There are two obvious sides of participating in the ASK SFI Community, and two more hidden sides.
The obvious sides are ASKing and answering.
In order to ASK a question, you must first determine if there is a need for more information on a subject. Then you must word the question simply and clearly, whittling it down to one or at the most two parts. Not every question makes it to the SFI Community. Be sure that the question can be answered and is of interest to the whole community.
In order to answer a question, you must, or should, think a moment and arrange your thoughts. What is the question really asking and how involved should the answer be. Do you know first hand how to deal with the problem? Is your answer from personal experience? Have you thought through what you will write, or checked the facts before sending it? Is your answer on topic with the question? Or is it answering something not asked?
Answering questions focuses my attention on a small segment at a time of the whole SFI business. It's like a pause and regroup. Maybe it entails reviewing something I haven't visited for months.
The less obvious sides are When rating the answers, and acting as a sponsor.
As you rate the answers you will notice many brilliant responses, many answers that are shallow but still helpful, a few off topic, and a few that show that the author does not understand the question or the answer. We've all noticed that some questions and their answers are delivered in an easy to read and understand way, and they all are pretty much great answers. And then we've seen questions that bring answers that are scattered all over the place with not much unity and it is hard even to rate them.
These situations point out places where I have concern that my team also may not understand or have questions. This prompts me to send a letter out dealing with the topic. This is a chance for a sponsor to be able to help the team even when none of them are admitting that they don't understand.
When we rate these questions, we should be very careful to actually read and understand what has been written. We need to take care in our ratings and remember that these answers will be used to tutor our new affiliates. We must not let error linger in our reference material.
As I have been rating many questions, I have found new ideas that I can use in my business, both in sponsoring/guiding and advertising and all its facets. And truthfully, I have been forced into studying topics that I had been avoiding, reluctant to go in certain advanced directions.
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There are two obvious sides of participating in the ASK SFI Community, and two more hidden sides.
The obvious sides are ASKing and answering.
In order to ASK a question, you must first determine if there is a need for more information on a subject. Then you must word the question simply and clearly, whittling it down to one or at the most two parts. Not every question makes it to the SFI Community. Be sure that the question can be answered and is of interest to the whole community.
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