SFI affiliate can change your life

The reason I joined SFI is not only to improve my living standard but being able to make a difference and impact other people’s lives. I believe that the entire network marketing industry is poised for explosive growth and can be one of the most significant solutions to every country’s current retirement savings crisis. 

The increasing numbers of baby boomers are disenchanted with their current careers. They’re worn-out from years of the corporate grind and don’t feel the connection between their job and the people it impacts outside their office walls or company grounds. They have a desire to be a part of something bigger and better… to have a positive effect on others… and working in retirement. This is a perfect situation for me to offer a helping hand through SFI. I would like them to be a part in impacting that change in their lives to see again a positive outlook of life, something to look forward to everyday by making them feel being a part of SFI family wherever they are. This one purpose has made a big change in my life. 

Many people don’t realize that SFI is one of the most successful network marketing companies in the world today. It provides the means to help people satisfy a number of important human needs, including feeling significant, having connections, learning something new, and making a difference. SFI Forum is the place to see all these becoming into reality. I have heard people say again and again, ‘I’m doing this because I’m meeting amazing people … making so many connections … and I feel so good about myself.’” For most people SFI has created a sense of belonging and impacted their lives. 

Besides my current job, I work hard with my SFI business every day. It’s rewarding because I found through my day to day engagement with my SFI business the difference in how I look about life. I feel very much connected to SFI community. I love helping other people starting their own SFI businesses. 

To sum it up: 

I’m a strong believer in having more than one stream of income. That’s why I have been in SFI since 2002. It allows me to stay home, work from home, and help others do the same thing. I do cherish the following invaluable benefits of having my own SFI business: 

- You get to be your own boss – there is nobody there to tell you when or where to work. That was one of the things that attracted me to SFI because I knew I could be in control of my own income. 

- You have flexibility – When you are your own boss, you are able to work as much or as little as you want. Lots of people build a business in their spare time or on the weekends. Some people work very part time because they are only interested in earning a little extra income. Then, there are those who are committed to being a professional network marketer and earning an unlimited income working from the comfort of their home. With SFI, the choice is yours! 

- You can be a Team Leader – I love to inspire others. SFI allows you the freedom to lead the way, and lock arms with those who wish to pursue financial, time and life freedom also. 

- It’s simple to build – Don’t get me wrong, it’s simple…but not necessarily easy. Thanks to the power of the Internet, you can run your SFI business virtually. You don’t have to “hit the pavement” or have one-on-one meetings to grow. This is still a people business. However, with technology it has become so much easier to connect with people globally! 

- You learn how to develop as an entrepreneur – In SFI, the atmosphere and the attitude of people through SFI Forum (the readiness to help one another) are very much encouraging which lead to building people strong spiritually and mentally. When you begin to learn how to think differently and understand what it takes to be successful, you start to manifest abundance in your life. Naturally, it spills over into your SFI business. 

How to use SFI's hit tracking to make your promotions more effective.

My answer is going to be in two parts. Part one will be directed at "Hit Tracking" specifically and part two will be directed at "Campaign Tracking". My experience is that it's very important to understand how "Hit Tracking" fits into an overall campaign tracking system. 

____ Part One - Hit Tracking _

Hit tracking allows you to track the number of "suspects" that land on a particular "landing page" or "gateway page". However, until the "suspect" fills out a form and clicks submit they are NOT a "prospect" or lead. Hit tracking is useful in determining if your advertising and landing/gateway page are working together to produce an acceptable amount of "form fills" or prospects/leads. If you're seeing a high number of hits, but a low number of "form fills" or prospects/leads then something is wrong. Maybe your ad does not match well with landing/gateway page for example. You may also see a similar term called "bounce rate" which means that a "suspect" only looked at one page and then left the website. Use testing to increase your results. 

SFI's hit tracking tool resets each Sunday: 

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/HitTracking 

__________________ Part Two - Campaign Tracking __________________ 

You can use paper, a spreadsheet or even a database to perform steps 1 to 5. You do NOT need a complicated system, but as you grow it would make your system a LOT easier to track if you used a computer based tool like a spreadsheet. 

IMPORTANT: All steps require you to track the advertising source of each lead. Use Key Code Tracking! 

1) Track the "per lead" cost from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of leads generated. 

2) Track the "per Affiliate" conversion cost from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of Affiliates converted from leads. 

3) Track the "per EA2" conversion cost of the Affiliates from your advertising. Ad cost divided by total number of EA2s generated from Affiliates. 

4) Advanced Metric: Track the EA2 "burn rate" from your advertising. This would be how long each lead stays active as an EA2 or above. This metric can be very important when you determine the demographics (countries and income levels) you want to target with your ads. 

5) Determine which leads within your "lead system" overall convert the best to EA2, based on 1 to 4, and then "scale up" what you did to generate and convert those leads. 

Hint: Use A/B split testing through every step of the advertising process! When using A/B split testing put 80% of your budget in your best ads and use the other 20% for testing purposes. A/B split testing = Always Be Testing! Google the term when you get a chance... 

SFI provides the tools you need to get started with your very own "lead system". However, for advanced Affiliates you may want to graduate to building and owning your own list. The basic steps are still the same except you would capture all leads on your own website and then market SFI directly to each prospect in whatever manner you see fit. 

Some of the SFI tools you should consider: 

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking 

https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/TLCoop 

I'm aware that all of the above may sound complicated. However, I would encourage everyone that reads this response to copy this information for future reference. If you want to earn SERIOUS INCOME from your internet marketing business you're going to need a lead system. I can assure you that if you take things one step at a time you'll be a professional within a very reasonable period of time. See you at the top!

Set up a system to organize and track YOUR advertisement.

1. Identifying the sites in which to place the ads: First, free sites or paying sites? This depends on the advertising budget. Many sites offer free advertising. The effective strategy, for placing free ads, is too long to discuss here. Please refer to the training modules. For paid ads, preliminary research is vital. Alexia, a site ranking tool, may be used to select the most frequented sites by opportunity seekers. 

2. Choosing the type of advertising and marketing supports: Banner ads are now very popular, especially because SFI offers dynamic banners. Opportunity seekers can click on them and be taken to the appropriate Gateways. The banner pictures change frequently to offer variety. 

3. Selecting the SFI Gateway/URL: There are over numerous URLs for sponsoring or for sales of the various SFI income streams along the SFI ID, with different messages. 

4: Using the tracking codes: This is a vital part. There are codes specific to SFI Corporate. But there are enough available codes to choose from. The strategy of selecting and placing tracking codes is explained in detail in this training article: https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/KeyCodeTracking 

5. Monitoring the results: This is where all parts of the strategy come together. The codes will provide data as to which sites are giving excellent results and which ones are performing poorly. Focus must be on the sites and the ads that are producing good results. The poorly performing ads and sites should be disregarded. The collected data will be used for the next ad campaigns. The wordings of the ads may help improve sign-up quality and avoid sleeping/inactive affiliates. 

To build a successful SFI business, how much should I rely on my sponsor?

Relying on your sponsor depends on who you are, what you want and how you want it. On the other hand, it also depends on who your sponsor is, what he can offer in terms of support and assistance and his/her willingness and capacity to offer what he/she can offer. There is nothing too much or too little to rely on your sponsor in as much as you are not relying on him/her to do for you what you can do for yourself or to work your business for you. 

As you can see, your reliance on your sponsor will depend on your experience and your learning curve; lack of experience will increase your reliance on your sponsor and similarly, a slow learning curve will also increase your reliance, otherwise it will be reduced. It is also the case that as you rely on your sponsor to be successful in your SFI business, so also your sponsor relies on you for his/her success. This means reliance is mutual and the benefits there from are also mutual, however, the type and nature of reliance differ with both of you. 

As a newbie, you may want to rely on your sponsor as follows; 

1. To simplify the SFI business model to your understanding and guide you as you navigate through the nitty-gritty of this business; supporting and assisting you to get up to speed with the process. 

2. You may also rely on your sponsor to guide you to various ways you can obtain various information that will enable you make appropriate decisions going forward, including alternative and appropriate places to get support. 

3. You may also rely on your sponsor to lay out the income generating activities that are required for your engagement in order to develop an understanding on how to make money here, which is why you joined. 

As your sponsor may have reciprocated your reliance on him/her in the steps above, the onus may now be on you to determine whether you can apply what you have gained from your reliance on him/her to develop your business and if you still lack some idea on how to proceed, then you may continue to rely on your sponsor on how to:I highly recommend SFI to everyone! Get started here 

1. Stabilise your business by guiding you on the alternative ways to maintain your EA status on a continuing basis. 

2. You may also rely on your sponsor on the technical details of how and where to advertise for SFI signups, TC members/sales, ECA signups and may be SFIPPA, drawing your attention to the benefits on each of them. 

3. You may need to rely on him/her for encouragement, motivation and recognition of your efforts. This is important in situations where you are overwhelmed, depressed, unhappy and confused, especially when the 'lubricant' of your patience and dedication is running dry. 

At this stage, you may think you have worked hard enough to be seeing success and unfortunately, you are of the opinion that your success is not commensurate with your perceived level of success then you may rely on your sponsor again for the following: 

1. Help you with modern and alternative ways you may need to apply to tweak your business strategy to improve the chances of success in your SFI business. In this regard, you are relying on his/her experience and the power of his/her example (duplication). What is he/she doing currently that is different from before? What are his/her team building and restructuring strategies for a more effective and productive team? What are the new promotion, communication, sales and marketing tools that are working better, he/she is aware of and applying to his/her business? 

2. You may also need advice on cost saving strategies if you feel you are overstretching your budget. You may as a consequence, rely on your sponsor to guide you on cheaper sources of signups e.g. co-opting, website traffic, blogging, Search Engine Optimisation, social network marketing, face-to-face prospecting etc. 

3. You may rely on your sponsor also to help you build relationships and contacts that are pertinent to building a more successful business. You may be lucky to have an experience sponsor who has valuable networks in the online marketing business that will be very useful to you as you strive to build a successful SFI business, but be alert to cross solicitation and if you smell a rat, discontinue. 

To wrap it up, you have to bear in mind that your sponsor is human and may not have all the attributes and capacity to attract your reliance on him/her, so you need to also make serious efforts to help yourself by hard work and developing an appetite to learn by reading and understanding. This is very important in this business and according to Jim Rohn "Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune." You are supposed to make your business a success and not necessarily your sponsor, his/her support is only complementary because you don't wait for someone else to make your life terrific. That's your job. 

The benefit of the new W3 program? How do I explain to my downline.

New W3 program is a unique program for TripleClicks members and you must tell them about the benefits from becoming the W3 member. Before telling others, you must know first the great benefits of this program. 

All TripleClicks members can become W3 members by referring a friend to TripleClicks using "Share & Win" links on TC products and auction details pages. Look for the W3 symbol for this link. Or, while playing any Eager Zebra games, when you see the W3 symbol with "Friend Challenge" message, just copy and paste the provided link in any social media network or etc. If anyone accepts your challenge becoming member of TripleClicks, you will automatically become W3 member for 120 days from the date your each referral joins and get benefits. 

Now tell your downline the benefits of W3 members : 

1. You will get exclusive W3 member badge on your TripleClicks page 

2. You will get free monthly Member Listing. 

3. Free monthly download of the TC Songs of the month. 

4. You can get additional 10% discount on any one day's Deal of the Month of your choice each month. 

5. For each TC spent by your referrals, you will earn a free bonus entry in Daily Crown Drawing for that day (max. 5 bonus entries per day) for a full year. Thus you can will TCs, MRPs, VPs etc. for free without investment. 

6. You can earn unlimited MRP when your referrals buy and win. When one of your referral play Card King and he/she posts a top-50 score within 10 days, you automatically earn 300 MRPs. 

7. You can win unlimited TCredits, a Lifetime 10% Zackpot Matches of any Eager Zebra Zackpot winnings of your PRMs. But, to receive this benefits you must have to make a minimum $20 cash purchase at TripleClicks and play same game on same day or period as the winning PRM. 

8. By referring lots of TC members you will get additional recognition. 

9. You will get free W3 promotional aids such as banners for your blogs, etc. 

The most exciting benefit is that you can earn free TCs and VPs (from DG entries) and MRPs which can be used to buy TCs or others TC products. 

I would like to suggest you that before telling your downline the above benefits, you must become W3 member and tell them the benefits you received as a W3 member. 

How do you explain to team members why VersaPoints appear to reset to zero at the start of each month?

When you score VersaPoints for the month, you are paid for that month. These points cannot be carried forward and paid for the next month. Therefore we need to score once again more than 1500 VPs to be an EA. 

You need you qualify as EA, BTL, STL, etc. every month to claim and earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month. Furthermore, if there was no requalification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. Surely you do not want to invest your time and effort building a team of people who do nothing. 

Reading training articles, uploading your photo, joining a2a, etc. are all very valuable actions, and that's why we rewarded you with points for doing them. But after the first month, you need to "graduate" to other actions to earn your points so that you may earn a larger, more substantial income. 

Buying is ALWAYS optional. You can ALWAYS earn the points you need through other activities. There are many daily, weekly, and monthly actions you can take to earn points without buying. These are all listed on your SFI To-Do List at your SFI Affiliate Center homepage (www.sfimg.com). 

The easiest way is to set up a Standing Order (SO) with at least 1,500 points. With a SO, you'll automatically receive your favorite SFI products each month (without the hassle of reordering). You'll get them at an exclusive discount price, AND you'll always have your EA-qualifying minimum of 1,500 VersaPoints monthly. For complete information and easy directions on setting up a Standing Order, see the Standing Order Central Information Page at www.sfimg.com/Reference/StandingOrders 

Tip: A standing order of 125 pack of TCredits is a great idea because it comes with 1,500 points, is our best pricing per TCredit, and allows you to take FULL advantage of your TripleClicks member benefits, such as posting member listings, bidding on Pricebenders Auctions, participating in contests, downloading songs from TripleClicks Music, and more! I highly recommend SFI to everyone! Get started here

You should always have a strong focus on generating TripleClicks sales and sponsoring affiliates. Learn more about these topics here: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/MarketingTools

Drip marketing the best way to utilize it in building your SFI business.

Let’s first get to know what is Drip Marketing _ Drip marketing is a communication strategy that sends, or "drips," a pre-written set of messages to customers or prospects over time. These messages often take the form of email marketing, although other media can also be used. 

Drip marketing is distinct from other database marketing in two ways: (1) the timing of the messages follow a pre-determined course; (2) the messages are dripped in a series applicable to a specific behavior or status of the recipient. It is also typically automated 

Email. The most commonly used form of drip marketing is email marketing, due to the low cost associated with sending multiple messages over time. Email drip marketing is often used in conjunction with a Form (web) in a method called an auto responder. 

Direct mail. Although more costly, direct mail software has been developed that enables drip marketing techniques using standard postal mail. This technology relies on digital printing, where low-volume print runs are cost justifiable, and the variable data can be merged to personalize each drip message. 

Social media. The principles of drip marketing have been applied in many social media marketing tools to schedule a series of updates. 

Drip marketing can be used as a function of the lead generation and qualification process. Specifically, drip marketing constitutes an automated follow-up method that can augment or replace personal lead follow-up. Often called Auto responders, new leads are automatically enrolled into a drip marketing campaign with messaging relevant to the call-to-action from which the lead came. This is also known as lead nurturing. 

ADVANTAGES 

Include the automation and efficiency, as well as the continued ability for direct response. Intelligent e-commerce sites, such as Dell, have integrated this form of drip campaign with un-purchased shopping carts. The continued messaging is relevant to the contents that the shopper stopped short of purchasing, and continues to include direct response actions (i.e. buy now). 

DISADVANTAGES 

Include the impersonal manner of follow-up. If not augmented with a traditional and personal follow-up method, this automated follow-up has a lower response rate than does personal sales. The lowered response rate is often justified by the volume and efficiency with which leads can be generated and converted.