How to Build a Successful SFI Business Even with Inactive Affiliates

Yes indeed! You can build a successful SFI business even with inactive affiliates and doubtful customers for your TripleClicks store. This is because “success” in SFI is a relative term. What constitutes success for me may not be what constitutes success for you. Besides, inactive affiliates and doubtful customers may be temporary setbacks which can change with time and experience in the business. 


 
Having said that, I tend to believe that people at times think like the farmer who blames his farming tools when he experiences poor crop performance. That is about why I strongly recommend that if you have problems of inactive affiliates, you just have to look inwards to yourself first and the way you are running your SFI business second. Try to identify what you are doing right and what you are doing wrongly then make amends. That done, there is no doubt that things are bound to improve in terms of more active affiliates and dutiful customers.

As an affiliate, you are no doubt aware that when people visit any SFI Gateway, what they see is an invitation to join a “very strange” affiliates’ program FREE. Many of these sign-ups may be new to Internet business while others may just be “scammers” looking for how to make tons of money on the Internet. After getting involved with SFI and to start off on the launchpad, many may be disappointed that SFI is a legitimate online business with slow but steady results. That could put off quick-bucks hunters who many of us affiliates do refer to as inactive affiliates. There may also be hundreds of other reasons for their inactivity which your business acumen as their sponsor can help you to get around.

Now consider these questions:
What did you promise new affiliates before they signed up?
How excited and energetic are you in your first contacts with new sign-ups?
How supportive are you when they eventually signed up?
How promptly and honestly do you respond to their fears and concerns?

I believe that if you can answer the above questions very honestly, you may discover that your inactive affiliates and doubtful customers may not take all the blame for the poor performance of your business. Even with the best SFI marketing tools and efforts, you will be lucky if you get up to 5% of your affiliates active. That is why you need just this 3-step plan to succeed in SFI. 


 
1. Become an Executive Affiliate, EA and remain an EA every month.
2. Recruit 5 Affiliates using every convenient marketing method.
3. Teach your 5 Affiliates to do these same 3 steps.

That’s it! You can earn a full-time income or more with this 3-step plan. To me, that is SUCCESS even with hundreds of other inactive affiliates and doubtful customers in your team.

Best Income-Earning Opportunities to Focus on in SFI Business

As an individual business person, I can say right away that what you do is entirely up to you. Like the saying goes, “it is different strokes for different folks.” So it is in SFI business. What is very gratifying in SFI is that it is designed to meet the needs of everyone. What you want and how you intend to go about getting it largely determines what you do in SFI. Can you believe that many affiliates are in SFI just for the fun of it while many others are very busy looking for money? Everything depends on what each affiliate wants. 

 
Having said that, my advice to my team is that each affiliate should study the income opportunities against their personal capabilities then decide which to settle for among the following opportunities to make money. These are the most common and easiest to follow in the many SFI income opportunities.

1. Sponsoring and Duplication: The more active sign-ups you have as PSAs, the more money you make. You stand to earn up to 45% in sales commissions from the transactions of your PSAs. To benefit from this income opportunity, you must be very good in both Online and Offline advertising.

2. Accumulating VersaPoints: From your daily, weekly and monthly actions in addition to the sales you make, you can accumulate unlimited VersaPoints which earn you money. To benefit from this, you need to be very diligent in your SFI business.

3. TripleClicks sales: If you can generate sales at TripleClicks shop, you earn commissions on every sale you generate. This requires aggressive advertising both Online and Offline.

4. Becoming an E-commerce Associate, ECA: This way, you can display and sell your own goods to make profits in the normal course of business transactions. Very good and convincing advertising is needed here. Are you very good at that?

5. Sponsoring E-Commerce Associates, ECAs: This way, you can earn lifetime commissions from all the sales made in Tripleclicks by all the ECAs you sponsor. Good and very diligent advertising is needed here. Can you do that?

6. Co-sponsoring: If you can make the rank of Executive Affiliate, EA or above every month, SFI will allocate to you a number of Co-sponsored affiliates whose transactions can earn you up to 15% in commissions. Due diligence in your SFI business, keeping to the rules and taking the tips is required here. Do you have what it takes? 


 
From the above, can you now determine what you can do and do very well? That will help your decision on which income opportunities to settle for.

These are the basic and most common earning windows in SFI which are available to ALL affiliates. Get involved and get kicking. Review your progress from time to time with a view to deciding which if not all of them best suits your requirements.

Best wishes.

How to Maximize the Benefits of Being a Bronze Team Leader

In SFI business, after becoming an Executive Affiliate for the month, the next rank in view is Bronze Team Leader. Attaining that rank confers on you some special benefits. As the name implies, the primary benefit of being a Bronze Team Leader is the great opportunity to lead and to provide leadership for your team. This is one benefit many SFI affiliates usually take for granted to the detriment of their success in SFI business. As a team leader, you maximize this benefit, 


 
- By reading more. Of course you know….”readers are leaders.”
- By becoming more honest.
- By communicating more and better.
- By showing good examples.
- By being more consistent and diligent in your SFI business.
- By leading by example.
- By offering help if and when needed.
- By being reliable and dependable to your affiliates.
- By motivating and inspiring your affiliates.

Aside from leading, the other two rather most obvious benefits you get for attaining the rank of BTL are a bonus of 12 TCredits and a proportionate share of Second Home CSAs. You can maximize the use of your bonus TCredits by using them to trade in TripleClicks shops, participate in PriceBenders auctions and getting better involved in SFI Zebra/Trivia Games. Of course the additional TCredits gives you the added capacity to buy more things and to take part in auctions and games more robustly. A more robust participation enables you to earn more Member Reward Points which you can in addition deploy to use at TripleClicks shops.

 

On the other benefit of being awarded Second Home CSAs, you get an expanded/enhanced opportunity to earn about 15% commissions on all their spending activities. You can therefore maximize this benefit of being a Bronze Team Leader if you can guide and lead these CSAs to remain active in the business. The more the activities coming from these CSAs, the more you get rewarded as a Bronze Team Leader. That means their increased success in their business directly results in increased commissions and bonuses for you as a Bronze Team Leader. Getting these CSAs to work harder and better is one sure way to maximize your own benefits as a Bronze Team Leader.