Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Getting started with SFI without any marketing experience may sound to be difficult. When I started with SFI, I didn’t have any clue what it’s all about. All I want is to supplement my income and eventually quit my job. I’m very glad that I remain committed. Now I can see the fruits of my labor and the continued growth of my SFI business. If you have just started with SFI with passion and drive you’re going to learn and acquire the skills you need in your journey with SFI. SFI offers all the tools and resources to get started. SFI provides new affiliates to learn about how to market their own SFI business.

Go to the Marketing Center >Marketing Methods and start learning by doing in the order of sequence:

Beginner>Intermediate>Advance

- There are 98 Marketing Methods that you can use to promote your SFI business. SFI provided these step-by step marketing methods to help you establish a solid foundation and help you achieve your long term goals. SFI has provided affiliates these proven marketing methods well suitable for acquiring the necessary skills of a network marketer.

- But first, you’ll need to kick-start the learning process: To gain a firsthand experience starts with the Beginner methods. The Beginner methods spell out 40 ways to start marketing your SFI business. You need to spend some time “leaning by doing” each way.

- As you gain confidence you can move on to the next level, the Intermediate methods. In this section you’ll find 29 ways to upgrade your marketing skills namely S-Builder Co-op, selling TCredits for Pricebenders auctions, using SFI/TC text ads on classified ads online, distributing TC X-Card to customers at small retail stores/local restaurants and getting your own domain name link to your SFI/TC gateways.

- To ensure you are taking full advantage all the available channels in marketing your SFI business, you need to move on to the Advance Methods level. The Advanced level includes PPC, building your own website and so on.

- To complete your training in marketing and acquire the much needed skills of expanding the growth of your SFI business, you’ll need to devote your time in going through Marketing>Sponsoring Affiliates>/Affiliate Sponsoring Training Articles. This section contains vast information to deepen your knowledge about marketing your SFI business.

Even if you don’t have experience in marketing, you’ll acquire the marketing skills you need for your SFI business by following the steps above. You need to enforce discipline in your part and follow a time plan to ensure you get to the level of skills needed to market your SFI business.

SFI in its 17th year proven track record has integrated these marketing methods to help affiliates achieve their long term goal and realized their potential of being an SFI affiliates.


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Getting started with SFI without any marketing experience may sound to be difficult. When I started with SFI, I didn’t have any clue what it’s all about. All I want is to supplement my income and eventually quit my job. I’m very glad that I remain committed. Now I can see the fruits of my labor and the continued growth of my SFI business. If you have just started with SFI with passion and drive you’re going to learn and acquire the skills you need in your journey with SFI. SFI offers all
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

There are several ways to recruit new affiliates. Here I will identify only some, like word of mouth and online advertising.

Word of mouth:

You can use the word of mouth method with people you know, who are interested in online home based business. It could be your relatives, close friends, co-workers and others who have regular contact with you, who are looking for opportunities like SFI.

Online Advertising:

In online advertising, you can use the social media like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest or by blogging. In advertising your own website, you can use Google or Yahoo to name a few. The affiliate's website will have a link or ad that can be clicked through to the website offering the items or services in this case you can choose one of your SFI gateways.

Find websites which have traffic of their own and allow you to advertise through banner and link that will drive traffic to your website. Keep in mind to consider the recruiting process used to find the affiliates. Recruiting affiliates is not a simple matter of chance and it is not something that should be done in the simplest possible method to attract the maximum number of responses.
To find quality affiliates, you can use the methods already available in SFI. People who signed up are really interested.

Other methods:

Email can be an effective method of recruiting affiliates. But, this can be both positive and negative both for the website and for the site's owner. If the email is sent out in a random fashion, it may not be compliant with the recent CAN-SPAM laws, making the site's owner vulnerable to lawsuits and legal action. The site owner is legally responsible for their affiliate network's recruiting strategies and can be prosecuted by the FTC for any violations that their affiliates commit. There are many other ways of recruiting affiliates than sending mass emails or allowing the affiliate network to do so.

Email must be used deliberately to target specific people with a legitimate offer to join the affiliate network. Contacting webmasters of websites that have a similar content to your site is the first step to finding affiliates. The emails should contain all of the information that an affiliate needs to make the decision to visit the site and join the network. Sketchy details in an email will read like spam and not the legitimate opportunity with your network that it really is. When sending recruiting email, think about questions you would ask if you were learning about your network, and answer all of those questions. Include contact information to further separate yourself from the spammers.

Targeted telephone calls can also be an effective affiliate recruiting method. Calling directly those who may be interested in an affiliate relationship is likely to be just as effective as or even more so than mass emails, as they are not filtered out as spam and it is possible to speak directly to the potential affiliate. A strong business relationship can be made from speaking directly over the phone in a way that is more difficult to establish through email alone. A business relationship that begins with phone contact is more akin to a business relationship in the real world, rather than something only conducted through email. People do respond to a personal touch.

Affiliate recruitment is something that should be done legitimately, through legal means. This means avoiding spam, unlawful telemarketing, filling up irrelevant message boards with your information, etc. There are many legitimate ways to recruit affiliates that will not be seen as harassment or as an annoyance and will garner a better reputation for your site. A site with a good reputation is more likely to attract quality affiliates.

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There are several ways to recruit new affiliates. Here I will identify only some, like word of mouth and online advertising.

Word of mouth:

You can use the word of mouth method with people you know, who are interested in online home based business. It could be your relatives, close friends, co-workers and others who have regular contact with you, who are looking for opportunities like SFI.

Online Advertising:

In online advertising, you can use the
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

In searching for the best products to sell online like Tripleclicks, do a research. We are in the information age and with the help of the Internet we can find important statistics what products are top sellers, when it sells and how much it sells. With the right information your business will thrive tremendously.

Important Facts that must be considered when selling a product:

1. Innovative products such as smartphones, video game consoles, music, books etc. From the smartphones category, the Apple’s iPhone has undergone improvement and with newer generations, its sale will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

2. Products that generate attention from many groups and command significant long-lasting loyalty. These include Computer hardware and Software, Apparel, Books, Toys and Video Games, DVD Movies, Health and Beauty.

Most of these products have a wide demographic reach. Since we are talking about selling at TripleClicks with SFI affiliates and TC members, being the majority customers, one must also consider the pricing, is it competitive and reasonable? How about the shipping and handling costs?

I hope this will help you to choose what products are best to sell at TC.

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In searching for the best products to sell online like Tripleclicks, do a research. We are in the information age and with the help of the Internet we can find important statistics what products are top sellers, when it sells and how much it sells. With the right information your business will thrive tremendously.

Important Facts that must be considered when selling a product:

1. Innovative products such as smartphones, video game consoles, music, books etc. From the smartphones
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

More and more people are going online to search for information. Your website could be one of the most valuable tools in providing what people are looking for such as products, making money online, etc. You could set up your website to serve those needs particularly people who are interested in home based business to supplement their income. You’ll need targeted website traffic to make sure that your website is generating quality leads. Just to make sure we are on the same page, leads are your prospects leaving behind email address or detailed contact information as they visit your website.

If you want your website traffic be transformed into SFI sign ups, you need to take into consideration the following points:
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Generally before you even start generating your traffic, you need to make sure that your website is loading faster, your landing page is well optimized and you have tested your website in regards to speed and performance with some great tools, which are available online for free trial. As a SFI business owner, these are important aspects for getting the traffic on your website.

You can’t allow your visitors to wait too long for your website to load, because they don’t want to waste their time and you don’t want to miss a chance of getting traffic. So you need to keep in mind on all the above parameters to make things easier for you. The greater the loading speed of your website, the less will be your website traffic. As a rule of thumb, the website loading time should be between 3-4 seconds.

- Optimize leads generation from your website.

You want visitors to your site who are interested in home based business. What would best motivate them to leave their contact information behind? What methods of communication will they prefer? (Email, Phone). What is your system for handling your new leads once they come in? These are all important questions that must be considered during the pre-sign up stage.

Basically there are two types of leads that you can capture using your website:

1. Email Leads

Gathering email addresses for an email newsletter is one of the simplest and most effective ways to gather new leads. It is an excellent strategy because it provides a very low barrier to entry, and will be utilized by many visitors. These leads typically include an email address and nothing more and require an email marketing program.

2. Contact Leads

Leads generated through a contact form usually come with the advantage of including a lot more information than just an email address, but can be far more difficult to gather. These leads are highly valuable though and certainly worth striving for. Leads generated this way are far more likely to actually turn into sign ups over a simple email address.

Email marketing is one of the best online marketing tools available to those who use it right. While it doesn’t usually lead to an immediate sign up, it does allow you to develop a trust relationship with leads over time. It is the slow and steady approach, but very viable. Contact form leads are extremely valuable and more likely to turn into SFI sign up, but they are harder to get. A tiered approach is highly recommended that focuses first on email leads and second on the contact form leads.

- Make your website lead conversion friendly.

1. Generate inbound traffic.

To gain leads, you need to bring people to your website, and that is what inbound is all about. Traffic can be generated in many ways. Some common tools include targeted inbound content through a blog, Google Adwords, referral sites, good SEO practices, and submitting your site to online directories and aggregation sites. This step involves a lot of moving parts, but should take care of getting someone to your site.

2. Simple, clear navigation, big, bold headlines that set up clear expectations.

Your navigation should be well considered and easy to use, but that’s not all. You should build your navigation in a way that leads your prospect to your primary goal, to become SFI sign up. Put things in their expected place. Contact forms should be easy to find, and if you’re offering newsletter subscription, it should be easily accessible.

3. Make it obvious and valuable.

Make sure you are clear about what you want your prospects to do once they get to your website. Sometimes we make big assumptions about what our audience/prospects understand, but many times we are taking a lot for granted. You need to convey the facts and be crystal-clear about it. Include SFI BY THE NUMBERS and Testimonials in your website. They’re powerful combination in bringing interest and inspiration for your visitors. To complete your lead capture system, make an irresistible offer to your prospects such as free E-book, TC Gift cards or even TCredits Welcome.

- You want your prospects to sign up and be their sponsor. How do you accomplish this?

Now that your site is perfectly tuned to generate new leads, you will need to have a good system for handling them and converting them to SFI sign up. If you plan to actively capture leads, plan to actively utilize them with an email marketing program which allows you to track your leads.

1 Include a contact number on your website home page.

2. Include Opt-in form on homepage

Having an opt-in form on the front page is always helpful. It helps to enhance the conversion rate. When your prospects visit your website, like your offer, immediately they will submit their details.

3 Implement the forms on every page

To make easier for people to connect with you, the leads form must be on just about every page of your site. Make your form frequent with less number of fields so that users can easily submit their details within no time. As you advertise the SFI home business opportunity, use powerful lines for describing it.

To sum it up:

The prospect has little or no knowledge about your site or your SFI business opportunity offer. In order to convey your message to your prospect, you must ensure that your most important information is accessible in a simple, easy-to-understand manner. In other words - simple, clear navigation, big, bold headlines that set up clear expectations.

The prospect is actively seeking information about a particular home based business. Identify precise prospect intentions on every page of your site and then build each page around these intentions. This means that you must consider every single element (and especially every link) on these pages, all while maintaining a laser-focus on the prospect’s intentions.

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More and more people are going online to search for information. Your website could be one of the most valuable tools in providing what people are looking for such as products, making money online, etc. You could set up your website to serve those needs particularly people who are interested in home based business to supplement their income. You’ll need targeted website traffic to make sure that your website is generating quality leads. Just to make sure we are on the same page, leads are your
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

When you say better demographic target for your ads, I assume that you’re targeting age groups that will give you the most response to your ads and hopefully will commit themselves to SFI/TripleClicks.

Which age groups to target in your ads retired persons or homemakers?

- Homemakers’ age has a wide range; from young to old.

- Retirees’ age may start from 65+ in most countries in general

Find out the facts about these two ages demographic groups before starting your marketing campaigns to get better results. The web offers great source of information, especially if you’re looking for stats about best demographic to target in your ads.

Examples:

- Young people use least email nowadays but more keen to messaging or texting.

- Older people may struggle with technology, didn’t grow up with it but given time they can learn to sign up for their Gmail account.

Consider also the age distribution on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and so on. What’s the percentage of homemakers or retirees engage in social media? According to recent stats, Twitter’s user base is getting younger and Facebook’s is getting older.

Finding out more information about your target demographics for your ads will help you enormously in developing your strategy and implementing your marketing plan and make decision who is better to target between the two.

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When you say better demographic target for your ads, I assume that you’re targeting age groups that will give you the most response to your ads and hopefully will commit themselves to SFI/TripleClicks.

Which age groups to target in your ads retired persons or homemakers?

- Homemakers’ age has a wide range; from young to old.

- Retirees’ age may start from 65+ in most countries in general

Find out the facts about these two ages demographic groups
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Here are the points to consider when advising your ECAs on which products to sell and corresponding prices to charge:

- Ask them what products they would like to sell, which they can talk about passionately. Passion coupled with unwavering belief gets you through all the obstacles and challenges that life and business present you in order to achieve your goals and life’s purpose.

- Encourage them to find out more about the products if it's feasible. Demographically, consider your target (exporting these products will require customs clearance + shipping and handling fees), who needs these products, are these products in demand?

- Ask them to find out about the prices and compare items prices with online store like amazon, ebay and so on. Remind them that the charging prices should be competitive and reasonable.

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Here are the points to consider when advising your ECAs on which products to sell and corresponding prices to charge:

- Ask them what products they would like to sell, which they can talk about passionately. Passion coupled with unwavering belief gets you through all the obstacles and challenges that life and business present you in order to achieve your goals and life’s purpose.

- Encourage them to find out more about the products if it's feasible. Demographically, consider
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

To boost your income with SFI means first sponsoring affiliates, who are consistent, determined and committed to SFI as long as it takes to become successful. SFI also offers multiple streams of income to move up and achieve the primary goal, whether attaining financial freedom, quitting job and work from home or having a second income.

What is the best and most cost effective way of doing this?

- Starting with Sponsoring affiliates the cost effective way. You can choose from S-Builder Co-op, or starting our own Ad Co-op. How much can you afford? You can also make use of free advertisement if time is not an issue. Your time and financial investment play an important role in reaching your goal of finding quality affiliates.

- Explore the possibilities of opening your own ECA or you can start referring ECAs, you’ll benefit of the lifetime royalties that comes with every ECA you refer.

- You also earn good commission by generating sales at TripleClicks.

- You can join SFIPPA to further boosting your income. You will earn a bounty for every qualified SFI affiliate sign-ups, currently $10 each.

By considering your resources available, including your time and how much money you can commit to boost your income with SFI having your strategic business plan in place, you’ll be able to make good decision on what’s best and cost effective way for you.

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To boost your income with SFI means first sponsoring affiliates, who are consistent, determined and committed to SFI as long as it takes to become successful. SFI also offers multiple streams of income to move up and achieve the primary goal, whether attaining financial freedom, quitting job and work from home or having a second income.

What is the best and most cost effective way of doing this?

- Starting with Sponsoring affiliates the cost effective way. You can choose from
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

It seems to me that you’re lacking confidence to communicate with your team members. You need to get out of that mindset and do a self reassessment to establish a clear picture of yourself and identify what’s causing you to think that way. In expanding the growth of your network your communication skills play a very important role. If you think you need to work on your communication skills, you can do a Google search of “communication skills test” to assess the level of your communication skill.

Understanding the communication process will help you improve your communication skills:

- During communication with one of your team members, there are stages of communication process that take place:

You as the Source > Encoding of Message > Message Channel > Message Decoding > your team member as the Receiver

- You, who is the source of the communication put your ideas into a message (encodes), and transmits your message through a channel. The receiver decodes the message, and, in one way or another, feeds back understanding or a lack of understanding to you as the source.

- By understanding the steps in the process, you can become more aware of your role, you’ll then recognize what you need to do to communicate effectively, anticipate problems before they happen, and improve your overall ability to communicate effectively.

You can improve your communication skills that enable you to effectively connect with others in your team, build trust and respect, and feel heard and understood.

For the meantime, while working on your communication skills you can do the following in supporting your team members:

- Follow the step by step advice of “Be an awesome Sponsor”.

- Connect with your upline for support

- Use the My Country/Region sub-forum to communicate with your affiliates. You might find threads that can help in supporting your team members. As you participate in the forum, you’ll be able to view your messages before your team members. This is a good way for you to assess your communication skills.

But don’t stop here, you’ll be limiting your SFI business growth by not encouraging yourself to strive in improving your communication skills.

You need to be effective on all aspects of the communication process from sender to receiver and be comfortable with the different channels of communication whether it is written, face to face, on the phone and so on, not allowing poor communication to become a barrier in growing your SFI business.

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It seems to me that you’re lacking confidence to communicate with your team members. You need to get out of that mindset and do a self reassessment to establish a clear picture of yourself and identify what’s causing you to think that way. In expanding the growth of your network your communication skills play a very important role. If you think you need to work on your communication skills, you can do a Google search of “communication skills test” to assess the level of your communication
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Pay per click advertising is a great way to get visitors when you need traffic for your website/blog.

How it works:

When your ad is clicked by a prospect, he’ll be directed to your website, you pay the search engine a small fee (“pay per click.”). Pay-Per-Click ads are those sponsored links that show up when you perform a web search in Google, Yahoo and other search engines.

When employing PPC advertising to generate signups for your SFI business, concentrate on conversions, not clicks.

A successful pay per click advertising campaign include the following important points:

1. Tracking your Conversions

- A visitor sign ups in your blog/website “Call to Action” page.

2. Allocate a Sensible Budget for your PPC Advertising

Depending on your marketing plan budget a rule of thumb for setting aside a sensible budget would be:

Cost per click is less than (<) conversion rate x total clicks x profit/conversion
In short the amount spent per click should always be less than the total profit earned per click.

3. Have your Niche Keywords

Focus on narrow keywords not on broad terms. You might have a high probability of your broad terms always included in the search results when prospects type your keywords but a big disadvantage is the cost per click. It might cost you quite high, since a lot of advertisers bid on the broad terms and the chances of conversion might be lower. Focused keywords will most likely cost less and far more effective than broad terms. Most PPC services such as Google and Bing can provide estimated cost per click and searches per day for keywords.

4. Employ Accurate Descriptive Phrases

Generally pay per click advertising requires that you write a couple short descriptive phrases about your offer. Don’t underestimate the importance of this – make sure, at a minimum, that your grammar, spelling and overall language is correct and appropriate for your target audience. Also verify that your language adheres to the rules enforced by the pay per click service – Google, for example, won’t allow ads with superlatives (“the best,” “the greatest,” etc.), with repeated keywords, or with excessive capitalization.

5. Focus on Quality

Google and Bing determine which ads appear on the page and where based on an advertiser’s Ad Rank. Your Ad Rank will depend on the highest amount you’re willing to spend for your PPC ads and the Quality Score, a metric that takes into account your Click-Through Rate, relevance and your quality of your landing page. This system allows winning advertisers to reach potential customers at a cost that fits their budget.

Pay per click is now a basic Internet marketing tool. Very few businesses can afford to ignore it. But you have to avoid the more-clicks-is-better mentality. Focus on conversion and return on investment, rather than clicks and you can build a profitable PPC ads campaign.
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Pay per click advertising is a great way to get visitors when you need traffic for your website/blog.

How it works:

When your ad is clicked by a prospect, he’ll be directed to your website, you pay the search engine a small fee (“pay per click.”). Pay-Per-Click ads are those sponsored links that show up when you perform a web search in Google, Yahoo and other search engines.

When employing PPC advertising to generate signups for your SFI business, concentrate
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

When some of your downlines abandoned or may have opted out from SFI, be aware of the following points before attempting to contact them:

- Make sure that said affiliates still appear on your Genealogy, that they have been inactive marked with red triangle with an exclamation mark on the center.

- SFI warns that contacting individuals, who no longer appear on your Genealogy after a request has been made to be removed, may be grounds for termination.

This is one of the reasons why SFI is legit, well-rounded and a real home-based business opportunity. By adhering to this rule, SFI carries a true sense of professionalism, which set it apart from other online business opportunities.

How to approach someone, who has abandoned SFI but still appear on your Genealogy to restart again?

- Make use of the E-Card. It always feels good to receive an E-Card and being remembered; you can choose the appropriate one available from the Marketing Aid section.

- Depending on the response, if you can sense that the individual is being receptive, you start updating him/her about what’s new in SFI. You can mention about the facts and figures “SFI by the numbers”

- Your good choice of words plays an important role in convincing them. You can talk about the fun part of doing SFI, like the Zebra games, PTP and your achievements.

- Maintain your regular communication with them. Be patient and don’t push them to comeback, you might drive them away instead.

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When some of your downlines abandoned or may have opted out from SFI, be aware of the following points before attempting to contact them:

- Make sure that said affiliates still appear on your Genealogy, that they have been inactive marked with red triangle with an exclamation mark on the center.

- SFI warns that contacting individuals, who no longer appear on your Genealogy after a request has been made to be removed, may be grounds for termination.

This is one of
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