Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Building a large number of affiliates depends on the following factors:

1. Time Investment

2. Money Investment.

Depending on your time frame of achieving your primary goal, whether achieving financial freedom, improve standard fo living, or quit fulltime job and work from home, time and financial investments play important roles in building your downlines. How many affiliates to sponsor daily, monthly, yearly, depend on your means of advertisement, when you advertise and the present economic trend. Are more and more people looking for online business opportunities?

Using free advertising is very time consuming. If you would like to achieve a large number of affiliates in a short time, then you will have to reasonably invest financially. You can also opt to purchase affiliates by the thousands at TripleClicks provided you have the financial resources. Having a large number of affiliates doesn't necessarily mean all are quality affiliates.
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Building a large number of affiliates depends on the following factors:

1. Time Investment

2. Money Investment.

Depending on your time frame of achieving your primary goal, whether achieving financial freedom, improve standard fo living, or quit fulltime job and work from home, time and financial investments play important roles in building your downlines. How many affiliates to sponsor daily, monthly, yearly, depend on your means of advertisement, when you advertise
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Just doing the To-Do List wouldn't be enough to really succeed in SFI, but logging in everyday is a must if you're serious in establishing a solid foundation of your SFI business that you can build upon.

Besides performing the To-Do List, I consider the following tasks important components of building a successful SFI business:

- Keeping up-to-date with the latest innovation through SFI news. Entrepreneurs need to stand out among the crowd in order to succeed in today's highly competitive network marketing industry.

- Interacting with SFI community through SFI Forum, learning from others who are more experienced and also contributing tips that have really worked to share with others in SFI community.

- Promoting SFI and TripleClicks using traditional and digital marketing methods which include social media. It's important to allocate time to provide fresh and interesting contents to keep my blog SEO optimized.

- Providing training and support consistently to my downline, including weekly support messages and one-on-one support to affiliates who require more time in their development and growth with their journey in SFI.

- Actively participating in Ask SC sharing the knowledge gained and experienced so that others can also be enlightened and become successful.

- Actively participating in Pricebender auctions and EZ games earning cool badges which can be used to attract prospects and inspire/motivate downline to follow your lead to become active, too.

- Promote my own Ad co-op and maintain shares of S-Builder co-op to ensure the constant flow of new affiliates in my SFI organization. You need to expand your network and develop teams of EA2 and Team Leaders in order to achieve your long term goal and succeed.

These are summary of tasks that are vital to your success in SFI. You need to be leading an example to your downline and encourage them to do the same above actions to ensure the growth of your network, establish a solid foundation and succeed in SFI.
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Just doing the To-Do List wouldn't be enough to really succeed in SFI, but logging in everyday is a must if you're serious in establishing a solid foundation of your SFI business that you can build upon.

Besides performing the To-Do List, I consider the following tasks important components of building a successful SFI business:

- Keeping up-to-date with the latest innovation through SFI news. Entrepreneurs need to stand out among the crowd in order to succeed in today's highly
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

In advising your PSAs to buy from ECAs in their country, consider a bigger picture in how ECA can be run into a full scale promotion.

1. Before you can advise your PSAs to buy from ECAs in their country and reap the benefits with your PSAs, encourage them to connect with ECAs in their countries by going to this link:

www.tripleclicks.com/ecaCountries.php

If there is no ECA yet in their country, you can suggest to them to refer local businesses and earn lifetime royalties.

2. By directing your PSAs to buy from their local ECAs, you’re making them aware of the products available which might be beneficial to them not only as SFI/TC members but also for their households. This may help to drive the sales of their local ECAs.

3. When they start purchasing products from their local ECAs, they will get the following benefits:

- Convenient shopping in the comfort of their own home, saving time, energy and car mileage.

- Local ECAs offering “Will Call” option for local pickups of products ordered will save on shipping costs.

- As SFI affiliates and TC members can earn all the VPs they need and their local ECAs will get new customers. If there are SO (Standing Order) eligible products available, their local ECAs may have sales month after month. This will help increase the credibility of ECAs through the star ratings and testimonials of PSAs as customers. In general, their actions are very important in laying the groundwork for promoting ECAs in their countries.

- If they can do transfer buying from their local ECAs, they’ll accumulate VPs to help them move up/maintain their Overall Power Rank, Country Power Rank and Class Power Rank. They won’t be adding additional expense to their budget and they will automatically accumulate VPs for their commissions and benefits.

As a Team Leader how is advising your PSAs to buy from their local ECAs helpful to you?

- You’ll earn the trust of your PSAs as they advance in growing their SFI businesses and they will most likely follow your lead.

- You might be providing them very valuable support in this regard, especially in the early stages of establishing and maintaining their SFI businesses. In my experience, I have seen many times where my PSAs were so thankful for reminding them about the ways and means of growing their SFI businesses. Yes, we all know that SFI provides all the tools and resources and it takes time to learn and find the things we need as we go on performing our To-Do List. But your interaction with your PSAs may prove to be a much needed support by making them aware of what’s in there to help them.

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In advising your PSAs to buy from ECAs in their country, consider a bigger picture in how ECA can be run into a full scale promotion.

1. Before you can advise your PSAs to buy from ECAs in their country and reap the benefits with your PSAs, encourage them to connect with ECAs in their countries by going to this link:

www.tripleclicks.com/ecaCountries.php

If there is no ECA yet in their country, you can suggest to them to refer local businesses and earn lifetime royalties.

2.
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

If you want your SFI business to thrive, you’ll need to continually advertise - to expose your SFI business opportunity to great number of people interested.

You have stated that you’re not satisfied with your advertising results. Before taking any course of action, you need to consider the following questions:

- Do you have a marketing plan?

- Do you have a marketing strategy in place?

By considering the questions above, you’ll get an insight about the essential elements of a successful marketing campaign.

Let us explore what are the possible reasons why your advertising isn’t providing satisfactory results.

- Do you have a specific target?

The most important step in the process of planning a marketing campaign is defining your audience. Who do you want to attract? The more narrowly you can define your target who will benefit from your offer (SFI business opportunity), the better results you will get.

- Do you have value proposition?

To get your message right, think about the target audience you have identified and stand in their shoes. What are the problems that they face and how can you help? What value can you deliver to help them solve their problem?

- Have you considered engaging your prospects with “Call to Action”?

Don't leave the conversation without offering more to those who are interested. A call to action helps you identify the prospects that need more attention. Give your prospects a reason to ask for more information. Case studies, whitepapers, videos, webinars and any other educational content that you can offer are all great calls to action. Asking them to call you for more information is not.

- How do you deliver your marketing message?

How are you going to deliver the message to your target audience? There is no right or wrong here, and using more than one method is always better (commonly referred to as multi-touch marketing). Different people respond to different types of contact. Include e-mail, snail-mail, Web advertising, social avenues like LinkedIn or professional organizations, and even traditional advertising in your list of options.

- Is “Follow-Up” a part of your marketing campaign?

Your campaign is only as good as your follow-up. Just like you, your prospects are busy and get hundreds of marketing messages each day. You need to continue the dialogue with them until they opt out.

You should test and analyze your advertising campaign to maximize results. There are probably a lot of things that you should be doing. It is far more important to keep marketing going than it is to make it perfect.

Pay attention to the response that you get in terms of the vehicles and the message. Track as much as you can, but don't stop because you aren't getting the results you expected. If you have a good message targeted to the right prospects and keep the dialogue going, you will connect with them.

Marketing campaign planning isn't just for big marketing departments. Work through these steps and you'll have the pieces in place for an effective campaign. Most importantly, keep it going. There is no magic marketing technique that will get you tons of new affiliates in a month, but persistence will pay off.

Here’s what you need to do:

Your advertising campaign can set you apart from the crowd and attract the most qualified prospects, if you follow the following steps:

1. Identify the target audience

2. Determine your marketing objectives

3. Establish your budget

4. Go to Marketing Center for list of advertising messages.

5. Select your media

6. Evaluate your advertising campaign

Conclusion:

The mark of a good marketing strategy is not how many gadgets and neologisms are crammed into it, but how effectively it achieves worthy goals. Therefore, how you define your intent will have a profound impact on whether you succeed or fail.

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If you want your SFI business to thrive, you’ll need to continually advertise - to expose your SFI business opportunity to great number of people interested.

You have stated that you’re not satisfied with your advertising results. Before taking any course of action, you need to consider the following questions:

- Do you have a marketing plan?

- Do you have a marketing strategy in place?

By considering the questions above, you’ll get an insight about
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Before you proceed to organize and track your activity with SFI, first identify the activities (daily, weekly and monthly) which are important to your SFI business that are worth to keep track and organize.

In general, you need to organize and keep track all activities relating to the growth of your SFI business.

Here are suggestions of important activities that require your attention:

- Your sponsoring activities including tracking the results and performance of your marketing strategy through Hit Tracking, Reassignment of affiliates, Gift Certificate Manager and so on.

- Your AVP and SVP.

- Your Power Rank trend for the last 3 months.

- Your Power Rank and Country Leaders Leaderboard.

- Your daily, weekly and monthly support messages to your downline.

- The development and growth progress of your PSAs/CSAs.

- Your TripleClicks Order History, Messages & Reviews, Standing Order, MRP/TCredits/TCurrency Ledgers and so on

All the above activities can found in your SFI homepage and at the TripleClicks Member Center for verification.

What’s the best way to organize and keep track of the above activities?

- Fill your calendar with your SFI/TripleClicks activities.

This will allow you to map out the months ahead and keeps you focus on what activity you need to work on for the current month. You’ll have also an overview of your activities which allows you to distribute your effort in a way that makes sense (according to your long term goal), and avoiding having everything pile up at once.

- One of the simplest organizational tricks to keep track your SFI activities is to use spreadsheets. With the use of spreadsheets, you can have a well organized list of activities to keep you working efficiently and to be able to quickly see what you have accomplished. Simple spreadsheets can be powerful tools for organizing your SFI activities, and you don't have to be a whiz at Excel to make them.

The benefits of using spreadsheets to track your activities include:

1. Being able to see what you've already done so you don't repeat it (or if you need to repeat it, you can quickly see when and how you did it the first time around so you can leverage that prior work)

2. Having a dedicated place to record ideas and regularly look through them.

3. Maintaining a record of your work if you ever need evidence of what you've accomplished.

4. Making your own tasks easier by creating a system of information retrieval that's entirely customized to your needs.

- Tracking your activities requires you also to track your expenses.

The foundation of solid business record keeping is learning to track your expenses effectively while you track your business progress. It’s a crucial step that allows you to monitor the growth of your SFI business, build financial statements, keep track of deductible expenses, prepare tax returns, and support what you report on your tax return.Right from the beginning it is advisable to establish a system for organizing receipts and other important records.

At the end you can see clearly where your SFI business stands. Are you making any profit? There is always a room for improvements are you able to identify them as you organize and keep track of your activities with SFI?

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Before you proceed to organize and track your activity with SFI, first identify the activities (daily, weekly and monthly) which are important to your SFI business that are worth to keep track and organize.

In general, you need to organize and keep track all activities relating to the growth of your SFI business.

Here are suggestions of important activities that require your attention:

- Your sponsoring activities including tracking the results and performance of
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

I think that promoting effectively through Television will depend on your goals, budget and the type of business (product & compensation plan). Furthermore, it is important to do your homework before making a decision to start promoting SFI and TripleClicks on Television.

Generally TV advertising costs too much. However, in the US, if you are in a mid-tier television market , you can probably start seeing your ads appearing in a prime time show starting at a thousand US dollar per month. The advertising costs will be dependent on the time you would like your ad to be shown and also your region (city). While in a small market, you will be able to run a campaign with a much cheaper costs.

There is a way to get free commercials made. If you’re going to use a television commercial production company, you are going to pay around five to twenty thousand US to create a 30 second commercial. However, you may be able to get your local broadcaster or cable system provider to create commercials for minimal or no cost. If you buy advertising from a local broadcaster, they will often create a commercial for between five hundred and two thousand US. If you agree to run advertising for 3 to 6 months, they will often do it for free. There is catch to having  a broadcaster create a free or low-cost commercial. You must agree to run only the commercial on their station or cable network.

Before promoting SFI and TripleClicks on Television, you should consider the following points:

How much does TV advertising Cost?

1) How many people locally watch the show that you want your advertisements to appear on? The station should be able to provide you with data from reputable Adstats orgranization.

2) What is the average CPM (cost for the TV ad to be seen 1,000 times) for that type of television program?

For example you want to buy 10 spots over a month on an 10:00 AM news show on your local station. The show is watched by 20,000 people on average. You could calculate a fair price with the following formula.

(number of spots) x (number of viewers in thousands) x (average CPM for that type of show) = ballpark fair price
In this example, 10 x 20 x  $11.15 =  $2,230

3) Buy the shows which prospect’s watch or are likely to watch

Your local television station will allow you to advertise on specific shows.  Survey your clients to see what shows they watch. Also, do a demographic survey of your prospects (age, gender, etc).

 You should share the demographic data that you collected with the account executives at your local television stations and ask them to suggest what shows match that demographic. If the shows that they suggest are the same as the shows your prospects told you they watch, then the decision on what show to advertise is an easy one. If they suggest a different show, you should do another informal survey but specifically ask them about the shows suggested by the account executive.

4) Don’t spread your commercials out, rather concentrate them within limits

- You want to first focus on one show.

- For half hour show, you ideally want to show two SFI/TC advertisements.

- For an hour show, you ideally want to have two or three ads.

One way of making your TV ad dollars go farther is to use 15 second commercials instead of 30 second commercials.

You want the viewers of a show to think you’re a major advertiser and remember your ads. By delivering two ads in 30 minutes or 3 during the course of an hour, you dramatically increase the chance of viewer noticing your ad. Off course, too many ads becomes a waste of your advertising dollars.

Lets say you only have enough money to buy 5 spots per month. In this case you would want to concentrate those ads over the course of 3 days. By concentrating the ads over a shorter period of time, you will increase their impact. If the advertising works, you can expand your TV advertising out into another week of the month. When you have the month saturated, you can jump into advertising in another program on the same station.

5) Key elements of good television commercials

Use a local television station to help you in creating your commercials. They should assign a producer to work with you. Your commercial should have the following elements.

- Tell your prospects who you are – The name of your business SFI/TripleClicks should be very clear

- Give your prospects an offer or reason to visit SFI/TripleClicks (ie, an E-book about saving on utility or grocery bills, TC Gift Cards, etc.) . You can ask them to mention this commercial to get your free offer.

- Let them know how to find information about SFI/TripleClicks (Give them your website address, in fact leave up your website address throughout the entire commercial.)

You might ask why not include your phone number or your address with a commercial but, feature your website. Thirty seconds is a really short time, fifteen seconds is even shorter. The more time you spend on presenting this type of information, the less time you will have to promote SFI/TripleClicks. Also, many people have trouble remembering numbers presented to them quickly. A web address can be easier to remember and by going to your website they can get your contact information such as phone number and address.  
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I think that promoting effectively through Television will depend on your goals, budget and the type of business (product & compensation plan). Furthermore, it is important to do your homework before making a decision to start promoting SFI and TripleClicks on Television.

Generally TV advertising costs too much. However, in the US, if you are in a mid-tier television market , you can probably start seeing your ads appearing in a prime time show starting at a thousand US dollar per
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

An important aspect of sponsoring new sign ups that come from different parts of the world is establishing connection through communication. SFI designed an excellent communication tool for all affiliates to be instantly connected through SFIM.

Important points to consider, when chatting with your non English speaking PSAs through the SFIM:

- Using Google Translate.

It is a great tool for providing real time translation of foreign language, but it has its limitations, such as inaccuracy of translation by providing general content of the foreign language text.

- When users commit spelling and grammar errors the translation output may sound clunky which results in poor quality translation.

You can’t afford to miss the key opportunity of promoting engagement with your PSAs. How do you overcome the above communication barriers?

There are steps you can do to effectively use Google Translate:

- Simplify your message by using less complex sentence structures and vocabulary.

- Avoid using abbreviations such as SO for Standing Order, VP for VersaPoints, etc. instead, use clear and simple words to define them.

- Always use as much as possible simple, clear and easy-to-understand definition of critical words and acronyms.

- Avoid non-standard abbreviations, such as “U R” for “you are.”

- Be patient and try to follow your PSAs’ ideas and logic, which may be different from yours.

- Ask your PSAs to repeat once, maybe twice, if you do not understand them. If that does not work, ask them to state it in a different manner.

- When your PSA stated something that seems weird and/or wrong, give him/her the benefit of the doubt. Ask yourself: “How else could I interpret these words?”

Conclusion:

Sponsors need to develop multicultural perspective – cultural literacy – to enhance their experience in interacting with their PSAs through SFIM or other SFI communication tools.


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An important aspect of sponsoring new sign ups that come from different parts of the world is establishing connection through communication. SFI designed an excellent communication tool for all affiliates to be instantly connected through SFIM.

Important points to consider, when chatting with your non English speaking PSAs through the SFIM:

- Using Google Translate.

It is a great tool for providing real time translation of foreign language, but it has its limitations,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

How you communicate with your affiliates will determine their perception about SFI. Communication is very important right in the beginning as affiliates join in your team.

Send them a welcome message upon joining and emphasize to them in their first month to focus on SFI BASICS. By doing this, you make it clear to them that there is a real work involve in SFI and not another unrealistic rich quick scheme.

Make it simple for them to understand core business principle of SFI by explaining each section of the Ultra- simple 3-step plan.

1. Become an Executive Affiliate (EA) and remain an EA every month.
- requires logging in every day and some money investment to maintain EA level.

2. Recruit five affiliates using the methods for Affiliate Sponsoring.
- requires investing in advertising to sponsor affiliates. You need to sponsor to duplicate. Duplication will take time.

3. Teach your five affiliates to do these same three steps.
- requires consistent, good communication with your sponsored affiliates. Include your leadership page link in your messages, so they can see your plans, accomplishment (badges) as proof that SFI requires long term commitment.

Send them message like this:

“I strongly recommend that you stay on SFI BASICS and LAUCHPAD only and not move on to other parts of the SFI Affiliate Center until you feel you fully understand these basics.

Then, be consistent, allocate time in logging in everyday at the Affiliate Center (www.sfimg.com) and review the information on each of the tabs on your homepage. If you do this daily, you will quickly learn all the tips and strategies to succeed with your SFI business. At the same time, you'll be accumulating valuable VersaPoints just for reviewing these sections each day!”

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How you communicate with your affiliates will determine their perception about SFI. Communication is very important right in the beginning as affiliates join in your team.

Send them a welcome message upon joining and emphasize to them in their first month to focus on SFI BASICS. By doing this, you make it clear to them that there is a real work involve in SFI and not another unrealistic rich quick scheme.

Make it simple for them to understand core business principle of SFI by
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

Managing a large active downline could pose a big challenge for Team Leaders. SFI always emphasize that do not purchase PSAs if you’re not willing to provide quality support. As a sponsor of your new affiliates, you’re responsible for actively supporting them. Providing quality support to a large, active downline will be insurmountable and overwhelming.

I have around thousands of affiliates in my downline. Around 95 percent are inactive. Two percent are fully active and the rest are semi-active. This is manageable and giving personalized attention for everyone is not a formidable task.

How to manage a large, active downline and provide personalized attention for everyone?

- Select five most active affiliates in your downline

The first step is crucial. As a Team Leader, you’re starting to build team members, whom you can trust. You need to establish strong relationship with them. Your important resources are time and communication and SFI provides excellent communication tools which you can use.

- Train them in establishing, managing and building interpersonal relationship

Give your time and support as much as they need until they have the skills like you as their Team Leader. You can easily personalize your attention with your five most active affiliates. You have SFI support system and SFI tools and resources which you can use extensively to achieve this purpose.

- Use the Reassignment tool

As you continue to sponsor and grow your downline, identify new affiliates who are active. Start reassigning them under your first five. Now, this is where interpersonal skills take an important role to create new Team Leaders of similar qualities like you as their Team Leader.

These steps will be repeated as you keep sponsoring. A team member equipped with this important knowledge and skill will naturally find it easy to manage new affiliates, transfer his knowledge and skills to his downline, and create new Team Leaders of similar qualities as his own through the process of duplication. With these steps, you don’t need to worry about personalizing emails to thousands of your active downline.


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Managing a large active downline could pose a big challenge for Team Leaders. SFI always emphasize that do not purchase PSAs if you’re not willing to provide quality support. As a sponsor of your new affiliates, you’re responsible for actively supporting them. Providing quality support to a large, active downline will be insurmountable and overwhelming.

I have around thousands of affiliates in my downline. Around 95 percent are inactive. Two percent are fully active and the rest are
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300

China‘s rapidly growing market has become a more attractive destination for foreign investment. Entrepreneurs and investors are flocking to the country to take advantage of the many benefits of doing business there.

Before you go into looking for the possible and effective marketing websites to promote your SFI business in China, you’ll need to deal first with an important issue - how are you going to penetrate their entrepreneurial market and how are you going to establish your presence there?

The country is notorious for its tangled bureaucratic web, and it has gained a reputation as a place where deals and contracts are often treated more like suggestions than concrete agreements.

If you’re serious in exploring your potential market in China, you can follow tweets from reliable associations such as the American Chamber of Commerce in China representing more than 1200 companies and around 2600 individuals doing business in China. They discuss important topics like cyber security and Internet risks; educate followers on Chinese culture and common Chinese words and phrases and specific translation.

In recent years, however, the Chinese business climate and regulatory structure have improved, and experts and business professionals say that with a little effort and knowledge, launching a venture in China can be easier than ever.

Here’s how to identify the possible and effective marketing websites to promote your SFI business in China:

- There are several search engines you can use in finding effective marketing websites in promoting your SFI business and drive traffic to your website/blog:

1. Baidu – offers multiple services, which includes Chinese language-search engine for websites, audio files and images. It is considered the dominant search engine in China.

2. Sogou, 360/So.com, Soso and Youdao – are other popular search engines in China that are worth trying.

- You can promote your SFI business through Chinese social media by using the following sites:

1. Weibo

2. Weixin (WeChat)

3. Youku, etc.

- Use mobile search and apps – are important new star and are growing fast among business professionals and the growing population of Chinese with entrepreneurial spirit. Mobile app when built appropriately can be more than an underdog to supplement your web marketing strategy.

Though China is building its strong reputation for being one of the fastest growing markets for entrepreneurs, it does not however guarantee fast money. As with almost every business endeavor in this world, it takes time. Patience and resourcefulness will be the most ideal traits you must possess when considering starting a business in China.

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China‘s rapidly growing market has become a more attractive destination for foreign investment. Entrepreneurs and investors are flocking to the country to take advantage of the many benefits of doing business there.

Before you go into looking for the possible and effective marketing websites to promote your SFI business in China, you’ll need to deal first with an important issue - how are you going to penetrate their entrepreneurial market and how are you going to establish your presence
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