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NOTE: The SFI Newsletter is published each week (usually Tuesday or Wednesday). Be sure
to stop by the Affiliate Center each week to catch up on the latest SFI
news and updates affecting your business.
For other SFI news and announcements, as well as previous
newsletters, click HERE.
New SFI Store Update (More Features Unveiled)
For our many affiliates anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the new SFI store (and for brand new affiliates who may not have heard about the coming new store), here's an update of some of the exciting features everyone will be enjoying soon:
• ONE store for everything. The new store will service both SFI affiliates and retail customers alike. Everything from nutritional products to Internet services to SFI promotional materials.
• Thousands (soon tens of thousands) of new products in dozens of new categories, plus closeouts, collectables and hard-to-find items available nowhere else.
• Earn instant SVP on EVERY product in the store...including all SFI promotional materials like X-Cards, postcards, business cards, etc.
• Exclusive, money-saving daily deals ("Deal Of The Day").
• Special weekly/monthly sales with special discount prices.
• New products added daily.
• You can promote the store as a whole, or any individual product in the store, or any department, or any selection of products of your choosing.
• No longer do high shipping costs need to get in the way of becoming EA or making sales internationally. This is because the new SFI store will be utilizing new partner companies who will be shipping to you directly from outlets around the world. Additionally, through the store's Private Seller program, you can locate sellers and products located in your same country—even the same city!
• Because of how it's being built, virtually anything can be added and sold in the store. Goods, services, downloadable software and media, you name it! The sky's the limit!
• The new SFI store also allows you to sell YOUR stuff. Through the new store's Private Seller program you can quickly, easily, and cheaply convert stuff you no longer want or need...into stuff you do! List your stuff at the new store, and sell for cash....or for any product in the store. You can even earn EA status each month selling unwanted items around your house! Use the new SFI store as your online garage sale to clean out your closets, attics and garages! List and sell dozens or even hundreds of miscellaneous items easily.
• Hot, new marketing program will allow you to easily generate lifetime retail customers by the hundreds! And earning EA status though retail sales will have never been simpler or easier!
• Standing Orders, on thousands of products, will be available both to affiliates AND retail customers. When an affiliate or customer places an order containing any Standing Order-Eligible product, they'll automatically be alerted how to set up a Standing Order for that item in seconds.
• More payment options.
• Product shipment tracking.
• Express Checkout feature allows you to make purchases in seconds.
• Wishlists
• Store multiple shipping addresses and multiple payment methods --which can be instantly accessed via pulldown menus during checkout.
• Seamless integration with VeryVIP. If you are a VeryVIP subscriber, you'll have powerful additional tools to promote the new store and generate customers.
• One-click sitewide currency conversions for 17 major world currencies.
These are just SOME of the amazing features the new SFI store will come with. And there are many, many, many more. Not only that, the new store is also going to usher in some powerful new enhancements to the overall SFI program including substantial simplification, bigger bonuses, and more incentives to become and remain an EA.
Stay tuned for further details!
A new feature has been added to the Genealogy report. On the default Genealogy screen you will now see a small "bubble" icon ( ) on the far right side. Clicking the icon generates a screen that allows you to send the person a message via SFI's internal messaging system.
The major benefit of this new feature is that it allows you to send individual messages to any affiliate in your group without using e-mails. Hence, you do not have to worry about e-mail spam filters diverting your messages to "junk folders" or your e-mail ISP not deliverying your e-mails for any other reason. When you use SFI's internal messaging system, delivery of your messages is essentially guaranteed.
When the recipient logs in at SFI, they will see an alert about your message. And after reading the message, they can reply to you with a single click.
We've also added this feature to the Affiliate Manager. If you are on an individual's Affiliate Manager page, you can instantly send them a message by clicking on one of the "bubble" icons here as well.
Note: Using the GROUP SEND features also puts a copy of your message in the person's inbox while also sending an email as well.
AUGUST'S TOURNAMENT NEEDS YOU!
August's TuneFlow Tournament is winding down, and we're asking all SFI affiliates to participate in rating/reviewing the new entries by Sunday, August 31st.
Why? More reviews = the more artists TuneFlow attracts = higher and higher quality music = a highly successful music site that every SFI affiliate can profit from!
Just go to http://www.tuneflow.com and click on the "Rate Tunes" button to get started (if you're not yet signed up as a TF Member, it will ask you to register first).
Doing reviews is FUN, plus it also earns you FREE download credits, which you can redeem on ANY TuneFlow song of your choice! Choose from thousands of songs from over 1,500 artists in 14 music genres, with new music being added daily!
Also, don't forget to check out the winners of July's TuneFlow Tournament:
- Jeremy Raboin (for the song: Nobody Loves Me)
Hear it/download it HERE.
- The EAF (for the song: I Miss Disco)
Hear it/download it HERE.
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Lazy Mouse (for the song: Where The Pain Starts)
Hear it/download it HERE.
- K B (for the song: I Found Love)
Hear it/download it HERE.
Click the link below to check out ALL the July entries:
http://www.tuneflow.com/leaderboard-0708.php
For all of our previous tournament winning songs—written and recorded
exclusively for TuneFlow, see:
http://www.tuneflow.com/previous_winners.php
EXPERT REPORT
Advertising, Sales and Marketing
How to be a Powerful Persuader
by Alan Fairweather
I'll always remember the first sales course I ever attended and the definition of selling that was drummed into my brain.
"Selling is the art of creating a desire in the mind of a buyer and satisfying that desire so that buyer and seller benefit."
Now that may seem a bit old fashioned for many of today's salespeople, but I believe the principle still holds true particularly if we're attempting to persuade another person be it a member of our team, a colleague or a customer. If you're going to persuade someone to change their behavior, their viewpoint, their attitude, any other aspect of their business or personal life, then you're talking about changing a mindset.
If anyone is going to change their mindset then they need to envisage benefits for them that outweigh their present circumstances or situation. If you're the person doing the persuading, then you need the following skills, qualities and characteristics which make you believable and credible...
Click the link below to access full report:
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ExpertReports.sfi
 INTERNATIONAL FOCUS
The ClickBucks Program—Use your ClickBucks (CB) Gateway to earn up to $10 on each new SFI Full Access Affiliate generated. NOTE: Important restrictions apply!
Get full details about the ClicBucks program at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/CB/index.sfi
SFI EXCLUSIVE ARTICLE:
Internet Income, Lesson #7: Building Your Team Of Affiliates
When you join the SFI affiliate program, you have two ways to advance your business:
1) Build your team of affiliates
2) Market products from the Website
While you can do both simultaneously, the question arises as to which of these two tasks should be given priority. The answer for SFI is to first focus on expanding your team of affiliates. Like the kids at the neighborhood vacant lot, most ventures naturally begin by picking your team. In SFI, like any venture, picking the right team can be the most important part of obtaining a successful outcome...
Read the entire lesson at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/Lesson7.sfi
LET'S DISCUSS IT!
Want to discuss this issue's articles or announcements, have questions, or want to see what your fellow SFI'ers are saying? Go to the SFI NEWS forum now at:
http://www.sfidboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=48
TIP OF THE DAY:
SFI's strength lies in its partnership with its thousands of affiliates around the globe. If you have a suggestion to make our program better; a testimonial about a specific product, service or feature; a report on a cross-solicitation; or just a general comment about SFI, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
To submit a suggestion, click HERE.
DBOARD THREAD OF THE WEEK
SFI's Discussion Board contains a WEALTH of valuable, straight-forward, and free training, advice, and tips from SFI affiliates around the globe. Be sure to stop by regularly for the latest posts!
This week's featured DBoard Thread:
How To Get Started For FREE!—Check out this established thread for a veritable wealth of feedback, tips, opinions, and advice from affiliates far and wide about establishing your SFI business with little to no out-of-pocket expense.
Access the thread here:
http://www.sfidboard.com/showthread.php?t=43294
Book Review: Will Work From Home: Earn The Cash—Without the Commute, by Tory Johnson & Robyn Freedman Spizman,
reviewed by Elizabeth H. Cottrell, IAHBE Editor—One of the things I particularly appreciated about this book is that even though the authors are strong advocates for the advantages of working from home, they insist on a realistic approach...
Advertising on Facebook—Facebook is a social networking phenomenon. By the end of 2007, more than 50 million people had created a Facebook page, and that number is still growing rapidly in all age groups. It is no longer just for teens and college students...this venue can offer potential advertisers the ability to put their ads in front of extremely targeted prospects...
How Green Is Your Home-Based Business? Why It's Important To 'Think Green' In Any Type Of Business—This article is aimed at all home-based businesses, not just those whose product or service is directly to the environment, conservation, or the green movement. I want to convince you that “green awareness” is important regardless of what you’re selling. Not only is it ethically responsible, but if handled tastefully and sincerely, a green mindset can actually be a marketing asset...
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BOOK OF THE MONTH: Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar—An engaging inventor's master class, packed with examples and anecdotes. The author shares hard-won experiences along with a lifelong passion for solving problems to show would-be inventors how they can turn that clever idea into a best-selling new product. The list price for this softcover book is $14, but IAHBE members get it FREE!
  MAGAZINE OF THE MONTH: Shape—Edited to deliver useful techniques and an understanding of fitness. Top experts from diverse fields of exercise, nutrition, psychology and beauty join forces with nationally known journalists to make each issue a how-to manual for a healthful lifestyle. The U.S. price for Shape is $47.88 for a one-year subscription (10 issues). An IAHBE membership fee includes a one-year subscription!
Not an IAHBE member? Check out how you can benefit from an IAHBE membership, save up to 56% off top SFI products, AND collect over $1,000 in free business tools and specials!
Go here for more information:
https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=36
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