Earn money working from home: other websites that DO work for you (other than SFI)

Right now I have my focus on SFI as you can clearly see from this blog. I believe it is going to make me a nice lifelong income. Right now I am earning some money with it, but not big money. I believe that in order to build up an honest business you usually have to invest a lot of time and effort in it. I have had my own business built up from scratch before, and that is the honest truth for most of us normal people. There are some lucky souls (or maybe they are just so incredibly good) that skyrocket immediately with their newfound businesses, and all luck to them. For most of us it takes longer.



However, before joining SFI I have tried out other businesses, and although I tried two systems that were kind of built up in the same way, as in focusing on both selling products and building up a team under you that does the same, they did not work for me. One of these was a Greens liquid thing in which you had to buy like $120 every month in "healthy" products yourself and try to find other people under you to do the same (with a large upfront investment of I think around $1200 at the time), and the other one was ItWorks! Wraps. I know there are people out there making lots of money with it, but I lost a lot of money with it and the wonderful wraps never worked on me or any other test subject so I am still stuck with like a dozen of them, and to keep up your distributorship you need to invest quite a lot in the beginning for the Newbie Package and then for the maintenance of your website and distributorship it was also a lot of money every month which you have to compensate with sales (which I never did).

Then there is Wealthy Affiliate, which I just recently joined and which is something which will take time to build up, so I can't say much about it yet but I am very positive that it will work.
But there are two websites out there that actually did work in a way, and are still providing me with job opportunities. One is completely free and is actually a social media: LinkedIn. I have had several job opportunities via my contacts. I keep this one "holy" and only for serious stuff. It is only today that I have added two of my blogs to my profile (my Health & Fitness blog: topcat2015.blogspot.se and my travel blog: topcat66blog.wordpress.com). 

The other one is a paid one but it is for once worth its pay and it is called People Per Hour. (peopleperhour.com) If you are able to freelance in absolutely anything, DO pay the one-time fee, I think it was $29, and you will actually have job offers all the time. They are also quite serious about feedback and status in the sense of how good you have performed for customers. Via them, I found a company that I do freelance translations for and we have a long-standing relationship of at least 5 years now in which I have translated hundreds of documents for them. And they pay promptly on the 1st of each month. I still get offered either long-time or one-time translation work from other companies on my email via this site though I have not even visited it in 3 years. Since I am working full-time at the moment I cannot take these but it is telling that they regularly ask. There is another (paid) website called freelancer.com, which also works like this, but they take in general much lower rates for everything. 

There is another site called FiveRR, where people offer their (oftenonline) skills for sale for $5, which I have not visited yet but I have heard really good things about it. There are reviews and rankings of the persons offering their skills. I don't think you  need to pay to join. If you are able to provide, for instance, "likes" to somebody's Facebook site, or visitors, or are able to answer for a small company's Facebook site (post likes and so on) you might be in business. 

I have just joined a site called Paidsocialmediajobs where you apparently can obtain jobs like that, both regular jobs and one-time projects. I have not had the time yet to truly look at it but I will certainly post an update here when I have or when I have found something else that works. There are lots of yous out there that, like me, are looking for opportunities to make money and I think we should help each other when we can. 

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How to be successful making money online: product reviews

One of the ways in which you can make online marketing work for you is by posting product reviews. People will actually rather read a review than an ad, because you know that the ad is promotion whereas the review hopefully is for real. I visit the Forum at SFI every day and the people who really are earning money tell us that one of the best ways of getting products sold is actually buying them and writing a review. Want to try it out? Ask me about a FREE $12 Gift Certificate which you can redeem at TripleClicks and use to buy any product you want!


I did that. I have a health & fitness blog and I have a product review on it about a sciatica acupressure pad, and it is actually visited regularly. No one has bought it yet, but then my review was honest-not very positive.



If I now come up with a review which is very positive, people will be more likely to believe me. So I try to find products that I can honestly be enthusiastic about. I am currently testing out some products that I hope will really work, such as a slimming cream (I do not need to lose weight but I have this stubborn jelly belly).

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Mind you, I was not exactly very positive in my review, so read it before you would think of buying it.

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The point is: it works! People DO read reviews! I am absolutely planning to write more product reviews. You can also post product reviews on forums and other websites or leave it as a comment on Youtube or whatever, there are many ways you can use this as a "sneaky ad".


However, I have one very strong recommendation: write a serious and honest product review. An ad trying to pose as a review will have that "fake smell" and you will not make any sales from it. An ad is an ad and should say that it is an ad. A product review is an entirely different matter. Of course you can be very positive about a product, but then you have to really think it is a good product. You don't even have to write your own review if you haven't bought the product: find some honest reviews on the net and use these with proper sourcing. Add your own conclusion based on the reviews you found. It is less enticing than a review from a person that actually uses the product, though. I mean, you want somebody to buy something you are not buying yourself......hmmmm.

There are even companies that send well-known popular bloggers free products in the hope that they will write a review about it. Who knows, you might become one of them!

The simplicity of the SFI system has helped me to develop a six- figure income coming right out of college. With its great team leaders on your side and simple automation, you can build a successful home-based business in no time at all!"
C. Fuchs
CO, USA

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Rules of success #6; how to make money online at SFI: winning starts with beginning and FOCUS

In this series of posts about the rules of success in online marketing I am focusing on getting started and FOCUS.


The only way you will ever be successful at anything is by starting. If you don't get started nothing will happen. So do not put off things. One of the great things about working from home is that you are free to decide when to work. The danger is that this freedom leads you to doing nothing...or other things than making your business thrive. For it is YOUR business. I am talking about online marketing/affiliate programmes, particularly SFI because that is the first one that worked for me. But it takes some time and effort.

Personal experience: in the first month at SFI, I did my training and reading. There is lots of free training stuff at SFI. After a month I wondered why nothing was happening. I was logging in and making my VP points and that was it. Finally I realized that in order for stomething to start happening I needed to start DOING something. There is only actually one way to earn money and that is by SELLING something, goods or services. If you aren't good at selling, you can build up a team that does it for you. That is the simple basics of SFI and many other online marketing programmes. The different thing about SFI is that there is so much more material and training available, (for free) and that there are many ways in which SFI provides free help, and that you are never required to invest in anything (I currently have an affiliate that is not investing a cent because she cannot, and is still building up her business, albeit slowly).

But the plain simple thing remains that you got to get started. Start advertising. Start approaching small businesses that might be interested in selling online. Start putting up flyers at your local supermarket, your gym. Whatever you can think of doing, start doing it! Don't wait for anybody else to do it for you!







 Another thing that makes people succesful is FOCUS. Anybody who has ever become rich has beeen a person focused on getting there (unless you have the fantastic luck to be born rich), so do not let yourself get distracted by other stuff. Be always on the lookout for opportunities to go forward. Make plans. If they don't work adapt them or make new plans. WORK. But work with focus, not randomly. This means having realistic goals, putting them up somewhere where you can see them, and work every day to achieve them. Take little steps rather than big ones, at least until you can see where you're going. In my experience it takes hard work and especially perseverance to get what you want. Remember: those who quit won't win, and winners are the ones who never quit. (I don't know whose quote this is, but it's a winner!

One of the main problems with new affiliates is that they are looking for a get-rich-quick scheme. While I do not believe in those at all, SFI certainly is not one of those. It is simply a matter of building up your own business, and that takes time and effort. So I am not making any unrealistic promises. I am not saying that you will earn so much in a week. Some may, but most won't. For most it takes at least some months before you start earning any money. But that is better than most self-starters manage... we always hear about the success stories, but the truth is that 80% of all new started businesses have disappeared after 5 years. It is only a few that survive.....because they persist. And build. And work. And dream. And succeed!

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT SFI
"I have just started SFI, and I couldn't believe my eyes. This week, I have had almost 60 people sign up and generated five sales. Just sign up at SFI. It is the best [opportunity] I have seen on the Internet."
J. Pelt
GERMANY

Earn money by working from home: how to be succesful at SFI #2: lead by example and work with the workers

As said in my earlier post, in order to make online marketing at SFI work for you you have to stick to the Rules for Success. Today I am going to talk about two more important rules to make this work, and how I apply these rules.


Lead by example. One of the most important ways of making an income at SFI is by duplication, that is by creating a team of affiliates under you that do the same as you do: trying to make money. If they are successful you will earn from them. However, you cannot expect them to be active if you are not; you cannot expect them to persevere when you don't; and you cannot expect them to be interested in building their business when you are not.

When they look at your page they should be impressed by all the badges that you have, the number of VersaPoints you have, the times you have won a game or an auction or the Daily Grand or anything else. I have a TopAuthor badge on my page and 3-time winner of the Knockout Trivia (AND then to think that I normally never take the time to play, I am too busy!) and 3-time winner of the Daily Grand (I ALWAYS participate every day as well as in the T-Time and have won several times, this means you win either VersaPoints, Member Reward Points, TCredits or even PSAs or CSAs (your valuable team!)). In other words my badges show my team that I am active and interested and do anything I can to build up my business. (I am otherwise not interested in the badges themselves).

Work with the workers. It is a sad fact that many people sign up and then either never bother with the website again or make a number of VPs and then give up. Those people are no use. Put your effort in those that do believe in this business and that go on even if it goes slowly in the beginning. Answer all their questions, support them with your knowledge, reward them when they do well. I myself have a great upline that has rewarded me with TCredits, CSAs, PSAs and even money, always answers all my questions, and helps me with things such as how to start a blog and a website. I do not need them to motivate me, but it does make my mood better when I get appreciated.



One of the main things to get across to affiliates when they start is that this is a serious business and that they need to treat it as such. I have had my own company before and it takes on average a couple of years before you reach the break-even point. In this business you can potentially reach it in a couple of months. Furthermore SFI provides you with TONS of free training and free marketing methods and marketing aids. Where else do you get that? Most online businesses start with getting money out of you. You do not need to do that at SFI. If you have very little budget and you are just willing to put in time and effort you can succeed. Where else can you do that? SFI now even has a new CSA reward program where you get allocated new CSAs for being active and doing actions. I think it is the greatest thing, because you need to have a growing team. Sooner or later you get active affiliates under you and then you notice that things start moving. Especially when they start getting affiliates under them....

In practice I communicate individually with the workers on my team (you can spot these easily either under your Genealogy tab where you can set the sorting system to the total points the affiliates have, or their latest login date or the TC commissions they have generated) or on the Movers tab, where you only see the active ones) by email or Skype, and I still send a general teammail every Monday to the whole team even if they have not ever generated a VersaPoint. This is because sometimes affiliates suddenly become active after a while, and sometimes it is the promise of a reward or a contest that makes them "wake up". The sponsor of my sponsor had one that became active after more than a year because she offered a free website (and when she told me this, I also got offered a free website, which is now up and running, check it out here). I have started now at site called Wealthy Affiliate.

What others are saying about SFI

SFI is giving me the chance to learn and understand Internet marketing and obtain financial freedom for free. I looked at many other Websites promising financial freedom, but none were free and most were outrageously expensive. I am so glad I found SFI. I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good Internet business to get involved with, because SFI is the most solid system I have ever seen. Highly recommended! Excellent business opportunity for all to discover! Thank you, SFI, for this great opportunity!
M. Ranha