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

Giving T-credits to a member who has a question about how the auctions work or needs to place added member listings to raise money for their standing order can both educate and break down barriers for success.

Giving them as contest prizes for reaching certain goals can be team building and help motivate.

Offering a couple to someone who is semi active may help them decide to get more active in SFI as someone else is investing in them.

The only sad part is the limit on the number of t-credits you can give away is so low that you need to make sure each gift is tied to an action because you may not get a second chance to achieve a solid impact from your generosity.
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Giving T-credits to a member who has a question about how the auctions work or needs to place added member listings to raise money for their standing order can both educate and break down barriers for success.

Giving them as contest prizes for reaching certain goals can be team building and help motivate.

Offering a couple to someone who is semi active may help them decide to get more active in SFI as someone else is investing in them.

The only sad part is the limit
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I have two secrets to share with you and an observation.

The observation is that the sites with the best deals on traffic and advertising in terms of price tend to have the lowest quality traffic and will require more total visitors to achieve similar results to good advertising. Never buy traffic or advertising from a site with an Alexa rank over 300,000 as these sites can't even generate substantial quality traffic for themselves. A 300K Alexa rank is a site getting over 200K monthly visitors in most cases which means they are more likely to be on the up and up.

The other rank in my observation is Google SERPS not Pagerank which was discontinued over a year ago. If you have a tool like Jaxy you can look for potential places to buy advertising in popular low competition search terms. Look for sites with a QSR of 300 or lower so you are not in a bidding war for placements that will drive your cost up.

Now for my secrets:

Secret One is to look at the other ads on a advertising site like USFreeAds or CraigsList and see how many similar programs are advertised there. Also look to see if there are already several SFI Affiliates targeting your local listings because the more SFI Ads in one place the greater chance that these prospects will find SFI through one of them first and you'll just help finalize recruiting someone else's PSA. If there is a lot of local competition recruiting for SFI you can still list a few products for sale at TripleClicks if they have commercial product listings. You can also increase your odds of being the competitng affiliate who wins more referrals by writing better adcopy or paying for featured listings and bold headlines etc..

Secret Two is that a lot of competition is bad but a fair amount is beneficial. If you are the only person showing people SFI they may question if SFI is so great with so few promoting it. My first Traffic Exchange took forever to get off the ground because instead of running a JV or Launch and inviting others to help promote the site and setting targeted places for our team to advertise it was just me surfing a couple hours a day in a dozen exchanges. Most people I talked to said they didn't join because they only saw one guy promoting it. My second exchange I had a big launch week party with team surfs and JV referral contest and we were flooded with members because a lot of people were promoting this new exchange.

Likewise if there are a lot of people advertising SFI then the popularity of the program shines through but you have to find a balance because secret one can come back and bite you too. If too many are promoting it there will seem to be too much competition to succeed, the market will be flooded, and all prospects will have hear or read it all before.

Over 2 BILLION people are on the Internet, you are sure to find many places where SFI has never been heard of, if you come in strong and maybe share the recruiting ground with a handful of your top PSA you should do well, but go big and make sure you are in the game to win the game instead of just throwing up ads and leaving.

Use Tracking Codes, when possible opt for the paid listing, if it's a free traffic exchange instead of earning 100 credits and getting 100 views of SFI a day, earn 100 credits a day for a week and spend them all on Tuesday so your ads dominate the market when they run.

Have more ads at the best times in the best places and BAM your business will grow.

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I have two secrets to share with you and an observation.

The observation is that the sites with the best deals on traffic and advertising in terms of price tend to have the lowest quality traffic and will require more total visitors to achieve similar results to good advertising. Never buy traffic or advertising from a site with an Alexa rank over 300,000 as these sites can't even generate substantial quality traffic for themselves. A 300K Alexa rank is a site getting over 200K monthly
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

If I wanted to find someone looking at retirement or facing possible job loss I would seek sites that offered retirement planning, jobs for retirees, and who post on topics like career advice and changing careers.

I would then use a Who-Is search to get contact details for the webmaster.

Sometimes these blogs and websites have a system in place to advertise, or can be targeted in Adwords or Media.net ads, but millions of pages have plenty of room for advertisers and sale of advertising has been sort of an after-thought of the webmasters. Many bloggers for example monetize their work with an affiliate banner or Adsense ads but have never even considered renting spots on their blogs.

Since these sites all have existing targeted traffic they can all be great places to advertise, but since they aren't all putting out a advertise here sign it is often very affordable to get in front of their traffic with your banner or text ad.

You can also use services like Izea to sponsor blog post on sites in the niche you wish to reach, or you can build a blog yourself that generates free traffic by either researching and writing related post or outsourcing post on iWriter or Fiverr.

Be sure the ads you use target the audience you plan to reach. An ad for a stay at home mother of small children would not appeal to a 50 year old construction worker looking to retire on half pension. Images can help shape the message even if the text is generic so it's not always necessary to use different words to signify the relationship between your targeted prospect and your SFI.

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If I wanted to find someone looking at retirement or facing possible job loss I would seek sites that offered retirement planning, jobs for retirees, and who post on topics like career advice and changing careers.

I would then use a Who-Is search to get contact details for the webmaster.

Sometimes these blogs and websites have a system in place to advertise, or can be targeted in Adwords or Media.net ads, but millions of pages have plenty of room for advertisers and sale of
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Website, hosting, and domain name to start building a lasting internet presence and getting benefits from search engine marketing. I see too many affiliates who are too scared to branch out and start their own website or blog and they all lose countless free traffic and higher conversions.

With web properties you can not only build presence for your business and develop a personal brand but you can also train and educate your team without the distractions of a half million other links and forum post around them. It allows you to be more personal and walk them through a process so they can truly duplicate your path.

SFI has a strong training program and applying it's every lesson to your own website will generate years of success for you and a great website is a sure fired investment because that $10 domain name bought today could be worth $10,000 or more 5 years from now allowing you to have some virtual real estate in your retirement plan.

You can also use an autoresponder to create a regular newsletter and capture leads.

You can use advertorial pages about the SFI Opportunity in many places that don't accept SFI links like Facebook.

You can even develop pages that help your team promote and earn.

After a while working in one niche topic you will be seen as an expert and can possibly even earn money creating your own info-products.

There are virtually no limits when you own that piece of the Internet.
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Website, hosting, and domain name to start building a lasting internet presence and getting benefits from search engine marketing. I see too many affiliates who are too scared to branch out and start their own website or blog and they all lose countless free traffic and higher conversions.

With web properties you can not only build presence for your business and develop a personal brand but you can also train and educate your team without the distractions of a half million other links
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

One thing I have found is that a E-mail from me is often opened where a initial e-mail from SFI ends up in the SPAM Folder on many free mail accounts.

Fact is SFI sends business e-mails in a niche that is notorious for SPAM and has made a lot of enemies over the years out of scammers, cheats, and people who simply didn't follow instructions well enough or long enough to make any money. As a result, until the affiliate logs in and starts their training and gets to the point where they verify their SFI Account and white-list SFIMG.com they may not even see a welcome letter or e-card sent by the system.

Meanwhile I have my own e-mail account on my own domain name and I have zero SPAM complaints and can write content with a score lower than 3 on a 5 scale used for rating e-mail copy as spam or safe. My e-mails almost always go to the inbox and I write headlines that catch attention so sending from my own e-mail address simply makes sense.

I can use a canned reply the same as having a stored welcome letter at SFI to save time but if I know the person from a social network or from the coffee shop down town I can add in a personal welcome that shows I care and noticed it was them too. This makes that form letter less formal and more personal and can be a difference maker in terms of strengthening a working relationship.

Conversion wise I get far more response back sending an e-mail from my personal account than I do from team mail.

Have a great week.
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One thing I have found is that a E-mail from me is often opened where a initial e-mail from SFI ends up in the SPAM Folder on many free mail accounts.

Fact is SFI sends business e-mails in a niche that is notorious for SPAM and has made a lot of enemies over the years out of scammers, cheats, and people who simply didn't follow instructions well enough or long enough to make any money. As a result, until the affiliate logs in and starts their training and gets to the point where they verify
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The best are low competition keywords in a tight niche market that directly uses the product you wish to promote.

Since you competition will start scanning your site etc.. as soon as it looks like you are making money that they are not you will soon find more competition for this group of targeted keywords so you need to work at staying on top of the search results and study new keywords and search terms to add each month.

Using PPC Advertising should be your short term plan so spend twice as much effort creating good content for the landing pages your ads point to on your own website or blog that you fully own the domain name on. If you do this diligently , within a year you could be getting 4 times as much natural traffic as you do paid traffic for free.
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The best are low competition keywords in a tight niche market that directly uses the product you wish to promote.

Since you competition will start scanning your site etc.. as soon as it looks like you are making money that they are not you will soon find more competition for this group of targeted keywords so you need to work at staying on top of the search results and study new keywords and search terms to add each month.

Using PPC Advertising should be your short term plan
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I'm a Business owner and when they ask what type of business tell them Sales and Marketing or Retail. Why would you not tell them you are a proud home business owner?

Fact is this business takes as much work as running any offline business if you want to make it to that 6 figure income potential. It requires investment and time and a ton of hard work to fire your boss so there is no shame in saying I have a home based business in retail or sales, marketing, or just simply tell them I work from home as a commissioned affiliate.

NEVER be ashamed of your home business, you earn the right to be here every day so be proud.
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I'm a Business owner and when they ask what type of business tell them Sales and Marketing or Retail. Why would you not tell them you are a proud home business owner?

Fact is this business takes as much work as running any offline business if you want to make it to that 6 figure income potential. It requires investment and time and a ton of hard work to fire your boss so there is no shame in saying I have a home based business in retail or sales, marketing, or just simply tell them I work
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

S-builder should be an add on to a purchase of one of the other EA qualifying standing orders.

IAHBE is stocked full of training and in the long term will help you be a better sponsor, better marketer, webmaster or blogger, and build a system for massive success, it takes time to learn this business but the articles saved there are like having a university library at your fingertips.

In the short term T-credits, specifically the 125 pack available to SFI affiliates only will qualify you for EA each month. You can bit in Double MRP Auctions and trade MRP for Single T-credits to bridge the gap on 2000 Sales VP each month. Also each bid at auction is 1 VP on the action VP side of your requirements to earn the rank of Team Leader and open up a win-fall of Co-Sponsored affiliates, additional revenue streams and promotion tools, and higher earnings from matching VP.

So in the end it all depends on if you wish to grow fast and see greater results in the short term or do you wish to grow your mind and open up the full potential of your SFI membership. IAHBE's training may be the longer path to breaking even but it's the closest thing to a sure bet on long term success and the highest possible earnings. Keep in mind that you can always change your standing order down the line.

To our continued success.
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S-builder should be an add on to a purchase of one of the other EA qualifying standing orders.

IAHBE is stocked full of training and in the long term will help you be a better sponsor, better marketer, webmaster or blogger, and build a system for massive success, it takes time to learn this business but the articles saved there are like having a university library at your fingertips.

In the short term T-credits, specifically the 125 pack available to SFI affiliates only will
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

NO don't tell them to slow down at all.

When you tell them to slow down and save some free VP for their second month you are just delaying how soon they have to work their business hard to make it to EA. You give them an added excuse to not set up a standing order and you rob them of valuable CSA that could have their monthly income jump-started if they achieve BTL or above.

Fact is they wont save enough VP from month 1 to month 2 to qualify for EA2 without getting some results, and to make it your plan to get them to spend $10 buying Single T-credits to make up the difference is just teaching them to aim for the minimum all around.

When you do the minimum you get minimum results so teaching those bad habits could help discourage them where teaching them to invest in themselves and set a goal to cover the investment could motivate them to move mountains.


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NO don't tell them to slow down at all.

When you tell them to slow down and save some free VP for their second month you are just delaying how soon they have to work their business hard to make it to EA. You give them an added excuse to not set up a standing order and you rob them of valuable CSA that could have their monthly income jump-started if they achieve BTL or above.

Fact is they wont save enough VP from month 1 to month 2 to qualify for EA2 without getting some results,
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

There is no one or the other, without both you will leave half your prospects out in the cold.

I see people talking about how much of a rush everyone is in and how they only have time for a short sales pitch, or if they want more information they'll sign up to find out more. ClickBank is an Affiliate Management Company that handles e-books and membership sites for most major sellers of these products and if you go through their listings you will be lucky to find 1 site out of 1 hundred that doesn't have either a long sales pitch or a 20 minute to 1 hour long video sales message.

If everyone were as short sighted as those respondents or in as much as a hurry as they claim to be when trying to find a means to make money online, those ClickBank products wouldn't sell, but ClickBank processes over 100 Million Dollars in sales a year.

Likewise we have all seen infomercials, they can last 2-3 hours and basically after 20 minutes you have heard the entire pitch and are just listening to the same thing over but they generate over 3 billion dollars in annual sales on a wide range of products.

It's not how much you say but how you say it that makes a difference.

If you have a good headline or gateway page that captures the prospects attention and informs them of a solution to a problem they face in under 5 seconds you can get them to either give you and e-mail contact to follow up with more information when they have time, or get them to open the page in a new tab and take the time to get more details.

Once you have their attention you need to break down the different types of information your prospective customer might desire before making a purchase decision and devote a portion of the sales page to each of these areas of interest. It can also help to have a FAQ page, or provide a means to contact you with follow-up questions as well. Break all bulky sections down into smaller and easily digested parts and don't be overly repetitive and you will convert more prospects.

I can tell you that in a decade of affiliate and network marketing I have had a lot better results off a full page review of a program or product than I have off a 5 second splash page with the only otpion for more information being to sign up now.
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There is no one or the other, without both you will leave half your prospects out in the cold.

I see people talking about how much of a rush everyone is in and how they only have time for a short sales pitch, or if they want more information they'll sign up to find out more. ClickBank is an Affiliate Management Company that handles e-books and membership sites for most major sellers of these products and if you go through their listings you will be lucky to find 1 site out of 1 hundred
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