Matching VP

Matching VP (Matching Profit Sharing)

As you learned in our lesson on PROFIT SHARING, for each VersaPoint you accumulate during the month, you will receive one share of the month's TripleClicks Executive Pool (provided you attain a minimum of 1500 VP during the month).  The more VP you score, the more shares you will directly earn from the pool (see your TO DO list for a complete list of available actions that earn you VP).
But you can earn even more shares by becoming a Team Leader.  By learning to lead and grow a TEAM of active SFI affiliates, you'll turn on one of the most lucrative components of the SFI compensation plan, that we call MATCHING VP.
Here's how it works:

• As a Bronze Team Leader, you'll earn matching VP on all EAs in your team within 6 generations (and on all your EA CSAs too)
• As a Silver Team Leader, you'll earn matching VP on all EAs in your team within 8 generations (and on all your EA CSAs too)
• As a Gold Team Leader, you'll earn matching VP on all EAs in your team within 10 generations (and on all your EA CSAs too)
• As a Platinum Team Leader, you'll earn matching VP on all EAs in your team within 12 generations (and on all your EA CSAs too)
• As a Diamond Team Leader, you'll earn matching VP on all EAs in your team within 12 generations (and on all your EA CSAs too), plus double matching VP on EA affiliates on your 12th generation

Matching VP Example: You are an Silver Team Leader.  The EAs in your first 8 generations and your CSAs account for a total of 57,500 VP this month, so YOU earn a matching 57,500 shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

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The Key

The most important thing to understand about Matching VP is that it is the powerful LEVERAGED INCOME component of our compensation plan, one of the two most important elements for building wealth, as explained in this LaunchPad lesson.  So, as a Team Leader, one of the things you'll most want to do is help all of your members score lots of VP every month...because for every VP they score, YOU will earn another share of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.  The higher they go, the higher YOU go!
But it goes much farther.  That is, every month you can earn matching profit shares on every affiliate you sponsor.  But you can also earn matching profit shares on every affiliate THEY sponsor...and that THEY sponsor...and so on...down a full 12 total generations on your team.  Indeed, many of our affiliates earn thousands of matching shares, some hundreds of thousands of matching shares, each month on the activities of hundreds of affiliates within their 12-generation team! 

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How to grow your Matching Shares

Whenever you refer someone to SFI, you become their "Sponsor."  As their sponsor, help them get started.  Teach them, encourage them, and cheer them on! Soon they will be scoring VersaPoints and sponsoring their own affiliates and adding generations of even more affiliates to your team!  As this "duplication" continues month after month, your earnings can grow exponentially as you begin earning thousands of additional profit shares.
TIP: A good way to get your team members to score a lot of VP is to "lead by example" and score a lot of VP yourself.  How will they know you're racking up copious amounts of VP?  Your badges on your Leadership Page, your position on the VP Leaderboard, etc. tell the story.

Traffic Exchanges

Traffic exchanges work if you have a free report that can show people how to generate traffic and have them sign up to your auto responder or otherwise enter a sales funnel they will follow when not surfing. When surfing every second is looking for new ways to get traffic, increase conversions and work less.
TE and Safelist do work if you work them but it takes work and a lot of it if you are looking at only the $5 CPA or Cost Per Action (referral) like you are. My bet however is you saved a minimum 30 hours of your labor clicking by upgrading or buying traffic. Even at $3 per hour you would have received $90 in life you didn't have to invest via time in your surfing. That already is a $40 profit meaning you actually got paid when real world value is figured to get 10 possibly future active referrals.
Don't count any of the 10 which is a great number out. I have a top PSA who was inactive for over a year before getting serious about SFI. I have two others who have recently gotten excited because of Opti Build. Never call any inactive as most are simply looking for more information and it's your job to give that to them in your weekly team mail.
Andy Zeus Anderson

Learning is the beginning of Wealth

Learning is the beginning of wealth !
Training Library
At SFI, we strongly believe in making sure our affiliates have the training and information needed to build profitable businesses—after all, we succeed only when you do!
That's why we've packed the Training Library at the SFI Affiliate Center with tons of helpful articles, tutorials, and how-tos covering a wide variety of business topics.
*.Here, you'll find links to exclusive, in-depth advice, tips, tutorials, and more for every aspect of your SFI business.
Training
Generating TripleClicks Sales
Articles and tips for generating sales at TripleClicks.com. www.sfimg.com/Training/ReferralTraining

Sponsoring Affiliates
Tutorials and follow-up advice to attract new affiliates and mentor your team. www.sfimg.com/Training/SponsoringTraining
LaunchPad
Getting Started Training www.sfimg.com/LaunchPad/
Getting Started
General in-depth tips and how-to's for getting started with your SFI business. www.sfimg.com/Training/GeneralTraining
Rules of Success
The ABSOLUTE most vital tenets of your SFI business that when followed, bring success. www.sfimg.com/ROS/Index
The Diamond Plan
THE plan for maximum success and income in SFI! www.sfimg.com/the_plan
TCard Guide
An extensive guide to help you distribute your TCards. www.sfimg.com/Reference/TCard
Expert Reports
Articles and reports from around the Internet you should be reading. www.sfimg.com/Training/ExpertReports

Strategies For Referring ECAs
A great tutorial for referring ECAs, including example letters, scripts, and more. www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies
Internet Income Course
How to start and run a profitable online business. New courses added each month! www.sfimg.com/Training/InternetIncome
Affiliate Tips
Valuable insights, tips, shortcuts, and more from fellow SFI affiliates. www.sfimg.com/Support/index?category=26444&folder=266711
Ask Gery
SFI President and Founder, Gery Carson, answers your "big picture" questions. www.sfimg.com/Reference/AskGeryArchive
Ask SC
Grow your income by growing your knowledge! www.sfimg.com/Training/AskSC
Access the Training Library HERE. www.sfimg.com/Training/
In other words, your success in SFI is very much dependent upon reading and learning. If you want to build a great and profitable business, the Training Library is probably your greatest ally. Don't try to reinvent the wheel. And don't spend years learning how to become successful by trial and error–when the Training Library has the answers you need right now, today.
All you have to go read and, more importantly, apply what you've learned.
"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers." –Harry Truman
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." –Margaret Fuller

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 "My 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 TC 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 TC 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: Having a Standing Order (SO) at TripleClicks is a great way to lead by example. Your Standing Order 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 prospects.
• Send out some E-Cards.
• Place a classified or other type of ad.
• Send out some postcards.
• Review the LaunchPad Lessons.

• Review the Internet Income course.

• Send out a newsletter to your PSAs and your CSAs.

• 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.

• Check the SFI News and SFI Power Tips blogs.
• Review your Genealogy and TC 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 ECA database.
• Review your "My Movers" report (on your SFI homepage).
• Review "My Goals" (on your SFI homepage).
• Review the latest posts on the SFI Forum.

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

SFI Basics

Welcome to SFI's exclusive Affiliate "getting started" program, LaunchPad™...and congratulations again on your decision to join the Strong Future International team! We're excited to be building something great together with you!

LaunchPad will provide you with the training you need to build a profitable SFI business. When you've completed all the lessons, you'll have a great foundation to build your business upon.  

Note: Although you're certainly free to jump ahead if you want, we do suggest you read each LaunchPad Lesson in order. We've arranged our LaunchPad lessons to take you through the many aspects of SFI in a clear, step-by-step manner–introducing basic concepts and terms and then building on those topics. In this way, you'll gain a growing understanding of all SFI has to offer you, while avoiding unnecessary confusion.

TIP: If you ever need to review a lesson, LaunchPad is just a click away from the Affiliate Center.

Okay, let's get started!

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Success starts here

Every successful program has a core component.  In SFI, the core is the 15 "daily action tabs" on your Affiliate Center homepage.
Each of the 15 tabs provide vital knowledge and information–customized just for you.  Day by day, these 15 tabs will teach and guide you how to become a highly successful SFI affiliate.  But it's absolutely essential that you thoroughly read, digest, and, most importantly, consistently APPLY the information to your business.  We cannot stress this enough!  Just scanning the information will get you nowhere.  If you want to build a profitable SFI business, you MUST use and apply the knowledge you're receiving.

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Valuable bonuses too!

As you go through the 15 action tabs each day, you'll also be picking up valuable bonuses!  For 12 of the action tabs, you can earn 1 VersaPoint each day.  That's approximately 360 additional profit shares for you each month–over 4,300 extra profit shares for you annually!  You can also pick up free valuable extra entries in the Daily Grand drawing to win great business-building prizes.

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The most important thing

In the following LaunchPad lessons (and from other channels too), a lot of information is coming your way.  Don't worry, you'll get the hang of everything soon enough, but whatever you do, don't forget what this lesson has told you:

1. Review your action tabs every day
2. Apply what you learn

If you do nothing but these two actions, success is virtually guaranteed.  So set a goal for yourself NOW to do these two actions every day, starting today!

...and REMEMBER:

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

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How to build up your SFI team?

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 also bid on third-party generated PSAs at Pricebenders 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 45% 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. For each that becomes an EA, you can earn lucrative Matching VersaPoints! What's more, a Standing Order 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 standing order, and get unlimited PSAs To Go at its lowest price of just $1.99 each!