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How do I put together a successful marketing campaign?

4104 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 2/17/2014 8:52 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
By campaign I thick repetitive touches. Most online advertising is about hitting as many people as possible with your product or program, in our case SFI. But it is an ineffectual form of advertising. You may get many sign ups, but you will not get many performers.

All advertising data shows that the most effective advertising is measured in the number of touches to one prospect. That is why Email lists work much better than traffic exchanges.

Touches make people feel safe,
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How can we determine beforehand what are good spots to advertise?

4070 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 2/5/2015 11:43 pm

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
Have you read the article on Free advertising? It is a MUST read

https://www.sfimg.com/Training/SpecialReports/FreeAdvertising

A couple important quotes:

"When you combine these statistics, you'll see that it's best to post an ad on a Tuesday, 12 noon CST, the day and time when most people you target are active on the Internet."

"You will never find anyone ['s] advertising [system to be] effective advertising.

Logic: If the advertising
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Among the popular Standing Order items (IAHBE, S-Builder, TCredits), which is best and why?

4038 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 2/20/2014 4:46 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
I think that the best strategy if your funds are tight is to Creat a standing order for 3 months for TCredit 125. Then in month 3 bid on winning a 3 or 6 month subscription to IAHBE. Once won do not checkout until the first of the next month 4 so you get a full 3 or 6 months of EA standing.

Then with remaining TCredits bid on an Sbuilder or a 2xSbuilder. Or maybe a CSA package.

Then at the end of month 3 you have:

Up to six more months as EA without additional cost.
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Is it worthwhile to create individual, personalized welcome letters to new PSAs using information from their Affiliate Profile?

4008 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 2/7/2015 12:32 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
I believe it is very worthwhile, yes.

Building trust is essential in this business. Identifying with your affiliate in some way helps to begin the construction of that trust.

The first thing is to demonstrate that this communique is unique and specific. Mentioning something about them, or that they said in their Affiliate profile is helpful to demonstrate that the email is specifically for them.

But I think identification is of the greatest importance. I travel a
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Is it better to provide prospects with only a brief overview of what SFI is about...or more lengthly, detailed information?

3981 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 2/5/2015 11:52 pm

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
That would really vary from person to person. Some want to see the big picture, others just want to know what to do.

In general I try to lead people with a template of: "This is what you should have done (general). This is the next step (specific) and this is what will be coming next (general).

The issue is usually trust. People ask me what do I do to make money, I tell them, and then they do not do it. Why? Because they do not trust the system yet. So to build trust I
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How can I use Skype and YouTube to promote SFI and TripleClicks?

3922 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 7/8/2014 2:08 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
Using Skype to enhance your business.

1. Here is the first idea, provide real-time translation services on calls. Do you have affiliates from your language group that struggle to communicate in English? Help them understand key SFI documents in their native tongue. Or maybe you have affiliates who can manage English but are slow readers. Perhaps you could help them by reading documents aloud.

2. You could provide live, online translation as a service marketed in TripleClicks.
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What's the best way to gain the attention of Second Home CSAs and get them active again?

3910 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 7/8/2014 2:30 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
I offer personal attention. First I send an Email to all second home CSAs introducing myself, and explaining why I have been re-assigned to them. And include all my contact info for personal help to them.

Knock, knock...Who is there?...Opportunity

Don't be silly opportunity never knocks twice.

Well it does here at SFI. SFI wants you to have the greatest opportunity to succeed so they have assigned me as you co-sponsor. I am excited about that. I enjoy helping affiliates
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What's the best way to advertise the TCards to motivate prospective PRM's to play Eager Zebra games?

3882 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 7/1/2014 4:55 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
This may not work with the next game but for the world cup it is working great.

I live in a country that is having a HUGE crack down on illegal World Cup Gambling. There is a new Military Govt. in place and they are Very Hard on corruption and illegal activity. So gambling is one of their targets.

I sit in the shops with friends sipping tea and all the talk is World Cup talk or Politic. So I say, I am placing wagers legally on the results of the World Cup. I explain what I
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Which of the SFI LaunchPad lessons is best...and why?

3851 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 7/8/2014 1:43 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
My favorite and the one I share with my PSAs the most is how to use the E-Postcards, Launch Pad Lesson 25.

I like it because it is actually a very useful tool. I challenge new PSAs to send out 5 a day for 30 days. Send them to Friends, family, people in your contact list, Facebook friends. When you run out of people to send it to, look for new people. Look in Google Plus, Facebook, LinkedIn, skills pages and any other social network you can join.

Once you make a new friend send
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How is communication best utilized to create robust duplication?

3848 votes

George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) 7/8/2014 2:15 am

Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 583
I use an auto responder that has email campaigns that:

1. Promote the GIft Card and TripleClicks products.
2. Promote the Wave3 opportunity.
3. Promote ECA opportunity.
4. Promote SFI affiliate opportunity.
5. Promote PriceBender Auctions.

Each can be customized and imported by my affiliates to use personally.

Then I provide campaigns that train affiliates in the use of free Ad venues. I show them how to sign up, how to place free ads (banners,
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