New SFI gateway debuts!

A brand new SFI gateway is now available for your use:

http://www.sfi4.com/xxxxx/real2
(XXXXX = your SFI ID number)

http://www.sfi4.com/10170479/real2

This new gateway is a hybrid of our popular /free and /real gateways. It features listings of our latest enrollments and earners, brief info on TripleClicks and EyeEarn, and includes a built-in registration form so everything is all in one nice, compact page.

You can begin referring prospects to this new gateway immediately. If you need banners, you can use the new /real banners located here:

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

And/or, many of the other banners on this page can be used for this new gateway as well. Just make sure to change the URL referenced in the HTML from /real to /real2.

August's VP Reward Winners

Congrats to August's VP Reward winners!

Winner, first place, $1,000 cash*:

Christer Matson from Siljansnas, Sweden

10 runner-up winners, $100 cash* each:

Mervin Vengado from Zamboanga City, Philippines
Ndubisi Nweke from Fukuoka City, Japan
Premalata Jena from Kharagpur, India
Successalan How from Ramsgate, Great Britain
Grant Virtue from Denver, CO
J P from Johannesburg, South Africa
Ruth Obaldo from Cleburne, TX
Gan Soo chuan from Singapore, Singapore
Judith Abrell from Aliso Viejo, CA
Melissa Sawyer from Dover, DE

10 third place winners, 100 TripleClicks credits (a $29 value):

Melvin John from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Chris Holroyd from Manchester, Great Britain
Geoffrey Carr from Liston, Australia
Norzimah Mahmud from Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam
Colin Biswell from Perth, Australia
James Lumpkin from Addison, TX
Paul Brown from Suwanee, GA
Chinwe Agulefo from Abuja, Nigeria
Traffic Swarm from Denver, CO
Stone Evans from Dallas, TX

About VP Rewards: Each month, SFI awards cash and other valuable rewards to the top 300 VersaPoints earners of the month. For every 100 VersaPoints they score, affiliates receive one entry in the drawing. Twenty-one (21) winners are then drawn on or about the 10th of the following month. For details, see this page.

August LaunchPad Rewards Drawing Winner

Laurie Dillen of Fountain, Colorado, has been drawn as our winner of the August 2010 LaunchPad Rewards Cash Drawing*. Laurie won $1,500. Congratulations, Laurie!

Get the full details about the LaunchPad Rewards Cash Drawing and more HERE.

*Drawing eligibility is limited to affiliates joining SFI after 3/31/09. 

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Stay connected with SFI Instant Messaging

Use SFI's built-in instant messaging to communicate in real time with both upline and downline members right from within the SFI Affiliate Center.

To use SFIM, just look for the "yellow SFIM bubbles." That is, on your Genealogy, on My Movers, on Affiliate Manager pages, and on your Upline Team page, you'll see a small bubble icon. If it's gray, that indicates the person is not online at the Affiliate Center. If the bubble is YELLOW, however, that means they ARE online currently and you can initiate an online conversation with them instantly.

Initiating a conversion is super simple. Just click on the yellow bubble!

On their end, a pulsating "SFIM" icon will appear in the header (of the Affiliate Center). Clicking on this icon will allow them to proceed to a live instant messaging conversation with you if they wish to.

Here are four tips for using SFIM:

1. The easiest way to see who's online right now is to go to your genealogy and choose the "Online" filter. Select Online = Yes, then click the "filter" button and you'll see a listing of everyone in your downline who is currently online at the Affiliate Center. You can now initiate conversations by clicking the yellow bubbles beside their names. If no names appear, this means no one in your downline is currently visiting the Affiliate Center, but you can of course try again later.

2. If you're chatting with a person who's primary language is different than your own, keep Google Translate open in a another window browser so you can cut and paste text as needed to translate your conversation.

3. Just as this article emphasizes, when you're initiating contact with downline members, focus on how you can help them. Use SFIM to support and assist your downline and you will build a stronger, more profitable group.

4. If you see the yellow bubble beside your sponsor's name in the top right corner of the header at the Affiliate Center, this indicates your sponsor is online currently. Click the yellow bubble to initiate a conversation with your sponsor.