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Free Store Club (T/M)
The Free Store Club (T/M) opportunity gives you the chance of owning your own website selling products ranging from clothing, jewelry, silverware to umbrellas and many other items.
Free Store Club (T/M) would appear to be something you would want to get involved with if you are looking for an internet business as it looks to be "all set and ready to go".
Generally speaking, it is ready to go, however there still is the need to market it so you get traffic (customers) and make profits.
The pay structure used by Free Store Club (T/M) is referred to as Exact Method Marketing. You make money two ways: one, by retailing products, and two, by giving away more free stores. Both income sources have an added residual income feature where you make money from stores you "sponsor" amd well as by the selling of a free store.
This opportunity no doubt has some people making money.You should consider a few key items before you jump in. These include, is the program unique so that you products are not readily available off line? and is your website domain name unique? Also, what support will you get to drive traffic to your site? Starting out by selling to your family and friends can sound like it may work, but I prefer a traffic building method, that can work for any website, that once created, you have little additional work to do to keep it going, and you don't need to bug your family and friends!
Free Store Club (T/M) is similar to other Internet Mall concept websites/internet business opportunities. There are other ways to make money on the internet that I feel are better.
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Last month, one of my friends who is a very active Squidoo lensmaster asked me if I had a tip jar on any of my sites. She wanted to thank me for the help I’ve been providing and wanted to send some business my way. The problem was, she wasn’t ready to be a customer for the products I promote as an affiliate marketer and wanted a more direct way to show her appreciation. I told her that wasn’t necessary and that I enjoyed offering whatever help and ideas that I can. About two weeks ago, more or less, someone else I’ve known for awhile asked me the same question. I’m still surprised and really didn’t know how to respond. I like a few extra dollars as much as anyone, but I’m unsure about tip jars on websites. What do you think? Is this an easy and valid way to show appreciation, or does it look like begging? Please come over to my new primary blog and tell us your opinion: What do you think about tip jars on websites? Act on your dream! JD
My friend, TeaLady, has a great lens on Squidoo that presents lots of information about the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. If you are interested in the Olympics, visit her Olympics News lens for up-to-date news, photos, and much more. Don't forget to rate it and leave your comments! Well done, Pat. Act on your dream! JD
Do you want to get started in social networking, but don’t have the time or expertise needed to do it yourself? Now, you don’t have to. You can have your lenses built and promoted and then transferred to you, all in a couple of weeks or so. Tiffany Dow and Lewis Smile - experts on Squidoo - are now at your service. Learn more by reading Two Squidoo Titans unite to build your lenses for you on my 21st Century Affiliate Marketing blog. Act on your dream! JD
On July 29, 2008, Lori Robinson, Administrator for the SFI Discussion Board, posted an announcement: New SFI Store Update. Here's what Lori had to say: For our many affiliates anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the new SFI store (and for brand new affiliates who may not have heard about the coming new store), here's an update of some of the exciting features everyone will be enjoying soon: • ONE store for everything. The new store will service both SFI affiliates and retail customers alike. Everything from nutritional products to Internet services to SFI promotional materials. • Thousands (soon tens of thousands) of new products in dozens of new categories, plus closeouts, collectables and hard-to-find items available nowhere else. • Earn instant SVP on EVERY product in the store...including all SFI promotional materials like X-Cards, postcards, business cards, etc. • Exclusive, money-saving daily deals ("Deal Of The Day"). • Special weekly/monthly sales with special discount prices. • New products added daily. • You can promote the store as a whole, or any individual product in the store, or any department, or any selection of products of your choosing. • No longer do high shipping costs need to get in the way of becoming EA or making sales internationally. This is because the new SFI store will be utilizing new partner companies who will be shipping to you directly from outlets around the world. Additionally, through the store's Private Seller program, you can locate sellers and products located in your same country—even the same city! • Because of how it's being built, virtually anything can be added and sold in the store. Goods, services, downloadable software and media, you name it! The sky's the limit! • The new SFI store also allows you to sell YOUR stuff. Through the new store's Private Seller program you can quickly, easily, and cheaply convert stuff you no longer want or need...into stuff you do! List your stuff at the new store, and sell for cash....or for any product in the store. You can even earn EA status each month selling unwanted items around your house! Use the new SFI store as your online garage sale to clean out your closets, attics and garages! List and sell dozens or even hundreds of miscellaneous items easily. • Hot, new marketing program will allow you to easily generate lifetime retail customers by the hundreds! And earning EA status though retail sales will have never been simpler or easier! • Standing Orders, on thousands of products, will be available both to affiliates AND retail customers. If you place an order containing any Standing Order-Eligible product, you'll automatically be alerted how to set up a Standing Order for that item in seconds. These are just SOME of the amazing features the new SFI store will come with. And there are many, many, many more. Not only that, the new store is also going to usher in some powerful new enhancements to the overall SFI program including substantial simplification, bigger bonuses, and more incentives to become and remain an EA. Stay tuned for further details! L. Robison Needless to say, this announcement continues to pique my interest. Ever since Gery Carson, President of SFI, announced this new, not-yet-opened ecommerce store, I've been waiting with bated breath to see if it lives up to my expectations. Lately, I haven't been doing much promotion of SFI products, because I don't want to get things in place and then have to change everything when the new store opens. So, instead of advertising for retail sales, I've been working on building a larger downline of affiliates so we all can promote more when the ecommerce store opens. If you like, you can subscribe to a short email series about how you can promote SFI Marketing Group using the Private Success Team downline builder. Originally, the store was supposed to open in late spring, 2008, but it has been delayed. When asked about it, Gery Carson responded: We've added many powerful features since originally announced so there is still a substantial amount of design and programming yet to do. Hence, an estimated arrival date is difficult to predict. It is well worth the wait I can assure you however. When an affiliate asked if the new store will be open by Thanksgiving so we don't miss the Christmas shopping season, Gery Carson answered: Everything is progressing very nicely. So long as that continues, it should arrive well before Thanksgiving. Now, anyone who has ever been involved in the development and implementation of a major ecommerce site knows that schedules can slip as new features are added and new problems surface. So, I'm not concerned about a delay of a few months. I would much rather the new SFI store be opened when it's ready, rather than being rushed to market just to meet an arbitrary goal date. One of the things I find most intriguing about the new store is the increased availability of products and services that international affiliates can market. Shipping costs have made marketing SFI physical products cost prohibitive, and this includes the Veriuni line of health products, nutritional supplements, weight loss products, and all-natural cleaning products. Many of these products are popular with customers in the United States, so I'm sure this has been frustrating for affiliates who live in other parts of the world. I'm hoping there will be lots more products that can be marketed around the world as a result of the new store and the partner companies that will be shipping from many more locations than the current one in the United States. I don't mind recruiting new affiliates and building my downline, but that doesn't increase my income nearly as much as promoting lots more products and services that can be bought by anyone at retail. I love making retail sales! So, while I'm rather impatient and want to see this store, I'll do my best to wait patiently until Gery announces the grand opening. Then, if I like what I see, I'll have a lot to say about the new SFI store as I explore ways to advertise and promote it and the products in it. I hope you'll come along for the ride. This might be a very interesting year for SFI. Act on your dream! JD
J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, recently delivered her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. I was told about this speech by one of my friends on the members-only SiteSell forums for Site Build It! subscribers. Thanks, Colin. If I hadn't heard about her speech there, I might have missed it and that would have been a real shame. In reading her speech, I was surprised by how little she referred to Harry Potter, even though writing her novels took her to dizzying heights of success. Instead, she talks about the liberation of total failure and the importance of imagining new futures and different pasts. In talking about failure, part of what she emphasized was: So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. I have experienced this level of failure a couple of times in my life. It isn't fun, but it can be educational and liberating. Depending upon how you react to it, these experiences can put steel in your resolve and be a foundation upon which you can build your future success. It reminds me of the lines Kris Kristofferson wrote in "Bobby McGee" when he said, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." Once you've lost everything - materially, that is - you aren't encumbered by the things you want to believe about yourself, because many of them fall away as you lose houses, cars, credit ratings, and other things we associate with material affluence. Other parts of the experience can be harder, or they can be liberating. For example, to one person, losing a spouse can be something that will hurt for decades. To another, it can be a difficult, but liberating, experience that will make it easier to build a better life, move in a different direction, and grow more as a person. This level of failure is truly difficult and poverty is not something I would wish on anyone. However, it can be life-changing, if you take the steps to do what you truly want to do. Like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, you can rise to new levels of success, understanding, and personal fulfillment that you would never have achieved, otherwise. Is it easy? No. Can you do it? Yes. As she progressed with her speech, Ms. Rowling says this about imagination: You might think that I chose my second theme, the importance of imagination, because of the part it played in rebuilding my life, but that is not wholly so. Though I will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Here is where the speech took a turn that really surprised me. I was sure she was going to emphasize the imagination that enabled her to write all the Harry Potter stories, but she went in a very different direction. Instead, she talked about her earliest exeriences when working with Amnesty International and all the suffering that had been experienced by people who had been tortured and killed and the uncertainty, pain, and worry experienced by their family and friends. I have to tell you, this is totally outside my own experiences, but after reading what she wrote, I have found more empathy for the people who have experienced these horrors. Compared to them, even in my deepest failures and during the darkest days of my life, I have had it easy and safe. Ms. Rowling continued and said: Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places. Imagination is a powerful thing. It is the basis for all future inventions. By imagining, we can achieve things undreamed of by others. Napoleon Hill said, in Think and Grow Rich: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. This is the power that we have to create new worlds and change the horrors we have inherited from those who preceded us. We can write novels that inspire millions to read more. We can develop better products and services to solve problems and offer opportunities to people around the world. Or, when used negatively, we can imagine worse things that we can do to make the lives of our fellow earthlings even more miserable. The choice is up to us. The choice is up to you. Or, if you prefer, you can choose not to use your power of imagination. You can continue to lead the life you're living and not imagine the great future you can live if you pursue your dreams and follow your passions. Again, the choice is yours. Ms. Rowling closes her speech by talking about her friends. These are the people that offer support and help in times of need and share joy in times of abundance. Even when I lost everything, I still had my friends and family. True friends can be even more important than your family, because you may have closer bonds and more in common with them. You don't need a lot of friends, but I hope you have a few really close friends with whom you share your life. These friends are treasures worth far more than the rarest metals or the prettiest sparkly rocks. Share your life with your friends and family. Help each other live to your fullest potential. Thank you, Ms. Rowling, for an outstanding speech and I'm happy I was able to read it. (If you have broadband, you can watch the video.) The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination Now, it's up to you. You have the power to change the world. Act on your dream! JD
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