“SFI has a zero tolerance policy on spamming”.
The above warning is in the “ECA Referral Guide”, under the “Training” module and within the ECA Strategies.
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies
We have been duly warned when we joined SFI. Further, this warning pertains to any of our online activity, from sending emails to posting In Social Media sites.
Online business communities and forums, usually, have spamming deterrent policies that are enforced very strictly.
Actually, spamming will produce adverse results: the inverse outcome from what we are seeking to achieve. Instead of goodwill and understanding with others, it turns off people and creates adversity. Even when the spamming stops, the negative first impression will linger a very long time.
An SFI affiliate should never engage in such unwanted behavior.
The answer to your question is in five proactive steps: full knowledge of the spamming prohibitions and rules of business solicitation in the particular forum; business relationship building; working to establish oneself as an authority in the field of one’s business; providing value to forum members, and never appearing as trying to make a sale or solicitation, but rather as providing solutions to the problems identified through business interactions.
Our intent to avoid spamming is directly linked to our goal for being a successful SFI Affiliate. It is a sales and prospecting strategy that will, at the end, bring people to ask for our products and opportunities, without us making any open offers.
It starts with knowledge of the rules. We cannot effectively interact with forum members if we do not know the rules. There are both written and unwritten rules. Only by careful observations can we identify the unwritten rules. We will spot them by observing the behavior of the most successful forum members. Those are the ones that have the largest numbers of followers and those to whom others look up.
These are the forum members with whom we want to start building those business relationships. At first, we should avoid coming up as only interested in making a sale. Instead, we should take time to know people at the individual level. When we join an online business forum, we should read members’ posts, make positive comments, and ask questions. Many of these forums value posts that create activity such as comments. Somebody who has made a post will appreciate that we are commenting positively on their content.
This is the first step towards creating goodwill that can lead to friendship. If we ask to befriend somebody who already has positively noticed us, he will very likely accept. Through that friendship we will have access to other influential members of that forum.
Our comments should be always positive, while we are being absolutely honest and truthful to ourselves. Hence, we should select carefully those posts. The point is not to make comments for their own sake. The point is to provide insightful input that will be appreciated and valued by post owners as well as readers. We want to provide insights that will enhance the post’s value. This is how reputations of integrity and authority are built.
In this approach we are not trying to make any sales or enroll people. Instead, we are working to be helpful others. That help is from which people’s goodwill towards us emerges. We will appear as knowledgeable as disinterested.
When we identify a problem, as much as we can, we may want to offer real solutions without expecting any returns. We can offer gifts in the form of free publications such as PLRs that address the issues at hand. Then we can follow such gifts with our own SFI Gift cards, after we have induced a genuine interest for them.
Where visual aids are allowed, we should provide support to our comments with appropriate SFI marketing aids.
Throughout the whole process, we have not attempted to sell anything. However, we will soon notice that have created opportunities to direct forum members to our splash and squeeze pages with which we can start to collect their personal contact information such as email address and phone numbers. That would be the time to start our sales and sponsoring activities. At that juncture, it will be with people with whom we have had several interactions. They know us. They have a strong goodwill towards us because we have helped them solve problems. They are open to listening to us.
It may take time to see results. But building a business is not an overnight endeavor. It requires solid foundations, persistence and relentlessness.
The above entire approach is often referred to as “pull marketing”. We are pulling people to us by creating prior goodwill and friendship.
It is opposed to “push marketing” when somebody attempts to push products and or opportunities onto people without even knowing whether they have any interest on them.
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“SFI has a zero tolerance policy on spamming”.
The above warning is in the “ECA Referral Guide”, under the “Training” module and within the ECA Strategies.
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ECAStrategies
We have been duly warned when we joined SFI. Further, this warning pertains to any of our online activity, from sending emails to posting In Social Media sites.
Online business communities and forums, usually, have spamming deterrent policies
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