Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Pay attention to where you are advertising and the message you are conveying in your ads. If you target your audience to people who are willing to work at starting a business, you will receive less sign-ups but the sign-ups that you do receive will be more likely to want to do the work. Also the more complete the information you provide before they sign up the less likely it will be that they will decide SFI isn't what they expected. You might want to consider developing a blog or website where you can provide more complete information to perspective associates or have a web conference where you can meet with them and explain to them the opportunity in more detail than the SFI gateways provide. If you create a website include a training section for new recruits that is open to the public. If someone comes into your site and is truly curious, they can visit the training section and see what exactly would be expected of them. The more information you provide before they sign up the less likely it will be that they will drop out before they get started. It also helps if you make yourself available when they first sign up to help them at getting start.
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Pay attention to where you are advertising and the message you are conveying in your ads. If you target your audience to people who are willing to work at starting a business, you will receive less sign-ups but the sign-ups that you do receive will be more likely to want to do the work. Also the more complete the information you provide before they sign up the less likely it will be that they will decide SFI isn't what they expected. You might want to consider developing a blog or website where
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

There is no "free" advertising that is effective. Advertising effectively is basically a numbers game. The more people you can reach the better are your chances of getting a bite. You can either spend the time reaching those people yourself or you can pay someone to do it for you. How much is your time worth to you and would it be more beneficial for you to spend that time doing something else? How much time do you spend clicking for credits a month, posting on classified ad boards, networking on various social media sites, ect. Do you consider your time to be worth $5/hr. That is far less than minimum wage in the US. So multiply the time you estimate you spend on advertising by whatever value you place on your time and suddenly that s-builder coop or whatever doesn't seem so expensive after all.

That is too easy of an answer though and actually the question isn't right. Maybe a better question would be which methods of advertising (free or paid) produce the best results. And, to be honest, I think the most affective way is to develop a system that incorporates both. Such as you use free safelists and classified ad boards to draw people onto a page that invites the person to fill out the form for more information or you could offer a free gift. This is linked to list manager (this could be free but eventually I believe you will want to pay for this service) where you can have a series a messages set to be sent over a period of time.
It's not so much weather you are advertising for free or paying for the service as it is how you are advertising. Spend some of your time to develop a couple good advertising systems.
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There is no "free" advertising that is effective. Advertising effectively is basically a numbers game. The more people you can reach the better are your chances of getting a bite. You can either spend the time reaching those people yourself or you can pay someone to do it for you. How much is your time worth to you and would it be more beneficial for you to spend that time doing something else? How much time do you spend clicking for credits a month, posting on classified ad boards,
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Try to anticipate their questions before they are asked and provide the answers? If you have a website, you could compose a FAQ to do this. Other ideas are to hold a web conference for perspective associates. Create a free membership kit that explains the program as well as provides some useful material to help them get started. This material could be a list of the advertising venues that you have found most useful. A glossary of the terms that are used by SFI, maybe an ebook or two on list building or another topic that is relevant. Provide this kit free to whoever asks for it weather they are signed up or not and collect their name and email so that you can follow up using an auto-responder.
People will naturally have questions, it's your job as their perspective sponsor to answer them. If you don't want to answer them personally, then you should find a way to do this automatically in some way.
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Try to anticipate their questions before they are asked and provide the answers? If you have a website, you could compose a FAQ to do this. Other ideas are to hold a web conference for perspective associates. Create a free membership kit that explains the program as well as provides some useful material to help them get started. This material could be a list of the advertising venues that you have found most useful. A glossary of the terms that are used by SFI, maybe an ebook or two on list
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

There are many reasons why this occurs. Some are obvious.

Some people have more money to invest while there are many who come on board that have very little to spare.

Some start out boldly and dive right in, while others might want to try it out a little more slowly at first because they may be suspicious of the offer.

Some might find it easier to understand how to do what needs to be done faster than others because of various reasons.

Some might have awesome sponsors who will be willing to support them from the beginning in various ways.

But, I think that many just may have had experience with other opportunities before they came on board. They are already established in internet marketing and might be promoting other things that are complimentary to the SFI offer and it was rather easy to add SFI into their presentation.

They may already know what a capture page is and have been using one for awhile. They might have a library of ebooks that they can offer free to those who who visit their capture page So, they may already have a very responsive mailing list of people who they've developed a relationship with.

They might already have an established website that they've been updating on a regular basis for awhile that have people visiting daily or weekly.

They might have already searched out the best safelists and tools that are offered online.

There are some things that we just can do nothing about. We can't get a sponsor to suddenly be interested in us if he hasn't been spending the time necessary to develop good sponsorship skills. We can't make a money tree magically pop up in our backyard filled with fresh hundred dollar bills. And, I don't believe anyone can say that caution is a bad thing.

But the last thing I listed we can do something about.
We can learn how to use capture pages and start building our own mailing list. We can put together a weekly newsletter and use it to develop trust with the subscribers of that list. We can search and find free or inexpensive ebooks that offer free giveaway rights to offer the subscribers that come to that capture page in exchange for permission to send our promotions to them.

We can start investigating the many tools that are offered online for the internet marketer. These would include safelists, autoresponders, free plr directories, classified ad sites, forums, social networking sites aimed towards network marketing, ect.

And we could plan and build our own website that not only offers the SFI opportunity, but also lists the best of those tools that we found for our visitors, who may or may not wish to become a member of our downline.

And, we could also search out those who have become successful quickly and asked for their advice.
It isn't the starting point that is important, it's where we finish at that is. As long as we are willing to learn and do the work that is needed we can cross that finish line also.

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There are many reasons why this occurs. Some are obvious.

Some people have more money to invest while there are many who come on board that have very little to spare.

Some start out boldly and dive right in, while others might want to try it out a little more slowly at first because they may be suspicious of the offer.

Some might find it easier to understand how to do what needs to be done faster than others because of various reasons.

Some might
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

I am far from being a superstar, so take my words with a grain of salt.
But, I think you first might want to define what "being a superstar" means to you.
Then, well visualize yourself as that superstar a little and ask yourself if you really want to be one. I mean, many of the superstars of Hollywood had very, very sad endings to their stories.

Okay, so you've decided, you want to be that superstar of your dreams. Here's what my advice would be.

First would be to become an expert at what you want to do! Learn everything you can, and become adept at passing this knowledge onto others. Once you are confident that you have something of value to offer others, get yourself out there in the public! No one gets to the top alone. To be a good associate for SFI you have to take care of your downline. But, in order to be a superstar at this, I think you need to go further. Pass on that expert knowledge through articles for other websites, have your own website filled with useful information, join local business related organizations and rub elbows with the superstars of the business world! Share you expert knowledge with those on the forum. Consider hosting a webinar. Things like that. By doing these kinds of things you brand yourself. You become widely known as someone that should be listened to!!!

My second piece of advice is that as you make your way to the top, stay humble!! Remember pride cometh before the fall! Always treat the other person as your equal, if not better! Remember the Golden Rule- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Lead by example and be not despised.

That's the best advice I have for you. Hope it helps.
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I am far from being a superstar, so take my words with a grain of salt.
But, I think you first might want to define what "being a superstar" means to you.
Then, well visualize yourself as that superstar a little and ask yourself if you really want to be one. I mean, many of the superstars of Hollywood had very, very sad endings to their stories.

Okay, so you've decided, you want to be that superstar of your dreams. Here's what my advice would be.

First
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Affiliate since: 04/23/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

To me, there is only three things that the new affiliate should be concentrating on.
1.They should do their best to become a Fast Tracker by accumulating 500 Versa Points within the first 24 hours of signing up.
2. They should try, if at all possible, to stay above the green line in the E365 contest.
3. They should log on everyday if at all possible and accumulate the daily Versa Points from the to do list, and claim some of the Versa Points from the Getting Started Actions and Launchpad Lessons. Which if they do will take care of the other important thing they should be concerned with, learning about the business.

In my opinion, the biggest investment a new affiliate should plan on making is time. They should plan on spending at least an hour, maybe more every day learning about the business as well as learning where and how to effectively advertise and track those advertisements.

I just don't see where becoming EA that first month is going to be that advantageous to someone in their first month. The only advantage that I know of is that they will gain a few CSA's. Which, they may or may not know what to do with. Once they feel comfortable with how the SFI system works and how to advertise, then they should start advertising. If they have a little extra money, investment in some of the advertising listed on TripleClicks would be helpful. And, once they have a solid foundation built in their downline (an active member or two) they should start working on building their rank.

I know that this answer will probably not be the most popular one on Ask SC. But, it is probably one of the most honest ones.


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To me, there is only three things that the new affiliate should be concentrating on.
1.They should do their best to become a Fast Tracker by accumulating 500 Versa Points within the first 24 hours of signing up.
2. They should try, if at all possible, to stay above the green line in the E365 contest.
3. They should log on everyday if at all possible and accumulate the daily Versa Points from the to do list, and claim some of the Versa Points from the Getting Started Actions and
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