Your Role In SFI

Being A Sponsor: What It Means

First and foremost: Be a friend! And be a mentor!

SFI’s job is to provide the infrastructure for building your business. YOUR JOB, as a sponsor to those individuals you have personally recruited to join your team, is to provide the personal, one-on-one relationships so vital to your home-business success.

Make sure every AFFILIATE you sponsor has gone through the steps at the GETTING STARTED page. Assist them as they proceed through these steps! Make sure their questions are answered. GETTING STARTED IS THE HARDEST PART OF ANY JOURNEY. Your job as a sponsor is to be available to your team members. Make sure that you are there to offer friendly guidance and support in a timely manner as your personally sponsored affiliates start out on their journey.

Note! NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, at least half of your affiliates will NOT become successful.

This is not reflection of you or SFI. It’s just the hard, cold reality that most people will not make the commitment and do the work necessary to succeed. Accept and acknowledge this.

ALL WE CAN DO IS GIVE PEOPLE A TRACK TO RUN ON. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, DRAG THEM ACROSS THE FINISH LINE!! They have to want it.

In short, support your affiliates, be there for them as much as you can (especially at the start), but don’t waste time trying to get people to do something who clearly aren’t motivated.

Instead, and this is VERY IMPORTANT—when you identify someone on your team who IS motivated, someone who IS willing to learn and apply themselves to achieve success, CONNECT WITH THEM WITHOUT DELAY! These are diamonds in the rough! Make sure they have everything they need. Support them with passion! If you do so, someday they may make you rich!

 

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Building a Customer Base

Let me ask you a question: do you think it is easier to sell your product or services to a complete stranger or to a person you have had contact before; whether it’s an email conversation, forum participation or even an existing customer relationship (i.e. He has bought something from you). Without doubt, it would be harder to sell to a total stranger who does not know whether or not you are an honest seller, and whether or not they should trust your words and believe that your product or services will truly benefit them.

This is precisely why you should build up a customer base — a group of people who trust you and will most likely buy a product that you offer to them. This will ensure that you have a recurring and consistent source of income. When you release a product or make an endorsement, you have a group of people always ready to hear what you have to say.

There are several sources that you can tap into to start building a customer base. For example, you can participate in an online discussion forum and give advice and help for free. It won’t be long before people start to recognise your name and stop and listen everytime you have something to say. You will become a valuable friend and teacher, and gain the trust of these people. Would you buy something your close friend recommends?

Another way to build a customer base is to build a mailing list. There are a gazillion methods to collect subscribers, but when it’s boiled down to the very essence, it’s all about proving your value to the crowd and offering an incentive to make people become part of your mailing list. A typical example would be a website choke-full of freely available, helpful and quality articles on a certain subject plus a “special report” that can be downloaded for free provided you give your email address. The rich content provides value, and the “special report” is the extra incentive.

Yet another source for your customer base, which is often forgotten, is your existing customers. If you bought this product from this particular person and he answered patiently to your every question, would you buy from him again in the future? Definitely. When a customer has given you his money, that’s not the end of the affair because by keeping in touch with him and developing a flourishing relationship with him, you will have a lifetime source of income.

Imagine if 100, 1000 or even 10000 customers are waiting to grab your newest products even before they are released! Hence, it’s vital to build a customer base because it simply saves a lot of time and effort.

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Terry Simpson is owner of www.BusinessIdeaDepot.com
Blog: http://www.businessideadepot.com/blog
JV Giveaways: http://www.businessideadepot.com/jv-announcer
For A Home Business You Can Believe In
PLUS All The Info To Make It Succeed
Don’t miss: http://www.businessideadepot.com/recommends/pips
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The EyeEarn Advertising Network is now live.

The EyeEarn Advertising Network is a new program for SFI affiliates to help build their online business. This Co-Op is will be the easiest way to build your downline like no other program has offered.

I signed up into this program before it launched and have already seen results from it. In the first 10 days I received 4 new afiliates in my downline. One of those affiliates has received an affiliate in their own downline. Thats the first 10 days.

I know this will be a great program for all SFI members that are serious about making money online. All I had to do was get the EyeEarn kit, put the sign on my vehicle window and take a picture of it. Then send the picture to SFI and then start receiving my new affiliates. I don’t think it gets any easier.

The main reason I like this program is because I will also receive a share of the profits from SFI’s MaxMall.com. This is a new online mall that SFI put together to work in conjunction with the EyeEarn program.

The MaxMall has hundreds of products that people use everyday from some of the biggest names in retail sales. You really need to look at it and see for yourself.

Now I can see that this post sounds like an ad and thats not my intention. I think it is important for all SFI members to take a look at this because it is going to be a big moneymaker for those that get involved.

To get more details just login in to SFI and look under the Resources tab. There is a link for the EyeEarn Co-Op.

For those that are reading this and not a member of SFI you can follow this link to get more info and get involved.

www.businessideadepot.com/recommends/eyeearn

Good luck to you.

Terry Simpson
www.businessideadepot.com
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Day 5: Purchasing Traffic

There is a right way, and a wrong way to purchase traffic. You can use a service that guarantees you traffic (wrong way) or you can use a pay-per-click service (right way). Whatever you do, don’t fall for those websites that promise to deliver you thousands of hits in a twenty four hour period.

Let’s take a look at those services. First, you don’t know where or how they are generating the traffic. In most cases, the traffic is not targeted, meaning that it is possible that not a single one of those thousands of visitors has any interest in the topic of your niche. Finally, you can’t really be sure that the traffic is ‘real.’

But, there is a way to purchase real, targeted traffic. You can use Pay-Per-Click advertising, through a service such as Google AdWords. When you purchase traffic using this method, the traffic is targeted – and real. You don’t pay for a certain number of traffic, you pay for each click, as the name, pay-per-click, indicates.

Now, if you don’t know what you are doing, Pay-Per-Click can be expensive, and ineffective. It is important that you make sure that you write a targeted ad, first and foremost. It is also essential that you select the right keywords, and that you bid the right amount on those keywords.

Google AdWords really makes this very easy. You can type in your main keyword, and they will give you a list of other related keywords that apply as well. Next, when you set the amount you are willing to pay, per click, for each keyword, you can use the traffic analysis tools in Google AdWords to see where your ad will be listed, based on what you are paying per click, and how much traffic you can expect from it.

Raise your bid price until you see that you will be listed where you want to be (preferably the first page of search results). Again, PPC can be very expensive. Make sure that you know how much you can afford to spend on these ads each week, divide it by seven, and set a daily budget up in your AdWords account. Also specify how you want those funds spread out through the day.

There are entire courses written on the topic of Google AdWords. I advise that you take one, because there are a lot of elements and tricks that need to be learned to make AdWords work out well for you.
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Again, don’t waste your traffic! Make sure that you are capturing first names and email addresses from the people that arrive at your website through PPC advertising!

Homework Assignment: Determine whether or not you want to purchase traffic or not, and if you do, find a good pay-per-click service, such as Google AdWords, and get set up.

Terry Simpson

JV Announcer

www.businessideadepot.com

Day 4: Social Bookmarking

Today, we are going to look at something that is still relatively new in the Internet
Marketing arena: Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is essentially using a social
bookmarking service to bookmark your webpages or blog posts, so that other users of
the bookmarking site can visit. When you bookmark a site, you tag it with keywords, and
people can search for the keywords that reflect their interests at the social bookmarking
site.

Does it work? Absolutely! In fact, this is a very fast way to generate really good traffic to your site – for free. Again, you will want to try to get them on your opt-in list, once they arrive at your site, so that you can bring them back again and again.
Notice that I said ‘really good traffic.’ This is good traffic because the visitor finds your site by searching for the keywords that you’ve used when you bookmarked it. They are essentially looking for you. For this reason, it is important to use keyword tags, for each page, that are absolutely relevant to the content on that page. Don’t try to use unrelated keywords, this tactic simply won’t work.

There are numerous social bookmarking sites out there, and hitting them all, to
bookmark each page of your website, could literally take days, if not weeks. Fortunately,
there are social bookmarking services that will send your bookmarks and tags to
numerous social bookmarking sites in one fell swoop.

You want a service that targets the best social bookmarking sites, and that service is
Only Wire, at http://www.onlywire.com. Only Wire is free to use (another bonus). Getting
set up with Only Wire takes a couple of hours, because you will need to go to each of
the social bookmarking sites that it lists, register, and then put your username and
password for each site into the list at Only Wire.

Once that is done, you will add the Only Wire icon to your browser toolbar (very easy to
do – you just click, hold the mouse button down, and drag and drop it up there). Now,
you are all set up. When you are ready to bookmark your pages, first go to the Only
Wire site and login. Leave that window open. Open another window (tabbed browsers
work great for this), go to your site, go to a page that you want to bookmark, and hit the icon.

You will be taken to the Only Wire add a bookmark page. Here, everything is filled in,
except your keyword tags. List the keywords that are associated with the page you are
bookmarking, and hit submit. You’re done with that page – move on to the next one.
Nothing could be easier, and again, it is very effective.

Homework Assignment: Join Only Wire at http://www.onlywire.com . Register for each
site on the list, and get Only Wire all set up. Add the bookmark icon to your browser
toolbar, and go to each page of your website, click the icon, and add it to the social
bookmarks and tag each page with keywords.
Terry Simpson
www.businessideadepot.com
JV Announcer

Day 3: Joint Venture Giveaways

In this, day three of the five part traffic generation course, we are going to discuss how joint venture giveaways will help you generate traffic to your site. In fact, they do more than generate traffic. Joint venture giveaways will also help you build a large opt-in list, in a very short period of time, and you can bring those visitors back to your site time and time again.

Joining a joint venture giveaway is easy and free. You just need to find a giveaway, and these can be found through joint venture related forums, or through the search engines. Once you’ve found a giveaway, you need a free gift to give away.

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This can be something that you create yourself, or have created for you, such as a free report, an audio, a video, or an ebook – or even a piece of software. It can also be a Private Label Rights product that you have. The important thing is that your gift has value to the people that will be downloading it.

You need an autoresponder and a website. Set up an opt-in page, which is often called a squeeze page or a capture page, on your site. Connect it to your autoresponder, and in your autoresponder, set up a list for the giveaway. Create your confirmation email and download for the gift email in your autoresponder.

Determine where the visitor will go, once they hit the submit button on your opt-in page. They can go to the first page of your site. They could be sent to a sales page for an affiliate product that you sell. You could set up a One Time Offer, or OTO, where they have one chance to purchase a product from you, at a special price.

Finally, when you are all set up on your end; submit your information to the host of the joint venture giveaway event. They will typically want the name of your gift, the URL of your opt-in page, a description of that gift, and the link to the graphic that represents your gift, such as a graphical ebook cover or CD cover.

While you will build a nice big list with the joint venture giveaway, remember that your purpose is to generate traffic as well. You don’t want people showing up, getting their gift, and leaving – never to be seen or heard from again. Your list resolves a lot of this, because you can use it to bring them back.

But at the same time, when your visitor is redirected after submitting the form, try to have them redirected to a page on your site that will immediately capture their attention, and keep them there for a while, even after they have been given their free gift.

Homework Assignment: Visit some joint venture related forums, and find at least one joint venture giveaway to participate in. Create your gift, create your opt-in page, and any other pages that you need for the giveaway, and watch the traffic roll in!

Terry Simpson

www.businessideadepot.com

(Important) What are the 3 Steps to Becoming Successful?

There are many ways to become very successful in your
business. Part of what you do to become successful
depends on the level of success you want to reach.

You can …

… Buy a business that is already successful and
simply maintain it.

… Drive more traffic to your websites, allowing
you to make more sales.

…. Create new products that will result in more
sales.

However …

Regardless of which option you choose, there are
specific skills you absolutely must have in order to
achieve the success you desire.

Before you can even begin focusing on the skills you
need, though, you must first put yourself in the
mindset of an expert. Only once you consider
yourself an expert will other people think of you as
an expert as well.

In order to achieve success, this mindset is
essential!

“How do you know what to become an expert of?”

You must first ask yourself …

… What is your passion?

… What is it that you are great at?

The answer to these two questions does not
necessarily have to be the same. But, whatever your
answer may be, you must pick only one of them as the
area in which you will become an expert.

When you are able to FOCUS on a specific area, and
“become” an expert in that area (at least in your
mindset, anyway), you will achieve success even
faster.

… FOCUS is ESSENTIAL to your success!

You must take the time to decide what it is that
you are most interested in doing. Once you have a
pretty good idea about what THAT is, then research
the market to see if it’s big enough to make any real
money starting a business in it.

Consider each possible market very carefully. Your
GOAL is to locate the BUYERS and then merely provide
them the products they are already purchasing.

Once you KNOW you have a market that has great
potential, then you must improve the skills you need
to succeed.

Where can you learn EVERYTHING you need to improve
your skills for success?

STEP #1. Visit The JV Announcer where we have listed
the current and upcoming JV Giveaway Events. The sites
listed are from all the top marketers online. These sites
will save you tons in terms of time, m’oney, and even
stress, in learning the skills essential for success.

JV Announcer

STEP #2. Browse thru The Giveaway Sites.  Find
titles that will help you right now and products that
will help you later.

STEP #3. Actually USE the products that you get in the
Giveaway. Downloading them and leaving them on your
hard drive will NOT improve your skills at all. You
must TAKE ACTION on the knowledge you gain in these
fantastic products!

I know this is NOT a simple formula. Do not let
yourself become overwhelmed by the volume of
information!

Simply break all of the information into sections and
work on one area at a time. This will make it SO much
easier for you to achieve the success you desire.

Remember …

* This is a process.
* It’s a process that takes hard work, drive, and
determination.
* You must summon the courage inside you to achieve the
success that you want.
* You must proceed with CONFIDENCE!
* You must KNOW that Anything is possible!

As you go through this process, I recommend you drop by
The  JV Announcer often and get all the f’ree
gifts you want.

The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll succeed!

JV Announcer

The JV Announcer is where you will find
the knowledge you are looking for. You’ll find topics
in several niche areas and in several different
specialties.

Think of the ebooks and software as your gifts for
success!

Don’t forget your friends and associates! Email
the URL for The JV Announcer or just forward this
email to your friends and contacts too!

If you’re a member of a forum or social networking site,
share this awesome giveaway information with them
as well.

LOOK FOR my next post with more tips and suggestions
for your success …. I’ll also include IDEAS on ways
to capitalize on using these great products.

Wishing you much holiday cheer and success in the New
Year!

Happy New Year!

Terry Simpson
www.businessideadepot.com
terry@businessideadepot.com

Article Marketing and Forum Marketing

Day 2: Article Marketing and Forum Marketing

You’ve probably heard about Article Marketing and Forum Marketing. In fact, you may even be sick of hearing about it. But are you doing it? The reason that you hear so much about these two marketing techniques is that they work!

Yes, article marketing and forum marketing builds traffic slowly. There are faster ways to get traffic. But, when you build traffic using these methods as well, you are also building your credibility. You are drawing responsive people to your site, and if your site is doing its job as well, and you get those people on your list, you can draw them back time and time again.

Note: If you are not collecting email addresses at your website, the traffic that you bring there is essentially wasted. By building an opt-in list, you can bring traffic back to your site over and over again, and this is essential to online businesses. Email addresses and first names should be collected with an opt-in page, or with subscribe boxes located on every single page of your website!

Now, let’s start generating some traffic with articles. The concept is that you write an article, which should be anywhere from 350 to 750 words in length. You include an author’s resource box at the bottom of your article, and your website link is included in that resource box. You submit the article to article directories and ezine publishers.
 
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If you can’t write, you can get article written for less than $10 each by a ghostwriter. If you don’t have the time it takes to submit articles, you can hire a service to do that for you as well. It is essential that you do article marketing, because it is viral. Your articles will be used on other people’s websites, blogs, and in their ezines – spreading the word about your site.

Forum marketing is also important. To do forum marketing, you find good, well populated forums that relate to your niche. You simply participate in those forums, and include a signature file at the bottom of all of your posts, that lead people to your website. Forum marketing does not take much time at all, once you’ve found the forums that you want to participate in.

Again, these are slow, but effective (and free) ways to generate traffic. But no matter how slow they are, they are essential to your overall online business because of the virility of these techniques, and the credibility that it gives you.
Homework Assignment: Write and submit one article, each week. Participate in your niche forums on a daily basis, posting one message in each forum per day, using a signature file that brings people to your website.

Terry Simpson

www.businessideadepot.com

Traffic Generation Report

You must think of your business on the internet as a business, something that you work at for a fixed time per day. Perhaps it’s only 1 hour a day, but have a plan of what you want to do in that one hour. You may not want to go full time yet, but even if you have a part time business you should treat it as a business and not a hobby. 

You must believe you can succeed. The stories you hear of people making $75,000 per month are true, however they work their online business as hard, or harder than an offline business. Once you have established yourself and products you can leverage the internet to allow you to make passive residual income. This is income that you don’t have to actively sell for (for example an ebook that is promoted by an army of affiliates) and comes in on a regular basis. 

I mentioned about the following: What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. This means that if you think you can’t do something you will be right, your mind will prove that you are right. Therefore if you also think you can do something you will find ways to do it. This is a 5 part report setup for you to do specific tasks in 5 days.

After reading this report it is important to complete the assignments. It is also important to remember that doing these tasks once will not work. You have to consistently use these assignments as a routine over a long period of time to get the desired results. 

You must believe you can succeed!   

Day 1:  Introduction to Traffic Generation Welcome to the first installment of the five part series Traffic Generation Course. Today, I want to discuss the various things that you need to check to ensure that your site is ready to receive traffic.  

Think of this: If you were expecting company at your home, there are certain things you might do in advance. You would make sure your home was clean, that there was fresh soap and clean hand towels in the bathroom, and you might prepare some snacks, or even an entire meal.  

Preparing your website follows the same concept. You want to make sure that things are neat and tidy. Make sure that your navigation follows a logical sequence. Make sure that you have plenty of good content, and that everything is spelled correctly.  

You also want your visitors to be able to participate in your site – to take action. Look at each page, and determine what type of action your visitors can take. Do you have a forum or blog? Do you conduct polls or surveys? Do you have a subscribe box for your opt-in list on every page of your site? Make absolutely sure that your website is ready for company! Also make sure that your pages lead your visitors to take the action that you want them to take, no matter what that action may be.  

That is the first and most essential step of traffic generation. If your site isn’t pleasing and welcoming, any traffic generation activities you do from this point on are wasted! Take the time, and put forth the effort to make your site as good as possible – and learn to look at it from your visitor’s point of view! 

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After you do this, make sure that you are using all of the best known Search Engine Optimization techniques, such as making sure that you have clean HTML code, that you’ve used your keyword effectively, that you have keyword rich text links and alt tags, and that the title of your website, in your HTML code, has your main keyword or phrase as well. Take some time to explore SEO techniques, so that you can draw natural search traffic as well. 

Once your website is ready for company, you are ready to start inviting that company. You do not need any special tools for traffic generation. What you need is your computer, an Internet connection, your mind, a willingness to do the work, and knowledge. That’s all it takes. 

Homework Assignment: Make absolutely sure that your website is ready to receive traffic. Do you have an opt-in page? Do you have a subscribe box on every page of your site? Look at each page, and determine whether there is enough content, and if there is an action for your visitors to take on each page. Make sure that your site is optimized for the search engines.

Terry Simpson

www.businessideadepot.com

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A new innovative technology has been developed and it is geared to rival the Google AdSense program. Now there is a way for you to earn money on 100% of your web traffic without selling anything and without visitors having to click on anything.

As a matter of fact your website visitors don’t have to do anything at all and you get paid!

How is this possible?

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I am always looking out for new ways for my readers to make more money online with less effort.

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Do your online business a huge favor. Stop what you are doing for just a moment and learn how you can earn revenue on 100% of your website traffic.

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Terry Simpson

www.businessideadepot.com