Opti-Build - Why focus on 5?

Please refer: https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?post_id=850512#post-850512

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Leon M.   

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 Posted about 1 year ago, edited 9 months ago  More by Leon M.

I wanted to get this important longterm and big picture point out as soon as possible...

Why focus on 5?

From the Opti-Build announcement:

"Q: I can’t wait to become a DTL, but what if one of my five PTLs quits or becomes inactive after all I and my upline team members have invested to get them to Platinum?

We’re making a policy change to address this. That is, your goal should absolutely be to develop five FIRST-level PTLs. However, we will allow the PTLs to be in any of your legs (minimum of one PTL in five different legs). Put another way, if there is a PTL within 12 generations, below one of your PSAs, we’ll count your PSA as a PTL as it pertains to your DTL qualifications."

I think we can all agree that DTL is the longterm achievement goal in SFI?

What you now need to achieve DTL is 5 PSAs with just one PTL somewhere in their 12 levels.

Stay narrow with 5 and stay focused on driving your business deep with leadership!

The SFI compensation plan is a 12 level plan so that gives us a LOT of room to find leadership within our pay range.

The deeper your leadership the stronger your business!

IMPORTANT: You only need a handful of strong leaders in your entire team to make a full-time income with SFI!

I would recommend the following threads...

Why You Should Focus on Team Building...

How To Retire With SFI Sooner Than Later...

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P.S. Depth of leadership will give you...

1) Income Freedom (do what you want). 

and... 

2) Time Freedom (do it when you want). 

and... 

3) Location Freedom (do it where you want).

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 Posted over 2 years ago

More than viewing the communication with your down line in terms of numbers, it would do the up line a world of good if a short, brief, introductory message in an easy to understand language to them will do a world of good and will augur well for the future.

All the new affiliates will receive at least more than 30 communication from SFI Corporate in their first 30 days and all of them will welcome, guide and take them to specific areas of this Business; Reading and understand them and moving on to the subject they refer to will itself prove to be a tough task in their initial days.

If you visit the Ask SC area and search for questions related to this subject, you will find lot of them with varied answers and most of them will caution the up line not to send too many mails often to their down lines.

Finally, based on my personal experience and the knowledge I gained (still doing) by reading many training articles as well as the explanations given by our Founder Gery, I can suggest the following:

1. A short and brief Welcome Message (be it an E-Card or a Mail) in which you can :

- Welcome the new affiliates;
- Introduce yourself;
- Express of joy of having them in your Team;
- Pledging your support for their continued growth & above all
- Requesting them how can you help them so that they can get started at once or what can you do so that they can 
move forward without any hitch in their business;

2. The sooner you are able to establish a good two way communication it will be good.

3. Till such time it happens, please do not bombard them with frequent messages.

4. Instead use the STREAM to post short pointed messages or links to details;

5. Occasional E-Cards to individual affiliates based on the ground realities will help a lot;

6. Please continue to focus on how to build a healthy relationship through your initial communications which should
transform in to a strong business partnership in future.

This way, they will succeed; and naturally, you too will succeed!!

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Each month, after processing commissions and perks for Affiliates, we add 10-20 FREE TCredits to the accounts of all our active EAs and above! It's just one of many perks Affiliates get by advancing in rank in the SFI program. 

You can confirm the total TCredits you have available by just logging in at http://www.tripleclicks.com. They will be listed next to your name in the top right corner. 

TCredits allow you to take FULL advantage of your member benefits. Use your TCredits to bid in Astro Auctions, to participate in contests, play Eager Zebra games, and more. 

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NOTE: You can use your TCredits as you wish and at any time, but they do expire one year from receipt.

SFI Weekly News - 17 Dec 2018

SFI Weekly News (December 17, 2018)

It's a fresh, new week! Check out some of SFI's newest developments to help you reach new heights this week! 

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REWARDICAL ADDS ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR SHOPIFY STORES! 

We just released enhanced support (with instant, verified claims) for Shopify's APIs, a big first step in greatly expanding our worldwide network of merchants that will award you Rewardicals with every purchase. 

First, in case you're not familiar with Shopify, here's brief recap: 

* Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers of a suite of services, including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants. 

* The company reported that it had more than 600,000 merchants using its platform as of August 2017, with total gross merchandise volume exceeding $55 billion. 

* Shopify is a publicly traded company (NYSE: SHOP). 

* In September 2015, Amazon.com announced it would be closing its Amazon Webstore service for merchants and had selected Shopify as the preferred migration provider. 

* In January 2017, Shopify announced integration with Amazon that would allow merchants to sell on Amazon from their Shopify stores. 

* In April 2018, Shopify announced a partnership with Deliv to offer same-day delivery capabilities to Shopify retailers. 

You can learn more about Shopify at: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify 

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What this means for SFI affiliates: 

* With easy integration with the Rewardical loyalty/rewards program for Shopify merchants, shopping choices can increase exponentially. Indeed, over 600,000 online sellers use the Shopify platform and can now instantly add Rewardical support to attract and retain customers! 

* If you're currently a Rewardical ECA (RECA) or have been thinking about becoming an RECA, consider setting up your store on Shopify. By doing so, all purchases are verified and you can enable easy, instant auto-payments knowing all claims for tokens are valid. 

And don't forget!... 

* Every Rewardical that is dished out by an RECA or Localvantia merchant generates CV (Commission Volume). That means a Direct Commission paid to the referrer, Co-Sponsor Commissions (if buyer is an affiliate), and 12 compressed generations of Team Overrides can be earned on every sale. 

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Special notes for Sponsors and Team Leaders: 

Be sure you're talking to your group regularly about not only patronizing Rewardical and Localvantia merchants...but also referring new ones regularly! Rewardical and Localvantia can become SFI mega-goldmines once we have more vendors in place. 

Learn about pre-registering Localvantia merchants at: 

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=230690 

Learn about referring Rewardical ECAs at: 

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=232035 

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One more thing... 

As stated, this integration with Shopify is just step one. Step two involves building an app that Shopify merchants can use to plug into Rewardical even easier and that would be listed in Shopify's own directory of merchant tools. Watch for future announcements about this development. 

JOIN THE DISCUSSION: 

https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=138267 

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200,000 Total Rewardicals awarded in November Badge Quest drawings! 

We recently completed our November 2018 SFI & TripleClicks Badge Quest drawings...and 40 winners in each drawing will receive an equal share of the Rewardical bounty pots. 

See entire SFI Badge Quest winner list here: 

https://news.sfimg.com/2018/12/10/1118sfibadgequestwinners/ 

See entire TripleClicks Badge Quest winner list here: 

https://news.sfimg.com/2018/12/10/1118tcbadgequestwinners/ 

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NEWS BRIEFS: 

NEW VERSAPOINT CHART! Check out the VersaPoints chart we've just added to your Scoreboard tab (https://www.sfimg.com/Home/Scoreboard). You can now see, visually, your VersaPoints production during the month. 

SHOPIFY AND ETSY STORES AT REWARDICAL.COM: You can now enter the keyword "shopify" to pull up all Shopify stores currently registered so far with Rewardical. You can also pull up all Etsy stores by using the keyword "etsy." P.S. Be watching for another announcement soon about a feature that will allow you to identify the exact amount of CV (Commission Volume) each Rewardical vendor pays. 

ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR SHOPIFY STORES! With easy integration with the Rewardical loyalty/rewards program for Shopify merchants now enabled, shopping choices for Zing Network members can increase exponentially. Indeed, over 600,000 online sellers use the Shopify platform and can now instantly add Rewardical support to attract and retain customers! Get the complete details and join the discuss here: https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=138267 

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SUPPORT DESK QUESTION OF THE WEEK 

"Where can I find SFI's official time and date?" 

You can find the official time and date for SFI Corporate in the header of your SFI Affiliate Center beside your photo. All time and date sensitive deadlines for rank qualification, contests, drawings, etc. are based on SFI's official time and date. 

Have another question? See our Support Desk at: 

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/ 

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TOP MUST-READ FORUM POSTS 

How To help your PSAs and CSAs with your Free Rewardicals!
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?post_id=1568516#post-1568516 

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https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?post_id=1549541#post-1549541 

Celebrating 21st year!
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HOT FORUM THREADS 

Gold Team Leader (Not Pending) That Used Only Free Advertising...
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Don't Let Temporary Failures Get You Down!!!
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GREAT QUESTIONS: 

Featured questions and answers from fellow affiliates... 

How much and what kind of information do we send to the team?
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=134864 

If you could give ONE tip to a new PSA, what would it be and why?
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=86603 

How do you effectively use SFIM (SFI's instant messaging) to engage new PSAs when they're online?
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=77648 

Find more GREAT QUESTIONS at: 

https://www.sfimg.com/forum/threads?great_questions 

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For each auction you enter (with as little as a single bid), you are automatically entered into two different jackpots--Rocket Box and Supernova. 

You also get a free entry in the Pick-The-Bid contest for a chance to win 500 Rewardicals! 

PLUS...for each TCredit you "tip your pilot" (TCredits you choose not to receive back if you don't win the auction), you'll automatically earn at least 10 Rewardicals (which you can redeem for VersaPoints, PSAs, CSAs, and more). 

And if all that wasn't enough, you're guaranteed to win at least FIVE additional Constellation Prizes...SIX prizes if you're an Astro Auction VIP! 

That makes ASTRO AUCTIONS truly risk free! The worst thing that can happen is you spend one TCredit, and get several Constellation Prizes, an opportunity to win thousands of Rewardicals, a chance to win the item being auctioned, and other great prizes! 

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OR... 

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YOUR AFFILIATE WEEKLY TIP 

A good word can go a long way 

Check out the Recognition section at the SFI Forum and post a good word about your PSAs, upline members, and other SFI Affiliates for their good works, milestones, and more. This recognition is a quick, easy way to give kudos and encouragement to your active team members to remain active in their businesses and provide an example to your other affiliates. 

You can access the Recognition Forum at: 

https://www.sfimg.com/forum/threads?forum_id=36 

Or, learn more about the Forum at this LaunchPad Lesson: 

https://www.sfimg.com/LaunchPad/Lesson?id=63 

TIP: After you've made a recognition post, be sure to let the person(s) know so they can see what you've said about them. 

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SFI BY THE NUMBERS 

* 21st successful year for SFI (33rd for SFI's parent company) 
* 19,302 new Affiliates added last week 
* 7.9 million Zing Network Members 
* 209 million Rewardicals awarded to affiliates to date 
* 841,440 S-Builder sign-ups generated to date 
* Millions - Commissions paid out to our affiliates (in US Dollars) 

Earn Rewardicals now at 336 locations on 53,797 products and services! 

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If you're not already posting at the Forum, what are you waiting for?! Take a moment right now and check it out! 

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Must Read Post by Gliceria Pritchard

At month's end we see a lot of disheartened, disappointed and frustrated affiliates, 
Why? Many reasons: not gaining enough VP to qualify, or to reqalify is the chief spoilers among them. 
We hear/read a lot of negative posts, too, or such like with unresponsive sponsors/downlines. not enough money to buy TCredits, no time, no job, no device, not understanding the program, the list goes longer and longer.

It's a jungle of nerves out there especially during the last few hours of the month and after weeks of seemingly working hard, finally realise how close we have come and yet not able to arrive.

In the real jungle in the forest, it's always the fittest that survives. Why? Because the survivor normally is the strongest, smartest and most cunning of them all that share the forest and constantly challenge each others' right to survive.

In SFI jungle, it's nerves that fail us, not other affiliates, not the sponsors responsive or unresponsive, not the system which gives everything we need to survive and thrive, but our own frail nerves that weaken us and hinder us from doing a bit more, going further than an extra mile, and doing the very simple activity that's staring right in front of our homepage each time we log in - the DAILY TO-DO! 

This is the real enemy in our SFI jungle of nerves- our complacency and laziness/boredom or whatever that sidetracks our best efforts for the month. And this eventually ends in La La Land.

How to survive? JUST DO IT!

Tip of the Day

TIP OF THE DAY

A good word can go a long way

Check out the Recognition section at the SFI Forum and post a good word about your 

PSAs, upline members, and other SFI Affiliates for their good works, milestones, and more. 

This recognition is a quick, easy way to give kudos and encouragement to your active 
team members to remain active in their businesses and provide an example to your 
other affiliates. 

You can access the Recognition Forum HERE. Or, learn more about the Forum at 

this LaunchPad Lesson. 

TIP: After you've made a recognition post, be sure to let the person(s) know so they 
can see what you've said about them.

How can I become EA without investment?

Refer:
https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?post_id=572369#post-572369

Ask yourself if this is the example you really want to set. Keep in mind that building wealth in SFI is all about duplication. Do what you want to see duplicated. If you don't see the value in setting up a standing order why should anyone on your team. If all you can do is just enough to make EA each month with signing in every day, do at least that much. Nothing multiplied by nithing is still nothing. If each affiliate in a team of 10,000 affiliates purchased one t-credit each week for a month you would be well on your way to making a decent income. Set the pace by making the standing order you want to see.

Must Read Post by Gery himself

Refer: https://www.sfimg.com/forum/thread?id=138267&pg=2

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 Posted 13 hours ago, edited 13 hours ago  More by Gery

Mihai I. posted:

I would like to know however, how does this benefit me (or anybody like me), being just an EA or TL, who doesn't know or doesn't have an opportunity to refer a RECA, being just a normal SFI Affiliate?

From what I understand it's only by winning RWs, if you have someone in your down line, who does business with Shopify (buying from stores in that system)! How does that transform in money? Because buying from stores in the Shopify System doesn't give us commissions like when they are buying from Triple Clicks! (in pure logic, those stores are not ours, so there are not commissions for us - I understand that!)

So, how do we make money out of this opportunity? Can anybody tell me, please? Thank you!

In the announcement, I included the following:

Special notes for Sponsors and Team Leaders:
Be sure you're talking to your group regularly about patronizing Rewardical and Localvantia merchants.

I included this reminder because every Rewardical that is dished out by an RECA or Localvantia merchant generates CV (Commission Volume). That means a Direct Commission paid to the referrer, Co-Sponsor Commissions, and 12 compressed generations of Team Overrides can be earned on every sale.

So by simply having your group members patronize Rewardical vendors (both at Rewardical.com and local merchants in the Localvantia network), the same as if they bought something from TripleClicks, you make money! Simple as that!

And don't forget that your team members who do so can earn VersaPoints for EA status and/or PSAs, CSAs, Bitcoin, etc. just by going about their day, buying what they normally buy, and without spending any extra money whatsoever! This is such a fantastic program within SFI, I'm not sure why so many seem to be completely overlooking it's incredible benefits to everyone.