Followers Versus Credibility -Which First? : Building Your SFI Business

Reader Question: Which Should I Build First? Followers or Credibility?

Harry Q asks : Which should I build first - Followers or credibility?

Many people feel overwhelmed with the multitude of  offers to sell them Followers on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest. Bloggers, in particular, are under pressure to have huge numbers of followers when competing for sponsored posts. However, buying fake followers can be detrimental to your brand.
This post shares the importance of building credibility along with followers on several social media platforms and why focusing on quantity over quality can be a waste of time and resources.

Building Your SFI Brand - Examining Social Platforms Followers Versus Credibility

When establishing your brand in a sector or niche, credibility and followers must be built together.
Why?
Having only credibility and no followers is like shouting in a desert - who knows about your credibility?

At the same time, not having credibility will limit your ability to form a real follower base. This is especially true on some social platforms.
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Getting Traffic for Your SFI Team!

How Can You Get Traffic to Your SFI Blog? Try These Methods!

My parents were in real estate for years and they taught me that everything can be related to statistics.
For example, the statistics for most real estate agents are that one person in 100 will want to list or buy a home with you.
Basically, the more people you offer to help, the greater your chances of finding someone who wants and appreciates your help.
There are several différent aspects to an SFI business. This post focuses on finding team members.
In this post, you will a few free places where you  may find people who will be thrilled to hear about how they can learn online marketing skills for free AND even have an opportunity to make money while doing it.
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So how can you find people who want your help making money?

3 Essential Blogging Tools - Rock Your SFI Business!

SFI  Business Promoters Need These Free Tools!

Wondering - What free tools will help me grow my SFI business?

People frequently ask me this question.

This post has a list of a few free tools that I find useful for business promotion and you may find them useful for promoting your SFI business too.

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Which free tools do I recommend?

Here are three essential blogging tools that can improve your SFI  business marketing.

3 Essential Blogging Tools to Rock Your SFI Business

Using these free tools can make a huge difference in your  SFI business promotions.

1. Get a Free Gmail account.

2. Set up a Free Blogger and tap into all the Free Google Tools- Webmaster Tools, Google Drive, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google+ syndication, are just a few.

3. Improve your blink with the best free grammar checker you will ever find!

Free Blogging Tool Checks Your Grammar!

Believe it or not, correct spelling and grammar can improve your Click Through Rate.

How?

People make purchases from people they trust.

If you take the time to use proper spelling and grammar, you are seen as more trustworthy.

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7 Huge Digital Marketing Mistakes!

SFI Businesses Need to Avoid These Top 7 Digital Marketing Mistakes

Many companies showcase their products through digital marketing to customers because so many people are active on social media platforms.

Digital marketing seems to be the simplest and most convenient way to endorse a product or brand. However, there are many digital marketing mistakes that companies make which lead to the wrong promotion of their products and limit sales.
Even large marketing firms can run into problems in the interpretation of a brand's  intended audience.
For example, a USA pet food manufacturer received numerous complaints after a launch of their product in stores in China. They were quite puzzled by the complaints.Their products sold very well in the USA.
The problem?
In China, people were purchasing dog food,  not for their pets,  but to eat themselves and were complaining that there was no dog in the tins!
The following examples, will show how digital marketing mistakes can cause great problems and unless you're very careful, ruin product channeling efforts and thus send the wrong information about a product to a market.
What are these 7 common mistakes?
 Read the whole article on SFI Private Promotions Blog: 7 Digital Marketing Mistakes Your SFI business needs to avoid.
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SFI Facebook Promotion Tips!

Promoting Your SFI Business Using Facebook 

Facebook algorithm changes are causing many businesses to wonder if Facebook is worth using for advertising at all.
I believe Facebook still has great potential for advertising  and despite many doom and gloom predictions, organic reach is not dead.

However, you will need to become more skillful in using Facebook if you want to be able to use Facebook successfully for marketing.
This post gives tips to help you successfully promote your business on Facebook.