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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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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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 #6; how to make money online at SFI: winning starts with beginning and FOCUS

In this series of posts about the rules of success in online marketing I am focusing on getting started and FOCUS.


The only way you will ever be successful at anything is by starting. If you don't get started nothing will happen. So do not put off things. One of the great things about working from home is that you are free to decide when to work. The danger is that this freedom leads you to doing nothing...or other things than making your business thrive. For it is YOUR business. I am talking about online marketing/affiliate programmes, particularly SFI because that is the first one that worked for me. But it takes some time and effort.

Personal experience: in the first month at SFI, I did my training and reading. There is lots of free training stuff at SFI. After a month I wondered why nothing was happening. I was logging in and making my VP points and that was it. Finally I realized that in order for stomething to start happening I needed to start DOING something. There is only actually one way to earn money and that is by SELLING something, goods or services. If you aren't good at selling, you can build up a team that does it for you. That is the simple basics of SFI and many other online marketing programmes. The different thing about SFI is that there is so much more material and training available, (for free) and that there are many ways in which SFI provides free help, and that you are never required to invest in anything (I currently have an affiliate that is not investing a cent because she cannot, and is still building up her business, albeit slowly).

But the plain simple thing remains that you got to get started. Start advertising. Start approaching small businesses that might be interested in selling online. Start putting up flyers at your local supermarket, your gym. Whatever you can think of doing, start doing it! Don't wait for anybody else to do it for you!







 Another thing that makes people succesful is FOCUS. Anybody who has ever become rich has beeen a person focused on getting there (unless you have the fantastic luck to be born rich), so do not let yourself get distracted by other stuff. Be always on the lookout for opportunities to go forward. Make plans. If they don't work adapt them or make new plans. WORK. But work with focus, not randomly. This means having realistic goals, putting them up somewhere where you can see them, and work every day to achieve them. Take little steps rather than big ones, at least until you can see where you're going. In my experience it takes hard work and especially perseverance to get what you want. Remember: those who quit won't win, and winners are the ones who never quit. (I don't know whose quote this is, but it's a winner!

One of the main problems with new affiliates is that they are looking for a get-rich-quick scheme. While I do not believe in those at all, SFI certainly is not one of those. It is simply a matter of building up your own business, and that takes time and effort. So I am not making any unrealistic promises. I am not saying that you will earn so much in a week. Some may, but most won't. For most it takes at least some months before you start earning any money. But that is better than most self-starters manage... we always hear about the success stories, but the truth is that 80% of all new started businesses have disappeared after 5 years. It is only a few that survive.....because they persist. And build. And work. And dream. And succeed!

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SFI
"I have just started SFI, and I couldn't believe my eyes. This week, I have had almost 60 people sign up and generated five sales. Just sign up at SFI. It is the best [opportunity] I have seen on the Internet."
J. Pelt
GERMANY

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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The Best of the Best: Secrets of the Network Marketing Masters Revealed (2 Audio Cassettes)— €0.44 (Save 97%!)

Secrets of the network marketing masters revealed--in less than 90 minutes! This two-cassette program from Cutting Edge Media will share the secrets that have earned them millions. You'll learn how to recruit, train, and motivate hundreds of new distributors from four of the best trainers in the industry: * Bob Rountree * Jack Zufelt *...

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. 

I have recently started up a new project: Wealthy Affiliate. I am very optimistic but just now it is too early to say anything. It is a basically free program with a Premium upgrade possibility like most websites. 

One of these websites has actually tripled/quadrupled the number of pageviews on both of my blogs: Funguppy

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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Rules of success #3: how to be successful earning money online at SFI:unlocking your potential

I would at this point like to quote from something SFI founder Gery Carson wrote, because it is entirely true:

"Now, for those who might be thinking, "well, that's easy for you to say, Gery!"…the fact is, I've achieved what most people would say is extraordinary success, but it was not handed to me, not by any stretch. I come from a very small Nebraska town and very humble beginnings. When I started in business I had no business education, no experience, and no money to invest. And it took four long years (the first two moonlighting into the wee hours of the night while holding down a full-time job), before I ever saw a profit. I had no mentors, no great upline leaders or sponsors to guide me, nor any wealthy relatives to come to my aid. But I decided I was going to become successful and I did. And I've put in the work every day for nearly 25 years now to stay successful.

So...it's not your sponsor. It's not your upline. It's not the economy. It's not the government. It's not the compensation plan. It's not any of these things or any other obstacles perceived to be in your way. If you want to become successful, you can go around the obstacles, go over, go under, or go right through them. Success is yours if you want it, but ONLY YOU control this. Always remember: "If it's to be, it's up to me."

This rule is: It's up to YOU. No one else. If you are to succeed, it is going to be YOU who does it. There are very few people who are born rich and only need to keep their family's money (or spend it). Stop finding excuses. It is YOU who is going to succeed because YOU want it. Contrary to what many people think, success is not about being lucky. Success is usually about working hard. Yes, it is easier for those who have started out with some money. But many people who have become rich, have done it from scratch----it is not impossible. You are never going to get really rich by remaining in your steady job. You can only do it by starting your own business. Which is precisely what you are doing when you are starting at SFI. You only have to realize it. 

If you are going to sit down and wait for someone to go and turn your life into a success story..... well good luck with that. I hope you find someone. I, for one, am not sitting down and waiting for anyone.....I am up and running! 

What others are saying about SFI

SFI is more than a MLM (multi-level marketing) platform. Every day, I visit the site, read all articles, perform all due tasks and watch my VPs grow. It is so organised! It has changed my online business. I love it!
G. Ojerheghan 

Earn money by working from home: how to be succesful at SFI #2: lead by example and work with the workers

As said in my earlier post, in order to make online marketing at SFI work for you you have to stick to the Rules for Success. Today I am going to talk about two more important rules to make this work, and how I apply these rules.


Lead by example. One of the most important ways of making an income at SFI is by duplication, that is by creating a team of affiliates under you that do the same as you do: trying to make money. If they are successful you will earn from them. However, you cannot expect them to be active if you are not; you cannot expect them to persevere when you don't; and you cannot expect them to be interested in building their business when you are not.

When they look at your page they should be impressed by all the badges that you have, the number of VersaPoints you have, the times you have won a game or an auction or the Daily Grand or anything else. I have a TopAuthor badge on my page and 3-time winner of the Knockout Trivia (AND then to think that I normally never take the time to play, I am too busy!) and 3-time winner of the Daily Grand (I ALWAYS participate every day as well as in the T-Time and have won several times, this means you win either VersaPoints, Member Reward Points, TCredits or even PSAs or CSAs (your valuable team!)). In other words my badges show my team that I am active and interested and do anything I can to build up my business. (I am otherwise not interested in the badges themselves).

Work with the workers. It is a sad fact that many people sign up and then either never bother with the website again or make a number of VPs and then give up. Those people are no use. Put your effort in those that do believe in this business and that go on even if it goes slowly in the beginning. Answer all their questions, support them with your knowledge, reward them when they do well. I myself have a great upline that has rewarded me with TCredits, CSAs, PSAs and even money, always answers all my questions, and helps me with things such as how to start a blog and a website. I do not need them to motivate me, but it does make my mood better when I get appreciated.



One of the main things to get across to affiliates when they start is that this is a serious business and that they need to treat it as such. I have had my own company before and it takes on average a couple of years before you reach the break-even point. In this business you can potentially reach it in a couple of months. Furthermore SFI provides you with TONS of free training and free marketing methods and marketing aids. Where else do you get that? Most online businesses start with getting money out of you. You do not need to do that at SFI. If you have very little budget and you are just willing to put in time and effort you can succeed. Where else can you do that? SFI now even has a new CSA reward program where you get allocated new CSAs for being active and doing actions. I think it is the greatest thing, because you need to have a growing team. Sooner or later you get active affiliates under you and then you notice that things start moving. Especially when they start getting affiliates under them....

In practice I communicate individually with the workers on my team (you can spot these easily either under your Genealogy tab where you can set the sorting system to the total points the affiliates have, or their latest login date or the TC commissions they have generated) or on the Movers tab, where you only see the active ones) by email or Skype, and I still send a general teammail every Monday to the whole team even if they have not ever generated a VersaPoint. This is because sometimes affiliates suddenly become active after a while, and sometimes it is the promise of a reward or a contest that makes them "wake up". The sponsor of my sponsor had one that became active after more than a year because she offered a free website (and when she told me this, I also got offered a free website, which is now up and running, check it out here). I have started now at site called Wealthy Affiliate.

What others are saying about SFI

SFI is giving me the chance to learn and understand Internet marketing and obtain financial freedom for free. I looked at many other Websites promising financial freedom, but none were free and most were outrageously expensive. I am so glad I found SFI. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good Internet business to get involved with, because SFI is the most solid system I have ever seen. Highly recommended! Excellent business opportunity for all to discover! Thank you, SFI, for this great opportunity!
M. Ranha 

How to earn money at SFI: the rules of success: this is serious business

Success does not come automatically. There are rules for it. 
How can you be succesful at internet marketing? There are a number of rules for that. Underneath I am giving you two of them. 



The first rule is that you need to think of your business as a serious business. If you opened up a store, would you expect it to sell stuff if you don't open it and are running it and restocking and advertising and selling? Of course not. The same applies to SFI. Many affiliates who sign up think this is another Get Rich Quick scheme and treat it as such. If then after a couple of days they have logged in and are not yet starting to make any money they give up. But SFI is not another such scheme. It is a serious business and you need to treat it as such. Meaning you need to invest at least time and effort to make it work. SFI does not require you to invest money, and I know people who make it work without any investment, but seriously, at least a pack of business cards makes you look more professional when you approach people. You do not need to invest a lot of money, but if you are able to invest some dollars a month it will pay off much sooner. 

I myself have a standing order for TCredits which automatically makes me keep my EA rank every month and which I can use for bidding on the Penny auctions, for playing the online games, for rewarding my hard-working affiliates and even to buy products at TripleClicks. This costs $29. Wouldn't you be willing to invest that much in a business which hopefully will allow you to quit your job in the future? 

The rule that I apply myself most strictly is: Do at least something everyday to promote your business. Quoted from SFI:

What can you do daily? Here are just a few ideas:

• Follow up with recent prospects. 
• Send out some E-Cards. 
• Place a classified or other type of ad. 
• Send out some postcards. 
• Review the LaunchPad Lessons. 

• Review the Internet Income course.

• Send out a newsletter to your PSAs and your CSAs.

• Read an SFI training article you haven't read yet (or review one you have).

• Contact your sponsor, let him or her know what you're doing.

• Go to Google and search for articles on how to become a better marketer.

• Browse TripleClicks for new products you can recommend to your customers.

• Check the SFI News and SFI Power Tips blogs. 
• Review your Genealogy and TC Member List. 

• Review the Hit Tracker page to maximize your marketing efforts.

• Start a co-op and invite your PSAs to join.

• Add some prospects to your ECA database. 
• Review your "My Movers" report (on your SFI homepage). 
• Review "My Goals" (on your SFI homepage). 
• Review the latest posts on the SFI Forum. 

With any business that you start, you would do at least something every day to promote it. SFI is no different. 

Unlike many online programmes where you have to buy the markering stuff, SFI has hundreds of FREE marketing aids that you can use to promote your business. Here is one of them:

Here is what other people are saying: Testimonials! Have a look, it is entirely FREE.

Another free affiliate website is Wealthy Affiliate where I have just started but which I find very promising.