Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Apple Store, National Geographic Online, Mister Art, and other new merchants join MaxMalls This week, we welcome the Apple Store for both the U.S. and Canada, National Geographic Online, Mister Art, as well as other well-known merchants to MaxMalls.com: Apple Store - Your best source for a wide selection of innovative products: from iMac and MacBook to iPod, Apple TV, iPhone and more - plus the latest accessories and software. Apple Store Canada - Your best source for a wide selection of innovative products: from iMac and MacBook to iPod, Apple TV, iPhone and more - plus the latest accessories and software. Autos.com - Autos.com is the most comprehensive and straightforward review of virtually every new and used vehicle sold in the U.S. Hoover's - Hoover's delivers comprehensive insight and analysis about companies, industries and people driving the economy, along with powerful tools to find and connect to the right people to get business done. Mister Art - The lowest prices on the biggest selection of name-brand art supplies anywhere online - Guaranteed! National Geographic Online - CD-ROMs, books, magazines, maps and globes, travel products, photography gear, videos, DVDs, science tools, home decor, toys and gifts for all ages! Wonder Hobby - One of the web's largest selections of rc helicopters, cars, airplanes, boats, parts, and accessories, and more. In addition to these major name brands, SFI's MaxMalls.com shopping portal also features retail giant Wal-Mart, online mega-store Amazon.com, major music source iTunes, and many, many more! SFI donates a portion of every MaxMalls sale to the nonprofit organization Save The Children. Best of all, you don't pay anything extra by shopping your favorite stores via MaxMalls.com! Act on your dream! JD 8:34:08 PM    comment []

New lens for SFI Marketing Group Affiliates on Squidoo.com I just created a new lens for SFI Marketing Group Affiliates at Squidoo.com. (Please note that I created the lens on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, and it may not be viewable until Thursday or Friday, depending upon when the next Squidoo ranking update takes place. If you can't see it, please come back in a day or so.) Its purpose is to syndicate a couple of RSS feeds from our new SFI Marketing Group Affiliates social networking site. The new lens republishes the Latest Activities feed toward the top and the Forum feed toward the bottom. Additionally, you are invited to vote in our poll and participate in the duel. You'll need to be a Squidoo lensmaster to participate, and you can become one for free. I recommend Squidoo and have numerous lenses there with more on the drawing board. Are you an expert on something? Build your own Squidoo lens and tell the world. It's free, and you may even earn some money from it. Please feel free to link to the new lens at: http://www.squidoo.com/sfi-marketing-group-affiliates I look forward to seeing your feedback on the lens and please - if you want - rank the lens (5 stars is best) and offer your comments in the duel or the comments section at the bottom of the lens. You'll note that the people who are participating the most on our new social network are the ones who are getting mentioned the most on our new lens. How easy is that? All you have to do is participate on our social networking site. I'll be republishing those feeds on other sites I own. That means that there will be more links to your profile page as you participate more and as I have the time to syndicate the news feeds on more sites. Can you think of something I should add to the new lens to make it more useful? All suggestions are welcome. Act on your dream! JD 8:29:18 PM    comment []

SFI Marketing Group introduces new Marketing Methods Shortcut page for affiliates SFI Marketing group can be complex and hard to understand because of all the ways you can build your business and earn commissions for your marketing efforts. They have introduced a new Marketing Methods Shortcuts page to help you promote our products and services, and recruit other affiliates into your team. The URL is: https://www.sfimg.com/methods or it can also be reached at: http://www.sfimg.com/methods How easy is that to remember? I've previously talked about how important it is to choose your focus at SFI because there is just too much to do if you don't focus on one or two of the featured categories there. If you haven't chosen your focus when you go to the Marketing Methods Shortcuts page, you'll see a message, "Sorry, you have to choose your focus first," before being taken to the Choose Your Focus page to do so. This is an automatic redirection, so I won't mention the URL of the page. This is a powerful tool for beginning and intermediate affiliates, because all you have to do is remember and bookmark the Marketing Methods Shortcuts page to be able to quickly find some good marketing tips for your chosen focus. If you haven't done so, I recommend that you go to the Marketing Methods Shortcuts page and review what you'll find there. Then, do at least one thing on that list every day to build your business and earn commissions with SFI Marketing Group. Another thing you can do - at no cost to you - is to join us at the SFI Marketing Group Affiliates social networking site, where you can customize your profile page to promote your SFI business. You can post to your blog, join or start discussions in our forum, meet new friends, and become a better affiliate. It's a great place to start marketing your SFI focus and to learn more about earning larger commissions as an SFI Marketing Group affiliate. Act on your dream! JD 8:27:38 PM    comment []

SFI Marketing Group offers SFI explained in 30 seconds page for affiliates SFI has just introduced a new SFI explained in 30 seconds page. This is a great addition to the site and makes it a bit easier to select your focus and do a better job of marketing the products and/or services within your focus category. After going to this page, I changed my focus from NiceOffers.com to EyeEarn.com. After making the change, I went back to the SFI explained in 30 seconds page and found that it was much simpler and now consists of only four steps. I believe this really makes it much easier for affiliates to follow through, especially for people who are new to SFI Marketing Group. There were a number of reasons for making this decision. Primarily, it looks like the company's focus is on EyeEarn.com, so there is momentum there. Secondarily, while I like NiceOffers.com and think there is good long-term potential for merchants who advertise with NOC, that is not where the company is focused right now. I have invested a lot of time, money, and effort in promoting NOC, but, until the user interface is improved and the search feature actually works, I'm going to be promoting it passively. I won't remove any links to the site, but I won't be actively promoting it until I see the improvement that has been promised for almost a year. So, in the meantime, I'll be actively promoting EyeEarn.com and MaxMalls.com. I recommend that all active SFI affiliates visit SFI explained in 30 seconds and follow through with the information and activities presented to you there. Act on your dream! JD 8:26:10 PM    comment []

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