Affiliate since: 08/28/2012, Power Rank: 239 | Read Marta's 64 other Ask SC answers

Your Sponsor, is the person who introduced you to this wonderful program, called SFI.

If you are lucky enough to have a sponsor that communicates with their affiliates, congratulations, you are very lucky, and can than ask him / her any points you do not understand, reading all material that your Sponsor sends you.

Another name for Sponsor is Mentor. Your mentor is there to help guide you when you start, and / or get confused or overwhelmed, by all the information available to you

As for relying on your Sponsor, you must understand that whether or not you have an active Sponsor, ultimately this is YOUR BUSINESS, so you should not rely solely on your Sponsor, but rather try to learn as much as you can, and that involves contacting your other Upline Members, your Co-Sponsor, using the Forum and ASK SC, making friends in the a2a, this last is very powerful, if used wisely, as you can make friends from your own country, and discuss problems relevant to your country.

So yes rely on your sponsor, when you first start, but at the end of the day, it is up to YOU, to grow your business


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Your Sponsor, is the person who introduced you to this wonderful program, called SFI.

If you are lucky enough to have a sponsor that communicates with their affiliates, congratulations, you are very lucky, and can than ask him / her any points you do not understand, reading all material that your Sponsor sends you.

Another name for Sponsor is Mentor. Your mentor is there to help guide you when you start, and / or get confused or overwhelmed, by all the information available
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Affiliate since: 06/27/2013, Power Rank: 197 | Read James's 127 other Ask SC answers

When I started with SFI, I did not know who my sponsor was not until I became active in the 3rd month as EA. I logged in to complete my daily, weekly, monthly, intermediate tasks to earn free vps. I subscribed to Standing Order of 125 tcredits and later on S-Builder to builder up my team and maintain my EA. rank. I learned SFI business by reviewing the SFI Basics, Launchpad and read the ASK SC. Most of my actions were done through trial and error.

My sponsor came in when he invited me to buy a share in s-builder co-op. I bought a share in the co-op for one time and got some new PSAs of which most are inactive until today.

I contacted my sponsor once a while to find out the next course of actions or advices to earn some income from the business.

My sponsor was a few month earlier than me in SFI business. So I did not expect him to know more. Nevertheless, I did ask for opinion and advice from him as a sponsor.

To build a successful business in SFI I believe that my own effort and determination play a crucial role to achieve success. I do not rely on my sponsor as he is also building up his own success and encounter similar problems. What is important is his support and encouragement. I myself determine my own route to success by investing my time and money. My sponsor does not interfere much in my business affair.

I am grateful to my sponsor as he is not a pushy guy to pressure me to achieve his own goals, but allow me to work freely and avoid conflicting ideas to create tension and unhealthy relationship.

But I will emulate his leadership by example and walk the talk., honest and sincere in running the business.Talk less and do more !


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When I started with SFI, I did not know who my sponsor was not until I became active in the 3rd month as EA. I logged in to complete my daily, weekly, monthly, intermediate tasks to earn free vps. I subscribed to Standing Order of 125 tcredits and later on S-Builder to builder up my team and maintain my EA. rank. I learned SFI business by reviewing the SFI Basics, Launchpad and read the ASK SC. Most of my actions were done through trial and error.

My sponsor came in when he invited me
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Affiliate since: 11/10/2003, Power Rank: 150 | Read Earl's 98 other Ask SC answers

Your sponsor can be a great resource, but if you want to build a successful business, you will have to avoid becoming too dependent on your upline.

The best advice I can give is to view your sponsor as a coach. When you play on a sports team, the coach is on the sidelines while you play the game on the field. He helps you learn the game and gives you encouragement and instruction while you play, but you are the one responsible for how well you do.

In the same way, your sponsor can help you learn about SFI, but you are responsible for your success because you are the one doing the work.
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Your sponsor can be a great resource, but if you want to build a successful business, you will have to avoid becoming too dependent on your upline.

The best advice I can give is to view your sponsor as a coach. When you play on a sports team, the coach is on the sidelines while you play the game on the field. He helps you learn the game and gives you encouragement and instruction while you play, but you are the one responsible for how well you do.

In the same way, your sponsor
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

An active, knowledgeable, and supportive sponsor can be highly instrumental in helping their SFI affiliate be successful. They will make working SFI easier. They will be forthcoming in providing guidance, help and support. They will initiate contact with their team members and maintain the communication lines open.

As a sponsor, this is what I personally thrive to accomplish with my team members. And it reflects on the ratings I get from my PSAs, month after month.

If you are an affiliate eager to grow your business and build your team, and you have such a sponsor, you can rely on them. You also will need to be proactive: respond to their offers to help, apply the tips they give you, follow the advice they will extend to you, participate in the contests they may organize for the team. If they offer you to be part of their S-Builder Co-op, you should seize that opportunity.

In this situation, you, as a PSA, you will gain by being an active, positive team player. You will benefit significantly by relying a great deal on your sponsor. If you duplicate the same spirit and activity with your own team, you will be successful.

However, not all affiliates have such an excellent relationship with their sponsor.

Some affiliates have to take the initiative themselves to get anything from their sponsors. Beside the weekly team mail, seldom do these sponsors contact their PSAs An affiliate, who finds himself in similar situations, will only have sporadic, intermittent communication with their sponsor, who will only marginally be helpful.

There is also a third type of sponsors: They are not responsive at all to the efforts to communicate and to the requests for support from their PSAs. Such sponsors may not even be regularly active themselves.

I have a CSA whose sponsor told them that he was not in a situation to offer any help at all. Obviously, this affiliate is not benefiting from their sponsor and cannot rely on him. But, it has not negatively affected her success. This CSA of mine has regularly maintained their team leader rank, and is working to grow her business. As a co-sponsor, I offer to her the same support I am extending to my own PSAs.

This is to say that a good, proactive co-sponsor can be a substitute to a sponsor if the latter is not doing his job. It is also to say that, whether an affiliate has a supportive upline or not, the real success comes from that affiliate himself. An affiliate should never depend exclusively on their sponsor. He/she should work to be knowledgeable and resourceful enough to be self reliant.

Many affiliates do not get any help from their upline and still go on to be very successful. They may also draw on the Forum, Ask SC and Technical support.To some extent, this may even be the norm.

For those of us who are familiar with SFI's history and beginnings, we know that President Gery Carson was an extremely successful MLM marketer who had not had any support from his sponsors in his businesses. He still went on to be among the very top producers. Every SFI affiliate should have that mentality and work to emulate that spirit.
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An active, knowledgeable, and supportive sponsor can be highly instrumental in helping their SFI affiliate be successful. They will make working SFI easier. They will be forthcoming in providing guidance, help and support. They will initiate contact with their team members and maintain the communication lines open.

As a sponsor, this is what I personally thrive to accomplish with my team members. And it reflects on the ratings I get from my PSAs, month after month.

If you are
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Affiliate since: 04/11/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nisha's 10 other Ask SC answers

It depends on your sponsor and you, on how you interact with each other. When a person sponsors someone they want that person to be successful, because all teamleaders wants their team to be successful, so they would be ready to assist when assistance is requested.

After they sponsor you and explain you what you need to do it becomes your responsibilty to learn about SFI as much as you can. Learn about marketing and duplication because these are the keys of becoming successful.

You need to tell your sponsor when you need information or assistance because the sponsor will only be able to assist you when you contact them and let them know where you need assistance.

And to be successful in SFI, you need to learn and make it successful yourself because you need to treat it as your own business.

I hope this answer helps


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It depends on your sponsor and you, on how you interact with each other. When a person sponsors someone they want that person to be successful, because all teamleaders wants their team to be successful, so they would be ready to assist when assistance is requested.

After they sponsor you and explain you what you need to do it becomes your responsibilty to learn about SFI as much as you can. Learn about marketing and duplication because these are the keys of becoming successful.

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

You must actually rely on YOU to build a successful SFI business. It's cool to ask your sponsor a few questions from time to time, you don't want to rely on your sponsor too much. It's like asking for crutches when you have two healthy legs to work with. SFI is basically your marathon track, and you have to run that race without any help from your sponsor (AKA your coach). Look to him/her for guidance every now and then, but don't expect your sponsor to grab you by the hand and run that race with you.

I hope my answer isn't too harsh. You're a strong affiliate who wants a taste of success just like the rest of us at SFI, but you've got to keep on running that track until you reach the finish line (in other words, meeting your goals).

Cheers to you in hopes you complete your own individual marathon.
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You must actually rely on YOU to build a successful SFI business. It's cool to ask your sponsor a few questions from time to time, you don't want to rely on your sponsor too much. It's like asking for crutches when you have two healthy legs to work with. SFI is basically your marathon track, and you have to run that race without any help from your sponsor (AKA your coach). Look to him/her for guidance every now and then, but don't expect your sponsor to grab you by the hand and run that race
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Affiliate since: 08/04/2013, Power Rank: 14 | Read Moira's 74 other Ask SC answers

Hello Sebastian,

Your Sponsor is the person who introduced you to SFI, so logic would dictate that he or she should be the one to help you build a successful business. However, the reality is that many of our Sponsors are also new to this business and do not fully realize the importance of supporting the affiliates they recruit. If you have a good Sponsor, by all means rely on the guidance he or she provides.

However, you do not need to rely solely on your Sponsor to build a successful business. You have a Co-Sponsor, an upline of affiliates that goes all the way up to SFI Corporate, a choice of ten a2a friends you can go to for help and, of course, you have many generous and wise affiliates who are ready and willing to provide answers to your questions in the SFI Forum.

This is your business, and although you owe a debt of gratitude to your Sponsor for having introduced you to this wonderful opportunity, it is up to you to take the initiative and find additional support from the many other sources available to you at SFI aside from your Sponsor.

Build a successful business by relying most of all on yourself! Search for the information you need (SFI Search Engine, ASK SC section, Forum, training materials, etc.), and then ask questions about the concepts you do not fully understand. Help is always available here at SFI for those who want to succeed!

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Hello Sebastian,

Your Sponsor is the person who introduced you to SFI, so logic would dictate that he or she should be the one to help you build a successful business. However, the reality is that many of our Sponsors are also new to this business and do not fully realize the importance of supporting the affiliates they recruit. If you have a good Sponsor, by all means rely on the guidance he or she provides.

However, you do not need to rely solely on your Sponsor to build a
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello Sebastian,

My best answer to your question is to redirect where your reliability should rest.

Yes, an important factor in the success of your business is a great sponsor that can help guide you from the start, and I hope you have one.

However, the absolute KEY to Your success will ALWAYS be YOU. Your business relies on the effort & dedication that you put into it.

Commit yourself to learn all you can about what's in front of you, it's ALL HERE. Take time to learn EACH DAY something, then apply it. it's really that simple....don't overthink this...the formula Works!

You can't rely on someone else to build your business, that my friend belongs to YOU.

You Can Do It!

Best Wishes see you at the Top
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Hello Sebastian,

My best answer to your question is to redirect where your reliability should rest.

Yes, an important factor in the success of your business is a great sponsor that can help guide you from the start, and I hope you have one.

However, the absolute KEY to Your success will ALWAYS be YOU. Your business relies on the effort & dedication that you put into it.

Commit yourself to learn all you can about what's in front of you, it's ALL HERE.
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Affiliate since: 04/04/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Cora's 3 other Ask SC answers

To build success in your SFI Business, you rely very little on your Sponsor.
You mostly learn and desire to do it for yourself. You need and want to know your own limitations and abilities early in the business.

In the beginning, you may be as a baby relying fully on your parent to provide food for you at the proper time; just like your Sponsor guiding you, helping you navigate the ins and outs of the SFI Program.

Soon just as the baby's curiosity builds and he/she takes steps alone, testing what he/she can do for himself/herself. Even if they fall, they are ready to go it alone. Especially if they know there is help close by when needed.

It can be similar with the affiliate. After learning, exploring, discovering and doing tasks for and by themselves, their confidence builds and they want to take responsibility for building their own business. Even if not sure about everything that needs to be done. For the most part they have cut the figurative apron strings and are ready to go the journey alone.
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To build success in your SFI Business, you rely very little on your Sponsor.
You mostly learn and desire to do it for yourself. You need and want to know your own limitations and abilities early in the business.

In the beginning, you may be as a baby relying fully on your parent to provide food for you at the proper time; just like your Sponsor guiding you, helping you navigate the ins and outs of the SFI Program.

Soon just as the baby's curiosity builds and he/she takes
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Hi Sebastian,

Each affiliate is different and many take longer than others to understand what to do.
a) Those that are really serious or have been in marketing, will not have to rely on their sponsor
after becoming familiar with the websites.
b) Many who sign up don't understand what marketing is and will have be more dependent on their
sponsor.
c) Some will get frustrated and leave without doing anything.
d) Many affiliates don't consider SFI & TripleClicks a business, so come and go when they feel like
it or don't have good website access so can't show up daily.
e) Those that don't understand English work harder, but do need more help.

Here Are Some Tips For Success and To Help Your Team Become Independent!

When a new affiliate first starts working on SFI, it does look confusing so give them all the information they need to start working their business as:
1) Send a Welcome E-Card message as soon as you are notified. You can find a default welcome
message at: https://www.sfimg.com/PopUp/SampleWelcomeLetter
Include your leadership gateway as: www.sfimg.com/leadership/XXXXXXXX (your ID#) and your
e-mail. This will allow them ways to contact you by either starting a chat, sending a Team mail
(at the bottom of your Blog page) or by sending an e-mail.
2) Follow up With E-Mail! with an e-mail this will let you know that you have a correct e-mail
address. Explain this is THEIR REAL business, they must show up daily (if possible)
To start the new affiliate needs to read The "Start" and The "Basics"
Then start reading The "Launchpad" each day and do the To-Do-List.
After they have finished the Launchpad it's important to start reading from the black "Training"
tab at: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/
3) New affiliates that are not fluent in English will to be aware that there is a Translator on each
page of SFI and TripleClicks. This can be a challenge when they have posted "other" instead of
their language. It's important to help them by sending message in their language.
4) Suggest new affiliates should join a2a to find friends from their country that are team leaders.
This will help them understand when a situation arises that only pertains to that country.
A great help for affiliates that do not speak English. Send them the a2a page at:
https://www.sfimg.com/a2a
5) Take the time to send regular messages as a weekly Team Mail, to Congratulate your affiliates
as they progress and reward them as they achieve.
If you are not sure what to send in your group mailing here are some samples at:
https://www.sfimg.com/PopUp/sampleMessages
There many good ideas on every page of SFI and the SFI News at: http://news.sfimg.com/
Make sure to send group mailings to all your team. Some that are inactive, may come back to
learn and work.

Since you are successful, you will really never stop coaching and helping your team, because as you learn and as the websites are updated, you will want to pass on your new knowledge.
Also, as new PSAs and CSAs join your team, you will start teaching and helping from the beginning again.

I hope this is helpful.
May you be Blessed with Success.
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Hi Sebastian,

Each affiliate is different and many take longer than others to understand what to do.
a) Those that are really serious or have been in marketing, will not have to rely on their sponsor
after becoming familiar with the websites.
b) Many who sign up don't understand what marketing is and will have be more dependent on their
sponsor.
c) Some will get frustrated and leave without doing anything.
d) Many affiliates don't
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