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

Hello, Ash Masaeed.

Most of us are fully familiar with both Skype and Youtube as communication and marketing tools.

Both are being heavily used to promote, manage and grow online businesses.

A. Skype is a commercial communication tool that allow phone, chat and video communications.
Each one of these can be used recruit new affiliates, work on duplication and promote other SFI streams of income.

1. By telephone you can speak to Affiliates and hold live conversions
2. The Skype Messenger system offers both video and phone features in addition to the text messaging.

You can use such instrument to personalize your communications with both prospects and affiliates.

a. To the prospects,you may give presentations about SFI that may be attended by several people.

b. To your affiliates, you may offer training geared towards duplication.

B. Youtube has grown to be a media sensation with flexibility it offers about sharing all forms of information.

Video marketing is proving to be very popular and every effective marketing tool.

You can multiple channels to promote all the SFI streams of income.
Your youtube videos may offer a great opportunity to reach a very large audience worldwide.

Those marketers that are successful with Youtube provide practical information about the business they are promoting:

(i) how to join
(ii) what to do and where to focus one's efforts
(ii) specific aspects to which to pay attention. For SFI you may discuss how to win auctions.
(iii) special tips
(iv) organize contest among your downline.

The list of potential effective use of SFI is limited only by your imagination .
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Hello, Ash Masaeed.

Most of us are fully familiar with both Skype and Youtube as communication and marketing tools.

Both are being heavily used to promote, manage and grow online businesses.

A. Skype is a commercial communication tool that allow phone, chat and video communications.
Each one of these can be used recruit new affiliates, work on duplication and promote other SFI streams of income.

1. By telephone you can speak to Affiliates and hold
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Good day to you, Ogechukwa Ukaobasi.

I am very happy for you as you may have a commission to collect and now you are weighing about which commission collection option would work the best for you.

That is very good dilemma to have.

You can find details on each one of those collection options through the link below:
https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/EditCommissionPaymentInfo

To answer your question, it is fair to say that each one has specific advantages as it is solving a particular need and helping the affiliate avoid some specific potential issues.

In view of those aspects, you may decide to choose one option because it works best for you, while another affiliate will choose a different option because, it makes for sense to them. And both of you would be right.

This to say that all the three commission collection instruments are good, taking into account personal affiliate situations and preferences.

Each instrument has its own costs such as the processing fee. Some are higher than others. But we all know that this a very relative point. The costs associated with the Payoneer Master Cards are reasonable with regards to the benefits associated with holding the card. As for Paypal, not every associate will have access to a Paypal account. And for a bank transfer, there may be regulations in the destination countries on foreign currency transactions and bank to bank transfer. Those who worked in banks at national and international levels are very much familiar with the details on banks transactions, their costs and their regulations. This is neither the time nor the place to discuss such an issue.

The bottom line is: everyone of those three commission collection option may be well suited to one affiliate but not to the next, for personal, financial and technical reasons.
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Good day to you, Ogechukwa Ukaobasi.

I am very happy for you as you may have a commission to collect and now you are weighing about which commission collection option would work the best for you.

That is very good dilemma to have.

You can find details on each one of those collection options through the link below:
https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/EditCommissionPaymentInfo

To answer your question, it is fair to say that each one has specific advantages
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Alvin Johnson.

Excellent question.

This is an advanced Advertising and Marketing issue that can be understood only through practical experience. It requires having a first hand knowledge of:

1. The Inner working of cloaking Software of Shortening URLs

2. How to use properly the SFI Gateways

3. How to track and code your Advertising and Marketing Campaigns.

I personally experienced the following just very recently.

The Major drawback of cloaking software will appear very clearly when you want also to use a tracking code to monitor your advertising and marketing efforts. We all know how this tracking is vital in helping to know what is working, what is not working and how to get the best results for our advertising budget.

When the cloaking software is combined with the tracking code,

first, it significantly slows down page loading;

second, it will create to many redirecting;

third, in many case, it will prevent the proper display of the page being advertised.

This will create a highly negative effect on any prospect. The vast majority of those prospects will not wait very long for a page to load, when you are using email marketing or SOLOs

In practical terms, the click ratio of your advertising campaign will be very low. That will also affect the rate of conversion.

In other words, it would be a waste of time, efforts and money. The advertising and marketing efforts would not be successful.

In conclusion, when you want to track your Advertising and Marketing campaign, it better not to use cloaking software.

I hope this answer your question

Good luck to you. Aim at achieving Greatness in 2015

Good luck to everybody.
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Hello, Alvin Johnson.

Excellent question.

This is an advanced Advertising and Marketing issue that can be understood only through practical experience. It requires having a first hand knowledge of:

1. The Inner working of cloaking Software of Shortening URLs

2. How to use properly the SFI Gateways

3. How to track and code your Advertising and Marketing Campaigns.

I personally experienced the following just very recently.

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

SFI on Autopilot?

That is a very interesting idea.

It has to be examined thoroughly, including the security implications

Are you thinking of setting every action on automatic execution, making things happen without your intervention?

If you really prefer to do that, yes you ca; but, only to a certain degree.

And, you will be missing a lot. Further, the management of your SFI Business would not be efficient.

There are major parts of SFI that require daily human intervention. There is just no way you can set those actions on autopilot, at this stage of our technology.

There are online businesses that are run on autopilot: Lead generation on sophisticated software, registration on squeeze pages; follow-up as well as customer interaction on autoresponders; and cashflow directed through automatic bank deposits or online payment mechanisms such as Paypal.

There is a very minimal human intervention, after the whole process is set-up.

However, such businesses are not major successful Affiliates Organizations like SFI.

Do you want to miss interacting with other fellow affiliate in the Forum?

Do you want to skip asking, answering and reading questions and answers here at the Ask SC?

A. There are some basic activities you can set on autopilot
1. Your Standing Order: 1,500 Sales VP and 100 Action VP
2. 6 Months of IAHBE
3. 90 Gift Cards package: You can give away 30 of them each month
4. 50 Gifts Certificates you give monthly to your PSAs
5. Units of S. Builder Co-op you can set up for your sponsoring efforts.
6. Your commission transferred monthly to your bank account or your Mastercard

B. But, there are other vital activities that require your daily intervention
i. The to do list is the first
ii. Welcoming your new PSAs and CSAs, especially if you want to send personalized welcome letters and e-Cards
iii. Posting and commenting in the Forum
iv. Asking questions, answering questions and reading the answers here at Ask SC.
v. Managing your genealogy such as reassigning affiliates, and alerting those who may be dropped because they have been inactive close to a year.
vi. Motivating your downline with regular genealogy/PSA/CSA mailers
vii. Organizing contests.

It clear that the list of activities that require your frequent intervention are far more numerous than those you could set up on autopilot.

C. For Security reasons, SFI Should not be run on autopilot
But, the most important argument against your idea is an argument of security. For your own and for the security of every other affiliate, it is vital that you log in, verify your passwords, make sure that your business is not hijacked.

If you run your business on autopilot, you may put yourself and the whole SFI community on jeopardy.

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SFI on Autopilot?

That is a very interesting idea.

It has to be examined thoroughly, including the security implications

Are you thinking of setting every action on automatic execution, making things happen without your intervention?

If you really prefer to do that, yes you ca; but, only to a certain degree.

And, you will be missing a lot. Further, the management of your SFI Business would not be efficient.

There are major parts of
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Greetings, my friend.


In summary, if you are willing to devote enough time and you are a good writer, two blogs will help you target different audiences: the opportunity seekers for SFI and the online shoppers for Tripleclicks
However, if you are uncertain about how regular your blog postings will be, or you are not fully confident about your writings, one blog may be better.
Let’s develop these ideas below.
Your question implies that you are willing to devote a fairly large amount of time writing blogs. It also addresses questions of marketing strategy as well as focus on specific SFI streams of income. It is true that Sponsoring and Selling Tripleclicks products are the most pre-eminent features. However, it would not be wise to disregard other streams of income such as your own e-commerce store of the referral of e-Commerce Associates.
Hence to fully answer your questions the following factors have to be taken into consideration
A. Use a Single Blog to Present an Overview of SFI
If your marketing strategy is focused on as many of SFI steams of income, you should focus on one blog.
Doing so will lessen your writing production needs. Each of your post may address one aspect within the SFI business. One day, you may write about sponsoring, the next day about Pricebenders auctions; a third blog post may describe Tripleclicks and so on. You can illustrate each post with relevant pictures and marketing materials pertinent to that topic
B. Use Two or More Blogs if you are Focusing on Niche Marketing
For those who are highly committed and willing to allocate a great deal of time, it is very much conceivable to write two or more blogs on a regular basis. Each blog will be address one major SFI stream of income.
This is appropriate and may be very effective if your intent is to focus on market niches.
Writing and managing more than one blog will require you to be highly organized, as you may need to produce at least a blog-article every day.


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Greetings, my friend.


In summary, if you are willing to devote enough time and you are a good writer, two blogs will help you target different audiences: the opportunity seekers for SFI and the online shoppers for Tripleclicks
However, if you are uncertain about how regular your blog postings will be, or you are not fully confident about your writings, one blog may be better.
Let’s develop these ideas below.
Your question implies that you are willing to devote a
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Greetings, Naba Kumar Chaki.

Your question points to the goals that motivate us to join SFI.
Regardless of how the goals are worded, they relate to the quest of being successful, earning substantial income and gaining full financial security. This is what SFI is about.
To reach such goals, seven series of requirements are critical.
1. Find your Passion within SFI and Make it your Hobby.
SFI is your hobby in the sense that you enjoy doing it. You find pleasure and personal satisfaction in doing the daily tasks, sponsoring new affiliate and helping them succeed, selling Triplecliks products, opening your own store, reading the Forum posts, enjoying help other affiliates even if they are not your downline. In other words, every actions relating to SFI that you do is a source of personal contentment for you.
2. Take SFI very seriously. It is a very serious business
It is a hobby, but it a business first and foremost. As a result it should have priority above any other material occupation. The major party of your time and your money should be directed to fulfilling the need to run your business successfully
3. Be Student of Business Knowledge with Emphasis on SFI
Thoroughly educate yourself about the SFI business, its multiple streams of income, its ethics, culture, rules and regulations. Yes, they do exist: how to communicate with other affiliates, your upline and your downline are one example. Familiarize yourself with the technology. Be an internet savvy
4. Plan your Business activities on a monthly, weekly and daily basis
Set your goals every month, review them every week, and execute them every day. Your success depends on this. Get organized and Stay Organized
5. Get organized and Stay Organized
To use your time wisely, you will need to be extremely selective on how you spend it. Success requires that you focus on the tasks that are more likely to produce the desired result. Give to such task your utmost priority. Make sure you handle them early in the morning. That way any disruption that may come later will not affect negatively your day and your productivity.
6. Be a Team Leader, in every sense of the term
Mastering the skills needed in the previous five requirements will make it naturally easy to be a team leader Sponsor Active Affiliate and Refer Business Savvy e-Commerce Associates
Build your team, set up your e-commerce business, refer e-commerce affiliates. You can only successfully tackle as many as the various SFI streams of income if you have mastered the five first requirements.
This is the gateway to reaping the maximum benefits with SFI: developing your own team and helping of your team members develop their own. When you have in your downline, successful team leaders, then, your own success is established and solidified
7. Shield yourself from negative influences that may rob you of your desire to success and instill doubts in your mind.
One of the most common causes of failure is self-doubt and negative attitude. It often comes from people around us. Our ability to protect ourselves from such negativity will enhance our focus to be productive and help us reach our goals.

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Greetings, Naba Kumar Chaki.

Your question points to the goals that motivate us to join SFI.
Regardless of how the goals are worded, they relate to the quest of being successful, earning substantial income and gaining full financial security. This is what SFI is about.
To reach such goals, seven series of requirements are critical.
1. Find your Passion within SFI and Make it your Hobby.
SFI is your hobby in the sense that you enjoy doing it. You find pleasure and
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The Answer to your question is straightforward: Leadership:
Be a Team Player and a Team Leader
This also implies helping and motivating your team members to duplicate your efforts.
As a result you will be leveraging all the resources your team will harness.
The attitude, characteristics and actions of a team leader are well defined. SFI's training modules provide ample guidelines.
It may be summarized as follows:
Being a Team leader is building a team and leading it to success. Further it can be translated as sponsoring highly motivated and highly active affiliates. Specific skills are needed to be an effective team leader. We need to develop such skills.
A. Being an SFI Team Leader and Team Player

(i) Sponsoring focused on quality not on quantity,
(ii) (ii) Knowing and applying the dos and don’ts of team management,
(iii) and (iii) teaching duplication to your team

B. Developing the Skills of a Team Leader
(a) Humility and desire to help
(b) Problem Solving Skills and Tendencies
(c) Clarity in Purpose and communications
Books have been written on Leadership and Team building. The summary of such book will be close to the above.

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The Answer to your question is straightforward: Leadership:
Be a Team Player and a Team Leader
This also implies helping and motivating your team members to duplicate your efforts.
As a result you will be leveraging all the resources your team will harness.
The attitude, characteristics and actions of a team leader are well defined. SFI's training modules provide ample guidelines.
It may be summarized as follows:
Being a Team leader is building a team and leading
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your question points to several issues all of which are of paramount importance:
(i) Confidence in yourself,
(ii) Ability to communicate clearly, and
(iii) Thorough knowledge of SFI.
Each one will impact your effectiveness in presenting SFI.
The most effective and most simplistic approach to explain SFI to people is to focus on the goals they can achieve by joining SFI. Those goals are commonly shared by the large majority of potential prospects and are very similar to each other. They are outlined in the Affiliate Goals page. They are also embedded in SFI’s name: Strong Financial Future”
Let’s look at these in details.
A. Taylor your speech to your audience
Your audience will dictate how you speak and how to present your topic.
Your own motives and experience with SFI are enough sources of topics you can share with your target audience.
Put your thoughts in writing. This will help you remember and practice speech
B. Use a soft marketing approach:
A non-threatening approach is the best way to make yourself comfortable and your audience at ease With some of the communication tools SFI has made available, you will find that you do not need to speak very much. The marketing support material will induce people to initiate the conversation and ask you questions. Thus, your task becomes much easier.
Below are some of the actions you can do that do not require you to speak
(a) Share SFI’s main events with your friends and associates through the major social media
(b) Use Wave3 and/or Tripleclick scar Decal stickers in your car.
(c) Sign your emails with SFI an SFI logo with attached links
(d) Insert SFI pictures in your outgoing mail
(e) Post flyers in high traffic areas like phone booths, supermarkets and sporting arenas.
(f) Makes SFI and Tripleclicks business cards with your gateways and hand them to people or leave them around.
Even those among us who feel confident in their communication skills may want to complement their marketing efforts with the above soft approach.

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Your question points to several issues all of which are of paramount importance:
(i) Confidence in yourself,
(ii) Ability to communicate clearly, and
(iii) Thorough knowledge of SFI.
Each one will impact your effectiveness in presenting SFI.
The most effective and most simplistic approach to explain SFI to people is to focus on the goals they can achieve by joining SFI. Those goals are commonly shared by the large majority of potential prospects and are very similar to each
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your question encompasses SFI and beyond to address common traits to all successful busines people whether on or offline.
A. Three preliminary observations are called for:
(i) SFI has a set of rules of success. You will find them under “Training. A direct link is provided below ,Knowing them will benefit every affiliate will benefit
https://www.sfimg.com/ROS/Index
(ii) Business and self-help literature is replete with books on success; two highly famous books may be mentioned here: (a) Napoleon Hill: Think and Growth Rich; and (b) Stephen Covey, the Seven Habits of Highly successful people. Other books can also be mentioned. An exhaustive list will rather very long
(iii) Third, numerous blogs and e-books are being written every day discussing this very issue.
Anybody writing on this topic will only repeat what has been already said. It is only a matter of reformulating it in with different words or giving those ideas a new twist or a different flavor. But the essence will remain the same.
B. Five Major Characteristics are common among successful business people
1. They have a dream.
2. They have a plan.
3. They have specific knowledge or training.
4. They’re willing to work hard.
5. They don’t take no for an answer
C. Three Major Skills Summarize the Ability to Produce Success
(a) Positive Mental Attitude and Emotional Intelligence
The correct frame of mind that can be translated in clear vision, focus and determination; it is the ability to distinguish, in each situation, what is important and focus on it versus what is minor and relegate it to as secondary. Emotional intelligence defines our behavior and our actions. It determines our success or our failures.
(b) Focus on Actions that will produce the desired outcome
SFI has a wealthy history of success. Characteristics and skills pertaining to success have been applied and yielded tangible results. Hence, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. The most effective approach is to identify the right strategies and tactics, in other words, doing what successful Affiliates have been doing here at SF
(c) Use of Leverage to maximize resources and optimize results.
Within SFI, this translates into sponsoring and duplication: building teams by bringing in new affiliates, teaching them the rules of success, and helping them apply those rules.
This is a condensed presentation of the answer to your question.

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Your question encompasses SFI and beyond to address common traits to all successful busines people whether on or offline.
A. Three preliminary observations are called for:
(i) SFI has a set of rules of success. You will find them under “Training. A direct link is provided below ,Knowing them will benefit every affiliate will benefit
https://www.sfimg.com/ROS/Index
(ii) Business and self-help literature is replete with books on success; two highly famous books may be mentioned
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

To diffuse unrealistic expectations of quick riches, education and realism are the best weapons.
The internet has always been a field of get-rich-quick scams based on false and unrealistic claims.
Many potential home based business owners have been burned through such schemes.
Still, prospects continue to hold such expectations and dreams.
You will also find others with a skeptic attitude towards anything and everything.
These are the two issues your question raises.
A. There is seldom real overnight success
Use recent history in business and finance to educate your prospects and affiliates. Large media coverage of Ponzi schemes, financial fraud and business failure because of inadequate planning and execution are available in abundance.
Using such evidence will be effective in bringing some sense of realism to those who show impatience in building a serious business.
Dreaming of getting rich overnight is just that: a mere dream. To bring them back to reality such dreamers, we will need to explain the conditions for lasting success.
A second example may also be pertinently used here: a very large number of those who win lottery rarely benefit from it in a lasting manner. Very often, the winnings are quickly squandered and the winners bankrupt.
B. Positive Attitude and Expectations are key to Success
SFI history and facts give us a wealth of information against negativity. There are enough success stories that illustrate SFI as a legitimate business. Our own experience and the results we are achieving will supplement such stories and give them a sense of actuality and personal touch

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To diffuse unrealistic expectations of quick riches, education and realism are the best weapons.
The internet has always been a field of get-rich-quick scams based on false and unrealistic claims.
Many potential home based business owners have been burned through such schemes.
Still, prospects continue to hold such expectations and dreams.
You will also find others with a skeptic attitude towards anything and everything.
These are the two issues your question raises.
A. There
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