This is a great question! I've been doing a couple of weekly mails to my team on effective team building methods and I'll give a summary of them here and I hope you find it helpful:
1. SEND A WELCOME LETTER: This is very important. When you sponsor a new affiliate and have them join your team, you need to welcome them as a sponsor and give them a little guide on what they need to do. Most new affiliates just sign up and go to sleep not knowing they need to take some actions immediately like ensuring they pick up 500 VP on their 1st 24 hrs so they can get the 200 VP bonus and the Fast Track badge. Your welcome letter will remind them about that and also open lines of communication with them through your email and your Leadership Page. It also presents you as a responsible sponsor and gives some legitimacy to the SFI business. The letter should be sent as soon as you get the notification of the new sign-up. I also send a similar letter to CSAs that are newly assigned or those reassigned to me.
2. CONTINUALLY PROVIDE WORDS OF MOTIVATION AND HOPE: Affiliate Marketing is a tough but rewarding business. Building your team of active affiliates can be very challenging and it's the reason most people give up before they even start. But with you constant motivation and message of hope, they can persist and persevere. If we keep doing the right things consistently, we'll experience progress and they need to be constantly reminded of this and it's your duty as their Team Leader.
3. LEAD BY EXAMPLE: You've heard the saying that "action speaks louder than words"? and how so true when it comes to this SFI business of ours. When we get new sign-ups, they all want to know how real SFI is and how much success we've experienced. This is why it's important we have this proof or at least be on the path to obtaining it by doing our daily and weekly actions, having and maintaining a Standing Order, maintaining your Leadership Page, growing your SFI rank and badges etc.
4. PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR MEMBERS OF YOUR TEAM: This is a very important aspect of duplication. If you want to develop a strong team of committed members, you must be there for them and support them as much as you can by opening your lines of communication to them, keeping yourself well informed and up-to-date to help them with their questions an concerns, responding to their call for help promptly, providing personalized support for them, celebrating and rewarding their successes etc.
5. USING REWARDS/INCENTIVES: By this, I mean the gifts you given members of your team for their hard work and success, as a way of motivating and spurring them to greater achievements. Rewards work wonders and if rightly used can help you build a solid team. Thanks to SFI, we've been provided with many ways of doing that which include: reassigning affiliates to them, transferring tcredits to them, issuing them gift certificates, creating a co-op and giving them free shares in it etc. You can setup competitions on your leadership Page for that purpose and then use your TeamMail and TeamTalk to promote it (https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/LeadershipManager?tab=rewards).
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This is a great question! I've been doing a couple of weekly mails to my team on effective team building methods and I'll give a summary of them here and I hope you find it helpful:
1. SEND A WELCOME LETTER: This is very important. When you sponsor a new affiliate and have them join your team, you need to welcome them as a sponsor and give them a little guide on what they need to do. Most new affiliates just sign up and go to sleep not knowing they need to take some actions immediately
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