The most valuable thing that I personally learned during my first year in SFI is that you have to make personal connections with your affiliates and you need to play the odds.
If your affiliates don’t think you care they won’t be loyal. You’re just lucky if some decide to go ahead and be independent, becoming leaders themselves. If you do get this lucky make the personal connection, recognize, encourage, motivate, reward, and answer all their questions as soon as possible as you would with any and all of your affiliates.
For me, I find that just getting a handful of affiliates on a monthly basis is best. I can’t devote enough attention to more than say 25 PSAs and 50 CSAs. You don’t want too few either because then you may get discouraged. 99% probably won’t get past the first month or two, if they even try at all. Some may even quit after a year of being a Team Leader or EA2! However, if you keep up personal communication they may come back after taking a break.
Some other important things I learned were:
1. Don’t reassign affiliates too soon. You can only earn matching VP (commissions) with your first line PSAs (and CSAs but at a much lower rate). You have 90 days to earn 5 VP on the reassignment of a line 1 PSA who has made at least 600 VP during that time. I try to reassign affiliates who have only worked for a month and have most likely quit. I also try to assign people to my top affiliates who live in the same country and/or speak the same language. Only assign other hot affiliates when you have 5-6 strong Team Leaders in your first line.
2. Don’t try to become a Team Leader too soon. Just concentrate on being an EA2 on a monthly basis, while recruiting affiliates in all areas of the business. Don’t forget things like Wave3, IAHBE, the ECA program and TripleClicks affiliates, including the Pricebender Auction.
3. Become an ECA yourself and encourage your downline to do the same, or at least sponsor and help a small company list items at the TripleClicks Store. Buy things from TripleClicks, especially your personally sponsored ECAs, It is your Store and should be the first place you look to make purchases of any kind. This where your commissions and royalties come from.
4. Last, but not least, set goals and a budget.
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The most valuable thing that I personally learned during my first year in SFI is that you have to make personal connections with your affiliates and you need to play the odds.
If your affiliates don’t think you care they won’t be loyal. You’re just lucky if some decide to go ahead and be independent, becoming leaders themselves. If you do get this lucky make the personal connection, recognize, encourage, motivate, reward, and answer all their questions as soon as possible as you
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