How many affiliates do I need to sponsor each month to build a successful business?

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Carl Allen, Aff (Tennessee, US) Top Author Forum Guru 5/3/2015 12:29 am
Affiliate since: 09/04/2002, Power Rank: 550 | Read Carl's 74 other Ask SC answers
The number of affiliates that you need to sponsor each month will vary based on the opinions of many, so no set answer is either right or wrong. It's the quality of affiliates who will make commitments and not the quantity that is more important than anything else. The most common goal is to find your 1st serious 5 people who will actually get active, work, move up to EA status and maintain it each month. In my opinion, you should at least sponsor 5 to 10 Affiliates a month, a great indicator to
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Elizabeth Freites, Aff (New york, US) Top Author Forum Guru 5/4/2015 9:12 am
Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers
Building a business is not about quantity but quality. You only need a handful of active affiliates in your first generation in order to have a large and steady income.

SFI recommends building a team of 5 active affiliates in your first generation and then just from these people alone your team will grow into thousands of affiliates up to 12 generations deep.

When you advertise you are playing a numbers game which means that you have to experiment in order to know how many
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Manohar Lal, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 5/4/2015 12:49 am
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Hello Alvin

I think if one can sponsor 2 affiliates a day i.e. 60 affiliates a month, it should be enough, provided you find at least 2-3 active affiliates each month. But experience has shown otherwise.

Out of 30 if one affiliate is active and continues to be EA, consider yourself lucky. After all we need only 5 good quality affiliates who are capable of becoming leaders.

But it does not limit us there. We can sponsor as many affiliates as we can due to the fact
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Nimo Ponifasio, Aff (New Zealand) Top Author Forum Guru 5/4/2015 4:54 pm
Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers
The short answer – as many as you are able to.

I know the system says you only need 5 committed affiliates, but why limit yourself! Go get as many affiliates as you are prepared to sponsor.
I say ‘prepared’ because there is no point in recruiting people if you don’t look after them and sponsor them well. If you don’t, the bulk of them will soon become inactive or opt out and even worse could ruin the reputation of SFI.

Even the ‘committed’ affiliates for
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 5/1/2015 8:28 pm
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
This question is a little obscure. You could sponsor 5 and they are all good workers or you could sponsor 105 and none work. It’s the luck of the draw really.

I think the best way to go is to get yourself up to team leader status and in this case you receive free second home CSAs each month. After a while you will receive good workers amongst these CSAs and you earn 15% from their activities.

It is also beneficial to purchase a regular amount of PSAs. I have found
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Karl Peterson, Aff (Utah, US) Top Author Forum Guru 5/2/2015 6:04 pm
Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Karl's 41 other Ask SC answers
Alvin,

The company says to get 5 active affiliates and then teach them to get 5 active affiliates. This is called Duplication. To do this you need to be sponsoring new affiliates each month. The statistics on new signups are truly depressing. Less than 1 out of every 100 will become an active affiliates. Your results may be better or worse than this. In the end, however that law of averages will win out. Using that logic, if you want 5 per month, you need 500 raw recruits a month.
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Maree Ras, Aff (South Africa) Top Author Forum Guru 5/3/2015 8:10 am
Affiliate since: 01/01/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Maree's 11 other Ask SC answers
The best answer to this question is to sponsor as many people as possible.

You really only need 5 personally sponsored affiliates to become Platinum or Diamond Team Leader to be very successful and to become a Diamond Team Leader yourself.

The problem is that you need to sponsor many to find 5 that will be active for long enough to become Platinum Team Leaders.

If 1 to 3 present of the people you sponsor is active, your will need to sponsor between 200 and 500 people
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Jacqueline Granger, Aff (Pennsylvania, US) Top Author Forum Guru 5/2/2015 9:56 am
Affiliate since: 08/29/2012, Power Rank: 514 | Read Jacqueline's 83 other Ask SC answers
How many affiliates do I need to sponsor each month to build a successful business?

This is a tricky question.

Only because, what one would call a Successful Business, may not be what someone else would call a Successful Business.

What would you say is a successful business?

Earning $500 a month? Earning $1,000 a month? Earning $10,000 a month?

Besides what SFI suggests to build a successful business, which you can find in the SFI Basics
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James Noik, Aff (Malaysia) Top Author Forum Guru 5/1/2015 11:58 pm
Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 197 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers
SFI is a number game.You need unlimited number of affiliates(PSAs and CSAs). Get at least 5 active PSAs to give me a good and stable foundation to success. Both PSAs and CSAs will give me a good source of income from their sales and a bigger share in the Executive Pools(matching Points) up to 12th generations.
However in spite of hundreds of affiliates, majority are inactive. So if I can have one or two actives EAs/TLs, to start with, I can consider it a way to successful business. This number
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Robertson Dsilva, Aff (Singapore) Top Author Forum Guru 5/4/2015 3:44 am
Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 284 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers
There are no hard and fast rules as to how many affiliates you need to sponsor each month. You need to work out something within your budget and time availability. You also need to set some reasonable goals as to quantity and quality of PSAs sponsored bearing in mind this is a numbers game.

If you can get 5 active PSAs among the pool who have been taught how to duplicate, that would be a reasonable figure during your first year. How many affiliates you need to sponsor each month to get
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