The 5 Pillar Quick Start Guide

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The 5 Pillar Quick Start Guide

Become More Than A
HIgh-Earning Affiliate

Invest the most
important 30 minutes
you will spend online.

Click, sit back, and
understand why SBI!
makes you succeed.

The 5 Pillar ("5P") Program rewards hard work and dedication by paying you more than "just" high, one-time first-purchase sales commissions. Build significant...

  • additional residual income by repeat-purchases (through customers who are yours for a lifetime), and
  • 2nd-tier commissions (through those affiliates who join the 5P Program due to you).

Bottom line?

Build a long-term business with significant, steadily-growing income and equity.

The best way to generate income is to get started NOW!

Whether your promotional focus is online or offline, all the tools and guidance you need for success are at your fingertips. Let's get going!

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The 5 Pillar Club Home

http://login.sitesell.com

This is the main entrance to the 5 Pillar Club area, so be sure to bookmark this URL.

Find out the latest and greatest news on the home page, and use its mini-directory to access the top PREsellers. Explore the Club, from accounting (commission) and its traffic-reporting stats, to the back issues of the 5 Pillar Report (a weekly affiliate newsletter), to the SiteSell Promotion Center, to everything else.

Best way to explore? Use the QUICK JUMP menu (near the top of every page). You'll find some great jewels (ex., "Free Book Build It!" and the "Build It!" tools).

NOTE: Links to pages in the 5 Pillar Club from this Guide may require a login with your username and password (found in your Welcome To The 5 Pillar Club e-mail).

SiteSell Services

The 5 Pillar Program has a ton of resources for you to begin promoting SiteSell Services. (SSS) And, with the highest commissions we offer in the 5PP, SiteSell Services offer a huge opportunity for you to double or even TRIPLE your affiliate income.

Start at the beginning with Starting Point Build It! SPBI! is the best launching pad for your promotion efforts...

Starting Point Build It! For PREselling SiteSell Services
https://secure.sitesell.com/prot-bin/affiliatescripts/affiliateClubMoreInfo.pl?spbuilditSSS

Pick up some invaluable tips and techniques to promote SSS online and in the offline world.

Familiarize yourself with SSS by using the links below.

SBI! eLearning

SBI! eLearning is the online version of the highly successful offline SiteSell Education classes which teach SBI! as a course. Many people who want to build their own online business need hands-on help. SBI! eLearning provides all of these, opening up the dream of SBI! success to literally everyone, everywhere.

The 5 Pillar Program has exceptional resources for you to begin PREselling SBI! eLearning. Not only do you get the usual commission of USD $75 for SBI! but there is also an additional USD $50 commission for all SBI! eLearning purchases. This means that even if your Lifetime Customer already has SBI! you will still earn a commission for the SBI! eLearning tuition purchase!

If you want to jump in quickly, first get familiar with SBI! eLearning...

Starting Point Build It! is the best launching pad to begin your promotion efforts...

Then grab some custom text and image ads with Snippet Build It! in the 5 Pillar Club...

Want to deepen your understanding of SBI! eLearning?
Pick up some invaluable tips and techniques to promote SBI! eLearning...

Then watch or download the SBI! eLearning Webinar, exclusively for 5 Pillar Affiliates...

The SiteSell Promotion Center

Familiarize yourself with this all-important area of the Club.

Every one of your RR URLs is in the "Promo Center." It's a RR URL buffet! Develop promotions and pick the best RR URLs that fit and enhance your message.

Or use the RR URLs to brainstorm. Each one has a brief description of the PREselling tool or special offering. This gives great ideas for effective, original promotions!

And remember... Always send people to SiteSell via a Referral-Redirect URL (RR URL). Each one writes your cookie onto a visitor, allowing us to track your sales.

Authorization Codes and Mail/Fax/Phone Orders

Your 5 Pillar affiliate account is associated with your e-mail address and is assigned an Authorization Code which is used internally by SiteSell. When someone who is cookied to you places an order via fax or regular mail, your Affiliate Authorization Code (not your RR URL) is reflected on the form. (See the screenshots below.)

Fax Order Form

Mail Order Form

SiteSell then matches your Authorization Code to your RR URL so that you are credited with the commission.

Online Marketing

Pick and choose RR URLs from the Promo Center's various sales sites, free book offers, Masters Courses, etc., and plug those links right into...

1) your Web site
2) Pay Per Click Search Engines
3) your e-zine/newsletter
4) your e-mail sig file
5) paid ads
6) your blog (if you already have one).

There are "tons" of great ideas and strategies in the 5P Marketing Guide. Use it regularly to inspire, to build out new Web pages, zine promos, and so forth.

Offline Marketing

A Harris Poll showed that 72% of households are thinking about starting a work-from-home business. Local businesses are coming online. In short...

People who want to start an online business are all around you. You just need to tell them about the solution -- SBI!. Familiarize yourself with the SiteSell Promotion Center. Pick and choose the RR URLs that will best convince offline folks that SBI! is the way.

And Use The Offline Sales Kit

Start by reading and downloading the Offline Sales Kit in the 5 Pillar Club. This handy kit includes everything you need to launch your offline campaigns. From strategies & advice to print ads, flyers & brochures, to PowerPoint notes, sales letters and more -- it's all there.

The offline sales process even includes a Remote Order Entry form to help you "close the deal" for offline sales. Take your laptop to a conference and make sales! The most important bottom line?

Using The Remote Order Form

Entering orders through the Remote Order Entry Form locks in the sale to you. It's as simple as that. So if you've been talking about SBI! with friends, family, or online direct prospects, consider this...

Our cookie system is designed to be fair to everyone. But there can be times where it won't fit your situation. If you were to use your computer to try to enter the order through the regular SBI! Web Site's Order Form, our system would think YOU are buying and "see" the wrong cookie (your Team Leader's). If you used a different computer, it would likely see no cookie. Either way, you would not get credit for the sale.

If you asked your customer to "go home and use your computer" to pass through your RR URL, you're falling into the offline-to-online chasm ("procrastination") and could lose the order to another affiliate ("last cookie gets the sale"). It is a shame to lose an order when you have spent time with someone, working with him, and then two months later they bought after going through someone else's link.

So...

The Remote Order Entry Form allows you to enter offline orders directly closing the sale and locking in credit for them!

What if they are not quite ready to buy? Protect them as "yours" through the Referral Lock-In Program. You can build a list of up to 100 "protected e-mail addresses" for offline prospects.

If you've not already done so, start your offline efforts by downloading the Offline Sales Kit in the 5 Pillar Club.

Commissions and Accounting

The 5 Pillar Program sets commission rates on a product by product basis and they range between 20 and 30%. You can view the entire commission structure in the Affiliate Agreement here. Commission payments are sent on the 15th of every month. (Details in the 5 Pillar Orientation Guide.)

How to View Commissions Earned

View the Accounting Home page in the 5 Pillar Club for a breakdown of all your commissions earned. You can also drill down to view information about your sales and your team. Even drill all the way down to a line-by-line report. It's like auditing SiteSell whenever you like!

The Accounting Archives section shows all previous payments sent to date.

For complete details on Accounting, download the Orientation Guide. (Right-click and download to desktop.)

Other Visitor Statistics

Want an effective way to track how well various promotions work? Track first-time visitor Conversion Rates, as well as the number of first-time visitors to special offerings and business-specific sites.

The Concept of PREselling

PREselling (vs. selling) is so important, it deserves its own section.

PREselling is the process of putting a potential customer in a ready-to-buy mood before they even get to SiteSell.com (or any merchant Web site).

How do you do this? By building credibility and trust through relevant, quality, useful content and a unique voice.

When people arrive at any merchant from an ad or a "pitch," they often feel manipulated. They know the big sales effort is coming. So they arrive sales-resistant.

Instead...

PREsell. And let the SiteSell sites do the selling for you.

Affiliates who succeed understand the difference between selling and PREselling, and have the commission payments to prove it.

To learn more about how to PREsell effectively, read this evergreen article abstracted Issue #22 of the 5 Pillar Report (December 1999 -- SiteSell invented "in context text links" before even Google -- they work).

And then read this article on PREselling in the 5P Marketing Guide.

Powerful Practical PREselling

Understanding PREselling is one thing. And it is important. Once you "get the concept," though, it's all about implementation... about "doing it."

And that's where "Powerful Practical PREselling" comes into the picture. This set of articles and tools will enable you to execute PREselling with staggering effect.

How important is this? As you will see, it can make the difference between near-zero earnings and thousands of dollars per month.

It's more work than just "throwing up a banner," but as you will experience, it's more than worth it!

If you have questions about PPP, please ask at this special thread for this topic...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?p=451563#451563

And if you'd like a review of your effort, once you've created your "About Me" and/or your "About SBI!" page, see this post...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?p=297835#297835

And then post your request for review at...

http://forums.sitesell.com/viewforum.php?f=98

Promo Builder

Want to create promotional links quickly? Need a text link or image (ex., banner) or maybe a video to include in your PREselling message? Promo Builder tools are at your service!

For example, use Snippet Build It! to create a text or image link (or both) in three simple steps. With Video Build It! tool, you can play an excellent PREselling video (over 50 videos in the collection) directly on your site.

Check out the other tools in the Promo Builder section of the 5 Pillar Club (access via the NavBar on the 5P Club homepage or the QUICK JUMP menu). Your finished efforts will be more professional looking, and in turn, more sales-effective.

Join Us In The Forums

The 5 Pillar Forums are a great place to get advice and learn from other 5P Affiliates. Visit as often as you can. If you have any questions about promoting your business or you want to share news or achievements, come on by! We're a friendly bunch. smile

SiteSell Promotion Center
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewforum.php?f=43

Tips & Strategies
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewforum.php?f=44

Offline Techniques
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewforum.php?f=63

 
The Best Way To Stay Up To Date With The Forums?

It's super-easy to stay in touch with the forums.
Simply subscribe to the RSS feeds -- here's how.

 
Important Forum Tip   Do not miss the How I Found SBI! thread. It holds the keys to your affiliate success. It is not only one of the most inspiring threads ever, it also provides the insights you need to effectively promote SBI!. Go to this thread now...

How I Found SBI!
http://forums.sitesell.com/viewtopic.php?t=18319

There is only one Action Step... Print it out. These generous SBI! owners share their "how I found" stories with each other. But as a result, they are also giving you the inside track on how to reach (and sell!) new customers. Study it, highlighter in hand. Jot down ideas as they come to you... and they will come to you.

This thread is a must-read. Understand how PREcustomers find you, why they purchase SBI!, and how they respond to it. What else is there to know?

All the "secrets" are here.

A Note On The Two Guides

The 5 Pillar Marketing Guide is your one-stop marketing center for the latest and greatest marketing strategies. The guide provides tips, techniques and proven-success strategies to grow your business. Discover how to get the most out of the buffet of tools offered in the SiteSell Promotion Center. Bookmark this ever-evolving resource.

The 5 Pillar Orientation Guide (right-click to download) is a PDF that focuses solely on orienting you to the structure of the 5 Pillar Program and the Accounting section of the 5 Pillar Club. It's a great follow-up to the 5 Pillar Progam Video Tour.

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