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

I have found that most people, whenever starting anything new, tend to stick with what they are most comfortable with. This often means that there is no one single method that applies to everyone because everyone is different. We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.

With that said, and knowing that you have asked for "the best", meaning one method, I am actually going to illustrate two methods that can work very well for most.

The first is simply word of mouth advertising. This method can encompass both online and offline. Because the world is vastly technical and there are countless numbers online, many of us have buily vast networks of online friends and acquaintances. And when talking about offline, aside from our existing family and friends, many of us come into contact with different people every day. Whether they be a teller at our bank, the grocery store clerk who processes your purchase, the stranger you pass by on the street. Any of these could be a potential new business partner, but they will never be your business partner if they don't know about your business. Strike up conversations, show a genuine interest in them (ie. You, you, you... not me, me, me), learn about their life, their family, their goals and desires. Listen for clues and reply with specific facets of the SFI business to apply to them personally.

The second is posting ads to various free ad posting sites. While time consuming, this will reach a vast number of people, and as long as the ads you are placing are targeted, then the people viewing your ads are those who are already searching for a home-based business. There are countless numbers of sites that offer free advertising, which is of immense value to business beginners. Most who are just starting out don't usually have access to large amounts of money to invest and so these free sites are very useful in keeping costs down to a minimum.
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I have found that most people, whenever starting anything new, tend to stick with what they are most comfortable with. This often means that there is no one single method that applies to everyone because everyone is different. We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.

With that said, and knowing that you have asked for "the best", meaning one method, I am actually going to illustrate two methods that can work very well for most.

The first is simply word of mouth
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very good question.

Skype is an excellent platform for internet communication, but would be a very poor choice to be used for marketing, unless you are promoting solely to the limited number of family and friends that you likely have already as Skype contacts.

As with any form of advertising, it is important to be yourself. Let them see and hear your passion for your SFI business. Demonstrate that you are dedicated to SFI and that you have a genuine interest in helping them succeed as you have with SFI.

Now, Youtube, on the other hand, can be a very powerful platform for marketing. Its reach is global and if your published video is well-made with highly useful content, then your video will go viral, meaning that your initial viewers will tell their friends, who will then tell their friends, and so on.

It is often a good idea to write yourself a script of what you want to say in your video. However, if you are personally on camera, it is important that you not appear to be reading from a script. Some of the most effective videos I have seen for business marketing are ones that use screenshots with the producer doing background voiceovers.

Once you have created your video and published it to Youtube, then you still need to get the word out about your new video. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are excellent for this.

Hope this helps.
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This is a very good question.

Skype is an excellent platform for internet communication, but would be a very poor choice to be used for marketing, unless you are promoting solely to the limited number of family and friends that you likely have already as Skype contacts.

As with any form of advertising, it is important to be yourself. Let them see and hear your passion for your SFI business. Demonstrate that you are dedicated to SFI and that you have a genuine interest in helping
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Short and simple? Both. Let me explain.

The ways that we have available to us to be able to market our SFI businesses are truly countless. These include such options as classified ad sites, text ad exchanges, safelists, traffic exchanges, social media advertising, search engines, etc.

Static sites are great to use with all the above except for social media and search engines. Small, simple landing pages are ideal for traffic exchanges. They are also useful for building an autoresonder mailing list.

Blog sites are they best when you are wanting to utilize both search engines and social media. As you may or may not be aware, sites like Facebook and Twitter have blocked us from being able to post our gateway links directly as they are regarded as spam. However, create yourself a useful blog site with frequent, unique posts covering business and marketing topics that your readers have a genuine interest in, and then post on your social media sites letting your friends and contacts know each time you make a new post on your blog... viral traffic. And we all know that search engines are getting more strict about what gets indexed. So ensure that your blogs are both useful and unique and you will start getting a lot of search engine traffic as well.

Hope this helps.
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Short and simple? Both. Let me explain.

The ways that we have available to us to be able to market our SFI businesses are truly countless. These include such options as classified ad sites, text ad exchanges, safelists, traffic exchanges, social media advertising, search engines, etc.

Static sites are great to use with all the above except for social media and search engines. Small, simple landing pages are ideal for traffic exchanges. They are also useful for building an autoresonder
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Thank you for such a great question.

The answer, in my opinion, is both simple and complex. While I am sure there are many different ways, I am going to focus on three, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each.

1) Purchase Private Label Rights (PLR) material.
Advantages: you get numerous articles for one set price
Disadvantages: can be costly; material not guaranteed to be unique or free of copyright infringements; can be very time consuming if you rewrite the minimum required 50% of each article to claim authorship

2) Hire a ghostwriter
Advantages: greater chance of unique articles; also greater chance of being free of copyright infringements
Disadvantages: can be very costly; risk of copyrighted material

3) Write the content yourself
Advantages: near guarantee of being both unique and free of any copyright infringements
Disadvantages: very time consuming, both in writing the material as well as research topics to write about

What is the best solution, in my opinion? Hiring a ghostwriter. This saves you a lot of time that you can then devote to other aspects of building your business and you can often negotiate discounts depending on volume or commitment.

Hope this helps.
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Thank you for such a great question.

The answer, in my opinion, is both simple and complex. While I am sure there are many different ways, I am going to focus on three, illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of each.

1) Purchase Private Label Rights (PLR) material.
Advantages: you get numerous articles for one set price
Disadvantages: can be costly; material not guaranteed to be unique or free of copyright infringements; can be very time consuming if you rewrite
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question. I do not feel that it is a matter of having to convince anyone, and here's why.

With anything that we do in life that involves people, whether personally or professionally, it starts with building and nurturing relationships. Let's say you have a friend who has come to you in dire need of advice. Why did they come to you? Because you have built that relationship and have earned their trust.

The same principle can be applied to your SFI business. As you build, develop and grow your team, enter into conversations with your downline. Get to know them. Find out about things like family, hobbies, sports, where they live, etc. This demonstrates to them that you are genuinely interested in them as a person and not just another pay cheque. As you develop relationships with your downline members, you will, in time, earn their trust, and once they trust you, then it is not longer a matter of having to convince them... all you will have to do is teach and show them how to make money with SFI and they will instinctively follow your lead out of trust in you.

Hope this helps.
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Great question. I do not feel that it is a matter of having to convince anyone, and here's why.

With anything that we do in life that involves people, whether personally or professionally, it starts with building and nurturing relationships. Let's say you have a friend who has come to you in dire need of advice. Why did they come to you? Because you have built that relationship and have earned their trust.

The same principle can be applied to your SFI business. As you build,
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to this approach.

On the advantage side of the equation, it can help to motivate an already active PSA to working harder at building their business as they see that you are a real person who genuinely cares about their success with SFI. A great example of this would be a PSA who has been an EA2 for several months and you notice that they are nearly there for this month but are struggling to get that last few VPs to get them over 1500. You could offer a small GC to help them out.

On the disadvantage side of that same equation, you will get those who do not truly appreciate the gift that has been granted unto them. Many of those will "expect" their free gift every month so that they can reap the rewards without any effort on their part and then fall away when they realize no more gifts are coming their way.

That is why it is important to qualify your PSAs to determine who the takers are and who the workers are.
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There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to this approach.

On the advantage side of the equation, it can help to motivate an already active PSA to working harder at building their business as they see that you are a real person who genuinely cares about their success with SFI. A great example of this would be a PSA who has been an EA2 for several months and you notice that they are nearly there for this month but are struggling to get that last few VPs to get them over 1500. You
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Thank you for your question.

While each PSA is different, their basic goal for their SFI business is the same... to earn a better income. Of course, most want to be able to achieve this goal with little to no cost. Which makes SFI an ideal platform for them as it is free to join.

There are countless places scattered all over the internet that allow us to advertise for free. I will usually provide my PSAs with a few search terms to get them started such as "free advertising", "free marketing for affiliate programs", "free business opportunity classifieds", etc. I will also instruct them how to use the advanced search function in Google to narrow their results only to their country to start with.

There are, of course, numerous paid advertising options as well. The best way to introduce paid advertising to your team is by setting up a co-op. Let's say, for example, you find a good advertising site that costs $100 per month. Now, $100 per month for one person is a lot, especially when they are just starting out. But set up a co-op with 10 members and the per person cost is now only $10 a month, which is suddenly not so far out of reach.

I hope my answer helps. All the best for your success.
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Thank you for your question.

While each PSA is different, their basic goal for their SFI business is the same... to earn a better income. Of course, most want to be able to achieve this goal with little to no cost. Which makes SFI an ideal platform for them as it is free to join.

There are countless places scattered all over the internet that allow us to advertise for free. I will usually provide my PSAs with a few search terms to get them started such as "free advertising",
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is an excellent question, though not such an easy one to answer. Let's look at a few examples:

The key phrase 'earn while you learn' netted a whopping 55 1/2 million results on Google. The phrase 'affiliate business opportunity' still came in a staggering 15 million results. These are examples of what are generally known as short tail keywords, which, as you can see, have a massive amount of competition and thereby are not good picks.

Now let's look at a couple more. The phrase 'earn while you learn to make a six figure income' netted in at 2,280,000 results and the phrase 'earn while you learn to earn a six figure income from home' came in slightly lower at 2,270,000 results. Can you see the difference?

To achieve the best results, you want to be choosing key words and key phrases that are strongly related to what you are promoting, whether your SFI business directly, or to get PRM or ECA signups at TripleClicks, or promoting a product from TripleClicks, that are unique enough so as to not have a lot of competition yet not so unique that people are not searching for your chosen set of key words or phrases.

Hope this helps. See you at the top!
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This is an excellent question, though not such an easy one to answer. Let's look at a few examples:

The key phrase 'earn while you learn' netted a whopping 55 1/2 million results on Google. The phrase 'affiliate business opportunity' still came in a staggering 15 million results. These are examples of what are generally known as short tail keywords, which, as you can see, have a massive amount of competition and thereby are not good picks.

Now let's look at a couple more. The
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question and I hope that my answer will help to shed some insight on the topic.

Following are the top ten things I recommend for all new SFI affiliates. They are, at least in my opinion, in the order of importance that I feel is best.

1) Complete their affiliate profile
I rate this as the most important first step as this gives their sponsor an excellent overview of their new affiliate. It also allows their sponsor to custom tailor their communications based on the information their affiliate provides in their profile. For example, if your affiliate states in their profile that they have strong prior online advertising experience, then you are not likely needing to teach them how and where to advertise.

2) Upload a photo to their profile
The internet takes away the essence of personalism. Without a photo, you are nothing more than words on a screen and a faceless name. By having a photo posted on your profile, both your sponsor and those who your affiliate introduces to SFI will feel more comfortable when communicating.

3) Visit their sponsor's leadership page
This is why it is so important for us as SFI leaders to maintain our leadership pages. Aside from our direct communications with our affiliates, our leadership page can provide a great level of insight for our new affiliates. This also gives our new affiliates a chance to see what contests we might be running for them and about any we advertsing co-ops we are running.

4) Whitelist both the SFI email and their sponsor's email addresses
This is very important so that they won't miss any important announcements from SFI. By whitelisting their sponsor's email address, they won't miss any direct email communications from their sponsor. However, a word of caution regarding having them whitelist your email... DO NOT break SFI's rules and use this as an opportunity to cross-solicit.

5) Complete fast track
By doing this, new affiliates are able to demonstrate to their sponsor and the world that they are serious about their SFI business. While not a guarantee, fast trackers are more likely to stay active so long as you do your part in encouraging them and providing coaching, training and guidance to help them succeed.

6) Contact their sponsor
You might wonder why I put this in here. How often do we get a sign-up notification only to do nothing? How often have we thought "I completed my welcome mailer, that is sufficient."? Or sometimes we might have a built-in mental delay mechanism wherein we let them get started and feel their way around, choosing to send our personal welcome message 48 to 72 hours after they enroll. When our new affiliates contact us first, it is another avenue whereby they are showing us that they are serious about their SFI business. It also demonstrates that they are self-motivated and are able to take initiative.

7) Get familiar with the daily task tabs
As this is where we all typically start each day with our SFI businesses, it is good to have your new affiliates get familiar with these tabs and the information each one contains.

8) Introduce themselves in the forum
The forum is an amazing resource for us. Sometimes we won't always have the answers that our affiliates are seeking. By getting comfortable with the forum, your affiliates will know that they have multiple avenues to explore when in need of answers. This is because we all his lives apart from SFI and cannot be on the site 24/7 to be able to answer their questions the moment they ask them. Given the fact also that SFI is a global opportunity, and apart from A2A, the forum is a great place for them to connect with fellow affiliates from their own country.

9) Review the Start and SFI Basics buttons
As their titles imply, these sections provide much of the essential information for the new affiliate.

10) Start the SFI LaunchPad training
Just like the Start and SFI Basics sections, this training takes your new affiliate through 30 days of essential training. In the LaunchPad, your new affiliate will learn about such things as SFI, TripleClicks and the SFI Rules for Success.

I hope that this helps you to guide your new affiliates on the path of success with their SFI business.
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This is a great question and I hope that my answer will help to shed some insight on the topic.

Following are the top ten things I recommend for all new SFI affiliates. They are, at least in my opinion, in the order of importance that I feel is best.

1) Complete their affiliate profile
I rate this as the most important first step as this gives their sponsor an excellent overview of their new affiliate. It also allows their sponsor to custom tailor their communications based
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question. Let me start my answer by posing a counter question... how big is your advertising budget?

There are numerous sites that will teach you how to write great ad copy. There are even sites that will analyse the impact of the headlines you are using. But you can be sure that many of your competition also use the same sites and/or tools to perfect their advertising.

How then do you position yourself ahead of your competition?

Many sites, especially those that offer free advertising, will allow you to "upgrade" your ad. These upgrades can include such things as your headline in bold or colour. You can opt to enclose your ad copy in a brightly coloured box. You can choose to have your ad run at the top of your chosen category. You can even choose to have your ad run at the top of every page on the site, no matter the search term used.

All these upgrades comes with fees attached, with the least expensive typically being the emboldened headline and the most expensive is having your ad run at the top of every page on the site.

While brief, I hope my answer has helped.
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This is a great question. Let me start my answer by posing a counter question... how big is your advertising budget?

There are numerous sites that will teach you how to write great ad copy. There are even sites that will analyse the impact of the headlines you are using. But you can be sure that many of your competition also use the same sites and/or tools to perfect their advertising.

How then do you position yourself ahead of your competition?

Many sites, especially
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