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

You can be a success without one but unless you have a lot of money to advertise with it will take you longer and you will have to work a lot harder.

A blog is too darned simple not to have one.

There is a 6 year old who has a very popular blog on Blogger so I know you can follow the simple directions of a blog script. Wordpress on most web host installs in a few seconds answering 3 questions and clicking 1 button. If that is too scary or too hard of work you will find most of this business too scary and too difficult.

- You will never get free targeted search engine traffic without a blog or website.

- You will never be able to add a autoresponder and capture leads to help convert prospects into workers.

- You will never get the respect in our industry of being an expert on marketing which is so vital long term success if your collective works are not collected and linked from one place on the web.

- You banners will be of little use with no place to display them that is worth displaying them on and doesn't cost you a fortune.

If you don't make this simple task happen for your business you will walk away from a massive share of your business and will always be weaker than the affiliate that was bold and took a chance and started a blog.



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You can be a success without one but unless you have a lot of money to advertise with it will take you longer and you will have to work a lot harder.

A blog is too darned simple not to have one.

There is a 6 year old who has a very popular blog on Blogger so I know you can follow the simple directions of a blog script. Wordpress on most web host installs in a few seconds answering 3 questions and clicking 1 button. If that is too scary or too hard of work you will find most
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

There are important stages for your investment and task you need to accomplish every month and limited funds like yours can still be structured to get the most of what you need from your business.

The first time I joined SFI there was no TripleClicks yet but I needed training and I needed it badly as a still new marketer.

Gaining knowledge was paramount to my success and at the time TripleClicks offered a training association called IAHBE that is now defunct as a product. Given today's demands I would make my initial purchase be a standing order for 9 individual t-credits each month which is under $18 a month and gives just enough Sales VP that combined with your daily, weekly, and monthly actions you will be able to easily reach Executive Affiliate each month.

Reaching EA each month opens all your income streams except multi level VP Matching that opens for Team Leaders.

During this training phase you will have $30 a month to train the brain and since SFI has a vast amount of basic knowledge in Internet Marketing under your training tab, you will only need to focus on expanding on each of the concepts of that training like when it tells you about setting up a blog and adding a banner you will know that you need training on what blogging is, how to write post people wish to read, how to build readership, how to keep the reader engaged, and how to promote the blog. These can all be found in a number of e-books offered by TripleClicks ECA members for affordable pricing.

Everything you don't spend on e-books I would put into advertising for your business like renting adspace on a popular business blog for recruiting SFI members or better yet a shopping or consumer reports blog to advertise TripleClicks.

After a few months your brain will require less training and you will discover additional free resources around the internet so buying e-books will not be vital as much as in your early days. At that point I would split the $30 a month between purchasing PSA to Go and Advertising TripleClicks on at least one high traffic blog or classified ads website. Great deals to look for are the low cost fees to feature your listing, add bold text, add a border or background color, add an image to your ad, or even in some cases to put the ad in an offline publication as well as online.

As you continue to advertise sales will begin to happen and you will find income coming in from TripleClicks and you will have all of those learned skills to move from a free blog to a self hosted Wordpress Blog on your own domain name, also able to be purchased from ECA on TripleClicks where you earn Sales VP to boost your rank.

Keep focused on reaching new markets with your ads and growing the number of tools you have to work with. One month you may buy the hosting and domain name for your blog, the next month you might buy a membership to get some stock images you can use with license on your blog and in things like banner ads to promote your blog. The month after that you may be able to swing adding an autoresponder to your tool chest to deliver a newsletter to your downline and to your potential TripleClicks customers. Keep adding tools to help gain more traffic, higher conversions, and simplify regular task.

Re-invest every penny you make from SFI and TripleClicks for at least your first year or until your income is large enough to reach your income goals. If you earn $20 a month from SFI add it to your $50 and have $52 for tools and advertising over that $18 a month. $40 a month in income you do it again, increase your budget so you can make $60 a month, or $80 a month etc..

Your hour a day needs to be at least 15 minutes and preferably 30 minutes to go through your daily task. READ EVERYTHING as you will learn a lot about your business and performance from member tips, SFI tips, and reports on bother your performance and SFI and TripleClicks as a whole.

Keep in mind that the number 1 question on your PSA's mind is, "How do I make money with SFI?".

By focusing on promoting TripleClicks and expanding your knowledge the first few months you will start making money and be able to share with your Personally Sponsored Affiliates how you are running your business that is getting results. When you can answer that question from experience and walk your recruits down the path of success you will see less church or turnover or inactive affiliates in your team and faster earnings growth. Every action made needs to focus on making money in your business which means getting profitable yourself and then recruiting PSA that you then teach how to become profitable as well.

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There are important stages for your investment and task you need to accomplish every month and limited funds like yours can still be structured to get the most of what you need from your business.

The first time I joined SFI there was no TripleClicks yet but I needed training and I needed it badly as a still new marketer.

Gaining knowledge was paramount to my success and at the time TripleClicks offered a training association called IAHBE that is now defunct as a product. Given
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If you are hunting from a distance and you miss your target and hit the dirt, aim higher.

Like that scenario if the advertising you are doing is not working you need to set a higher goal. Instead of promoting in free traffic exchanges start to explore other marketing venues like article marketing, blogging and e-mail marketing.

Learn skills in targeting your ads to specific groups instead of just throwing the same URL at everybody you meet. Aim higher and recruit the people you would most like as your customers or in your team. If that person is English speaking, mid 30's, with $500 a month to invest in growing their business learn what he is looking for and tailor your ads to meet his demands.

There is no need to stay spinning wheels advertising in a exchange program where the other members are only there to promote what they are already in. Aim higher, dream bigger, and get the customers who are spending $300 a week on Amazon or Ebay to spend their $300 on TripleClicks. You can do this if you follow SFI training and go beyond it into learning more about niche marketing.

Aim higher when you promote instead of heading for a soft and easy comfort zone. Push your limits and grow your mind and reach for the golden fruit at the top of the tree and you will find success in your business.
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If you are hunting from a distance and you miss your target and hit the dirt, aim higher.

Like that scenario if the advertising you are doing is not working you need to set a higher goal. Instead of promoting in free traffic exchanges start to explore other marketing venues like article marketing, blogging and e-mail marketing.

Learn skills in targeting your ads to specific groups instead of just throwing the same URL at everybody you meet. Aim higher and recruit the people
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If they have Opted Out you can not promote to them.

If you are friends with people who tried SFI and left you can simply start a blog and continue to post positive things about your own journey in SFI. As the friends see your success they will begin asking questions and many of them will be how specific things they didn't understand before actually work.

The more of us who post testimonials, positive reviews, and tell our stories on the path to success the more people will follow us into SFI, back into SFI, and a big benefit is those poison pen reviews will soon be massively outnumbered.

Best of success, may SFI be a bright and glorious part of your life.
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If they have Opted Out you can not promote to them.

If you are friends with people who tried SFI and left you can simply start a blog and continue to post positive things about your own journey in SFI. As the friends see your success they will begin asking questions and many of them will be how specific things they didn't understand before actually work.

The more of us who post testimonials, positive reviews, and tell our stories on the path to success the more people will follow
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

There are many reasons this practice is helpful but many wont see them right away because there isn't always a immediate dollar amount attached to these actions. That's why SFI urges you to go over your training as many times as it takes to begin to see the BIG PICTURE.

The benefits:

1. Buying local saves you money on shipping and keeps dollars spent close to home.
2. Buying local creates local success stories other merchants can relate to making ECA recruitment easier.
3. With more ECA selling locally your local residents are able to find companies they already trust and benefit from having the things they use regularly available even when they don't have time to go to the store.
4. Since having more options to buy and save on shipping is so appealing and the trust level is rising your recruiting of PRM becomes easier which will lead to even more ECA referrals.

Since you started buying locally you have improved local ECA success rates which gets them bragging about their success and expansion and it leads competitors to wanting to tap into this stream of new revenue as well. They will not just join as an ECA but in most cases will offer you a better price or free shipping to get you to be their customer instead. The bidding war for your business will begin and it will cause them to soon sell more to people in neighboring countries or even half way around the world.

All of this is good for you because every ECA referral is worth 10% of their CV from sales for life and every PRM attracted by local names and brands at very affordable prices means more buyers shopping these stores so you get 45% of the CV from their purchases and 100% of the Sales VP as well.

All because you started shopping that local store and maybe the one in the next province and helped them increase revenues.
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There are many reasons this practice is helpful but many wont see them right away because there isn't always a immediate dollar amount attached to these actions. That's why SFI urges you to go over your training as many times as it takes to begin to see the BIG PICTURE.

The benefits:

1. Buying local saves you money on shipping and keeps dollars spent close to home.
2. Buying local creates local success stories other merchants can relate to making ECA recruitment easier.
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As soon as you feel ready and you can do it without a mandate of having to buy your way into the rank.

If you have at least one good PSA and can pay for your standing order out of profits you can aim for BTL and grow your team more from that new status. If you have a team and some income coming in it makes sense to reach upward and start earning those valuable second home CSA who can help your income grow.

The rank doesn't just make you feel better about yourself but it also instills more trust in your team. How can someone who isn't a team leader teach me how to do what they haven't been able to do? The added spring in your step will also become tell tale in how you promote your business. The fact you have done it and achieved some degree of success will change your level of confidence and make you a better seller of the opportunity.

You will also open more levels of downline so you can start thinking of a deeper business instead of just PSA.

Your first task may be to help that 1 strong PSA get at least one good PSA under them and get into profits each month so they never burn out and never leave SFI. After all you will get matching VP on those referrals you place in your PSA's downline and their downline as well 6 levels deep as a Bronze Team Leader.

Never hold yourself back, always take chances, and always work hard and you will make a great team leader.
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As soon as you feel ready and you can do it without a mandate of having to buy your way into the rank.

If you have at least one good PSA and can pay for your standing order out of profits you can aim for BTL and grow your team more from that new status. If you have a team and some income coming in it makes sense to reach upward and start earning those valuable second home CSA who can help your income grow.

The rank doesn't just make you feel better about yourself but it also
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Sometimes success comes not from what we know but how we apply it.

I have a PSA who is still learning his business and working very hard to get it going the way he likes. His knowledge is still moderate after a year but he has access to more disposable funds so he takes what I teach and applies more of a budget to promoting those angles and thus his first level PSA outnumber mine by nearly 2 to 1 despite me being in SFI 2 years longer and being the former marketing guru who's training is being applied.

Successful people always have something they need to learn so don't assume your job is over because they are doing well.

Instead find out what your affiliate is working on and what they feel they could do better and tailor your training to help them gather information and grow their knowledge in marketing. At the same time you may be learning those things for yourself and could soon catch up to where they are.

Russell Brunson who is a Member of SFI and Multi Millionaire affiliate guru generating more than 20 million a year in sales and commissions sites his SFI sponsor as one of his biggest influences despite his business being at least 10 times further along than Stone's. His golden testimonial is on the Plug In Profits sites where Russell saw much of his early success because of the things Stone taught him in part relating to how to apply his education in marketing strategy.

You can come in contact with greatness and add just one small tweak that makes that person shine even brighter and in doing so your business grows. You cement your legacy, and you grow as a sponsor.
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Sometimes success comes not from what we know but how we apply it.

I have a PSA who is still learning his business and working very hard to get it going the way he likes. His knowledge is still moderate after a year but he has access to more disposable funds so he takes what I teach and applies more of a budget to promoting those angles and thus his first level PSA outnumber mine by nearly 2 to 1 despite me being in SFI 2 years longer and being the former marketing guru who's training
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI is a bit more targeted market than TripleClicks.

The best spots are between infomercials for costly training courses promising a can't fail home business like real estate flipping, or a mobile pressure washing service. These infomercials attract people with money to invest in a new business and you can slip in in a 15 to 30 second spot between them and offer a free or low cost report on a home business that cost a fraction of any franchise offer they have been reviewing and has generated thousands of work at home millionaires.

You can package the SFI Business opportunity with a set of recommended e-books to train the prospect and advise them to order PSA-to-Go if they are inexperienced at advertising and want to hit the ground running. More importantly you can show them how to promote TripleClicks and sell them on professional Wordpress hosting and a domain name of their own to develop a product review site, and place a lead capture mechanism on. All of these can be found on TripleClicks.

Aim to stay in the $750-$1500 range in your business plan for new entrepreneurs and they will be in profit sooner, better trained to stay there, and you will be dealing 100% with serious business owners who have a stake in their success and the training to do great things.

Promoting TripleClicks can be done in a few different manners.

Advertise your sports leagues during home games of your favorite team.

Promote TripleClicks as an online mall where they can save money on merchandise from around the world.

Promote a single product via a review site with product information and a quality written review offering the product for sale at TripleClicks. Be sure to add a autoresponder to the page to capture leads into a money saver's newsletter so you can market other related products to them as well with future reviews.

Advertise penny auctions with a 30 second spot that briefly explains the concept of price per bid and offers examples of retail cost like our new $.99 Max Auctions where they can win name brand items and electronics with a maximum final selling price of 99 cents plus bid cost. When the see $300 items selling for 99 cents they will be beating down the door to check it out.

The last angle I will talk about is Eager Zebra Games where you can promote the play free games and win cool prizes from the over 80,000 items listed on TripleClicks. Game players spend billions of dollars a year to feed their habit and seldom earn any rewards for doing it. By winning MRP and T-credits they can set their sites on massive prizes and start saving up for something they really like while playing free games and adding paid sidekicks that earn you money. This one is great during game shows and soap operas that reach bored housewives or as video pre-rolls on popular flash games websites.
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SFI is a bit more targeted market than TripleClicks.

The best spots are between infomercials for costly training courses promising a can't fail home business like real estate flipping, or a mobile pressure washing service. These infomercials attract people with money to invest in a new business and you can slip in in a 15 to 30 second spot between them and offer a free or low cost report on a home business that cost a fraction of any franchise offer they have been reviewing and has generated
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I won't answer a dollar amount because each of us has different means and ability but I will say that the best budget is every penny you are willing to sacrifice.

A business grows on sacrifice. If you are willing to take risk, willing to give up the little things to put more money into your business, and can turn every task or expense into an opportunity to save and invest you will see a much higher return on investment.

To say I wont spend more than $100 a month means your business is limited to $100 a month in success, and that success could take more time and effort than if you turned out the added lights in the house, and turned up the thermostat in the summer and down in the winter to scrape together $125 a month.

Your investment should be a risk because you will fight more if you have something to lose than if it's just spare money.

You need to focus on what you spend the money on too. If you listen to half these folks and buy more t-credits to spend on auctions you are taking dollars away from recruiting PSA and PRM. Growing your marketing reach and recruiting more people to your business should always take the lead over playing games or bidding in auctions. These people largely haven't realized that the 500VP for bidding in auctions and 200VP for playing games is only a surface scratch to the potential of their earnings.

They haven't realized that generating PRM sales at TripleClicks is a path to a 6 to 7 figure business and teaches you skills that can be passed on to your PSA so they make money, stay motivated, and don't quit. In the same breath these purchases from non affiliates will bring thousands of Versa Points to your business as well as sales commissions for the same kind of money that it cost you to earn 700VP between games and auctions.

Not being mean, as I said most of these respondents just haven't seen the big picture yet and are clinging to the piece they understand which is more VP equals more earnings, and are reaching for the one method they control the outcome on to gain as many VP and as high of a rank as possible.

Your business though has so much more potential so invest wisely.
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I won't answer a dollar amount because each of us has different means and ability but I will say that the best budget is every penny you are willing to sacrifice.

A business grows on sacrifice. If you are willing to take risk, willing to give up the little things to put more money into your business, and can turn every task or expense into an opportunity to save and invest you will see a much higher return on investment.

To say I wont spend more than $100 a month means your
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

First thing to ask is what they were expecting and try to show them how SFI offers a strong foundation and steady increased results and doesn't make impossible to deliver promises.

Remind them that there is no investment required and they can take as long as needed to learn the system, and tell them that they wont find as many people in one place ready to help them succeed anywhere online.

See most people who give that excuse were looking for faster earnings or a minimum dollar amount earned from month one. They still believe someone can teach them how to achieve $10,000 a month in income in 30 days or less without it costing them $20,000. They tend to have fears because of all the doubting Thomas' we have in our forum who badmouth inactive referrals, and cry because free traffic exchanges only result in them seeing other companies offers instead of a ton of people wanting to join their SFI etc.. are complaining in 2 out of 5 post.

They hear the alarmist crying foul every time there is a simple to solve problem or they don't understand something, and start tuning out the voices of those of us making money with SFI who are sharing training post to help them do it too.

They often have PSA of their own who have not yet become active or were active and then stopped working and are fearful that they aren't seeing the same mistake these other people see when they decide to leave SFI. Most of all they are afraid they will lose precious time and money for something they fear is not real and have outside detractors they have yet to learn to tune out.

The fact they have given you a reason means they want you to put their fears at ease and motivate them to stay. It is far easier to just leave and break off all communication, so grab this opportunity to address their fears and educate their minds.
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First thing to ask is what they were expecting and try to show them how SFI offers a strong foundation and steady increased results and doesn't make impossible to deliver promises.

Remind them that there is no investment required and they can take as long as needed to learn the system, and tell them that they wont find as many people in one place ready to help them succeed anywhere online.

See most people who give that excuse were looking for faster earnings or a minimum dollar
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