Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

CSAs are members of your team. Treat them the same as your PSAs.

I know that its natural to focus on your PSAs because they are the ones you recruited and if they do well your rewards are greater than what you would receive if your CSAs do well.

If your team is something similar to mine, there are always more CSAs and most of them are second home CSAs. Some of them are team leaders and there are others who are not team leaders but active in TripleClicks. Their activities can result in you earning a substantial amount of money. So treat them the same as your PSAs.

We must remember that your CSAs are hopefully building their own businesses just like your PSAs. They need guidance and encouragement.

They will see your Streams, so make sure that your postings there are applicable to them just as they would for your PSAs. Its the same with your weekly newsletters, include in there matters relevant to your whole team (PSAs and CSAs).

You will receive notifications from SFI of their successes and milestones, acknowledge these in your newsletter and/or send them congratulatory messages.

Check your 'Movers' tab daily and where relevant send out tips and encouragement to those who are working.

If you are able to, make sure they are included in team contests. If you have a website with training material for your team, direct you CSAs to it.

Always remind them that you are readily available to help them. Invite them to contact you and if they do, make sure you respond to them promptly.

Remember, they are members of your team. Care for them.
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CSAs are members of your team. Treat them the same as your PSAs.

I know that its natural to focus on your PSAs because they are the ones you recruited and if they do well your rewards are greater than what you would receive if your CSAs do well.

If your team is something similar to mine, there are always more CSAs and most of them are second home CSAs. Some of them are team leaders and there are others who are not team leaders but active in TripleClicks. Their activities
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

I agree wholeheartedly with you - good communication is vital in SFI but please remember that the written word is one of the several ways of communication, although it is the most commonly means of communicating.

If you are not good at writing, you have the options of learning to be a better writer (and this seems to be what you are looking for) or develop other forms of communicating such as by phone, Skype and other similar software applications, video (U Tube etc)

How to write well is often a challenge for a lot of people because it is a skill that is acquired over time, requiring a lot of practice, trials and errors and refinements. We need to be patient with this and take 'baby' steps as we develop our skills.

I would recommend that we start off with short simple statements. One 'thought' or idea per sentence. Do not have long and complicated sentences. Use everyday words. Use only words and phrases that are not slang or peculiar to our part of the world or dialect. Position our sentences in logical order.

If we are communicating with someone who is of another language, we should write in their language if we can. If we cannot, we should use translators that are readily available on the internet. I would suggest that we have our message translated into that other persons language and then have the translated text translated back into our language. Keep doing this until we are happy with the final content and then send that message away.

While we are developing our writing skills, there are other strategies that we can adopt in the meantime.
We can use text that have already been written by others. Take note of what our sponsors and uplines write, what people write when answering ASK SC questions, what is written in the Forum, sample welcome and newsletters texts in SFI. We can use all these to develop and teach our team members.

The easiest thing to do is to simply refer our people to the links with
short introductions from us. Doing it this way saves us a lot of time and work. We also acknowledge the text author at the same time.

We can also copy and paste onto a new document if we want to but with should always acknowledge the source and author of the texts.


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I agree wholeheartedly with you - good communication is vital in SFI but please remember that the written word is one of the several ways of communication, although it is the most commonly means of communicating.

If you are not good at writing, you have the options of learning to be a better writer (and this seems to be what you are looking for) or develop other forms of communicating such as by phone, Skype and other similar software applications, video (U Tube etc)

How to
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

What you should spend your earnings on is your call.
I do not know your financial circumstance or the state of your SFI business so I will make some suggestions here and you can filter out what you dont want and keep whats useful to you.

If you are financially well off, you could look upon SFI as a source of pocket money and could spend your earnings as you like.

If you are struggling to keep the business going financially, I would recommend that you just simply plough the money back into the business, reinvesting it. Having said this, I believe that it is necessary, if you are able to, to reward yourself for your work. This is necessary for self-satisfaction and to keep your morale up. I would suggest that you allocate a certain percentage of your monthly earnings for yourself and the rest can be reinvested in the business.

If you want your business to be self supporting and not constantly draining your personal funds then I would recommend that you reinvest in the business some if not all your monthly earnings.

Your call.


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What you should spend your earnings on is your call.
I do not know your financial circumstance or the state of your SFI business so I will make some suggestions here and you can filter out what you dont want and keep whats useful to you.

If you are financially well off, you could look upon SFI as a source of pocket money and could spend your earnings as you like.

If you are struggling to keep the business going financially, I would recommend that you just simply plough
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

There are so many mistakes to be avoided but you have asked for the worst, the biggest mistake to be avoided.

In my opinion, the biggest of all mistakes that we must all avoid is telling lies. There is no such thing as a white lie or a small lie. A lie is a lie. Do not even hint at anything that is untrue and that is one of the reasons why we should not entertain hype. By all means be excited about the products, services or the SFI opportunity but stay away from hype. That's because hype tends to boarder on untruths. Stick to facts and you wont go wrong.

Telling lies or making false claims can cause major harm and long lasting harm to your business and SFI as a whole.

You will probably get sales, PRMs or affiliates as a result of false claims but when PRMs & PSAs find out that you had hoodwinked them, most likely they will leave and you will have wasted money & time recruiting them. They will most likely tell other people of their bad experience with SFI. That is not the type of publicity any business wants. There is also the possibility of litigation, again no business wants that.

Let the facts speak for themselves and you can use other peoples testimonials if you like but do not tell lies, make or hint at false claims. Telling lies is the biggest mistake we must avoid when advertising.
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There are so many mistakes to be avoided but you have asked for the worst, the biggest mistake to be avoided.

In my opinion, the biggest of all mistakes that we must all avoid is telling lies. There is no such thing as a white lie or a small lie. A lie is a lie. Do not even hint at anything that is untrue and that is one of the reasons why we should not entertain hype. By all means be excited about the products, services or the SFI opportunity but stay away from hype. That's because
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

Your spouse is your partner for life. SFI can be yours and your spouses business for life.

We all know that there can be only one SFI account per household. That is the only limitation. There is no restriction on who operates that account or manages the business.

If you are the account holder and you want to involve your spouse in the business how about inviting him/her to be part of the business. No doubt you share many things, interests and do things together. SFI can be one of those.

I would suggest that you have a look at yours and your spouses strengths and weaknesses and capitalise on your spouses strengths. If he/she is a professional advertiser and you are not, obviously it would be your advantage to assign all the advertising/promotion to him/her. This is involving him/her directly with business.

If your spouse does not want to have a hands-on part in the business, that should not create any problems. You can still work on having him/her involved indirectly with the business.

If this is the case with you, I would recommend that you keep him/her up-to-date on what you are doing and how the business is doing. I believe that by doing this you will have a supportive spouse. It makes life easier.

If the business is doing well, especially if you have purchased products through the business or the business is contributing to the household income, I believe that your spouse will naturally promote SFI to his/her friends, family members, co workers etc.. - telling them how great your business is. Your spouse can have some of your business cards on his/her person and I suggest you encourage him/her to hand them out to friends and acquaintances when they ask about your business.
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Your spouse is your partner for life. SFI can be yours and your spouses business for life.

We all know that there can be only one SFI account per household. That is the only limitation. There is no restriction on who operates that account or manages the business.

If you are the account holder and you want to involve your spouse in the business how about inviting him/her to be part of the business. No doubt you share many things, interests and do things together. SFI can
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

If you have never done this before, I suggest that you start off small.

I suggest that you start off with a selected group of close friends. Look upon it as rehearsal and treat it as such. If at the end of the get together, there are no sign up, don't be disappointed. Just keep in contact with them keeping the subject of SFI active.

Invite them to your house and be very open about the purpose of the get together. Tell them that you are getting together for a meal and the presentation of a business opportunity for their consideration. Never ambush them and suddenly make the SFI presentation without prior warning. They may resent that and will not sign up as PSAs. You might even loose them as friends.

Have some SFI /TripleClicks pamphlets & cards available and if possible some TC products available as well.

Have video presentations or slides or power-point, whatever you feel will get your message across. You might even log onto SFI and show them TripleClicks / Auctions etc.. Show them where to join SFI and help them join if they want to do that right away. Why not - they have nothing to loose.

After the presentation, ask for feed back and suggestions. Remember these are your friends and hopefully their inputs will help you with you future presentations.

When you have refined your presentation, then get bigger with your get-together. Your friends might even help you with it.
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If you have never done this before, I suggest that you start off small.

I suggest that you start off with a selected group of close friends. Look upon it as rehearsal and treat it as such. If at the end of the get together, there are no sign up, don't be disappointed. Just keep in contact with them keeping the subject of SFI active.

Invite them to your house and be very open about the purpose of the get together. Tell them that you are getting together for a meal and the
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

There are literally hundreds of things you should be doing besides the To Do List actions.

You can be:

* Training yourself.

You need to learn as much about the business and about anything relevant or related to the business. This is an on-going requirement. Once you have completed your Launchpad lessons, go on to other parts of the site and learn as much as possible. Why not complete the Internet Course provided free by SFI? Read books relating to the business. Continue learning and never stop.

* Recruiting Affiliates

Duplication if one of the main keys to a thriving SFI business. This cannot happen if you do not have a team of affiliates that will duplicate your efforts and actions. You therefore need to recruit people on to your team that would do duplication. This can be done offline, online or both. This is an ongoing requirement, even if you have active affiliates. They don’t always remain active and you want your business to continue to grow and thrive.

* Promoting TripleClicks

TripleClicks is where the money is, and we all joined SFI for the money. You want people to buy from TripleClicks because as the referring affiliate, you get 45% commission of the CV of any products they purchase and this will be the case for any of their subsequent purchases. If you are eligible you can also get the VP of the products, and of course, there is the opportunity to share in the Executive Pool.

* Sponsoring.

This would be a major activity if you are successful with your recruiting. The new PSAs will need to be guided, helped and motivated if they are to be useful members of your team. This will be your on-going role.

* Being active in the SFI community.

Your team of affiliates will notice how active you are in SFI and how successful you are. They will see the badges on your Profile page and can tell how involved you are within SFI. These can be useful as what you want is them having confidence in you as their leader and sponsor. So take part in discussions, join the Forum and a2a and help yourself and others. Enter all the contests and competitions and if you are successful tell your team and hopeful that would inspire and motivate them.

There are many more area to cover such as: taxation, administration, planning, budgeting, asset/equipment replacement, researching trends, Website maintenance/promotions etc.

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There are literally hundreds of things you should be doing besides the To Do List actions.

You can be:

* Training yourself.

You need to learn as much about the business and about anything relevant or related to the business. This is an on-going requirement. Once you have completed your Launchpad lessons, go on to other parts of the site and learn as much as possible. Why not complete the Internet Course provided free by SFI? Read books relating to the business.
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

If you want to recruit affiliates this way, to be effective, you need the following:

- Know you stuff. You must have a very good understanding of how SFI works. People will ask you questions that you may have never anticipated. You've got to think on your feet and come up with the correct answer. If you don't have the answer however - all is not lost. Tell them that you will find out the answer and come back to them with it. Don't make up one.

- Professionalism. You are representing all of us - SFI business. Dress and present yourself in a professional manner. Be friendly and polite and put a smile on your face.

- Presentation. This is what you are going to say including how you are going to say it. Plan this and rehearsed it. Don't leave it to chance because if you do, chances are you will mess it up. The prospect needs to be comfortable talking with you and believe that you are genuine in what you are saying. If they are not chances are you will not be recruiting them.

Apart from these, remember whoever you recruit, you are going to be their sponsor. Can you work with them? You prospect is probably thinking the same - can they work with you.
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If you want to recruit affiliates this way, to be effective, you need the following:

- Know you stuff. You must have a very good understanding of how SFI works. People will ask you questions that you may have never anticipated. You've got to think on your feet and come up with the correct answer. If you don't have the answer however - all is not lost. Tell them that you will find out the answer and come back to them with it. Don't make up one.

- Professionalism. You
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

In order to reassure prospective customers that shopping at TripleClicks is safe and that their purchases will be delivered, I recommend you do the following:

* Tell your customers to click on the ‘Returns & Refunds’ policy button at the page where the product description is displayed. TripleClicks require all ECAs to display their returns and refunds policy with their products.

* Tell them about your own shopping experience with TripleClicks--what you have purchased; the quality of the service you received; how, when and in what condition your goods were delivered etc.

* Tell them that all ECAs are vetted by TripleClicks with regards to experience at running a business, product quality and customer service. Not just anyone can become an ECA in TripleClicks.

* You can also give them some facts about SFI/TripleClicks, such as how long it’s been trading online, number of products and services and also the number of its members throughout the world.
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In order to reassure prospective customers that shopping at TripleClicks is safe and that their purchases will be delivered, I recommend you do the following:

* Tell your customers to click on the ‘Returns & Refunds’ policy button at the page where the product description is displayed. TripleClicks require all ECAs to display their returns and refunds policy with their products.

* Tell them about your own shopping experience with TripleClicks--what you have purchased;
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428

My advice to you is to recruit and welcome anyone who is interested in becoming an SFI Affiliate, regardless of what language they speak or can read.

There are ways of sponsoring people with little or no English if you do not speak their language. Find out what their language is and use online translators to communicate with them. You can also reassign them if possible to one of your team leaders who speaks that affiliate’s language.

Go ahead and advertise, recruiting people globally. This is after all a global business.

Having said all that, of course if your advertising budget enables you to target only English speaking prospects, you should go ahead and do that. After all recruiting non English speakers means extra work for the sponsor. If you are able to avoid that extra work and focus on other business building activities, why not target English speakers only.

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My advice to you is to recruit and welcome anyone who is interested in becoming an SFI Affiliate, regardless of what language they speak or can read.

There are ways of sponsoring people with little or no English if you do not speak their language. Find out what their language is and use online translators to communicate with them. You can also reassign them if possible to one of your team leaders who speaks that affiliate’s language.

Go ahead and advertise, recruiting
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