Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is very difficult question to answer. There is, unfortunately, no win/win answer to this dilemma.

Depending on the product and the ship from and ship to country, this will dictate the cost to you to ship that product to that country. Even in the best of scenarios, it is costly to ship international unless you are shipping in bulk. You can't provide free shipping as that will erode your margins but even if you provide economical shipping there is a hidden cost. That being taxes,,levy, and duties that are charged for Import/export. This is out of your control really and the receiver has to pay for this. A lot of times this is by surprise and can gouge you at rating time with customers blaming you for these charges when you are doing your best to get them the product you order. It is a slippery slope when shipping international and cost should not be the primary concern as prohibited items and tax and levy or duties should be your concern.

There are ways around this and require drop shippers or brokers in the countries where you ship that would have your inventory on hand. Then you can ship to your customers in there country. If you want to investigate a great program to see how it may be duplicated for your business and international shipments, then I highly recommend researching EBAYs new international shipping program where sellers only need to worry about shipping their products to a US warehouse and the international shipping and all it's complexities are handled by EBAY leaving the seller out of this and making it much more compelling for the seller to sell to other countries.

Personally, I think TripleClicks should provide the exact same program for their ECAs. Perhaps maybe they will. Until that time, there is no economical and process free method to ship products to your customers overseas. If it's not monetary, it is customer service that will eventually get hit due the many different complexities of international shipping.

I wish I had a better answer. I hope this sheds some light on a few ideas though.

Good luck!
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This is very difficult question to answer. There is, unfortunately, no win/win answer to this dilemma.

Depending on the product and the ship from and ship to country, this will dictate the cost to you to ship that product to that country. Even in the best of scenarios, it is costly to ship international unless you are shipping in bulk. You can't provide free shipping as that will erode your margins but even if you provide economical shipping there is a hidden cost. That being taxes,,levy,
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

I will make this short and sweet.

There are two things that MRP should be used for. Depending on what your unique situation is at the time, will dictate what method below you should use MRP for. In either method, MRP can only be used to buy products in TripleClicks. It comes down to either a strategic buy or luxury purchase.

1: sales VP is hard to come by every month to make EA......

If you are one of those PSAs whom is building a business on a shoe string budget and sales VP is hard to come by monthly to make EA, then the only thing you should be using MRP for is to purchase TCredits to earn the most sales VP for your MRP. You can use MRP to purchase TCredits to earn sales VP to get to EA. The one TCredit package costs 126 MRP but gives you 102 sales VP. No other product is like this. This is like gold when you are one whom works hard on the daily, weekly, monthly todos as even if you do all that, you still need roughly 1000 VP to make EA. Therefore, if this scenario sounds like you every month, then save every little MRP you earn and exchange 126 for 102 VP as needed by purchasing the 1 TCredit package.

2: VP is not hard to come by:

If you are one of those PSAs whom has a standing order and sales VP is not hard to come by monthly to make EA, then you can use MRP to either buy products in TripleClicks matching or lower to the amount of MRP that you can use for your business or personal or save it up and get one one the many great prizes in TripleClicks.

This is what MRP is used for. Hope this clarifies things a bit for you.

Good Luck!
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I will make this short and sweet.

There are two things that MRP should be used for. Depending on what your unique situation is at the time, will dictate what method below you should use MRP for. In either method, MRP can only be used to buy products in TripleClicks. It comes down to either a strategic buy or luxury purchase.

1: sales VP is hard to come by every month to make EA......

If you are one of those PSAs whom is building a business on a shoe string budget
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very strategic question that I will provide a very differing perspective on than most. The todo list is the tool tha will guide you to a thriving business. Everything that you will do to boost your business is or will be an artifact on to your to do list. Those line items are there for good reason. When I say items, I don't just mean the red tabs
I mean every lime item is potential to boost your business.

Consider the to do list the central nervous system of your business. Everything you do or don't do will show in your to do list daily, monthly etc.

What do I mean by baseline. So, when you first started SFI, your ledger was empty. Ledger = to do list. Once you completed the launch pad intermediate items or any item in which is not tied to monthly reoccurring tasks, you have now created your growth baseline. All your one time VP is done. What is left is your score card . Score card is a perfect term because if you look at a to do list one can easily gauge how well they are doing at several aspects of their business.

The daily actions section is just one part of the todo list strategy. It is everything else you should be doing on the to do list that once mastered or completed will be test amount to your thriving business.

These are are few good examples of what tasks other than daily to do tasks you should be doing. The

For example:

1: Advertising and marketing your gateways is one of many method of advertising. One can truly tell how well they are doing because if they are sustaining PSA EA2 or higher, the bottom of the to do list should be growing in VP

2: if you are promoting TripleClicks them you should be boosting to do list items for TripleClicks sales, or if supporting the store, your store sales VP line items should be growing , as well as , your ratings VP. If you use auctions and games to your advantage, then all the bids mad games lime items should be growing to they are maxed out.

3: if you are actively promoting new ECAs or referring them, that will show in your ECA referrals items in your list.

4. If you are gaining new knowledge daily and leveraging then AskSc answers you provide your are likely wining some of the top VP prices for 1st 2nd and 3rd third.

These are just a few great examples task you should be doing other than the daily to do tasks to grow a thriving business. However, the key point I am trying to make is you should not just perform the to do daily tasks and then abandon the list.

It is the TO DO list that if followed and each and every task line top to bottom is either grown or maxed out monthly, you are growing a thriving business. On the other hand, if it is stagnant month to month outside of the daily to dos, then you are doing something wrong.

So, the moral of all of this and to simply answer a great question, what should I do besides my daily to dos to grow a thriving business is to use just that, the the entire to do list like it is intended, and work on each and every task on that to do list till you have monthly maxed out every item till the point you are on autopilot almost. If you do this, you will no doubt have the thriving business as you are duplicating the to do list tasks which is exactly what the to do list was I intended to be used for.

Follow this logic and way of approaching your SFI business will keep you focused on that to do list and won't cause you to deviate much but will keep you on course for success. This is why it is the nervous system of your business and why duplicating it is the golden key.

Good luck!
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This is a very strategic question that I will provide a very differing perspective on than most. The todo list is the tool tha will guide you to a thriving business. Everything that you will do to boost your business is or will be an artifact on to your to do list. Those line items are there for good reason. When I say items, I don't just mean the red tabs
I mean every lime item is potential to boost your business.

Consider the to do list the central nervous system of your business.
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question.

Using the auto-bidder in Pricebender auctions can be both strategic and but also very tragic. Let start off by describing what I mean by tragic.

Do not use the auto bidder unless you are quite familiar with the penny auctions. You must know the type of auctions, the best time of day to enter the auctions, and who the big hitters are. Also, you should know how to physically turn it on, set it, and turn it off. Be sure you know all of these processes before using the auto-bidder, because if you don't, you could find out rather fast how one can drain 200 TCredits in a matter of seconds.

Scenario - tragic

You just bought 200 TCredits or got your 125 SO. You are all fired up and ready to go and you jump in to first TripleClicks auction. You decide to use the auto bidder and plug in your start price, pick your max price and enter 125 or 200 TCredits to use. You turn it on as you are first in the auction. You turn away for few minutes and come back and low and behold you got NOTHING left.

What happened?

A heavy hitter came in swinging with their auto bidder on and wiped you out in 20 seconds.

TRAGIC.

This is the worst possible scenario to be in. Two bidders with auto bidder on can literally drain 100 TCredits in a matter of seconds.

Lesson # 1, if you plan on using your auto bidder and don't want to lose all your TCredits, don't leave the auction with it on unless you know you have enough TCredits or you are ok if you lose them all.

The auto bidder can be very strategic if used correctly. If you want to take the first position in the auction or knock someone out, then make sure you have plenty of TCredits and turn it on and watch them stop bidding as fast as you turned on.

BEWARE.

Know your fellow bidders. Do not turn it on without knowing your competition as they might have theirs on too and don't really care if they lose 300 TCredits and the next thing you know, you have zero and they are still leading. Not the outcome you intended, right?

Lesson #2 - be prepared to turn it off as fast as you turned it on.

In general, auctions can be quite long and having to hit the bid button over the period of minutes to hours can be tedious. If you have tons of credits and you have a chosen an auction that is likely a slow time of the day, you can likely use the auto bidder to win that auction quite easily as most bidders wont go up against you.

However, sometimes it is best to enter auctions right towards the end catching people off guard. You have better control if you use he bid button of when you would place your bid and also won't lose bids if the opponent is using auto bidder if you manually bid since your bid won't keep rebidding if done manually.

In a nutshell, Auto-bidder is for the expert auctioneer who has lots of Tcredits, confidence, and no patience. For this person, it is better to win with it on. For the novice with a fixed budget and not much confidence, I would strongly advise not using the auto-bidder.

I hope this helps answer your question.

Good luck!
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Great question.

Using the auto-bidder in Pricebender auctions can be both strategic and but also very tragic. Let start off by describing what I mean by tragic.

Do not use the auto bidder unless you are quite familiar with the penny auctions. You must know the type of auctions, the best time of day to enter the auctions, and who the big hitters are. Also, you should know how to physically turn it on, set it, and turn it off. Be sure you know all of these processes before
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Very interesting question! Great one too.

There is a simple answer to this. In order to maximize the benefits of any team leader rank, not just BTL, you must be a leader by nature or know what it entails to become one. If you do not know what it takes to be a successful team leader then you will never maximize the benefits of being one. Long story short, don't become a team leader if you don't know what that responsibility entails.

The flip side is if you do know the qualities of good team leader and you possess them, you will like maximize the benefits by nature naturally as that is what a true leader does.

Some of the qualities of great team leader that will succeed in SFI are:

Good communicator
Know how to build a team
Know how to empower your team
Good motivator
Great trainer
Good at marketing and advertising

There are many more. You have to be well rounderd to succeed at a team leader position.

As a bronze team leader, to maximize your benefits at that level of leader, your focus is to train your affiliates to become EA2, helping them to understand TripleClicks and why purchasing products is very important and explain to them why playing trivia and bidding auctions needs to be an integral part of their growth plan.

Why?

The biggest benefit of any SFI TL position over EA is yo get a share of the executive pool in TripleClicks. You want as many VP as you can get as you will get matching shares of your VP and paid on your downline share of EA2 with VP. This is how you maximize the benefits of being a team leader. Enroll affiliates train them to become EA status, help them retain that status to achieve Ea2, then train them to do the same.

That is how you maximize your benefits of being a team leader in SFI.

Hope this helped. Good luck!
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Very interesting question! Great one too.

There is a simple answer to this. In order to maximize the benefits of any team leader rank, not just BTL, you must be a leader by nature or know what it entails to become one. If you do not know what it takes to be a successful team leader then you will never maximize the benefits of being one. Long story short, don't become a team leader if you don't know what that responsibility entails.

The flip side is if you do know the qualities
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is great question. They best and most affective promotion or incentive to become ( or requalify as )EA that I have offered my downline and had success with is offering them the TripleClicks gift certificates. If its just for reward it could be either TC credits or gift certificates.

For this purpose, though, gift certificates just like money and they can buy what you recommend in TC. This is the key point here.

What you recommend.

The goal here is obtaining EA status . Most affiliates need NOT only the TC gift certificate but also direction in how to apply it to get the VP they require if they are not getting to EA on their own and why you likely are offering this in the first place..

There are products that you can buy quickly that get you to EA quickly and effectively. They are there for the main purpose of gaining substantial VP for EA qualification as well as grow your business. They are:

125 TC Credits SO - 1500 VP
1 TC credit - 102 VP
IAHBE - 1500 VP

When you give your downline member a TC gift certificate, you should know first by viewing their VP ledger how many VP they need. Then based off your budget, you can choose from above and send them what they need to get the points to qualify.

I.E. - if your budget is not tight and you want to reward them quickly and get them to EA without trouble. You give them $40 gift certificate and state buy the 125 TC credit or IAHBE and that will give you 1500 VP.

If your budget is tight and they need a good amount amount of VP, then reward them with what you can afford and state to purchase X number of 1 credit TC as each one will give them 102 VP.

The one point i want to bring up last is and is the most important is that your should only be doing this for downline members who are doing everything to max out what they can to obtain EA and not just anyone who is in partially as that person will then expect it every month and its not a reward but a crutch.

Don't forget that last point as it will become apparent if you give it away with out verifying their efforts that rather a promotion to build a downline more a short term loss as they won't last.

Good luck.
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This is great question. They best and most affective promotion or incentive to become ( or requalify as )EA that I have offered my downline and had success with is offering them the TripleClicks gift certificates. If its just for reward it could be either TC credits or gift certificates.

For this purpose, though, gift certificates just like money and they can buy what you recommend in TC. This is the key point here.

What you recommend.

The goal here is
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question! Glad you asked.

The key to predicting the final price in "Predict the Price" really comes down to the following variables:

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similiar auctions around the same time

When you go to pick the price you will want to click the price history link. This is where you will spend your time looking at the auctions that ended and tabulating the data into a spreadsheet using the above variables.

I.E.

Say for auction of 300 Tcredits. Your data tabulation may be like this:

Price | Day Sold | Time Sold | Auction Type | Other Similar Auctions
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$1.75 Mon 7am Double MRP Yes, see next line
$10.50 Mon 6:50am WBF Yes, see line above
$35.00 Sat 7pm BIG DOG No

As you can see, by building tables of data like above, you will start to see trends.
Then you can further analyze those trends to see like variables. Such as auctions that sold
for under $5 were more common on Monday - Friday mornings before start of business on the East
Coast of the US.

Once you group trends, you can then do price averaging of those auctions to come up with an average
predictable selling price based on law of averages and past events. This is of course is never absolute
usually with a high variance of plus or minus 10% or lower but if you can get this average price and tack the

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similar auctions around the same time

around it, one can easily apply this to future auctions. If you know that a Sunday afternoon auction for IPAD no auto bidder usually averages $40 then you would just enter your price into any auction matching these details. Likewise, a silver coin auction coming up at 12 noon on a Tuesday in the US normally averages less than $3 then you would enter that into any auction matching these details.

All one can do is research and use statistical processes to average out the probability of what a future auction might end at price wise. Your won’t likely get 100% or even 60% or 40% right but if you can guess even one in 10 you are doing well and ahead of the pack.

I hope i was able to provide some insight into how to better your chances of winning Pick The Price.

Good Luck
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Great question! Glad you asked.

The key to predicting the final price in "Predict the Price" really comes down to the following variables:

§ Day of week
§ Time of day
§ Type of product
§ Type of auction
§ Number of similiar auctions around the same time

When you go to pick the price you will want to click the price history link. This is where you will spend your time looking at the auctions that ended and tabulating
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very valid question.

From a non cost perspective, whether you start local or sell international is really determined by:

What your are selling.
What you expected earning potenital is.
Your time to devote.
Your desire to grow.

If you are selling services as opposed to products, then its really irrelevant and rather you probalby want to sell to as many people as you can. However, if your are selling products, then your decision to sell internationally to start vs later really depends your product and whether it is restricted in certain countries, its weight or products weights, export duties, taxes etc.

Bottomline is that international product sales can be very costly and very complex, especially if you are new to this business as there are many varialbles that must be learned and processes spelled out for each and every country you sell to. The exception to this is if you use a drop shipper whom does it for you. This can be ideal but only is ideal as the product you sell and whether they are drop shippable so to speak.

SInce International sales can be costly shipping wise, thus, digging into your earning potential, as a new ECA, it may behoove you to sell locally in your country and build a base business that will grow to the point where you can support a international customer base.

Experience is key when it comes to dealing with internaitonal sales. Shipping is only one facet. The other complaexity is customer service and dealing with customers whom speak different languages etc. This can be time consuming not to mention costly period.

This all goes to how much time you have to devote and what your potential earnings can be with Domestic vs Internatonal sales. This really is up to you and what fits into your business plan. If it were me and I was a new ECA, I would not sell internationally until the time i was educated in the areas of International shipping and also had the time and captial to support that aspect of my business.

I hope this was some value to you and I wish you all the best in your business.
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This is a very valid question.

From a non cost perspective, whether you start local or sell international is really determined by:

What your are selling.
What you expected earning potenital is.
Your time to devote.
Your desire to grow.

If you are selling services as opposed to products, then its really irrelevant and rather you probalby want to sell to as many people as you can. However, if your are selling products, then your decision to sell
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question that should be taken very seriously as it' is a powerful business booster if done correctly.

An affiliate that wants to create and maintain their own SFI website is serious in their intent to take their SFI business up a few levels. The objective of an SFI website is to promote SFI or review SFI utilizing your own business techniques to build up a following outside the traditional SFI site and gain a dedicated trusted fan base. You can promote the site as a best home based business or work from or startup business blog.

By building your own brand and style, you build a following that will follow your actions or they will see based off your website layout and what topics you blog daily, that you are involved in system where you can earn a good income starting with no or little money.

The idea is build a traffic generator of leads offsite that will filter out a very defined group followers that will when ready become a very high converting lead pool that will likely be looking for something to grasp on too to sign up. This is important to understand that you should focus on blog posts, banners, etc. that show off SFI benefits so one can see for themselves that they can be successful at SFI.

Therefore, in essence, your site as stated above also becomes a traffic generator of high converting leads that can leverage you banner links strategically placed around your site to get to your gateway pages where they become organic grown PSAs. These leads that link to your gateway from your site are worth gold and are better than SBuilder shares and they are purely
organic. I have some in my downline from my site that are all still here. Every one is here and has remained.

This is very powerful as you can see. The last point to make here is that with an SFI site be sure to follow all SFI rules of engagement for what you can and cannot do. You need to use SFI banners and ads, unless approved, you can use your own. Do not deviate and do not advertise BBB and do not post guarantees of income that link SFI to that or you will be doing a disservice to yourself.

Stay focused and blog the SFI rules of success and you will have a very powerful ad coop of sorts that will always fill you sales pipe with high converting PSAs. This is a great idea for anyone who can to build an offline SFI website. I encourage my line and anyone whom asks to build an offsite SFI website and will help them as this is a win/win for all.

Hope this helps!!
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This is a great question that should be taken very seriously as it' is a powerful business booster if done correctly.

An affiliate that wants to create and maintain their own SFI website is serious in their intent to take their SFI business up a few levels. The objective of an SFI website is to promote SFI or review SFI utilizing your own business techniques to build up a following outside the traditional SFI site and gain a dedicated trusted fan base. You can promote the site as a best
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question but very difficult to provide a single all encompassing answer fits all. It really depends on the type of person you are and what makes you unique so you can leverage that uniqueness to server as a benefit to your downline. Be yourself and focus leveraging your strengths.

Now, there are two things too understand with this question or it will drive you bonkers trying to keep them to find out that they just quit.

1st. You cant make anyone do anything they already decided is not for them. You should not look at team building as what you should do to keep an affiliate from quitting. That is counter productive and actually a waste of time and effort. Don t chase after people that show no or are lacking interest as you need to divert your energy to the flip side which I will touch in a second. For those side liners that sit or take no action or doubt or impose self limiting beliefs, just continue to send your weekly or monthly communications. That is all you can do.

Bottom line you cannot win and you won't win everyone so don't bother wasting time.

2nd - if you have to convince someone to not quit then they are not likely the person for your team, AT THAT TIME. This does not mean they bad people or they won't show up later. The point is it is not the time for them so they won't be useful to you if your always playing the convincer. Don't convince, but, rather let them come to you with zero doubt. The opposite. They know you can help them achieve their goals. So they chase you.

So, the real solution to this is don't try to keep people from quitting but rather do things that make them want to stay or rather want to be here. They are here not because you had to pull their arm but because they truly want to be here. That is the KEY,

How do you do this? Easy. Be an awesome sponsor. Be yourself and follow the rules of success and follow the ones who are successful and duplicate them. What are some of these traits?

Communicate , communicate, communicate! Should I say it again? Sure....Communicate. You must communicate and next, LISTEN to your downline affiliates who show interest. Ask probing questions like why they are here what is it they want. To achieve. Etc.

FIND THEIR PAIN POINTS. Everyone of us here has a reason for being here. They are looking for someone or something or a solution to their problem. Be that person to emphasize and provide that solution via the SFI basics and rules of success.

-->> Work with the workers.
-->> Treat your downline like they are your life line.
-->> Don't just email but have team meetings, webinars, Skype one on one.
-->> Show them that you really do have a keen interest in their success.
-->> Push them to do things but help them in times of crisis where warranted.
-->> No one is perfect and all of us have a bad day or month.
-->> Issue a TC gift cert to help someone make EA2 one month if they are proven action takers.
-->>Lead by example and show them by revealing your leadership page.
-->>What you do and your badges speaks,everything.
-->>Train them to teach their downline the same.
-->>Motivate them as they require it. Daily, weekly etc. Provide the spark get their rockets firing.
-->>You control your every move and everything you do in a positive way to help others will attract affiliates to you not you chase them.

Do this and you won't need to convince anyone and the total opposite occurs. Your affiliates will gravitate to you like no tomorrow.

Good luck!

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This is a great question but very difficult to provide a single all encompassing answer fits all. It really depends on the type of person you are and what makes you unique so you can leverage that uniqueness to server as a benefit to your downline. Be yourself and focus leveraging your strengths.

Now, there are two things too understand with this question or it will drive you bonkers trying to keep them to find out that they just quit.

1st. You cant make anyone do anything
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