Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

There seems to be some confusion among respondents.

Some grasp the word Help, others are confusing it with frequency of contact, and it's sad the number of people who would discourage efforts to improve your team. If they are serious about the business your team will have desire to learn daily and enjoy working closely with you and being in constant contact.

They will join Facebook Chats and Skype Groups, give you a phone number to call and connect on social media.

There is however a limit to the amount of help you should give and that is the thin line between teaching the team member and doing the task for them. Another line is don't pay their way, if they don't have a stake in the reward it will not hold the same value and soon will be taken for granted. You also will have your own business expenses and can not do anything but damage it's stability subsidizing another member's standing order etc...

That's not to say you can't reward or gift members.

I fully agree with sending a serious affiliate a Gift Certificate to use to get their Wave 3 kit. I also think having performance based contest among your team is a runway to success. But make sure they feel that they have earned the reward when they win one. It will help you keep them motivated when you set the bar a little higher the next time.

less

There seems to be some confusion among respondents.

Some grasp the word Help, others are confusing it with frequency of contact, and it's sad the number of people who would discourage efforts to improve your team. If they are serious about the business your team will have desire to learn daily and enjoy working closely with you and being in constant contact.

They will join Facebook Chats and Skype Groups, give you a phone number to call and connect on social media.

There
...more

Affiliate since: 08/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vijayan's 63 other Ask SC answers

There could be..

As a sponsor, we need to help, guide/support our team members to start off and show them the path. Help them when ever they ask for it and it's our responsibility to ensure they learn and not just think my sponsor will do..

To be successful as an affiliate in SFI business, you must provide your down line with as much pre-made promotional content as possible. This makes their job easier and they’ll be more motivated to work with you.

This includes promo videos, banner creatives, professional product images, landing pages but also email templates, text ads and more.

Having solid creative is what’s going to help your affiliates/downline the most. And when you’re nice to your affiliates, they will be nice to you and that will help you attract even more and better affiliates which translates into more business for you.

However, there's say - "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

You must know when to pause and when to stop... If you know, you will have lot of time in building, spreading your SFI business than just sitting with few existing affiliates and limiting yourself.

Hope it helps and wish you good luck!!
less

There could be..

As a sponsor, we need to help, guide/support our team members to start off and show them the path. Help them when ever they ask for it and it's our responsibility to ensure they learn and not just think my sponsor will do..

To be successful as an affiliate in SFI business, you must provide your down line with as much pre-made promotional content as possible. This makes their job easier and they’ll be more motivated to work with you.

This includes
...more

Affiliate since: 09/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kazhiyur's 49 other Ask SC answers

Actually I personally do not think that there is such thing as helping your affiliates too much, because if you are extending any aid or help to your affiliate it directly or indirectly means you are helping yourself because you have an interest in the growth and development of your affiliate.

In reality, it all depends on the affiliate's various and diverse background such as age, nationality, mother tongue, educational level, lifestyle, habits, technical or computer literacy, economic and social conditions, social, occupational and professional standing, varying degrees of interest to succeed, motivational level, level of interest in self-actualisation etc.

Personally I do not think it is wrong to go out of the way and extend a helping hand to any affiliate once in a while, but it is always better to exhibit patience, allocate time and effort to try to teach and train the affiliate and convert the affiliate as a competent, self-reliant and independent worker of the team. This is what is called as Teaching and Training practically i.e., working with the workers and showing them all the path how to do the things and succeed.

Now, the above aspect can be done either in sponsoring/duplicating or building independent and own team or in the arena of advertising, marketing and selling the SFI/Tripleclicks products.
Sometimes training may be required for some new member affiliates to show and teach them about the various functional aspects within the SFI and its constituents such as Forum, Pricebender, Launchpad, Movers,Standing Orders, Personal Accounts, To-do list, registration, Games, various products and services, important rules and regulations, Glossary, Contact us, Scoreboard, Tips and Stream etc.

The above are some of the summations that I could gather for your reading and knowledge.


less

Actually I personally do not think that there is such thing as helping your affiliates too much, because if you are extending any aid or help to your affiliate it directly or indirectly means you are helping yourself because you have an interest in the growth and development of your affiliate.

In reality, it all depends on the affiliate's various and diverse background such as age, nationality, mother tongue, educational level, lifestyle, habits, technical or computer literacy, economic
...more

Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

Absolutely, there is!

Let your introductory welcoming letter to them give a brief synopsis of SFI and TripleClicks, while guiding them to the best steps to begin learning: Basics, LaunchPad lessons, Internet Income course, the Forum, askSC.

Contact them once within a day or so of their join date, then once a week in your team mails. And, of course, immediately as possible when they contact you with questions!:)

Do NOT hand-feed them all their training. Do not tell them exactly what the answer to their question is, rather, guide them to where they can find the answer themselves. If you teach them how to search for information within SFI, they will become more confident in themselves and their ability to learn. If you do not know the answer yourself, tell them so, go find the information needed, and then tell them where they can find it.

When they come up a little short of a rank at the end of the month, do NOT bail them out with TCs or similar things. All you teach them that way is that their sponsor will enable them to reach, or maintain, their rank. DO tell them things they might do to gain the extra VPs, or whatever, they might do.

It is called "tough love", and not always easy to do, but will best benefit your affiliates and ultimately yourself!!

Best wishes to you and your team!!:))...
less

Absolutely, there is!

Let your introductory welcoming letter to them give a brief synopsis of SFI and TripleClicks, while guiding them to the best steps to begin learning: Basics, LaunchPad lessons, Internet Income course, the Forum, askSC.

Contact them once within a day or so of their join date, then once a week in your team mails. And, of course, immediately as possible when they contact you with questions!:)

Do NOT hand-feed them all their training. Do not tell
...more

Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

As to your question on helping your affiliates too much I must say yes it is possible to help them too much.

Remember your affiliates are building a personal home based business that they must learn to build on their own. If you are doing things that your affiliate should be doing themselves then you are helping to much.

It is good to help your affiliates when they have questions or when they need some motivation. The best way to help them is to give them the needed links to look up the information that they have questions about. This will teach the affiliate where to look for the answers themselves.

Your goal is to help them all you can but don’t make it so they will depend on you to do the things that will build their business. You don’t want to create a base of dependent affiliates – if something were to happen to you then all the affiliates you were helping will not be able to keep going.

You are also leading your affiliates in how to get duplication going within their own team. Showing them how to find the answers they need is very easy to duplicate.

Always remember you are being an example to your team as how to work their home business. If you are giving out to much help you are going to have some affiliates that determine they are not capable of giving the same kind of help to their own teams because they either cannot afford the money or time that you are doing so they may just give up entirely.

Personally I have found a much better way to help my affiliates and that is to use “incentives” (rewards) for your affiliates when they accomplish certain task. I always have a small incentive program that I list on my recognition page along with a list of the top ten affiliates who have qualified for those incentives.

When I started doing this it sparked a few “sleepers” to become active and I also noticed there was a drop in the questions that I was receiving about the “basics” with SFI and TripleClicks.

Your responsibility is to help create leaders in your team – not dependent children.

less

As to your question on helping your affiliates too much I must say yes it is possible to help them too much.

Remember your affiliates are building a personal home based business that they must learn to build on their own. If you are doing things that your affiliate should be doing themselves then you are helping to much.

It is good to help your affiliates when they have questions or when they need some motivation. The best way to help them is to give them
...more

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 19 | Read Aina's 157 other Ask SC answers

When you get someone to join your team and you, as their Sponsor, are responsible to teach and guide them through. You have to make them understand on how to get started, how to score points, how advance to next level and so on. All of these tools are available 24/7, by SFI. We only need to read and apply what we learn.

Once you are sure that they are able to move forward on their own, it is time for you to let them go. I personally feel that you cannot hold their hand for too long.
The reason being;

1) Your business will not progress if too much attention were to be given to your downlines. You have your own work to do like sponsoring, marketing, strategising your move (towards Team Leader w position) and so on.

2) The most important thing is... you want them to be a Team Leader, like you.. Holding on too long will not benefit you and them. They need to learn the same trade, the same rules and a true Leaders, will normally do something extra ordinary or something different from the rest, to get what they want or want to achieve. Find these 5 true Leaders and will see how your team will grow... deep and very strong.

If someone in your team achieved something, you might want to reward... yes a good thing to do, to encourage them to do better. In this case, for a smaller team, maybe ‘affordable’ but what happen when your team grow bigger? Will you be able to ‘reward’ every single person in your team that did a great job? To me, teach them to do the right thing, learn to earn, learn to be patience and not to give up easily is more important. In the long run, they will get even bigger benefits than the ‘reward’.

Sharing a team Co-Op is one of a better way to help. By sharing the advertisement costs and fair distribution of sign-ups, everyone in the team has a fair chance to succeed.

Helping is always a good thing to do. Draw a line between helping sincerely and overly pampering! Everyone has their own responsibility to achieve success here at SFI.

less

When you get someone to join your team and you, as their Sponsor, are responsible to teach and guide them through. You have to make them understand on how to get started, how to score points, how advance to next level and so on. All of these tools are available 24/7, by SFI. We only need to read and apply what we learn.

Once you are sure that they are able to move forward on their own, it is time for you to let them go. I personally feel that you cannot hold their hand for too long.
...more

Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 83 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

Yes, there is such a thing as helping our affiliates TOO much, or not much, depending on the kind of help you are giving your affiliates.

To be an awesome sponsor, it is our role to provide all the help, support, guidance, mentoring, motivation and and encouragement to our affiliates. And it's not TOO much if done with love and care, because we want them to succeed. We succeed only if our affiliates succeed. That's Rule No. 6 of the SFI Rules of Success. To get, give.

So,in the beginning, upon joining our team, we do our best to make the new affiliate as welcome and as informed as possible. Training and teaching them the basics and all the procedures they need to fully comprehend how SFI works and how to build their business.

It can never seem too much help if certain affiliate needs more help
depending on which country he comes from, his language, educational, cultural background and other issues.

Some may be slow in "getting it" so we need patience in teaching and training. These kinds of affiliates will need more help than the others and we need to give too much of our time and support.

Although SFI recommends that we offer incentives such as Gift Certificates, TCredits, Reassignments, and such, this kind of help is not too much if it is to reward them for their achievements and not to encourage dependency.

In doing so, we also need to teach them a very valuable lesson of self-sufficiency and resourcefulness as part of their training as they advance in rank to become team leaders. Give them a chance to think for themselves, and grow as they learn more. As they continue to develop, their business will also grow and success will happen.

less

Yes, there is such a thing as helping our affiliates TOO much, or not much, depending on the kind of help you are giving your affiliates.

To be an awesome sponsor, it is our role to provide all the help, support, guidance, mentoring, motivation and and encouragement to our affiliates. And it's not TOO much if done with love and care, because we want them to succeed. We succeed only if our affiliates succeed. That's Rule No. 6 of the SFI Rules of Success. To get, give.

So,in
...more

Affiliate since: 06/15/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Judy's 6 other Ask SC answers

As tempting as it is to jump in and take our affiliates by the hand, to lead them every step of the way, for the success of both them and yourself, in my experience has proven to be futile, in most cases.

It weakens more than helps, by not allowing them to learn for themselves how to get things worked out. After a while, when you have many others to help and are not holding their hand so much, they can readily give up as they feel unsupported and not able to continue without your constant attention.

Successful affiliates will thrive knowing you are there at any point they need help. Learning the best way of growing their business for themselves will enable them to be an awesome supportive sponsor for their own affiliates.

Thank you for asking this excellent question.

Wishing you a very successful future!
less

As tempting as it is to jump in and take our affiliates by the hand, to lead them every step of the way, for the success of both them and yourself, in my experience has proven to be futile, in most cases.

It weakens more than helps, by not allowing them to learn for themselves how to get things worked out. After a while, when you have many others to help and are not holding their hand so much, they can readily give up as they feel unsupported and not able to continue without your constant
...more

Affiliate since: 03/28/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Shamsina's 138 other Ask SC answers

There is no such thing as helping your affiliate too much, unless what you really mean is helping them financially.

If it is information they seek, then by all means teach them as much as they can soak up. But the implementation of the lessons they learned obviously they will have to do themselves. You can help do their marketing (through a co-op for example), but only as a reward for something. Be sure not to give out something for free else they become dependent on you.

And if it is money they want, that is a big no-no. They will get their money if they participate and become active. Granted that this will happen at minimum in 2 months time, but if they put in effort, then they will see money in their account. You can reward them with gift certificates but again only as a reward for something. Reaching EA2, BTL, etc.

Teach them, and teach them well.
less

There is no such thing as helping your affiliate too much, unless what you really mean is helping them financially.

If it is information they seek, then by all means teach them as much as they can soak up. But the implementation of the lessons they learned obviously they will have to do themselves. You can help do their marketing (through a co-op for example), but only as a reward for something. Be sure not to give out something for free else they become dependent on you.

And
...more

Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

Yes there definitely is.

What you don't want are affiliates who are dependant.

You don't want your affiliates to keep on coming to you for information that are readily available especially on the SFI website. They will in time develop their own teams which they will have to sponsor, so you want them to find out the answers themselves.

I would suggest that when they come to you for answers to matters that are readily available, don't brush them off but at the same time do not give them the full answer if possible. I would answer their question and at the same time tell them that there is more information to be found on the website and then give them the link. In this way they start finding out the information themselves.

I also tell them how to search for information via the Affiliate Center search bar.

I have seen posts by affiliates on the forum and A2A who appear to be asking for financial help in order to achieve EA status etc.. Sponsors need to be very careful about giving financial help to their affiliates. By all means, provide incentives (TC, Reassignments, Gift Cards) for the affiliates to reach milestones but I would not recommend making it a habit of say giving them TCredits so that tye can achieve EA status etc.. I might do it ones for an affiliate and thats it.

We are sponsors - not benefactors.

less

Yes there definitely is.

What you don't want are affiliates who are dependant.

You don't want your affiliates to keep on coming to you for information that are readily available especially on the SFI website. They will in time develop their own teams which they will have to sponsor, so you want them to find out the answers themselves.

I would suggest that when they come to you for answers to matters that are readily available, don't brush them off but at the same
...more