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9 Tips on Making Sales

“How Do I Make Sales?”

That is a question I get Asked ALLLLLL the time.

“I see so many people posting their results, but I haven’t made a single sale yet. What am I doing wrong?”

Another Good Question.

The key to selling any product, program, or software is consistency and having a methodical approach to marketing.

Here are 10 tips to make more sales:

  1. Focus on building your list. An email list is your #1 asset. It’s traffic on demand. Once someone is on your list, you can send emails to them over and over and over.
  2. Because you can ail them any time you like, you do not have to try and sell them something in every email. You can take time to build rapport.
  3. Building an email list takes money or time. If you can’t afford paid advertising, you’ll need to put in the time. Network on Faceook, advertise on safelists. Whatever you do, you have to be consistent. And do not advertise products or programs. Use this advertising to invite people onto you list. When you advertise a product or a program you are asking your prospect to say Yes or No. 98% say no. End of discussion. But an invitation to your list is a Maybe/Learn More request. 36% say Okay, Yeah.
  4. As people Join your List, send them at least one email per day – consistently! Automate this with an auto-responder like TrafficWave
  5. Send 50 to 100 friend requests in social media every day. And then follow up and build relationships in Messenger/chat/or inbox features of the social media platform.
  6. Never push your offer from the start. Ask them what they do online. 90% of the time they’ll ask you what you do. So, tell them what you promote but do not promote it. Ask if they’re interested. Then, and only then, give them the link.
  7. When people join you in Social Media share helpful ideas (not sales) inviting them to Learn More y joining your list. You can Also use TrafficWave/Zapier integration to add your social media friends to your email list.
  8. Create a video review tools you use or services you use. Post it on YouTube. In your YouTube post include an invitation to join your list and Learn More. Then post the video in your social media. Also send the video to your email list, but when you send it to your email list include links to join the program or buy the product. A lot of people are having success with this method. Examples: https://youtu.be/2A-Z3ehDd60
  9. Contact your sponsor and ask them what they’re doing to make sales.

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Grow Your Business With A Newsletter

Marketing with a Newsletter

Newsletter publishing helps your business grow. Whether you run a large corporation or a small home-based business as a solo-entreprenuer, publishing your own online newsletter can be a great way to grow your business.

And it’s actually a lot easier than you might think.

Some of the benefits you can expect from newsletter publishing include:

  • Improved Credibility. 
    Publishing your own online newsletter keeps your company name in front of your best customers and prospects. This sort of exposure can help build your credibility.
  • Reduced Marketing Expenses.
    The cost of online newsletter publishing is significantly lower than printing and mailing paper-based newsletters.
  • Reduce Distribution Time.
    Once the design is completed, your online newsletter can be sent out with the click of your mouse. No waiting for printing, sorting, postage, deliveries, etc…
  • Instant Feedback.
    With the speed of the Internet, you can track any feedback or responses to your online newsletter almost instantly. List segmentation tools let you know how many people opened your newsletter and how many people clicked through to your site or offer page.

How To Get Started

Steps for you to consider:

  1. Content
  2. Audience
  3. Process

Content: If you are watching your market and involved with their needs, your market should already be giving you a number of ideas on what to cover in your newsletter. A dentist might send out regular dental hygiene tips. An insurance company might send out tips on insurance policies, options, or financial investment tips. A veterinarian might send out tips on how to care for animals. A business coach might send out tips on personal development or promotion.

One good way to find ideas is to go through your emails and look through the questions your clients and prospects have asked. These emails provide great starting points and could provide ideas for several newsletters.

Decide on how often you will publish your newsletter. Weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly are typically the most preferred delivery schedules. Your market and feedback will help you decide on the best schedule for your newsletter. The key is to be consistent and keep your prospects and clients informed with relevant and timely information.

Audience: Once you’ve decided on a schedule, format, and content, the next step is to begin building your list of subscribers.

Start with your existing customers. Ask them to subscribe to your newsletter by filling out a subscription form at your web site. You can use services like the TrafficWave AutoResponder System to build and manage your subscriber lists.

You can also invite visitors to your site to subscribe by filling out the same form at your web site.

If you send out direct mail, add a note and invitation to your next mailing.

Be sure to include an invitation to subscribe on any emails you send out, articles you write, forums you belong to, etc…

Process: By using a service like TrafficWave.net, you can easily create templates for your newsletter that incorporate your logo, look like your web site, etc..

You can also track the number of times your newsletter is opened and even track the number of click-throughs to your site. This helps you get a good grasp on how well your newsletter is being received and how productive it is being for your business.

To learn more about the TrafficWave.net AutoResponder system, request our free report by filling out this form.

I would strongly suggest that your news letter is a short “Abstract” with a Read More link to your blog. This allows you to add general advertising to your newsletter and when they see an article they like, they select “Read More” and they go to your blog. This creates engagement (The comments on your blog) and target ads. You focus your ads to their choice in articles.

This increases your ad exposure without overwhelming your prospect with ads. They self-select their interests and your ads target that interest.

For example, My newsletter may have an abstract about 3 things:

  1. Questions that Lead to Engagement
  2. List Building or Social Media
  3. Market Value of QR codes

They select their area of interest and see ads targeted to that selection. Also using a blog to support your newsletter enables you to direct “past articles of interest” in your newsletter. The result, your Newsletter is full of great content but your not constantly creating tons of content.

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Free QR Code Generator

Why QR Codes? Simple, over 70% of the 11 Million Members in SFI use a Cell Phone to do business. You want to be reaching this audience.

Let’s start with GOOD news. It is free. All the features are available in a free version. The only difference between free and paid is 1 Google Ad. Go Free. I Am

Second “all features” means a lot of features for both making your QR Code and for tracking scans. Here is an example that I just made this minute:

Narak Store QR Code

Things to note about the layout.

  • Color both foreground and background can be adjusted. This one is purple foreground white background.
  • The three corner pegs can be a variety of shape combinations.
  • There are lots of frame choices. Here I use the phone Scan Me option.
  • You can add a logo. Here I added the profile pic of the owner of Narak Store, Atchariya.

Tracking is great too. You can Track:

  • The number of scans.
  • The date of each scan.
  • The Location of each scan.
  • The OS used on each scan.

Start using QR Codes to promote your Sales Sites, Your Programs, Your Products and Sign ups for your List.

Visit This Great Free Resourceful QR Code Generator Here:

QR Code To MeQR

Leave me a Comment, How might you use QR Codes to advance your business?

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Are you Advertising OR are you Trying to Make Sales?

George McBride

Advertising Is Not Sales.

Elizabeth asked, “In the past I have tried selling products on TripleClicks by posting affiliate links on Facebook and Twitter but I ended up in Facebook jail. Why? What can I do to Sell Products?”

Social Media is a social platform, it can be used for advertising, not sales. What do I mean? Facebook and many other social media sites have a Sales, or they often call it Market, branch. It is where people go to shop. It requires you paying the platform.

The social stream can be used for advertising. BUT Remember that advertising does not produce sales. What does it produce? I’ll tell you, Rapport. Some call it branding.

You build a good feeling between your brand and your prospect. In our case, we are the brand. We build “know, like and trust” As they get to know us, like us and trust us they begin to see I might be able to provide a solution to their needs, wants and desires. They want to get that solution from me, not Amazon, not someone posting links on Facebook but from me because they know, like and trust me.

The best way to provide that rapport is give the prospect the opportunity to “Learn More” ….  This leads them to join my email list.  I have built my List to over 5000 people, and you can Learn How I did it.

My Thai Food FB Group is a classic example. I started and admin the group. I protect the group from raw blatant Sales posts. I have one member who posts this every day:
“You have tried the rest, now try the best”. then the info on their restaurant and a picture of their business.

Every day I block this post. People are in my group to learn about Thai food, not go to this guy’s restaurant. Of the 100,000 people only about 50 could even go. The rest live no where near the Restaurant. Why make everyone else see this ad? My group appreciates that. They Like that, and I am earning their trust.

How did I build a Group this size? It started with a Video I saw.

When I make a food suggestion many respond because they know, like and trust me. There is a spice mix, NamTok, that I sell on TripleClicks. A member of my group mentioned that this spice tastes good on french fries. We do not eat french fries, so we tried it on popcorn. I responded to the guys post and thanked him for the idea and shared a picture of the popcorn. Result 6 sales immediately and several more since.

I posted a rice dish with tons of herbs in it . The rice was blue and I found out it was made blue using Butterfly Pea Flowers (a tea concoction). I mention that in the post. 2 people asked about where they can get the Tea

I found a farm here that produces it and have listed it on TripleClicks in my Store. I passed it on to the Thai Food Group. And I made several sales. I am not selling on Facebook, I am a trusted source for meeting needs and solving problems. 

This is how I use Social Media.

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Who Likes Pushy Sales People?

No Friends Left - Too Pushy?

I have said many times, “Sales is Fast Money and Team Building is Big Money”

I am a member of SFI as an Affiliate Marketer. Here are 5 ways to build your sales without being pushy. They are specifically meant for SFI Affiliate Marketing but the principles can apply to any marketing. If you want to use SFI as your affiliate marketing platform,

I want to show you 5 good, fast and easy ways to make sales and valuable Sales VP (Profit Pool Shares).

1. Transfer Buying – There are products you use every day that are sold in TripleClicks. Stop buying that product at your local market and start buying it on TripleClicks. Transfer your Buying.

For example, A exotic meal for Dinner. , there are 1000s of products from Coffee to Toothpaste in TripleClicks.

Here’s another example of Transfer Buying. I won an Auction and received an Air Compressor for my car. This means I paid way below retail. I was using it yesterday to increase the air pressure in my tires and my neighbor saw me. He asked me, “Where’d you get that?”

I told him TripleClicks and encouraged him to join, he said “No I don’t think so.” But can you buy it for me. I suggested bidding for it in Astro Auctions instead, we did, but did not win. He then said, “Just buy it. But can you sign me for these Auctions, they’re fun?”

2. Buy Local – Suppose you do not want to “Transfer” your buying. Suppose you like your local shop, or you are a close friend or relative of the shop owner. Then invite that shop owner to join the Localvantia Program in SFI. Continue to buy from them, but earn valuable Rewardicals as well as building your SFI earnings.

The Localvantia Program is extremely valuable to the shop owner as well. He gets a valuable Loyalty program and he can earn on members of that Loyalty Program even when they are shopping somewhere else. That shop owner will like that.

3. Use Collections – Log on to TripleClicks first. Then open this Collection of all my Thai Foods sold on TripleClicks.  http://gotclicks2.com/3nQCeTATn In the Top right hand corner you will see a button, “Copy Collection” click it and My Food Collection will be copied into your TripleClicks back office completely customized with your SFI ID such that any purchase made from your collect will be commissions for you.

You will have a new link, similar but not the same as my GotClicks2 link. Promote it and any sale from, what is now your collection will result in commissions for you. I fulfill the order but you get the commissions and the Sales Quota points. Read more about Collections Here

4. Niche Market – You can build your own niche market. Are you interested in Food, recipes, exotic and spicy flavors. I have a program where I promote my Thai foods using a weekly recipe. Get those emails here: https://servethailand.com/SFI/NTP.html Change the links to your SFI ID, or to your new collection link, and promote these recipes to friends and family and on your social media. Currently my Thai Food Facebook Group is 210,000 people.  

Not into food? Whatever you like to do or talk about, whatever your niche is, build a collection of products from TripleClicks and then just talk about your niche, sharing your product collection link. For example, I have a Thai Bags Collection, a Drone Collection, a Beauty Matters Collection and more.

5. Tweet This – I have an email campaign that will send an email to your inbox every day or 2. In that email will be blue “Tweet This” buttons. When you click that button your twitter account will be opened (you may need to log on) and you will be given the option to make a Tweet directly to your account. In that tweet any SFI product links will be customized to your SFI ID. Anyone who sees the tweet and clicks the product link will be your customer. It will be your sale. All you need to do is open the emails each day and click the Tweet This Buttons. 

Realize that not all tweets will be promoting products. Some are designed to simply bring value to your audience and increase your creditability with your audience. Want Tweet This Click Here?

Well there you go, 5 simple ways to start reaching your Sales Quota and making Commissions without being a pushy sales person. Pick one and Start Using It today.

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Are You Working on You?

Most people think it is hard to succeed online. Did you know “off line businesses” are way harder. Did you know that 20% fail almost right away and another 65% fail after 5 to 10 years. That is 85%. Why do most people fail at business? 

It is not the business. Same business, one entrepreneur fails and another succeeds. It is the character and the habits of the business person, not the type of business. 

At which job do you work harder? Finding the successful business or becoming that successful business person? Do you work harder on your job, or harder on yourself? Success is in you, not the business.

What are some of those Character Traits and Habits that make a person successful? Well here is one.

1. Live within your Means. Some people love to ask me for money in order to launch their SFI business. In other words they want me to launch it. 

If I launch it shouldn’t it be mine? 

Once there was a training conference and Rob C, said he really wanted to go, but could not afford it. It was $17, would I help him? I said sure. I paid his registration and was excited he wanted to learn and grow. 

The night before the conference I needed to give him information. I called him on his cell, and passed on the info. It was noisy in the background so just out of curiosity I asked, “Where are you?” He said he was at the movies and just coming out from the theater. 

At that time movies were $12.00. And I thought, it is not that Rob cannot afford the conference, it is that he wants to go to the movies more. He wants enough money in his pocket to go to the movies and use my money to go to the conference. 

It was not that he could not afford it, it was that he chose to place his business growth behind going to the movies. Today he still struggles financially. 

Are you putting your money where it will help your business, your skills, your knowledge and your experience grow? Or are you going to the movies? 

There is a fun proverb at one of the local Buddhist temples here in Chiang Mai. I love it, “Not yet rich, Live like you are rich, never be Rich. Not yet poor, live like you are poor, never be poor.

Invest in yourself.

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Without the right Tools the Job can be Hard.


If you were planting a tomato in a pot on your porch you might use your hands (hobby).

If you’re planting 20 tomato plants in your back yard garden you’ll probably use a shovel.

And if you are running a tomato farm in order to make a living you’d have a tractor.

The same is true for every online entrepreneur. If you want to succeed big you have to be ready to scale up as time goes on. You will not be able to make a living or even feed your family if you stick with just using your own two hands. You have to start acquiring the tools to succeed.

Here is my process. Identify a niche. Build an audience in that niche. Provide that Niche a reason to get onto my email list. Consistently promote value content to that list with my product and opportunity promotions.

Example. I started a Facebook group called I Love Thai Food. In January I began building it. I now have 51,000 members. I promote YouTubes that shared about Thai Food. Here is an example: http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/Lobster

In that video you will see a banner on the left to get my Cookbook (my list).

Here is another video example, Click on the Hormoke Talaa Recipe to the left. A recipe where you can get my cookbook or buy products: http://www.syrwebdesign.com/r/geo/HorMoke

Once on my list they get a recipe every week and my product ads to go with it.

Among the 51,000 people several people have joined to promote their Thai foods to my audience. I have a sub niche were I promote Flexxity and RECA (A website community for E-Commerse Sites) to these people as well as other promotional skills.

What are my Tools?
1. Social Media Account
2. Web Hosting for Website and Blog
3. TrafficWave Auto-responder for List Building
4. SFI my Affiliate Marketing Resource

Start today with building an Audience.

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What Is Content Marketing and Why Is It Important Today?**

George McBride
I Use Email Marketing

I am saying it ALL the Time, Build your Audience. You are probably sick of hearing it from me. But this is how you make money on line.

All the Gurus say Build Your List. And they are right except it is more than that. A List are people you have, an Audience is people who have chosen you. An “Audience” listens, a “List” of unknown people is regularly deleting your emails.

How do you build an Audience? How did I build my Audience around Thai food, now over 42,000 strong?

I listened today to a very good Podcast that provide the steps to getting your audience. Want to listen to it? It will be worth your time. But know it is about 45 minutes long. Here are the High Points and how I did it.

1: Identify Your Sweet Spot

The first step is to find your sweet spot. This involves identifying what expertise you can offer, pinpointing what your audience is struggling with, and making connections between the two.

My sweet spot was Thai Food. I live in Thailand Love Thai food.

2: Find Your Content Tilt

Your sweet spot is just the starting point. Now you need to take it a step further and find your differentiation area, or “content tilt.” You can’t just create the same content that everybody else is offering and expect to stand out.

My Content Tilt was Rats. Well rats play a part. If I did just Thai Food there would be too much competition. I focus on foods few people have had. That includes rats, yes. Everyone knows Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Green Curry. I provide an unusual option. Thais living abroad love see “the real thing.” Others like the unusual aspect.

3: Choose a Platform to Focus on

Now you need to pick your core platform to build your audience. Based on who you’re targeting and your content tilt, choose your content type—audio, video, or text plus image? Then select your content platform. YouTube for video? Apple Music or Spotify for your podcast? A WordPress blog for your text plus image? Instagram for your pictures? Clubhouse for interactive audio?

If your niche does not differentiate you may be your platform can. For example, there are tons of recipe blogs, and YouTube videos so I chose a community approach on Facebook. I built a Facebook Private Group.

4: Build an Audience

The 9-12 months you spend focusing on the base leads to audience-building. This is where social media comes in. If you decide you’re going to be on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube, remember that you don’t control any of those connections. Those followers or subscribers are Twitter’s, Facebook’s, or YouTube’s, not yours. The platforms are letting you use their audience right now.

You need to have a plan to ascend the subscriber hierarchy and move into email. You’re moving from rented to owned. I have 40,000 plus subscribers and use TrafficWave to manage and mail my list. Any other service provider would be far too costly. TrafficWave is $17.95 no matter how big your subscriber list is. Other services would be 100s per month.

5: Generate Revenue

For the first 9-12 months, you don’t want to have any revenue expectations. It doesn’t mean you won’t get revenue. Just keep your expectations low because it takes time to build a loyal audience.

After about 12-18 months, you’ll be in the revenue sweet spot. With the loyal audience you’ve developed, you can generate revenue in lots of different ways.

My list is now, after 7 months, producing a consistent revenue stream. Bu 90% of that revenue comes from those who have subscribed to my email list. I make 10x moresales from sending an email than from posting to my Facebook Group. But near 80% of my subscriber who I email subscribed from my Facebook Group.

**Footnote: Content Marketing Strategy: A Proven Method to Success by Michael Stelzner Full Article

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For an Affiliate Marketer, Branding is How People Feel About You

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
― Maya Angelou

Branding is the process of giving specific meaning to an individual, company, or product. A brand is basically the gut feeling about that individual, company or product. For Affiliate Marketers this usually means I must think of myself as the Brand.

What is the “specific meaning” or “gut feeling” I give to those I am engaging?

Many years ago I was at a development conference. It was while I was a student in University and it was a lot of teaching, workshops, and some free time.

Mike G. was there too. It was the first time he ever went. 

A few days after the conference I asked him, “What did you like best? What did you learn?

Mike proceeded to tell me about lunch the last day. He was sitting at a table with 7 athletic guys. The plate of Fried Chicken was in front of him. He saw the biggest piece and he wanted it. One of the guys next to him picked up the plate, took a piece of Chicken and passed it away from Mike. 

He watched it go from guy to guy until it arrived in his hands, that big piece still there. He has never forgotten how those guys made the newest guy at the table feel.

Crazy, isn’t it? All the money, planning, and time invested in the conference and what Mike remembers is the Chicken. Today many years later all I remember is Mike’s Chicken story, I have no idea who the speakers were, or what the topic was that they spoken on. Just Mike and what I felt as he told me that story.

For me and Mike that conference was significant because of how it made us feel, and we now associate that positive response to the organization who ran the conference.

When we win our Affiliates over, when they know, like and trust us. When they feel good about doing business with us and have a positive response toward us, they become our fans who help grow our business. The best advertising, bringing others into the fold, is provided by them. According to Nielsen, more than 90% of Americans believe recommendations from friends and family over all forms of advertising,

So do your affiliates Know Like and Trust you. Have you branded yourself to them in a positive way?

We can complain about inactive affiliates and what we are really saying is, “These inactive affiliates are doing nothing for me.” Let’s think of something this week that will make even just one of our affiliates feel good about being in our business, feel good about having “me” as a sponsor. 

Build or start a Facebook Group with your Affiliates and see your “brand” grow. For some Great Hacks on building and running a Facebook group see Pat Flynn’s Video

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Do you Know your Sponsor?

The Money Is In The Follow Up
No it’s in the Follow-up

I have joined many Free Ad Sites, over 450 to be truthful. Need some ad sites to join? Click Here. If you join, I will be your sponsor and you will be able to say, “I know my Sponsor”

But I was thinking today about Ads-Messenger. I have no idea who my sponsor is. In most my ad sites I have no idea who my sponsor is. Do you know who your sponsor is in any solo list like Ads-Messenger?

But I do know the owner, Gnana Prakash.
How about the Owner of Your Success Advantage? Matthew Graves
How about the owner of Build My Down Lines? Darren Olander
How about the owner of My Free Text Ads? Dave Mosher
How about Free Advertising For You? Jason Wise

I even know most of them by site from their Profile Pictures. But in none of the sites above do I know my Sponsor. There is a problem there. Do you see it?

People like Gnana succeed, and people like you and me fail because… We post affiliate URLs and hope people buy or join. We are not Capturing  the prospect’s email. We cannot FOLLOW-UP with that prospect. But Gnana can.

Our Prospect becomes the Site Owners Customer. Yeah you get some commissions, maybe, but probably not. The Site owner will get the Lions Share of the Money. You get emails from the site owners everyday to join their other sites, right? They even sweeten the pot with Ad credits at their current site. In all these sites they will be your sponsor, not the guy who recruited you to the original site. That’s Okay, But…
 
The money is not in the LIST. The MONEY IS IN THE FOLLOW-UP! And the owner is doing all the followup. In Gnana case he has over 10,000 on the list of Ads-Messenger.

If you are not building your own list, you cannot follow up with your prospects. You are losing Money. Worse you are giving it away to someone else.

Online Marketing is a BUSINESS.  An Autoresponder is a TOOL. You must have the Tool in order to do the business!

A plumber without a wrench would see his business fail. A Carpenter without a hammer would not succeed. 

An online marketer without a list building email auto responder program WILL FAIL.

Get this free step by step. It will have you up and running, building a list in 30 minutes or less.

Don’t waste time reading my post, start launching your own, for real, online business.