This eventually happens to all of us. It certainly helps if somewhere along the line you have established communication with them so that you know a little about what their situation is. If you are monitoring closely, you will notice immediately when someone drops off, and stops logging on. A simple card telling them you missed them, and asking if there is any way you can help them get active again, can sometimes help.
Your affiliates are human beings, and things happen in their lives that frequently cause them to lose focus. That is one of the main reasons so many people are where they are at in the first place. We are not bosses holding their feet to the fire, so to speak, but we are trying to help them to stay focused long enough to succeed at this business.
Affiliates frequently get the feeling they are spinning their wheels, and not making any progress. I think sometimes it's a problem of having a huge, but distant goal, but not having a specific interim goal for the next week or month. Measured against a long term dream, any accomplishments will often seem insignificant. An interim goal might be to sponsor one active business, then it's a matter of numbers, how many affiliates do they need to go through to find an active one.
I think any time an affiliate sits in a particular position without some measurable level of success, the negative winds of doubt will start blowing. If they are not really doing anything in the business aside from the initial training, they will tend to fizzle out pretty quickly. This is one reason an awesome sponsor will usually make sure that each active downline will receive some affiliates to work with. A lot of affiliates have a challenge sponsoring people and building a team, and if they are struggling with that, their attitude can quickly go south.
Most of all, we want to make the business seem simple and straight forward (logical). If we convey that in all our communications, we can often clear the air of confusion from the very start. We want to get them moving in the right direction. We may think that if they score 1000 VP or more right off the bat, that they are going to be a leader, but that is often not the case. They need a sense of progress or they will eventually call it quits.
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This eventually happens to all of us. It certainly helps if somewhere along the line you have established communication with them so that you know a little about what their situation is. If you are monitoring closely, you will notice immediately when someone drops off, and stops logging on. A simple card telling them you missed them, and asking if there is any way you can help them get active again, can sometimes help.
Your affiliates are human beings, and things happen in their lives
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