What makes a great SFI Squeeze Page?...and what do you consider to be the best SFI bullet points to include to maximize results?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
1/19/2016 10:43 pm
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
I've seen many SFI squeeze pages during my time surfing traffic exchanges. And I think the best SFI squeeze page should have a free gift attached. And guess what that free gift is? Your TC Gift Card!
Everyone likes getting something for free. So this TC gift card is a great offer. You will email them this gift card once they submit their email address.
So your squeeze page should have an attention grabbing info. Something like "Want a free gift and get much more in return?" or "This card will give you free access to an exciting shopping site where you can get products at very low prices"
Depending on how you word your squeeze page, your follow up email is equally important. You need to explain that they need to redeem the gift card and then you will guide them step by step (through your newsletter) to whatever you have promised them. Either start with SFI and introduce TripleClicks. Or start with TripleClicks and convert your PRM to an SFI affiliate.
One squeeze page will not work for everyone as everyone has different objectives. So try out different squeeze pages and see. Make sure your follow up email also follow suit and don't use the same follow up for all squeeze pages. If you promise SFI but talk about something else in your email people might be confused.
You can talk about something else but as a support. Like the different tools you use to support SFI. The different techniques you use to advertise SFI. But not directly talking about the tools itself and then getting them to sign up for those tools for no particular reason than just to build your downlines in those other programmes. No harm in that actually but remember to always tie it back to SFI and how these other tools has helped you get sales, signups, traffic, etc to SFI.
To me SFI is the best and all the others are supporting tools.
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I've seen many SFI squeeze pages during my time surfing traffic exchanges. And I think the best SFI squeeze page should have a free gift attached. And guess what that free gift is? Your TC Gift Card!
Everyone likes getting something for free. So this TC gift card is a great offer. You will email them this gift card once they submit their email address.
So your squeeze page should have an attention grabbing info. Something like "Want a free gift and get much more in return?"
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How do I motivate my affiliates who are discouraged by the world economy's impact on the costs of products at TripleClicks?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
3/15/2016 2:12 am
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
Guide them to their local ECAs.
With the economy as it is, and with the exchange rate against the USD, some currencies are at a disadvantage.
Your affiliates might want to start getting active. They might want to start transfer buying. But the exchange rate does not allow them to be too extravagant. After all, a small value in USD might be a big value in the local currency.
Hence guide them to their local ECAs. Best if that ECA also stock products that are consumables like coffee, tea, toothpaste, shampoo and such. After all, these are the things that they will be buying no matter what. So if they are really interested in getting active with SFI, start them with this.
Perhaps the ECA can even start stocking special packages. I mean if buying items one by one might be a bit expensive, combine together several items for a grocery pack 1, grocery pack 2 with a lower price than if bought individually. This might convince the affiliates even further to do their transfer buying. After all, without extra expense, they are already building their business.
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Guide them to their local ECAs.
With the economy as it is, and with the exchange rate against the USD, some currencies are at a disadvantage.
Your affiliates might want to start getting active. They might want to start transfer buying. But the exchange rate does not allow them to be too extravagant. After all, a small value in USD might be a big value in the local currency.
Hence guide them to their local ECAs. Best if that ECA also stock products that are consumables
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Follow-ups are crucial to success. What in your follow-up emails have you found to be effective in getting results?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
1/19/2016 10:59 pm
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
What sort of results are your referring to?
1) Sales from TripleClicks?
2) Activity from your PSAs?
It all depends on how you got your prospects to sign up in the first place. If you have gotten their email address through a squeeze page, then if your squeeze page were promoting SFI you can follow up with them explaining what SFI is all about and what they need to do to succeed.
Like the Signing Bonus and the simple actions they can do to increase their Signing Bonus from $20 to $40. And then you can explain (in your next letter) about collecting VPs and earning revenue shares. And you can talk about TripleClicks and the various products that bring in revenue to SFI (that's where our revenue shares, i.e TC Executive Pool) comes from. Teach them how to advertise. Offer rewards for a certain milestone reached (don't have to be a big milestone - could be an offer for 1 free PSA for each PSA they bring in themselves).
Try various strategies. The good thing about email newsletter (or autoresponders) is that you can try one way first, then if it doesn't get the result you're targeting for, try a different strategy the next month.
If you started with TripleClicks, explain about Pricebenders, explain about the games, review the products you have bought, then slowly start explaining about SFI in case SFI is more in their interest than TripleClicks.
There are various different people out there. One strategy will not work all the time. You will need to test and tweak.
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What sort of results are your referring to?
1) Sales from TripleClicks?
2) Activity from your PSAs?
It all depends on how you got your prospects to sign up in the first place. If you have gotten their email address through a squeeze page, then if your squeeze page were promoting SFI you can follow up with them explaining what SFI is all about and what they need to do to succeed.
Like the Signing Bonus and the simple actions they can do to increase their Signing
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How much time should I allow before I should expect to be producing income from SFI?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
11/4/2015 7:28 pm
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
Actually, not much time at all.
You can make income even in your first month. But the quantum might not be as you expected.
But this proof that SFI works should spur you even more to do the actions necessary to increase that income you made in your first month and double it, even triple it.
Then depending on your goal you can quadruple it further, then increase it ten-fold......you get my drift.
It all depends on you and what you are willing to do. You need to put in effort for your advertising and promoting. Only by letting the world know about TripleClicks would the sales increase together with your commissions and the TripleClicks Executive Pool.
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Actually, not much time at all.
You can make income even in your first month. But the quantum might not be as you expected.
But this proof that SFI works should spur you even more to do the actions necessary to increase that income you made in your first month and double it, even triple it.
Then depending on your goal you can quadruple it further, then increase it ten-fold......you get my drift.
It all depends on you and what you are willing to do. You
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What are you doing today (to develop your SFI business) that will matter tomorrow?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
4/21/2016 2:57 am
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
I have started to send out classified ads.
I have been using traffic exchanges for some time now and to increase my reach further I have decided to advertise on classified ads.
Plus I am actually targetting more sales than getting new PSA into my team. Not because I don;t want any new PSAs but because my target this year is to increase my sales. Because that is where the money is!
I understand that I will not makes a sale from this ad today, tomorrow or even next week. But with patience and a little reading of George Little's Internet Income course, the sales will come.
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I have started to send out classified ads.
I have been using traffic exchanges for some time now and to increase my reach further I have decided to advertise on classified ads.
Plus I am actually targetting more sales than getting new PSA into my team. Not because I don;t want any new PSAs but because my target this year is to increase my sales. Because that is where the money is!
I understand that I will not makes a sale from this ad today, tomorrow or even next
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How can we guide our new affiliates in a way that prevents or minimizes information overload?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
9/11/2015 3:57 am
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
Actually, the best way to do this is to introduce them to SFI gradually.
What I mean is, while they are still your prospects, discuss with them about SFI. Perhaps have discussions on the fact that it is free. Or about the standing order. Or about the daily activities. Or about the selling and promoting.
And I don't mean pushing them to join. Rather, talk to them as if they are a sounding board and you want their opinion.
By the time they themselves get interested in SFI and want to join, they have already known the ins and outs of SFI through you!
As for me personally, what I do is use a lead capture page with an autoresponder which I use to send short emails about SFI. By the time they finish my email campaign, they should already know the basics. And as a bonus, I add a few emails about marketing, traffic exchanges, website creation and all the other stuff people like us use.
If I see that they haven't joined, then I send them a giftcard to entice them to shop at TripleClicks. At least you don't totally lose if they decide to become a PRM but not your PSA.
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Actually, the best way to do this is to introduce them to SFI gradually.
What I mean is, while they are still your prospects, discuss with them about SFI. Perhaps have discussions on the fact that it is free. Or about the standing order. Or about the daily activities. Or about the selling and promoting.
And I don't mean pushing them to join. Rather, talk to them as if they are a sounding board and you want their opinion.
By the time they themselves get interested
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For building my business, what is the most valuable thing to spend my TCredits on?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
8/3/2015 1:15 am
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
I use my TCredits to participate in the Cash Welcome offer for new signups. It costs 2 TCredits for us in order for our new PSAs to be offered 1 dollar in their account upon signup. This is a great incentive for new affiliates. I know that 2 TCredits is not much, but if you manage to sign up 30 people that month, that already means 60 TCredits to you (if you choose to offer it to ALL signups - you can actually choose only to offer to 50% of signups or 25% of signups only - it's up to you)
I also save up my TCredits in order to bid in Pricebenders. This is because we can get PSAs from the big and build programme. So our TCredits are maximised. Maximised in the sense that you could win a product, you get MRPs and you get PSAs.
Thirdly I use them to play games. This is so that I build on my badges in order to shout out to my team what a great programme SFI is!
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I use my TCredits to participate in the Cash Welcome offer for new signups. It costs 2 TCredits for us in order for our new PSAs to be offered 1 dollar in their account upon signup. This is a great incentive for new affiliates. I know that 2 TCredits is not much, but if you manage to sign up 30 people that month, that already means 60 TCredits to you (if you choose to offer it to ALL signups - you can actually choose only to offer to 50% of signups or 25% of signups only - it's up to you)
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If you are not good at approaching people face to face, what are some tips to improve in this area?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
11/16/2014 10:54 pm
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
I too am one of these people who are very shy to the point that I can clam up and my brain just goes blank and I wouldn't know what to say.
But SFI is such a great company that it provides tools to help people like me.
I like the Wave3 Kit specifically the decal. You just stick it on your car and everywhere you go you are actually doing advertising. If anyone goes up to you to ask about TripleClicks, then you just hand them the X-cards. Tada! You don't need to approach people, people will approach you instead.
If you happen to be free tell the person that you are free at the moment to talk more about TripleClicks. Then use your smartphone to show them the site. For me, just concentrate on your phone. I know this is probably not good. People say when making presentation you should look someone in the eye. But I know that I will just stutter and clam up, I just focus on my phone and keep on going through the SFI and TripleClicks website.
If you're not free, give them your email address. Or better yet, get their email address so that you can email them to explain about TripleClicks.
And leave your X-cards everywhere. But don't litter. At the bus stop. In the taxi. At the cashier counter. I am ok with emails, but face to face I am lousy. So this is what I do.
And finally, find some self help books from TripleClicks on how to reduce your shyness. It is slowing your success in SFI in away. So to reach your dreams even faster, improve yourself.
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I too am one of these people who are very shy to the point that I can clam up and my brain just goes blank and I wouldn't know what to say.
But SFI is such a great company that it provides tools to help people like me.
I like the Wave3 Kit specifically the decal. You just stick it on your car and everywhere you go you are actually doing advertising. If anyone goes up to you to ask about TripleClicks, then you just hand them the X-cards. Tada! You don't need to approach people,
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What is the best way to help affiliates in my group who have limited access to a computer?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
3/12/2015 12:59 am
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
I think the important thing to remember is that you don't really need a computer. What you need is an internet connection. I hardly use my computer except to type something (like I'm typing the answer to this Ask SC question).
I spend all my time on my smartphone (like kids do these days) but mostly it is to collect my daily VPs and advertising. I even send my welcome letter using my Smartphone although I ensure that I keep a copy of the letter somewhere and just need to copy it and send it off. I understand that typing with a smartphone is not user friendly.
I do not have my own computer. The computer I do have is at the office (which is not mine, that is company's property). But during lunch time I do the Weekly Teammails, my follow up emails, my e-cards, etc.
My point is, teach your affiliate the options available. If it is the library, then so be it. If your affiliate is online and was able to click on your add and register, then he must have an internet connection and access to it somehow. He just needs guidance on how to optimise his time online.
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I think the important thing to remember is that you don't really need a computer. What you need is an internet connection. I hardly use my computer except to type something (like I'm typing the answer to this Ask SC question).
I spend all my time on my smartphone (like kids do these days) but mostly it is to collect my daily VPs and advertising. I even send my welcome letter using my Smartphone although I ensure that I keep a copy of the letter somewhere and just need to copy it and send
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How can I promote the New Member Pack (NMP) to boost and grow my SFI business?
Shamsina Sabdin, Aff (Malaysia)
11/16/2014 11:05 pm
Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 581
This is a bit tricky. Coz as new affiliates, they will tend to shy away when asked to invest in something. I remember how I was when I first joined SFI and being asked to buy the NMP pack would've just made me look somewhere else.
So I would suggest instead of promoting the NMP pack, promote the Fast Track programme. Because the programme requires 20 USD in SALES or purchase. It does not have to be purchase. It can be sales.
You must get your affiliates to understand that first. I know there is a time limit to buying the NMP pack (10 days), so as much as possible, teach them about the Fast Track benefits. Make them understand first.
If your affiliates are good in sales, then they can concentrate on that to get their Fast Track. And it's not just the NMP they should sell. Any products in the TripleClicks store which adds up to 20 USD will get them that Fast Track membership. If they have the money, then they can go the easy way and buy it for themselves (but stress the benefits).
To me NMP is not everything, it is the SO that you must have to be able to maintain your EA in order to get your commissions every month. And NMP is not eligible for SO.
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This is a bit tricky. Coz as new affiliates, they will tend to shy away when asked to invest in something. I remember how I was when I first joined SFI and being asked to buy the NMP pack would've just made me look somewhere else.
So I would suggest instead of promoting the NMP pack, promote the Fast Track programme. Because the programme requires 20 USD in SALES or purchase. It does not have to be purchase. It can be sales.
You must get your affiliates to understand that first.
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1/19/2016 10:43 pm