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.

We will be installing some new server hardware Tuesday morning between 10 AM and 11 AM. Downtime should be no longer than 5-10 minutes.

Over 500 backorders for Veriuni Advanced Liquid Nutrition (new formulation) began shipping last Friday. A small number of remaining backorders will be fulfilled over the next week.

6/17/09 UPDATE: Note that our new formulation has a new flavor (mixed berry) and thickness.

Commission checks for May 2009 volume were mailed out today.

We have been under attack for the last 48 hours from someone who is entering THOUSANDS of duplicate affiliate registrations and assigning them to random sponsors for reasons unknown. Be aware that you may receive one or more of these registrations. We have put new programming in place to quell the attacks and will be monitoring for further attempts.

Today we are debuting a new and very different login page for the SFI Affiliate Center.

It's MUCH "busier" than the previous login page, but we think you're going to like it. Here's why:

1. Many new affiliates join SFI every day but haven't yet been fully "sold" on SFI. With the text and images now included on the login screen, we can help further educate new affiliates about the broad scope of the SFI opportunity.

2. Enrollments and information on our growth adds credibility and excitement.

3. With the included text, we'll be giving search engines good information to spider. Consequently, people will start discovering SFI through search engine searches. And when they do, and when they decide to join SFI through the provided registration link, YOU can receive a share of the signups (provided you are participating in the EyeEarn Co-op).

Check out the new page now by going to www.sfimg.com.

We're pleased today to unveil a very cool new Power Rank (PR) Pointable Action. You can now earn a quick 50 PR points by letting your sponsor know you're committed to SFI and you're "ready to go."

Every SFI affiliate is welcome to complete this action and earn the 50 points, but we've designed it PRIMARILY for brand new affiliates. Hence, we've placed it on the PR Scoreboard in the "Getting Started" section (5th from the top).

The direct URL is: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/PRReadyToGo.sfi

For those of you active in sponsoring, this new action will be extremely valuable in identifying your "go-getters" –the kind of affiliates that can help you build a strong and thriving organization.

It works like this: Your new affiliates will be referred to the "Getting Started" PR actions and will be strongly encouraged to complete the "Commitment Message." Each time one of your affiliates completes this action, you'll receive a special "I'm ready to go" e-mail that includes their personal commitment to SFI and some other key data to help you begin working with them.

Receiving this e-mail tells you you have a new affiliate on your team who is serious about success with SFI.  And, of course, the more successful affiliates you have on your team, the more successful YOU will be.  So when you receive one of these special e-mails...respond to this new affiliate IMMEDIATELY!  Open wide the lines of communication, and begin the building of a mutually beneficial business relationship. Remember, it's this part of SFI–"Duplication"–that creates true WEALTH. See more on Duplication at: https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/Duplicate.sfi