Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As an ECA they can charge any price they think will sell product, cover cost, and provide them the profits they desire.

What they need warned of is:

1. Low end commissions make it less attractive for SFI Affiliates to promote their products and services.

2. Prices that are too high though will not sell as often because people online are pretty good at checking more than one price before deciding to buy anything.

3. Settling for less profit per item may seem like it's counterproductive but when you are selling 5 times the product you were last year it all comes back to you.

Be fare with TripleClicks members and affiliates and you will find a ton of profits in your future.

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As an ECA they can charge any price they think will sell product, cover cost, and provide them the profits they desire.

What they need warned of is:

1. Low end commissions make it less attractive for SFI Affiliates to promote their products and services.

2. Prices that are too high though will not sell as often because people online are pretty good at checking more than one price before deciding to buy anything.

3. Settling for less profit per item may
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI has 16+ years of integrity, longevity, and success and is getting better all the time.

When looking at an investment you look for potential gains and time to fruition and the SFI Business Model can help you achieve a reasonable Return On Investment or ROI in as little as a few short months. Many of us are in profits within 30-60 days of investing in ourselves which is the truth of where your investment is placed.

If you invest in a store or restaurant, and office building or real estate offline you are assured of a great amount of overhead cost and initial and ongoing investment. You have rent, utilities, employee wages, insurance, inventory, office supplies, and more. With SFI you only need a few things like a computer, a Pay-Pal account, and a few hours of time each week to build your business.

Not only is the investment less costly overall but it is also an investment in you and your abilities as opposed to being at the mercy of others. You can build a store offline and price your products right and have great service but still fail to turn a profit. A lot of great businesses fold because the demand is not right for the products they offer in the package they intend to deliver them in. In the right part of town a gift shop flourishes, and in another part of town all the shoppers go to the big box retailer where they can get everything in one trips, food and gifts, jewelry, and toys.

With SFI you are investing your money in your ability to learn to promote the products on TripleClicks, to grow a team, and teach them what you have learned. You can start and stop this investment as needed and you are able to access people well outside the distance a local store could reach, so you are not limited to a set audience and dependent on a set number of people.

You just need faith in your ability and to ask yourself if you are worth the time and investment.


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SFI has 16+ years of integrity, longevity, and success and is getting better all the time.

When looking at an investment you look for potential gains and time to fruition and the SFI Business Model can help you achieve a reasonable Return On Investment or ROI in as little as a few short months. Many of us are in profits within 30-60 days of investing in ourselves which is the truth of where your investment is placed.

If you invest in a store or restaurant, and office building
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

How you and your team get started will dictate much of your success.

When a new member joins they are typically low to moderate income and in need of making added money to pay bills, or cut out that second job or third job so they can spend time with family. Many like me are disabled and can not work outside the home. In my case it's Bi-Polar Depression with severe social anxiety in addition to a pinched nerve in my neck.

We need income faster than most SFI members are able to generate income and it is feasible to generate that income but not with the standard methods most sponsors teach.

With SFI a large number of our affiliates have been in a home based business before and many of them those businesses were MLM and they are use to a situation where everyone joins, buys a standing order, and get's others to join and buy a standing order. The problem is SFI operates a legal business model where affiliates are not required to buy a set amount of product to be able to make money.

Still these members with the MLM mindset push you to promote your downline growth from day one before you even complete your 30 days of Launchpad training.

If they just followed the 4 step basics of SFI success in their training they would realize that here, generating sales at TripleClicks comes before recruiting PSA or personally Sponsored Affiliates. The reason this is the case is it is easier to get someone in the market to buy a certain product or type product to make that purchase at TripleClicks than it is to get someone who has been told a dozen times in their training materials that no standing order is required to get a standing order anyhow.

If I need money the last thing on my mind is spending money I don't have to participate in an MLM scheme.

When you focus first on learning to be a good affiliate and study topics like niche marketing and creating sales funnels, building an e-mail list, starting a blog, etc.. You will soon be making sales and making money with your SFI business. Not only can you honestly tell your friends, family, and prospects that you are making money with the program you will also be able to tell them that you can show them how simple it is.

A PSA who is generating sales and making monthly commissions is less apt to become inactive. Some will still drop out for health or other reasons but most will keep trying to see how far they can grow their business. A PSA with sales earnings is a PSA with more Versa Points which means more matching VP for you. Sales generated also boost the value of each VP so more sales means more income from that Versa Points Match as well.

A team that is sales focused makes more money and the steps are easy.

1. Create a blog and learn how to write niche specific content and choose related products from TripleClicks to mix in occasionally as reviews.

2. Learn to do basic on site optimization for search engines and learn about natural link building.

3. Learn to use social media to grow your blog readership and thus your traffic.

4. Learn to build an e-mail list related to the blog so you can keep your readers coming back for more great post.

5. As sales start to happen write down how they were generated and the steps you took to get to where you are making regular income.

6. Recruit PSA, start with warm market members such as friends, family, and social media connections. Then expand and start meeting new people online and offline every day.

7. Teach these PSA the steps you wrote down on how you started earning money as an affiliate for TripleClicks. Teach them niche blogging and how to write reviews, and show them how to build links and promote their articles. Teach them to write a newsletter that their readers will enjoy getting and will buy from.

8. When they start making money on TripleClicks teach them how to teach their PSA to do the same.


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How you and your team get started will dictate much of your success.

When a new member joins they are typically low to moderate income and in need of making added money to pay bills, or cut out that second job or third job so they can spend time with family. Many like me are disabled and can not work outside the home. In my case it's Bi-Polar Depression with severe social anxiety in addition to a pinched nerve in my neck.

We need income faster than most SFI members are able
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

It's not difficult when you look at the industry and compare SFI to what happens elsewhere.

With other companies more of the details are listed on the outside of the site. There are often newsletters and free reports you can sign up for to get more information before joining etc.. SFI however you have to actually join the program to get access to the same types of information so we actually convert more total sign ups than you do with other programs because they join as a lead and are considered a referral at a point they wouldn't be in another program.

Because they are here looking for more information they will often read the first few e-mails, and maybe log in and read a few pages and then decide if they wish to go forward with SFI. In other programs where they are only counted as a lead instead of a referral these people who are checking things out and gathering information would not be visible to you.

Our perception is a lot of inactive accounts compared to other programs we have been in but in reality I have a couple hundred referrals in the same time frame it would take to get a 3rd of that in most other systems.

Because of SFI's design I get added opportunity to expose my leads to the business with stories of my own achievements and solid information about the company they joined. I am not dependent on a canned automated response to convert these prospects into working PSA, so it's now in my court to get them interested, and fired up to grow their business.

SFI has too much history, too much success, and too much training for us to not convert a great number of these prospects into workers, we just have to learn to ignore the thought of the people on our mailing list and focus on the ones who are listening, who are showing signs of life.

Have a very Happy New Year!
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It's not difficult when you look at the industry and compare SFI to what happens elsewhere.

With other companies more of the details are listed on the outside of the site. There are often newsletters and free reports you can sign up for to get more information before joining etc.. SFI however you have to actually join the program to get access to the same types of information so we actually convert more total sign ups than you do with other programs because they join as a lead and are
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Give your visitors what they want which is information.

Visitors to your website or blog don't want advertisements. They want great content and informative post and they don't mind ads around it but if the site reads as an ad they will just click away as fast as they arrived.

Have a means or multiple means like a Newsletter and Social Media connects to capture leads and follow up with them. Keep spoon feeding them more and more information until they trust you and are willing to take your advice.

Occasionally write a update on your progress in SFI and send it in between regular mailings or posting days. This will drip feed them information about the business and show them that someone is building a solid business for themselves.

Don't ever complain anywhere even here in the forum at SFI about inactive PSA or slow income growth or more of your PSA will become inactive and your income will grow even slower because if everyone else is quitting it's easier for me to quit. Project the positive updates about your business, the things that are going well and let the bad news roll off your back because what you are having happen is just how business works.

Wal-Mart for example here in my city advertise to over 100,000 people each week by newspaper and another 50,000 people by TV ads, and yet their actual customer counts are only a fraction of those they advertise to. They don't focus on the ads that fall on deaf ears but instead they show what is good there to the people who are listening. Your business should work the same way.

Never lie about your business because in this day and age of instant research capability someone will call you on your lie and your reputation could take years to recover. Trust lost is hard to regain so don't embellish the facts or use hype in your marketing. Only say what you can back up with a good argument or solid proof.

Never show off the income you are making no matter how large your checks get to be.

When you do this you not only appear to be guaranteeing these kinds of results to your readers but you leave yourself to be open to fraud and hacking. If another affiliate with hacking tools and skills sees you showing proof images of making $3,000 a month or so, they can hack your sites and change your affiliate ID for their own and by the time you know what happened they will have made off with a ton of your referrals.

Others will target you with phishing e-mails and sites so they can hack financial accounts and empty your bank, and some will just be jealous and send DDOS attacks or hack your sites and disrupt your business because they are angry that you are making money and they are not.

Only scam sites and low grade Paid To Click programs use these so called payment proofs. Honest businesses NEVER USE THEM, in part because they are illegal in many countries. Be safe and don't let some doubting Thomas or Heckler trying to make you look bad goad you into showing how much you are making because it's really none of their business and spells only danger and bad things for you.

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Give your visitors what they want which is information.

Visitors to your website or blog don't want advertisements. They want great content and informative post and they don't mind ads around it but if the site reads as an ad they will just click away as fast as they arrived.

Have a means or multiple means like a Newsletter and Social Media connects to capture leads and follow up with them. Keep spoon feeding them more and more information until they trust you and are willing
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Pay Per Click advertising can be very expensive if you don't have the right tools and knowledge.

You have to constantly keep your eye on ROI or Return on Investment, and know how to laser target your prospects. You want people ready to work and willing to invest in themselves so that you get a active return on what you spend in acquisition. You are not going to achieve that if you target terms like free home business, earn easy income, or make money in 30 minutes a day.

You need to be able to boil down your niche to attract ready to start affiliates at a low cost per click.

Instead of targeting high traffic but high competition keywords like , "Start Home Business" or "Business Opportunity", you need to get people who are not just beginning their search and wont cost you $6-$7 a click to have them load and then leave your page. A ready to join prospect will search for terms like, "Reliable home business under $500" or "stable retail affiliate programs", they will possibly be researching SFI and may use terms like, "SFI success stories" or "Does Joining SFI Cost Money" or "Strong Future International Review".

These more targeted search terms will have fewer people bidding on them and will also catch the prospect further along in the decision making process when they are ready to join a certain type of program or even a certain company.

Converting these PPC visitors is another story.

You should have your own site with information about the program and possibly a free report attached to an autoresponder to capture leads you can then follow up with. In these pages you will be able to pre-sell the reasons to join SFI and prepare your prospect for what to expect when they join, but the most important factor is getting some type of means of contact started because the fact is, most people need to see an offer 7-9 times before they decide to buy in. If you aren't capturing leads you are just preparing your visitor to be someone else' PSA.

Hope this helps you get a good start, as for tools to research keyword competition I use Jaaxy which will help you find low competition related search terms that have a monthly search volume. It also has tools to help you find related domain names and review competition so you can see what they are doing right and tweak it to fit your marketing.


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Pay Per Click advertising can be very expensive if you don't have the right tools and knowledge.

You have to constantly keep your eye on ROI or Return on Investment, and know how to laser target your prospects. You want people ready to work and willing to invest in themselves so that you get a active return on what you spend in acquisition. You are not going to achieve that if you target terms like free home business, earn easy income, or make money in 30 minutes a day.

You
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Step 1 is stop counting on your upline to grow your business.

It's really not healthy to put your upline on the hot seat for creating growth in your business. They wont promote for you, and very few will tell you actual places they promote because it will weaken their own results, and most of your upline is no more experienced than you are.

It's possible to have someone join at 10AM and recruit their first PSA at 10:15AM before they even complete their affiliate profile or do any of their Launchpad training etc.. If they skip their training or don't understand it and don't know how to navigate the forum and the 24 hour knowledge base to get you answers they are not really much help to you are they?

Instead, realize this is your business.

Use the search box in the upper right corner of your page to search for answers to your questions. Click every link on your training tab and feed yourself a stead stream of knowledge and above all implement what you learn. Don't let it collect dust, put it to work for you as you learn and monitor your results.

Only you can make you a success. Only you can grow your active team because even if your sponsor is kind and has a free co-op or reassigns PSA to you, if you don't have the skills to help these PSA make money with SFI and TripleClicks then your team might start blaming you for the lack of growth in their businesses.

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Step 1 is stop counting on your upline to grow your business.

It's really not healthy to put your upline on the hot seat for creating growth in your business. They wont promote for you, and very few will tell you actual places they promote because it will weaken their own results, and most of your upline is no more experienced than you are.

It's possible to have someone join at 10AM and recruit their first PSA at 10:15AM before they even complete their affiliate profile or do
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Credit Card not required.

A Purchase is not required at all in SFI even to become a team leader.

Have them focus on learning to refer personally referred members to TripleClicks. This in turn will come back to them in sales commissions and when a PRM makes a purchase their referring affiliate gets the Sales Versa Points the order results in.

If your goal is to generate 1500VP monthly, promote the auctions and remind prospective members that the credit packages are cheapest when ordering high quantity and placed on standing order. Every 200 Tcredit pack purchased is 1661 Sales VP and $9.96 in commissions each month.

Not a fan of the auctions or unsure of their value then promote Veruni Advanced Liquid Nutrition.

This 30day supply consumable and tasty vitamin alternative sells really well to those who are aging and may have a rough time taking more pills, and folks like me who already take so many pills our stomachs need a break. Selling 1 bottle a month is 1500 Sales VP and $8.21 in commissions.

These are just a couple of the thousands of products people will buy monthly on standing order and they are liable to order more than just 1 or more than 1 item. The Megavites and Sinoviflex are also perfect for the aging customer. They will feel younger and more energetic and joint stiffness and pain will be relieved by adding these two great products to their order.

Prospect 3 that you can focus on is the Green or Organic mom.

Our The Natural brand, cleaners are safe for the environment and less toxic than most brand name cleaners. Made from natural products like Orange Oil and Lemon Rind. They are both Earth Friendly and Organic and in proper dilutions can even be used as a cleaner to remove bacteria from vegetable, and even used to whiten teeth. Mom get's piece of mind, healthy and safe kids, saves a trip to the market, and may even save some money because our multipurpose cleaner can eliminate the need for a dozen separate cleaners.

The Natural brand products come with varying VP awards and commissions but someone hoods on the multipurpose cleaner will most likely add the dish detergent and the laundry soap, the toilet bowl cleaner, and tub and tile formula as well. If a brand works well for a fair price people will become customers for life.

A good example is Blue Cross / Blue Shield, the cost is nearly twice that of the competition but their reputation for service, in network savings, availability of providers, and range of coverage has millions of people using them exclusively.

Last piece of advice: Stop thinking locally when you look at products. Instead of thinking about what my broke neighbor down the street would pay think about the affluent businessman in London or New York that you can reach through the Internet. Market for the people who would buy these products. Think restaurants and hotels and the boost for business advertising that they use Eco Safe non toxic cleaners in their business.

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Credit Card not required.

A Purchase is not required at all in SFI even to become a team leader.

Have them focus on learning to refer personally referred members to TripleClicks. This in turn will come back to them in sales commissions and when a PRM makes a purchase their referring affiliate gets the Sales Versa Points the order results in.

If your goal is to generate 1500VP monthly, promote the auctions and remind prospective members that the credit packages are
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Yes you should have a Autoresponder and Capture Form for your blog.

I saw someone else wrongly advise against it saying it was against SFI rules and that's wrong. What they alluded to is giving a e-mail address to SFI that has a auto response message that it sends back. Those never get seen by humans and clog the mailing queue.

I personally offer a 4 day special report on getting started in Network Marketing where I give examples using SFI as our training model. After that first 4 days they get a weekly live broadcast newsletter and live updates when new training is added to either of my two home business blogs.

A responder to capture leads can:

Make sure you have a means to contact and follow up with prospective members. It can allow you to get the SFI offer in front of the prospect the industry average 3-7 times they will need to see it before they decide to join. It gives you the chance to pre-train these referrals so they are not overwhelmed when they first join SFI. This goes a long way towards keeping them active.

You can also contact members of your list with details of how to connect with you on social media networks and team work groups, offer you Skype ID and other means for them to ask you questions they have before and after joining, and so much more.

Professionals use these tools to manage contacts and improve relations with prospects but don't be the set and forget type marketer. Do not load a 7 day course and then forget to follow up or offer any live content, and NEVER send an endless stream of advertisements to your prospects for different products.

In my list I promote 1 income generator and that's SFI. If anything else goes in it's a great advertising resource I would like to see the team using, or a great training resource found afford-ably on TripleClicks or for free on the web. Add value and good content and people will read your newsletter and join your SFI.

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Yes you should have a Autoresponder and Capture Form for your blog.

I saw someone else wrongly advise against it saying it was against SFI rules and that's wrong. What they alluded to is giving a e-mail address to SFI that has a auto response message that it sends back. Those never get seen by humans and clog the mailing queue.

I personally offer a 4 day special report on getting started in Network Marketing where I give examples using SFI as our training model. After that first
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Tell them a story they can relate to, usually your own.

Tell them why you decided to start a home business.

Tell them how you found SFI and why you joined the program.

Tell them about the training you received and how it has helped your business.

Tell them about small successes you have accomplished like I have 30 PSA and 180 total members in my team, or I have won the daily grand drawing 3 times and am a Finalist in E-365, currently ranked number 3 in my class.

Tell them about your goals for your SFI business.

Tell them about TripleClicks and how they can promote any of the 80,000+ products on the site to make money as early as today.

Tell them what affiliate marketing is, the ability to promote the sale of a product owned by another company and earn commissions when they close the sale.

Tell them this is not a get rich quick scam, that SFI takes real time and effort but as a result it pays real and lasting rewards.

Tell them that SFI has been in this business for over 17 years and the parent company has been in network marketing for over 30 years. Be sure to let them know that despite all these years of steady growth you can still chat up the President and founder of SFI in the forums where he and his team are very active.

Tell them that beyond affiliate marketing there is the potential to also build a team of affiliates down up to 12 levels and profit when they take action on their future.

Tell them every small action they take pays off in growing earnings, a few pennies at first, then dollars, then hundreds and even thousands if they just stick with the SFI program and follow the training they receive free of cost.

Lastly mention that there is no membership to buy, no upgrades, they can even choose if they wish to pursue Fast Track status by generating $20 in sales or purchases in their first 10 days and that the reward for that is up to 10% extra network wide earnings for life.

As an affiliate program you are not required to buy a auto-ship of product you will never use or pay a fee for the right to make money. We have free members who started with nothing but time and hard work and now work entirely from home, and we also have members who have shaved years off their path to success by securing EA2 status in their first couple months and maintaining a standing order that helps them grow their business even before they start promoting that month.

Tell them about the support and fellowship our global membership experience in the forums and on Ask SC and ask them what do they have to lose besides valuable time?


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Tell them a story they can relate to, usually your own.

Tell them why you decided to start a home business.

Tell them how you found SFI and why you joined the program.

Tell them about the training you received and how it has helped your business.

Tell them about small successes you have accomplished like I have 30 PSA and 180 total members in my team, or I have won the daily grand drawing 3 times and am a Finalist in E-365, currently ranked number 3 in
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