Some Observations About Working On The Internet

What I know for sure about working on this mystifying and wonderful internet. There has never been anything like it before. Nothing where we could go so quickly from one country to another in a virtual world and achieve success on our own.

1. That the opportunity has never been as great to develop your own business.
2. That the same habits of working at a business haven't changed. Dedication, focus, being present and hard working are activities that are essential to making it in the virtual world.
3. Studying to learn all you can is the key to success.
4. Knowing yourself and what you like, or will do is what makes it possible to find your niche.

Using the above information how do we determine from thousands of choices which business or program will work the best for us?

This is much harder to decide. In the real world there are many choices also, but there are more ways to test them out because we do more of the business face to face. Does that seem to make a difference? In some ways yes because we can have a better gut reaction face to face than email to email. Even when we meet face to face, we can be deceived by the individual we are confronting. We think we know someone very well only to find out later that we didn't, or they might change in some critical way. My mother had a way of saying inciteful things in a very short sentence. For instance, as a young newly married, I asked her how she stood living with the same man for 25 years, and she replied, “What do you mean the SAME man, I just think I get to know him and he changes”. All individuals make changes that can be troublesome to their friends and family, but the basic character remains the same.

The difference between face to face and virtual is that we make more assumptions about the individual we are emailing. When we see a face or picture of the individual it helps, but it still isn't the same. Our imagination takes over and creates a life for the person in the picture. If truth be known the picture may not even be one of the person we are emailing. A beautiful women can be a picture for a man and we wouldn't know it. Therefore, the internet makes it much easier to fool each other and make a life for ourselves that isn't real. We make unreal assumptions about the person we are communicating with.

Even the sources of information about individuals is created and carefully choreographed on the web in such a way that it is almost impossible to tell truth from fiction. (Read my Tracking Article.)We have to weed through a lot of information to become familiar with a program or individual.

For instance, I mentioned to some friends that I was using Paypal. I got an earful as to how they had been selling on Ebay and had their Paypal accounts confiscated for some time because of some perceived thing they had done by Ebay. Several are still waiting for their accounts to be freed so that they can use the money they feel they have earned. I put Paypal reviews in Google, and read some from TrustPilot and Paypal earns a three for trust. There are 24 pages of places I could visit to try and build an accurate picture of Paypal for myself, and then it might not fit my situation.Therefore I will personally trust Paypal until it proves different.

Personally, I've belonged to Paypal almost since its conception. I had problems with purchases that they have helped me to correct.So far I have a good experience with them. Still I have never sold on Ebay and had them confiscate my account so that I had nothing to spend to build my business for six weeks.

Where am I going with this commentary? This website is the best I can do, and it is the best representation of myself I can put on the web, and my hope is that any person reading this would realize that if they met me face to face, they would see that my web site is as real a presentation as I can make it, and that if they join with me in working on the web, I will do my best to help them grow and that I am looking forward to them to reciprocate by helping me to learn more about discerning what is real from fiction on making money on the web.

SFI (strong future international) is very real for me as are several other programs I am affiliated with. As long as I am financially rewarded and continue to find them true to the policies they put forth, I will ignore the negatives from those who have had little or no experience with them.

My Experience with Traffic Exchanges Part 5.

This is a composite my activities with traffic Exchanges and may or may not be the last post about TE's. .

Working SFI (Strong Future International) and any other program on the internet requires consistency. Particularly when you are doing Traffic Exchanges. These can be time consuming, but since I can put two screens up at a time, I can click on them as I am working the SFI program or answering my emails. It does increase the time I spend on these, but it has averaged less than 5 minutes a day. 

Being consistent is logging in daily and completing whatever you have planned to do that day. SFI is a learning system for being consistent. Logging in and doing the daily items gets you started off right every day. It helps you to develop the habit of being consistent daily, weekly and monthly. By having to start over earning VP - (SFI's universal money point system) - every month, you develop the habit of assessing your progress monthly.

Setting goals and working toward them makes it possible to maintain continuity. You can see your growth in Total VP earned and badges you collect. These are motivating factors that help us keep our consistency.

When working Traffic Exchanges consistency is what makes it possible to log into the TE and see how many dollars you earned the day before. Earning daily is very motivating. I have been using every bit I earn to purchase more rental referrals - people who log in daily and click the web pages for .001 each.This seems like a small amount, but over time adds up. I am now up to $7 or 8 every day from their efforts.

One fun thing about TE's is the fascinating array of different ways to advertise or earn money in those you click every day to earn your portion for that day. When I have seen the ad several times, I can ignore it, so the time it takes is minimal. Since my income for spending on the web is very limited I resist many of those programs that look to good to be true and probably don't fulfill their promises.

Working together and helping one another will also improve our ability to turn SFI and other worthwhile programs into the money making machine that we are hoping for. Being an SFI member and learning the skills that we need to earn money on SFI teaches us how to branch out by learning the basics of internet profitability.

Branching out by advertising SFI wherever and when ever we can drastically improves our income by increasing our downline and sales ROI. Making purchases from TripleClicks, and advertising and selling the products of TripleClicks on other programs and sites helps us to grow consistently not only in SFI, but in working the internet.

Traffic Exchanges can be a significant boost to our free advertising. In the 2 and 1/2 months I have been working them I made several TripleClicks sales and have received two Personal recruits to my downline.

This is in edition to the money I earned. I joined Nerdbux.com by investing in their yearly $50.00 charge and have more than received it returned to me. Nerdbux has paid for itself and provided me with an advertising venue that has produced for SFI.

Please fill out my form to the right if you want to be part of my program. I am hoping to build a site where we all participate, study and learn together to earn what we need.

Experience with Traffic Exchanges Part 4

The two banners at the top explain what happens when you upgrade your membership and add money to the mix of services that you use with the traffic exchanges compared to not purchasing anything. I carefully chose these two programs for this experiment because they are very similar. On both programs, I clicked on all the ads available. It takes me about 10 more minutes a day to do both programs while working SFImg in another tab.The time spent depends on the number of ads I click and how much time I use recycling rented referrals.

Nerdbux.com became the one I upgraded because they seemed to give me more when I worked it free. I got more prizes doing the grid, and they have more advertisements to check. The total that I have spent on this program was $20 - 100 rented referrals, $10 - 50 rented referrals and $50.00 for the upgrade. $80.00 total since July 26th. when I joined the program. As you can see I have earned from the program $70.36 which is almost everything I have spent on Nerdbux. Since I average $4.00 per day from the rented referrals I will earn a profit in 4 more days.

I  also reinvest any money I earne by placing ads, and purchasing more rental referrals. I have gained 2 new people in my main SFImg.com program and one is a worker. I have also added direct referrals to my other program Neobux.com.

Neobux.com has made a profit from the beginning, because I haven't spent a dime on the program. My total here today is $4.97. I have reinvested this money in ads and purchasing rented referrals, I have gained two direct referrals into my Nerdbux traffic exchange, and 3 new TripleClicks.com members for SFImg.com the main money making program for me on the web. Neobux  increases about $.50 a day from clicking and doing the micro jobs available.

Thus, I consider these Traffic Exchanges to be worth the time and effort I have spent on them for the last 3 1/2 months. It is possible to do more than I have accomplished, but considering that I did all of the work on them while working SFImg.com. The increase in time over doing SFImg alone was about 5 minutes a day.


 

Experience with Traffic Exchanges Part 3

In September, I did quite a bit of advertising with Traffic Exchanges, and I found that to be like preaching to the choir about church. No one responded to my advertising. My click rate went up in SFI tracking, but not enough to justify paying for ads in TE's.

I placed over 150 ads, way below my goal of placing 1000 ads. This was a disappointment. It is very time consuming to place ads when you don't have templates to use. Now I have set up many templates for my advertising so I can just repeat the ads in some places.

My strategy for making $700 in September was to place many ads for Pricebender auctions. The idea was to get people to buy TCredits and earn CV from them. Several people signed up as PRM's but none of them placed any orders. So the result of my advertising was that I never accomplished what I wanted using TE's. I did find several auction groups in Facebook. Upon joining them, I have started placing comments about Pricebenders there. Still no results.

This is a very sad blog today, but it is picking up for me. I finally found a system that is working much better. I had joined MyLeadCompany previously, but sticking with my policy to never spend any money on my internet projects than I earned from doing internet projects, I had to wait until this month to purchase leads. I have now purchased the leads, and I received 100 free leads already.

True to the reason for starting this series on this web site was to research different methods of building the SFI business. I am now researching another method that I hope will work much better. It is using the free and paid leads I get from MyLeadCompany to increase my email list.

In September, I joined TrafficWave because of the many options they offer. You can Create, send and track unlimited email marketing campaign. It is free for the first month so you have a chance to check it out. Then there is a $19.75 price per month after that. It does work. I am sending out my first TrafficWave email today. Many of you will probably receive one because I am writing to every one I have on my email list.

This was not intended to be an advertisement for MyLeadCompany, and TrafficWave, but I wanted to make the information link so that you could check out the programs for yourself.

Since I have made money from the Traffic Exchanges in other ways than through advertising SFI, I will continue with the same four I corrently have, but will not be joining others. In fact I will likely only keep the two main ones making me an income. These are Nerdbux.com and Neobux.com. Neobux has been in business longer, but I have been getting higher payouts from Nerdbux. In fact I have received enough to purchase their yearly program.

Hope all of this information is valuable to you loyal readers. I have placed this on my blog at SFI also.

Experience With Traffic Exchanges Part 2.

Last month I talked about my experience with beginning on traffic exchanges. This was an experience, it could get very boring, but as I stated before, I do it while I am doing other things that have some lead time.
Now I belong to 4 traffic exchanges, and I've come to the conclusion that Nerdbux.com is the one I would recommend. I am going to continue with the other three to see if they improve, but if they don't by the end of this month. I will drop them.

From it I have noticed that of the 4 ordinary kind of bux traffic exchanges I'm working, Nerbux.com  has the most ads to click and  I have won the most money from their Nerd Grid. I have used my winnings to purchase referrals and to run one ad. So far I have had no response from the ad, but it was just for one day and only a few saw it.

How I have increased my earnings is that every time I get a little money I purchase more referrals. That has proven to be the best source of  income. Therefore I took a leap of faith and bought 50 referrals breaking my vow to not spend a cent on the program that I didn't earn from the program. I took this step because I have had success with rented referrals, and since the 20 I previously had were close to making me .50 cents a day, I decided to try purchasing more rented  referrals. If they continue the pattern, my earnings will go up to $2.50 a day from the rented referrals and will pay for themselves in 4 days. Want to make a bet with me to see if that really happens. I can see me getting to $50.00 a month, after I have thousands of referrals making me money. That is if I continue to click Nerdbux ads daily. I missed a couple of days income from the referrals because I missed two days clicking ads.

I haven't advertised much for Nerdbux, but I do have 1 direct referral from this website that is doing great. I haven't done anything to advertise this site, so I was pleased that I received one from here.

Hang in there with me and we'll see where this goes. I'm trying a bunch of new things also. I honestly believe that my efforts to help you all learn advertising has improved my knowledge and hopefully improved my skill.

Experience with traffic Exchanges

Last month I sponsored an advertising contest, and several started out with me in a group for the contest, but only one person opted in and followed the rules. My intent was to study different methods of advertising and report on my achievements. I did study Facebook advertising, and did receive one new active member from my efforts for SFI, and about 50 new Facebook followers.

In August I have been doing Traffic Exchanges (TE)following the procedures in the Ebook “Nerdbux Moneymaker”. I set a goal of making $50 per day with Traffic Exchanges. I intend to see if I can reach this goal without spending any money. Yes, it is possible, but it will take several months.

I spend very little money in SFI,in fact I only spend from what I earn and I still have a small profit each month. It took several months to make $50 a month without spending any money at all. I believe the TE's will beat that time because of more web experience from my training in SFI. If I conquer advertising, I will grow exponentially in SFI.

These are my thoughts on TE's, and I am writing a PDF which I hope to have ready soon.

TE's are great places to see what others are doing and to observe many different types of websites. If you are planning on having your own web site, or already have one, you can get many ideas from working on TE's.

They work better for me than the Facebook method because I can do something else while surfing, like read and write emails,watch auctions and send out Facebook and Twitter messages. I do have the advantage of having a large LED monitor so that I can put two or even three programs on my monitor by using the Full screen and then making each web site narrow. I discovered it works better doing something that doesn't require a lot of thinking.

I also work two TE's at a time. That way I don't wait for the websites to load. Doing this makes small sums on two different sites, but since they are similar both are growing simultaneously.

Everything you do in life requires some luck, and I was lucky and rented several affiliates who surfed and make money. I also advertised and have direct referrals,one of them is surfing. More important than luck is working a system. If you work a system, you make your own luck and find that better things come your way.

SFI taught me the magic of daily logging in and doing little things to get better money. TE surfing has reinforced that idea. In the two weeks I have been surfing and following the advice in the Ebook, I have made over $10.00 from my two programs without investing a dime, and each click is only worth .001 cents. The amount made doubles every 2 or 3 days, and I can see it getting to $50 in one or 2 months. This is an illustration of how you too can make money while advertising instead of spending a lot. That is why I have done both of the above activities and didn't spend a dime on either.

I now have money to use for advertising. There are other SFI members doing sponsor advertising in the TE's, some of them are very creative, but they are still a small percentage of the number of pages I surf. I understand that members from TE's are less prone to be active than members from other areas. Yet, I heard that Facebook would bring a lot of members and I only got 1 active out of 50 new members.

The message here is to make the effort to learn at least one form of advertising and do it well if you want to earn a lot of money from SFI.There are so many ways to advertise for free and programs to help and teach you in IAHBE, SFI and the web.

I want to encourage you to look back at why you joined SFI.Most people join to make their lives better. Just doing the dailies and reading the training will help you make a better income from the web, and you will be earning something while you are learning.

If you are interested in joining me in my journey with Traffic Exchanges, please check out this ebook and try it for yourself. Nerdbux Moneymaker.

INFORMATION ON RESPONSE MAGIC TO DEVELOP LEADS

I have joined a new free program that should be of help to you in getting more members to SFI or any other program. You can also become an affiliate and earn money when people upgrade their account, but this magnet is absolutely free. 

How to Attract More Customers and Increase Referrals with a Digital Customer Magnet

This video shows you how to start attracting customers to your website by creating a digital "Customer Magnet" for your website or blog. This training is completely free (no opt-in) and is one of the key strategies to use myself to attract leads. Check it out. http://www.responsemagic.info/communication.php?rgkmzk You also get the software they use to do it 100% free and it has a built in email auto-responder and its free too! Click on my link or on the image above to see for yourself! http://www.responsemagic.info/leadmagnet.php?rgkmzk Seriously.. this for real. These guys have been doing this for 10 years.. that’s like a lifetime in the online world. Go check it out Marlene Kaiser   P.S. All we ask for showing you how to attract more customer to your website is that you share this free software and training with your friends, seriously that’s it, and it's not even required, it's just the nice thing to do. :) Check it out: http://www.responsemagic.info/communication.php?rgkmzk

MY RESULTS WITH WORKING WITH FACEBOOK

Since I didn't think I should put advice on this website that I didn't try myself, I went to facebook.com and put things I am passionate about in the search, and after about an hour of putting in several searches and pulling up my own friends and their friends, I finally found a bunch of people that are interested in the same thing as I am on a Facebook site generated by Facebook from things people are passionate about. One great passion of mine is remodeling, so I placed "remodeling" in the search, and I got a page made by facebook with this quote. "This Page is automatically generated based on what Facebook users are interested in, and not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone associated with the topic. See More
Create a Page about this topic."

I found a long list of people on this page, so I asked 50 of them to become friends with me, and I will create a page for this interest to see how it pulls for me to recruit people to SFI.

Have any of you had any experience with Facebook so far? If so please send me the results in the comments section, SFI messaging, or Google +. Thanks.

WRITING SHORT TEXT ADS

Writing short text ads

Writing short text ads is the same as doing a great headline. They need to be catchy, relative and use words that people are searching. SFI has some great suggestions.. Many are very good ads, but some may be considered outdated.

Since the advent of Twitter, people on the internet expect to be captivated by short word pictures.140 characters to be exact are Twitters claim to fame. This increases the need for short ads  Twitter will be the subject of another blog, so be watching for it.

This blog will concentrate on how to make short text ads that will draw clicks and conversions. When I received this message asking for ideas about very short ads, I suggested "Earn while you learn to work at home". I personally would respond to this ad, but when I placed it in Google's ad tool. it worked poorly because earn and learn aren't even in the Google ADwords search criteria. I was surprised that it didn't draw any search terms.

Google ad words tool

Click on the above link and you can go to this web page. Click on tools on this page, and you will find the keyword tool. There are those that say that keywords are no longer important, but that isn't true.They are very important and will continue until some other method of communication is devised that doesn't depend on words.

The list is sorted according to high, medium and low words searched. An effective short ad will combine two groups of keywords for the first line of the ad, and the second line would be your link. I recommend that you use custom domain names from SFI, or shorten the gateway url so that it isn't as obvious as the normal gateway and takes less space.

Here is a better ad than the one I suggested above. I just merely found two keywords that sounded good together and used them. "Build an online business - work at home - http://bit.ly/19WYzX0"  You probably wouldn't want the bitly link underlined, I just did it here to show what a shortened url would look like. When I put this ad into the traffic estimator, it estimated I'd get 0 clicks. I kept playing around with the tool until I came up with this ad "work at home business opportunity" that produced an average of 63 clicks per day.
This Google Traffic Estimator is a very interesting tool, and you can play with it using cost figures, but you don't have to purchase to find this a valuable resource.

Google is a great resource for all kinds of advertising information and tools. It is so often overlooked because there is nothing for anyone to sell. You need to spend some time on the Google site

Google Site Logo

experimenting with their various tools and information.

If you have not signed up with Google webmaster tools, www.google.com/webmasters/tools  they are an excellent resource for placing ads. You don't have to place ads on Google to use the tool, but you do have to be signed up for them. If you have a blog or website of your own, you can earn from Google ads. I was surprised to learn that in the month that I have had this blog, I have earned $5.00 from the Google ads being clicked on from my site.It isn't much, but it is something.

Well, this blog was written in response to a question, and I'm not sure that I answered the question. I had to do a lot of research and when I found Google tools, I decided to use that as an explanation as to how to write short ads that you know will pull clicks to your site.

I am ALWAYS there for you and willing to help in any way that I can.

I do need everyone who is part of my contest - the Gang of seven I'm calling you - to check in every day. I require these updates in order to have a reason to pay you for your work.You can check in here in the comments on my blog, write an email or send an SFI message. I'll except any kind of response that you want to send. I just need you doing something toward advertising our business.

FOLLOWING UP WITH PROSPECTS

After considerable research, I believe that we will concentrate on Social Media exclusively this month. There is so much to learn and the requirements for success are simply the desire to succeed and the willingness to learn. The costs are nada, zip, nothing and nobody but you needed to succeed.The potential is right in front of your nose, it will blow your mind, and all you need is the desire to use the strategies I'm explaining here.

The ability to make money on the internet is still there, but there is a need to be on the internet in so many more ways than before. You can still make great use of a website and blog by putting banners and using Google or other ads on your site and blogging daily, but being on social media in many different areas is the key to success. How to do that is to find a beginning strategy which I outlined in my previous blog, and then following up. Follow up is the paper that completes the job. By job I mean financial security.

FINISH THE JOB - FOLLOW UP RULES 

 

Follow up is the Target to success

The secret to following up is that there are no rules. By that I mean following up is more important than not following up because you don't know the rules, or because you assume that you will be doing it wrong. There is no wrong or right way. If what you are saying would appeal to you, then it will appeal to your reader. Sure there are ways that will improve your conversion rate (number of people who answer or sign up with you) but if you don't follow up at all, there will be no conversions. Remember that you have asked them to friend you and when they do this, they are giving you permission to follow up their friendship, in fact they wouldn't have friended you if they did not see something interesting in your first contact.

If you are honest, respectful and genuinely interested in the other person, you will have success with your follow up. Everyone you contact will have something they are interested in that they feel will be of interest to you too. In fact if you followed the previous blog information you would only be contacting those people who have some interest in common with you. That gives you a starting point for your follow up.

In my first follow up I'd do it something like this, "Hi, I notice that you are interested in so and so, I've found this to be ______ and I'm glad to meet you and want to hear about your interest." Then I would go on and ask a question that I felt would bring a response.Then you might mention some success you have had, but you need to be careful with this in your first follow up. Since they are now part of your friends list, they will benefit from the drip advertising SFI is helping you to do with the Share program.

One thing I have found in writing to members of my downline, that questions pertinent to my subject do bring a response. Success in advertising is achieved by testing, tweaking and recording responses to those tests. We'll go into that in a later post. Right now we are working on follow up emails.

If you are like me you have been at a loss for words when writing your weekly messages. Following the procedure of taking a clue from their and your common interest helps you overcome this problem. Taking a clue from what they are saying or what you had used for a key word in finding them in Facebook is your starting point for any contact. Always remember that you are a friend first for people in Facebook and a subtle sales person next. Also, these contacts should be short and easy to read. By that I mean one or two paragraphs and language that reads and translates easily because it is the everyday speaking language and not something where you are trying to show off your big word knowledge.

Once you have established your common interest and they have confidence in you, you can start to mention your SFI business, your TripleClicks store, your auction win, or whatever you have chosen as your market for this person in your second and third contacts. As long as you are putting their interests first, you can maintain their interest in you. Saying something like I am so proud of my new badge, win, store sale or something else in passing will break the ice and then they may respond with something of theirs. 

Your first few contacts should be consistent and quick to respond to them to be of value. You need to contact them regularly and then after a while let them pursue, but never, ever and I mean NEVER let them think that you are only interested in them because you want to sell them something, and if they become that way with you - aggressive in trying to sell you something - be polite and nice and perhaps let them know that you are extremely busy and doing well in your current business then go on to explain what you have in SFI and give them the link to one of your custom domain names or your gateway. If they have crossed the line beyond friendship, then you can too, as long as you do it in a friendly considerate manner.

This are the basic points of following up with people you meet on social media. These methods pertain to any contact now matter how you found them. The more you listen (listening is the oil of sales), the better your contacts will respond. In emails listening is done by looking for what your contact interests are. In social media you have the advantage of looking over their social page. You don't have this advantage in other kinds of contacts on the internet so you have to search.

 

Gang of Seven - Facebook Advertising

Facebook advertising is very successful when approached in the correct way. Facebook (FB) wants people to be friends, and share and report as friends. Therefore, advertising on Facebook requires different tactics that just putting an ad there. If you want to do that, they expect you to pay for advertising. That said, there are ways to use FB as a free advertising medium. Here is one way that has proven to produce results when done correctly. Here is the method in 123 form with explanations as I go along.

I am starting with this method of advertising because this takes several steps to be very successful so by the end of the month if should be working great for you.

HOW TO USE FACEBOOK ADVANCED FILTERS

1. Place your inquiry Keyword in the search engine at the top of the FB page.

The kind of keywords you use are very important. If you use "Work At Home" you will get a bunch of people who already are working at home. If you want to get people who want to "earn money from home" you will be more successful at finding people who haven't yet found something. The best way to approach FB is to put a keyword in the search that you are passionate about. For instance, I'm passionate about remodeling my home.Using keywords that apply to this passion will pull up people who will be interested in possibly being a friend. Then after I have become a friend, I can approach them about joining SFI.

If you are looking for anything else, you would want to choose a product from TC that you like, or you might choose something from an auction. Spend some time playing around with keywords and then examine the results of your search to see if becoming friends of some of these people will benefit you. 

2. To the right of the search page you will see a list of items starting with people.

Use this list to find the people you want to contact. For instance if you click on people, you will get location. Then you can put in any city or country you want. This is a great way to find people who speak the same language as you do. You can filter results in "people" by geography, school or employer. Type in the name of a city or region, school, university or company. Click "Filter" to find the people in the parameter you set.

Experiment with the different items in this list and see what will help you the most. Then make a friends list and send them a message.

3. Use "more results" to pull up people.

Using this will keep people coming up for you until you have exhausted the available people. This is the huge list of people to prospect.

USING ICE BREAKERS TO QUALIFY YOUR PROSPECTS 

 1. Using an ice breaker is absolutely essential to fill FB's requirement that you make friends.

An ice breaker is a short sentence that talks about their interests. It is important to address this interest. Here is an example of an ice breaker. "I see that you are interested in remodeling. I have been remodeling homes since I was a child. It is almost a passion with me. What is your favorite room to remodel or decorate? Do you have a website? I am always interested in new ideas and enjoy looking at what others are doing. I just sent you a friends request." The add a friend button disappears as I click on it.

Notice how I used questions in this ice breaker, it is short, addresses their interest, and tells them a little about me. That is the method for making a great ice breaker. If I were planning to advertise for an ECA, I would use a product as my original search and ask them if they were currently doing any internet marketing.

Another ice breaker sample. "John, I just happened across your profile, and noticed that you were in Mantra and have a shoe store (or any other site such as Linkedin). I'm a member myself and always interested in new styles. I am also an entrepreneur like yourself.."  

Doing these ice breakers will build your friends list and they will start responding. Working 1 hour per day for 5 days creating 20-25 conversations in that hour equals 120-500 new leads per week.

Getting greedy and sending more than 20-25 friend requests a day, will flag you in FB and you will get shut down. Be very careful in this first step that you work to become a friend and not appear as a sales person.

FOLLOW UP AS A PRECURSOR TO SALES

Now that you have them on your friends list it is essential to develop an effective follow up system to take them to the next level. the first follow up gives them addresses their response, and gives them a little more information about yourself and your business. Do this immediately upon receiving their response. 

The second follow up the next day includes testimonials and more information. The key to developing any really effective advertising campaign requires an immediate follow up system where they can opt out at any time. Save your emails so that you can merely edit them some to do following up. As you get more experience advertising and have many people to follow up, then it is important that you develop an automated system so that your follow up is adequate. 

My next post will have more information on how to do the follow up and then present your sales pitch.

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Gang of Seven - SFI advertising contest - potential earnings

I devised this point system because SFI's point system for VP is so successful and easy to fix a sum of money to in exchange for doing an activity. I am trusting that all of you are excited enough to do the work and complete it so that it can be monitored.

Here is the list of points and how you can earn them.

1. Housekeeping = 1 point. To earn this point you must visit my new website daily and record your activities in the comments section I have set up.You will receive 1 point every day that you comment on this site. If you miss a day, you will be docked 1 point for that day. My web site is http://workathomewithmarlene.blogspot.com/
2. This isn't the greatest website in the world, but I am learning that too. I can't get wordpress to work on my computer because some PHP program from Windows doesn't want to download to my computer. I will get that solved, but in the mean time I wanted to get something up and running, so this is what I came up with.
   ADVERTISING POINTS
   1. Classifieds 4 new ads = 2 points. Each time you place 4 classifieds to NEW ADVERTISING places you can claim 2 points. If you are currently advertising in some classifieds you must use new places to claim the 2 points for this activity.
   2. Facebook - find and contact 20 people = 2 points. The first week in July is Facebook week for my blog. I have specific instructions available for getting new recruits and for advertising products. This is a 3 step approach, so I am doing it first to give us time to see results.You can visit the same 20 people for all three steps and claim 6 points if you complete the process.
   3. Traffic Exchanges – 20 splash pages visited each time you use a Traffic Exchange, and the same rule applies here. You must use different Traffic Exchanges than you are currently using.
   4. Emails from safelists and other places 50 emails = 2 points. These also must be new safelists and other forms of email advertising to receive the points.
   5. X-cards 20 handed out or mailed = 2 points. You will have to tell how you handed them out. Did you go somewhere or hand them out in your neighborhood, or give them to family and friends.

SFI PROGRAMS YOU CAN ADVERTISE FOR

Sponsoring, TC products, Pricebenders, SFIPPA, and ECA stores all are worth 5 points each

time you target that program with your new advertising.

You can earn 10 points a day to receive the full $30.00 or you can work as fast as you want to earn the money as long as you follow the rules and document where and what you did to earn the points. Again the website for documenting is http://workathomewithmarlene.blogspot.com/. I am trusting you all to be honest, because if you cheat, you are only cheating yourself. I was a teacher, and I am familiar with student's trying to beat the system, but when I'm paying YOU to make YOUR business better, it isn't in your best interests to cheat, and we can all benefit from your documentation if you do it daily and list who, what, when and where you did your job.

I realize that 90% of the people who sign up for an affiliate program don't work the programs, but you are all my best producers and I trusted you to want to be a better money maker. Learn to advertise on the internet and do it well, and you will become a multimillionaire

, and I'm willing to put in the time and effort to help you do that.

I am not going to do any ad tracking this first month, but if this works like I think it will, I will then set up a tracking system. I do expect you to put keycodes in your urls so that SFI can track the results. Then if this succeeds and we go on in subsequent months, we will learn split testing, ad manipulation and how to write articles and ezines. If we keep going, I will purchase an ad tracking program that will help us all to be better at the job.

You may benefit from purchasing a coop, and I suggest that if you currently have one that you keep it up. I want this money to be seed money for you to do more and better advertising in the future. I didn't mention paid advertising, but you can use this type of advertising if you want, but you have to pay for it, and I will give you points for the paid ads too. If you don't have money for paid ads, you will have to do more work, but there are plenty of free places to advertise. The Facebook program I am proposing is free as are most of the programs I will present.

Feel free to express any ideas, comments or feelings in the comments section of my blog. The address again is: http://workathomewithmarlene.blogspot.com/.

Here's to YOUR prosperity!

Is Making Money on Today's Web Still Possible!

Yes, Making money on today's web is still possible.

Where else can you meet and work with people much like you from around the world at any time of the day or night? Where else can you build a worldwide business with little investment but your time?

One of the great advantages of the web is you don't have to rich or fancy dressed with a fancy house. From the hype on an internet business, you are led to think that everyone who works the web is extremely successful. Successful beyond their wildest dreams immedately. The internet gurus are driving fancy cars to beautiful mansions with a curved driveway to the front door. They are sitting in fancy places or outside in paradise. Why? to entice you to part with your money.  I don't have any of these fancy places to show you, but I do make money on the web. Check it out for free here: buildabusiness.profitsonline.com

You've seen the videos. The gurus are like predators drawing you in with images that you dream about. Living in exotic places, driving the best and fanciest cars, being able to spend all day on the beach or in the mountains or wherever you'd like to vacation. All you have to do is purchase their program, take their coaching or whatever and this will happen to you. LOL!

READ THE DISCLOSURES that are mandated by law, they tell a different story. Don't be drawn in!

Come work with me. I don't have a fancy house or drive a fancy car. I am just an ordinary person who has found an inexpensive way to make money on the web. I belong to a program called SFI (strong future international). It is free to join and inexpensive to be a member. Earn while you learn is my motto. Learn how to work on the internet.

Come work with me, and I'll help you succeed even if you never spend a dime of your own money. This is a place where you can exchange time for money. Spend 15 minutes daily working the system add some advertising and you are good to go. Check it out for free here: buildabusiness.profitsonline.com