Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Here's how I'd do it:

1. Become W3 member yourself, take the photo, register into the program.
2. Put the W3 phot as your PROFILE PHOTO on SFI.
3. Tell your downline, via the Group/Genealogy Mailer about your membership, highlight advantages, point at low cost to become a member and the benefits (free MRP, specially priced items, etc.)
4. See what happens :) In fact you can't make anybody do anything they don't want.

The basic element here is EDUCATION and leading by the example. First set the example, then teach your MOVERS to do the same. Don't try to convince all of them, especially those who've been inactive for a long time. It's a waste of time.

Additionally, since the cost of becoming a W3 member is really low, you might want to try the Pay-It-Forward principle, i.e. to offer your best Affiliates that you'll cover the cost of their becoming W3 member if they promise you to do the same for THEIR best Affiliates who should promise them... you see what I mean :) I am pretty aware that we are in fact a bunch of strangers and it is difficult to trust each other, but that might be some solution, especially if you have committed Affiliates who bring you commissions and matching VPs.
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Here's how I'd do it:

1. Become W3 member yourself, take the photo, register into the program.
2. Put the W3 phot as your PROFILE PHOTO on SFI.
3. Tell your downline, via the Group/Genealogy Mailer about your membership, highlight advantages, point at low cost to become a member and the benefits (free MRP, specially priced items, etc.)
4. See what happens :) In fact you can't make anybody do anything they don't want.

The basic element here is EDUCATION and leading
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Dear Lori,

Since you are into marketing, you should not be shy about approaching your prospects/markets with new opportunities every time you find one.

However, the "lead by example" principle applies here perfectly.

If you have approached and recruited people to any previous opprotunity, if those people did what was expected of them and have been successful - you have no problem. They already know that what you offer works for them, and they WILL follow you.

Their reasoning may be like this: "Lori sponsored me into this program and it works, so the next one should also work for me. Let's do it!"

If, however, they are disappointed with the results, especially if the participation is paid, they won't even listen to you, pretending that they do, of course.

Therefore, I'd first do a bit of a research to find out how your affiliates in other opportuniites/programs are doing and base your decision on the scale of their success.
The more successful they have been, the more likely they'll follow you again.

Additionally, you won't have to pitch them. You'll be able to ask them straight ahead if they are interested in joining another program with you. Then you just present the program, the benefits, and most probably your downline starts growing quicker than you could expect.


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Dear Lori,

Since you are into marketing, you should not be shy about approaching your prospects/markets with new opportunities every time you find one.

However, the "lead by example" principle applies here perfectly.

If you have approached and recruited people to any previous opprotunity, if those people did what was expected of them and have been successful - you have no problem. They already know that what you offer works for them, and they WILL follow
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

It’s not so easy to point out at just one book and say that this is #1. What comes to my mind are at least a few books that can help you build appropriate and helpful mindset and achieve success in SFI and in life.

First of all I’d point out to the classics, i.e. John D. Wattles and his “Science of Getting Rich”. Then Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, followed by the “Secret” by Rhonda Byrne. Actually, I’d rather recommend “Secret” the movie.

If you want to strengthen your will and character to help you achieve better and bigger goals in SFI and life alike, I’d recommend “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey.

Last, but not least, “Unlimited Power” and “Awaken the Giant Within” by Anthony Robbins.

I know that anybody looking at this list will say that the books come from three different worlds and that’s absolutely true. In my opinion, however, they supplement one another in a very fine way.

I recommend these books based on my personal experience. Reading each of them separately, I felt there was something missing, but having combined them together in the bundle presented above, you’ll get a complete set of tools to take your character, personality and life experience into a new level. It doesn’t matter where you start, but I’d recommend reading them in the sequence I presented them.

Some of these books come also with rich bibliography that you’ll want to follow at least in part, finding more valuable sources of knowledge and personal strength which is needed to be successful in programs like SFI and in life in general.

Summing up, the core of the “Power Library” recommended by me consists of the following books:

“Science of Getting Rich” by John D. Wattles
“Think and Get Rich” by Napoleon Hill
“Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
“Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey
“Unlimited Power” + “Awaken the Giant Within” by Anthony Robbins

Enjoy!

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It’s not so easy to point out at just one book and say that this is #1. What comes to my mind are at least a few books that can help you build appropriate and helpful mindset and achieve success in SFI and in life.

First of all I’d point out to the classics, i.e. John D. Wattles and his “Science of Getting Rich”. Then Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, followed by the “Secret” by Rhonda Byrne. Actually, I’d rather recommend “Secret” the movie.

If
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Dear Serena,

If by "pitch" you mean the "opening phrase" to start a conversation that later on leads to joining SFI and the other associated programs, the ones normally used for offline MLMs will work here as well.

My favorite is a question that makes my interlocutor think about what I really have up my sleeves and if he/she could participate in it, too. And the question is:

"Do you know someone who'd like to make some extra money doing simple things in their spare time?"

Believe me, this one works like a charm, because they first "try to think" about such person, and soon after ask "And what is it about? Maybe I could try?".

At this moment I usually use another good old trick, saying "Sorry, but I've got to go right now." and ask them to a meeting giving two alternate dates and times so that they can choose the one that suits them best.

This is all old-school MLM pitching, but works magic almost every time.

Hope that helps. By the way, there are tons of materials regarding offline MLM, but I think they are also good for SFI and other online MLM programs.
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Dear Serena,

If by "pitch" you mean the "opening phrase" to start a conversation that later on leads to joining SFI and the other associated programs, the ones normally used for offline MLMs will work here as well.

My favorite is a question that makes my interlocutor think about what I really have up my sleeves and if he/she could participate in it, too. And the question is:

"Do you know someone who'd like to make some extra money doing simple
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

There are many ways to target your advertising to any demographic group, especially if you use paid advertising. With free advertising sources like traffic exchanges, safelists or text ad exchanges, there is no way to target your ads.

You can also try to target your advertising via organic searches by including special keywords in the "meta" section of your website if you have one.

The beauty of paid advertisement is that the programs selling ads offer you the possibility to target your audience by gender, age, marital/family status, average annual household income, and so on.

Another important thing, both for paid advertising and organic searches are keywords. Many people make the mistake of using general keywords, like "make money online" which result in clicks by many people, which is costly, especially that the cost per click for such keywords is also very high. Therefore, you should resort to what is called "long tail keywords", like "make money online for unemployed" or "earn second pension online", or "earn money online while still in college". These may be extreme examples, but there are various tools online that will help you compose your long-tail keywords and check the number of searches for each one.

So, once you compose your ad, and provide the keywords, avaid generic ones and use long-tail keywords.

The same applies to your website if you have one. You can set up a main website and add a few pages there using those long-tail keywords in each page "meta-keywords" section.

This way is somebody enters a phrase like your long-term keyword, there is a chance that they will land on your page.

As I wrote before, there is no way to target your ads in free advertising programs, especially in traffic exchanges, but there is a way round in safelists and text ad exchanges that many people fail to use (excuse the caps please):

THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR AD

No, you shouldn't write it all in caps, but it should indicate what your offer is and who it is directed to. The subject line should be followed by a short body (one liners work best) and the credits link. And here's an example:
-----------Example start--------
Subject line: Have you thought of your pension, yet?

Body: Most people will get 30% of what they earn now when they retire. Could you live on that? Protect your standard of living! Click the credits link to find out how!
-----------Example end----------

That's it. I know it's not proper targeting, but some people will be more inclined to click the credits link to see the ad than others.

I hope you'll find this advice helpful.




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There are many ways to target your advertising to any demographic group, especially if you use paid advertising. With free advertising sources like traffic exchanges, safelists or text ad exchanges, there is no way to target your ads.

You can also try to target your advertising via organic searches by including special keywords in the "meta" section of your website if you have one.

The beauty of paid advertisement is that the programs selling ads offer you the possibility
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI, like any other MLM based business is a numbers game. It means that you have to invite/recruit as many people as you can in order to be left with a few high quality active affiliates.

On the other hand, if our task is also duplication, you must work with the active ones without wasting time for the tyre-kickers and "bees" who jump from one program to another.

When you sponsor new people to SFI and greet them with your welcome message offering all necessary help and support, start observing them. Those who start accumulating VPs right away can be your golden nuggets. Contact them individually and either offer them more help and training or direct them to the appropriate sections of SFI site for education.
Always stress that they should do the same with their affiliates.
Also, don't get discouraged with atrition. You will see many people join your downline and disappear after some time. That's normal. The best will stay.

Therefore, try to reach as many people as possible with your free or paid advertising in order to find the best affiliates.

It's like looking for gold. You have to dig and wash tons of rocks to find a few ounces ...

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SFI, like any other MLM based business is a numbers game. It means that you have to invite/recruit as many people as you can in order to be left with a few high quality active affiliates.

On the other hand, if our task is also duplication, you must work with the active ones without wasting time for the tyre-kickers and "bees" who jump from one program to another.

When you sponsor new people to SFI and greet them with your welcome message offering all necessary help
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

To begin with, I can't yet say which of the gateways has been the most useful for me because I am too short a member here.

However, I'd like to suggest a good way of finding this out for yourself.

OK, this may be a bit off topic, but I think the information is relevant to the question.

The key word is "TRACKING".

I bet many people provided the answers based on their direct linking to one or maybe two of the gateways provided without any tracking at all. They just start their advertising leading the prospect to the gateways without even knowing what brings results and what does not.

To know things for sure without wild guessing you NEED to track your results.

The #1 tracking method I'd recommend here is Key Coding right inside the SFI itself. Learn about it and assign key codes to your various campaigns. It takes some time, true, but then you'll see exactly which ad brings you the best results. You will find the information on Key Codes under the "Power Tools" > "Key Code Tracking" tab.

Example: Let's assume that we start an advertising campaign with banners and we place the banners in three various advertising sources:

#1: a traffic exchange (let's code traffic exchanges with 7)

#2: an banner exchange program (let's code banner exchange as 8)

#3: our own blog/website (coded as 9)

I use 7, 8, and 9 not to accidentally interfere with reserved SFI key codes)


Now, let's take code the "Free" gateway as 1, the "Invitation" gateway as 2, and the "First" gateway as 3, you can code other gateways accordingly.

Thirdly, lets code the banners. Assume you have selected 5 banners, code them as 01, 02, 03, 04, and 05 accordingly (yes, two digits this time)

Finally, you place banners 01, 02, and 03 in the traffic exchange, each of them leading to all three gateways. To do this you need to put the following URLs:

For banner 01:

http://www.sfi4.com/{Your Aff. No}.7011/FREE, where 1 = traffic exchange, 01 = banner 1, 1 = gateway No. 1

http://www.sfi4.com/{Your Aff. No}.7012, where 1 = traffic exchange, 01 = banner 1, 2 = gateway No. 2

http://www.sfi4.com/{Your Aff. No}.7013/first, where 1 = traffic exchange, 01 = banner 1, 3 = gateway No. 3

And so on.

Then you check both "Power Tools" > "Hit Tracking" to see the overall results produced by your advertising, and your genealogy to see detailed results where you'll see which key codes appear the most often next to your PSAs.

This way you can determine both your most effective ad and the most effective gateway, and you can dump the other ads/gateways to make your advertising even more effective.

Summing up, there is no way to tell which gateway is the most useful/effective one without solid tracking your results to eliminate all wild guessing and wrong conclusions. Besides, tracking will not always reveal the best gateway, but will also show you which of your advertising sources perform well and which are just a waste of time and effort.
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To begin with, I can't yet say which of the gateways has been the most useful for me because I am too short a member here.

However, I'd like to suggest a good way of finding this out for yourself.

OK, this may be a bit off topic, but I think the information is relevant to the question.

The key word is "TRACKING".

I bet many people provided the answers based on their direct linking to one or maybe two of the gateways provided without any tracking
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Dear Irina,

I think this is a question a great majority of us ask themselves on a daily basis. Having been an EA and up for the 8th month in a row and having recruited over 150 PSAs, I'm still asking this question myself. However, I think that the best way is to act and to lead by example.

You can't expect your team do what you don't do yourself, i.e. if you don't have a standing order, don't expect your PSAs buy standing orders, either. They will look at your profile and rate your advice accordingly. Therefore, you must always be able to back up whatever you offer with your own action of the same kind.

People are cautious about money, especially on the Internet, where most of them jump from one program to another expecting quick riches and being scammed very often. So even if they land in a program like SFI, they are very often full of negativities, especially when someone asks them to spend money where they were supposed to earn money.

So first of all - set your own standards and your own code of conduct as far as being an SFI Affiliate is concerned. Build your position, recruiting new people all the time, and teach them what you have learned yourself, including necessary monetary investment.

Contact your downline via the group/genealogy mailer here on a regular basis and share your story as it has been - pointing out where making an investment paid back in some way, and why it was worth it.

I would say, show them YOUR results, tell them that they can reach the same results, and show them the way to get these results.

Unfortunately, most probably you won't be able to do that after your first month here, so be prepared for a long time run before you see the fruits of your efforts.

Stay persistent and take action! It pays :)
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Dear Irina,

I think this is a question a great majority of us ask themselves on a daily basis. Having been an EA and up for the 8th month in a row and having recruited over 150 PSAs, I'm still asking this question myself. However, I think that the best way is to act and to lead by example.

You can't expect your team do what you don't do yourself, i.e. if you don't have a standing order, don't expect your PSAs buy standing orders, either. They will look at your profile and rate
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Well, sorry, I'm here to burst your bubble...

I can understand where the question comes from since I visit the GROWTH tab daily, too

I will not say that it is impossible, but I will show you a few facts and figures about Internet marketing that will help you understand that getting 100+ PSAs on a shoe-string budget is very unlikely.

There are a few terms you have to know to understand how Internet marketing works. They are:

hits, clicks, conversions.

Hits refer to your offer page, meaning how many visitors a day see that page.
Clicks is the number of actual clicks on the page, i.e. how many of your visitors click the link you promote.
Conversions is the number of people who "bought" your offer.

Now, let's assume, generously, that your conversion ratio is 2% (2 people out of 100 who click the link become your PSA) and your clicks/hits ratio is - again generously - 5% (5 people out of 100 who visit your page will click on the link).

Now, imagine that you get 100,000 hits (visits) to your page. 5% out of 100,000 is 5,000 = number of clicks.

2% out of 5,000 = 100 - Conversions.

It means that you would need to have (again my estimates are very generous) 100,000 visits to your offer page a day in order to "extract" 100 PSAs.

If you know a cheap method to do that, I'd really like to learn it, too.

On the other hand, why not contact those top 5 on the Top Enrollers list and ask them how they do it and how much it costs them...
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Well, sorry, I'm here to burst your bubble...

I can understand where the question comes from since I visit the GROWTH tab daily, too

I will not say that it is impossible, but I will show you a few facts and figures about Internet marketing that will help you understand that getting 100+ PSAs on a shoe-string budget is very unlikely.

There are a few terms you have to know to understand how Internet marketing works. They are:

hits, clicks, conversions.

Hits
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

At first I wanted to skip this question because I am too new here to rate or judge the activities we take.

At the second thought, however, I must say that I agree with many people here that the most overrated activity is doing the TO-DO LIST chores daily. Except for earning meager 10-11 VP I can't see much value here. I am simply surprised that so many people say it "helps you build your business".

Doing the daily TO-DO LIST does not build anything since you don't get affiliates this way, you don't get sales this way, you just get a few VPs and that's all.

I wonder what's the motivation behind asking us to do the daily TO-DO LIST tasks. Maybe it's just to form a habit of daily logging to your SFI account like coming to work every day? That's a good question to ask, I think.

I can't point out at any underrated activity since I haven't tried even a part of them so I'll stop here answering only the first half of the question.
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At first I wanted to skip this question because I am too new here to rate or judge the activities we take.

At the second thought, however, I must say that I agree with many people here that the most overrated activity is doing the TO-DO LIST chores daily. Except for earning meager 10-11 VP I can't see much value here. I am simply surprised that so many people say it "helps you build your business".

Doing the daily TO-DO LIST does not build anything since you don't
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