Earning money by working from home: new affiliate

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Saturday, March 11, 2017

FOR NEW AFFILIATES!

Hi!
Welcome to my blog. If you are here and you are NOT a new affiliate, that is just fine if you think it is interesting. But chances are you are a new affiliate.

SFI is overwhelming at first and now everybody is buzzing about the exciting new Opti-Build and the Builder Bundle. Where to start?

My advice: start with reading all your Launchpad lessons. They are designed to help you get an overview. Do this BEFORE you ask questions at the Forum (it is really annoying all those newbies asking for help before they have looked at the available help.)

There is no requirement for any investment and I would definitely first look around at what's happening. However, this is your new business, not a Get Rich Quick scheme, and what would you do if you were starting any other new business? You would think about having a budget, right? You can build a business without investing money but then you will have to invest a lot of time and effort to compensate.

First of all, you have to decide to take this seriously. If you do not want to try it out for at least a year, don't even start.

There are 6 ways to make money at SFI, but the main thing is very basic: sell TripleClicks products, get a team under you to sell TripleClicks products, and get businesses to sell their products at TripleClicks. However, my main commissions actually come from my team; when they earn VP I earn matching VP; when they buy or sell I get commission. So building a team is very important.

It is not a disaster if on some days you cannot log in. But would you leave your store closed if you had one just because you had a headache or "no time"? Of course not. You would be there every day and do everything to get customers. By not logging in you just lose your streak (who cares anyway) and the opportunity to earn about 13 free VPs per day (which is money). So make it a habit to log in every day. Turning all the tabs green costs around 10 minutes.

And VPs are what it is all about; they determine your rank and with that, your income opportunities. You do not need to get a rank to make money. There are plenty of people who are good at selling and who make a good income just as a plain affiliate. But there are perks to being higher up in rank, such as free TCredits and new team members.

I personally have a Standing Order for 125 TCredits, which allow me to bid at the auctions, which has gained me new team members, and which you can use for countless other things such as selling your secondhand stuff and playing the games. This automatically makes me an EA so I keep all the new team members I get. If you lose your EA status you lose your team. By now my team is about 450 large.

Most months I invest in traffic to this blog or my website. This blog is my main source of new sign-ups. This earns me VPs. 1500 extra VPS earn me the rank of Bronze Team leader, which gives me 10 new CSAs and some other perks.

Don't forget that you can also buy TripleClicks products with MRP or TCredits, however you do not get the VPs then. There is one very important exception though which has saved my rank many times: you can buy single TCredits for 120 MRPs and then you receive 106 VPs for each. I bought 8 TCredits last week to get enough Versapoints to get BTL status.

I didn't earn any commissions before I was at SFI for a year, but since then, it is increasing every month.

To make a long story short: first determine if you want to try this for a year. The next step is reading your Launchpad lessons anf give yourself time to find out how everything works and what works for you. Log in every day. In time you will discover all the different things SFI offers to help you build your business.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Best online selling sites: what is working for me (and what not) my top-7

I have tried most marketing methods for selling online and I have also talked with other affiliates who are successful at this. As you see I have become an Amazon affiliate (at a much later time then when I posted this blog) and am selling their products as well:

I am new at this so I can't say whether it will work but I have high hopes.

According to most affiliates:

1. ADVERTISING is the key. In order to make money you have to advertise at least one hour every day. Personally I have spent a full week advertising like crazy and had not a single response. But I might have been doing it wrong. So I bought, with my Member Reward Points, so not investing any cash, a list of 2000 free advertising websites and 250 Google communities. When I tried out the list, out of the first 250 only 12 were actually functional free advertising sites, and most of them were specific for India. However I have to take the time to go through the rest of the list. A list of real, functional free ad websites is worth quite a lot, don't you think? Now to find the time to sit down and really advertise - for that is what I must do and am not doing. Update June 3rd: I have now gone through 500 of the list and actually advertised on 6 sites. What can you advertise for? For new affiliates and people who want to sell online. But also TripleClicks products. Literally anything. Books, gardening items, jewelry, fitness things, handbags, watches, kitchen utensils. Example:

tripleclicks.com

jewelry set— €14.57 (Save 49%!)

2. BUYING TRAFFIC. This works for me. I have invested $12 in a couple of thousand visitors, and the first 500 have already arrived the week I published this. My SFI blog now has more than 3000 pageviews, up from 100+. Better yet, I am receiving signups out of these: affiliates and PRMs. So this works. I am certainly going to do this again. Update April 17th, 2017: definitely the best go. Works fantastically for me. I have just this month added around 50 PSAs and 25 PRMs to my list.

3. BLOGGING. This blog and 2 others I have (topcat2015.blogspot.se and topcat66blog@wordpress.com) attract visitors and now and then a signup. The important thing is to have regular new good content, which is not always easy. I feel I have to tell the truth about how things are going for me and then it will attract people. It seems to work. This blog generates the most signups so far. I also have a website topcat.sfiprofitsnetwork.com which attracts some visitors by itself and I sometimes buy traffic for it.

4. PERSONAL RECRUITING. I have gone to the local government job market and grabbed everyone who came out, started a talk with them about online marketing and working from home. I have gotten a couple of PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates, the people that fall under you in your team) that way. Unfortunately none of them has remained active because this is not a Get Rich Quick Scheme, which is what they were looking for; or maybe they just wanted a regular job.

5. FACEBOOK and other social media. According to most affiliates this works best. Not for me, but then, I am not at all adept at social media. I never post on FB except with SFI promotion. Same for Twitter. On LinkedIn I have put links to my blogs on my profile. I have no others. I have gotten some visitors to my blogs out of it, though.

6. APPROACHING PROSPECT ECAs. Personally stepping into a business and convincing people that they can sell online is something I sincerely believe must work. However I have not been lucky at it. I have approached the Chamber of Commerce in my home country and the Association for Small Businesses where I used to be secretary. They thought it was a marvelous idea for their members, but I have not had a single signup after that. I am pretty sure that the key problem here is follow-up; although I have emailed them once afterwards, research shows that people have to be exposed to a good offer 7 times on the average before they make the decision. Here is where autoresponders come in. I haven't quite figured it out yet, how to make that work, but they basically send the e-mails for you automatically. You do have to write them, of course, but only once.
I also visited about 35 businesses and had a few who were interested, but again, no signups. I did not follow up here either. It is on my To-Do list.

7. DUPLICATION. Apart from personally recruiting affiliates you can also buy them or earn them or win them in auctions-last week I won 25 PSAs for just $0.36 and 4 bids. My sponsor put me under her S-Coop Builder (an advertising scheme) and I generally receive a couple of PSAs a month from that. I also lose a couple of PSAs/CSAs every month due to inactivity (no great loss there, they are only clogging up my list). My team is growing steadily; I now have 96 PSAs and 140 CSAs. Currently, 1 PSA is active and 8 CSAs. Last month I received commission on my CSAs for the first time. So that is also working, albeit slowly.

Friday, April 29, 2016

Being successful in selling online: the powerful GIFT CARDS!

One of the best ways to convince people to buy something is when they get a gift card for a certain store. At SFI this is one great opportunity to get clients. As a member, you can purchase Gift Cards with a $12 value for $0.99 each. You don't even have to pay shipping costs, as you can buy digital cards. When you give these to people they need to redeem them within 30 days or they expire. However, that does not mean you have lost your money: you can redistribute them to someone else until they are actually used! Once the person uses the card and signs up they will remain your Personal Referred Member for life and anytime they buy something you will receive commission on it. Pretty neat, huh? And doesn't just everybody love receiving gift cards as a present? It is a very positive way approach to marketing.

If you want to receive a free gift card just click HERE! Remember however, that if you are already an SFI affiliate, you can't use gift cards yourself. There is no obligation to buy anything but there are more than 90,000 products to choose from in any thinkable category, some of them are really cheap. There are always sales and close-out deals, so it is hard to believe that anyone would be unable to find something to spend the Gift Card on. Here is a sample:

Health & Wellness
Home & Garden
Pet Care
Electronics
Jewelry
Food
Books
Movies, music and games
Personal care & beauty
Education
Antiques and collectibles

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Rules of success #8: how to earn money online at SFI: don't quit and Aim high, think BIG

It is unfotunately true that many people sign up for a program to make money and then quit as soon as they see it is not a Get-Rich-Scheme. But the only way to fail at any program is by giving up. Building up a business costs time and effort. And yes, all those ads out there that promise you'll earn so much in just days, one after the other prove to be nonsense. Especially programs that tell you how much you are going to make (in only...) are totally untrustworthy, because the only one that can determine how much you are going to earn is you.

I have said it in other posts: SFI is different from other affiliate programs. SFI does not start out by asking you to invest money and promising you loads of income, which never materializes. SFI gives you the tools and the means to build up your own business. But you need persistence and perseverance. Any program that promises you loads of money in a short while is bogus. You have got to be honest. Nobody ever got rich sitting on their butts....except maybe a few lucky bastards who inherited the money their parents or grandparents sweated and worked for to earn.
Don't quit. Quitters never win, and winners are the ones who never quit. Don't know who said that but it is so true.

What others are saying about SFI

I've been looking for some ways to make money and the opportunity to become self-employed. Then, I found SFI, which was exactly what I had been looking for. SFI has all the resources, products, support, and daily motivations to build a very successful and profitable home-based business. Thanks SFI!
A. Onwujiobi

Aim high and think BIG. This is the SFI slogan. No one ever shrunk their way to greatness. Every single person who has gotten rich believed that they would be rich. Do not let small wishes get into your way. You have got to believe that you can really be successful.
Think or what you really want to achieve in life. Write it down, print it out and hang it in front of your computer. Even better; find a picture of what you want and hang that in your office. Tell your mind that that is what you want to have and it will provide it for you. But you can't be sitting on your butt waiting, you have to DO something. Take one action every day to build your business and be prepared to give it at least a year. If you do not want to invest money, invest time and effort. Sooner or later it's going to pay off. And remember, once you do start earning money we are talking about residual income........basically income you will earn passively without much work for the rest of your life.

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Making money by working online from home at SFI: FOR NEW AFFILIATES

Hi!

If you are reading this it is most likely that you are a new affiliate who just joined SFI and is interested in learning how to get started and how to start earning money. In this post I will try to give you some good advice in a condensed form, because in the beginning you get way too much information and it is all overwhelming.

First of all, and I have repeated it in every single one of my posts: SFI is NOT a get-rich-quick scheme. It is a serious business, it is YOUR business, and you need to treat it as such. Do not expect to earn money in the beginning. I have understood that most people do not break-even, that is, their commissions pay for their standing orders, until approximately a year. Most "normal" businesses that start do not break-even until at least their fifth year, so that is pretty good. If you are not willing to give it a year, opt out. You are wasting your and your sponsor's valuable time.

Having said that, before you leave to opt out, consider that once you are starting to earn income, it will be residual income: meaning basically you will keep on earning every month with little or no work.

So, if by now you have decided to go for it and seriously give it a try, you need to know the basics.

There is only one way to earn money, and that is by selling something. To earn commissions, you need to sell TripleClicks products. This is what I currently am focusing on, by my blogs.

Fortunately, SFI provides a lot of interesting frills. TripleClicks products include TCredits, which are used to play games and win on auctions. The auctions are very addictive, and if you can get people to join just for the auctions, you make commission on their buying Tcredits. Some people are into the games. Then there are the VersaPoints. These are earned by doing certain actions and by buying TC products. They determine your rank but also earn you a little bit of real money from the Executive Pool. So: log in every day and collect as many as you can for free. Then there is building up a team of PSAs and CSAs; if they earn money, you earn, it's that simple.

Okay, So what's the plan? Start out simply by reading. Log in, collect your points, and read. The Forum and Ask SC have masses of interesting info from members. After a month, you are ready to roll. As SFI often says you do not have to invest, but it is handy if you can invest a little. I disregarded the NMP and just put up a Standing Order which makes me EA on the 1st of the month and gives me 125 TCredits to bid and play with and to give as a reward to hard-working team members.

After a month you know the ropes and now you have to start for real. Start by making an action plan. This is your new business, how are you going to get it up and running?

-Are you good at advertising online? Yes? Go for it. Not, but want to? Find out from your upline how to do it. I have a list of more than 2000 websites for free advertising. I used MRP which you earn here and there to buy it so it did not cost me any cash.
-Print out flyers for interesting products and hand them to people who might be interested.
-Place an ad or a flyer on the message board at your gym or your supermarket.
-Know anybody who produces anything? Try to get them on board.
-If you don't have a website or a blog, set up one. There are many places (like this one) where you can open a free blog. Decide on a subject that interests you (sport, jewelry, fashion, recipes) and start posting and placing ads and banners on your posts like this:

tripleclicks.com

Calcium Magnesium Dark Chocolate Pioneer Chewable Calcium Magnesium Dark Chocolate— €15.38 (Save 13%!)

Sooner or later you will get people clicking on them and hopefully buying. But to get traffic you need to have interesting content.
-Read through the Marketing Methods and systematically try out each one of them, see what works.
- Most of all: never give up. As said, you need to be willing to give it at least a year and then evaluate. Remember that residual income builds up slowly, but will remain with you for your future.

-Stuck? Contact your upline. That is what they are there for.