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

Setting up an email capture and autoresponder on your blog is an excellent idea. Your objective here is to get your visitors or customers’ attention, as you talk about your personal interests on your blog such as online home-based business, marketing products or generating sales. You can expand these topics personalizing with SFI and TripleClicks. Don’t forget to update your blog regularly.

Why you need to set up an email capture and autoresponder on your blog?

- One of the key assets of most businesses is consistently building your email list. It is one of the great sources of lead generation. Establishing better relationship with your list means more income for you.

- Autoresponder is closely link with e-mail marketing tools. When your visitors or customers supplied their email on your blog, wanting more information, the autoresponder comes in handy to provide immediate information to your prospects. You can then follow-up with them.

Most of your traffic will not sign up right away as they visit your blog. You’ll need to attract them especially by offering something that is appealing and interesting in exchange of their emails.

Here’s how to incorporate your email capture and autoresponder on your blog:

- Offer the digital Gift Card in exchange of giving their emails. Thank them in reading your blog and ask them to provide their emails, so that you can send the corresponding Gift Card’s code.

- Offer subscription of your blog posts over email. If you write a comprehensive, very thorough blog posts, consider offering a download of your post in pdf format. Example: “Want this blog in pdf format, sent to your inbox? Email: ________.

- As SFI and TripleClicks comes up with more innovation, consider creating new free offers on a regular basis. You’ll enhance the growth of your email list much faster.

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Setting up an email capture and autoresponder on your blog is an excellent idea. Your objective here is to get your visitors or customers’ attention, as you talk about your personal interests on your blog such as online home-based business, marketing products or generating sales. You can expand these topics personalizing with SFI and TripleClicks. Don’t forget to update your blog regularly.

Why you need to set up an email capture and autoresponder on your blog?

- One of
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

An effective personal website for your SFI business is probably one of the biggest aspects of your online presence. It is far more effective in communicating to your potential prospects about your SFI business.

Here are important points to consider in creating an effective website for SFI:

- Depending on your budget you can make some financial investment upfront to hire professionals, who can point you in the right direction and can help you maintain an effective web presence for years to come.

- Choose a designer carefully and check out sites he/she has done before. Make sure to communicate to him/her your plan for the organization and content of your personal website for SFI and spell out clearly what you want each page to do.

- Make your SFI business easy to find online by picking a web address that’s easy to remember. You can purchase a short domain name that closely relates to your SFI business. If the ideal dot-com name isn’t available, you can select one of the newer domain suffixes such as dot-biz.

- Make your site rich in content. Determine the most important question that your target audience wants answered, what attracts visitors to your site and keep them coming back, etc. are important component that you shouldn’t miss.

- The more useful information and compelling content you provide the more visits your site will receive. I’m referring to words, headings, or images that induce visitors to interact with your site.

- You can make your content compelling in a number ways by providing a call to action, such as Click Here, explain how the prospect benefits by clicking a link and exploring your site (“Earn a Welcome Cash/Welcome TCredits by clicking here.”), briefly and concisely state your SFI business and its mission, etc.

- Don’t forget the personal touch. Anything you can tell about yourself helps to personalize the process and put your prospects at ease. The key is, let your prospects know that they’re dealing with real people, not remote machines and computer programs.

- Provide your contact information. Don’t forget to include your email and phone number. Do your best to respond quickly to all your prospect’s inquiries.

- Make your website a go-to resource. You can make your website not only a place for signing up prospects for your SFI business but also indispensable resources full of useful hyperlinks and other information so your prospects will want to visit again and again.

Conclusion:

A well-designed personal website for SFI in place should include all of the amazing content to make it compelling for your prospects to sign up. It doesn’t have to be fancy or include all of the latest in website design and technology (and really, it shouldn’t), it just has to accomplish a few major things.

All in all, it should leave a great first impression. Your content will help the cause, but before the content is even consumed people are going to make snap judgements about your brand and the website based on the design, and you want that judgement to be favorable.

A clean website that’s easy to navigate through and isn’t too overwhelming (i.e. too many options, and especially advertisements) is what you should be aiming for.

The branding elements including your logo, your tagline and any other graphical elements on the site should make it easy for new visitors to understand why the site exists and why they should stick around. Remember, people will be approaching your website asking themselves, “Why am I here and what’s in it for me?”

And lastly, you’ll want to make it incredibly easy for visitors to do the following:

1. Read your content.

2. Subscribe to your email list.

3. Share your content.

4. Leave comments.

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An effective personal website for your SFI business is probably one of the biggest aspects of your online presence. It is far more effective in communicating to your potential prospects about your SFI business.

Here are important points to consider in creating an effective website for SFI:

- Depending on your budget you can make some financial investment upfront to hire professionals, who can point you in the right direction and can help you maintain an effective web presence
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Before you can invite your affiliates into training session, you need to plan ahead. I’m going to answer your question on how to get your affiliates to come to your training session after discussing the preparation.

It takes time to plan a good training session. However, you and your affiliates will benefit from this preparation.

As you plan, you visualize each step of the training session. This helps you ensure that you've thought about everything that you need to say, and that you present information in a logical order. You'll also be able to prepare for points that affiliates might find difficult to understand.

After your session, you can use your plan to work out what went well – and what didn't – so that you can adapt it for future lessons.

First address this question: How to plan for your training session?

1. First you need to specify what you want for your affiliates to learn and determine how you will measure this.
Consider the following questions:

- What are the most important concepts or skills that affiliates need to understand by the end of the session?

- Why are these concepts and skills important?

- How will you know that they have understood these correctly?

2. Choose your topics

List your topics ranging from SFI BASICS, LAUNCHPAD, Compensation Plan, Benefits Chart, etc. You’ll need to explain related concepts to reach your learning objectives.

3. Organize your material

You have established from the second step a general idea of what you need to cover, draft a lesson outline. List all of the points that you need to cover, in the order in which you'll cover them.

4. Choose your presentation techniques

How are you going to teach the material to your affiliates effectively? You might need to make us of different presentation approaches to keep your affiliates engaged and to appeal to their different styles of learning. You can choose from the following methods:

- Lectures

- Demonstrations

- Discussions

- Case studies, etc.

5. Evaluation

Now, think about when you'll check that your affiliates have understood key points. Build in learning checks and question-and-answer sessions.

Also, consider how you will evaluate the session. You may want to create a simple on- or off-line questionnaire that will help you tell if the session has been successful.

6. Your Timing is crucial

Finally, think about the timing of your session. Some concepts or skills will take more time to master than others, so identify these up front, and allow your affiliates extra time to absorb or practice the material.

Make note on the time that you will allocate for each concept or section on your training plan, and make sure that you've allowed plenty of time to focus on the core concepts – if you don't have enough time, you'll need to run additional sessions, or narrow your learning objectives and reduce the number of topics that you plan to cover.

How to get your affiliates to come to your training session”

- Go to your Genealogy and identify your local affiliates.

- Communicate to them that you’re organizing training sessions. Explore all your options in making them aware of your forthcoming training sessions. Use SFI communication tools, such as Team mail, your Leadership page (you may want your local affiliates to offer them TCredits if your budget allows to attract them), SFIM Chat, emails, and so on. You’ll need to consider also the time and availability factors.

- Focus on your message that they’ll be gaining firsthand knowledge of your experience in regards to building and expanding network (duplication), moving up to TL rank, acquiring the different kinds of badges Top Enroller, VP Leaderboard, Overall Power Rand and so on to motivate them.

- Mention briefly in your message about increasing their earning potential as you share with them your tips in expanding the growth your SFI business.

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Before you can invite your affiliates into training session, you need to plan ahead. I’m going to answer your question on how to get your affiliates to come to your training session after discussing the preparation.

It takes time to plan a good training session. However, you and your affiliates will benefit from this preparation.

As you plan, you visualize each step of the training session. This helps you ensure that you've thought about everything that you need to say, and
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

In regards to assisting new ECAs you’ve referred in setting up their store and products, you can offer your help by providing more information about ECA Program by letting them know that you there for them.

Here are the details:

- Walk them through the ECA Program.

- Be prepared to discuss with them about order fulfillment, products and prices, how they are getting paid, refunds and returns policies and the TConnect website.

- Refer them to the ECA FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS for more details. This section is an excellent resource of information designed specifically for ECAs.

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In regards to assisting new ECAs you’ve referred in setting up their store and products, you can offer your help by providing more information about ECA Program by letting them know that you there for them.

Here are the details:

- Walk them through the ECA Program.

- Be prepared to discuss with them about order fulfillment, products and prices, how they are getting paid, refunds and returns policies and the TConnect website.

- Refer them to the ECA FREQUENTLY
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Setting up TCredits as your Standing Order (SO) is a very good investment in growing up your SFI business.

What can TCredits do for you as an individual SFI affiliate?

- Setting up TCredits of 125 pack earns you 1500 VP every month and will give you the advantage to become EA in no time. Becoming an EA and maintaining it, is a very important basic part towards becoming a Team Leader.

- You can use your 125 TCredits to accumulate the much needed action VPs in moving up to TL by participating in Eager Zebra game (max. 200 VP/month), in downloading TC Music (max. 50 VP/month), in listing your unwanted stuffs/products (max. 50 VP/month) and in bidding at Pricebenders Auction.

How to best utilize your monthly 125 TCredits?

If you want to get the best out of your monthly 125 TCredits, think of starting to build your team as a Team Leader. Sponsoring new affiliates to start the process of duplication. How?

- Start a new co-op through SFI Co-op Manager

- Add participants from your consistently active movers.

- Select an equal distribution of shares to your participants

- Participate in Pricebenders Auction of 15/25/50/100 PSAs

Always choose an auction item which will contribute towards the growth of your SFI business. Auction items as S-Builder Coop with DP, 60/90 TC Gift Cards and 6 months TCredits subscription are good choices.

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Setting up TCredits as your Standing Order (SO) is a very good investment in growing up your SFI business.

What can TCredits do for you as an individual SFI affiliate?

- Setting up TCredits of 125 pack earns you 1500 VP every month and will give you the advantage to become EA in no time. Becoming an EA and maintaining it, is a very important basic part towards becoming a Team Leader.

- You can use your 125 TCredits to accumulate the much needed action VPs in moving
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

Attracting college students to join SFI is a good idea. The student group can be a good source of growing your team. You might find someone, who is teachable, coachable and has entrepreneurial spirit. You just have to focus in your advertising strategy putting them as your target.

Here are ways to get their attention and to attract them to join SFI:

- Advertise in Social Media Sites for College Students.

The majority of college students joined various media sites for their collaboration in tackling their daily college tasks. Most of these sites offer free services; you just need to inquire on setting up your advertising campaign.

Know the important facts about targeting this specific group. Most college students are plugged into their mobile devices, such as laptops, tablets and smart phones. They’re just as mobile as their devices. You should consider how you can employ the SFI Marketing methods and put into use the available Marketing Aids in order to attract them. With careful planning in setting up your ad campaign to these sites, you might get an overwhelming response.

- Post Ads using SFI Marketing Aids, such as flyers on Student’s Campus bulletin boards and on student’s newspapers. Contact the head of a particular college and inquire how you can set up your advertising.

- Inquire about “On-Campus” Ambassador Programs for college students, where students are given opportunity to connect with surrounding communities by staging up an event to get connected with local communities. This is a great opportunity to give away TC X-Card and introduce SFI/TripleClicks to them.

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Attracting college students to join SFI is a good idea. The student group can be a good source of growing your team. You might find someone, who is teachable, coachable and has entrepreneurial spirit. You just have to focus in your advertising strategy putting them as your target.

Here are ways to get their attention and to attract them to join SFI:

- Advertise in Social Media Sites for College Students.

The majority of college students joined various media sites
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

For Team Leaders webinars could be an effective way to train your downline over a wide geographic area. As a Team Leader you’ll have the opportunity to interact and share information with your downline.

Points to consider before conducting webinars:

- Send messages to your downline about your plan to conduct webinars in your marketing and training them. This will help you in determining the number of participants and find out at the same time the geographical area of your attendees. You need to consider the best time to conduct your webinars taking into consideration the time zones. Don’t forget to include a brief survey in your message to help you determine which topics are most relevant to them.

- Choose your webinar provider that offers web conferencing solution working with variety of operating systems, reliable, allows you to accommodate large number of participants and has the features you need including Q&A, recording, chat, etc.

How to conduct effective webinars?

- State your purpose clearly. It should be easy to identify the purpose of conducting your webinar by having a clear set of goals and content, which is valuable to your downline.

- Start the webinar by engaging your participants from your very first words.

- Keep your introduction of yourself briefly, your audience really want to know, what they will get from it. Point out to them clearly how they will benefit from this webinar.

- In your presentation, make use of the SFI materials such as Marketing Aids, Marketing Methods, etc. This depends on your topic that you’re going to cover. Be creative, turn them into slides or do a power point presentation on big screen. Watching a speaker, no matter how good he/she is can become dull.

- Connect with your Participants.

Refer to your audience when citing examples. You should say “You’re going to discover today how to apply the Marketing methods” instead of saying to them “I’m going to explain to you now the Marketing Methods”. Make your audience feel that they a part of your webinar. Ask questions from time to time to prompt them to interact.

At the end of your webinar, don’t forget to summarize what you have covered. Before signing off, leave them a lasting impression by stating an inspiring and motivating quote.

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For Team Leaders webinars could be an effective way to train your downline over a wide geographic area. As a Team Leader you’ll have the opportunity to interact and share information with your downline.

Points to consider before conducting webinars:

- Send messages to your downline about your plan to conduct webinars in your marketing and training them. This will help you in determining the number of participants and find out at the same time the geographical area of your
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

When looking for a IAHBE replacement as a Standing Order (SO) you need to consider the following points:

- Is it within your budget to add another SO? Consider operating your SFI business within your means while not sacrificing on education to widen your knowledge base. Have a balance approach to stay on top and up-to-date with your business.

- Have you explored all the vast resources of IAHBE containing exclusive and expert marketing material for Entrepreneurs? You might be thinking of purchasing software or E-book geared for your advancement of your SFI business, which you can find in IAHBE.

- On what basis do you make your decision to set up another SO to replace IAHBE? Some might be interested only in accumulating VPs but think in the long run. If you really want to add another SO to replace IAHBE, think of investing in your marketing knowledge. The idea here is continuously being up-to-date, expanding your knowledge since IAHBE stopped being up-to-date and is available as is.

The market is constantly changing and you need not only to adapt to the current trends but be the pioneer to have the know-how to have a market share. Keep in mind that the Internet offers vast arrays of business opportunities. You need to be equipped with the latest marketing strategies in order to compete.

If you’re looking for SO eligible products on TripleClicks to replace IAHBE, think of the following important points to further your SFI business to continue in your training and education:

- learn to generate thousands of leads to position yourself as top sponsor consistently

- learn to generate traffic methods that work

- learn to communicate effectively with your downlines

- learn the latest and effective marketing strategy and so on.

The product may be in the form of video modules offering full customer support and most of all regular training.

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When looking for a IAHBE replacement as a Standing Order (SO) you need to consider the following points:

- Is it within your budget to add another SO? Consider operating your SFI business within your means while not sacrificing on education to widen your knowledge base. Have a balance approach to stay on top and up-to-date with your business.

- Have you explored all the vast resources of IAHBE containing exclusive and expert marketing material for Entrepreneurs? You might be
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 544

If you have set up your ECA store, established your customer base and rated 4 to 5 stars, you’ll have an excellent platform to approach your prospects. You’ll be leading an example, which is the best way to convince your prospects.
Your question addressed two issues:

- Convince your prospects to become ECAs and

- Convince your ECA prospects that at TripleClicks, they can have great local sales.

Convincing your prospects to become ECAs:

- Explain to your prospects clearly about the ECA Program, focusing on what’s in it for them.

- Communicate to them that they can list their products and services at TripleClicks.com and that they will have everything they need to set up their online store.

- Present the SFI/TC stats as outlined below and mention that ECA is one of the most lucrative business opportunity offered by SFI:

a. 17th successful year for SFI (30th for SFI's parent company)

b. 1.6 million Affiliates (21,939 new added last week)

c. 4 million TripleClicks members

d. 88,550 commissionable products (700 new added last week)

e. 3,957 E-Commerce Affiliates (in 147 countries)

f. 74 LocalPay Merchants (in 27 countries)

g. Millions - Commissions paid out to our affiliates (in US Dollars)

- Give a little detail on the stats above with the focus on ECA/TripleClicks to enable them to have a clear picture of what they’re signing in for.

- Discuss some of the highlights of ECA by referring to the E-Commerce Associate Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) such as qualifications to participate, product listing at TC, products pricing and shipping cost, terms and conditions, managing orders and so on.

Convincing your prospective ECAs that TripleClicks can be great for LOCAL sales:

- Before explaining to your prospects that TC can be great for local sales, let them know in the firsthand about the restrictions on what kind of products they can sell at TripleClicks (TC).

- Inform your prospective ECAs about the following advantages of having an online store through TripleClicks:

1. There's no cost for ECAs to list their products and services and they can immediately begin taking advantage of the exposure and growing worldwide traffic of TripleClicks.com.

2. Every ECA product/service has both CV (Commission Volume) and VP. With 4 million TripleClicks members to serve they’ll have higher earning potential.

3. TripleClicks Customer Service handles the payment processing and notifies ECAs of the order. There’s no need to worry about an e-commerce site with a monthly fee recurring charges. TripleClicks takes care of the virtual shopping carts and secure online payment options. It also provides tools for their listing products/services.

4. When prospective ECAs focus their sales locally, they’ll attract more customers for the following reasons:

- “Will-call” product pickup is a great TC feature for ECAs. Customers can order their products at TripleClicks.com and pick them up locally, eliminating shipping charges.

- Reduced shipping cost for all their customers who live in ECAs areas.

- SFI affiliates as ECAs customers will benefit by earning VPs and also save on shipping charges when they purchase products/services at local ECAs.

- ECAs have the potential to have their products/services placed as Standing Orders by SFI affiliates.

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If you have set up your ECA store, established your customer base and rated 4 to 5 stars, you’ll have an excellent platform to approach your prospects. You’ll be leading an example, which is the best way to convince your prospects.
Your question addressed two issues:

- Convince your prospects to become ECAs and

- Convince your ECA prospects that at TripleClicks, they can have great local sales.

Convincing your prospects to become ECAs:

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

Maybe or it may not be beneficial to have a separate forum and doing web seminars as well about SFI in other languages other than English. Here are the pros and cons.

Benefits of creating separate forum and doing web seminars about SFI:

- Speaking in your own mother tongue is a lot comfortable. You feel relax and can express easily what’s in your mind a very big advantage in communicating. The explaining would become simple as you speak with affiliates who speak your mother tongue.

- It saves time to convey your messages because everyone speaks the same language and will be easy to understand.

Disadvantages:

- Services of translator who are fluent in English and other languages are needed. Someone has to translate English to other languages and vice versa, so that communication would take place. SFI installed google translation service, so that every affiliate can understand the SFI concept. It is not perfect but if affiliate is passionate in SFI and has a strong desire to achieve his goal, he’ll find a way to succeed in this business.

- If everyone who doesn’t speak English would like to have this forums in their own mother tongue, it would require considerable amount of SFI resources (such as servers, personnel) dedicated to these forums alone.

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Maybe or it may not be beneficial to have a separate forum and doing web seminars as well about SFI in other languages other than English. Here are the pros and cons.

Benefits of creating separate forum and doing web seminars about SFI:

- Speaking in your own mother tongue is a lot comfortable. You feel relax and can express easily what’s in your mind a very big advantage in communicating. The explaining would become simple as you speak with affiliates who speak your mother
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