Dress up your plain posts at the SFI Forum with a snazzy photo of yourself as your avatar...it's easy!

1. Go to the SFI Forum.

2. Select the User Control Panel option. Click the Profile tab and select Edit Avatar.

3. Follow the instructions on uploading your photo (Maximum 90 x 90 pixels, 6KB).

Voila! Your posts now display your picture as your avatar.

TIP: For a great, easy way to re-size your photos to fit within SFI Forum requirements, check out the free Resizr online tool.

Not hearing from your sponsor? Make sure you've added your contact methods (phone numbers, instant messaging contacts, etc.) HERE...AND make sure you've selected "Yes" next to the "Share with my sponsor?" options next to the appropriate contact fields. Your contact information will then be made available to your SFI Sponsor via your sponsor's Genealogy report and Affiliate Manager.

Did you know that you can narrow your results within TripleClicks departments and find the type of TripleClicks listing you're looking for? It's super easy! Just go to the TC department you want. In the "Sort or Narrow Results" box to the right of your results, you'll see LISTING TYPE options that let you filter results to show only TC Direct Listings, Private Seller Listings, or MaxMalls Merchants only.

For example, go to the TripleClicks homepage[/url] and click on the Health & Wellness department. Next, click the "MaxMalls Merchants Only" option under LISTING TYPE. You'll now see all the MaxMalls merchants within the Health & Wellness departments. Simple!

You can purchase TC credits to earn EA status. For as little as $19.90, you can earn an EA-qualifying 10 SVP. And because TC credits are an 100% digital product, there's no extra shipping cost.

CLARIFICATION: You will need to purchase TEN single $1.99 credits.

There are a variety of credit bundles available. To review all of your TC credit options, go to TripleClicks.com and search on the keyword "credits." Note that the more credits you buy, the cheaper they are (as little as 19 cents apiece in fact).

Once you have your credits, what to do with them? You can give them away as free samples to generate new customers (search on "TC X-Cards" at TC to learn more about this).

You can of course also use the credits to sell your stuff, which allows you to convert your credits into more money than you paid for the credits! Don't have anything to sell? Hit your local flea markets and garage sales and you can pick up tons of stuff for pennies on the dollar that you can turn around and sell on TripleClicks for great profits.

And coming soon...a variety of other things at TC you can redeem your TC credits for.

How cool is that? You can go executive (become an EA) for less than $20 a month, get all the numerous EA benefits , AND have the ability to convert the cost of your credits into hundreds of dollars!

And to make it ultra-convenient, you can even set yourself up to receive your bundle of credits each month via a Standing Order so that you are automatically an EA each month! Just click the green Standing Order button at TripleClicks for the TC bundle you want to set this us for.

Thanks to SFI Affiliate John Blackwell for providing the genesis for this tip!

The TripleClicks MasterCard® opens up an array of exciting financial benefits for SFI affiliates worldwide:

* No need to wait days or weeks for your commission checks to arrive by postal mail! Instead, get your SFI commissions paid directly to your card, then convert to cash–in your country's currency–instantly at almost any ATM machine world-wide!

* Use your TripleClicks MasterCard® to pay bills, to order products at TripleClicks.com, or use your card anywhere else online or offline that accepts MASTERCARD®!

* Check your balance and more online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

* Your TripleClicks MasterCard® is a powerful recruiting tool, too. Pull out your TC MasterCard and explain how your friends can become SFI affiliates, too, and get money deposited on their own TripleClicks MasterCard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from sales all over the world! An easy and professional way to do this is to give
them your business card or SFI X-Card.

* The TripleClicks MasterCard® also facilitates new, "quick pay" commissions. Later this year, you'll be able to make a sale and receive your commission the same week, no matter where you are in the world!

To get your Cash Card, make sure "TripleClicks MasterCard®" (default) is chosen as your Commission Payment Option HERE. Once you have accumulated $20 in commissions, you will be notified via e-mail and alerts in the SFI Affiliate Center that you are now eligible and can order your card. Just follow the directions in this e-mail to order your card directly through Payoneer. Your TripleClicks MasterCard® will come loaded with the balance of your account, minus $19.95 (a one-time fee) for the cost of processing your card.

Once you receive your card, you can start using it immediately, and each month you generate commissions, we will automatically deposit your earnings on to your card for instant access. If you have any questions, please contact us at: support@sfimg.com.

*The banks issuing TripleClicks MasterCards® require a 10-day hold on initial commission deposits for new cards. If you receive your card prior to the end of this hold period, your card may not yet reflect your commission balance.

Click any SFI ID number on your Genealogy to access the Affiliate Manager, featuring detailed information on that affiliate. For personally sponsored affiliates, this page includes data from the Affiliate Profile, performance statistics, upline information, a sponsor checklist, and more...all designed to help you provide strong support (your responsibility as an SFI sponsor).

For more information about getting the most out of your Genealogy Report, see Genealogy Tips & Shortcuts.

Q: How does the SFI Gift Certificate program work?

A: It's simple: use the Gift Certificate Manager to add funds to your Gift Certificate account, view pending certificates, etc. To issue a Gift Certificate to one of your affiliates, go to your Genealogy Report (Gift Certificate Format). Then click the "Buy Now" link to purchase a Gift Certificate for a specific affiliate.

The SFI system then automatically sends your affiliate a special e-mail notifying them of the discount you've offered and the deadline. There will also be a special link included to quickly and easily access and choose an EA-qualifying product or products from TripleClicks.com—your affiliates will receive the discount you've authorized right off the top! These redemptions will be deducted from a special account you will fund.

It's not necessary to invest a lot of money creating your Website and establishing your online presence. There are MANY helpful resources for both FREE and affordable Web hosting services.

A few to check out include Doteasy, 50webs.com, and Yola.

These and other services offer both FREE and paid Web hosting and typically include VERY user-friendly, site-creating tools, with no programming or HTML experience necessary. However, for a nice, quick, easy HTML tutorial, which may help speed along your site creation, see this lesson from W3Schools

Special thanks to SFI Executive Affiliate Lusekelo Kaoloka for this tip!

To access your Power Rank Personal Scoreboard quickly, just click your point total in the Power Rank summary box at the top of your Affiliate Center home page.

Are You Ignoring 80% Of Your Market?
Why You Should Be Reaching Out Across The Globe!

Did you know that by mid-year of 2008, the worldwide number of Internet users had grown to more than 1.46 BILLION people, with the total amount spent online estimated to grow to $263 billion by 2010 from $170 billion last year!?

With those figures in mind, consider that although the U.S. led the pack as of July '08 for the percentage of its population online (73.6%), that number still constitutes only 17% (and shrinking) of Web surfers worldwide—a fairly small segment of online users!

The true current and future online growth is and will be in the world's most populous countries, such as China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia. In fact, the Asian continent ranks first worldwide for the number of Internet users—578 MILLION and growing. Moreover, since 2000, Africa and the Middle East have witnessed what can only be described as a phenomenal increase of online users: a cumulative, eight-year 1,031.2 % and 1,176.8 % growth rate, respectively!

Not coincidentally, we've also seen a dramatic increase in new SFI affiliates from these same regions coming in the door, with India, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Maylasia, and China all in the top 10!


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What's a quick, easy way to get around blacklisting of your affiliate Gateway URLs, create simple, easy-to-remember site names, track your site performance and marketing effectiveness, and MUCH more?

One word: BudURL!

Designed to give small businesses and marketers insight into "invisible" click traffic, BudURL makes link tracking amazingly simple. Just paste in a large, unruly Web address in the BudURL field and click the "Shrink It!" button. You'll get a unique URL that you can use anywhere you'd like such as social networks, instant messages, e-mails, ad campaigns, electronic newsletters, etc.

Shrink a link. Track it. Grow your business. It's that easy!

Create a contest for your affiliates based on Power Rank points. It could be a prize for the most points accumulated in an upcoming month (so everyone has the entire month). Or, you could award a prize to every affiliate who achieves a top five ranking in their class or any other criteria of your choosing.

Prizes could be SFI gift certificates, a free spot in your co-op, X number of reassigned affiliates, or any number of other things. Be creative.

Many people love to compete for prizes like this, but be sure to recognize your winners in your newsletter and/or on your team website or blog, too, as many people like being recognized as much or even more than receiving prizes!

SFI Executive Affiliate Lyle Kannenberg had this to say about this topic:

"Since the launch of the Power Rank system, I've seen huge participation from new personally sponsored affiliates (and I'm running an extra incentive contest as well). So far this month, two of my new signups are breaking records on my team!"

We recently unveiled a new Power Rank pointable action for sending your sponsor an SFI "Commitment Message." Read more about this HERE.

If you're the sponsor and you receive a Commitment Message, make sure you respond to the affiliate who sent you the message immediately. If you're not doing this, you're wasting GOLDEN opportunities for creating invaluable duplication in your group!

Conversely, if you haven't yet sent your sponsor your Commitment Message, don't put it off any longer! Your sponsor may be waiting to receive your Committment Message before they offer you co-op spots, reassignments, and/or other valuable benefits! That is, they may be looking for people to "raise their hands." Show your sponsor you're someone they should invest in by sending them your Commitment Message.

Just by logging into the Affiliate Center and visiting the Tip & Win page daily, you can earn 3 Power Rank points each day (for up to 90 days)! PLUS, you'll get a valuable daily and weekly tip and entry for a free iPod nano or a great runner-up prize. What a deal!

For more information, see the Power Rank Personal Scoreboard.

Don't forget SFI has a variety of baseball caps, mugs, shirts, mousepads, and many other items you can use to promote EyeEarn. Find them and lots of other items at www.cafepress.com/eyeearn. Additionally, you'll discover similar items with the SFI logo at www.cafepress.com/GoSFI.

See this marketing methods page for lots of tips on using these items.