Saturday, June 17, 2006

Hello, (New SFI Affiliate)

Welcome to the SFI family team and I'm Scott McVey. Your personal sponsor in SFI and I'm looking forward in working with you, to help you become SUCCESSFUL in SFI, like I have done by showing you the steps by steps that I have taken. I'm been doing this for some year now in SFI and I'm having fun living the SFI life everyday, plus bring in the bucks and so can YOU as long as your willing to learn how.

Knowing what your business is about and learning how SFI is going to earn you an income should be your goal in becoming successful in SFI. The KEY to SUCCESS, is having the will to take "Some-Kind-Of-Action" everyday you can to build your SFI home business, either by learning or promoting it and in time your success will be in your own hands.

Here is something for you to remember as your learning how to become successful in SFI, "If It's To Be, It's Up To Me"...short and sweet but very true in any type of business. Taking "Action" to make it happen.

Your first step in taking action is going through the Smart-Start Training Course in the SFI Affiliate Center and you can log-in here: ( http://www.sfimg.com/showIndex.sfi ) with your SFI ID Number and Password at NO COST to you, just your time in learning the basics of your new home business.

In addition, after you go through the Smart-Start at: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/SmartStart.sfi , this will activate ALL of YOUR Gateways/Websites and your V-Store...here is my v-store at: (My Personal V-Store Link.com Removed) website and you can see all of SFI products and services that we sell, plus add in the (NOC) NiceOffers.com that you can get more details at: https://www.niceoffers.com/launch.jsp .

This is what SFI "GIVES" you to promote and earn commissions with at No Cost to you EVER. As you go through the Smart Start Training Course you will learn the details on earning an income with SFI using these Gateways/Websites provided by SFI, At No Cost To You Ever.

All you have to do is send people to your V-Store Website and/or the Gateways/Websites that SFI gives you, make retail sales, and then you earn commissions from all of the hundreds of products and services that SFI provides for you to sell at no cost to you, it's really that simple to start earning an income in SFI.

Plus SFI takes all the orders from your customers, and does the shipping for you, at no cost to you ever. It's that simple and easy to get your business going, just start promoting your business and making retail sales, plus getting new SFI affiliates sign-ups to build your sales team down-line in the T-Net (Team Network) and before you will know it your home business will take off like a rocket.

Once you have completed the Smart Start, then go to SFI's Next Step Training area, which is designed as a complement to the information you learned about your SFI business in the Smart Start training course. Such as learning how to do advertising campaigns, using banners and how to use the SFI business resources. So arm yourself with the vital information you will need to succeed in SFI, network marketing, and in your home business at: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/NextStep.sfi

You will begin to learn more about being in the T-Net (Team Network) too, in which you can earn commissions from various streams of revenue and yes, "DOUBLE" your retail sales commissions on all sales to "Non-SFI Affiliates", customers that are not an SFI affiliates like you. Also, you can build "Residual Income", the do it once and get paid forever type of income.

SFI is growing in about 200 countries around the world helping to build a strong future for people like ME and YOU, by adding new products and services such as the IAHBE ( http://www.iahbe.org ), NOC ( http://www.NiceOffers.com ), also maybe soon be adding the "TF" ( http://www.TuneFlow.com ), plus you can earn more income from the "Business Builder Bonuses" and even much more as you move up in the leadership ranks of the T-Net (Team-Network) that truly makes SFI, "Strong Future International Marketing Group" the "BEST" Home Business Opportunity on the Internet Period.

Therefore, as your personal sponsor in SFI, it's my job to encourage you to take "Action" in learning your new home business and by telling you how important the Smart-Start Training Course will be to your success in SFI. You can log-in now at: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/SmartStart.sfi.

Moreover, I will help and give you the support in any way I can with SFI. Why? Because I want YOU to be SUCCESSFUL in SFI, that's my goal and your success is my success. Here at SFI it's all about "Team Work" and there is no ( I ) in TEAM - Together Everyone Achieves More!

Please, there is no questions to small for me to answer, just email me with your "Name and SFI ID Number" in the "Subject Line" of your email, this way I will not over look it as I get hundreds of emails everyday and about 75% of them are junk. Plus add my email address ( scottymchoty@optonline.net ) to your safe list or address book with the email provider your using and add SFI email addresses ( Mail@sfimg.com ) and ( Support@sfimg.com ). Here is a
helpful link to the "E-Mail Checklist" at: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/emailhelp.sfi giving you details on how to ensure delivery of "Very Important" emails from SFI and ME, that will help you to become a successful entrepreneur.

Followup, The Secret to Success in Affiliate Marketing

Whether I promote SFI, Goji, Amway or any other Affiliate Marketing program, it seems that I always hear the same complaints from other affiliates in those programs.

"I never hear from my downline!" or "No matter how many times I write, My downline affiliates never seem to get involved." In fact, this is very common throughout the affiliate marketing industry. In most cases it takes as many as 100 new affiliates to gain one who is active and will actually take action to build a business.

This is totally unacceptable, and avoidable if you use proper followup techniques. In fact, the one in one hundred ratio can be improved dramatically by using a solid followup plan. The plan included in this article has four parts that if followed, will cause your affiliate marketing results to skyrocket.


Get Your Reader's Attention

What I mean by this, is that you need to get them to actually read what you have to say. Those interested in a business opportunity usually sign up for several different programs. Each of these programs is competing for the readers attention, and as a result, your messages can easily be lost in the clutter.

What is needed is a way to make your messages stand out from the crowd. Snappy headlines help, but to really get a reader's attention, try using Ecards in your followup program. Ecards have a couple of advantages that can ignite your followup campaign. First, everybody likes getting a greeting card and when they see a notice in their in box that someone has sent them a card, their natural curiosity gets the best of them, and they open the card. Second, most Ecard providers provide a tracking service that notifies you when a card has been opened. This allows you to gauge the effectiveness of your followup campaign.

Here are a couple of hints that will definitely help you in the use of Ecards. First, limit the use of these cards to special occasions. Your initial introduction, and a congratulatory message upon completion of a training event should do the job. Do not over use them, or Ecards can become ineffective. Second, keep your messages short and sweet. The idea is to get your reader used to dealing with you. After a couple of contacts, they will be more likely to look for your Email address on normal correspondence.

Ecards are available from a variety of sources and are usually provided for free by the major Internet Service Providers. You can also purchase custom cards for a smalll fee from companies like Hallmark.


Write a Newsletter

Getting responses from your downline affiliates is all about building trust and your initial contact is only the beginning. In order to develop this trust, follow up on a regular basis with a newsletter to your entire organization. Make your newsletter fun and upbeat. Include a useful article or two, and a couple of references to useful tools. Also, if one of your affiliates achieves a milestone, for instance Top 100 placement, mention it in your letter with a congratulation and a nice reward. Spend some money for a co-op share for them, or send them a free Ebook.

"But I only have a couple of affiliates right now" you say.

It doesn't matter if you have two or two thousand affiliates in your downline. The effects are the same. By sending out a newsletter to your affiliates, you will generate interest, establish yourself as a leader, and as someone who cares about your team members. This goes a long way toward establishing trust and fostering teamwork.


Special Announcements

Special Announcements are the next step in building trust, and generating activity within your afiliate team. If you discover a really exciting tool, or maybe an intriguing post on business forum that will be useful to your affiliates, make a special announcement to your team. This may not light a fire under every member of your team, but it only takes one or two folks to become active to really change the dynamics of your entire organization.


Delivering Your Messages

Most affiliate programs provide a simple autoresponder which allows you to send group messages. Most of these only have the capability of sending text messages, but to send your newsletters and announcements, they can be extremely effective. If you want to really get your teams attention, try using one of the many commercially available autoresponders on the market today. These will allow you to set up and deliver not only text pages, but HTML documents as well. For those of you who aren't familiar with this, an HTML newsletter looks like a miniature Webpage, complete with color, banners and hyperlinks. This is a great way to give a little bit of pizzazz to your written communications.

Keep in mind, that you can send newsletters and special announcements to your team, even if your team only has a few members. By properly wording your messages, you can create the illusion that you are leading a very large organization. This lends credibility to your efforts, and your response rate will improve.

Continue to Refine your Messages

Look for words and phrases that have a tendency to "tell people what to do" and replace them with "suggestions and recommendations." Nobody likes to be told what to do, and when it happens, the natural reaction is to rebel, or worse yet, to ignore your message. When this happens, you will lose your affiliate forever.

Enlist the Support of Others

When you finally do get a couple of interested and active affiliates, involve them in your daily activities. There are two immediate benefits to doing this. First, you will build a relationship that benefits both of you, because both have unique qualities to contribute to the business relationship. For instance, their talents can be exploited in the areas of editing and proofreading. Second, you will be able to train your affiliate on how to proceed in their business. You will be able to pass on key knowledge as to what has worked for you, and what to avoid.

Remember, if you are getting a lousy response to your followup efforts, chances are that you only need to refine what you are doing. Use Ecards to get a reader's attention. Keep your messages short and simple. Be sincere. Build trust among your team members with newsletters and special announcements. Continually refine your messages, and enlist the support of others on your team.

By following this short lesson, you should see a dramatic improvement in your response rate, and a corresponding increase in your commission checks. : )
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How To Create A Lifetime Income With Affiliate Programs By Changing Your Focus!"

Most people join an affiliate program so that they will make some money by referring people to the products and services of the affiliate company.

This is, in fact, a great way to earn a really nice income.

However, if you JUST focus on this you are missing out on a great residual income stream.

Many affiliate programs are based on a 2-tier commission structure. This means you will earn a percentage for each sale that you bring in and a percentage for each sale that an affiliate that you referred brings in.

For example, you could earn a residual (ie you are not doing the work to earn this) 5%+ from the sales that your sub-affiliates bring in. This can really add up when you have a large base of sub-affiliates.

So where do you find these people that will help build your nest egg?

Let them find you!

Using the search information from Overture: (http://inventory.overture.come) we find that thousands and thousands of people are looking for a way to work at home:

Searches done in July 2004: Work At Home

Count Search Term

313502 work at home
310780 work from home
28662 work at home job
16197 work at home opportunity
12538 work from home job
11149 work at home moms
11053 work at home business opportunity
10371 work at home business

Thousands and thousands more people are looking for a home-based business:

Searches done in July 2004: Home-based Business

Count Search Term

401436 home based business opportunity
362672 home based business
5514 home based business idea
4398 based business earn from home home home home income money work
4200 best home based business
4079 internet home based business
3495 home internet based business opportunity
2999 based business home legite

There are even thousands of people are looking for an affiliate program to join:

Searches done in July 2004: Affiliate Program

Count Search Term

152632 affiliate program
5941 free affiliate program
3999 best affiliate program
3200 online affiliate program
2168 casino affiliate program
2120 affiliate marketing program
2046 web affiliate program
2013 web master affiliate program

Your affiliate opportunity could provide the answer that these people are looking for and this will build a long-lasting money-making business for you too! Sounds like a win-win deal to me.

How To Super Charge Your Affiliates

In my article "Affiliate Marketing What Is It And Why Use It?", I stated that only 5% of your affiliates will do 95% of the sales. If you don't follow this guide, you might not even get that.

If you want to make your affiliates more productive, then you must make it as easy as possible to get them to do what you want them to do.

Provide them with as much help as you can, leave no questions unanswered, do as much for them as you can, so they can literally just tell people about you, your product or your service.

Provide them with banners, link text and example ads, this way they can just do a copy and paste and BAM, all their work is done (If that is all they want to do). However super affiliates will do much more than this, and thus require more care. I will talk about super affiliates in a separate article though.

Many affiliate programs just let the affiliate join then leave them on their own. This is great if you want an army of affiliates who will do nothing for you, but how many people want that?

What you want is an army of people actively going out and telling people about how great you and your website are. This will ultimately lead to more sales.

How To Do It

When you create an affiliate program, you must teach each individual affiliate what you want them to do, spell it out nice and clear. Then tell them HOW you want them to do it.

This might sound like a lot of work, but not necessarily so. You could just do the above, and put it into an autoresponder.

That way, whenever a new affiliate signs up, they will receive a handy dandy guide, giving them all the information they need so that they can start right away.

Also, it's a great idea to include an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). This will make it much easier for them to understand what you want them to do. Be sure to list every possible question that could pop into their heads, this will also reduce the amount of email support you have to carry out.

Affiliate Marketing What Is It And Why Use It?

Affiliate Marketing is having Affiliates do your Marketing for you. What I mean by Affiliate is someone who tells people about your product/service and you pay them for a desired response, such as a purchase.

Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to get the word out about your product/service.

The best way to pay Affiliates is pay per sale. This means that you only have to pay your Affiliates when they actually make a sale. This reduces your advertising costs dramatically. your Affiliates take on all the risks so you don't have to worry about wasting your money on advertising which may not produce any results.

Using Affiliate is a very cheap way to advertise, however it is very effective. The software required to start up your own Affiliate program can cost only about $50 per month.

Then after that just wait for people to start promoting your product/service for you.

Please remember that 5% of your Affiliates will do 95% of the selling. What I mean by this is that most of your Affiliates will just sit there and do nothing. This can be countered if you teach them what to do, exactly how to do it and providing everything for them so they have to do as little work as possible.

To find out about teaching your Affiliates please see the "How To Super Charge Your Affiliates" article

You don't have to use this form of advertising just to sell your product or service. You can also use it to grow your opt-in mailing list. This is discussed in another article.

How Much Should You Pay Your Affiliates

How much you pay your Affiliates really depends on how much your product/service costs, its profit margin, how much you're willing to give up and what action you want to take place.

Lets say that your product is priced at $100. Lets also assume that it cost you $10 to make it. This leaves you with $90 profit.

How much of this do you want to give away to the person that made this sale possible?

Personally, I believe that you should give a rather high percentage of the profits back to the affiliate (Depending on how many sales they regularly generate), because without them, you wouldn't have made that particular sale at all, so reward them for it.

A fairly decent reward is about 50% of the revenue generated. Your product is priced at $100 so a $50 commission is quite generous. It really depends on your other costs (such as a mortgage) you have, which would help decide on a fair commission to both you and the Affiliate.

Another factor which plays a part is how much additional advertising you do, such as pay per click. For example, if you rely solely on your Affiliates to Market for you, then you may want to reduce the commission you pay to them to help you survive. However, you may want to pay them more, to encourage them to send more sales you way. It really is a judgment call.

On the other hand, if you advertise in other ways effectively, then you can afford to pay higher commissions, because you're not putting all your eggs in one basket.

In the end it's all down to how greedy or generous you are. The best advice I can give you is to pay the affiliate what you think he/she deserves. Hopefully that way everyone is happy and earning their fair share.

That is the key to a successful affiliate program.


Are you frustrated with your affiliate programs?

Are you frustrated with your affiliate programs?

I used to be. Very frustrated! One day, in sheer desperation, I wrote to one of my affiliate programs and suggested that the market was now saturated with their product - it was no longer possible to sell it.

The next day I received a very nice reply. "The Internet is HUGE", they said. "We predict it will be five years before the market is saturated with out product. And long before that, we will have introduced our next product." They were right, of course. The problem was not with the market (the Internet is huge). Nor was the problem with their product. The problem was in the way I was presenting it.

Since then, my affiliate sales have soared. Why? Because I learnt a few secrets to winning the affiliate game. Here they are:

1. Choose affiliate programs that relate very closely to the theme of your website. Let me give you an example. Of the three affiliate products I sell from my web site, the one that does best bye long way is an eBook that shows people how to generate free Ezine advertising. Why does it do so well? Because my website is a directory of ezines and most of my visitors are already interested in Ezine Advertising before they even arrive at my website - I don't have to persuade them very much.

2. Buy the product yourself! Research across dozens of affiliate programs shows that at least 70% of sales in any affiliate program are made by the small percentage of affiliates who actually buy the product they're selling. It makes sense doesn’t it (how can you recommend something you’ve never used)?

3. Banners - they don't work anymore, and some experts believe banners will actually damage your affiliate sales.

4. Personal recommendation. The human factor is very important on the Internet - people want to know that someone else has bought the product and that it worked for them. But to write a convincing personal recommendation, you'll have to buy, read and use the product you're selling.

5. 'Over-selling' - this is the most common mistake of affiliates. Keep in mind that all you need to do to succeed with affiliate programs is to get your potential customer to click through to the affiliate website in and open-to-buy mindset. If the affiliate program is good, the affiliate website will make the sale. So don’t try to sell the product from your website - just aim to get a click on your affiliate link.

5. Standard Ads. When you join an affiliate program, you'll probably be given some standard ads to use. Don't use them! Why? Because you’re potential customer has probably seen those exact same ads on dozens of websites and in dozens of Ezines. And if that standard ad hasn't led them to buy the product so far, it probably won't now. Something new and original is required.

6. Back-end sales. Once you're succeeding in one affiliate program, join another program that offers a related product and use the technique that marketers call 'back-end' sales. It's a well-known fact that people are much more likely to buy from someone they have already bought from. So when someone makes a purchase from your affiliate link, send him or her a nice follow-up letter. At the end of the letter, tell them about your other affiliate product and how it can help them.

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