Some Very Good Things To Know! (If you want to make BIG money with your SFI business)

Atop each SFI Discussion Board forum you'll find Announcements,
placed there from time to time by SFI Corporate personnel, by SFI
Administrators, and by DBoard moderators. Go now to the SFI main website and
visit the discussion board: http://www.sfidboard.com.

There is one announcement, that appears all the time.
It's "Welcome DBoard Member - Click Here! Lots Of Really Good Stuff For YOU!".

In that announcement you'll find links to the following, ALL FREE:
(more information about each entry may be found at the link above together with
a live link to the entry)

> SFI Testimonials from Affiliates and Customers around the World
> SFI Marketing Group Affiliate Resource Center
> IAHBE - SFI's own International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs
> VeryVIP Sitebuilder/Webhosting now available!
> Starting Your Own Business with the New VeryVIP Sitebuilder
> NiceOffers/United Bank Card
> SFI Announces NiceOffers.com!
> NOC Business-In-A-Box and other NOC/UBC Business Resources

> Network Marketing Success In 10 Steps (Free eBook and more)
> Fortune Now with Tom 'Big Al' Schreiter - Free Recruiting Manual and
Newsletter
> Dani Johnson - Free Network Marketing Training Call Vault
> Bob Leduc - Free Newsletter and Marketing Course
> David Frey's Small Business Marketing Best Practices - Free
> CEMLeadCoach - Free Professional Training for Network Marketers with
"Motivated Mike"
> Natural Selling Free Sales Training - For Direct Sellers and Network Marketers
> simple*ology - n. the simple science of getting what you want (Free 18 Day
Course)
> Michael Senoff's Executive Audio Institute - Free
> Dream Team - Masters of Marketing... Masters of Training... Free Newsletter
only
> Dan Kennedy Marketing - Free gift

> Self-Starters Weekly Tips - free marketing information
> The Newbie Club - free (you've got to see it to believe it!)
> Reference Desk - free (also - you've got to see it to believe it!)
> Web 100 - free
> 100 Best Websites - free
> CNet Software Downloads - free
> ZDNet Software Downloads - free
> How Stuff Works - free
> eHow - free daily "how to do it" newsletter

> Thrifty Fun - free newsletter and money-saving information
> Ezine Articles - free (again - you've got to see it to believe it!)
> Directory of Article Directories - free
> eBook, eZine, and Article Directories - free
> Dear Webby's Daily Humor Letter - free daily newsletter fun and more
> WorldStart - free 6 stunningly informative newsletters and more
> Giveaway Of The Day - free software
> Good Keywords - free
> Xdrive - free 5 GB online storage
> Advanced Searchbar - free composite searchbar and toolbar

All this, and much much more, in addition to all the valuable free information
you can get, and use, from fellow affiliates and contributors to the DBoard.
SUCH AS: Start your SFI Business here... Top 10 Threads for Getting Started
quickly

Interested?
Yes, I thought you might be!
So run - don't walk - as fast as you can to here.
http://www.sfidboard.com/announcement.php?f=48
And take advantage of all the goodies that SFI and its DBoard have delivered to
you!

Then... to show your appreciation to SFI and to the DBoard and to all the
affiliates who have done so much to care about you,
I suggest that you use what's been given to you to:

1) develop your SFI business,

2) upgrade to Executive Affiliate,

3) create a Team and become a Team Leader, and

4) become wealthy way beyond your dearest imaginings and wildest dreams just
like all the SFI leaders who have done these exact same things before you simply
by using what SFI and its official Discussion Board have freely offered to every
affiliate.

Think about it! It's amazing what valuable applied knowledge can do for you.

In a word - it's POWER!

Isn't the worth to you of all of this free information many times any financial,
time, or effort cost that you may expend in building your business?

Yes, indeed it is! In fact, it's a slam dunk no-brainer!

So...
Pay back your debt to SFI and your leaders!
Create real wealth for yourself and others!
Follow the PATH that SFI has laid out for you.

Just do it... NOW! Go to http://www.sfimg.com/.

To maximize your SFI experience, take advantage of SFI's EyeEarn Advertising
Co-op too!

Combined with SFI's Online Shopping Mall, MaxMalls, with EyeEarn SFI has given
you the key to unlock both FREE personal sponsoring of new Affiliates + FREE
money in your commission, EVERY MONTH, from NOW ON!

All it takes to qualify to get this is a one-time purchase of the EyeEarn kit.
You can receive even more by being EA or EA on Standing Order.

For all the details, see http://www.sfimg.com Hot News
http://www.EyeEarn.com and http://www.MaxMalls.com

Go here now - If you want to get very, very, very wealthy using SFI, here's all
you have to do!

You will receive and come to be overjoyed with all the benefits of your thriving
new business life with SFI!

To our success!
Melissa Burton
www.mykidsinheritance.com


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Get to Know Your Sponsor....

Welcome to this week's SFI Affiliate Team One member update! Remember to bookmark this blog to stay current on team member news!

I was recently honored with an interview in the PIPs news that I would love to share with you, so you will have a better understanding of who I am and what I represent:

http://pips-news.blogspot.com/2007/12/pips-news-interview-melissa.html

Congratulations to those of you who have taken the step to update your profiles and complete your initial training, showing a real dedication to your goal of becoming financially independent! Remember, I'm always here to help with any questions or concerns....

Also be sure to check out the expert reports available, free of charge, on your SFI main website at https://www.sfimg.com/Training/ExpertReports.sfi#1.

To our success!

Melissa Burton
www.mykidsinheritance.com

Success with SFI... "as simple as 1,2,3!"

Step One: SFI AFFILIATE --
Everyone starts in SFI as an Affiliate.

Qualifications: Just sign up...free!
Costs or fees: None required

As an Affiiate, you get:

• 30% commissions on all retail sales (which can be paid directly to your SFI Cash Card).

• A valuable spot in the SFI companywide Powerline for 30 days (your spot can be locked in by advancing to the rank of Executive Affiliate **see below). How valuable is your spot in the Powerline? See your Powerline Report HERE.

• Access to hundreds of exciting products and services you can promote and sell. SFI takes care of all orders, product shipments, and customer service for you at no cost.

• More than 20 FREE, personalized "Gateway" Websites you can use to market your products and/or the SFI business opportunity.

• Access to the SFI Affiliate Center featuring hundreds of free marketing aids, powerful business tools, and valuable training resources to help you start building your new global business empire.

AFFILIATES: ARE YOU USING ALL OF THESE TOOLS?!

Step Two: EXECUTIVE AFFILIATE
If you're serious about success, you'll want to "go executive" as soon as you can.

Qualifications: Just 10 SVP (Sales Volume Points) a month
Costs or fees: None required

As an Executive Affiiate (EA), you get:

• ALL Affiliate benefits (listed above), PLUS...

• Ongoing income on everyone under you in the Powerline! As an EA, you'll lock in your valuable position in the SFI companywide Powerline. Learn more HERE.

• A share of every sale and purchase from every SFI affiliate worldwide who joins SFI after you (known as Residual Income)!

• A guaranteed commission check every month!

• Double retail sale commissions, from 30% to 60%!

• Up to 200% Executive Match income. See comp plan for details.

• Up to 56% off on SFI's most popular products via wholesale pricing!

• Commissions on Niceoffers.com (NOC) activity generated by your personally sponsored affiliates (PSAs). Each time one of your PSA's merchants have an NOC coupon redeemed, YOU earn a commission! Each time one of your PSA's NPOs (non-profit organization) runs a fundraiser, YOU earn a commission!

• Commissions on SFI MERCHANT SERVICES activity generated by your personally sponsored affiliates (PSAs). Each time one of your PSAs participating merchants accepts a credit card for a transaction, YOU earn a commission!

• FREE access to valuable business-building tools—such as Co-op Manager, Hit Tracking, Eagle Co-op, Key Codes, and more—designed to help you produce more team upgrades and increase your commissions.

• FREE, single-click group messaging. Send messages, newsletters, training articles, etc. to your organization.

SUMMARY: Please email me with your answers to the following --
If you are an affiliate, have you completed Smart Start training? If not, why not?
If you have completed Smart Start training, have you upgraded to Executive Affiliate? If not, why not?

Help me out, here, team. I want to know!!

Melissa
Your team sponsor....

Thank you, thank you, thank you

It is thanks to you, SFI Team One, that I've been honored with a place on this month's SFI Leaderboard: https://www.sfimg.com/Leaders/TopSponsor.sfi.

Obviously, I couldn't have done it without you!!

Congratulations to our most recent Smart Start graduates, Vitaliy, Bharat and Ken -- well on your way to financial freedom with your own successful home business. Next step: upgrade to Executive Affiliate!

And more congratulations to our EA, Terry Simpson, for his latest affiliate sign-on. I've transferred another affiliate to your downline to match! EVERYBODY SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MY CHALLENGE, now in its last 3 days:
* Upgrade to EA, I'll transfer 10 affiliates to your downline
* I will match each and every new affiliate sign-on for every member of our team.
...through Sunday, December 9...so good luck to everyone!!

Proud to be your sponsor,

Melissa Burton
www.mykidsinheritance.com

Another Gift for our Team Members!!

'Tis the season....

First, congratulations to our latest Smart Start graduate, Violante! Hopefully I'll be getting your Executive Affiliate status email notification soon.....

I'm not sure why, once completing Smart Start training, you all wouldn't be SO EXCITED about the opportunity SFI offers to fast-track your goals for financial freedom with your own home business.

I do have a special offer I've been authorized to give the members of our team who have completed Smart Start training through SFI (whether you are an affiliate or EA, you need only to have completed the training). Note: If you hare not sure whether you have completed this training, feel free to email me at melissa@mykidsinheritance, and I can look up your status.

Once you have completed it, proceed to http://www.mykidsinheritance.com/MPM, click on "Click Here to learn more," then click on "Yes, I want my BUSINESS Power Mall."

This is a wonderful opportunity introduced to our affiliates by successful, President's Club-level members of SFI -- these are the folks making THOUSANDS of dollars each month, who only pass on guaranteed, proven opportunities to fellow affiliates.

So again, IF you have completed Smart Start training (if not, you are probably not prepared to expand your home internet business yet), go to http://www.mykidsinheritance.com/MPM, and follow the links to claim your BUSINESS Power Mall. You may, of course, complete your Smart Start training now and go directly to this link afterward....

Note: Claiming a personal Power Mall has NOT been recommended, as a team cannot be built with a "personal" mall; therefore, please ensure you have chosen 'business.' Please feel free to look around and watch the video presentation on MPM's site as well.

AND REMEMBER, you have SEVEN more days to meet my upgrade challenge and claim your free affiliates!!

Melissa

Challenge to My Team!!

Congratulations to our newest Executive Affiliate, Raymond Rosuman! Raymond, send me your preferred website address to post on our team blog at http://www.sfi-team1.blogspot.com for a free backlink and exposure....

Team, we're growing my leaps and bounds, and I'd love to see us continue this upward trend. So once again, let's get into a season of giving:

Each new EA on our team during the next 10 days, from today 11/29 through Sunday, 12/9, will receive 10 new affiliates in their downline to get them started.

ALSO, each and every affiliate that signs on a new affiliate in their downline will receive MATCHING affiliates. So even if you're not an EA, I'll transfer a new affiliate into your downline for each person you get to join our team.

Nicole, Raymond and Grant, I'll be transferring affiliates into your downline over the next day or so, as they come in to me from the various coops I belong to.

Come on, folks, challenge me!! Make me work!! Let's all make some money this holiday season...

: )

Your proud sponsor,
Melissa
www.mykidsinheritance.com
www.mykidsinheritance.com/TOPs

P.S. If you are one of the few on the team that has not taken advantage of the free membership offered through Leisure Audio, go here now for your own store: www.mykidsinheritance.com/LeisureAudio

Our SFI Team Has Hit a New Milestone!!!

REDESIGNED GETTING STARTED PAGE

The SFI Affiliate Center is now sporting a new and improved Getting Started section. Getting Started has a sharp new look and it's also been streamlined so that new affiliates can work through the steps and get off to a faster start than ever before. Note: So that there are fewer distractions, the sidebar is also being removed soon.

The Getting Started page is the default "homepage" for all new affiliates logging in to the Affiliate Center. It remains the default page until an affiliate becomes an Executive Affiliate (EA). Once an EA, the more-detailed and instructional PATH page becomes the default homepage (though the Getting Started page is always just a click away).

Please check out the new page at:

https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/GettingStarted.sfi

And if you have any suggestions for making the Getting Started page even better, please submit suggestions here:

https://www.sfimg.com/Input/ShowSuggestion.sfi

And, as always, if you have any questions or concerns about your new business,
SFI, or our team, please never hesitate to contact me.

Honored to be your sponsor --
Melissa Burton
www.mykidsinheritance.com
www.mykidsinheritance.com/TOPs

P.S. I look forward to more article submissions to
www.mykidsinheritance.com/articles. This is a fast, easy way for free long-term
advertising for your website or gateway!

Check Out Your Sponsor's New Website!!

Please take a look at my new website, highlighting SFI and the multiple streams of income I now enjoy through my home internet business: http://www.mykidsinheritance.com/TOPs.

I welcome your comments!
Also, please remember to subscribe to this team blog (and you can subscribe to my personal home business blog as well at http://www.mykidsinheritance.com/blog.

NOW, While I don`t know exactly what motivated you to join, I can tell you that SFI has been independently ranked as the #1 online home business opportunity in the world for the past 4 years!

I`ll be brief because I`m sure you are busy... Try going to the following website

SFI EXPLAINED IN 60 SECONDS:

https://www.sfimg.com/SFIExplained.sfi

To make money in SFI, all you must do is use simple Internet marketing techniques set out at the sfi training site to promote one of your new sfi websites: To get off to a FLYING start please visit the sfi team resource site and view your Gateway websites:

https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/GatewayDetails.sfi

It's very easy to learn this income system and the instructions show you exactly how to do it!

I love SFI and I imagine that you will too once you learn a little more! You can read some testimonials at:

http://www.sfimg.com/testimonials/saying.php

Also, check out the new affiliate Smart Start. This will show you exactly how to get started on the right track. Check it out at:

http://www.sfimg.com/smartstart

Don't forget that SFI is a BBB member and has a 30 day 100% Money Back Guarantee if not completely satisfied with any product purchase...and all you SFI expenses are tax deductable. Please go to the following for your EA options:
http://www.sfimg.com/EA.sfi

Please let me know if there is any way that I can help you!


Your friend in success,

Melissa Burton
Your SFI Upline

P.S. To get the most out of SFI.. join IAHBE today at: http://www.sfimg.com/ea.sfi

P.P.S. For more help and support see our sfi resource training site:
https://www.sfimg.com/Training/showIndex.sfi

Don't Quit Before the Blessing!

Dream. Write your dreams down. Cut pictures out of magazines and post them all over your room or your office. Set goals and action steps to accomplish those dreams, no matter how far fetched they may seem.

Breaking dreams down to their smallest elements and figuring out to accomplish them is not only mentally challenging, but (and stay with me here, give this some serious thought) also a great cure for depression. Think about it: goals, dreams, even everyday challenges like how to get the kids everywhere they need to go and get the house cleaned up and the shopping done in time for the holidays can easily seem overwhelming. But if you make a list, delegate responsibilities and cross out the things that take time but won't help you accomplish your tasks you CAN see achievement.

Business is exactly the same way. Dream BIG. I'm an internet marketer. I have hundreds of affiliates, most of which I know will fail. It makes me so sad. Why? Because it took me over a year before I was able to start celebrating those $2, $5 and $7 checks that were coming in. They mean IT'S WORKING! You put in a minimum of effort, you don't try to get help, you don't get the basic knowledge you need, and you will still see results. You reap what you sow: small returns.

But in my second year when I was really struggling financially and I had tried probably 50 different affiliate programs and joined every traffic exchange, wasting hours and hours each day (sleep is so overrated) surfing through other people's ads I realized something: I was actually reading some of the ads. I was actually signing up for some of the newsletters. I was reading the mail from my sponsor(s).

Folks, there are always going to be new people coming into your chosen field with that fresh excitement (heaven forbid they are looking for the "get rich quick scheme" -- and personally whoever came up with that phrase should be punished severely), but they are looking for a hand to hold. They are searching for a life line out of their current situation, a cure for their depression, and they WILL celebrate those $2 checks when they come in. Because they know it is just the beginning, and they GET IT.

Celebrate those people, even if you have to fish through hundreds and hundreds of affiliates and affiliate programs to find them. And for heaven's sake, keep sending emails, keep making phone calls, keep in touch with everyone on your team. Because one day, a year from now, a light may just come on in one of your affiliates' minds that says "She did it, she will help me, and I can do it." And all of a sudden you'll get a response; you'll get a post on your team blog, and you'll know -- you've found the next YOU, and you'll know exactly how to guide that lucky team member.

Congratulations to team member GRANT VISSER!!

Our team's newest EXECUTIVE AFFILIATE!

Way to go, Grant -- send me your preferred website to post on our team blog for free traffic to your site and a backlink. (If any of our EA's have not sent me their gateway or website address, please do so now....)

Melissa

Secret to Success in this Business

...very, very simple: multiple streams of income.

1. You will NOT be able to live on your SFI income when you first start out (especially if you have not upgraded to an Executive Affiliate yet, which I do not understand).
2. You need to keep it as simple as possible to avoid being overwhelmed. This system is all set up for you. Follow the step-by-step instructions, and begin making money IMMEDIATELY.
3. You need guidance. You need an education. You need support. All this is provided with these recommended programs.

Just go here right now and stop failing, PERIOD: Plug-In-Profit System

I've just given you the keys to the kingdom, the very best advice a sponsor could possibly, ever give a team member, and I hope that all 480 of you will take me up on it. If you are not making an income in one month, email me, I GUARANTEE YOUR SUCCESS!!

CONGRATULATIONS ON OUR TEAM'S NEWEST SMART START GRADUATES, Dwiyanto and Curtiss!!

And remember, there's a reason why our team is TEAM ONE!!

Melissa

Words of Wisdom

This was submitted to my article directory recently, written by Robert Shiloh, and I think it pretty much sums up the basics of a successful internet marketing business -- the goal of each and every one of us!!

"It really isn't that hard to make money on the internet. You only need to ensure that you have 4 ducks in a row to pull off immense profits online. You can do more than these 4 things, but not less if you want your internet business to succeed. Let's identify the necessary protocols to have in place and you might be shocked as to just how easy it is.

1. You need a product or service. Let's assume you have a product. Your product should do one thing. It needs to satisfy or fulfill a persons or companies need or desire. Less is typically more when it comes to a website, so you should highly consider offering only ONE product per website or web page. More choices means more confusion. If you have ten products at ten different prices, your potential customers may become indecisive and buy nothing. Offering choices gives the illusion of empowering the buyer, but why not offer one product with optional features? Maybe offer a product that comes in different colors, or has upgrade options. This way they are only focusing on one thing, not ten or twenty. All wealthy marketers know this.

2. You need a market. In fact, you need a LARGE market. If your product has a market for only a few hundred people, your in big trouble. For a good example, let's look at the home business industry. It is a $400 billion dollar a year market. Google alone receives 10 million search requests a month for starting a home business. If you could get just 1% of the home business market, you would be a billionaire. The good news is you don't even need 1%, just get a piece of it and you could be extremely successful. A wealthy Marketer know to make sure his market is HUGE and attainable before ever even trying to sell something online

3. You need a website. Don't even think about getting an affiliate template or cookie cutter website. It will kill you in the search engines. Why? Because duplicate content never gets indexed and never gets listed in the search engines. You must have a website that is original, straight forward and easy to navigate through the pages. The website must be properly optimized for the search engines so that it will get the time of day it hopefully deserves. The website must also be properly meta-tagged with the right keywords. This will help ensure that the right kind of traffic comes to your website. Most importantly, your website must convert a certain percentage of visitors into sales. Wealthy marketers are relentless to make their websites perfect, because you never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

4. Drive traffic. You must drive visitors to your website on a consistent basis if you expect to make sales. When you approach the search engines the right way, it costs nothing but time to get indexed and appear in their search pages. Most people do not know how to do this and end up at the mercy of Cost Per Click campaigns. This is usually NOT the way to go, and can break you faster than a slot machine in Vegas. Wealthy marketers know how to drive traffic very inexpensively to their websites, so that when they do make a sale they are in the black, not the red.

There you have it. In a nutshell these 4 things will ensure your success with any internet business. Most people can find a product or service to market online, and they can even stumble upon a large market. 95% fail because they do not follow through properly with steps 3 and 4. Cover your bases and do the time and research before launching your business. Do things the right way and avoid shortcuts at all costs. Focus on these 4 protocols to internet success, and you may find that you too have become a wealthy marketer."

For recommendations on succeeding in any of these steps, never hesitate to contact me at Melissa@MyKidsInheritance.com!!

Melissa

Make the Leap to Affiliate Marketing Success

Copyright © Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-14218




If you are going to become a successful affiliate on the
Internet, you need 3 "intangibles." These are things that
must come from WITHIN you.

===> Intangible 1 <===

First, you must have a strong WHY.

Why must you make affiliate marketing work? What is driving
you? What is it that you CAN'T have in your life anymore
and/or what is it that you absolutely MUST HAVE now?

For me, I couldn't stand working 12+ hours a day anymore
and missing the experience of my children growing up. I also
absolutely HAD TO HAVE the freedom of being able to control
my life and finances through a little box that I could carry
with me anywhere in the world and not be tied to anyone's
time pressures or demands but my own. That was my carrot and
my stick. I felt a great pain deep in my gut of missing out
on my children's lives and the incredible freedom that
succeeding in this business would provide for me. I found my
why. You MUST find yours.

===> Intangible 2 <===

You must BELIEVE that it is possible.

If you don't believe that it's POSSIBLE for you to make
money with affiliate programs or make your living on the
Internet, you won't. It's that simple.

For me, figuring out that it was possible was just a matter
of realizing that many other people were ALREADY making
great money online. If they could do it, I could too. It
would just be a matter of figuring out what those people
were doing and then adapting it to my situation.

There is no shortage of undeniable PROOF that people
(millions of them) are making money online with affiliate
programs. Just get online and do some research and you'll
find countless testimonials and stories of REAL PEOPLE
making real money on the Internet. Or head to your local
bookstore and you'll find the same documented evidence of
this fact. Truth is, it's getting easier and easier to make
money online with affiliate programs.

I've always said that "affiliate marketing" is the job of
the future. In the "old" days, you had to go to a
potential employer, apply for the position and hope for the
best. Now you can simply go to any company you want, fill
out their affiliate application and start work immediately.
Affiliates are the new working class. Believe me, making
money with affiliate programs or making your living on the
Internet is WAY MORE than possible. It is pretty much (or
will be soon enough) unavoidable now. Affiliate marketing is
the "job" of the future that's already here TODAY.

===> Intangible 3 <===

You must be willing to MAKE THE LEAP.

Ready, FIRE, then aim... This is the operating philosophy
you MUST adopt to succeed with affiliate marketing.

That's backwards for most people who like to aim before
they fire. The fact is the Internet is a moving target...
The only thing constant about it is change. You need to stop
analyzing the game and simply jump into it. You can't learn
from the outside... You have to be IN THE RING to truly
understand it.

The lesson here is that you will never really be READY to
start an affiliate marketing business. You simply have to
start one. This is what I call "Making the Leap."

The good news is that the cost of failure on the Internet is
very small. In the "brick and mortar" world you need to
evaluate things very carefully before you decide to open up
a business. It's almost always necessary to invest
thousands of dollars to get an offline business off the
ground. However, on the Internet you can often start a
successful business for less than $100. The Plug-In Profit
Site is a great example of this as you can see here:
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-14218

You simply need get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay
"out there," you're wasting valuable time that you could
be learning and skills necessary to become a successful
affiliate marketer. In fact, if you're not in the game yet,
you're ALREADY behind the times. Make the leap to becoming
a successful affiliate marketer today!

Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy helps ordinary people all over
the world make money online with affiliate programs. If you
can follow 3 easy steps, you can get your own custom
website, autoresponder (email follow-up software) and
pre-written email marketing campaign professionally designed
and installed and ready to pull in profits for you in 24
hours or less! See details at:
http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-14218

Congratulations to each of you for your commitment

Congratulations to this week's Smart Start graduates Ehab and Onyedika. AND A VERY, VERY SPECIAL congrats to Nicole Perry, our team's newest Executive Affiliate!!!

(Nicole: be sure to send me the website or gateway you'd like to have displayed on this blog!!)

Some words of wisdom from SFI's top affiliate, Stone Evans, from his guide "30 Days to Success":

"The fact is many people drop out as soon as they realize there is some work involved in building an Internet business. I don't really know why that is... People are willing to work their butts off for the guaranteed pay (however small it is) of a regular job, but some aren't willing to work toward building a business and achieving financial freedom.

But you are different and I applaud you for that.

I'm different too.

When I got online and decided that I was going to make my living from the Internet, I personally committed myself to doing whatever it takes. Just as I stated on the Plug-In Profit Site sales page: "I stayed up learning, working and drinking coffee until 5:00 in the morning month after month filled with the hope of making money online. There were days when I'd come home late from my job, start working on the Internet, and work the entire night without going to sleep — and then go back to work the next day."

That story is exactly true for me and I personally believe that it's this level of commitment that is necessary for anyone who wants to break through and succeed with an Internet business - the Plug-In Profit Site, SFI, or anything else.

Do you have that level of commitment?

In fact, it wasn't until I was in a "sink or swim" situation until my Internet business really took off. I was in the restaurant business. I owned the restaurant, but the reality of the situation was that the restaurant owned me.

I was the "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer" which basically means I did everything from prepare the food to serving customers, to washing dished to mopping floors... I could never take a vacation because if I did, the restaurant would go out of business. It couldn't operate without me and I couldn't operate without it.

The restaurant was the thing that was keeping myself and my family afloat financially, but I was no better off than someone tied down to a job. I felt trapped, but I was determined to find a way out. That's when I read Robert Allen's "Multiple Streams of Income" book and decided that I was going to find a way to build a business online.

So I started working part time (in every spare minute) on figuring out how to make money with affiliate programs. Over time, I started figuring things out and making some money through many of the methods outlined in previous pages of this guide, but it wasn't until my landlord for my restaurant space told me that they weren't going to renew my lease that I really broke through the the next level.

I was losing my restaurant location and I had a major life choice to make. I was earning a few thousand dollars a month from the Internet, but it wasn't enough to replace my restaurant income or provide for my family. I had to decide between moving my restaurant to a new location, getting a job "for the man" or sitting at home and completely figuring out how to make this business work so that it could be the sole financial provider for my family.

Obviously in writing this, I chose the latter. It was actually an easy decision. I was following my one true passion at the time. My dream of being able to control my financial destiny through a little box (laptop) that I could carry with me anywhere in the world was too alluring to pass up. I had the opportunity to go full force for my dream and I grabbed it.

In those 30 days after losing my restaurant, it was either make this business work and go broke trying.

This is the sink or swim situation I was in and that I needed to make the necessary psychological shifts to succeed.

In those first 30 days of going full-time online, I multiplied my online income 5 times. In the 90 days that followed, I doubled that. In the years since, my income as continued to grow exponentially.

But it's this sink or swim mentality that defines my success and the success of many who make it in this business.

You must eliminate the option of failure.

There is a famous story of Hernando Cortes that goes something like this:

"Hernando Cortes had a plan, he wanted to lead an expedition into Mexico to obtain its many treasures. He presented his plan to the Spanish governor, who was so excited that he gave him eleven ships and seven hundred men. Cortes did not tell the men or the governor the complete plan. After months of travel the eleven ships landed in Veracruz. Cortes had the men unload everything from all eleven ships. As they headed into their new adventure the men turned back and saw all eleven ships burning! Their reaction was to fight back, as surely an enemy had initiated such an attack. Cortes halted the men, as this was in his plan, he had ordered the ships to all be burned. Cortes did not know what he and his men would encounter in their expeditions. What he did know was that by "Burning the Ships" he had completely eliminated their option of going back. At the same time creating an intensely powerful motivation to succeed."

You must burn your ship(s) if you are going to succeed in this business.

What ship(s)? Most likely your current job.

I'm not saying you need to quit, but whatever it is that you are holding onto for security is keeping you mentally unprepared to pursue your Internet business with the full vim and vigor necessary for you to succeed on a high level.

Internally, you must find a way to burn your ships of security and start relying on your Internet business as if it is the ONLY thing you've got.

Read that last line again. And again. And again...

THIS is the secret to success in this business or any other.

As soon as you make this internal shift, you will unlock forces inside you for growing and succeeding in your business that will surprise everyone - including yourself.

Likewise, if you cannot burn your ships of security, those same forces that exist inside you right now and which can set you free immediately will remain dormant and unable to carry you to the extraordinary life you dream of.

This is something no marketing technique I can teach you can do for you. It's something that must come from within you, and if it doesn't, no marketing technique I can teach you here will make a bit of difference.

Examine my words on this page and then examine yourself and your commitment to this business carefully.

Do you have what it takes? Are you as committed as you must be? Can you burn your current ships of security and do everything it takes to build new ones?

These are the central questions that must be answered by you and you alone which will determine your destiny in this business. Nothing is more important than this.

To be entirely honest, if you aren't willing to burn your ships of security right now, you might as well pack up shop immediately because this business will be nothing more than a hobby for you - and hobbies are money pits.

If however you are absolutely committed to making this business work, it is time for you to continue your journey.

Some Congratulations Are In Order!

...for our newest Smart Start grads on our team:

Hassan, Onyedika, Viral, Marcio, Arvin, Clara and Nkosinathi
-- way to go, and I look forward to getting notification of your upgrade to Executive Affiliate....

And speaking of Executive Affiliates, we are SO proud of Terry Simpson, our team's HOT new member, who now has 20 personally sponsored affiliates in his own downline!!

Reminder: it is easy to set up a free account with Traffic Swarm for exposure to your website or gateway. This is a terrific yet very simple way to entice potential affiliates to your site. Also, you can set up a free account at Adland Pro and even submit banners provided to you on the SFI Main Page.

Let's get your website and/or gateway info out there and build each of your downlines TODAY.

To our success!

Melissa
www.mykidsinheritance.com

Whether you're brand new to SFI or not...

...if you just don't know how to go about getting your internet home business up and running, be sure to check out SFI's "Getting Started" page now!

Getting started is truly the hardest part, but you have a dedicated upline team, including myself, who are willing and able to guide you each step of the way.

And while you're on the SFI site, be sure to go through each tab at the top of the page to go through the incredible resources available to each and every affiliate. For instance, their Guide to Free Advertising included in this month's affiliate newsletter, and their Internet Income Guide, with new courses added each month!

Be sure you enter the Tip and Win on the main page of their website for a chance to win a free Ipod Shuffle MP3 player.

To Your Success!!

Melissa
www.mykidsinheritance.com

Achieve Your Goals -- NEVER QUIT!

My team surpassed all my expectations during my challenge, and I was thrilled to give away 17 affiliates for all of you who took me up on my offer.

And, congratulations Terry Simpson and Grant Visser, check your downline for more FREE affiliates I'll be adding for you right away; and keep up the great work!

I have 2 very special messages for our whole team this week:

First, I have started my own article directory, for those of you who see the value that article writing has in creating viral traffic for your gateway or website. Submit any and all articles you write to my directory for INSTANT EXPOSURE to:

SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE HERE!

If you want me to edit your article and optimize it for keywords, send me an email at Melissa@MyKidsInheritance.com and I will get it online and published immediately. BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND WEBSITE OR GATEWAY that needs traffic!!

And --

if you've given up on your SFI business out of frustration or you feel overwhelmed about how to get your home internet business up and running, please take the time to watch this incredibly inspirational video:

DON'T QUIT!!!

Don't give up, folks. Don't quit. We're a family, and we can help each other....

Honored to be your SFI sponsor --
Melissa
www.mykidsinheritance.com

Key Tips On How To Promote Your Website And Successfully Earn Money Online

Jeff Casmer, a veteran SFI leader, provides the following insight for new affiliates:

"No matter what capital outlay or resources you have, you can still start an online business and earn money at home. Lack of money is not a valid excuse for not starting to earn money online today because there are many ways through which you can succeed online with little to spend!
Time, persistence and patience and just about all you need to start your own internet marketing business even if you have a shoestring budget.

When you have your website set up, the next and most important thing you need to do is to start driving traffic to that website. This is where most budding internet marketers fail – even with a good website, if you have no traffic to that website, you will not make any sales.

There is a wide range of marketing tools and strategies to suits all budgets. Outlined in this article are some of the key low-cost and no-cost tips for tools that you can use to succeed in internet marketing and earn money online.

Writing and submitting articles related to your niche is a great way to promote your online business and drive lots of traffic to your web site. This need not cost you anything. If you have a flair for writing and have some time, write some good quality articles and submit them to article directories.

Invest in an auto responder on your website offer an e-course or ask people to subscribe. Developing a newsletter or ezine is a classic internet marketing solution that is a proven technique for building your business, and can help you earn money online easily. You can develop a huge list of subscribers and you can market to them on a regular basis. When you have a new product or special offers, you just send an email to your list and direct them to your website. This will generate some sales, making it very easy for you to earn money online.

Create a website that is optimized for search engines. Most people just create their websites without any consideration to their key words. As a result, the website is not visible on search engines. The highest quality and inexpensive visitors are those that come from free search engine listings. In order to receive a high ranking from the search engines you must have a site that is optimized for the search engines. This is important if you want to successfully earn money online.

Use viral marketing tactics and give away a free reports or e-books about your niche or service. Make sure that your URL is in these reports. If your e-books and reports are of good quality, people will pass them on to their lists and hence spreading your website URL. More visitors to your website means more sales, and you therefore earn money online with minimal effort and cost.

Submit a free press release. Although free press releases get limited exposure compared to paid ones, this is still an effective way of increasing traffic to your website. There are several sites on the internet that will post and distribute press releases for you for free.

Submit your website to search engines and directories for increased exposure that will help you to earn money online.

Link your site to other sites that have high PR. Have a powerful email signature with your URL. Participate in relevant forums, boards and newsgroups. Forums are one form of getting targeted customers. Make sure that you have a signature with your URL. Make useful posts that will make people see you as an expert in your niche and want to visit your website. More visitors on your website will benefit your online business and will help you earn money easily.

Many people have a misconception about having to spend lots of money in order to advertise their online business and earn money on the internet. When you start out, you most likely will not have a lot of money available for advertising. Once you have chosen the advertising tools you are going to use, you must test the effectiveness of these tools before you start a big campaign and invest a lot of money."

For information on having your own website with a hosting company that PAYS YOU BACK, visit Host4Profit!

Links to Free Internet Marketing E-Books

Good evening, SFI Team One!

Hope you've all subscribed to this feed to get the latest information and news on all the happenings for our TERRIFIC team....

Here are some free e-books that you may find helpful, courtesy of one of my fellow Warrior Forum members. If you've read Dotcomology by Stone Evans, as recommended when you joined SFI's program, you are probably already a member of Warrior Forum yourself -- if not, you should go now to follow this incredible free instructional program by world famous SFI affiliate Stone Evans:

Dotcomology, the Science of Making Money Online

Here are the other links, courtesy of Earn from the Net:

You, the Guru
How to Make a 6-Figure Income Online
Domain Name Handbook
Blog Setup
Autoresponder Exposed

And finally, an audio presentation, courtesy of Success University, of which I am a proud member:

Network Marketing Success

Enjoy!

Melissa
www.mykidsinheritance.com

P.S. If you like this blog, please Add this blog to Onlywire

A repeat of my offer ....

Hi Team!
Just wanted to remind you, in case you didn't get my last email that I'm SHARING THE WEALTH:

We began on October 4, and until midnight October 14, 2007 -- I will DOUBLE your affiliate efforts.

For each and every affiliate you sign up under you, I will add one to your
downline as well!

AND -- listen up -- IF YOU UPGRADE TO EA during this time, I will put 10, that's
right, 10, affiliates in your downline!!

You can't beat that!!

I'll need Ali Raza, Roger Hindy, Speedtechno, Daren, Robert Green & Terry (our newest EA!) to send me YOUR PREFERRED WEBSITE OR GATEWAY SITE TO ADD TO THIS BLOG.
I am offering you FREE traffic to your site or SFI gateway, so please send this info right now so I can add your link for free advertising!!

Looking forward to reporting good news in next week's team letter, and remember you're all welcome to post comments on this (YOUR) team blog!

Melissa Burton
from your SFI upline
www.mykidsinheritance.com

SFI Affiliates: Invest in Your Future

SFI Affiliates and members of SFI Team One:

The following is a wonderful open letter from fellow Affiliate Jim Graham:

"I'm speaking directly to those of you who are serious about wanting to succeed with your own SFI home business.

If you're like me, you joined SFI with a dream. Perhaps it was the idea of becoming financially independent, or maybe you're having financial difficulties and are searching for a way out. Perhaps you dream of owning that "dream home" you've always wanted...or that car...or boat.

You may be searching for a way to spend more time with your family or have goals of raising enough money to leave your country for better opportunities. It could be that you are unsatisfied with your current job and are looking for a much more rewarding career, or you're simply exploring a new possibility.

Whatever your dream, you probably joined SFI to begin with because you saw the word "FREE."

I would like to tell you a story, if you will listen...

About a year ago, I came upon an ad while surfing the Internet. I read it, and it drew me in. It advertised an Internet marketing business that claimed you
could become successful with no investment required. It also stated it was completely free to join.

I thought, why not? I'll try it since it's free, and I'll see what happens. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work.

But if it DOES work...

I have dreams, as any person does. I also have my share of bills, and my credit is not as good as I'd like. I want to make money to take care of these problems. I'd also like to build a nice cozy house in the mountains and own a nice SUV. I want to work from home and raise a family of my own. I want to visit Ireland and work on my family's genealogy. I also wish to help out my family, who are in need of assistance themselves—I suppose I want to be the "hero" of the family.

So I decided to try out this free offer. I set out with my goals and dreams and gave it a shot. I didn't have much hope for this business, since my luck has never been very good. I have tried businesses such as this and never got very far. I was skeptical, naturally.

The business I'm talking about (as you've probably already guessed) was SFI. I didn't have any money to invest...and, even if I did, I was very wary about investing in something I wasn't so sure about. So I worked hard for about three months placing free advertisements all over the Internet. After three months, all I had to show for my efforts was perhaps five affiliates and a very small monthly check.

But I was happy, nonetheless, because at least I was actually making some money with this business.

However, my financial problems were getting the best of me, and the progress with my business wasn't coming fast enough. So I quit. After about six months, I was no better off than when I'd quit. I thought about the business again and said to myself:

"Where would I be now if I hadn't quit? Where would I be if I had remained persistent and kept on going? After all they said to at least give it a year..."

I jumped back onto the SFI bandwagon and made a personal promise that I was not going to give up again. I also realized something VERY important: I wasn't going to reach my goals very fast without making some kind of investment in my dreams.

Whether you open your own auto shop, run your own bakery, operate your own janitorial franchise, or sell homemade crafts, you have to invest something
to receive something. To make money, you need to invest money.

Now at this point you may be saying to yourself, "I knew it! This business was too good to be true." You may even be thinking of quitting SFI. Just remember:

...No matter what kind of business you get yourself into you're going to HAVE to make SOME KIND of investment to get ANYWHERE! To make money, you need to invest money.

That said, the investment you decide to make for your SFI home business does NOT have to break your budget. Actually, it can be quite reasonable and affordable.

For example, to start a traditional offline business (auto shop, janitorial, bakery, etc.) how much of an investment do you think you would have to make?

$10,000? $50,000? $100,000??

These type of businesses typically require a lot in start-up investment!!

But with SFI, you can launch your own home business for literally pennies a day, simply by making a personal purchase to become an EA (Executive Affiliate). This can be as simple as subscribing to the International Association of Home-Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE) for only $29.95 a month. With an IAHBE subscription, your EA status is renewed month after month after month!

We all subscribe to various clubs, subscriptions, cable TV, the Internet...many of which can cost quite a bit more than $29.95 a month—and they don't actually provide us with the tools and resources we need for home-business success, like the IAHBE does!

Let's look at what being an EA can get you with SFI:

You DOUBLE your Retail Sales Commissions!

You can collect Guaranteed Commission Checks through the Executive Bonus.

You can earn lucrative Leveraged Income.

You lock in your position in the SFI Powerline and become qualified to receive override commissions and bonuses.

You receive $334 in free business-builder tools!
For a COMPLETE LIST of ALL the benefits you receive as an EA in SFI, go to:

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/StepsForSuccess.sfi

Not only that, but as an IAHBE member, you'll ALSO get:

Free Book-of-the-Month, featuring titles especially selected for home-business owners. You pay only shipping and handling.

Expert Audio Seminars and mini Home-Business Tutorials.

Magazine-of-the-Month (full 1-year subscriptions to top business magazines like Fast Company, INC, Business 2.0, Money Magazine, and more).

Free Bonuses and access to Money-Saving Deals!

Exclusive, in-depth and timely Business Reports you’ll find nowhere else!

Windows Software-of-the-Month.

Mac Software-of-the-Month.

Daily motivational messages.

Free IntroPak with over $1,000 in business-building bonuses—yours to keep, even if you cancel your membership!

...and MUCH more!
What's more, you get a 30-day, money-back GUARANTEE!

All that for a measly $29.95 a month!

PLUS, as an IAHBE member, your EA status is renewed each and every month! Once you've gained EA status, you'll be in a great position to move up to the the next level in SFI—Team Leader status, which is where the REAL money starts rolling in. BTL is quite easy to gain as well. (For details, check out the SFI Compensation Plan: https://www.sfimg.com/CompPlan.sfi.)

That said, your "investments" shouldn't stop with an IAHBE membership—actions as small as the costs of making copies of fliers to post around your town, reserving premium advertisement space in an online classified site (where your ad would get MUCH better coverage than a free one), or posting an ad in a local newspaper are also investments you can make in your home business.

With SFI, you don't have to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars into your home business. You call the shots and make little investments you can afford.

Now don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying that free advertising doesn't work! It does. But if you're going to do nothing BUT free advertising, you're going to have to work a lot harder than someone who invests a little money to post better advertisements or place fliers around their town, etc. Many people HAVE become financially independent using nothing but free advertising, but a wise person would combine the best of both worlds. I use plenty of free advertisements, for example, but I also take the time to invest a few dollars here and there.

"That all sounds really good," you say, "but what do you do if you don't know how to advertise?"

Well, some people don't advertise at all. Instead, they invest in the Eagle Advertising Co-op (https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/EagleCoop.sfi) and let it do all the advertising for them.

In the Eagle Advertising Co-op, you pay $45 per unit (two or three units are sufficient to start out with) in exchange to have professional marketers advertise ON YOUR BEHALF! Then, you simply concentrate on following up with the prospects the Co-op brings in FOR YOU.

If you have some money and little time, this is perfect for you. If you have little money and lots of time, stick with advertising yourself until you raise enough to purchase one or two Co-op units.

Even better, many people advertise AND invest in a share or two of the Co-op. Those are people who are well on their way to being successful! I now have 200 affiliates, for example. A small number compared to some, but enough for me to become successful! Most came in through the Co-op, yet I also continue to advertise manually.

The bottom line is if you want to be successful in ANY business, you will have to invest SOMETHING. And investing in SFI is one of the best and least expensive investments you can make.

If you cannot afford to invest anything at this moment, don't worry! Just continue to advertise any way you can. When you have sufficient funds, you can make your investment....It's not a race!

Work at your own pace, but overall, remember your dreams and your goals. Those are what you are striving for. And as long as you keep on working with SFI to reach those goals, and you DON'T GIVE UP, then you will reach those goals.

I learned that lesson when I quit. This time, though, I am determined to succeed and to KEEP working towards my goals and dreams. And I have to say I am extremely satisfied with where I'm at right now with SFI!

I started out JUST LIKE YOU did, and if I can make it here through determination, anyone can. If you want your dreams bad enough, you will get them.

REMEMBER!! The successful DID NOT get where they are by GIVING UP! They were determined enough to reach their goals...and that's just what they did.

And so can YOU!

I wish you the best of luck in reaching your own personal goals!"

Melissa Burton
My Home Page
International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs

Welcome to our launch!

I'm so proud and delighted to announce the start-up of our new SFI Affiliates Team One blog!

We have such an ACTIVE team, with an average of 3-5 Smart Start grads a week (congratulations to out to Aapna, Maruti, Mary and Ranjana this week!), a new Executive Affiliate (way to go Robert Green!) and dedicated team members busy signing up new affiliates in their own downline: Ali Raza-2 new affiliates; Roger Hindy-1 new affiliate; Speedtechno Zerospido-1 new affiliate; and Daren Frost-1 new affiliate!

With this kind of progress we are on our way to becoming TOP PERFORMERS in the SFI organization, which is just the reason for deeming us TEAM ONE!

This blog will be for YOU -- the affiliates on my team -- to air your concerns, ask questions, get advice, and read about the continuing successes of your fellow team members. So, RIGHT NOW, send an email to me at Melissa@MyKidsInheritance.com, or post a comment with your name and email address and you will be granted IMMEDIATE ACCESS as an administrator on this blog.

Participate; be an active part of your team; blog to your heart's content. BE SURE to add your website address or gateway address to your comment or blog and I'll make sure this blog is properly distributed for ADDED EXPOSURE for your business.

Again, congratulations for being on this incredible team and THANK YOU for the honor and privilege of having me as your sponsor...

To our success!

Melissa Burton
www.mykidsinheritance.com