We've added 35 language translations to all three of SFI's blogs:

SFI News at news.sfimg.com
Power Tips at tips.sfimg.com
SFI Insights at gcblog.sfimg.com

Just select the language you wish to read these blogs in from the drop-down Google Translate box located in the sidebar.

Authorize.net net is down right now, apparently due to a fire. Authorize.net is the credit card processing company for tens of thousands of e-commerce companies, including SFI. Hence, no orders using credit cards will go through at TripleClicks until this is resolved. Read more about this HERE.

7/5/09 UPDATE: Authorize.net came back online Friday afternoon.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All of our leaderboards are now sporting color coding to distinguish you, your sponsor, your upline Team Leaders, and your personally sponsored affiliates.

SFI makes its blog updates available to affiliates via RSS feeds. This helps you stay up to date on the latest SFI news and ensures you won't miss out on important information. Subscribing to RSS feeds is easy. Below are some simple instructions:

In FireFox and Mac's Safari...just go to http://news.sfimg.com/index.php and click on the RSS icon in the right side of the URL address box.

In Internet Explorer...Click the RSS icon in your IE toolbar. Click the arrow next to the RSS icon on your browser toolbar. In the dropdown menu, select “Get RSS 2.0 Feed.” You'll now see a feed page with directions on how to subscribe.

Via E-Mail Client:

The cool thing about subscribing to RSS feeds via your mail application is that you're notified in your e-mail inbox each time SFI updates its blog, so you're less likely to miss out on the latest posts.

To add an RSS feed in Mac's Mail app:

1. Choose "Add RSS Feeds" under File menu

2. Select the "Specify a custom feed URL" radio button at the top.

3. Enter http://news.sfimg.com/index.php

4. Click the "Show in Inbox" option.

5. Click the Add button.

Optional: Go to RSS under Mail Preferences and adjust time to check for updates and when to remove articles.

To add an RSS feed in Windows Outlook:

1. On the Tools menu, click Account Settings.

2. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.

3. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type http://news.sfimg.com/index.php.

4. Click Add.

5. Click OK.

After you have added the RSS Feed to Outlook, a folder is displayed for the RSS Feed in the Navigation Pane. When you open the folder, the latest items downloaded from the SFI blogs are displayed.

Less than 30 days to go...who will win these Peak Performer bonuses for the 2nd Quarter of 2009 (ending June 30th)?

* $1,000 for first place
* $500 for second place
* $200 for third place
* $100 for 4th through 10th place
* 100 free TripleClicks Credits for 11th through 20th place

Here are the 20 Top Sellers in-the-running:

Donald Pace (Ontario, CA)
John Magruder (Colorado, US)
Terra Kern (Michigan, US)
Edilson Galeano zuã±iga (Colombia)
Natalia Norman (California, US)
Earl Ellis jr (Louisiana, US)
Ron Rost (Texas, US)
Tamberlee Scheer (Colorado, US)
George Furtado (California, US)
Kari Staggs (New Mexico, US)
Jb Bynum (District Of Columbia, US)
David Verrill (North Carolina, US)
Michael Luby (New Mexico, US)
Yvette Bergeron (Florida, US)
Richard Lang (Mississippi, US)
James MacMaster (Ohio, US)
Niurka Blanco (Florida, US)
Larry Black (Texas, US)
Dimitra Moore (Greece)
Futureco Group (United Kingdom)

Here are the 20 Top Sponsors in-the-running:

Ewen Chia Ti Wah (Singapore)
Traffic Swarm (Colorado, US)
Stone Evans (Texas, US)
Cynthia Minnaar (South Africa)
Tamberlee Scheer (Colorado, US)
Bob Ullman (New Hampshire, US)
Ronald Miesner (Texas, US)
Suzanne Morrison (United Kingdom)
Stanislav Kryshkine (Connecticut, US)
Rudolf Takacs (Hungary)
Alton Bryant (Alabama, US)
Juhani Tontti (Finland)
Dany Rivera (New Jersey, US)
Prince Obi (Nigeria)
Anastasios Vasilopoulos (Greece)
Michael Christopherson (Utah, US)
Gerry Brioso (Kuwait)
Jade Barnett (South Africa)
Jeff Mulligan (New Hampshire, US)
Chris Stirling (British Columbia, CA)

Here are the 20 Top Leadership Builders in-the-running:

Michael Comeau (Texas, US)
Juhani Tontti (Finland)
Gump Wallen (South Carolina, US)
Bing Obaldo (Texas, US)
Anvar Khabibulin (Russian Federation)
Viola Fravel (Washington, US)
Elizabeth Penner (Oregon, US)
Emmanuel Tudtud II (Philippines)
Patrick Brown (Pennsylvania, US)
Benoit Villeneuve (Quebec, CA)
Kari Staggs (New Mexico, US)
Senthil kumar D (India)
Charles Kaluwasha (New Zealand)
The Roc Group (Arizona, US)
Shanavas T p (India)
Tamara Boehm (Alberta, CA)
Murugesan Krishnan (India)
Stone Evans (Texas, US)
Robert Ellis (North Dakota, US)
Jeff Pryor (California, US)

For complete details on the Peak Performer Contest and how YOU can qualify to win, see the Peak Performer contest rules page.

The SFI Update page at Twitter is now sporting a new, customized look. Check it out at:

http://www.twitter.com/SFIUpdate