Affiliate since: 04/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diane's 76 other Ask SC answers

Forgive me if I am wrong, maybe I interpret your question incorrectly, but this is what I think you may be asking:

By offline, I am assuming you mean meeting a group face-to-face, in person. In which case, that is a great idea if you have a number in your team who are close by enough in location to attend.

Is it a structure you want recommending? And methods to bring people together?

To organise meetings, you could set up a FB group for your team, or a Meetup group, if meetup.com is available to you, or send email newsletters informing of in-person sessions, perhaps on a monthly basis.

You could have a theme for each meeting, e.g. marketing, recruiting, blogging, etc. Do an introductory talk yourself, maybe organise a practical group activity, then invite team members to share their own experiences of what they have found most useful.

Apart from the training side of things, this would be a great social aspect as many self-employed people do find it a lonely occupation, and mutual encouragement and social support would be motivational.

Let us know how you get on (if i have interpreted your question correctly).

Best wishes :)
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Forgive me if I am wrong, maybe I interpret your question incorrectly, but this is what I think you may be asking:

By offline, I am assuming you mean meeting a group face-to-face, in person. In which case, that is a great idea if you have a number in your team who are close by enough in location to attend.

Is it a structure you want recommending? And methods to bring people together?

To organise meetings, you could set up a FB group for your team, or a Meetup group,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, CHRISTOPHER KAMBONDO!

Offline classes and seminars can be organized only if you can get your PSAs in the same location.

If you have a strong team of PSAs in your own country, and/or preferably in the same city, you may think of using offline training.

Even if you have affiliates in other cities within your own country, you may want to consider the implied costs of offline training. You will incur such costs you would not with online training: transportation, finding an appropriate meeting place, and possibly meals and drinks associated with those meetings.

Technology is also available that allow you to hold training when people are in different locations. but such technology is rather expensive and is not widespread or readily available outside of major corporations.

This will limit you though.

SFI is a business that reaches worldwide. Your sponsoring efforts should not be limited to your own country or our own city.

Online webinars and training might be much less expensive and more convenient. For one you may reach a larger audience with less cots.
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Hello, CHRISTOPHER KAMBONDO!

Offline classes and seminars can be organized only if you can get your PSAs in the same location.

If you have a strong team of PSAs in your own country, and/or preferably in the same city, you may think of using offline training.

Even if you have affiliates in other cities within your own country, you may want to consider the implied costs of offline training. You will incur such costs you would not with online training: transportation,
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Affiliate since: 01/14/2013, Power Rank: 499 | Read Sule's 287 other Ask SC answers

On seeing this question, the first thought that came to my mind is the degree of feasibility of training your PSAs offline. I believe you can only do so successfully if all or a very large number of your PSAs are living within your locality. With the nature of SFI and its affiliates programs, I hardly see how feasible that is.

If as your question indicates you believe you can easily assemble very many of your affiliates to a training seminar under one roof, all well and good. In that case, your seminar will take the form of any other regular seminars where you will have to invite and assemble all the affiliates you want to train in one place. In that case, I will advise you to do the following:

1. Find out first from your PSAs who and how many of them will be interested in your offline seminar.
2. If you receive good responses, you can then decide on a date and venue for the seminar.
3. Send out invitations to the PSAs who have indicated interest by way of communicating same to them well in advance.
4. Advertise to the affiliates well in advance what the topics of your seminar will cover.
5. Secure a suitable venue for the seminar preferably in a hotel or events club.
6. On the day of the seminar, be there to personally welcome the PSAs with very warm handshakes.
7. At the seminar proper, make it interactive and be sure the topics are interesting, informative and entertaining.
8. Request feedbacks from participants to aid preparations for future seminars.
9. Open follow-up communications with the participants on the subject matters.
10. Encourage the PSAs to open up communications with themselves as well.

I believe any offline seminar you are able to organize with these tips in mind will achieve the desired results.

Good luck!!!

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On seeing this question, the first thought that came to my mind is the degree of feasibility of training your PSAs offline. I believe you can only do so successfully if all or a very large number of your PSAs are living within your locality. With the nature of SFI and its affiliates programs, I hardly see how feasible that is.

If as your question indicates you believe you can easily assemble very many of your affiliates to a training seminar under one roof, all well and good. In that
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Affiliate since: 07/24/2012, Power Rank: 320 | Read Beverly's 79 other Ask SC answers

I’m thinking you are asking how to hold classes or seminars without using costly platforms like ‘Meeting Burner’.

The only way that I know of to have a totally ‘offline’ class or seminar would be if you have affiliates in the area where you live.

You could set up a ‘Meet up’ group for new SFI people.

Otherwise, you can use Skype, create and use a social network private group (like Facebook,) or create a forum. Most of these are free.

You could also do conference calling on the telephone.

Send lessons by email.

Some ideas to use that are also free are:

1. Make videos for YouTube, Podcasts, or to send by email.

2. Take photos of your site pages or do a power point presentation and use ‘Slide Show’, or send it as an email attachment.

It is really hard to do anything today without using the internet. It is the fastest and cheapest way to communicate.

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I’m thinking you are asking how to hold classes or seminars without using costly platforms like ‘Meeting Burner’.

The only way that I know of to have a totally ‘offline’ class or seminar would be if you have affiliates in the area where you live.

You could set up a ‘Meet up’ group for new SFI people.

Otherwise, you can use Skype, create and use a social network private group (like Facebook,) or create a forum. Most of these are free.

You
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 292 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Before holding offline classes or seminars to train your PSAs about SFI/TripleClicks, make sure that you:

- Inform your PSAs about the classes or seminars beforehand.

- Choose your topics and organize them. How much you’re going to cover

- State the time and venue of your classes/seminars.

When thinking about a good method in holding offline classes/seminars for training your PSAs, you’ll need to consider the following points:

- Keep it interesting
It is vital that you keep your PSAs interest, what important things they need to know, so that they get the most out of your seminar.

- Engage your PSAs during your classes/seminars.
Think of ways how to stimulate and engage them during the session, so that they are not just listening to a boring lecture. The idea here is to get their full attention and leave them with valuable knowledge for growing their SFI business.

- Provide a variety of information sharing methods.
Be creative, do slideshows about SFI or Power Point Presentation on the projector. You can even distribute flyers depending on your topic.

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Before holding offline classes or seminars to train your PSAs about SFI/TripleClicks, make sure that you:

- Inform your PSAs about the classes or seminars beforehand.

- Choose your topics and organize them. How much you’re going to cover

- State the time and venue of your classes/seminars.

When thinking about a good method in holding offline classes/seminars for training your PSAs, you’ll need to consider the following points:

- Keep it interesting
It
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

If you have PSA's within reach it is a wonderful opportunity to build a strong team if you get them together - but make sure you do not do it too often - it has to be an event they are always looking forward to. For instance - once a month would work for somebody like me - but once a week would be too much.

Variety is essential - you can do workshops where everybody can actively participate and they can exchange ideas. Another good way would be to keep your eyes on your PSA's and if you see one of them is doing very well in one area you invite him or her to lead a class and teach the others about that specific thing.

You might find at some stage that your team is losing enthusiasm and interest - that would be a good time to find a success story and do a motivational session.

Talk to your team, find out what they want to talk about and concentrate on that - if they feel like they are part of it all and what they say and feel matters they are more likely to attend.

A more informal / social get together will also be more likely to be well attended - you want to build a strong team that wants to help each other to succeed because they feel like friends or family - so they would not like to just give up and drop the team. They will have each other for support during those times that they feel they are not getting anywhere.

I think you will have great success if you approach this right. Have fun.
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If you have PSA's within reach it is a wonderful opportunity to build a strong team if you get them together - but make sure you do not do it too often - it has to be an event they are always looking forward to. For instance - once a month would work for somebody like me - but once a week would be too much.

Variety is essential - you can do workshops where everybody can actively participate and they can exchange ideas. Another good way would be to keep your eyes on your PSA's and if
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hosting classes, seminars, workshops are a great for 2 simple reasons: 1. you get to know who your PSA's are; 2. your PSA's get to know who you are.

Some ideas are as follows:

Host information sessions on a regular basis. These sessions would be scheduled on the same day of the week at the same location so that members know there is an open invitation to go to a training session to improve and develop their SFI businesses.

Be sure your location is accessible to all your affiliates - you stated that you wish to host off-line sessions so be sure to consider your location. Your location is important as if it is too far to reach, not accessible by transit nor easily accessed by personal transportation you will see participant numbers drop. Be sure to host in places where everyone is comfortable and is able to arrive safely and go home safely.

Offline classes need to have a theme so be sure you prepare each session around a theme so as not to get distracted with off topic ideas. Having a theme for each session will help participants to come prepared with questions or share experiences that fit the theme.

Venue ideas may include a local coffee shop - be sure to ask the manager about doing this as your in-services; local library that has a meeting room that you can book for your meetings; a local community hall that may have space for your team meetings, or even in team members homes rotated on a regular basis.

Be mindful that everyone's time is valuable so be sure to plan your meetings to start and end on time. This is being respectful to others and enables predictability for how long each session will be. You may design each session to be 45 minutes, 90 minutes or 120 minutes. If you see the need to host longer sessions, then be sure to offer and see what participants agree to commit to.

Training is part of the work for SFI so encourage regular attendance from your team members. Achievement does not happen without putting in time to work. Off-line meetings are a great way to support all SFI affiliates who live in the community, city, or near by townships.

One final consideration is to be sure that you ask for feed-back and ideas on what participants hope to gain from attending your off-line sessions. The more meaningful your sessions are to participants the more engaged they will be. Don't e afraid to ask for ideas from affiliates so that each session will truly benefit them immediately after they attend.
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Hosting classes, seminars, workshops are a great for 2 simple reasons: 1. you get to know who your PSA's are; 2. your PSA's get to know who you are.

Some ideas are as follows:

Host information sessions on a regular basis. These sessions would be scheduled on the same day of the week at the same location so that members know there is an open invitation to go to a training session to improve and develop their SFI businesses.

Be sure your location is accessible to all
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi,Thanks for posting this question.

This is really interesting questions.
With so much of SFI&TRIPLECLICKS member advertising online on different website,Search engine,Blog and social media.It seem to be difficult to get Real Active member on our down-line as it looks so simple which the prospect took it surprisingly and complicated which of course is simple plain to understand.
Holding an offline Classes or seminars is really helpful person who are barely Newbie on internet marketing.

I once hold Live campaign which come into real results,Where I teach them every step by step instruction in a simple and Plain instruction.Using online account where I show them How it works and goes further on a big screen with clear illustration.

Yes,Holding Offline Class or Seminars is what I too Suggest and Apply to recruits my down-line,for it is convenient to directly interact again and again with those that join the campaign,offline classes or seminars.

What i would do suggest is to firstly Lunch your Offline Classes to your neighbors,Friends or people of your town who understand your language for I had face so many Language problems with my down-line when interacting and answering to their questions who barely know English.

Good Luck on your endeavor.
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Hi,Thanks for posting this question.

This is really interesting questions.
With so much of SFI&TRIPLECLICKS member advertising online on different website,Search engine,Blog and social media.It seem to be difficult to get Real Active member on our down-line as it looks so simple which the prospect took it surprisingly and complicated which of course is simple plain to understand.
Holding an offline Classes or seminars is really helpful person who are barely Newbie on internet
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Affiliate since: 07/28/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ingrid 's 138 other Ask SC answers

Off line classes or seminars would be for PSAs who live in the same country/area. Seminars are meetings that are intended as a learning exercise for the participants and are not a decision making forum. They are usually led by people with expertise in the subject matter under discussion with the objective of educating the attendees.

Once the date and time have been agreed and a meeting location selected, participants must be advised. Prepare an agenda - a clearly established order of business - and send it out ahead of time to help them prepare. Be sure that all participants are clear on the stated purpose for the meeting. Decide how you will measure success.

The meeting area must be arranged so that people will be comfortable and will be able to see and hear each other without difficulty. Ensure there are adequate refreshments and proper bathroom facilities. In order to get the best benefit for everyone, the group should not be too large. One of the best ways would be to have a projector screen and a PowerPoint presentation. Test the equipment before the meeting starts to ensure everyone can be seen and heard.

Show how serious you are about your responsibilities by turning up for it promptly. Try to stick to your agenda and allow enough time for each item. Greet each person by name and provide an opportunity for persons to meet each other. In order to maintain focus, give people something to look at as well as to listen to. For example, when making a presentation with an overhead projector or making a PowerPoint presentation, individuals may like their own copy of the information you are showing on screen, so that they can more easily follow the presentation.

Include a Q and A segment and end on time. Once the seminar has ended try to receive feedback for ideas or suggestions you can include for the next occasion.

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Off line classes or seminars would be for PSAs who live in the same country/area. Seminars are meetings that are intended as a learning exercise for the participants and are not a decision making forum. They are usually led by people with expertise in the subject matter under discussion with the objective of educating the attendees.

Once the date and time have been agreed and a meeting location selected, participants must be advised. Prepare an agenda - a clearly established order
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Affiliate since: 10/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronelle's 268 other Ask SC answers

I would recommend you send a team email to PSAs, see how many are interested in attending some kind of offline training classes, and what kinds of information would they like to learn more about.

If you get at least 6-8, that would be a comfortable size group to work with. A few more would be ok, I would say no more than 12.

THEN, you would need to figure how long it would take you to put the training presentation together & find a place (school facility, church Sunday school room, etc.) in which to have the seminar. Then coordinate with your group to find out what is most commonly chosen day and time that will work out best for most of them.

Best of wishes for your success with this project!!:))...
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I would recommend you send a team email to PSAs, see how many are interested in attending some kind of offline training classes, and what kinds of information would they like to learn more about.

If you get at least 6-8, that would be a comfortable size group to work with. A few more would be ok, I would say no more than 12.

THEN, you would need to figure how long it would take you to put the training presentation together & find a place (school facility, church Sunday school
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