Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Helping SFI and TripleClicks get more well known around the world.

The first step in doing this is to join Wave 3 and put the TripleClicks sticker in the most visible location of your most driven mode of transportation.

Buying or winning and wearing your TripleClicks and SFI T-shirts is another great way to expand brand awareness and peak people's interest so they ask questions.

Write review articles about both SFI and TripleClicks and post them to blogs and social media sites.

Click social media share buttons on product listings and member testimonials and use your Share-its when available.

When on another member's SFI blog, if they have a great post about SFI click their share buttons as well. Sure it will expose your contacts to their referral links but most of those people are already recorded as yours after visiting from your site or will come back to you more informade and join under who sent them the information.

Find other SFI Bloggers and trade links.

Create meme with various SFI facts and share on Pinterest, Instagram, and other social media sites.

Tell people about TripleClicks whenever the conversation turns to shopping, gifts, or cool online sites.

Order magnetic Car Signs through the link in your Marketing Tools section. I have signs on my van and my brother's PT Cruiser being seen by thousands of new people daily.

You have to be a great customer, buy from your store and write great reviews for good products you have bought. Play the auctions and blog about what you have won, or the fast an furious bidding of a recent showdown. Share the Yesterday's WOW Auction with your social media friends and blog readers.

Advertise like a pro- Tell a story people want to hear in a place they are willing to listen.

Hold Google Plus Hangouts, Skype Chats, and webinars and add video recaps to Youtube, Vemeo, and MetaCafe.

You can also do things that are business building in terms of getting ECA interested like joining the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions Club, VFW, or other civic groups and sponsoring little leagues, PeeWee Reese Football, and local soccer clubs. Most will put a sign or banner on a fense of your logo and URL on team Jerseys etc..

There are countless ways to get the word out, you can even have printed gifts like pens and hats that you give away for free publicity knowing that someone is more likely to click your link and join TripleClicks or SFI if they have seen it advertised around them.


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Helping SFI and TripleClicks get more well known around the world.

The first step in doing this is to join Wave 3 and put the TripleClicks sticker in the most visible location of your most driven mode of transportation.

Buying or winning and wearing your TripleClicks and SFI T-shirts is another great way to expand brand awareness and peak people's interest so they ask questions.

Write review articles about both SFI and TripleClicks and post them to blogs and social
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If you can't afford to buy their ads don't advertise.

Don't freak out I am trying to keep you working inside the law here so you don't get your business shut down, face fines, and in some cases face jail time.

These people telling you to post to groups you create or others create for advertising are telling you to SPAM and it's illegal most places.

Those groups are strictly against the terms of service at Facebook which makes them illegal to post to because it subverts the rules and design of an electronic means of communication for the delivery of unsolicited electronic advertising.

Facebook is nice, they allow you to post ads to a fan page you create that people can directly opt in to your ads directly and those are free to get and easy to build. They also have paid advertising which is still very affordable compared to say Google Adwords.

What you are doing wrong if you are just dropping ads and then leaving.

When you Spam and Go you fail to build the network in network marketing and as a result your links get banned and your ads get deleted, your reputation becomes dog poop, and your business fails. A social network is strictly for socially connecting with like minded professionals and building relationships that can be beneficial both in respect to personal desires and financial situations.

In short make friends, get to know them, build trust, and talk business when the time is right and no ads.

Advertising sites are for advertising and ad boxes, not social media. Take the time and you will find you 5 diamonds and your business will explode. Do what half these respondent are saying and you wont make it very far. I have not survived 11 years and growing as a social media driven network marketer by SPAMMING anyone.
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If you can't afford to buy their ads don't advertise.

Don't freak out I am trying to keep you working inside the law here so you don't get your business shut down, face fines, and in some cases face jail time.

These people telling you to post to groups you create or others create for advertising are telling you to SPAM and it's illegal most places.

Those groups are strictly against the terms of service at Facebook which makes them illegal to post to because it subverts
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

A blog is the most cost effective tool.

Promoting your favorite items on TripleClicks through that blog and that blog in your favorite social networks is the fastest path to commission generating sales and doesn't cost you much. I personally prefer the power of my paid blog to the slow gring of my free blogs because it outperforms them 3 to 1 in terms of indexing and traffic generation and 10 to 1 in terms of conversion for offers and advertising. I owe this to the professional look and feel of having your own domain name.

Cost can be as little as $10.50 a year for a domain name. There are free webhost out there that will host a Wordpress blog with limited space and bandwidth. I tend to not use them because when you use up those limited resources they typically cost more than regular hosting does for the overages. I currently pay $7.99 a month for hosting 5 sites and get great security features.

Promoting the business opportunity end of SFI is not a fast path to profits but long term will automate your business and have the income boosting properties of adding new locations for your store.

In the end these will all take some time and dedication and you must build a relationship of trust and respect with the people you would like to join you at SFI and TripleClicks. None of this can be done if you SPAM people so learn what unsolicited advertising is and avoid it like the plague. A good start is under your training tab starting with Internet Income lessons 1 and 2.

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A blog is the most cost effective tool.

Promoting your favorite items on TripleClicks through that blog and that blog in your favorite social networks is the fastest path to commission generating sales and doesn't cost you much. I personally prefer the power of my paid blog to the slow gring of my free blogs because it outperforms them 3 to 1 in terms of indexing and traffic generation and 10 to 1 in terms of conversion for offers and advertising. I owe this to the professional look and
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

In my first month I used my T-credits to buy a share of S-builder to give me a few extra PSA while I was still in training for my business.

In my second month I used my T-credits to bid and win more t-credits, turning 125 of them into over 300 T-credits. I used a few to buy some e-books to further train my mind and help develop new skills. I also used them to buy ECA Flyers and TripleClick X-cards.

By month 3 I started looking at Eager Zebra Games and Double MRP auctions and began winning more credits off the games as well.

Now I do what feels right month by month and and keep resupplying my promotion tools and augmenting my advertising budget while making BTL every month for since January.

Everyone has an opinion of what's best for them. You have to find the right mix of purchase this, save for that, share when the time is right, and grow every month.
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In my first month I used my T-credits to buy a share of S-builder to give me a few extra PSA while I was still in training for my business.

In my second month I used my T-credits to bid and win more t-credits, turning 125 of them into over 300 T-credits. I used a few to buy some e-books to further train my mind and help develop new skills. I also used them to buy ECA Flyers and TripleClick X-cards.

By month 3 I started looking at Eager Zebra Games and Double MRP auctions and
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Advertising SFI as a business opportunity is fantastic in developed and developing nations where E-commerce has a strong foothold.

If you look around the forums and Ask SC you will find major distrust of online stores and businesses in countries that have only recently gained access to a well developed Internet. While there are often a lot of people who will check out SFI from these countries out of curiosity, the number who will trust this business and focus on the work needed to succeed is often very low.

Trust is vital and trust comes with experience with a brand or company.

When promoting TripleCLicks which should be your major focus you will also do better promoting in countries with a strong e-commerce presence and large consumer buying power. I saw others talking about being sure there are local providers to save on shipping cost but to ignore a country because there are a low number of ECA from it is earnings suicide.

Instead develop a plan to recruit ECA and buyers alike through targeted advertising. Match local stores with online customers and you will win at both ends with commissions and royalties.

In my business nearly 20% of my income and growing is coming from ECA Royalties. In time I anticipate this being 1/3 or more of my income because online sellers are need new and low competition places to market their goods online and as my business grows, so does my advertising budget.

Never count any country out. Some may not be tech savvy today or trust the Internet much but 3 to 5 years from now the net will be old hack to them and those sleepers of today may be the super affiliates of tomorrow.

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Advertising SFI as a business opportunity is fantastic in developed and developing nations where E-commerce has a strong foothold.

If you look around the forums and Ask SC you will find major distrust of online stores and businesses in countries that have only recently gained access to a well developed Internet. While there are often a lot of people who will check out SFI from these countries out of curiosity, the number who will trust this business and focus on the work needed to succeed
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

You are an Independent Affiliate Marketer.

Your role is to send human visitors to SFI and TripleClciks who either buy from the over 90,000 products listed, play in the amazing Price Benders Auctions, or who join as either affiliates or E-commerce Affiliates.

Your relationship is that of an independent business owner.

You get no income unless you deliver the expected results to SFI who is your client. In this case you must help SFI increase sales and develop an even larger network of affiliates so TripleClicks continues to grow and continues to be able to pay millions of dollars in affiliate commissions.

If they are interested in joining you can let them know there is no cost to become an affiliate but they will have to invest time and/or money into advertising and marketing their affiliate links in order to accomplish their earnings goals. If the follow the SFI Plan page and develop a team of Personally Sponsored Affiliates in addition to driving sales in a few short years it is possible to be generating a 6 figure income.

SFI requires dedication and professionalism but offers great rewards that can last a lifetime to the person ready to give the program 6-12 months before they start seeing any kind of healthy returns. We are not a Get Rich Quick program. There is no instant wealth formula. This is a real business.

Have a great week.
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You are an Independent Affiliate Marketer.

Your role is to send human visitors to SFI and TripleClciks who either buy from the over 90,000 products listed, play in the amazing Price Benders Auctions, or who join as either affiliates or E-commerce Affiliates.

Your relationship is that of an independent business owner.

You get no income unless you deliver the expected results to SFI who is your client. In this case you must help SFI increase sales and develop an even
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Ads equal leads, leads equal opportunity, Opportunity well taken breads success in this business.

If you are advertising you need to realize these people are signing up with no more information than what is on your gateway page. They are curious and may be interested in SFI if they get the right information. In short they are leads for your business and this is your opportunity to fill their minds with well timed knowledge so they can choose to become an active affiliate.

Quality is found not in the ad but in the target market.

If you are only placing ads in free classifieds and traffic exchanges and places people without money go to learn how to get money, you will get people who's education has not afforded them enough success to not need money and who have no money to invest. Thus they join but their growth is slow if any as their skills are low, comprehension may be as low, and ability is questionable.

If you go to marketing publications, and sites like College Humor and make it a mission to get in front of educated and somewhat successful people you will find fast starters with a great deal of comprehension, and the ability to invest and grow rapidly.

Sad to say the best way to reach them immediately is through costly targeted advertising buys, but long term you can educate your own mind and blog about things that would interest that type of recruit and use your informed following to fill your downlines with leaders.

Have an amazing week.
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Ads equal leads, leads equal opportunity, Opportunity well taken breads success in this business.

If you are advertising you need to realize these people are signing up with no more information than what is on your gateway page. They are curious and may be interested in SFI if they get the right information. In short they are leads for your business and this is your opportunity to fill their minds with well timed knowledge so they can choose to become an active affiliate.

Quality
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

How do I get people who are Engaged with other Network Marketing businesses to take a look at SFI?

If you are dealing with someone who is pitching you their program you should be polite, let them finish their presentation, and never attack their program. Just make note of things SFI has that they didn't mention and ask them questions so they too get to thinking about the things their company doesn't provide or could do better at.

Be sure to establish with your questions what is free, what is paid, and what is at an additional cost. Some companies like a very popular blog program going around offer free training but also offer several levels of paid training once you get started with each leading you to buy the next. I just did a couple articles on a MLM company for a client where they offered the training with your basic product commitment but in order to sell their products you had to pay for your affiliate gateways which are not stand alone sites, they do not have separate coding from any other member's site and are basically the same page with only the referring affiliate's name and ID changed in them.

When they are done, thank them for the overview and ask them if they would mind hearing about the company you are currently in.

Many will say no. The world is greedy they want to sell not run risk of buying or joining. They will tell you things about not having the time etc.. I tell them thanks for their time but I found several reasons to stay with SFI in your presentation. Sometimes that will stop them in their tracks and make them give you the time, sometimes they will have to sleep on what you said and then will contact you for that talk, and sometimes they will shrug it off because they are dead sure their offer is the best thing going.

If you are addressing program hoppers, an affiliate you have seen promoting at least 3 different companies in the past year follow this procedure.

Let them know that you have noticed them promoting several opportunities and nothing seems to stick. They seem like they are searching for something and then ask them what exactly they are looking for in a home business when they are out looking. Then ask them about their vision for the next 5 years, what they would like to achieve in that time.

Lastly ask them for 10-15 minutes of their time to discuss a company they might be interested in calling home.

Be sure to stay away from using the word free, it cheapens the presentation and people wonder how they can earn a lot of money if nothing is being sold. A MLM or Network Marketing professional doesn't care about what's free as much as what is the product and how will I earn money. Telling them we have no cost training and a zero commitment tour with no pressure and no auto-ship will peek an interest but above all they want to know, “how much money can I make, how will I make it, and how stable is the company?”.

They will want to see any testimonials you can find, and see TripleClicks. They will want to hear your personal SFI journey, and why you joined and more importantly why you stayed with SFI. They will want details on each of the income streams. Most will not be interested in SFIPPA because it really isn't designed for the serious affiliate but most will be very interested in the ECA program because of years of buying product in excess of their personal needs to meet a auto-ship requirement or reach a certain BV or Buyers Volume. If they have been in MLM for 5 years they have a ton of potions, lotions, vitamins, and remedies etc.. they can put up for sale and many will be interested in the marketplace even if they don't join SFI.

The reasons to look at SFI though are those things where their company doesn't do well. Most often it's training and upline support. Or it will be a sense that questions go unanswered on training calls, or that everyone there could care less about the product or you and only wants your money. To counter that you should focus on our culture of learning, and community spirit. You should tell them about our many streams of support like 3 levels of sponsors, Ask SC, A2A, and the Forums before you ever even have to consider a support ticket.

Stability and explaining that SFI has been an industry leader for 16 years, and a Bronze member of the Better Business Bureau for 14 years, while Parent Company Carson Services has 28 years in Network Marketing will resonate with them. The fact we have 1.3 million affiliates, and 2.4 million TripleClicks members who generate millions of dollars in annual sales that have resulted in millions of dollars in commissions paid out is gravy on the biscuit.

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How do I get people who are Engaged with other Network Marketing businesses to take a look at SFI?

If you are dealing with someone who is pitching you their program you should be polite, let them finish their presentation, and never attack their program. Just make note of things SFI has that they didn't mention and ask them questions so they too get to thinking about the things their company doesn't provide or could do better at.

Be sure to establish with your questions what
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

With SFI there are endless items to market and they are handled only slightly different than the business opportunity side of things in that with products you identify your existing audience and pair products up with their interest, and with the business opportunity you know the product but need to identify who needs it and what will get the offer in front of them.

Either way you have to understand the customer before any advertising or marketing is done.

You need to know their interest.
You need to know their needs.
You need to know their willingness to take action.
You need to know what kind of messages are getting results with them.
You need to know demographics like Age, Location, Sex, and Current Income.

This data allows you to target your advertising so it generates the maximum number of leads for your marketing efforts.

Now you need a place for the prospective customer or member to land. I recommend a blog based website hosted on your own domain because the URLs look more professional, they don't get the scam reputation of free host, and you have more freedom in the content you make public. You can easily use Wordpress to add a lot of cool functions to your site to help keep the visitor's attention and get them to opt into your mailing list.

You need a mailing list and to generate a free report of obtain a software or other gift that will help you convert traffic into leads and then leads into customers or members. On average a person must see an offer 7-9 times before they decide to take action or write it off as uninteresting. They only way you can increase your odds of being the 7th to 9th person showing them SFI when they join is by sending them messages with more information to make a informed choice about SFI with and a fresh Link so they always have your cookie in their browser when visiting SFI.

Once you have Marketed SFI to the prospect you need to have a follow up plan.

With TripleClicks they handle the re-marketing and promotions to your Personally Referred Members and ECA who are not SFI Affiliates. PSA however often join to get more in depth information and first hand experience with the site and while your sales funnel will have increased their odds of being active and successful you still need to guide them on how to get started and how to maximize their time for the greatest results.

You will need to continually through your team mail send them updates, and more information about the features in SFI and TripleClicks, and motivational or inspirational content to keep them moving forward during those tough times at the beginning of their home business.


Above all when choosing the members you wish to promote the SFI Affiliate Program to, don't limit yourself to people just like you unless you are college educated, experienced in marketing or marketing online, and have an income over $35,000 a year already and are just looking for added income or to put your skills to work for you.

In short, aim for the affiliate you would like to have as a referral instead of aiming for the largest group of people which are the ones flat broke with poor education, and little to no experience that would apply to starting a business. You will thank me later when you see more Fast Track members setting up a standing order in their first month and building mega teams using co-ops and paid advertising.


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With SFI there are endless items to market and they are handled only slightly different than the business opportunity side of things in that with products you identify your existing audience and pair products up with their interest, and with the business opportunity you know the product but need to identify who needs it and what will get the offer in front of them.

Either way you have to understand the customer before any advertising or marketing is done.

You need to know their
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Simple Answer: You Don't!

SFI Training tells you this is a bad idea as every time the affiliate logs into the SFI back office SFI reminds them about not having a standing order and educates them on the value of becoming an EA2 every month.

No additional push is required.

You might mention the items you have bought and reviewed this month, or send out a list of the best value standing order items you have found on TripleClicks but give it as information to help them grow their business not as a sales pitch to fill your wallet.

Another thing to keep in mind is focus.

While it seems nice to get a rapid commission shortly after a new team member joins and hopefully get that bit of earnings every month, but a PSA who invest in PSA to Go or other SFI Co-Op Advertising might benefit you more and for a lot longer. Even if the items they purchase are not commission earning if they help the build a massive team both wide and deep you can earn more off their success than a commission off a single standing order.

After 13 months of being active again in SFI I now get nearly 1/3 of my income from matching VP and it's the fastest growing area of my business. In time the PSA who generate all these referrals that have stretched my business 4 levels deep and counting will earn me thousands of dollars while my Direct Commissions are still just a few hundred dollars a month.

Is it worth it to me to wait 6 months to a year for their action to gain traction before getting a good return on my investment getting them into SFI? Yes it is because the greater long term reward is what I am here for, not fast money.


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Simple Answer: You Don't!

SFI Training tells you this is a bad idea as every time the affiliate logs into the SFI back office SFI reminds them about not having a standing order and educates them on the value of becoming an EA2 every month.

No additional push is required.

You might mention the items you have bought and reviewed this month, or send out a list of the best value standing order items you have found on TripleClicks but give it as information to help them
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