Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

In searching for a better safelist, which will propel your SFI business, you may have to do some comparison of advertising websites, business opportunities and so forth, which solely promote mailing list.

Here are the list of factors you need to consider for a better safelist:

- Number of active members of a free or paid safelist. All members agree to receive advertising emails from other members. More active members means more exposure opportunity of your ads and the better chance of receiving sign-ups.

- Number of Credits required in posting your ads and how often can you post your ads. Most safelists run off of credits. You need credits to post your ads to members. You'll ger free credits by reading the emails of other members.

- Length of time reading your ad is important to the members. If it takes more than 20 seconds, then it is considered to be too long and won't catch much attention by the viewers.

- Look for options available on a safelist such as, banner exchange, earn cash and credits for referring members, bounce handling (ensures mailing to active members only, unlike most other safelists their members can be inactive for months or even years.), guaranteed visitors to your site, HTML Ads, Vacation Setting (turn off account any time to prevent your inbox from filling up. ca), Solo Ads,. Active members and referral contest, etc. These features will help you in managing your safelist smoothly and increases your chances of exposure.

If time is not an issue, you can join to several safelists and keep a record of your results taking considerations of the factors mentioned above. You can then calculate the click through rate for each safelist you have joined. You can find out the click through rate by dividing the number of clicks to the total number of emails you have sent. Select the highest click through rate, which gives you the more and better responsive safelist. You can then focus your marketing efforts on that safelist.
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In searching for a better safelist, which will propel your SFI business, you may have to do some comparison of advertising websites, business opportunities and so forth, which solely promote mailing list.

Here are the list of factors you need to consider for a better safelist:

- Number of active members of a free or paid safelist. All members agree to receive advertising emails from other members. More active members means more exposure opportunity of your ads and the better
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

The best way to contact a prospective ECA is to use the ECA Program Strategies found under SFI Training.

How To Get Started:

- Be sure to read and understand the Frequently Asked Questions about referring ECAs
and your ECA Gateway (http://www.tripleclicks.com/SFIID/ECA)

- Make a list of companies in your local area, state or country or do a web search worldwide and be sure to record the following key contact information:

Company Name
Address
City
State (if applicable)
Postal Code (if applicable)
Country
Phone Number
Fax Number
Contact Person (Marketing Director, Store Manager, or Owner's Name)

Focus your ECA target from small-to mid-sized companies in your prospecting. By doing so, you'll have much easier way to get through to the decision makers and won't have to deal with multiple layers of management.

Here are the ways to contact your prospective ECAs:

- Print Media Advertising

Use the SFI approved text ads like “INSTANTLY INCREASE YOUR SALES
...by plugging your products and services into TripleClicks. “ and so on. Place your ads where like-ads exist. In the case of the ECA program, you want to advertise it where other parties are advertising products and services directed at the same target audience because this indicates that your target audience "bites" here.

- Telemarketing

Use your phone book's Yellow Pages or Business Directory to contact businesses for prospecting. You can avail of the SFI ECA script provided to be effective in your prospecting. For more details:

https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies

- Door–To-Door

You can drop off ECA literature to businesses. Make sure to stamp or print your SFI ID on the back cover so that you are credited with signups generated by your brochures. If you can hand in the ECA brochure and your business card to the owner or store manager the better. Dress appropriately when presenting the ECA opportunity.

- Direct Mail

To be effective in this marketing method you must have a good mailing list. Use your phone books or business directory or you can search business directories online and create your good quality mailing lists. In contacting your mailing list and to add professionalism use the recommended information package such as:

1. Std. #10 TripleClicks Envelope
2. TripleClicks Letterhead
3. TripleClicks ECA Brochure with your SFI ID number
4. ECA Postcard

Use the letter template available at ECA Strategies.

- In-Store Casual

Think of your local stores where you buy yo ur groceries, various goods or services. If you can refer them, you'll be earning Vps and royalties. Hand in to the owner or store manager an ECA brochure with your SFI ID stamped or printed on the back cover. If that's not possible (or you're not ready yet for "high level confrontations"), you can hand the brochure to the check-out clerk or other store employee and request that they deliver it to the owner or store manager on your behalf. Ask them to please mention that you're a regular customer (provided you are, of course), and be sure to thank them for doing this.

Applying these methods will help you in contacting your prospective ECA effectively.
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The best way to contact a prospective ECA is to use the ECA Program Strategies found under SFI Training.

How To Get Started:

- Be sure to read and understand the Frequently Asked Questions about referring ECAs
and your ECA Gateway (http://www.tripleclicks.com/SFIID/ECA)

- Make a list of companies in your local area, state or country or do a web search worldwide and be sure to record the following key contact information:

Company Name
Address
City
State
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

How can you build your SFI business on a tight budget?

What does tight budget means? This question seems to lean more on financial investment. Does it mean investing the most economical way and your time wisely?

In building your SFI business, you need to adhere to SFI BASICS as the core principle in building your own SFI business:

- Become an Executive Affiliate (EA) and remain an EA every month.

- Recruit five affiliates using the methods for Affiliate Sponsoring.

- Teach your five affiliates to do these same three steps.
There are important factors that should be considered in setting your budget as you start to build your SFI business: Your investments

1. Time
Time plays an important role as you build your SFI business. What’s your long term goal? Is it to quit your current job and work full time with SFI? Is it to supplement your current income or achieve financial freedom? Depending on your long term goal, you can figure out how much time to allocate every day. Develop a time plan that suits your schedule and lifestyle.

Since you need to maintain your EA status, missing a day logging in will cost you 11 Action VPs, which could have made you EA, and also the chance to participate in the Daily Grand and T-Time Hourly TCredits Drawing. Time is very crucial especially if you are just in part time SFI business. Allocate time for Sponsoring, if you consider using free ads, will it fit to your time frame in regards to your long term goal? What about your time in communicating with your downlines? Would you be able to give a prompt answer to your affiliates and depend on your support?

2. Financial

How much can you afford to maintain your EA status? This can vary depending on your funds that you have set aside each month. There are many choices, ranging from Standing Order of 1 TCredit ($1.89) quantity of 10 = 1020VP and 50 MRP with a total cost of $18.90; and by the end of the month as you perform your daily tasks, you can achieve EA. You can also choose to place 100 TCredits for $29 = 1200VP or find any TC product, which is eligible for SO and has a higher VP. You can use your TCredits for bidding in Pricebender auctions which offer double MRP. By doing this, you can accumulate your MRPs and reinvest in building your team. Make use of your W3 (Wave 3) membership benefits of 5 free monthly TCredits, 50 free monthly MRP. Refer aW3 member and have the chance to win $250, receive additional 5 TCredits and 50 MRP.

Depending on your budget, if you can afford to purchase affiliates from ECAs (sometimes, they offer sale at reasonable price), this will save you time and time is money. This is your business, take it seriously. Find out how you can spare cash from your monthly cost of living expenses. If you are willing to sacrifice now to spare some cash and invest it to your SFI business, you will be glad that you have done it and will be thanking yourself in the future.


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How can you build your SFI business on a tight budget?

What does tight budget means? This question seems to lean more on financial investment. Does it mean investing the most economical way and your time wisely?

In building your SFI business, you need to adhere to SFI BASICS as the core principle in building your own SFI business:

- Become an Executive Affiliate (EA) and remain an EA every month.

- Recruit five affiliates using the methods for Affiliate
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

I would like to know myself the shortcut to succeed in SFI. To answer your question, you’ll need to look at the fundamentals of SFI BASICS and its principles as presented through the LAUNCHPAD.

Upon understanding these lessons, you’ll need to act and implement them by:

- Writing clearly your daily, monthly and yearly goals and having strategic plan to achieve them.

- Logging in daily and performing your To-Do List.

- Educating yourself consistently about the SFI Tools and Resources. This will help in establishing your knowledge base about SFI business and you’ll be to share your knowledge and experience to your downline.

- Join the SFI Forum and participate in Ask SC and connect with a2a friends.

- Be consistent in sponsoring new affiliates and implement the duplication process.

- Open your ECA store and do ECA referrals.

- Participate in SFIPPA program or generate TripleClicks sales.

Can you call the above steps shortcuts to SFI success?

Make fun and enjoyable each time you spent with SFI, knowing that the investment you made each day will pay off in the long run.

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I would like to know myself the shortcut to succeed in SFI. To answer your question, you’ll need to look at the fundamentals of SFI BASICS and its principles as presented through the LAUNCHPAD.

Upon understanding these lessons, you’ll need to act and implement them by:

- Writing clearly your daily, monthly and yearly goals and having strategic plan to achieve them.

- Logging in daily and performing your To-Do List.

- Educating yourself consistently
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

When introducing the benefits of IAHBE to your affiliates, the best you can do is to share your testimony, how IAHBE helped you in our SFI business.

You can’t share something passionately, without experiencing yourself the real benefits of a product and this is true with IAHBE. The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE) is a great tool and has great resources to bring your SFI business into the highest level. This site is designed especially for entrepreneurs, who have the passion and belief, despite the obstacles and challenges that life and business present them in order to achieve their goals and life’s purpose.

I would share the following benefits of IAHBE membership through experience:

I like the up-to-date exclusive articles, expert reports, and marketing courses. It helped me a lot in starting with SFI. You can find almost anything in your current situation to help you move forward and share our experience with your affiliates.

The Home-Business Headlines section contains a lot of up-to-date information about Sales and Marketing, so that you will gain deeper understanding of important principles that you can apply in your SFI business.

It takes time to digest and apply solutions, best strategies that I can learned from IAHBE in order to overcome the challenges in building my own team. So I set aside at least an hour each week to browse through each section one at a time.

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When introducing the benefits of IAHBE to your affiliates, the best you can do is to share your testimony, how IAHBE helped you in our SFI business.

You can’t share something passionately, without experiencing yourself the real benefits of a product and this is true with IAHBE. The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE) is a great tool and has great resources to bring your SFI business into the highest level. This site is designed especially for entrepreneurs,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

By networking with your peers in SFI using a2a you can build your SFI business. This is a powerful resource in growing your SFI business.

Here's what you can do:

- Using a2a's friend finder, you can identify SFI affiliates in your own country, state/province, or even city

- You can search using criteria such as gender, age, date joined, common goals and more.

- Create your "buddy lists" and find your mentor.

- Brainstorm and share tips and ideas.

- Discuss SFI news and how it affects your SFI business.

- Share successful marketing strategies and principles which can be applied dynamically depending on your region of the world.

- Form local SFI support groups and organize local get-togethers geared towards growth and innovations in your SFI business.

The more a2a friends you have the more valuable resources for your SFI business at your disposal.

Just ask. Ask and it shall be given.
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By networking with your peers in SFI using a2a you can build your SFI business. This is a powerful resource in growing your SFI business.

Here's what you can do:

- Using a2a's friend finder, you can identify SFI affiliates in your own country, state/province, or even city

- You can search using criteria such as gender, age, date joined, common goals and more.

- Create your "buddy lists" and find your mentor.

- Brainstorm and share
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

When posting your advertising flyers, make sure that you follow the rules and regulations enforced particularly by your local city. Post your flyers only at designated areas.

The best places in posting your advertising flyers:

- At your local community billboards.

- At your local shopping mall billboards.

- At your local community events. If it is a social gathering, you can introduce yourself and mention the SFI business opportunity. Tell them that you're available for more information. Give out this TC X-Card or TC Gift Cards.

- If you're doing this online, use websearch to find out where you can post your advertising flyers. Place your ads where like-ads exist. Advertise your flyers where other parties are advertising products and services directed at the same target audience because this indicates that your target audience have a higher probability of response here.
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When posting your advertising flyers, make sure that you follow the rules and regulations enforced particularly by your local city. Post your flyers only at designated areas.

The best places in posting your advertising flyers:

- At your local community billboards.

- At your local shopping mall billboards.

- At your local community events. If it is a social gathering, you can introduce yourself and mention the SFI business opportunity. Tell them that you're
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

As a Team Leader, you should be consistently sending your affiliates messages at least once a week. You need to show them that you are there for them and that you are committed to their success. By establishing close relationship to your affiliates, they will become attentive to your messages.

Good communication plays in a vital role in getting the attention of your downlines. Be prompt to answer their questions and also provide them additional information where to find answers available through SFI Tools and Resources.

In every message you send to your downlines, make a habit to include your leadership page link, so that they can find the latest updates about team’s goal, rewards/incentives, your recommendations, recognition of your team’s effort and achievements and your best tip. Take advantage of the Stream Posts by sending them encouragement and tips to help them move up.

With the time as your ally, reach out to them in their challenges and let them feel that you are real and committed to their success. If you have done this, then you have gained their trust and therefore get their attention not only in participating in your team’s contest but also committed to their success in achieving their primary goals upon joining SFI.

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As a Team Leader, you should be consistently sending your affiliates messages at least once a week. You need to show them that you are there for them and that you are committed to their success. By establishing close relationship to your affiliates, they will become attentive to your messages.

Good communication plays in a vital role in getting the attention of your downlines. Be prompt to answer their questions and also provide them additional information where to find answers available
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

To really know what products a person might be interested in, will require interaction between you as a seller and the person. If you love to blog, you’ll be able to establish connection with your customers/visitors to your site. Through blogging, you can offer TC products/services to meet your customer’s needs or offer solution to his/her problem.

Your goal of marketing TC products is to know and understand the customer/visitor so well the product/service fits him/her and sells itself.

Each time you refresh your blog site, feature a TC product. You can choose first from most popular ones such as electronic gadgets to antiques and collectibles. You have around 90,000 products and services to choose from more than 160 countries.

In order to determine what TC products/services your customers/visitors are looking or interested in purchasing, start making a list of what you wish you knew about your customers/visitors:

- What brought them to your blog site and how did they get there?

- Were they able to determine what you’re offering?

- How was their experience (easy/difficult) in finding the products/services they needed?

- Is your site easy to navigate for both veteran and first-time users?

- Does your blog site include a welcoming, reassuring and helpful environment?

- What is the most important thing your customers/prospects are looking for in a shopping experience?

Survey your customers/prospects

Now that you’ve identified what you want to know about your customers/prospects it’s time to ask them. One of the most effective ways to pinpoint visitor intent is through personalized surveys. Most customers love talking about themselves, and they have strong opinions about their shopping experiences. The key is to provide the right mechanism for them to share all those valuable insights.

Before launching a survey, use SEO and targeting tools to define customer segments so you can easily gauge trends among certain groups. There are free SEO and targeting tools (Google Adwords Keyword Tool, Google Analytics, Rank checker, etc.) which you can use for this purpose.

For instance, you might send one survey to your customers/prospects who clicked to your TC products/services link in your blog site but fall short of making purchase or to cart abandoners to find out where you’re missing the mark. Another version could go to your highest value customers, to determine which intentions you’re satisfying for them. You can then use these segmented responses to optimize for the various groups.

In addition to emailing a survey, you might consider implementing an on-site survey in your blog site. By capturing real-time feedback as customers/prospects navigate your site to find information/solutions to their needs, you can get fresh feedback about what brought them to your site, what they’re finding or not finding, and what you can do to move them along the path. This is a great strategy for determining why a specific page has a high abandonment rate—are visitors confused about an element of the design, or are you failing to provide the information they need?

Conclusion

Remember, conversions take place when targeted traffic meets relevant offer.
From the users’ feedbacks, you’ll be able to know what must be done to meet your customers/visitors expectation. Are visitors unconvinced of your product’s benefits? Spell it out with well-written copy, photos, and videos. The key is delivering the right experience, product/service to meet their needs, with a minimum of hassle and uncertainty.

Every visitor comes to your site looking to solve a problem or achieve a goal. When you understand their intention—and then readily respond to it—they’ll be much more likely to choose your solution.

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To really know what products a person might be interested in, will require interaction between you as a seller and the person. If you love to blog, you’ll be able to establish connection with your customers/visitors to your site. Through blogging, you can offer TC products/services to meet your customer’s needs or offer solution to his/her problem.

Your goal of marketing TC products is to know and understand the customer/visitor so well the product/service fits him/her and sells itself.

Each
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

To answer your question, what’s your definition of success? How do you measure success? Maybe for most people success is when they don’t simply need to worry about money anymore, that they will have abundant funds to afford their lifestyle. Can one achieve this in SFI and TripleClicks and call it a success?

When to know that I have become successful in SFI and TripleClicks:

- When I have set up specific and actionable goals for both SFI/TripleClicks.

- When I have set up a process to maintain EA2 up to PTL month after month and year after year.

- When I have set up a process in building teams of passionate affiliates to expand my network.

- When I have set up a stable process in generating sales at TripleClicks that provides income every month and many years ahead.

- When I have set up a process that allows me to take advantage and achieve the full potential of being an SFI affiliate and TripleClicks member.

Finally, when I have set up the process to provide me enough residual income through SFI and TripleClicks, so that I can quit my job and afford my lifestyle, I call myself successful.

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To answer your question, what’s your definition of success? How do you measure success? Maybe for most people success is when they don’t simply need to worry about money anymore, that they will have abundant funds to afford their lifestyle. Can one achieve this in SFI and TripleClicks and call it a success?

When to know that I have become successful in SFI and TripleClicks:

- When I have set up specific and actionable goals for both SFI/TripleClicks.

- When I
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