Affiliate since: 05/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kerrie's 68 other Ask SC answers

Is it worth it to keep sending supportive emails to PSAs and CSAs who have 0 VP and been inactive for weeks or months?

Yes! Never give up on your inactive team members! I have seen inactive Second-Home CSAs come back to life after a long slumber. It is so cool to think that one of my emails spurred someone back into action! In fact, I just had a red-flagged PSA come back earlier this week!

It's important that you are sending USEFUL information to your team (both active and inactive). Make your newsletters RELEVANT to them. They are more likely to read it that way, and to see the value you are offering them.

However, while you should take the time to send out a weekly newsletter to your entire team (inactive affiliates included), you should spend the majority of your time focusing on your movers. Work with the Workers! (Go read Gery's 20 Rules of Success!) Focus on teaching them how to duplicate your efforts and to build their own team.

While you are working with your active team members, you should also continue advertising for new signups. You can co-op or reassign some of your new signups to your active team members. This is a great way to motivate them. :)
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Is it worth it to keep sending supportive emails to PSAs and CSAs who have 0 VP and been inactive for weeks or months?

Yes! Never give up on your inactive team members! I have seen inactive Second-Home CSAs come back to life after a long slumber. It is so cool to think that one of my emails spurred someone back into action! In fact, I just had a red-flagged PSA come back earlier this week!

It's important that you are sending USEFUL information to your team (both active and
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Affiliate since: 11/02/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Emmanuel 's 6 other Ask SC answers

ALL your affiliates are important and VALUABLE whether they are active or inactive.
If you seek to ignite an inactive affiliate, try offering them gift certificates. I currently offer upto $50 Gift Certificate to affiliates who maintain at least an EA2 position for 3 consecutive months. PTL's earn $50, GTL's earn $40, STL's earn $30, BTL Earn $20 EA2's earn $10.

To answer your question. It is very worth it to keep sending supportive emails to your PSAs and CSAs who have 0 VP and have been inactive for weeks or months.

Out of my experience as a Gold Team Leader, below are seven (7) reasons why it is worth to keep sending supporting messages to ALL your PSAs and CSAs whether active or not.

1. An active affiliate today may be inactive tomorrow.

2. An inactive affiliate today may be active tomorrow.

3. Inactive affiliates may contribute active affiliates under them which are very valuable in your downline.

4. An inactive affiliate may be triggered by your support messages.

5. Your continued support messages and tips can make an inactive affiliate to be active.

6. Individual Personalized support messages are a evidence of concern for the welfare of ALL your affiliates. (I check their individual VersaPoint Ledger, and find out what exactly they are not doing well and this thrills them to receive direct support towards achieving success)

7. All affiliates in your downline are very valuable even if with inactive affiliates that value is POTENTIAL in nature.

Good luck!!!
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ALL your affiliates are important and VALUABLE whether they are active or inactive.
If you seek to ignite an inactive affiliate, try offering them gift certificates. I currently offer upto $50 Gift Certificate to affiliates who maintain at least an EA2 position for 3 consecutive months. PTL's earn $50, GTL's earn $40, STL's earn $30, BTL Earn $20 EA2's earn $10.

To answer your question. It is very worth it to keep sending supportive emails to your PSAs and CSAs who have 0 VP and
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Let me share the process of Duplication so that you can see the importance of not neglecting anyone in your organization even those who are not active for months.

First we find affiliates - The reality that all of us experience is it's difficult to get them sign up. So once they sign up you are one step closer to duplication.

Second, among those who signed up only few will be come active and will sustain being active. Majority of them will be idle. BUT some of the idle people may become active as they continuously receive information from you and SFI.

Usually once they will become active later they will sustain usually because they already have enough information. So this is the reason why we should not give up on anyone in our organization. Remember how difficult ans costly it was to let them sign up!

So there is no question whether you will keep on sending them supportive emails. We should! BUT let's not focus on them just send them general emails at least once a week.

Our attention should be on those ative affiliates these are your movers. You give all out support to them, chat with with them give them GC or TC, motivate them so that they will follow what you are doing.
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Let me share the process of Duplication so that you can see the importance of not neglecting anyone in your organization even those who are not active for months.

First we find affiliates - The reality that all of us experience is it's difficult to get them sign up. So once they sign up you are one step closer to duplication.

Second, among those who signed up only few will be come active and will sustain being active. Majority of them will be idle. BUT some of the idle people
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Affiliate since: 06/28/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vincent's 1 other Ask SC answers

To answer your question in a word...YES!!! It IS worth it!!

I have a fairly lengthy list of PSAs and CSAs in my downline...many of whom haven't logged in since they joined! :( Consequently, it sometimes seems as if it is a waste of my time to keep mailing them.

However, the one thing that motivates me to keep mailing is the thought that, sooner or later, one/two/three or more of these folks will read my message and decide to give SFI a try. They may even become productive SFI members!

You may ask, "Is this a realistic approach?" I present myself as a case in point...I joined SFI earlier this year and did absolutely nothing with it. It wasn't until August, when I opened a message from my sponsor, that I suddenly became interested, and ultimately became deeply involved, in SFI. So you just never know when your efforts will be rewarded.

Besides, when you use the PSA/CSA mailers in the "Genealogy" section, it really doesn't take that much of your time. However, the payoff for your persistence could be HUGE!

Think of it as fishing. The lake is full of fish...you just have to keep putting your line into the water until a fish finally takes your hook. Take a couple of minutes to send your mass message to everyone. Sooner, or later, you'll get "hook" an inactive individual or two who may become productive members of YOUR team!

In the meantime, devote most of your time to developing those members of your team who ARE working hard to build their own businesses. They are the "20%" who deserve "80%" of your time as they are the ones who are keeping your boat afloat in the water!

Happy Fishing!!
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To answer your question in a word...YES!!! It IS worth it!!

I have a fairly lengthy list of PSAs and CSAs in my downline...many of whom haven't logged in since they joined! :( Consequently, it sometimes seems as if it is a waste of my time to keep mailing them.

However, the one thing that motivates me to keep mailing is the thought that, sooner or later, one/two/three or more of these folks will read my message and decide to give SFI a try. They may even become productive
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Affiliate since: 05/08/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Erica's 23 other Ask SC answers

Hi, this is a good question.

I have many members on my team, both PSAs and CSAs. The majority of them are inactive, but each week I do send a group mailer to everyone. Whether any of the information I send to all of my team resonates with them, I am unsure, but I keep plugging away.

I really think that the majority of the trouble is that unless new members when they first sign up put in right away what their primary language is, it is hard for us to communicate with them appropriately.

One of my current movers was on my team for 1 1/2 months before I knew what his primary language was. He was from India, so I tried Hindi and English, but had not heard back from him. He continued to be on my mover list, but I was not getting correspondence back from him. Then one day, he finally completed his affiliate profile and his primary language was posted. Since then we have been messaging back and forth with no problems.

The form you first fill out for signing up as a member should have language as #1 thing you fill in first. This way team leaders would be able to communicate instantly. Always when you get a new PSA, primary language is listed as English, until they complete their profile and then you will notice that it has probably changed. Their home country is always listed and I always check to see what the main language of that country is, but this ends up not being true for an individual at times either, as some countries have two-three main languages.

I really think this is a reason so many affiliates may be inactive.

Hope this helps!
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Hi, this is a good question.

I have many members on my team, both PSAs and CSAs. The majority of them are inactive, but each week I do send a group mailer to everyone. Whether any of the information I send to all of my team resonates with them, I am unsure, but I keep plugging away.

I really think that the majority of the trouble is that unless new members when they first sign up put in right away what their primary language is, it is hard for us to communicate with them appropriately.

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Affiliate since: 04/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diane's 76 other Ask SC answers

Absolutely it is worth keeping them in the loop and sending them your newsletters and TeamMails just the same as you do for your active team members. It takes no more work to do.

You don't know why they haven't started yet. Perhaps they signed up spur-of-the-moment and weren't expecting something they would need to make a time commitment for. Maybe it just wasn't quite the right time for them.

I recently went through my email accounts to clear the clutter, and found newsletters from companies I found interesting enough to keep, and re-visited some of the sites and resources I signed up to several months ago, so don't give up on them. You never know what may inspire them to return.
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Absolutely it is worth keeping them in the loop and sending them your newsletters and TeamMails just the same as you do for your active team members. It takes no more work to do.

You don't know why they haven't started yet. Perhaps they signed up spur-of-the-moment and weren't expecting something they would need to make a time commitment for. Maybe it just wasn't quite the right time for them.

I recently went through my email accounts to clear the clutter, and found newsletters
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ana's 32 other Ask SC answers

Hello!

In my opinion, it is worth it. You never know when a PSA or CSA might change their mind and become active. You never know if an email you will send to them is just the right trigger for your PSA/CSA to start working.

This is an online job and somewhat impersonal, so we sometimes tend to forget that people from our downline are just regular human beings with their regular everyday problems. Some of them might be confused with all the information regarding SFI business. Some of them might be skeptic because of so many scams on the Internet. Some of the affiliates might have some private issues that are preventing them from working.

I send supportive emails to all of my PSAs and CSAs even though most of them are inactive. I send them news about all the great features in SFI that can help them in their business. It doesn't cost me a thing, just a couple of minutes of my time weekly. And yet, maybe one of those emails will reach an inactive affiliate and push just the right button.

Finally, supporting my downline is a part of my job, so it's always worth it.

Best regards.
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Hello!

In my opinion, it is worth it. You never know when a PSA or CSA might change their mind and become active. You never know if an email you will send to them is just the right trigger for your PSA/CSA to start working.

This is an online job and somewhat impersonal, so we sometimes tend to forget that people from our downline are just regular human beings with their regular everyday problems. Some of them might be confused with all the information regarding SFI business.
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

Every action you perform in any business you own is important and you should not discard its results even if you are not able to see them immediately. You might just create interest at the right time (not for you but for the affiliate) and they can become active.

The question of inactive PSAs and CSAs has come up very often on various discussion platforms and it is my opinion that you should not stop supporting them despite their passive position in the business. The worst case scenario will be that they will opt out of the business and give one of the reasons as "too many emails"! This has happened with one of my affiliates but I continue to send emails regularly.

I alternate between PSAs and CSAs depending on the subject I decide to write about. It is not always about SFI as I sometimes just write a general "get to know" email. This is to build a long term relationship but as the training advises, work with the workers. Having said that, you should also see the potential that is waiting to be tapped from inactive affiliates.
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Every action you perform in any business you own is important and you should not discard its results even if you are not able to see them immediately. You might just create interest at the right time (not for you but for the affiliate) and they can become active.

The question of inactive PSAs and CSAs has come up very often on various discussion platforms and it is my opinion that you should not stop supporting them despite their passive position in the business. The worst case scenario
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Affiliate since: 08/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vijayan's 63 other Ask SC answers

Yes, it does...

Some takes less time to realize the benefit of SFI and some do take longer time.. As a leader, we need to have patience and change our style of approach to our down line.

We need to spend more time in finding different ways of approaching our team members.. Since, we tend to send one email to larger group, the chance are more that they feel it as spam and kind of ignore it without reading.

Try to send separate email to individual IDs (might be tedious job if you have more inactive members) but I am confident that hard work will pay off.

Wish you good luck!!
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Yes, it does...

Some takes less time to realize the benefit of SFI and some do take longer time.. As a leader, we need to have patience and change our style of approach to our down line.

We need to spend more time in finding different ways of approaching our team members.. Since, we tend to send one email to larger group, the chance are more that they feel it as spam and kind of ignore it without reading.

Try to send separate email to individual IDs (might be tedious
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Affiliate since: 10/13/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Adebola 's 7 other Ask SC answers

My direct answer to your question is yes and it cost you nothing but gives you an opportunity to reactivate a sleeping affiliate.

AWeber makes money from helping marketers build list and to maintain it. SFI does that for us free. With the populated list in our Genealogy, we can observe the performance of our team members and as such prepare useful mails to them.

Question like yours emanate from the fact that many of the mails sent out to team members are not working and yield no positive result most of the times. But why? Reason being that many simply copy and paste articles. Sometimes repeating same over and over again just to gain some few VPs.

The objective of the Genealogy is to help team leaders analyze the business health of their team members and help them individually or collectively. Thus, the need for a thoughtful and well written mail cannot be overemphasize.

Sending mails to all on your list regularly is the smartest thing to do. It shows you are a working and concerned team leader. Selecting the right subject to write about shows you know and identify with the need of your team. And not neglecting those who are not active now shows that you believe in them and believe that this platform (SFI) works.

Sometimes, what a sleeping affiliate needs are just testimonies of your success. Showcase your badge and the benefits. Have you won an auction? Celebrate it with your team! Have you discovered how to covert new affiliates or TripleClicks member or even come across a hot deal, share it with your team.

Interest varies. This is why I strongly believe everyone on your list should be contacted regularly. You never can tell what is it that will strike an interest.

In conclusion, SFI has set up the system for us as affiliates. So get the mail ready and with a click, all on your list gets it at no cost. Why deprive A or H because he/she has 0 VP. Your work has an affiliate s to keep promoting and sponsoring. Your team will learn from you and duplicate and in no time you will start reaping the reward of your hard and impartial marketing campaign.

I wish you the very best as you aspire and work to remain a good affiliate and team leader.

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My direct answer to your question is yes and it cost you nothing but gives you an opportunity to reactivate a sleeping affiliate.

AWeber makes money from helping marketers build list and to maintain it. SFI does that for us free. With the populated list in our Genealogy, we can observe the performance of our team members and as such prepare useful mails to them.

Question like yours emanate from the fact that many of the mails sent out to team members are not working and yield
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