Affiliate since: 02/16/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philippus's 100 other Ask SC answers

Both Individual mails and Group mails have it's own special place. By sending out both, your PSA’s will realize that you try to get to know and help them on a more personal level as well as guiding the team as a whole.

A. INDIVIDUAL MAIL:

-Individual welcome letters to each new PSA have the purpose of letting them feel real special and welcome in a new and unfamiliar place (All of us have been there). Your downline is like a family and you should make them feel like that by calling them on their name and showing real interest. In this first mail you can advise them on what to do to get started and what they must do in their first 24 hours as a SFI affiliate. Don’t refer too much to the technical stuff. It would just overwhelm them. Just get them started with the basics and inform them that you are always only a message or call away if they ever need help.

-During the next few days check their VP Ledger and follow up with messages to assist them to understand the basics of SFI. Keep it personal and relevant by referring to their VP’s earned so far and what they can do further to earn more by mentioning the actions outstanding in their personal VP Ledger. By doing this your PSA's will see that you are taking the time to get to know them on an individual basis.

-In the weeks and months to come keep communicating with your PSA’s on a personal level, especially to congratulate them on achieving certain levels and winning prizes. That shows them that you are really interested in their well being and are following their progress and that will ultimately boost their confidence.

I know when you enroll a lot of affiliates per day it will be impossible, but what is important here is quality rather than quantity. You can rather enroll a few affiliates and sponsor them properly than enroll 100 and get 1 active because you don't guide them properly.

B. TEAM MAIL:

-Team mail or Group mail must also be used. It’s very useful when you want to share general information regarding SFI, TripleClicks, Wave3, a2a, etc.
-For any information that’s of a less personal nature you can use the Genealogy Mailer or Group Mailer. By doing that weekly will also earn you a weekly 30VP.
-To send quick messages to your whole team about any topic that is not considered as promoting a product or service, but for the purpose of motivating, etc. send out a Stream Post. You can earn another 3VP per week by sending at least 3 Stream Posts per week.

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Both Individual mails and Group mails have it's own special place. By sending out both, your PSA’s will realize that you try to get to know and help them on a more personal level as well as guiding the team as a whole.

A. INDIVIDUAL MAIL:

-Individual welcome letters to each new PSA have the purpose of letting them feel real special and welcome in a new and unfamiliar place (All of us have been there). Your downline is like a family and you should make them feel like that
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Affiliate since: 11/28/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Denise's 11 other Ask SC answers

I believe it is extremely important and worthwhile to send out individual welcome letters to each new PSA. I also sent one out to my new CSA's. Remember this is the very first time you will meet your new team member and you definitely want that first impression of you to be a good one. Also remember that your success in duplication depends on how your new member performs and how comfortable they feel with you to ask for assistance if they should need it.

I always offer some small advice about getting started and most definitely let be aware of the Fast Track program which will help them get off to a good start with VersaPoints and with the badges on their homepage. I do this because I never knew about the program until after the time period had lapsed..

I think everyone likes to feel special and wanted especially when beginning a new venture. Make sure you welcome them by their name not just Hi or Hello! Just remember that this new person might be the ONE that will help you along the way!

Since I can see that you are probably researching this topic by submitting this question so I hope my answer will help you make an educated decision.

My vote sent the letter!
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I believe it is extremely important and worthwhile to send out individual welcome letters to each new PSA. I also sent one out to my new CSA's. Remember this is the very first time you will meet your new team member and you definitely want that first impression of you to be a good one. Also remember that your success in duplication depends on how your new member performs and how comfortable they feel with you to ask for assistance if they should need it.

I always offer some small advice
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Affiliate since: 12/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Christine's 3 other Ask SC answers

I will answer this question by asking another question: Is it necessary to welcome new PSAs at all?
The obvious answer is YES!

Therefore if it is worth welcoming PSAs, then it is worth doing it well, as they say:
"What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well".

So, YES, it is worth sending individual welcome letters to new PSAs instead of group mailings.
It's a more professional way to do it.
Your PSA will feel important to receive a personal letter of welcome, just as you must have felt when you received yours.

It shows recognition, interest and care. It is the first impression you are creating of SFI, and first impression matters a lot.

It is just like gifts, when we personalise a gift, it suddenly becomes more valuable than when the same gift is given the usual way! Why? It's simple, the gift cost the same money, but the personalised one shows that the giver cares!!

There will be plenty of opportunities later on, to send group mails.
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I will answer this question by asking another question: Is it necessary to welcome new PSAs at all?
The obvious answer is YES!

Therefore if it is worth welcoming PSAs, then it is worth doing it well, as they say:
"What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well".

So, YES, it is worth sending individual welcome letters to new PSAs instead of group mailings.
It's a more professional way to do it.
Your PSA will feel important to receive a personal
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2012, Power Rank: 257 | Read Jacqueline's 83 other Ask SC answers

Is it worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSAs...or can I just send out group mailings?


Yes! Of course it is worthwhile to send your new PSA a welcome letter.

You are building up a business and people want to have that personal contact with the one that they are doing business with.

You want to be able to open up the communication line and also you would want to have your new PSA to start having some trust with you.

What I do is, I have my welcome letter combined with my greeting letter, that each new PSA will receive after they sign up under my link. This way, they are not getting too much mail.

I will than send them a Welcome E-Card. I will welcome them into SFI and I also let them know that I am their sponsor and I am here to help assist them.

I also mention about earning the 500 VPs from working the Getting-Started Actions in their VP Ledger and that they can earn the Fast Track Badge and also an additional 200 VPs.

I keep the E-Card short and sweet and direct.

You want your new PSA to feel Special and sending them a personal welcome letter or E-Card you will be achieve that.

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Is it worthwhile to send individual welcome letters to new PSAs...or can I just send out group mailings?


Yes! Of course it is worthwhile to send your new PSA a welcome letter.

You are building up a business and people want to have that personal contact with the one that they are doing business with.

You want to be able to open up the communication line and also you would want to have your new PSA to start having some trust with you.

What I do is,
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Affiliate since: 04/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mary Joy's 4 other Ask SC answers

Hi,

Good Day!

Based on my experience, every time I send GROUP MAIL to my 70 1st Gen-PSAs and 150 CSAs, I never received a single response from them.

Here is what I found out, all messages that I sent to them, they thought those were only notifications coming from SFI corporate email and they tend to read them later. But this does't mean that sending GROUP MAILER in our GENEALOGY page is not effective. Apart from getting 30 VERSA POINTS every week for sending GROUP MAIL to your PSAs & CSAs, this will give you the convenience of sending messages without typing individual email address. This will still depends on YOU on how to UTILIZE the group mailer so efficiently.

And to answer your question, It is really WORTHWHILE to send individual welcome letters to the new PSAs because this will not only establish relationship and create great first impression to your new PSAs but also develop TRUST with them and let them feel the TRUE WARM WELCOME from their SPONSOR and that is YOU.

Here is a sample of the WELCOME Letter to my new PSAs/CSAs that I adapt from Sir David Hurley from his e-Book "SFI Affiliates Success Handbook"

When I started to use below WELCOME Letter and send this individually to my PSAs, 5 of them responded and this really motivates me more to help them whenever they need my assistance.

See below SAMPLE.

Hello,

My name is ___________. I'm your sponsor and this is just a quick note to say, "Welcome to SFI"!

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to contact me either via the SFI message system or by my email.

*** GET ACTIVE - GET REWARDED! ***

I am an active member of SFI and if you also get active, I will help and support you!

If you achieve Executive Affiliate (EA) status with SFI during THIS month, I will add you to my Affiliate Rewards Program.

You may also check my leadership page at http://www.sfimg.com/leadership/SFIID

Hope to hear from you soon.



HOPE my answer is helpful to you. Goodluck!

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Hi,

Good Day!

Based on my experience, every time I send GROUP MAIL to my 70 1st Gen-PSAs and 150 CSAs, I never received a single response from them.

Here is what I found out, all messages that I sent to them, they thought those were only notifications coming from SFI corporate email and they tend to read them later. But this does't mean that sending GROUP MAILER in our GENEALOGY page is not effective. Apart from getting 30 VERSA POINTS every week for sending GROUP
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Affiliate since: 08/25/2013, Power Rank: 74 | Read Oluwasegun's 61 other Ask SC answers

The SFI provides several tools and materials to ease the work of affiliates. So there is a reason why they create both tools: individual or group mailing. As the names implies one will understand their usage.

To answer your question, I will first of all remind you that there is a popular saying in SFI, 'WORK WITH THE WORKERS'. The workers are the movers so it is advisable to use the individual tool in communicating with your movers, with individual mailing you will cultivate the habit of one on one discussion with the workers often.

Through your genealogy or To do List, you can make use of the group mailing tool to send out mail to all your downlines at once. Using this tool will enable you to communication with thousands of PSAs under you at once both the active and inactive ones. Using individual mailing tool here is not advisable as it's time consuming and waste of energy particularly on the inactive ones. I believe this is the reason why the tool is provided in To do List to send out group mail once every week to your PSAs. And under your movers because they are your workers individual mailing tool is provided there for you and not the group mailing tool.

Both tools are OK in sending out mails to PSAs but use them wisely. My advice like I explain above, use individual mailing tool for your workers (movers) and group mailing tool for your downlines. Good luck.
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The SFI provides several tools and materials to ease the work of affiliates. So there is a reason why they create both tools: individual or group mailing. As the names implies one will understand their usage.

To answer your question, I will first of all remind you that there is a popular saying in SFI, 'WORK WITH THE WORKERS'. The workers are the movers so it is advisable to use the individual tool in communicating with your movers, with individual mailing you will cultivate the habit
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Affiliate since: 08/04/2013, Power Rank: 459 | Read Moira's 74 other Ask SC answers

Hello Jovan,

Personally, I prefer individual messages. I have a short welcome letter I send to new affiliates as soon as they arrive, because chances are they will also read my official PSA Greeting, and I don't want to inundate them with too much information.

If many affiliates arrive at the same time, I send them my short welcome message through a group mail, only because I want them to receive it as soon as possible. But if they arrive one by one, I like to send them E-cards with slight modifications to the original welcome message, depending on each individual, to make the message even more personal and appealing. For example, if a new affiliate is from my country, I write the message in his or her mother tongue to make them feel more at home.

If I am lucky enough to catch new affiliates who are still online when I log in, I use SFI chat to send my welcome message and if they answer, I ask them to read my PSA Greeting for more details. In every case I sign my message with my name, SFI rank, Leadership page link and personal email so that they know I am available and willing to help them.

If some new affiliates have already started earning points before I send my first welcome letter, I can modify my message to congratulate them for their specific actions and progress, in order to show them that I am there to support them.
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Nonetheless, there is one very important aspect we must always take into consideration: new affiliates have only been at SFI for a few minutes or a few hours when they receive our welcome message. They may still be undecided as to whether SFI is the right option for them. They may read our message, but there is no guarantee they will answer it.

So don't worry! whether it is an individual welcome letter, a chat message, an e-card or a group mailing, just make sure your initial communication is warm and inviting. Keep it short but with enough information to get your affiliates started on the right track.

I hope this helps!

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Hello Jovan,

Personally, I prefer individual messages. I have a short welcome letter I send to new affiliates as soon as they arrive, because chances are they will also read my official PSA Greeting, and I don't want to inundate them with too much information.

If many affiliates arrive at the same time, I send them my short welcome message through a group mail, only because I want them to receive it as soon as possible. But if they arrive one by one, I like to send them E-cards
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Affiliate since: 01/30/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sheron's 117 other Ask SC answers

It definitely is!!!You must make contact with your new PSAs to start your role as an AWESOME leader/Sponsor.Remember when you first come here everything is new and it sure feels great to know that there is some one there and willing to help you along.It creates a sense of security.Even though you read sometimes it can be a bit confusing so your welcome is way of comforting your PSA stop them from feeling overwhelmed.
You introduce yourself ,Welcome him/her to the team and give an idea of what the program is about and what he/she is about face.In other words the fact that we recruit leaders by duplication.Then you give them a brief run down of what they need to do like earning VP example gaining 500VP in 1st 24hrs to gain the bonus VP and also entitles them to an "Fast Track Badge"about the FREE AVP.Inform him/her about the difference in VP.This also gives inspiration something to reach for. After you have sent your PSA on their way then you can send a team mail introducing and welcoming new affiliates to the team give the team the choice if they want to make a2a friends to really become one.
Take your mind with me the main role or objective of SFI is the form the world into ONE BIG WEB so that we would be helping ourselves and helping each other.The aim of Team is to create a web amongst us and go from team to team with this connection hence that's why we are able to purchase from ECA not referred.
So an INDIVIDUAL Welcome letter is ESSENTIAL any thing less is an EXCUSE!!
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It definitely is!!!You must make contact with your new PSAs to start your role as an AWESOME leader/Sponsor.Remember when you first come here everything is new and it sure feels great to know that there is some one there and willing to help you along.It creates a sense of security.Even though you read sometimes it can be a bit confusing so your welcome is way of comforting your PSA stop them from feeling overwhelmed.
You introduce yourself ,Welcome him/her to the team and give an idea of what
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 38 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

Hello Jovan,

I think it is important to reach out to your new sign ups,
as soon as possible. I use the ECards for this.
I click on their name in Genealogy, then open their VP Ledger
and send a Welcome ECard based on their activity.
Just a quick welcome note, maybe a reminder of the 200 VP bonus
and how to achieve it.
Maybe, mention of a contest or reward.
I follow with a Group Welcome Email to any signups at the end of each day.

While it is a good idea to send a more personalized
Email to your new PSA.
It is good practice to develop a standard, well written,
"Welcome Email" you can use in a group mailing when you
start generating multiple daily sign ups.

I have found, my time is better spent following my downlines activities
with the help of my Genealogy and Movers lists.
I, always encourage, questions or comments in all communications.
I like the idea of being able to monitor and support my team, as often as, needed.
Being cautious not to intrude to much on their activities.
It is one thing to be supportive and another to dominate with your opinions.

We all seek out what works best for us and our teams.
I hope you found this useful.
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Hello Jovan,

I think it is important to reach out to your new sign ups,
as soon as possible. I use the ECards for this.
I click on their name in Genealogy, then open their VP Ledger
and send a Welcome ECard based on their activity.
Just a quick welcome note, maybe a reminder of the 200 VP bonus
and how to achieve it.
Maybe, mention of a contest or reward.
I follow with a Group Welcome Email to any signups at the end of each day.

While
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Affiliate since: 02/06/2014, Power Rank: 99999999

Sending Welcome Letters to New PSAs is a way of showing that you appreciate them and you are there to assist them. I believe it is definitely worthwhile to send individual mail so that you personalise the mail and adress the immediate need of each affiliate as you would have identified by going to their profile and checking how they are doing right from the onset.

However, the practicality/feasibility of sending individual mail can be quite challenging for the following reasons
i) depends a lot on the number of new PSAs you are dealing with per given time
ii) how fast you are on the computer
iii)how much time you have to spend for your SFI business

For the reasons sighted above, I think it is quite in place to send a group mail as a starting point and then send individual mail in due course as you track them.
You will note that SFI has given us formarted letters and guidelines to send out to new PSAs. These are always very helpful when dealing with big groups. then include the persons name in the body of the letter so that they get it more or less personalised.

I hope you find this useful and helpful
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Sending Welcome Letters to New PSAs is a way of showing that you appreciate them and you are there to assist them. I believe it is definitely worthwhile to send individual mail so that you personalise the mail and adress the immediate need of each affiliate as you would have identified by going to their profile and checking how they are doing right from the onset.

However, the practicality/feasibility of sending individual mail can be quite challenging for the following reasons
i)
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