you have? Start with that. If you have the ability to talk to others about your business or about TripleClicks, do that. Print flyers from the SFI Marketing tools and use them. If you are able, try advertising with some of the ads offered at SFI to your warm market via email or some other way, as long as you get their permission first. You don't want to SPAM.

Perhaps you could, if funds do exist, to purchase Wave3. This would help you advertise your business. Or you could get a few TCredits and use them to bid at the auctions, particularly if you can get double MRP. By sponsoring affiliates and gaining customers along the way, you could gain your EA status without spending, if you need to start there. By logging in every day and completing your To-Do List, your VP Ledger, your advertising, your referrals, and helping your affiliates to do what you are doing, you could begin to gain more VP and more income.

One thing I forgot to mention. If you really need some funds sooner than two or three months, try Pay Per Action. You might want to use those Gateway Sites and bring in affiliates and customers that way. Although you won't be credited with these in your genealogy, you will gain some income for now. You could also use this to supplement what you are doing with building your team. It's another way to work your business.

I hope this information is helpful.
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Here's my take on this. Being broke is not forever. It's temporary. What do you have? Start with that. If you have the ability to talk to others about your business or about TripleClicks, do that. Print flyers from the SFI Marketing tools and use them. If you are able, try advertising with some of the ads offered at SFI to your warm market via email or some other way, as long as you get their permission first. You don't want to SPAM.

Perhaps you could, if funds do exist, to purchase
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