Anyone can earn commissions as an SFI Affiliate...but to make BIG money, you've got to lead and grow a team of active SFI affiliates. This leads to DUPLICATION and LEVERAGED INCOME—the key to building a great income in SFI!
Start creating your team and maximizing your commissions right away by following the SFI Advisor DO & DON'T guidelines below.
Parlay your way to success every month. The fact is you have to invest SOMETHING to build a successful business. It can be money. But it can also be "sweat equity," hustle, and just plain effort. Parlaying your way to success means starting with small, reachable goals—e.g., referring two new PRAs in your first 30 days—then using those resources to develop your business into something better, month after month.
Use your Icebreakers tool to directly engage with your new PRAs. Begin by clicking the Affiliate Snapshot link in your New PRA Notification email. Then select the handshake icon located behind their name to initiate an Icebreaker. Icebreakers are ONLY available during a new affiliate's first 30 days in SFI, so don't wait too long to send an Icebreaker! Learn more.
Send out weekly newsletters to your team. Use your Referrals Report group mailer function to send messages, newsletters, and other notifications to your organization. No need to worry about messages going to bad e-mail addresses or opted-out affiliates as our system automatically filters those out for you. Your messages will be sent to both the registered e-mail address AND to the SFI TeamMail inbox of each recipient. Not sure what to say? Pick up some good ideas HERE.
One caveat to keep in mind: Stay focused on publishing valuable information each week and not on getting a lot of responses. Remember, most people are highly skeptical that they can make money on the Internet. Over time, your consistency will demonstrate that SFI is real and that you're real, and then they'll want to jump in. Think of your weekly newsletters as follow-ups. Most people have to be exposed to something at least 10 times before they even notice it—and it often takes many more exposures before they will take action. Use this knowledge to your advantage with a regular, weekly newsletter!
Answer all your PRA emails and inquiries ASAP (within 24 hours or sooner). YOUR JOB, as an SFI Advisor, is to be available to your referred affiliates. That means offering prompt guidance and support when they reach out to you. This is how you build relationships with your affiliates and teach them how to become successful in SFI.
Think big and act boldly. As our SFI slogan says, aim high and dream big! Small desire produces small results, just as a small fire produces little heat.
Spend a few minutes every day at the SFI Forum. Be visible to the SFI community as a whole and to your downline, especially by posting regularly. Share tips and answer questions from other posters. Show your affiliates that you're a leader at the Forum too! You can even earn extra income through tips for valuable Forum posts.
Check ALL SFI Forum posts from your team. Your PRAs will appreciate seeing their Personal SFI Advisor leading by example on the Forum and responding to their posts. Click the TEAM-POSTS link at the top of your SFI Forum page to view all posts from your PRAs.
Collect and tout your SFI Badges. When your team members view your Affiliate Snapshot or visit your Leadership Page, they'll see all your impressive SFI badges arrayed on the page. As we said in DO #1 above, your PRAs will do as you do. Therefore, make sure you lead by example by earning and displaying badges on YOUR page for actions you'd like your affiliates to take, such as: an Auto Delivery, a high Power Rank Leaderboard rank, E365 finalist, etc. If your page isn't sporting these badges, don't expect your PRAs to work for them either.
Write a good tip to display on your Affiliate Snapshot and Leadership Page. Your tip will appear to your Affiliates under a "My Best Tip" heading. Make sure it's spell checked and the grammar is correct. This is one of the best places to show your team what kind of leader you are! Add/edit your tip HERE.
Recognize the good works and milestones of your referred affiliates. Everyone likes to have their accomplishments recognized! You can use a combination of venues, including the Recognition section of your Leadership Page, a Recognition post at the SFI Forum, your weekly team newsletters, and posts on your Stream page. Recognize new affiliates, affiliates who have advanced their level, and affiliates who are referring their own PRAs. Recognize milestones: first PRA sign-up, first PRM sign-up, first sale, etc. Also, be sure to recognize the advancements of your PRAs in the Entrepreneur365 Challenge.
Complete your Leadership Page. Check it weekly to keep it fresh. SFI Leadership Pages (LPs) are available to every affiliate currently advising SFI Affiliates. Your SFI Leadership Page (LP) provides a central Web page through which to support, instruct, motivate, and inspire your PRAs. Get instructions on setting up your LP HERE.
Add your own creativity to your marketing. From SFI Founder & President, Gery Carson: In the years before we launched SFI, I ALWAYS created my own marketing tools to promote the companies I was associated with, and it was a major reason for my success. And although you must stay within the boundaries of SFI's advertising policies, there is plenty of room to add your own touches, your own story, and your own style to create marketing that works for YOU.
Run an advertising co-op for your team if you can. Co-op advertising is a popular and VERY powerful method of advertising in which two or more people share the cost of advertising and the resulting benefits. It allows you and your PRAs to pool your dollars together to advertise, and then share in the resulting leads generated. Available to SFI Gold Affiliates and above, the free SFI Co-op Manager tool makes it super easy! It does all the heavy lifting and makes setting up and maintaining a team co-op simple and quick. Learn more in these SFI Co-op FAQs.
Rely on autoresponders or canned text responses. This kind of mechanical interaction leaves your team members cold...and more likely to quit SFI. Achieving success in SFI is about creating and maintaining genuine, strong relationships with your PRAs. THIS is what leads to duplication and big commissions for you and your Affiliates!
TIP: Print this article out and go through each item one by one.
How many of the DO's are you employing in your SFI business to create monthly growth?
How many of the DON'Ts could be sabotaging your success?