Friday, January 7, 2005

Are you serious about building a home business? If not, stop reading. I'm looking for serious people who are willing to spend at least one hour per day marketing their home-based business and at least one dollar per day investing in it. 6:48:03 AM    comment []

Tuesday, January 4, 2005

Many announcements from SFI Marketing Group this weekend. Gery Carson, founder and president of SFI Marketing group, announced many new changes to the company this weekend. I won't go over all of them here, however. You can see some of the changes in my SFI Blog. Here are the headlines: New Spanish Gateway And More Teamwork Works! One World Awareness Campaign Hot New Prospecting Tool New Email Notifications Peak Performers Ten New Products New Cutting Edge Media Ad Co-op 20 Announcements To Celebrate 20 Years! Strong Future International Log In & Win Contest New Compensation Plan Officially Launched If you're interested in becoming an SFI affiliate, I'd love to welcome you to my team. 8:33:24 AM    comment []

Sunday, December 5, 2004

Following Up on the SFI Big Announcement On December 1, 2004, Gery Carson made a major announcement about the SFI Marketing Group's compensation plan for 2005. I'll be posting more thoughts about SFI and the changes in the compensation plan on my SFI Blog. 5:20:01 AM    comment []

News of Big Changes to the SFI Marketing Group Compensation Plan in 2005 Following is the announcement from Gery Carson, CEO of SFI Marketing Group: 12/1/04 Dear SFI Affiliate, During the first eleven months of this year, SFI has made an abundance of improvements and enhancements. These include: Completely redesigned and centralized our affiliate website (www.sfimg.com) All new Veriuni store New offline marketing tools Launched a greatly improved Wholesale program Added a toll-free order line Live, online support added to www.sfimg.com and IAHBE Introduced a number of new products Added the "Next Step" training center Redesigned Smart Start Introduced the new "Welcome New Affiliate" self-mailer Introduced SFI Partner Stores Added the option to receive commissions via PayPal Added a search engine to www.sfimg.com Sent out a weekly newsletter EVERY Friday since January Overhauled Eagle Co-op Introduced E-Cards Introduced new and improved Gateways Added a variety of new reports and business management tools Introduced ValuePaks Published a new SFI book Added 93 magazines to the magazine rack Achieved whitelist status with AOL, Yahoo, and other major ISPs for greatly increased email deliverability Obviously, we are working very hard to make SFI the best it can be. That is why, on January 1st, I'm very pleased to announce that we will also be introducing a brand new improved compensation plan. We had several key objectives in redesigning the compensation plan: Provide a strong incentive to become MIQ Provide a strong incentive to retain MIQ status (reduce attrition) Provide significant earnings opportunity, both front-end and back-end, on personal referrals Provide a platform that encourages and rewards strong, synergistic (teamworking) relationships between uplines and downlines Increase the percentage of Standing Orders Provide a strong incentive to take immediate and daily action Show exciting income potential in an easy-to-understand way Provide an upfront "show me the money" component to clearly demonstrate SFI is real to new affiliates Provide the opportunity for new affiliates to realistically earn income monthly to establish SFI's potential Provide a strong incentive to continually advance in rank Provide a strong incentive to develop leaders in ones team Provide a strong incentive to build a large sales team Provide a robust retail sales program Provide the "big money" opportunity that heavy hitters are looking for It was a major challenge to achieve all of these objectives and we went through many, many drafts since we began the redesign work in the Summer. You might also like to know that we worked with over 20 of SFI's top leaders in designing the new plan. In announcing the new plan today, I'm thrilled to say that not only did we MEET all of our objectives, but I believe we clearly EXCEEDED them with some truly powerful and unique features. If you're ready to check it out, here's the URL with all the details: http://www.sfimg.com/TNet (If you're not an SFI affiliate, you can join here and get access to that information.) After you've taken a look, be sure to continue reading on as I have lots of other exciting information and news to share with you today. We'll start with this excerpt from "Choosing The Best Network Marketing Company": "What you want is a compensation plan that shifts some money upfront so the new person can see a check in their first few weeks. By giving the new people that taste of success, you lock them in, and they'll stay involved and keep working long enough for the 'back-end' residual-type income to kick in. The point is, almost every type of compensation plan can ultimately deliver a monster income on a big downline, but first you've got to have a product line capable of attracting and sustaining that kind of growth. AND, you've got to have a means for new people coming in to get a taste of the potential income, or you'll be losing people as fast as you can bring new people in to replace them. In short, if you've got top products and an upfront bonus in your compensation plan, everything will take care of itself --it becomes self-perpetuating. If you don't have both of these crucial elements, however, your business is going to be a losing proposition --one big, frustrating Catch-22." If you've reviewed the new comp plan, we've obviously taken the above advice to heart. For starters, SFI's new "Team Network" system will force significant growth under thousands of new affiliates, giving them that critical taste of success, while simultaneously demonstrating tremendous future potential. To help "prime the pump" even further, we have also earmarked 4% of CV companywide towards a first month guaranteed commission check. This component of the new plan means that all new MIQs, starting in January, will get a commission check their first month (we'll send it, regardless of amount). Then, the T-Net structure will help ensure the checks keep coming. And with the Business Builders Bonuses, new affiliates can create significant commission checks right out of the chute! And these are just SOME of the powerful components of T-Net. When you grasp the entire picture and understand how all the new dynamics work together, I'm betting you will be as excited as I and many top SFI leaders are about this new plan. Now let's look at some other powerful features... NEW EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS SYSTEM If you know how now or can learn how to generate a steady stream of affiliate registrations, the new email notifications system could be HUGE for you! Starting January 1st, we will begin plugging in new affiliates under you in your personal T-Net network as they sign up (placed in the next available open slot). Starting the next day, for 29 days, they will then begin receiving a daily "Network Growth" recap email of all the new affiliates that have been placed under them. The email will explain that these new affiliates have been placed under them and they can be earning 6% on each, plus have the opportunity to earn on everything these affiliates go on to do, etc. To lock in this benefit, the affiliate receiving the recap simply needs to upgrade (become MIQ) within 30 days of their sign-up date (which we of course let them know in the recap). If they fail to upgrade by their 30-day deadline, they lose their spot in the network and everything below rolls up. If you skimmed the last two paragraphs, go back and read it again, as this is one of the truly MAJOR new components of the SFI system. Because the 2x12 network is so narrow, substantial growth will naturally flow down level after level. With the combination of your own efforts, PLUS the efforts of your upline, PLUS the efforts of your downline, a large percentage of your affiliates could be receiving these exciting notifications. Over a month's time, the number of affiliates placed under them could be VERY substantial. Indeed, many of our top leaders have been known to bring in literally HUNDREDS of new affiliates a DAY! Are the affiliates above all this activity going to want to lose their position and lose all this potential income? Of course not! New affiliates will now have a HUGE incentive to become MIQ and remain MIQ. NEW BUILT-IN COMPANYWIDE AD CO-OP An all-new company-sponsored ad co-op will go into affect in January. Up to 12 free shares will be included in the benefits of the rank of Platinum Team Leader. Bronze Team Leaders will receive one free share, Silver two free shares, and Gold four free shares. In other words, by simply referring 2 MIQs (the basic qualifications for Bronze Team Leader), you would receive one free share in the ad co-op and up to 12 free shares in advancing to Platinum. You receive these free shares automatically every month that you are qualified at that rank and all affiliates generated for you by the ad co-op of course flow into your network, increasing momentum and growth for all. NEW RETAIL PROGRAM SFI has always endeavored to have a strong retail program. As of January 1st, our strongest retail program yet will be in place. Starting January 1st, when you make a sale to a NON-affiliate, it will be considered a retail sale and you will earn a straight 40% (of CV) commission. It DOUBLES to 80% if you have at least 10 total SVP for the month. Special note: We have eliminated the old comp plan's "initial sale" and "subsequent sale" labels. In other words, with the new plan, a sale is a sale. Period. Whether the customer is buying for the first time or the 50th time from you, you're going to earn 40% (80% if your total personal SVP for the month is 10 or more). Bottom line: If you want to focus on personal retail sales, we now have a very robust compensation plan that pays you up to 80% of our CV (Commission Volume) on every product you sell. OTHER FEATURES OF T-NET Here are some other features of the T-NET plan that you may not have realized or that are not yet documented elsewhere: 1. You can earn from every income stream without any group volume requirements. 2. You can earn over $10,000/mo. with JUST TWO personally sponsored MIQ affiliates. 3. You can earn infinitely deep into your organization on all personally-sponsored MIQ affiliates. 4. There will be monthly compression of the network for maximum payout. This means that should someone drop out, the next affiliate below that spot moves up to fill the gap. This ensures maximization of the number of affiliates in your payline and a constant clearing of the "dead wood" in your organization which allows your best people to rise to the top. 5. OVER THREE TIMES as many affiliates will be receiving commission checks as there are today. That's thousands of more people every month with proof that SFI is the real deal, and we believe this will pay huge dividends. 6. If one of your personally-referred affiliates sponsors someone, then downgrades, the commissions of that "orphaned" affiliate can now roll-up to you. =================== IMPORTANT =================== With the exception of brand new affiliates joining SFI after December 1st, to be part of the T-Net Network when we compile it on January 1st, you MUST BE MIQ on December 31, 2004. We will do our best to make sure everyone gets this important message. However, you can really help yourself by doing everything you can during December to help as many of your non-MIQ affiliates get upgraded so that they start the new year with the best possible position in the new T-Net network. Of course, not only that, but for all your personally-sponsored affiliates who upgrade via a standard 10 SVP/20 CV personal purchase in December, you'll earn a Seller's Commission of $16 for each one. To help you reach as many of your affiliates as possible, we've set up a special co-op postcard mailing. For just 29 cents apiece, we'll send out a full-color postcard via first-class mail to all of your personally-sponsored affiliates (USA-resident s only). If you don't wish to mail to ALL, you can mail to your top 25, top 100, top 500, or whatever number you want. We will use a "Power Rating" formula which weighs the number of referrals, months they've been MIQ, etc. to determine who your top affiliates are. You can get more information and/or order your postcard mailing at: [URL deleted -- This is for affiliates who have sponsored other affiliates, only.] Note!! The DEADLINE to order your postcards is Monday, December 6th. ================================================ IMPORTANT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS To keep the length of this announcement letter down, we've set up a separate Webpage of over 30 important questions and answers about the new comp plan. We STRONGLY urge you to go to this Q&A Webpage and review this information: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/TNetFAQ.sfi (If you're not an SFI affiliate, you can join here and get access to that information.) JANUARY 1ST SNEAK PEEKS & CLOSING THOUGHTS In addition to a powerful, new compensation plan, an incredible new email notification system, and a company-sponsored ad co-op, here are some of the other major items coming to SFI in January: Introduction of a new full-color prospecting booklet Gateways, emails, and Smart Start translated into Spanish The launch of a new fundraising division Exciting new sales, recruiting, and team-building contests New products AND SOME OTHER SURPRISES! When all of these new programs, products, and enhancements are in place in January, we believe SFI will take another huge leap forward. Indeed, the SYNERGY of everything combined and working together will be extremely powerful. There will be lots of additional information coming out in the following days and weeks as we edge closer to January 1st. We are also planning conference calls, etc. to get everyone fully up to speed and ready to hit the ground running in January. In the meantime, if you want to start boosting your commission check right now, you need to get started immediately on a gameplan for contacting your affiliates. Remember, they must be MIQ on December 31st, 2004 to secure the best possible position in T-Net. After December 31st this opportunity for them will be gone forever. I hope you are as excited as I am. 2005 is going to be a breakout year for SFI and I'm going to do everything I can to make it be YOUR best year ever, too. Gery Carson SFI Founder & President 3:55:01 AM    comment []

Monday, June 7, 2004

21st Century Sales website updated and expanded. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been redesigning my 21st Century Sales site. I'm busily expanding it to offer great resources for people who want to build profitable home businesses. While there are many types of home businesses, this site is targeted towards online marketing and sales, with an emphasis on earning income by marketing affiliate programs. I've found this to be an excellent way to build extra streams of income without having to invest a lot of money. Of course, as with any business, it takes time, effort and some money to build a business to the point where it starts returning a profit. Normally, I expect to put in three to five years and a lot of time and money before I start earning a profit. This has gone faster than any other business I've ever started or helped to start. In the past, I've had to invest many thousands of dollars up-front and then put in the time and effort to make things work. With this business -- my home-based online marketing business -- I've been able to invest as little as three or four dollars every day (around $100 per month) and I'm already earning a growing profit all without incurring any debt. It's not financed by loans or credit cards, and that's a first for me. I love being out of debt. Now that it has reached the breakeven point, I don't even have to invest the small amount I was spending out of pocket each month. Overhead, advertising, and promotional expenses are now coming out of revenue, and as I reinvest a substantial portion of that revenue, I look forward to watching the business grow even faster. You, my customer, have made this possible and I appreciate it. I'll continue to offer the best opportunities I can find along with tips and advice based on my continuing research. I appreciate your business. Thank you! 21st Century Sales is one site in my growing network of Dilbeck Marketing websites. There are several more on the drawing board and I'll be introducing them over the next several months. 11:03:16 AM    comment []

My SFI team continues to grow -- now on five continents! I just noticed that my SFI sales team, while still a very young venture, already has affiliates on five continents. Only with the invention and wide distribution of the Information Superhighway would something like this be possible with the expenditure of so little money in promotion and advertising. Of course, it is also a testament to SFI Marketing Group, a company that has been investing millions of dollars and years of effort to build a great marketing organization. I've been a team leader for just a few months, but it's only because of all the effort they put into building the infrastructure, hiring a great staff, creating training systems, programming their computer systems, negotiating contracts with suppliers, and handling shipping and customer service that I've been able to jump in and start building a sales team with them so quickly. I'm looking forward to helping the affiliates who have joined my team build successful home businesses of their own. Together we'll help each other succeed. Thanks to each of you! A company is only as good as the products we sell, and I'm happy to see our selection of quality products grow and improve. If you're interested in building a home business of your own and you're willing to invest time, effort, and two or three dollars per day to promote and grow it, I invite you to join my sales team, too. 10:40:01 AM    comment []

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Built my version of the SFI Veriuni Store Back in January, 2004, SFI Marketing Group introduced their new Veriuni Store, which makes well over 700 products available for their affiliates to sell. I started analyzing the store in February and researching keywords and phrases in March and April. As soon as I finished the emergency work I had to do on GeorgiaDragRacing.com in May, I turned my attention to building my version of the SFI Veriuni Store on JohnDilbeck.com. I did this for a couple of reasons. Some of the affiliates on my sales team were having trouble finding all the products they could sell and building links to them. So, I, to the best of my knowledge, built a site that links to all the current products using simple HTML. Now anyone on my sales team can find a product they want to link to and use my code as a sample they can modify by replacing my SFI ID with theirs and posting the links to their sites or blogs. The other reason is so that I can attract new customers and sell the products myself. Please feel free to visit the store and purchase whatever strikes your fancy. We offer hundreds of magazine subscriptions at competitive prices. I invite you to subscribe to the magazines of your choice. 5:50:42 AM    comment []

Sunday, May 2, 2004

Congratulations to my growing SFI sales team! Congratulations to Oluwapelumi Olorunninwo, of Idimu, AL, Nigeria, for growing his SFI sales team in April, 2004. Of all the entry-level people in my sales team, Oluwapelumi added more new affiliates to his team than anyone else. You are invited to visit his SFI store. He would appreciate any purchase you might like to make! You are also welcome to join his SFI team. Congratulations to the following for becoming Multi-Income Qualified in April, 2004 and for starting to build their SFI sales teams! Kendra Tucker, Owings Mills, MD, USA Visit SFI store -- Join SFI team. Stacy Harris, Calgary, AB, Canada Visit SFI store -- Join SFI team. Jennifer Anderson, Jacksonville, FL, USA Visit SFI store -- Join SFI team. Our sales team is growing, and we're building a bigger presence around the world -- already on four continents. 6:19:59 PM    comment []

Home Business Tips Newsletter -- May 1, 2004 -- Posted The May 1, 2004 edition of my Home Business Tips newsletter has been posted. Congratulations to my SFI sales team for growing their businesses in April! 6:11:00 PM    comment []

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Extended newsletter for my SFI sales team -- April 20, 2004 Hi, I was reading the SFI discussion board (http://www.sfidboard.com/) a few days ago and ran across a thread I'd never seen before. It was so interesting I decided to copy it here for you to read. The full thread is at: http://www.sfidboard.com/showthread.php?t=39183 Did you know that you can become MIQ by making just two sales? Not two sales per month, just two sales (and one of them can be you). And, because it's a continuing service, you can remain MIQ for an indefinite period of time. The thread was started by an SFI affiliate named Steve and here's what he had to say: =================================== SFI Made Easy -------------------------------------------------------------- Do You Think SFI is Difficult? SFI is such a powerful opportunity that most of us try to make it much harder than it really needs to be. Would you be much more excited about SFI if you could see a simple and very inexpensive way to make it work? If so, please read on ... Don't Have Much Money? I'm going to show you a simple way to become MIQ and stay MIQ and it won't cost you any extra money at all! In fact, it's probably going to save you money! If you don't know what MIQ is, you need to go through the Smart Start program, but basically you have to be MIQ to make full commissions (and residual income) on your sales and the sales of the people that you sponsor. Don't Like to Sell? Did you know that you can be MIQ and stay MIQ with only ONE sale? And I don't mean one sale a month, either, I'm talking just ONE sale TOTAL! Yes, that's right, I said just ONE SALE, TOTAL! Have I got your Attention? Ok, here is how to do this in just two steps. 1) Switch your Internet to the Veriuni Pro Service 2) Get ONE person who is not in SFI to purchase the Veriuni Pro ISP service (this is your one sale) That's it. That's all that would be required for you to be MIQ every month that you and the other person stay with the Veriuni Pro Internet Service. Keep in mind that when "selling" someone on the internet service, you are not trying to get them in your business, you are just offering a highly regarded, competitively priced, alternative to a product they already use. If you are in the US or Canada, take a friend or relative out to dinner and talk to them about it (deduct the dinner from your taxes, of course). Everyone that I have heard from, likes the Internet Service, so you should feel confident promoting it. (I'd use it myself, but I'm one of those broadband folks). Remember, you only *have* to make ONE sale! EVER! So is there any FINE PRINT? The Veriuni Internet Service is only available in the US and Canada. If you live outside of these countries you can not subscribe. Also, some people either like their service or use broadband. What can these people do? Simple. Make just ONE MORE sale of the Internet Service to someone in the US or Canada. Remember, not a sale every month, just ONE more sale TOTAL! So if you are not in the US, or you don't want to change ISPs, you must make TWO sales. Not 2 sales a month, or a year, just TWO sales total! What about Getting Affiliates Under Me? Don't I have to "Sell" people on SFI to get them to join? Actually, you aren't selling, with SFI you are GIVING. Just give Free stuff away - like the SIM package or the Free Internet Income Course. Once people sign up (and they will, if you put it in front of folks), follow up with them and show them easy and inexpensive ways to make this great opportunity work for them (Like this one!). Some will "get it" and some won't - and that's OK. You only need a few active people to make money with SFI. Bottom Line - and Here's Where it gets Good! Make just ONE sale (or at most, two) period, ever, finito! Then show others how they can do this too. Get three other people who are willing to make just ONE sale too and you will become a PTL (Power Team Leader). When you become PTL, you will be cashing in the "Banked" shares of the PTL bonus pool (1 share for each month that you were MIQ). At the current rate of $22.95 (Aug 03) you will get back MORE THAN YOU PAID in for your Internet Service! Not only that, but you will continue to earn the PTL bonus each and every month! Plus the commissions from those people you sponsored. Can you appreciate this? Free Internet Service and a growing business opportunity? Do you hear the "knock, knock" sound of opportunity? If not, call the doctor, I think you just flatlined! (He he) Repeat this process a few more times (while teaching your affiliates to do the same) and soon you will become a GL (Group Leader). The Group Leader Bonus for August 2003 was $1138.39 which is just their bonus. This is in addition to their normal commissions! Summary This is just *one* way to take advantage of the opportunities that SFI offers. I have been with SFI for a year now and I'm still thinking of new ways to benefit from this awesome program. Is there more to SFI? You bet there is! Lot's more. There are other great products and more ways of making money, but don't get ahead of yourself. Don't try to learn or do everything at once. Take the time to learn one thing well and give it a try. The opportunity *is* here. It's up to *you* to take advantage of it! Take Care, steve P.S. And don't forget the TAX Benefits of having your own business! Follow the rules and deduct office and even vacation expenses! =================================== OK, this is JD speaking, again. If you're already an SFI affiliate and you're reading this, you can find the telecommunications marketing aids at: https://www.sfimg.com/MarketingAids/ProductMarketing.sfi#anchorTECH and the marketing aids page for the ISP service is at: https://www.sfimg.com/MarketingAids/mr_isp.sfi On this page, you'll find banners and flyers that you can use. It also shows what your gateway page is for selling this service. Note that the service is only available in the USA and Canada. Unfortunately, not everyone can take advantage of this offer. I'd switch my ISP in a heartbeat if it were available here, even though I was the SysAdmin who originally set up our local service several years ago. But, way back here in the mountains, we don't have a local access number and I'm not willing to pay long distance charges for all the hours I'm online every month -- that's why I helped set up our local ISP in the first place, to save hundreds of dollars in long distance charges every month. Be careful when you check for availabilty if you live in a rural area. Be sure the number listed for your town is not long distance. If you have a local access number, which you can determine on your ISP page in the affiliate store, you can take advantage of this opportunity. In addition to excellent Internet access, you'll also get up to 20MB of web space to build a website. If you're serious about building your SFI business, why not buy from your store when you find services and products that you would use anyway? Especially when it can save you money. Now, note that you'll earn 1 SVP for the basic service and 5 SVP for the pro service. So, be sure to sign up for the pro service. For every person who purchases this service from your SFI Veriuni store page, you'll receive the SVP, and if they're not an affiliate, you'll also earn a commission. And it is competitively priced -- exactly what I pay every month for service. (If you're not an SFI affiliate and would like to see what I'm talking about, visit my Veriuni Store page at: http://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/ISP and feel free to sign up!) (If you'd like to become an SFI affiliate and join my sales team, go here: http://DetailsNow.com/sfi-free and see for yourself the outstanding opportunity SFI offers - at no cost.) If you are an SFI affiliate, be sure to purchase from the affiliate store at: https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Item.sfi?id=740 (You'll need to log in before you can see the page.) Everybody needs Internet access, and there are millions of people in the USA and Canada who can use this service. I think this product would be a good one to promote offline, if you live in an area where it is available. Maybe your local computer, business products, electronics, or other similar store would let you put out business cards or brochures. Or, perhaps they'd like to sign up as an affiliate with you as their sponsor so they can promote the access to their customers. And, remember, this is just one of the hundreds of products SFI offers, with more coming all the time. For example, two new nutritional products were just added: Veriuni Advanced Weight Loss and Veriuni Advanced Whey Protein. SFI affiliates can purchase these products at: https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=34 Anyone else is welcome to read more about the products and place your order at: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Department.vstore?id=34 By the way, I've been taking the Advanced Liquid Nutrition every day for the last couple of months, and I really believe I'm feeling better. At 51, I've never taken any vitamins or nutritional products before, but I'd been feeling rather tired and run down for several months. So, I decided to try it for a month to see what I thought, and -- even though I have no proof this is what's doing it -- I've been feeling better. I have to think that the weight loss and protein products will be good sellers, too. Let's see if http://Wordtracker.com can provide any good keywords for these products... I'll enter "weight loss powder" in the free trial and see what happens. Just using the free tour version of WordTracker for this quick test, and not researching phrases using supplements, meal replacement, minerals, vitamins, or other similar keywords, it looks like this is a very popular and competitive area, with thousands of people searching on the most popular phrases every day and hundreds of thousands of websites offering information about these terms. Using a process that compares supply (the number of websites using the keywords) versus demand (the number of searches on that phrase during the last 24 hours or last month) and then processing it through some mathematical model, this WordTracker website attempts (and does a good job of it) to pick the keywords with the highest profitability or highest likelihood of working for you. (Ken Evoy wrote an ebook about this way of evaluating key words and phrases when building your website. In addition to explaining this, he offers outstanding advice for anyone who is interested in affiliate marketing, and best of all -- the course if free. You can download the ebook (in PDF format) here: http://DetailsNow.com/affiliates-course There's no obligation and he doesn't even ask for your email address.) Now, back to WordTracker.com... They assign a phrase a KEI analysis and the larger the KEI, the better the keyword. If a phrase has a KEI less than 10, it means it's probably not worth bothering with. Between 10 and 100 is worth trying. Between 100 and 400 is what you're looking for. Over 400 is a gift! The higher the KEI number, the better chance you have of being found in the search engines or the more likely you are to make a sale if you use pay per click advertising, classified ads, and other types of online marketing. Again, this was a rudimentary search, but I found the following. These results show the term followed by the KEI number, last month's number of searches, the number of searches in the last 24 hours, and the number of competing sites. Some terms NOT to use when building your websites and pages: weight loss products, 1.130, 280, 60, 69404 This means that only 280 people searched for the phrase in the last month and only 60 yesterday, but there are nearly 70,000 sites offering information related to that phrase. Not very good. protein powder, 2.308, 294, 63, 37455 whey protein, 2.895, 538, 115, 99977 weight loss supplements, 2.902, 281, 60, 27212 protein supplements, 3.202, 230, 49, 16522 nutrition, 5.387, 5286, 1126, 5187304 Now, we're getting to some that may be worth trying: high protein foods, 31.200, 460, 98, 6782 muscle and fitness, 47.674, 771, 164, 12469 weight loss, 144.355, 19598, 4175, 2660681 atkins diet, 1962.262, 21470, 4574, 234913 south beach diet, 5378.865, 39492, 8413, 289953 So, from this, I would think it might be worth building pages or even entire sites on the last five phrases and that it would be worth spending some more time and maybe a little money on the full version of WordTracker for one day to do additional research and find those niches where the opportunities are. (Even better than WordTracker, are the tools built into Site Build It!, but that may be a little pricy for some of you right now. I use the brainstorm tools in Site Build It! to find niche key phrases for building new pages or writing articles that have a good chance of being found. Although it takes more time and effort using WordTracker.com, it costs much less. You can even save up all your research for one day, buy a day's membership at WordTracker.com and do all your research in one long session before it expires. That is very cost-effective for when you're first starting out with this. The Atkins diet and South Beach diet rank highly because of the books and all the news items on them. It would be worth doing a little research and writing an article on these diets. Perhaps comparing them to each other. You could sell the books, for example: http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=diet&input_mode=books will give you a list of the current best selling diet books at Amazon.com. The current best selling books about weight loss are at: http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=weight+loss&input_mode=books While we're at it, here are the top selling DVDs at Amazon.com related to weight loss -- and all of them are about exercising in one way or the other: http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=weight+loss&input_mode=dvd So, how does this help you sell any of the SFI nutrition products? For one thing, we're all too busy these days. Do you have the time to exercise every day or fix nutritious home-cooked meals three times every day? I didn't think so. We all know that it's best to eat a balanced diet with lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, but how often does that turn into pizza or hamburgers, especially here in the United States? Sometimes, it would be best to skip that lunch out at a fast food joint and substitute a healthy meal replacement drink, such as the Veriuni Weight Loss powder, even if you're not particularly trying to lose weight. https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Department.vstore?id=34 Or, perhaps you're writing about the Atkins diet and the number of people who are trying it. Perhaps they would be interested in hearing about a good source of whey protein. https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Department.vstore?id=34 Now, these are just thoughts off the top of my head without any serious research, but it is to show you that it's not hard to present quality products to people who might be looking for them. Here are some top selling books about "muscle" at Amazon.com: http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=muscle&input_mode=books and here are some best selling books about "fitness" at Amazon.com: http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=fitness&input_mode=books These last books look remarkably similar to the books that were listed when I searched for "weight loss" a few minutes ago. These pages on my site let you search for any word or phrase, and the drop down buttons let you search for books, magazines, DVDs, videos, and many other products. It's a good site to use for research. The program I use here has full access to the Amazon.com database and you can search it faster on my site than on Amazon.com. So, why am I telling you this. You can't sell these books through SFI, can you? No, you can't. But, I think just about any site that publishes information should also link to books related to that information. While I've invested a lot of time setting up this program, Amazon.com offers many other ways to link to specific books or search results and it's a great way to find what's currently popular. It may stimulate your thinking for writing articles or web pages. Then, when it is appropriate, you can link to products you represent. It's free to sign up as an Amazon.com associate. They have a one-level program, so you would not be on my Amazon.com sales team, but I'd be happy to answer any specific questions you might have. You can sign up at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-7018504-0071834?node=3435371 You knew, didn't you, that you can sell magazines through SFI's Veriuni store? Do you think that the people who are interested in the following magazines that are related to "fitness" might also be interested in Advanced Liquid Nutrition, weight loss supplements and protein powder supplements? http://johndilbeck.com/cgi-bin/amazon2/apf2.pl?input_string=fitness&input_mode=magazines You can also determine which of these magazines are most popular. Then find them in your Veriuni Store and create links that point to one or more of the books in your store. For instance, you can find a whole group of magazines related to health and fitness in the Veriuni Store at: https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=166 For non-affiliates, at: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Department.sfi?id=166 or you can focus on one particular magazine, such as Shape at: https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=166#item71 For non-affiliates, at: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Item.vstore?id=71 You'll note that we can offer a one-year subscription to Shape magazine for $11.97 and that's $3.00 less than a subscription to the same magazine through Amazon.com. Not all our magazine subscriptions are less, but many of them are. So, now, you could write an article or a webpage or a blog entry (such as this one) about "muscle and fitness" and you could present some good information that would be of value to your reader. Where appropriate, you could mention that "Muscle and Fitness" is the lifestyle magazine for the man or woman interested in "super fitness and vigorous health at any age." Professional advice is provided for all levels of fitness with advanced exercise science, useful illustrated workout techniques and proper nutrition guidelines to help the body. Whether you're in shape or you'd like to get in shape, Muscle & Fitness magazine is right for you. https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=166#item177 For non-affiliates, at: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Item.vstore?id=177 And when it is appropriate in your article, you can provide a quick link to our nutritional supplements page at: https://www.sfimg.com/AffiliateStore/Department.sfi?id=34 For non-affiliates, at: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Department.vstore?id=34 See how easy that is? Of course, this article is about how to go about determining what to present and how to present it. It would be up to you to research the specific content for your article and make it interesting and useful for your reader. That's what draws visitors to your site. Content. Well-written articles that provide useful information will be found by the visitor through the search engines. Your content will be unique, and if you keep offering quality content, you'll keep attracting a stream of interested visitors, some of whom will purchase what you recommend. That's why it's important only to recommend quality products that you'd buy yourself or recommend to your closest friends. Some of your visitors to your site may one day become some of your closest friends. Of course, if I were writing this as an article on the web, I'd create links to the products using the key phrase in the link. For example, https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Item.vstore?id=177 would become: Health & Fitness Magazine Speaking of links, I think a URL such as: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Item.vstore?id=177 is awfully difficult to remember and enter, especially when used offline. So, I registered a domain, DetailsNow.com, to mainly use as a site to redirect to other sites and have a much easier URL for someone to type in. Using the cPanel at my domain's host, I replace: https://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/Item.vstore?id=177 with a permanent redirect using: http://DetailsNow.com/Health-Fitness-Magazine which is much easier to remember and type in correctly. Similarly, I create other redirects to make it easier for me to remember and for others to enter. http://www.ezinfocenter.com/7759324.6/IAHBE becomes http://DetailsNow.com/IAHBE I can build in my affiliate ID and key tracking numbers behind the scenes. This may be rather advanced for some of you, but remember that it makes things easier when you start building websites and that is why you want to use a webhosting service that offers full features at a reasonable price. For serious online marketers, I recommend Host4Profit at: http://DetailsNow.com/host4profit If you're a little tight on your budget or if you want additional technical features instead of marketing features, I recommend AssortedInternet (which I use for most of my sites) at: http://DetailsNow.com/Assorted-Internet If you'd like more information about marketing affiliate programs on the Internet, let me recommend Ken Evoy's free Affiliate Masters ebook. You can download it for free and start learning from the same master marketer that I learned from. http://DetailsNow.com/affiliates-course Or, if you want even more information, he wrote an outstanding ebook -- the best of its kind -- called Make Your Site Sell! and this ebook will help you create a site that attracts visitors and lead them to purchase the products you recommend. No trickery is involved. Just good old fashioned quality content and customer service. http://DetailsNow.com/myss These days, Ken's mantra is: Content -> Traffic -> PREsell -> Monetize. See it for yourself at http://ctpm.sitesell.com/sellmoreonline.html Even if you never buy anything from Ken, you will get an outstanding marketing education from carefully studying his website. Not only does he and his team develop the top of the line products in each category they enter, but they also do some of the best marketing. Each product is reasonably priced, guaranteed for quality, and OVERdelivers on content. I've bought every product he creates other than Make Your Price Sell, and I'm earning money every day as a result of putting what I learned from him into practice. Remember, in online marketing, there are no tricks. The formula is deceptively simple. Build quality content, which leads to more visitors to your site. Explain the benefits of what you recommend in your articles and recommend they visit your merchant's site. They'll go in an open frame of mind, looking for a solution to their problem, and it's the job of the merchant to close the sale. Once you have enough content and traffic, you can start earning money from your site, depending upon what type of business you have and what you want to do. But, remember this. If you don't satisfy your visitors' needs for good quality information (content), you will never monetize your site because you won't build enough traffic. Content -> Traffic -> PREsell -> Monetize. It's just that simple. Pick your niche -- something you love doing -- and see for yourself. Where will you be in a year from now? I think that's plenty for now. As always, if you have any questions or I can provide any further information, please feel free to contact me. All the best, JD 4:45:27 PM    comment []

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Letter to John Dilbeck's SFI sales team - March 30, 2004 Hi, March 30, 2004 This week, I've been thinking about a couple of issues that are gaining in importance for reasons I'll mention below. I was a bit out of the loop last week because my mother was scheduled for surgery on Thursday. The surgery was a success and she's back home and doing well. (You may not know that I'm a full-time caretaker for her after her cancer surgery a couple of years ago. I help her during the days and do most of my marketing work from the next room during the nights and early mornings.) So, now, my mind is back in the game and I'm looking for ways to help you grow your SFI business. --------------------------------------------- Some thoughts about marketing and selling: --------------------------------------------- As I've said before, we are a sales organization. No sales, no business. Most people hate selling, but that may be because you have a misconception about what selling is all about. Look around you. Everything you see was sold by someone and bought by someone. Selling is easy when you talk to your customer and find out what he or she is most interested in. If she's interested in what you have to offer, tell her about it. You don't have to do a hard sell. Just mention the benefits and how to get it. Don't know how to define the benefits? That's pretty easy once you know the trick. First, take out a sheet of paper and draw a vertical line down the center of the page. On the left side, list all the features you can come up with. On the right side list the benefits of each of the features. How? A benefit must answer the question "What's in it for me?" or "How does that help me?" Try to think as your customer would think and then list how each feature will be of benefit to him or her. Once you know the benefits of your product or service, don't list the features any more. Tell about the benefits, because that's what we're all interested in. Now, you're not trying to make someone buy what you have to sell, you're offering a list of ways it will help the prospect get what he or she wants. Are you selling when you tell someone that you saw a good movie they would probably like? Are you selling when you recommend a good restaurant? Are you selling when you tell someone about the SFI business opportunity? Sure you are. You may or may not be getting paid for your selling efforts, however. That's the beauty of affiliate selling. All you have to do is get someone to go to your gateway or a specific page in your Veriuni store and purchase from that link, or sign up as your sponsored affiliate. Then you get paid. It's not hard, it just takes some effort. When someone likes what they see, buying is easy. Remember how easy it was for you to become an SFI affiliate? That's just how easy it will be for someone else to sign up as your affiliate and that's how your sales team will grow. The more you learn about selling, the more money you make in commissions. Of course, it's not just about learning. You must take action. Knowledge without action accomplishes nothing. Action without knowledge may or may not accomplish something. Sometimes it can work against you. So, make sure you know what you're going to do before you just start doing something. Set your goals and plan how you're going to accomplish them. Then, work your plan. --------------------------------------------- Does your upline answer your email?: --------------------------------------------- It occured to me yesterday that there may be several reasons why you don't get a reply when you email someone for help. One of you -- I won't mention who -- sent me an email last week that I almost never saw. Because of all the virii (viruses) and worms, I no longer open an email with the subject of just "Hi", "Heya", or "Hello". I have programmed my email program to drop those directly into the trash without seeing them. I get over 1,000 email messages every day and about 600 or more are spam. Of the others, I have a couple of hundred filters defined that send the messages into over 50 inboxes. Some -- such as my SFI inbox -- is a high priority. Others are low priority. When I check my email, I read the messages in the high priority inboxes first, and if I have time I eventually get to the others, but it may take days or even weeks. Last week I got an email from an affiliate with a subject of "Hi" and a body that consisted only of "What do I do next?" No name. No company mentioned -- and I represent several. No discussion of what had been done before to lead up to this point. It was automatically filtered into the trash. I only read it because I had a few extra minutes that day -- unusual -- and recognized the email address. It took a while to respond to the message, because I had to find the affiliate's name, and what he/she may have done already. It would have been much easier and faster with some basic information in the email. So, I'm going to ask you, whenever you write me, to please include the following: 1. Your full name. 2. Your SFI affiliate ID. 3. Your city, state, and country -- whatever is appropriate. 4. Put "SFI Affiliate" at the start of the subject line. 5. In the body, ask questions that can be answered and provide information about what you have already done and what I can help you with. 6. If you reply to a message from me, please quote the previous conversation so I don't have to go searching for it. These simple steps will make sure I see your message and will make it much easier to respond to you. That's assuming, of course, that some ISP between us doesn't throw the message away or refuse to deliver it for whatever reason. Because email is getting more and more unreliable, I'm opening up alternative forms of communications. I've created a forum at http://JohnDilbeck.com/forum/ and I invite you to register and participate there. We can discuss SFI in the Network Marketing section. I'll also post a copy of this message there. --------------------------------------------- How do international affiliates become MIQ?: --------------------------------------------- I define "international affiliate" to mean anyone who lives in any country other than the United States. As you may know, it's sometimes difficult for international affiliates to purchase anything online. We're getting more and more international affiliates in our sales team, and I welcome you! I want to find a way to help you transfer money back and forth between the US and your country. There are two issues: how to buy something here and how to get paid there. Be aware that you are never required to purchase anything from SFI. You can become MIQ by selling rather than buying and I highly recommend selling. However, you may have decided that you'd like to join the IAHBE, but don't have a way to do it if you don't have a credit card. I have to admit that I was rather ignorant of this whole situation until recently and now I'm trying to find a way or ways to help you. I've sent some information to a couple of you. If you find it helpful, please tell me and I'll pass it along to the entire team. I'd also like to know if it wasn't helpful. I think SFI must find a way to make it easier for international affiliates to play a bigger part in the company and I think that's under development. After all, Gery Carson -- the founder of SFI -- has announced that he's changing the name of the organization from Six Figure Income Marketing Group to Strong Future International Marketing Group, and if he's going to position it as an international organization, it's necessary to make it easier and more profitable for anyone who lives outside the US to be a part of the effort -- and to reap the rewards. I've also learned that it is difficult for some people to receive their commissions from SFI. Some of you have to pay very high fees to cash a check from the US. Som you may want to accumulate your commissions until they reach a certain level before SFI sends you a check, so the fee will be a lower percentage of what you earn. I'm still looking into this and I'll be checking the SFI discussion board every few days to see if any news is forthcoming in this regard. If you learn something that works for you, please share it with us. --------------------------------------------- That's all for today. --------------------------------------------- As usual, if you have any questions, comments, feedback or want to talk to me about any of this, I look forward to hearing from you. I'd like to recommend that you read the SFI discussion forum on a regular basis and post there if you have questions or comments. We're a friendly bunch and there are some very helpful people there. Just remember that you can't post contact information on their forum. If there's anythig I can do to help you grow your SFI business, please let me know at your convenience. I always try to answer my email within 48 hours or so. All the best, JD ================== Want your own SFI business? If you're willing to learn and have at least $1.00 per day to invest in growing your business, please click the link and join my sales team today. 2:40:37 PM    comment []

Tuesday, March 2, 2004

IAHBE goes all digital! Gery Carson, President of SFI Marketing Group announced some important changes in the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs. Since its inception in January 2003, the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (www.iahbe.org) has dedicated itself to providing the timely advice, information, and resources home-business owners around the world need to launch, operate, and grow a successful business. This commitment to excellence continues in 2004 with some exciting enhancements to the Association--enhancements designed to bring even more value from an IAHBE membership. On March 1, 2004, the IAHBE moved to an all-digital format. According to feedback IAHBE members provided in the recent Association survey, a vast majority prefer getting their business materials online. This new emphasis on online access has already resulted in a brand new look, feel, and organization for the IAHBE website. Updated with a cleaner, more user-friendly interface, the newly redesigned IAHBE site now makes navigating to the material you're looking for easier than ever. Articles and reports are now organized by topic, for example, while audio seminars, book and tool reviews, interviews, and other resources are listed in their own easy-access directories. Here's another MAJOR new bonus: The doors to the IAHBE archives have been swung wide open to ALL members of the IAHBE. This means that, as a member, you now have access to the entire IAHBE library, containing over 150 exclusive articles and expert reports, hours and hours of expert audio seminars, dozens of SFI-related business-building resources, and much more. That's not all! The IAHBE site will now be updated WEEKLY with fresh, new content, giving you a never-ending supply of new exclusive articles, expert reports, audio seminars, SFI resources, special IAHBE-exclusive offers, and more! If you haven't stopped by the IAHBE website lately, you owe it to yourself to check it out now. After you visit the site and look it over, I'd like to invite you to become a member today. 12:30:47 PM    comment []

Saturday, February 21, 2004

Six Steps to SFI Success This message was sent to all members of my SFI powerline on 2/21/2004. Hi, It's John Dilbeck, again, and I'm either your sponsor or Powerline Team Leader with SFI -- or both. We're getting more members on our team every week and it's gratifying to watch our group grow. As we put more effort into marketing the SFI opportunity and into selling products, the whole team will benefit. Have you read the special report, "Six Steps to Six Figures," yet? There is a very-well-defined path to success with SFI, and that's what makes it, in my opinion, such a great company with which to be affiliated. You can read the special report at: www.sfimg.com/Training/SixSteps.sfi Note that you have already completed Step 1: Become an SFI Marketing Group affiliate. Sometimes the first step is the hardest. You've made the decision to see what SFI is all about and to determine how it fits with your desires, goals, and plans. Why did you join SFI? I joined because I was already earning commissions from several companies, but they were all one-time commissions whenever I sold something for them. I was looking for two things that would help me grow my income and improve my financial security: residual income and leveraged efforts. Plus, I love working from home and not having to deal with a boss or a commute to work. I love setting my own goals and doing my best to create my own destiny -- and I absolutely hate asking anyone for a day off when I want to do something else. Just by joining SFI, I -- and you -- have already started leveraging our efforts, because SFI has millions of people helping to brand the company on the Internet, and because they provide us with quite a few gateways to promote the company and the products we offer. We offer training, support, and encouragement through direct contact and through the SFI discussion board. SFI offers over 600 products you can sell, and earn a commission for each one. I love the middle of the month when my SFI check arrives and I get to deposit it in the bank. How about you? One thing that's required for getting a check from SFI is to complete Smart Start. That gives you a quick overview of SFI, the compensation plan, and some of our products. When you complete SmartStart, you'll have your gateways activated so you can start promoting them. To become an affiliate with SFI, you already responded to one of my gateways where you filled out a form and joined as an affiliate -- and I thank you for taking that step. Perhaps you wanted to build a home-based business. Perhaps you wanted the free Secrets of Internet Millionaires offer: Secrets of Internet Millionaires Perhaps you're just kicking the tires to see what SFI is all about. One of the beauties of SFI is you can take all the time you want to look at the company from the inside and it won't cost you a single penny. Take all the time you want. We're here and ready to help you grow your business whenever YOU decide you're ready. It will take time and effort to get there, but there is a very good chance that you can increase your income by the amount you desire in a couple of years or so. There's no guarantee, but there's a much better chance with SFI than you'll ever have with your current boss. One step at a time is how you get from new affiliate to Group Leader. If you complete SmartStart within ten days of joining as an affiliate, you'll be a FastTrack affiliate. Finishing SmartStart gives you 5 SVP and that makes you half-way to being Multi-Income Qualified. (That's Step 3 on the Six Steps.) Once you complete Smart Start, your gateways are activated and you can earn a one-time commission when you sell something. But, one of the reasons SFI is so attractive is that you can earn income from several other income streams, too. Becoming MIQ opens up three more income streams. You'll start earning residual income for any sales you make. That's like being paid to work this week, and getting another commission check every month that particular customer purchases again. (Some of our products don't pay residual commissions, they only pay a one-time payment. Some of the new telecommunications products are like that. It's such a competitive jungle with cell phones, long distance, and such that we only get paid a single sign-up commission for them, but this is no different than it is with other companies with which I work.) All of you getting this message today have completed Step 1. You're an SFI affiliate and the company and I are here to help you progress and earn. Some of you have completed Step 2 (Smart Start) and now your gateways are active and you can start promoting them. There are lots of ways to do this, and you can find much more information at www.sfimg.com, the SFI discussion boards, or I'll be happy to help every way I can if you email me at jd@johndilbeck.com. I'm here to help you progress and earn more. I can recommend places to build your website, places to advertise, and things you can do online -- and offline -- to market our products and grow your business. Just don't bother your friends and neighbors or take the short-sighted route and send any Spam emails. When you start becoming successful, your friends, family and neighbors will ask you how you did it. Spam will just kill your business before you even get started. It doesn't work, it's rude, and SFI will terminate your affiliation without recourse if you do it. SFI is a business and is here for the long haul. Slow and steady will build your business, too. If you've made the commitment to complete Step 3 and become MIQ, then you're really starting to make progress. Remember, you don't have to pay anything to become MIQ. However, if you want to get off to a quick start, you can set up a standing order for IAHBE and for $29.95 you'll be MIQ every month. I recommend this approach. Why? Because, you won't really make a lot of progress before you become MIQ. You have to open the residual income stream. But, you won't really be spending $30 every month, in the long run. For every month that you are MIQ, you'll be banking a share of the PTL bonus pool, which generally averages in the mid-$20 range every month. So, if you become MIQ and remain so for several months (with no breaks!), you'll be banking one PTL bonus share for each month you remain MIQ. When you become PTL, you'll receive a check for all the banked shares at the amount they are worth that month. (If you skip a month and drop your MIQ status, you'll lose any banked shares, so that's why it's easier to set up a standing order for any of the 10 SVP products. Then you don't have to worry about it.) So, if you remain an IAHBE member for, say, six months before becoming PTL, you'll have six banked shares. When you become PTL (which is Step 4, by the way), you'll get a check for six times the current PTL bonus pool amount, because you have six banked shares. If it is $25, then you'll get a check for $150.00. This reduces your cost of IAHBE to about $5 per month, and the free book that's available every month is worth more than that! (Or, perhaps you prefer to buy the liquid nutrition or cleaning products. For instance, my mother was just diagnosed with gall bladder problems and has had to change her entire diet. I've decided that with such a restricted diet, she needs extra vitamins and minerals and the Veriuni liquid nutrition supplement looks like a perfect solution. So, I'll be buying a bottle for her every month. On top of her getting a product that she needs, I get 10 SVP points and my sponsor will get a commission. Win-win-win.) Plus, IAHBE contains a great selection of materials to help you learn how to be successful in marketing. It's a great deal, and even if I were to leave SFI (and I have no plans for that), I'd continue to be an IAHBE member. You can learn more about the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs by going to www.iahbe.org or, if you're already an SFI affiliate, you can join by going to the affiliate store at: affiliate store IAHBE page (If you're reading this and you're not an SFI affiliate yet, you can learn more about IAHBE at: International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs and you can choose to become an SFI affiliate at: Become an SFI affiliate ) But, you don't have to do this (purchase a standing order for IAHBE) to become MIQ! You can also become MIQ by selling enough products to earn at least 10 SVP each month. Sign up 1 IAHBE member, sell one bottle of liquid nutrition, sell any magazine subscription with 10 SVP or more, or any combination of products, and you are MIQ for the month. (Step 4, by the way, is to become a Powerline Team Leader, PTL, and to start building your own powerline team. To become PTL, you need to personally sponsor at least three affiliates and produce at least 40 SVP of sales volume every month.) You CAN progress through SFI without spending ANY money out of your pocket. You're not here to be a consumer; you're here to build your home business. YOUR BUSINESS. And you don't have to pay a penny for all the SFI employees, computers, Internet access charges, bandwidth, or anything else. SFI provides that to you for nothing. So, you don't have to build the infrastructure and manage the systems and employees. You don't have to stock products and ship or deliver them. You don't have to arrange contracts with suppliers. That frees you up to do nothing but market products and services. The more you sell, the more you earn. When I start a new business, and I've owned several, I expect to spend thousands of dollars and take at least 3 to 5 years to earn a profit. It's been just over a year since I joined SFI and I'm earning a profit, already. You can do it, too. I'm even hoping you'll be much more successful than I am. New Riser Leads Co-op. Last month, I expanded my marketing efforts and decided to start a Riser Leads Co-op. It's in place and working. If you're in my powerline, I'll be sending affiliates your way in the coming weeks and the only requirements to accept the affiliates as your personally-sponsored affiliates is to complete SmartStart and then become MIQ. I'm going to send up to three affiliates your way. If you don't take me up on the offer, it will rise up to someone else in the powerline. If nobody takes me up on the offer, the new affiliate will become my personally sponsored affiliate. If you pass on the offer three times, you may not get any more affiliates from my co-op. I'm willing to help you grow your business, but you have to do your part, too. I think that's enough for one message! I hope you have a great weekend and enjoy some time with your friends and family. All the best, JD 3:39:44 AM    comment []

Sunday, February 15, 2004

Home Business Tips newsletter has been archived The February 13, 2004 issue of the Home Business Tips newsletter was sent to all subscribers on Friday and now has been archived on JohnDilbeck.com. News included a preview of MadisonDynamics, Inc and an invitation to explore their site to see for yourself what it's all about. Resources discussed include: USCounties.com, PRWeb.com, Ryze Business Networking, AdlandPro Community, GetResponse.com, Host4Profit.com, and CBMall.com. You are invited to read the archived issue and subscribe to future issues. I welcome all feedback. 6:32:07 AM    comment []

Thursday, January 29, 2004

Complete Money Making Site Setup Free Stone Evans is another SFI Marketing Group Top 100 affiliates. A few days ago, I was researching what he's doing that made him successful and I found his Plug In Profit Site website. Stone has developed a system to help you promote several affiliate programs, including SFI. He'll set you up -- for free -- with a website and autoresponders that are proven money makers and will customize it just for you. On top of that he offers several valuable bonuses. There's no catch. He sets it up for you and offers support for free. However, he does require that you host your site at Host4Profit. The hosting fees are very reasonable and they come well recommended. I took the plunge a couple of days ago and applied for Stone to set up a site for me. In a couple of days, it should be accessible at 21stCenturySales.com. As with Jeff Mulligan's CBmall, Stone has created a marketing system to help you. If you're not an affiliate of the programs he markets in this system, you're given the opportunity to join. With both of these sites, your job becomes one of driving traffic to the site, rather than spending all your time trying to develop a system of your own. I figure I saved months of work this week by joining with Stone and Jeff in their marketing efforts and I know the systems they built will help me. It's a win-win situation and I love finding them. I'm looking forward to seeing what develops at 21stCenturySales.com. Stone has promptly responded to my requests for support and information, but I only had a couple of questions. This website is highly recommended if you're wanting to market your affiliate programs and learn from someone who has created a very useful system. 11:16:23 AM    comment []

15 Powerful Ways CBmall Makes You Money eCourse A few days ago, I was looking at the Top 100 sellers at SFI Marketing Group and wondering what they were doing to build their businesses and earn more money than most of the rest of us. So, I started researching and learned some valuable lessons. Some of the top 10 affiliates have created systems to promote the products and opportunities, and they're willing to help others by plugging them into the system. Jeff Mulligan created the CBmall, a system that promotes the top selling items at Click Bank and several other affiliate programs, including SFI. Some of the best selling ebooks are available through CBmall, and it even has a search engine to make it easier to find what you're looking for throughout Click Bank. In fact, Jeff says there are at least 15 Powerful Ways CBmall Makes You Money and, by clicking on the preceding link, you can sign up for his free ecourse -- with no obligation -- and learn about what he's done to make the system easy to use for buyers and powerful for marketers. The price is right, and Jeff has responded promptly to a couple of service questions. My site was up and running in less than 24 hours. I recommend this site for persons looking for some of the best ebooks. I also recommend it for affiliate marketers who want to plug into a system that helps you build your business and increase your income. Highly recommended website. 10:42:14 AM    comment []

Today Show - How to perk up your morning cup of coffee How to perk up your morning cup of coffee [The Today Show recently featured a segment on great tasting coffees. One of the suggested coffees is PurJava liquid concentrate coffee...] "PurJava was developed to offer coffee with a great coffee taste without the bitterness and acidity of regular brewed coffee. PurJava concentrate is produced in Nebraska using a cold-water process; water is filtered and then purified and then added to a coffee concentrate. The final step is pasteurization, producing a smooth coffee with less than half the caffeine of regular brewed coffee."[MSNBC] Want to try some yourself? Click here to purchase PurJava liquid concentrate coffee. For convenience and good taste, PurJava is ideal for the person on the go or for anyone who wants just one or two cups of great coffee. 7:55:46 AM    comment []

Sunday, January 4, 2004

Earning an Income with Affiliate Marketing This morning, while following some discussions on the SFI discussion board, I read a message by an affiliate named Ann. I replied to her message, and then came back to http://JohnDilbeck.com and expanded it into an article about some of my thoughts on Earning an Income with Affiliate Marketing. 8:27:48 AM    comment []

Saturday, January 3, 2004

SFI announces their new V-Store The opening of SFI's new V-Store on January 2nd, was somewhat marred by a DNS routing error that left their websites unavailable from Thursday evening until around 3:00 am on Saturday, January 3. However, with the DNS problems settled, the spotlight can move over to the new store and the products that are available for immediate purchase. The store opens with hundreds of products available for purchase, including several hundred magazines at good prices. Their line of natural cleaning products are chosen by many organizations, including national parks, medical centers, studios, and others that don't want to use cleaning products with toxic chemicals in them. Are you getting your nutritional needs met? Veriuni offers a line of nutritional supplements to help you get your daily nutrition requirements. Would you like to save money on your telecommunications needs? Choose from MCI's Neighborhood plan for local and long distance phone services, and they've partnered with some of the biggest names in nationwide cell phone providers to bring you wireless communications at great prices. Drop in and check out the new V-Store now. 3:43:05 AM    comment []