SFI Corporate offices will be closed Friday, July 3rd, in observance of the U.S. Independence Day holiday. We will be open for normal business hours Monday, July 6th.

Staying connected with your team is vital to a successful business. To that end, we've introduced some enhancements to your Genealogy report that will make this task easier than ever.

Take a look, and you'll notice three icons after each name listed on your Genealogy report: a white envelope, a blue envelope, and a bubble icon.

Click the white envelope to contact your affiliate via regular e-mail.

The blue envelope lets you contact your team members via SFI's in-house messaging system.

To contact your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA) via instant messaging, click the bubble.

IMPORTANT! The IM bubble icon will appear gold next to your name on your sponsor's Genealogy if you have given permission to let your sponsor contact you via IM. Just Go to your Change Account Information page and add your IM handles in the appropriate fields. Then, select "Yes" next to "Share with my sponsor?" You'll also want to select "Yes" next to "Display to PSAs?" if you want your PSAs to be able to IM you.

With IM quickly becoming the preferred mode of contact among online users, making sure your PSAs can contact you in this way (and making sure your sponsor can easily get a hold of you) is vital to your success in SFI. Consequently, we strongly encourage every affiliate to take a moment NOW and enter their IM and other contact information here:

https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/EditAccountInfo.sfi

Congratulations to this week's top 20 "Power Rankers," listed below, along with their location and PR point totals as of Wednesday, July 1. For details or to see whether you, your sponsor, team leaders, and/or PSAs are in the top 200, see the Power Rank Leaderboard.

Bobby Knight, CALIFORNIA, US-42,546
Ewen Chia Ti Wah, SINGAPORE-27,650
Stone Evans, TEXAS, US-23,695
Rebecca Smith, KANSAS, US-15,131
Bing Obaldo, TEXAS, US-14,870
Erich Winnecke, INDIANA, US-14,430
Traffic Swarm, COLORADO, US-13,700
Leon McKee, OREGON, US-12,268
Jeff Mulligan, NEW HAMPSHIRE, US-12,080
Tamberlee Scheer, COLORADO, US-11,396
Paul Beamon, AUSTRALIA-10,959
Cynthia Minnaar, SOUTH AFRICA-10,720
Dimitra Moore, GREECE-9,492
David Smith, AUSTRALIA-9,340
Barry Hurst, UNITED KINGDOM-8,647
Home Business Team, GREECE-8,605
Mohd Ashar, BRUNEI DARUSSALAM-8,593
Louis Burrows, MAINE, US-8,456
Kim Lang, DENMARK-8,375
Rich Jerk, CALIFORNIA, US-8,340

Several affiliates have contacted us concerned about the date listed on the new Veriuni Advanced Liquid Nutrition bottles. To clarify, the date printed on the bottle is the date of manufacture, NOT the expiration date. Future bottles will display the expiration date.

We're pleased today to unveil a quick, easy, new Power Rank (PR) Pointable Action. Earn a quick 30 PR points just by uploading your photo to the Affiliate Center. NOTE: All affiliates who have already uploaded their photos have automatically been awarded their 30 PR points.

Adding your photo further personalizes SFI for your new affiliates, letting them see your friendly face and know that their sponsor is a real person.

The instructions at the photo upload page are simple and easy. Just click the "Browse" button and select the photo you want to use from your computer. IMPORTANT: For best results, please use GIF, JPG, or PNG image file formats under 30KB in size and 125 pixels wide X 175 pixels high.

To view all the actions you can earn Power Rank points from, see your Power Rank Personal Scoreboard.

Narrow your results within TripleClicks departments and find the type of TripleClicks listing you're looking for...It's super easy! Just go to the TC department you want. In the "Sort or Narrow Results" box to the right of your results, you'll see LISTING TYPE options that let you filter results to show only TC Direct Listings, Private Seller Listings, or MaxMalls Merchants only.

For example, go to the TripleClicks homepage and click on the Health & Wellness department. Next, click the "MaxMalls Merchants Only" option under LISTING TYPE. You'll now see all the MaxMalls merchants within the Health & Wellness departments. Simple!

Opportunities From Troubles, by Yank Elliott, MBY & IAHBE Writer--This is truly a time of new economic thinking...This is also a time of serious economic disruption affecting the lives of every person in the entire world. Vast opportunities abound around this disruption, however, and entrepreneurs are going to make a lot of money by filling all the gaps that are opening up...

Also, a book review: Citizen Marketers, an article on "reverse" offshoring that could help you profit, current home-business headlines, and more--Click HERE.

Did you join SFI before April 1, 2009? If so, you only have a few more days to qualify for LaunchPad™ Rewards (50 free TC credits, two years free TC prestige domain name, and grand opening postcard mailing offer). For complete information and qualification details, go to:

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

Tool Review: LapLink's PCmover®, by Elizabeth Cottrell, IAHBE Editor--PCmover® by Laplink is designed to provide the smooth movement/migration of all your programs, files, and settings from an old computer to a new computer so that they are fully functional when they get to the new computer. This may seem like a simple matter of hooking two computers together with a cable and transferring, or moving files from your old computer to an external drive and then copying them to your new computer, but it’s usually not that easy...

Also, a new "Quick Tips," an article on lesser-known paths to the knowledge you need, current home-business headlines, and more--Click HERE.

Your TripleClicks Gateway now includes your name in the lower right corner of the footer. To check it out, go to:

www.tripleclicks.com/xxx
(xxx = your SFI ID number)

Note: If you're within your first 90 days of joining SFI, your TC Gateway will also include a Grand Opening panel at the top.

Kasmidi A of Indonesia has been drawn as our winner of the May 2009 Power Rank Cash Drawing. Kasmidi won $1500. Congratulations, Kasmidi!

Note: If you joined SFI after 3/31/09, and have not already entered the drawing, you're still eligible to win next month's drawing. Get the full details HERE.

We're excited today to announce SFI FORUM. SFI Forum replaces the "DBoard" located at www.sfidboard.com.

Here's what's different:

1. Unlike the DBoard, which operated under its own separate domain, SFI Forum is integrated right into the SFI Affiliate Center.

2. All SFI affiliates are automatically pre-registered at the SFI Forum. To post, you only need to enter a quick username.

3. When you log in at the Affiliate Center, you're automatically logged in at the SFI Forum, too.

4. Because you have to be an SFI affiliate and log in at the SFI Affiliate Center, intrusive postings from competitors, spammers, and "malcontents" will be greatly decreased.

5. You will soon start seeing links to the forum throughout the Affiliate Center. Example: You've just finished reading a training article. At the bottom of the article, click on the Forum link and, boom, you're at a Forum thread where questions, answers, brainstorming, etc. on the article you just read are being discussed!

6. The new SFI Forum will have more involvement from SFI staff.

"What's going to happen to the old DBoard?"

There is, of course, a wealth of information residing in the current DBoard database and we don't want to just toss that away. On the other hand, there is a great amount of obsolete information too (due to many changes to SFI over the years). So, what we are going to do is leave the DBoard up at www.sfidboard.com indefinitely. This will allow anyone who wants to to access previously posted information. However, it is now LOCKED so that no NEW posts can be added.

So, come check out the new SFI Forum at:

https://www.sfimg.com/forum.sfi

Then, help us get it rolling by starting some new threads. And, more importantly, get in the habit of reading and posting regularly! Enjoy!

It's now easier to find the products you're looking for at TripleClicks.com. Just check out the Advanced Search page and select All (the default), TC Direct (products and services originating from SFI/TC, plus VeryVIP, Affiliate Mastery, and IAB), Private Seller, or MaxMalls Merchant in the Category search option. Click the Go button, and you'll see a list of all TripleClicks items fitting that category (and your other search parameters, of course).

We are now testing Google's language translation service at TripleClicks. Through this service, Google provides 41 different languages.

Access is provided via a small drop-down menu which we've located in the sidebar on both the homepage and on search results pages.

Here's a little more information from Google:

2/26/2009 09:00:00 AM
Google Translate recently added Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician to the mix. The rollout of these seven additional languages marks a new milestone: automatic translations between 41 languages (1,640 language pairs!). This means we can now translate between languages read by 98% of Internet users.

In just a few years, the machine translation group within Google Research has taken its initial research system from two languages to 41 languages and is now handling millions of translation requests a day. For several languages, Google Translate is the first freely available machine translation system for these languages. Of course, there's always room for improvement, and we're working hard to improve translation quality. Our statistical models are built from vast quantities of monolingual and translated texts using automated machine learning techniques.

Find Your Niche: How To Identify Your Own Slice Of The American Dream, by Yank Elliott, MBA & IAHBE Writer--The past two or three years have encompassed a time of trouble for America and the entire world...What a time this is for opportunities! Find out some of the ways you, a home-based entrepreneur, may take advantage of the turmoil all around to build future security and joy for yourself...

Also, a new "Start-Up Idea" profile, June's featured business software, the current home-business headlines, and more--Click HERE.