Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

This is one I have had great success with: "Roll up your sleeves, and let's get to work."

Be sure to follow with solid (and short) information, that will lead to you giving a few benefits of SFI, and then with an invitation to join you (or get further information.)

Let's dissect this one-liner. "Roll up your sleeves." This indicates you are getting ready to do something, like work. "And let's get to work." The reader is being asked to join you in working. They are not being asked to do it alone. There is a "let's do it together" feeling communicated here.

Take my concept, and try other words. You'll probably have even better results.
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This is one I have had great success with: "Roll up your sleeves, and let's get to work."

Be sure to follow with solid (and short) information, that will lead to you giving a few benefits of SFI, and then with an invitation to join you (or get further information.)

Let's dissect this one-liner. "Roll up your sleeves." This indicates you are getting ready to do something, like work. "And let's get to work." The reader is being asked to join you
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

That's a good and fun idea!

I think I would first survey the A2A friends that have been invited or have indicated an interest in coming, and ask what they would like to see discussed. Those questions then would form the structure of the get-together.

I think I would spend some time on marketing: what kind of marketing to do, what kind is producing results at this time, and writing copy and headlines. Public relations, offline advertising (flyers, postcards, newspaper classifieds, radio, and community media) could be considered.

I would plan time near the end, for a Q & A period. All this discussion will lead to other questions that could be taken then.

Remember to have fun, too. We learn best when having fun.

Enjoy your local get-together!
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That's a good and fun idea!

I think I would first survey the A2A friends that have been invited or have indicated an interest in coming, and ask what they would like to see discussed. Those questions then would form the structure of the get-together.

I think I would spend some time on marketing: what kind of marketing to do, what kind is producing results at this time, and writing copy and headlines. Public relations, offline advertising (flyers, postcards, newspaper classifieds,
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

You should probably do both. The experience will be good for you. You might find that you are good at recruiting affiliates. That's an ability worth discovering you have, don't you agree?

However, the lesson that you should probably do both, came to me at the end of a longggggg learning curve. You see, I believed that I had to do it myself. I intended to learn internet marketing, and recruiting was a part of it. So I struggled, and tried, and quit, and tried some more. Occasionally, I'd get an S-Builder, and that would help.

Then I remembered: Play to your strengths. Ah ha! This recruiting certainly wasn't a strength of mine. My strength is written and verbal communications. My strength is communicating with people, encouraging them, helping them, answering questions, and guiding them.

So I learned to be consistent with ordering S-Builder and hits/affiliates from some of our ECAs. Don't get me wrong, I haven't given up learning how to do it. :) I just don't spend hours a day stressing over it. I use those hours helping my affiliates and CSAs learn the SFI business and how to do it.

Ultimately, my suggestion is to do both, but mainly, play to your strengths!

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You should probably do both. The experience will be good for you. You might find that you are good at recruiting affiliates. That's an ability worth discovering you have, don't you agree?

However, the lesson that you should probably do both, came to me at the end of a longggggg learning curve. You see, I believed that I had to do it myself. I intended to learn internet marketing, and recruiting was a part of it. So I struggled, and tried, and quit, and tried some more. Occasionally, I'd
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Embrace them!

Now you have people on your list that signed up and have not done too much. It's time to get creative.

You have the opportunity to experiment with subject lines, content, formatting the content, closing your email, adding attachments to it, offering reports, eBooks, or videos, and any other ideas you have. This is your "laboratory" (along with your inactive PSAs).

These are people who have signed up and are not doing anything now. Your goal is to get them to open your email, read the content, and do whatever action you have asked them to do. When you write to them, be sure to include an action step for them to do. That is your test. When they DO it, you know that they have opened, read, and done an action step. So that particular sequence of content (subject line, content, action step) worked at least once. Now you have learned something.

Enjoy your laboratory! Use it to refine your persuasion. It will improve your marketing skills, as well as your motivating skills.

Mainly, have fun with this. You will grow yourself, and maybe even get a few active CSAs and PSAs as a reward for improving your skills.


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Embrace them!

Now you have people on your list that signed up and have not done too much. It's time to get creative.

You have the opportunity to experiment with subject lines, content, formatting the content, closing your email, adding attachments to it, offering reports, eBooks, or videos, and any other ideas you have. This is your "laboratory" (along with your inactive PSAs).

These are people who have signed up and are not doing anything now. Your goal
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Good question! The best incentive to offer new affiliates is your time, attention, and guidance when and if they want it. Their choice. When they want it, get back to them as quickly as possible with the help they need.

You have been in their shoes. When they realize that you truly want to help them succeed, they feel confident that they can come to you with their questions, lack of understanding (they are NEW--this does take time, effort, and knowledge gained), fears, and successes.

Don't expect them to be flooding your inbox; they want to do it themselves. However, they really want to know there is someone who has been where they are that will answer the occasional question or concern.

Gifts of TCredits and Gift Certificates are great. Save them to reward an accomplishment--even a small one. Your affiliates are special. Show them first, with your attention, your care, your knowledge, and then your physical gifts (TCredits, Gift Certificates, etc.) Enjoy your affiliates and your relationships with them.

Best wishes for a long and successful SFI career,
Jewell
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Good question! The best incentive to offer new affiliates is your time, attention, and guidance when and if they want it. Their choice. When they want it, get back to them as quickly as possible with the help they need.

You have been in their shoes. When they realize that you truly want to help them succeed, they feel confident that they can come to you with their questions, lack of understanding (they are NEW--this does take time, effort, and knowledge gained), fears, and successes.

Don't
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Before deciding what you should spend on advertising, you should analyze your business and business goals so that you know where you want to take the business. You should determine the types of advertising that are available to you, both free and paid.

You should understand your ROI, return on investment, of both your time and money. This is learned by testing. When beginning to use paid advertising, a good rule of thumb is not to spend more than you can afford to lose. (That is true of your time, as well.) As you analyze your statistics from this testing advertising, you will have your ROI for that advertising campaign. (Number of visitors, number of visits, sign ups, sales, and cost of the advertising, for each medium you use.) Do this for free advertising, to understand your results, and learn what media works best for you.

Based on the analysis of the results of your advertising, and your business goals, you will be able to determine how much you should spend on advertising. This will change as you grow and learn how to advertise, where to advertise, and as your business goals change.

Advertising is a fascinating journey. You'll learn about your own current capacity for risk. You'll learn what a difference your choice of words can make. You'll learn to appreciate the challenges of your very own business, because that is how you will grow it.

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Before deciding what you should spend on advertising, you should analyze your business and business goals so that you know where you want to take the business. You should determine the types of advertising that are available to you, both free and paid.

You should understand your ROI, return on investment, of both your time and money. This is learned by testing. When beginning to use paid advertising, a good rule of thumb is not to spend more than you can afford to lose. (That is true
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question to ask before starting, Rainne. My best suggestions to you are to 1) educate yourself on PPC advertising, and 2) track all PPC campaigns.

You can go a long way in educating yourself by going to Training -> Internet Income: down to "click HERE", and click. George Little has given us many sections of training on PPC.

In sections 48 - 51 Mr. Little introduces us to PPC, explains strategies, MS adcenter, and bidding strategies.

Check out sections 55 - 59 to get ready by learning about keywords, the value and strategy of using them; determining position and best keywords to bid; then learn about ads and landing pages.

The last four sections (61 - 64) will help you write effective ads, learn to balance your ads, and lastly, give you more help on effective landing pages.

As for tracking, that is one of the most valuable tools you can use. Check Google for free trackers, and for paid ones. Think through what you want to track and how you will use the information you receive. With that information, written down and in front of you, look at the trackers you have chosen to check out. I suggest you look at trck.me, that Tim Tech and his developers have recently started. I found it very useful, user friendly (I needed that!), and they keep adding to this software, according to the requests of the users. There is a trial offer, too. (As there is with most tracking sites.)

In our TripleClicks store, at the Digital Downloads section, are many ebooks on PPC advertising. When you are looking for the answer to a specific question, you might look there, and check out the product description. Most are reasonably priced, are downloadable, and afford almost instant answers to your questions.

I wish you great success with your learning and your tracking, Rainne. Internet marketing is such a creative challenge. I hope you are really enjoying expanding your knowledge, trying what you learn, and growing your business.

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Great question to ask before starting, Rainne. My best suggestions to you are to 1) educate yourself on PPC advertising, and 2) track all PPC campaigns.

You can go a long way in educating yourself by going to Training -> Internet Income: down to "click HERE", and click. George Little has given us many sections of training on PPC.

In sections 48 - 51 Mr. Little introduces us to PPC, explains strategies, MS adcenter, and bidding strategies.

Check out sections
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Let's review how you may have attained Bronze Team Leader status, and how you can maintain it, and also grow to Silver, Gold, and Platinum Team Leader status.

In review and looking forward to next month:

* Do your daily actions, daily, as you already do.(341 VP for October, 31 days x 11)
* Do all your weekly actions, as you are doing. (152 VP: 120 VP for mailer; 20 VP for TConnect; and 12 VP for Stream posts.)
* Rate your sponsor. (10 VP)

Now you have 503 VP for the month. Be sure you get 2000 VP (your Sanding Order plus what you need to reach 2000 VP) for TC Sales and/or Purchases. This gives you 2503 VP. You're qualified for Executive Affiliate, and you have 1003 VP on your way to Bronze Team Leader.

Note: Only 2000 VP from TripleClick sales to others and purchases by you, goes toward your team leader status. You will see the following totals at the top of the Scoreboard page:

__________ Points you've earned to date. This is all the points you have earned since you joined SFI.
__________ Points you've earned so far this month. (These are all the points you earned in the current month only.)
__________ Team Leader qualifying points earned so far this month. (These are only the points that qualify you for a team leader position that were earned this month.)

For example: You have 2250 VP in Sales and/or Purchases this month. 2000 VP of the 2250 will count for your team leader qualification. (See #6 at the top of the To-Do List tab, under Important Notes.) The whole 2250 VP will count in the TC Executive Pool.

Perhaps you have 550 VP from auctions you have bid in a PriceBenders. 500 VP will count for your team leader qualification. (See Daily Actions, the line beginning with "1/bid", and ending with "500 pts. max/mo.") The whole 550 VP will count in the TC Executive Pool.

For the TripleClicks Product Reviews you can get unlimited points--except that digital (downloadable) products are limited to 10 reviews each month. At TripleClicks in the Member Center, find Message & Reviews, then click on Reviews, and it says that 7 days after purchasing a digital product, you will be asked to do a review. You will receive 25 VP and 1 TCredit for doing the review.

You have a maximum of 250 VP that can be earned each month by doing digital product reviews. These all qualify for Team Leader qualifications. You can find digital products as low as a dollar, under the Products heading, then Digital Downloads, and then Special Reports. The Ebook heading also is digital downloads, although the lowest prices I saw were more than $1. Reviews of non-digital products have unlimited points, which also qualify for Team Leader qualifications.

All points count in the TC Executive Pool. Not all points count for the team leader qualification.

In summary, actions you can do each month:
Daily & weekly actions, and rate your sponsor is 503 VP. You have sales and/or purchases of 2000 VP. This is 2503 VP. You have purchased 10 digital products early in the month, read them, and reviewed them. You earned 250 VP. You now have 2753 VP. By making 247 bids at PriceBenders, you will have 3000 VP.

Here are ideas for other ways to earn points:

When you refer an ECA, they sign up and list a product, you get 100 VP. (You also earn commission on their sales. This will increase your monthly check.)
Order products from TripleClicks that are mailed to you. The review VP is unlimited (25 VP for each review.)
When you are a Bronze Team Leader, and you train, inspire, and help your CSAs attain the status of EA2, SFI matches their VP (down 6 levels) and adds it to your total monthly VP, so you get more shares of the TripleClick Executive Pool. As your Team Leader level increases, the matching VP of your EA2 goes further down your downline. (See Compensation Plan, section 2, A, B, C, and D.)
When your PSA reaches EA2, you get 100 VP.
When your PSA reaches BTL, you receive 150 VP.
When your PSA reaches STL, you receive 200 VP.
When your PSA reaches GTL, you receive 250 VP.
When your PSA reaches PTL, you receive 300 VP. Note: This is for each PSA that attains that level, and you get it each month they maintain it. Recruiting affiliates, training, inspiring, and helping them to reach EA, then EA2, and supporting them as they work for and attain the levels of Team Leader, are the actions necessary to earn a full-time and better income with SFI.

There are several ways to win points:

Win VP in the Daily Grand. You can win 50, 100, or 200 VP. Be sure you enter everyday.
When you are in the Top 20 Enrollers of the day (listed under the Growth tab), you win 2 VP for each affiliate you enroll. (Affiliates that you sponsored by participating in S-Builders do not count. The limit is 90 VP.)
You can win VP by participating at the Ask SC tab. When you answer someone's question, you win 100 VP at the close of the contest, if your answer was most popular; 50 VP if it was second most popular. Most popular is determined by the number of thumbs up your answer received from all those that read it and voted.

Think you can maintain your Bronze Team Leader status next month, and even move up a level? With this as your guide, you have the know how. Just supply the action. :)
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Let's review how you may have attained Bronze Team Leader status, and how you can maintain it, and also grow to Silver, Gold, and Platinum Team Leader status.

In review and looking forward to next month:

* Do your daily actions, daily, as you already do.(341 VP for October, 31 days x 11)
* Do all your weekly actions, as you are doing. (152 VP: 120 VP for mailer; 20 VP for TConnect; and 12 VP for Stream posts.)
* Rate your sponsor. (10 VP)

Now
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

First, here’s an obvious answer. Then, I suggest the real reason why you should keep everyone in your downline as long as they are willing to be there.

First: Why would you want to? You create a team message to go to your PSAs, your CSAs, or both. Does it take longer to create because it will go to someone who doesn't respond or do anything? No. It takes the same amount of time to create your weekly message/newsletter, regardless who you sent it to.

Does it take longer to send to the inactive affiliates? No. You simply select "all" and send your message to the actives and the non-actives. Actually, it takes a few seconds longer, just to filter out the non-active affiliates.

Then: Why would you want to give up? When you send weekly messages, you want the largest group of people possible to send those messages to. Wouldn't you rather send to 1000, than to 100? Say "yes". Okay, here's why:

Messages are made of words. Words convey information, emotion, and pictures. They create interest, arouse thought, and tell the reader what you want him/her to do. The more people you send that message to, the more opportunities you have to get the message read. The more messages you get read, the more people are likely to remember you, and become interested in what you have to say. The more they remember you and become interested in what you have to say, the more likely it is that they will give some thought about what you are saying.

You want people to think about what you are saying. While people buy (and sign up for free offers) for emotional reasons, they need positive information to support why they did it. They will not become consistent workers until they feel what’s in it for them is valuable. That's where the information you have been sending comes in, as well as the long wait you have endured.

The other advantage of having many people to send messages is that you also have to write a subject line. That subject line may well determine whether your message is opened. If it's not opened, your message won't be read.

In conclusion, keep everyone until they leave. Hone your word skills in your message, and in your subject line. The more people that see it, the more response you get. Not responding is a response in marketing. No response means you didn't hit the right nerve, today, for them. More people mean more opportunities to hit the nerve that they will respond to today.

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First, here’s an obvious answer. Then, I suggest the real reason why you should keep everyone in your downline as long as they are willing to be there.

First: Why would you want to? You create a team message to go to your PSAs, your CSAs, or both. Does it take longer to create because it will go to someone who doesn't respond or do anything? No. It takes the same amount of time to create your weekly message/newsletter, regardless who you sent it to.

Does it take longer to
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Affiliate since: 04/07/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

As a leader, or an aspiring leader, I feel we have a responsibility to assist those who ask us for help. It helps the person who asked for help. It helps us in our quest to improve our leadership. It strengthens SFI. If a leader does not know the answer, it is to his/her advantage to find out. When a leader learns and passes on information, many also learn. As a side note: You can't out give the universe. Yet as you continue joyously giving to others, the universe keeps giving to you.