Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 350 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

A sponsor should only go so far to help an affiliate, and only his own team or his CSAs, as to be useful to the affiliate, and not to do the work of the affiliate. A great part of an affiliate's training is to learn how to be an over-comer. It you give Gift Certificates, or TCredits to someone who is short for the end of the month, then you are denying him the chance to learn to plan, budget or find a way to come up with money enough, become more determined, and feel the pleasure at doing it himself.

There are plenty of ways to help an affiliate besides feeding his weaknesses. Encourage what he has done correctly, his strengths, his goals and plans to reach them. Build up his courage by proclaiming his strengths, mile-markers, leadership abilities. When he has questions, answer them, or better yet, anticipate his questions, and tell him he is not alone in wanting that answer.

Do not assume that he knows something that he should know, like that vp begins at zero on the first of each month. Or that he needs sales AND action vp so he doesn't spend a whole paycheck trying to reach BTL or STL.

If you want to give him a reassigned PSA during the first month or two so he has someone to write, then give him a challenge to work before you do the reassign. That could be to finish the LaunchPad, or set up a standing order. Something that he has to do anyway if he is to succeed. Then teach him to introduce himself to his new PSA and do a follow-up and teach him how to lead. Use the reassignment to teach duplication and leadership skills.

If you intend to reward him with anything, truly make it a reward, not a handout. When you give them free or easy rewards, it is easy for them to decide that you don't have confidence in them or in SFI.

If you lose some because they thought you should have welfared them and they quit, they would have quit if you had helped them.

Which ever way you give him help, know this: he is learning duplication. His leg of your team will reflect what you taught him.

Never turn your back on even an inert affiliate, but always keep your pocket closed unless it is your decision to reward for a good cause beyond just a handout.
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A sponsor should only go so far to help an affiliate, and only his own team or his CSAs, as to be useful to the affiliate, and not to do the work of the affiliate. A great part of an affiliate's training is to learn how to be an over-comer. It you give Gift Certificates, or TCredits to someone who is short for the end of the month, then you are denying him the chance to learn to plan, budget or find a way to come up with money enough, become more determined, and feel the pleasure at doing it himself.

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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 438 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

To answer this question, you should know the in and outs of your downlines. You should have established consistent communication with your affiliates. Your experience dealing with your affiliates will help you to decide in all kinds of situation in building your team.

Before answering the question, if there is a point that you should not go beyond, consider the following points in making decisions how far you should go in helping your affiliates:

1. Know your affilliates.

Use the SFI Tools and Resources, such as Genealogy to classify your affiliates. You can set up parameters like affiliate's VP, frequency of logging in and doing the To-Do List, Ask SC/Forum participation and affiliate's frequency of communication with you as his sponsor. By doing this, you'll be able to have a whole picture of your team.

2. Communicate

Now that you have an overview of your team, you can send corresponding messages to affiliates, who just signed up, affiliates who have zero VP, affiliates that logging in consistently and affiliates who are go-getters. Depending upon your resources and the responses of your affiliates, you'll be able to make sound decisions to build your team.

Is there a point you should not go beyond?

Based on my experience, I suppport an affiliate who performs the To-Do List consistently, but lacks financially to renew his EA2. Besides perfoming his To-Do List, he is constantly learning, and making use of the SFI Tools and Resources, such as applying the methods of sponsoring, participating in Ask SC and SFI Forum and communicate consistently with his Team Leader. I'll also send messages to affiliates correspondingly as classified above.

I'm not going beyond this point, i.e. I'm not going to support someone who will not lift his finger to do his To-Do List and instead demand his commission not understanding the concept of SFI. In short people who lack patience, persistence, determination and commitment are not worh investing in them.


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To answer this question, you should know the in and outs of your downlines. You should have established consistent communication with your affiliates. Your experience dealing with your affiliates will help you to decide in all kinds of situation in building your team.

Before answering the question, if there is a point that you should not go beyond, consider the following points in making decisions how far you should go in helping your affiliates:

1. Know your affilliates.

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Affiliate since: 07/28/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ingrid 's 138 other Ask SC answers

Sponsors can help their affiliates move forward in both tangible and intangible ways. Guide them on what should be done. Achieve this by referring them to specific areas of SFI’s training and reminding them to stick to the basics.

Give them tips on how to market their business. For example, explain ways in which advertisements can be sent out. If possible, give them some free advertising sites or you can encourage them to join your own co-op. Your help to them will eventually benefit you.

Show them examples of your own efforts. If you want them to set up a Standing Order or ECA, you can first complete such a task. Then, not only will they emulate your example but if they are stuck in the process you can assist them by guiding them through.

Give motivational assistance and/or reward their activity with tangible gifts, such as gift Certificates, or some reassignments, or TCredits. These will be highly appreciated and can spur them on to greater success.

You can be creative in setting up contests where your team can interact with each other. Competition is always healthy and can bring great results.

The main point to remember here is to adhere to the rules and regulations of SFI. Be generous with your knowledge and be always ready to answer questions. There are no boundaries to success.

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Sponsors can help their affiliates move forward in both tangible and intangible ways. Guide them on what should be done. Achieve this by referring them to specific areas of SFI’s training and reminding them to stick to the basics.

Give them tips on how to market their business. For example, explain ways in which advertisements can be sent out. If possible, give them some free advertising sites or you can encourage them to join your own co-op. Your help to them will eventually benefit
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Affiliate since: 06/11/2013, Power Rank: 5 | Read Maree's 55 other Ask SC answers

I feel we should help and reward all our team.
I reward down line for participation.
A lot of members will not participate no matter how many times you send them E Cards offering support.
I have over 2300 PSA and Combined CSA in my down line.

That is why the Geneology Tab is brilliant. I send posts weekly to all of these members.
Offering support.
I send them to my Leadership Board. Letting them know they can enter competitions winning cash and random down line for participation.

Is there a point you should not go beyond? I like this question.
I feel you should decide wisely on how you support your team. There is no point offering Gift Certificates to members that do not respond with your training suggestions.
YOU can waste a lot of money sending T credits etc to down line, who do not bother to make contact.
So I suggest support the members that request it.

I have a SFI training website with a sales generating leads program to promote SFI.
This gives full 24/7 support to all my down line to view when I am off line.

I follow this guideline. I pick 5 top movers. Reassign 5 PSA to these 5 Top Movers.
Asking them to do the same as they start to generate sign ups.
Then I repeat. I pick another 5 top movers the following month reassigning 5 Top Movers to them. ETC ETC ETC.
Hope this helps.
SFI is the best on line business to promote. Start with baby steps that will generate into giant leaps.
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I feel we should help and reward all our team.
I reward down line for participation.
A lot of members will not participate no matter how many times you send them E Cards offering support.
I have over 2300 PSA and Combined CSA in my down line.

That is why the Geneology Tab is brilliant. I send posts weekly to all of these members.
Offering support.
I send them to my Leadership Board. Letting them know they can enter competitions winning cash and random down line
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Affiliate since: 06/29/2000, Power Rank: 2 | Read Leon's 55 other Ask SC answers

First of all... It's important to understand that you must balance your time between helping those who want to help themselves and prospecting for new Affiliates. Use the 80/20 rule (google it) to help guide you in managing your time and other resources. You're looking for 5 Team Leaders minimum that are willing to also go through the process of finding their 5 Team Leaders. You want Affiliates who are willing to take personal responsibility for their current situation. After decades of making a living in this industry I can't stress this enough!

If you have an Affiliate that is taking action and getting results you should give them as much attention as possible. What you'll find is that inspired and motivated Affiliates mostly need direction and their questions answered in order to produce results. What you're looking for is an Affiliate that asks action oriented questions. This tells you that they're taking action in search of results.

IMPORTANT: Inspired and motivated Affiliates will ask a lot of questions at first, but the volume of questions will decrease over a very short period of time. Be prepared to focus your support on those Affiliates!

"...is there a point you should not go beyond?"

Yes!

1) You should not build their PSA business for them! You should lead them and then walk beside them in that journey. However, there's NO issues with helping to build beyond their PSA level. Help drive their business deep as long as you're building leadership!

2) You should not be your Affiliates "main" source for financial support.

You want your Affiliates to develop their leadership habits so they can then duplicate your efforts. Start with the end in mind!
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First of all... It's important to understand that you must balance your time between helping those who want to help themselves and prospecting for new Affiliates. Use the 80/20 rule (google it) to help guide you in managing your time and other resources. You're looking for 5 Team Leaders minimum that are willing to also go through the process of finding their 5 Team Leaders. You want Affiliates who are willing to take personal responsibility for their current situation. After decades of making a
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a very good question, and to be honest I could argue on both sides of this for hours, as there are many good points for and against. But use a system that I adopted right from the outset of joining SFI, and I still use it today. I always greet my new PSA's and CSA's with a welcoming email, and advising them how to get started. I then send a follow-up email (and now I have started using the fabulous new E-Cards)asking them how they are going, offering words of encouragement and advice, and advising them that I am always there to help them. I do this to create the feeling of team work, so these new affiliates know there is someone looking over their shoulder, and someone that is taking ownership of their progress. I study my Genealogy Report on a very regular basis,I monitor what my affiliates are doing (or not doing!!), and once again contact them to either congratulate them on their achievements or offer more words of advice if they are maybe falling behind or not visiting SFI regularly). You can use your Genealogy Report filters to gain a huge number of various reports, use this ofeten as it is a major tool for Team Leaders).

After that, if I then notice that the affiliate simply isn't interested (you will easily see this if they have not been visiting SFI or earning VP's), I send one more email offering my support and guidance, but if after all these efforts they still don't become active, I divert my efforts to those that are active and committed to the SFI concept.

Why do I do that? Simple, because SFI is a business to me, and time is money. If any new affiliate is genuinely interested in becoming successful with SFI, they will have picked up on all the great aspects of SFI in the first few weeks, and together with all my letters of support and encouragement would have realised this is one of the best platforms on the internet today in which to make money. If they haven't grasped that, then more than likely they weren't interested or motivated enough in the first place, and my time is better spent on those that are. This is what makesw SFI work,coaching and mentoring those in your down-lines to duplicate everything you do successfully, so if you waste time on those that simply aren't interested, you are not concentrating enough on the genuine affiliates who have the will and desire to succeed, and these are the affiliates who will help you succeed.

So I guess the bottom line is of course offer all new affiliates all the help and support you can, but if they don't want to accept that support, move on, your efforts in other areas is needed more.
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This is a very good question, and to be honest I could argue on both sides of this for hours, as there are many good points for and against. But use a system that I adopted right from the outset of joining SFI, and I still use it today. I always greet my new PSA's and CSA's with a welcoming email, and advising them how to get started. I then send a follow-up email (and now I have started using the fabulous new E-Cards)asking them how they are going, offering words of encouragement and advice,
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Affiliate since: 09/06/2011, Power Rank: 7 | Read BABU's 113 other Ask SC answers

It is a great concept always been re-defined.

As a Sponsor, everyone will have their own concepts and innovative ideas and of course, I have my own too.

It is not a bad practice to help your downline with cash and kind to help them to move on and grow in the system but it is not fair to make them totally dependent on the help to move on in the system without any of their own efforts.

For me, there are two strategies I emulate and practice.

1) I offer and give my downline members, free PSAs for them to sponsor every month once they achieve the status of EA2 or more and I am so happy that this offer has got tremendous response from my team members.

2) I offer Gift Certificate option also for the economically weaker downline members. With my Gift Certificate option, they can always grow up in the system and achieve the status of EA2 or more every month and enjoy the commission and other benefits from SFI uninterruptedly. In this case, I will not offer them free PSAs because if I offer them everything together, then I don’t think that they will have clear vision and real motivation to move on in the system.


It is imperative for the concerned affiliates to put their sincere effort too to grow up in the system otherwise tomorrow, they won’t be able to brighten their future and explain the worth of hard work to their own downline members.

Hence, my strong suggestion is that no sponsor should give the help to their own downline members beyond a certain limit otherwise, it will get boomeranged on themselves at a later stage in their careers with SFI.

There is no short cuts or secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

Wish you success through hard work.

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It is a great concept always been re-defined.

As a Sponsor, everyone will have their own concepts and innovative ideas and of course, I have my own too.

It is not a bad practice to help your downline with cash and kind to help them to move on and grow in the system but it is not fair to make them totally dependent on the help to move on in the system without any of their own efforts.

For me, there are two strategies I emulate and practice.

1) I offer
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Affiliate since: 01/13/2006, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michael's 101 other Ask SC answers

Greetings Dah and my fellow SFI associates,

THE DO'S

- As a team leader your support should be defined to DIRECTING your PSAs to actions that will bring success. To do this YOU need to understand the SFI business yourself. Learn ALL you can to be a great leader.

- For new affiliates SFI already have a mailing system set up to help your new affiliate to get started. Your best action at the beginning is to simply introduce yourself and let your new affiliate know that you are there to support them. Ensure you include your contact details and ask them to contact you if they need help. If you send too many emails they may leave because they will be getting yours and SFI emails. In over 7 years of being with SFI I have found that one of the main reasons given for opting out is 'Too many emails'.

- Always follow up and respond to questions from your team members, PROMPTLY. Their actions will often be a DUPLICATION of own actions. If you are tardy and unprofessional they will treat SFI as anything but a real business. YOU need to be professional in your approach for any of your team members to treat their own business with respect.

- When you PSA is established and going through the daily actions and Launchpad monitor their activity on a daily basis. As a leader this becomes a part of YOUR OWN Daily to do list to check your MOVERS to see if they need help. If you notice that they are missing some important aspect of the business or they could be earning more VP or Profits send them a message through SFI to let them know.

- As time passes you will find your own leaders within your PSAs. They will be the ones who READ, LEARN and DUPLICATE. Your support of those leaders will be a minimum because they will know how to manage their own SFI business.

- You should contact ALL of your PSAs and CSAs weekly through the PSA mailer, always letting them know that you are available to help when they need it. Try to provide some inspiration or handy tips in your emails. If you don't know any handy tips or hints check the SFI forums.

- REWARD your workers through either gift certificates, affiliate reassignments, Tcredits and RECOGNITION. You may be surprised to know that RECOGNITION is one of man's greatest motivations.

THE DONT'S

- AVOID micro-managing your team members. This means doing too much for them when they are not doing enough. You will come across PSAs who do not want to do the work of reading and learning. It is not your job to LEARN for them and you can trap yourself into spending too much time with one affiliate leading to the neglect of others. WORK WITH THE WORKERS!

- Don't ask them to do anything that you are not willing to do yourself and don't EVER lie to them. Be genuine and honest with your team members.

- Don't try to solve problems for your team members that are better left to SFI support. There are some issues that you will never be able to fix for them. If you are asked a question by a team member that is better left to SFI support inform them POLITELY that it is a matter best left to SFI support and ask them to submit a support ticket AND provide a link to the support page (https://www.sfimg.com/Support)

I sincerely hope this helps you and my fellow SFI affiliates build strong, profitable teams.

To Your Success.
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Greetings Dah and my fellow SFI associates,

THE DO'S

- As a team leader your support should be defined to DIRECTING your PSAs to actions that will bring success. To do this YOU need to understand the SFI business yourself. Learn ALL you can to be a great leader.

- For new affiliates SFI already have a mailing system set up to help your new affiliate to get started. Your best action at the beginning is to simply introduce yourself and let your new affiliate know that
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Sponsors should support their affiliates 150%. Some say don't give them money. I say without some money how do you expect them to make a purchase? If you want to create income with your SFI business (we all do!) then you must understand that you get back what you give out!

If an affiliate is doing everything that you ask them to do, then; there is nothing shameful about sending them a $10 gift certificate. It's the best kind of reinforcement. It shows that you are not just expecting to take money from them but you are willing to share your success with them. I promise you that if you reward workers in such a way that they will be on fire! Your credibility and rapport will be strengthen and the affiliates belief in the company and in your leadership will be strengthen. Always reward your workers. If not with a gift certificate, with a word of praise and recognition. It goes a long ways.

Likewise, connect with your affiliates on a personal level but not too personal. This is where the line should not be crossed. Don't get emotionally involved with your team members. It is not good for business. Learn about their likes and dislikes - there strengths and weaknesses. It's okay to learn about general family life. That's it. Keep it professional. No lewd comments or gestures should be allowed. We work in a people business and people must be respected at the base level. Prejudices don't have place. Preferences don't have place. Every affiliate regardless of sex, race, religion, or otherwise are welcomed to work according to the terms of service provided by our affiliate agreement. No form of disparity is allowed. Treat all of your affiliates as your business partners as they are.

Finally, we will do just fine if we practice the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you. If problems arise, follow the chain of communication. Let your sponsor know your concerns first. Then if not satisfied reach out to your co-sponsor. Then contact your upline support. Don't wait until you have a problem to reach out. Talk to them. Let them know your concerns and goals. They are there to help you. Use the forum and A2A for additional support when needed but don't forget your sponsor has a vested interest in your success - use their knowledge and resources.
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Sponsors should support their affiliates 150%. Some say don't give them money. I say without some money how do you expect them to make a purchase? If you want to create income with your SFI business (we all do!) then you must understand that you get back what you give out!

If an affiliate is doing everything that you ask them to do, then; there is nothing shameful about sending them a $10 gift certificate. It's the best kind of reinforcement. It shows that you are not just expecting
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Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 284 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers

As sponsors we are duty bound to help our affiliates. However, we can set some priorities as to who should receive help first but I don’t think we can afford to create a point beyond which there is “no go” because every affiliate sign-up is an opportunity. So when setting priorities I will consider the following factors:

MOVERS
The movers take top priority. These are the affiliates whom you can depend on to build a solid team and be groomed into team leaders. The movers will help you to build up your SFI business and generate income for you.

FIRST MONTH EAs
It is easy to become EA during first month without investment but subsequently many fade away during the second month because you need to invest a little to qualify for EA2. Such affiliates come under the next priority. They can be advised on how to maintain their EA2 status and the long term benefits.

LOGINS
Look through the genealogy for those affiliates who logged in and collected a few points but did not make any headway. Such affiliates come under the next priority.

INACTIVE AFFILIATES
Inactive affiliates take up the last priority and it’s worth communicating with them because they are still considered as opportunities.



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As sponsors we are duty bound to help our affiliates. However, we can set some priorities as to who should receive help first but I don’t think we can afford to create a point beyond which there is “no go” because every affiliate sign-up is an opportunity. So when setting priorities I will consider the following factors:

MOVERS
The movers take top priority. These are the affiliates whom you can depend on to build a solid team and be groomed into team leaders. The movers will
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