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

While like most I agree there is room to target both segments I personally aim for Home Makers more often than retirees.

I live in sunny Arizona where we get millions of winter snowbirds and many have money but many are sharing a 99 cent sandwich at the local fast food places 3 times a day. The ones that have a lot of money are more focused on the sights to see, and gatherings like bingo night, poker at the Casino, sight seeing trips etc.. The largest share of our winter visitors have owned their businesses or done so well in their careers that the last thing on their mind is anything that looks like work.

Since the 2nd largest segment sold their homes to get out from under a mortgage and bought a small RV to follow good air and affordable living simply have noting to invest money wise. They seldom have smart phones or computers and internet service is 40 more sandwiches they could buy in a month.

That leaves a small class that isn't rich but has just enough to be comfortable. In utopia this would be a large class but in reality the number who fail to plan for retirement and depend on social security outnumber those with $200,000 Wonderlodges.

While these seniors tend to know a lot of people you are most apt to find the ones with a little money to invest, net connected, and with viable skills out trading at the swap meets or doing crafts at a rec. center. They love Ebay and Amazon for selling those wares so they make a great potential market for TripleClicks and a few of them, mostly those widowed will join a program as some have said to meet people and feel useful again.

Meanwhile we have the homemaker.

Here in the U.S. despite the dwindling percentage in the middle class and threats like Obamacare to even further thin them out a large swath of our population is earning upper 5 to 6 figure salaries time 1-2 adults. They tend to reach above their current means at times and most of their struggles amount to buying the car and the house in the same year they vacationed in Brazil.

These middle age and middle class home makers are Internet Savy, have large personal and social networks, and when pressed they can find the funding to invest in a great program. Ever wonder why the average Internet Guru is 28-45 and has $30,000 or more to lose before they found their secret formula for sales and profits? It's not that all of them are lying it's that they put the right combination of persistence and investment into a business while they were learning what really worked.

WAHM is a acronym sweeping the web.

A WAHM is a Work at Home Mom, and the types of things they are doing to make millions of dollars for their families range from being a mommy blogger and sharing their craft and organizational tips and ideas, or writing self help ebooks on raising children and many have taken offline skills and adapted them to online work.

I know a woman on LinkedIn who was a college graduate with a degree in business management and accounting. Because of finding her soul mate and having 2 kids she never made it to the business world in the old fashioned way or for that matter owned a business. She is making well over 200K per year now as a business consultant and generates a lot of her awareness and new clients by writing quick reports she sells online.

Women who are looking to help earn income but have chosen to stay home with the kids are resourceful and empowered. If the husband does not make enough to let them spend a little money a bake sale, a craft sold on E-bay, or a small project earned through a connection at church can start a small empire.

When you think of mommy bloggers turned billionaires think Martha Stewart.

Our job is to get in front of these dedicated home makers and show them the ready for you business that is SFI. I guarantee they have the desire, the skills, the ability, and can create time like they held the hands of the sand man. I work with several of them that outsell me through one of my suppliers for my ECA store. They make more in one day having tea with the girls than I do in a month.

The choice is yours but I know which group has 30 years to generate the same 2 million nest egg for retirement and is not in a rush and has little need to spend the money as it comes in. The home makers seldom miss a mortgage payment and don't split 99 cent sandwiches.


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While like most I agree there is room to target both segments I personally aim for Home Makers more often than retirees.

I live in sunny Arizona where we get millions of winter snowbirds and many have money but many are sharing a 99 cent sandwich at the local fast food places 3 times a day. The ones that have a lot of money are more focused on the sights to see, and gatherings like bingo night, poker at the Casino, sight seeing trips etc.. The largest share of our winter visitors have
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If they will join you the best tool on the web is daily contact through a Skype Chat, just having that place to log in and get to know each other, share stories, get inspiration, swap resources, and grow as a team with live and responsive communication has been a blessing to every business I have owned online.

How powerful is working in a close group like that with daily interaction? My last team project was generating millions of monthly page views and made money daily from advertising and affiliate programs.

If you're shy you'll get over it. If you talk funny, so do I. If you want to succeed in building massive team unity then do it.

Second to that is a bulk mail sender or auto-responder like mail-chimp or SFI Team Mail to send weekly newsletters and periodic reminders. Using your own system allows you to share a few advertising sites here and there, and since you can save the mailings as draft instead of sending you can add to them and edit them over the course of the week. You also have the ability to schedule your message to send on time even if you're out of town.

Use regular e-mail to send a personal note from time to time or recognize when someone in your team reaches a goal or seems stuck. Don't hesitate to offer support, but make a list of affiliates who shun the support and ask you to not be so proactive, sometimes people can't see the value of teamwork as clearly as others.

Above all be consistent. People need to hear that friendly voice before they have to pick up the phone. You know how excited you get when a friend comes to visit, be that friend.

Hope this helps, may your business be everything you wish it to be.
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If they will join you the best tool on the web is daily contact through a Skype Chat, just having that place to log in and get to know each other, share stories, get inspiration, swap resources, and grow as a team with live and responsive communication has been a blessing to every business I have owned online.

How powerful is working in a close group like that with daily interaction? My last team project was generating millions of monthly page views and made money daily from advertising
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI's system is unique and very successful if followed to a T but there are things you can learn to augment what you learn with SFI.

A great example would be niche marketing which is touched on in George Little's Internet Income Course under your training tab. Niche marketing and Niche Keyword research are a vast topic that no one site can explore all thoughts on. I pay $359 a year for a site that teaches me niche blogging and despite having 12 years as a niche blogger and having made thousands of dollars using blogs for marketing I am learning a ton from that service I didn't know.

Likewise you might need to focus on Adword Advanced tactics or study and implement a course on list building and e-zine writing or article marketing. I know you can definitely expand on what is taught in regards to social media marketing as each network is different and the tips on SFI are general and need fine tuned.

You need to focus on the core of the training but never stop expanding your understanding on each element taught at SFI. I personally like my blog training system because I am learning to write amazing reviews that will help promote TripleClicks items and grow my income by allowing me to generate more funds I can use for advertising and tools.

Don't ever limit yourself to learning a book when you have a library at your fingertips.
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SFI's system is unique and very successful if followed to a T but there are things you can learn to augment what you learn with SFI.

A great example would be niche marketing which is touched on in George Little's Internet Income Course under your training tab. Niche marketing and Niche Keyword research are a vast topic that no one site can explore all thoughts on. I pay $359 a year for a site that teaches me niche blogging and despite having 12 years as a niche blogger and having made
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The absolute best free methods to generate real results, not just PSA sign ups but heavy activity and strong conversion to productive Aces in you Team.

1. Blogging – No if's and or butts, when you have your own self hosted Wordpress Blog and add great content to it every few days you will begin building a traffic magnet that will generate free targeted visitors looking for your business 24/7/365. I don't mean a bunch of advertising post. You should put banners for the various parts of SFI and maybe even a page for each up but in your blog give great information and training and make sure you have awesome content people would like to read and you will succeed.
2. For more immediate results you can't beat direct marketing, or relationship marketing. Get social, set up business pages on Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. Make friends, don't just add people to send advertising too, make real connections and have conversations for weeks before you even think of introducing them to your business. Stay out of SPAM groups, they DO NOT WORK AT ALL and will get your account deleted and your links banned. Let your page do your selling but like your blog give constant quality content and people will be drawn to your profile just as they are drawn to your blog pages and they will engage with your ads as a show of support.

People need to join you, not your business.

If your prospects follow your lead and you work on being a strong leader you will do far better than if you try to post ads in as many places as possible and pray that people will join and be instantly successful. Too many people here at SFI practice the advertise and go ideology and as a result most of our links are banned on major sites like Facebook and Craig's List and even Blogger.

They will spend countless hours a day in dozens of traffic exchanges and on tons of free classifieds site and eventually they will have enough ads on the web to generate a stead stream of people here to check out what they can get for free. You read these members frustration in the SFI forum as they wonder why 99.9% of their PSA and CSA are inactive and don't respond with about 65% -75% of them never even confirming their account or logging in.

When you blog or do relationship marketing you build trust and people follow you. They connect and engage and they show up informed and ready to work. Above all you don't feel stressed because networking is natural. You meet new people all the time at church, at work, out shopping, at the bar, at parties, at school, so you know how to make connections and can apply those same skills online to help your business grow or offline to grow your business locally.

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The absolute best free methods to generate real results, not just PSA sign ups but heavy activity and strong conversion to productive Aces in you Team.

1. Blogging – No if's and or butts, when you have your own self hosted Wordpress Blog and add great content to it every few days you will begin building a traffic magnet that will generate free targeted visitors looking for your business 24/7/365. I don't mean a bunch of advertising post. You should put banners for the various parts of
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

TripleClicks currently has 2.4 million members and growing daily and has generated millions of dollars in sales and commissions.

TripleClicks is like a young E-bay looking to expand in both private sellers, auction types and listings, and total membership. It will grow with or without them.

SFI is to TripleClicks what Ebay affiliates or Amazon Affiliates are to their respective retail giants. It is a place to profit by sending buyers and sellers to TripleClicks and like the other two major retail affiliate programs it is free to participate and earn.

Unlike the other two SFI allows you to also profit by recruiting other affiliates, and taking share in the total profits of the company by way of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

TripleClicks doubled in membership last year and will add more than 1 million more members this year because of massive growth and upgrades like the new Eager Zebra Games and the increased number of daily auctions, auction types, and auction features as well as thousands of new ECA stores and product offerings.
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TripleClicks currently has 2.4 million members and growing daily and has generated millions of dollars in sales and commissions.

TripleClicks is like a young E-bay looking to expand in both private sellers, auction types and listings, and total membership. It will grow with or without them.

SFI is to TripleClicks what Ebay affiliates or Amazon Affiliates are to their respective retail giants. It is a place to profit by sending buyers and sellers to TripleClicks and like the
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

You don't, SFI does it for you. If you try to add to the dozen plus pushes to be interested in the Fast Track program SFI makes you will look very greedy and like someone not to trust because all you want is money from an affiliate you promised a free business they never had to buy anything to earn from.

SFI has invest thousands of dollars to structure training and subtle marketing to coax your referrals in the right direction. They know how to do this for maximum results with minimum harm and any approach from you will only dilute that message, possibly confuse the PSA, and most likely scare them off as they feel pressured.

As an affiliate your lone job with SFI and TripleClicks is to bring new members to the program and let the sales process that has been created do the selling. With PSA you additionally need to be able to point them in the right direction for answers and teach them how to do exactly that.

Never count on your PSA for your income because like you they joined SFI because it was a free to join opportunity that promised no paid membership and not mandatory purchases. Instead focus at least 2/3 of your effort on promoting TripleClicks products to potential PRM or Personally Referred Members who are looking to buy those products, play our games, or bid in our auctions. Again, don't try to sell them, let SFI and TripleClicks do all of the selling.
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You don't, SFI does it for you. If you try to add to the dozen plus pushes to be interested in the Fast Track program SFI makes you will look very greedy and like someone not to trust because all you want is money from an affiliate you promised a free business they never had to buy anything to earn from.

SFI has invest thousands of dollars to structure training and subtle marketing to coax your referrals in the right direction. They know how to do this for maximum results with minimum
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Do you want traffic or do you want results?

I have owned two traffic exchanges and used them somewhat for over a decade and I can tell you that they are a challenge for getting results out of. Getting the traffic is easy, you trade 3 times the effort for 1/3 the return or you upgrade for a better surf ratio.

You can surf around 240 sites an hour in the average Traffic Exchange and as a free member with a 1:3 surfing ratio you will earn 80 visitors to your site per exchange per hour. If you use a tool like TE Browser you can surf up to 10 sites at a time to earn around 800-900 visitors once you add in bonus credits and surf prizes.

When you do this you can figure what you would make at a job which here in Arizona USA a minimum wage job is $7.35 and hour and see that 1,000 credits purchased in most exchanges is pretty close to that price, which is why many opt to get a second job and spend the money they make buying credits instead of surfing. even if you don't buy credits or visitors you can surf 3 hours a day and generate a sizable 2400 to 3,000 visitors a day.

Getting results though, how do you do that?

The funny thing about these exchanges is nobody joins them to find a program to promote. Every member starts surfing because they are in a program they think is amazing and are looking to generate traffic and hopefully get sign ups. Since they aren't looking for a business to join it is easier to attract their attention with offers of more free or low cost traffic for the program they are in.

If you create a lead capture page and offer a free report in exchange for the ability to send them an e-mail offer you might have a chance of signing them up if they tire of their current company. Sad to say the ones who are hopping program to program however tend to be the ones that will work hard in month 1 and be gone by the end of month two. But one thing remains is they will need traffic regardless of the program they are in so offering them traffic resource, reports, and e-books offered at TripleClicks, and memberships to other exchanges can often generate added income for buying targeted paid advertising with.

How do I maximize surfing time?

I personally created a funnel system that has been copied by numerous other marketers and traffic exchange admins back when I owned my first TE a decade ago. The funnel works like this.

You join enough exchanges to be able to use a tool like TE Browser to surf 10 sites at a time. You select one site that gives you credits for active referrals when they surf, and set all other exchanges to promote that one surf so you get a steady stream of referrals that can pay you cash and traffic. In my funnel site I currently have nearly 70 direct referrals and add about 4 per month and I surf maybe 3 hours a week. If I did 20 hours a week surfing I could easily get 20-40 new referrals per month that I earn up to 5% of the traffic they earn from.

My funnel site pays traffic out on multiple levels so I also earn when their referrals surf which is why this next step is so important.

In my funnel site I promote a lead capture page that gives away my free traffic report sharing this funnel system so that my downline in that exchange can also build massive surf teams of their own. Right now I am getting off nearly 70 members in my downline there and extra 1,000 to 1800 visitors a month even when I don't surf myself, plus I earn regular cash commissions which help me be an Ultimate Member for the best surf ratio, most levels of downline, and highest commissions.

I can use banners, text ads, and credits to promote my SFI gateways and splash pages and not worry about having to spend countless hours surfing to generate thousands of free visitors.

The last thing I will share on conversions wise is that most surfers have a tool like Te Browser or just use a multi tab browser to manually surf a minimum 5 exchanges at a time. As such any ad you place in an exchange will have 1.5 to 3 seconds tops to catch their attention before they click for next tab or click to get a new ad, so exchanges are where you go bold or go home. Don't lie or mislead anyone but put your best pitch in 8 words or less in bold type with some type of catchy graphic. Have splash pages open your gateway in a new tab and keep capture forms to just name and e-mail address.

May these tips bring you the best possible results out of a tough environment.
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Do you want traffic or do you want results?

I have owned two traffic exchanges and used them somewhat for over a decade and I can tell you that they are a challenge for getting results out of. Getting the traffic is easy, you trade 3 times the effort for 1/3 the return or you upgrade for a better surf ratio.

You can surf around 240 sites an hour in the average Traffic Exchange and as a free member with a 1:3 surfing ratio you will earn 80 visitors to your site per exchange
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Do you have the Midas Touch?

Gold Streak is a game based on trivia questions asked of over 1 million program members at Strong Future International. Survey respondents are from over 200 countries, all walks of life, all educational levels, and all income brackets ranging from under $500 USD a month to over $300,000 a month.

Do you think you you could pick the best answer to match the majority of the world's opinions and perspective? Are you good at playing along with popular TV shows like Family Feud? Then this game is for you and my league will give you a great group of people to play with FREE and see how you stack up with your peers.

There are free games daily to get you started, and add on items to boost your chances, and every time you spend a t-credit to buy a sidekick or play additional games you are entered for a chance to win awesome prizes such as valuable Member Reward points you can exchange for any item among 80,000+ products offered by over 5,000 global merchants.

The best part is that Eager Zebra Games typically have at least one method of gaining free entry and even the valuable online currency t-credits and be obtained free of charge by entering our t-time drawings every hour and being one of the members draw at some point during the day.

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Optional text would be: Reply to this message before joining and I will personally send you a TripleClicks gift card worth T-credits and starter Member Reward Points to get you set up in style.

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My Private Invite League offers a bonus chance to take this great prize home at the completion of the league.

That is if you have decided to offer a prize for your private leagues.

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Do you have the Midas Touch?

Gold Streak is a game based on trivia questions asked of over 1 million program members at Strong Future International. Survey respondents are from over 200 countries, all walks of life, all educational levels, and all income brackets ranging from under $500 USD a month to over $300,000 a month.

Do you think you you could pick the best answer to match the majority of the world's opinions and perspective? Are you good at playing along with popular
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Staring the month like a Bull in the Stock Markets makes you emotionally invested in the month's success.

- Start the month as a Executive Affiliate – Don't leave your minimum beneficial rank to chance. I have my standing order set to renew by the 3rd of every month so it's out of the way. I no longer have to budget for it and there is zero doubt that I will qualify for my maximum commissions this month.

- Set paid advertising campaigns to start no later than the 10th of the month. The earlier in the month you gain new PSA the more time you have to mold them into productive team members the same month they joined and getting early sign-ups to start the month will put spring in your step.

- Get goal oriented. Make a list og goals for the month and daily steps to get you there and stick to the plan as much as possible. It's scary to travel to unknown places if you don't even have a map. This is your map.

- Share your success of last month with your team. You don't have to give out a detailed earnings report, in fact you aren't allowed to share how much you earned but you can say that last month you welcomed 152 new members, 7 of them made EA, 2 members in your team made BTL and So and So made STL while I maintained my standing order and actually made a profit. Your team will see one of two things from this type of report. They will either see someone paving the path to profits and getting great results or someone who is walking the same mile with them and is not afraid to admit it's a work in progress. Either way it will strengthen the bond between you and your team.

- Open streams of contact- Communication is vital, if you can arrange a regular Skype Chat or Google Plus Hangout do so. Sit down with as many team members as you can get and brainstorm ideas on how to generate strong results for your business in the coming month. Hold at least a weekly meeting to review success and adjust your team business plan as needed. Having that added contact will let each team member know 100% that they are not alone in this and are part of a real team.

- Write a monthly mission blog post. I have to admit I don't do this one every month but I do often enough that I have seen others imitate the behavior and have success doing so. Write about the progress of your business and your goals for the month. Did you meet last month's goals, if not what will you do differently to reach them this month. This shows your readers that you are goal oriented and well motivated and have been working your business with solid results. If I am looking for someone to sign up to a new program with I want a goal oriented worker who is constantly making progress and is fired up about their business. The post will show others that you are that person.

Above all be personally dedicated to logging in daily and accomplishing every task on your to-do list. Budget things like T-credits to cover playing games like Pick the Price and Time Machine. Snag a new song for the month from the music section at Triple Clicks and let the tunes breath a breath of fresh inspiration to your business, but make sure that you are 100% set on your success.
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Staring the month like a Bull in the Stock Markets makes you emotionally invested in the month's success.

- Start the month as a Executive Affiliate – Don't leave your minimum beneficial rank to chance. I have my standing order set to renew by the 3rd of every month so it's out of the way. I no longer have to budget for it and there is zero doubt that I will qualify for my maximum commissions this month.

- Set paid advertising campaigns to start no later than the 10th of the
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

While I haven't completed my system for SFI yet I have been known to build a huge downline and have great success with getting more workers than the average Joe.

The things I will tell you are too darned simple to not do.

1. They learn every day.
2. They teach every day.
3. Those lessons are usually taught on their own website or blog.
4. They capture leads and share the message in bite sized pieces.
5. They take small amounts of success and tiny bits of money and reinvest it. They keep reinvesting until they can afford both their promotion budget and the life they desire. I mean these folks could get a $1000 affiliate check and put $998 back into the business to get to a $2,000 affiliate check.
6. They see their reputation as a gold mine.
7. They sell their gold mine to others by being out there and reachable daily. You've seen it, Bing, Wayne, and others in the SFI forum each day as does Gery and his team. I guarantee they are networking outside SFI every day as well.
8. They never give up, adversity is the next talking point, a challenge must have a solution.

The exact tools are the bits you have to fill in, and the time frame is different for us all, but the core is solid and path is clear.
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While I haven't completed my system for SFI yet I have been known to build a huge downline and have great success with getting more workers than the average Joe.

The things I will tell you are too darned simple to not do.

1. They learn every day.
2. They teach every day.
3. Those lessons are usually taught on their own website or blog.
4. They capture leads and share the message in bite sized pieces.
5. They take small amounts of success and tiny bits of
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