In order to build your business you will need to promote SFI and Tripleclicks to people. Remember that you promote SFI to people who are looking to start a home business and you promote Tripleclicks to people who are just looking for bargains. In your SFI affiliate center you have access to a number of resources to promote your business in the form of affiliate websites, banners, text ads and so on. In this lesson I will show you how to use these resources.
SFI GATEWAYS
Log into your affiliate center and select “Gateway List”
from the “Reference” menu. This page contains a list of affiliate websites we
can use to promote various sections of SFI and Tripleclicks. The screenshot
below shows a list of affiliate websites (also known as gateways) that we can
use.
Each gateway website has a screenshot and an affiliate link. The affiliate link contains your personal SFI ID and looks something like this.
http://www.sfi4.com/12345678/FREE
On your gateway page the “12345678” will
be replaced with your SFI ID. SFI makes life easier by embedding all affiliate
links with your SFI ID so you can simply copy and paste them wherever you are
promoting them. Notice the word “FREE” at the end of the link. This tells us
what website we are promoting. In this case it is the “FREE” gateway website
which you will find on the top of your gateways page. Look at the other
websites on the gateway page and you will see they all include your SFI ID.
Three websites on this page are used to
promote SFI only and are named Free, Invitation and First. The rest are for the
main Tripleclicks website and parts of Tripleclicks such as Pricebenders. You
can even promote individual products such as Tcredits Pack and other
items which you will find on this page under the heading “DIRECT SALES
GATEWAYS”. When someone clicks through these gateway websites SFI records you
as the referring affiliate and you get the team member or customer.
KEYCODE TRACKING
Marketing use tracking tools to see where
their visitors are coming from. SFI includes a useful tool which allows you to
use a number to identify where a click on your gateway page has come from. For
example you could use the number 12 for traffic exchanges and the number 20 for
blogs. For more information on how you can use keycode tracking click here. You can
check the results on the Hit Tracking page here.
MARKETING SECTION
SFI provides many methods of promoting along
with the resources to promote with. To see a list of what SFI has to offer
select “INDEX” from the “Marketing” menu. You should be looking at the page
below.
The
first two links on the page teaches various methods for promoting SFI
and Tripleclicks. In the description you get a link to the index of
marketing aids for both websites. Let’s see the marketing aids for
generating Tripleclicks (TC) sales, click here to visit the following page.
This page links
to all the resources you can use to promote Tripleclicks. Notice that your main
Tripleclicks gateway website is first on the page and it has your SFI ID
embedded in it? Now you can copy it and post it wherever you want to promote
it.
E-CARDS
Electronic cards
are great for promoting Tripleclicks through email. The cards are specially
designed to promote both SFI and Tripleclicks and contain professional sales
messages, which is useful for people who are not very good salespersons. You
simply select the card you want, add a short message to the person you are
emailing and then send it. Your Tripleclicks gateway website URL will be added
to the message so the recepient can click on it to visit your website.
X-CARDS
X-Cards are
professionally designed business cards that you can carry around with you. They
are useful for offline promotion such as passing onto an interested friend or
family member, leaving in the doctor’s waiting room or on a bus or train. Just
simply write your SFI ID on it which is needed for people to sign up for their
free membership. Once someone becomes a member they will be entitled to a free
listing on Tripleclicks which would normally cost them one TCredit. Note that
you are responsible for this free promotion so SFI will automatically deduct
the TCredit from you instead.
You can purchase X-Cards from Tripleclicks in packs of 50, 100, 250, 500, and 1000. If you are going to buy them regularly then I recommend you add them to your standing order.
TEXT ADS
Text ads are
short sales messages that can promote Tripleclicks in many ways. One idea would
be to use them as an email signature like this.
Dear Bill,
(Email Content)
Yours Faithfully,
Jim Jones
FINALLY, someone
has made it quick, simple, and easy to sell the stuff you no longer need for
cash (or great products)! Get a FREE listing at:
http://www.tripleclicks.com/12345678/go
There are many
advertising resources that allow you to place text ads such as Text Ad
Exchanges which you can find by typing “text ad exchanges” into a search
engine. You can even add them on your blog or get a banner printed for your
car. You can even use them on social networking websites but you will have to
be careful as some of them consider it spamming. Try using a business one such
as Bizoppers.
BANNERS
Banners are
smaller images with a design on them and come in various sizes with the most
used ones being 468×60. If you have a website or blog you can display a banner
on it by copying the HTML code from the banner page and inserting it into your
blog. You can also add them to banner exchanges such as the popular Bucket of
Banners or in your favorite traffic exchanges. Note you will have to separate
the banner URLs from the HTML code to do this.
Highlighting and copying this HTML code into your blog is easy enough but banner and traffic exchanges prefer you to submit two different URLS. One is known as the “Image URL” which is the actual banner itself and the other is known as the “Target URL” which is the actual gateway URL. If you wanted to add this banner to an exchange that asks for separate URLS then you would add these.
IMAGE URL: http://www.sfimg.com/Images/Banners/banner400.gif
TARGET URL: http://www.tripleclicks.com/12345678(Change 12345678 to your own SFI ID)
TARGET URL: http://www.tripleclicks.com/12345678(Change 12345678 to your own SFI ID)
These are the
main resources you would use to promote your Tripleclicks website but if you
want more then the Referral Aids page contains more ideas such as splash pages which
are images you can add to your own website and use HTML code to point them to
your main Tripleclicks website. There are also flyers which you can print out
and post through doors or ask your local shopkeeper to keep a pile on his or
her counter for customers to take. You can even get signs to stick on your car.
FLYERS
SPLASH
Splash pages are designed for use with
traffic exchanges. Their purpose is to create enough curiosity to get the
viewer to click the pages and access a more detailed product or opportunity
page (for more about Traffic Exchanges, just search for the term in Google.
You'll find numerous articles and resources).
To use this splash page, just save and/or upload the image to your non-SFI Website or Web host (click the image to open a new window with a full-size image). Follow the instructions on the Traffic Exchange of your choice to add the image. Be sure to include your personalized SFI or TC Gateway URL.
To use this splash page, just save and/or upload the image to your non-SFI Website or Web host (click the image to open a new window with a full-size image). Follow the instructions on the Traffic Exchange of your choice to add the image. Be sure to include your personalized SFI or TC Gateway URL.
CAR MAGNETS
Spread the word about SFI while you drive
around in your vehicle with a professionally designed magnetic car sign.
WEARABLES
Shirts and other garments you can wear to spark conversations about SFI and TRIPLECLICKS
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