Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Your question concerns all Team Leaders with downlines. When we sponsor new affiliates, some of them look very promising. As a Team Leader I have experienced one or more recently sponsored affiliates became EA in just a week, others will take a month or two months to achieve EA and then fade away. There are different reasons such as economic situation, personal/business challenges, and high expectations or being curious, just wait and see attitude.

What you can do:

- Upon receiving your new affiliates, send them a warm welcome message. Make them feel that they have your full support and commitment in helping them to succeed.

- Emphasize to them the importance of understanding the SFI BASICS, for a good solid foundation in their venturing with SFI. Use Stream Posts, Team Mail or Genealogy to send them messages, which includes the core principles of SFI. You can also direct them to SFI Forum to have an experience with SFI community’s readiness to help and friendly atmosphere.

- Be prompt to answer their inquiries. This is an important action as a Team Leader for starting a close relationship with your downlines. Your guidance is invaluable which will lead in winning their trust.

- Monitor the activities of your team by using Genealogy and you can also go through their VP Ledgers if you want to be more specific.

- Motivate them to excel in their participation with E365, in their daily log in to accumulate action VPs leading to EA and encourage them to continue in expanding their knowledge base. Make use of E-Cards in their achievements.

- If one of your movers did not log in for a day or two, get in touch with him/her. Find out what’s going on and offer your help if needed. Your consistency in communicating with your team and ensuring them your full support may prove to be a deciding factor for them to commit in SFI.

By implementing this strategy, you are fully involved in their activities, which is an important part of building trust in your organization. Having trust established within your team will most likely encourage them to remain active and stay committed.

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Your question concerns all Team Leaders with downlines. When we sponsor new affiliates, some of them look very promising. As a Team Leader I have experienced one or more recently sponsored affiliates became EA in just a week, others will take a month or two months to achieve EA and then fade away. There are different reasons such as economic situation, personal/business challenges, and high expectations or being curious, just wait and see attitude.

What you can do:

- Upon receiving
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Building a team requires the spirit of a team leader based on service leadership. Service leadership means you know your team very well, its strength and weaknesses and being there for your indefatigable support. It could mean exercising your patience in dealing with your downline as you implement a plan towards everyone’s success in your team. I have an experience dealing with one of my PSAs, asking me questions through team mail and email almost every day as he goes through SFI materials. Even though almost everything that is needed like tools and resources are provided for us and that we just have to read and digest them, I will have to explain in my own words to help him. By doing this, I have also learned a lot, how I can effectively communicate with my downline. Now I’m very glad that he has achieved EA and he thanked me for the untiring support. I post this quote to my downline to remind them the importance of communication: “Communicate, let everyone feels the importance of working closer together as a team and it is essential in achieving everyone's success. Get involve!”

I also do my best to respond within 24 hours to any of my downline, who sends me a message. I have followed this effective method by looking at my movers VP Ledgers pointing out items that they might have missed or having difficulties in order to help them move up. I have set up a S-Builder Co-op for my team and encouraged them also to implement the sponsoring methods that we have learned through SFI. As a team we maintain close communication by sending them weekly tips and advice about how we can move forward. I view the Genealogy regularly to see the up-to-date situation of my whole team and act accordingly, whatever it takes on my part to help my team move forward. You never know that by asking a simple question like “How may I help you or what I can do for you?” to one of your movers, who is shy or hesitant to communicate might open up and be able to build a close relationship with him. Strong and close relationships are core foundation of a true team spirit in SFI.

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Building a team requires the spirit of a team leader based on service leadership. Service leadership means you know your team very well, its strength and weaknesses and being there for your indefatigable support. It could mean exercising your patience in dealing with your downline as you implement a plan towards everyone’s success in your team. I have an experience dealing with one of my PSAs, asking me questions through team mail and email almost every day as he goes through SFI materials. Even
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Before giving your help to your affiliates from other countries the best possible way in order for them to advance in SFI, you must first identify what kind of help they need and what are the challenges they are facing in their journey with SFI.

Possible challenges, which your affiliates in other countries are facing and what can you do to help them?

- The language and culture issues may pose affiliates from other countries hindrance in their journey with SFI. Thankfully SFI homepage can be translated to approximately 90 languages. In supporting them, you can make use of the Google online translation service. You can also encourage your affiliates to visit the My Country/Regions sub-forum with respect to their language and culture for further support.

- A versatile solution to language difficulties and cultural differences in growing your downline is through the use of the Reassignment tool. You can pair up your non- English speaking PSAs with appropriate leaders in your team. By doing so, you’ll be helping your non-English speaking PSAs effectively through your existing leaders and your existing leaders would be highly motivated with your action of trusting them.

- Communication is the core of building relationship. Encourage your appropriate leaders to set up weekly teleconference calls for your affiliates in other countries. These weekly calls are a tremendous support mechanism.

Whatever you do, keep control of your affiliates in other countries and stay connected with them through your existing Team leaders, who are assigned to them using all SFI communication tools and other means such as email or phone. Monitor their progress through your Genealogy. This will help you take appropriate measures to ensure their continuous momentum and growth in their journey with SFI.

Start them out right by keeping your marketing system, which is based on SFI BASICS, simple and easily duplicated.

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Before giving your help to your affiliates from other countries the best possible way in order for them to advance in SFI, you must first identify what kind of help they need and what are the challenges they are facing in their journey with SFI.

Possible challenges, which your affiliates in other countries are facing and what can you do to help them?

- The language and culture issues may pose affiliates from other countries hindrance in their journey with SFI. Thankfully SFI
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

TripleClicks offers over 90,000 products or services, ranging from Antiques & Collectibles, Computers, Health and Wellness, etc. Which one to promote? This could pose a big challenge for anyone who plans to advertise and sell TC products/services.

Here’s what you can do to enlighten you in your selection of which products/services to promote:

- Think of products or services that most people consider as necessities. You can also consider products that are luxury or occasional, which some customers willing to buy for their forthcoming occasions.

- Have you purchased products or tried services being offered at TC?

- What’s your experience with the products or services? Are you satisfied? Would you highly recommend it?

- With your products/services experience, which target group is suited for it?

- Don’t forget to consider the pricing (reasonable), shipping and handling rate and the delivery.

There are other factors that I might not have covered here in your selection of which TC products/services to promote such as demographic or region but those questions above are important to consider in your decision.

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TripleClicks offers over 90,000 products or services, ranging from Antiques & Collectibles, Computers, Health and Wellness, etc. Which one to promote? This could pose a big challenge for anyone who plans to advertise and sell TC products/services.

Here’s what you can do to enlighten you in your selection of which products/services to promote:

- Think of products or services that most people consider as necessities. You can also consider products that are luxury or occasional,
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Before you can get your affiliates to understand that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential and not just a hobby, you must consider the following steps:

- Start building rock solid relationship with your affiliates.

The key to building a rock solid relationship with your affiliates must begin when they signed up as your new affiliates, giving them your warm welcome. It takes time to build a stronger bond with your affiliates, so maintain your connection with them by sending them your weekly support messages regularly. One of the most effective ways to build rapport with your affiliates is when you initiate to chat with them through SFIM, whenever you see them online. This is a great opportunity to establish your personal connection with them. You can ask them about things that matters to their personal development and growth in their journey with SFI. Always offer to them your 100% support. If you practice this important first step and you're a Team Leader/Sponsor who acts on what you teach, being an example to them, then they will most likely listen to you. It is imperative that you do this right from the start to show that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential and not just a hobby.

- Get them understand SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD.

It is very important right from the beginning of their journey that your affiliates understand clearly SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD. They formed the very core principles and foundation of SFI. In my welcome letter to my new affiliates, I always emphasize to them not to leave these two important topics unclear. I make sure in my first few weekly support messages to ask them if there's anything unclear about SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD before encouraging them to move on to the other SFI tools and resources. It is imperative that they get started right in the very beginning to make sure that they're in the right path.

- Help them to understand clearly SFI Compensation plan and the Benefits chart.

You can do this by going through the various ways of how they'll earn commissions as presented in SFI Compensation Plan. Provide examples to help them get an idea of their potential earnings. To illustrate clearly the different levels of their payouts and perks, use the Benefits Chart. The SFI Compensation Plan and Benefits Chart are one of the most powerful compensation systems with unlimited earning potential in network marketing business. Provide a series covering these topics in your newsletter to help them understand clearly that the commissions are real with unlimited earning potential.

- Help them to understand the Scoreboard tab.

Direct your affiliates to the Scoreboard tab to help them see, what makes their monthly commission. Go through each item of “My Earnings” to illustrate clearly how they'll earn their commission. When you do this, you're sending a clear message to them that there is real money to be earned in SFI and it is not a quick get rich scheme. There is work involved to earn their commissions.

- Help them to understand the multiple income streams that SFI offers.

Discuss to them the multiple income streams that SFI offers. Get them excited with the ECA Referral Program by explaining to them that they're going to earn VPs and royalties for life. You can send them tips such as ECA referral strategy and provide links where to find more about the ECA Referral program. If you have affiliates who are skilled network marketer, you can encourage them to take part in SFI Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA)program.

Conclusion:

You need to get through this message to your affiliates as soon as they signed up under you as their Team Leader/Sponsor: Any network marketing business takes time and dedication to really work.  It is not something you can dabble and play at if you want to make a good living from it.  It’s true that if you treat it like a hobby, it will pay you like a hobby, or even cost you money.  If you treat it like a serious business, it can reward you for many years to come.

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Before you can get your affiliates to understand that SFI is a serious business with serious earnings potential and not just a hobby, you must consider the following steps:

- Start building rock solid relationship with your affiliates.

The key to building a rock solid relationship with your affiliates must begin when they signed up as your new affiliates, giving them your warm welcome. It takes time to build a stronger bond with your affiliates, so maintain your connection with
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

As an SFI affiliate, we’re in the business of expanding our network. One of the ways where the duplication process can be sustained is through the promotion of transfer buying. Items that we normally purchase from grocery store, malls etc. should be purchased from our TripleClicks store.

How to explain and promote transfer buying to your team members:

- Communicate to your team members in clear simple words regarding transfer buying.

- Set yourself as an example in making TripleClicks.com as your store.

- Send testimonials to your team members about your favorite products that you bought from TC, explaining how you personally benefited in the purchase of an item and gaining VPs at the same time, helping you to maintain your monthly VP requirements and earning MRPs with every purchase.

- Emphasize to your team members that TripleClicks is their store, applying the fifth SFI Rules of Success. This rule, as well as the rest of SFI Rules of Success requires commitment on your part. It may take some time to change the mindset of your team members to always need to shop at TripleClicks first, but it’s worth the effort.

- Be clear and concise in your message to your team members that they are not spending extra money and they’re just changing from where they do their purchasing by going to TripleClicks store.

- Finally by letting them know that by making TripleClicks as their own store, they are making an important contribution to a more popular and successful TripleClicks which will benefit them in return such as easier sponsoring of SFI and TC members, ECAs, more products and services, better prices, lower shipping costs and much more.

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As an SFI affiliate, we’re in the business of expanding our network. One of the ways where the duplication process can be sustained is through the promotion of transfer buying. Items that we normally purchase from grocery store, malls etc. should be purchased from our TripleClicks store.

How to explain and promote transfer buying to your team members:

- Communicate to your team members in clear simple words regarding transfer buying.

- Set yourself as an example
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Printed flyers can be an excellent way to advertise on a minimal budget. Printing flyers can be cheap depending on the quantity; the more flyers printed the cheaper. Assuming you have the manpower, confidence and plenty of flyers available to distribute, the best ways to use printed flyers to attract PSAs/PRMs/ECAs:

- Door to door.
Get your flyer into the hand of your prospects. Research done by Direct Marketing Group found that approximately 80% who received the flyers delivered to their door glance at the flyers.

- Place them under hundreds of windshield wipers.
- Walk through the doors of businesses and leave one with each office manager or receptionist

- Tape them to the front doors of homes and businesses. Don't put them in the mailbox, though, that's illegal.

- Post a flyer on bulletin boards in your community.

- Attend franchise and business opportunities shows and distribute your flyers.

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Printed flyers can be an excellent way to advertise on a minimal budget. Printing flyers can be cheap depending on the quantity; the more flyers printed the cheaper. Assuming you have the manpower, confidence and plenty of flyers available to distribute, the best ways to use printed flyers to attract PSAs/PRMs/ECAs:

- Door to door.
Get your flyer into the hand of your prospects. Research done by Direct Marketing Group found that approximately 80% who received the flyers delivered
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

In order to understand why an affiliate is complaining about his/her expectation of what he/she should be getting out of SFI in relation to what he/she is putting into it, you should find out what exactly he/she is doing in growing his/her SFI business.

You should get in touch with him/her to discuss and analyze his/her development and growth in his/her journey with SFI. This is a very important step to help him/her get a clear understanding why he/she is in that situation or why he/she feels he/she is short of his/her expectation.

Here are important steps that you can do to help him/her his/her in that situation:

- Offer a one-on-one support by asking him/her to share with you his/her expectation with SFI.

Start the conversation by asking him/her about the Benefits Chart and Compensation Plan. If he/she is a new affiliate, it is always a common misconception for beginners that accumulating over 1500 VP in their first month would mean a higher commission. This is very disappointing for them if not explain right from the start. In the case of affiliates in their 2nd, 3rd, 4th month, etc. their expectations could be high in regards to earning commissions, moving up to higher rank (TL), building their teams, etc. These are needed to be clarified to clear up their misconceptions.

- Ask him/her exactly what type of investments (time/financial), how much and what are the results of his/her effort?

Performing To-Do List, Widening Knowledge base, allocating time on learning the Marketing and Training tabs, setting up a Standing Order, sponsoring new affiliates, etc. are activities that need time and some financial investments. Has the affiliate in question developed a business plan at all? Did he/she put in place a strategic plan to accomplish both his short and long term goals? If you can explain clearly to your affiliate the importance of these activities and how they greatly affect the momentum and growth of his/her SFI business then you’re one step closer of changing his/her attitude and opinion about SFI.

- Perform an evaluation of his/her method of growing his/her SFI business. Are SFI BASICS and

LAUNCHPAD the core foundation of his/her SFI business? A periodic review of these important principles is necessary to keep him/her on the track. You can make a checklist of activities based on these core principles. Your checklist may include such as setting up a Standing Order, daily performance of To-Do List, allocating time for the Training and Marketing tabs, sponsoring new affiliates and most importantly asking him/her feedback if he/she is getting out of the most from your training and support.

- What are his/her short and long term goals?

His/her short term goals will depend on his/her current stage of growth in SFI. Identify his/her short and long term goals by taking your time to discuss what he/she has written on his/her Goals tab. By knowing his/her short/long term goals, you might be able to offer your customized support or you can start a thread about these topics in SFI Forum to get the best ideas to share with him/her.

- Did he/she set up for his/her marketing plan and budget?

It takes time to develop a good marketing plan and budget, but it’s important because it ties all of your activities to tangible goals. You need to explain to him/her clearly the importance of having a marketing plan and budget. A plan is a compass.

Without one, he/she may be traveling in the right direction, but it’s incredibly difficult to stay on course – and that can drastically limit his/her success.
Even a simple plan is better than none, but when he/she invests more effort upfront, he/she will have a better roadmap toward his/her goals.

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In order to understand why an affiliate is complaining about his/her expectation of what he/she should be getting out of SFI in relation to what he/she is putting into it, you should find out what exactly he/she is doing in growing his/her SFI business.

You should get in touch with him/her to discuss and analyze his/her development and growth in his/her journey with SFI. This is a very important step to help him/her get a clear understanding why he/she is in that situation or why he/she
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

Engaging in social media like Faecebook could be beneficial or may not be to supplement SFI available channel of communication.

By using Facebook, you can communicate among your affiliates, who have Facebook accounts. Do your affiliates have time to spend in such sites like Facebook, twitter and so on? Remember time is money.

To engage your SFI affiliates on social media sites like Facebook you should start a group and create a fan page. How much time you will spend for doing this? To interact with them at a few times per week, this can be challenging. You have to post as often as you can to maximize your social media experience, is it worth your time? Remember that social media sites are first of all social in nature, not business.

Why not master the tools and resources available through SFI and become successful, knowing how and when to use them.
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Engaging in social media like Faecebook could be beneficial or may not be to supplement SFI available channel of communication.

By using Facebook, you can communicate among your affiliates, who have Facebook accounts. Do your affiliates have time to spend in such sites like Facebook, twitter and so on? Remember time is money.

To engage your SFI affiliates on social media sites like Facebook you should start a group and create a fan page. How much time you will spend for doing
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 302

To answer your question, I’m going to present the uniqueness of SFI so that you can clearly see the big difference when comparing to other online businesses.

I wasn’t very much active when I first joined SFI. I didn’t understand the business concept and with very little knowledge about the Internet, I have no idea how to sponsor. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I joined. I was attracted with the ad “How to earn a six figure income?” I immediately signed up, because it was free. I remained inactive for several years; nevertheless I maintain my EA status. I was just logging in from time to time to check on the latest SFI news. Meanwhile I have joined other online businesses. In my experience, all of those online businesses require membership fees and you have to buy different kinds of product packages for you to promote online. That didn’t work out for me. I kept logging in once in a while at SFI and I saw gradual but significant changes with the creation of TripleClicks. That made me curious to find out more until I found myself consistently logging in at the SFI affiliate center.

Now in my 13th year with SFI, I’m well-pleased and honored to share the following uniqueness of SFI:

- SFI stand above other online businesses in regards to network marketing in a true sense.

Network marketing is very definitely a relationship business. In business sales and revenue matters. Money make the world turn and in order to get money, you need sales. However, sales is not everything. Sales may just go that far but for relationship, it goes a long, long way.

Through my experience with SFI, I have learned that relationship building is all about quality and not quantity. In my dealings with my team members, I always put emphasis on providing value, to help others more than just the ‘make money online’ part. SFI provides the platform to achieve building relationship that goes a long, long way.

This is a unique experience for me which I couldn’t find from other online businesses. Most of the business opportunities out there are focus only on making money.

- Build friendship through SFI Forum

I have seen often times when someone announces that he/she is leaving SFI for whatever reason, most of us would say don’t go. Most of us experience and feel a sense of belonging here in SFI. A sense of belonging increases meaningfulness of life. It’s very encouraging to have a firsthand experience of the friendliness of affiliates helping others in their challenges with business and life.

- Ask SC provides questions and answers about building your SFI business. SFI business owners share their experiences providing important tips to the SFI community.

- Other communication tools such as a2a and SFIM chat further encourage all SFI business owners to connect and share their expertise. We can choose and add friends through these unique tools to share our knowledge and also to edify one another.

- We can also have fun while doing our business through the EZ games.

Our SFI President and CEO Mr. Gery Carson is a pioneer in putting together real home business opportunity for people from all spectrum of life and building long lasting relationship in SFI community worldwide. This is unprecedented.

Can you find from other online businesses that offer everything you need to drive your business to success? With SFI you control your pace of growing your business. I’m very glad today that despite facing insurmountable challenges, I didn’t give up.

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To answer your question, I’m going to present the uniqueness of SFI so that you can clearly see the big difference when comparing to other online businesses.

I wasn’t very much active when I first joined SFI. I didn’t understand the business concept and with very little knowledge about the Internet, I have no idea how to sponsor. I didn’t know what I was getting into when I joined. I was attracted with the ad “How to earn a six figure income?” I immediately signed up, because
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