Affiliate since: 09/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Martina's 10 other Ask SC answers

Hi,
Charity they say begins at home. There was a question asked in one of the lunch pad quiz that says 'I you mistakenly discover a goldmine who will you tell first' . The answer of course is your family member.
Therefore to dissect your questions, I will suggest you start off with your nucleus and extended families first.
Though a prophet has no honor in his country, your family members being the ones closest to you can easily observe the zeal, passion, the determination and boldness you have suddenly attached to your new found biz with time some of them will begin to believe in you.
The same approach can also be applied with your friends, co-workers with a little difference. SFI is a goldmine so don't be ashamed to tell whoever that cares to listen that you are now an affiliate with the best online business in the world. Send them Gift Cards to arouse their interest. Make sure you have learnt in disgusting details everything about your biz especially the marketing plan and explain in details how it can creat residual income
during the raining days. With wisdom know the right time to discuss your biz with friends other wise you will ruin to whole show and your friends start avoiding you. If you have won iPad , android or even your payoneer MasterCard will be wonderful tools at this time. As they observe your success, definitely some will like to imitate you.
On the issue of strangers, try organizing business opportunity meetings, it works. Get an easily accessible, centrally located venue. Print flyers, well captioned handbills. Posters and colorful banners. Explain unambiguously in the ad materials what the BOM is all about. No hype or false claims. Make judicious use time and give them stuff equivalent of the time spend. Take time
to answer all their questions. Don't forget to pass a register around to collect their phone numbers, email Facebook, twitter handle, Skype address for proper follow up.
We are in the get age where many things are solve with the speed of light. As you utilize the offline method, don't forget that SFI is an online biz. So make use of the social media Google plus, yahoo, Pinterest , free ad sites to advertise and promote your biz to strangers thousands of miles away to capture as many people as possible.
Finally devote some little money for some paid ad just to scatter your eggs in different baskets. Many people are searching everywhere looking for wha to do to put food on their tables. You never can tell where those five eagles that will propel you to your financial freedom will come from,
Cheers!!!






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Hi,
Charity they say begins at home. There was a question asked in one of the lunch pad quiz that says 'I you mistakenly discover a goldmine who will you tell first' . The answer of course is your family member.
Therefore to dissect your questions, I will suggest you start off with your nucleus and extended families first.
Though a prophet has no honor in his country, your family members being the ones closest to you can easily observe the zeal, passion, the determination
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Affiliate since: 05/17/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Adrian's 9 other Ask SC answers

This is not an black or white answer. You will have to determine yourself who you will get the right response from.
If you are the kind of person who sign up for all types of business then recruite your friends and family before you understand the business, then it doesn't work out so you quit, then you may want to stay away from you friends and family until you can prove to them that you have proof that it works and you are benefiting from it.
This is when you market to strangers because they don't know your track record.
Once you have success with you business, then your friends and family will be chasing after you to get in.

Good Luck
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This is not an black or white answer. You will have to determine yourself who you will get the right response from.
If you are the kind of person who sign up for all types of business then recruite your friends and family before you understand the business, then it doesn't work out so you quit, then you may want to stay away from you friends and family until you can prove to them that you have proof that it works and you are benefiting from it.
This is when you market to strangers because
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Affiliate since: 09/28/2022, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olga's 32 other Ask SC answers

My choice is strangers, and here’s why.

When I first started, I tried to talk my closest friends into it. They seemed interested, wanted to learn more about it and one of them said: “Since the suggestion comes from you, I believe it’s a good opportunity. But, I don’t want to challenge our friendship for anything like business. As I understand, your success will depend on mine, and mine on yours, and that might lead to a conflict. We don’t need that, right?”

And I believe she was right. So I stopped looking for signups from among my friends and family, and concentrated on internet marketing. Your sense of responsibility for a person’s success is definitely stronger if it’s your friend or family member and that might burden you and make you feel uncomfortable, things they do wrong might irritate you and still you’ll probably suppress the bad feelings – and there you go, your friendship will no longer be a friendship but a stressful business relationship.

I’m not saying that it’s impossible. All I’m saying is that you need to be very careful when choosing friends you want to suggest SFI to. If those people show immense interest and determination – why not, give it a try. Just make sure they don’t like doing this for your sake, just for their own.

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My choice is strangers, and here’s why.

When I first started, I tried to talk my closest friends into it. They seemed interested, wanted to learn more about it and one of them said: “Since the suggestion comes from you, I believe it’s a good opportunity. But, I don’t want to challenge our friendship for anything like business. As I understand, your success will depend on mine, and mine on yours, and that might lead to a conflict. We don’t need that, right?”

And I
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Goran's 16 other Ask SC answers

It looks easier to promote to family and friends first, but it is not. Specialy in country where you come from.

Family know you long time, and have oppinion about your previous work, skills etc. So , they have problem to see you in new and different light, in diferent work, strange world for them. It is hard for them to belive you in success. They need time to watch you first and they will wait for your success first. Even then they are not sure and often refuse to try.

Similarly with friends. Closer friend makes more difficult and uncertain. The only good way is to ask friends if they have any of their friends who would be interested in new business opportunities and success in business. Indirectly, it may interest them to hear what it is about. Even then do not exspect much.

Complete stranger has no preconceived notions and not burdened with your previous experience and he will bind immediately to the idea, if it's good promoted. Mostly they will be attracted by your enthusiasm and sincerity. They will recognize honesty in your approach and they can join easily.

My advise, go with strangers first, and latter maybe, with pocket full of money ask your closest to drink coffe and have small chat with you.


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It looks easier to promote to family and friends first, but it is not. Specialy in country where you come from.

Family know you long time, and have oppinion about your previous work, skills etc. So , they have problem to see you in new and different light, in diferent work, strange world for them. It is hard for them to belive you in success. They need time to watch you first and they will wait for your success first. Even then they are not sure and often refuse to try.

Similarly
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Affiliate since: 03/07/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stephanos's 9 other Ask SC answers

Hello friend,

You have to promote SFI to everyone. Friends, family relatives, strangers etc.

After that you focus all your energy and time to those who actually
want to participate and understand it.

You cant leave someone out from not telling them about SFI thus that one person can be your
start for your income. Plus, the more the better.

Hope this helps

Affiliate since: 08/25/2013, Power Rank: 137 | Read Robert's 4 other Ask SC answers

Hi Gordana,
The simple answer is both, as a SFI member, you are a marketer, and in marketing, your job is to sell,and to sell to as many people as you can! In promoting SFI, you are not trying to sell a product per say, but you are trying to sell the prospect on becoming an affiliate under you, so you are still selling something.

As a marketer, you want to make as many sells as you possibly can, so why would you limit yourself to just one area of the market?

Yes if you are new to marketing, it is great to start out on friends and family, whom you will feel more comfortable with, and who can give you feed back, and then you can use this feed back to perfect your marketing when you start after strangers.

As a marketer, you want to make as many sells as you can, so you never want to limit yourself, so instead, focus on one aspect, and perfect it, and the apply it to another aspect, and keep doing this until yo become an expert.

I hope this helps
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Hi Gordana,
The simple answer is both, as a SFI member, you are a marketer, and in marketing, your job is to sell,and to sell to as many people as you can! In promoting SFI, you are not trying to sell a product per say, but you are trying to sell the prospect on becoming an affiliate under you, so you are still selling something.

As a marketer, you want to make as many sells as you possibly can, so why would you limit yourself to just one area of the market?

Yes if you
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Affiliate since: 06/05/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abe's 168 other Ask SC answers

Excellent question.
It's all depend to what make you comfortable to market SFI to which
Group to promote.
Most suggest Including SFI for that matter any business advice you
To promote to friends and family especially if you are a beginner or
Have no experience with this kind of business to gain some knowledge
While you are learning about the business to yourself. It is the kind which fits Earn while you learn kind of Idea.

Some also suggest it is better you promote to a total strangers, who are
Already in place to this kind of business (marketing) since they are searching and looking for opportunity or to supplement their main
Income and down the road to make or replace this their only source of income.

Now both of them have advantage and disadvantage to you to
Motivate you to grow your business or to go down the drain, depends
on your own strength and how much you are motivated to keep SFI In any circumstance even if you don't see result at first in terms of money other than gaining knowledge, since it is a long term business and the growth of the income comes in later months and years but steady flow income as long as you work on it.

Ok promoting SFI for friends and family as it seem a great idea
To build your business it is also friends and families are the first
One to quit your business too. As you now most people join business
With emotion In fact most experienced will tell you if you want to
Close the sell you better do it while their emotion is high and before
It cools off, the same way if you go to buy a car the sells person
Will try to sell you right there while your desire rate is high knowing
If you leave that place you might change your mind once you come back to your right mind.
This scenario will fit most but not all to friends and family.
They will join you because you told them about it and maybe you insisted
And they will do it just to make you happy even if they have no desire
To stay with it unless they were already looking for opportunity, and
Once they are in it depends what you told them in the first place about
The income part weather they will be rich in short amount of time or it
Is a long term slow but steady growth till they reach the third or fourth year for most people, If you explain that they will stay with you otherwise when they see no income coming in a few weeks they will be out of the door.

Strangers on the other hand, could act the same way like family
And friends but in a lesser degree,
The reason for that is they are already looking for opportunity and searching different outlets through advertisement either on paper, internet or other sources and they are open to try sound good business.
But still the honesty of your promotion is the key to keep them once they join you. You have to experience that in the first place being honest to gain trust among your prospects. In that case you will attract more quality prospect rather than quantity. You can have a mass but when they find out that they were mislead they will leave.

At the end for me I love to have strangers at any day. I work with them very well. I can be as close as friends and family members with them by my approach. First strangers then friends and family second.

Strangers are ready, hungry, sick and tired of their living situation
And want make change in their life. Family and friends will come
Later when they see your life change, since they are very skeptical
At first. ( Seeing is Believing ) very sad. I had friends who used to tell
Me, "let’s see you when you get succeed, then we will follow you."
Sound familiar?.


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Excellent question.
It's all depend to what make you comfortable to market SFI to which
Group to promote.
Most suggest Including SFI for that matter any business advice you
To promote to friends and family especially if you are a beginner or
Have no experience with this kind of business to gain some knowledge
While you are learning about the business to yourself. It is the kind which fits Earn while you learn kind of Idea.

Some also suggest it is better you
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Before asking anyone,complete your lessons so you know your subject well enough
to explain it to someone.Then pick a text ad by SFI to use.

I would then start with my best friends.You can ask them to take a couple of days and look at it as a favor to you.

Since it is free to join, has free lessons and you do not pay for a website,your friends will help you.

Ask your family next.Let's say 5 of your friends signed up.Put each family member under a different friend. We sure do not want to cause any family problems.

Next use your favorite SFI ad.Till you are a Team Leader, you are to use SFI material.Place your ads in places you are comfortable using.

I started with my E-Mail contacts.


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Before asking anyone,complete your lessons so you know your subject well enough
to explain it to someone.Then pick a text ad by SFI to use.

I would then start with my best friends.You can ask them to take a couple of days and look at it as a favor to you.

Since it is free to join, has free lessons and you do not pay for a website,your friends will help you.

Ask your family next.Let's say 5 of your friends signed up.Put each family member under a different
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Affiliate since: 04/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anja's 41 other Ask SC answers

Family or strangers? Take both!

Just where to start promoting?

Family and friends are a good starting point as long as they are open to your new discovery and want to share the experience with you. But if they are too skeptic, it will be a critical hit for you when you try to talk about it and get shot down with cynical and pessimistic remarks telling you to earn money by getting another employment.
The first will help you grow and learn more and more about business, they will compete with you, help you, share their ideas, discuss with you. They are a great momentum for you.
The latter will be too big a hurdle for those that just started out in SFI because you are missing experience, knowledge and your own prove that SFI works. Since they are dear to you, their negative feedback might ruin your momentum and you might even loose the opportunity to ever be able to promote them. But even as such a big wall, they are able to help you in your learning process. You will be able to collect lots of negative arguments that might come from strangers, too, and create some winning answers.

Promoting strangers is done quite easily, though the rate of failing is much bigger: you never know whether they are telling the truth or whether they will truly work hard. But by having more chances to promote, you can learn advertising methods quite well. Even if the individual feedback is missing, you will see by tracking your ads and their VP ledger where you were successful. Most methods will even take the least of your time, so you can concentrate about understanding SFI (learning and cramming) better with each passing day.

My suggestion:
Set up some online ads (= strangers) as immediate action and take your time meanwhile to read SFI basics, 1st launchpad lesson and 1st RoS (Rule of Success). If you are able to talk to dear friends and family, tell them you found something interesting, that's worth a deeper look. If they are sceptic leave them be until you've learned more, if not, invite them to learn more about SFI together with you.
Whatever happens, you can still advertise and promote strangers meanwhile to strenghten your downline.

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Family or strangers? Take both!

Just where to start promoting?

Family and friends are a good starting point as long as they are open to your new discovery and want to share the experience with you. But if they are too skeptic, it will be a critical hit for you when you try to talk about it and get shot down with cynical and pessimistic remarks telling you to earn money by getting another employment.
The first will help you grow and learn more and more about business, they
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Affiliate since: 01/29/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sandy's 13 other Ask SC answers

Yes, this question is related to offline vs. online marketing which is complicated. I have also got the similar questions from my team members, so I answered them as below:
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Hello,~FIRSTNAME~!

How are you doing?

Building your own team and downline PSAs is very critical to your success in SFI business, isn't it?

There are so many ways to practically achieve this, with your own pros and cons of course from your experiences, but generally speaking, it's not that easy, sorry to speak, if you are lazy or have no or a little time to advertise your SFI gateway links (log into your SFI homepage at www.sfimg.com and go to "My Gateways" in "My Acct" in the black main menu bar https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayList), which you must use when making your downline PSAs.

There are also so many articles and free training materials on how to do this, already ready for you in your SFI homepage, such as ASK SC articles, key words searchable, SFI Forum, and above all the "Internet Income" free courses at "Training" in the main menu bar at https://www.sfimg.com/Training/InternetIncome. I would strongly urge you to study all of these step by step taking your time, because your real power tends to be coming out from your knowledge and direct experiences. Personally I do not give my 100% trust to my thinking and emotional decision just made on my desk or bed time dreaming, because I think I need some encouraging proof developed through my own daily efforts, trial and errors! Actually this is the real fun part of our life, isn' t it?

Having said that, let me tell you my own online ads experiences of (1) some free ways but requiring your daily time and energy inputs (2) other options demanding your investment, small or larger, depending on your monthly monetary budgets (somebody says free ads are garbages or just waste of time, but I do not think so! There is no free lunch. Everything asks your passion, time and precious energy.):

(1) These include;

(a) Your internet blog or cafe advertising your gateway links of SFI and TripleClicks directly or indirectly, which accounts and design & posting tools are freely provided for you by your local portal sites in each country, which are normally to be made in your own local language that is the greatest way to recruit your PSAs, I would recommend for you. Please use the proven marketing tools in "Marketing" section in the main menu bar, such as banners, splashes and text ads by categories such as SFI, TripleClicks etc., in there in addition to your own articles and key words with creatives. Just be honest and tell your visitors the truth nothing but the truth you have felt and experienced in and through SFI, your lifetime serious and fun business.

(b) Free credit basis of email marketing of your SFI blog or your SFI gateway link page, by accumulating free credits through reading emails to you sent by safelist emailers. If you type "safelist" or "free emailer" in google search, then you can find many of them anyway. Please try to use FireFox browser having auto tab browsing function in PC, and Dolphin browser in your smart devices to save your time and energy in getting free credits through consecutive reafings. To receive so many emails from them, I think you've got to make several gmail accounts just for the purpose of this time consuming process. You join these sites as a free member, and if you got some positive results, then you may wish to consider upgrade.

(c) Free credit basis of manual traffic exchage marketing of your SFI blog or your SFI gateway link page, by accumulating free credits through manually surfing ads pages given to you by traffic exchange sites in the market. If you type "traffic exchange" or "manual traffic exchange" in google search, then you can find many of them anyway. Please try to use FireFox browser having auto tab browsing function in PC, and Dolphin browser in your tablet devices to save your time and energy. Personally I do not recommend autosurf traffic exchange, which was waste of time for me. You may wish to go http://www.trafficbrowser.com/ and download it's free software and run it according to their video tutorials there.

(d) Social Network marketings, using such as Facebook(using tiny urls of your SFI gateway links, making them at www.tinyurl.com that is free), Twitter and so many other global and local SNS service providers, by profiling yourself as oriented with online business linked with SFI. Normally the more people you follow, the more followers you would get. You can send your recommendation messages of SFI to each of them at some stage when socialized, with your own simple and powerful key words.

(e) Posting you videos on Youtube with making links to your SFI blog or gateway links to SFI and TripleClicks. You can post your comments with simple recommendations about SFI, in a form of back link, which is not normally allowed but sometimes it works. You can negotiate with the owner for you to do this in advance of course. You can do the similar things locally, in my case, on the free to join internet cafes, such as job community sites which provides various job opportunity searching related services particularly for university students.

(f) To use torrent upload sites and free file sharing and uploading sites which are already optimised for search engines like google, just making sure that you choose the right key words (4~6 words) as the file name and uploading subject, both to be same. Please try to make various formats of files with different contents with your SFI gateways, and upload them, then the rests would be done by those sites and search engines automatically for you. If you have done it correctly, you can confirm your uploaded file name through the google search engine in 24 hours, which is my experience.

To find out which one is the best suited for you in the above, I recommend you should use key code tracking services of SFI at https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=19365 in "Power Tools" menu.


(2) Those include:

(a) You can purchase PSAs by investing some amount of money into co-op ads pool, firstly the TripleClicks(TC) Direct products, such as S-Builder(key code 1101) and PSAs To Go(recently introduced) at "SFI" category in "Products", and secondly

(b) at TripleClicks ECA shops. Just type some key words such as "signup" or "guaranteed" into the search box of TripleClicks.

(c) PTC sites which are rather cheaper than the others etc..

Please remember nobody above guarantees the recruited PSAs will be active, because they are not their employees. So it seems to be like a lottery, isn't it? So, don't expect too much from them, because only 2~3 percent of them, at best, would be active, if we are lucky, in my experiences and for our peace of mind. Just evaluate them frankly and correctly, with your own harsh or favorable comments at the right timing.

Having said various online methods in the above, I would like to emphasize the other side that actually the offline methods are far better than the online ones, in my best experience and knowledge. Please do not underestimate the power of words from your mouth! Why don't you tell your families, relatives, friends, colleagues and others you meet daily? Try to be ready and equipped with knowledge and experiences in SFI, and above all don't be too shy because they will love it eventually! You've got to trust this and never give up! I tell my friend "Study, and don't be a chicken, be a man!".

Of course, I would never stop trial and errors until I would get 300 warriors of active PSAs in my first generation, and I hope you do as well.

Thank you for reading this, and my messages would follow periodically with numbering from the basics to higher level of information to help for you to financially succeed through SFI, repeatedly with some more updates.

Please accept my best regards and wishes for you and your family.
Have a great and wonderful day!
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Yes, this question is related to offline vs. online marketing which is complicated. I have also got the similar questions from my team members, so I answered them as below:
............................................

Hello,~FIRSTNAME~!

How are you doing?

Building your own team and downline PSAs is very critical to your success in SFI business, isn't it?

There are so many ways to practically achieve this, with your own pros and cons of course from
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