Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Zagorka,

First and foremost, it is important that they understand that when they signed up as SFI affiliates, they became business owners. Any business, in order to be successful, requires effort, persistence and dedication.

By becoming a fast-member, they are demonstrating to you that they are willing to put forth the effort required to succeed and are dedicated to their new business. Then, as they start building their teams, their new members will see their accomplishments and will want to copy what they have done.

Be sure to review all the benefits of the fast-track program at https://www.sfimg.com/FT
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Hi Zagorka,

First and foremost, it is important that they understand that when they signed up as SFI affiliates, they became business owners. Any business, in order to be successful, requires effort, persistence and dedication.

By becoming a fast-member, they are demonstrating to you that they are willing to put forth the effort required to succeed and are dedicated to their new business. Then, as they start building their teams, their new members will see their accomplishments
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is an excellent question, and one that gave me considerable pause for reflection.

Before I go into any details for best performer and my overall favorite, I am going to briefly illustrate what I feel to be the major benefit(s) for each of the three SFI affiliate gateways.

1) http://www.sfi4.com/XXXXX/FREE
Even though this gateway redirects to having Real2 at the end instead of FREE, having the word FREE in the URL has a very powerful psychological effect given that everybody likes it when they are able to get something for free.

This gateway is also effective as it uses a very clean, concise format, listing five of the major benefits of joining SFI as well as a list of the 20 most recent affiliates to join SFI.

2) http://www.sfi1.biz/XXXXX
While originally designed as a social media gateway, this one also is quite useful on the various traffic exchanges where you have a very small window of opportunity to grab the viewer’s attention. Another benefit of this gateway is that it puts your name forefront at the top of the gateway page, allowing viewers of this gateway to see that you are a real person.

3) http://www.sfi4.com/XXXXX/first
This gateway, while also illustrating key benefits of the SFI business, is also highly visual and incorporates audio as well. Visually stimulating web pages that also utilize audio have been proven many times to be highly effective.

Okay, so now that I have given my brief opinionated summary of each of the three SFI gateways, the one that I feel is the overall best performer for conversion ratio of visits to sign-ups definitely goes to the http://www.sfi4.com/XXXXX/FREE gateway.

However, even though the above mentioned gateway has been proven in my campaigns to have the best sign-up ratio, my favorite gateway of the three goes to http://www.sfi4.com/XXXXX/first. While the FREE gateway is good in listing the names of the most recent affiliates to join, I feel that seeing the photos of those affiliates is much more effective, again reinforcing in the viewer’s mind that these are indeed real people that are signing up.

Having the audio segment on this gateway is great as well, from two perspectives. First, it gives the viewer something to listen to, and second, with the placement, the viewer needs to scroll slightly down the page in order to turn the audio off if they were to so choose, thereby exposing more of the page to the viewer.

I hope this helps.
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This is an excellent question, and one that gave me considerable pause for reflection.

Before I go into any details for best performer and my overall favorite, I am going to briefly illustrate what I feel to be the major benefit(s) for each of the three SFI affiliate gateways.

1) http://www.sfi4.com/XXXXX/FREE
Even though this gateway redirects to having Real2 at the end instead of FREE, having the word FREE in the URL has a very powerful psychological effect given that
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

How can you best utilize your monthly standing order of TCredits? This is an excellent question and the answer, while rather broad, really boils down to your own personal preferences and what your goals are.

I know that I would tend to use the biggest portion toward getting more PSAs, which would take around 100 TCredits. For those TCredits that are left over, I would play both Time Machine and Pick the Price. By doing this, not only am I building my SFI business, but I am entered for a chance to win more TCredits.

Hope this helps.
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How can you best utilize your monthly standing order of TCredits? This is an excellent question and the answer, while rather broad, really boils down to your own personal preferences and what your goals are.

I know that I would tend to use the biggest portion toward getting more PSAs, which would take around 100 TCredits. For those TCredits that are left over, I would play both Time Machine and Pick the Price. By doing this, not only am I building my SFI business, but I am entered for
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Belinda and thank you for raising this very good question.

First, let me point out the fact that your sponsor or any other member of your upline cannot re-assign any PSA to you unless that PSA has earned at least 600 versapoints in the past 90 days prior to the reassignment. This means that the PSA was active at least at some point in those 90 days.

Now, with that said, more often than not, our sponsor or upline team members will reassign PSAs to their downline as a reward for reaching certain milestones... reaching EA status, fastest growth, etc. Sometimes when they see a team member who is showing exceptional and consistent growth, they will reassign a PSA that maybe only recently went inactive and your sponsor or upline team member feels that, based on your growth and consistency, that you might have just the right approach to being able to reactivate the assigned PSA.

One other thing I would like to point out is when an active PSA is reassigned and then goes inactive after the reassignment and my apologies to those who feel this segment of my answer might be off topic, but I truly do feel that it does apply as well. Sometimes, when PSAs get reassigned, especially when they are active, they might feel that they are being punished for something, like they are not good enough and their sponsor no longer wants to support them. That is why I feel that it is important for sponsors to contact their PSA first to let them know that and why they are being reassigned. In line with this, it is also important for your sponsor or upline team member to contact you to let you know that they are reassigning one or more PSAs to you.

I hope this helps to shed a little more insight on this.
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Hi Belinda and thank you for raising this very good question.

First, let me point out the fact that your sponsor or any other member of your upline cannot re-assign any PSA to you unless that PSA has earned at least 600 versapoints in the past 90 days prior to the reassignment. This means that the PSA was active at least at some point in those 90 days.

Now, with that said, more often than not, our sponsor or upline team members will reassign PSAs to their downline as a reward
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Excellent question...

Like any business, SFI does require some kind of an investment: Monetary or Time.

When you are first getting started your new SFI business, I will assume your goal as being to earn more money, either to supplement an existing income or to replace that existing income entirely. With that goal in mind, it is important to keep your costs down as much as possible. Which brings us to the main crux of your question.

In order to keep your costs as low as possible requires an often significant time investment into your new SFI business. Initially this time will be spent learning all that you can about SFI. When you consider only the SFI aspect of your business, meaning to not include TripleClicks at the moment, then the only way you have to build success in your business is to recruit and develop your team of affiliates, which means advertising.

There are literally 100's, if not 1000's of sites where you are able to advertise your SFI business for free. Do some Google searches using such terms as 'free advertising', 'free marketing', 'free advertising for affiliate marketers', etc. You can even narrow it down further by searching for specific types of free advertising venues, such as 'free classified ad sites', 'free classified directory listings', 'free ad boards', 'free text ads', etc.

SFI provides a great selection of marketing tools such as text ads, banner ads, eCards, and more. You will want to start by making a list of at least 25 to 35 sites that you will be posting your ads on and then make sure to post every day, or as often as these sites will allow. It does take time, but your efforts will pay off. Then, as your team starts to grow, teach your new affiliates to do the same.

Hope this helps.
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Excellent question...

Like any business, SFI does require some kind of an investment: Monetary or Time.

When you are first getting started your new SFI business, I will assume your goal as being to earn more money, either to supplement an existing income or to replace that existing income entirely. With that goal in mind, it is important to keep your costs down as much as possible. Which brings us to the main crux of your question.

In order to keep your costs as low
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Mary,

This is a great question, and before I get into any details, the answer, quite simply, is yes. While it is great that you have already identified your five who will become your future Platinum PSAs, the one question you need to stop and ask yourself is "How can I be sure these five will make it?"

One thing to consider is the fact that we are all individuals, each with our own active lives to lead. You never know when something will happen that causes activity levels to drop or even cease altogether.

Every "plan" requires a backup plan, so if and when your first plan fails, you have another plan to fall back upon, and another plan, and another. A good action plan not only includes the steps we are actively taking to reach our goals, but also includes contingency plans for when things don't go exactly as we had initially planned.

Hope this helps
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Hi Mary,

This is a great question, and before I get into any details, the answer, quite simply, is yes. While it is great that you have already identified your five who will become your future Platinum PSAs, the one question you need to stop and ask yourself is "How can I be sure these five will make it?"

One thing to consider is the fact that we are all individuals, each with our own active lives to lead. You never know when something will happen that causes activity
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Osaro,

This is a great question.

Any good marketing plan starts with market research. You need to know your target market and what "triggers" are going to propel them into taking action.

In terms of PPC advertising, your research would involve determining what keywords are going to work best for your target market. And if you want to keep your costs low, use the Google Adwords keyword tool to determine keywords that have a high search ratio, yet low competition.

Hope this helps.
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Hi Osaro,

This is a great question.

Any good marketing plan starts with market research. You need to know your target market and what "triggers" are going to propel them into taking action.

In terms of PPC advertising, your research would involve determining what keywords are going to work best for your target market. And if you want to keep your costs low, use the Google Adwords keyword tool to determine keywords that have a high search ratio, yet low competition.

Hope
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Alvin,

This is a great question. I hope that my answer will shed some insight.

As I pondered what you are asking, I broke your question down into multiple parts. First, is how do I attract only serious affiliates? Second, what do I tell them about the SFI opportunity? And finally, once they are part of my team, what can I do to ensure that they remain serious?

So, how do you ensure that you are only attracting serious affiliates? To attract any kind of affiliate always starts with advertising. The sites you choose to advertise on and the wording of your advertising is usually what allows you to separate the tire kickers from the go getters. One such advertisement could read something like "Seeking 5 to 7 serious business partners! Are you a natural leader? Do you enjoy the challenge of recruiting, training and leading a strong, dynamic team? Do you have at least 20 to 30 hours per week that you can dedicate to developing your business? Do you have and are willing to invest at least $50 to $100 per month into the development of your business? If so, contact me right now at ......."

You will note that I purposely did not specify SFI as a free to join opportunity. This is for two reasons. First, a business partner that has and is willing to invest monetarily into their business is likely to be more serious and active as they are investing more than just their time. Second, you want them to be examples to their team and if you want you entire team to set up standing orders, then that example needs to be set by you and your team leaders.

Ok, so now that you have their attention, what can you tell them to determine if they will be serious about SFI? Be honest. Highlight key features and benefits of the SFI opportunity, hitting on points such as SFI's strong 17 year track record and the fact that SFI is a global opportunity. It would also be good to explain SFI's compensation plan as any serious affiliate is naturally going to want to know how they are going to make money.

So now you have recruited your 5 to 7 diamond team leaders, what can you do to ensure that they stay active with SFI and become the team leaders to recruited them to be? It really just boils down to one word - communicate. Make sure you immediately welcome them to your SFI team when they join. Let them know that they can always contact you with any questions they might have. Be proactive in offering assistance as well by letting them know about the best sites you have found to advertise on, set up advertising co-ops, keep them up to date on changes to the SFI program... in essence, lead by example. Be the kind of leader you want them to become.

I truly hope this helps. To our mutual success!
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Hi Alvin,

This is a great question. I hope that my answer will shed some insight.

As I pondered what you are asking, I broke your question down into multiple parts. First, is how do I attract only serious affiliates? Second, what do I tell them about the SFI opportunity? And finally, once they are part of my team, what can I do to ensure that they remain serious?

So, how do you ensure that you are only attracting serious affiliates? To attract any kind of affiliate
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

When I first started writing my own ads, I found the best way for me was to first take any existing ads and rewrite them in my own words. After doing this I found it got easier to start writing my own ads from scratch, even being able to cater the ad specifically to the site that I posted it on.

SFI provides a great selection of prewritten ads to choose from. Start by taking a few of these and try rewriting them in your own words and see what you are able to come up with.

Short and simple, I know, but hope it helps.
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When I first started writing my own ads, I found the best way for me was to first take any existing ads and rewrite them in my own words. After doing this I found it got easier to start writing my own ads from scratch, even being able to cater the ad specifically to the site that I posted it on.

SFI provides a great selection of prewritten ads to choose from. Start by taking a few of these and try rewriting them in your own words and see what you are able to come up with.

Short
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Sanja,

The SFI PPA program is really a matter of choice. It has it benefits, but it also has it downfalls.

The primary benefit is being able to earn an income without having to manage a team. However, as you will soon see, this really is not a benefit at all. Not only that, but, in my opinion, the downfalls far outweigh the benefits, and therefore, do not make the SFI PPA program a viable one to participate in.

The first downfall is that once the affiliate signs up through your SFIPPA link, that's it. Sure, if that affiliate meets the qualifications, you will earn a bounty, plus the chance to earn a bonus as well. But you lose that affiliate forever. You will not be credited with referring them and they will never appear in your downline. In other words, income wise, they are a one-shot deal.

The second downfall is that you have to wait longer to get paid for anyone who signs up through your SFIPPA link. Using the example from the SFIPPA training section, if an affiliate signs up through your SFIPPA link in July and meets the bounty qualifications, you won't receive payment until October.

While there are other downfalls, these two alone would make me wary of participating.

I hope my answer has helped.
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Hi Sanja,

The SFI PPA program is really a matter of choice. It has it benefits, but it also has it downfalls.

The primary benefit is being able to earn an income without having to manage a team. However, as you will soon see, this really is not a benefit at all. Not only that, but, in my opinion, the downfalls far outweigh the benefits, and therefore, do not make the SFI PPA program a viable one to participate in.

The first downfall is that once the affiliate signs
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