Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

You are supposed to use different strategy in promoting SFI to those without experience in online business, but in most cases it is difficult to know, unless you are doing face-to-face promotion or email prospecting. However, you need to device a general promotion strategy to target such people and see how you can incorporate some of the suggestions below:

1. You really need to emphasise the benefits of an online business, especially how SFI makes a difference.

2. Tell how successful you or others have been in SFI, using testimonials where appropriate.

3. Let your prospects know they do not need to abandon what they are currently doing but just to add this as another opportunity to earn income.

4. Important also to let your prospect know that there is nothing to lose if it is not a business for him/her and there is an option to opt-out afterwards.

5. Necessary to reassure your prospects that they will not be alone, but that free training is provided and there are other online helpful resources where they can seek assistance and guidance, including you who will be his sponsor.

6. Let them know that we are not a singular income business, but that there are various ways to earn income and they are at liberty to choose any aspect where they are comfortable.

7. Above all, inform your prospect of the simplicity and openness of SFI and where possible physically demonstrate briefly how SFI works, using an electronic device.

8. You may need to organise a lecture, webinar or events to prepare your prospect in advance before you introduce them to SFI.

Those with no online business experience may prove to be a little hesitant to join but with a convincing strategy and determined efforts, some will ultimately want to give it a go.


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You are supposed to use different strategy in promoting SFI to those without experience in online business, but in most cases it is difficult to know, unless you are doing face-to-face promotion or email prospecting. However, you need to device a general promotion strategy to target such people and see how you can incorporate some of the suggestions below:

1. You really need to emphasise the benefits of an online business, especially how SFI makes a difference.

2. Tell how successful
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I too have no experience working online, or business. No one is born genius. A decade or two before many were not acquainted with internet usage. There won't have been these social media sites either.

1. First we need to give them confidence and gain their confidence with our personalized communication.
2. Until we develop online skills to promote, we can work out all offline possibilities and achieve something. This will
automatically boost us. A small success will lead us to the next level. We can build slowly this way.
3. Just copy paste our gateways with little write ups wherever possible.
4. Copy paste the product URLs to promote TripleClicks products. These are the ready-to-market tools. Any lay person can use.

5. We need to get more friendly to understand each other well and help them whenever and wherever they need support without
any hesitation or ego.
6. For this we should develop a good rapport or relationship with our team members.
7. Slowly and steadily any one could learn anything. It takes time. Till then we should not lose hopes. Should have patience.
8. should keep trying constantly, should have confidence and endurance.

9. Here we've simple steps, training material, internet income lessons, LaunchPad lessons a lot more tutorial to learn and earn.
10. We have the incredible forum to support, to guide, to sort out issues, to stand by closely.
11. We have a2a members facility.
12. While online we've the chat facility to get to know the issues and to support.
13. We've the ASK SC facility
14. We've 24x7 support system

15. We need to lead them step by step, hand in hand.
16. Try all free ad posts. Later can try for paid ads once we earn.
17. Later can try advertising in social media sites, other sites and blogs.
18. Still later can try blog promotion etc.

Hope this will help to a small extent.
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I too have no experience working online, or business. No one is born genius. A decade or two before many were not acquainted with internet usage. There won't have been these social media sites either.

1. First we need to give them confidence and gain their confidence with our personalized communication.
2. Until we develop online skills to promote, we can work out all offline possibilities and achieve something. This will
automatically boost us. A small success will lead us
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

SFI is an online international business and we need to be able to promote it and work it online. Yes we can of course promote it offline but at the end of the day we still have to come back online.

Your prospects with internet experience are easier to promote to than those without internet experience even if they have had no online business experience.

You will need to assure them and explain to them that everything one needs to run an online business is available to them in SFI. All they have to do is to ensure they have reliable internet excess, preferably via PC/Laptop.

Unlike other similar businesses, joining SFI is free and if they find that it is not for them they can always opt out free of obligations. It’s free to join and its free to leave. They have absolutely nothing to lose.

Further to that, when they join SFI, they will receive a personal sponsor, in this case it’s you. They will be given all the training, coaching and all the help they need to run an online business. Other affiliate businesses charge for this but in SFI it’s provided free of charge.

After the initial training, if they want to continue their learning and complete and Internet Course, there is one readily available within SFI also free of charge.

If they are concerned about stock, purchases and dealing with customers, tell them about TripleClicks and the fact that all they have to do is promote the products and services. Everything else is done for them.

If they are sceptical about running an online business, tell them about the history of SFI and its impeccable reputation. You might even want to tell them about The SFI BASICS. Its a simple business. Its a business that is suitable for everyone, even those without online business experience.

For those without internet experience, I would not consider them at all unless you are prepared to teach them how to access and work the internet.

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SFI is an online international business and we need to be able to promote it and work it online. Yes we can of course promote it offline but at the end of the day we still have to come back online.

Your prospects with internet experience are easier to promote to than those without internet experience even if they have had no online business experience.

You will need to assure them and explain to them that everything one needs to run an online business is available to them
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

When I started looking for a business to take the place of my retirement checks I knew that the only place where I can continue to work (because of health issues), would be with an Internet Marketing company.

One of the things that I was concerned with is I have never worked any kind of on-line business and I didn’t use the Internet very much and to top that I had little or no computer savvy.

When I was looking for a good company to join I did not care how much on-line business building experience would be needed. I wanted and desired to get something going so I could live a better life style.

When there is a great need, most people will do what it takes to learn all that has to be done on-line or off-line. It is the “need” that drives people into doing things that they have never done before.

So with that said; I can assure you that there is no need to change prospecting approach when dealing with people who have never done a business on-line before. The main thing is to emphasize on the “free” training and support that you will give them as their sponsor.

Keep in mind that well over 90% of the people you enroll in SFI and TripleClicks have never had an on-line business.

I know for a fact that everyone in SFI at one time or another did not know anything about building a on-line business and that did not stop them from joining anyway.

I came to SFI as a real newbie to building an on-line business and I still am, but here is the great thing, because of the free training that SFI has provided on Internet marketing I know I will end up being a Diamond Team Leader probably sooner than I think is possible.

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When I started looking for a business to take the place of my retirement checks I knew that the only place where I can continue to work (because of health issues), would be with an Internet Marketing company.

One of the things that I was concerned with is I have never worked any kind of on-line business and I didn’t use the Internet very much and to top that I had little or no computer savvy.

When I was looking for a good company to join I did not care how
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

Let me ask you a question. Do you think I had experience with online business when I first signed up for SFI? The answer is no. I found out about SFI when I was on the internet looking for business opportunities and I accidentally saw a banner ad that my sponsor left on a website which unfortunately I no longer remember the name.

The best promotions are done online by putting banners, splash pages, articles and so on but the idea is to promote SFI effectively is to think like a prospect looking for an opportunity to make money online by asking yourself in which places would they look. Do you remember where you found the advertisement that lead you to SFI? These questions will allow you to visit all kinds of websites where your prospects most frequently visit. SEO optimization should be used when you have a personal website/blog or custom prestige domain that redirects to your personal gateway so that you can submit your personal domain name to search engines which is the first place I looked when I wanted to make money online.

E Mail Marketing is one of the most effective marketing tools because that is one of the ways I was able to find websites and more places to search. So I recommend using your banners to advertise in Traffic Exchanges, your own personal website, and other people's websites in exchange for posting their banners on your website.

Now that I think about it my sponsor must have done the banner exchange advertising that allowed me to find the banner in the first place.

Social Bookmarking sites: Facebook, Twitter, Stumble upon, Reddit. You can either use text ads SFI provides or write your own ads and use them to post in these sites.

So just like I spent time online with no experience whatsoever searching I stumbled accidentally on my sponsor's SFI banner the same thing will happen to your prospects.????
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Let me ask you a question. Do you think I had experience with online business when I first signed up for SFI? The answer is no. I found out about SFI when I was on the internet looking for business opportunities and I accidentally saw a banner ad that my sponsor left on a website which unfortunately I no longer remember the name.

The best promotions are done online by putting banners, splash pages, articles and so on but the idea is to promote SFI effectively is to think like a prospect
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Affiliate since: 09/25/2020, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Prince's 92 other Ask SC answers

The element required for success in any business including SFI is passion and you may add commitment and a- never- quitting spirit.Once this is in place, the prospect is already had. The mode of presentation is key and should not be different from the normal. This person would want to know how joining your team/business would help alleviate his/her problem of low income job, no time for leisure and family, meet up with health challenges, ensure a brighter future for self and family, get out of debt. The list goes on.

Present SFI by the numbers and how it could help to meet his/her financial, time and location freedom. What is required however, is having access to a computer, laptop or smartphone with internet connectivity. Logging in daily to do the daily, weekly and monthly actions. Advertising on paid and free sites, bidding at the pricebenders and selling or buying from tripleclicks.

To build a team and succeed in SFI they only need to setup a standing order, achieve and maintain a leadership rank, recruit five active movers and teach them to do the same.

Keep it simple because if you can't explain this in very precise manner, you may not have done justice to your business.

Regards.
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The element required for success in any business including SFI is passion and you may add commitment and a- never- quitting spirit.Once this is in place, the prospect is already had. The mode of presentation is key and should not be different from the normal. This person would want to know how joining your team/business would help alleviate his/her problem of low income job, no time for leisure and family, meet up with health challenges, ensure a brighter future for self and family, get out of debt.
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

Thank you for your awesome question.
In my welcome letter and my welcome instant message e-card to my new personally sponsored affiliates and co-sponsored affiliates, I am sure to include my email. I ask them and urge them to please write me with the simplest question they may have. I also refer them to my blog which explains affiliate marketing to the newest of new person in online marketing. My blog answers questions like, what is a URL or referral link? How do you copy and paste urls? How do you upload a picture? What is a Warm Market. What is an ad exchange? and this list goes on.
Also, I tell them that I started new to affiliate marketing myself about 6 month before I joined SFI and that I understand how something we feel we should know can stop our progress if we don't ask the question and get some help.

Finally. I refer them to the SFI training tab and the Marketing tab. Gery has done a great job of offering educational programs for all levels of experience in online marketing.
I have gotten in the habit of asking my affiliates who do write me with questions, to tell me about their computer business experience so I can help them on their level.
See you at the top!

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Thank you for your awesome question.
In my welcome letter and my welcome instant message e-card to my new personally sponsored affiliates and co-sponsored affiliates, I am sure to include my email. I ask them and urge them to please write me with the simplest question they may have. I also refer them to my blog which explains affiliate marketing to the newest of new person in online marketing. My blog answers questions like, what is a URL or referral link? How do you copy and paste urls? How
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 101 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

The best way to promote SFI to prospects who have no experience with online business is to share your own experience.

How you got started in SFI with little or no experience with online business and the testimonials from successful affiliates with the same problem will make for an easy promotion that anyone can do it and succeed in SFI.

Then explain that success was possible for anyone from anywhere in the world because of fantastic training and resources provided free provided by SFI and easily accessible.

Every day, SFI's international advertising network generates HUNDREDS of new SFI affiliate sign-ups as shown in Growth tab.

There are simple steps and procedures at the beginning, with translate options on every pages of SFI Affilicate Center home page for ease of understanding should the new affiliates prefer to use.

And most important, new affiliates are also assigned sponsors and co-sponsors as mentors to provide assistance and guidance on how to get started properly and give directions as new affiliates go along and learn the business.


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The best way to promote SFI to prospects who have no experience with online business is to share your own experience.

How you got started in SFI with little or no experience with online business and the testimonials from successful affiliates with the same problem will make for an easy promotion that anyone can do it and succeed in SFI.

Then explain that success was possible for anyone from anywhere in the world because of fantastic training and resources provided free provided
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, KOLAWOLE ONI

When SFI started, 17 years ago, the Internet was incipient, if not inexistant as a business promotional tool. It was not a widespread business marketing avenue.

Hence, the prospects were not internet savvy either.

I. Affiliates were still successful in promoting SFI, without the internet, to prospects who had no online experience. All the veterans of that period were successful MLM and network marketing business people. They carried on to build this great opportunity we have today.

SFI was born as a result of such previous offline experience.

I highly recommend that you read the SFI story, its beginnings, its expansion and its worldwide reach over these 17 years. There is so much inspiration and lessons to learn from it.

You may want to revisit the launchpad lesson # 2 "Who are these Guys". You will not only have a brief history of SFI and Carson Services, but find links the origins of SFI's.

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/AboutSFI

II. Affiliates working with prospects who do not have experience with online business can use the same approach as did those veterans back then.

Part of the tools in the pre-internet era have been made available to us today. We can use them both online of offline.

This is how to best promote SFI to prospects have no experience with online businesses. Start, yourself, by using the offline tools and show to your prospect how to successfully do it.

Most of the beginners' marketings aids and methods can be efficiently used offline:

You can find these marketing aids at methods at the marketing center.
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods&pg=2

There are two pages of marketing aids for beginners. Most of them are designed to be used offline:

(1) SFI and Tripleclicks Cards you can leave (i) with your restaurant bill/tips, (ii) on your public transportation seat, before you exit, (iii) in books about business opportunities, sales and marketing in bookstores and public libraries, etc.

(2) Marketing material you can print and disseminate offline at high traffic public places, bus stops, grocery stores, hair cuttery places and the like

(3) My Preferred offline promotional tool to attract prospects to SFI is the Gift cards. Everybody likes "free, no strings attached" gifts. They are great for starting a conversation about SFI and getting prospects interested. When you are using those gift cards, make sure you have the redemption codes and instructions on how to redeem them typed in index cards you can leave with your prospect.


III. Next, inexperience can be overcome easily.

Nobody is born with experience. It is acquired. To function efficiently in today's world of business, it is paramount to familiarize oneself with the online tools that are at the forefront of business growth in all industries. Whether a business is exclusively online or partly, the internet tools are such of a wide acceptance.
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Hello, KOLAWOLE ONI

When SFI started, 17 years ago, the Internet was incipient, if not inexistant as a business promotional tool. It was not a widespread business marketing avenue.

Hence, the prospects were not internet savvy either.

I. Affiliates were still successful in promoting SFI, without the internet, to prospects who had no online experience. All the veterans of that period were successful MLM and network marketing business people. They carried on to build
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 238 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

There are two kinds of people who can be called SFI prospects,
(1) those who have not signed up yet, and
(2) those who have signed up but who have not begun working on their To Do Lists and have not decided to ever begin.

Both groups also fall intone of 4 or more categories of computer savvy,
(1) know how to do eMail and search the web
(2) know how to shop online, have bought at least one item
(3) participate in social media and know how to post comments and photos.
(4) those who are advanced and have web-sites or blogs, and can advertise successfully.

All people are either buyers or sellers. That means that we all have some exposure to business before coming to SFI, either online or offline.

When promoting SFI, one should find out about the person being prospected. No one knows what a mine contains before it is prospected. A little ore is extracted and sent in to be assayed to find how rich it is. We try our prospects to find out what his knowledge and experience holds.

If he truly has not idea about online business, then promote the offline potential of SFI and help him set up his business along those lines.Determine where he is with computers, skill-wise and help him learn how to use it to do his To Do List. When he is beginning to see how it all works, then gradually take him online and teach him how to do online advertising and point him in the direction of SFI training on the subject.

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There are two kinds of people who can be called SFI prospects,
(1) those who have not signed up yet, and
(2) those who have signed up but who have not begun working on their To Do Lists and have not decided to ever begin.

Both groups also fall intone of 4 or more categories of computer savvy,
(1) know how to do eMail and search the web
(2) know how to shop online, have bought at least one item
(3) participate in social media and know how to post comments and photos.
(4)
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