Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

The answer to this question really depends on you and your go to market strategy. Just like your typical Mom and Pop or Brick and Mortar offline business, the key to any businesses' success comes down to advertising and marketing. Without advertising or promoting, you will fail. You need a marketing plan to succeed.

One important key distinction. At least in a local offline business, people still see it or drive or walk buy and you may get some business there. However, this is where people usually fail on the Internet online business aspect. With a website, you also require marketing, advertising and promoting. However, there is no walk up crowd or drive by shopper. You can spend a ton of money on a flashy casino like site with bells and whistles to attract web surfers, but the reality is even if your main product was FREE GOLD and you were standing outside of your online shop with a sign too, if you do not market the site correctly, you gold is worthless as nobody ever knows you exist. Zero traffic, zero sales. However, if you follow the protocol correctly and keep it going, the Internet is so vast, it can make you a lot of money fast as once traffic flows and word catches on, your site becomes viral.

So, the million dollar question is what is the proper protocol to drive traffic to your website or promote it and advertise it so its visible. There are a couple points to make here. There are few main types of online advertising that will play into your success. One is of course SEO or search engine optimization which if done carefully, with good research of content, keywords, and constant updating where value is provided, can bring you a great deal of organic traffic from the Googles, yahoos, and Bing's of the world. The key to SEO, is optimizing your site to match that of your target market. Its one thing to find the right niche but its a little more in depth to optimize your site to best reach that market via the search engine. This is where your strategy of domain name, meta tags, keywords, and keyword rich content that is UNIQUE comes in and we call SEO.

The other main type of traffic is of course advertising, word of mouth and back-linking. SEO is technical marketing so to speak as you can do SEO and do nothing else and if the search engines latch on you get free organic traffic. The second type requires YOU. This is where you advertise you site by back linking to sites that you either do guest blogging, article marketing, banner advertising etc. Think of your site as an island. If you have no way for people too get to it, you are doomed. So, what you do. This is the easiest way to explain it.

Build bridges to it and other modes of transportation. Like airplanes, boats, helicopters, bridges. Each represents a advertising method that will link your island, your website, to land giving willing web visitors a way to reach your island. Again, these are your typical advertising methods,

Banner ads - links back to your site
Article directories - content with keyword links to your site
Forums - post signatures with links to your site
Email marketing
PPC ads or pay per click
Classified ads
Solo ads
Etc

The more YOU do to promote YOUR site, the more you will be seen and the more traffic you will get. This can be accomplished without the Googles of the world, but if you want the best of both traffic, organic and referral, then SEO and your own go to market promoting and advertising is recommended.

Do this and do it right and consistently, you will be seen on Google and that is just the tip of it.

Hope this helps! Good luck!
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The answer to this question really depends on you and your go to market strategy. Just like your typical Mom and Pop or Brick and Mortar offline business, the key to any businesses' success comes down to advertising and marketing. Without advertising or promoting, you will fail. You need a marketing plan to succeed.

One important key distinction. At least in a local offline business, people still see it or drive or walk buy and you may get some business there. However, this is where
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

Great question. The answer to this question as it relates to SFI or any affiliate opportunity is the qualities are typically the same. Meaning, to be successful with SFI or with any online business, one must possess the following qualities and if you do you will likely succeed in any venture you,choose to be in:

1. Optimistic
2. Persistent
3. Motivated
4. Independent but also interdependent
5. Focused
6. Can do attitude even in the wake of failures
7. Helps to have some business sales and marketing experience but not a requirement.
8. Open minded and willing to learn new methods
9. Patience
10. Comminicnatiom skills are desirable.
11. Not afraid to take action without know everything. Just go.

There are many more. These are the most widely acknowledge qualities in my opinion and experience working online over many years. One does not need to possess all or be good at every one of them. Howver, the more of these qualities one does have the more successful they are likely to be.

Anyone, who can follow directions, has a willingness to learn, not afraid to take steps into unknown or unchartered waters and can survive the agony of defeat knowing that it is part of the process for most, has just a good a chance of being successful as anyone else.

The number one killer of all online business attempts by most newbie marketers is they think the Internet is a place of over night successes and when they try for a week or month or some even one day and determine it is not like this, they get frustrated, disappointed and flat just give up or they jump to a new opportunity just to repeat this cycle again. That is where focus is of absolute key importance. If you can stay focused and not get distracted by all the opportunities around you and chip away a little each day, you will be be successful at SFI. It is the ones that stick it out and meet the requirements and follow the rules of engagement that will be successful.

The ones that do that and also have one or all of the above listed qualities will only grow their successes exponentially. Leaders are the ones that possess these qualities or your sponsors.

I hope this provides some invaluable information for you.

Be prosperous.
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Great question. The answer to this question as it relates to SFI or any affiliate opportunity is the qualities are typically the same. Meaning, to be successful with SFI or with any online business, one must possess the following qualities and if you do you will likely succeed in any venture you,choose to be in:

1. Optimistic
2. Persistent
3. Motivated
4. Independent but also interdependent
5. Focused
6. Can do attitude even in the wake of failures
7.
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

This is fair question with a very simple logical answer.

No.

Cold calling in 2015 would be very ineffective as a means of obtaining SFI PSA. Ask yourself the very same question you propose. When was the last time you were cold called and actually cared what the seller who was calling was selling? If you said recently, I would say you are amongst a very limited population.

Although, cold calling at one time used to be an effective method, that is if it was conducted correctly, it has long been dead. The main reason is technology.

Voicemail

Caller ID

Texting

Instant messaging

Let us face it, people just don't want to pick up the phone anymore unless they know whom it is that is calling.

It’s to darn easy to avoid cold callers, plain and simple.

Even if you are lucky to get someone on the line, 99 out of 100 won't be interested. The Internet has changed the way we do things or more specifically our buying habits. We control what is sold to us not the seller and that changed the entire landscape of sales.

The Internet has given customers a means of researching all the competition arming themselves before even getting to the point of dealing with a salesperson. People flat out don't want to be sold to before they are ready to buy and this is why cold calling is flat out non effective in this day and age.

Targeting advertising, whether it be on the Internet or flyers is a better, more effective means leads sourcing. The most effective method in my opinion to gather new leads is to place yourself in the buyers shoes and ask yourself what would you search for and what would spur you to come to or click on an SFI link or sign up on someones SFI gateway page.

This is a very powerful exercise. Once you place yourself in your prospective PSA shoes and understand exactly what they are looking for then you can effectively target them in many ways to sign up under you as their sponsor. This is what you should focus your efforts on and shy away from what is now a dead source of leads gathering in that of cold calling.

I hope I was able to answer your question.

Good luck!
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This is fair question with a very simple logical answer.

No.

Cold calling in 2015 would be very ineffective as a means of obtaining SFI PSA. Ask yourself the very same question you propose. When was the last time you were cold called and actually cared what the seller who was calling was selling? If you said recently, I would say you are amongst a very limited population.

Although, cold calling at one time used to be an effective method, that is if it was conducted
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

Great question.

In actuality the affiliate profile is one of the most important pieces of data obtained by SFI and also first step for any new incoming PSA to complete in full and clearly to the best of their ability. It allows a SFI to better align the vast resources at your disposal to your prospective PSA individual needs and better position them to obtain the proper training and guidance that will aid them in building an effective business.

Now, that's how SFI uses the affiliate profile to their advantage. To answer your question and how you could make use of your PSA's affiliate profile data to assist them in becoming successful in the SFI, is by leveraging the same information in a similar capacity.

The answers that your PSAs provided tell their story in many ways. The first question alone is quite powerful. If you were to look at all your PSAs profiles answer to question 1, it sort of eludes to the fact of where one should be advertising.

More simply put if you go through a thousand profiles of all your PSA and tally the answer of how they heard about SFI, it presents a powerful picture because it will lead you to more affective sources of advertising or more effective targeted methods to source your leads which then you can turn around and explain right back to your PSA and explain how they can leverage profiles of their own PSA to grow their business.

Using the answer to question #2 and combining together with the answer to question number one becomes even more powerful because it gives you the basis of why they're starting their business to begin with AND tells you where they were sourced from.

Let's go back to the basics. The most effective method of advertising is to know what your perspective buyer wants and where they go to get it. You have this information at your fingertips in your PSAs affiliate profile, with their answers to questions one and two.

So without having to go through and explain the rationale of what you can leverage from each question in the affiliate profile to explain my point, all you need to do is go through the answers of your affiliates profile and explain to them how they can just turn around and leverage the logic around the basis for the questions in the affiliate profile so they can turn around and help their own PSA.

I hope I was able to provide some value in clarifying how one can not only leverage the affiliate profile questions and answers not just to help your PSA's grow their business but also to help you better grow your own too.

Good luck.
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Great question.

In actuality the affiliate profile is one of the most important pieces of data obtained by SFI and also first step for any new incoming PSA to complete in full and clearly to the best of their ability. It allows a SFI to better align the vast resources at your disposal to your prospective PSA individual needs and better position them to obtain the proper training and guidance that will aid them in building an effective business.

Now, that's how SFI uses the
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

This question is good question and has a very simple answer.

First of all, you should not have to convince your downline to login daily and perform their daily, weekly, and monthly actions. If you do, then you are likely going to end up with a group of likely non action takers. Also, it is likely they did not take the time to do the training because if they did, they would know themselves the importantance of logging in daily.

If you want to get their attention though, just show them or reference all the big leaders' leadership pages. Why? Because most if not all the big leaders or successful members all have daily streaks of 180 days or 365 day badges. What this means is that one of the requirements for success duplication in SFI to obtain success is logging in daily. Therefore, if you don't want to login daily, then you might as well quit as you will likely not succeed in SFi.

This is how you can get the attention of your line right from the start and save you time and headaches long term. To be successful in SFI, you must log in daily to the affiliate center because if you don't you are not duplicating what works. If you don't duplicate what works, then you are likely going to fail.

Hope this answers your question.

Good luck!
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This question is good question and has a very simple answer.

First of all, you should not have to convince your downline to login daily and perform their daily, weekly, and monthly actions. If you do, then you are likely going to end up with a group of likely non action takers. Also, it is likely they did not take the time to do the training because if they did, they would know themselves the importantance of logging in daily.

If you want to get their attention though, just
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

This is an interesting question. I am glad you asked this as there is an important distinction to be addressed and made with this question. Usually, the question asked is what incentives should I offer my PSAs not prospects.

With that said, I might be the minority here or perhaps not. However, I would not offer any incentives to people to get them to join SFI. Having an incentive program for SFI members vs prospects is not the same. With members, usually they signed up under their own free will and were not convinced, coerced, or incentivized to join. This is an important distinction because you should not have to convince or incentivize prospects to join SFI. If your prospects can't decide on own their own will whether SFI is a true business deal with a very probable successful outcome if ran correctly, then I would refrain from having that individual on your team as a result of incentive as your are wasting time and money as more than likely then not, they will quit.

You want prospects where they want to join SFI on their own as they saw or see potential then you utilize incentives after they become members to keep them focused and motivated on their original goal that drove them to sign up for SFI to begin with. This is better timer and money spent as the likelyhood of success is much higher in this scenario then it would be if you were incentivizing prospects.

To answer the question on what incentives are best used to motivate affiliates to stay involved and focused on building their SFI business, well, there are four great incentive to use:

*Provide coop signups either free or subsidized by you and they pay a portion
*Send them TCREDITs
*Reassign affiliates
*Send them TripleClicks gift certificates

All the above incentives are great and it depends on each person on which they should use or can afford to obtain to incentivize their downline members.

Incentives are great to keep your lines active and motivated but I would advise against using incentives to get people to join SFI as you are looking to waste hard earned time and money.

I hope this helps answer your question.

Good luck.
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This is an interesting question. I am glad you asked this as there is an important distinction to be addressed and made with this question. Usually, the question asked is what incentives should I offer my PSAs not prospects.

With that said, I might be the minority here or perhaps not. However, I would not offer any incentives to people to get them to join SFI. Having an incentive program for SFI members vs prospects is not the same. With members, usually they signed up under their
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

Very good question.

I will give you an example of what not to do and this in itself will keep you pushing forward. I gave up on SFI back 10 years ago, I came in looking for the millions and found out it was not what I thought at the time and like all of us see daily, I faded away never gave it a second look.

I entered at a time with others that I knew from other online ventures. Some stayed and guess what? Are still here today.

So, after a little research back at the end of 2012, I was shell shocked. For a month a shook my head thinking if I only stayed if I only stayed. You can imagine what I saw but I will leave the details out. Obviously, if I am back, what I saw was a wake up call and decided that i am coming back a second time and this time I am not ever leaving.

I saw with my own eyes living proof of what one can accomplish in SFI with patience, persistence, motivation and focus and a thirst for knowledge. My failure the first time around and became a wake up call in that this system, SFI, I finally saw the light. This IS a one of a kind opportunity to change oneself for the better and was enough to not only keep me pushing forward, but it was like strapping a rocket on back to give this venture a second go around.

I lit it up and it shot off and I have not turned back and never will. For those who are thinking of giving up, let this story be enough to keep your fire burning. Do not make the same mistake I made 10 years ago and quit to find yourself ten years or even five years from now coming back here in complete awe shaking your head wishing you had not left.

SFI is a real opportunity and it is YOU that needs to change the way YOU see things and then things YOU see will change for you. Stick with this system through thick and thin and it will be well worth the trip you took when you look back 2 years, 5 years, 10 years from now.

Let this askSC answer be the thing that kept you pushing forward in SFI.

Hope this helps. Good luck!
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Very good question.

I will give you an example of what not to do and this in itself will keep you pushing forward. I gave up on SFI back 10 years ago, I came in looking for the millions and found out it was not what I thought at the time and like all of us see daily, I faded away never gave it a second look.

I entered at a time with others that I knew from other online ventures. Some stayed and guess what? Are still here today.

So, after a little research back
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

Great question. Here is the quick precise answer.

The benefits of the IAHBE are endless. Every SFI member should be a member of the IAHBE. If you can afford the expenditure. There are several aspects to the IAHEBE that should be duplicated as part of the rules of success in SFI. SFI and the IAHBE go hand in hand, it's like Laurel and Hardy. Abbot and Costello.

Here is why. The first benefit is actually the most powerful!

A standing order of the IAHBE is worth 1500 sales VP. For $29 a month, when your downline PSA can afford it should be one of two standing orders that should be in their monthly budget for reinvesting business profits. This purchase alone makes your PSAs EA2 every month and they don't have do anything. If you did nothing else, you can remain EA2 and grow your business.

Now although I highly recommend having the IAHBE as a SO just for the fact it is the most economically viable way to 1500 sales VP, I would make use of it as a resource as well. The IAHBE has so many resources and its part of the monthly cost that it far out weighs the cost. It's worth way more and I advise you leverage this yourself and duplicate down.

Obviously, that is not the only way to leverage the IAHBE to grow your business but it should be #1 benefit. If you are going to use the IAHBE, then leverage as a SO monthly. Once you are a member, there is a myriad of insane resources on the site that will help you grow your SFI business.

Here are some top benefits and this just is the tip of the iceberg.

-->Learn how to build your own website. Great for learning how to build a SFI review site of your own. Massive benefit to know how to do use it

--->Learn how to write ad copy that sells. Great for increasing your advertising conversion rates. Good ad copy is essential for marketing

--> Learn proven marketing strategies. Why re-invent the wheel. Use strategies that work. Learn them duplicate them.

-->Locate hard-to-find business resources. Can't find something to grow your business . IAHBE has it.

-->Get tax advice and information. Leverage this as it can save you literally $100 of tax dollars

-->Get Free software for managing your time, your business, etc - massive discounts and benefits

-->Leverage success of others by reading profiles in success. This is worth it right here. See what others do and duplicate them in your own business

As I said above, this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you truly want to be successful and want your SFI business to sky rocket, your first step is to just become a member of the IAHBE. Then be creative and run with it and be practical too and discover how to leverage IAHBE's resources to grow your business.

You will be happy you followed my recommendation!

Hope this helps. Good luck

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Great question. Here is the quick precise answer.

The benefits of the IAHBE are endless. Every SFI member should be a member of the IAHBE. If you can afford the expenditure. There are several aspects to the IAHEBE that should be duplicated as part of the rules of success in SFI. SFI and the IAHBE go hand in hand, it's like Laurel and Hardy. Abbot and Costello.

Here is why. The first benefit is actually the most powerful!

A standing order of the IAHBE is worth
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

The best launch pad lesson is the "Launch Pad" lessons as a whole.

There are good points in every single lesson. By reading the entire set of lessons,
you are collectively receiving the best training, at zero cost, anywhere.
That is in my opinion the best lesson.

As an affiliate new to SFI, you should not focus on one lesson over others. That defeats the sole purpose
of the launch pad. To launch you into a success business in SFI.

The order and content is there in that order with that content to help best get you to a level of
understanding that you will need to succeed. Don't skip around or skim to get the VP.
You are cheating yourself only. Read each thoroughly and try to grasp each one till you get them all.

This is the best launch pad lesson. It provides the vital information that will help achieve the goals you set out.

This did not answer your specific question as in a single lesson as best but I think it drives home the point that you
will get the best training for free if you do every lesson in order as designed.

Launch pad is simply the best!

Hope this helps.
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The best launch pad lesson is the "Launch Pad" lessons as a whole.

There are good points in every single lesson. By reading the entire set of lessons,
you are collectively receiving the best training, at zero cost, anywhere.
That is in my opinion the best lesson.

As an affiliate new to SFI, you should not focus on one lesson over others. That defeats the sole purpose
of the launch pad. To launch you into a success business in SFI.

The
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5

Okay, I am glad you asked this question.

Everyone in SFI must understand the concept of "duplication".

Everyone. Duplication is not just important to your success, it is vital to your success in SFI. To be ever so clear.

-->If you do not follow the rules of success and duplicate what other SFI leaders have done in SFI, you will fail in this venture.
-->If you decide solely to stray down unknown paths or solely swim in unchartered waters, you will fail.

The SFI process in itself is based off the concept of duplication. Everything that you learn is duplication of someone else efforts and knowledge. Someone else has done the heavy lifting for you in a sense and has literally handed it to you in a silver platter.

For Free mind you which is remarkable in itself. The whole entire process has been laid out and structured for a reason. Don't try to reinvent the wheel or your bus will surely breakdown long before you hit your destination.

Do what you know others have done and are doing to be successful. Why break something that we know works. This is especially true in network marketing and online business ventures. The power of the SFI system is what drives its success. Don't change the system but rather duplicate it by no other than marketing to others and let the system sell itself.

This is why duplication works if you finally see the light. It seems so basic that people discount it and think they can change the world to find out like getting smacked in the face with a ton of bricks that what they did or thought didn't work and then get very discouraged and quit. Don't be that person.

Follow the system as it trains you to do. The launch pad is specifically designed in such a way to train one on how to duplicate the rules of success and make SFI work for you too and for anyone willing to take the time to duplicate what has been proven time and time again to work.

Gery has done the heavy lifting. When he says do THIS, then do " THIS" and don't do "that". That is not duplication. That will spell disaster.

THIS will lead to success. For THIS reason is why creating duplication in your business is not only important to your success but is VITAL to your success.

Follow the rules of success = duplication = success. Don't follow the rules of success = deviation = failure.

Which one do you want to follow:

Duplication

Or

Deviation.

Hope the answer is clear to all. Now go practice creating duplication. Be successful. Good luck.


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Okay, I am glad you asked this question.

Everyone in SFI must understand the concept of "duplication".

Everyone. Duplication is not just important to your success, it is vital to your success in SFI. To be ever so clear.

-->If you do not follow the rules of success and duplicate what other SFI leaders have done in SFI, you will fail in this venture.
-->If you decide solely to stray down unknown paths or solely swim in unchartered waters, you
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