Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

There are two aspects to my answer;

1.Helping your PSA to help himself

I will tell you candidly that in SFI current form, with all the improvements and structuring, lack of credit card is not an obstacle to become a team leader. Credit cards are for payments for purchases at TripleClicks (TC), so help your PSA by directing him or her to several other methods of payments accepted by TC; Paypal, Check, Money Order and so on. You may look at the payment options here: https://www.sfimg.com/PaymentOptions?referrer=search

Alternatively, you can tell your PSA to view payment options when you log in at TripleClicks.com and select the "Payment Options" link in your Member Center. Also, the International Affiliates Resources have a comprehensive payment options explained here: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/SFIInternational

These payment options aside, let your PSA know that there are also ECAs that sell Tcurrency (TC online currency)and other products, so he can purchase Tcurrency and/or products from the ECA in his country or even his city, so he can use the Tcurrency to pay for any purchase at TC. This Local pay method was debuted last year in order to address the problems associated with payment for purchases at TC.

The list of participating ECA in different countries can be found here: http://www.tripleclicks.com/ECA/LocalPay/Directory.php

Let your PSA shop for the best deal because various ECAs charge different rates for providing this service, but the nominal price is 1 Tcurrency = $1. The major advantages of choosing to buy from ECA in your local area are to offer the possibility of paying the ECA in locally acceptable ways that are obtainable in your country and to also reduce shipping cost since shipping will be within your country.

Your responsibility as a sponsor is therefore to enlighten your PSA and direct him/her accordingly to embrace the Local pay ECA program, in order to avail of alternative payment method local to himself and the ECA in his country.

2. Helping by yourself

If your desire is to help him outright by yourself, then you may need to issue your PSA a gift certificate (GC) to pay for purchase that will make him a team leader, but for how long will you do this? This type of assistance should be an exception and not an adopted method to continually apply in helping your PSA to team leader status. This is because your PSA may become addicted to depending on you which is counter productive for anyone trying to grow his or her business, both for you and your PSA.

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There are two aspects to my answer;

1.Helping your PSA to help himself

I will tell you candidly that in SFI current form, with all the improvements and structuring, lack of credit card is not an obstacle to become a team leader. Credit cards are for payments for purchases at TripleClicks (TC), so help your PSA by directing him or her to several other methods of payments accepted by TC; Paypal, Check, Money Order and so on. You may look at the payment options here: https://www.sfimg.com/PaymentOptions?referrer=search
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

The questions you ask can make or break a prospecting effort because the more thought-provoking your questions are, the more your prospects will pay attention and take you serious. This may result in providing you with sincere answers and a fair understanding of their objectives and by understanding what they truly want to accomplish, you have a better chance of delivering what may result in conversion.

Always remember that your questions are a critical element in how your prospect perceives you. In this regard questions may not only be important to convert a prospect, they may be more important to get potentially serious affiliates to your team.

Though you asked for one important question but personally, I am not at peace to name just one because there are various important questions depending on who the prospect is and the circumstance because no two people are the same so I will attempt to enumerate some below:

1. The first question should be cordial and try to ask wow question which your competitors may not have asked. For example hi the weather looks so unfriendly today how are you coping and you must be determined to brace this storm....well my name is xxxxxx, yours?

2. I need to brace it also especially last year with the economy in free fall I was able to overcome some major financial problems.......how did you fare last year?

3. Oh very sorry but are you presently making any plans to overcome your financial problems, probably you have tried and failed or not at all?

4. You are correct there are few to trust but how do you think you can trust one?

5. Oh of course I have been involved in one for some time where you are not required to pay anything upfront or mandated to buy or sale something....I decide whatever by myself....will this sound like a trusted one?

6. Thanks that is kind of you but you really have to work hard to ensure your success, do you really believe in hard work of such?

7. You are reasoning like me....if you have the opportunity will you want to make a financial investment where you make the decisions and call the shorts, rather than someone else making the decision for you and calling the shorts?

8. In that case are you interested in working for yourself, instead of someone’s employee?

9. Do you care for coffee lets discuss this further you are sounding more and more interesting because I am gaining a lot from this conversation?

10. Thanks [now at the coffee table] will you like to work for yourself online and are you internet savvy?

11. Well irrespective it does not really matter...do you believe people can learn and understand a simple income program?

12. Do you see failure as a truncation of future success or a learning curve?

13. You have a very wonderful personality, do you persist until you get things right or you easily get frustrated and stop trying.

14. In that case I am tempted to introduce you to a wonderful opportunity if you will take advantage, will you sir/ma because I hardly do this?

15. Good to hear can I have your contact details to send you an overview of what I have in store for your?

16. Thanks all the best, you seem to have made a wonderful decision you will not regret.

You can figure out from these questions the most important ones based on the prospect in question and the responses to some of these questions as your conversation progresses because I am discussing with an abstract person. On a general note, the questions on persistence, investment and own boss sound off as credible ones to suspect who may be a potential serious affiliate, but leave some room for error margin.






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The questions you ask can make or break a prospecting effort because the more thought-provoking your questions are, the more your prospects will pay attention and take you serious. This may result in providing you with sincere answers and a fair understanding of their objectives and by understanding what they truly want to accomplish, you have a better chance of delivering what may result in conversion.

Always remember that your questions are a critical element in how your prospect perceives
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Perception is very important, so you need to develop a trust relationship with your PSAs and may be PRMs in advance. You need to show you are a good leader, who is helpful and always ready to selflessly guide and assist his team. Establishing a good reputation will be the first big leap in your plan of setting up a local meeting or a seminar, and then you may adapt the following suggested steps below:

1. You need to identify your invitees and probably establish some criteria for invitation; are you going to invite all your Local PSAs and PRMs or you are going to invite a segment that is struggling with this business? Are you going to invite those who will come and 'intimidate' others or you are going to invite those who will come to showcase their successes with great humility? Are you going to invite more newbies or more oldies or a fair combination of both? Are you going to invite some who will join you as co-leaders to help with execution of objectives at the meeting? etc

2. Use a very professional or friendly medium to send invitation; email, social network group, SFI Team Mail etc. Include the agenda of the meeting in your invitation and explain why you think they will benefit from this meeting. Ensure the agenda includes issues that have been coming up in your discussions with them in order to arouse interests.

3. Resist making it too formal so plan to include other activities of interests like social interactions, fun games, refreshments, traditional/cultural entertainment common to all of you to spice up the occasion. The purpose of this is to make it attractive in order to increase the potential of participation and ensure you communicate these to members prior to the meeting.

4. You may need to include a 'catch' to also encourage participation like; "for honouring my invitation by attending, you will receive one of the following gifts; Tcredits, a free 2 month co-op participation, free 1 year own domain name, free promotional page, PSAs reassignments etc.

5. The next step is to set up an appropriate venue and I do not encourage you to use your house because it could trivialise the event or make it look too personal and some members may be uncomfortable with such arrangement. Please note that you may need some electronic devices for learning, brainstorming and communication like speakers, microphones, laptops, projector, music system etc. Ensure you give a proper description of the venue or where possible, arrange for them to stop at a popular place where you may arrange for them to be transported in batches to the venue.

6. At this stage the meeting is properly set up and my advice for that day is to ensure you deliver on all what you promised leading up to the meeting or seminar.

In conclusion, this type of get together is very appropriate and ingenious, because it may lead to some improved relationships in the interest of building a more active and successful team.

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Perception is very important, so you need to develop a trust relationship with your PSAs and may be PRMs in advance. You need to show you are a good leader, who is helpful and always ready to selflessly guide and assist his team. Establishing a good reputation will be the first big leap in your plan of setting up a local meeting or a seminar, and then you may adapt the following suggested steps below:

1. You need to identify your invitees and probably establish some criteria for invitation;
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

As financial needs and opportunities to improve existing standard of living become insatiable, the need to look at other quasi-independent ways to generate income becomes imperative, hence the motivation to access these opportunities from the comfort of their homes. Internet income opportunities offer an attractive alternative where traditional job seeking opportunities have failed many in terms of satisfying individual financial objectives or the need to add a second pay check to complement an existing job.

There are several organisation that offer internet income opportunities, with most offering single, complicated and often misleading opportunities to earn income, but becoming an SFI affiliate means you will avail of various ways to earn income in the ever expanding internet income business. SFI offers various opportunities to earn money as an affiliate and TripleClicks member, very different from other similar organisations.

In addition, below are what you get as an SFI affiliate:

1. Unlike many similar organisation, SFI is a free to join opportunity where you can earn monthly income to support yourself and family

2. SFI is very transparent in its dealings with affiliates because the income you generate is displayed at your personal Scoreboard as you earn them.

3. You can register an online business (store) free as an SFI affiliate and also enjoy the free support of millions of SFI affiliates and TripleClicks members in terms of patronage and advertising.

4. Again you are allowed to list your unwanted stuff (closet) for sales by yourself for yourself

5. You may also be able to earn big amount of residual income from your team members

6. There are over 100,000 products from which you can earn too

7. It is not rocket science to be able to do the above and succeed because there are loads of free training materials, plus members of your upline, including the Forum and Ask SC that provide invaluable assistance to affiliates, so lack of experience is not an obstacle.

8. Above all, SFI succession plan ensures that the income stream you generate here can be transferred to your beneficiary when you die, so the fruit of your labour endures.

You can see that there is a compelling reason to come be an SFI affiliate in order to conquer the fear of present financial insecurity and secure the future.
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As financial needs and opportunities to improve existing standard of living become insatiable, the need to look at other quasi-independent ways to generate income becomes imperative, hence the motivation to access these opportunities from the comfort of their homes. Internet income opportunities offer an attractive alternative where traditional job seeking opportunities have failed many in terms of satisfying individual financial objectives or the need to add a second pay check to complement an existing
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

First of all, you need to establish a reputation among your affiliates that you are a leader, who is knowledgeable with a good understanding of SFI business. Your knowledge and understanding make no sense to your affiliates if you do not impart same downwards, so you must be seen as a helpful and selfless leader who is always ready to guide without hesitation, promptly and decisively.

In order to get your affiliates attend your local training, you need to let them know the benefits of attending and what you intend to discuss. For example, you know some of the issues they constantly raise which you think the training will address, and then sell those particular points. Although you did not mention it but I suppose it is physical training session you are referring to, so they may be eager to see you and others in person, especially if their perception of you is positive.

You need to inform them that apart from training, there are other side attractions like refreshments, entertainment local to all, fun games etc. In conjunction with this, it may be necessary to include a 'catch' for those who will be attending the training session like; free co-op membership for a certain period, free own domain name, free SFI caps/T-shirts, free physical or e-books etc.

Also, the venue should be fit and proper for the training session and resist from the temptation of using your house because it does not look professional, especially if this is the first time you are doing a training session and ensure you communicate this to those you want to attend.

Finally, this meeting is local, so ensure you let your affiliates know that, apart from training, issues and problems common to your local affiliates will be discussed and solutions will be offered.

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First of all, you need to establish a reputation among your affiliates that you are a leader, who is knowledgeable with a good understanding of SFI business. Your knowledge and understanding make no sense to your affiliates if you do not impart same downwards, so you must be seen as a helpful and selfless leader who is always ready to guide without hesitation, promptly and decisively.

In order to get your affiliates attend your local training, you need to let them know the benefits of
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Momentum signifies progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger, so there is need to maintain and keep the momentum going because it is a very positive development in your team. However, the question is how to maintain or keep improving the momentum and below is my opinion.

1. Training and mentoring:
The nature of this business in particular and internet marketing in general is very dynamic, so you need to create a platform with which you will keep your team up to date in modern and changing techniques in order to boost present momentum and to avoid being stuck in the past.

3. Contests:
Hold Contests as motivating technique to encourage your team to maintain, improve and try new endeavours. It could be a simple giveaway or a reward for whoever achieves targets, that at the least, maintain current momentum levels.

For example you may set a reward for any member of your team who generates a certain number of PSAs per month, using the current average as a minimum. So if the current average is 10 PSAs, you may set the target at between 10 and 15 PSAs per month. This means your are maintaining the current momentum of 10 PSAs and boosting this momentum from 11 to 15 PSAs subsequently.

Please note that it is not just enough to give rewards, but they should be commensurate with the achievement.

4. Recognition and rewards:
These are effective incentives to motivate your team to keep working hard and not to let up the momentum. In this situation reward may not only be a result of a contest but for other indications of hard work, like daily logins, maintaining at least EA status on a consistent basis, E365 Finalist, Power Rank and so on. Merely recognising the efforts of your team members in your Team Mails, Stream Posts, Forum, Leadership Page etc is another significant way to motivate and sheer your team to keep up the good work.

5. Organise online/physical events:
The purpose here is to interact virtually or/and physically in order to bring reality of existence among yourselves into your team. As they often say, seeing is believing and your team members will have the opportunity to brainstorm, share ideas and personal success stories. This also will encourage social relationships and a sense of 'family'. The more this goes on, the more commitment each member may be and the overall momentum of your team will gradually be boosted.

In conclusion, you must realise that to maintain and boost team momentum will definitely not encompass all teams members, so be prepared to build this momentum around the serious members of your group. However, you do not need to give up on others, but to guide and support them, with the objective of bringing them into this active and serious part of your team, in order to enlarge the sphere of momentum building.

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Momentum signifies progress or development that is becoming faster or stronger, so there is need to maintain and keep the momentum going because it is a very positive development in your team. However, the question is how to maintain or keep improving the momentum and below is my opinion.

1. Training and mentoring:
The nature of this business in particular and internet marketing in general is very dynamic, so you need to create a platform with which you will keep your team up to date
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

The best thing to do is to make it very simple and as precise as you can, having in mind that newbies are still skeptical, have received some messages from SFI, do not yet understand this program and the need to earn. Personally, I will recommend you explain thus:

I want to draw your attention to the Fast Track program which was introduced recently for the main purpose of maximizing your future earnings in SFI. You have a 10 day period from when you join to become a Fast Track member with the major benefits of receiving the Fast Track Bonus Shares.

With the Fast Track Bonus share, you will be an Executive Affiliate (EA) and earn an additional 10% income from the TripleClicks Executive Pool for as long as you are an SFI affiliate which will be added to your monthly commission. This income can growing big as you accumulate more VP working your SFI business.

To qualify, you need to completing the 5 actions specified in your Getting Started section of your VP Ledger and you are also required to generate at least $20 in sales and/or purchases, but the easiest way to generate the $20 may be to purchase the New Member pack which among other things, comes with 3 Co-sponsor affiliates (CSA), 750 VP, 200 member Reward Points (MRP) and 50 Tcredits.

With 3 CSAs, it means you have a team and you earn 15% CV on their qualifying purchases, while 750 VP gives you 750 additional shares (cash) in the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

MRP and Tcredits are online currencies which can be used to pay for purchases at TripleClick. In addition, you can also use Tcredits to bid at the auction, listing your unwanted items for sales, play games etc.

The icing on the cake is when you aspire further to a Gold Fast Track member and become an instant EA2 with further benefit accruing to you.

I am cautious of the fact that you are a new member and as a result I am inclined not to bother you with too much complexities and details of the Fast Track program, but I am confident in your ability to gradually understand it as you progress.

Please kindly visit the link https://www.sfimg.com/FT for details and do not hesitate to contact me if you need more clarification or explanation, but remember you have only 10 days to make a decision or else, you may miss out on much needed income and benefits.

Also, for more details on the benefits of EA/EA2, kindly visit the Benefits Chart and the Compensation plan below:

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/ComparisonChart
https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/ComparisonChart

My regards,
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The best thing to do is to make it very simple and as precise as you can, having in mind that newbies are still skeptical, have received some messages from SFI, do not yet understand this program and the need to earn. Personally, I will recommend you explain thus:

I want to draw your attention to the Fast Track program which was introduced recently for the main purpose of maximizing your future earnings in SFI. You have a 10 day period from when you join to become a Fast Track member with
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Actually, there are different reasons why affiliates are inactive in SFI; lack of understanding of the system, lack of time, lack of money to invest, lack of support, language difficulties among others. It is therefore often difficult to understand the exact reason why a particular team member is inactive (unless you are informed) and there is no silver bullet to resolve these problems, but you may adopt the following messages:

1. Ensure you initial messages reveal the exact nature of this business; not a get-rich-quick-scheme, purchasing and investment decision are their discretions and the importance or benefits of logging in regularly.

2. Let them be aware of the benefits of keeping pace with the E365 competition in order to encourage them to be more active, by emphasising that inactivity may result to been eliminated.

3. Encourage them to place advertisements on a regular basis for PSAs, PRMs, and ECAs. Let them be aware that the more ads they place, the more chances of success, to keep them regularly engaged.

4. Tell them the importance of sponsoring and duplication, that if they are inactive they may forfeit their commissions, forfeit their CSAs if they have any, their team may become 'sheep without shepherds'. Let them know that inactivity may beget inactivity, so their team members may have no reasons to be motivated to become active.

5. Commit them by highlighting team contests in your messages and discuss the consequences of missing out on prizes that may be won. You may include that some of these contests have to do with minimum login periods or times.

6. Introduce them to areas of fun like EZ games, especially highlighting the free ones to attract them to the games and tell them how they can convert these fun games into real business opportunity like generating signups and earning commissions.

7. You may also attract commitment by sending messages of the possibility of reassigning some team members to them if they demonstrate dedication and understanding of this business by regularly logging in, doing some work and learning something new.

8. Send messages regarding news, updates and policy changes that are in their favour. Inform them that SFI is always getting better and there have been very positive improvements and increased benefits since they last logged in and that they should become more dedicated in order to benefit from the changes and new opportunities.

9. Include testimonials of successful affiliates, especially those who were once inactive. If you can micro target your messages then you may include testimonials of affiliates from the same cultural and geographical background.

10. Inform them that SFI is presently contemplating the introduction of other languages in forums specially created for affiliates from the same cultural, geographic and language background. Let them know that the benefit of this is to allow for the free flow of information and assistance between affiliates of the same kind, so they should take advantage by registering and participating in such forum.

To conclude, please you need to realise that no matter how well you craft your message, some will still remain inactive, so at a point you need to separate the 'wheat' from the 'chaff'.

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Actually, there are different reasons why affiliates are inactive in SFI; lack of understanding of the system, lack of time, lack of money to invest, lack of support, language difficulties among others. It is therefore often difficult to understand the exact reason why a particular team member is inactive (unless you are informed) and there is no silver bullet to resolve these problems, but you may adopt the following messages:

1. Ensure you initial messages reveal the exact nature of
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

The mistake we often make is to treat or see SFI as ‘their’ business, where you are a worker or a commission agent who is entitled to financial reward at month end and this often times form the basis why investment is questioned. This business is far from just doing your daily actions or earning VP, but you can build a formidable business for yourself and your future generations within the conceptual framework of SFI business, so when you see it this way, then ask yourself why should you not invest?

You may therefore choose to invest or not depending on your aims and objectives of joining an online business. Is it that you are here to past time, exercise your brain, get relevant training only or to build a formidable team and a sustainable business?

This business is not very different from someone who has an incorporated business or a company in the physical world; we apply to join SFI like physical companies apply to CRO, SFI benefits from our successes for providing the enabling environment and sales, like government benefits from the success of physical companies by paying taxes. So if these companies invest why will SFI affiliates not invest?

The major avenue to financial success as far as SFI is concerned is Team building. Building a formidable team is very important in earning sustainable residual income, so are you going to rely on free ads only to generate signups for this purpose or you are thinking of going smarter and better by paid ads, your personal website or blog to promote your SFI business and assist your team.

Think of it this way too, members of your team are your greatest assets, just like companies valuable assets are people. So as companies maintain, replenish and acquire more assets, so also will you need to guide and assist your team, and also to ‘acquire’ more members. It will be difficult to achieve success in all these area without a reasonable investment, even if you are targeting your warm market.

Take solace in some affiliates like Bing Obaldo, Fabrizio Perotti, Giuseppe Francavilla and the likes who have succeeded in creating their own business institutions within the business framework of SFI, through continuous and consistent investment in people and structure.

Finally, I do not think the imperative of investment should be questionable, but the extent of it ought to be the contemplation, which depends on your aims and objectives of joining this business.

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The mistake we often make is to treat or see SFI as ‘their’ business, where you are a worker or a commission agent who is entitled to financial reward at month end and this often times form the basis why investment is questioned. This business is far from just doing your daily actions or earning VP, but you can build a formidable business for yourself and your future generations within the conceptual framework of SFI business, so when you see it this way, then ask yourself why should you not
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999

Many of us complain that our team members do not reply to our e-mails or do not act on the e-mail we send, but one of the reasons this may be the case is because they do not even receive them. However, you need to ensure they at least receive the mails by following the steps:

1. You can e-mail your team members who joined SFI after August 30, 2011 without any condition or problem, however, those that joined before then need to confirm their registration before you can e-mail them. You may therefore need to encourage these members, using team mail, to confirm their registration in order to be sure they can now receive your e-mails. You will know those who have not confirmed their registration by checking on their VP Ledgers or on your genealogy.

2. You need to then check on the status of the e-mail addresses provided by your team members on joining SFI. The colour of the envelop symbol located before the chat and notes symbols on each row of your genealogy denotes the following:

Green- Affiliate's e-mail has been confirmed as good, so there is a very good chance that your e-mails will be received.

Yellow- Affiliate's e-mail is questionable (messages returned as undeliverable, likely for an impermanent reason: i.e. inbox was full, server was down temporarily, etc.). You may need to reach this categories of team members by other means and encourage them to supply alternative e-mail addresses, if the problem persists.

Red- Affiliate's e-mail has been confirmed as undeliverable or invalid, so you also need to encourage them to supply deliverable e-mails.

White- Affiliate's e-mail has not been confirmed, so you may need to be patient for SFI to confirm the e-mail before you start sending e-mails to them. This means the status need to change to green to be sure that your e-mails will be received when sent.

Note that some of these bad e-mails were supplied as a result of team members being unsure of what is going to happen going forward as new members, so some may supply better e-mails as they progress and know what this business is about, or alternatively you may have to facilitate the process.

3. Another thing you need to do is to ensure that they have whitelisted all necessary SFI related e-mail addresses, including yours. You may need to teach those who do not know how to whitelist by referring them to the 'Instructions for Whitelisting [email protected]' here: https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/emailhelp

The link above provides instructions on how to whitelist and the e-mails addresses to be whitelisted, including yours. The instructions further explain how this can be done on YAHOO, Gmail, AOL, HOTMAIL/MSN, COMCAST and REDIFFMAIL.

These are the basics actions you need to ensure before you can be sure your e-mail messages are received by your CSAs and PSAs, but whether they will open and read them is an issue for another day.

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Many of us complain that our team members do not reply to our e-mails or do not act on the e-mail we send, but one of the reasons this may be the case is because they do not even receive them. However, you need to ensure they at least receive the mails by following the steps:

1. You can e-mail your team members who joined SFI after August 30, 2011 without any condition or problem, however, those that joined before then need to confirm their registration before you can e-mail them. You
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