There are many factors involved in answering this question.
Firstly, it depends somewhat on where you are getting your PSA's. If you have 5 PSAs that are from your warm market (friends and family) They are more likely to need coaching than if you get 10 Affiliates from a Network Marketing forum where you could expect the participants to have some experience with MLM basics and marketing in general.
From some sources such as Traffic Exchanges, Safelists and other online sources you can expect a high fallout rate. They often have no more information than what's on the gateway page before signing up. They may just join to find out more information about what SFI is out of curiosity, with little actual interest in becoming an affiliate. These types of sources will require that you go for continuously sponsoring more and more affiliates.
So some sources will produce affiliates that require more coaching while other sources require sponsoring lots of affiliates.
Then there is also the factor of how good you are at coaching. Some people may not have what it takes to be a good coach, and may be better at getting bigger numbers and hoping for the ones who are go-getters that will become big successes with little or no coaching. They will need to sponsor a lot of affiliates in this case.
Maybe a good strategy for these people if they do get an affiliate who is a better coach than they are themselves, is to keep promoting for more affiliates. Then they can reassign them to their downline members who are better coaches than they are. This will free the coach from having to do so much promotion and enable him to concentrate more on coaching.
It also depends how good you are at organizing yourself and figuring out which affiliates are just wasting your time and which ones are worth spending a little extra time on. If you spend 40 hours a week dealing with questions from people who don't bother to read the information available at their fingertips (who aren't likely to get very far anyway) then you are better off using that time to find people with more potential.
Work with the workers, but a good affiliate with high potential shouldn't require more than a few hours of support a week.
Another thing is that newbies are going to require more support and coaching than people who have been at it for a while. So as you get more affiliates worth coaching, the ones you already have will require less and less of your time and effort. A steady influx of new affiliates will keep the business growing, but won't necessarily mean you are spending more and more time on support and coaching.
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There are many factors involved in answering this question.
Firstly, it depends somewhat on where you are getting your PSA's. If you have 5 PSAs that are from your warm market (friends and family) They are more likely to need coaching than if you get 10 Affiliates from a Network Marketing forum where you could expect the participants to have some experience with MLM basics and marketing in general.
From some sources such as Traffic Exchanges, Safelists and other online
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