Having a strong foundation in a business plan to me is the most important message.
1. Focus – Decide on a plan for growing your business and then focus on that plan. Use a marketing funnel to convert your advertising and sales into income. Take action and put your plan to work by spending a little time each day to drive traffic into your marketing funnel. Traffic plus Conversion equals Income. It is the most simplest equation.
2. Traffic – Does not relate just to online advertising. It is the ebb and flow of your advertising. Weather you are placing cards on bulletin boards, advertising text links or running a mailer or traffic exchange campaign. You need to get your business advertised. Every business out their advertises and brands their product. If I say McDonalds can you immediately envision the fast food chains brand and the golden arch 's ? That is their branding and their advertising regardless of the quality of food many people around the world will envision and understand what McDonalds is. That is what you want for your business or opportunity and your advertising. Get people to recognize you.
3. Conversion – When it comes to earning affiliate commissions (converting traffic to income) I do NOT like to have all my eggs in one basket. My advertising is diversified in multiple places, Traffic Exchanges, Safelist, Co-Ops, social media. As one A2A friend said in discussion "Tim everywhere I go to advertise I see you there, your name and face branded and your ads showing. In order to do this and maintain FOCUS, you simply must be using a marketing funnel so you can focus on filling your SFI funnel with traffic. And this means duplication occurs. Where have you heard that word before ? SFI Basics ring a bell ?
4. Email List – The most powerful conversion tool in internet marketing is an autoresponder. Send your advertising to a lead capture page and let your autoresponder do the heavy lifting. Your autoresponder will follow up a lead....your prospects. I know SFI teaches you to not use auto responders but I use them to gain prospects. Prospects that I talk to on skype or email and sell them on the SFI opportunity and the fact that it is one of the greatest affiliate opportunities with the history to prove it. The money is in your list. Build your own, it is vitally important in any affiliate program.( Funny that SFI does not promote the use especially since one of my highest ranking marketing tools is my SFI Lead Capture page that we all have access to in our promotional materials and the same method SFI communicates to newly signed up affiliates) I am looking for quality prospects, not the tire kicker or the affiliate that thinks they are going to get rich quick. I contact my prospects and ask them a series of questions and then I tell them how I feel they will do creating their own business. Its not easy but it is worth it
5. Profit – This plan is designed for you to start small and build big by investing into your marketing system gradually. It’s also set up so that the more you invest, the more you profit. You will earn commissions if you develop a plan and invest in tools to make it happen. I am sure if you look around at the top performers and look at what they are doing their foundation business plan is the same and they are using these principals.
The business model above is nothing new or entirely unique. It is the same model taught by most any ‘guru’ you will meet. I have simply set up a marketing funnel targeted ideally for my SFI business It works so well because every thing I do, everything I invest all comes back to my business at SFI.
If you do not step out of the crowd, take the time, invest in marketing with a sound affordable budget you will continue to spin your wheels. Get out there and drive your business.
It doesn’t get any easier than this… as long as you take action.
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Having a strong foundation in a business plan to me is the most important message.
1. Focus – Decide on a plan for growing your business and then focus on that plan. Use a marketing funnel to convert your advertising and sales into income. Take action and put your plan to work by spending a little time each day to drive traffic into your marketing funnel. Traffic plus Conversion equals Income. It is the most simplest equation.
2. Traffic – Does not relate just to online
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