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

Wordpress Blog with Responsive Theme is the best system to handle this task.

Use a blog theme with a 300px sidebar and place a set of 300x250 banners for SFI services you wish to offer in them and then write articles people wish to read based on questions people have. Give accurate and well researched answers and you will soon find your blog doing well with tons of free traffic and a large share of mobile users.

Writing ads is worthless, people tune out ads but will notice your sponsors if you have great content. Writing great content is always about the reader and never about the opportunity or product you intend to sell. Think of a product for sale at TripleClicks you wish to promote. Think of the terms a person looking for it would type into a search engine. Use a keyword analysis tool like Jaaxy to find at least 10 terms related to search and then structure your articles and pages.

Write a page related to that main keyword, Example : Windows 10 Review then write 10 pages based on surrounding search terms like, 'where to buy Windows 10?' or "Linux VS Windows 10 for PC" and point each back to the page for your review with at least 1 and up to 3 text links.

When you write a page use a ping service to announce it to the blog search engines and be sure to have a plugin like All in One SEO that will auto update a sitemap and notify Google, Bing, and Yahoo of the new page. Articles will auto ping engines but some services have engines you don't have built into Wordpress so I still ping them.

A Great free service I use is at feedshark.brainbliss.com

Use a social bookmarking tool like Social Monkee to build a web of social profile links to each page and post. Share these pages and post on social media with special attention to Google Plus, Facebook, and Twitter who are majority used by mobile users. Consider spending $50-$100 a month on Facebook and Twitter Ads focused on Mobile users.

When picking a domain name if the target is 100% mobile users choose a .mobi domain name so Google knows it's a mobile only site and will put it higher in mobile rankings and lower in standard search. These tips will help you focus your content and marketing on mobile users and get a blog rolling strong.




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Wordpress Blog with Responsive Theme is the best system to handle this task.

Use a blog theme with a 300px sidebar and place a set of 300x250 banners for SFI services you wish to offer in them and then write articles people wish to read based on questions people have. Give accurate and well researched answers and you will soon find your blog doing well with tons of free traffic and a large share of mobile users.

Writing ads is worthless, people tune out ads but will notice your
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

It starts before they join SFI.

When you first present SFI if you are pushing, "It's free, what do you have to lose?" you will find a different grade of prospect to promoting, "It's a great business with only minimal investment of time and or money to get started." We need to sell the potential and not hide the work if we want PSA who see the potential and are ready to work.

We need to be informative, and available to answer questions before the prospect joins so we get fewer window shoppers and more fast movers.

We need to think of targeting English speakers with potentially some funding to invest in their business, at least $40 a month, and we need them to be avid readers, potential leaders, and serious about owning a business and ready to get involved in on that serves the retail niche.

You don't have to complain about the 99 inactive PSA out of every 100 you recruit if you weed out the 99 and laser target the 1 with your efforts. Fewer sign ups is a great thing if you are getting quality over quantity and that means being a little stingy with who exactly you will share the SFI opportunity with.

I'm not saying someone good can't come out of us broke folks who come to SFI without two pennies to rub together, because I was one of them 2 years ago, but I can tell you I am more focused on bringing in people that are more like me now than me back then.


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It starts before they join SFI.

When you first present SFI if you are pushing, "It's free, what do you have to lose?" you will find a different grade of prospect to promoting, "It's a great business with only minimal investment of time and or money to get started." We need to sell the potential and not hide the work if we want PSA who see the potential and are ready to work.

We need to be informative, and available to answer questions before the prospect
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Send out a reminder in your weekly newsletter and be sure to recognized anyone who is completing the task. Ask for feedback on what your team would like to see as prizes in future contest. Get them involved in the planning to get them involved at all stages of the process. Make sure they understand exactly what they are winning, how it benefits them, and what is needed to win.

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

I prefer using instant messaging systems like Skype of Facebook chat and groups on most major social networks.

The more ways I can connect and communicate with my team the better. If they need answers I am there. If they need motivation I am there. If they just want to talk to a live person I am definitely there.

Building a successful network marketing business requires building relationships that stretch well beyond the boundaries of the business.

Making friends and having a close working relationship breeds teamwork and helps increase conversions. If you welcome a new member by inviting them into a group of friendly, and caring affiliates who are walking the same path to success you are guaranteed to make a lasting impression and are less apt to lose this member before they have given a good effort.

For duplication you are able to be direct in assistance and training, support and motivation. This gives the member a great example to model and become for their own team. Be fearless and break down language barriers, bridge oceans, and conquer new territory, don't limit your group to only those who speak your language or those who come from your country. Your business is international so act globally.

Thanks for a well thought question.
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I prefer using instant messaging systems like Skype of Facebook chat and groups on most major social networks.

The more ways I can connect and communicate with my team the better. If they need answers I am there. If they need motivation I am there. If they just want to talk to a live person I am definitely there.

Building a successful network marketing business requires building relationships that stretch well beyond the boundaries of the business.

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

The power of this gateway is as a continuation of the conversation.

I use it when direct marketing to people on social media or offline. It reinforces the things I have told them about the business and provides a clean overview of what's inside. It will help take that initial contact and turn it into an educated choice the prospective member is taking.

This Gateway is also great for blog post and article marketing or reviews. Again it continues the conversation you started elsewhere so it is also great for use in your marketing newsletter or e-zine.

What this page is not designed to do.

Don't use it to advertise. If your idea is to post an ad with a link in as many Facebook Groups as you can before Facebook bans you and the use of this gateway you need to learn marketing and quit Spamming right now.

This is not the gateway to use in any type advertising that has a time above it. You can make a splash page and have it open this page in a new tab, but if a person is surfing for credits and you only have 3 second to get their attention the invitation gateway and free gateway will work better. People on these types of traffic sources are seldom interested in other offers as is but they are even less interested in reading a full page of text while that time reminds them it's time to go to the next site.

Have a great time promoting the best Gateway in SFI responsibly. May people not use it for SPAM and actually keep it from being blocked anywhere.


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The power of this gateway is as a continuation of the conversation.

I use it when direct marketing to people on social media or offline. It reinforces the things I have told them about the business and provides a clean overview of what's inside. It will help take that initial contact and turn it into an educated choice the prospective member is taking.

This Gateway is also great for blog post and article marketing or reviews. Again it continues the conversation you started elsewhere
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

PriceBenders auctions can be a major money saver if you acquire the strategy needed to cut your cost and win auctions regularly. They can even be a great business opportunity for the reseller.

Beyond the benefits for SFI members which are Versa Points and Bid and Build where every 50 bids gains you 1 Personally Sponsored Affiliate, you need to know how these auctions can benefit the every day member. Your personally referred members are the ones who are likely to spend hundreds of dollars a month playing the auctions so you need to know how to they can use the auction to their benefit.

Developing a winning strategy is actually very simple but many over complicate it.

To win you have to bid the right number of times at the right time in the auction. You have to be able to control your cost so you can lose several auctions but still come out saving money or in the case of the reseller, earn a profit.

Since the lowest price buying t-credits in bulk is 29 cents each, the average auction user can place 100 bids and be out $29 in no time. By playing t-credit auctions or Eager Zebra Games you can build up 3-4 times the number of t-credits you purchased or more. When you do this it brings you average cost per bid down.

Example. You buy 200 T-credits at .29 each a spend the 200 t-credits to win 500 Tcredits at auction. You spend another 200 t-credits to win another 500 t-credits bringing your total current credits to 600 Tcredits without spending any more money. Now instead of 29 cents per bid your bids cost just 10 cents a bid.

At 10 cents per bid you can bid 300 times for the original $29-$30 or bid 100 times for just $10 allowing you to bid 100T-credits in each of 3 auctions for 3 different items.

From there you have to learn to watch auctions until the number of bidders fades, and look for trends like fewer bidders or lower selling prices at a certain hour on certain days and get in when the odds are greatest that you can outlast the competition and pull off a win.

Strong auction players will sometimes spend a whole month working on growing their t-credits until their cost per bid is down to a penny per bid. They then target a big ticket auction like a new I-pad Air and can bid a couple thousand times and still be paying less than 30% of the product's retail price when they win. Doing this allows you to either save a ton of money or resell the item for up to 300% mark-up.

The auction has some risk, and not everyone will win, but enough people win often enough that they place T-credits on standing order and play the auctions almost daily and learn to run strategy and win nice items for low cost.

P.S.

The coolest opportunity for me in the auctions is the Silver Pack or Silver 2 Pack where you can often win for under $30 even bidding at 29 cents a bid. You get nearly your investment back in Silver and can often reclaim 100% of the t-credits used to win. You seldom don't break even and holding the silver until it matures is a great way to build wealth by putting your money to work for you. I am shocked at how many of those auctions have a final price of 25% or less of the silver value.

See you at the auctions.
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PriceBenders auctions can be a major money saver if you acquire the strategy needed to cut your cost and win auctions regularly. They can even be a great business opportunity for the reseller.

Beyond the benefits for SFI members which are Versa Points and Bid and Build where every 50 bids gains you 1 Personally Sponsored Affiliate, you need to know how these auctions can benefit the every day member. Your personally referred members are the ones who are likely to spend hundreds of dollars
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The quote that readers are leaders is one of the most accurate quotes of all time.

People that read more learn more so they make fewer mistakes because they know the mistakes made by other who have walked this path before and are free to make bold new mistakes. If I take what I can learn from a yearly subscription to Entrepreneur and compare what I learned not to do to the mistakes my competitor has made in their business I can find an upper hand. I will be ahead of them even if I started my business 10 years after they did.

Our forum here at SFI is a great tool to learn every day.

People ask questions at 10 times the rate of AskSC and get answers in real time from dozens of experienced sources. They learn not only that something works but why and how it works, and how to tell if it's not working. By being a student of the forum you are guaranteed to learn something new every day, even if you have been doing this since 2003 like me.

Ask SC is like a polling of the community with unlimited answer options.

Every new question asked will have 10 days in which answers are added often 80 to 100 answers in all and they are voted on by the thousands of active experienced members. It's safe to say that reading the top 5-10-20 answers will permanently cure your curiosity about any of the tens of thousands of subjects covered in the archives.

All of these are chances for you to skip the errors made by our current GTL and PTL members and make it to Diamond Team Leader before they do. You won't realize that until you start reading and learning every day.

Some people spend 30 minutes on their to-do list, but I spend 3 hours minimum. I will start with the alerts tab and read the latest post at the forum, learning where I can, helping others where I can. I will then work through the information on my tabs and come to AskSC as the last task before entering the daily grand. I read every word of every answer I vote on and then when I am done I read some of last weeks 1st through 10th winners.

I guarantee that my business is stronger being a daily reader.
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The quote that readers are leaders is one of the most accurate quotes of all time.

People that read more learn more so they make fewer mistakes because they know the mistakes made by other who have walked this path before and are free to make bold new mistakes. If I take what I can learn from a yearly subscription to Entrepreneur and compare what I learned not to do to the mistakes my competitor has made in their business I can find an upper hand. I will be ahead of them even if I started
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

90 to 95% of our PSA signed up to get more information because prior to the Join My Team gateway no outward page summarized what SFI is and does in a manner that did more than peak curiosity.

People would come in through the Invite Gateway or Free Gateway and learn more about how long SFI has done what they do than they learned about what SFI does. Many have preconceived notions about network marketing, and many are looking for a pure MLM instead of an affiliate program and can't see how a free to join program could make them 5 to 7 figure incomes.

They sign up to see how easy it is.

They join to see what free gets them.

They join to see if it's fast money.

They join to write a review with no intention of marketing the business.

They join but it doesn't feel right to them.

They join but they are deterred by all of the learning it takes to succeed.

They sign up and then something unexpected happens like a promotion or loss of a job, a new baby, a sudden illness. Life happens to everyone.


The secret is not in the ones who join and do nothing in SFI. Stop worrying about them because they are not how you build your success story. Focus on the ones who do get active. The ones who do contact you. The ones who stay. The ones who invest in themselves and their business.

One can go batty trying to understand why people take actions that lead to failure or they can grasp the opportunity they have to mold the ones who are ready for success and focus their energy on helping them until we all succeed.

Not everyone is cut out to be a part of the 3% of people who are at the top of the food chain. We must accept that and not let the 97% hold us back.

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90 to 95% of our PSA signed up to get more information because prior to the Join My Team gateway no outward page summarized what SFI is and does in a manner that did more than peak curiosity.

People would come in through the Invite Gateway or Free Gateway and learn more about how long SFI has done what they do than they learned about what SFI does. Many have preconceived notions about network marketing, and many are looking for a pure MLM instead of an affiliate program and can't see how
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

You need to determine what niche or interest you will write content for. Once that is decided, think about the things that pertain to that niche.

Ever product has a customer but if all you offer the customer is an advertisement, you will not be likely to sell anything. Learn to review products you personally own and use or buy online. Tell the story of how this item has helped you and people you know.

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

LOL I love to answer this question because I have been around longer than most of these services and know the score in using them.

Reasons not to use them.

1. They look like you are hiding something. Why do you not want me to know where you are sending me? I know people who use them to mask viruses and phishing sites that are set up to steal my identity so why should I believe anything behind these redirected links is good for me and my family. Heck I have even had shrunken links tell me I was going to Amazon.com and the site I landed on was more like AmazonMigetPorn.com

2. They look unprofessional. If you are serious about your business why don't you have your own domain name and website? Why is it important to hide the name of your supposedly honest and upstanding business opportunity?

3. Affiliate links are already a re-direct link. A URL shrinking or masking service is also a redirect. People with McAffee Anti Virus and a number other anti phishing softwares get a warning that says this site may contain a virus or put your personal information at risk when the scan detects a double redirect. The anti-virus simply can't see that the page goes to SFI, you put two links ahead of the final destination and it now looks dangerous.

4. You look like someone who is ready to be fitted with a tin foil cap spouting all this nonsense about people stealing your commissions out of malice. Not only does this seldom actually happen because of the security measures affiliate programs have in place but masking the link doesn't stop this behavior from the few who do wish to cut you out of commissions. If I want to do this, remove your referral ID and just sign up with SFI I can click the shrunken url, find the name of the page, delete all cookies and browser history or use a separate computer, and go directly to the gateway with no sponsor. In the case of SFI it will still assign me to someone who has PSA-To-Go or S-Builder purchased so I have gained nothing and all you have lost is someone too dishonest to ever be successful.

5. Business cards look great with my domain name, OK with a prestige domain, and still have some appeal with an affiliate link, but they send those same shady business vibes to card holders when you try to use a shrunken URL on them.

6. If the site deletes or blocks your account or is sold off, or otherwise closes you could be in a spot where you have 10,000 active ads this month and 10,000 worthless ads with broken links that make you look bad next month. 10,000 ads takes a long time to put in place. It might have taken you 2-3 years to get them all up and develop a system for renewing them on time. More time to add tracking codes to them and track results to see which ones are working and which waste time and BAM all of that is gone with the stroke of a delete key.

7. If you are still thinking of using them because most SFI gateways are blocked for SPAM you may get a shock. If you are using tools like Facebook Auto Poster and blog comment blasters, FFA pages, etc.. These cloaked links will still get blocked and when it happens you will not know any faster or save one minute changing links. You will also not have learned anything about marketing and will still be a spammer when you add a gateway to the next cloaking service.

8. Your own domain and website has SEO or search engine optimization values. It can be ranked and gain inbound links, and move up to page 1 of Google in time. You can add content to it and create more points of access to your page, and get a ton of free and targeted search traffic. You can even build an e-mail list to re-market to people you exposed your business to who were not ready to join yet. You can't do any of that with a cloaked URL.

On the good side for them I don't really have anything.

They only delay negative action on criminal behavior, and build distrust in the industry. They are dishonest and dangerous and even you don't know what kind of malware the provider may pass on with your links. I wouldn't trust my reputation to them nor that of SFI, and think nothing but red flags and that common sense should say don't use them.

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LOL I love to answer this question because I have been around longer than most of these services and know the score in using them.

Reasons not to use them.

1. They look like you are hiding something. Why do you not want me to know where you are sending me? I know people who use them to mask viruses and phishing sites that are set up to steal my identity so why should I believe anything behind these redirected links is good for me and my family. Heck I have even had shrunken
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