Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 47 other Ask SC answers

Hi Andrew,

In fact, the answer to your question is included in... your question. What I mean is that building your downline at any MLM, and SFI is one of them, is a never ending process. So the best approach is the combination of both ways you mention in your question.

You should sponsor new affiliates all the time, spot the real movers and then work with them, while sponsoring more affiliates.

This way you may avoid one of the main problems connected with MLM, i.e. atrition. After some time some people drop out. That's normal, therefore you should have a constant stream of fresh affiliates.

In a perdect world you could stop at reaching 5 people on your first level, and work only with them to help them get 5 people each on their first level, and teach them to teach their downline to get... and so on. In real world, however, an affiliate who seems strong at the beginning may get bored or tired with time and drop out. If there's nobody to replace them, you have to recruit new ones to find someone equally good. If you sponsor new affiliates on a continuous basis, the problem may solve itself - there's always somebody to substitute the one who dropped out.

Now, you might think, or judge by your own experience, that continuous sponsoring new affiliates is time consuming. And it is. You might ask yourself, however, how much your time is worth, and be willing to spend some money on a service that guarantees you a stream of fresh affiliates each month. I have done so. I found a good service offering me 15 (10+5) guaranteed PSAs each month and I forgot all about recruiting. The time I have saved (no need to click links in safelist ads, text exchanges, etc.) I've been using for leadership tasks, communication with my Affiliates, writing weekly and monthly newsletters both for the "general public" and for the "movers", no matter whether they are PSAs or CSAs.

In my opinion, therefore, only a combination of constant sponsoring/recruiting with working with the workers can provide satisfactory results.

To Your Success!
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Hi Andrew,

In fact, the answer to your question is included in... your question. What I mean is that building your downline at any MLM, and SFI is one of them, is a never ending process. So the best approach is the combination of both ways you mention in your question.

You should sponsor new affiliates all the time, spot the real movers and then work with them, while sponsoring more affiliates.

This way you may avoid one of the main problems connected with MLM, i.e.
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

It is far better to sponsor fewer PSAs and teach them how to build than to just to recruit 1000 affiliates per day. Out of a 1000 you can expect 2% of less to catch on. But if you recruit 20 then teach them how to recruit 20 then you are on your way to financial freedom. While it is only a matter of preference to how large of an organization any affiliate might hope to achieve, it rather a fact that without duplication your business is going to reach a certain level and stagnate.

Why? No one can be in more than one place at one time and we all are limited to the amount of sales that can be created individually. So the massive recruiting model may seem appealing to many at first. However you will soon realize that in order to sustain the level of performance required to be Platinum Team leader, you are going to have to get downward momentum in your network instead of lateral momentum.

Essentially, it is a matter of basic math. Which would you rather have? The rewards of your own individual work or those that are multiplied across 12 generations. Any school boy/girl knows that 10 people can sale more than 1. Notwithstanding, in the absence of proper coaching and guidance; 1 active affiliate will outsell 1,000,000 inactive affiliates any day! The truth be told those affiliates who have recruited 1000s of affiliates without training them are on a dead end street that leads to no where. It's just not mathematically possible to sustain the kind of numbers necessary to achieve Platinum team leader with proper guidance. Moreover we all are limited; therefore, it's problematic to provide top notch support to your entire team when it's too big to manage effectively.

Consequentially, sponsoring fewer PSAs with proper guidance and support will sustain the necessary requirement to make Platinum for years to come. Your organization becomes an unstoppable force that generate sales like a fortune 500 franchise. Soon it will be self sustaining and not even require you to recruit or sale. Now that's a milestone that you can proud of.
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It is far better to sponsor fewer PSAs and teach them how to build than to just to recruit 1000 affiliates per day. Out of a 1000 you can expect 2% of less to catch on. But if you recruit 20 then teach them how to recruit 20 then you are on your way to financial freedom. While it is only a matter of preference to how large of an organization any affiliate might hope to achieve, it rather a fact that without duplication your business is going to reach a certain level and stagnate.

Why?
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Affiliate since: 03/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Janardhan's 8 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

This is a very good question....
In my opinion, it is better to sponsor fewer affiliates who is very much interested and serious about SFI and give him full support to achieve success in the SFI rather sponsoring 1000 affiliates who is not showing interest at all.

Selective affiliates 10 members will give good support to their upper line. Everybody should have minimum 10 successful affiliates who is working in SFI with dedication and seriously.

Sponsoring affiliates continuously is also good some times, it is again a value addition to the sponsors that out of 100 affiliates if we found 10 affiliates serious about SFI will make sense.

But sponsoring affiliates is very much important and it is essential to see our growth in the graphs...

Hope this answer helps...

Good luck!!!!!
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Hi,

This is a very good question....
In my opinion, it is better to sponsor fewer affiliates who is very much interested and serious about SFI and give him full support to achieve success in the SFI rather sponsoring 1000 affiliates who is not showing interest at all.

Selective affiliates 10 members will give good support to their upper line. Everybody should have minimum 10 successful affiliates who is working in SFI with dedication and seriously.

Sponsoring
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Affiliate since: 10/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Randy's 29 other Ask SC answers

Sponsoring fewer PSAs is the BEST if you have a Quality PSAs. Meaning, they are active SFI affiliates.

Base on SFI Basics tips: Become an EA and remain EA every month, recruit 5 affiliates, then teach and help them on how to become an Awesome Sponsor.

So, you don’t need to continuously recruit hundreds or thousands affiliates that have no quality or value, because you’re wasting of time and effort with nothing. It is best to concentrate helping your active PSAs to build their team.

Duplication is the key word for having a quality PSAs. If you want your team to grow, do and follow what SFI have already created, published, written, and provided information as tools and methods to guide each and every one of us once we were joined in this business.

Reassigning PSAs is one method of helping your PSAs to build their team. You can reassign affiliates with the same language, nationality or with the same interest and techniques on business strategies. Explain first to your affiliates who you want them to reassign and the reasons to avoid misunderstanding between you and your team. Good relational communication is the best approach of reassigning affiliates.

Gift Certificates, rewards, appreciation, acknowledgement, constant communication, are key factors to boost your PSAs morale which good point and bring them to motivate for having a high energy level of doing their best to do duplication method.

Continuous sponsoring new affiliates, well it said to be OK if you don’t have active PSAs, until finally you can found some few or fewer active affiliates among them. Once you have those active affiliates, concentrate and help them to build their own team. Teach them to become an awesome sponsor as their key of becoming successful in SFI.

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Sponsoring fewer PSAs is the BEST if you have a Quality PSAs. Meaning, they are active SFI affiliates.

Base on SFI Basics tips: Become an EA and remain EA every month, recruit 5 affiliates, then teach and help them on how to become an Awesome Sponsor.

So, you don’t need to continuously recruit hundreds or thousands affiliates that have no quality or value, because you’re wasting of time and effort with nothing. It is best to concentrate helping your active PSAs to build
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 434 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Choose Between Few Affiliates Whom You can Teach or Sponsor New Ones
Your question refers to how you can become successful in this business by making choices between sponsoring fewer PSAs for training them in duplication or continuously sponsoring new affiliates until you find a few who has a high teachability index to follow what you do.

Before you make your choice, analyze your team. Go to your Genealogy and determine from your downline who are the best qualified PSAs for training in duplication. You must have criteria for doing that, like being consistent in doing the TO-DO List, SFI Forum and ASK SC participation, total of badges and so on. The key for your duplication should be an affiliate has high willingness to learn from you and he is willing to accept change and do whatever it takes to succeed.

If you don’t find one, then focus on sponsoring new affiliates until you find the number of PSAs that you can manage without neglecting other responsibilities as a team leader. Even if you have found qualified PSAs to train, sponsoring affiliates is still a vital part of your business routine, but you have to make sure that you don’t lose your focus on helping and building your movers. All your personally sponsored affiliates have potential to become successful. The more affiliates you can train to become successful, the better. SFI will become strong and powerful.

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Choose Between Few Affiliates Whom You can Teach or Sponsor New Ones
Your question refers to how you can become successful in this business by making choices between sponsoring fewer PSAs for training them in duplication or continuously sponsoring new affiliates until you find a few who has a high teachability index to follow what you do.

Before you make your choice, analyze your team. Go to your Genealogy and determine from your downline who are the best qualified PSAs for training
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Sponsoring the serious worker will bring you success with SFI. Get the workers first.

I think the best way is to keep on sponsoring new affiliates until you find those diamonds that will stay with SFI. If 5 or more become EA or higher, then you can concentrate to work with them building a strong team and teach then to do the same.

You will then begin to increase your income with those that stay in the game. When you've done your job and they start to earn a recurring income, you've been successful and will have a successful team.

Never give up on the affiliates that are idle in your team. I had an affiliate that became Silver Team leader in the first month and after a couple of months quit SFI. She gave me a 5 star rating for being an awesome sponsor. I did not give up on her yet.

To your success!

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Sponsoring the serious worker will bring you success with SFI. Get the workers first.

I think the best way is to keep on sponsoring new affiliates until you find those diamonds that will stay with SFI. If 5 or more become EA or higher, then you can concentrate to work with them building a strong team and teach then to do the same.

You will then begin to increase your income with those that stay in the game. When you've done your job and they start to earn a recurring income,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I personally believe that SFI is built around the "smaller, but coaching" theory and I'll tell you why. The SFI model is simple enough that if you are to get a small group of PSA's and help them achieve greatness, they will continue to grow and "duplicate" themselves. While they are duplicating themselves, you are continually growing your level 1's, giving them EVERYTHING they need to succeed.

I am NOT suggesting for you to stop building your level 1's and increasing in number, what I am saying is that if you TOTALLY give attention to your level 1 down-line and feed them and nurture them and care for them, you will reap bountiful harvests - guaranteed.

As far as your sponsoring new affiliates - I believe that you should still continue to sponsor new affiliates, but you AREN'T looking for volume this time, you are looking for GREAT quality. If you can keep between 10-20 good, working PSA 1's, you should continually be successful.
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I personally believe that SFI is built around the "smaller, but coaching" theory and I'll tell you why. The SFI model is simple enough that if you are to get a small group of PSA's and help them achieve greatness, they will continue to grow and "duplicate" themselves. While they are duplicating themselves, you are continually growing your level 1's, giving them EVERYTHING they need to succeed.

I am NOT suggesting for you to stop building your level 1's and increasing
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 226 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

It's not good to choose between the two because in reality we must be doing both. The reality of affiliate and internet marketing is only 2 to 10 percent of your recruited affiliates will pursue a business like SFI. We should accept this reality and should work according to this reality, otherwise we will be frustrated.

Continuous Sponsoring: Why it is important?

With only 2 to 10 percent of your recruited affiliates turning active, you should not think of stopping sponsoring new affiliates. Your objective is to find at least 5 to 10 active affiliates. The good news is, you only need 5 to 10 active affiliates to earn a full time income.

The next objective is to widen your foundation and to find replacement for those who have stopped for whatever reason. This will also require continuous search for new affiliates.

Duplication by Coaching: Why is it important?

While you continuously sponsoring new affiliates you should also be doing coaching and helping your active affiliates build their own organization. Sponsoring helps you grow wider while coaching help you grow deeper. The objective here is to build a 12 generation of strong and active affiliates.

The intensity may defer in different stages of your SFI business, but you should not sacrifice one for the other.



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It's not good to choose between the two because in reality we must be doing both. The reality of affiliate and internet marketing is only 2 to 10 percent of your recruited affiliates will pursue a business like SFI. We should accept this reality and should work according to this reality, otherwise we will be frustrated.

Continuous Sponsoring: Why it is important?

With only 2 to 10 percent of your recruited affiliates turning active, you should not think of stopping sponsoring
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Affiliate since: 06/11/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Brandon's 23 other Ask SC answers

The simple fact of the matter is, people aren't perfect. Chances are some people that seem to have the best chance to succeed will eventually give up or get tired and leave. You can't control this, so you have to have a continuous influx of PSAs.

Of course you don't want to start your first month with 100 PSAs when you are still learning the ropes. Start off learning how to use SFI and learn how to be a good...no...a great sponsor. After you learn how to best assist a few, then you may want to create template messages for your future PSAs and start coming up with ideas as to how to motivate your current PSAs as well as the ones that stick around later.

If your PSAs are motivated, chances are that you won't need to worry about them other than the weekly motivational message. More often than not, they will send you messages if they have questions, but make sure you know they can contact about anything and you will get back to them as soon as possible.

I once read a best tip that said you should refer 5 people, then teach them to refer 5 people each and help those refer 5 for each of them and so on. This can take you far, but if you can have 10 that refer 10, the potential grows exponentially.

In conclusion: sponsor as many as you can because you will lose some along the way, unfortunately. Assisting your PSAs shouldn't be a chore, it should be about helping them help themselves, not them helping you.
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The simple fact of the matter is, people aren't perfect. Chances are some people that seem to have the best chance to succeed will eventually give up or get tired and leave. You can't control this, so you have to have a continuous influx of PSAs.

Of course you don't want to start your first month with 100 PSAs when you are still learning the ropes. Start off learning how to use SFI and learn how to be a good...no...a great sponsor. After you learn how to best assist a few, then you may
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2001, Power Rank: 56 | Read Jeanne's 11 other Ask SC answers

My opinion may vary from others, but having PSA's that are building their own downline (duplication) is a great way to go. I have went the route of sponsoring new affiliates and most of them are not active and I get discouraged.

Once you have an active affiliate, then concentrate on coaching and helping them build. Working with an active affiliate is the most motivating thing I've ever felt!

This said, I am not saying STOP sponsoring new affiliates, but keep the advertising up, or the S-Builder Co-op, if that's what you are using!

So I guess the answer is Sponsor new affiliates until you get an active PSA and then concentrate on helping them succeed. Always have some way of bringing in some new affiliates monthly, but concentrate on your movers!
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My opinion may vary from others, but having PSA's that are building their own downline (duplication) is a great way to go. I have went the route of sponsoring new affiliates and most of them are not active and I get discouraged.

Once you have an active affiliate, then concentrate on coaching and helping them build. Working with an active affiliate is the most motivating thing I've ever felt!

This said, I am not saying STOP sponsoring new affiliates, but keep the advertising
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