Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This question touches on a vital aspect on how to grow one's SFI Business.

Below is a brief summary of the five major components to planning, organizing, placing, and tracking an online ad campaigns.

1. Identifying the sites in which to place the ads: First, free sites or paying sites? This depends on the advertising budget. Many sites offer free advertising. The effective strategy, for placing free ads, is too long to discuss here. Please refer to the training modules. For paid ads, preliminary research is vital. Alexia, a site ranking tool, may be used to select the most frequented sites by opportunity seekers.

2. Choosing the type of advertising and marketing supports: Banner ads are now very popular, especially because SFI offers dynamic banners. Opportunity seekers can click on them and be taken to the appropriate Gateways. The banner pictures change frequently to offer variety.

3. Selecting the SFI Gateway/URL: There are over numerous URLs for sponsoring or for sales of the various SFI income streams along the SFI ID, with different messages.

4: Using the tracking codes: This is a vital part. There are codes specific to SFI Corporate. But there are enough available codes to choose from. The strategy of selecting and placing tracking codes is explained in detail in this training article: https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking

5. Monitoring the results: This is where all parts of the strategy come together. The codes will provide data as to which sites are giving excellent results and which ones are performing poorly. Focus must be on the sites and the ads that are producing good results. The poorly performing ads and sites should be disregarded. The collected data will be used for the next ad campaigns. The wordings of the ads may help improve sign-up quality and avoid sleeping/inactive affiliates.

These are the strategies of the most successful marketers.
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This question touches on a vital aspect on how to grow one's SFI Business.

Below is a brief summary of the five major components to planning, organizing, placing, and tracking an online ad campaigns.

1. Identifying the sites in which to place the ads: First, free sites or paying sites? This depends on the advertising budget. Many sites offer free advertising. The effective strategy, for placing free ads, is too long to discuss here. Please refer to the training modules. For
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hit Tracking is a Power tool, an advanced Marketing and Ad Technique. It helps you work with clarity and avoid placing your ads blindly.
Find the details in Power Tools/Key Code Tracking through the link below.
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

What does Hit Tracking do?
It gives you detailed account of the source of your sign-ups. For a given ad campaign, if you have advertised in two or more sites, and you have placed different tracking codes in each of them, those codes will tell you whether a given site is yielding good results for you.

How Hit Tracking can help you?
Knowing which sites are productive and which ones are not allows you to focus your advertising efforts where you are getting good results. You want to duplicate both the wording of those ads and the advertising support you are using such as banners and pictures in those sites that offering the best results.

Long term effects
When you tweak your ads this way, after a period you determine as indicative enough, you will have a list of sites where you will focus your ad campaigns. This monitoring has to done periodically. Some sites may stop being productive, other sites may improve. You will adapt to the new realities your advertising and marketing strategy.

This is what the most successful marketers do on a regular basis.

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Hit Tracking is a Power tool, an advanced Marketing and Ad Technique. It helps you work with clarity and avoid placing your ads blindly.
Find the details in Power Tools/Key Code Tracking through the link below.
https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking

What does Hit Tracking do?
It gives you detailed account of the source of your sign-ups. For a given ad campaign, if you have advertised in two or more sites, and you have placed different tracking codes in each of them,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The "Income Index" provides us with a clear and detailed answer to the question "Where do I learn about earning income with SFI?". It offers a plan, not only for producing income, but also for being an SFI Top earner.

Furthermore, "SFI Basics" describes four important sets of activities that summarize what we need to focus on to successfully build our businesses. When we apply this information, we will start producing income with SFI.

Some of us will make money with SFI only after a while, whereas others will start earning commissions in their first month. It is all commensurate with our personal work ethics and focus.

When we join SFI, we are guided towards starting on the right foot by reading SFI Basics and applying the information. In addition, this introductory material gives us a simplified form of our SFI business in three steps:

* Qualifying for the rank of Executive Affiliate and maintaining it;
* Sponsoring affiliates and teaching them duplication; and
* Selling TripleClicks products and services.

Every new affiliate can do the above in their first month, using the beginners' marketing aids and methods; and whoever does this successfully will start producing income with SFI.

Hence, there is neither a secret nor time frame about it. It is merely a matter of following the charted path of building an SFI business and keeping oneself at it on a daily basis, while setting one's sight on the long term of sponsoring a strong team of active affiliates whom we help to be successful. By helping our PSAs reach their goals, we also will reach our goals and make money.
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The "Income Index" provides us with a clear and detailed answer to the question "Where do I learn about earning income with SFI?". It offers a plan, not only for producing income, but also for being an SFI Top earner.

Furthermore, "SFI Basics" describes four important sets of activities that summarize what we need to focus on to successfully build our businesses. When we apply this information, we will start producing income with SFI.

Some of us
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

All the Eager Zebra games offer excellent opportunities to refer TripleClicks members. This is more enhanced with the possibility to create our own league for the games we choose to do so.

We know that for each league, we need 5 members including ourselves. Thus, our friends are the ideal playmates we can invite.

Hence, we have twice the vested interest to get our league going.

There are several ways we can get our friends, not only interested, but also excited. Here, an informal approach may work better. I am expanding, below, on two approaches that are easy to use, starting with the most informal.

First, try to get them to play the game with you on your hand held device: At a get-together, an outing, or at a restaurant, log into SFI and play the game for which you have created a league, pass the hand held device around and invite your friends to try the game after explaining to them the basics rules and offering them tips to help them navigate the game successfully.

Once they have tried it, they may want to play again, even when you are not present with them. That would be one of the most appropriate time to invite them to be part of your league. Take a moment to give them a short presentation on SFI, TripleClicks and the Eager Zebra games, including the features and rules pertaining to the leagues.

It is very likely that you will have them excited about it.

Another approach is to extend formal invitations. Your intimate knowledge of your friends' interests and hobbies are the strongest motivators you can use to bring them to join your league.

Take inspiration from the write-up that accompanies the announcement made by SFI when we were offered the opportunity to set up the leagues, as well as the rules pertaining to the games, and the tips offered for winning.

Any one of these two approaches will help you successfully enroll your friends.
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All the Eager Zebra games offer excellent opportunities to refer TripleClicks members. This is more enhanced with the possibility to create our own league for the games we choose to do so.

We know that for each league, we need 5 members including ourselves. Thus, our friends are the ideal playmates we can invite.

Hence, we have twice the vested interest to get our league going.

There are several ways we can get our friends, not only interested, but also excited. Here,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The diversity of the SFI business, its various income streams and features offer us multiple opportunities to have a family member involved in our SFI affiliate endeavor.

The wording of your question eliminates the major hurdle of having more than one affiliate account per household, in compliance with article 6 of the Affiliate agreement that states: "A maximum of ONE SFI Affiliate per household is allowed. In addition, each SFI Affiliate should have his or her own access to the Internet via his or her own computer, tablet, or other mobile device."

Your aim to partner with a family member is not included in this restriction. Hence, a family member can be working with you on the same account, at various degrees depending on their level of interest and the understanding you both have reached.

In this context, family members will be happy to make themselves useful, if they reach, one, two or more of their personal goals and interests by being partners in your SFI business and helping you grow it.

Your agreement with them should spell out clearly the tasks they will be responsible for as well as the various rewards they can expect. You should make this partnership a win-win situation for all parties involved.

Your personal, intimate knowledge of your relatives is your major selling point. You know them closely enough to be aware of:
- their skills,
- their shopping habits,
- their hobbies,
- their habits,
- if they are drawn towards business ventures,
- what sports they like,
- the minors and major health issues they may have or the lack of thereof.

You can use the above information, or any other for that matter, to get them interested in joining you, by pointing out what will they gain by do so, in addition to the financial rewards of helping you grow your business and having a share of the generated income.

For example, I mentioned "health issues" for one specific reason. A family member who suffers from "joints pain" may find relief with the products sold by TripleClicks Direct to cure that ailment. They will also know where and to whom to sell what they are using themselves.

A sports fan will be eager to be involved in the Uber-Picks games and will know how to bring in other fans as PRMs.

Another family member who has skills in computer programming, in SEO, or social media will be a great addition and very helpful in building a website, running a blog, and handling your overall online advertising through SEO and the major social media websites.

Having one, two or more family members involved in your SFI business is an excellent way to get your business grow faster and strengthen the family bonds.
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The diversity of the SFI business, its various income streams and features offer us multiple opportunities to have a family member involved in our SFI affiliate endeavor.

The wording of your question eliminates the major hurdle of having more than one affiliate account per household, in compliance with article 6 of the Affiliate agreement that states: "A maximum of ONE SFI Affiliate per household is allowed. In addition, each SFI Affiliate should have his or her own access to the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

When I give away gift cards to prospects, I always tie them to both TripleClicks membership and SFI affiliate registration.

Each of the distribution methods offers us opportunities to highlight SFI's numerous features, benefits and selling points we can use to build excitement.

We can give a gift card
- by hand to family members, relatives, friends, or store clerks when we are shopping;
- add it to a tip at a restaurant, or after a taxi ride;
-by direct mail;
- through a Gift Card Co-op; or
- with an online promotion linked to an email marketing campaign, a blog, or a webinar.

The opportunities are endless.

Depending on whether it is an offline or an online distribution method, the first goal is to identify what interests the gift card recipient. We should tie the gift card to SFI and TripleClicks' benefits and features, depending on how the prospect answers the following questions:
- are they employed?
- do they run their own business?
- what are their online buying habits?
- what are their hobbies?
- are they sports fans?
- do they play online games?
- do they have any interest or curiosity about penny auctions?

Thus, we can get a sports fan excited about the Uber-Picks games, a business owner about the TripleClicks store, a store clerk about the potential earnings of the SFI affiliate program.

In other words, each gift card give away should be introduced with a presentation of, at least, one aspect of SFI that can help the prospect improve their condition. The presentation should focus on how SFI/TripleClicks can help the prospect meet their goals, further their business growth, find greater satisfaction in their hobbies, and/or improve their financial situation.
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When I give away gift cards to prospects, I always tie them to both TripleClicks membership and SFI affiliate registration.

Each of the distribution methods offers us opportunities to highlight SFI's numerous features, benefits and selling points we can use to build excitement.

We can give a gift card
- by hand to family members, relatives, friends, or store clerks when we are shopping;
- add it to a tip at a restaurant, or after a taxi ride;
-by direct mail;
-
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Building an SFI business is better served by sponsoring active affiliates, referring PRMs, and making sales.

TCredits can successfully be used, in a well-planned and concerted strategy, towards boosting those activities that will positively impact SFI business growth and help us score large amounts of both sales/purchase and Action VersaPoints (AVP).

As much as possible, I focus on maximizing the AVP that can be derived from the use of TCredits, such as the 500 AVP from auctions, the 200 AVP from Eager Zebra games, the listing of new products and others. Doing so helps me also build up my Purchase/Sales VersaPoints.

We all are familiar with DP auctions that allow us to maximize our earnings of MRPs we can use to buy more TCredits.

Additionally, bidding on auctions will open for us the opportunities to take part onto Bid & Build to earn the rights to spin, and win a minimum of one affiliate with 10 spins. With some luck, with 10 spins, we may even earn more than one PSA.

With the new sharing features of "Challenge a friend", auctions open for us the opportunity of referring PRMs and making sales.

Additional use of TCredits to build our SFI businesses will strengthen our working relationships with our PSAs:

(1) allocating TCredits in the promotions as incentives for new sign-ups (Cash Welcome and TCredits Welcome)
(2) giving TCredits to highly active affiliates, especially among those who are on our "Movers" lists
(3) and rewarding those of them who win the contests we are organizing, to boost our team members' business building activity.
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Building an SFI business is better served by sponsoring active affiliates, referring PRMs, and making sales.

TCredits can successfully be used, in a well-planned and concerted strategy, towards boosting those activities that will positively impact SFI business growth and help us score large amounts of both sales/purchase and Action VersaPoints (AVP).

As much as possible, I focus on maximizing the AVP that can be derived from the use of TCredits, such as the 500 AVP from auctions,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

First, let's understand where the idea of an 'elevator pitch' comes from, and what it is.

It comes from the many opportunities sales people have when they visit office buildings, where important business leaders work. The sales rep may take an elevator with somebody extremely important, such as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, who can turn out to be a potentially lucrative customer. Those 30 seconds of a shared elevator ride is a unique opportunity that should not be missed.

An 'elevator pitch' is a brief sales presentation meant to initiate a relationship that will develop further through follow-up. To be effective, it has to build up your audience's interest. You have also to open the door for a follow up on that presentation.

As an SFI affiliate, you want to sponsor prospects and sell TripleClicks products. Hence, it is evident that you will not conclude this 'elevator pitch' with a sign-up or a TripleClicks transaction. What you can reasonably expect is to get your audience to give you their contact information for additional details. If you get their email and phone number, that would be a very good outcome.

The above should be your goals in an 'elevator pitch'.

To succeed, you need to be fully prepared, with your business card ready, and some SFI/Tripleclicks marketing material at hand. Use the various pocket size cards, available as "marketing aids for beginners", at the Marketing Center.

The most important factors, in your presentation, are your body language, the tone in your voice, the clarity of your ideas and your body language. You should have an open and inviting attitude that pull people towards you and give them the positive impression that makes them want to connect with you.

First, identity the floor at which your audience will be exiting. You can see it from the illuminated buttons on the elevator panel. Make sure you conclude your presentation before.

Your 'elevator pitch' implies that you already have built a rapport and have some basic knowledge about the person listening to you. Your presentation should be articulate, concise and convincing. Limit it to a maximum of three statements.

In your opening statement, you want to put yourself into your audience's perspective: their, interests, hobbies, needs, goals, or questions they may be facing.

Next, choose any of the SFI components that will be the ideal solution to your audience's problems. It may be the SFI affiliate program, the TripleClicks store, the Eager Zebra games, or the Pricebenders penny auctions. This solution you are providing will determine the level of interest from your audience.

The point is: a good 'elevator pitch' about SFI will vary depending on who is listening.

Third, ask for their business card. Most business cards, nowadays, have both the phone number and the email address.

Only after you get their business card, would you give them yours. Otherwise, if they have your business card already, they will reply: "I will call you" when you ask them theirs.

It is critical that you follow up the same day by a phone call or an email, the content of which will also depend on how well did your 'elevator pitch' go.
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First, let's understand where the idea of an 'elevator pitch' comes from, and what it is.

It comes from the many opportunities sales people have when they visit office buildings, where important business leaders work. The sales rep may take an elevator with somebody extremely important, such as the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, who can turn out to be a potentially lucrative customer. Those 30 seconds of a shared elevator ride is a unique opportunity that should not be missed.

An
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

First, it is of paramount importance to fully understand the purpose of the CSA Exchange: to improve communications between co-sponsor and the CSA in a manner that benefit them both buy impacting positively the CSA and helping them grow their business.

The institution of Co-Sponsor is unique to SFI, in this industry of Online Marketing and MLM. Its purpose is to enhance the new affiliate's opportunities for success by providing them with additional support to complement what they may be getting from their sponsor or in some instance, filling in the gaps if the sponsor is not fully forthcoming in playing their role adequately.

The CSA Exchange goes further in an attempt to remove the barriers of communications that may stem from differences in language, culture and time zones which determine when we are actively working on our businesses at the website.

By matching CSAs and Co-Sponsors from the same countries, speaking the same languages, sharing the same culture, being actively present at the SFI site at the same working hours, there are much greater opportunities for CSAs and Co=Sponsors to interact through SFI IM and the Forum, especially in the Country and Regional sections of the Forum.

Thus, it is in the best interest of the Co-sponsor to take fully advantage of the CSA exchange. The Co-sponsor is the only one who can initiate the process. He/she should think of the best interest of the CSA as well.

It is also important to keep in mind that not all CSAs are eligible for the exchange. We can identify those who are eligible either through the links in the CSA Exchange announcement or through the Genealogy filters.

I have personally put 350 CSAs through the exchange. I used several criteria to select them from the list of the eligible. As I use English as my working language here, my selection for the CSA exchange has been based on those who do not use English, in addition to those who have not show any activity at all, and those who have not logged in SFI for several months.

Hopefully, a new co-sponsor who speaks their language, share their culture and is active during the same working hours, will have greater chances in connecting with those CSAs and helping them start building their SFI businesses.

Such a result will be a WIN/Win for all.
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First, it is of paramount importance to fully understand the purpose of the CSA Exchange: to improve communications between co-sponsor and the CSA in a manner that benefit them both buy impacting positively the CSA and helping them grow their business.

The institution of Co-Sponsor is unique to SFI, in this industry of Online Marketing and MLM. Its purpose is to enhance the new affiliate's opportunities for success by providing them with additional support to complement what they may be
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

From the very start, I see my communications with my PSAs in a larger agenda and a greater vision of team work, partnership and long-term relationships.

The welcome letter is only the first brick in the foundation of that long-term partnership. It should focus on building trust, friendship, and a sense of common interest. If we make the new affiliate feel welcome, understand that we have their best interest in mind, and the communication lines between them and us are always open, that would have a highly positive impact.

As sponsors, we want to be helpful and welcoming but avoid overwhelming the affiliate with too much information when they are facing the daunting task of assimilating all the new materials available to them at the Affiliate Center

We also need to keep in mind that the new affiliate is getting mail from SFI headquarters with guidance and tips on how to start building their businesses, how to navigate the Affiliate Website, and where to find help.

Further, SFI has eased our tasks as sponsor by making available a draft welcome letter. Even if we want to be creative, that draft welcome letter should inspire us as to what to say to our new PSAs to welcome them in our team. Doing so has the advantage of putting our welcome letter in harmony with the overall messages, tips and guidance the new affiliate is getting.

Thus, as much as possible, it should avoid paraphrasing the messages our PSAs get from SFI Corporate.

If we want to add more tips, these tips should aim at helping the affiliate to see the advantages of taking their training very seriously, not rushing through the information, and following the step-by-step outline in the "To-Do-List," the getting started actions, and the Launchpad lessons.

If they follow the "charted path" of this training, they will have the knowledge and a deeper understanding on how to succeed with SFI.

That is what will be beneficial to them as well as to us, the sponsors.
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From the very start, I see my communications with my PSAs in a larger agenda and a greater vision of team work, partnership and long-term relationships.

The welcome letter is only the first brick in the foundation of that long-term partnership. It should focus on building trust, friendship, and a sense of common interest. If we make the new affiliate feel welcome, understand that we have their best interest in mind, and the communication lines between them and us are always open, that
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