Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I am partial to a 3 prong communications system that my team can duplicate.

Prong 1 - is the most used method of communication in the world today, Facebook Chat. When paired with a dedicated group discussion where you can post Notes: with permanent getting started tips and advanced marketing advice you can get active 24/7 in team support that is tailored to the people you work with.

Prong 2 - is the second most used method of communication which is Skype. With Skype and more importantly Skype for Business plugins you can even add white board and screen sharing apps so you can walk your PSA through things like adding a banner to their personal blog, showing them as you go.

Prong 3 - Google Plus Hangouts. These you also pair with a work group for your members which will act as your best invite list for on air hangouts. This works great for both team training sessions and also when paired with YouTube the Hangouts on Air can be broadcast through your channel allowing hundreds or even thousands of people to get a overview of SFI as you present it live for them to see. It can be massive for recruiting.

The 3 tools work well in unison to turn social contacts into active PSA who are motivated by the team atmosphere and live support to do more, and stick with it long enough for their efforts to gain traction. Make it very clear though in any group communications that there is a zero tolerance policy for airing complaints and grievance because one sour grape can spoil the bunch. Complaints should be directed to SFI support since you can not address these complaints in 9 of 10 cases.


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I am partial to a 3 prong communications system that my team can duplicate.

Prong 1 - is the most used method of communication in the world today, Facebook Chat. When paired with a dedicated group discussion where you can post Notes: with permanent getting started tips and advanced marketing advice you can get active 24/7 in team support that is tailored to the people you work with.

Prong 2 - is the second most used method of communication which is Skype. With Skype and more
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Find something in high demand.

Compare cost and see if the CV makes it a lucrative prospect.

If the product is in demand and priced right with a good CV, great!

If the product is consumable like Veruni Advanced Liquid Nutrition even better.

You will get a lot of narrow minded answers telling you to look to products that would sell to other affiliates to help their businesses. This narrow thought limits you to cheap, low-value items that will not appeal to over 3 billion Internet Users.

Soaps, Vitamins, Candles, Food, Cosmetics, all make great offers.

Jewelry is in high demand, as are affordable name-brand electronics, collectible and antiques. TripleClicks is starting to attract more vendors with products such as these. So don't limit your potential and help be one of the successful people who bring in ECAs and members looking for general goods and a growing range of merchandise.
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Find something in high demand.

Compare cost and see if the CV makes it a lucrative prospect.

If the product is in demand and priced right with a good CV, great!

If the product is consumable like Veruni Advanced Liquid Nutrition even better.

You will get a lot of narrow minded answers telling you to look to products that would sell to other affiliates to help their businesses. This narrow thought limits you to cheap, low-value items that will not appeal
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

A big 2016 comes in a range of needs that pay each of use very handsomely. But some of those needs will take all of us to achieve as the TripleClicks Brand is not yet a household name here in the United States much less the rest of the world.

By household name I mean when shopping online people think of Amazon, Ebay, Wal-Mart, etc.. because they have seen these brands advertised millions of times. Since none of us affiliates have the resources to do the millions of dollars in advertising required to get there we must utilize our millions of affiliates to get thousands of ad views a month each month. We have to be on websites, blogs, classifies site, in the local newspaper, and with a little help from SFI and TripleClicks we might even be able to get a TV commercial we can air in our local markets made.

We need to keep wearing our TripleClicks branded gear and if we have the TripleClciks window decal still from the old Wave3 we need to keep using it and find new places to drive. Even if it doesn't have our affiliate link in it the advertising materials will still increase our sign ups because of brand awareness.

Likewise we need to have individual best buy products listed on social media fan pages and in twitter, and on our blogs in review format.

We need to stress the opportunity behind Personally Referred Members using the Share and Win links to invite friends and family to TripleClicks because the system will put those friends and family members under you as the sponsor so long as your PRM is not a PSA. This can eventually turn every new recruited PRM into dozens or even hundreds of PRM paying you commissions.

A big focus needs to be on the Penny Auctions at TripleClicks as it will attract a high number of PRM who will buy t-credits on standing order. When they set up to bid in the auctions and play Eager Zebra Games we will build customer loyalty and residual commissions month after month. To help this you can explain the Member Rewards Points and tell them that even losing bids earn MRP which can be turned into any of the thousands of products offered by nearly 6,000 global vendors.

TripleClicks itself is not hard to promote, off a single Twitter Tweet last night I gained a new PRM referral and it was an old tweet advertising Christmas Savings in time for Christmas Day. It was still in my automation system because I forgot to go in and delete it and 3 other similar post that were being drip fed every few days.

For you, just one PRM could bring hundreds of dollars in commissions a year from holiday shopping alone.

The other major need is 6,000 vendors is still very low and our 80,000+ product listings could use to be 200,000 listings by next Black Friday which is the day after the US Thanksgiving Holiday. More product listings mean more vendors competing for the same customers which in turn means lower prices and more local business options.

Where a PRM or Personally Referred Member may offer you 45% of the commission volume of the items they but a ECA or E-commerce Affiliate will pay you 10% of the CV on all of their sales even if I was the affiliate who referred the PRM or the member joined without a sponsor. Some of our ECA members sell hundreds of commission paying products a month and one good ECA meeting millions of potential customers could put thousands of dollars a year in your pocket so make sure to review and talk about the retail sellers program here at TripleClicks as well.

Affiliate Growth is the next target.

I put this last because most affiliates haven't paid attention to the lucrative and immediate income of promoting TripleClicks and instead rely on promoting affiliates in hopes they place a standing order instead to build their business. I didn't mention about but will tell you now that with PRM since they are not affiliates will pass their sales Vesa Points on to the affiliate who is their sponsor. Because of this an affiliate can make as little as one sale a month and maintain their EA2 rank without ever purchasing a standing order in this free to join program.

Versa Points Matching is nice and as you fill 6-12 levels it can be a massive income but no income is made without sales in the system and that means if your PSA don't buy a standing order you don't earn commissions and if you don't know how to generate TripleClicks sales commissions you wont be able to have them duplicate what you're not doing.

Still we need a constant stream of new affiliates who are well trained by their sponsors and SFI to promote TripleClicks because of attrition as weaker affiliates can't make enough money to keep them interested. In addition more people joining and more teams creating high value advertising co-ops, the kind that put TV commercials and Print Ads in play the greater that Brand Recognition becomes.

If you have 5 PSA with 1% mindsets willing to invest in their business you can each put $50 a month into running a non peak local market TV ad in a community around 100,000 people each month. If they have 5 serious 1% mindset affiliates that's 5 non peak ads or 2 peak viewing ads per month on separate networks., Get them 5 future diamond team leaders and the ads can go regional or even national. The more levels and affiliates joining that affordable co-op the faster you reach global markets like cable Business Networks and syndicated cooking shows etc..

This works well with PRM recruiting as well but above all don't disparage your PSA by calling them inactive or lazy in the forums, every prospect has potential to get active at any point. I know one member who was inactive for 7 years before finally realizing what was at his feet, he is now a higher level team leader with an amazing and profitable team. I myself was inactive for nearly a year due to health so there are still diamonds sitting among your inactive PSA as long as you don't run the off with your disappointment.

Keep learning more about promoting sales and telling them what you learned and sharing with them results without sharing your income to show them it can be done and you are doing it.

Have a blessed and prosperous 2016

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A big 2016 comes in a range of needs that pay each of use very handsomely. But some of those needs will take all of us to achieve as the TripleClicks Brand is not yet a household name here in the United States much less the rest of the world.

By household name I mean when shopping online people think of Amazon, Ebay, Wal-Mart, etc.. because they have seen these brands advertised millions of times. Since none of us affiliates have the resources to do the millions of dollars in advertising
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Just about everything you do these days has some social element to it, even blogging unless you turn comments off and if you turn comments off you best have a captive audience or they wont feel like part of the experience.

There are some less social options though.

I mentioned blogging above because Product Bloggers, and gaming bloggers have great opportunities to be a success with Wave 3. In fact you can use Wave 3 to earn endless MRP tobuy items on TripleClicks for resale at 100% profit, and you can earn unlimited T-credits, and Gift Certificates between the Daily Crown and T-credit Matching programs to use in bidding on auctions and buying more products for resale or personal use.

Early success could replace vitamins and nutritional supplements, soaps, detergents, and cleaning supplies you would normally buy at a local store. This keeps money in your pocket meaning your paycheck will buy more and your quality of life can improve.

The second part you will want to combine with a blog or other lead capture system is a autoresponder. E-mail marketing doesn't have to be canned replies. Many use the bulk mailer features to send live newsletters in real time to all subscribers and only use the automated response to send a 1 time gift to new subscribers or a free repport over a period of days.

In addition to building a list in house there are legitimate e-mail marketing firms that operate survey sites, pay per lead systems, freemium offer walls, and more that generate millions of subscribers to a range of targeted e-mail list. Seeking list of shoppers, or game players, auction site users, and people seeking natural product alternatives all have a potential to generate a tremendous amount of action.

You can also frequent gaming forums and shopping forums which are a form of social media that allows you to pick and choose if you wish to be contacted outside of comments to your chosen post. Many allow you to include a signature message and link you set in your profile settings and is displayed every time you post quality content on the site.

Paid Banner placements can also be a great source. Seek out a mommy blogger who is sharing household hacks like organization tips and craft project and you can pair a product with them and rent a text or image add by the month letting them generate traffic to your related offer. Sometime this can be done for a few dollars per location and while traffic is lower than Adsense it can convert better based on the wording of your ads.

Last but not least you can use Pay Per Click and Pay Per Action programs to grow your Wave3 eligible referrals but there is considerably more skill involved to keep your cost manageable.
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Just about everything you do these days has some social element to it, even blogging unless you turn comments off and if you turn comments off you best have a captive audience or they wont feel like part of the experience.

There are some less social options though.

I mentioned blogging above because Product Bloggers, and gaming bloggers have great opportunities to be a success with Wave 3. In fact you can use Wave 3 to earn endless MRP tobuy items on TripleClicks for resale
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

My blogs are already targeted to Arizona and Local Arizona Cities. I will be adding a sports section to cover Arizona Diamondbacks, Arizona Cardinals, and possible the Phoenix Suns, and will occasionally throw in some college hoops action as well.

By blogging on these leisure subjects you can let the awesome new banners do the work for you of actual recruiting and can rake in the dough also promoting TripleClicks listings using the custom banner maker to promote Sports Apparel, Collectibles like Sports Cards and Memorabilia, or tailgate amnesties like BBQ Grills, Coolers, portable discrete bladders to keep bathroom breaks to a minimum, and even seek out ECA to recruit who offer services like Hitting Coach, Soccer training camps, or equipment like Pitching machines, Basket ball hoops, dart boards and custom darts.

Be smart about the products you select. Include a couple items that you don't see very often or wouldn't normally think about having one in your team colors with their logo or a favorite player's photo or autograph. These items will have the effect of leaving the viewer saying "I don't have one of those" and thinking "I have got to have one of those".


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My blogs are already targeted to Arizona and Local Arizona Cities. I will be adding a sports section to cover Arizona Diamondbacks, Arizona Cardinals, and possible the Phoenix Suns, and will occasionally throw in some college hoops action as well.

By blogging on these leisure subjects you can let the awesome new banners do the work for you of actual recruiting and can rake in the dough also promoting TripleClicks listings using the custom banner maker to promote Sports Apparel, Collectibles
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

While it is true that you will need both PRM and PSA in your business to see long term success and a business that can sustain itself long after you retire from actively promoting it, I will tell you that starting with PRM is vital to success with PSA.

PSA or Personally Sponsored Affiliates have a track record of only seeing short term results and very few stick around to see the big picture and even fewer see the big picture before they start promoting.

Why not, we live in a society of instant gratification. If you are hungry you can go to a drive through and get hot food in under 3 minutes with an ice cold beverage to boot. Need clean cool water to drink a local gas station will be glad to sell you a bottled water, and if you are willing to trade time for a set amount of money you can get paid weekly at a JOB.

Most hang up at that JOB mentality.

With a JOB you are trained to expect a set result for the amount of labor you do. You earn a salary where in your own business you earn profits instead. You might have to invest in job training, transportation, a suit and tie, college tuition payments, retirement, insurance etc.. but you have the security of knowing that a certain amount of work will equal a certain amount of pay.

With SFI done the way most here do SFI profits don't come very fast and are far less than the JOB crowd are accustomed to for the amount of time involved. This is exasperated if they invest money and still don't have active PSA of their own who are purchasing a standing order every month. Worse yet when they do find one serious PSA willing to invest in their business they set up a standing order for 125 t-credits and the reality sinks in that you will need 3 other affiliates to do the same thing before you turn a profit on your own standing order.People leave SFI when they feel like they can't make enough money in this business.

So now we have a PRM or Personally referred member.

If you want to be a team leader in addition to action points you need sales VP of 1500 to 2000 for Bronze Team Leader. You can reach that goal in one of two ways.

While a standing order can get you the sales VP you need, from day one you are paying your business instead of it paying you. If you are focused on recruiting PSA you could gain hundreds of referrals to get one worker and it could take 3 workers to get one that invest in a standing order of their own. The ROI can take months to begin seeing and a year or more to be in profit.

The other way is through generating sales VP by referring PRM who do the purchasing. Since they are not affiliates under you, your business gains both the 45% of the CV cash commission and the Sales VP of the order. This is a huge difference to your PSA referral who keeps their Sales VP and only gives you matching VP which doesn't count towards becoming a team leader.

Generating enough Sales VP to become a Team Leader is as simple as selling 1 to two units of TripleClicks Advanced Liquid Nutrition on standing order to a couple of PRM. You only need 1 PRM who buys this one product to both turn a profit and get 1500 SVP per month. Just one PRM who buys that one product or plays the auction for 200 bids a month and your business starts paying you instead of you paying your business.

If you are going the other way and trying to do this off PSA referrals you could see 3 workers out of 300 PSA and 1 of the 3 placing a standing order. Since you have no Sales VP coming in you will need to place a standing order of your own to make it to team leader, and you might not see a profit until 600 PSA, 6 active ones, two with standing orders or even worse it could take 3 paying affiliates and even more time to reach the profit.

That's fine if you have the funds to promote and recruit a lot of PSA to be able to find the 3-5 future diamonds needed to follow the plan.

The worst part is your PSA could follow my advice and generate their Sales VP through selling, never place a standing order, and be a BTL before you, so there is no guarantee on that route that you will make more than matching VP on their actions and sales that doesn't count towards your rank.

With my plan not only do you need no money but your PSA will not need money to make money either.

We all get a lot of workers who are simply too broke to place a standing order. Remember the 2 out of 3 active affiliates that didn't buy a standing order? This is them. They will work harder than anyone and given time they could out earn all of us if they get the right knowledge before they burn out.

If you learn to generate PRM Sales and make your business pay you then you can also teach them to generate PRM sales so they get what is closer to that instant gratification we talked about. Their time will generate profits and even if small at first being paid by your business beats you paying it any day. It will help more of your referrals stick around until they see the big picture.

So what does it take to generate PRM Referrals.

It's actually easier than it sounds if you focus your marketing to find the items people are already shopping for that have affordable solutions on TripleClicks. Some of our members don't see this because they think locally and see high shipping cost on a few items and give up, not realizing they are not limited to selling to local customer and that thousands of ECA offer free world wide shipping.

Instead of throwing your link everywhere hoping the customer will see it among the thousands of non customers who will see it too, you will need to have a means to draw the customers who want your product to the listing so like it or not your best tool is a self hosted Wordpress Blog on your own domain name.

Even if you start with the product, you will need to think like the customer.

While the most lucrative niche markets are best thought about the niche first and products second, you can also start from the product and work upwards. The choice is between how would you rather make your money, off one product that you laser target the customer for or a range of related products that are required or add on items to a popular action or hobby.

Model 1: If you start with a Niche such as Nutrition you will have a lot of competition for every visitor. You will need to boil this down to a sub niche like weight loss and even further to "weight loss natural products", "Ephedra free weight loss products", or even "natural nutrition supplements" to find people who are further along in the buying cycle and are ready to choose products.

Following this process you might target supplements like Advanced Liquid Nutrition, but also offer a similar products section with other offers from ECA, or even related products such as "Peak Nutrition High Potency Megavites" at TripleClicks. While targeted more generally this can often lead to single customer with multiple standing order purchases.

Model 2: Product centric marketing. In this case you are looking at a product and figuring out who would buy this product and building a customer profile. You need to think about the steps it took them to get to the point where they are choosing a brand to buy immediately instead of just searching for products related to their niche interest.

A Person looking for a new multi vitamin for example might be looking at brand comparisons for women's multivitamins and mineral supplements. They may type in "Compare Multivitamins" or "multivitamin reviews for women" or they could even be typing " Best multivitamin for women age 60" on Google. Put your product information in front of them they are at a point where they are looking for an exact brand to buy and your job is simply to tell them about your product or products so they can make an educated decision.

Model 1 may get bigger sales, but model two is more likely to generate multiple sales.

The 3rd option is to recruit professional retailers as ECA. I didn't mention this before because I needed a pot of gold for the end of this rainbow. See a professional online or offline merchant has major benefits to you as a SFI Affiliate that have been amplified by the new Wave3 program.

Under the new Wave3 if a PRM recruits PRM using Share and win links those PRM go to the first SFI affiliate in the upline. Since your ECA is also a PRM their referred PRM will be your Personally Referred Members.

So why would an ECA or E-commerce Associate use these links to recruit PRM for you?

They know that the best way to launch a new endeavor such as a new location is to invite existing customers and list subscribers to the new venue. They will understand that their loyal customers will gladly share their products and new location with their family and friends using the Share and Win links as well because all TripleClicks members can earn MRP rewards that exchange for Free Merchandise by doing it.

Did you get what I just said?

Not only will the ECA use these links to promote their store to an existing base of ready to buy customers to earn MRP to gain Free Merchandise but those referred customers will also share using these links to earn Free Products of their own. Those PRM also flow up to you, and the ones they invite, and their invites to until infinity.

Good luck sleeping tonight.
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While it is true that you will need both PRM and PSA in your business to see long term success and a business that can sustain itself long after you retire from actively promoting it, I will tell you that starting with PRM is vital to success with PSA.

PSA or Personally Sponsored Affiliates have a track record of only seeing short term results and very few stick around to see the big picture and even fewer see the big picture before they start promoting.

Why not, we live in
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Every month there are contest like VP Rank and Country Rank, and it would be impossible for a new member to rank on these leader boards if they were facing an affiliate who has been generating VP for 17 years and has millions of VP saved up. Since we all start back at Zero each month you are not facing years of investments, you arent facing the person who dumped $10,000 into their business 6 years ago for the rank, you are facing other affiliates who all started with zero VP this month.

Add in the fact that our rank is adjusted by our VP earned in a month and each month it is required to re-earn your rank and you can see exactly why these VP expire but think of it this way.

If you work really hard in a business and get promoted this month to manager for all that hard work it would be fair to you and fair to the company. If in month two you stop doing all that hard work and just rest on your prior accomplishments it would not be fair for the business to have to pay you for work you are not doing, so in a offline company I am betting by the end of month two you wouldn't be a manager any more.

Likewise with SFI if you do the work this month and make money, earn a leadership rank, get the perks and rewards, as well as the status it's fair to you and to SFI. But if you come in next month and do nothing, SFI can't be expected to pay you what you earned the month before so your rank goes away, you lose the perks, and you earn only what your effort is worth.
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Every month there are contest like VP Rank and Country Rank, and it would be impossible for a new member to rank on these leader boards if they were facing an affiliate who has been generating VP for 17 years and has millions of VP saved up. Since we all start back at Zero each month you are not facing years of investments, you arent facing the person who dumped $10,000 into their business 6 years ago for the rank, you are facing other affiliates who all started with zero VP this month.

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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Explaining SFI's role with TripleClicks is actually fairly simple but for some who have only done business offline you may need to make a comparison for them.

SFI is an Affiliate program for TripleClicks. It works as a pay per action relationship much like hiring someone for commissioned sales, like Avon representatives, or Amway, Watkins, or even the old door to door Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesman.

When you pay a minimum of 15% of the sale price to TripleClicks a portion is reserved to cover site cost, a small profit, and payment processing fees. The remainder is passed on to SFI who pays the affiliate marketer who promoted your products and brought the customer into your ECA store that made the purchase. They also pay a smaller portion to the co-sponsor of that affiliate and another portion goes into a profit sharing pool for all active affiliates, which acts as a bonus for taking actions daily to build your business.

All of this is no touch and no hassle for you as an ECA.

If you were to hire a salesperson offline you might have to pay Minimum Wage until they get going well enough to where their commissions exceed the guaranteed minimum. You would have training cost, and benefits cost, would have to report taxes on their behalf, and if your business grows big enough you might even have to fight employee unions.

With an online affiliate program all of the affiliate sales force are private contractors signed on with SFI. Only SFI is responsible for tax filings and reporting and since the affiliates are not employees of any company there are no unions involved. You don't have to hire an accountant to handle paying each affiliate 1 by one as SFI handles everything to do with these affiliates.

The affiliates often use paid forms of advertising and social media including video to promote product sales. This massively extends any advertising you do on your own and if your prices are fair, commissions are good, and the offer is worded nicely and includes great product images you can be sure that a lot of affiliates will connect with your store to promote your products.

Is there anything special that you can do to boost the success of your ECA Store?

Yes, to start you can bring current customers with you because they are most apt to buy something and leave a great review from your new shop. Good ratings and great reviews appeal to both customers and affiliates looking for products to promote. You can also advertise your store to generate even more sales activity that the affiliates will see happening and want to be a part of.

The best things you can do involve a couple recent program changes. The first is a new featured ECA program that you can bid T-credits purchased on TripleClicks that will not only feature your ECA site on TripleClicks but will also put it in front of 1.2 million SFI Affiliates. This is the ultimate advertising value as it can cost you as little as $20 and reach millions of people who will potentially buy your products and or promote them to millions of other prospective customers.

The other new change has to do with our auctions which have a new international option of taking a Gift Certificate or T-credits on items they can not have shipped to their country.

By offering the same or similar items to those listed in PriceBenders auctions at reasonable rates you can apply to be added to regional list that are suggested for the auction winner to buy the product locally and save on shipping. This is also valuable because US and Canadian members will also have the option to take t-credits or Gift Certificates.

All ECA are also able to now take t-credits or MRP which are our own in house rewards point system in return for merchandise. The ECA will get their full cash value and not have to wait extra time for settlements like offering a loyalty rewards card.

MRP or Member Reward Points are earned on every auction bid, every in game purchase with Eager Zebra Games, and every purchase made around the site using cash equivalents such as credit or debit cards, t-currency, or other local or regional payment option. Every time someone buys something or spends a t-credit on something on the site they could silently be earning a reward of a product in your store paid for by TripleClicks as a way of saying thank you for being a loyal customer.

Needless to say SFI and TripleClicks have gone all out to help your business be a success and it doesn't cost you anything until a sale is made and our final selling fees are among the lowest in the industry. Welcome to the ECA Program.
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Explaining SFI's role with TripleClicks is actually fairly simple but for some who have only done business offline you may need to make a comparison for them.

SFI is an Affiliate program for TripleClicks. It works as a pay per action relationship much like hiring someone for commissioned sales, like Avon representatives, or Amway, Watkins, or even the old door to door Kirby Vacuum Cleaner salesman.

When you pay a minimum of 15% of the sale price to TripleClicks a portion is
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Include them in a custom graphic you e-mail to the recipient.

You can find royalty free stock images and PLR graphics that would fit well with the free gift you are providing. If you don't have the tools or skills to add the gift card code there are people like me who would gladly create a custom graphic for you in the $5-$10- range.

It's nice to have a variety of graphics so recipients feel unique.

I personally use Adobe Fireworks and a deep catalog of PLR and Licensed graphics to build for myself, my team, and my clients. Custom graphics make the occasion memorable.

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Include them in a custom graphic you e-mail to the recipient.

You can find royalty free stock images and PLR graphics that would fit well with the free gift you are providing. If you don't have the tools or skills to add the gift card code there are people like me who would gladly create a custom graphic for you in the $5-$10- range.

It's nice to have a variety of graphics so recipients feel unique.

I personally use Adobe Fireworks and a deep catalog of PLR and Licensed
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question and my short answer is invest in long term results early on and remind yourself they will need time to develop.

For those getting started you really do need to have a self hosted Wordpress Blog on your own domain name, so several sellers offer Wordpress Hosting for a year, blog already installed with a free domain name for around $60 a year. That's like all of $5 a month and it's tailored to the demands of active bloggers.

If you are just learning to blog and want to see your blog start climbing while you earn and gaining targeted traffic you can hire a quality content writer on TripleClicks for around $20 -$25 per article. Beware of those who copy and paste their Fiverr Gig listings and pledge a 400 word article for $5 or so because they often just use private label articles and may not even spin them to look unique or fact check them to see if the included tactics still work. Likewise ignore cheap SEO services.

Speaking of SEO services you should get a decent provider to do basic onsite SEO setup on your Wordpress Blog. This will include researching at least 3 terms in the niche you plan to write in, with optimized meta data for both Meta Tags and Social Media Semantic Markups. These can be done by properly installing and setting up All In One SEO which is a free or paid plugin that powers SEO on far more sites than Yoast which is complicated to use in comparison.

Once you have the blog set up, optimized, and content being written it will take time to gain traction and start generating large amounts of targeted visitors ready to shop or ready to join SFI. Once it does start drawing them you can generally add 20-50 new PSA per month from blog traffic with new post coming every 3-4 days. This will be your long term plan which will get you away from paid advertising or at least amplify your results.

On the short term because we like success sooner rather than later I would suggest classified Ads software that has an extensive list of active classifieds sites. I also advise a marketing forum list, and a shopping forum list with major focus on the latter. Also buy a range of books and e-books on affiliate marketing so you can learn to promote TripleClicks and generate sales.

If you plan to also be an ECA secure several e-books on E-bay, Etsy, Amazon, and Self Hosted retail selling. The reason is that TripleClicks is like the perfect pairing of each of these sites with additional social elements added. You will need to learn how to price products, what kind of margin of profit to expect, how to save on shipping, and how to find wholesale sources that wont rob you blind or sell you inferior products. Above all it will help you learn to sell big ticket items that most affiliate feel sheepish about even trying to market.

On that end many affiliates leave big money on the table with little competition by opting to promote the $2.99 e-book because they have $20 or less to spend in a month and never learn to promote the $1200 Big Screen TV or $980 Desktop PC. This information is contained in the targeted training on how to be a good affiliate and in the retail sales training.

You can also invest in S-builder Co-Op which will bring both PSA and PRM into your business on drip feed, and PSA-To-Go or similar ECA offer to get your network started growing early on.
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Great question and my short answer is invest in long term results early on and remind yourself they will need time to develop.

For those getting started you really do need to have a self hosted Wordpress Blog on your own domain name, so several sellers offer Wordpress Hosting for a year, blog already installed with a free domain name for around $60 a year. That's like all of $5 a month and it's tailored to the demands of active bloggers.

If you are just learning to blog and
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