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I too use TrafficWave. Email Marketing is Still King. The first thing people do when they enter the office is Check their Email (58%). Social Media, News Outlets, internal Office Networks and other forms of communication all represent a specific demographic. Like Facebook, 90% of daily users are from outside USA/Canada. Instgram 65% of users are age 18-34. LinkedIn is majority age demographic is 30 to 49. Hereis another one, 3.27% of Americans use LinkedIn. 75% of Americans have at least 1 email address. One last thought, ... duh. In order to have a social media you must provide an email. Email is King. Everyone has email, literally everyone. People from age 15 to 65 over 90% have email. Age 65 and up 85% have email. When they open their email first thing will they see your message? Now you can learn how to use Email Marketing to your best advantage. Don't Spam people, connect with them. Use email to build relationships and to train and encourage you affiliate downline. Check my ebook in my signature, 4 steps to cash flow. It is on Email Marketing

As you work from home, what encouraging things are you seeing? In your work? In your finances? in your family? In your community? One thing I saw today in a news article was the use of emojis. Gratitude, Love, and Levity are at the top. Data from March 9 to April 8

Right now my favorite and fruitful Social Media is LinkedIn. It is working well for me, and the primary focus of my posts is Work. Obtaining work by joining my opportunity. I also offer a lot of skills development and motivation through the LinkedIn articles and messaging. I work individually with people and consistently. Consequently people feel safe joining me in my opportunity. But for products I sell online, hard actual products, I need to be looking more at YouTube I think. This info graphic was enlightening. The primary social media used by 3 generational groups was YouTube. The key of course was the use of Youtube in making purchase decisions. In all three groups it ranked highest.

Change is here to stay, so, "Change before you have to." -Jack Welch

Ckoch you are right about obligation. I think it is important to offer free. But this is not to get freebie seekers but to build your value to your prospect. Are YOU perceived as valuable to the prospect. This is the key to freebies. enhance your value. If the value is fully in the object offered alone, then people are just getting it for free, not connecting to you. I do not think it is good to give away things that do not belong to me. I do it a bit but I do not like. This is why PLR type things do not really attract me, it is not my work, my thoughts, my experience it is just a free ebook. Now if it is really god I might give away someone else's content but usually not. By belong to me I mean two things. 1. I created it. 2 I source it. But when sourcing it, I want it to connect me to the value equation. Like I offer free durian to people who have never had it. If they sign up for my list. Having never heard of it, it creates interest. And if you have heard of it, you have strong feelings about it positive feelings or negative feelings but strong ones. Then I add reviews and that gets people even more interested. But I want to brand me as a person of value to my prospect.

Tommy, Thanks I joined right away. Couple quick questions. I logged on and saw I can change my ad info/opportunity... That is good But do I have access to any of my downline? In other words will the success of this build only ViralMillions list or does it build my list too?

Google’s “People also ask” boxes often seem to be in the way. But their content can be valuable to us as marketers. A simple, free source of customer inquiry. Here is just a couple thoughts. How about using this technique for building competent FAQs. Knowing your target prospect's struggles, their questions, can help in creating a really helpful FAQ section that can diversify your rankings and help bring steady traffic. Because you are answering the questions people actually ask. When building FAQs we, the designers, tell the user what we think he needs to know. We are often building an instructional page via questions. But the F in FAQ is Frequently. When we develop our sight have we received these questions frequently or are we just guessing? Why not use Google to get the real data of what people are really asking about a product and answer those questions. Most gateway advertising pages, like a gateway to a program you are promoting, offers only two questions, Yes join or No move on. I have often thought, how about Learn more. This way I capture the prospect, even though he is not "joining". I think I will add FAQs to my landing pages that respond to questions asked about the program like "Is it a Scam?" and more. Now this is interesting, I Google searched my program and none of the questions People Ask was "Is this a Scam?" There were actually several more intelligent questions. Look at that I learned something. I just searched "Home Business" and got these questions: (FYI tried to upload image - eCommergy just said - There was an error uploading your photo: Image failed to upload. Please try again later. the image was only 450px) Anyway the questions that came up were: What is the Best Home Business to start? What are the most successful small businesses? How do I start a business from home? How do I start a small business from home? I also searched "Online Business" and got these questions: What is the Best Online Business? How do I start an online business with no money? What is the best online business to make money? How do I start an online business from home? If these are the data driven most frequently asked questions might my promotions be better if I am answering them?

firebyfifty, Appreciate your opinion. I understand that the specific data my not be helpful. But... The data is meant to show a trend not a call to compete with Netflix. It is not a new trend. It is a trend we have all known for some time now. But it is seriously accelerated. Most ads come and go in a moment, especially banner ads. What I have had some real traction with are short educational video that have my banner ads piggybacking the video display. I do make videos and for the first time I am seeing more and more "complete views" of the video. People have the time to pay attention, and they are. I would suggest getting video into your promotional plans in some fashion to some degree. Are you using Facebook Live for instance? Here is a self made video, my resume essentially http://tinyurl.com/y69n36jv When I recruit a new prospect I send this out. In the past people would watch 50% or more on average, now most people are watching to completion. And offering feedback. And here is a educational video, with my banner ads attached. http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/JimR My tracking tells me the banners are getting clicked and I have 2 new affiliates in April that track to this video.

We are out of Hand Washer. Specifically a Foaming sanitizing hand washer that my wife, Awn likes. We went to several local shops (the ones still open) and tried to find it. None to be found. At dinner my wife and her sister Atchariya A. were discussing the problem. Atchariya asked, "Any ECommerce (RECAs) in Thailand selling it?" There are not, but I went and checked Lazada and found it. There are several different vendors and one has the pre-Covid-19 prices so I bought 4 packs. Will be shipped to my door in a few days. Founded in 2012, Lazada Group is Southeast Asia’s leading eCommerce platform. With a presence in six countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Today I was reading the Paper and there was an article about Lazada. Here are a couple significant snippets: Lazada extends help to small businesses with new package By THE NATION © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-17 The e-commerce platform also launched the YesICan campaign in the beginning of this month to encourage entrepreneurs to switch to selling online. Over the past month, up to 26,000 new businesses have joined Lazada, bringing the total number of businesses showcasing their products on the website up to 200,000. “Lazada has experienced overall growth from mid-March to mid-April,” Paradee said, adding that Lazada orders rose by 100 per cent while the trading value increased by 130 per cent compared to February and March. The best-selling products are electric appliances, kitchenware and toys. How is your e-Commerce venture going? Has there been an increase in this past month? Lazada experienced a 13% increase in vendors in March alone. Realize the other 87% took 8 years. Do not fail to go after existing e-commerce stores and get them signed up for your marketing program. How can you help your local entrepreneurs move their brick and mortar shops online. Familiarize yourself with how Shopify works or other Ad Platforms. Learn more about the platforms that get sales exposure for an e-Commerce site. If you have already migrated your sales platform to something like Shopify start doing Zoom lessons on how to open a shop and get other local entrepreneurs started. Train your affiliates and others on how to do it so they can help people get their business online. What are some new incentive you might offer for start ups at this time? Maybe a YesICan campaign, like Lazada, for your new sign-ups and sales. Like a short course in how to get online with Shopify? We have a local Dept/Box store that sells everything including groceries. So that people go in, get food and get out, the other sections, clothes, toys, appliances, kitchenware etc. are all closed off so people do not linger and shop. Notice what the best-selling products were on Lazada. Why? Because all those types of shops are closed, only essential shops are open. Start promoting items not available because of the closures, like foaming soap. Due to shipping restrictions, focus local. Become an Affiliate marketer for products available right in your country. What ideas have you got?

I just made a post about Lazada, an eCommerce platform in S.E.A.One snippet from the Forum post was, "Lazada experienced a 13% increase in vendors, in March alone. Realize the other 87% took 8 years to recruit."In my research I came across an article in The Drum. Here it is:Why the Future of e-Commerce isCombining Livestreaming & Entertainmenthttp://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/LazadaYou may need to scroll down a little to the article. But it is well worth the read.How might you add Livestreaming and Entertainment to your Marketing mix? Tell me your ideas.

“A year from now, you'll wish you had started today.” - Karen Lamb

This is a great thought, but it does not work. I have been in development work in Southeast Asia for 30 years and what I have found that if you teach a man to fish he will die of starvation an educated man. Here is some data to support what I am saying from annual municipality reports in NYC. Between 2010 and 2016, the growth in attainment of bachelor’s and graduate degrees among Black women outpaced that of women across racial and ethnic groups; the proportion of Black women 25-years-old or older with a bachelor’s degree or higher grew 14.5 percent during that time, compared to 9.0 percent for white men. In 2016, Black women working full-time in New York City made 57 cents for every dollar paid to white, men—roughly $32,000 less on average. An example is a man with a PhD is black and working in Mississippi in the 1950's. So I think this saying needs an amendment, "Teach a man to fish and he will starve without access to the water where the big fish swim" And what is so wonderful about the online world is it give everyone access to any market in the world. I can teach people to do this business and I can give them access to a huge pond. It truly is True that sUccess depends on that 2nd letter.

Are you engaging your prospects? Right now everyone is looking for something to watch catch these Stats: Increase for "Watching" Searches 423% Increase for "Movie" Searches 643% Increase for "TV" Searches 999% So Video content is a must for your marketing. Get peoples eyes on your offers. GIPHY has provided a key GIF of content trends from March. http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/ViewersGif

I have been is SFI since 2012 and I have received payment every single month. Being in a company that has been around a long time and is still earning is important to me. I am totally committed to SFI for many reasons, but one is integrity. Once my monthly check was absconded by someone who hacked my account and put their Paypal in my payout field. And it was not a small amount. I worked with SFI and Paypal to remedy the situation. Paypal was not the least bit helpful. But SFI was and they got my entire sum back and in my account before the month was out. I was very pleased. this occurred in early 2014 and I have been active and prosperous all these years. One person mentioned that several of their affiliates became inactive. This probably happened because they were disillusioned by a change that came along. But one strength of SFI is they change, they flex to be more and more relevant to the market. But change, even positive change can be tough. Many here have said it is complicated. I would not call it complicated, I would call it Diverse. There are several ways to earn an income and you can earn without any cost. For example they have a Reward Token called Rewardical (RT). It is about, at this time, 600 RT to 1 USD. There is no minimum to qualify to receive RTs, there is no minimum to cash out RTs. You can earn RTs in several ways and you match RTs 1 to 10 (10%) to the earnings of anyone your recruit. This results for me to 35 to as high as 70 USD a month in RT alone. RTs will not make you rich, but it is a very good "free source" of income. So even someone with very little to invest can earn. Now if you can invest your earnings will be much higher, mine are, but it is not required by the program that you invest. I am happy to share any of my experiences with anyone interested or already engaged in SFI. I believe weather you are my affiliate or not the more prosperous we each are the more prosperous we all are.

Why is Duplication So Important? Too many affiliates join and do not know what to do. They want to achieve success but they do not know how. Or maybe there are just too many ways to do it. There is no key to success but there are Rules. The reason duplication is so important is that a day job, an hourly pay job, always has a limit to the amount you can make. You may be a Doctor or a Dentist and you may make very good money per hour. But the only way to make more money is to work more hours. And the day you stop working the hours you stop earning the money. With duplication you do the same amount of work month after month, but your earning power is growing each month. If a Doctor does five operations a week, week after week, month after month, his earnings do not change. He may experience an annual raise or cost of living increases, but he will never actually make more than he has the time in which to make it. With duplication every hour invested is increasing your earnings potential. If you can only gain one new customer, one new affiliate a month, but each and every month you gain one more and train them to gain just one. At first, and for the first 9 months you will honestly be making very little. But in nine months, in month 10, you will suddenly experience a burst of income, and then each following month, more and more. This is Tommie K's (capt. Kirk) Free advertising plan. He does the same things every day, "Post to free ad sites 365 days a year". But his income is continually rising because each new person who joins his programs adds to his current income, but he is using the same amount of time to do the same thing day after day. You promote a consumable item, an item purchased each month. The first month you have 1 new customer and 1 sale, the second month you have 1 new customer but 2 sales. the third month, 1 new customer but 3 sales. See. The same thing holds true for a subscription based service. Each month you do the same work, but earn more money. What are some barriers to duplication for you or in your business?

I would agree. It is not the MLM as much as it is the marketer. But I think there is more to it than just marketing skills, though that is number 1. The bottom line is if you do not show up for work, you will not get paid. Treating your business like a business is the most important thing. What does that involve? 1. Marketing Skills. 2. Staying informed - regarding your market, your product, your industry, you specific business (i.e. commission plans). you must leverage all these. 3. Learn more - Learn more about your audience, your sales team, you compensation plan. 4. Increase your value to the market, 5. Do something every single day to advance your business. As I said marketing skills is number one because if you do not make sales you do not make money. Any business that promises money for now sales and no recruiting is crazy. Or they keep the bulk of sales profits and give you a little taste. Sales is where the money is.

Below is an Ad I have placed on all my social media sites and it has received very good traction. As an MLM, or Affiliate Marketer you could share the same thing and hyperlink your program links in the Banner ads to the left and at the top. No matter what business you are in, advertising on Social Media is a must. But how do you do it without using all your cash, or offending your friends, or getting banned. You can share videos or web pages that provide added value to your prospects but also include your program links. This is How: Here is a Web page version http://www.servethailand.com/images/Nate1468x60.jpg Here is a sample of a post to my FaceBook. "You have got to see this it is Hilarious, and so true, The Difference Between Men and Women" http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/tickld Here is a Video version, I shared this with my Affiliate Downline: As one of my new affiliates it is important for you to understand that you do not work for me. You are the owner of your own business. You are responsible for the growth of your business. And you will receive the rewards of that growth. This video helped me to make the transition from: Employee to Entrepreneur Now if you visit these 2 pages you will see the Web Site and the Youtube I am sharing with all my friends "nested" in my opportunity ads. With this tool from Syracuse Design, you can build these links on the fly in seconds. It was specifically designed for SFI, but can be used for any program. The default ads are for SFI, though, but all ads can be modified. Take The 1 month Test Drive FULL DISCLOSURE: This is not an affiliate link or an affiliate program and for one month it is free. I will receive no returns on your paid participation.

I was reading a training program put together by Walter N. I love it. But today as I read there was a chord struck. I will quote his training module, because I could never say it better. The topic of this module is sales. He says, How do First Steppers “Make Money Online?” The answer is very simple. It doesn’t matter what you do - all the money you make - comes from sales!! Now this is true. Even if you are a Diamond growing rich on residual income. The value of of all you receive is connected to the Profits. And that Profit comes from sales. Then he goes on to say that if we are going to be successful in sales, A proper mindset and focus is based on two components. What are these two components? “Trust” and “Value to the Marketplace.” Early targeting these 2 essential elements creates and forms a solid foundation for making and continuing to make sales. By mastering these two elements of effective selling, you’ll have no problem being successful online. This idea helped me to evaluate sales promos I have seen, especially on Facebook, but other places as well. Did you know that you are more important than the product you're promoting? Even if I want your product chances are I will buy it from a shop or a person whom I know and trust. So, you are the key to your sales. Do you, as a person and in the form of service, reliably and quality, do you bring value to the table? Oh, yes you can make sales without bringing value but they will be one sale one time. Bring value and your customers are going to keep coming back to you, following your lead, taking your advice. Jim Rohn on Value to the Marketplace

Tommie you are right. In SFI I am a Top 100 Sales person. I am also a Top 20 Sponsor (as decided by Affiliates). This means I can sell and I can teach others to sell. But your note is well taken, Don't ask and the answer is a Guaranteed NO. Ask and well there is then the possibility of a YES. The more you Ask the more Yeses you'll get. I find what makes me a successful sales person is persistence. I just keep asking, posting, and emailing. This opens the door, it is up to the buyer if he/she wants to enter that door. Those that decide to do so have made their own decision and most often that type of decision is followed by action.

It seems to me that Matthew severely slowed in his payments when Paypal went wild dumping so many TE and Safelist owners. I used to get paid on time every month, but has been close to a year now since I have received a payment, but he promises that in the next commission run I will see my earnings, lets see. But his sites do get traffic, and I get a lot of JV partners and list sign ups from his sites. So I no longer, and for some time now, have not paid for any of his services. But almost all sites you can earn your upgrade. So I am upgraded in most sites and have not paid to do so. If I get my commissions this month as promised I will be back here to let you know. Actually, I let you know either way.

I have used Skrill for some time now for both receiving and making payments. No problems at all, and I have cashed out to my Bank in Thailand, went smoothly and I got a good/current exchange rate. I used to use Paypal but they always skimmed a few extra points off the exchange USD =>> Thai Baht. I do not like Paypal at all and have found Skrill much better for my purposes.

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Thank you these are very good no nonsense rules/guidelines. Just want to make a comment that is contextually accurate and hopefully helpful. Sensorship is miss-spelled should be censorship