success tips to newbies in affiliate marketing

Affiliate Tips
	Affiliate Tips Valuable Tips For SFI Affiliates
Subject: Build up your ECAs' local influence Encourage your ECAs to take advantage of TC on a local level. Increase your profits by helping your ECAs expand their market and income from local sales. Encourage your ECAs to liberally distribute your TC Gift Cards to their offline customers. They'll likely check out TripleClicks and the ECA's own online store and encourage their friends and family to do the same! : How to advertise your Gateway for free If money is real tight, there is a "totally" FREE way of advertising your Gateways and drawing affiliates to your downline! First, create your own blog for free at Blogger.com, Blog.com, or at one of the numerous other free blog hosts on the Internet. Build it with your SFI business as your blog's theme. Next, sign up as a free member at a manual traffic exchange (such as TrafficSwarm.com or SurfNexus.com). Promote your blog and/or Gateways through your traffic exchange to drive traffic to your SFI Gateways and blog. By using this method, I have signed up 11 new affiliates this month—and one of those has already become an Executive Affiliate. I currently use two blogs: one for all my Internet activity and one with just SFI as its theme, with environmental issues as the centralized point. In the past, I have driven traffic to my blog by writing and submitting articles relating to the theme of my blog. Additionally, I always follow up with my downline at least three to four times per week and when one of my affiliates contacts me, I always reply within 24 hours or less. It is very important to sell yourself to your downline long before you try to sell a program or the idea of upgrading. If your affiliates trust you as a support person they can turn to for help instead of seeing you as just a sales person, they become more responsive sooner, rather than later. : How to help your new affiliates get started right I have no secret to success, and I am willing to share my methods with anyone...One thing I have come to learn pretty quickly is that what you put in your welcome message can make a HUGE difference. My welcome message is short and sweet. I introduce myself as the new affiliate's sponsor, include a link to the SFI Getting Started training page and, most importantly, my e-mail address, and ask the affiliate to contact me. I have found that about one in 20 will reply to me with an e-mail. Once the affiliate actually gets in touch, I don't mention anything about upgrading. Instead, I build a relationship with my affiliates by passing along various important links and working with them to get started right. I also occasionally offer a gift certificate as an incentive to take action. I feel that working with my affiliates and helping them get started is more important than worrying about whether they are going to upgrade. Once they get started and find out more about SFI, they see the benefits for themselves and often decide to upgrade on their own. If you are getting no repsonse from your current affiliates, you may want to change your stategies. Take a good look at your welcome message, change your priorities, and concentrate on helping your people get started. Also, join some advertising sites so you can offer your affiliates places to start advertising right away. Remember, many people who join have no experience with anything like SFI, and tips for ad resources, etc. will be very appreciated. How to invest now for future profits I've owned several businesses over the last 30 years, and I've learned what it takes to build a business that earns a profit. So, I understand that I have to invest work, time, and money now in order to get a future, larger return. It doesn't always work, but I've been successful more often than not. That said, I think it is unrealistic to expect someone with no knowledge of marketing, advertising, and building a business to "get" the SFI opportunity quickly. A great resource for these new business owners (or experienced business owners, for that matter) is Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert Kiyosaki. It helped me. When I read it a couple of years ago, I started understanding the huge differences between the left side of Kiyosaki's quadrant (employee and self-employed) and the right side of the quadrant (business owner and investor). Employees and self-employed people trade time for money on a more or less static ratio that only changes if they get a raise, charge more per hour or per project, or find a way to reduce expenses. If you work, you earn a certain amount, generally several dollars per hour. On the other hand, business owners and investors learn how to concentrate their efforts and money up front, receiving a larger return in the future as their investments are leveraged and compounded. For example, as the owner of a marketing business run almost entirely online, I'm earning money for things I did last week, last month, and even several years ago, because I invested the time, effort, and money over time in the past. As a result, today I have several income streams that provide 100% of my income, letting me work from a cabin in the mountains about 100 miles from the nearest traffic jam. I really do earn while I sleep! The patience required to keep building and looking for potential comes from my experience of building and owning past businesses and watching, over time, as my income from my marketing business continues to grow. Without that experience and an ever-changing mindset, I would have bailed out a long time ago because I didn't see the big picture and couldn't understand the potential. As SFI sponsors, our challenge is to find a way to pass along some of this knowledge and experience to our affiliates who have a dream of building a home business but lack the knowledge and skills to make it happen—joining SFI and promoting TripleClicks comes darn close. You also have to have faith and hope that your efforts will be rewarded. I decided that my marketing business won't fail. It has to succeed because that is the only outcome I will accept. That gives me the fortitude to weather problems and find ways around obstacles that would have otherwise defeated me several times over the last few years. In fact, I now earn more in one month than I did in my first two years, and it continues to grow. There are occasional downturns and some really horrible months now and then, but overall, the trend is upward. Most importantly: act on your dream, and pass your enthusiasm on to others! : Getting non-responsive affiliates to respond to you One reason behind non-responsive affiliates could be the powerful spam catchers used by most ISPs. Your Welcome Letter or other e-mails may not be getting through to their intended recipients as a result. (AOL is notorious for preventing ordinary e-mails from getting through, clumping them in with spam.) Try taking URLs out of the body of your e-mail and put them into an e-mail attachment. When I did that, I was able to get more e-mails through. Another way is to disguise the URL by replacing the punctuation with words, so that the filter cannot recognize it as a Website address and mistake it for spam. For example: HTTP(colon)//www(dot)name of site(dot)com This works so long as you explain to your recipient the reason why you have to do this—without using the word "spam"! One more thing. Lack of response from new Affiliates may just mean more persistence on our part is needed to "woo" them. Keep in touch, e-mailing about once every week or two with an easy-going, upbeat e-mail. Let them know how excited you are to have them on your team, and include a tip about where to find something on the SFI Affiliate site, how to post a classified ad, or some other helpful marketing strategy that has worked for you. As your new affiliates sense you are serious about helping them get started, they will be much more likely to become serious about taking action as an SFI Affiliate. Feeling overwhelmed is NOT a requirement to getting started I only started with SFI very recently, and I might have kicked things off a little differently than others. Essentially, I spent a heap of time just reading—reading SFI Forum posts, reading training manuals, copying, and noting things that I either liked or thought would be good to try. I might be a little slow off the mark in personally sponsoring people, but I figured I'd be much better prepared to support them when the time comes. That leads me to something I've noticed in my Forum travels: from time to time, there is a post that exhibits a somewhat frustrated, or "what-am-I-doing-wrong" type of undertone. It's important to remember that every now and then, particularly when you're just starting out, there will be moments of frustration and times when you question yourself. Sometimes, you need to remind yourself of this fact. For everyone out there who is new and having a bad day, I suggest casually wandering through the SFI Forum. Just cruise around, and you'll see some really motivating, inspirational snippets. If you find one that really resonates with you, click the thread poster's name to find other posts they've written. You're bound to find more of the same. Do a spot check on your level of confidence and motivation each time. If you're like me, you won't be feeling as low as before, and the sun will start to poke its way through the clouds blocking your potential from becoming a reality. Another thought: When we're learning something new, it's very easy to get overwhelmed by all the information. Some of us need to let things sink in a bit. So maybe you just need to give it a bit of time. Stop trying to take it all in at once, and just focus on one thing. Or, look to your past or others' lives and notice how things tend to transpire. What are you good at outside of SFI? Can you take that skill and apply it to something within your SFI business? For instance, single moms: You might have signed up to generate extra income so that you can spend more time with the kids. A little way into things, you might be a bit frustrated and start thinking it's not worth the effort. Instead, think about what you do well as a single mom. I'll bet you're organized, can manage things a million different ways, and have routines and systems in place to get everything done. So, put some of those single mom skills to work for you with SFI—get something organized, even if it's just your favorite posts or your marketing ideas; create some routines or systems to approach your new venture. Just as important, every new affiliate should post something on the SFI Forum, and not just technical questions. From what I've seen of the posts from more experienced SFIers, they're not only successful, but they really seem to be good people with good values. I was initially nervous about posting my first entry, but I feel really comfortable with Forum members. I feel I could post something about having doubts or feeling a bit down, and there would be fellow SFI affiliate to prop me up again. They've been there and done that and can probably relate to what we're all going through. One last thought: If you are still doubtful about SFI, just go for it. It's all too easy to procrastinate on the basis of "I'm still checking it out." If you decide its not for you, then at least you've looked at it properly and given the system a chance.   comment now