Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

It is possible to succeed on SFI without Spending money but it is more difficult and at first it seems almost impossible in my humble opinion.

How so you ask? In the first month you do not need to spend money on becoming an Executive affiliate because the getting started section on the to do list and the Launchpad makes it possible to get 1500 VP. The next months however if you want to get 1500 VP in sales points every month without investing money on a Standing Order then you have to sell products or packs of TCredits every month that will give you these points or have a team of personally sponsored affiliates to generate the necessary VP on your behalf.

Sponsoring a team of active PSA and co sponsoring CSA's also makes it possible to make lots of matching VP in order to get higher commissions and also maintain Executive Affiliate or team leader rank. I recommend using these commissions to invest on TCredits so you can use them for the Eager Zebra Games because you can earn a maximum of 200 VP per month plus 1 VP in the EZ tab. TCredits are also useful at the auctions because you get 500VP monthly and bidding allows you to use the bid and build tool to get up to 4 PSA's daily. So in order to get Money to buy TCredits you can generate Sales on TripleClicks and Sponsor affiliates and also refer ECA's and use the commissions and royalties.

PriceBenders: This is a very convenient way to make money on SFI because you can use your PriceBender gateway to refer TC Members and make an extra $200 or $300 a month by selling TCredits and if you teach your downline to do the same thing then boy you are really going to make enough money to invest on SFI.

ECA referral Program: This allows you to earn royalties every month because you refer companies,small businesses, or individual vendors who want to open up a shop and make money out of their hobby. You earn 100VP for every ECA that is approved and you earn points for every product they list. The royalties are earned when they generate a sale but you earn even more VP when you promote and advertise their store and products for free in order to generate a sale because yo get Royalties and Direct Commissions plus Sales VP.

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It is possible to succeed on SFI without Spending money but it is more difficult and at first it seems almost impossible in my humble opinion.

How so you ask? In the first month you do not need to spend money on becoming an Executive affiliate because the getting started section on the to do list and the Launchpad makes it possible to get 1500 VP. The next months however if you want to get 1500 VP in sales points every month without investing money on a Standing Order then you have to
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 300 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Yes, definitely. The best thing about SFI is you can become an affiliate for free, not like any other online business that requires start up fees or product purchases in order to join; with SFI there is no obligation or purchase requirement of any kind.

You’re provided with professional website to promote SFI and TripleClicks (TC) products/services, along with sale support such as customer service, payment processing, etc. without cost.

Furthermore SFI has made available useful tools and resources which can be used extensively to achieve your goal of becoming successful.

Here is how you can be successful in SFI without investing a dime:

- You need to develop your marketing strategy and set up your priorities with your available resources which are your time.

- Focus on the Training tab which includes sales, sponsoring, Internet Income course, etc.

- Learn the various marketing methods together with the marketing aids and how to apply them.

- Strive to become a skilled network marketer; learn the art of blogging. Beginning with free advertising, you can start generating sales at TripleClicks. You have over 80,000 products/services to choose from.

- Build your own website with free sites builder

With your own website, you can promote multiple SFI/TripleClicks products/services and build your prospect list. You can search in the Internet free Adsense and affiliate site builder that allows you to easily add fresh content and RSS feeds your website and getting traffic through your affiliate link. What you need to do is sign up a free account with them, add in your affiliate link and start to promote SFI/TC products/services through many free resources such as forum, discussion board & articles.

- Word of Mouth (Buzz Marketing)

The word of mouth promotion or Buzz Marketing is another very effective method of promoting your favorite SFI/TC products/services. If you have a lot of friends offline or online and your friends definitely have a lot of their friends, it sums up to a huge network of potential market. You can share your favorite SFI/TC products/services to your friends and through them; they’re going to pass on to their friends.

If your network of friends likes the products/services which you are buzzing; you’ll start seeing cash flow in to your affiliate account.

- Take advantage of social media’s marketing potential.

- Join network marketing groups or forums to keep you up-to-date and meet potential prospects.

As you follow the steps above and start earning, a wise action would be to re-invest your earnings in growing your SFI business.

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Yes, definitely. The best thing about SFI is you can become an affiliate for free, not like any other online business that requires start up fees or product purchases in order to join; with SFI there is no obligation or purchase requirement of any kind.

You’re provided with professional website to promote SFI and TripleClicks (TC) products/services, along with sale support such as customer service, payment processing, etc. without cost.

Furthermore SFI has made available
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

Success without investing any money is a challenge but can be done.

You never have to buy anything from TripleClicks in order to earn income here. We are not an MLM, and a Standing Order is not mandatory, but as earnings start to flow you are best served to re-invest them into higher quality paid advertising or co-op shares until your business reaches a point where it can provide an income and sustain investment.

How do you proceed as a free member promoting what you have access to for income streams?

I don't recommend using PPA because you are supposed to be running a business not working a job and PPA is designed for those who can't break away from the EMPLOYEE mentality that tells you to do a certain amount of work for a set amount of pay. The reality is most of the active referrals you send to PPA will earn you 50 cents to $3 based on their action and rank in the recording period. Very few will start fast enough and achieve a high enough rank to give you the $10 maximum reward and if you do get a $10 PPA award you will have given up a PSA that would have already earned you way more than $10.

In PPA you don't become the person's sponsor so you give up direct commissions, matching VersaPoints, and Matching VP on their downline for life. For a maximum of $10 one time you could lose out on thousands of dollars of profits for your business. If you have no active PSA you are hard pressed to get residual monthly income with long term sustainability.

So where is the money at?

The big money and fastest path to profits is referring TripleClicks members through either consumable standing order recommended items like TripleClicks Advanced Liquid Nutrition, High Potency Megavites, or Tcredits for PriceBenders auctions and Eager Zebra Games. By promoting these types of items your customers are apt to place the item on standing order to have every month and if they are married they may order in multiple quantity on the health aids increasing your commissions.

When you promote items like these that go on a standing order you are building residual monthly income, a flow of money that happens every month into your business. A residual monthly income helps you establish consistent advertising which leads to that advertising gaining traction and resulting in more sales.

The sale doesn't end at the standing order items. with nearly 90,000 products and growing through 4,000 vendors in nearly 200 countries, your customers will have access to other needed items, gift ideas, and home building items like furniture and home design or decorations. There are birthdays and holidays like Christmas that can have a customer spending hundreds of dollar at TripleClicks and you will be in place to earn 45% of the commission Volume.

The last stream of business growth is recruiting Personally Sponsored Affiliates to SFI.

I put this last for a reason, despite most putting it first. When you are early in your business as a free member with no money to invest you are probably looking to earn some money. Since your PSA will duplicate what you do, if you don't have a standing order it is harder to get them to place a standing order so don't count on a fast path to direct commissions.

Like you, your downline will want to know how to make money sooner and not later. If you know how to promote TripleClicks products for sale, and are making money doing this they can copy what you are doing and start making money themselves. A PSA who is making money generates more matching VP for you once you reach EA2 rank or higher. That in turn means more income for you that is residual and not dependent on your actions. These are funds that come in even if you are sleeping or on vacation just like the Standing Order items you promote at TripleClicks.

A PSA who is making money seldom gives up, and tends to work harder to make even more money so by helping them earn a pay day sooner you will have fewer inactive PSA so your generation 2-12 will grow faster as well. Amplify that by everyone being able to afford to opt into a paid advertising co-op and your growth could be massive, especially since you can now promote TripleClicks sales via the advertising co-op manager.

What do I use to market my business?

A Blog is a must. A Blog is your own website where you can do product reviews and update readers on the deal of the day, or Yesterday's WOW auction winner and you can build a following. You can build strong promotion pages for products that will convert into sales and you are not penalized by the risk of 1.6 million other SFI Affiliates getting a gateway URL blocked.

With a blog you can add a autoresponder and capture e-mail addresses and contact details for readers by adding them to a daily or weekly newsletter. Offer them instant updates in their inbox and you will increase repeat traffic and repeat purchases as well. This method also produces traffic with every post because every post gets indexed in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Every indexed page is a new door into your business and that means more visitors to your business.

Since you are constantly adding more post you will see your traffic climb higher and higher, the longer you own your blog. I highly recommend the most used Blog platform in the world which is Wordpress.com . Since you are not able to invest at this time I told you .com because you can learn to operate Wordpress including installing themes and plugins and when you are ready you can upgrade to premium and add a domain name of your own and everything will transfer over smooth without losing traffic or regular readers. Always follow their Terms of Service and you will be fine.

You also need to learn to market using social media.

Social media marketing is not advertising. If you want to destroy your business go off and join a bunch of Facebook Groups and post ads to them like the other spammers who wont be there to read ads, only to place them. Instead learn to create a free business fanpage you can share updates on your TripleClicks store through and set up a hosted domain with the gateway hosting manager as soon as you can afford the $10.50 to register one so you can occasionally share the SFI opportunity with your fans as well.

Note: Regular SFI Gateways are blocked for SPAM by Facebook and using cloaking links is highly unprofessional and damaging to your business long term.

On your fan page don't be all about the sale. Occasionally share that favorite or trending YouTube video, or that breaking news story, and share joke, and informative articles so people come to your page and get entertained instead of coming there and getting advertised to. You will thank me for this advice.

On your main profile make real friends. Do not make my early mistake and blindly add 2,000 people who have Home Business mentions somewhere on their profile. For one, you are not looking for people already in a home business they see as the next big thing, you want people seeking one for the first time or who don't even know they want to start a home business yet and you want Retail Customers for TripleClicks.

By adding real friends and building real relationships you will build real trust and real engagement. engagement is when a person actually pays attention when you make a post and wants to read what you are sharing and trust is vital to the buying process. Nobody spends money with someone they don't trust.

This information has lead me to a dozen years of success online and thousands of dollars in sales generated. It is also information I will be including in a coming e-book and will be part of os team build and advertising co-op for SFI, so it has my full trust and I hope it will help you grow your business as well.
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Success without investing any money is a challenge but can be done.

You never have to buy anything from TripleClicks in order to earn income here. We are not an MLM, and a Standing Order is not mandatory, but as earnings start to flow you are best served to re-invest them into higher quality paid advertising or co-op shares until your business reaches a point where it can provide an income and sustain investment.

How do you proceed as a free member promoting what you have access
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Affiliate since: 10/20/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Richard's 45 other Ask SC answers

Success in SFI can certainly be attained without investing money which is true in any business. However, it would be foolish to imply that it could be attained as easily and as quickly without investment capital.

The industrial age advanced as rapidly as it did by innovation, investment, labor input, ingenuity, and education. You have access to these elements,in varying degrees, Now use the tools provided by SFI, If used correctly at the appropriate time, great strides can be made on the road to successl.without a great deal of money. Success itself is illusory in its meaning to each of us as individuals. For most--reaching a certain plateau providing financial security for the future, reasonable time freedom, and providing for the pleasures of life would be considered success. That is possible at SFI without REQUIRING money. But to succeed, you must substitute effort and other elements in lieu of money. Are you prepared for the time differential required to reach that goal without (as you say) ANY money?

Wisdom would say to Increase your success ratio dramatically by operating SFI as a business. Invest your own or O.P.M to accelerate company growth.. If that is impractical--or impossible for you, seek guidance from others who started from a position similar to yours.,Follow successful leaders in SFI or books of others who have started from scratch. SFI has implied that it can be done. They do not necessarily recommend it. You must believe it. If not, find a way or make it.

It is good of you to ask.
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Success in SFI can certainly be attained without investing money which is true in any business. However, it would be foolish to imply that it could be attained as easily and as quickly without investment capital.

The industrial age advanced as rapidly as it did by innovation, investment, labor input, ingenuity, and education. You have access to these elements,in varying degrees, Now use the tools provided by SFI, If used correctly at the appropriate time, great strides can be made on
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 597 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

Yes! You can succeed in SFI without investing any money. That is however on the long run. But you do succeed faster if you try to invest some money. To succeed in SFI without investing any money, here is what you do.

01. Find as many free ad sites as you can and advertise your Gateways like mad.
02. Log into your SFI account daily and earn as many VPs as you can from the to-do list.
03. Promote TripleClicks products very widely in free ad sites.
04. Take to blogging and promote your Gateways on the blog site.
05. Concentrate on duplication through free promotion of your Gateways.
06. Read up any and every lesson you can find in SFI.
07. Take SFI daily tips to heart and be guided by them.
08. Follow the forum posts keenly and learn from them.
09. Read up and rate Ask SC posts very regularly.
10. Promote widely ECA Gateways in free ad sites.
11. Promote your business offline as well through sports clubs, social clubs, civic centers, local library, local gym, sports stadiums, bus/train stations and many other places with heavy human interaction.

Good luck!

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Yes! You can succeed in SFI without investing any money. That is however on the long run. But you do succeed faster if you try to invest some money. To succeed in SFI without investing any money, here is what you do.

01. Find as many free ad sites as you can and advertise your Gateways like mad.
02. Log into your SFI account daily and earn as many VPs as you can from the to-do list.
03. Promote TripleClicks products very widely in free ad sites.
04. Take to blogging and
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Affiliate since: 07/24/2012, Power Rank: 328 | Read Beverly's 79 other Ask SC answers

There are many ways to earn income without a financial investment yourself. Besides logging every day and doing your daily, weekly and monthly actions, here are some ways:

1) Keep in touch with your sponsor!! This person wants to support and help you advance. Your sponsor can reassign affiliates to you so you can send out weekly mail for 30 Versa Points (VP) per week. Any of your Upline Sponsors can also gift you TCredits, a Gift Certificate, and/or put you in their co-op to sponsor new PSAs for you. When you show your interest and ask for help, the chances are good you will receive it.

2) If you are a new affiliate, ask for help to go Fast Track. Your sponsor can give directions and a $20.00 gift certificate to purchase the New Member Pack: https://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=381607 With this box of tools, many games can be played for fun and to earn active VP. It’s also a great savings.

3) You can also help your new affiliates to go Fast Track by sending them to: www.sfimg.com/FT Encourage them to purchase the New Member Pack and/or set up a Standing Order worth at least 1500 VP within 10 days of joining SFI. 125 TCredits is the best deal. Learn about all the benefits for them. (You can always ask an upline sponsor to gift an interested affiliate who is financially restrained like yourself.)

4) Learn all you can about SFI with free training at the SFI Site, ASK SC, and the FORUM. Answer posted questions at ASK SC.

5) Do the Pay-per-action program. See: https://www.sfimg.com/SFIPPA (to earn bonus commissions for signing up PSAs who do not stay in your downline.)

6) Sign up E-Commerce affiliates from your downline or outside SFI completely, become one yourself and/or sell your own stuff at TripleClicks. You earn VP, commissions and lifetime royalties.

7) Use free marketing aids https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter and methods https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods

8) Set up a free blog at BlogSpot, WordPress or other free place.

9) Enter free contests and play free games:

a. Daily Grand Prize, T-Time, and E365 (automatic every day you log in for first year)

b. Card King https://www.tripleclicks.com/games/CardKing.php

c. Knockout Trivia https://www.tripleclicks.com/games/KOTrivia.php?game=15655

10) Promote Pricebenders Auctions to all your downline and anyone you know. You get the commission (and the Versa Points if it’s a TripleClick’s Affiliate, who is not also an SFI affiliate.)

11) Advertise individual TripleClick products. The easiest way to do this is to use QR codes. To find them just browse the TripleClicks Store for items you think your friends would like. Click the ‘SFI Affiliates’ tab on a product's detail page. Click the link for the QR Code flyer under ’Affiliate Tips’. This will give you a flyer that you can print out. This can generate a lot of promotions for you besides the product you specifically chose, and you will get all the commissions, as well as your name and email displayed.

To your success!!

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There are many ways to earn income without a financial investment yourself. Besides logging every day and doing your daily, weekly and monthly actions, here are some ways:

1) Keep in touch with your sponsor!! This person wants to support and help you advance. Your sponsor can reassign affiliates to you so you can send out weekly mail for 30 Versa Points (VP) per week. Any of your Upline Sponsors can also gift you TCredits, a Gift Certificate, and/or put you in their co-op to sponsor
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The answer to your first question is a definite yes, you can be successful in SFI without investing any money. It will just take you a bit longer to get there than it would with an initial investment.

In answer to your second question, what I would suggest is that you focus on promoting TC as a marketplace, and look for some particular products that you are comfortable selling, and promote those. Also, canvas small businesses in your area about their online presence - you may find a few ECAs you can sign up, and start earning commissions on what they sell through TC.

But the real key to succeeding without an initial investment is to reinvest your profits initially, rather than take them out of the business. Use your first few commissions to pay for targeted ads, which will yield better results, or set up a standing order to guarantee EA status, so you get a bigger slice of the pie.

Hope this helps!
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The answer to your first question is a definite yes, you can be successful in SFI without investing any money. It will just take you a bit longer to get there than it would with an initial investment.

In answer to your second question, what I would suggest is that you focus on promoting TC as a marketplace, and look for some particular products that you are comfortable selling, and promote those. Also, canvas small businesses in your area about their online presence - you may find a few
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Affiliate since: 03/17/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Terry's 4 other Ask SC answers

Yes I think you can be successful in SFI without investing any money. However, it does take longer to achieve the desired goal. I do think that if you can, you should try and invest something.
This is what works for me:

Sign in everyday and do the tasks on your to do list Make sure that you complete everything that gives you free vp. By signing in everyday you will be sure not to miss out as these points will not be available again.
Make sure that you enter the DG draw.
Do all the weekly and monthly tasks.

Now once you have done those, you will need to invest money to get Tcredits to play some games which give you points, also purchases at Tripleclicks give you VP's.
So I placed a SO for 20 TC pack which is a small investment and you get a lot of VP.

You need to look at this business from what you can afford to do, everything here is a suggestion of what you can do, look at what you can afford to invest to get your business off the ground.
even the smallest cash investment gets you much needed points.

I hope this helps and good luck.

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Yes I think you can be successful in SFI without investing any money. However, it does take longer to achieve the desired goal. I do think that if you can, you should try and invest something.
This is what works for me:

Sign in everyday and do the tasks on your to do list Make sure that you complete everything that gives you free vp. By signing in everyday you will be sure not to miss out as these points will not be available again.
Make sure that you enter the DG draw.
Do
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Yes and no.

If you start out without any money to invest, then you need to spend your time in working with sfi.
It is advisable to invest a bit of money, but if you don't have any, that should be ok, it just requires some more time, effort and patience then.

Start out promoting sfi in any possible free marketing method, make a blog, advertise on social media like facebook, twitter, google+,....
post in classified ads site, article marketing, forum marketing, blog commenting, safelists or traffic exchanges, you choose your way, but be consistent and do not ever ever give up, even when it takes time.

Then when you start building a team, and by being a great sponsor, they will become active and might spend some money, this gives you the option to grow, and invest a bit of that money in sfi, maybe in more psa's, maybe in T Credits, doesn't matter, anything that helps to grow your business, that way, you grow and grow each month.

So in that, yes you can become succesfull without money.

Good Luck
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Yes and no.

If you start out without any money to invest, then you need to spend your time in working with sfi.
It is advisable to invest a bit of money, but if you don't have any, that should be ok, it just requires some more time, effort and patience then.

Start out promoting sfi in any possible free marketing method, make a blog, advertise on social media like facebook, twitter, google+,....
post in classified ads site, article marketing, forum marketing, blog commenting,
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Affiliate since: 11/01/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Reva 's 13 other Ask SC answers

No money:

You have all of the tools needed at the Affiliate Center to start your journey for "making" money.
Here's how to use the FREE resources.
See the quick references below to get you started.

Start earning money by accumulating VersaPoints:
https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics

The SFI Marketing Materials Center:
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter

The Pay-Per-Action Program:
https://www.sfimg.com/SFIPPA

=How to go Executive Affiliate:
https://www.sfimg.com/EA1010

The E-Commerce Associate Referral Training:
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies

The SFI Personal Referrals Gateway Lists:
https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayList

Your SFI On-Line Store:
https://www.tripleclicks.com/index.php

Using all of the "Share it" tabs for Social Media Sites:
"Click to share this with your friends & family!"

Investing:

What is your meaning of success?
Here's why I ask...is it to:
Succeed in a business without spending a dime?
or
Success from earning money using tools and resources to get results?

Now, you mentioned not "investing" any money.

SFI did state that it is "FREE" to join, will provide you with FR*EE Training, Free support and assistance, FRee games and points to earn, and so much more!
However, SFI's core earning system is about "duplication" teaching others to follow the proven system, and building a team.
Using your "no money" duplication approach, you would be instructing your referrals and your team to "NEVER":
~Advertise with money
~Don't Spend money at TripleClicks
~Don't Purchase a New Member Packet
~Don't Purchase a Fast Start Package
~No playing any games at Eager Zebra with TCredits
~No Bidding at Auctions via PriceBenders
~Do not purchase TCredits
~Do not use S-Builder
~Do not purchase PSA's or CSA's
~No Gift Certificates allowed on my team
~No Standing Orders, please

I would like everyone to be successful without investing money, because doing so would give us
residual income!
Investing will add to and enhance "your" business in every way imaginable! Please do so.
This is just a picture of "Not Investing Money" and teaching others to not invest money.
-Another picture would be winning a "Brand New Car" and not investing in gasoline.
-Having a McDonald's (Hamburger Business) given to you and not investing in electricity
-"Having a FREE to join SFI on-line business and not investing in "Your" business and "Yourself"
Can I be successful in SFI without investing any money?
Money (cash) will need to be added to an ATM machine in order to withdraw cash.
I would say yes to success (keeping the business operating by getting your 11 VersaPoints everyday) and No to successful earning, you will need to invest for long term survival.

It is time to rethink the "FREE" aspect. Let's look at it SFI for the asset that it is.
Let's say that you were opening up a bakery, you could not "bake" without an "oven."
You cannot make bread without flour, etc.
If SFI gives you the bakery and all of the supplies, would you invest in water?

Thanks for your question, and all the best to your and your future endeavors.

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No money:

You have all of the tools needed at the Affiliate Center to start your journey for "making" money.
Here's how to use the FREE resources.
See the quick references below to get you started.

Start earning money by accumulating VersaPoints:
https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics

The SFI Marketing Materials Center:
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter

The Pay-Per-Action Program:
https://www.sfimg.com/SFIPPA

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