Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Are you trying to figure out which of the two sponsoring activities to focus on for better compensation? To answer your question, I strongly suggest that you review your goals. In your Goals tab, you’ll find your #1 goal, such as, quitting full-time job and work from home, improve standard of living or to become wealthy. Your long-term goals are more specific, stating your income goals, going full-time with your SFI business and so on.

In order to establish your SFI business and earn residual income for the rest of your life, you’ll need to commit yourself doing both of these marketing activities consistently.

Why you need to be sponsoring SFI affiliates and at the same time referring TripleClicks members?

- Duplication is the core of your SFI business. Building teams of passionate affiliates will not only propel your SFI business but establish a solid foundation making a way for you to earn residual income.

- Referring TripleClicks members especially right at the start of your SFI business will help you in your financial investment, topping up your monthly commission. You’ll earn all the VPs on purchases made by your referred TC members giving you additional earnings through shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

Sponsoring SFI affiliates and referring TripleClicks members are both important marketing activities in your SFI business. These two are key components of achieving your long-term goal.

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Are you trying to figure out which of the two sponsoring activities to focus on for better compensation? To answer your question, I strongly suggest that you review your goals. In your Goals tab, you’ll find your #1 goal, such as, quitting full-time job and work from home, improve standard of living or to become wealthy. Your long-term goals are more specific, stating your income goals, going full-time with your SFI business and so on.

In order to establish your SFI business and earn
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

It is possible that you will run into your prospect and will ask you about your role in SFI. How do you proceed in your conversation with your prospect?

This would be dependent on your current situation. It includes your rank and your experience being an SFI affiliate.

If you’re a new affiliate, you can just say politely that you’re widening your SFI knowledge base. Don’t forget to mention about the extensive support from SFI Help desk, upline, sponsor and co-sponsor.

If you’re an EA, you can explain that you’re being trained to move to the Team Leader position and receive the benefits that come with it. In this stage of being an EA you can further say that you’re learning to build your network through the support mainly of your sponsor.

If you’re a Team Leader:

Team Leaders provide direction, instructions, and guidance to a group of individuals, to his/her team, for the purpose of achieving a certain goal. A good Team Leader will know his/her team members strengths, their weaknesses, and what motivates them.

You can mention the following:

- Develop strategy for the whole team to reach its goal.

- Provide any support for his/her team members.

- Communicate clear, simple instructions to his/her team members.

- Listen to his/her team member’s feedback.

- Monitor team members’ participation using SFI tools and resources to ensure that they are applying what they have learned and check if any additional training is needed.

- Manage the flow of his SFI business operations in a daily basis.

- Create reports to update the entire team on their progress. He/she knows that success could only be attained through team efforts.

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It is possible that you will run into your prospect and will ask you about your role in SFI. How do you proceed in your conversation with your prospect?

This would be dependent on your current situation. It includes your rank and your experience being an SFI affiliate.

If you’re a new affiliate, you can just say politely that you’re widening your SFI knowledge base. Don’t forget to mention about the extensive support from SFI Help desk, upline, sponsor and co-sponsor.
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

To get your new sign ups stay engaged with SFI for longer than one day, do the following steps:

- Give them your warmest welcome on their first day. It is the first friendly exchange between you and your new affiliates. It sets the tone for future communications and encourages new affiliates to engage with SFI.

- Their first day of engagement in SFI could be confusing or overwhelming to your new affiliates, make sure to emphasize to them in your welcome message to focus on SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD to get them started right.

- Send a follow up through E card as a starting point in building rapport with your new affiliates. You can take it to the next level by sending your personal messages through emails. Building rapport is no easy task. It requires you to be a great listener (not just a good one). Team Leaders/Sponsors who are listening take good notes, are quick to follow through, and are responsible enough to proactively address their new affiliates immediate needs and requirements to help them on their first day and in getting started right.

- Whenever they’re online, initiate a chat with them. This is one of the most effective ways of making them feel comfortable in their journey with SFI. This would also convey to them that you’re there as their friendly guide.

- Monitor the progress of your new affiliates’ activities using Genealogy/Movers tab, especially on their first week. Make sure to address their issues in performing their To-Do List in your group support messages.

- Offer a one-on-one support right in the beginning of their journey. When you do one-on-one support on their first week, make sure you’ve done your homework by knowing your new affiliate’s status of progress in order to help him/her effectively. Mentioning their journey’s progress no matter how “insignificant” it might seem to be can boost emotions, motivation and perception of his/her SFI journey.

And the more frequently your new affiliates experience that sense of progress, the more likely they are to be creatively productive in the long run. Whether they are trying to solve an obstacle in doing their Getting Started actions or trying to understand the Fast-Track membership, everyday progress—even a small win—can make all the difference in how they feel and perform.

- Getting started is always the hardest part; encourage them by mentioning the Signing Bonus (SB) in your first interaction with your new affiliates. You’ll be able to identify those affiliates qualified for the SB through the SB Balance filter in your Genealogy or filter those who have received SB and the amount of SB they’ve received. This would excite them to stay and become productive with SFI.

Conclusion:

You need to keep in mind that SFI is a network marketing business, which is based on a team building philosophy rather than a supervisory one. It is important that you’re setting the right example as you train and support them right from the start.

The most important and effective way for Team Leaders/Sponsors to earn trust quickly: be a strong communicator. It should be on your first list to always allocate time to get to know your new affiliates right from the very beginning. Helping them in their immediate needs, your guidance as they get started in their journey with SFI will fuel their motivation and get them stay engaged with SFI for longer than one day.

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To get your new sign ups stay engaged with SFI for longer than one day, do the following steps:

- Give them your warmest welcome on their first day. It is the first friendly exchange between you and your new affiliates. It sets the tone for future communications and encourages new affiliates to engage with SFI.

- Their first day of engagement in SFI could be confusing or overwhelming to your new affiliates, make sure to emphasize to them in your welcome message to focus on SFI
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

If your time is limited to spend with your SFI business, you need to manage your time wisely, in such a way that your activities are focus on maintaining the momentum and growth of your SFI business.

How to accomplish as much of your SFI business activities with such a limited time of one hour a day without slowing down the progress of your SFI business growth? Is it possible? Can you do it? Yes, you can.

You need to develop a strategy of how you’re going to execute all those activities which promote the training and support of your downline, the expansion of your network and keeping up-to-date with the latest innovations for growing your SFI business. Your business activities should be focused on these key elements of your SFI business to attain your maximum potential of being a SFI affiliate.

With your one-hour-a-day time availability:

- With your time limitation, you have to accumulate the required AVPs to maintain your rank or move up to the next rank according to The Plan/Benefits Chart. You can accumulate your AVPs by performing your daily To-Do-List, weekly actions and monthly actions.

- You should make some financial investments for your SVPs requirement with products such as TCredits which can be converted to AVPs through participation of EZ games, Pricebenders auction, etc.

- You must concentrate on activities that foster trust - building close relationship with your downline. It means staying connected with them through your training and support messages, posting your recognition for their achievements through your Stream Posts/Leadership page/SFI Forum.

- You must also concentrate in expanding your network by sponsoring new affiliates. The best recommendation in regards to your time limitation is by investing in S-Builder Co-op, PSAs to Go or purchasing PSAs from TripleClicks ECAs with good star ratings.

- Regular activities such as, widening your knowledge base, visiting the SFI Forum/Ask SC to gain new and powerful insights in thriving your SFI business and reading the latest SFI updates, etc. shouldn’t be neglected.

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If your time is limited to spend with your SFI business, you need to manage your time wisely, in such a way that your activities are focus on maintaining the momentum and growth of your SFI business.

How to accomplish as much of your SFI business activities with such a limited time of one hour a day without slowing down the progress of your SFI business growth? Is it possible? Can you do it? Yes, you can.

You need to develop a strategy of how you’re going to execute all those
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

When you purchase a product from TripleClicks, you’ll receive the corresponding MRP value. Every month I accumulate my MRPs from purchasing TC products, Pricebender auctions and from MRP shares for being a W3 member. I have developed a strategy which I can best use them for growing my SFI business.

Here’s how I best use my MRPs:

- Purchase TCredits for bidding an item with DP feature such as 25, 35, 50 and 100 PSAs.

- Redeem products at the Member Rewards Special Store.

- Purchase PSAs from an ECA store.

- Purchase several quantities of 1 TCredit to top up my VersaPoints.

- Purchase TCredits to participate in Eager Zebra game, Download TC music and Member Listing.

MRPs are valuable resource for establishing and positioning your SFI business to success.

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When you purchase a product from TripleClicks, you’ll receive the corresponding MRP value. Every month I accumulate my MRPs from purchasing TC products, Pricebender auctions and from MRP shares for being a W3 member. I have developed a strategy which I can best use them for growing my SFI business.

Here’s how I best use my MRPs:

- Purchase TCredits for bidding an item with DP feature such as 25, 35, 50 and 100 PSAs.

- Redeem products at the Member Rewards Special
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

When you’re just getting started with SFI, there are real steps to ensure your SFI business a successful start.

Here is an effective strategy that will help you establish a solid foundation for growing your SFI business:

- Learn what makes SFI a real business.

Go to SFI BASICS. In this section, you’ll find four ways to earn your income. I always emphasized especially to my new affiliates not to leave this page and move on to the next until they completely and clearly understood all of the concepts discussed here. This is an important step for them to understand as they move on, implementing a systematic start in their journey with SFI.

- Learn the details of what makes SFI a real business.

In order not to complicate the matter and overwhelm especially new affiliates, I’ll let them know right away on their first day in going through the LAUNCHPAD to take one lesson at a time. The LAUNCHPAD contains important information that needs to be digested. There is no point reading them all in just one day in order to score all the VPs. They’ll be missing key points, which if implemented strategically, will lead them to success.

- Become a Fast-Track member.

You are serious in making SFI works for you. Since you’re in the process of starting up, you need to think of your long term success. The Fast-Track membership gives you the advantage to initiate the momentum and growth of your SFI business.

By becoming a Fast-Track member, you’re bolstering the growth of your SFI income for years to come. Being a Fast-Track member you’ll get 10% bonus shares of TC Executive Pool per month, 250 bonus VP, etc.

A good start up strategy in becoming a Fast-Track member is by doing the following:

1.Complete the five Getting Started actions, which are indicated with JET icons.

2. Purchase the New Member Pack (NMP) which costs $20.

- Performing your free pointable Actions.

In going through your free pointable actions, you should consider a strategic approach. Most new affiliates collect all their free action VPs in their first month just to achieve EA, making it difficult for the following month to maintain their EA status.

You should focus only first on collecting your Getting Started actions VP in your first month to get you established and then perform your daily To-Do List. This will ensure your 1500 EA qualifying VPs together with being a Fast-Track member.

In your second month, you won’t be struggling to maintain your EA status, because you’re a Fast-Track member and have enough free pointable actions to collect.

- Learn to market your SFI business

As you maintain your EA status, you should be going through your marketing and training tabs to learn and to acquire the necessary skills of sponsoring and start building your network. You’ll be earning valuable action VPs to help you through in maintaining your EA status. You’ll need to continually educate yourself and widen your knowledge base in these two sections to ensure that you’re taking full advantage of all the tools and resources provided by SFI.

- Participate in SFI Forum and Ask SC

Learn more and continue building upon what you have started by actively participating in SFI Forum and Ask SC. They are great resources in growing your SFI business.



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When you’re just getting started with SFI, there are real steps to ensure your SFI business a successful start.

Here is an effective strategy that will help you establish a solid foundation for growing your SFI business:

- Learn what makes SFI a real business.

Go to SFI BASICS. In this section, you’ll find four ways to earn your income. I always emphasized especially to my new affiliates not to leave this page and move on to the next until they completely and
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

It doesn’t matter if you have the world’s best home based business opportunity, unless it is marketed well, its target base prospects will not find it.

In the world of entrepreneurship, if you want to stay on the top you’ll need to acquire key marketing skills in order to face the following challenges:

- Dealing with a constantly changing marketing environment.

- Understanding the whims of the all-powerful, make-or-break search engines.

- Keeping up with new technology, such as mobile advertising and

- Maintaining a level of excellence in verbal and written communication.

Acquiring the much needed marketing skills to address the above challenges in marketing SFI and passing on those skills to your downline is one of the best supports you can give to them.

Here are some of the most valuable marketing skills that you should teach your downline to make them successful in marketing SFI:

- Social media skills

To be effective in using social media, emphasize to them the following: Be clear about their goals, keep thinking SEO, provide value to the reader, make it a multi-direction conversation, get active with groups, go beyond their network, be brief, don't fall into online slumber, and think before posting.

- Network marketers need good narrative instincts.

Story telling has always been at the heart of great marketing because it can elicit an emotional response and generate a connection. People are becoming increasingly discerning about the brands they trust online, so network marketers need good narrative instincts to craft content and a message that can cut through the noise and impact potential prospects.

- Digital and mobile marketing have changed the marketing landscape. The ability to learn and stay with the latest trends and technology is essential.

- Communication including being a good listener.

Articulate your point of view well via speaking and writing and always be focused in listening.

- Creating good content.

Content is your most valuable asset. It's what attracts people to your website, get's shared across social media platform and is what helps convert visitors into sign ups.

- Have a thorough understanding of how to track success.

Network marketers need to be familiar with analytics. They need to understand the web analytics service offered by Google Analytics, HubSpot, etc. to track their success accurately.

Conclusion:

When you teach your downline the above most valuable marketing skills which they need to grow their SFI businesses, you’ll not only help them how to become self-sufficient and self-sustaining in growing their SFI businesses but you’ll also benefit in higher commissions.

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It doesn’t matter if you have the world’s best home based business opportunity, unless it is marketed well, its target base prospects will not find it.

In the world of entrepreneurship, if you want to stay on the top you’ll need to acquire key marketing skills in order to face the following challenges:

- Dealing with a constantly changing marketing environment.

- Understanding the whims of the all-powerful, make-or-break search engines.

- Keeping
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Yes, absolutely.

Promoting TripleClicks (TC) products/services to your team is an effective way to spread the word about TripleClicks. This is the lifeblood of your SFI business. Sales promotions of TripleClicks products/services are a great way to build year-over-year and month-over-month revenue growth.

Before considering to promote the sale of TC products/services to your team, you should be enthusiastically involved yourself, being an example to them.

When promoting the sale of TC products/services to your team, you should take into consideration what’s in it for them. You should be putting their needs first to help them in their development and growth in your SFI organization. I would like to have them learned first how to generate sales at TripleClicks to help them out in the financial investment side of growing their SFI businesses.

How to promote the sale of TripleClicks products/services to your team?

You can promote the sale of TripleClicks products/services to your team in two ways:

1. As TC customers:

-- Give them valuable tips by sharing your experience in using TC products/services. For example, you can relate to them TC products/services which promote the momentum and growth of your SFI business. Your Leadership page is an invaluable tool for this purpose.

- Promote transfer buying if it’s viable to them so they can accumulate their sales VPs for better overall ranking power and also for fulfilling their SVP requirement to maintain their rank or move up to the next rank.

2. As TC marketers:

- Direct them to the Marketing tab in order to learn the various methods, which include traditional and digital marketing methods designed for promoting the sale of TripleClicks products/services.

- Give them your training and support and be prompt in replying to their questions. Use social media such as Facebook through your Facebook group for discussions and anything that needs clarification about the promotion of TC products/services.

- When using their blogs, emphasize to them the importance of using the Marketing Aids, such as banners, text ads, etc. especially designed for promoting TripleClicks.

- Inform them about the powerful word of mouth marketing strategy in promoting the sale of TC products/services. As consumers overwhelmed by product choices tune out the ever-growing barrage of traditional marketing, word of mouth cuts through the noise quickly and effectively.

When you promote the sale of TC products or services to your team, you’re making an impact with your team on the expansion and growth of TripleClicks.com

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Yes, absolutely.

Promoting TripleClicks (TC) products/services to your team is an effective way to spread the word about TripleClicks. This is the lifeblood of your SFI business. Sales promotions of TripleClicks products/services are a great way to build year-over-year and month-over-month revenue growth.

Before considering to promote the sale of TC products/services to your team, you should be enthusiastically involved yourself, being an example to them.

When promoting
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

SFI is one of the top network marketing opportunities represented by its 1.6 million affiliates worldwide. Through the use of Internet infrastructure, SFI can be marketed globally.

You have the option to expand your network starting from your country/region and you can take it further beyond your country’s border. Marketing your SFI business worldwide means more opportunities for engagement and business growth.

Advantages and Disadvantages of signing up people only from your country/region:

- Imagine the increased efficiency and effectiveness of your marketing efforts if you could market to a large group of prospects that share common characteristics and needs, and have a smooth flow of communication.

- Cultural background

Network marketers must remember that true brand intelligence lives at the intersection of head and heart, where the emotional self meets the analytical self. You need to understand culture and other intangibles to communicate effectively and you’re at your best when dealing with people in your home country.

But culture is where you find context and opportunities for engagement and business growth. It greatly affects market demand. The knowledge of your native culture is useful when dealing with home markets but it has little value when dealing in foreign markets.

Having the cultural background enables network marketers to create greater engagement, relevance and grow their business. The failure to acknowledge the importance of culture to brand- and business-building is the same as deciding that you’re okay with being at a competitive disadvantage.

- Geographic segmentation

Geographic segmentation can also be an effective approach for your SFI business with limited budget. You can focus on your defined area and not expend needless marketing dollars on approaches ill-suited for your target geographic segment. You can divide your market by geographical areas, such as by city, county, state, region (like East or West Coast) but you’re missing out on the international region (like Asia, Europe, etc.) because you’re only focussing on signing up prospects from your home country and therefore missing out on income potential outside your home country/region.

Advantages and Disadvantages of signing up people from everywhere:

- Generally language and culture could be perceived as major disadvantage and barriers in marketing your SFI business internationally but there are ways to overcome them. The key to being successful in marketing your SFI business internationally is to understand the role of culture in international business.

- Cultural differences will have a direct impact on your profitability; therefore you need to improve your level of knowledge of international cultural difference in business to help you in building international competencies as well as enabling you to gain a competitive advantage.

- Specifically, you should be aware of the key factors that have a direct impact on your SFI business such as:

1. Communication is the key to success for any business, whether you are operating nationally or internationally, but when operating internationally it becomes even more important due to language barriers. Google translations service with its limitation can provide some help in overcoming this barrier. Another solution that could be effective in overcoming this barrier is, by training people in your downline who understand English, speak the native language and have the cultural background of your prospects.

2. If you are aware of your prospect’s cultural background, then you will be able to adopt better and more suitable advertising methods.

- Cultural awareness is the key to global success of your SFI business. Marketing your SFI business globally involves cross cultural negotiations, establishing relationships with people, who will become your prospective members. It’s important to know whom you are dealing with by knowing what to say and when to say.

- You can overcome the cultural barriers when prospecting outside your home country/region, by learning and analyzing local cultures before marketing your SFI business – know the strengths & weakness as perceived by the local culture.

Conclusion:

Culture acts as a hidden entry barrier, but it can be overcome with cultural sensitivity, hard work and quality. As you expand your SFI business worldwide, you must be knowledgeable of both cultures (Local and Foreign). Don’t limit yourself by prospecting only at your home country/region. Think of the potential income you’ll be missing out as you expand your SFI business internationally.

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SFI is one of the top network marketing opportunities represented by its 1.6 million affiliates worldwide. Through the use of Internet infrastructure, SFI can be marketed globally.

You have the option to expand your network starting from your country/region and you can take it further beyond your country’s border. Marketing your SFI business worldwide means more opportunities for engagement and business growth.

Advantages and Disadvantages of signing up people only from your
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

An effective way to define drip marketing is by giving you examples on how you can best utilize it in building your SFI business. You’ll get a clear understanding of it on how effective and excellent tool in building your SFI business. Drip marketing programs can be customized and tailored to an infinite number of different uses.

One of the most important components of building your SFI business is sponsoring new affiliates. Before you can be sponsor to new affiliates, you need to generate your targeted leads. And to keep your SFI business growing, you’ll need to keep generating leads and convert them into sign-ups.

How can you best utilize drip marketing in your leads generation?

- Your prospects don’t just sign up overnight; they require marketing over time as they educate themselves and build trust with what you’re offering. Lead nurturing helps marketers communicate consistently with prospects. This is where drip marketing comes into play for effective lead nurturing:

1. Your prospects need more information before signing up.

2. Your prospects might need several days before deciding to sign-up.

3. Your prospects will sign up when they have enough information to understand if your SFI business opportunity offers solution to their problems.

- A visitor to your website/blog becomes a lead when he/she has shown an intention to sign up. This could be done in different ways; he/she becomes a lead when he/she does one of the following:

1. Fill up a form with name, email ID and/or phone number

2. Call your business phone number or

3. Send an email enquiry about your SFI business opportunity

The contact information of a prospect is a ‘lead’ for a marketer. Potential prospects give an explicit permission to be contacted by doing one of the above actions.

It is called a ‘lead’ because this contact information of a prospect can ‘culminate or result in a conversion – a sign up!’

At this stage, the prospect is only a cold lead. If you are good at lead generation but not at lead nurturing, you are going to attract a lot of leads – but conversion to sign ups will not happen.

You have to nurture cold leads with constant communication. The communication should contain the information that will help them decide to sign up.

When a cold lead learns enough about your SFI business opportunity and its compensation and benefits, he/she could be ready to sign up and he/she becomes a warm lead. When lead nurturing is done right, many warm leads will decide to sign up becoming new affiliates.

Without proper lead nurturing, you will not stay in the top of your prospect’s mind. The lead will never sign up or continue looking for another business opportunity that offers solution to his/her problems, or he/she may sign up to your competitor who nurtured him/her better. Improper nurturing or lack of lead nurturing can lead to many lost sign ups.

Other important uses of drip marketing that relate to building your SFI business are:

- Weekly Tips

You can run a series of topics one at a time for your downline to widen their knowledge base and help them in growing their SFI business. Share your experience and tips. Make them creative and entertaining. Just think about what your downline ask all the time and automate the entire process with emails.

- Support for your team members

Create a series of timed emails to support your team members. Take a look at SFI Support FAQ lists and turn that into a sequence of emails that help answer the most common questions from your team members. This series of emails could also be a follow up to a question asked by one of your team members.

If you’re generating leads for your SFI business drip marketing could be one of the most excellent tools to automate the tedious process of nurturing your leads to sign-up ready state. Lead nurturing helps marketers to communicate consistently with their prospects. By employing drip marketing to nurture your leads you’re ensuring a steady supply of targeted leads for growing your SFI business.

It takes from a few weeks to a few months to realise higher conversions and user engagement from a properly designed drip campaign.

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An effective way to define drip marketing is by giving you examples on how you can best utilize it in building your SFI business. You’ll get a clear understanding of it on how effective and excellent tool in building your SFI business. Drip marketing programs can be customized and tailored to an infinite number of different uses.

One of the most important components of building your SFI business is sponsoring new affiliates. Before you can be sponsor to new affiliates, you need to generate
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