Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

My friend, I believe you are investing in your business and not in SFI. Online entrepreneurs like you and I just find SFI as a veritable platform to do business. That is what I understand by the business. Therefore, any investment we make in SFI is in our own business. Arising from that background, I believe it is wise to invest in your business in SFI for the following reasons.

1. Time and efforts put in do yield tangible returns/profits which in most cases are in USD.
2. Money invested also yields substantial returns.
3. You learn and grow in the business which helps to build experience for you.
4. You learn to communicate, to sell and to promote in SFI business.
5. SFI provides you FREE tools and literarily leads you by the hand to grow your business.
6. SFI provides a credible, secure, reliable and experienced platform for you to do your business.
7. SFI puts your business in over 203 countries and in all geographical regions of the world 24/7.
8. SFI creates and operates fun centers as Trivia Games where you can have fun running your business.
9. SFI provides your business the much-needed trust and reliability for others to do business with.
10. You do not need any experience to do business in SFI.
11. Mentoring and Coaching are a given in SFI business. That no doubt merits our investments in the business.
12. SFI acts as “Big Brother” watching over all of us to ensure we all play by the rules.
13. You have rest of mind as a business person because SFI protects your business around the clock.
14. You are spared the rigors of business development. SFI does that for you gratis.
15. The stress of running a brick and mortar business is removed from your life. Thanks to SFI.

For all these and so many other reasons too numerous to mention, I believe SFI as a business is worth investing in.

Grateful if you do find this answer helpful.



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My friend, I believe you are investing in your business and not in SFI. Online entrepreneurs like you and I just find SFI as a veritable platform to do business. That is what I understand by the business. Therefore, any investment we make in SFI is in our own business. Arising from that background, I believe it is wise to invest in your business in SFI for the following reasons.

1. Time and efforts put in do yield tangible returns/profits which in most cases are in USD.
2. Money invested
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Goran,

There is no doubt that when viewed very narrowly, it is easy to admit that it will be beneficial to create separate forums and do web seminars about SFI in languages other than English. This is because many people feel more at home and are more comfortable with their first language than any other language, English inclusive. With an international business like SFI, creating a separate forum with this local language can be very helpful to those who speak the language. These people can therefore learn more quickly and feel completely at home with getting ahead in their SFI business as well as easy recruitment of affiliates.

In my opinion, that is the easy part. The not-very-easy part is, who creates the forums and do the seminars? What is their level of expertise and proficiency in the local language particularly when you factor in that no language can ever be fully translated without losing some form of value from the original language. Besides, English is such a universally acceptable language which is spoken almost everywhere in the world. I am told all international pilots are compelled to use English to communicate when they over fly other countries irrespective of the local languages spoken in such countries.

Allied to that is the fact that SFI is trying frantically to create an international business platform acceptable and accessible to all peoples of the world with the power of the Internet making English the universal language for transactions. SFI has rightly built into the business to assist non-English speakers an SFI Translation Tool which is very efficient and effective. Smart Internet users also deploy Google Translate Tool for the same translations purposes.

The question to ask here is, why localize a business SFI is striving to internationalize? But if the idea of a local language is to complement what SFI is doing, then why not? If you are so good in your local language and you believe you have the resources, patience and expertise to use your local language effectively, all well and good but you do face the additional task of finding enough people interested in SFI business who speak the language with you. With the way SFI is structured, that additional task may be very daunting even if you choose to use A2A or you organize co-operatives with the sole qualification criterion being ability to communicate in a specific local language. That can by no means be an easy task. Goran, with all these bottlenecks, are you still keen on creating separate forums and doing web seminars about SFI in languages other than English? If you still do, I am not sure I envy you at all.

I hope this answers your question. Best wishes.




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Hi Goran,

There is no doubt that when viewed very narrowly, it is easy to admit that it will be beneficial to create separate forums and do web seminars about SFI in languages other than English. This is because many people feel more at home and are more comfortable with their first language than any other language, English inclusive. With an international business like SFI, creating a separate forum with this local language can be very helpful to those who speak the language. These people
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very interesting question. The relationship between Sponsors and Affiliates comes in very mixed bags in SFI. Some could be outright forced-marriages of strange bed fellows who could be stuck with each other for life, come rain come shine for so long as they remain in SFI. I am of the view that if you use the under-listed parameters well, it is possible to give an unbiased rating of your sponsor every month irrespective of whether you are cozy with each other or not.

01. How often do you get communications from your sponsor?
02. How quickly does he/she respond to your inquiries?
03. How often do you get useful tips/information from your sponsor?
04. Does he/she show genuine concern for your success in SFI?
05. How much material help (if any) do you get from him/her and how often?
06. Have you ever physically spoken to or chatted with him/her?
07. How intimately does he/she know you?
08. How well is he/she doing in SFI business?
09. How many new business opportunities in SFI (if any) has he/she ever drawn your attention to.
10. Does he/she remember and help you to mark your special anniversaries?
11. How often does he/she congratulate you on your token achievements in SFI?
12. Does he/she sound to you like a pie-in-the-sky dreamer?

I believe if you are able to take the foregoing into account when you want to rate your sponsor monthly, you will no doubt be in a position to give a very unbiased rating of him/her every month. Good luck and have a very nice day ahead!!!



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This is a very interesting question. The relationship between Sponsors and Affiliates comes in very mixed bags in SFI. Some could be outright forced-marriages of strange bed fellows who could be stuck with each other for life, come rain come shine for so long as they remain in SFI. I am of the view that if you use the under-listed parameters well, it is possible to give an unbiased rating of your sponsor every month irrespective of whether you are cozy with each other or not.

01. How often
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

In SFI business, a bit of innovations and ingenuity at times come in very handy to get around some knotty issues. Effective communication with your team is one such issue. Experience has shown that you may just be firing regular emails to your team without any evidence that they even see the mails talk less of reading them. That is a very big issue in this business. To make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages, I believe you should do the following.

1. Communicate with them mostly with CSAs and PSAs Mailer. Mail delivery is guaranteed with the Mailer.
2. Regularly send your team members messages which require some form of responses.
3. Send mails which arouse curiosity in your team members.
4. Challenge your team members to take you up on any issue.
5. Send some mails which require some form of acknowledgement from your team members.
6. Institute some question and answer sessions with your team members promising some rewards for winners.
7. Remember and mark the birthdays/anniversaries of your team members.
8. Demand feedbacks/concerns from your team members how they are making out monthly in the business.
9. Identify those with leadership qualities among your team members and challenge them to teach others.
10. Send only mails which recognize the importance of all members of your team.

Doing all these and more regularly will guarantee that your team members receive your emails.

Wishing you a very happy and most effective communication with your team members!!!


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In SFI business, a bit of innovations and ingenuity at times come in very handy to get around some knotty issues. Effective communication with your team is one such issue. Experience has shown that you may just be firing regular emails to your team without any evidence that they even see the mails talk less of reading them. That is a very big issue in this business. To make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages, I believe you should do the following.

1. Communicate
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Pay-Per-Click, PPC is one very popular way to monetize your Website/Blog. With PPC, an advertiser will pay a publisher, such as a website/blog owner, when ever their ad is clicked. If you want to generate sign-ups from PPC, it is best to promote Gateways which are very eye-catching. Because of that, squeeze pages and pages like the newly introduced JMT could be very effective. For best results, you can use the following methods.

1. Advertise mostly Squeeze Pages of your Gateways in PPC ads.
2. Advertise your Gateways in PPC Websites/blogs with very popular niche.
3. Promote your Gateways in PPC websites/blogs with very high traffic.
4. Look for PPC Websites/blogs with very high Alexa rankings to promote your Gateways.
5. You can promote your Gateways in PPC Websites/blogs by using short, engaging and interesting promo messages.
6. As much a practicable, use special eye-catching texts/colors when promoting your Gateways in PPC sites.

If you can do the foregoing diligently in your PPC ads, I believe you can get more signups.

Hope this answer helps.

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Pay-Per-Click, PPC is one very popular way to monetize your Website/Blog. With PPC, an advertiser will pay a publisher, such as a website/blog owner, when ever their ad is clicked. If you want to generate sign-ups from PPC, it is best to promote Gateways which are very eye-catching. Because of that, squeeze pages and pages like the newly introduced JMT could be very effective. For best results, you can use the following methods.

1. Advertise mostly Squeeze Pages of your Gateways in PPC
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Unless you have the benefit of detailed scientific research, I would recommend that you try to avoid demographics when targeting ads in SFI. However since you have limited your demographics here to two groups, I am forced to ask, why retired persons or homemakers?

I believe that the essence of any campaign ad is to get sign-ups as PSAs and to get buyers for your products. On that account and from experience, the groups which give the best results are the groups you should target. These may not necessarily be retired persons or homemakers. In SFI, it is always very difficult to know what people will do or not do. You will be making a very fundamental mistake therefore to assume that demographics like sex, age, occupation and such like classifications will cause a better response to ads than some other considerations.

In this business, my advice is and has always been, it is best to target any and everyone in your ads. That works for me and I therefore strongly recommend so to everyone. Assuming we take into account the two groups you want to target i.e.:

1. Retirees: These are people with age range 65+ mostly old.
- People who need a second income.
- People best suited for home business.
- People with technology challenges but are still capable of learning.
- People who need excitement.
- People who now live a bit of sedentary life.

2. Homemakers: These are people both young and old.
- People who have the above characteristics and more.
- People who are technology savvy.
- People who are young and ambitious.
- People who need a second income to get out of debts.
- People who need financial security.

These are the characteristics every wise marketer should take into account before targeting ads. You can see clearly that both groups have clearly common characteristics in many instances. It is therefore very difficult to prefer one to the other. Targeting both groups with the same intensity is the wisest counsel in this circumstance. If done properly, better results can be guaranteed.

I hope this answer helps? Good luck in your marketing efforts.



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Unless you have the benefit of detailed scientific research, I would recommend that you try to avoid demographics when targeting ads in SFI. However since you have limited your demographics here to two groups, I am forced to ask, why retired persons or homemakers?

I believe that the essence of any campaign ad is to get sign-ups as PSAs and to get buyers for your products. On that account and from experience, the groups which give the best results are the groups you should target. These
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

It is difficult to convince your PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business because they are all human beings with various degrees of motivation. Even though as your question states it is difficult, that does not mean it is impossible to convince them to work the business. Many affiliates do succeed in convincing their PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business but with various degrees of success.

Even at that, despite all its advantages, it is difficult to convince your PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business because of the following reasons.

1. Human beings are motivated differently and for different reasons.
2. SFI as a business is a bit complicated for new PSAs and CSAs at the beginning.
3. Many PSAs and CSAs do not really believe in the benefits in working SFI business as prescribed.
4. The returns in SFI as a business are more long-term based than short term.
5. Many people have been scammed online by various get-rich-quick schemes so many have become very wary of any online business.
6. Your PSAs and CSAs are your business partners and not your employees so there is a limit to what you can convince them to do.
7. Your PSAs and CSAs are internet entrepreneurs like you are and some may actually know SFI business more than you do.
8. Your relationship with your PSAs and CSAs is more interpersonal than personal. That makes it pretty difficult to convince them to do what you want.
9. Your PSAs and CSAs have unrestricted access to information in SFI and they take most of their decisions based on this information.
10. Many of them may not trust you enough to do all you want.
11. Every business owner takes full responsibility for taking all the major decisions which affect his/her business.
12. Human beings as of habit do not like to be told what to do particularly as it affects their businesses.

From the above and very many other reasons too numerous to mention here, it is easy to discern why despite all its advantages, it is difficult to convince your PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business.

Best of luck!!!



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It is difficult to convince your PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business because they are all human beings with various degrees of motivation. Even though as your question states it is difficult, that does not mean it is impossible to convince them to work the business. Many affiliates do succeed in convincing their PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business but with various degrees of success.

Even at that, despite all its advantages, it is difficult to convince your PSAs and CSAs to work SFI business
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

Of all the marketing tools SFI offers free to all Affiliates to build their business, I believe banners are best and most effective for the following reasons.

01. Banners come in different shapes, colors and sizes to fit how and where you want to use them.
02. Banner messages also come differently so you have freedom of choice to fit what you need.
03. Banner visuals and messages are more captivating than many other forms of ads.
04. The click rate percentage of banners is higher than many other ads messages.
05. Banner conversion rates are also higher.
06. Banners are very easy to deploy and to use online, thanks to SFI.
07. Next to videos and pictures, banners attract next best attention online.
08. Most Websites have specially designated locations for banner ads.
09. Offline, banners can be displayed in many public places with high human traffic including moving vehicles.
10. Above all, every online marketer I know loves banners.

From the foregoing, I have no doubt that using SFI/TripleClicks banners correctly can help any Affiliate build her SFI business very rapidly. I hope this answer helps?

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Of all the marketing tools SFI offers free to all Affiliates to build their business, I believe banners are best and most effective for the following reasons.

01. Banners come in different shapes, colors and sizes to fit how and where you want to use them.
02. Banner messages also come differently so you have freedom of choice to fit what you need.
03. Banner visuals and messages are more captivating than many other forms of ads.
04. The click rate percentage of banners
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

In SFI business, many marketing methods are cheap but not completely free. Many could be so cheap as to look free. Cheap and affordable ok but certainly not free. Since your question is specifically asking for best FREE methods for attracting and sponsoring affiliates, the following readily come to mind.

-Display your Gateway(s) in your personal website or any FREE classified ads website.

-Join a free blog and display your SFI Gateway(s)

-Drive your car around with TripleClicks Decal prominently and visibly displayed on it.

-Put SFI advert in the signature feature of your e-mails.

-Promote your Gateway(s) to your Affiliated Groups in Social Media sites like facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and others.

-Bookmark for libraries but do not forget to talk to your librarian first.

-Leave your business cards in restrooms at restaurants or on cork boards around grocery stores.

-Participate in talk shows and talk about your business.

-Volunteer to teach your business at vocational courses.

-Volunteer to talk about your business in Service/Business Clubs meetings.

-Leave your business cards in restaurants with your tips.

-Write articles for Articles Directories and leave a hyperlink to your Gateway(s) in the Resource Box.

-Conveniently “forget’ your business cards in taxis/buses/trains.

-Set up a free giveaway box in any store that will give you permission.

-When you are out and about mixing with people, try to be different and get noticed. That way, you can “pitch” your business effortlessly one-on-one.

These are about the best FREE methods for attracting and sponsoring new affiliates I can think of right now.

I do hope this answers your question. Best wishes.



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In SFI business, many marketing methods are cheap but not completely free. Many could be so cheap as to look free. Cheap and affordable ok but certainly not free. Since your question is specifically asking for best FREE methods for attracting and sponsoring affiliates, the following readily come to mind.

-Display your Gateway(s) in your personal website or any FREE classified ads website.

-Join a free blog and display your SFI Gateway(s)

-Drive your car around with
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

If you want to maintain or boost momentum in your SFI Group, I suggest you encourage your team members to intensify doing the following.

1. Log in daily and do their “to-do” tasks to earn VP.
2. Promote their SFI/TripleClicks Gateways like mad.
3. Be regular visitors and participants at the forum.
4. Be active at the Ask SC forum.
5. Study SFI daily tips and deploy them in their business.
6. Communicate more frequently and effectively with their team members.
7. Start a co-op and encourage all their team members to participate.
8. Take part in Pricebenders auctions.
9. Play the Trivia Games and have more fun doing their business.
10. Read, read, read and learn all they can about SFI/TripleClicks.

Regularly doing all the above and more are a sure way for your team members to maintain or boost momentum in their SFI business.

Good luck!!!!



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If you want to maintain or boost momentum in your SFI Group, I suggest you encourage your team members to intensify doing the following.

1. Log in daily and do their “to-do” tasks to earn VP.
2. Promote their SFI/TripleClicks Gateways like mad.
3. Be regular visitors and participants at the forum.
4. Be active at the Ask SC forum.
5. Study SFI daily tips and deploy them in their business.
6. Communicate more frequently and effectively with their team
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