Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Emma. To give you a simple answer to your question, yes. Help your affiliates to much will make them lazy and dependent on you. They will expect much of you and will not do any learning for themselves.

You need to work out a fine line between helping them to achieve and progress and helping them too much. I get over this problem firstly by offering my help and encouraging them to email me if they need help. I also have a website where I set out some limited amounts of training, how to, and what you can achieve if you work at it. It is then their prerogative if they visit or not and do the learning activities to progress.

When a specific question is asked of me, I give a very simple basic answer and I provide a link to the area of SFI which gives a much more detailed explanation. I encourage the Affiliate to visit the link and to do the reading and then I ask them to get back in touch with me to tell me if their question was answered.

I don’t offer bribes or TCredits at all but once in a while I will (out of the blue) pick someone who has been asking questions and I can see they have found the answer themselves by “working it out” then I will gift them some TCredits or a Gift Certificate for their hard work.

I think that genuine workers will appreciate this method as it is a great form of learning for them which they can then duplicate to their own team.

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Hello Emma. To give you a simple answer to your question, yes. Help your affiliates to much will make them lazy and dependent on you. They will expect much of you and will not do any learning for themselves.

You need to work out a fine line between helping them to achieve and progress and helping them too much. I get over this problem firstly by offering my help and encouraging them to email me if they need help. I also have a website where I set out some limited
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

It honestly depends on the kind of help you mean, so helping by always giving someone fish at some point may be too much help, but helping by teaching the person how to catch the fish himself will never be too much of a help. In the former you are turning the person into a dependant, while in the latter you are teaching him how to fend for himself.

The same applies to your affiliates because if you continuously do things for them that they can do for themselves or you can teach them to do for themselves, then they will become dependants which will result in their lack of growth and self esteem. More so, the consequence at some point will become counter productive as they will be unable to guide and develop an active downline or worse still, you will be creating a very dangerous duplication in your downline.

However, when you teach your affiliates how to succeed by mentoring them to do what you do, the entire team will be better for it because knowledge is been duplicated and as you know, knowledge is power.

I am not advocating not to help them when necessary, but when you begin to treat them like kids that should be breast fed and do for them things they can do for themselves, then you will miss the point and may begin to drag your team gradually towards self destruct.


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It honestly depends on the kind of help you mean, so helping by always giving someone fish at some point may be too much help, but helping by teaching the person how to catch the fish himself will never be too much of a help. In the former you are turning the person into a dependant, while in the latter you are teaching him how to fend for himself.

The same applies to your affiliates because if you continuously do things for them that they can do for themselves or you can teach them to
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question Emma!

Yes, I do believe there is such a thing as helping your affiliates too much - Only if the recruit is clearly not interested in being active on your team.

As a Sponsor or Co-Sponsor, your goal is to recruit and teach your team and steer them on their way to success. In order to do that, you need to recruit people who are:

1. Looking for a way to grow a second income
2. Are willing to invest time and money
3. Are dedicated and focused
4. Willing to learn how to market themselves
5. Self Starter and does not need supervision

*** Never build your business with people who have no real interest in building with you. ***

A recruit is not interested in your opportunity if they simply stop responding to you. I would suggest sending a few individual messages to the recruit in question and if you still receive no response, then set a reminder to send a follow up email in a month or so. Maybe something would have changed by then, however, continue to send the recruit your weekly team progress report. Maybe that will inspire them to try again.

Given the above scenario where the affiliate is clearly indicating their lack of interest in being active on the team, then yes, I think that helping your affiliate too much would be a waste of your time. In essence, my point is that before you decide to help, you need to gauge your helping attitude so that it matches your recruit’s can-do attitude. Make sure you are on the same page about what you both want to achieve so that you can both be clear about what is expected from the both of you.
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Great question Emma!

Yes, I do believe there is such a thing as helping your affiliates too much - Only if the recruit is clearly not interested in being active on your team.

As a Sponsor or Co-Sponsor, your goal is to recruit and teach your team and steer them on their way to success. In order to do that, you need to recruit people who are:

1. Looking for a way to grow a second income
2. Are willing to invest time and money
3. Are dedicated and focused
4.
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 226 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Yes, there is such thing as helping our affiliates too much. There are three instances that I would say that helping becomes too much that in can undermine long term sustainability.

1. When we help someone develop dependency - We should never encourage affiliates to depend on us. We must teach them to do it themselves not you doing things for them. No matter how slow it will be teach them how to fish rather than giving them fish.

Example: He needs to put an ads somewhere and he ask you to do it for him by giving you his link, because he don't understand the process. Well instead of putting the ads yourself, help him to understand the process and let him post his ads.

2. When the help you give only have a short term or insignificant effect. You will find this very common in your affiliates who will ask for money or gift certificate or TC so that he add to his VP.

Even if he will become EA for the amount you give but you know that he can not maintain it the following month (unless you give him again) without having active affiliates, or worst no affiliate at all.

The best to do is really to encourage him find affiliates first so that when you help it can be sustained the next month.

3. When you they are already annoyed because you are bombarding them with not so valuable information and unsolicited advice. - We must only have 1 or two messages per week for everybody and the rest should be personalized according to the need of the individual.


Aside from these three, give all the help you can to those who need and ask for it. It will never be too much.
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Yes, there is such thing as helping our affiliates too much. There are three instances that I would say that helping becomes too much that in can undermine long term sustainability.

1. When we help someone develop dependency - We should never encourage affiliates to depend on us. We must teach them to do it themselves not you doing things for them. No matter how slow it will be teach them how to fish rather than giving them fish.

Example: He needs to put an ads somewhere and
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI's advice is that you can help too much if you are sending them money or gift certificates. Personally I don't think you can help too much if you do it wisely and set aside what you can afford and don't go beyond that number. By afford, I mean both time and money. Here are some beneficial ways you can help.

1. Start by writing them messages and being willing to answer any questions or concerns. If they respond, then I'm more apt to help them.
2. Check their ledgers about once a week or more often if needed and let them know where they can improve. Frequent E-card tips are great.
3. Set up easily won contests on your leadership page that they can participate in to earn gift certificates or other SFI items.
4. Send frequent E-cards validating their wins and milestones.
5. If you see them getting below the green line, and they are working the system, send them a $2.00 gift card. This will usually bring them over the green line.
6. $2.00 gift certificates go a long way if you instruct your members to use them for 1 Tcredit purchase. This gives them 104 VP which often can make the difference between being an EA or not.
7. So many of our members are financially challenged and don't have the resources to spend in SFI. Offer to send them something in return for doing something that helps you. For instance offer to purchase 1/2 of the New Member packet if they make the fast track. Offer a reward If they transfer buy three items.
8. Sometimes one of my members has a problem making their rank and they ask for extra help. If I can see that they have done everything they possibly could and still haven't made it, I will suggest something I think would help and if they complete that task and I have the resources I will help them with a gift certificate.
9. I have been fortunate in that the people I have helped have been responsive and done what I asked. In fact, I usually calculate what they have helped me earn to see what I can afford to help them with.
10. One help that we can all do is to set up a S-builder coop for our members and put them in the loop. This is inexpensive help and if they don't do anything you will get the members if they quit. You can work with level two and below as well as with your PSA's. If their sponsor is active, I contact them and ask if they mind if I help their members in their name. This has helped me and them maintain deeper groups.

I hope these suggestions are a helpful guide to your thinking about helping members.


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SFI's advice is that you can help too much if you are sending them money or gift certificates. Personally I don't think you can help too much if you do it wisely and set aside what you can afford and don't go beyond that number. By afford, I mean both time and money. Here are some beneficial ways you can help.

1. Start by writing them messages and being willing to answer any questions or concerns. If they respond, then I'm more apt to help them.
2. Check their ledgers about once a
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olawale's 109 other Ask SC answers

Hi Emma, there is nothing like helping your affiliates too much.
There is a natural law called seed time and havest. Our entire life is
supported by this law. Some translate it to be whatever a man sow, that shall he reap.
Relating to SFI, those things you are doing to assist your team is returning back to you as rewards.

1. Essentially it takes your energy, time, money and commitment to be a true leader.
2. But the motivation encourages your team to always be at their best.
3. You are a leader indeed when you give true leadership support to your team.
4. Your support shows you care for their success.
5. I will advice you keep it up, it is dedication, hard work and unremitting devotion that produce results:

A. DEDICATION:
i). Ethusiasms - Have a passion for that success you want.
ii) Perseverance - Never give up at any time, especially when there is discouragement from your affiliates.

B. HARD WORK:
i) Explore all avenue to help your affiliates.
ii) Find out more details about them, it should be used to your own advantage.

C. UNREMITTING DEVOTION:
i) Put in high degree of efforts comensurate with your own future expectations always.
ii) Don't quit. Quitters don't win and winners don’t quit.

6. Dont be distracted at all, be focused to establish a triving business for yourself.


HERE ARE SOME OF THE REWARDS:

1. Working as a team ensures quicker success for you.
2. You increase your earnings by their activities.
3. Keeping your SFI status each month.
4. Every effort you put in your business in SFI is rewarded e.g. 2 FREE CSAs, second home CSAs etc.
5. Knowledge sharing - opens your team to new discoveries and help build a triving business for you.

I wish you good luck always!
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Hi Emma, there is nothing like helping your affiliates too much.
There is a natural law called seed time and havest. Our entire life is
supported by this law. Some translate it to be whatever a man sow, that shall he reap.
Relating to SFI, those things you are doing to assist your team is returning back to you as rewards.

1. Essentially it takes your energy, time, money and commitment to be a true leader.
2. But the motivation encourages your team to always be at
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Affiliate since: 07/24/2012, Power Rank: 404 | Read Beverly's 79 other Ask SC answers

This a good question. Although I help my downline PSAs and CSAs any way I can, there has to be a limit. I mainly work with the workers. I answer questions as soon as I can from any of my affiliates and/or direct them to find out themselves once they have been doing well several months.

They must prove that they want to succeed and follow the advice they have asked for. You, as a leader, can support them with your story, successes and failures. You can give tips to each of them personally from looking at their VP Leger, (under 'Hot Spots'> genealogy)and as a whole team in team mail to all PSAs and CSAs.

I support first of all, the hard workers in my first line of PSAs, then further downline, as well as new CSAs and those who ask for help.

How much do I help?

1. I help new PSAs to reach EA by giving reassignments, advice, and if necessary, a gift certificate for a couple of TCredits worth 102 VP each. With the new fast track and New Member Pack, I also try to get them going in the first 10 days.

2. I help first time EAs reach EA2 and help them stay there, or move to Team Leader. I first advise them to get a standing order, preferably 1500+ Versa Points. 1500 VP will ensure EA2 status every month. If they can't afford it but are consistent at reaching EA2 on their own I help them on months where they just need a couple hundred VP. A gift certificate of $10 gives them the opportunity to order 5 single TCredits, worth 510 VP.

3. I help Team Leaders to reach their goals, often by reassigning good PSAs of my own.
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This a good question. Although I help my downline PSAs and CSAs any way I can, there has to be a limit. I mainly work with the workers. I answer questions as soon as I can from any of my affiliates and/or direct them to find out themselves once they have been doing well several months.

They must prove that they want to succeed and follow the advice they have asked for. You, as a leader, can support them with your story, successes and failures. You can give tips to each of them personally
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Raymond's 64 other Ask SC answers

Yes and no.

As sponsors and mentors, we have an obligation to teach and coach those who join SFI as part of our team. Teach them how to navigate the SFI site. Teach them the importance of logging in daily and completing their to-do list. Teach them how to find sites to advertise on. In this sense, no, we are not helping them too much.

It only becomes a problem when you start doing things for them. That carries the strong risk of them becoming dependent upon you, wherein they will come to expect that they can just sit back and let you take care of everything for them.

If you really want to DO something for them, set up a free coop so that they can benefit from your advertising efforts. But even this comes with a word of caution. Make sure that you set specific parameters for your coop so that you don't get taken advantage of and there is no risk of them becoming dependent on the coop. An example could be they will get a free placement in your coop for the following month provided they bring in at least X number of new PSAs themselves in the current month.

Hope this helps.
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Yes and no.

As sponsors and mentors, we have an obligation to teach and coach those who join SFI as part of our team. Teach them how to navigate the SFI site. Teach them the importance of logging in daily and completing their to-do list. Teach them how to find sites to advertise on. In this sense, no, we are not helping them too much.

It only becomes a problem when you start doing things for them. That carries the strong risk of them becoming dependent upon you, wherein they
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 346 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

We need to be helpful to our team members. This help comes in the form of teaching, explaining, encouraging, coming along side, and everything else that helps the member to become more successful at running and expanding his business, at becoming a more talented sponsor, and more of a compassionate human being.

Helping usually does not include doing his work for him, teach him how, nor does it include always giving him TCredits and Gift Certificates so he can buy his way out of trouble.

We want to offer our help always to our whole team, even the inactive ones, but we can not force them to accept our help. Do you want to send him a reassignment, TCredits, Gift Certificates, offer a reward for a contest or challenge? Then ask him first if he would like to receive what you want to give or participate in a contest. If he does not answer, don't go forward with your plan. Give him the responsibility of accepting that type of help.

On the other hand if you find that an affiliate only reacts to your special offers of help, then maybe he has fallen into a dependency. A person like this must be taught to work on his own and not rely on your time and money. Do not despise him because his own government may have taught him this mindset, just teach him that he has the power to build his own business with you and SFI.
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We need to be helpful to our team members. This help comes in the form of teaching, explaining, encouraging, coming along side, and everything else that helps the member to become more successful at running and expanding his business, at becoming a more talented sponsor, and more of a compassionate human being.

Helping usually does not include doing his work for him, teach him how, nor does it include always giving him TCredits and Gift Certificates so he can buy his way out of trouble.

We
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

I think there is 'such a thing.'

Your affiliates are at SFI either to earn an income or to build a business.

Helping them too much will be doing their work for them so they can achieve an income from either. in any business you must make some investment or it is not a business. Investment is money or time, so investing YOUR time and money will be helping them too much.

You as a sponsor have to teach, coach and mentor them so they can be successful with the work they do, but they must do the work themselves.

Helping them financially is too much. They must invest their own money making purchases or promoting the gateways.

Offering them incentives and rewards for achievements, or through contests is not too much; it is a promotion strategy for you.

Giving your advice or opinion(when asked)is not too much.

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I think there is 'such a thing.'

Your affiliates are at SFI either to earn an income or to build a business.

Helping them too much will be doing their work for them so they can achieve an income from either. in any business you must make some investment or it is not a business. Investment is money or time, so investing YOUR time and money will be helping them too much.

You as a sponsor have to teach, coach and mentor them so they can be successful with the
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