Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

I would like to answer your question regarding how to go about utilizing webinars in marketing and training your downline. I am going to assume that you have not put together a webinar before.

A webinar of course is defined as "seminars on the internet" or "live online events". This type of presentation differs from pre-recorded.

For live, interactive webinars, all attendees require a fast and stable internet connection (nothing worse than "freeze frames"), a computer, headset or speakers and a mic to ask questions and interact. From the "speakers" side, you will need to determine where to host your webinar and here in Canada "Go to meeting.com" is a popular webinar hosting service. Unless you require an ongoing hosting plan, webinar hosting services can be utilized at no charge. All attendees are required to check their internet speed beforehand and arrive at the meeting/webinar/training "room" 10 - 15 minutes early. The instructor sends out complete instructions beforehand and these instructions are usually two page of how to attend.

I would like to suggest another method of delivering training for your consideration.

Unless you are a pro at putting on webinars/seminars/courses, Udemy.com offers free "How to Create a Udemy Course" "How to Teach Online" "Course Creation" (etc, etc) that are very valuable and loaded with advice, ideas, what works, what doesn't and so much more. Basically, you can create your own "recorded training" with just your webcam and mic; software programs such as Microsoft Power Point and Microsoft Movie Maker; and that's it. Your production can then be uploaded into YouTube or otherwise distributed by email accordingly. By viewing Udemy's FREE "How To" instructional videos, you will be able to pick up ideas and increase the professionalism and content of your course and create a course that just keeps on giving.

I hope this helps!
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I would like to answer your question regarding how to go about utilizing webinars in marketing and training your downline. I am going to assume that you have not put together a webinar before.

A webinar of course is defined as "seminars on the internet" or "live online events". This type of presentation differs from pre-recorded.

For live, interactive webinars, all attendees require a fast and stable internet connection (nothing worse than "freeze
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

I think the best way to utilize your monthly Standing Order of TCredits is to bid or pick the price of items that will return you double "MRP" points. This will give you the ability of purchasing something at a later date in which you can review for another 25 versa points. Alternatively, you can use these points as an incentive to your downline by way of awarding the maximum of 10 in a contest.

Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

In order to learn to write effective ads when you are new and don’t want to spend a lot of money, and can be learned as quickly and efficiently as possible is as follows:

1. Ask what others have done – and you have done that;

2. Pose that question a google (my favorite search engine) online – which I have done;

3. Check at Udemy.com to see if they have a course on this topic for free – which I also have done.


I have tendency to locate everything I can on a new topic I want to learn. Through the use of the internet I found blogs, websites and eBooks on this topic available at no charge. The best example of how, I found at "makealivingwriting.com/learn-great-ad-copywriters". This site is worthy of checking out since the example used “drives the point home”. The author of this site also shares how she learned how to write effective ads which was through “Freelance Writers Den” although this site requires a paid membership to join.

Don’t forget that the kindle store at amazon has many eBooks for free on this topic and the free books change daily.

In addition, there is YouTube to check.

Udemy.com has become one of my favorite sites for learning. If you are not familiar with Udemy.com, it is the “world’s largest destination for online courses”. They have a large number of courses available at no charge, at next to no charge and upwards from there.

It is important to realize that a topic can be located under many categories, depending on the course instructor. As an example, “writing effective E-Press releases” – offered free is available under Business->Business writing -> online writing courses -> Free.

Alternatively, another category is Design -> various subcategories.

Also, featured courses such as “intro to online advertising” is available for free but not categorized. There are many others too.

Obviously there are a number of other methods. Thank you for asking this question because I am very interested in learning this topic too and am interested in what other affiliates have done.

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In order to learn to write effective ads when you are new and don’t want to spend a lot of money, and can be learned as quickly and efficiently as possible is as follows:

1. Ask what others have done – and you have done that;

2. Pose that question a google (my favorite search engine) online – which I have done;

3. Check at Udemy.com to see if they have a course on this topic for free – which I also have done.


I have tendency to locate everything
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) continues to evolve as time passes.

Search engine optimization (SEO), as you know, is the process of becoming "noticed" by the search engines in order to attract targeted traffic to your site. Some view SEO as the process of having the search engines choose your site for page 1 - (landing on page one or page one ranking) whenever somebody searches for something you're selling.

Choosing appropriate “keywords” would be the first step in optimizing your website. Choosing appropriate “keywords” involves tying what you are selling to the most common words used when people search for what you are selling. The next step would be to optimize your website with the chosen “keywords”. Do remember “keywords” include “long tail keywords” which are keywords with more than three words – such as “how to get out of debt”.

Optimizing your web-site involves editing your website content to include "keywords"; editing HTML and related coding for keyword inclusion and removing any barriers that otherwise might restrict the search engines "indexing activities"( also known as “crawling” your site by the search engines to determine what it’s about)..

More recently, increasing the number of backlinks is another SEO activity.

SEO techniques are now broadly classified as white hat techniques (ones that search engines recommend) and black hat techniques (not approved by search engines. I mention this as an FYI.

Having said all of that, we can begin with choosing “keywords”.

I have found that the keywords SFI uses in the banner ads - found under marketing aids are really good keywords:

Attracting affiliates: “work from home”, “home based businesses” or “get out of debt”

TripleClicks: “Bargains”, “world’s largest on-line garage sale”; "Deals galore"

Many affiliates use more than one website when they sell more than one type of products and the products are quite different. If you are thinking about starting a new website, the best place for your keyword is in the domain name itself. Google takes exact keyword match as a very important factor for page ranking. If you are able to name your website with a high ranking keyword, you can almost be guaranteed the number one spot on page one of any search engine.

Google has a "keyword planner" that can tell you which keywords are ranked high. In addition, there are software programs that also rank keywords.

Lastly, if optimizing your website is too much work, you may want to consider one of the many vendors at TripleClicks that can certainly provide you with an SFI SEO website.

Although the above information only touches on the main points of SEO, I hope it has helped.


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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) continues to evolve as time passes.

Search engine optimization (SEO), as you know, is the process of becoming "noticed" by the search engines in order to attract targeted traffic to your site. Some view SEO as the process of having the search engines choose your site for page 1 - (landing on page one or page one ranking) whenever somebody searches for something you're selling.

Choosing appropriate “keywords” would be the first
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

It is very worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSA's. If you are faced with time constraints, you can send a group mailing however, when time permits, it is highly recommended to send a personal welcome letter to your new PSA. Avery successful entrepreneur will tell you that "communication is as important as ever". Some very successful entrepreneurs state that you have to make the effort if you want to make a difference. When you are passionate about your business, then you should want to go that extra mile an make a difference. The personal touch means everything, in my opinion.
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It is very worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSA's. If you are faced with time constraints, you can send a group mailing however, when time permits, it is highly recommended to send a personal welcome letter to your new PSA. Avery successful entrepreneur will tell you that "communication is as important as ever". Some very successful entrepreneurs state that you have to make the effort if you want to make a difference. When you are passionate about your business, then
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very good question and each has their own pros and cons. Which one to choose depends on how much control you want over your content. The most popular blogging sites that are free, of course, are Blogger and WordPress. Blogs are known as “Content Management Systems (CMS)” and besides WordPress and Blogger other blogs include Joomla and Drupal. It is important to check the “Terms of Service TOS” when choosing because WordPress states the following in their terms of service: “Sites whose primary purpose is not original content but rather driving traffic to affiliate storefronts will be banned as spam. Promoting affiliate links through comments or the support forums is also considered spam.”

WordPress states that if you want to have a monetized blog, you are required to pay a web host. Therefore, to have the most control AND have the most effective site is that of a hosted website. There are many hosting companies to choose from and since it is a very competitive business, you can easily find one that is relatively inexpensive. This will then allow you full control over your content, including having a blog and a landing page for the purpose of driving traffic to your SFI site.

I hope this helps!

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This is a very good question and each has their own pros and cons. Which one to choose depends on how much control you want over your content. The most popular blogging sites that are free, of course, are Blogger and WordPress. Blogs are known as “Content Management Systems (CMS)” and besides WordPress and Blogger other blogs include Joomla and Drupal. It is important to check the “Terms of Service TOS” when choosing because WordPress states the following in their terms of service: “Sites
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a good question in terms of reading other affiliates willing to share their ideas. Triple Clicks has a number of E-Commerce Associates (ECA) selling articles under the private label rights for USD $3. Although it is not recommended to use the articles as your only source, they can certainly come in handy as a resource. It should be pointed out though that it is advisable to reword the articles to make them more your own unique version. Many sellers are selling a wide variety of topics which makes it very handy to find one related to your own niche. By purchasing from our ECA's, you are able to also acquire points in addition to content.

Hope this helps!
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This is a good question in terms of reading other affiliates willing to share their ideas. Triple Clicks has a number of E-Commerce Associates (ECA) selling articles under the private label rights for USD $3. Although it is not recommended to use the articles as your only source, they can certainly come in handy as a resource. It should be pointed out though that it is advisable to reword the articles to make them more your own unique version. Many sellers are selling a wide variety of topics
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

What a great question! In order to make your video or seminar, you would first need to ensure your content is complete and up to your expectations. The next step is to choose the program(s) you want to use to deliver this content. Programs to consider can be MS PowerPoint or Google Drive Presentation both of which have a multitude of ways to create presentations. You may also want to consider MS MovieMaker. Once you are satisfied your presentation is up to your expectations you can then upload to YouTube which your affiliates can then download using YouTube downloader that enables them the ability to watch and study at their convenience. There are a number of programs similar to YouTube downloader that can be found by going online and searching.

Hope this helps!

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What a great question! In order to make your video or seminar, you would first need to ensure your content is complete and up to your expectations. The next step is to choose the program(s) you want to use to deliver this content. Programs to consider can be MS PowerPoint or Google Drive Presentation both of which have a multitude of ways to create presentations. You may also want to consider MS MovieMaker. Once you are satisfied your presentation is up to your expectations you can then upload
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

A good long-term goal that an affiliate should set for themselves is unique to each individual affiliate. This particular question has no right or wrong answer, in my opinion, because it all depends on what motivates each individual. In my case, a motivating long term goal for me is to be able to go on more luxurious holidays in a year. Once the goal is established, the next step is how to achieve the goal and that is where SFI comes in. By working hard at SFI, I hope to be able to achieve my long-term goal.
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A good long-term goal that an affiliate should set for themselves is unique to each individual affiliate. This particular question has no right or wrong answer, in my opinion, because it all depends on what motivates each individual. In my case, a motivating long term goal for me is to be able to go on more luxurious holidays in a year. Once the goal is established, the next step is how to achieve the goal and that is where SFI comes in. By working hard at SFI, I hope to be able to achieve my
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Affiliate since: 04/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

A "leader" is defined as "a guiding or directing head" (dictionary.com) and also at dictionary.com, "leadership" is defined as "ability to lead" with the following example "As early as sixth grade, she displayed remarkable leadership potential". My point here is that I do not believe people are necessarily “born” a leader. Instead, I believe that it is a skill that we all can learn or acquire.

In any new position including leadership positions, it is perfectly normal to feel somewhat uncomfortable and perhaps unsure of yourself. This is normal. To become more comfortable or secure in the new role that is causing you to feel apprehensive, my advice is to LEARN as much as you can until you feel more assured and comfortable.

How or where? SFI provides a wealth of information and teaches us a great deal of skills we may not have had. In addition, the marketplace at SFI also has wonderful vendors that sell a number of e-Books that are extremely helpful and useful.

Outside of SFI, there are two online sites that provide courses that anyone can take online as follows:
Coursera - www.coursera.org – This site offers FREE online classes from over 80 top Universities and organizations.

Udemy – www.udemy.com – similar to Coursera, Udemy offers online classes and some are free, some have a very low fee and still others cost $50 or more.

In fact, after checking Udemy for leadership courses, the following is noteworthy:

https://www.udemy.com/learn-the-leadership-secrets-of-top-income-earners/?dtcode=vazbmaq9

The above is called “Leadership – The #1 Key to Guaranteed Business Success” and is offered for free.

To be a good leader does require that you care about your team. This may seem rather simplistic but believe it or not, I had a boss who treated our team as annoying. NOT a good leader at all!

In my opinion, just the fact that you are concerned with the ability to be a leader suggests that you care and therefore, you already sound way more effective than the so called leader in the example I just gave.

Also, a good leader doesn't need to have all the answers to be effective, if they know where to potentially find the answers is just as effective.

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A "leader" is defined as "a guiding or directing head" (dictionary.com) and also at dictionary.com, "leadership" is defined as "ability to lead" with the following example "As early as sixth grade, she displayed remarkable leadership potential". My point here is that I do not believe people are necessarily “born” a leader. Instead, I believe that it is a skill that we all can learn or acquire.

In any new position including leadership
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