Affiliate since: 12/18/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Manohar's 240 other Ask SC answers

Hello Suresh

Whenever someone joins SFI, he/she is new and does not have any experience in Marketing. But we are lucky to have a free training in SFI on Marketing. Just visit the link: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods
Here are some ways listed to carry out marketing for SFI:

1. Share your Gateway of SFI with your friends, relatives and family members to invite them to join you.

2. Share information about TripleClicks products via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social networking sites you visit. Just click the "Share It!"button on each product's details page and follow the instructions. Be sure you're logged into TripleClicks.com, so your SFI ID will be attached to your shared information and you will receive credit for sales.

3. Add a signature that promotes TripleClicks to your e-mail. Most modern e-mail browsers allow you to set up a "signature" that gets automatically appended to every e-mail you send out. Choose one of these text ads (https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/RefTextAds) to use for your signature.

4. Send one of these TripleClicks.com E-Cards (https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?id=279) to friends and family members. Learn more about E-Cards HERE.

5. Distribute TC Gift Cards (http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=173941) to friends, family, and the public as an enticement to become members and sample TripleClicks's offerings.

6. Give out this TC X-Card (http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=375448) to friends, family members, co-workers, associates, etc.

7. Put this TC X-Card (http://www.tripleclicks.com/detail.php?item=375448) in every outgoing piece of mail you send out (like electric bills, water bills, NetFlix/Blockbuster DVD returns, etc.).

Dear Suresh, Hope it helps you in marketing your SFI business.

All the best
Have a great day !!


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Hello Suresh

Whenever someone joins SFI, he/she is new and does not have any experience in Marketing. But we are lucky to have a free training in SFI on Marketing. Just visit the link: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods
Here are some ways listed to carry out marketing for SFI:

1. Share your Gateway of SFI with your friends, relatives and family members to invite them to join you.

2. Share information about TripleClicks products
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Affiliate since: 04/28/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elsie's 8 other Ask SC answers

Hello Suresh,

The best way to start marketing - is simply to make a start! That might sound simplistic, but if you don't ever make a start somewhere, you will get bogged down in wondering...how? where? why? who? when?....etc! So make a start with something simple and cheap like:

1. Make a posting on your facebook page and update it regularly, letting your friends know what you are doing..."hey guys - I've recently joined a great program that is teaching me how to make an income online - if you'd like to check it out, then go here (insert your link)
OR
"hi friends - check out these fun games at TripleClicks where you can play for free and win some fabulous prizes...(insert your link)
2. If you have a list of friends or acquaintances who you have permission to email, then send them all a brief, friendly email letting them know what you are doing
3. Print some flyers (check out the advertising and marketing available at SFI) and put them up at your local store, health club, sports club...anywhere that has a community noticeboard.
4. Hand out some flyers or gift cards when you go out, or if you are allowed to, at shopping centres etc
5. Print off a few more flyers and go for a walk around the neighbourhood (good exercise too!) and put them in letterboxes.
If you did all 5 of these, regularly and consistently for a month, you would be sure to get at least a few interested people and some sign ups. Then most importantly of all - look after your sign-ups once you get them!
Hope this helps

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Hello Suresh,

The best way to start marketing - is simply to make a start! That might sound simplistic, but if you don't ever make a start somewhere, you will get bogged down in wondering...how? where? why? who? when?....etc! So make a start with something simple and cheap like:

1. Make a posting on your facebook page and update it regularly, letting your friends know what you are doing..."hey guys - I've recently joined a great program that is teaching me how to
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

When I first started with SFI I had almost no experience with on-line or off-line marketing, and to be honest I still don’t have the marketing skills that I know I will be needing.

What I love about SFI is that you can start building your business before you develop marketing skills to fully succeed. With all the free training methods included in our marketing plan we can easily “Earn while we Learn.”

I had no one to teach me what to do as far as marketing – I learned by trying several of the ideas listed in the Marketing Methods found(In your Affiliate Center) by clicking on the black tab “marketing” on the drop-down click on “marketing methods” – they can find 15 suggestions on how to do easy marketing.

I still use some of those methods because as simple as they are – they work when done consistently.

I would suggest to the new affiliates that they learn the basics on how SFI and TripleClicks operate before they begin marketing. Of course this is done by them going through the first three steps found in their affiliate center. “Start” – “SFI basics” and “Launchpad” series. The information contained in these three steps will give your new affiliates the “ammunition” to start the beginner marketing campaign.

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When I first started with SFI I had almost no experience with on-line or off-line marketing, and to be honest I still don’t have the marketing skills that I know I will be needing.

What I love about SFI is that you can start building your business before you develop marketing skills to fully succeed. With all the free training methods included in our marketing plan we can easily “Earn while we Learn.”

I had no one to teach me what to do as far as
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think the best way for anyone who is new to any Internet business to get started in online marketing is simply to start a blog.

Word of mouth and referrals will always be one of the best marketing tools, and blogs help new members do several things at once:

1. Get used to being online
2. Get used to "talking" about their business
3. Review different areas of SFI
4. Review different products in TripleClicks
5. Share their experience with the business
6. Display banners on their blog
7. Share links to their SFI gateway
8. Share blog posts on social media like Facebook, Pinterest, etc. without worrying about any links being blocked.

And all of this is done in just a few minutes each day.

Other reasons why blogs are the best:
1. They're cheap – registering a domain name and setting up hosting can be less than $10, and WordPress is free.
2. They're easy. You just write and publish.
3. Visitors to the blog get to know, like and trust you as you continue to build valuable content.
4. You can "talk" to people like you would in person by way of your blog posts.
5. You can actually talk to people by doing videos and embedding them into your blog.
6. Several blog posts can interest more people than a few words in an ad, business cards or brochures.

So I would strongly suggest that new members start a blog, or if they have a blog already, set up a special section just for talking about SFI, then suggest they do at least one new blog post per week about the business, if not more, and share the posts on social media sites.

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I think the best way for anyone who is new to any Internet business to get started in online marketing is simply to start a blog.

Word of mouth and referrals will always be one of the best marketing tools, and blogs help new members do several things at once:

1. Get used to being online
2. Get used to "talking" about their business
3. Review different areas of SFI
4. Review different products in TripleClicks
5. Share their experience with the business
6. Display
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

The best way to start is to learn and there are various materials here in SFI and outside of SFI to learn from. Most mistakes new affiliates without marketing experience make is to try to jump the gun by going straight into the perceived money making aspects, without first learning the ropes.

As a new affiliate without marketing experience, I will suggest you start as follows:

1. Click on the START grey colour button beneath your photo at the affiliate centre where you will have the opportunity to hear a video message from SFI President himself. This video gives you an overview of what this business is about and how to get started as the tab implies. It directs you to where you get information about SFI Basics (3-step-plan), sponsoring and sales methods, which represent an overview of what we do here as affiliates.

2. The Getting Started and Intermediate sections of your VP Ledger also contain important and useful information that will help you to understand this business more, so just be going through them in your stride, please do not rush or attempt to digest everything in a go, otherwise you will be overwhelmed with too much information which will be counter-productive.

3. Also ensure you read your 30 Launch Pads and you may opt to read one daily. You see, your first one month in SFI is supposed to be for training and this explains one of the reasons we have 30 Launch Pads. This means you may not be expected to do any much apart from reading and learning, so that you get off to a credible start afterwards.

4. If you feel comfortable at any stage of your training and you want to put in action some of what you have read, then it is cool also provided you will be determined and resilient in case they do not provide the desired results.

5. Get off to a good start also by registering at the forum where you will have an incredible opportunity to participate in the exchange of ideas with both new and experienced members. This will be probably the quickest place to seek advice and receive some clarifications on some issues you may have during your training period and beyond.

In conclusion, I will submit that it is not only affiliates without marketing experience that need to do some learning, even experience marketers also do some learning if they come into a new organisation however, the difference is that they do not learn from the basics, only the organisation's specific operations.
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The best way to start is to learn and there are various materials here in SFI and outside of SFI to learn from. Most mistakes new affiliates without marketing experience make is to try to jump the gun by going straight into the perceived money making aspects, without first learning the ropes.

As a new affiliate without marketing experience, I will suggest you start as follows:

1. Click on the START grey colour button beneath your photo at the affiliate centre where you will
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Getting started with SFI without any marketing experience may sound to be difficult. When I started with SFI, I didn’t have any clue what it’s all about. All I want is to supplement my income and eventually quit my job. I’m very glad that I remain committed. Now I can see the fruits of my labor and the continued growth of my SFI business. If you have just started with SFI with passion and drive you’re going to learn and acquire the skills you need in your journey with SFI. SFI offers all the tools and resources to get started. SFI provides new affiliates to learn about how to market their own SFI business.

Go to the Marketing Center >Marketing Methods and start learning by doing in the order of sequence:

Beginner>Intermediate>Advance

- There are 98 Marketing Methods that you can use to promote your SFI business. SFI provided these step-by step marketing methods to help you establish a solid foundation and help you achieve your long term goals. SFI has provided affiliates these proven marketing methods well suitable for acquiring the necessary skills of a network marketer.

- But first, you’ll need to kick-start the learning process: To gain a firsthand experience starts with the Beginner methods. The Beginner methods spell out 40 ways to start marketing your SFI business. You need to spend some time “leaning by doing” each way.

- As you gain confidence you can move on to the next level, the Intermediate methods. In this section you’ll find 29 ways to upgrade your marketing skills namely S-Builder Co-op, selling TCredits for Pricebenders auctions, using SFI/TC text ads on classified ads online, distributing TC X-Card to customers at small retail stores/local restaurants and getting your own domain name link to your SFI/TC gateways.

- To ensure you are taking full advantage all the available channels in marketing your SFI business, you need to move on to the Advance Methods level. The Advanced level includes PPC, building your own website and so on.

- To complete your training in marketing and acquire the much needed skills of expanding the growth of your SFI business, you’ll need to devote your time in going through Marketing>Sponsoring Affiliates>/Affiliate Sponsoring Training Articles. This section contains vast information to deepen your knowledge about marketing your SFI business.

Even if you don’t have experience in marketing, you’ll acquire the marketing skills you need for your SFI business by following the steps above. You need to enforce discipline in your part and follow a time plan to ensure you get to the level of skills needed to market your SFI business.

SFI in its 17th year proven track record has integrated these marketing methods to help affiliates achieve their long term goal and realized their potential of being an SFI affiliates.


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Getting started with SFI without any marketing experience may sound to be difficult. When I started with SFI, I didn’t have any clue what it’s all about. All I want is to supplement my income and eventually quit my job. I’m very glad that I remain committed. Now I can see the fruits of my labor and the continued growth of my SFI business. If you have just started with SFI with passion and drive you’re going to learn and acquire the skills you need in your journey with SFI. SFI offers all
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

When I joined, I watched the video, I read the SFI Basics, and worked my Launchpad Lessons. From that first building block, I focused right away on growing my business by building my team. I did not consider whether I had marketing skills or not. I just followed the step-by-step business model outlined in the “SFI Basics” and Launchpad lessons.

Whether is is about you, or the affiliates you sponsor, get yourself and your team focused on taking action based on the training material SFI has made available.

For beginners without experience or skills, if they are willing to work, SFI offers all the training, the tools and the technical support to get started, without wasting time, regardless of their skills level.
Within the past two years, SFI has introduced many sponsoring tools to help beginners or seasoned affiliates, experienced marketers or non-skilled newbies alike build their teams: S-Builder Co-op, PSAS to go, Bid&Build, PSA and CSA auctions are available to every affiliate.

The second building block I used was my warm market: family, friends, relatives, co-workers, business associates, retailers and shop owners whose services you buy on a regular basis to bring in ECAs ; use the SFI marketing aids and methods for beginners. I was able to have several team members who did relatively well. Our warm markets are the most readily available source for sponsoring, the most accessible source for recruiting and the easier way to start earning an income. SFI has made it easy for sharing your recruiting gateways with your family and friends by emails. You just need to add them to your signature. At later stages, after you gain experience, you can also post them in your blogs and personal websites.

For selling, in the second marketing method for beginners, we are encouraged to “refer friends and family to specific URLs of individual products. We can find a URL to a given product within the SFI Affiliate tab on each product's details page.”

You should visit or revisit the Marketing Center to brush up or learn about these marketing methods for beginners.

https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingMethods

Many beginners make the mistake of neglecting their market, although, it may be very receptive warm market. This may not be the case of seasoned marketers who may have exhausted it.

If you apply the above approach, consistently in your first and second months, your team will grow up quickly. Motivate your affiliate to use the same strategies and actions to build their own teams. Very soon, you may have a very sound thriving downline to several generations.

In the meantime, devote one hour a day to learning marketing, selling and sponsoring. Motivation and excellent work ethics will compensate for initial lack of skills.

Whoever applies themselves will become skilled. They may even get better than those who think they have the skills and to not work to improve them.

In your initial approach to marketing, selling and sponsoring, use extensively the methods and aids SFI has designed and developed for beginners. There are 15 (fifteen) of them. Make sure you understand the spirit behind them, and apply them in the spirit and for the markets they are intended.

Three of these methods are about handing out TC-X Cards. By doing this, you are combining both marketing aids and marketing methods.

https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingCenter?form=MarketingAids&pg=2
You are enhancing your approach and building up your skills level.

If you are consistent and focused, you will soon gain the experience, skills and confidence needed to succeed

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When I joined, I watched the video, I read the SFI Basics, and worked my Launchpad Lessons. From that first building block, I focused right away on growing my business by building my team. I did not consider whether I had marketing skills or not. I just followed the step-by-step business model outlined in the “SFI Basics” and Launchpad lessons.

Whether is is about you, or the affiliates you sponsor, get yourself and your team focused on taking action based on the training material
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Affiliate since: 06/20/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Emily's 28 other Ask SC answers

For new affiliates without marketing experience, just ask them if they have a car for sale......or have they ever sold a car before.....

People do not realize they are salesman - every day and every minute of the day, they are selling themselves to the public, to their boss, to their siblings, even to their friends, and most of all to otheir boyfriends, or husband....

If they have ever sold a car, they know something about marketing......ask them if they took the car to the car wash, or to the mud puddle.....did they vacuum it out, or did they trash it......that is marketing.

Marketing has been talked about so much that it has scared people. They say oh I don't know how to market......well your wrong, you are standing here right now marketing yourself to me.....

So grab something out of TripleClicks, write a little bit about it and try to sell it to your friends, social media, Twitter, FB, or on your own blog. Then you will begin to understand marketing.

Marketing is thinking like the Customer.....not like the seller....

Gallo Wineries has a systematic approach to marketing that is brilliant...they put it in your face. If a store is going to carry their product, they MUST agree to put the merchandise in the customer's face or Gallo will walk away and they won't get the wine......

If you want somebody to see your product.....PUT IT IN THEIR FACE!

That is good marketing.....oh,you may have to tweak it from time to time, but you will soon learn....how to do it by trial and error...nobody can tell you how to market, it is a personal thing, you must learn to think "outside the box" to reach your customer.....but it can be done....

Do not let people scare you off.......I learned the hard way, but I learn something every day about marketing and you will too.......I make it a challenge for myself to see how far "outside the box" I can get...and see what reaction I get.......some would surprise you....i also use this marketing idea when prospecting.....I don't go hunting without bait!

Get your customer's attention and you can sell them anything.........but first, you must get their attention......there in is the KEY!

I wish you the best!
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For new affiliates without marketing experience, just ask them if they have a car for sale......or have they ever sold a car before.....

People do not realize they are salesman - every day and every minute of the day, they are selling themselves to the public, to their boss, to their siblings, even to their friends, and most of all to otheir boyfriends, or husband....

If they have ever sold a car, they know something about marketing......ask them if they took the car to the
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

Once your new affiliates have had a couple days to begin learning, I would direct them to information about the S-Builder Coop and PSAs to Go. Both are comparatively inexpensive, both can be part of their SO.

Using these methods, as well as Spin and Build when they bid auctions, will get PSAs and PRMs coming into their team. As they get acquainted with sponsoring/mentoring their new members, they can also begin investigating marketing methods. After they are comfortable with mentoring their affiliates acquired without advertising, then they can go to the tabs on black page for training.

The Marketing and Power Tools tabs have good information, as well as Training.

There is a lot to learn, and the Internet Income courses can help them a lot, too. Don't push them before they are ready to go, but do discuss it in weekly team mails occasionally so they know where to go look to learn more.

Best wishes to your success:))...
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Once your new affiliates have had a couple days to begin learning, I would direct them to information about the S-Builder Coop and PSAs to Go. Both are comparatively inexpensive, both can be part of their SO.

Using these methods, as well as Spin and Build when they bid auctions, will get PSAs and PRMs coming into their team. As they get acquainted with sponsoring/mentoring their new members, they can also begin investigating marketing methods. After they are comfortable with mentoring
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

I would like to use my personal example where I had absolutely zero experience in marketing a product/service until I practically started doing it. Some of the basics I learn that have stayed with me u till now are.

1. To market anything, just anything, it is vital that you know your product extremely well. You could be asked a question about the Compensation Plan when you are very new and to be able to answer this confidently will determine how well you will progress. Yes, experience will be your. Set teacher so do not be afraid about making any blunders. You will improve.

2. Make your talk about the product very enthusiastic, be energetic in your presentation. This must be genuinely portrayed otherwise people will judge you and discard what you are marketing as not being important. You can only feel this if you are passionate about what you do.

3. It's always good to start with family and friends who will come out with criticisms and you will not feel upset by their comments. A small group enhances your experience and gives you confidence to approach a more wider segment of people.

4. Write to people personal emails if you do not wish to approach them first. Get to know them and build a rapport with your prospects. Outline your message in a professional manner and be careful to use the "talk" to me rather than "do this" language. Be subtle and do not show aggression in your emails/correspondence. Your message should not sound like a recorded one but you feel like you are actually talking to the individual.

5. Ask for referrals from family and friends and select the group you will experiment with - to improve your skills.

As you start with these basics, you learn how to interact with prospects and give them what they ask for - that will push you to understand the needs of your prospects/customers and add to your experience. Nothing you do by way of your efforts, goes to waste, remember that.

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I would like to use my personal example where I had absolutely zero experience in marketing a product/service until I practically started doing it. Some of the basics I learn that have stayed with me u till now are.

1. To market anything, just anything, it is vital that you know your product extremely well. You could be asked a question about the Compensation Plan when you are very new and to be able to answer this confidently will determine how well you will progress. Yes, experience
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