An active, knowledgeable, and supportive sponsor can be highly instrumental in helping their SFI affiliate be successful. They will make working SFI easier. They will be forthcoming in providing guidance, help and support. They will initiate contact with their team members and maintain the communication lines open.
As a sponsor, this is what I personally thrive to accomplish with my team members. And it reflects on the ratings I get from my PSAs, month after month.
If you are an affiliate eager to grow your business and build your team, and you have such a sponsor, you can rely on them. You also will need to be proactive: respond to their offers to help, apply the tips they give you, follow the advice they will extend to you, participate in the contests they may organize for the team. If they offer you to be part of their S-Builder Co-op, you should seize that opportunity.
In this situation, you, as a PSA, you will gain by being an active, positive team player. You will benefit significantly by relying a great deal on your sponsor. If you duplicate the same spirit and activity with your own team, you will be successful.
However, not all affiliates have such an excellent relationship with their sponsor.
Some affiliates have to take the initiative themselves to get anything from their sponsors. Beside the weekly team mail, seldom do these sponsors contact their PSAs An affiliate, who finds himself in similar situations, will only have sporadic, intermittent communication with their sponsor, who will only marginally be helpful.
There is also a third type of sponsors: They are not responsive at all to the efforts to communicate and to the requests for support from their PSAs. Such sponsors may not even be regularly active themselves.
I have a CSA whose sponsor told them that he was not in a situation to offer any help at all. Obviously, this affiliate is not benefiting from their sponsor and cannot rely on him. But, it has not negatively affected her success. This CSA of mine has regularly maintained their team leader rank, and is working to grow her business. As a co-sponsor, I offer to her the same support I am extending to my own PSAs.
This is to say that a good, proactive co-sponsor can be a substitute to a sponsor if the latter is not doing his job. It is also to say that, whether an affiliate has a supportive upline or not, the real success comes from that affiliate himself. An affiliate should never depend exclusively on their sponsor. He/she should work to be knowledgeable and resourceful enough to be self reliant.
Many affiliates do not get any help from their upline and still go on to be very successful. They may also draw on the Forum, Ask SC and Technical support.To some extent, this may even be the norm.
For those of us who are familiar with SFI's history and beginnings, we know that President Gery Carson was an extremely successful MLM marketer who had not had any support from his sponsors in his businesses. He still went on to be among the very top producers. Every SFI affiliate should have that mentality and work to emulate that spirit.
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An active, knowledgeable, and supportive sponsor can be highly instrumental in helping their SFI affiliate be successful. They will make working SFI easier. They will be forthcoming in providing guidance, help and support. They will initiate contact with their team members and maintain the communication lines open.
As a sponsor, this is what I personally thrive to accomplish with my team members. And it reflects on the ratings I get from my PSAs, month after month.
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