Affiliate since: 11/08/2012, Power Rank: 326 | Read Johnny's 264 other Ask SC answers

Well this is certainly a very interesting and profound question and my take on why it is indeed wise to offer some reward / incentives or some of you here may regard it as a bribe when it is used in the right way or intention and perspective it can go a long way and will not come back anytime to bite you and not turn too good to the giver that is you.

Here you go on my input:

I guess when you offer incentives like gift certificates or Tcredits position as a contest or reward for say achieving Fast Tracker / EA2 / BTL / set up own ECA etc or a contest amongst all downline with most PSAs or PRMS recruited it becomes a good motivator or carrot in my opinion . Especially Gift certificate like to buy the wave3 kits as The neat thing is your money comes back if they do not redeem it whereas TCredits are gone even if they do not used it .

So go forth and offer some incentives especially to the deserving downlines

All the best
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Well this is certainly a very interesting and profound question and my take on why it is indeed wise to offer some reward / incentives or some of you here may regard it as a bribe when it is used in the right way or intention and perspective it can go a long way and will not come back anytime to bite you and not turn too good to the giver that is you.

Here you go on my input:

I guess when you offer incentives like gift certificates or Tcredits position as a contest or reward
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Affiliate since: 01/06/2012, Power Rank: 415 | Read Anup Kumar's 203 other Ask SC answers

The word ‘bribe’ should be removed in regards to this subject as issue of Gift Certificate, T-Credit and announcement of incentive is one of the keys of Rules of Success approved and authorized by SFI

This process helps us to build a strong and active down line team and also to increase the SFI business. So there is no proper reason to seem it ‘bribe’. You require the power of prudence, justice, views of far sight, focus before utilize this key strategy

Issue a Gift Certificate to join Wave3 program or buy T-Credits/products or anything else when your down line members touch the key of EA status. You may also issue a Gift Certificate, transfer T-Credits when they touch EA2 or Team Leader status. You can also do it to those who complete their affiliate profile and ready to go, success gained from E-365 and others

Arrange a competition and announce to give some incentives among your prospective down line through your Leadership Page who will touch the target whichever decided by you

If you can maintain this process a challenging attitude will grow among your down line members and as a result success will come at random

But be cautious. Never do it in a rapid way. If you start to utilize these key strategy to your down line from the first day of their join in SFI and without any activities, they will become ‘sponsor depend’ instead of trying to proceed further in their own way to grow the business. In this situation this practice may come back to bite you

So decide yourself in a cool brain what should you DO and DON’T in this situation

Hope this will be helpful to you

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The word ‘bribe’ should be removed in regards to this subject as issue of Gift Certificate, T-Credit and announcement of incentive is one of the keys of Rules of Success approved and authorized by SFI

This process helps us to build a strong and active down line team and also to increase the SFI business. So there is no proper reason to seem it ‘bribe’. You require the power of prudence, justice, views of far sight, focus before utilize this key strategy

Issue a Gift
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello
Ian Chivers !!!

When You are considering about the downline it is better to give them a Gift certificate or Tcredit if they are active. If someone active only for their initial sign up granting incentives just waste of money. In other hand when your down line working hard to achieve several GOALS granting incentives encourage them to stay on the business. The practice should be done according to the practical outcome of the information provided through the center. It will give affiliates positive image of the data provided with practical points achieved without any data waste.

Games, Pick the Price, Penny auctions (Price benders), W3 membership, Musician of the Month will help you to gain total outcome of the VersaPoint which is leading to the LEADERSHIP board of the center.

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Hello
Ian Chivers !!!

When You are considering about the downline it is better to give them a Gift certificate or Tcredit if they are active. If someone active only for their initial sign up granting incentives just waste of money. In other hand when your down line working hard to achieve several GOALS granting incentives encourage them to stay on the business. The practice should be done according to the practical outcome of the information provided through the center. It will
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Affiliate since: 02/20/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lejla's 20 other Ask SC answers

Hi, Ian.

I don't see why it would not be a good idea to reward the team for their activity. With PSAs, TCredits, gift certificates, e-books, etc. Of course, these awards are small, more symbolic than they can be classified as "bribe", so there is nothing to come back and bite us. :D

Active PSAs can only be a more active, inactive will not run. It is a matter of human motivation, internal and external. If people don't have the internal motivation, it will hardly anything from the outside to run the action.

Best regards and good luck!
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Hi, Ian.

I don't see why it would not be a good idea to reward the team for their activity. With PSAs, TCredits, gift certificates, e-books, etc. Of course, these awards are small, more symbolic than they can be classified as "bribe", so there is nothing to come back and bite us. :D

Active PSAs can only be a more active, inactive will not run. It is a matter of human motivation, internal and external. If people don't have the internal motivation, it will hardly anything
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Affiliate since: 11/20/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Borka's 1 other Ask SC answers

You should not call it "bribery" at all!
TCredits and Gift Certificates are GIFTS that express sponsor's desire to reward our efforts.
I was really happy when my sponsor sent me 10 TC! I felt like I was important to him.
Why would he throw his valuable credits, unless he thinks that I'm worth of it?
Next month I followed my sponsor's example and gave 10 TC to my most precious PSA.
She was very happy and thankful too!
So you can't "bribe" your downline, it is a nice way of building trust and partnership.
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You should not call it "bribery" at all!
TCredits and Gift Certificates are GIFTS that express sponsor's desire to reward our efforts.
I was really happy when my sponsor sent me 10 TC! I felt like I was important to him.
Why would he throw his valuable credits, unless he thinks that I'm worth of it?
Next month I followed my sponsor's example and gave 10 TC to my most precious PSA.
She was very happy and thankful too!
So you can't "bribe" your downline,
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Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

Bribing is never a good thing because that means your affiliates are not motivated to succeed or do anything unless you give them something, that means that they did not earn it. So you should never give them any kind of incentive you have to reward them when they do their good work because you want to help them and show them that you care about their success and that you are not simply trying to make money from them.

An affiliate has to work because they want to succeed so the real entrepreneurs don't need to be bribed.
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Bribing is never a good thing because that means your affiliates are not motivated to succeed or do anything unless you give them something, that means that they did not earn it. So you should never give them any kind of incentive you have to reward them when they do their good work because you want to help them and show them that you care about their success and that you are not simply trying to make money from them.

An affiliate has to work because they want to succeed so the real
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 83 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

Hi, Ian,

What you call "bribe" is "incentive" for law-abiding citizens of SFI/TC.

If you check your Affiliate's Snapshot, read what it says on the Checklist and one of the suggestions is to offer TCredits, Gift Certificates, or a share in the Co-0p, or advertising leads, etc. to your new Affiliate to encourage and motivate them to build their business.

If it is not "wise" to do so, Gery Carson would not have included it in the things you must do to be an Awesome Sponsor.

Have a nice day!


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Hi, Ian,

What you call "bribe" is "incentive" for law-abiding citizens of SFI/TC.

If you check your Affiliate's Snapshot, read what it says on the Checklist and one of the suggestions is to offer TCredits, Gift Certificates, or a share in the Co-0p, or advertising leads, etc. to your new Affiliate to encourage and motivate them to build their business.

If it is not "wise" to do so, Gery Carson would not have included it in the things
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Affiliate since: 03/19/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Pamela's 6 other Ask SC answers

I don't think trying to bribe your downline is a good way to conduct your business. I offer contests where my downline can win Gift Certificates and TCredits as incentives and to keep them motivated and working towards goals. It's just a way to reward them and give them a little something extra for working so hard and being active team members.

It's also a way to let my team know that I care and am interested in their success. Sometimes just that little bit of investment can be encouraging to a downline member who is struggling. Even now the encouragement I receive from my upline motivates me to strive to be as good a sponsor and upline member as they are. It also encourages me when I get frustrated and it seems things are not going to work out the way I want them to.
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I don't think trying to bribe your downline is a good way to conduct your business. I offer contests where my downline can win Gift Certificates and TCredits as incentives and to keep them motivated and working towards goals. It's just a way to reward them and give them a little something extra for working so hard and being active team members.

It's also a way to let my team know that I care and am interested in their success. Sometimes just that little bit of investment can be encouraging
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Affiliate since: 12/24/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

When you say bribe, I wounder at what context, you use the word bribe. When you are building your business with those who partner with you and you are as well trying to carry everybody along and leaving no stone unturn. I wouldn't use that word 'bribe'anyway, on the other hand it all depends on your mind set. It is a different ball game here.

Does a trader pay customers to buy their products? No! am not sure. But in this 'downline' issue, in answering your question I will say Yes, on a different note, you are only helping them to grow which will be beneficial to you afterwards, and I have not seen the possibility of biting you back if you made a right choice of members.
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When you say bribe, I wounder at what context, you use the word bribe. When you are building your business with those who partner with you and you are as well trying to carry everybody along and leaving no stone unturn. I wouldn't use that word 'bribe'anyway, on the other hand it all depends on your mind set. It is a different ball game here.

Does a trader pay customers to buy their products? No! am not sure. But in this 'downline' issue, in answering your question I will say Yes, on
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 537 | Read Shriram's 5 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion, it is a perception of a person. When we offer something to motivate people for their better job can be consider as a motivation and not "bribe". This is a token of appreciation given willingly to appreciate good job. In case of bribe, it is by compulsion or by force offer is made.The intentions are totally different when we offer these tokens as a motivation and as a bribe. Are we saying bribe when a prize is distributed to student who comes first in the class or school. In my opinion, this can be an excuse to avoid offering gifts.

Perception and intentions are important to differentiate "Bribe" and " Motivation". Judgement goes with individuals. Keep mind clean with good thoug
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In my opinion, it is a perception of a person. When we offer something to motivate people for their better job can be consider as a motivation and not "bribe". This is a token of appreciation given willingly to appreciate good job. In case of bribe, it is by compulsion or by force offer is made.The intentions are totally different when we offer these tokens as a motivation and as a bribe. Are we saying bribe when a prize is distributed to student who comes first in the class or school.
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