Why SFI Affiliates Have Their Own Domains

When Affiliates have their own domains online, it simply means such affiliates have their own virtual store/office online. I hardly know of any business person who will shy away from having his/her own store/office if they seriously want to do business. Among the major advantages of having your own domain are:

1. It shows professionalism in your chosen business.
2. It creates your own virtual online private space to do business.
3. You can design and layout the space as you deem fit.
4. You can be reached/contacted personally from your domain.
5. Your can promote your goods and or services from your domain.
6. You can transact your business exclusively/safely from your domain.
7. Your domain serves as your unique online business identity.
8. You can position your domain to attract regular traffic to your business.

 

Why You Need a Website or Your Own Blog in SFI Business

I believe you can succeed in SFI business with or without your own private Website or Blog. You can succeed without them but you will succeed faster and better if you have them. This is because SFI business is largely an online marketing business which thrives on web traffic. The more web traffic you have, the higher your chances of making sales. That is where your own website and blog come in very handy.

If your website and blog enjoy a very good ranking with Search Engines, the sites will get better exposure and traffic. Here is how that helps your business to succeed.

1. You can hyperlink your SFI and TripleClicks Gateways to the contents of your website and blog.
2. You can promote your business with banners on your website/blog all hyper-linked to your Gateways.
3. If your website/blog contents are fresh, interesting, educating, entertaining and informative, they will attract more web visitors who may click on your messages on the site and be redirected via your Gateways to your stores for possible patronage.
4. You can promote your business in your website/blog as you wish without the fear of censorship.
5. The more popular your website/blog is, the more traffic it attracts.
6. Running your own website/blog commands a lot of respect in online marketing business.
7. It is a mark of real professionalism for you to run your own website/blog in online marketing business.

However, let me remind you that it takes hard work and a very good and workable knowledge of how the World Wide Web works for you to be able to run a successful website and blog. If you can’t do what it takes to make them work for you, just go ahead with the methods which work for you. No doubt you are aware that buying, registering and maintaining your own domain costs money. Updating your website/blog requires that you have very good writing skills before you can even get noticed online. This is aside from SEO requirements for your site to rank high with Search Engines. Real hassles no doubt. Recognize that we are all different in our kills and capabilities so just do what fits your own skills even if you can’t run a website/blog. You can still succeed in SFI all the same.

 

Best Methods of Generating SFI Signups

Pay-Per-Click, PPC is one very popular way to monetize your Website/Blog. With PPC, an advertiser will pay a publisher, such as a website/blog owner, when ever their ad is clicked. If you want to generate sign-ups from PPC, it is best to promote Gateways which are very eye-catching. Because of that, squeeze pages and pages like the newly introduced JMT could be very effective. For best results, you can use the following methods.

1. Advertise mostly Squeeze Pages of your Gateways in PPC ads.
2. Advertise your Gateways in PPC Websites/blogs with very popular niche.
3. Promote your Gateways in PPC websites/blogs with very high traffic.
4. Look for PPC Websites/blogs with very high Alexa rankings to promote your Gateways.
5. You can promote your Gateways in PPC Websites/blogs by using short, engaging and interesting promo messages.
6. As much a practicable, use special eye-catching texts/colors when promoting your Gateways in PPC sites.

If you can do the foregoing diligently in your PPC ads, I believe you can get more signups.

Why You Need Email Capture and Auto-responder on Your Blog

YES, you can set up an email capture and auto-responder on your blog. I am inclined to believe you have a blog already which is designed to bring traffic to your site. Your lead capture page is the best place for your email capture feature. Your auto-responder is designed to automatically send out pre-designed messages to your site visitors through the emails your site has captured from your site visitors. 

 
Since you can’t be online 24 hours/day, your auto-responder fills in for you when you are not online. That way, your business can be effectively open 24/7 with excellent results. Just as affiliates differ from one another, their goals, strategies and objectives in SFI also differ. That is why it is very difficult to say exactly what you can put in the series. Suffice it to say however, that you are involved in online marketing of your business just like every other affiliate in SFI. That is what determines what gets into your campaign. A few of the following examples will suffice for the sake of the second part of your question. You can have several email messages that aim to promote:

1. Becoming SFI affiliate.
2. Membership of TripleClicks.
3. Becoming ECA.
4. Becoming a member of WAVE 3.
5. Advertising specific products at TripleClicks.
6. Inviting participants to Pricebenders auctions.
7. Inviting participants to Eager Zebra games.
8. Advertising personal testimonies of satisfied SFI affiliates.
9. Advertising SFI weekly news bulletins.
10. Advertising SFI blog.

People who read all these emails could be converted to be your business partners as in PSAs or TripleClicks customers. Either way, your SFI business is better for it.

 

Happy marketing!!!