Insights & Quotes from Successful People

"Personal leadership must come from the inside out. You cannot wait for someone else to push you; you must motivate yourself through goal setting."
—Paul J. Meyer


"If you do not consciously decide ahead of time where you are going, you may very easily end up somewhere else."
—Laurence J. Peter


"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
—Denis Watley

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
—Anatole France


"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
—Epictetus


"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."
—J.C. Penney


"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
—Yogi Berra


"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."
—Kurt Lewin


"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
—Oprah Winfrey


"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."
—Claude M. Bristol


"Failure is not in an unsuccess goal, but in having no goal to reach."
—Benjamin Mays


"The purpose of goals is to focus our attention. The mind will not reach toward achievement until it has clear objectives. The magic begins when we set goals. It is then that the switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, and the power to accomplish becomes a reality."
—"The Best of Success," by Wynn Davis


"The most important thing about goals is having one."
—Geoffry F. Abert


"Until input (thought) is linked to a goal (purpose) there can be no intelligent accomplishment."
—Paul G. Thomas


"You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there...You will be going someplace."
—H. Stanley Judd

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Why Ecommergy is a Great Product for SFI Affiliates

Great price. A full-access monthly subscription is available for just $9.97 (just $.33/day) and comes with 480 VP. Or, for just $19.97, you can get a premium subscription that comes with 962 VP and marketing samples. And if you want to go straight to EA status with 1500 VP, you can choose our $29.97 premium subscription (less than a dollar day!) that comes with even more marketing samples. More on ECommergy marketing samples later.

* Maximum "bang for your buck." That is, with an ECommergy subscription, you get the most VersaPoints and CV for your dollar. Instead of $36.25 for a 1500 VP amount of TCredits, for example, you get that same 1500 VP with just a $29.97 subscription, a savings of $6.28 a month/$75.36 a year.

* Get into profit fast. If you have a subscription, with our 100% CV Direct Commissions, just two sales a month puts you in profit. And if you're focused on selling ECommergy subscriptions, your profit can keep growing monthly via recurring income from the previous subscriptions sold.


 
* We LOVE TCredits and so do our affiliates...which explains why it's our #1 selling product BY FAR. However, games and auctions (the primary uses for TCredits) aren't for everyone. Also, TCredits are often, especially to new affiliates, confusing and nebulous. A subscription to a product like ECommergy, on the other hand, has clear benefits (i.e. you've just started an ecommerce business; what better than to have experts in ecommerce showing you the way to success and profits?!). Indeed, it dovetails exquisitely with being an SFI affiliate!

* With it's clear benefits, ECommergy subscriptions can become a real focal point for your team in SFI. That is, focusing on this product and promoting this product within in your group may deliver great energy and momentum. A clean, simple product–needed by every affiliate and consumed monthly–is a recipe for growing a big team and big commissions. Choice is great, but a single-minded FOCUS can be an extremely powerful elixir.

* Great prospects are everywhere! There are tens of millions of businesses across the world, both online and offline. And almost everyone needs what ECommergy will be providing. Think locally-owned businesses all over the world. Every one of them not using at least some form of ecommerce (e.g. using social media for marketing), is leaving potentially vast sums of money on the table every year. It's an Internet world. A huge and growing percentage of adults worldwide have a smartphone and access the internet regularly. Businesses that don't cater to these customers are missing out and are being squeezed out by businesses that DO. An inexpensive ECommergy subscription is the smart remedy!

* ECommergy is a 100% digital product. So there are no shipping costs or hassles, and delivery is instant worldwide. When you sell a subscription (or give someone a free trial subscription–more on this in a moment), your customer can be enjoying it within seconds, no matter where they live in the world!

* ECommergy comes paired with a powerful and unique new marketing system we've built to make generating sales of subscriptions (and the recurring commissions that come with them) simple and easy! See full details on the marketing system in the section below.

* There are of millions upon millions of people across the world that would love to learn how to make money on the internet. And, yes, SFI offers a superb online opportunity, but there's a big difference with ECommergy. When you market ECommergy, you're not marketing a "biz opp" with all the attached stigmas. No, with ECommergy, you're simply marketing solutions for those who'd like to get started in ecommerce (or expand their current ecommerce efforts). So share away with family, co-workers, friends, etc.! And maybe best of all, you can market subscriptions to ECommergy with zero obligation with the free trial "day passes" which is a key component of our powerful new marketing system. 

 

* With a standard subscription at just $9.97, instant access, and no shipping costs, sales can happen much easier than with many products. Indeed, a less-than-$10 item is practically an "impulse buy," a product that many prospects will be happily willing to try and continue to subscribe to every month.

* An ECommergy subscription is not some "frivolous" product that is quickly consumed and forgotten about like so many products people buy. On the contrary, an ECommergy subscription can truly be invaluable and can represent an investment in one's future. And people love to invest in themselves because of the potential future returns on their investment. When you sell a subscription to ECommergy to someone, feel great, because you may have given them a life-enriching, life-changing gift!

* ECommergy dovetails perfectly with Localvantia. Ecommerce is growing by leaps and bounds every year, yet the majority of retail businesses have not yet put ecommerce to work for them (to their detriment). You now have TWO powerful products, in Localvantia and ECommergy, to offer to local vendors to help them and you both to boost your earnings.

Article Source: SFI Blog

 

Best Shipping Strategy for New ECAs

Shipping costs are always a very important cost consideration for ECAs. In some cases, shipping costs can even be higher than the actual cost of goods depending on where in the world the ECA is operating from. For a fairly new ECA, since you want to sell your products and in a very competitive market, you must watch your shipping costs very closely.

Generally speaking, the farther you ship your goods, the higher your shipping costs. For that reason, I am inclined to recommend to fairly new ECAs to limit their shipping to their geographical regions of the world at first to “test the waters” of international commerce. By the time you get known in the business and your customer base is encouraging, you can decide to expand further afield. That to me is what makes good commercial sense.