How to Determine if Your Auto-Responder is Working

Simple, just test it from time to time that is all. What should ideally worry you is not whether it works but whether it works as expected. Once you set up an auto-responder properly, it will respond to messages but if you do not program it very well, it will respond unsatisfactorily to messages.

In that case, it is not the fault of the auto-responder but that of the person who programmed the messages in the responder. An auto-responder by design will respond to inquiries put before it if it has the answers. It does not manufacture messages. Instead, it gives out only the messages it was programmed to give out. What matters most therefore is to ensure that the pre-programmed messages are adequate and concise enough to meet the expectations of the marketer. All these can be found out from regular testing and reprogramming until it responds perfectly.

How to Use Webinars for Marketing and Training in SFI Business

Webinars are very effective marketing strategies online. If you do not have a customized website to host them, you can register FREE on some other sites like AnyMeeting.com to host your webinars. From there, you can post your lessons regularly to your downline. Even with non-professionals, many of these sites provide very good support, training and infrastructure for good webinars. That makes them very easy for any interested marketer to use.

However, for your webinars to be very effective in SFI business, you must take the following into account:

1. First, find out through research the degree of interest your downline has for webinars.
2. You must know very well the subject matter of your webinar.
3. You must be an undisputed authority on the subject matter of your webinar.
4. Take into account the time zones globally when delivering your subject.
5. Factor in cultural, linguistic and regional considerations/sensibilities when delivering your webinar.
6. Encourage visual contacts and feedback in your webinars.
7. Be time conscious when delivering your webinars.
8. Schedule webinars well in advance at specified times.
9. Research your subject matter thoroughly and regularly and ensure you are up-to-date.
10. Make sure you keep all promises you make in your webinars.

No sensible marketer will get involved in webinars because everyone else is into them. What matters is how best webinars can help your marketing efforts. That is why you must endeavor to make your webinars interesting, informative and useful. Taking the above tips into account before you embark on the use of webinars greatly enhances their effectiveness.

Best of luck in your campaigns!

How Being an SFI Affiliate can Change Your Life

This is a very interesting topic because being an affiliate in SFI changes many people’s lives in many and varied ways. If what you mean is changing your life for the better, the following readily come to mind. When you become an SFI affiliate, your life changes for good!

1. You become a business owner.
2. You become your own boss.
3. You get the real satisfaction of working for yourself.
4. You follow a simple work schedule designed only for your own convenience.
5. You become highly sociable with fellow affiliates through a2a and the forums.
6. You become a fun-loving person by participating at the Trivia Games.
7. You become a knowledgeable person from SFI’s trainings.
8. You become a good reader/learner.
9. You become a good marketer/salesperson.
10. You become a good Business Manager.
11. You become a good Team Leader.
12. You become a good entrepreneur.
13. You become a major contributor to the e-commerce activities of your country.
14. You become a very valuable world citizen/business player earning a legitimate living.
15. You change from being poor to a middle level income earner or even a rich one.
16. You become a good business negotiator.
17. You become a good co-operative manager/member.
18. You become a generally happy and satisfied person. 

From the foregoing and more, you can see why your being an SFI affiliate can always change your life for the better.

 

The Role of Affiliates in SFI Business

In SFI, every affiliate has a very important role to play as an affiliate and that is what makes the business work. To a prospect, you can explain that your most prominent roles in SFI are as follows:

1. You are a Business Owner.
Your SFI business is yours as an individual business person. You can sell what you want to sell and earn your profits as in all businesses.

2. You are a Business Partner.
This way, you can sell any product at TripleClicks stores to earn your commissions. These products may actually be owned by other affiliates who are automatically your business partners.


 
3. You are an Internet Marketer.
The bulk of SFI business is online. You do your promotions, marketing and actual selling all online. That qualifies you as an internet marketer.

4. You are an Internet Entrepreneur.
This way, you build your own business online at no cost in collaboration with SFI. You make your own profits and also share from SFI’s profits in the Executive pool. That makes you an internet entrepreneur.

5. You are a Business Promoter.
This way, you use all the free tools provided by SFI to promote your business online and the businesses of any other affiliates you like.

6. You are a Team Builder.
This way, you promote your Gateways to recruit PSAs into your downline by way of duplication. These PSAs become your business partners and life customers.

7. You are a Team Leader.
This way, you lead your team by helping them to develop their businesses and guiding them to succeed in the business.

8. You are a Sales Representative.
This way, you not only promote products from fellow affiliates, you help to sell them and earn commissions.

9. You are a Business Motivator.
This way, you lead your team by example. You assist them as best you can. You also communicate regularly with them and encourage/motivate them to build their businesses. 


 
10. You are a Resource Person.
With the questions and answers you submit in Ask SC forum, you help SFI to build a valuable resource base for the benefit of the whole business and the businesses of all the affiliates.

All these in a nutshell are what all affiliates do in SFI which a prospect will be interested in knowing.

6 Effective Website Linking Tips

Every smart online marketer values website traffic a great deal. Backlinking is one very effective way to get this traffic. Internal links help search engine spiders or bots find and index content easily and correctly. Internal links literally guide search engine bots throughout your site, providing a web upon which spiders crawl among your site's interlinking URLs. On finding your good content, the engines do add it to the enormous database of information used to retrieve pages that match any searcher's query. That is how important backlinks are in helping your Search Engine Optimization, SEO, efforts. 

To understand your website’s current link structure and profile, it is advisable to run it through a free tool such as Open Site Explorer. That done, you then discover any unlinked pages which you can then take quick steps to link up within the site. For effects, you can include at least one relevant, contextual link within every blog post to another post on your site. This simple trick ensures your blog posts always link to other pages on your site which is good for your SEO efforts.

To get the most out of your internal-linking activities, these here tips can be of enormous help.

01. It is advisable to use a standard linking color convention on your site to avoid confusion. Most websites use blue to indicate a hyperlink. If you do use another color, the rule is to use it consistently so readers begin to recognize your links with ease.

02. Avoid padding any page with links unless you want it to look spammy to visitors. Bots routinely flag spammy pages as poor quality.

03. Use a relevant anchor text to create links. A keyword-rich anchor text somehow improves your internal-link profile and enables search engine bots index your site effortlessly.

04. Avoid the use of links from Flash, JavaScript or other plug-ins because bots usually can’t read them very well.

05. Never fail to make your links natural for human readers first, rather than prioritize search engines.

06. Do not add links merely for internal-linking purposes. Links must add value to the page itself and to the user experience.

With the help of Google Webmaster tools providing the intelligence information you need, it is possible for you to quickly fix crawl errors found on your website. Doing so makes the work of search engine crawling bots easy for them to do. That is because when spiders encounter blocks, they stop crawling. By the time you fix crawl errors, you increase the odds of the bots indexing more pages within your site. That is enormously beneficial for your SEO efforts.