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

College students are a great market for SFI.

Fact is most college students do not have full ride scholarships or wealthy parents paying the student's way through. In fact 8 in 10 college students are there on student loans and most have to work full or part time jobs to pay for housing and meals, text books etc..

College Students have items to sell like last year's used text books and are often the aspiring artist who need room to generate new creations so helping them sell their current art works and crafts can be a blessing. For these approaches the Yard Sale Online banners or Sell Your Stuff flyers make a great handout at off campus gatherings etc..

Someone mentioned college newspapers and I would add that air time on student run radio stations is usually quite affordable as well.

Promoting the business opportunity at SFI is beneficial because those starving students would love more money and more time to enjoy campus life. The more dollars they can make in a few minutes a day the more time to study, to take in concerts, to gather with friends, and otherwise enrich their lives with the very things that build master networkers.

The college social setting is even better than social media for spreading influence and launching ideas that break from the bounds of what is into the realm of what's possible. Facebook is one of hundreds of billion dollar companies founded while in college.

Some of the Internet's top marketers made their first millions while in college.

I happen to have taken training from several of them including one who is a SFI member who joined the same day I did two years ago. He's making over 10 million a year now and still saw the opportunity to drive some of his valuable followers into SFI.

These are business majors, and marketing students, web designers looking to monetize student blogs and fledgling e-magazines, and even campus activist looking to fund their causes or raise money for charity.

Reaching them is best done in the places where they are most engaged. That capus news source, the student aid building's jobs boards, sponsoring outdoor events, frat house information boards and mail boxes. As well as local papers and classifieds ads for offline marketing. Online Facebook's paid ads can laser target to students as can Google Adwords and Bing Ads. Pay per click is not as expensive as everyone makes it out to be, you just have to do your research instead of trying to advertise where everyone else is. I have personally made money using PPC ads like these more often than I have lost money using them.

The big thing is do what you do to attract these students diligently. Don't try to be a 1 hit wonder, advertise often because you don't know when a new super star may finally tune in to where your ads are at. Expect any marketing to take time to take hold and really gain momentum, and be available to personally follow up with those who are interested in starting their home business.
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College students are a great market for SFI.

Fact is most college students do not have full ride scholarships or wealthy parents paying the student's way through. In fact 8 in 10 college students are there on student loans and most have to work full or part time jobs to pay for housing and meals, text books etc..

College Students have items to sell like last year's used text books and are often the aspiring artist who need room to generate new creations so helping them sell
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Why are you wanting to promote your ECA to your PSA and Downline when the potential is far greater promoting it to prospective PRM?

It would be nice to have my team promoting my product listings, especially since it means they would be promoting TripleClicks Sales which helps us all, but trying to encourage them to buy from us is something that can ruin your relationship with them. They signed up to make money not receive promotions from your store.

Affiliates who are educated to review and promote items for sale will pick and choose products of interest to blog about, or add to their TripleClicks Custom Banners. This will happen naturally, not by force or persuasion and if you word a pitch to promote your store wrong, there will be resentment, and your active downline may revolt.

Building sales for your ECA Store is primarily up to the ECA to do.

That is why I recommend ECA have some experience in retail sales online or offline before they get started because the overall attractiveness of your listings, the pricing within your market, and the recruiting of affiliates, is all lost if you don't know your customer and can't market your store successfully.


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Why are you wanting to promote your ECA to your PSA and Downline when the potential is far greater promoting it to prospective PRM?

It would be nice to have my team promoting my product listings, especially since it means they would be promoting TripleClicks Sales which helps us all, but trying to encourage them to buy from us is something that can ruin your relationship with them. They signed up to make money not receive promotions from your store.

Affiliates who are educated
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Not much convincing needed, the games are fun to play and should be played primarily for enjoyment as they have limited affect on your business except for when you recruit PRM who purchase T-credits to play the games and win great prizes.

Fact is you don't want to pressure your PSA to spend excessive time on the games because it takes time away from promoting their business. The games do build certain skills like powers of observation, learning other cultures, and growing your knowledge of history and interesting facts, but the small amount of Versa points and MRP are not going to build a successful business if not combined with promotion and sponsoring.

TripleClicks sales must take place for any of it to pay anything, and your team must build a team to achieve their full potential, those two task need to be what you try to convince your PSA and CSA to focus on.
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Not much convincing needed, the games are fun to play and should be played primarily for enjoyment as they have limited affect on your business except for when you recruit PRM who purchase T-credits to play the games and win great prizes.

Fact is you don't want to pressure your PSA to spend excessive time on the games because it takes time away from promoting their business. The games do build certain skills like powers of observation, learning other cultures, and growing your knowledge
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The classic webinar is being replaced by free tools from Google and Google Plus.

Comparing features a Google Plus Hangout gives you the tools you really need to hold successful live conferences and you can use Hangouts on the Air to broadcast live on Youtube to extend your audience beyond you professional network on Google Plus.

You even have the option to save a video to your Youtube Channel where is can earn you money from ads shown to viewers and get an embed code to add the webinar archives to your blogs and websites where you control the advertising your viewers are exposed to.

How good is the service?

Fortune 500 Companies are now using Google Plus Hangouts on Air and the genre is growing faster than that of pod casting and standard webinars. I have around 2,000 G+ connections and get 1-5 Hangout invites a day and can learn about marketing, SEO, home business management, art, culture, business economics, engineering, tech and gadgets, and so much more.

So don't go buying out of date equipment, be ahead of the curve and go social with your webinars.
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The classic webinar is being replaced by free tools from Google and Google Plus.

Comparing features a Google Plus Hangout gives you the tools you really need to hold successful live conferences and you can use Hangouts on the Air to broadcast live on Youtube to extend your audience beyond you professional network on Google Plus.

You even have the option to save a video to your Youtube Channel where is can earn you money from ads shown to viewers and get an embed code to add
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If they think a 1VP action is a waste of time they are focused on the VP and not the purpose of the action.

Every 1VP Action is tied to a piece of information vital for the business owner to have in order to answer some of the more ardent questions about our company, and to stay motivated in our task. You learn the current counts of SFI Affiliates, ECA, TripleClicks members, and total products in your store. You also learn of sales and important news, get inspirational quotes and amazing tips and training from your peers. You make A2A connections vital to supporting your business and you learn how effective your actions of the current month have been in terms of reaching goals and earning an income.

The 1 VP may not seem like much but those simple actions add with the weekly and monthly task to gain over 500VP in a month. That is enough to reduce the cost of a standing order to make it to Executive Affiliate or to push your AVP over the top to make it to the next Team Leadership rank opening deeper levels to your downline and awarding you even more shares of our second home CSA.

If it were a penny you might not think of it as much but when I was living in New Mexico as a kid, a friend of mine's dad had spent nearly 20 years throwing all his pennies out in back yard. My friend, my brother, and me decided one day to start picking up all the pennies to see how much money was back there and just in what we found was over $1,000 that had been just thrown away.

A few years later there was a story of a man in Las Cruses New Mexico who had tossed his pennies in a water cooler bottle at first and once it filled up he would put them in a barrel in his garage. He did this for 35 years and when he retired he decided to cash his pennies in and see just how much he had saved through the years. In all he had over $23,000 in pennies which he used to buy a new pick up truck from a local Ford Dealer.

Versa points have a cash value, and every VP you ignore adds up over time and what seems like throwing away a fraction of a penny today can soon become hundreds or thousands of dollars you passed up because the task didn't seem worth your time. Ask any CEO who has ever cleaned a toilet if the task was worth his/her time and they will tell you no task is ever not worth doing, and it's the some of all the task they did that others wouldn't that is the reason they are where they are at in their careers.
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If they think a 1VP action is a waste of time they are focused on the VP and not the purpose of the action.

Every 1VP Action is tied to a piece of information vital for the business owner to have in order to answer some of the more ardent questions about our company, and to stay motivated in our task. You learn the current counts of SFI Affiliates, ECA, TripleClicks members, and total products in your store. You also learn of sales and important news, get inspirational quotes and amazing
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Play often

Think like a winner and train your mind by playing often and learning how the majority thinks about the different things asked.

Don't be prejudiced because a few of the questions are about animals found largely in America because we are equally lost when it's animals of Australia, or the Congo, birds of Malaysia or other global questions. I see too many small minded people on here talking about a fictional slant on this game leaning toward American or Canadians and it's hogwash. Put the racial / national divide aside and be object, studious, and open minded.

The Internet browser open that some have suggested has no real benefit. These questions were asked in house with different survey options than surveys done anywhere else so studying what you and your fellow SFI Affiliates have answered will do you far better than trying to have a browser open and searching for answers that most likely will be incorrect.

Make sure to play as many times as you can afford to do for a couple months and then you should be knowledgeable enough to win a few and recoup some of those losses.

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Play often

Think like a winner and train your mind by playing often and learning how the majority thinks about the different things asked.

Don't be prejudiced because a few of the questions are about animals found largely in America because we are equally lost when it's animals of Australia, or the Congo, birds of Malaysia or other global questions. I see too many small minded people on here talking about a fictional slant on this game leaning toward American or Canadians and
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Help them learn niche marketing and get them to set up a blog to promote TripleClicks products with.

As they learn to review items listed at TripleClicks they will start to build a following of potential customers and begin to generate traffic that if free and targeted from search engines like Google and Yahoo. Making sales early with niche marketing can provide them the opportunity to pay for their standing order with profits and will give them vital skills to teach their PSA to duplicate.

It's important to make it to Executive Affiliate but it's even more important to be able to stay an executive affiliate because going back to Affiliate Rank and losing your Co-Sponsored Affiliates, and suddenly being cut back to two streams of income from 6 is tough. By teaching them to do niche blogging you are teaching them skills to earn their standing order money and even generate funds for advertising by exchanging labor of the funds they need.

The best part is that before long they will generate enough PRM sales that give your PSA the Versa Points that they wont even need a standing order to maintain Executive Affiliate.

Too many members here at SFI came here after learning a MLM Mindset.

In the MLM Mindset you join, and must pay for an auto ship of product in order to start making money. To earn money you must find other people who are willing to buy and auto ship every month on the promise that they too can make money by finding people of their own. While there is a path to some profits in that here at SFI it's the long path to earnings because every new PSA is told from day one they are not required to have a standing order or buy anything ever.

SFI is an affiliate program. You earn through sale of products priced at retail instead of earning money off people who are paying for the right to make money.

You are not limited to the commissions off 300 downline members buying a $36.25 T-credit Pack each month, instead you can bring in store owners and earn 10% of the Commission Volume or CV of all of their sales for life, and you can recruit Personally referred members who may spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a month at TripleClicks. And the best part is the ability to target market for people with money.

See the online business crowd is usually people who don't have much money seeking to earn money hopefully without spending a lot of money to do it. When you promote to shoppers you can get the high end Jewelry buyer who can spend $20,000 without batting an eye, or the fashionista who could buy a new $500 dress every week for a upcoming party.

You are limited only by your imagination and your ability to perform a little research.
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Help them learn niche marketing and get them to set up a blog to promote TripleClicks products with.

As they learn to review items listed at TripleClicks they will start to build a following of potential customers and begin to generate traffic that if free and targeted from search engines like Google and Yahoo. Making sales early with niche marketing can provide them the opportunity to pay for their standing order with profits and will give them vital skills to teach their PSA to duplicate.

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

If you can type you can do so much more than a job will allow.

As an affiliate marketer you can put those typing skills to work creating a blog and use the influence you build blogging to promote products for sale and earn commissions. When you do this all of the money earned is profits not salary and it's not limited like salary.

If you can fill out forms you can place classifieds ads, and generate e-mails for marketing. You will find these short forms can earn you lifetime pay from one time actions.

If I help you find a JOB you will get a SALARY that is pennies on the dollar of what your BOSS earns. If I help you start your own business then you ar the BOSS making the DOLLARS instead of a salary. If you own your own business it can continue long into retirement, and pay you tomorrow for the work today. In a JOB at best you are looking at a Pension or 401K that pays you a fraction of what you use to earn.

If your want a JOB go ahead, have one and let your boss laugh about how much work you do for so little pay. Let your peers pass you by on promotions because one can flatter the boss better than the other, one is smarter, one had money for college etc..

If you want a business you can be the one laughing as your peers still have to flatter a boss, or work smarter, or have a degree to only ever earn a salary while their boss and you make all the money they desire.

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If you can type you can do so much more than a job will allow.

As an affiliate marketer you can put those typing skills to work creating a blog and use the influence you build blogging to promote products for sale and earn commissions. When you do this all of the money earned is profits not salary and it's not limited like salary.

If you can fill out forms you can place classifieds ads, and generate e-mails for marketing. You will find these short forms can earn you lifetime
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I see lots of answers telling you to create a website about SFI with the same details the SFI website has on it, and aim to brand SFI with it.

That's one way to go if you want to limit your business to people who are looking for more information about SFI but have not already joined under the affiliate that first showed them SFI. Fact is 99% of the people who search SFI Affiliates, Strong Future International, How to promote SFI, are all current affiliates looking for additional training and they will eat up the training you put out and use it to compete with you.

That's the facts of how search engine marketing works, and home business competition.

On the other hand the people looking for home business in general are not searching for specific programs, they are looking for things like, " How to start a business online" and "What type of Home Business is Best" and these are people you can mold through education into future SFI affiliates.

For even more immediate results you can target those already looking at affiliate marketing or network marketing, not MLM by using search terms and post titles like "The best retail affiliate program" and "Network Marketing Companies Then and Now". This targets people in our two main industries which are 1, retail affiliate program, and 2 network marketing or team building of sellers not customers below you.

Your site should only briefly mention SFI if at all. Fact is Google is now penalizing sites for the SFI4 links and probably a few others because of so many spammers who have spoiled those links for honest affiliates. I had to take down my external promotions for SFI and switch to TripleClicks links and move SFI to my newsletter and free reports because the SFI4 URLs got my Google Adwords account suspended and my Adsense went from 80 cents a click to 4 cents to 50 cents a click as the site was throttled and no longer offered to the majority of advertisers.

If you make a site 100% about SFI you will spend more money and more time to promote it than if you promote a regular home business blog and add SFI to a free report for your newsletter.


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I see lots of answers telling you to create a website about SFI with the same details the SFI website has on it, and aim to brand SFI with it.

That's one way to go if you want to limit your business to people who are looking for more information about SFI but have not already joined under the affiliate that first showed them SFI. Fact is 99% of the people who search SFI Affiliates, Strong Future International, How to promote SFI, are all current affiliates looking for additional training
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Pick a gift type item from an ECA that has a reasonable price, recognizable brand, and would fit perfectly for at least one member of a family.

When you just choose one product to promote you can focus in on targeting the person who would be buying that gift and the person they would be buying that gift for. That allows you to target your advertising and learn how to find customers ready to buy now on that item if the price is right.

The biggest mistake affiliates make when trying to promote TripleClicks is that they try to start by promoting everything. They have no knowledge of who their customer is or how to find them and there are too many pages and gateways to promote. Start small and apply all your effort to selling that one gift item and then as your sales begin to grow duplicate what you have done with a second product.

If 1.6 million affiliates start promoting each gift item on TripleClicks one item at a time nearly every ECA will make money, every affiliate will make money, and the TripleClicks brand will be fresh in the mind of millions of new and potential Personally Referred Members.

This message is from a guy who has been in business management 16 years in offline businesses and 12 years in online business and has done all of his own marketing in retail and affiliate programs for the combined 28 years. It's sound advice based on marketing principals and success tips of million dollar salesmen from around the world.

"Don't try to specialize in everything, pick one thing and be the best at it." - Jim Rohn


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Pick a gift type item from an ECA that has a reasonable price, recognizable brand, and would fit perfectly for at least one member of a family.

When you just choose one product to promote you can focus in on targeting the person who would be buying that gift and the person they would be buying that gift for. That allows you to target your advertising and learn how to find customers ready to buy now on that item if the price is right.

The biggest mistake affiliates make when
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