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How can you keep your downline from quitting and giving up on SFI?

6264 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 10/14/2013 1:21 pm

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Hi Zina;
Well this is a challenging task. I have since realized that unless they desire it for themselves, there is very little one can do to get them to stay on. You can send all the streams, post encouragement messages on your blog (leadership page;send team mail but if they still haven't found the importance of being entrepreneurs and dont have it in them; there is very little you can do. bear in mind that not everybody is business oriented. One slight challenge and they give up.

Determination,
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How can I further engage my SFI affiliates on social media sites like Facebook?

5702 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 9/18/2013 4:34 am

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Hi Ben,
I believe you can simply invite your affiliates to connect with you on the social networks you have mentioned: Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn etc. That way you can be able to interact more on issues related to SFI business and share ideas to succeed as a team.
You can also start a thread on one of SFI issues which they could participate in.

All the best.

How do you get your affiliates to approach their SFI business realistically, like a real business, and not some get unrealistic rich quick scheme?

5226 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 1/2/2014 9:41 am

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Interesting question but at the same time challenging in the sense that though some of your affiliate have signed up; they probably have regular jobs and cannot dedicate as much time to their SFI business as they would love to; and that does not necessarily mean that they do not take "SFI business realistically, like a real business". However all that being said and done you could probably do the following :

- share your SFI success stories ( testimonies); this will enable them
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How can you offer financial support to a hard-working PSA/CSA who is truly financially challenged?

5194 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 9/20/2013 5:59 pm

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I think it depends on a couple of factors e.g How financially stable you are yourself and if you could afford to do it lest you end up stretching yourself thin. SFI is meant to improve our lives not to render us worse off so i would say :
1. the best way you could support your hard working PSA & CSA would probably be transferring some TCredits to them to enable them to participate in auctions and earn VPs in the process whilst at th same time they stand the chance of bidding for the resources
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What should an affiliate do if their sponsor is non-responsive?

5121 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 1/2/2014 9:00 am

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I believe that SFI is the best self-empowered programme in the world. Its self-sufficient power-house as it has everything that you need to build your business if you have a non-responsive sponsor. Everything you need is provided, You just need to make use of it e.g launchpad, SFI basics,FAQs, ASC and the forum. You have all the powerful tools you need at your finger tips including the a2a and help-desk support team wherein you could just submit a ticket if you get stuck . At the forums you can just
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Should we recruit our family members into SFI? Good idea or not?

5071 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 9/20/2013 5:44 pm

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
This is an interesting and at the same time challenging question.This is my attempt in responding to it the best way i possibly can:
1. I believe family and friends form part of your warm market and therefore are accessible to you; especially if you have seen the good benefits of being in SFI marketing and want them to benefit from it the same way and improve their standard of living as well.
2. You will be bound by family and friendship ties to support them extensively and/or push them
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How does one support all your downline affiliates if you have barely enough to support your own self?

4858 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 9/20/2013 5:22 pm

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
I believe that the kind of support you offer your affiliates does not necessarily have to be financial; especially in a case where you do not have enough yourself. So in that case just being there for them to offer guidance; mentor and motivate them to perform their daily, weekly and monthly tasks will be enough.

However if you believe you want to do more than just coaching; and you have an S-builder co-op a you could re-assign your new sign-ups to your hard-working down-line to support
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How do you get your affiliates engaged and conversing regularly with you?

4521 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 10/31/2013 8:54 am

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
This is an interesting question.
I have since realized that it one cannot get an affiliates to do anything unless they desire it themselves. But all the same sending motivational messages and posting on your leadership page might influence one or two to respond and engage in communication with you.
Some affiliates hold regular jobs and have hectic schedules with very little time for their homepage; hence every time they get an opportunity they tend to want to focus on their daily actions
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How do I get my a2a friends to offer positive support and assistance?

4512 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 10/31/2013 9:19 am

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Hi,
I believe the only way you can get your a2a friends to offer you positive support is if you contact them to ask for support and assistance on an issue or challenge that you may be experiencing. I have found that when I send a message to a specific a2a friend I always receive positive feedback. I have since realized that a2a is made of very supportive people. But generally i use my a2a friends for moral support and networking; We discuss our business performance and how we have managed to
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Is it worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSAs...or can I just send out group mailings?

4467 votes

Tshidi Botshelo-Rankoa, Aff (Botswana) 5/27/2014 3:28 pm

Affiliate since: 05/18/2013, Power Rank: 99999999
Great question,
This is what i personally do. Because i receive PSAs at different dates and times i send them
and E-card followed by a personalized welcome mail, at times i just write a welcome message on the E-card.
But when its a group of them arriving at the same time e.g 15 PSAs from a co-op, I then send a uniform e-mail to all of them at once because it can be time-consuming to write a different e-mail to each one of them; after all the e-mail will be containing similar information
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