Affiliate since: 01/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Humble yourself, first and foremost. Realize, if you don't know the answer, that it's a good question and it is worth answering. Don't try to even think of what answer you could give without doing something to make sure. So, first, realize that it won't be the last time someone asks a question you don't know the answer to.

Then, check more than one source. compare answers that lean one way and answers that lean another. Even factual answers give way to opinionized versions, so be careful of what is right and wrong about right answers. Never give an answer that leaves a head scratching, especially since our affiliates are not face-to-face with us, in most cases.

Possibly give one that gives a questioner the motivation and ammunition to find out more for themselves. Often, a question comes not so much from a person who does not know how to choose from facts nor do research, but from someone who does not understand in which direction to take an inquiry.

Answers don't create life; answers stimulate life. The best way to answer a question is to ask your own, of yourself and others. Humble yourself.
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Humble yourself, first and foremost. Realize, if you don't know the answer, that it's a good question and it is worth answering. Don't try to even think of what answer you could give without doing something to make sure. So, first, realize that it won't be the last time someone asks a question you don't know the answer to.

Then, check more than one source. compare answers that lean one way and answers that lean another. Even factual answers give way to opinionized versions, so be careful
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Affiliate since: 01/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

There is, of course, no one right answer. The more you communicate with your upline, the better you get to know them, and the more freely you'll communicate with them, and they with you. Your sponsors are a chain of command, like any other, and are responsible for supporting you as you take initiative to get ahead with SFI; for answering your questions; for giving you correct and verifiable information.

As often as you have a question, recommendation or simply commendation, communicate. Weighing in in any way only helps to show your willingness to be a part of the big picture. So, talk to your sponsors as the Spirit of advancement moves you. They won't bite! For that matter, build your base of a2a, as well. Money makes friends, and income makes advice a free commodity.
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There is, of course, no one right answer. The more you communicate with your upline, the better you get to know them, and the more freely you'll communicate with them, and they with you. Your sponsors are a chain of command, like any other, and are responsible for supporting you as you take initiative to get ahead with SFI; for answering your questions; for giving you correct and verifiable information.

As often as you have a question, recommendation or simply commendation, communicate.
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Affiliate since: 01/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Let's start from the opposite end. First, be personable; be ready to be a friend to your affiliates, helpful when they need it, supportive when they are rising in the ranks and when they are not. 'The best' affiliate is the affiliate who understands that a. the success of each of us depends on each other, and b. affiliates can feel by your words and actions how much you have their success in mind.

Don't just go through the motions to get yourself positioned, because you won't. Make the effort to make your downline the best, each of them. Then eahc one of your downline will call you the best. And, after all, 'the best' is an steerable opinion based on your performance; 'Friend and supporter' is the biggest part of that performance, and of your own success.
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Let's start from the opposite end. First, be personable; be ready to be a friend to your affiliates, helpful when they need it, supportive when they are rising in the ranks and when they are not. 'The best' affiliate is the affiliate who understands that a. the success of each of us depends on each other, and b. affiliates can feel by your words and actions how much you have their success in mind.

Don't just go through the motions to get yourself positioned, because you won't. Make the
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Affiliate since: 01/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Once you develop a good correspondence and relationship with them, I don't see why you should have to reassign to anyone. One goal of having affiliates is to get them to trust and depend on you. If you are the initial sponsor, you should continue to develop them as friends in the business. Then, you can ask them how they feel about being reassigned. I would never do something even as seemingly harmless as reassigning an affiliate to anyone without the affiliate's input.

Affiliate since: 01/04/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

'Learn' is a very important word for an affiliate at any level. You should learn all you can, because that helps your business to grow. It's true with any business, with any endeavor in life, but especially in SFI: the more you learn, the more you grow, and the more you can help others to grow so that others can help you.

So, do spend some time learning how to market your business and not just counting on the ease of spending a dollar to get affiliates others have recruited. Buying PSA's is a legitimate way of starting, as we all know, but not a way of truly growing and improving toward expert in this field; you can only pass on the knowledge you acquire, and can only acquire it through learning the business, and can only learn the truths of the business in the trenches, so to speak.

What you have at SFI is given to us as the the result of years of learning through observation, listening, implementation and much trial and error. Don't just break off a piece of it; become assimilated into it, incorporate the knowledge and share the collective thought.

SFI has given us such vast resources and so many ways to participate in them that learning is actually fun and exciting and strengthening; we should hate to let the meat and potatoes pass us by in order to consume only the candy. So learn to sponsor and learn to help and learn to be helped by others. Buying PSA's will help you. Learning to sponsor will help you, too, and allow you to help everyone else, especially your downline. . .and I'm sure your upline will also appreciate it.
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'Learn' is a very important word for an affiliate at any level. You should learn all you can, because that helps your business to grow. It's true with any business, with any endeavor in life, but especially in SFI: the more you learn, the more you grow, and the more you can help others to grow so that others can help you.

So, do spend some time learning how to market your business and not just counting on the ease of spending a dollar to get affiliates others have recruited. Buying PSA's
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