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How often have you had a fabulous idea that you could make a pile of money from? How often have you said to yourself “man, I could definitely do a better job than this company”? How often have you&amp;nbsp;turned these thoughts into thriving businesses?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Forget the 90% of Businesses Fail Statistic - Most Never Even Get Started!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I bet you have come up with some pretty darn good reasons for why those terrific ideas in your head have remained there. Inspired by Steve’s comment to my&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/04/07/top-5-reasons-to-be-an-entrepreneur/&quot; style=&quot;color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Read the top 5 reasons to be an entrepreneur!&quot;&gt;Top 5 Reasons to be an Entrepreneur&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;article, this post is for everyone unsatisfied with the daily monotony of their job, wishing to run&amp;nbsp;your own business,&amp;nbsp;but unable to make the leap.&lt;br /&gt;
Let’s&amp;nbsp;explore the major&amp;nbsp;reasons people&amp;nbsp;don’t start their own business, or to put it more bluntly, here are the reasons people think they can’t start a business:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;1) “I don’t have the time because&amp;nbsp;I have&amp;nbsp;a fulltime job, school, family”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Lack of time is a very common excuse but rarely valid. Most of us don’t really use all of our day effectively, so by trimming down on the time spent lying around bored and numb, it’s very possible to squeeze in an extra couple hours a day. If working all day wears you out, try&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/03/17/the-extreme-morning-experiment/&quot; style=&quot;color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;The extreme morning experiment.&quot;&gt;waking up earlier&lt;/a&gt;. It’s all about time management, and a book like the excellent&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0142000280%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1144584136%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8&quot; style=&quot;color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Getting Things Done&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;amp;o=1&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a great starting point to learn how easy it is to become much more effective at making things happen.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;2) “I can’t afford the RISK at this stage of my life”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Starting a business can involve a lot of risk&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;if&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;you choose to immediately&amp;nbsp;run a capital intensive business&amp;nbsp;fulltime. But it doesn’t have to be done this way! Not every business is suited for every lifestyle and level of involvement, but there are many opportunities that are right for you. It’s typical to equate starting a business with mortgaging the house to obtain $200 000 in funding and having your poorly planned venture (despite the nicely formatted business plan) decide whether you get knocked into bankruptcy. The reality is that if you are willing to start small and build methodically you can begin on a shoestring budget. This also affords you time to learn so that the mistakes you make don’t cost you the farm.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;3) “I don’t know anything about business”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I love bringing up my very first real foray into business. It was going to be a computer repairs and sales business, and with no business knowledge or plan it was sure to be an astounding success. I sold one 40GB hard drive and hit revenues of $80. Turns out there’s a little more to this business thing than I thought.&lt;br /&gt;
Business is not an obvious or easy subject despite rumours to the contrary. On the other hand it’s not rocket science and&amp;nbsp;is mercifully free of differential equations.&amp;nbsp;After my first failure I picked up a book and started reading. All I had to do to find the time&amp;nbsp;was watch a little bit less TV.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;4) “Maybe one day, but for now it’s just a dream”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
This is my favorite and should really be labelled “fear of change” or “fear of the unknown”. You think you have the ability and if you examine the situation really close you see you also have the resources, but you are just too paralyzed by the idea of straying off the beaten path.&amp;nbsp;”All&amp;nbsp;my friends are working normal corporate jobs, why should I be any different?”&lt;br /&gt;
Our society is built to breed workers and consumers, not visionaries. Anytime you wish to achieve something truly remarkable and different then you will have to face the discomfort of doing something that is frowned upon by your (former) peers who are really just masking their own discomfort of seeing someone trying something different and wishing to achieve more. Sheep need to constantly validate their decisions to ignore their dreams and live mediocre unsatisfying lives. Before listening to their pleas to return to the flock, take a long hard look at where the path they are on is leading you to.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Resources&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
At some point I am going to post a resource page with all the books and articles I have read online which I have found to be useful. In the meantime here are a few “must reads”. Amazon pays me a small referal fee if you make purchases through the links below, so by ordering any of these books&amp;nbsp;you are not only&amp;nbsp;receiving a tremendous amount of knowledge for almost nothing, but you are also helping keep this blog running:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0142000280%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1144584136%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8&quot; style=&quot;color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Getting Things Done&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;amp;o=1&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;- I absolutely love this book and for good reason. It has literally provided me with more hours in my day and showed me how to get everything that I need to done.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0761513116%2Fqid%3D1144937855%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155&quot; style=&quot;color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The Wealthy Barber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=mattinglotsbl-20&amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;amp;o=1&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Don’t bother earning money if you don’t know what you are going to do with it. This book explains very clearly how to quickly and practically plan your finances. It’s written specifically for Canada, but most of the concepts discussed translate painlessly across borders.&lt;br /&gt;
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Any of these books have the potential to change entire aspects of&amp;nbsp;your life (they have certainly had this effect on me)&amp;nbsp;and provide just as much (or more) knowledge than a $500 university course.&amp;nbsp;They can all be read 20 minutes at a time, and whether you are starting a business today or think you may wish to do so in a year or five, these are the first keys to starting a successful venture.&lt;br /&gt;
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For many years now, we&#39;ve been trying to solve the shipping cost issue for our international (primarily non-North American) affiliates.&lt;br /&gt;
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There&#39;s just no getting around the fact that if you live in, say Australia, the shipping cost is going to be expensive to receive a bottle of, say SFI&#39;s Advanced Liquid Nutrition, because it must come all the way from our warehouse in Lincoln, Nebraska USA.&lt;br /&gt;
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And for the record, we charge for shipping and handling ONLY what WE get charged by the carrier. Not a cent less or more.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;THE SOLUTION&lt;br /&gt;
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We believe the solution will come with the launch of our coming commercial sellers program at TripleClicks (TC). Participants in this new program will be known as &quot;E-Commerce Associates&quot; or ECAs.&lt;br /&gt;
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The ECA program will work like this:&lt;br /&gt;
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Any company can apply to participate in the program (there will be a simple online application).&lt;br /&gt;
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To participate, the company must be willing to provide SFI with wholesale prices on any products they wish to sell at TC (we&#39;re not going to allow them to receive the free traffic we generate and market their products side by side with our products unless they&#39;re willing to make it worth our while of course).&lt;br /&gt;
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There are other requirements as well (more on this in a moment).&lt;br /&gt;
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Once an ECA has been accepted, they will be provided with a special account where they can immediately begin entering basically unlimited product listings. From this form, they&#39;ll be able to enter a product name and description, weight, specifications, price, etc., upload product photos, and choose the appropriate department(s) for the product. There is no cost to the ECA to list their products on TC.&lt;br /&gt;
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Once entered and approved by SFI, the listings will immediately appear in TC alongside all the other products in that department. They will also be searchable by name, keyword, VP, CV, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
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Note that an order at TC always uses ONE shopping cart. A shopping cart may contain &quot;TC Direct&quot; products (such as Advanced Liquid Nutrition) and/or Private Seller items and/or ECA items. And all payment processing will be done by TC.&lt;br /&gt;
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Example: We take an order for a widget sold by XYZ Company on September 1st. Upon processing payment, we forward the order via e-mail to XYZ Company (this would normally be within minutes of receipt of the order). We then send payment (the retail price, plus shipping, minus the percentage earmarked for us), electronically, to the ECA.&lt;br /&gt;
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So, in short, the basic requirement for ECAs will be:&lt;br /&gt;
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1. Wholesale prices offered to SFI&lt;br /&gt;
2. Acceptance of orders via daily electronic transmission&lt;br /&gt;
3. Orders shipped promptly and directly to customers with daily electronic payment&lt;br /&gt;
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These are very reasonable requirements. And in return, some sizable and growing benefits will be theirs to enjoy. TC is already a top 25,000 website worldwide and we&#39;ve only just begun. 95% of TC programs, products, and features are still to come. Traffic will, no doubt, increase exponentially over the years to come.&lt;br /&gt;
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So having your products in TC will allow you to easily have your products exposed to a large and diverse worldwide audience (and many thousands of affiliates looking for products to buy from their countries).&lt;br /&gt;
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And there you go! With that last sentence, do you see the solution coming into focus?&lt;br /&gt;
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That is, once the ECA program is launched, excellently-priced products and services of hundreds, if not thousands, of companies from your country can all be available to you from within TC (and with sizable CV and VP to make earning EA status easier than ever before)!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;EVEN BETTER&lt;br /&gt;
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So what would be even better than having access to thousands of products direct from your homeland? How about also earning a royalty on EVERY product sold at TC by every company that you refer to TC? Yes, this and perhaps group royalty overrides, too, are being considered.&lt;br /&gt;
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Referring an ECA would be as simple as referring them to an SFI Gateway as you do now. Full information and the application form will be provided at the Gateway. All you have to do is get them to the Gateway. For any referrals you generate, you&#39;re looking at receiving royalties on EVERY sale from your referred company WORLDWIDE...for LIFE! It doesn&#39;t get any better than that, folks!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;WHEN? WHERE? HOW?!&lt;br /&gt;
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Launch of this program is still months away, but I&#39;d encourage you to start preparing now. Start lining up companies in your country (and/or worldwide) you think would be good prospects for the ECA program so that when we do launch, you&#39;ll be ready to hit the ground running. A good idea is to also get the name of the company&#39;s owner or marketing director as they will likely be the decision makers. You might start talking to them now, give them the preliminary details, and get their permission now to let them know when the program launches.&lt;br /&gt;
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Who would be good prospects for the ECA program? Initially at least, I would not recommend pursuing major companies. For a variety of reasons, they&#39;re probably not going to see significant value in participating, at least in the beginning. Instead, look for companies that are young and hungry to grow. Size-wise, small to mid-sized companies are probably your best bets. You&#39;ll have a much easier time getting through to the decision makers and they likely won&#39;t have layers and layers of management to stall action.&lt;br /&gt;
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There are of course companies to avoid, too. Grocery stores or similar stores that do not ship products to customers are probably not viable candidates. We will also not accept companies that sell adult or controversial products.&lt;br /&gt;
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Note: As always, we have a zero tolerance policy on spamming so make sure you factor this in. For example, preparing a list of companies should include full postal addresses and/or phone numbers so that you can use postal mail or the telephone, not e-mail, to contact prospective companies about becoming ECAs.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tip: Companies and businesses that are not yet selling on the Internet are great prospects too. This is because with our ECA program, we&#39;ll be giving them a way to jump on the Internet with all the heavy lifting done for them. If they can receive email, they can participate because we&#39;re going to provide the audience for them, take the order for them, and handle all the payment processing. All they have to do is ship the orders that we forward to them to the customer. That&#39;s it.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;ONE MORE THING...A NEW FEATURE DEBUTS&lt;br /&gt;
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In the meantime, it would sure be nice if you could easily locate products in TC that DO ship from your country NOW, wouldn&#39;t it?! Well, you&#39;ll be pleased to know that, as of today, we have added this feature to the Advanced Search at TC.&lt;br /&gt;
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Note that it will, of course, only deliver results for listings that indeed ship from your country. If you live in a country that has no MaxMalls Merchants or no Private Seller Listings yet, it will return no results. OF COURSE, THAT&#39;S WHAT THE NEW ECA PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO SOLVE! So, if you&#39;re not seeing results on a search of your country yet–hang in there–it&#39;s coming! As well as many other exciting additions and features to YOUR STORE, TripleClicks!&lt;br /&gt;
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That&#39;s it for now. I welcome your comments.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gery Carson&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;Source :&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: black; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&quot;&gt;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/feeds/494983691454531541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/2009/11/international-shipping-solution.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7868410054977354494/posts/default/494983691454531541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7868410054977354494/posts/default/494983691454531541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/2009/11/international-shipping-solution.html' title='International Shipping Solution'/><author><name>elguszah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15305688135811192231</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7868410054977354494.post-184816369812751306</id><published>2009-11-24T10:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T10:02:59.687+01:00</updated><title type='text'>WHAT&#39;S THE POINT?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Unless you missed the big announcements over at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.sfimg.com/&quot; style=&quot;color: #5977b3; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;SFI NEWS&lt;/a&gt;, you&#39;ve learned that we have moved away from our old &quot;EA (Executive Affiliate)-centric&quot; system to one that will be &quot;point-centric.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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For over ten years now, our main message has essentially been &quot;upgrade to EA.&quot; This has mostly been a successful strategy, but where it seems to fall short at times is that it requires people to get an understanding of why they would want to be an EA. They also have to figure out the &quot;how&quot; to become an EA. All this slows things down. And many people just never seem to grasp it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Now think about a system where the simple message, from minute one in SFI, is, &quot;the more points you earn, the more money you can make.&quot; That&#39;s now exactly what we have!&lt;br /&gt;
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As evidenced by our Power Rank Points program, people immediately get the points thing. &quot;More points means more good&quot; is understood by everyone instantly without us having to explain it. I guess it&#39;s all those years of playing video games. :-)&lt;br /&gt;
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Yes, I&#39;ve see ample evidence of this everywhere and in all of our statistics that measure affiliate activity. In many cases, where we are awarding points, we&#39;ve increased activity by 10-20 times compared to previously when no points were involved.&lt;br /&gt;
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By the way, I wish I could say I saw this coming, but I can&#39;t. When we introduced the Power Rank program a few months ago, I felt strongly that the program would be well received. After all, it&#39;s fun to compete and see how you stack up against your peers. I rightly assumed that lots of our affiliates would embrace the program, but I did NOT anticipate how many and how strongly that embrace would be!&lt;br /&gt;
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What&#39;s really interesting to note is that, until today, we&#39;ve really only minimally promoted the points program. If you&#39;ve been wondering why we haven&#39;t, it&#39;s because we wanted to really get behind it, and do it right, which has taken substantial system redesign and reprogramming. Today&#39;s announcements of course unveil these efforts.&lt;br /&gt;
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And speaking of substantial efforts, allow me to throw the spotlight on some of our team members for just a moment. You like what you see today? None of it could have happened without the following four members of our design and programming team:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;ADAM KOERNER&lt;br /&gt;
BEN LIPOVSKY&lt;br /&gt;
LORI ROBISON&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
and&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;PAUL SPOON&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Adam, Ben, Lori, and Paul...SUPER JOB!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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So, as you can see, even with only minimal promotions, the points program has been VERY successful. Well, now imagine it fully promoted, indeed a system BASED on points, where it&#39;s THE key to higher payouts and perks, and you can appreciate why I&#39;m very, very excited about the months ahead.&lt;br /&gt;
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By the way, there are still the same titles as before (Affiliate, EA, BTL, STL, GTL, and PTL). It&#39;s just that now you earn these titles by generating points. The focus is on the points, the titles are just one of the many perks you get for reaching specific point totals.&lt;br /&gt;
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I believe there will be MANY benefits derived from today&#39;s change:&lt;br /&gt;
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1. First and foremost, as I&#39;ve already mentioned, new affiliates will now immediately &quot;get&quot; what to do and we&#39;ve make it super easy for them to starting &quot;doing&quot; right after joining. For one thing, we&#39;ve rebuilt the SFI homepage around a new to-do list of every action they can do to earn points (removing each action from the homepage as soon as they&#39;ve completed it to make it really slick).&lt;br /&gt;
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There&#39;s a LOT more we&#39;ve done to the homepage, by the way, but I&#39;ll let you&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.sfimg.com/index.php?entry=entry090805-151511&quot; style=&quot;color: #5977b3; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;get the details on this from SFI NEWS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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2. Shorter level jumps. 500 points is the starting level (to earn anything in SFI, you have to do at least 500 points). The next level (with higher payouts and a few more perks) is 1000. You then really hit the mother-load of payouts and perks starting at 1500 points (the &quot;executive level&quot;) and then the four Team Leader positions which are at 3000, 4000, 5000, and 6000 points respectively.&lt;br /&gt;
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You might notice that we&#39;ve set the numbers so that when you hit one level, the next is &quot;temptingly close.&quot; We&#39;ve of course designed it this way so there is added incentive to keep advancing all month long. And, yes, we&#39;ve built this element into special notices that you&#39;ll see at the Affiliate Center now, and also into e-mail reminders, etc. so that everyone is always aware what they need in points to achieve the next level&#39;s benefits. One of the best examples of this is found in our new SFI Benefits Chart:&lt;br /&gt;
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3. Action/purchase/sales combinations. Say you&#39;ve accumulated 1200 points and you want to hit the EA level of 1500 points this month. You don&#39;t think you can generate the 300 you need by the end of the month with actions, so what do you do? Simple–you go to TripleClicks and find a product you want with 300 or more points and buy it or have a friend or family member buy it using your link. All levels (from affiliate, all the way to Platinum Team Leader) can be attained by combination of actions, purchases, or sales each month.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&quot;But, Gery, isn&#39;t everyone going to just now do actions instead of sales or purchases?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
For an affiliate&#39;s first month, many will, yes. But that&#39;s OK! If you look at the actions they will have taken and the training they will have absorbed, this is great, great, and more great! I would much rather have our system producing five thousand trained, active, and ENGAGED new affiliates every day than a few daily sales from a few hundred semi-engaged, semi-trained, semi-confused affiliates!&lt;br /&gt;
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The sales will come. You must look at the &quot;big picture!&quot; Those five thousand affiliates will, no doubt, in subsequent months, be MUCH more active affiliates, and produce sales and revenues in MUCH greater numbers.&lt;br /&gt;
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After all, if they want to earn money, they will have to soon step outside of the training and getting-started actions because, for one thing, these kinds of actions don&#39;t generate significant income, and number two, the points these kinds of actions produce can only be earned ONCE.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&quot;OK, Gery, I can see that now, but what if I get some guy who just recruits hundreds of affiliates or TripleClicks customers every month to earn the points he needs.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I&#39;d take as many guys like this as I could get!! Talk about your goldmines! Someone bringing in enough affiliates and/or TC members to earn big VersaPoints is a tremendous asset. Though his or her efforts, you can be earning substantial override commissions and be seeing massive growth. Take all the guys like this you can get and support them with everything you&#39;ve got!&lt;br /&gt;
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One more thing today: I&#39;m really stoked about what the new VersaPoints system is going to do for our growing base of international affiliates. The door is going to be WIDE OPEN now for our international affiliates to get fully engaged and active with SFI. And this of course could have huge positive impact on everyone&#39;s business. Yes, the future just got a LOT brighter!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;content&quot; style=&quot;padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;Source :&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&quot;&gt;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/feeds/184816369812751306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/2009/11/whats-point.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7868410054977354494/posts/default/184816369812751306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7868410054977354494/posts/default/184816369812751306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elguszah.blogspot.com/2009/11/whats-point.html' title='WHAT&#39;S THE POINT?'/><author><name>elguszah</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15305688135811192231</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7868410054977354494.post-3912011998915717302</id><published>2009-11-19T11:04:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-11-23T21:07:56.819+01:00</updated><title type='text'>1500 in 15</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;As you know from our big August 5th announcements &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;, SFI now features an exciting, new &quot;Co-Sponsorship&quot; program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;What&#39;s a Co-Sponsor? Co-Sponsor is a new position we&#39;ve created that is assigned by SFI Corporate. Similar to the Sponsor, the Co-Sponsor shares in the financial benefits and support responsibilities of the affiliate of whom he/she is the assigned Co-Sponsor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;As an affiliate&#39;s Co-Sponsor, you can immediately begin earning up to 24% CV commissions on all their purchases (plus an additional 4% to 8% on all their sales)! This benefit can also continue monthly! For exact commission details and qualifications, see the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sfimg.com/compplan/&quot; style=&quot;color: #5977b3; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;SFI Compensation Plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Co-Sponsorships are assigned in two primary ways, which you can read about&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.sfimg.com/index.php?entry=entry090805-151244&quot; style=&quot;color: #5977b3; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;What I want to talk about specifically today, however, is the co-sponsorships that brand new affiliates can receive, and the requirements. The requirements are very simple and straightforward:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Accumulate 1500 VersaPoints within your first 15 days&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Do that and you&#39;ve qualified to receive (currently, approximately 20) co-sponsorships that could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars to you in the years to come.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;But, wow, isn&#39;t 1500 a LOT of points to have to produce in just 15 days? Actually, no. Let&#39;s do the math:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s say you just joined SFI. Assuming you&#39;ve confirmed your registration and whitelisted SFI&#39;s mailing address (these are the first two steps required before you can even enter the SFI Affiliate Center), you&#39;ve already got 400 points to start.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For easy, &quot;getting started&quot; points, you can now do the following 13 actions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For completing your Affiliate Profile (200 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reviewing the &quot;R&quot; (Refer) Index (50 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reviewing the &quot;S&quot; (Sponsor) Index (50 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For sending your SFI Commitment Message to your sponsor (50 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For entering a personal welcome message to greet the affiliates you sponsor (50 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For registering as an a2a member (50 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reading the Getting Started FAQs (20 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reading the &quot;About SFI&quot; page (20 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reviewing the SFI Compensation Plan (10 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reviewing the SFI Benefits Chart (10 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For reviewing the Global Growth Report (30 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For registering to follow SFI on Twitter (30 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;For uploading your photo to the Affiliate Center (30 points)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;All of the above can be completed, easily, in just 1-2 hours, and it&#39;s generated another 600 points for you. So in just your first hour or two, you can easily reach 1000 points.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Of course, a new affiliate is also now receiving our LaunchPad™ &quot;getting started&quot; training e-mails. Each day&#39;s quiz earns you another 20 points. So, by day 15, you&#39;ve grabbed another easy 300 points (15 days x 20 points = 300).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;That&#39;s a grand total of 1300 points now, without even breaking a sweat. To get the remaining 200, you can earn four points a day just for logging into the SFI Affiliate Center and visiting your SFI Homepage. You can earn 240 points for purchasing an EyeEarn Starter Kit. And there are numerous other actions listed on your SFI To-Do List you can take to easily reach 1500 points within 15 days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;And you can, of course, also earn UNLIMITED points with sales or purchases at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/goog_1259006752496&quot;&gt;TripleClicks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tripleclicks.com/10856715&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;(many of our most popular products come with 1000 points or more!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;By the way, if you hadn&#39;t noticed, the new co-sponsorship program is designed to not only provide a great incentive to get seriously active in SFI right away,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;but also to ensure that the affiliates who receive co-sponsorships REMAIN active, too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;How? To retain any co-sponsorships received, an affiliate must achieve 1500 points or more every month. They forfeit the co-sponsorships if they fail to maintain the 1500 point level, and no one wants to lose such a valuable asset of course!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;So, with that in mind, it&#39;s VERY important that when you&#39;re recruiting new affiliates that you work with them to reach the 1500 points in 15 days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Here&#39;s a tip for doing that: Go to your genealogy and use the Join Date filter to pull up just your affiliates who are within their first 15 days. Now, sort by &quot;VP(T)–-this is the abbreviation for Total VersaPoints To Date--in descending (dsc) order.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;You can now see exactly who in your organization still has an opportunity to secure a quantity of co-sponsorships, and you can contact them to see if you can assist them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Here&#39;s a really good way to do it: Click on their VersaPoints total–that is, the points listed under the &quot;VP(T)&quot; column. You&#39;ll now see a listing (in a new window) of all the actions they&#39;ve earned points for so far and all the actions that they can do to earn even more points. For many of your affiliates, you&#39;ll probably see a number of &quot;easy&quot; actions that they can grab quick points for. Point these actions out to them and offer helpful advice where you can. For example, maybe they don&#39;t understand how to get set up to follow SFI on Twitter (a 30-pointer), but YOU do.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;Help them get as many points as they can. You&#39;ll be helping them and you&#39;ll be positioning yourself for great, long-term growth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;NOTE: Once you get them to 1500 points, they&#39;ve also become an EA (Executive Affiliate), which earns YOU 100 VersaPoints for the month--and which you&#39;ll continue to earn every month they remain at the EA level!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;content&quot; style=&quot;padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;source :&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;http://gcblog.sfimg.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;content&quot; style=&quot;padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tripleclicks.com/10856715/go&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Georgia, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif;&quot;&gt; to Join&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;h1 align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;color: #003366; font-family: Georgia,&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,Times,serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #336699;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Q: What&#39;s going to make me more money—referring lots of customers to TripleClicks.com or sponsoring lots of affiliates? If I concentrate on sponsoring affiliates, how many do I need to sponsor to be successful in SFI?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #336699;&quot;&gt;A:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;It really isn&#39;t an either/or proposition. The key to making truly BIG money is to focus on Referring Customers, Sponsoring Affiliates, and teaching your team members to duplicate your efforts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;So, yes—definitely use and share TripleClicks.com products, but also tell other people about the SFI business opportunity. When you do this, it&#39;s like cloning yourself.&amp;nbsp; And with each clone, you earn a portion of every dollar in commissions they generate. Now you&#39;re no longer limited to just what YOU can do. Now you can be earning money around the clock and around the world, month after month after month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;How many affiliates do you need to sponsor to be successful in SFI?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;You may be shocked to learn that just three to five is all you&#39;ll need to generate a significant, full-time income. Now let me elaborate on this!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Too many people get caught up in QUANTITY.&amp;nbsp; They constantly sponsor dozens, even hundreds of affiliates, when it&#39;s QUALITY that is the real key.&amp;nbsp; Once you&#39;ve found or developed 3-5 topnotch affiliates, you&#39;re going to see a lot of great things happen with your commission check.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;How do you develop quality affiliates?&amp;nbsp; It&#39;s real simple: WORK WITH THE WORKERS!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;When you see people who are working SFI in your group, work with them! Support them closely, and train them to do the things you do so that you are creating duplication and maximum leverage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;You see, it&#39;s more natural for us to let the workers in our group just do their own thing. After all, they went EA without you even telling them to, they&#39;re already bringing in new affiliates, using Contact Manager, etc. They don&#39;t need your help or support, or so you think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Meanwhile, you&#39;re spending all your time trying to get the people who obviously don&#39;t &quot;get it&quot; to do something.&amp;nbsp; As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can&#39;t make it drink—yet you continue to try.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;You need to know that this is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing to build a successful business. I&#39;m not saying you shouldn&#39;t follow up with those who don&#39;t immediately get active with SFI. You should. But don&#39;t spend ALL or even the majority of&amp;nbsp; your time with this. And DEFINITELY DO NOT IGNORE your workers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Indeed, the way you create those 3-5 &quot;top-gun&quot; affiliates that you need is by treating them LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON THEM!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;If you&#39;re not in touch with your best, hardest-working affiliates at least every week (email, phone calls, chatroom, or whatever), I&#39;m sorry, but you&#39;re trying to win a race with a car that only has one wheel!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;How many affiliates will you have to go through to find your top guns? That&#39;s of course difficult to say. What I can tell you though is that they&#39;re out there, and you&#39;ll develop them so long as you deny your natural instincts and apply the proper focus (work with the workers!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Just like in a deck of cards, you KNOW there are four aces. If you start working your way through the deck, the first ace may not come up for a while, but eventually it will so long as you keep going through the deck. And if you don&#39;t quit, you&#39;ll eventually locate FOUR aces. It&#39;s the very same principle with SFI; the aces are there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Keep sponsoring affiliates, work with your workers, and success will happen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333; line-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;was launched in 1998. Starting with just one product, sold only in the United States, SFI has now grown to millions of products and services sold in more than 190 countries around the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;SFI was created to allow anyone with a computer and Internet access the opportunity to tap into the worldwide e-commerce revolution. Anyone of legal age in his or her country can become an SFI affiliate for free by filling out an online registration form. No purchase is necessary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: georgia;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Once registered, affiliates are provided with professional Websites for marketing SFI&#39;s products on the Internet. SFI also provides all necessary sale support services, such as customer service, payment processing, and product shipment – all at no cost to the affiliate. For each sale generated, SFI pays the referring affiliate a commission. Additional commissions can be earned by building and leading affiliate groups.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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