Gaining maximum support from your sponsor/upline needs ‘it takes two to tangle’ approach, where you will need to position yourself to receive support and your sponsor will be ready and willing to give you the appropriate support. This also means that you need to encourage your sponsor and upline members to provide assistance and support, in order to prepare both of you for mutual cooperation and coordination.
In light of the above, the question will be how do you prepare and position yourself to gain that required support from your upline? Below are some suggestions:
1. Ensure you are learning the nitty-gritty of this business in order to prepare you to ask pertinent questions and request appropriate support. This is one of the ways to show your upline that you are enthusiastic in developing an understanding of this business, which will consequently encourage them to deploy all resources within their capability to support you.
2. You need to do your best to login daily where possible and update yourself with the latest news and updates regarding the operations of SFI/TC. This understanding will help boost your ability to progress and consequently draw the attention of your upline.
3. Upline members appreciate hard working and visible team members, so be productively visible by participating in the forum, Ask SC, chat, a2a etc. These levels of participation will make you more visible to your upline and you may be able to earn their respect and trust, especially if they have a large downline which makes the tracking of all members difficult.
4. Be punctual and seek to earn all available VP you can earn in order to be on your sponsor’s Movers, because some sponsors are more attentive to the Movers in their teams. This is essential because your sponsor may be encouraged to follow your progress and render support accordingly.
5. You need to respond to their messages where needed and necessary, in order to encourage them to pay more attention to you because some may be discouraged by team members who do not reciprocate, one way or the other if required.
6. Again, strive to compete for challenges like the E365 contest, sponsor contests, country and class Leaders board. I am not suggestion you should unnecessarily inconvenience yourself to please anyone, but that your show of strength is helpful to your business success, which will in turn give your upline more motivation to support your efforts as much as possible.
7. You need not be shy or sceptical to always ask them for appropriate support and guidance and do not always wait for them to get to you first. This is particularly helpful because it is mostly you who really knows where your shoe itches, since your upline members are not magicians.
8. It is good business strategy to participate in other relevant forums by which you can relate with your upline like Skype, webinars, local physical meetings, social networks, telephone etc. Please be at alert in case your participation is outside the pursuit of your SFI business and if so, discontinue.
9. Do not put your upline off by asking irrelevant, outrageous, un-business like and unprofessional support. You must always see them as business partners who are willing to guide and support your business, rather than them working your business for you.
10. You should try your best to duplicate the efforts/success of your sponsor and other upline members, by doing for your downline what they are doing for you where you can. This is because it will help you build an active downline which will be productive to both yourself and your upline. The benefit your upline derive from your downline also serve as impetus for their maximum support which you crave.
11. Always develop the habit of saying ‘thank you’ to their efforts and support. You may mistakenly underestimate the power of ‘thank you’ but it motivates and encourages your upline to feel good and do more because appreciation is another sign of conveying satisfaction.
In conclusion, I must add that irrespective of what you do to attract maximum support from members of your upline, some may be unfortunately un-supportive and may not act on these impulses, but will rather remain complacent and develop clay feet, notwithstanding. In this circumstance you need to move on, instead of being discouraged because this is your business and no one is going to make your business terrific but you. So seek other avenues for support like other upline members, forum, Ask SC, a2a etc.
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