Welcome to your first issue of LaunchPad™! Over the next 30 days, LaunchPad™ will be providing you with the information you need to build a fun and highly-profitable SFI business. Each day will cover a different "bite-sized" topic so that you do not have to absorb too much information at once. And at the end of 30 days, you'll have a great foundation to build your new business on.
Feel free, of course, to jump ahead if you want. Indeed, you can start generating commissions today. That's totally up to you. It's YOUR business.
By the way, you may want to print out each day's edition of LaunchPad and place them in a 3-ring binder for easy offline reading and review.
Now let's get started with today's LaunchPad lesson...
We believe that simplicity is very powerful. Hence, we've designed SFI around a very simple concept we call "VersaPoints."
In short, the more points you earn, the more money you'll earn with SFI. More points also means valuable perks and "power tools" to help you fully maximize your profits.
How do you earn points?
Again, very simple. On your SFI Homepage, we list for you all the actions you can take to earn points.
Each time you complete an action, you instantly earn the points attached to that action. Some actions are worth 20 points, some 30 points, some as much as 100 points, and so on. Then, at the end of the month, we'll add up all the points you've earned during the month and award you the benefits accorded by your point total. It's that simple!
To see what these benefits, perks, and payouts are, see your SFI Benefits Chart.
By the way, to maintain your SFI affiliateship, you'll need to have at least 500 points every 60 days or be an active EyeEarner.
We also use your points for our Power Rank program. Power Rank allows you to see how you stack up against your fellow SFI'ers. The more points you accumulate, the higher your rank can go.
We rank you in three ways:
A. Your overall Power Rank tells you where you rank amongst ALL active SFI affiliates worldwide. Set your goals to become a "Top 1,000 Affiliate," a "Top 100 Affilate" or even a "Top 10 Affiliate!"
B. Your Country Rank tells you where you rank amongst the active SFI affiliates in your country. Show your fellow citizens that you're an SFI superstar!
C. Your Class Rank tells you where you rank amongst the active SFI affiliates in your class (i.e. all SFI affiliates who joined SFI the same day you did). Work hard and you can be the #1 affiliate in your class!
And, of course, don't forget that as part of LaunchPad™ Rewards, you can win one $1 (US) for every point you score, too—up to $1,500! Learn more. Note: Drawing eligibility is limited to affiliates joining SFI after 3/31/09.
TIP: You can check your current points total and also your current overall Power Rank, Country Rank, and Class Rank anytime at your SFI Homepage.
Now that you understand how our points system works and all the ways it can benefit you, there's one more very important element you need to understand:
That is, earning lots of points means you'll gain access to powerful resources and you'll earn the maximum commissions on the revenues in your SFI organization. But where do the revenues come from? They come from sales and purchases made at TripleClicks.com by the members you REFER and the affiliates you SPONSOR. In other words, You CREATE revenue in your organization by referring and sponsoring...and then you MAXIMIZE the commissions you earn on that revenue by achieving the maximum number of VersaPoints you can each month. Therefore, by focusing on referring and sponsoring, you can both create AND maximize your earnings with SFI.
 | 1. Ready to start referring members to TripleClicks.com? Click HERE. 2. Ready to start sponsoring affiliates? Click HERE. |
TIP: You can earn UNLIMITED points for the two above activities.
That's it for today's LaunchPad™. Now finish up by answering your first LaunchPad™ quiz below. You'll earn 20 VersaPoints for correctly answering today's quiz and you'll have the opportunity to earn a grand total of 600 points for all 30 LaunchPad™ lessons!
See you tomorrow!
SUMMARY:
1. Score lots of points!
2. Become proficient at referring members and sponsoring affiliates.
It's been a couple of days since you enrolled as an SFI affiliate, and you're probably wondering, "Who are these guys?" and "Is this SFI thing the real deal?"
Great questions. And you're absolutely right to ask them! After all, you've been invited to involve yourself with a company, and you should definitely know who you're dealing with.
Not only that, but when it comes to finding a legitimate business opportunity on the Internet, it’s a "minefield" out there—heavily populated with questionable, often-illegal money games and here-today-gone-tomorrow schemes. Make a wrong step or choose the wrong company, and you could lose big.
Yet deep down, you've probably figured that amongst all the "junk" out there, there has to be a few jewels. After all, the Internet is a huge, multi-billion-dollar marketplace; there's got to be SOMEBODY who's developed a real opportunity for cashing in on it.
We'd like to start showing you right now that SFI is indeed one of those rare jewels.
SFI's corporate headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska
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For starters, you should know that:
• SFI is now in its 12th successful year on the Internet. In that time, SFI has grown from just one product to multiple subdivisions and over 10,000 quality products and services.
• With over 8,000 new affiliates joining weekly, SFI is one of the fastest growing companies of its kind in the world. See the Global Growth Report to see just how fast!
• Since 1998, SFI has paid out MILLIONS of dollars in commissions to affiliates in over 190 countries. In other words, SFI is in virtually every country in the world! And in the process, SFI has become, truly, one of the Internet’s biggest success stories.
• SFI's parent company, Carson Services, Inc., is now in its 25th year of business and is a longtime member of the Better Business Bureau serving southern Nebraska.
• Working with SFI means having the peace of mind of working with a proven, debt-free company with a long, successful track record.
WHAT IS SFI'S SECRET?
WHY has SFI been so successful, while thousands of other would-be competitors have fallen by the wayside over the last 10 years? WHY has SFI become arguably the #1 affiliate program in the world?
We attribute it largely to the unique makeup of our affiliate program—a hybrid sales and marketing system exquisitely powered by the Internet. It probably also has a lot to do with the simple fact that SFI WORKS for so many thousands of people.
STILL NOT SURE?
Still not certain if SFI is a company with which you want to get active? Nothing wrong with that. Asking questions is smart. Tomorrow's LaunchPad asks a question of its own: "Are you on the 'Anti-Wealth' Plan?" which you're definitely going to want to check out. In the meantime, here are four more places for you to learn about SFI:
• Learn about SFI's history, company leadership, sub-divisions, and more.
• See what others are saying about SFI
Though painful to say, most people go through their entire lives on what we call the "Anti-Wealth" Plan. Others call it the "40/40/40 Plan." That is, work 40 hours a week for someone for 40 years and retire with $40 in the bank!
That's somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, but the U.S. Social Security Board, for example, has reported that 85 out of 100 Americans won't possess as much as $500 in savings by age 65. And only 2% will be self-sustaining; the rest will be dependent on family, church, or the government!
The main problem with a typical job is that when YOU stop, the money stops.
MAKE SURE you understand this: If you ever want to acquire real wealth, you're just not going to get there trading hours for money.
The world's wealthiest people have known for hundreds of years that if you want financial freedom, you MUST tap into at least one of the following:
1. RESIDUAL INCOME
2. LEVERAGED INCOME
Residual Income is income that keeps coming in month after month, year after year, from work you do just ONCE. It's like a royalty. An example would be writing a book or recording a song and getting paid forever on it. Wouldn't it be absolutely awesome to have that?! Well, with SFI you can!
Leveraged Income is earning money through other people's efforts. There are only 24 hours in a day. Hence, there's only so much you can earn through your own efforts. But with SFI, you can earn Leveraged Income (in the form of "override" commissions) when affiliates you've sponsored in SFI make sales.
Earn even more Leveraged Income when they sponsor other affiliates and refer TripleClicks members who make purchases...and when your affiliates’ affiliates sponsor affiliates and refer customers...and so on.
The fact is, by simply sponsoring a few good, active SFI affiliates, you can eventually have hundreds or even THOUSANDS of affiliates and customers putting money in your pocket from around the world...around the clock!
But that's not even the best part. Each affiliate on your sales team has his or her own vested interest to build and KEEP ON building his or her business and income. This, of course, means YOUR income can continue and grow month after month–even when you want to take a vacation or decide to retire altogether.
Rest assured, there are few things greater than returning home from a nice vacation to find a commission check even bigger than the month before waiting in your mailbox!
Bottom line: With SFI, not only can you earn "do-it-once, get-paid-forever" residual-style income, you also can earn Leveraged Income on the sales of thousands of other affiliates! If building financial security is one of your goals, you've found the vehicle to do it with in SFI.
If you haven't got started yet, it's time to hit your SFI To-Do List. By completing the actions on your To-Do List, you can start building a foundation for residual and leveraged income today.
By now, you've probably got some idea about what kind of marketing you'll be doing with SFI, but we'd like to break it down a bit more because it's such an important element of your new business. Indeed, it's the marketing you'll be doing that's going to generate the money you'll be depositing in your bank account!
First, let's look at what we know. We know that:
A. You're going to want to refer TripleClicks (TC) members.
B. You're going to want to sponsor affiliates.
You can do these activities one at a time, or you can do both at the same time, but you'll ultimately want to become a "master marketer" in both.
Now, you might think that mastering something you probably know little about is pretty far-fetched, but it's really not. We have thousands of SFI affiliates of all ages and backgrounds who started just like you—people who didn't know the first thing about marketing but who now can generate enrollments and sales with two arms tied behind their backs, so to speak. YOU can become just as proficient. All you have to do is get started and keep working at it.
So how do you get started? Well, thanks to SFI's amazing system, you can actually be on your way with your first marketing campaign—indeed campaigns!—in less than 30 minutes!
Here's how:
1. Go to our "R" (Referral) Methods page HERE.
2. Note the methods highlighted with a yellow background. These are methods that are free and can be put into action within minutes.
3. Put one or more of the methods into action...right now!
4. Next, go to the "S" (Sponsoring) Methods page HERE.
5. Again, note the yellow highlighted methods.
6. Put one or more of these methods into action now.
Congratulations! You've just put marketing campaigns for both referring TC members and sponsoring SFI affiliates into action.
Now you can sit back and wait for the commissions to start rolling in, right?
Sorry, but nothing worthwhile is ever THAT easy! To start seeing serious income, you'll have to employ other marketing methods as well.
But let's not discount what you just did either! As covered in a previous issue of LaunchPad, getting started is the key. Once you've gotten started, you've overcome the "inertia" that keeps most people stuck in dead-end lives, and that's BIG.
Speaking of big, here's a good way to think about your marketing:
Just as a small fire produces little heat, small efforts will produce small results. So, give yourself a little reward for lighting the fire today. But tomorrow, make plans to move your marketing up to the next level.
There are SO many methods available to you—everything from X-Cards...to postcards...to banners...and more. Build a BIG fire, build a BIG income!