"Optimizing Your Income in the New SFI" Updated for the New 2003 Pay Plan

Rarely does a day pass that I don't get piles of email from SFI members raving about what a terrific downline- building system Gery Carson of SFI has put together - particularly after all the brand new compensation plan enhancements that SFI continues to add every year. AND the many new products and programs that have been added to SFI as well.

As I rewrite this article in January, 2003, this is even more true! SFI has just greatly enhanced the compensation plan. It is now easier to understand and more profitable than it has been in the past 3 years. On top of that, there is also a brand-new flagship product that is getting top raves already!

I'm often shocked when I go online and check my Powerlines and notice that so many members could be earning more money if they would just take one or two simple steps that would cost them very little - but net them lots of income!

That's why I've developed this 5-step system to show you how you can quickly optimize your membership and build a full- time income in SFI. Please notice that this system works hand-in-hand with SFI's own "Six Steps to Six Figures:"

  To access the "Six Steps to Six Figures" Article:
      http://www.sfimg.com/Training/SixSteps.html

Let me just give you an overview. Then we'll go into each topic in detail.

There are 5 key steps to building an SFI downline quickly using the SFI system, optimizing ALL your multiple income centers, and growing a full-time income as a result:



STEP 1: LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THE SFI SYSTEM AND COMPENSATION PLAN.

STEP 2: GET MULTI-INCOME QUALIFIED (MIQ).

STEP 3: ACHIEVE POWERLINE TEAM LEADER (PTL).

STEP 4: SPONSOR AS MANY NEW AFFILIATES AS YOU CAN EVERY MONTH WITHOUT FAIL.

STEP 5: TEACH EVERY NEW AFFILIATE IN YOUR GROUP THIS SYSTEM.



I urge you to print out this article and read it over several days time. There is a LOT of information here that is critical to your success. Then refer back to it often as you begin building your business.

If you will jump right in and implement all 5 of these steps, I have no doubt that you'll be earning a full- time income much more quickly than you could ever have dreamed possible!

Let's talk about each step in detail.



1- LEARN EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THE SFI SYSTEM AND COMPENSATION PLAN.



I'm often surprised at the number of people who write to tell me that this or that MLM program "isn't working." In most cases, they don't even have the slightest idea what it would look like if it WERE working.

And they don't seem to realize that MLM companies neither work nor don't work. It is WE who must do the work and provide the power.

Any opportunity, no matter how great, is only a POTENTIAL until you start doing the necessary marketing and building. Programs don't work all by themselves. However, if you are new to SFI and have seen dozens of new people placed into your powerline without any of your own work, you may have come to that conclusion about SFI.

Please rest assured that no matter how terrific the SFI System is, it doesn't work all by itself. Someone in your upline is doing the work of building the Parent Powerline you are in!

For some of you, having your upline actually do something that benefits you is a new concept. :-) You haven't yet experienced that in your MLM travels. That is one of the reasons the SFI system is so terrific. It forces everyone to help their downline build THEIR businesses!

No matter how many people may have been placed under you, though, you're going to soon realize that all those people still aren't going to make you a lot of money until you get Multi-income Qualified (MIQ) and can build your own Personal Powerline - even if you have hundreds of other people below you!

If you have looked at the SFI compensation plan very carefully, you'll quickly find out that in order to earn the big money in the program, and qualify for the leadership levels, you'll need to start building YOUR OWN Personal Powerline.

You'll also note that just having one leg of people below you that someone else has sponsored won't directly pay you a penny! Those people DO contribute to the money placed into the bonus pools every month, which you share in when you qualify. But you don't directly earn commissions from their purchases - not unless YOU enrolled them.

In reality, once you are MIQ and qualify for commissions, you can earn from EVERY powerline in the company, and EVERY sale. What determines HOW MUCH you earn is what YOU have done to build your business.

And think about it: why should you make money for doing nothing? That's just not how it works in the real world. SFI would be foolish to pay you commissions for doing nothing to build the company and increase sales. After all, SFI doesn't grow if you don't do any work. And they don't have money to pay commissions if you aren't sponsoring people who buy product.

The really BIG money comes from the work that YOU do in SFI, AND the work that your personally-enrolled MIQ affiliates do.

That means that you need to be building your OWN Personal Powerline. The powerline that you joined is your "Parent" Powerline. It was started by someone else above you. That person very likely personally-sponsored you and most of the members of that powerline. The people below you are NOT your personally-sponsored members. (Unless you have already started referring people to SFI).

While you'll still get paid on these sales in the form of the bonus pools when you qualify, you make the MOST MONEY from you Personal Powerline and the people you personally enroll.

You see, once you have your own Personal Powerline, you become a Powerline Team Leader (PTL). This is the most important leadership level in the company, and SFI will reward you very well for it!

Being a Powerline Team Leader (or PTL), pays you for EVERY SVP point generated in your powerline, no matter who sponsored the person who buys the product or makes the sale. And if YOU are the sponsor, you get an additional 40% of every sale. On top of that, you earn a share of the PTL Bonus Pool, overrides on all the referrals YOUR referrals make, overrides on THEIR personal powerlines, and MUCH, MUCH MORE!

You see, working to become a PTL and getting your own Personal Powerline started will put a LOT of money in your pocket! And, best of all, it doesn't take very much work at all. Many new SFI affiliates achieve PTL in their very first month. But let's explain a few terms.

What is SVP? Quite simply, it is Sales Volume Points. Every product in the SFI line has a certain SVP assigned to it. You are Multi-income Qualified (MIQ) when you buy at least 10 SVP of product per month. We'll talk more about that later.

Folks, what you may not realize is that you can earn a VERY NICE full-time income from the SFI compensation plan. Once you make Group Leader, as I have, you will be there. In fact, you'll be VERY CLOSE to a six-figure yearly income!

One of the things that really drives me crazy when I look at my powerlines is the number of people who haven't done the small amount of work required to become a Powerline Team Leader (PTL)!

And when I talk to people about it, the excuse I often get is that they are waiting to first get in profit before they start buying co-op shares or doing other promotions to sponsor affiliates.

Well, I'm here to tell you, folks, that it is impossible for you to get in profit without sponsoring affiliates and starting your own Personal Powerline!

You are required by SFI to personally-sponsor 3 affiliates who get MIQ into your Parent Powerline before you can start your own Personal Powerline.

That's it! Just 3 MIQ affiliates. You could do it in your first month, even your first WEEK.

I'll repeat a very important concept again: you will make the most money by sponsoring affiliates and building your Personal Powerline! Building your own powerline makes you a Powerline Team Leader, and PTL's earn 8 of the 9 commissions in the SFI compensation plan.

The biggest benefit of becoming a PTL is that you'll start earning the 10% Gold overrides on ALL the MIQ affiliates in your Personal Powerline.

This bonus is really HUGE when you consider that you don't have to personally enroll those affiliates!! In fact, as we'll discuss later, EVERY MIQ affiliate in your Personal Powerline MUST give YOU 3 MIQ affiliates BERFORE they can start THEIR OWN Personal Powerline.

That just about insures that your Personal Powerline can keep growing forever! AND, that you're going to get those 10% Gold override commissions on more and more people EVERY SINGLE MONTH!

Take a look at the SFI compensation plan. Let's say you are MIQ, but haven't started your own powerline. Your sponsor has been really busy and has placed 50 MIQ affiliates below you.

No matter how many paying affiliates are in your Parent Powerline, you still ONLY earn from the ones you personally enrolled who become MIQ.

You'll earn 40% commissions every month on those people. But you DON'T get the 10% Gold Override, because those people aren't in your personal powerline. Nor do you earn a penny on all of those people your sponsor enrolled.

If that were YOUR personal powerline, folks, you would earn income on ALL 50 of those MIQ members!

So it doesn't matter how many sales happen in your Parent Powerline. They don't do you much good, unless YOU are the one that did the work. And if you are the one doing the work, you need to be doing it where it makes you the most money - in YOUR Personal Powerline.

The best possible strategy you could employ to build a full- time income as quickly as possible is to get your 3 MIQ affiliates in your Parent Powerline quickly. That makes you a PTL and starts your own Personal Powerline.

THEN start building it like crazy. That will pay you many more commissions and earn you much more income much more quickly!

If you haven't taken a look at the SFI compensation plan, you probably don't know that. You may even be pretty angry as you watch your Parent Powerline grow deeper and deeper, yet your check never goes up!

The piece of the puzzle you are missing is that you must EARN your bonuses. You must sponsor affiliates and earn Powerpoints.

SFI is NOT going to pay you commissions for doing nothing! No matter how many programs you see online who promise you that, you can be very, very sure that it isn't true! Companies cannot pay members for doing nothing simply because they don't earn any income to pay you with!

That's why it's absolutely ESSENTIAL that you understand the SFI powerline system and the SFI compensation plan! You cannot optimize your earnings if you don't know how the system works or how you get paid. It will never happen.

And there is no excuse for not knowing. When you first join SFI, as of January 1st, 2001, EVERY new affiliate is sent the Vital Knowledge training course. This course explains exactly how SFI works, and what you must do to make money with it.

On top of that, the SFI site is filled with information to help you understand the system and how to best take advantage of it. If you are serious about earning a full- time income from SFI, you must first begin by reading and learning this information. It is critical to your success.

You simply cannot earn the big bucks in SFI if you don't first understand how to qualify for the big bucks!

The place to start, along with Vital Knowledge, is the brand-new Affiliate Smart Start training program:

http://www.sfimg.com/SmartStart/default.html

If you do nothing else, make sure you go through Smart Start! It will quickly get you up-to-speed with how SFI works, how you make money, and how to build your business.

It will take up about 1/2 hour of your time, but it is worth every minute. On top of that, SFI will immediately award you with 2 SVP when you've completed the course. That SVP will help you qualify for the bonuses. So please do that FIRST THING.

You can access Smart Start and just about every other important page on the SFI site at the SFI Resource and Training Center:

http://www.sfimg.com/

To read about all the details of the new SFI compensation plan, just go to:

http://www.sfimg.com/CompPlan/CompPlan.html

I would urge you to read every article linked to the SFI Training and Resource Center.

Most of the questions I am frequently asked are addressed in these articles. If you don't like to read online, simply hit File-Print in your web browser. You can then read everything offline at your leisure. Plus, you can put the articles together in a notebook or file and refer to them often when you have questions. You should pay particular attention to the following articles:

Training:
  Affiliate Smart Start
  FAQ's
  Key Training Articles
  Marketing Strategies
  Six Steps to a Six Figure Income
  How to Do Effective Followups
  Smart Customer
  Affiliate Mastery Course
  Internet Income Course

Products:
  SFI Product Overview
  Intl. Assoc. of Home Business Entrepreneurs (this is SFI's flagship product!)

Resources & Reference:
  Marketing Resources
  SFI System Overview
  SFI Compensation Plan
  SFI Rules & Policies

In the yellow box to the right, you should also go through all the features of your Member Admin control panel. Just click on Admin, and enter your SFI ID and password.

Two other very important articles that I recommend you read are "Six Steps to a Six Figure Income" at:

http://www.sfimg.com/Training/SixSteps.html

And "Powerline Compound Interest" at:

http://www.sfimg.com/Training/CompoundInterest.html

In addition, you might also want to go to the SFI Newsletter Archives and read the last few SFI newsletters. That will get you up-to-speed with all the new enhancements and tools that SFI introduces on a regular basis.

The other place you should spend some time is our Member Support site at:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SFI/members.htm

This site is jam-packed with special tools, training, and resources that we have developed for our SFI downline. I earn a full-time income with SFI, am a Group Leader, and have a Personal Powerline of over 50,000 people. I can teach you to do the same thing if you will take the time to learn.

Yes, this is a lot of reading. But you don't have to do it all at once. Print out each article and then read a little bit every day. It will be the best investment you can possibly make in getting your business started right! And it will help you enormously when you start sponsoring new members and they ask you questions about the system.

SFI can earn you an income of thousands of dollars a month. And the SFI system will get you there faster than any recruiting system I've ever seen in my 15+ years in network marketing. So your investment of time right now is worth every minute you spend!



2-GET MULTI-INCOME QUALIFIED (MIQ).



I'm often surprised at the number of people who ask me why they have to buy product in addition to becoming a free SFI affiliate.

First, you need to understand that SFI and the SFI powerline system are a very powerful support system to help you build a downline in SFI. Gery Carson, the founder of SFI, put together the SFI system to provide every member with a quick and easy way to build an MLM downline globally and on the Internet.

Second, you need to understand that even though you can make a little bit of money without getting MIQ, that you will NEVER make the BIG money.

As a free SFI affiliate, you can retail the SFI products. But these products pay you a ONE-TIME 40% commission only. You'll have to sell a lot of products to a lot of customers EVERY MONTH to make a full-time income!

In contrast, becoming Multi-income Qualified (MIQ) allows you to earn from FOUR (4) different commissions and bonuses.

You won't just earn 40% one-time when you sell an SFI product. Instead, you'll earn 40% EVERY SINGLE MONTH that customer continues to buy!

On top of that, you'll earn 5% Bronze Overrides on all the sales in the powerlines of your personally-enrolled members! Over time, that is a HUGE bonus.

This is residual income that you'll earn month after month after month, without doing any extra work! My SFI commission check generates thousands of dollars from all these different bonuses every month.

And I earn that month after month after month on the work that I've done in the past PLUS work that my upline has done PLUS work that my downline is doing PLUS work that everyone in the company is doing. Now contrast that with the small one-time retail sales commissions from just selling SFI products as an affiliate with YOU doing all the work and spending money for promotion!

I'm sure you get the message. Those extra SFI retail sales commissions are a nice bonus. But the REAL money is in becoming MIQ and qualifying for 4 commissions and bonuses, which works along with the SFI powerline system to help you build an income as big as your dreams!

When you become Multi-income Qualified (MIQ), you will build residual income, the best kind there is, and it will grow month after month, whether you continue to work or not! Residual income allows you to "sell" the program to new affiliates once and keep earning from them month after month after month.

On top of that, once you get MIQ, SFI starts banking one share of the PTL Bonus Pool in your name EVERY month that you are MIQ!

That's right! SFI starts saving your bonus pool share, even though you haven't yet achieved Powerline Team Leader (PTL). They bank that in your name, then when you make PTL, you get a check for all the shares they've banked for you!

Last month, one share of the PTL Bonus Pool was worth $25. Think about that - that's almost the entire cost of getting MIQ to start with ($29.95)! And SFI is going to put it aside for you every single month until you make PTL. Then when you are PTL, it will become a regular part of your pay.

What if it takes you 6 months to achieve the level of PTL? Then you'll have 6 bonus pool shares banked in your name. If each is worth $25, then you'll get a nice check for $150 added to your commissions when you make PTL.

If it takes you a year, you'll have an extra $300 to look forward to. And remember - this is just ONE BONUS in the SFI compensation plan!

The SFI compensation plan is a model of simplicity.

There are no hidden traps or almost impossible requirements to meet to attain the leadership positions and earn a high income.

So many MLM programs have almost impossible requirements before they start paying their leaders a decent income. They often require thousands and thousands of dollars worth of sales before you reach that level.

Not SFI!

You just have to sponsor 3 MIQ affiliates to achieve PTL. And just 10 PTL's to achieve Group Leader. Each of those positions adds many bonuses to your check!

You can start making money in SFI right away as you start building your business.

The SFI program benefits part-timers, as well as "heavy hitters" and full-time network marketers. It is one of the most straightforward, yet still profitable, plans I've ever seen.

In fact, SFI boils the whole system of building a six figure income down to 6 very simple straightforward steps:

1. Become an affiliate.

2. Complete Smart Start.

3. Get Multi-income Qualified (MIQ).

4. Achieve the PTL qualifications. (Just 3 personally- enrolled MIQ affiliates).

5. Start your Personal Powerline, and add PTL income.

6. Develop new PTL's from your personal referrals and you'll become a Group Leader and add Group Leader income.

That's it! Six steps to a six-figure annual income! If you haven't read all the details of this simple plan, just point your web browser to:

http://www.sfimg.com/Training/SixSteps.html

Thankfully, the SFI compensation plan is so lucrative, that you are going to be making a LOT of money BEFORE you ever get to step 6! Let's take a look at how the new compensation plan works. There are 9 different bonuses and commissions in the SFI comp plan.:

BONUS #9: GROUP LEADER BONUS POOL:

Every month, 17% of all CV, company-wide (excluding first month sales), is placed in SFI's GL BONUS POOL.

All Group Leaders receive 1 share of the GL BONUS POOL each month for every 10 personally-referred PTL's (Powerline Team Leaders). Note: To count towards shares, the PTL's must be PTL-qualified for a minimum of two months.

Additional shares can be earned for developing Group Leaders within your Group (1 additional share for every 3 personally-referred Group Leaders).

Folks, once you start earning this bonus, you are going to be earning a full-time income from the SFI program. As I write this article, SFI expects each share of the GL Bonus Pool to amount to $2,000 or MORE!

But don't forget all the thousands of dollars you can earn from bonuses 1-8 BEFORE you ever achieve the level of Group Leader!

What you may not realize is that this new compensation plan pays PTL's many of the bonuses that were only paid to Group Leaders in the past. And these bonuses are worth 4 times as much!



There you have it! A compensation plan that pays you a share of ALL the sales made in the entire company, for every bit of work that you do yourself, for the work of your upline, and for the work of your downline. I can't honestly think of another thing SFI could have added to this compensation plan without putting themselves into bankruptcy!

It's without a doubt one of the most profitable compensation plans I've seen in the 14+ years I've been a network marketer. It makes it easy for the newest member to earn commissions, as well as richly rewarding the heavy-hitter who does a lot of work. It makes it easy to attain the leadership levels (which are usually almost impossible in most companies).

And it's also the fairest plan that I've ever seen. One thing you should notice is that SFI pays out 66%+ of all product sales in commissions. The norm for most MLM companies is about 40%, or even less when you take into consideration the way their BV requirements work.

SFI ends up making a very slim profit on your monthly subscription to their flagship product. And that has to be used to pay support staff, for the ever-expanding bandwidth requirements of the SFI web site and database system, and all the other overhead required to run a company with over 7 million affiliates.

MLM companies as a group just don't pay out these kinds of commissions to their distributors! And that's one of the big reasons that SFI has grown so explosively since SFI first came out, and why so many past MLM "failures" are achieving in SFI for the first time!

But you can't earn ANY of the income in this incredible compensation plan until you are an MIQ affiliate. Again, you aren't MIQ and eligible for all the bonuses in the comp plan just by becoming a free SFI affiliate. You must become Multi-Income Qualified (MIQ). Just go to:

http://www.sfimg.com/MIQ/

If you are currently only an SFI free affiliate, but not MIQ, you should go to that site IMMEDIATELY.

This is a no-brainer. Becoming MIQ will cost you about $29.95/month, if you join IAHBE. You get over $800 of bonuses when you join IAHBE, and you get over $100 of business-building tools, training, and software delivered to your door EVERY MONTH! And did you know that your membership is tax deductible, if you are a US citizen?

I know very few MLM programs with such a low monthly cost that can earn you as much income!

Joining IAHBE for $29.95 per month is about the cheapest way to earn your 10 SVP every month and get MIQ. Plus, you can place a standing order. That way, you don't have to worry about buying a different SFI product every month to make your MIQ qualification. You can set it up and forget it. Plus, you get lots of free benefits with IAHBE.

Folks, if you can't afford $29.95/month, you can't afford to go into business for yourself! Most of us spend more than that every month on junk that will never put a nickel in our pockets! This is an extremely low investment to make in your future. And remember, as soon as you get 3 MIQ affiliates, you'll be solidly into profit.

You cannot earn a good income from SFI without first getting MIQ. You won't be able to build a powerline or earn the 9 profitable bonusees in the pay plan. And it won't matter how many people your sponsor places under you. You won't earn a dime from any of them!

Do yourself a great big favor and get MIQ RIGHT NOW! Commit yourself to a business that can earn you a full- time income in a far shorter time than any other business opportunity. And will cost you a lot less!

Just go to:

http://www.sfimg.com/MIQ/



3-ACHIEVE POWERLINE TEAM LEADER (PTL).



Without your own Personal Powerline, you'll never make enough money in SFI to build a full-time income! Quite simply, this is at the heart of the SFI system. And once you understand it completely, you'll probably be struck by its absolute brilliance as a system for rapid growth!

But unless you completely understand the powerline system and the SFI compensation plan, you probably don't understand just how much money you can make from this system. We've already covered how much money a PTL can make in SFI.

Let me just go over some of the basics. When you first join SFI, you are placed into the powerline of the person who sponsored you. This is your PARENT powerline. The person who started your Parent Powerline is your Powerline Team Leader (PTL). This powerline is THEIR "Personal" Powerline.

Many of you were placed into my Personal Powerline, 11741. Since I started that powerline, I am its Powerline Team Leader (PTL). I've been with SFI since April 1999 and have been building that powerline ever since. Even though the system has been changed and greatly enhanced since my early days in SFI, the basic Powerline system has remained unchanged.

Please note that new affiliates were placed one under the other in that line when they joined from my special web site at SFI. Within just a few weeks, that powerline quickly grew to well over 250 affiliates. It currently has over 50,000 affiliates!

As you will note, a powerline can really grow quickly from a little bit of promotion. And over time, with all the affiliates in that line also sponsoring affiliates, it can really start to explode! And everyone in that line will benefit, since each new affiliate goes below them in that line.

Many of the affiliates in my powerline have achieved PTL and started a powerline of their own. Since they are in my Personal Powerline, their new powerline is a branch of that line. The SFI literature refers to these new lines as "offshoot" powerlines.

As my powerline grows and members begin to form their own lines, my total group is expanding. I benefit tremendously from this growth. When one of my personally enrolled members starts their own powerline, since I get 20% Bronze, Silver, and Platinum Overrides on their new powerlines.

And when anyone I didn't enroll starts their own powerline, I still earn the 10% Platinum Override on their new line.

Let's look at some examples.

My friend and business partner Darlene Loebel is the first person in my 11741 powerline.

When Darlene had 3 personally sponsored MIQ affiliates, she qualified to start her own Personal Powerline.

Her new powerline is 78059. Please note that since I personally enrolled Darlene and I'm a PTL, I start earning 20% in total Bronze, Silver, and Platinum Overrides on the MIQ affiliates in her new powerline.

And as more of those 50,000+ people in my 11741 powerline start new powerlines, my group will grow even more - even if I don't do any additional work! The more my downline expands below me, the more people I'll have paying me those very lucrative Override percentages.

As a PTL, I'll earn more and more Override Commissions without doing a single bit of additional work!!! Now that's where this system can really be powerful. With a working, contributing downline, your Overrides are going to start growing exponentially every single month once you become a Powerline Team Leader (PTL). And you won't have to do more work to make that happen.

Do you see why it is so important to work with your members and make sure they are working the system?

Eventually, the work of your downline is going to contribute the majority of your earnings in the program! Quite literally, they will enable you to retire.

Just dream a little bit and think about where you will be in 2-3 years if you really put in the effort right now. You should easily be a Group Leader. At that point, you really could retire and yet your income would just keep growing! Do you think that would be a worthwhile goal? Would that be worth putting in the extra effort right now?

For most people, the answer is a resounding YES!

Without this program, you probably have many more years of work to look forward to (or dread, most likely), and a small retirement income to live on at the end of that. Wouldn't you rather retire in 2-3 years, even if it meant a little bit of extra work and sacrifice right now?

Once you've become a PTL, the next goal you should be shooting for is Group Leader. Attaining this position will get you a share in the huge GL bonus pool. But it will do a lot more.

You see, you become a GL when 10 of your personally enrolled affiliates become PTL's. If you help those members get to that point, you'll become a Group Leader a LOT faster. But remember, it isn't just the GL Bonus pool that will put more money in your pocket. The more people you have starting their own powerlines, the more people you'll be earning Overrides on!

This system makes it possible to earn a lot of income from the work of everyone below you! And that's exactly what makes MLM such a powerful way to do business!

Please remember that in order to start a Personal Powerline, you must first be an MIQ affiliate. If you're not, you won't earn SFI commissions to start with, so it won't matter how many new SFI affiliates you can sponsor. If you want to make a LOT of money in this program, you must get MIQ. That will get you positioned for commissions.

Once you've become MIQ, you must also sponsor 3 MIQ affiliates into your Parent Powerline. Sponsoring those affiliates will give you the training you need to build a powerline and work with the people you sponsor. Once you have your Personal Powerline, you will begin earning 8 of the 9 bonuses in the SFI compensation plan.

You'll be earning overrides on your personal referral's powerlines, overrides on all the MIQ affiliates in your own powerline, overrides on the MIQ affiliates in the offshoot powerlines below you, AND a monthly share in the PTL Bonus Pool.

Now do everything you can to put some people into that new powerline. I especially recommend that you use our very special co-op advertising program, as we'll discuss shortly. Remember, since SFI is free to join, it's very easy to get new affiliates. Once they see how the system works and how much money they can make in SFI, many will soon get MIQ.

Every person you put into your own powerlines is YOUR personally-sponsored affiliate. And personally-sponsored MIQ affiliates are very important in the compensation plan, as we've already discussed.

At this point, you may be wondering why you have to delay starting that very lucrative Personal Powerline until you get 3 MIQ affiliates in your Parent Powerline. I was a little bit surprised after the new compensation plan came out about the number of complaints I got about this one requirement. But if you are a new affiliate, I can certainly understand your complaint.

At first glance, it appears that you are being forced to first help your sponsor before you get to start building your own Personal Powerline, where all the big money is at.

But I think that if you really take a good hard look at the results of this new policy, you are going to realize that what it provides to you as someone seriously trying to build a full-time income is: an AUTOMATIC, SUPER-CHARGED MLM SPONSORING MACHINE that will NEVER slow down once you set it into motion!

What at first glance appears to be a negative is in reality the VERY FEATURE that almost guarantees that YOU are going to make Group Leader in SFI, much quicker than you ever could before! And when you do, you are going to earn a very nice comfortable full-time income. In fact, that income is going to rapidly approach the six-figure mark! (And that's what we are all dreaming about, am I right? We are in a program called SFI - Six Figure Income).

Now unless you've really thought about this and taken a look at the numbers, you probably think that I'm absolutely crazy!

How in the world can asking you to put 3 MIQ affiliates in your Parent Powerline guarantee you a Personal Powerline that will just grow and grow and grow?

Well, let's take a really close look at what this policy is going to do to YOUR Personal Powerline, once you start it. Yes, you first have to put those 3 MIQ affiliates in your Parent Line. But I hope this discussion will have you so excited about the future growth of your OWN line, that you'll just run right out there and get those 3 out of the way as quickly as possible so that YOU can get to the REALLY good part!

And when you sponsor those 3, please remember that each one of them earns YOU 40%/month. AND, when they build their own Personal Powerline, YOU earn 10% overrides on their lines! So you still earn a LOT of money from those people you are required to put in your Parent Line.

Okay, so you've gotten that out of the way. You've "given" your PTL (Powerline Team Leader) 3 MIQ affiliates in their Personal line. Now you get to start your own. Well, guess what happens? Yep, that's right! Every single affiliate in YOUR new Personal Powerline has to "give" YOU 3 MIQ affiliates. EVEN the ones you didn't personally enroll!

And since YOU are now a PTL, you pocket 10%/month for every one of those MIQ affiliates your people "give" you, even though you didn't spend one red cent sponsoring them! On top of that, you get another 10% override on the powerlines THEY eventually start. And these are people you did absolutely NOTHING to enroll!

You "gave" your own PTL 3 MIQ affiliates (that you still earn a lot of bucks on, don't forget). But take a look at what happens when you sponsor 3 MIQ affiliates into YOUR new Personal Powerline.

Yes, EACH ONE of those 3 MIQ affiliates must now "give" YOU 3, for a total of 9. You put out some advertising dollars to get 3 MIQ affiliates, but you end up with 12! 3 that you sponsored, and 9 that THEY sponsored.

But it doesn't stop there. Those 9 MIQ affiliates your first 3 "gave" you are also in YOUR Personal Powerline. So THEY also have to "give" you 3 MIQ affiliates each, for a total of 27 MORE MIQ affiliates.

Let's see, we paid our hard-earned advertising bucks to sponsor 3 MIQ affiliates. And already, we can foresee getting 36 more as a result?

Well, yes and no! You see, those last 27 ALSO have to "give" you 3 MIQ affiliates apiece, for a total of 81 more. And those 81 have to give you 3 apiece, for a total of 243. And now we're already at the grand total of 363 MIQ affiliates.

But it still doesn't stop there, because those last 243 also have to "give" you 3 MIQ affiliates, for a total of 729. That puts our Personal Powerline at over 1,000 new MIQ affiliates that resulted from our JUST sponsoring 3.

Now will you ever again complain about how much it costs to sponsor an affiliate? Even if it costs you $50 to sponsor 1 affiliate, the potential of what they will add to your bottom line over the months is just enormous!

Our 3 MIQ affiliates in this example have ended up putting over 1,000 MIQ affiliates in our Personal Powerline. Do you know what that's going to pay you? Just from the 10% Gold Override, it puts another $2,000 a month in your pocket.

And it doesn't take into consideration the income those people will put in your pocket when you start earning Platinum Overrides on THEIR personal powerlines..

And don't forget - while your own Powerline is growing like gangbusters, many of your personally enrolled members are going to make PTL themselves. Just 10 of them and you are a Group Leader, earning shares in the very lucrative Group Leader Bonus Pool!

You are going to get to the Group Leader position FAR MORE QUICKLY with this new policy than you EVER could have in the past.

I made Group Leader on January 1st, 2001. But I did it under the old system. That meant that I had to have 300 MIQ affiliates in my powerline, 100 that I enrolled myself! Very few people made Group Leader under that system. This new system is going to produce hundreds of Group Leaders in a very short time!

You won't have to do anywhere near the amount of work I had to do under the old system! You have this brand spanking- new, automatic, super-dooper sponsoring machine built right into the new system! And how do you make it work?

Number one, GIVE your 3 to your PTL just as quickly as you can! (And smile when you do it!) Get that requirement out of the way so that YOU, too, can start to benefit from it! That will make you a PTL, and your own Personal Powerline will automatically be started.

Then, get to work immediately on YOUR Personal Powerline. And just keep building and building and building and building and building it.

You WILL reach Group Leader eventually if you do. You can't help but get there. And when you do, you get the prize of all 9 bonuses in the pay plan! And your income will just keep growing and growing and growing after you get to that point. It's built right into the system.

Now seriously, folks, isn't ALL THAT worth the VERY SMALL requirement of putting 3 MIQ affiliates in your Parent Powerline? Particularly when YOU REAP that benefit in spades when you start your own line?

One thing you should especially remember, though: YOU must put this whole system into motion. YOU have to flip on the switch to this incredible automatic recruiting system.

Please don't expect to be earning a full-time income in one or two months. You must first get your first 3 MIQ affiliates to qualify you as a Powerline Team Leader. Then, start growing your own Personal Powerline. That will take a little bit of time, but as you can see, it is well worth the effort. And if you use the Co-ops to the maximum, you will find that you can grow your powerline very quickly!

Remember that your total group will also grow by the efforts of those people below you. It is in their best interests to start their own powerline, which will keep yours growing and your income increasing.

The first step is sponsoring your first 3 MIQ affiliates and becoming a PTL. Don't wait another day! Go online and start working toward that goal RIGHT NOW!



4- SPONSOR AS MANY NEW AFFILIATES AS YOU CAN EVERY MONTH WITHOUT FAIL.



The bottom line in qualifying for all the bonuses in the SFI compensation plan is simply to CONSTANTLY sponsor as many affiliates as you can EVERY SINGLE MONTH WITHOUT FAIL. Then work to get them MIQ.

One of the EASIEST ways to do that is to use our brand new SFI co-op advertising program.

Our co-op will, quite simply, bring more people into your powerline at less cost than just about any other recruiting method you could possibly use! And if you are new to online recruiting, you will be happy to know that they do almost ALL the work for you!

With co-op advertising programs, you don't have to do the recruiting or advertising work to get new affiliates. Our co-op will find people who have said that they are interested in the SFI opportunity and want to hear more. We'll send them a mailing telling them all about SFI and why they should join, and then send them to YOUR Gateway web site to sign up.

All you have to do is send them a series of followup letters to make sure they join. And we even have a complete set of letters for you right on our member support site. All you have to do is copy the letters, add your own URL, and put them into a followup autoresponder. Then, when we send you your leads, just input them into your autoresponder. It will automatically mail all your letters to your leads at intervals you can set up.

We have all kinds of information on this marketing system right on our member support site, along with information on how to get and setup a followup autoresponder. Just go to:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SFI/members.htm

Unless you are a very experienced recruiter with lots of online marketing experience, I would urge you to maximize your use of our own brand new co-op program, BEFORE trying other recruiting methods. Use it as your core strategy, then add other strategies as you learn more about marketing on the Internet.

Every day I get email from members asking me how to get started promoting SFI. Advertising Co-ops are the easiest and most effective method for a majority of members.

I have 14 years of experience with setting up and running co-op advertising programs I've always offered to my MLM downlines.

What you should pay particular attention to is the fact that our co-op offers you a way to almost automatically build and grow your powerline as quickly as you have the money to invest - WITHOUT a lot of work on your part!

I've already explained how you progress to the Group Leader position. You must first sponsor affiliates into your Parent Powerline until 3 become MIQ. Then, you become a PTL and your own powerline starts. Once you have 10 PTL's in your Personal Powerline, you will attain Group Leader. That will optimize your earnings in SFI.

The problem for many of you is how to sponsor people to put in those powerlines, particularly if you're new to marketing on the Internet.

Advertising co-ops are the perfect solution. In fact, this is such a terrific service that many people use it to do ALL their sponsoring and downline building. And depending on how much you have to invest in promotion, it could build your downline very quickly!

Think about this: about 75% of my own Personal Powerline was built using co-ops!

You can find out more about our own brand-new co-op avertising program at:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SFI/sficoop.htm

Our co-op program will allow you to buy SFI prospects at a cost of 50 cents per prospect (that's a whopping $2 LESS than SFI's own Eagle co-ops). On top of that, you will be able to place orders for as low an investment as $15.00!

So you don't have to have a lot of money to be able to participate and start building your powerline. And you can order prospects from our own co-op any time you wish. You don't have to make a monthly commitment or order on a given day. Your prospects will be sent to you in less than 2 weeks generally! (And remember - we send them the first mailing with a hard-hitting letter telling them to enroll at YOUR Gateway web site).

Now think about how those kind of numbers will affect your progress in SFI. Again, to earn a lot of overrides AND a full-time income EVERY month, you want build your Personal Powerline to to as many MIQ affiliates as you possibly can.

Remember, each of those MIQ affiliates will have to give YOU 3 MIQ affiliates before they can start their own powerline. The more MIQ affiliates you enroll, the more explosively your powerline will grow! If you consistently buy prospects every month, you could reach the level of Group Leader very quickly.

How quickly you progress will depend on how many of your new affiliates become MIQ. That depends on YOU and how much help and motivation you provide to your new affiliates after they join! Your work in this area can bring you a very high upgrade rate.

In the meantime, your powerline will be growing very quickly. The affiliates under you will be very excited about the SFI program and begin starting their own powerlines. Since they must first place 3 MIQ affiliates in your Personal Powerline, your growth will start accelerating. That will also earn you more Overrides and more income!

If you want to grow your downline - and your income - very quickly, buy as many new prospects as you can afford for a few months. The results we are getting from our co-op is exceptional, and would be very hard for you to duplicate by yourself with the same amount of money. And the work you will have to do is minimal. Our co-ops and email marketing system provide you with a completely automated turn-key system for building your powerline!

And don't forget - we offer that very same automated, turn- key system for the DOWNLINE that you are building. Your people can use our co-op and our support services as well. That will save you a lot of time and trouble trying to teach them how to sponsor new affiliates.

We write and places the ads, generate the prospects, and insure that everyone who joins gets complete information about the program, plus we and SFI do most of the training after your affiliates have joined.

If you haven't yet participated in our co-op, I urge you to do so immediately! They will really jumpstart your success in this program. Just go to the website mentioned above. You can place your orders online.

Commit yourself to buying co-op prospects every month for at least 3 months. The results are going to truly amaze you!

SFI can be the most profitable MLM program you've ever been a part of. But if you want to make the BIG commissions, you have to do your part in positioning yourself for them. Our special SFI co-op will allow you to build your powerline quickly and easily. They will allow you to attain the leadership positions that pay big Overrides and bonuses. And they will allow you to keep that powerline growing indefinitely!



5-TEACH EVERY NEW AFFILIATE IN YOUR GROUP THIS SYSTEM.



This is the step that will eventually put the growth of your group on autopilot. And when your group is growing automatically, your commission check will increase month after month - even when you aren't working and sponsoring more people yourself. That's the beauty of residual income. It will add a lot of personal freedom and choice to your life!

If you get busy with Steps 1-4, you are going to eventually have a very large group. But this will only be a fraction of the size of the group you COULD have if you get a good percentage of your affiliates also working these steps. And the commissions you earn on all the people you personally sponsor will be a small part of the total check you earn!

That's the magic of MLM and exponential downline growth. And the only way to make it happen is to make sure that your group is following in your footsteps. Network marketers call this "duplication."

Teaching every single affiliate sponsored into your group these steps could result in an explosion of growth in just a very short time! And you can make it happen without a lot of work on your part.

First, make sure your members know about our special training website. You should particularly make sure they know about this step-by-step system. They can get all the past issues of SFI Training Tips AND our special affiliate training course AND this 5-step system, and a whole lot more at:

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SFI/members.htm

Sharing these steps with your growing downline will insure that your downline keeps growing and growing and growing! And that will keep YOUR check growing each month at the very same time!

You see, MLM is about building relationships and business partners. Many people will tell you that it's a numbers game. But as long as people are just numbers to you, you will never have a working, growing downline! When you start building a relationship with your group, you will find many more people who will follow your lead and start duplicating what you are doing.

You should start this process right now, with the very first people you sponsor! Your future income depends on it!

Fortunately, SFI has made this task very simple for you. Their new Contact Manager makes contacting and working with your growing downline a breeze!

You can take a look at Contact Manager from inside your admin control panel:

http://www.sfimg.com/admin/

Once you are in, just scroll down the page to the Contact Manager section. You will note that you have the ability to set up welcome letters that will automatically go out to every new affiliate you sponsor.

You should NOT start sponsoring new affiliates until you have taken a few minutes to set up an automatic welcome letter in Contact Manager. SFI makes this very easy for you. They even have a sample default letter to help you get started.

If you don't feel qualified to write your own letter, start with SFI's default. Now do a little bit of personalization. Tell your new affiliate who you are and what you like about SFI. Offer your help and guidance. Tell them to email you when they have questions, or need help. Give them the URL to our member support site and tell them what services we have to offer them (such as training, our special co-op, and our newsletter):

http://www.mlmmillionaire.com/SFI/members.htm

Contact Manager also offers you an easy way to mail to your entire downline all at once if you are a PTL. The Group Mailing feature even allows you to mail to specific groups of people.

For instance, you might want to send out a special letter to affiliates who are not yet MIQ. You have the ability to mail to these specific affiliates in the Group Mail feature of Contact Manager by choosing all affiliates who do not have 10 SVP. You could then send them a special letter urging them to upgrade, and reminding them of the benefits they get from the SFI system.

Or you might want to send out a special letter to all of your affiliates who are MIQ to share with them how you are working the program. That will help them build their own businesses, and will remind them that you - their sponsor - are a committed business partner.

I encourage you to use Contact Manager to frequently contact your downline, offer your help, and inspire your affiliates to get involved with building their businesses.

Every successful network marketer knows that downline contact is one of the most important parts of a growing downline, AND a growing commission check!



Well, there you have it, folks! Five steps that can take you from zero to a full-time income! That won't happen all at once, but if you start working these steps, it will happen a lot sooner than you might think.

The key is to GET STARTED. Do it RIGHT NOW!

I wish you great success this year with SFI! If you put these principles into practice, I have no doubt that you'll achieve it!



Linda J Bruton
SFI Group Leader
MLM Millionaire Training Systems, Inc.

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