Effective Ways to Communicate with Your Team

Reliable communication is essential in order to aid, overview and also coach you group as well as absence of it might cause a false impression of your message and also consequently not accomplishing its goal, due to the fact that the receivers could react as unplanned by you. I recognized some methods to communicate in an efficient tactic here:


1. Guarantee you send out mails that articulate the perks as opposed to merely investing, or else you might be considered as unscrupulous.

2. Be quite receptive to their inquiries and also worries by acting upon a regular and also prompt tactic, right away.

3. Be expert and also extremely courteous, and also manage them like your companions rather than your workers or employees.

4. Desist from pressing tough if your assistance is overlooked, or else your group could really feel excessive as well as disrespected disturbance or that you are high-handed.

5. Stay clear of appearing as well unfavorable in order not to demoralize your group. As opposed to stating; you will certainly not be successful in this company if you do not have a standing order' while not state 'standing order has a bunch of advantages like ...'.

6. Your communication needs to not lose track of commending achievers as well as motivating non achievers. Rather of stating 'you are not placing in initiative in your company' while not state 'I have observed you missed out on some activities just recently, is there anyhow I can be of aid?'.

7. We stress duplication, yet this does not suggest you must 'duplicate' your group since everybody is various and also there is no tactic they could be you, so take note of the various make up in your group as well as where required, utilize various communication designs correctly.

8. It might not be very easy yet attempt as long as feasible to utilize clear, succinct and also basic language, and also to prevent utilizing words or expressions that undergo false impression.

9. Listen or check out to your communication on your own and also presume you are the recipient in order to access the influence prior to you send it out.

And if that doesn't cut it try the following;

1. E-mails In SFI globe, communication using e-mail stays powerful. It will certainly allow you to pass messages to participants of your group without drawing them from their job terminals. 2. Usage Presentations Some folks comprehend messages conveniently when noises as well as photos are included. If they aren't clear concerning specific points, making use of discussions like Microsoft Power Point to communicate with your group will certainly offer them the possibility to refer back to it. You could ready your very own discussion concerning SFI/TripleClicks company that will certainly assist. 3. Usage Simple Words To be efficient in your interactions with your group participants, make use of words that could be conveniently comprehended. We have group participants from throughout the globe as well as this warrants use of easy words. 4. Stay clear of Unnecessary Repetition If you desire your group participants to take you significant, never ever seem like a damaged document as well as do not defeat a dead steed. Inform your group participants what you wish them to do or recognize as well as ask them if they are clear concerning it. 5. Urge Feedback It will certainly likewise manage you the advantage of recognizing if your message was well-recognized. It is comprehended, we have numerous non-active SFI members which do not trouble to inspect e-mail and also respond.

Doing Network Marketing for a Living

You can make a living by working as a network marketer. In order to earn a decent living as a network marketer, you must take the time to promote your products through every avenue possible. You do not necessarily have to stick with promoting to individuals online. You can take your business offline as well. Many network marketers place ads in their local newspaper letting others know what type of products they are selling.

When selling your products online, it is a good idea to have a Web page since you may be able to get customers when you are offline. In order to get customers when you are offline, you will need to have a good domain name that will automatically appear when the customer conducts an Internet search. You can make sure that the domain name that you are choosing is good by entering the keyword at a free keyword tool site. It will let you know how many searches are done daily and monthly.
When you work as a network marketer, you will be paid a commission. Many of the times when you join the network marketing company, they will send you information letting you know how much commission you can receive.

If they would be interested in becoming network marketers, ask your friends and family members. You can place an ad on a free classified ad site letting people know how they can join. Always place a link to your page, so that you will receive credit for referring them.
When it comes to how much time you put into the business, it is up to. Since you want to earn a living as a network marketer, you will need to work at least eight hours a day for five days. As you become more advanced, you can work less and still earn a living.

You can make a living by working as a network marketer. In order to earn a decent living as a network marketer, you must take the time to promote your products through every avenue possible. Many network marketers place ads in their local newspaper letting others know what type of products they are selling.

Since you want to earn a living as a network marketer, you will need to work at least eight hours a day for five days.

What to Focus On When Developing your SFI Business

If you think what is the best action to focus on to build my business the answer on that question is very much depends on you and your goals.I can tell you what is the best actions on what I focus my work. 
1. Build the team 
-with team my job gain stability and my earnings become real 
2. Promote job opportunity with SFI as much as can 
2.1 Promote TripleClicks store 
2.2 Promote Pricebenders auctions and Eager Zebra games 
2.3 Promote W3 
- all of this on number 2 is important for me because this is marketing 
business and we all need customers and customers need products and fun 
so I join this things together. 
3. Open my ECA store and contact another store owners to open their own ECA also as 
my prospects. 
This is my short list of most important actions what I see that is the best for me .Maybe somebody else has some different best actions and for you is good to read also that answer but the most best move is to talk with your sponsor or upline because he/she know what is really best for you because they are succeed and you're in that team. 
- No matter what action you do or who you are if you do it with clean heart,good will, open mind and dream in focus you'll succeed unless your action hurt somebody or somebody's job. 

Also;

The best actions to focus on, and may I add- when building a successful SFI business- is the SFI Basics, especially the Ultra Simple 3-step plan. 

“Focus your attention to your intention.” Anon 

We all joined SFI for different reasons. In order to achieve our goals and reasons for joining, we need to learn how to focus on the SFI Basics. 

What are they? 

1. Start earning money by accumulating VersaPoints. 
2. Increase your earnings by generating sales at TripleClicks.com 
3. Maximise your income with sponsoring and duplication. 
4. Add supplemental income streams (optional) 

Focus your attention to building a team- 

The Ultra-simple 3-step plan is the best action you can focus on- 
1. Become an EA and remain an EA every month. 
2. Recruit 5 Affiliates using the methods recommended in Marketing Center- Marketing Methods. 
3. Teach your 5 Affiliates to do the same 3-steps. 

Focus on accumulating VersaPoints- 

. Never miss a day doing your Daily-To-Do actions. 
. Never forget to do your Weekly actions. 
. Never forget to do your Monthly tasks, never put off setting up a Standing Order to make it easier to become EA and maintain it every month; always set your goals at the start of the month; and never, ever forget to submit your Ratings for your Sponsor/Co-Sponsor/SFI and miss out on earning 10 VP. 

In short, the best actions to focus on are: 

Focus on Sales for earning. 
Focus on Sponsoring for growing. 
Focus on Games for enjoyment and relaxation. 

Focusing on the above will make you healthy, wealthy, and wise. 

How can I increase my earnings with SFI?

You can do a few things. I always find it better to concentrate on your strong points while trying to improve your less strong points. 

1. If you are strong on sales - sell TripleClicks products. Advertise anywhere you 
can - that way you reach strangers and friends alike. Promote transfer buying with 
family and friends - Eg. Unless you have no hair you need shampoo - so why not buy 
it at Triple Clicks and have it delivered to you instead of going to a pharmacy or 
supermarket and standing in a line - and on top of it all - it is a Natural product 
Some of the products are unique and make unique gifts for the person that has it all 

2. If you are strong on recruiting - recruit new affiliates and guide and train them 
to be successful at SFI - remember - if they are making money, so are you. 
3. You can also earn once off payments by recruiting people for Pay-per-action but I 
would not suggest you do a lot of this as it has no long term future income 
potential. 
4. Teach your affiliates / downline to sell, recruit, play games etc and to become EA 
and team leaders - if they do this and they work it is to your advantage - just 
like your efforts and work is to the advantage of your upline. 
5. Look around you and de-clutter. If you did not use it in the last year you probably 
never will - so why let anything sit in your house or garage gathering dust and 
taking up space if you can list it on your T-connect page and sell it? 

Take a tour through SFI's page and have a look - you might find more interesting tips and training to do what you need to do - make money. 

Also you can;
There are several ways to increase your earnings in SFI. The first and obvious are purchases and sales from the TripleClicks store. If purchases are made by your PSAs, then you will earn 45% of the CV. If purchases are made by CSAs then you will earn 15% of the CV. This ads up to a nice sum of money at the end of the month. Even though your CSAs are only bringing you in 15% of the CV, this amount ads up if you have quite a few CSAs in your team. If you are a Team Leader you will receive second home CSAs which is a great boost to your downline team and therefore, to your income. It is a very good incentive to become a Team Leader. 

Many members underestimate just how valuable CSAs can be. I have almost 600 CSAs in my team of which 4% are quite active and another 4% are slowly becoming active. This certainly adds up when they make a purchase. 

As an aside, this is the beauty of having an SBuilder CoOp unit. Some of the incoming members through SBuilder are placed in your SFI team and some are placed in your TripleClicks member team. These TripleClicks members are your members for life so even if they make a purchase months down the track, you still reap the benefits including additional shares in the TripleClicks Executive Pool. If you are a Team Leader you can earn even more shares. 

Another way to increase your earnings is to refer ECAs. The ECA (ecommerce associate) program earns you royalties for life. This can add up to a huge 55% of CV on sales generated. 

Just get a notebook, go through each step slowly and methodically and make sure you have utilised every possible way of earning income. Check your details regularly. Remember to log in every day and attend to all of your daily tasks. Take every opportunity to gain both your sales/purchase VPs and your Action VPs. Now watch your income grow. 

How is SFI different or better than other affiliate programs?

First and foremost, SFI is free to join. You are under no obligation to pay anything. You have one on one personal traing and coaching from personal mentors, you are also provided free personal support & assistance from their forum. You are provided with all the information you need about SFI within it 
- It is a real company NOT an online MLM that you can enroll with and after a while will seize to exist and all your investments, struggle and effort get drained over night 
-It assures you of financial income in two ways: Residual - where you get to earn year after year and Leverage income where you earn through other people's efforts 
- You also have an online store where you have thousands of products to sell and purchase and at very reasonable prices. 
-It provides marketing aids and tools to make marketing simplified for you for you 
-Lots of businesses allow you to market in your own country and perhaps a few others countries, but only SFI, with its TripleClicks subdivisions puts you in over 190 countries and gives you instant access to a marketplace of BILLIONS of consumers. It gives you more than just access. 
-It's compensation plan is unbeaten and you earn in multiple ways 
- It keeps track of your daily progress as a business owner and teaches you to Maintainand keep in constant contact with your SFI Affiliates. 
- It provides you with the necessary training you need to succeed in your business while helping to increase your knowledge base with very educational programs 

Also;
Not all affiliate programs are created equal. There are millions of businesses out there offering deals and commission to affiliates. What makes SFI different or better than other affiliate programs? To find out what makes SFI unique, compare SFI to traditional affiliate programs. 

SFI versus Traditional Affiliate Programs: 

- SFI provides your own personalized website free with maintenance, while traditional affiliate programs may also offer the same but it may not come with extensive tools and resources as SFI to get you started fast. 

- SFI gives you the opportunity to create substantial income giving away free stuff but not with traditional affiliate programs. 

- You can market SFI in almost every country worldwide, which means make money everywhere, while traditional affiliate programs may not offer the same. 

- SFI provides support 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week, traditional affiliate programs may or may not offer the same. 

What should I be doing besides the daily actions on my "To Do List" to build a thriving SFI business?

Once you complete your daily tasks and maintain your Executive Affiliate status each month you can spend your time building a dynamic business and be on your way to success. This can be done in two ways: - 

Duplication 

Build a team of active affiliates through duplication. Advertise on free or paid sites as regularly as ysou can. Use your blog or website to promote SFI. Then teach your team members to do just as you do. Be supportive and maintain open communication. You can create a forum where your SFI team members can find and help one another...and you could help them all. You could even make a private forum for your SFI Team Members only. 

Duplication is the key to success in SFI therefore, you will want to ensure that you use your gateways wisely to draw traffic and have a flow of individuals who would sign up. Ensure that to write articles as fresh content will be invaluable. Make your articles interesting and be consistent in your delivery. 

Sales 

Improve your sales performance by purchasing as many items as possible at your TripleClicks store. Items that you use on a regular basis can be purchased via a standing order. Be aggressive in promoting products to your friends and as they become Personally Referred members build your monthly residual income by encouraging repeat purchases and highlighting interesting discounts. 

Share new products with them. Post interesting items on your blog or website to create interest. Always look for opportunities to generate sales. When you encourage others to buy you can create income for years to come. 

How do you turn affiliates' EMPLOYEE mentality...to a BUSINESS OWNER mentality?

As a Team Leader, I have set a goal to sponsor certain number of new affiliates every month. I have no idea about the background of my newly sign ups. I believe that the majority of them came into network marketing with an “employee mentality”. Understanding the “employee mentality” will give you an advantage on how to build a close relationship with them and turn them around to a “business owner mentality”. 

Identifying the employee mentality: 

- An individual who has been employee all his/her life will expect to be guided, trained, and told what to do and to be followed upon. 

- He/she looks for incentives from his/her sponsor/upline so he/she can get motivated to get things done. No incentive, nothing will be done. 

- If he/she has no contact from his/her sponsor/upline, he/she will most likely give up and quit. 

Identifying the business owner mentality: 

SFI has put into place a structure to educate new SFI affiliates. Beginning from SFI BASICS, Launchpad, Marketing, Power Tools and so on a new affiliate can avail of these invaluable resources for starting and growing his/her SFI business. In network marketing like SFI: 

- You are the boss, you set up your plans and goals for your SFI business and you direct yourself to implement your business strategy. 

- You are your own motivator 

- You are your own incentive system 
Knowing these two types of mentality in network marketing beforehand will help you tremendously in dealing with your affiliates, especially your new ones. 

Here’s how to turn your affiliates with an ‘employee mentality’ to a ‘business owner mentality’: 

- Emphasize to them in the firsthand that as SFI business owner, they should never depend on someone else’s leadership style, involvement, rank or connection to you. 

- They should take full responsibility for their training, motivating and promoting themselves. They should realize that when they rely on their own, any help from sponsor/upline is a bonus in growing their SFI business. As a result, they won’t be let down by those who sponsored them and then take off. 

- Communicate to them clearly as business owners; they are not dependent on what others can do for them, but what they can do for themselves. 

- Finally, encourage them to stand up strong and create their own vision. Don’t wait for someone to tell them what to do. 

Also, you can do the following;

Firstly, when advertising this opportunity, don’t refer to it as a job offer, but as a business opportunity. Prospects must know upfront that they are not applying for a job with a salary and set working hours and a boss, but for a an opportunity to own and manage their own business where they are their own boss and work wherever and whenever they want. You have that freedom, but also the responsibility. 

Secondly, when someone enroll, you as their sponsor, must send them a welcome message, where you explain how the business works and follow that up with more messages, emails, stream posts, newsletters, etc. where you teach them further how this business works. This business work by sponsoring PSA’s and duplication, that meaning teaching your PSA’s to do what you do. But bottom line is that this is a marketing business where you have to sell the business and the products at TripleClicks and teach your PSA’s to do the same. 

Thirdly, be an example. Do all the tasks expected of you as the owner of this business, get as much as possible VP and badges and teach your down-line to do the same. 

Affiliate Center, Getting Started & How to Succeed

Now for you to make money from SFI you have to spend some time and effort on it. As you may have realized, there is no such thing as "something for nothing" or vise-versa.

You have to learn the program, and start setting up your profile and goals, that is a must when you do online business. And just as you would do with an offline physical business, do visit your store/affiliate center daily. With SFI, collect the free versapoints reach Executive Affiliate (minimum of 1500) every month. As soon as you reach Executive Affiliate rank SFI will automatically assign CSAs in your downline, all you need to do to keep them is to maintain a minimum of 1500 versapoints every month. Now to Increase your earning potential, duplicate what you've been doing with more Affiliates, using your gateway link ( https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayList  ).

Here are some links about getting started, with SFI, visit the links below and you'll be guided accordingly;

https://www.sfimg.com/start

https://www.sfimg.com/LaunchPad/

 https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/MyReports/VPLedger

https://www.sfimg.com/Home?section=ToDo

http://startresidualincome.blogspot.com/2013/10/collecting-daily-versa-points.html

Here's a video on how to collect your daily free versa points; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIMqd9L3GU8

Your Affiliate Center is your online business center, visiting it every day is like tending to your business pretty much like you would in a physical business. You want to know how your business is doing or if you are on  track to reaching your goals.


And finally, taking the next paragraph into action will bring you success.

Patience, persistence, and a positive focus; I believe that these three qualities are an integral part of success in SFI. SFI, like any business, takes time and hard work in order to reap the benefits. Success is the result of staying positively focused on what can advance your business and following through with appropriate actions to advance your business. It is important to recognize that growth and subsequent success in SFI occurs for those individuals who are willing to invest both time and money into their business. It is important to persevere and to utilize set backs to learn and to propel your business forward. 

Simply put, you have to show up to work everyday and put in the time and effort to succeed. Your business can't and won't grow if you are not taking positive action on a regular basis. 

How do I get new, anxious-to-earn-NOW affiliates to understand that it takes time to develop a successful business?

First, be thankful that they are communicating with you. So many of our new affiliates never reach out to you to let you know what they are thinking, so you can't help them. 

You have to explain to them that this business is the real deal, it's not an overnight get rich sheme. Depending on how much time and investment they have for their new business will be a big factor in how quickly they are able to grow and earn. Have them read their LaunchPad lessons and recognize all the different ways to obtain a profit. Help them to understand that duplication will be the most important way to build a residual income, but they can also market the various items in TripleClicks to provide instantanious income. If they have high marketing skills, then they should focus hard on this income source while at the same time obtaining new affiliates. 

Advertise products and advertise to gain new affiliates. If they can afford to join co-op or win PSA's in auction or even purchasing PSA's to go. They can build their business relatively fast if they have the proper skills and/or money. If they don't then it's important to know that "Rome wasn't build overnight". 

They are in the right place, it's free, and it will happen. They have to give it time and work hard at it. Tell them you are here to help them in any way you can. Ask them to trust you, stick with it, do their part and they won't regret it. Wether it comes sooner or later, profits will come. 

Or here's another answer;

Help them to get their Fast Tracker Badge, plus attendant VPs, and earn those total 1500 for the first month. Then explain to them the need to slow down, only do dailies for balance of month, save some of the easy VPs for next month. This is first part of your action plan for NOW affiliates. 

Now is the hard part. It is important to make these new, anxious eager beavers understand the necessity - requirement - to go through all the learning steps (Basics, LaunchPad, "Training" tab, etc.) from SFI so they will learn how the system works. 

They need to learn about sponsoring, mentoring, advertising - all the skills they will need to lead a team. Help teach them about the awesome compensation they can earn, and to understand that it takes time to acquire active affiliates, help them learn what your new affiliate has learned. 

Show them testimonials about the quality of SFI program, and point out the start dates of many of our most successful TLs. TLs who are STILL here, creating successful teams, making residual income. 

All these things will help make your antsy new affiliates realize there is too much to learn and do to build their business for it to happen in the next month or two!! A good example to give them, actually, would be WalMart -- I remember when there were only a few stores around Arkansas, now it is a WorldWide business. That is the kind of business we, and our downlines, can create!! But we won't do it overnight, either.

And another answer;

To answer your question, I would direct my new affiliates to read and review the LaunchPad lessons, especially Day 6 - Central to your Success, and Day 11 - Overnight Success - NOT! 

Some new affiliates upon joining usually do and finish all the 30 lessons in one go, thereby earning themselves a 200 VP bonus and Fast Track Badge. Then they do the other tasks to earn points, and in the process have forgotten all the 30 lessons as they begin to struggle to understand what SFI is and how it works.

In addition, I would also draw attention to the importance of learning, reading and reviewing the SFI Basics, especially the 4 things one needs to do to succeed in SFI. I would emphasise the importance of duplication as the key to building a strong, profitable and successful SFI business, along with the promotion of TripleClicks programs and products for generating sales. 

As well, encourage them to read/review the SFI Rules of Success, for guidance and direction. Only when new affiliates are diligently reading/reviewing and putting into practice SFI Basics, the LaunchPad lessons and the SFI Rules of Success would they fully comprehend that developing a successful SFI business requires time, hard work, commitment. 

With care and understanding of your new affiliates' concern, you will give them hope, belief in their own ability, and reassurance that by learning and consistently applying what they have learned as soon as they possibly can, earning will follow. 

Does free advertising work for sponsoring affiliates?

1. Free advertising depends on what your advertising. To be truly effective in your FREE advertising campaigns you have to understand the resource, and its target market. Many people fail in the case of free advertising, because they do not take the time to understand how to target their market. Team member ads require different advertising resources, than Health products, and so on. You also have to understand the medium whether its social networks, blog posting, email marketing, and how to reach the right people. Your ad, will start targeting the right people, if you do the research first. Need signups, go where there are people looking for work. Need customers, go where there are groups of people that deal with the same issues..health, collecting, business tools... and so on. Understand how your customer or prospect will come to you, and work from there. Your first campaign, is always the toughest. The rest get easier, if you pay attention to what happened to the first. 

2. Free advertising does work, but where paid advertising costs you money, free advertising costs you time. Whether you choose classified ads, article marketing, or some other free marketing technique, you need to be prepared to spend several hours each week on this task. It will require more patience than paid advertising, but for those that have little cash to invest, this option will still allow you to build your business without breaking the bank.

3. Yes it does! I have been using all FREE advertising (with a share of my sponsors team co op) and I get about 50/50 with it. It does take more work with doing the searches for sites to advertise on, and setting up a trash email acct (a must for the amount of email generated). I place 3-5 ads minimum per day and let the ads run until they are not producing anymore. In 3 months I have 61 affiliates this way. I have a couple that are actually working their businesses. This does not include the Team Co op I have run a few times. So my answer is YES! It works! 

Yes, Free advertising does work in attracting new affiliates to SFI. Having said that... the "Free affiliates" retention rate may be a little lower than "paid affiliate" retention rate due to a higher number of "easy money" hunters looking for free money.

Do I need to have a website or my own blog to be successful with SFI?

Short and simple... no, you don't. But while they are not necessary, they can certainly help. 

Both types of sites have their advantages and disadvantages. 

Static Website 
Pros: relatively easy to setup and maintain 
Cons: harder to get listed in the search engines 
Primary uses: many use what is known as a static squeeze page. A squeeze page is designed to entice your site visitors into providing you with their contact details, thereby adding them to your mailing list. This list, most times, is loaded into your autoresponder account so that your list members receive timely, regular emails. You also have the option of mailing your list directly. Another use for static sites is to create a series of minisites, each one geared to a different aspect of SFI or focusing on a specific product on TripleClicks. 

Blog Site 
Pros: easy to get listed in the search engines, so long as you are providing unique, valuable content 
Cons: time consuming, unless you hire a freelance blog writer; then your main disadvantage is the added cost 

Primary uses: blogs are a great way to open up discussions on topics that are not only of interest to you, but also that you have knowledge to share; by providing useful content that is unique, then your blog can get picked up by the various search engines and you have the potential to build a relatively large base of followers who are interested in the content you are providing; once you have them engaged and have earned their trust, then they are naturally curious to know more about you and what you do 

How is communication best utilized to create robust duplication?

In SFI "duplication" is the action of generating a certain number of PSAs in your downline and teaching them to do the same. 
For example: acquire 5 active PSAs, who you then teach to acquire 5 each of their 
own active PSAs and so on ( up to 12 levels in SFI). 
Each must build their own team to succeed in generating a long 
term residual income. 

The idea is they will follow your lead with your support. 

-Your actions and progress in SFI carries the greatest influence on your downline. 
-You must be willing to teach duplicating methods, advertising, sales and so on 
in your daily/weekly communication with your team is very important. 
-Focus can be enhanced by using a reward system for sign up goals. 
-Consistent recognition of their progress is a moral builder. 
-You may try a freelance reward system based on progress for your 
individual achievers. 
-Use contests to keep them motivated and on target. 
-Encourage goal setting. 

Your ability to monitor your team and follow up with relevant information and 
tools to assist them in their business is key to everyone's success. 

Keep your Leadership Page up to date with tools and articles. 
 

To get your downline to focus on duplication, as a Team Leader you must have established a good relationship with them. Building a close relationship will take time. This can be in the form of group support message, promotion/incentive and recognition. Constant communication with your downline is very vital to build this kind of close relationship. If you have shown to them that you are there for them in their journey with SFI, then they will most likely listen to your tips and advice. 

By displaying your badges like, as a top enroller, S-Builder Co-op, Power Rank, etc. on your Leadership page, you are leading a good example to them. 

You can explain to them that they will be able to achieve the highest Team Leader, a PTL as they continue to step up their sponsoring consistently, keeping in mind the guidelines in “Be an Awesome Sponsor”. Let them know that by giving back to invest some of your SFI earnings in the form of promotions and incentives (Gift Certificate or TCredits) in helping them, you are performing duplication.

 The point to stress is that every business needs workers to take care of everyday tasks. So, also their business at SFI needs workers to do the daily tasks at hand and on a daily basis. 

Stress the fact that without their own downline, they will be like a small boat struggling in a high storm, being tossed about. 

You could also suggest to them to opt in to S-Builder, have a Standing Order and in general keep doing the daily tasks every day. I would suggest to them that they go over all the training that Gery has provided in SFI and not to just read it but to learn it. 

Going over the Launchpad would also help a great deal. 

They could start with family and friends, who are easier to chat to about SFI, and from there they can gain the confidence to speak to neighbors and work colleagues. 

Get them to send out E-Cards, post fliers, or send emails to only people that they know. There are many places where one can advertise for free as well.

What long-term goal(s) should an affiliate be setting for themselves?

Goals are inspirations and guide posts that can serve as guide as you progress in your SFI journey. Example, if you will be happy with $2,000 income per month then make it a goal. If buying a new car is what will make you happy then earn the price of the new car. So, what will make us happy and satisfied is a worthwhile goal. 

Our long term goals is something that will give us satisfaction and will make you happy, therefore it will differ from person to person. 


Now what is important is how to reach that goal. Usually, our goals here at SFI can be translated into monetary form. We should therefore disect the factors that will lead us to earn our goal. 

Here at SFI there are three major success factors that we can translate our monetary goal to each of these factors. 
1. Active affiliates - Active affiliates are the once that will give us income and build our organization. We need at least 5 to 10 active affiliates to start the explosion of our business. But in reality, only 1 to 5 percent of our total affiliate might become active. so therefore we make it a goal to have 500 to 1000 PSA's. 

2. Personally Earned VP - This will give us the rank that will enable us to partake in the executive pool. Each of the rank has its corresponding VP needed. So, make it a goal to earn those points as your active affiliates starts to increase. 

3. Duplication - Make it a goal to spend time to your enthusiastic affiliates to the point that he is doing exactly what you are doing. 

So we create a chain of goals from goals of satisfaction and happiness to monetary goals then to success factors goals. 

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Long term goals are going to be as individual to each affiliates. When we each signed on to SFI we were asked what our #1 goal was for joining. I have seen affiliates answers vary from “to get out of debt” and everything in between “to be rich.” The thing we need to remember is SFI is an international company, where affiliates come from a vast array of different cultures, economic background and needs. Therefore, their long term goals will be individual to them. 

However, there are some basic goals in SFI which will help affiliates to grow within SFI. Goals we are reminded of through the forum and other ASK SC answers. These goals/tasks are the daily log-in to complete the tasks of reading the tabs, which help us learn about SFI and become familiar with the workings and “how to” of SFI. Then there are the monthly goals we can set, which is one of the daily tabs we review to help us keep on track with our goals. These monthly goals can help us to learn how to do advertising to bring new affiliates, who in turn will help us to build our teams and grow our own SFI business, along with advertising TripleClicks. 

Through the monthly tab, we see our long term goals listed that we set when we signed up wit SFI, which we can always adjust. Goals are fluid. We can adjust goals as needed. As we work on a goals we may find it is not exactly what we need to work on, but there is a more appropriate goal we should work towards. It is okay to set or reset our goals. Another thing about our goals is the time limit we set may have been to lenient or strict. This is a benefit of goal setting. We can learn from them. This is what I mean by goals are fluid; they are adjustable. Sometimes we need to give ourselves more or less time on a goal. 

It is important to review our goals, see where we might need to adjust them and reset our goals which will help us reach our long term goals. The importance of the daily, weekly and monthly goals are to help us reach our long term goals. They are not separate from our long term goals. They should all be working together to help reach our #1 goal for joining SFI. 

Another important thing to remember about goals: They can be helpful or hurtful, depending how we use them. Goals are to help us accomplish our desires, NOT to beat us done when we failed to reach them. We should never feel we have failed when we do not reach our goals. We should use it as a learning time and build from it. 

So, now that I have written a lecture, I will return to your question once more. The long term goal being set by an affiliate will be as individual as each affiliate is individual. You need to decide what it is you want, where you want to go with your SFI business and how you will determine to get there, then set your goals. It is your long term goals you should set first, then break them down into the smaller goals of yearly, monthly, weekly and daily goals. But remember, we can always change our goals, including our long term goals, because our needs and desires will change.