Affiliate since: 04/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Laley's 25 other Ask SC answers

Too much of any thing is not recommended but at time you have to break this rule. Here the target audience decides when and how much is too much.

1. There will be people in your downline who are self motivated and work oriented, who only need your welcome speech and a few "Getting Started" tips and then you need not to worry about them. Just a weekly contact or a stream message is more than enough. If they need your help they will contact you themselves.

2. Then there are members of your downline who are completely new to this business and have no clue what and how to do. For such members you need to be available 24/7 because these members want to work and advance in SFI but they need your support and guidance for that. For such members it never too much.

3. And then there is another group of people who no matter how much and hard you try will just not work. These 'skeptics and non-motivated people' as are referred to by SFI in the article 'Be AN Awesome Sponsor' will just not work. Most of them have joined SFI just by chance with the belief that they can make money overnight and when they saw that this is not true and they have to put in their hard work and time to make their business grow, they stopped working.

In the end I will suggest to read the Rule #4 of SFI "WORK WITH THE WORKERS"




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Too much of any thing is not recommended but at time you have to break this rule. Here the target audience decides when and how much is too much.

1. There will be people in your downline who are self motivated and work oriented, who only need your welcome speech and a few "Getting Started" tips and then you need not to worry about them. Just a weekly contact or a stream message is more than enough. If they need your help they will contact you themselves.

2. Then there
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2001, Power Rank: 56 | Read Jeanne's 11 other Ask SC answers

Hi, I think it is very important to keep in contact with your downline. But, you should only send team mail or email when you have something helpful to encourage everyone. If someone was emailing me every day with the same information or with something that is not relevant, I would be quite irritated. So, be sure the information you are sending is relevant and helpful.

We have the ability to send email to groups of downline members and even the entire downline, and we are able to get 30 VP per week for sending one. Unless someone in your downline is asking many questions, I don't feel that sending more than once a week would be necessary. Once a week will remind the affiliates that SFI is still out there without overwhelming them with too much information.

Another "too much" is sending too much information at once. Sending an overwhelming amount of information will just irritate or bore them. They will not understand what is being said, and will likely ignore your emails in the future. So when you are sending information, be sure it is concise and short. Don't send too much at once.
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Hi, I think it is very important to keep in contact with your downline. But, you should only send team mail or email when you have something helpful to encourage everyone. If someone was emailing me every day with the same information or with something that is not relevant, I would be quite irritated. So, be sure the information you are sending is relevant and helpful.

We have the ability to send email to groups of downline members and even the entire downline, and we are able to
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Affiliate since: 03/26/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Shonadeen's 6 other Ask SC answers

When contacting your team and downlines, a regular once weekly email for encouragement will be sufficient.

But if something comes up within the week that you find motivating and want to share with your downlines, then do that.

I do a weekly email to encourage my downlines, to keep working hard on SFI.
But when I come upon information that has motivated and encouraged me, like the pro-profit purchases, for instance, then I email my downlines to share the information.


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When contacting your team and downlines, a regular once weekly email for encouragement will be sufficient.

But if something comes up within the week that you find motivating and want to share with your downlines, then do that.

I do a weekly email to encourage my downlines, to keep working hard on SFI.
But when I come upon information that has motivated and encouraged me, like the pro-profit purchases, for instance, then I email my downlines to share the information.


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

The following behavior topics are some of much which is considered to be too much when contacting our team or downline .

1. Trying to push them towards a certain procedure of doing SFI business according to
our own opinion.

2. Blaming them for not following our instructions or for any other inconvenient
reasons.

3. Missing the necessary consideration for their privacy in taking their own
decisions.

4. Insisting to promote for our private ways of our own profit, such as websites,
PSA's, CSA's for instance, in an embarrassing and imposing way.

5. Accumulating messages sent to them by all means, concerning the same subject, in
a boring way.

6. Ignoring that everyone in SFI business is his own boss.

7. Not putting into consideration their different situations according to their
different countries and their available chances to manage.

Thanks Rebecca for your interesting question, hoping to activate my previous suggestion to provide a code of conduct to follow between team members, as a sort of control for securing the development of SFI business.

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The following behavior topics are some of much which is considered to be too much when contacting our team or downline .

1. Trying to push them towards a certain procedure of doing SFI business according to
our own opinion.

2. Blaming them for not following our instructions or for any other inconvenient
reasons.

3. Missing the necessary consideration for their privacy in taking their own
decisions.

4. Insisting to promote for our
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 435 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Communication is an important tool in our information age. It plays a vital part in advancing technology. In SFI, sharing information could lead to successful journey towards one’s goal or may lead to failure when there is no sharing or interaction. When sending email to downlines, one should consider the status and level of understanding. A Team Leader should know this, when contacting new affiliates, he should guide them to SFI basics. He should contact his downlines with corresponding message, according to the level of understanding. Once a week is sufficient for downlines who are active, but those who are not, maybe twice a month is adequate.
With this saying in consideration: “Giving advice is like a punch in the face if is not asked for”, he should know when to contact corresponding downlines. Asking questions like “How can I help you or Do you have any questions that I can help you with?” might be sufficient to send once a month. A Team Leader should have an overview of his downlines level of progress so that he doesn’t have to worry about what is too much or when to contact his downlines.

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Communication is an important tool in our information age. It plays a vital part in advancing technology. In SFI, sharing information could lead to successful journey towards one’s goal or may lead to failure when there is no sharing or interaction. When sending email to downlines, one should consider the status and level of understanding. A Team Leader should know this, when contacting new affiliates, he should guide them to SFI basics. He should contact his downlines with corresponding message,
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Affiliate since: 06/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Grace's 1 other Ask SC answers

TOO MUCH is when you put pressures to your team members. Continuously contacting and advising them to work harder makes more difficult for them to take action. It is better for you to provide more tools and encouragement rather than pushing them too hard in spite of the many factors that hinders them to move.

Try to be nice and gentle and keep on motivating them.

Affiliate since: 02/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Samuel Bareng's 20 other Ask SC answers

This question is multi fold. It depends on the content of your messages to your down line. First of all we must take cognizance of the fact that SFI is sending daily emails especially to new affiliates, now it we must be very careful that we don't duplicate the same information to our downlines.

We should also remember that as individuals we are not the same. Some people get easily annoyed and bored to be showered with a lot of information constantly.

I think it will be proper to send your downlines messages once per week and to be considerate that they are brief and to the point. I think the other time should be when there's a pressing issue that needs to be announced or addressed.

Communication should be given first preference but it should not be overdone. Your downline should always know that you are available to assist wherever possible and your door is always open to help.
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This question is multi fold. It depends on the content of your messages to your down line. First of all we must take cognizance of the fact that SFI is sending daily emails especially to new affiliates, now it we must be very careful that we don't duplicate the same information to our downlines.

We should also remember that as individuals we are not the same. Some people get easily annoyed and bored to be showered with a lot of information constantly.

I think it will be proper
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Affiliate since: 01/16/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bonnie's 7 other Ask SC answers

This is a great question,

For me when I first started ,I didn't understand SFI ,

I was looking for something to make money fast,Like a lot of people

With the economy like it is ,everyone is in need of a second or even a first income

I now now ,that if I stick with it ,It will work for me.

And if my sponsor and co-sponsor hadn't contacted me as often as they did,

I wouldn't be here now .

If people really want to make money, then they will
gladly except any help, whether it be emails etc,

so I think that sending reminders or advise ,
should be excepted without hesitation,

Just as if they were receiving an award or bonus.
Because that is what it is, any piece of good advise to help build your business
is a reward to help you.

Thank you

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This is a great question,

For me when I first started ,I didn't understand SFI ,

I was looking for something to make money fast,Like a lot of people

With the economy like it is ,everyone is in need of a second or even a first income

I now now ,that if I stick with it ,It will work for me.

And if my sponsor and co-sponsor hadn't contacted me as often as they did,

I wouldn't be here now .

If people really want to make money,
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Affiliate since: 06/22/2016, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Shibu's 8 other Ask SC answers

Great question. Sometimes you get confused when you see people signing up under you but staying on 0 VP, even though you have contacted them and welcomed to your team. Why is it happening? It is a mystery for lot of SFI affiliates. It is a mystery for me also because I keep on sending them encouraging mails but they never respond. So the question arises whether the communication method adopted by me was too much for them or very less.

I personally feel that because SFI already sends them regular mails and launchpads we should not overdose them with more emails. They may get irritated when they see lot of emails in their inbox and we have to respect their freedom.

So now what i am doing is as soon as he/she signs up, I just send a welcome message to my new down line to his inbox, if he online I introduce myself as sponsor, co-sponsor, then i send him a question " how can i help you?" . If he responds and answer back, i will contact him on chat or message , but if he does not respond, it means he may not be needing any help right now .
Some people enjoy reading, so we can't eliminate their rights in reading unless they ask us. So a limited communication in the beginning is all I feel is needed and if they need help we can just hope that they will definitely come back to us.
Later when we see that the down line is logging up everyday, we can slowly start more communication and guide them accordingly.
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Great question. Sometimes you get confused when you see people signing up under you but staying on 0 VP, even though you have contacted them and welcomed to your team. Why is it happening? It is a mystery for lot of SFI affiliates. It is a mystery for me also because I keep on sending them encouraging mails but they never respond. So the question arises whether the communication method adopted by me was too much for them or very less.

I personally feel that because SFI already sends them
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Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Caroline's 111 other Ask SC answers

I contact my downline every week via the genealogy mailer as recommended.
I also send an individual message via email or team mail to people in my Movers page, if they haven't been there for a while, just to encourage them or congratulate them.
If I see the yellow bubble next to someone's name when I'm on, I drop a short 'hullo'.
If someone who was previously active drops out of my Movers page, I send that person an individual email asking if everything is okay and do they need help.

If I see anyone in my team or even my a2a friends, who I consider 'team' as well, wins in the Daily Grand, or is in the top enrollers list, or has become the newest EA, BTL etc, I send that person a congratulations message as well.

I have also set up a step-by-step email campaign via autoresponder to guide new affiliates on a day to day basis if they would like it. These messages are tailored to the person's level of knowledge about SFI, whereas the weekly team messages are more general and appropriate to everybody. I offer this service in my welcome email to both PSAs and new CSAs. Some of my new a2a friends who are struggling with inadequate help from their own sponsors have gladly accepted these as well.

If someone responds to my emails or messages, I always write back. This helps to build relationships with your team. Once you have established relationships with your team, you can chat to them about anything and feel that you have become friends. I think this is the best way to be.

Nobody has ever complained that I contact them too much.

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I contact my downline every week via the genealogy mailer as recommended.
I also send an individual message via email or team mail to people in my Movers page, if they haven't been there for a while, just to encourage them or congratulate them.
If I see the yellow bubble next to someone's name when I'm on, I drop a short 'hullo'.
If someone who was previously active drops out of my Movers page, I send that person an individual email asking if everything is okay and do they need help.

If
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