This month's bestseller: commissions from other people selling

Every month I look through my statistics to see where my income is coming from. This month my main income stream is from ECAs (E-commerce affiliates). How does this even work?
I go around looking for mom & pop stores. I approach them with the idea of selling online. I explain that it is entirely free, they get a FREE website for their store, they just have to load up pictures and info on their products and off you go. People order your product, they pay TripleClicks, you send the order and receive your money from TripleClicks.

The beauty of it is - and this is the reason why anyone selling a product or service should join - that there are millions of affiliates like me over the whole world who make their income promoting and selling products. So the ECA doesn't have to do any marketing, the affiliates will do that. Any affiliate can promote any product, but most affiliates choose niche markets and target their promotion and selling.




For me the point is that if I am the one referring (bringing in) the ECA I make commission on everything they sell - for life.  And this is precisely what has brought me most income in the month of December 2017. Not surprising maybe as lots of people buy Christmas gifts online.



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I actually have not gone out looking for stores for quite a long time. Instead, I advertise. I have this list of thousands of websites where you can advertise for free. And then I have thought of a new idea: since I speak so many languages I should target the non-English speaking markets as well. Haven't done that yet.




To conclude: if you want to make money working from home, becoming either an ECA (if you have something to sell) or an affiliate at SFI is not a bad start. You don't have to give up your job (until you want to), just start it as a sideline.

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SFI

"I am so thankful to have found SFI. After many attempts with online businesses, SFI is one that is working, and I am on the way to make money. Thank you SFI! "
 J. MAJHI, India

About patience, perseverance and earning commissions selling online successfully

I just needed to post this because I have just received my October commissions. Yes, the money that  I earned. Maybe it will help you who reads this.




I have tried out a number of online programs and never before had any success with it. When I started at SFI I decided to give it a year, since I actually read all the training and instructions which you get for free and quickly learned it was not a Get Rich Quick Scheme.

After a year I had made about as much money as two months' worth of standing order, I had reinvested whatever I earned in the business and I was on the verge of giving up. However I decided I had not tried all possible approaches and I was receiving a steady stream of signups from this blog that you are reading now. So I decided to give it another year. And lo and behold! In the exact month that I was 1 year at SFI I got this fantastic email: "Your commissions over the month August". For the first time I had actually made and received money.



Since then I have received such an email EVERY MONTH and the amount is higher every month. Seriously, do you think I am giving up now? Of course not.

If you are thinking of signing up, do me a favor and give it at least a year. If you do not have half an hour a day to put into your new business don't even start. Yes, I know, signing up is free and so it never hurts. But do take it seriously if you do it at all.


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Making money by working from home: the power of advertising

The single way the big earners at SFI make money ( I know this from the forum, where all kinds of topics are discussed, particularly how to increase sales and make more money) is ADVERTISING. Having said that, how do you advertise and particularly, where?

Everyone has their own favorites. One of my upline works with Autoresponders.This is a system in which you set up a landing page offering something for free. The visitor has to fill in an email address in order to receive this. The Autoresponder then sends a number of emails/letters which you have prepared yourself to this email address, I think it can be up to 25, and of course offers the information about whatever aspect of SFI you want to promote. Research has shown that a person on average has to see a message 7 times before reacting to it.

Many work with the social media. For this, you have to be active in the social media and have a rapport with your followers. You recommend something and they might buy it. This involves your "warm market" or the people that you already know. It does not work for me because I am not in the least active in the social media normally. SFI has many free banners available that you can use in the social media such as these:


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What I do work with if I have the time is free advertising websites. There are many of these. You can google "free advertising" or do as I did, bought a list of free advertising websites. It cost me nothing because  I used the Member Reward Points that I automatically collect when I do my daily activities on the website. I have even used these to buy physical products which I then review on my blog about health and fitness, TopCat's TopFit , and promote if they are good.

I have been going through the list that I have and only a few % are really active and usable. If you would become a member of my team by joining SFI for free, I will share this whittled-down active list with you; most people would be willing to pay for such a list. Most sites carry advertisements for a month and then you have to renew them. But all are for free, so if you have no reactions it has only cost you a little time. Do remember to use Key Track Codes so you  know which of your advertisements is successful. There is a feature for that on the SFI website. No other program offers so many free training and marketing tools. At least not that I have seen.

Then there is real life advertising: in magazines, radio, tv; these generally cost. What I find useful is hanging up brochures in gyms, at supermarkets and other public areas where it is allowed.
SFI has many printable brochures for products (the website even generates these for you); example:

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This is the banner, but the website can generate a printable flyer as well.  SFI has more than 10,000 products to choose from in all possible categories, so there will always be something of interest to whatever place you think of advertising. Then there are splash pages and e-cards and car magnets.

What I haven't tried yet but am going to, is concentrating on the garage sale that TripleClicks is running. I and every other affiliate can freely advertise our secondhand stuff. This would be interesting to people holding garage sales and people selling secondhand stuff, right?

So if you have a local advertising site in say, Newby, Oklahoma you can look for the garage sale department if there is one. Once people are online to sell, they will have a look at the other stuff SFI and TripleClicks are offering and maybe become interested in the auctions, the games or selling TC products.

Good luck!

Selling online: where I get most of my commissions from

I've been on vacation for a while, but now I am back on track and thought I would find out and write a post on how I earn my commissions. I have been doing this for almost a year now and I have tried out all the different ways of earning money with SFI and here is how I get most of my earnings (and believe me, it is not as all as I expected :)):

1. The TripleClicks Executive Pool, strange enough. This I only receive in those months that I make Team Leader, which again is coupled to how many VPs I have made, which is coupled to all activities that I do at SFI. The amount of VPs I have determines how much I earn of this pool. Since I have a standing order (SO) which automatically makes me EA I earn 1500 VP at least and then about 360 from doing my dailies; if I decide to make Bronze Team Leader (for various perks such as extra CSAs added to my team) I often buy traffic to this blog and my website, so then I come up to 3000 VP a month. How much this amounts to in cash depends on the size of the pool and the number of VPs we altogether have as affiliates.



2. CSAs commissions; or indirect commissions. These come from activities/sales made by my CSAs (co-sponsored affiliates; I am not their main sponsor). Incredible that this is my second largest source of income.

3. Milestone Shares: this is a bonus program in which I receive extra shares from the TripleClicks Executive Pool coupled to the amount of VPs I earn. I only receive these when I make Team Leader. In order to make Team Leader in a month, I need to make 3000 VPs and sponsor at least 5 affiliates (I have about 400 so that is no problem).

4. Direct commissions: this is from sales at TripleClicks. As for income, this actually comes only in the 4th place! I do hope that I will be able to increase this though, by selling more. I am particularly keen on selling the PrivacyMaxx program, because of the commission volume and the chance that it will be a repeat order after 1/2/3 years.



I have had no income yet from:
- ECA referral, although I now have a number of PRMs (personally referred members) of which I hope some will become active ECAs. If they start selling, I start earning.
- PSA activity, meaning my direct sponsored affiliates; none of the 25 I have are active. These are therefore people that sign up thinking they have found a get-rich-quick scheme, look around a bit and then lose interest. If you plan on signing up, give it at least a year!
- The Pay per Action program; this means that you earn up to $10 if you can come up with signups that are active. However I have looked at the rules for this and decided I would rather keep them to myself if they are active, because that will potentially give me more income.

Best online selling sites: what is working for me (and what not) my top-7

I have tried most marketing methods for selling online and I have also talked with other affiliates who are successful at this. As you see I have become an Amazon affiliate (at a much later time then when I posted this blog) and am selling their products as well:



I am new at this so I can't say whether it will work but I have high hopes.

According to most affiliates:

1. ADVERTISING is the key. In order to make money you have to advertise at least one hour every day. Personally I have spent a full week advertising like crazy and had not a single response. But I might have been doing it wrong. So I bought, with my Member Reward Points, so not investing any cash, a list of 2000 free advertising websites and 250 Google communities. When I tried out the list, out of the first 250 only 12 were actually functional free advertising sites, and most of them were specific for India. However I have to take the time to go through the rest of the list. A list of real, functional free ad websites is worth quite a lot, don't you think? Now to find the time to sit down and really advertise - for that is what I must do and am not doing. Update June 3rd: I have now gone through 500 of the list and actually advertised on 6 sites. What can you advertise for? For new affiliates and people who want to sell online. But also TripleClicks products. Literally anything. Books, gardening items, jewelry, fitness things, handbags, watches, kitchen utensils.   Example:

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2. BUYING TRAFFIC. This works for me. I have invested $12 in a couple of thousand visitors, and the first 500 have already arrived the week I published this. My SFI blog now has more than 3000 pageviews, up from 100+. Better yet, I am receiving signups out of these: affiliates and PRMs. So this works. I am certainly going to do this again. Update April 17th, 2017: definitely the best go. Works fantastically for me. I have just this month added around 50 PSAs and 25 PRMs to my list.

3. BLOGGING. This blog and 2 others I have (topcat2015.blogspot.se and topcat66blog@wordpress.com) attract visitors and now and then a signup. The important thing is to have regular new good content, which is not always easy. I feel I have to tell the truth about how things are going for me and then it will attract people. It seems to work. This blog generates the most signups so far. I also have a website topcat.sfiprofitsnetwork.com which attracts some visitors by itself and I sometimes buy traffic for it.

4. PERSONAL RECRUITING. I have gone to the local government job market and grabbed everyone who came out, started a talk with them about online marketing and working from home. I have gotten a couple of PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates, the people that fall under you in your team) that way. Unfortunately none of them has remained active because this is not a Get Rich Quick Scheme, which is what they were looking for; or maybe they just wanted a regular job.

5. FACEBOOK and other social media. According to most affiliates this works best. Not for me, but then, I am not at all adept at social media. I never post on FB except with SFI promotion. Same for Twitter. On LinkedIn I have put links to my blogs on my profile. I have no others. I have gotten some visitors to my blogs out of it, though.

6. APPROACHING PROSPECT ECAs. Personally stepping into a business and convincing people that they can sell online is something I sincerely believe must work. However I have not been lucky at it. I have approached the Chamber of Commerce in my home country and the Association for Small Businesses where I used to be secretary. They thought it was a marvelous idea for their members, but I have not had a single signup after that. I am pretty sure that the key problem here is follow-up; although I have emailed them once afterwards, research shows that people have to be exposed to a good offer 7 times on the average before they make the decision. Here is where autoresponders come in. I haven't quite figured it out yet, how to make that work, but they basically send the e-mails for you automatically. You do have to write them, of course, but only once.
I also visited about 35 businesses and had a few who were interested, but again, no signups. I did not follow up here either. It is on my To-Do list.


7. DUPLICATION. Apart from personally recruiting affiliates you can also buy them or earn them or win them in auctions-last week I won 25 PSAs for just $0.36 and 4 bids. My sponsor put me under her S-Coop Builder (an advertising scheme) and I generally receive a couple of PSAs a month from that. I also lose a couple of PSAs/CSAs every month due to inactivity (no great loss there, they are only clogging up my list). My team is growing steadily; I now have 96 PSAs and 140 CSAs. Currently, 1 PSA is active and 8 CSAs. Last month I received commission on my CSAs for the first time. So that is also working, albeit slowly.

Earn money working from home: other websites that DO work for you (other than SFI)

Right now I have my focus on SFI as you can clearly see from this blog. I believe it is going to make me a nice lifelong income. Right now I am earning some money with it, but not big money. I believe that in order to build up an honest business you usually have to invest a lot of time and effort in it. I have had my own business built up from scratch before, and that is the honest truth for most of us normal people. There are some lucky souls (or maybe they are just so incredibly good) that skyrocket immediately with their newfound businesses, and all luck to them. For most of us it takes longer.



However, before joining SFI I have tried out other businesses, and although I tried two systems that were kind of built up in the same way, as in focusing on both selling products and building up a team under you that does the same, they did not work for me. One of these was a Greens liquid thing in which you had to buy like $120 every month in "healthy" products yourself and try to find other people under you to do the same (with a large upfront investment of I think around $1200 at the time), and the other one was ItWorks! Wraps. I know there are people out there making lots of money with it, but I lost a lot of money with it and the wonderful wraps never worked on me or any other test subject so I am still stuck with like a dozen of them, and to keep up your distributorship you need to invest quite a lot in the beginning for the Newbie Package and then for the maintenance of your website and distributorship it was also a lot of money every month which you have to compensate with sales (which I never did).

Then there is Wealthy Affiliate, which I just recently joined and which is something which will take time to build up, so I can't say much about it yet but I am very positive that it will work.
But there are two websites out there that actually did work in a way, and are still providing me with job opportunities. One is completely free and is actually a social media: LinkedIn. I have had several job opportunities via my contacts. I keep this one "holy" and only for serious stuff. It is only today that I have added two of my blogs to my profile (my Health & Fitness blog: topcat2015.blogspot.se and my travel blog: topcat66blog.wordpress.com). 

The other one is a paid one but it is for once worth its pay and it is called People Per Hour. (peopleperhour.com) If you are able to freelance in absolutely anything, DO pay the one-time fee, I think it was $29, and you will actually have job offers all the time. They are also quite serious about feedback and status in the sense of how good you have performed for customers. Via them, I found a company that I do freelance translations for and we have a long-standing relationship of at least 5 years now in which I have translated hundreds of documents for them. And they pay promptly on the 1st of each month. I still get offered either long-time or one-time translation work from other companies on my email via this site though I have not even visited it in 3 years. Since I am working full-time at the moment I cannot take these but it is telling that they regularly ask. There is another (paid) website called freelancer.com, which also works like this, but they take in general much lower rates for everything. 

There is another site called FiveRR, where people offer their (oftenonline) skills for sale for $5, which I have not visited yet but I have heard really good things about it. There are reviews and rankings of the persons offering their skills. I don't think you  need to pay to join. If you are able to provide, for instance, "likes" to somebody's Facebook site, or visitors, or are able to answer for a small company's Facebook site (post likes and so on) you might be in business. 

I have just joined a site called Paidsocialmediajobs where you apparently can obtain jobs like that, both regular jobs and one-time projects. I have not had the time yet to truly look at it but I will certainly post an update here when I have or when I have found something else that works. There are lots of yous out there that, like me, are looking for opportunities to make money and I think we should help each other when we can. 

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How to be successful making money online: product reviews

One of the ways in which you can make online marketing work for you is by posting product reviews. People will actually rather read a review than an ad, because you know that the ad is promotion whereas the review hopefully is for real. I visit the Forum at SFI every day and the people who really are earning money tell us that one of the best ways of getting products sold is actually buying them and writing a review. Want to try it out? Ask me about a FREE $12 Gift Certificate which you can redeem at TripleClicks and use to buy any product you want!


I did that. I have a health & fitness blog and I have a product review on it about a sciatica acupressure pad, and it is actually visited regularly. No one has bought it yet, but then my review was honest-not very positive.



If I now come up with a review which is very positive, people will be more likely to believe me. So I try to find products that I can honestly be enthusiastic about. I am currently testing out some products that I hope will really work, such as a slimming cream (I do not need to lose weight but I have this stubborn jelly belly).

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The point is: it works! People DO read reviews! I am absolutely planning to write more product reviews. You can also post product reviews on forums and other websites or leave it as a comment on Youtube or whatever, there are many ways you can use this as a "sneaky ad".


However, I have one very strong recommendation: write a serious and honest product review. An ad trying to pose as a review will have that "fake smell" and you will not make any sales from it. An ad is an ad and should say that it is an ad. A product review is an entirely different matter. Of course you can be very positive about a product, but then you have to really think it is a good product. You don't even have to write your own review if you haven't bought the product: find some honest reviews on the net and use these with proper sourcing. Add your own conclusion based on the reviews you found. It is less enticing than a review from a person that actually uses the product, though. I mean, you want somebody to buy something you are not buying yourself......hmmmm.

There are even companies that send well-known popular bloggers free products in the hope that they will write a review about it. Who knows, you might become one of them!

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How to be successful in making money online at SFI: winning and selling penny auctions

One of the great ways in which you can make money at SFI is the incredible Pricebenders auctions. Here you can win brand products at just a fraction of the retail price. Consider the following just updated winners:

But this is not the best thing about penny auctions. It is easy to get hooked on them, and that is where the real money is. Get other people interested in these auctions and before you know it they'll be buying packs of TCredits for their bidding. TCredits are TripleClicks products. And while they (hopefully) are happy winning their iPads and CuisinArt and Galaxys you are happy with your monthly commission! 

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I have won several auctions myself, and for being so nice as to read my blog, I will give you my tips for winning: 

1. For the first few months do not bid. Just observe the auctions, get a feel for how they go and check the winners and winning prices at the Pick the Price page (you can click on the History of each product and see whom has won what when and for which price and even duration of the auction). Some times of day there are not so many people online. Other parts of the day are very busy. Depending on which time zone you are in, find out where the non-busy pockets of times are. 

2. This will also give you the opportunity to collect a lot of TCredits (assuming you have set up a Standing Order for TCredits to retain your Executive Affiliate status. In the beginning I would limit myself to, say, 10 TCredits a day to be spent on bidding. Often you have no chance then. There is a group of people who do nothing else than bidding and they might be willing to spend hundreds of TCredits (which they have, because they win them) to win that particular auction. 

3. Check how the auction is going. As said above, sometimes a particular person is set on winning no matter what the cost, and aggressively outbids anyone. If this is the case it is better left alone, because it may cost you a lot of TCredits without a return on your investment. If the bidders constantly vary you have way more chance. 

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4. Personally (and I know others do this) I wait until the clock is at 5 seconds before bidding. I know it just resets the clock, but any other person also intending to bid will probably have done so by then (and reset the clock). If you are running very low on TCredits or on time you might decide to let it pass and see if anyone else will bid at the last second, but I have lost several auctions in this way, because the others did the same. So now, I select the particular auction that I want, observe if there is no "agressive buck" sitting on it, and then I prepare to just keep on bidding at 5 seconds until I win. 

5. The auction clock goes faster and faster with more bidding. Personally I only bid on an auction in the beginning, unless I am just doing it for the points without intending to bid seriously. I suppose other people do the same, otherwise the auctions would never get started :)

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AUSTRALIA

Rules of success # 10: how to earn money online at SFI: some will, some won't. Next!

In any business which (partly) depends on other people to do things for you, you will find that some will, some won't. It is a fact of life at SFI that as soon as you start acquiring team members you will find that many of them never even become active, some will be active for a short while and then give up and only a very few actually stay active. These are the gems, for these are the ones that will be successful. It is also a fact of life that you never can win if you give up.



So it is understandable that many people feel discouraged when they finally have a large team but only a few are doing anything. However, as said before: work with the workers. Give recognition and help to those who are achieving. They are the ones who are building up their business, and thereby helping you build up your business in turn. 

Also it happens that someone who has been inactive suddenly becomes active. But this depends on you. It is important that you keep sending emails with important changes and weekly newsletters. Something may be in these that motivates inactive team members to get interested and start working. It may be a contest that you are offering or a reward such as a gift certificate. They may just have had a very busy period in their life. Who knows? Keep on targeting them, someday they may suddenly see the potential.

Have you given a thought to recruiting affiliates in your friends and family? When you are just beginning you might not want to get friends involved in something that you are not sure of. But it is much easier to guide and help someone who is close to you and make sure that they do not give up than it is with a stranger. Right? 



I have recruited affiliates by going to the local job center. Most people who come there are looking for a way to earn money by looking for a job. They may not be aware of the possibility of starting their own business, certainly not online. But I have recruited quite a number in this way. 

Either way, if someone does not see the potential and gives up there is not much you can do about it. As they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. As in all things: never give up, continue building your team and you will find those gems eventually. 

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SFI

I am so happy I found SFI. I've met a lot of different people with great ideas. SFI also helps you learn step-by-step how to run your own business. I greatly appreciate SFI."
 N. Franklin, Nigeria

"I am so happy I found SFI. I've met a lot of different people with great ideas. SFI also helps you learn step-by-step how to run your own business. I greatly appreciate SFI."
 N. Franklin, Nigeria

Rules of success #9: how to earn money working online at SFI: positive attitude

Anyone who has ever become successful has had to deal with his or her share of negative thinkers, people who say: you can't do it, it is impossible, you will never manage, do something else instead....
I know from experience, because I have had my own business before, and although many of my friends and family supported me, there are always those that don't believe you can do it. Imagine if you really want to grow big, how much negativity you will encounter. By the way, my business grew by 30-50% each year until I sold it.


Well, beware of that attitude. Shake it off and just go ahead and succeed. Never let someone else's negative attitude stop YOU from growing. Just show them that you CAN. You know what they say: whether you say you can or you cannot, it is true.

Whereas I think I am doing ok and growing, I just noticed someone who started in the exact same month as I did, however he is obviously  much more successful than I am, always being in the top of the enrollment list and now having 25 active PSAs. No idea how much he is earning, but it must be a lot more than me. Am I jealous? A little. Am I discouraged? On the contrary. I am trying to contact him to find out how he does it. Maybe he won't tell me, but it means it is possible to do much better than I am currently doing. And that is a positive thing, because I am not doing badly.

Remember that if you expect nothing to happen, nothing will..... if you expect success, you are halfway there. Always think positive and be thankful for the good things you already have.

What others are saying about SFI

SFI is by far the best online business experience I have had. I have in the past spent too much time on "useless" stuff like playing games and watching movies, but now I commit my time to SFI and will do so for months to come to build a great team. This week I got my first BTL in my downline, and my plan is to have 100 PSAs before end of year. Thanks you SFI for this great opportunity.
M. Germer

"Bravo, SFI! I'm a success-conscious Nigerian who is now an instant leader and on my way to financial independence after embracing SFI marketing and its residual-income earning program. SFI possesses awesome, well-organized, and managed structure that produces the best ever imagined fortune for a committed affiliate in record time. "
K. Sarumi
NIGERIA

Rules of success #8: how to earn money online at SFI: don't quit and Aim high, think BIG

It is unfotunately true that many people sign up for a program to make money and then quit as soon as they see it is not a Get-Rich-Scheme. But the only way to fail at any program is by giving up. Building up a business costs time and effort. And yes, all those ads out there that promise you'll earn so much in just days, one after the other prove to be nonsense. Especially programs that tell you how much you are going to make (in only...) are totally untrustworthy, because the only one that can determine how much you are going to earn is you. 

I have said it in other posts: SFI is different from other affiliate programs. SFI does not start out by asking you to invest money and promising you loads of income, which never materializes. SFI gives you the tools and the means to build up your own business. But you need persistence and perseverance. Any program that promises you loads of money in a short while is bogus. You have got to be honest. Nobody ever got rich sitting on their butts....except maybe a few lucky bastards who inherited the money their parents or grandparents sweated and worked for to earn. 
Don't quit. Quitters never win, and winners are the ones who never quit. Don't know who said that but it is so true. 

What others are saying about SFI

I've been looking for some ways to make money and the opportunity to become self-employed. Then, I found SFI, which was exactly what I had been looking for. SFI has all the resources, products, support, and daily motivations to build a very successful and profitable home-based business. Thanks SFI!
A. Onwujiobi 

Aim high and think BIG. This is the SFI slogan. No one ever shrunk their way to greatness. Every single person who has gotten rich believed that they would be rich. Do not let small wishes get into your way. You have got to believe that you can really be successful. 
Think or what you really want to achieve in life. Write it down, print it out and hang it in front of your computer. Even better; find a picture of what you want and hang that in your office. Tell your mind that that is what you want to have and it will provide it for you. But you can't be sitting on your butt waiting, you have to DO something. Take one action every day to build your business and be prepared to give it at least a year. If you do not want to invest money, invest time and effort. Sooner or later it's going to pay off. And remember, once you do start earning money we are talking about residual income........basically income you will earn passively without much work for the rest of your life. 

Rules of success # 7: how to earn money online at SFI: send praise down and criticism up!

Once you have started at SFI you will soon be getting team members under you. This is a really positive thing because you can increase your earnings enormously by duplication: earning commission on affiliates who buy TCredits, for instance, and earning matching VPs for what they earn. Not to mention that they may be much better at selling TripleClicks products than you are, on which you also will receive commission, Basically, if they are successful, you are. So encouraging them is of the utmost importance.



It is a fact however that of most team members that you will get, most of them are not going to be active. Therefore it is very important that you stimulate those who are! Praise them, send e-cards, send motivating and inspirational weekly e-mails, and answer IMMEDIATELY if they have any question.



One of the big helps that I have found for new, working affiliates is that you can give them up to 10 Tcredits as a reward for being active. This will allow them to do some bidding

or play some games. Once they are a bit further down the line, know their way around SFI, and feel comfortable with having a team you can reassign some affiliates of your own to under them. Both of these actions you can do under your Genealogy tab, where you have an overview of all your team members. Today I have 151 team members of which 1 PSA and 4 CSAs are currently active. (I literally mean today, because I regularly get new team  members in different ways). I remain in close contact with them and try to help them with everything.



My upline has been enormously stimulating, both with concrete help and advice, rewarding me TCredits, reassigning affiliates to me and I even got a gift certificate which I used to buy more team members. I have also gotten a free website that I am now building up (besides this blog). I try to do the same for those team members that are active. Hower, never give up: keep on sending emails and e-cards to the inactives, for sometimes they suddenly become active.

If you have criticism send it to the SFI corporation. In my experience both Support and Gery generally answer any question fast and honestly. Venting criticism to your downline is a very bad idea because it is discouraging. Also on the Forum. Remember, I have said it in every single one of my posts: SFI is no get-rich-quick scheme and you should treat it as your own business, which it actually is. Making money will cost time and effort. Sending discouraging remarks to other people is therefore not stimulating. However, suggestions for improvement are always welcome.



WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT sfi
"I spent almost a year looking for the right opportunity. Then, I found out about SFI. My search was over. SFI had everything I was looking for--quality products, training, a support system, and a genuine opportunity. Thanks to SFI, I have achieved one of my major life goals: to own my own business."
J. Trotsky
MN, USA

Rules of success #5: How to earn money online at SFI: goal-setting and planning

95% of all people never take the time to set goals. Why? Takes too much time. Guess who the other 5% are? The successful ones. Succesful people set goals and they make sure they reach them. One of the most powerful tools is actually to set goals. Studies show that students that set goals for themselves generally end up in the top percent of their class.

If you think of the people that you know are succesful you will probably come up with the following adjective:

Purposeful (EN). Målmedveten (SW). Doelbewust (NL). Util (SP). In the other languages that I speak it is a word that creates a direction. You set a goal and that means you are moving in that direction, one step at a time. Very powerful: once you have set a goal, print it out and hang it somewhere you can see it every day. Sounds childish, but it really works, it has been proven scientifically. You can also read it aloud to yourself. For this to work though, you have to formulate it as something you have already accomplished. Not as something you wish, not as something you are someday going to obtain. "I am earning $1000 a month in December 2018." Not "I am going to be rich someday."



One of my favorite tabs in the SFI website is exactly that Goals tab. In order to earn the day's point, you have to record what you actually did today (or are planning to do) in order to reach your goals. This always sets me to thinking what I am actually DOING towards obtaining my goals. And what is it I actually want out of life? I know. I want to be rich, not famous. I want to be doing things I like in order to get rich. And most of all I want to be happy and healthy. OK. So far so good. Now I have to think what I am actually going to DO to reach all that. Because if I don't think my life is that good right now, I have to start doing something about it...life is never going to do it for me!


This gets me to the second important point. Planning. You have to have a plan. A plan is a series of connected actions that will lead you to a predestined goal. If you want to be succesful in online marketing you have to approach it as you would any business. You have to make a business plan. It may be quite rudimentary at first, just the skeleton, and you "flesh it out" as you go along. You may change it as you find out what works and what does not. But if you do not make any kind of planning you are probably not likely to succeed.

The first part, the goal-setting, is made easy for you at SFI, because you have to set/review your monthly goals and then record your daily actions to reach your goals. The planning part however is entirely yours. What are you good at? Are you a person with a large social network? Then trying to recruit other affiliates and selling TripleClicks products via your network might be the first item in your planning. If you are not so good in social networking but good at the internet, online advertising might be your thing. I myself have a good business network from my earlier own company. So my main thing is approaching small companies to sell via the TripleClicks website. It takes more time and patience than recruiting affiliates, but it is rewarding since any E-Commerce Associate that is actually selling will give me income for the rest of my life.



That is what residual income is about. Generating income that will just last and last into the future. It takes time and effort to set up, but it will pay off in the end.

I would advise to try all the six methods of earning money and seeing what fits your personality best. The most important thing is you have to see this as a serious business. Take the first 6-12 months as your training period. Things will start happening but you have to work at it every day, just like in every other serious business. Those people that are earning a good income at SFI have not gotten there overnight. All of them have set goals and have planned how to obtain those goals. Then, they have actually gone out and done the things they put in their planning. Very few people earn serious money without setting goals and without planning how to reach them.



What others are saying about SFI

"I am so HAPPY I found SFI! I've tried every program out there. SFI is the only one that has given me what I was looking for. SFI delivers. If you're looking for a way to create residual income for your family, DO IT TODAY! SFI is fun and the most cost effective home- based business out there. They do what they say they will do."
D. Smith
SC, USA

Rules of succes #4: how to earn money online at SFI: leaders are readers

Leaders are readers!

One thing is for sure: the people who have been successful at online marketing are all people who have read a lot. 


Unlike many other marketing businesses that are offered online, SFI offers a plethora of reading and training material, and most of it is entirely FREE! My personal advice to all my new affiliates is (and this is good advice which I got from my own sponsor when I started: it is all too much to take in at once. So give yourself a month to just LEARN. READ. A whole  month? Really? Yep. You don't need a whole month, probably, depending on how quick you are at grasping things. But it does take some time. And there is much reading material available. 



Yet the whole idea is and remains simple, as is explained in something called the SFI Basics that you will always be able to access from anywhere on the website. It is about selling products from TripleClicks and building a team that is doing the same and that generates income for you. All the rest of it, the games, the auctions and so on, are just frill. But there is so much frill and a lot of it is interesting and exciting. 

There is something called the Launchpad, this is 30 daily lessons which you get sent as a new affiliate. The best thing to do as a new affiliate is to read these Launchpads (you even get points for it!) and work off your To-Do list. Slowly you will get the hang of it. 

Then comes the period that you will actually want things to start happening. Unless you are already a very experienced online marketeer you will not see much happening overnight. So many affiliates get disappointed and leave. But if you give up you will never succeed at anything. There are people making lots of money at SFI but none of them have made it overnight. They have stayed and worked and read! There is a Forum which is immensely useful, for every question I have ever come up with is already answered there. Then there is the ASK SC feature where you can submit and answer questions. I have had so many useful and practical tips there.

The main thing is: never stop reading. Never stop asking questions. Never intend to fail. Instead, intend to succeed. 

Besides all the available free reading material there is lots of useful material being sold at TripleClicks at very low cost, such as:

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You can actually buy a lot of these products, once you are a little bit active on the website, with Member Reward Points which you automatically accumulate with many actions that you do. I have, for instance, bought a list of 2000 websites for free advertising and a list of 250 Google communities, just using these MRPs, so it didn't cost me any cash. If you want to see them click here. 

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What others are saying about SFI

Each day I wake up and sign in to SFI, I feel grateful that I have finally found the right organization. I have been with several other opportunities in the past and none can compare to SFI. With SFI, it's all there for me. Everything I need to be successful is there--all the support I need is there. I am thankful for this organization.
S. Wright 

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