The "$100 Friend and Family Special" gives you, the SBI! owner, the ability to buy a second site for an additional $100 at the time that you are using the Remote Order Form to order a Web site for someone. That additional site may be for anyone, including yourself (the Remote Order Form cannot be used to buy a site for yourself directly due to the way it assigns commissions).
As you know, one of the main goals for SBI! and the SBIer community is to "grow without change." And the best way to do that is through word-of-mouth. And a while back, a forum post asked when our next $100 seasonal special would be. A thought occurred... why not combine "growth without change" and offer the "seasonal special" all year-round for SBIers? After all, why make you wait for Valentine's?
The $100 Seasonal Specials are effective in converting non-SBIers who are wavering. Do you remember your doubts and worries before buying SBI!?
The $100 Seasonal Specials offer a great deal, a chance to share with a friend, and put a deadline on a decision. Great offers with deadlines have a way of convincing those who are "sitting on the fence."
But that's for folks who do not know SBI!... yet.
The "$100 Friend and Family Special" is a year-round modified version of the seasonal $100 Specials, offered through the Remote Order Form. It is on a trial basis until we can be sure whether the margins exist to be able to continue this (SBI! sells at very tight margins to keep the price as low as possible). And it is not for everyone...
Well, it's for you and your friends and family... colleagues and neighbors. It not only gives you a nice price break when you're ready to start a second site, but it's a great incentive to tell friends all about SBI!.
Heck, you can even leave yourself out of the equation, except for the commission. Put two friends together and they each save $100, while you earn a $100 commission (and future commissions from all renewals).
The key concept is that you use the Remote Order Form to buy for a friend or family member. It is not...
The "$100 Friend and Family Special" is friend to friend. Family to neighbor. Offline. And only through the Remote Order Entry Form (reachable via the QUICK JUMP drop-down menu).
Only SBI! owners actually see the "$100 Friend and Family Special" option. 5 Pillar Affiliates who do not own SBI! do not see this offering, nor a link to this online help. This is strictly a reward and incentive for SBI! owners.
And it is only offered in the "regular" Remote Order Form, not in the Remote Order Form for 5P Affiliates and SBI! owners, because it is not for those who already own SBI! or who are affiliates. Growth through new SBIers.
The "$100 Friend and Family Special" offering is about "growing without changing." You and I can do that by attracting more people like you. So please, please note -- this is not for ONline promotion...
Never promote the "$100 Special" online.
Online promotion of this year-round "$100 Special" will undermine our seasonal specials. They would also open the door for abuse and accounting problems. So online promotion of this offering results in permanent termination of the 5P account.
This is important. Please report anyone who violates this to SiteSell Support. This is a generous offer, but is open to abuse if we don't make this clear.
Here's how it works...
1) Tell a friend, family member, colleague or neighbor about SBI!, one who is not already an SBI! owner or 5 Pillar Affiliate.
2) Use the Remote Order Form to purchase in his/her name (choose the "US $399 ($100 Friend and Family Special)" option). The credit card will be charged $399.
3) Complete arrangements with your friend. Give yourself the free SBI! and pay your friend $100 for the extra site. Or split the difference and pay your friend $200.pppp 4) Collect the $100 affiliate commission on the sale. (Depending on how you handle #3 above, this means that your bonus SBI! is either free or only $100 after you receive your commission payment for this sale.)
Just like for the seasonal promotions, you have up to 9 months to activate your new site. Or give/sell it to a second friend (please, no online sales of this second site).
If the two SBI!s go to two friends, you receive ongoing recurring commissions from future renewals and 2nd tier commissions from both friends.
You may not sell the bonus site through eBay or other online promotions because this is strictly friend to friend. And you may not sell it through the SBI! forums since this would really confuse our affiliate accounting (ex., Tier 2 confusion).
Please keep this friend to friend, offline.
The result...
The community grows without changing our DNA. So use the "$100 Friend and Family Special" to buy a second SBI! at a super discount, or...
Use it to do a favor. Give your near-free site to someone who needs it...
Or use it as an incentive to sell to two friends at the same time. They each save $100! And you not only earn a $100 commission, you earn recurring commissions.
The "$100 Friend and Family Special" is always here for SBIers...
Bring it up when the timing seems right for a talk with a friend, not just on Valentine's!
Or use it simply to save money whenever you're ready to start another site.
In the words of one SBIer in the forums when we discussed whether to make this offering year-round...
I was going to get my 11-year old going on one of her own (she wants to build a jewelry site) and I wanted to start a second. I can't afford $600, but I can swing $400.
And on a sidebar, can I purchase my daughter's site through my affiliate account since it's going to be hers?
Note that "sidebar" question above? The answer is yes... Buy for family members. Give yourself (or another friend) the extra site. Not only do you collect the commission...
You also collect the renewal commissions when her business builds and she renews, and you collect 2nd tier commissions in the 5 Pillar Program (i.e., a percentage of any sales she makes as an affiliate).
Note: The 2nd tier payment stops at this first level below you. It is not MLM because it is not multi-tier.
And there you have it... the year-round "$100 Friend and Family Special" is here. Spread the word on this WIN-WIN-WIN offering...