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Your Affiliate Snapshot Powertool

One of the most powerful SFI team building tools you have at your disposal is the Affiliate Snapshot. Designed specifically to help you manage your downline, the Affiliate Snapshot is THE central information repository for each of your PSAs. From here, you can quickly find out which badges your PSA has earned, whether they’re a TC Booster Club member and/or an ECommergy subscriber, the date they joined SFI, when they last logged into the Affiliate Center, the VP they’ve earned this month, and lots more. You can also view an extensive checklist for effective sponsoring, initiate a chat, send an e-card, etc. In short, your Affiliate Snapshot powertool contains ALL the information and data you need to successfully motivate and help your PSAs duplicate your efforts and creating a massive network income!

Your Affiliate Snapshot Powertool

To access an Affiliate Snapshot, just click the name of your PSA on your Genealogy Report. You can also access Snapshots and view general information about any SFI Affiliate by clicking a name on various leaderboards, winners lists, recognition lists, and so on throughout the Affiliate Center*)

Learn more HERE about how to use the Affiliate Snapshot powertool effectively!

* An exception is in the SFI Forum, where you access a person’s Affiliate Snapshot by clicking their photo in the mini profile panel located to the right of their post.

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Build a better downline!

Put the Opti-Build program—and the power of leveraged income (duplication)—to work for you! This SFI downline-builder tool automates the construction of the “perfect” SFI downline, working as a kind of live auto-reassigner of your sign-ups.

Build a better downline!

To use Opti-Build:

1. Go to the Opti-Build Manager.

2. Opt in if you’re not opted in already.

3. Choose the percentage of the sign-ups you’re currently generating that you now want processed by Opti-Build. You can choose 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25% of your current sign-ups to become POAs (Personally Originated Affiliates) for Opti-Build.

4. Click the ADD/VIEW RECIPIENTS IN GENEALOGY link, select the Opti-Build tab on your Genealogy Report, and choose the affiliates to whom you want to give your chosen percentage of POAs. NOTE: this tab also lets you view who and how many sign-ups your group members have received from you thus far.

That’s it! Opti-Build will then immediately begin processing your sign-ups per the preferences you’ve set, automatically and immediately reassigning a minimum of 25% of your personal sign-ups to those up-and-coming affiliates on your chosen recipient list.

Learn more about the Opti-Build Program HERE.

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Serious inquiries ONLY…

Filter out the time-wasting, non-serious prospects (people who believe they can just sit back, do nothing, and have money fall into their laps) using your “No Get Rich Quick” Gateway. Just refer your prospective SFI Affiliates to this NGRQ page with your Affiliate ID encoded in the link:

Serious inquiries ONLY...

https://www.sfi4.com/YOURSFIID#/NGRQ
(just replace YOURSFIID# with your SFI Affiliate ID number)

Upon arriving at your gateway page, your visitors will see an impressive list of reasons to join SFI, along with a direct, up-front message that there are no shortcuts to success.

View all your available SFI Gateways HERE.

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Got Online Trolls? Keep Up the Great Work!

You send out an email and someone writes back that you’re a liar. You post on your blog and someone says you’re an idiot. You create a new product and someone says it stinks and it doesn’t work. Congratulations, because you are doing something RIGHT.

Got Online Trolls? Keep Up the Great Work!

If you’re trying to please everyone, you’re pleasing no one. People who are having a real and positive impact on the world are inevitably met with trolls and haters.

If no one experiences discomfort when they see your work, then your work isn’t having an impact.

Think of every successful person and company you know. Every single one of them has trolls and haters. And likely every single one of them knows that those trolls and haters are clear indications that they are on the right track.

Maybe you don’t have ‘haters’ after all. Maybe you have ‘fans in denial.’ It’s all a state of mind. Remember, when people hate on you, it’s often because you have something they want.

And here’s how to have fun with your haters: Realize that the less they like you, the more religiously they will be checking your page. So smile. And maybe write them this note:

“Dear haters, I have so much more for you to be mad at. Just be patient.”

A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.

Is someone trying to bring you down? They’re already beneath you, and they probably secretly wish to BE you.

So love your haters.

They are often a true measure of your success.

Tap into your upline

Be sure you contact ALL your Upline members while building your SFI business. In addition to your Sponsor and Co-Sponsor, your upline team leaders may have great advertising co-ops you can join, offer rewards and prizes for various achievements, or have invaluable knowledge, tips, and advice to share! You never know WHAT resources await you upline—until you reach out. Each member of your upline has a vested interest in your success and should be ready to assist you with your SFI business.

Tap into your upline

Access your Upline here:

https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/upline

NOTE: Be sure to enter the e-mail addresses of your SFI sponsor, co-sponsor, and team leaders into your e-mail account’s whitelist so you’ll be sure to receive important messages from your upline!

Your SPONSOR is the person in your upline most responsible for your support. Therefore, when you have basic questions about the SFI Affiliate Center or your SFI business, we strongly encourage you to ALWAYS contact your Sponsor first. Learn more about SFI Sponsorship and/or all the ways you can communicate in your SFI business HERE.

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Awaken your sleeping affiliates

Inactive PSAs in your downline can be a real source of concern and frustration. But the solution could be as easy as a simple reassignment–specifically, a reassignment to one of your active Affiliates from the same country or who speaks the same language.

Awaken your sleeping affiliates

Why? Because, as SFI continues to spread around the world, language difficulties and cultural differences could become more of an issue among SFI Affiliates in growing downlines. These communication barriers may discourage new PSAs from non-English speaking countries and result in their giving up on SFI.

Why not take advantage of the growing diversity in your downline by pairing up these inactive PSAs with appropriate leaders in your team? This easy, no-brainer solution could reawaken their interest in SFI and get them building their own businesses…not to mention giving your team the added benefit of motivating your existing leaders to continue spreading the word about SFI in their own countries and in their own languages!

To reassign PSAs just follow these simple steps:

1. Go to your Genealogy.

2. Choose the Reassign tab. All affiliates who are eligible to be reassigned (see restrictions) will be designated by a checkbox next to their SFI ID numbers.

3. Check the boxes for those affiliates whom you want to reassign to another affiliate in your team.

4. Enter the SFI ID number of the person to whom you want the reassignment(s) into the field and click OK. Make sure you have the right ID number!

5. When you’re done selecting the affiliates you wish to reassign, click the REASSIGN SELECTED AFFILIATES button.

The SFI system will automatically send an e-mail to the new sponsor, letting them know about their new, reassigned PSA and encouraging them to contact their new Affiliate right away.

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Segment Your Lists – Should You Bother??

If you’re not doing it, you’ve certainly heard of it – segmenting your email list is based on things like when and where readers subscribed, products they’ve bought, geographical location and so forth. Should you be doing it? Absolutely! Segmenting your list is a great way to increase response rates and grow your profits.

List Segmentation – Should You Even Bother??

It’s not just the segmenting you’ve got to think about, but also moving people from one list to another.

Example: Jane subscribes to get your free traffic report. A month later she buys your traffic product. But the week after that she also buys your video creation product, and the week after that she buys an affiliate product you recommended on product creation.

So what do you do – move her to a new list every time she buys? Keep her on more than one list? Get frustrated and decided to keep everyone on the same list?

List segmentation might seem complicated and messy, so let’s talk about why you would even bother with it in the first place. Then we’ll cover how to go about it, what you need to think about, and ways to make it pay off handsomely for you.

Why Segment Your List?

According to DMA, 77% of email marketing return on investment came from targeted, segmented campaigns. Segmented email campaigns produce, on average, 30% more opens and 50% more click-thru’s compared to untargeted email campaigns. That alone might convince you to start segmenting your lists.

Let’s say you have 1000 people on your list. 300 of those people purchased an exercise guide on using stretch bands. The other 700 didn’t buy the guide.

If you send an email to the 300 offering them a discount on the exercise stretch bands to go with the book they purchased, you’ll likely get a good response. And if you send an email to the 700 offering a discount on a package deal of the book and the bands, you’ll likely get a good response.

But if you sent an email to both lists with a more generic offer, your response rate would go down. You can see how segmenting your list can work to your advantage.

Here’s how you might think of list segmentation: Pulling out portions of your list who are the most likely to respond to certain offers, and then giving them those offers. For example, you might have a list of 10,000 people who are interested in online marketing. But certain people on that list are especially interested in video marketing, while others aren’t. Some are interested in email marketing, while others aren’t. And some are interested in affiliate marketing, while others aren’t.

If you can segment your list to send the right offers to the right people, your response will go through the roof.

“But can’t I just send all the offers to all my subscribers?”

You can, but it’s counter-productive for several reasons:

First, readers are less likely to open any of your emails if they aren’t tailored to their interests. If you’re sending every offer under the sun, they’re going to realize that most of your emails don’t contain anything relevant to them. They won’t open all of your emails just to find the few that do pertain to them.

Second, the math is terrible if you send everyone the same offer. Imagine you have subscribers with 5 different interests. You could send out 5 different emails on the same day, each tailored to their specific interest, and get sales on 5 different products. But if you sent out the same email to all of them, then 4 out of 5 will have no interest and won’t buy anything.

Third, if you don’t segment then you’ll inevitably send out offers to people who already purchased that product. And that’s bad.

Imagine you’re the list subscriber. You buy product X, and a few days later you get an email suggesting you go buy the product you just bought. Now you’re thinking this marketer is an idiot.

Or maybe after you buy the product, the price goes down. Now you’re steamed. You paid $99 last week, and now you get an email saying the product is on special for $79. Grrrrr.

Sure, you write and ask for a $20 refund and you probably get it. But what happens from here on out? You don’t buy anything because you figure a better offer will be coming next week.

One more scenario – you buy a product and forget about it. Then later you get an offer for that product, buy it and… Oops! You realize you’ve just been snookered into buying the same product twice. Sure, you get a refund on the second one, but how do you feel about the seller? Not too great.

The list of reasons to segment go on, but let’s talk about…

How to segment your lists

In a word – autoresponders. Your list management service (autoresponder) holds the keys to segmenting. You can create tags, so that when a subscriber takes a particular action, they get tagged. For example, when they buy product X, they are tagged so they no longer receive emails promoting product X.

You can create automations, so when someone buys product X, they get moved into the buyer’s sequence. This is yet another reason to list segment – you can send a series of emails to product buyers that makes sure they get the most out of that product, thereby reducing refunds.

You can create separate sequences for each product you promote, moving your readers from one sequence to the next based upon their actions and preferences. Plus you can create separate sequences based on preferences, what lead magnet they signed up to receive and so forth. With the technology available in services such as Aweber and Ontraport, you’re only limited by your imagination and the desires of your readers.

Get creative in segmenting

Sometimes you’ll need to get creative, such as offering a bonus package that they need to enter their email address to receive. This will give you a list of buyers to a particular affiliate product you’ve promoted.

Use opt-in forms that offer bonuses, freebies, guarantees, support and anything else you can think of to get readers and product buyers to subscribe to segmented lists.

Always be thinking – how can I segment my list so I get them the information and offers they want to receive?

What can you segment?

This is where it gets fun, challenging and even exciting.

There are so many ways to segment your lists, and there are no hard and fast rules on this. Really you need to decide what is best for you, your list and your niche.

Here’s some ways to segment your lists…

Purchaser or non-purchaser – have they made a purchase? How long ago? If it’s been a long time, you’ll want to give them a great offer to get them buying from you again. If they purchased recently, you might want to reward them somehow to keep them active.

How active – have they clicked a link in your emails in the past month? Generally you want to make more generous offers to the least active subscribers, to get them interacting and purchasing again.

Customer value – did they purchase a $10 product? $100 product? How much they’ve spent with you can determine what offers you send them. Be sure to speak to your best customers in a way that shows how important they are to you.

Geographical location – depending on your niche, this can be a terrific way to speak to people using their local lingo, customs and so forth to better relate to them and push more emotional buttons.

A good example would be sending out special emails to the U.S. for things like Thanksgiving and Fourth of July, or Boxing Day in the U.K or Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand.

Area of interest – even if you build your list with a somewhat generic lead magnet, you can still segment your list based on interests. You can do this by making an offer – free or paid – and then segmenting those who click the link.

For example, your lead magnet is online marketing (very generic) and then you make offers to your main list for a free video on traffic generation, a report on making money with blogging, and a paid offer for a product creation course. Now you’ve got 3 separate list segments that are niched down.

Content format – some prefer written content such as blog posts and pdf’s. Others prefer podcasts, or video, or webinars. If you know how certain segments of your list prefer to consume their content, you can tailor future offerings accordingly.

Stages in the Sales Cycle – giving new subscribers an introductory email series is a great idea. This introduces them to you and your business and gets them excited for more. Then you might even give them a choice of what they would like to receive next.

This barely scratches the surface of different ways to segment your lists, but you get the idea.

Segmenting tips, ideas and monetization…

Making the same offer to your entire list? Segment anyway. Let’s say you’re promoting a course on traffic generation strategies to your entire online marketing list, which is segmented into 3 parts as follows:

– People interested in video marketing
– People interested in blogging
– People interested in Amazon affiliate sites

Of course you could send out the same email to everyone, but why would you?

Instead, talk about using videos to generate traffic to your video list. For your blogging list, talk about driving more traffic to blogs. And for your Amazon affiliate list, talk about driving traffic to Amazon affiliate sites.

Remember to tailor the subject lines to each segmented niche as well. You might be shocked at the improvement in your open rates, clicks and sales.

Send new subscribers your old offers.

Let’s say you launched a new product 60 days ago. Everyone on your list at that time received several emails about the product. But now you have new subscribers on your list – what to do? Send an email (or 2) just to them, telling them about the product. The point is to tell new subscribers about offers, products and opportunities they haven’t seen yet.

Segment product buyers who didn’t purchase the upsell.

Make them another offer to buy the upsell they missed – perhaps with an additional discount or an added bonus.

Segment affiliate product buyers based on product creator.

If you sold a hundred copies of Joe Smith’s course to your list, those buyers might want to know about everything else Joe Smith puts out. And right there in the email, you can remind them that they bought Joe Smith’s course back in June.

You can also segment based on interest – that is, people who clicked the link in the email to check out Joe Smith’s course, but didn’t necessarily buy. Remind them of their interest in Joe’s products.

Segment based on clicks.

Readers click a link to check out a product – send them a follow up email reminding them of their interest and that the sale is ending.

Last of all, get creative.

What can you offer certain segments of your list that will have them shouting ‘YES!’ The more segmented you make your lists, the more specific and creative you can get with your offers.

Good luck and happy ‘segmented’ email marketing!

Pick your own auto-delivery processing date

You can choose the date (any day from the 1st to the 15th) that you want us to process your auto-delivery each month.

Pick your own auto-delivery processing date

For example, if you want to start the month off strong, you can choose the 1st day of the month for processing. It’s a great way to make sure you’re qualified for the month! But if you want to choose a date later in the month, that’s ok too. It’s totally up to you!

You’ll get the chance to choose your date during the process of setting up your new auto-delivery. If you have an EXISTING auto-delivery, you can change your processing date HERE. Simply choose your desired date from the PROCESSING DATE pulldown menu and then click the “Submit” button below to save. We will begin using your new chosen date starting next month.

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Welcome to the ZING Network!

As outlined in this LaunchPad lesson and our SFI support desk, the Zing Network is an “umbrella network” designed to simplify SFI for affiliates, putting membership in ALL of our properties “all under one roof.”

Welcome to the ZING Network!

So, for example, when someone registers at TripleClicks.com or Rewardical.com (both Zing Network properties), they are NOT considered a “TripleClicks Member” or a “Rewardical Member” but rather simply a Zing Network member. Consequently, upon signing up as Zing members, your Personally Referred Members (PRMs) can access ALL Zing properties (i.e., Localvantia.com, Rewardicals.com, TripleClicks.com, etc.) using ONE login.

Why does this matter to you, an SFI Affiliate (and Zing member too)?

Because once you’ve referred a member, some very cool things kick in for you and your SFI business! First, as we mentioned above, no matter how you attracted your PRM—whether it was to an Eager Zebra game, to an Astro Auction, or to a product at TripleClicks.com—your PRM will get exposure to ALL our Zing Network sites, including SFI and the SFI Affiliate opportunity. This helps promote activity among your customers and affiliates…and increased profits for you!

At the same time, Zing simplifies SFI for you and your downline by boiling down the process of getting started with SFI to ONE SIMPLE ACTION: REFER MEMBERS.

So, as a team builder, your primary business focus should be to refer members to your Zing Network gateways and teach your new PSAs to do the same. Simple!

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