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

If you have your own website or blog, set up a pop3 e-mail account like [email protected] .

Send a personal welcome e-mail from that address when a PSA Joins. If they gave a good e-mail address you will not get a report back but if you get a bounce report the e-mail address was invalid.

Using your own domain name and self hosted e-mail account looks more professional and is less apt to run into delivery issues because of SPAM filters etc.. SFI send millions of e-mails per month so having the same message come from SFI as comes from you with a SPAM Alert Term like Home Business, the SFI mail is more apt to get put in the SPAM folder than the e-mail account sending 50 messages a month with that term in it.

Get a E-mail Spam Checker,

There are free and paid tools available to check an e-mail on a 5 point scale for likelihood of being stopped by SPAM Filters. Keeping e-mails under a 2.5 score will ensure more e-mails get delivered and fewer end up in the SPAM folder.

Never include more than 3 links in the body of an e-mail, and avoid promotional signature files and plan on having more text than image content. If you have a image in the e-mail add 3-4 lines of text as well so it doesn't look like an HTML Advert designed to trick SPAM Filters.

Check your e-mail address regularly to see if it is blacklisted at Spamhaus and Project Honeypot. These services will let you know if there have been numerous complaints about your e-mail sending SPAM because it's always possible that your e-mail account gets hacked by spammers who send these unsolicited commercial mailings under your name. I have had it happen to me a couple times and had to prove the hack had occurred and had been fixed to get the e-mail or domain unblocked.

Above all don't send sales pitches and advertising, send valuable content and people will not report you for SPAM and will be more likely to follow your links.

Have a safe and joyous New Year!
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If you have your own website or blog, set up a pop3 e-mail account like [email protected] .

Send a personal welcome e-mail from that address when a PSA Joins. If they gave a good e-mail address you will not get a report back but if you get a bounce report the e-mail address was invalid.

Using your own domain name and self hosted e-mail account looks more professional and is less apt to run into delivery issues because of SPAM filters etc.. SFI send millions of e-mails
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Affiliate since: 02/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philippus's 100 other Ask SC answers

This question has also been asked and answered before at ASK SC, namely: How can you confirm that your team members are receiving your emails and other messages? Top Authors were Gliceria Pritchard, Ronilo Saguit and Janet Smith.

Most authors then and now are unanimous about the answer.
1. After sending an email, check your inbox for an undelivered email message.
2. After sending emails, check your sent messages folder for sent messages that still appear bold. They are not opened yet.
3. Check in your Genealogy to see which color the envelope next to your affiliates’ names is. If it is green, their email is confirmed as good, white means not confirmed, red means invalid and yellow means questionable.If they don’t have a good email confirmed, send a stream post asking them to confirm a valid email or contact them via phone or skype or social media and ask to confirm and to white-list all SFI and up-line emails.
4. If you use Gmail you can download and install Chrome Browser and RightInbox extension and follow the instructions. Use this to track your messages to see if they were received and opened.
5. Another way that may work is to have your own website or blog and post your mails or messages to your team there. Then send them a team mail to let them know you posted something. Keep it fresh and interesting for them to keep on going back for more.

None of the above mentioned ways can ensure that anyone will read your mails, but that is the least you can do to make sure they get them.

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This question has also been asked and answered before at ASK SC, namely: How can you confirm that your team members are receiving your emails and other messages? Top Authors were Gliceria Pritchard, Ronilo Saguit and Janet Smith.

Most authors then and now are unanimous about the answer.
1. After sending an email, check your inbox for an undelivered email message.
2. After sending emails, check your sent messages folder for sent messages that still appear bold. They are not opened
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

Great question John.

You may never know due to the many styles of email out there. I have just discovered recently that Gmail places many of the emails into categories even when I have I have whitelisted them. If you do not go into these files regularly, you will not get the email.

Your best bet is to educate your team of this when they join and do some education intermittently.

1) New affiliates are excited and hungry for knowledge when they join. Your leadership page is a great way to notify them that Emails could be hiding in files or spam and that you love hearing back from them.

2)Steam is another awesome way to make your PSA's aware of email challenges. Let them know you like to hear from them and know how thy are doing. The Mover's category is great but it is only as interactive as you are with it. You can send instant messages as well

3) Social Media is another way to send the word out that you are emailing your team and would LOVE to hear from them. Hey SFI Team, I sent you all an awesome email with great tips, Check your spam or update folders!" I have all my social media links in my email signature. *( this also lets your friends know you HAVE an SFI TEAM!....and may spark their interest.

4) Instant message your affiliates when they are online. Let them know you are emailing them and to check their spam and other files. Ask for a response!

5) Some email companies allow you to get an app that shows you a window stating "this Email" just opened by Jane Doe. I use this and I love it! Gmail has an app for this.

Best Success to you!



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Great question John.

You may never know due to the many styles of email out there. I have just discovered recently that Gmail places many of the emails into categories even when I have I have whitelisted them. If you do not go into these files regularly, you will not get the email.

Your best bet is to educate your team of this when they join and do some education intermittently.

1) New affiliates are excited and hungry for knowledge when they join. Your leadership
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

Many of us complain that our team members do not reply to our e-mails or do not act on the e-mail we send, but one of the reasons this may be the case is because they do not even receive them. However, you need to ensure they at least receive the mails by following the steps:

1. You can e-mail your team members who joined SFI after August 30, 2011 without any condition or problem, however, those that joined before then need to confirm their registration before you can e-mail them. You may therefore need to encourage these members, using team mail, to confirm their registration in order to be sure they can now receive your e-mails. You will know those who have not confirmed their registration by checking on their VP Ledgers or on your genealogy.

2. You need to then check on the status of the e-mail addresses provided by your team members on joining SFI. The colour of the envelop symbol located before the chat and notes symbols on each row of your genealogy denotes the following:

Green- Affiliate's e-mail has been confirmed as good, so there is a very good chance that your e-mails will be received.

Yellow- Affiliate's e-mail is questionable (messages returned as undeliverable, likely for an impermanent reason: i.e. inbox was full, server was down temporarily, etc.). You may need to reach this categories of team members by other means and encourage them to supply alternative e-mail addresses, if the problem persists.

Red- Affiliate's e-mail has been confirmed as undeliverable or invalid, so you also need to encourage them to supply deliverable e-mails.

White- Affiliate's e-mail has not been confirmed, so you may need to be patient for SFI to confirm the e-mail before you start sending e-mails to them. This means the status need to change to green to be sure that your e-mails will be received when sent.

Note that some of these bad e-mails were supplied as a result of team members being unsure of what is going to happen going forward as new members, so some may supply better e-mails as they progress and know what this business is about, or alternatively you may have to facilitate the process.

3. Another thing you need to do is to ensure that they have whitelisted all necessary SFI related e-mail addresses, including yours. You may need to teach those who do not know how to whitelist by referring them to the 'Instructions for Whitelisting [email protected]' here: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/emailhelp

The link above provides instructions on how to whitelist and the e-mails addresses to be whitelisted, including yours. The instructions further explain how this can be done on YAHOO, Gmail, AOL, HOTMAIL/MSN, COMCAST and REDIFFMAIL.

These are the basics actions you need to ensure before you can be sure your e-mail messages are received by your CSAs and PSAs, but whether they will open and read them is an issue for another day.

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Many of us complain that our team members do not reply to our e-mails or do not act on the e-mail we send, but one of the reasons this may be the case is because they do not even receive them. However, you need to ensure they at least receive the mails by following the steps:

1. You can e-mail your team members who joined SFI after August 30, 2011 without any condition or problem, however, those that joined before then need to confirm their registration before you can e-mail them. You
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Hi Sakir,

To make sure you know that your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your messages, you must:

1) Make sure to explained how to white list their e-mail on SFI by sending them the
information at: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/emailhelp
2) Ask questions in your Welcome E-Card and ask for a response.
3) Make sure to include your e-mail address in your Welcome E-Card.
4) Have a special SFI Affiliate folder in your e-mail for new affiliate addresses.
5) Send a follow up note by your own e-mail address to new PSAs and CSAs.
6) This is a good way to know if the new affiliate has a valid e-mail address.
7) Those that are just signing up and not planning in working their business, may not
add a valid e-mail.
8) This will help you weed out those new PSAs and CSAs that are not going to be active.
9) You can send group mailings from your e-mail also.
10) Doing group e-mails to those that have not white listed their e-mails, may bring an
older PSA or CSA back to work on your SFI team.
11) Make sure you know those that English is not their primary language. Sending your
messages in their own language will help them understand what to do.
12) Inform new affiliates of the Translator at the bottom of every page on SFI &
TripleClicks. This may help them with their new affiliates.

May this be helpful for you and your business. Many Blessing and success.
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Hi Sakir,

To make sure you know that your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your messages, you must:

1) Make sure to explained how to white list their e-mail on SFI by sending them the
information at: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/emailhelp
2) Ask questions in your Welcome E-Card and ask for a response.
3) Make sure to include your e-mail address in your Welcome E-Card.
4) Have a special SFI Affiliate folder in your e-mail for new affiliate addresses.
5)
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

"What do you need to do to make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages?"

Thanks for this question. In fact, this question appeared in different avtars in
Ask SC in the recent past.

One definite answer emerged was: You can do nothing to make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages.

This was based on:

1. When you make use of SFI Group Mailer System it confirms that your mail is sent
to so many number of affiliates based on your selection while using the Genealogy.

2. It does not mean that all of them received and read it as the system does not
provide the " Read Receipt acknowledgement" facility;

3. However, there are some ways to understand that the mail was read by the concerned
PSA or CSA when:

* You receive a reply seeking some clarification on a point you raised in your
mail;
* You find a specific action you mentioned in your mail, was performed;
* When you visit the Genealogy you can find the "Last Log in Details" of all or
specific PSA/CSA;

4. All other in built systems of SFI can show only whether some body is active or not;

5. When you use any other Mailing Facility, you can check if there is a facility to
seek "Read Receipt".

6. If it is available then you can activate it.

7. Here again, in most of the cases it will notify the Receiver about Senders'
seeking a Read Receipt confirmation.

8. If the Receiver opts " NO ", then you will not get any confirmation at all!!

Conclusion:

You can do nothing much about ensuring your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your mail messages. Be happy and satisfied as long as they remain strong and active in your Team and continue to inspire them with your achievement and performance. As the prover says, " A true leader leads by his own example "!!!



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"What do you need to do to make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages?"

Thanks for this question. In fact, this question appeared in different avtars in
Ask SC in the recent past.

One definite answer emerged was: You can do nothing to make sure your CSAs and PSAs are receiving your email messages.

This was based on:

1. When you make use of SFI Group Mailer System it confirms that your mail is sent
to so many
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

To be honest about your question on how to make sure your CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates and PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) are receiving your email messages? I would have to state that there is no good way to do that through SFI.

If you are talking about when you send a true “email” to the address they have supplied to SFI then the only way to tell is to send an email from your personal email account. I have done this on quit a few of my down-line affiliates both PSAs and CSAs.

If the email comes back as “un-deliverable” then you know their email address is no good. If you use a super good tracker attached to the message you send then the tracker will tell you if they opened your email or not.

This is another one of the “mistakes” we as affiliates are making. That is to be concerned about whether or not they are getting the emails. This should not be a concern of ours. Say What?!?

Well you heard me right. When someone is serious about building a business they will make sure that all forms of communication are open and operating properly and they would be “white listing” all important in-coming emails that are tied in to their business.

We as affiliates bother ourselves with quite a lot of things that have little or no value to the success of our personal business. In the past I have wasted many a hour in trying to find ways to connect with someone in my team.

I mean I was using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter Skype and dedicated email accounts just for my team only. To top that off I had about four or five other ways to try to get them to answer email or messages.

I had to ask myself – Is this involvement growing my business? To be honest no it was not. Then I realized that if they were serious about growing a business then they would be contacting me.

One of the hardest things for me to learn in this business was that you should not be chasing anyone. Do not go after them if they are not corresponding with you. Your time is needed for those who are trying to build their business and you need the time to keep your business growing with new affiliates.

Keep sending your mails and team newsletters – just don’t let the “non-responders” climb into your mind – it is not worth it.

Remember – when you want something don’t you see to it that you do what it takes to get it and that no one else is responsible in acquiring that thing except you? Well it is the same thing with the SFI and TripleClicks business.

That is why you keep hearing the saying – “Work with the Workers.”

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To be honest about your question on how to make sure your CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates and PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) are receiving your email messages? I would have to state that there is no good way to do that through SFI.

If you are talking about when you send a true “email” to the address they have supplied to SFI then the only way to tell is to send an email from your personal email account. I have done this on quit a few of my down-line affiliates
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 227 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

SFI has a great facility to make sure that your CSAs and PSAs receive your email messages.

In the Genealogy page you can not only send messages to your PSA and CSA but you can also send to the right and selected audience using the sorting and filtering facility. You need to master this sorting and filtering facility, its one of the best I ever seen use in a website.

Once you get the right audience or receiver of your message you just click on the team mail and it will be delivered on their SFI inbox and their registered email address.

You can check if your message was opened by your PSA and CSA. Go to your Message Manager by clicking messages link near you picture profile.

By default your Message manager show your inbox but click the drop down menu and choose sent messages. Those that are in BOLD are messages that are NOT opened. This means that they have not logged in to read it from SFI website but probably they read it from their email.

You can also use other facilities outside SFI like Facebook. You have the email address of your PSA and CSA (you can download them from SFI), use their email address to find them in Facebook. Befriend them and engage them into conversation.



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SFI has a great facility to make sure that your CSAs and PSAs receive your email messages.

In the Genealogy page you can not only send messages to your PSA and CSA but you can also send to the right and selected audience using the sorting and filtering facility. You need to master this sorting and filtering facility, its one of the best I ever seen use in a website.

Once you get the right audience or receiver of your message you just click on the team mail and it will be delivered
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

You cannot guarantee that your PSA's or CSA's will receive your email messages. Even if your email messages arrive they may not be opened or they may go into the spam folder and never found.

There are things you can do. You can ensure you communicate with them in as many ways as possible. The most popular way is by sending emails using the team mailers.

In your welcome letter you want to them encourage them to whitlelist these addresses:
[email protected]
2-Your email address
3-Their sponsor's email address

From time to time post a message in the stream reminding them to watch for your emails and to check their spam folder as well.

You can use other email services to follow up on your messages sent using the team mails at SFI, examples are yahoo.com, gmail.com, hotmail.com etc.

Write a great subject line to catch their attention.

Write a post on your leadership page about the importance of email communication and what they can do to ensure they are receiving them.

Ensure your email address is available to them, include it in all communication.


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You cannot guarantee that your PSA's or CSA's will receive your email messages. Even if your email messages arrive they may not be opened or they may go into the spam folder and never found.

There are things you can do. You can ensure you communicate with them in as many ways as possible. The most popular way is by sending emails using the team mailers.

In your welcome letter you want to them encourage them to whitlelist these addresses:
[email protected]
2-Your
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Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Karl's 41 other Ask SC answers

There are two ways to verify that emails are getting through that come to mind.

1.) Automated email Return Receipt.
a) Create a database in your email client outside of the SFI system.
b) Send the email with a return receipt requested tag attached.
c) When the email is opened, their email client will prompt them to authorize the sending of a return email to you which confirms that the email was opened.
d) If they allow it, an email will come to you that confirms receipt.

2.) Pose a question and ask them to respond.

These are the only ways that I am aware of to be sure that the messages are getting through.
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There are two ways to verify that emails are getting through that come to mind.

1.) Automated email Return Receipt.
a) Create a database in your email client outside of the SFI system.
b) Send the email with a return receipt requested tag attached.
c) When the email is opened, their email client will prompt them to authorize the sending of a return email to you which confirms that the email was opened.
d) If they allow it, an email will come to you that confirms receipt.

2.)
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