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By: Ed Bagley
My first impression of SFI was pretty positive. I read the come-on headline that said SFI was getting 4,000 prospects into the program every week (not every month, but every week).
Man, I figured, this is it, they are in more countries around the world than you can shake a stick at, and this thing is growing like mushrooms on lawns in the Pacific Northwest (we get a lot of rain in the winter). And trust me when I say they had some products and services, more than 600 of them. What's not to like?
SFI immediately threw out a Smart Start Training Program for newcomers like me, and I went though that baby like a hot knife through butter.
Upon completion of my Smart Start Training, I received notification from SFI that I had qualified for my free shares of Eagle Co-Op. This led me to personally sponsor in two prospects, and at that time I had done nothing to promote my business other than complete the Smart Start Training and become a paying Affiliate. My $29.95 purchase every month qualified me as an Affiliate to earn commissions on my production.
The Eagle Co-Op Program got my attention because I like eagles. Essentially, you buy into the Eagle Co-Op and the company recruits prospects for you, then you try to get the prospects to upgrade and become a paying member of SFI. That's when the money starts flowing in.
So I bought into the Eagle Co-Op program and dumped some bucks into paid advertising and before two months were up I had 48 prospects (11 of which, or 23%, came from the Eagle Co-Op and 37 of which, the remaining 77%, came from my paid advertising driving prospects to SFI's sign-up page).
Thirteen of the 48 prospects became Affiliates as I had done, and I received a couple of really minuscule checks. Then the Affiliates did something I was not expecting, after upgrading they quit. Even with all of the support from auto-responders and online training guides and forums, they quit anyway.
The prospects got in and got out so fast I thought an IRS agent was knocking on their door.
It was then that I began to realize that recruiting prospects was one thing and keeping them was another. Now I would not want to beat myself up too much for the effort and investment I put in SFI. I really expected that the mighty SFI, with all of its self-proclaimed beneficence and clout, would have helped to keep them and grow them, but it was not to be.
I would bet that the founder of SFI would have been almost indignant to learn that someone (like me) would had even suggested that the Empowerism training system was more intense, massive and focused than his SFI training system.
SFI also had a free package which included "eight exciting home-business training products and tools valued at over $585" that you could give away to prospects. This was called its Secrets of Internet Millionaires (SIM) package.
I never received one myself because I came in through the PIP opportunity (mentioned in Part 1), but I knew I could drive traffic to the SFI site on the Internet, and my prospects could check it out big time. Apparently the Secrets of Internet Millionaires package got SFI more excited about its program than it did a lot of prospects.
Ed Bagley is the author of Ed Bagley's Blog, which he publishes daily with fresh, original writing intended to delight, inform, educate and motivate readers with articles about Internet Marketing, Careers, Movies and Life. Visit Ed at . . . http://www.edbagleyblog.com
My first impression of SFI was pretty positive. I read the come-on headline that said SFI was getting 4,000 prospects into the program every week (not every month, but every week).
Man, I figured, this is it, they are in more countries around the world than you can shake a stick at, and this thing is growing like mushrooms on lawns in the Pacific Northwest (we get a lot of rain in the winter). And trust me when I say they had some products and services, more than 600 of them. What's not to like?
SFI immediately threw out a Smart Start Training Program for newcomers like me, and I went though that baby like a hot knife through butter.
Upon completion of my Smart Start Training, I received notification from SFI that I had qualified for my free shares of Eagle Co-Op. This led me to personally sponsor in two prospects, and at that time I had done nothing to promote my business other than complete the Smart Start Training and become a paying Affiliate. My $29.95 purchase every month qualified me as an Affiliate to earn commissions on my production.
The Eagle Co-Op Program got my attention because I like eagles. Essentially, you buy into the Eagle Co-Op and the company recruits prospects for you, then you try to get the prospects to upgrade and become a paying member of SFI. That's when the money starts flowing in.
So I bought into the Eagle Co-Op program and dumped some bucks into paid advertising and before two months were up I had 48 prospects (11 of which, or 23%, came from the Eagle Co-Op and 37 of which, the remaining 77%, came from my paid advertising driving prospects to SFI's sign-up page).
Thirteen of the 48 prospects became Affiliates as I had done, and I received a couple of really minuscule checks. Then the Affiliates did something I was not expecting, after upgrading they quit. Even with all of the support from auto-responders and online training guides and forums, they quit anyway.
The prospects got in and got out so fast I thought an IRS agent was knocking on their door.
It was then that I began to realize that recruiting prospects was one thing and keeping them was another. Now I would not want to beat myself up too much for the effort and investment I put in SFI. I really expected that the mighty SFI, with all of its self-proclaimed beneficence and clout, would have helped to keep them and grow them, but it was not to be.
I would bet that the founder of SFI would have been almost indignant to learn that someone (like me) would had even suggested that the Empowerism training system was more intense, massive and focused than his SFI training system.
SFI also had a free package which included "eight exciting home-business training products and tools valued at over $585" that you could give away to prospects. This was called its Secrets of Internet Millionaires (SIM) package.
I never received one myself because I came in through the PIP opportunity (mentioned in Part 1), but I knew I could drive traffic to the SFI site on the Internet, and my prospects could check it out big time. Apparently the Secrets of Internet Millionaires package got SFI more excited about its program than it did a lot of prospects.
Ed Bagley is the author of Ed Bagley's Blog, which he publishes daily with fresh, original writing intended to delight, inform, educate and motivate readers with articles about Internet Marketing, Careers, Movies and Life. Visit Ed at . . . http://www.edbagleyblog.com
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