Affiliate since: 07/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Charles's 66 other Ask SC answers

You can set up a co-op at any time, but you have to have something to draw sign-ups into the co-op. A co-op without any traffic does nothing. Either a blog or a website can be used to draw people into the co-op. In fact, any form of advertising you do can possibly generate PSAs to distribute through your co-op.

A blog can be effective in generating traffic, but you will need to figure out how to make it work. Just any old blog will not do the job. There is an art and a science to putting together an effective blog site. There are a lot of e-books available in the business telling you how to create and drive a blog site. Your upline may also be able to help get you started in the right direction. A lot will depend on your writing ability as well.

An alternative might be to develop a website. Again there are a lot of E-books available through TripleClicks telling you how to do this. A lot will also depend on how computer savvy you are, and how much you know about online advertising. For most of us, this is all new, and it takes time to work out the kinks and make a website or blog that produces the desired results. Whether you are doing a blog or a website, you will have to master drawing people to the site.

All this is just a part of the learning process in the SFI business. We have to try a bunch of things and find out what works for us. We seldom get the answers overnight. It all takes time.
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You can set up a co-op at any time, but you have to have something to draw sign-ups into the co-op. A co-op without any traffic does nothing. Either a blog or a website can be used to draw people into the co-op. In fact, any form of advertising you do can possibly generate PSAs to distribute through your co-op.

A blog can be effective in generating traffic, but you will need to figure out how to make it work. Just any old blog will not do the job. There is an art and a science to putting
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Mary.

Why don't you use both?

Your question strikes to the core of effectiveness of sponsoring methods. You can rephrase the question in terms of (i) Team work (SFI Co-op) versus (ii) Going alone (by yourself with your SFI bLog).

In those terms, team work would be better: you will have more resources and the results will impact you as well as the team members who are part of your SFI Co-op

Let's look at these points in details.

I. Team Work (SFI Co-op) versus Going Alone (Blog)

As mentioned above, with an SFI Co-op you are working with your team and helping them building their businesses while you also develop yours.

With a Blog on SFI, you are working alone.

First the result does depend on the method itself as such but on the quality and professionalism wit which the sponsoring method being used is understood, thoroughly planned and executed.

Second, an SFI Co-op and a Blog about SFI both aim at attracting potential prospects to SFI, but have different methodologies and features. They are not really comparable and, certainly, they are not mutually exclusive.

Hence, it might be better to look at them as complementary.

II. A Blog and complement an SFI Co-op as a Feeder
When you are successful in convincing your team members to join you in your SFI co-op and you decide to advertise for it, you can set a blog and use splash pages and landing pages that feed into your SFI Co-op.

That way you are increasing the potential of success for you and your team members.

This combination may be more rewarding than approaching approaching the SFi Co-op as opposite to a personal blog.

Try this approaches and you see better results.

Hopefully this is helpful

Good luck to you my friend.
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Hello, Mary.

Why don't you use both?

Your question strikes to the core of effectiveness of sponsoring methods. You can rephrase the question in terms of (i) Team work (SFI Co-op) versus (ii) Going alone (by yourself with your SFI bLog).

In those terms, team work would be better: you will have more resources and the results will impact you as well as the team members who are part of your SFI Co-op

Let's look at these points in details.

I. Team
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Creating an SFI co-op is probably the easier of the two, and it provides the most straightforward pay-off: you collect money, funnel it into some method of arranging traffic, and that results in a certain level of sign-ups for you and your team. Note that this doesn't assure any activity on the visitors' part, nor does it give them any idea of what to expect in itself.

Blogging about SFI, by contrast, is more time-intensive: you have to post consistently and with quality of a level that will attract readers, although again, you can funnel traffic to your blog in any number of ways. It may, by comparison, result in less traffic and fewer sign-ups, but there is an additional value here--each of your posts will develop a knowledge base both for your readers and for *you* to revisit. It tracks your own growth as an SFI affiliate yourself, and this can help you continue to improve, and you can use it as a training tool for those who sign up as your PSAs as well.

With each, over time, you can track inbound traffic and effectiveness, but in the end, they both do the same thing--they help encourage the growth and training of your team of affiliates. Keep in mind, one requires a budget and money management skills and the other requires communication and time-management skills. If you have the skills to do both, do both. If you can only do one, though, decide which you want to spend more of: money or time.

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Creating an SFI co-op is probably the easier of the two, and it provides the most straightforward pay-off: you collect money, funnel it into some method of arranging traffic, and that results in a certain level of sign-ups for you and your team. Note that this doesn't assure any activity on the visitors' part, nor does it give them any idea of what to expect in itself.

Blogging about SFI, by contrast, is more time-intensive: you have to post consistently and with quality of a level
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

In my opinion you do these two for different reasons.

Your blog is designed to attract new affiliates. If you use the correct words to bring surfers to your blog you will get a lot of hits and some of them will sign up.
My blog is not about SFI - it is about dealing with ADHD children. SFI's banner is there as an "advert". I mention it as a way to help me deal with the financial challenges I face and put a link to SFI where I mention it. A lot of people will click on the link and some will sign up. Why? because I mentioned it as part of my blog about ADHD children and they are human, so they are curious.

The co-op is to help your existing affiliates to build their team. You can let them buy shares or you can add our movers names for free to help and encourage them. My co-sponsor do it that way - so a lot of my PSA's sign ups came from his co-op.

I feel we have to make full use of every tool SFI offers us.
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In my opinion you do these two for different reasons.

Your blog is designed to attract new affiliates. If you use the correct words to bring surfers to your blog you will get a lot of hits and some of them will sign up.
My blog is not about SFI - it is about dealing with ADHD children. SFI's banner is there as an "advert". I mention it as a way to help me deal with the financial challenges I face and put a link to SFI where I mention it. A lot of people will click on
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

In our SFI and TripleClicks business one of the biggest and fastest ways to “provide the most value” in your business is to do things that are easy to duplicate by your down-line.

With that in mind I would have to say that starting your own co-op would bring you the greatest value in the long run.

Some affiliates in your down-line would not know a thing about maintaining a blog and getting the blog to attract visitors and then converting them to affiliates. With a blog you have to learn advertising and posting good fresh content.

With a co-op they just need to learn how to sponsor or to pay for a spot in your co-op system and help to advertise the same link that you are using.

I use a rotator with my teammates URLs so whenever my ad receives a click it will change to a different URL. This has worked great in one month my team grew by over 100 affiliates and six people on the rotator were very happy with the results and can’t wait for me to run the next one.

After doing this a few times I will then write out the entire system I am using and send the information to my team. I would help them to acquire the right tools and the right methods to use for advertising. This system is much easier to duplicate than teaching your affiliates to maintain a blog system.

Having a blog is also important for several different reasons which I won’t go into right now. Except to say my blog is where my rotator is hosted, without the blog I would have to pay someone to host it or to pay for rotator service from a advertising safe list.

Always weigh the “greatest value” of something by the amount of affiliates in your down-line that can easily get involved with.

Easy Duplication of something has the greater value to you and your team.

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In our SFI and TripleClicks business one of the biggest and fastest ways to “provide the most value” in your business is to do things that are easy to duplicate by your down-line.

With that in mind I would have to say that starting your own co-op would bring you the greatest value in the long run.

Some affiliates in your down-line would not know a thing about maintaining a blog and getting the blog to attract visitors and then converting them to
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 83 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

Many have submitted answers in favour of starting a blog about SFI.
And since you are asking an either/or kind of question, I hope my answer will relate to some, if not most, of our friendly raters.

For someone with a limited know-how of starting and managing a blog that will give the most effective advertisement for SFI, this can be quite daunting. Blogging should be done regularly, otherwise no one will want to read your blog if there is no new and interesting thing to read. You have no guarantee of it being read by internet surfers unless you know how to drive traffic through your blog, and still not sure if it will produce sign-ups.

Creating your own SFI co-op, especially if done through the S-Builder Co-op, will provide the most value for money and for building a team.

It's great for someone with limited time, limited know=how and experience and limited money to invest. Though there is also no guarantee of sign-ups who will work and become active, still it's a better result as you can also get PRMs out of them.

You can tap on the great resources of SFI- their international and multichannel advertising co-op which is a great way to fast track your success. And cheap too! With only 72 cents a day, you can build a residual income stream which makes for a rosy future.



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Many have submitted answers in favour of starting a blog about SFI.
And since you are asking an either/or kind of question, I hope my answer will relate to some, if not most, of our friendly raters.

For someone with a limited know-how of starting and managing a blog that will give the most effective advertisement for SFI, this can be quite daunting. Blogging should be done regularly, otherwise no one will want to read your blog if there is no new and interesting thing to read. You
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Affiliate since: 08/26/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dr Sudhanshu's 155 other Ask SC answers

I feel the two are bit different in nature and do not have a direct co-relation to compare. I will put my benefits note below and let you decide which one you should opt for.
A. SFI Co-OP
A SFI Co-Op is basically a group advertising. This gives an opportunity to build a team together. You can run the co-op advertising and simultaneously can generate PSAs for everyone in your co-op list. This is a very powerful tool when you think of team building.

B. Blogging:
Blogging has its own benefits but I assume this will lead to only your team growth not growth to your all team members. Of course in terms of knowledge you will helping all your team members and teaching them to build their own team. But you must be knowing that very people know how to implement the knowledge to success.

I would recommend you to create a SFI Co-OP as well as start a SFI blog parallel. Because none of these two can be neglected when you are planning of a big income in SFI.
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I feel the two are bit different in nature and do not have a direct co-relation to compare. I will put my benefits note below and let you decide which one you should opt for.
A. SFI Co-OP
A SFI Co-Op is basically a group advertising. This gives an opportunity to build a team together. You can run the co-op advertising and simultaneously can generate PSAs for everyone in your co-op list. This is a very powerful tool when you think of team building.

B. Blogging:
Blogging
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lazar's 69 other Ask SC answers

Both are OK in my opinion,but let's try to compare it.


About blog:

Pluses
- it's mostly free (a big plus for some persons)
- no special experience needed
- gathers attention of people from SFI (when you give them link) and out of SFI (if blog is visible to search engines)
- not hard to maintain (technically)
- the results (PSAs) are all yours (if you make several registrations through blog,the are all yours)
- unlimited lasting (until you delete it or until something happens to the company where you blog is)

Minuses:
- there are literally millions of them,all over internet (you have to be really special to draw more then average attention)
- has to be updated (from time to time;once a week minimum) if you want quality blog

Plus/minus:
- you mostly work alone (for some it's a plus,for others it's minus)


About co-op:

Pluses:
- greater/wider advertisement then blog itself,which results better "score" (quality,if not quantity)
- building team work (makes stronger connections within the team)

Minuses:
- not free (limited participation,because of money issue)
- you'll need some education,how to make co-op
- the results (PSAs) are not all your (you share it with others)
- limited lasting (time is specified how long co-op will last)


Even besides minuses of co-op,I think it gives better results then blog.It's not cheap/free (for some it's a barrier),but the results would be more quality.Because,when you all gather together (your team) and everyone gives a little,together you'll have BIG - bigger amount of money to put into advertisement,which results more advantageous conditions.
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Both are OK in my opinion,but let's try to compare it.


About blog:

Pluses
- it's mostly free (a big plus for some persons)
- no special experience needed
- gathers attention of people from SFI (when you give them link) and out of SFI (if blog is visible to search engines)
- not hard to maintain (technically)
- the results (PSAs) are all yours (if you make several registrations through blog,the are all yours)
- unlimited lasting (until you
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think both can provide good value, but neither is a stand-alone solution.

An advertising co-op will mean you need to collect subscription payments from your team (unless you are funding it for them). It will also require that you have a strategy in place to
a) spread the chosen ads far and wide, or
b) drive traffic to the places you have put the ads, or
c) both (preferable).

It can mean a lot of work to do it right, but the rewards in terms of team growth will be worth the effort. And if you use the SFI co-op system it will automatically distribute the resulting sign-ups among the participating members for you.

When it comes to blogging, it depends on what you want to achieve with your blog.

If your blog is designed to attract new people to SFI, then, like the co-op, you will also need to create a mechanism to drive traffic to the blog. That could mean promoting it through text ads, or in traffic exchanges, safe lists or other (less impersonal) email distribution systems. Again, this can be quite a bit of work, but the rewards will come, eventually. Bear in mind that you are effectively adding an extra step to the recruitment process, which may mean another opportunity for people to opt out. But those who opt in will be more likely to become active, so I would suggest that you think of the blog as a filter rather than a magnet when you are deciding on your content.

On the other hand, if the aim of your blog is to inform and motivate your existing team, you will only need to promote it to your team, and your advice can be more practical and specific. This can be a very useful tool, and will save you a lot of group mailing over time. It's value will come from greater activity from your existing team.

Hope this helps.
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I think both can provide good value, but neither is a stand-alone solution.

An advertising co-op will mean you need to collect subscription payments from your team (unless you are funding it for them). It will also require that you have a strategy in place to
a) spread the chosen ads far and wide, or
b) drive traffic to the places you have put the ads, or
c) both (preferable).

It can mean a lot of work to do it right, but the rewards in terms of team growth
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

"Creating my own SFI co-op...or starting a blog about SFI...which will provide the most value?"


Thanks for this question.

Value here means returns I presume. Returns means affiliates who will be part of your Team as PSAs.

Starting a Blog about SFI:

Here, you can provide adequate details about SFI Business, its history, your achievements, etc. You can provide your gateway as a link to SFI. Its free of cost.

A visitor will be able to understand the opportunities SFI business can present. If he is so curious he will do a sign up. Whether he will continue or not will be a big question.

Your blog acts as an advertisement medium. You can provide links to your blog in social forums like Facebook, twitter, etc.

Your own SFI Co-op:

You can buy a Unit. The cost will be 22$ when you place a SO. The advantage here is: even a person without any marketing experience can take part in it. SFI will take care of advertisement using different means. Its a slow process however. It will take time to get few people. The results in terms of quantity or quality, are not guaranteed.

SFI cautions that if you can not afford it do not get in.

Conclusion:

When we consider " Value " as " Returns in terms of affiliates " there is no guarantee that either will be very productive. But considering very many factors, I would certainly suggest creating your own SFI S-Builder Co-op.!!
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"Creating my own SFI co-op...or starting a blog about SFI...which will provide the most value?"


Thanks for this question.

Value here means returns I presume. Returns means affiliates who will be part of your Team as PSAs.

Starting a Blog about SFI:

Here, you can provide adequate details about SFI Business, its history, your achievements, etc. You can provide your gateway as a link to SFI. Its free of cost.

A visitor will be
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