Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 197 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers

SFI has provided the necessary marketing aids and methods that are professionally designed and proven to be effective if they are used properly. Often times, our adverts do not receive good responses though we receive numerous hits(clicks). We need to review the causes and effects of our advertising.There is no perfect advert that really strike the full attention of the customers.

Our adverts are meant to get attention, interest, credibility, desire and action(IAICDA). These five elements must fit into the ads that we want to campaign for.

Consider
the target audience- the age, life style, income, local or global, needs
product/service concept-will it fulfill the needs, benefits
communication media- putting the ads at the right place and the right time, local and global
content of the message- clear and simple to understand

Positioning our ads based on
-readers' point of view, how they perceive, provide benefits and solution, value
-media: the right places that call for more traffics on sites such as; Business Opportunities, Work at Home, Home Business, MLM
- media choice,quality, free, classified or paid: newspaper, magazine, direct mail and online, blog, facebook, twitters, websites, etc
- frequency: Place in high traffic websites and number of exposures per day, at what time and day that more people will view the ads.
- Design - SFI has provided customized design aids that are ready to use
- Writing Affective Copy- SFI has provided and to choose the suitable one for the particular campaign

The use of Search Engine Optimization(SEO) - Having striking, bold , short, outstanding headlines will help to locate and identify your site easily and speedily. Tag them to ensure that they can be detected by the search engines.

Using the most popular media with heavy traffics will not guarantee you of favorable results. One thing for sure. I place my ads/gateways to any free websites repeatedly. Even using Lifetime Custom Domain will not guarantee me of many registrations but at least I can monitor the number of hits(clicks) into my websites. The changing taste and behavior of customers make advertising more complex and dynamic to counter the changing marketing environment and the use of ICT and internet.








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SFI has provided the necessary marketing aids and methods that are professionally designed and proven to be effective if they are used properly. Often times, our adverts do not receive good responses though we receive numerous hits(clicks). We need to review the causes and effects of our advertising.There is no perfect advert that really strike the full attention of the customers.

Our adverts are meant to get attention, interest, credibility, desire and action(IAICDA). These five elements
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Affiliate since: 06/11/2013, Power Rank: 5 | Read Maree's 55 other Ask SC answers

First start to set up a daily chart on your computer.
List your days activities. Where you have gone and promoted.
I started with asking my sponsor years ago, where were the best places for promoting.

You will find at Face Book etc you will be asked to join lots of sites.
NEVER spend at them until you have tested them for results.
A lot of people give a lot of hype with very little results.

Remember also to add to your signature at GMail your SFI link.
This will automatically be sent with every email you send out.

Make sure to add a tracking code to the links for each individual site you promote SFI at.
http://www.joinmySFIteam.com/XXXXXX.1046 XX add your SFI id here.

My Example
Monday Where I promoted.
1046 SFI training website. 19 new
1077 List name of site.
1088 List name of site. 6 new

Tuesday
1988 List name of site. 2 new
Etc Etc Etc

When you receive new PSA members.
Take a note of the code entered in the email.
Go and mark it beside the codes you have listed for future reference to the promoting you have done the days before.
Before sending the new member a welcome email

Next week view the chart. If you have nothing listed you know you are wasting your time.
Do not bother again with the promoting there. I suggest select 5 to begin with.
Then the key is to reinvest half your SFI earnings. Grabbing the one time offer for upgrades etc.

The internet can be a very dangerous place.
I only join new launches recommended by trusted admin I have been following for years.

Remember to only promote SFI at these sites.
YOUR Team will follow you into these sites on auto pilot when you send them your link to your SFI training website. OR an email. Giving you cash back while solely promoting SFI.
Here is where you list all the sites you use for promoting.
I only recommend the sites I have tested and are proven for results.

Personally you can also check the tracking results at SFI.
But I feel okay you might get 1000 hits. But you need sign ups.
Some members just click for the free credits. With no intention of joining.

I find the best way is with introducing SFI in topics Via Social Media, and Facebook.
I state what bargain I just purchased. What are the benefits etc. I also share the price bender link.
YOU will be surprised how many inquiries you will start to get.


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First start to set up a daily chart on your computer.
List your days activities. Where you have gone and promoted.
I started with asking my sponsor years ago, where were the best places for promoting.

You will find at Face Book etc you will be asked to join lots of sites.
NEVER spend at them until you have tested them for results.
A lot of people give a lot of hype with very little results.

Remember also to add to your signature at GMail your SFI link.
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

If you are hunting from a distance and you miss your target and hit the dirt, aim higher.

Like that scenario if the advertising you are doing is not working you need to set a higher goal. Instead of promoting in free traffic exchanges start to explore other marketing venues like article marketing, blogging and e-mail marketing.

Learn skills in targeting your ads to specific groups instead of just throwing the same URL at everybody you meet. Aim higher and recruit the people you would most like as your customers or in your team. If that person is English speaking, mid 30's, with $500 a month to invest in growing their business learn what he is looking for and tailor your ads to meet his demands.

There is no need to stay spinning wheels advertising in a exchange program where the other members are only there to promote what they are already in. Aim higher, dream bigger, and get the customers who are spending $300 a week on Amazon or Ebay to spend their $300 on TripleClicks. You can do this if you follow SFI training and go beyond it into learning more about niche marketing.

Aim higher when you promote instead of heading for a soft and easy comfort zone. Push your limits and grow your mind and reach for the golden fruit at the top of the tree and you will find success in your business.
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If you are hunting from a distance and you miss your target and hit the dirt, aim higher.

Like that scenario if the advertising you are doing is not working you need to set a higher goal. Instead of promoting in free traffic exchanges start to explore other marketing venues like article marketing, blogging and e-mail marketing.

Learn skills in targeting your ads to specific groups instead of just throwing the same URL at everybody you meet. Aim higher and recruit the people
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Affiliate since: 10/07/2014, Power Rank: 521 | Read Alvin's 86 other Ask SC answers

Question:
"My advertising is not providing satisfactory results. What should I do?"

I have been asking this same question about my own advertising efforts.

We have three areas of focus; building our Affiliate Teams, promoting TripleClicks products and services, and supporting our ECA Members by helping promote their products.

Now that we have broken this down into 3 options we ask where can I go to find these audiences?

There are many options when considering this question.

• Social Media
• Article Publishing
• Write Press Release
• Email Marketing
• Classified Ads
• Search Engine Optimization
• Google Search

We can use Google to locate each of those options listed above. Once we begin this journey, many more options will come to mind, while more exposure to other options will be located during our search.

How will we establish a marketing plan?

The first thing to do is realize our investment potential in time and money.

1. Search TripleClicks - For advertising solutions
2. Search the SFI Affiliate Center - For training information

1. Establish a Wish List

2. Establish a Budget from the Wish List

3. Establish Marketing Strategy

Set goals and try to stick to them.

These are just a few suggestions, but they will help us remain on track if we publish them and reference them often.

Review, revise, and re-invest along the way.

Hoping this will help.

Thank you for allowing me to share!

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Question:
"My advertising is not providing satisfactory results. What should I do?"

I have been asking this same question about my own advertising efforts.

We have three areas of focus; building our Affiliate Teams, promoting TripleClicks products and services, and supporting our ECA Members by helping promote their products.

Now that we have broken this down into 3 options we ask where can I go to find these audiences?

There are many options
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

You might want to take a closer look at the construction of your ad, and its relevance to the market you are targeting.

There are 3 important elements to a successful ad.

1. Attention Grabber
2. Description of the benefits of your product
3. Call to action

The attention grabber is necessary because there are so many ads out there, people will simply skim over yours if it does not grab their attention. This might be a picture, an evocative statement, or unusual graphics, but it needs to stand out from the crowd.

The description of the benefits of your product is also important. Whether you are offering some added value to the product (like a gift card, or a free basic training course), or suggesting how the product could enhance their life (which is the main motivation for most people looking at ads in the first place), they must believe they will gain some benefit from responding to your ad.

The call to action is necessary because procrastination is a universal affliction. You would be surprised how many more people will respond if you end with a proactive statement, without sounding pushy. Tell them what to do, and they are far more likely to do it! For example, you might say "To get your free gift card right now, CLICK HERE!"

The ad's relevance to the target market is also important. You need to understand what people in your market are looking for, and tailor your ad (and choose the product you are promoting) to meet those needs. For example, "Worried about your retirement?" is not going to have the same impact on people in their 20's as it would on people in their 40's or 50's.

Hope this helps!
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You might want to take a closer look at the construction of your ad, and its relevance to the market you are targeting.

There are 3 important elements to a successful ad.

1. Attention Grabber
2. Description of the benefits of your product
3. Call to action

The attention grabber is necessary because there are so many ads out there, people will simply skim over yours if it does not grab their attention. This might be a picture, an evocative statement, or
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

When your advertisements are not providing satisfactory results then you need to ask yourself certain questions:

1. Are you using unique key codes to track the results of your advertisement from different sources?

2. Are you using the appropriate advertising tools and techniques?

3. Are you advertising in the right places and are you targeting the right prospects?

4. Have you tried to advertise to your warm market; friends, colleagues, social network, relatives etc?

If the answer to all or any of these is NO, then you need to rethink your strategy and come up with more effective ones, in order to avoid the mistakes that resulted in unsatisfactory results. Also, you may need to train or retrain yourself by going through relevant training material within and outside of SFI in order to develop appropriate understanding and acquire pertinent skills that will enhance your ability to carry out more effective advertising that will provide satisfactory results.

In light of the above, my suggestions are as follow:

1. Try face-to-face advertising, speak to your friends, colleagues, relatives etc and encourage them to become SFI affiliates and TC members. Also go to your main street and visit stores, especially the ones you are familiar with and persuade them to register their businesses as ECAs at TripleClicks (TC).

2. Advertise on sites or forums where people are seeking work from home, work online and internet income opportunities.

3. Place flyers on targeted areas where visibility is profound and targets are those seeking first or second incomes like, student centres, job seeker centres, libraries, retiree’s gatherings etc.

4. Set up a reputable and effective website or blog to promote various aspects of your SFI/TC business, so that you can have control of the contents and include more targeted messages and techniques in order to improve the search engine optimisation (SEO) of your website.

5. Make do with TC gift cards and x-cards in prospecting for TC signups. The gift cards can be effective if properly distributed to minimise waste and fraud.

6. You can even organise events and discussion groups where you may initially woo attendees with refreshment and other giveaways while introducing them to SFI/TC and you may need to physically demonstrate and introduce them to SFI/TC sites, and ensure you highlight the benefits.

7. Finally, always apply key codes in your advertisements in order to determine those ads that are effective, so that you will be properly informed when deciding the ad sources you need to continue and the ones you need to discontinue, because a proper and appropriate resource allocation are important in any business.

In whatever strategy you adopt, please note that determination, hard work and professionalism are necessary qualities of a good business person. Also note that these approaches are not one-size-fit all methods, so you need to apply them to the appropriate objectives and goals you intend to achieve, good luck with your advertising.

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When your advertisements are not providing satisfactory results then you need to ask yourself certain questions:

1. Are you using unique key codes to track the results of your advertisement from different sources?

2. Are you using the appropriate advertising tools and techniques?

3. Are you advertising in the right places and are you targeting the right prospects?

4. Have you tried to advertise to your warm market; friends, colleagues, social network, relatives
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

Getting satisfactory results will vary depending on one's skill,
experience and timing.
If you think your results are poor, it may be time to re-evaluate
your Advertising and Marketing efforts.

The advertising market requires diversification and consistency to achieve .
meaningful results.
If you followed the SFI Marketing Methods recommendations, one by one,
you will have been exposed to many methods to do your marketing.
Some you will have found that were easy for you to attempt, others more difficult.
When starting out your comfort zone is important, while learning.
Then, you must branch out and try some of the more challenging methods to
advertise.

Here are some basic tips:

1. Continue to try all the methods which make sense to you.
2. Create a chart to follow your advertising efforts and results.
( using your Hit Tracking stats from SFI)
3. Maintain your advertising program consistently.
4. Where you advertise, Monitor your competition, at all times, to view alternative
advertising ideas.
5. At least once daily, do something different with one campaign.
6. And, each week, start a new method of advertising, continue it until you
you have mastered it.

Marketing and advertising has many challenges. Timing, target marketing,
niche marketing all take time and effort.
Setting up your Marketing once is not enough.
Many make the mistake of ignoring a successful campaign thinking it will continue on.
Successful marketers continuously monitor and review their efforts daily to
stay on top of their efforts.

My best advice is to review your Marketing Methods and look for areas to improve.
Use your Upline Sponsors, A2A friends or someone who you know to bounce
your thoughts and ideas or review your work.

Keep moving forward!

Regards



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Getting satisfactory results will vary depending on one's skill,
experience and timing.
If you think your results are poor, it may be time to re-evaluate
your Advertising and Marketing efforts.

The advertising market requires diversification and consistency to achieve .
meaningful results.
If you followed the SFI Marketing Methods recommendations, one by one,
you will have been exposed to many methods to do your marketing.
Some you will have found that
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Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 284 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers

If your advertising is not providing satisfactory results some changes need to be made to make your ads a success.

I have to increase my level of exposure. To maximise this exposure I will need to advertise regularly by putting up more classified ads to reach a wider target.

There is strong competition these days and advertisements have to be done frequently.

You have to be consistent. Once started you have to keep posting classified ads consistently for about one or two years.

Send people to a capture page. You goal is to get their name, email address, phone number etc. so that you can follow-up with them via your auto-responder, phone messages etc.

Track your results. The tracking codes can determine which classified ads give you the best results. Focus on the classifieds that work best. For continuous improvements you should regularly test and update your advertising campaigns.





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If your advertising is not providing satisfactory results some changes need to be made to make your ads a success.

I have to increase my level of exposure. To maximise this exposure I will need to advertise regularly by putting up more classified ads to reach a wider target.

There is strong competition these days and advertisements have to be done frequently.

You have to be consistent. Once started you have to keep posting classified ads consistently for about one
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 330 | Read George's 87 other Ask SC answers

I rarely advertise SFI directly. I use Email Campaigns to offer value and educate my prospects I absolutely love it and the Affiliates I get from it are so much more responsive than any other form of recruitment I use.

Most forms of advertising are designed to create Brand Awareness. Unfortunately it take you and me forever and tons of money to Brand Ourselves. Most of us see advertising as a sales vehicle - it is not. It is a prospecting vehicle.

Before a buyer acts in the real world, he must see a product advertised 7 to 10 times. In the virtual world the number is much higher. Just think about how many 100s of banners you do not click on… And that tells you the chances of your ad being clicked. When you use advertising that gets you 10,000 Unique Views to your website, you have 10,000 people seeing your product once. Even in the real world this is not enough, the virtual world means you could buy 10,000 visits and get no sign ups.

A better approach is to give something away in exchange for a person’s name and email. Now they get something free. If that something is of value they will value their connection to you. The freebie was free, so the value transfers to you. Now the prospect has value, attributes that value to you and you have their contact info so you can continue to offer value.

After 10 to 15 exchanges they trust you enough to take what they value (money) and use it in ways you advise (SFI). Because your advise is proving trustworthy and valuable.

How can this be accomplished with strangers? And more specifically a large number of strangers? Email campaigns of value organized and automated – an Auto Responder.

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I rarely advertise SFI directly. I use Email Campaigns to offer value and educate my prospects I absolutely love it and the Affiliates I get from it are so much more responsive than any other form of recruitment I use.

Most forms of advertising are designed to create Brand Awareness. Unfortunately it take you and me forever and tons of money to Brand Ourselves. Most of us see advertising as a sales vehicle - it is not. It is a prospecting vehicle.

Before a buyer acts in the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think it is great that you are able to identify that your advertising is not providing satisfactory results - this shows that you are keeping track of your efforts.

In response to your question, I suggest that the next step is to consider the following:

Each advertising/marketing campaign has a target audience fit - in other words each campaign will be suited to a group of people.

The other part of the concern is to define what you mean by "satisfactory results". Does this mean the number of people who view your on-line materials or the number of conversions that you have from viewing to actually signing up to join SFI.

It seems to me that the results you are looking for may need clarity so that you're working toward a specific result which is then easy to measure for effectiveness or not effective.

You're on the right track about monitoring the results of your advertising efforts as it is important to keep your efforts current by tweaking every so often so the advertising approaches do not become stale.

You also may want to review other advertising strategies from fellow SFI affiliates - A2A friends, up-line or even down-line members to see what is being used in their efforts that may be duplicated or modified to become part of your advertising program.

Results are simply a measure of out-come so be sure you review not only the number of "hits" you get but review the target audience you wish to get attention from and purpose for the advertising campaign. All of these together will impact what your results will be.
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I think it is great that you are able to identify that your advertising is not providing satisfactory results - this shows that you are keeping track of your efforts.

In response to your question, I suggest that the next step is to consider the following:

Each advertising/marketing campaign has a target audience fit - in other words each campaign will be suited to a group of people.

The other part of the concern is to define what you mean by "satisfactory results".
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