In order to succeed in SFI you need to build a network of customers and business builders. SFI is the networking side of the business.
Tripleclicks is our global online marketing site. It is where all the sales take place and commissions are earned here. Being global it means that somewhere in the world, at any time of the day or night, people can buy from your site. You could be fast asleep but your site could be bringing in commissions for you. All you need to do is to keep advertising your TC, PB and Wave Gateways, so that people can check out what you have for sale. Everytime anything sells through your site - you earn a commission.Do keep in mind that Rome was not built in a day and neither is an SFI business. It is not a get-rich-quick scheme. However, if you work the business right, you could become incredibly wealthy in time.
The question is how does one become successful in this business. So here are some steps to success that you can follow.
1. Treat your business as the million dollar business that it is. It is your business. Take charge of it, don't depend on others to help you. If they do help its a bonus, but don't depend on it. In any business you need to invest time and money to succeed. So is it with this business. As everything is given to you free to join and run your business. So your financial investment is only very small - in comparision to what it would be, if you were running a normal run-of-the-mill business. Be thankful that SFI allows us to build a business without heavy layout and make the most of it.
2. Log in everyday and ensure that you get all the free VPs that SFI gives to us in the To-Do-List. This makes it easier for you to achieve with a lesser investment. As a business owner you need to take your business seriously and visit it each day to do what is needed to make it successful.
3. You need to advertise your Gateways each day. If you are going to buy your PSAs then, you only need to concentrate on advertising only your sales gateways. However, if you want to find your own team, you will have to advertise your sponsoring gateways as well. You can get to your Gateways, by clicking on your Account tab on the home page. You will find the gateway list on the drop-down menu there.
Try to advertise your links in at least 10 different sites, 5 forums, 5 social sites and 5 places like Yahoo. answers or Help.com. As you don't have a physical shop that people will visit in a mall or some such place - you do need to concentrate on advertising and letting people know that you have a business they need to visit.
4. Keep in constant communication with your Affiliates, that is most important. Welcome them when they join you, congratulate them when they achieve in any way and make sure you send them training mail to help them along the way. There is a lot to learn - so ensure that they learn what is important right from the start. A series of emails showing them the way in the right sequence is what would be very appropriate. You are very welcome to use my mails if you wish, within the SFi umbrella. However, please don't use them to blog with, because you will get caught for plagarism, especially if you "copy" "paste" them.
5. The first month you can achieve EA with all the free VPs that SFI gives to us. However, after that we either need to sell stuff or buy stuff in order to get 1500 VPs for EA. Don't pressurize your Affiliates to buy if they want don't want to, but do make them understand that every business has some overheads - luckily in SFI the overheads are very low - but in order to achieve they need to pay these overheads. However, if they don't want to do it. Don't force them - SFI is very generous in that it allows us to remain in the business without ever spending a cent, so long as we keep logging in and letting them know that we are still interested in the business.
If you are willing to spend, then the best thing for you to do is to put in a SO for 1,500 VP. IAHBE gives you good training and resources to build your business with. However, I personally feel that SFI itself gives us so much to read and learn that IAHBE can wait, till we have finished with all that learning.
I have a SO for 125 TCredits and it makes me EA right away. I have placed it for the beginning of the month, because becoming EA gives me 2 free CSAs and if they are willing to work - I have enough time to help them go EA as well. It also gives me an extra 2 entries at the Daily Grand.
Take these small steps to success and you will reach the pinnacles of success as time goes by.
However, do please be aware that a number of Affiliate accounts have been hacked into in SFI. The reason how people are able to do that is simple, multiple sites using one password, easy to guess passwords 12345667 types, and logging into your site via an email, or already established link.
In order to be safe please ensure that none of these are applicable to your password.
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