Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

There are very many ways to advertise your business outside of online social media and many of these ways are as easy to use and as cheap as social media if not cheaper. The following are some of the ways which readily come to mind allowing you to keep it simple and cheap but at the same time giving your business effective exposure in terms of advertising.

1. You can put your website on notepads, pens, newsletters, bumper stickers, coffee cups, etc, etc

2. You can use well designed and crafted Flyers which you can slip into the center pages of newspapers with some agreements with the vendors.

3. Of course, good old Business cards are still very effective ways to advertise your business.

4. You can use classifieds in your local newspaper.

5. You can mail out well-worded and crafted postcards.

6. You can leave flyers/posters in your local library, supermarkets, drug stores, Laundromats and such like places which many people frequent.

7. You can use welcome baby cards for hospitals and baby gifts for newborns in the hospital with your business tags as labels.

8. You can also purchase cheap seed packets, put a tag on them with your website and give to farmers and horticulturists.

9. You can use good old word-of-mouth to advertise your business to friends, family and anyone you get acquainted with.

10. You can use well-branded Buttons and Lapel pins.

11. You can brad ballpoint pens to hand out with a short advertisement and your URL.


12. You can create an information type handout that briefly explains your business.

13. When you go to a garage or yard sale, request permission to leave a few of your flyers there.

14. You can put your Business Card in all outgoing mail including anything that has a postage paid envelope.

15. You can use Car magnets to advertise your business.

16. You can use local magazines, newspapers, community newsletters, etc with very wide local readership to promote your business.

17. You can leave your Business Cards in restrooms at restaurants or on cork boards around grocery stores.

18. You can set up a free giveaway box in any store that will give you permission.

19. You can buy a personalized stamp and put your ad on it. Use it to stamp the back of any envelopes that you mail.

20. If you receive a junk mail with the postage paid envelopes, just send a flyer back to the company and use their return envelope.

21. You can advertise on personalized T-shirts and baseball caps.

22. You can make up Gift basket raffles for Church bazaars, concerts at your local community hall, or any town function carefully leaving your flyers/business cards in the baskets.

23. You can put flyers on car windshields in the parking lot at your kids sporting events, local gyms and stadiums.

24. You can leave a business card with your tip for your waiter/waitress in your local restaurant.

25. You can ask for permission in your local fast food takeout to post a flyer in their window.

26. You can create a post it stack of your business cards with a glue stick and then post them at pay phones.

27. You can leave business cards by the change machine in the mall arcade or at the ATM machine.

28. You can advertise your business in the sun visor of your car using vinyl letters.

The above list is by means exhaustive since there are very many ways you can promote your business offline. You can use your own imagination and ingenuity to improve on it based on your culture and where you live. Just find a way to think outside the box on this issue and you’ll be Ok.

I do hope this answers your question. Best wishes!!!


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There are very many ways to advertise your business outside of online social media and many of these ways are as easy to use and as cheap as social media if not cheaper. The following are some of the ways which readily come to mind allowing you to keep it simple and cheap but at the same time giving your business effective exposure in terms of advertising.

1. You can put your website on notepads, pens, newsletters, bumper stickers, coffee cups, etc, etc

2. You can use well
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

In this business, after becoming an Executive Affiliate for the month, the next rank in view is Bronze Team Leader. Attaining that rank confers on you some special benefits. As the name implies, the primary benefit of being a Bronze Team Leader is the great opportunity to lead and to provide leadership for your team. This is one benefit many SFI affiliates usually take for grated to the detriment of their success in SFI business. As a team leader, you maximize this benefit,

- By reading more. Of course you know….”readers are leaders.”
- By becoming more honest.
- By communicating more and better.
- By showing good examples.
- By being more consistent and diligent in your SFI business.
- By leading by example.
- By offering help if and when needed.
- By being reliable and dependable to your affiliates.
- By motivating and inspiring your affiliates.

Aside from leading, the other two rather most obvious benefits you get for attaining the rank of BTL are a bonus of 12 TCredits and a proportionate share of Second Home CSAs. You can maximize the use of your bonus TCredits by using them to trade in TripleClicks shops, participate in PriceBenders auctions and getting better involved in SFI Zebra/Trivia Games. Of course the additional TCredits gives you the added capacity to buy more things and to take part in auctions and games more robustly. A more robust participation enables you to earn more Member Reward Points which you can in addition deploy to use at TripleClicks shops.

On the other benefit of being awarded Second Home CSAs, you get an expanded/enhanced opportunity to earn about 15% commissions on all their spending activities. You can therefore maximize this benefit of being a Bronze Team Leader if you can guide and lead these CSAs to remain active in the business. The more the activities coming from these CSAs, the more you get rewarded as a Bronze Team Leader. That means their increased success in their business directly results in increased commissions and bonuses for you as a Bonze Team Leader. Getting these CSAs to work harder and better is one sure way to maximize your own benefits as a Bronze Team Leader.

I hope you find this answer useful.





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In this business, after becoming an Executive Affiliate for the month, the next rank in view is Bronze Team Leader. Attaining that rank confers on you some special benefits. As the name implies, the primary benefit of being a Bronze Team Leader is the great opportunity to lead and to provide leadership for your team. This is one benefit many SFI affiliates usually take for grated to the detriment of their success in SFI business. As a team leader, you maximize this benefit,

- By reading
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

Let the prospects know that SFI is a business, a real business which every affiliate joins in order to earn income. Just tell them that SFI works if you can earn income from the actions you take in the business classified broadly as follows:

1. You earn income from selling your own products/services.
2. You earn income from commissions from helping to sell other affiliates’ products.
3. You earn income from earning VersaPoints for your sales/actions activities.
4. You earn residual income as commissions from the activities of all your affiliates (PSAs and CSAs).
5. You earn income on VersaPoints “matching” from the activities of your affiliates up to 12 generations downline.
6. You earn residual income as commissions from the sales made by the E-Commerce Associates, ECAs you introduced into the business.
7. All these commissions are aggregated and paid to you monthly.

To be sure that you earn these incomes, these here below are things you must routinely do if you are a serious affiliate who wants to earn big in the business.

- Log in daily and earn as many VersaPoints, VP as you can.
- Do your daily, weekly and monthly activities routinely to earn VP.
- Advertise/promote your Gateways to recruit PSAs.
- Use all other effective marketing methods to recruit PSAs.
- Promote/advertise TripleClicks products/services to make sales.
- Take advantage of all the marketing tools/methods SFI provides freely to make sales and recruit PSAs.
- Earn enough VP monthly to become Executive Affiliate, EA and maintain a minimum of that rank monthly.
- Read widely in SFI and take all income-boosting lessons as part of the tools provided for the business.
- Join the forums and share your ideas and worries with fellow affiliates.
- Take advantage of the tips SFI gives daily.
- Belong to a2a and share ideas and tips with fellow affiliates.
- Participate in PriceBenders auctions.
- Have fun and learn the business from Trivia/Zebra games provided.

With this answer, it is possible to satisfy the curiosity of SFI prospects who ask, “how does it work...and what do you do?”

Best wishes!


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Let the prospects know that SFI is a business, a real business which every affiliate joins in order to earn income. Just tell them that SFI works if you can earn income from the actions you take in the business classified broadly as follows:

1. You earn income from selling your own products/services.
2. You earn income from commissions from helping to sell other affiliates’ products.
3. You earn income from earning VersaPoints for your sales/actions activities.
4. You
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

In Internet business, you can hardly make any headway if you are unable to drive traffic to your business. This is because, the more the number of visitors to your page, the higher your chances of getting patronage or making sales. In SFI, your TConnect page is where you can display your own sundry stuff for sale. You get better patronage if the traffic to the page is high. You therefore need deliberate efforts to get that to happen. Here is what you can do.

The first thing you do is to follow SFI guide lines and word the page correctly for Search Engines to find. The page is always highly ranked by Search Engines and it shows up easily in search results. That is one sure way to attract traffic to the page.

The second thing you do is to post your member TConnect Page link directly in your ads as well as sending it to your prospects, be they friends, relatives or would be costumers.

Thirdly, you can have the link and a short text promo in your email signature feature.

Fourthly, you can purposely advertise the page link in line with your normal business promo/ads.

Fifthly, you can connect with as many ECAs as you can to enable you to leverage on the search results of your “connected” ECAs for your own traffic.

Sixthly, you can send the link for indexing in several thousands of Search Engines/Directories.

I sincerely believe that if you are able to do all the above with your TConnect page, you will be in a very good stead to attract steady traffic to it.

I hope you find this answer useful.



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In Internet business, you can hardly make any headway if you are unable to drive traffic to your business. This is because, the more the number of visitors to your page, the higher your chances of getting patronage or making sales. In SFI, your TConnect page is where you can display your own sundry stuff for sale. You get better patronage if the traffic to the page is high. You therefore need deliberate efforts to get that to happen. Here is what you can do.

The first thing you do is
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

The best ways to measure success in SFI are many and varied. They depend heavily on the goals set by each affiliate for themselves. If you measure your progress against your set goals in the business, you are using a very credible way to do your measurement. With daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals encouraged in SFI, these measurements can easily be carried out with a lot of credibility. What you can do is to compare your PLANNED achievements with your ACTUAL achievements to find out if, how and at what rate you are succeeding. That is the best way to measure your success in SFI. You can safely use these here parameters.

1. What SFI rank did you plan to be in your first month or first year in the business and where are you now?
2. How many PSAs did you plan to have signed on in your first month or year and how many did you actually sign on?
3. How many auctions did you plan to win and how many have you actually won?
4. How many a2a friends did you plan to have and how many do you actually have?
5. How many Daily Grand draws did you plan to win and how many have you won?
6. How much income/money did you plan to make and how much are you making now?
7. What standard of living did you plan for and how far have you gone?
8. What kind of car did you plan to own and what kind of car do you own now?
9. Where did you plan to live and where are you living now?
10. What kind of house did you plan to own and what type do you own now?
11. What quality of life did you plan for and where are you now?
12. How much time did you plan to devote to SFI business and how much time are you devoting now?
13. What Class, Country and World rank in the business did you plan to be and where are you now?
14. How many PRMs did you plan to introduce and how many do you introduce now?
15. What volume of business in USD did you plan to do at Tripleclicks and what volume are you doing now?
16. How many WAVE 3 winnings did you plan for and how many have you actually won?

In all honesty, these are a few ways I can immediately remember now how best you can measure your success in SFI business. You too can think up some more depending on your own goals.

I do hope you find my answer useful.



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The best ways to measure success in SFI are many and varied. They depend heavily on the goals set by each affiliate for themselves. If you measure your progress against your set goals in the business, you are using a very credible way to do your measurement. With daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals encouraged in SFI, these measurements can easily be carried out with a lot of credibility. What you can do is to compare your PLANNED achievements with your ACTUAL achievements to find out if, how
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

Many affiliates use manual bidding as well auto-bidding in their PriceBender’s auction bids for varied reasons. Some of these reasons do not really have anything to do with actually winning the auctions. Some bidders use them separately while others use them in combination. What probably determines which is better depends on what the bidder wants to achieve and what strategy he/she has in place. They both have their own strong points and weak points so everything depends on what the bidders are after. To determine which is better, it is best to take into account these strong points and weak points to arrive at that decision.

MANUAL BIDDING
Strong Points:
- More intelligent bidding.
- Tactful bidding.
- More and better control over your bids.
- Better implementation of your strategy.
- Better timing of your bids.
- Better control over the use of your TCredits.

Weak Points:
- Too much time consuming.
- Too much energy sapping.
- Bidding fatigue sets in faster.

AUTO-BIDDING
Strong Points:
- Saves time.
- Saves energy.
- More resilient bidding.

Weak Points:
- Excessive use of TCredits.
- Less control over bidding strategy.
- Poor timing of your bids.
- Lack of bidding intelligence.
- Tactless bidding.

Like everything with automation, the level of human intelligence input is minimal so there is a tendency to misread the intentions of your fellow bidders and even to miss the trend at times. While bidding to win, the intention is to outwit and to outbid your fellow bidders and that requires some level of intelligence in your bids. That intelligence is something manual bidding can always fall back on as the bidding progresses. That alone makes manual bidding a better strategy to win these auctions instead of auto-bidding. If you have sufficient time and energy to spend on bids, I personally will recommend manual bidding over auto-bidding in auctions like PriceBenders taking into consideration the strong and weak points of both as highlighted above.

I hope this answer helps.


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Many affiliates use manual bidding as well auto-bidding in their PriceBender’s auction bids for varied reasons. Some of these reasons do not really have anything to do with actually winning the auctions. Some bidders use them separately while others use them in combination. What probably determines which is better depends on what the bidder wants to achieve and what strategy he/she has in place. They both have their own strong points and weak points so everything depends on what the bidders are
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

Great question! Affiliates with employee mentality always want to get paid before rendering a service whereas those with business owner mentality always want to add value or render a service first before any rewards. With this distinction, it is easy to work on affiliates to turn around their mind sets. In that quest, here is what best you can do.

1. Talk them into accepting delayed gratification as against instant gratification.
2. Get them to work to render a service first to get rewarded later.
3. Show them the benefits of being their own bosses.
4. Let them see why it is better to be employers instead of employees.
5. Let them know that as business owners they have no fear of being fired.
6. Let them know that employees are a dime-a-dozen while employers are fewer and in a select club.
7. Let them know that employees have fixed remunerations whereas business owners have unlimited earnings.
8. Let them know that employees make money only when they work whereas a business owner earns residual income.
9. Tell them that an employee is only an asset in the system while the business owner owns the system.
10. Let them know that a business owner earns from his/her investments while an employee earns only by selling his/her labor.
11. Tell them that business ownership confers unlimited power whereas employees have very limited power.
12. Let them know that employers give Instructions/Directives whereas employees take Instructions/Directives.
13. Show them how employers lead while employees follow.
14. Show them the advantages of working to earn as against earning to work.

For these and many other reasons too numerous to mention here, your affiliates can easily see that it is best for them to see their SFI business like a business and to treat it as such. That is the best way for them only if they but knew.

Best wishes.


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Great question! Affiliates with employee mentality always want to get paid before rendering a service whereas those with business owner mentality always want to add value or render a service first before any rewards. With this distinction, it is easy to work on affiliates to turn around their mind sets. In that quest, here is what best you can do.

1. Talk them into accepting delayed gratification as against instant gratification.
2. Get them to work to render a service first to get
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

If people are well informed about the use and benefits of TC Gift Cards when they receive them, they are bound to use them. The dearth of information about the importance of these cards is usually the main reason why some people do not use them if given. Gift Cards are very effective marketing tools in SFI. They are a very effective way to introduce SFI and Tripleclicks to other people. They are cute, beautiful and easily appreciated as simple gifts. Many people relish getting a Gift Card and most are always very appreciative of the cards.

Currently in SFI, there are two types of Gift Cards, the Physical and the Digital Gift Cards with a common feature of 12 characters redemption code which is the most important marketing feature in the cards. If you want to distribute these cards by email, all you need are Digital Gift Cards with the appropriate codes already inscribed by SFI. You must understand that SFI regulates the use of these cards by very strict rules. For best results, it is best to familiarize yourself with these rules before you give out Gift Cards.

To ensure they are used, accompany them with this simple message.

“I have some Gifts Cards that I'd like you to have as a token of my love and appreciation of our friendship.

You can redeem the cards at SFI Tripleclicks which is a very popular e-commerce platform like Amazon or eBay.

The card has a $12 value, redeemable in Tripleclicks products and merchandises.

The gift card redemption code is:
xxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you.”
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If however the cards are not used after sometime say about a couple of weeks after sending/giving them out, the best thing to do is send a short reminder repeating the above message. With these reminders, there is a big chance that the beneficiaries will eventually use/redeem the cards.

I hope you find this answer useful.

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If people are well informed about the use and benefits of TC Gift Cards when they receive them, they are bound to use them. The dearth of information about the importance of these cards is usually the main reason why some people do not use them if given. Gift Cards are very effective marketing tools in SFI. They are a very effective way to introduce SFI and Tripleclicks to other people. They are cute, beautiful and easily appreciated as simple gifts. Many people relish getting a Gift Card and most
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

For a new affiliate in SFI, there is a tendency to get overwhelmed with things to read. No matter, these are things you really need to know anyway if you want to do well in the business. With the benefit of hindsight, if I were to start all over with SFI, I will do the following differently.

1. Try to get 500 VP within my first 24 hours in the business.
2. Read the LaunchPad thoroughly and sequentially.
3. Log in to my site daily to read, learn and earn VP.
4. Promote my Gateways like hell.
5. Promote TripleClicks products very widely.
6. Buy or recruit PSAs with steady flows.
7. Be more vigorous in enrolling e-commerce associates.
8. Invest some real time and money in the business.
9. Read more of Forum and ASK SC posts.
10. Play more Eager Zebra games.

The foregoing are the things I believe if I did differently, will have helped my business a great deal.

I hope this answers your question?

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For a new affiliate in SFI, there is a tendency to get overwhelmed with things to read. No matter, these are things you really need to know anyway if you want to do well in the business. With the benefit of hindsight, if I were to start all over with SFI, I will do the following differently.

1. Try to get 500 VP within my first 24 hours in the business.
2. Read the LaunchPad thoroughly and sequentially.
3. Log in to my site daily to read, learn and earn VP.
4. Promote my
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 722

Great question! In fact I get asked this question very often and here now are some of the answers I regularly give. I love SFI because:

01. It has given me the best ever opportunity to own my own business.
02. I get free training and mentoring from SFI to do my business.
03. SFI gives me my own free site to do my business.
04. It allows me into a huge family of like-minded people to do business with.
04. SFI effortlessly allows me to do business 24/7 in over 200 countries of the world.
05. SFI provides all necessary tools free of charge for me to do my business.
06. SFI guarantees and protects my business from fraud and scams.
07. SFI practically leads me by the hand to run my business.
08. I get paid commissions from just being active in SFI.
09. SFI puts my business out there worldwide 24/7 saving me a lot of hassles.
10. And wait for it! The very best part, I can earn residual income for life from the little things I did in my SFI business in the past.

The foregoing are some of the most glaring things I love about SFI. Have a nice day.


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Great question! In fact I get asked this question very often and here now are some of the answers I regularly give. I love SFI because:

01. It has given me the best ever opportunity to own my own business.
02. I get free training and mentoring from SFI to do my business.
03. SFI gives me my own free site to do my business.
04. It allows me into a huge family of like-minded people to do business with.
04. SFI effortlessly allows me to do business 24/7 in over 200 countries
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