Open your eyes to your potential

You may not realize it right now, but inside you you have the potential to become very, very successful. Successful beyond your wildest dreams. So why aren't you? By and large, it's because our schools, governments, teachers, professors, and clergy don't teach you this!
On the contrary in fact, you've been programmed your whole life to accept mediocrity, to believe that conforming and compromising is the way you go through life and that real success is unachievable except for the "privileged." Of course, people that have become highly successful have learned this is not true at all and they have broken out of these artificial constraints...and so should you!
For me, it was reading the classic book "Think And Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill at the age of 22 that opened my eyes. I was also greatly impacted by "The Magic Of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz. I still highly recommend these books to anyone who wants to do great things in their life.
I also recommend one of the world's most famous success experts and authors, Jack Zufelt, as someone you'll want to familiarize yourself with.
Like Napoleon Hill and David Schwartz , Jack opens your eyes to your true potential. Indeed, what Jack teaches is so powerful he has been interviewed on over 2,000 radio and TV talk shows. PBS aired a special about him that was broadcast via satellite to 127 countries. The United States Senate honored him for teaching Americans how to achieve more success in their personal lives and careers. He was even awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit by the President of the United States!
Jack's books and CDs can literally change your life and I highly recommend them to all our affiliates! Check out all of Jack's products at: http://www.jackzufeltspeaks.com/

"Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune."
-Jim Rohn
"Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got."
-Jim Rohn
"Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits."
-Brian Tracy
"The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!"
-Jim Rohn

Leaders are readers

It's ABSURD to think you can succeed in SFI if you're not visiting the SFI Affiliate Center at least once a day and reading the latest information and updates. EVERY DAY, at the very least, you should be checking all of the tabs on your SFI homepage (Alerts, Tips, To-Do List, Stream, Scoreboard, Movers, etc.). You should also be reading the latests posts on the SFI Forum. If you're not reading all or most of these things, you are clearly NOT serious about SFI and you will therefore not succeed.

Tip: I post multiple times at the SFI Forum almost every day, including weekends. By reading my posts, you'll gain a LOT of insights into the direction of the company. You can easily follow all my postings by clicking the "Follow" icon behind my name and then using the Follow monitoring feature of the Forum.

But don't stop with the SFI Affiliate Center. Go out on the Web every day and subscribe to marketing newsletters, read business blogs, etc. There's an absolute wealth of information out there, much of it now 100% free thanks to the Internet. And, of course, there are books galore that will allow you to run circles around the non-readers of the world.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written. Go out and get it...and read it. It's one of the easiest ways to climb the ladder of success.

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you! If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you!"
-Zig Ziglar

"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do."
-Albert Einstein

"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
-Sidney Madwe

YOU make it happen, no one else

Not only is this a key rule in SFI, but I consider this to be amongst THE most important lessons in life. NO ONE ELSE can make you successful. It's all up to you. YOU are the "master of your destiny" and responsible for your own success. Period.
Conversely, there's not anyone or anything that will make you a failure. It does no good to blame the economy, your education, or whatever bad breaks you've had in your life. Doing so means taking on a victim's mentality. DON'T EVER DO THIS. I can guarantee you that many thousands of people have succeeded despite having it much worse, so don't make excuses and don't convince yourself that you're somehow a victim.
And the grass isn't any greener on the other side either. You have now (or can acquire) everything you need to be successful. Just remember that it's up to you and nobody else. Then go out and do it.

Now, for those who might be thinking, "well, that's easy for you to say, Gery!"…the fact is, I've achieved what most people would say is extraordinary success, but it was not handed to me, not by any stretch. I come from a very small Nebraska town and very humble beginnings. When I started in business I had no business education, no experience, and no money to invest. And it took four long years (the first two moonlighting into the wee hours of the night while holding down a full-time job), before I ever saw a profit. I had no mentors, no great upline leaders or sponsors to guide me, nor any wealthy relatives to come to my aid. But I decided I was going to become successful and I did. And I've put in the work every day for over 30 years now to stay successful.
So...it's not your sponsor. It's not your upline. It's not the economy. It's not the government. It's not the compensation plan. It's not any of these things or any other obstacles perceived to be in your way. If you want to become successful, you can go around the obstacles, go over, go under, or go right through them. Success is yours if you want it, but ONLY YOU control this. Always remember: "If it's to be, it's up to me."

"I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future."
-Unknown

"I found it easier to get rich than I did to make excuses."
-Jim Rohn

"He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
-Benjamin Franklin

"I used to say, 'things cost too much.' Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, 'The problem isn't that things cost too much. The problems is that you can't afford it.' That's when I finally understood that the problem wasn't it-–the problem was me!"
-Jim Rohn

"Don't wait for someone else to make your life terrific. That's your job."
-Unknown

YOU succeed only if THEY succeed

You know what the number one complaint we receive is? It's affiliates telling us that their sponsor/upline doesn't support them, never answers their emails, never communicates with them, etc.

Think about this. Do YOU want to make money for someone who demonstrates no support or assistance? Of course not. It's the same thing with the affiliates you sponsor. If they feel you do not care about them, they will not want to build their SFI businesses because they will not want to see their hard work benefiting some stranger they never hear from. Surely you don't want your affiliates feeling this way!

If you're sponsoring affiliates and then leaving them to fend for themselves, just quit right now because you're guaranteeing failure for yourself. Every affiliate you sponsor is a potential goldmine for you. You MUST understand that only if THEY succeed, do YOU succeed. I can't stress enough the importance of understanding this rule!

And, yes, it's true you can't MAKE the affiliates in your downline successful (they have to want that for themselves), but let it never be said that you weren't there for your affiliates!

Start by opening up good lines of communication with all your affiliates. This is how you can teach your affiliates how to succeed in SFI and how you build relationships with your affiliates (very important!).

First, set up a greeting for your affiliates HERE. Once you've set this up, all of your new affiliates, upon logging in at the SFI Affiliate Center for the first time, will see an alert that you've left them a message. By clicking on this alert, they'll then be able to read your message. This is an easy, automatic way to get off to a great start in building relationships with your affiliates.

Next, you'll want to develop some form of regular outgoing communications to stay in touch, share ideas, and provide training. We recommend a weekly (or every-other-week) e-mail using the PSA Mailer. Just enter your message and hit submit to automatically send a message to all of your PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates).

Now, you may be new to SFI and/or business in general. You may feel you have nothing you can teach your affiliates. That's OK, you can learn and grow into the leader role over time. And, after all, all the training your affiliates really need is at the SFI Affiliate Center. But what you must never do is allow your affiliates to think their sponsor (you) is uncaring. If you do that, if you do not communicate with your affiliates, success will be a hundred times harder to attain.

Tip: For dozens of additional great tips and ideas for growing your team, see our Awesome Sponsor article.

"You can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want." 
-Zig Ziglar

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." 
-Napoleon Hill

"A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it can become." 
-Unknown

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it is amazing at what they can accomplish." 
-Sam Walton

Treat TripleClicks as YOUR store

As one of our affiliates, you and SFI are partners. Therefore, you need to think of SFI products as YOUR products. And you need to think of TripleClicks.com as YOUR store.

Because it is your store, when you buy products and services for yourself or others, you always need to shop your own store (TripleClicks) first.

If you owned a bakery, you wouldn't be buying cinnamon rolls from the bakery down the street. If you owned an office supplies store, you wouldn't drive to a competitor's store to buy a stapler or paperclips.

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It's the exact same thing as an SFI affiliate, especially when it comes to products you're ALREADY buying. Your store (TripleClicks.com) probably carries many products and/or services that you ALREADY purchase from a local store or other service provider. You should transfer those purchases...to YOUR store.

Remember, we're not talking about spending extra money, just changing from where you're buying.

So what's in it for you? What benefit do you get out of buying from your own store?

For starters, your purchases at TripleClicks earn you valuable VersaPoints, which are vital for you to advance in rank and unlock all the associated benefits. You also earn Rewardical Tokens with every purchase!

But it's goes much, much further than that. The fact is, SFI's success—and your success as an SFI affiliate—is tied directly to the success of TripleClicks (TC). The more successful TC is, the more successful SFI's affiliates will be.

A popular and successful TC means:

• Easier sponsoring of SFI affiliates 
• Easier referrals of members 
• More products & services 
• Better prices 
• Lower shipping costs 
• and MORE

...which all leads to larger affiliate commissions of course!

"When my mother and sister told me about SFI, I was very reluctant to even listen to them. As the year as progressed, I watched them enjoying themselves with SFI--especially my mother, who shows such enthusiasm for this program--my curiosity began to peak...I am now an SFI Affiliate and am reading and understanding all the possibilities that are open to me, which has made me believe that I have made the right choice and wish to continue on my journey of making my life better. What impressed me most about SFI was the fact that it is so friendly, open, honest, and reliable. The way each person above and below in my downline encourage and talk to each other, it's like a family that is all over the world. I am proud to be a member of the SFI family. I am on a JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY. Thank you."
 J. West, Zimbabwe

What they Say

"SFI has given me the opportunity to run a successful online marketing business and generate a progressive and successful second income. SFI is by far the best online affiliate program."

Work with the workers

Way too many people focus on QUANTITY. They sponsor dozens, even hundreds of affiliates–which is great–but it is ultimately QUALITY that is the real key. Once you've found or developed 3-5 topnotch affiliates, you're going to see a lot of great things happen with your commission check.

How do you develop quality affiliates? It's real simple: WORK WITH THE WORKERS!

When you see people who are working SFI in your group, work with them! Tip: You can easily locate these people by checking your "Movers" list on your SFI homepage daily. Support them closely, and train them to do the things you do so that you are creating duplication and maximum leverage.

It's of course more natural for us to let the workers in our group just do their own thing. After all, they got active without you even telling them to, they're already sponsoring new affiliates, referring members, etc. They don't need your help or support–or so you think.

Meanwhile, you're spending all your time trying to get the people who obviously don't "get it" to do something. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink—yet you continue to try.

You need to know that this is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing to build a successful business. I'm not saying you shouldn't follow up with those who don't immediately get active with SFI. You should. But don't spend ALL or even the majority of your time with this. And DEFINITELY DO NOT IGNORE your workers!

Indeed, the way you create those 3-5 "top-gun" affiliates that you need is by treating them LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON THEM!

If you're not in touch with your best, hardest-working affiliates at least every week (email, phone calls, chatroom, or whatever), I'm sorry, but you're trying to win a race with a car that only has one wheel!

How many affiliates will you have to go through to find your top guns? That's of course difficult to say. What I can tell you though is that they're out there (or are ALREADY in your group), and you'll develop them so long as you deny your natural instincts and apply the proper focus (work with the workers!).

Just like in a deck of playing 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't quit, you'll eventually locate FOUR aces. It's the very same principle with SFI; the aces are there.

Keep sponsoring affiliates, work with your workers, and success will happen.

Tip: Don't waste time on skeptics or pessimists. They will NOT succeed in SFI or any other similar endeavor. They do not possess the qualities of a winner (this includes "rocking-chair advisors" who talk and talk, seem to know all the answers, but never act).

"Eagles don't flock–you have to find them one at a time."

-H. Ross Perot

Lead By Example

If you want your affiliates sponsoring affiliates, referring members, etc., then make sure YOU are are doing these things. Do these things and become proficient in these things so you can show and teach your affiliates the best ways to do them.

In the key area of duplication, your affiliates are definitely watching! Show them what it means to be a strong, active sponsor and THEY will become strong, active sponsors and help you further your growth and profits.

Leading by example works in the negative, too, of course. Want a downline of affiliates who do nothing? Then do nothing and that's what you'll likely get!

So...the rule is real simple: Whatever you want THEM to do, YOU do, because they are following your lead!

Tip: Becoming a TripleClicks Booster Club member is a great way to lead by example. A prestigious "Booster Club Member" badge will reflect this status. Your PSAs and CSAs will see this badge on your Leadership Page and your Affiliate Snapshot. Make sure you are sending everyone in your group the right message!

"A leader can shape his followers best by showing them the way forward rather than telling them about it." -Unknown

"A leader is someone who is ahead of the pack. Even if it is only by one inch. They are doing, or have done, what they want or expect others to do. They are not watchers nor do they wait around. They take action...proper action....a lot of proper action! And they never give up!" 
-Jack M. Zufelt

"You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.”
-Jim Leyland

DO something to grow your business every day

You will not create a successful business by thinking about it. You will create a successful business ONLY by DOING...by TAKING ACTION every day. Every day, no matter what, make sure you're doing SOMETHING to further your business. If you're not, you're not even in the game, you're kidding yourself. No business becomes successful without daily focus and action.
What can you do daily? Here are just a few ideas:

• Follow up with recent prospective members.
• Review your SFI Affiliate To-Do List.
• Send out some E-Cards.
• Try out a new SFI Marketing Aid.
• Send out some postcards.
• Review the LaunchPad Lessons.
• Read the latest ecommerce articles at ECommergy.com.
• Send out a newsletter to your PSAs.
• Read an SFI training article you haven't read yet (or review one you have).
• Contact your sponsor, let him or her know what you're doing.
• Go to Google and search for articles on how to become a better marketer.
• Browse TripleClicks for new products you can recommend to your customers.
• Review the latest posts on the SFI Forum.
• Review your Genealogy and Member List.
• Review the Hit Tracker page to maximize your marketing efforts.
• Start a co-op and invite your PSAs to join.
• Add some prospects to your Rewardical ECA database.
• Review your "My Movers" report (on your SFI homepage).
• Review "My Goals" (on your SFI homepage).

Tip: Don't forget to use the SFI Power Tools we've made available to you. Put the power of key codes, hit tracking, setting up your own co-op, the PSA Mailer, the CSA Mailer, reassignments, and more to work for your business. To not use these best-of-the-best tools is to operate your SFI business with two arms tied behind your back!

"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
-Alexander Graham Bell
"The future is purchased by what you do in the present."
-Unknown
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the cumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads us to either fortune or failure."
-Jim Rohn
"Approach the start of each day with something in mind and end the day with one word...DONE."
-Unknown
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals."
-Jim Rohn
"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treat your business...like a business!

If you purchased a franchise, would you expect it to make money for you if you only worked it a few hours a week? Or if you didn't get trained? Or if you only tried for a few months? Or if you didn't follow the proven guidelines of the creators of the franchise?

Of course not! That's ridiculous. SFI is no different. Success requires commitment.

I am continually amazed at how many people think that money will somehow magically fall from the sky without work, without plans, or without an earnest commitment. All these elements (and others you'll read about in the following rules) MUST be present.

The fact is, anything worthwhile in life requires effort and commitment. If that were not true, we'd all be the perfect weight, we'd all have perfect relationships, and we'd all be highly educated. It's the same thing with having your own business.

In short, if you treat your SFI business as a serious, full-time business, put in the effort and commit to its success, it will become a serious, full-time business.

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans." -Peter F. Drucker

"You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers." -Les Brown

"There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." -Wayne Dyer

"There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between." -Pat Riley

Sponsoring New Affiliates

Introduction to Sponsoring

Do you know anyone who might like to earn some extra cash (or a full-time income) working from their computer?  We bet you do!  And even if you don’t know anyone like that, rest assured, there are millions of people around the world who ARE looking for just such a vehicle. We’ll show you how to connect with them...using simple but powerful marketing tools we provide to you at no cost...and with our inexpensive, plug-and-play co-op advertising programs like S-Builder Co-op.

And it’s easy to attract people because SFI is 100% free to join, there’s never any obligation or sales quotas, and no experience is necessary.

So, without ever having to twist anyone’s arm, you introduce people to SFI. They then start making Internet sales. And because you were responsible for them joining SFI, you could be eligible for Matching VP (and, therefore, more shares in the Executive Pool) for every sale THEY make! And not just once, but for every sale they make, month after month, year after year...for life (i.e. Residual Income)!

Imagine having a dozens or hundreds of people generating sales every month...and YOU earning a portion of every sale!  This is the power of sponsoring other affiliates in SFI.

In lessons to come, we'll show you just how easy it is to get started in sponsoring.

TIP: Did you know that studies show that the average 21-year old already knows over 800 people? Check our "Who do you know?" list for ideas for people you can introduce to SFI.

From the chapter Introduction to Sponsoring

S-Builder Co-op & PSAs to Go

Building your SFI downline is key to growing a profitable SFI business. And you'll find numerous training aids, strategies, and lessons at the SFI Affiliate Center to help you do so–including this page in your Sponsoring Affiliates Training section, marketing aids and strategies for promoting SFI, the Team Building section of the SFI Forum, and more. 

That said, some new SFI Affiliates trying to set up their businesses might not have the time or the knowledge for finding quality Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSAs) and creating a strong team. If you would rather leave this task to the professionals until you get up to speed with your own marketing efforts, consider joining our S-Builder Co-op and/or purchasing PSAs To Go at TripleClicks. 

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S-Builder Co-op

S-Builder is our international advertising co-op, available to all SFI affiliates, designed to help you accelerate your path to success. S-Builder attracts new affiliates in worldwide advertising campaigns.

You simply purchase one or more monthly shares and in a few weeks begin to receive new sign-ups (both PSAs and PRMs) assigned with YOU as the sponsor/referrer. Of course, you'll also receive all related commissions for these PSAs and PRMs!

A share (or unit) of S-Builder is as little as $22, or just 72 cents a day. There are a limited number of spots available in the co-op each month, so don't wait too long during a given month to sign up! To get complete details for S-Builder, check out the S-Builder central info page.

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PSAs To Go

PSAs To Go also offer newly joined SFI affiliates–assigned to YOU as their sponsor, but for direct purchase (instead of as a share of an advertising co-op). You can purchase PSAs To Go in packs of 10, 20, or 50, starting at $39. PSAs To Go are generated through a third party working directly with SFI, from targeted campaigns–directed at people who actively search business opportunities from all over the world. NOTE: You can exchange your Rewardical Tokens for PSAs and/or bid on third-party generated PSAs at Astro Auctions.

As we mentioned above, YOU will be the personal sponsor for the PSAs you receive via S-Builder and PSAs To Go. Each time they place an order at TripleClicks.com, you'll earn 20% of the CV (Commission Volume). Teach your new PSAs how to sponsor and duplicate, and these PSAs can eventually become a group of thousands of affiliates in your downline. What's more, an Auto Delivery for S-Builder and/or PSAs To Go makes a great way to automatically add fresh, new Affiliates to your team every month. 

TIP: Add S-Builder Co-op to your auto-delivery, and get unlimited PSAs To Go at its lowest price of just $1.99 each!

Introduction to Internet Sales

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Introduction to Internet Sales

As an SFI affiliate, you’re now partnered with one of the fastest growing and most popular e-commerce sites on the Web today, TripleClicks.com. With tens of thousands of products from around the world, 24-hour penny auctions, fun and engaging online games, and more, TripleClicks has something for everyone–and that makes online selling both lucrative and fun!

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Here’s the basic method:               

1. Go to TripleClicks.com and find a product you want to sell.

2. Use the product’s provided affiliate link, a special link that includes your SFI ID number (11555110) so you’re credited with the commission.  Use the link in your emails, social media posts, etc.—or use the product’s banner on your blog, personal website, or third-party websites.  To get an affiliate link, click the "SFI Toolbox" button from the product's Details Page.

Note: Don’t worry if you don’t have any experience in advertising on the Internet. We’ll teach you everything you need to know, starting here with LaunchPad and through other great resources at your SFI Affiliate Center we'll be telling you about.

3. Each time someone clicks your link (or banner), becomes a free member, and buys the product, you earn a handsome 50% CV Direct Commission. Better yet, your work is now done! We take care of processing the customer’s payment and we fulfill and/or ship the product directly to your customer, all at no cost to you. And, of course, we notify you with an email each time you make a sale so you always know exactly how your promotions are doing and how much money you’re making!