Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 55 | Read George's 87 other Ask SC answers

Most network marketers I talk to start with the impression that they need more prospects in their program.

Whether it’s getting them from a lead company or through their own promotions, the problem in their mind is that they simply don’t have enough prospects - or even the right “quality” prospects.

And while having more prospects is usually better than not having enough... it is not the solution.

This misconception leads a lot of marketers into some big mistakes - like thinking that network marketing is simply a numbers game.

You see... there are many many marketers who generate an awful lot of leads - often at great cost - only to find that they are not much better off in recruiting than they were before they invested their life savings or maxed out their credit cards.

What’s missing is probably the most important part of any network marketing business.

And ironically it also seems to be the least talked about by up-lines, so called guru’s and even network marketing companies themselves.

Understand that any ad campaign that you begin today takes an average of 90 days for impact. From a marketing campaign’s inception to it’s conclusion and success is 90 days. And ironically enough, most internet marketers are long gone before the 90 day mark. Do not jump from project to project but stick to it.

Why is it so important to stick to it? Because network marketing is about relationship building. It is building your network of trusted relationships. And that will not happen on a one shot deal. You need to be building it.

You build it through continuity and value.

Marketers refer to a sales funnel. You place raw prospects in the top and quality affiliates come out the bottom. Most marketers tell you, “It is a numbers game.” The more you stuff in the top of the funnel the more that pop out the bottom. The more people you talk to the more customers you will get. It is not true.

A sales funnel is the process of identifying who I should be talking to. Too many out the bottom and I can't keep up. I cannot engage people individually and meaningfully. And too much time stuffing more and more in the top and I cannot invest at all in the fine people who are genuinely interested.

Most PSAs are not Affiliates but prospects. They are not confident or trusting of SFI as an organization or of you as their sponsor. You must build trust and they must feel confident that they can work and succeed here at SFI. I believe that happens even before the prospect becomes and affiliate.

So one off advertising, buy affiliates or massive traffic to your website is not the answer. You must build your list. You must cultivate each and every prospect on that list, developing people ready and willing to engage with purpose and energy in the SFI opportunity.

Social media is a source of people with whom we have a relationship. But I believe the best tool available for building and cultivating our list is an email auto responder. Email campaigns that help people with valued content building qualified prospects who participate in our business.
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Most network marketers I talk to start with the impression that they need more prospects in their program.

Whether it’s getting them from a lead company or through their own promotions, the problem in their mind is that they simply don’t have enough prospects - or even the right “quality” prospects.

And while having more prospects is usually better than not having enough... it is not the solution.

This misconception leads a lot of marketers into some big
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Affiliate since: 12/21/2013, Power Rank: 2897 | Read Sunildatt's 150 other Ask SC answers

Hi Anela,

While answering your question we should know what approach you have adopted.

If you are advertising your gateways , are you using a specific gateway or all? If only one gateway is being used right now, you should try changing the gateway and try to advertise using more than one gateway.

If you are focusing on personal meetings with Prospective Affiliates, try to have a role play before meeting a prospective affiliate.

Change the classifies site where you have been advertising till now.

Change the category of the advertise. For example if you are advertising till now in part time job , try advertising in Business category.

Are you advertising on monday to thursday only in online sites? Probably you should change it to Friday , saturday , sunday so that more people interested in part time income might look at your ad.

So the point is whatever you have been doing now for attracting new affiliates is NOT ENOUGH and probably NOT Placed/ Timed properly. In case of Personal promotion if you have been approaching strangers, approach them at different place than where you have been approaching. Like if you have been approaching them out side a train station, may be try for a week in a new social club. Change the place week by week. You can also try approaching your Email contacts, family members, relatives , friends etc.

There are so many ways still AVAILABLE for you to Promote SFI. Do not get discouraged. One day will be yours.


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Hi Anela,

While answering your question we should know what approach you have adopted.

If you are advertising your gateways , are you using a specific gateway or all? If only one gateway is being used right now, you should try changing the gateway and try to advertise using more than one gateway.

If you are focusing on personal meetings with Prospective Affiliates, try to have a role play before meeting a prospective affiliate.

Change the classifies site
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I would suggest going back through the lessons for review.

Then look at the SFI suggested ads.Next cloak your links you are advertising.Trim
shorten, and space your few sentences in your ads.

You have just a few seconds to get their attention.

Ask yourself, do you read long ads?

Next,do you see loads of SFI ads at the places you advertise? Look around for new places every week.There are thousands of businesses and you need to make your ads stand out from the rest.

If your referrals are quitting after 2 months,better ask what they are unhappy about.
EA2 is a nice goal for those with low income.

Try talking to local people.Look for people who use cell hones in public places.If they are playing games,Tripleclicks might be a good option for them.

People who spend 6 hrs. on Facebook need to look at SFI.




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I would suggest going back through the lessons for review.

Then look at the SFI suggested ads.Next cloak your links you are advertising.Trim
shorten, and space your few sentences in your ads.

You have just a few seconds to get their attention.

Ask yourself, do you read long ads?

Next,do you see loads of SFI ads at the places you advertise? Look around for new places every week.There are thousands of businesses and you need to make your ads
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Affiliate since: 03/22/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sandra's 23 other Ask SC answers

The first thing that you should determine not to do is this: Don't quit. Below I give five steps to put your business into a new gear:
1. Evaluate what you have done so far based on what SFI recommends for the success of your business. Ask yourself these questions and answer them honestly- Have I been logging on every day and doing my actions? How many of the ideas have I implemented from the Launchpad Lessons? Have I revisited SFI Basics often enough and followed the clear steps? How many of the SFI Rules of Success do I know and hoe many have I put into action?

2. Write down a clear plan of action. State you goals for the next 3 months. Identify the activities to achieve your goals. For example, take out a Standing Order, buy into S-Builder Co-op. Kick start your success with PSAs to Go.

3. Communicate with your Sponsor and Upline Members. Start talking to your a2a friends and post something at the Forum. This is your business. Get involved and get to know other people in the business and what they are doing to succeed.

4. Have fun. Play T-Time, Time Machine and KO Trivia.

5. Keep evaluating. Many of the successful affiliates did not achieve success in the first year. But they stuck with it, working their business everyday until success comes.

Your success will come.
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The first thing that you should determine not to do is this: Don't quit. Below I give five steps to put your business into a new gear:
1. Evaluate what you have done so far based on what SFI recommends for the success of your business. Ask yourself these questions and answer them honestly- Have I been logging on every day and doing my actions? How many of the ideas have I implemented from the Launchpad Lessons? Have I revisited SFI Basics often enough and followed the clear steps? How many of
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, Aneta Celebic!

There are many ways to approach sponsoring.

Which ones have you been using?

There basically two things you may want to do, just based on the information you are giving.

1. Fully evaluate your sponsoring, advertising and marketing strategy, plan and tactics

2. Call upon your upline for help and guidance.

A. A Full review of your Approach will be highly beneficial.
There may be many ideas that you have not implemented
There also may be ideas you tried to implemented but did not approach them the best way possible.
There may be idea you have not used at all.

However, it is not easy for anybody else to know what you have been doing and to give you specific actions to improve it.

1. The first test you may want to run is in relations with the sales, marketing, and sponsoring modules outlined by SFI

2. The second test is to seek help from your direct sponsor and co-sponsor. They have access to your VP Ledger and you can share with them the details of your sponsoring and business development efforts.

B. Reach out to your upline
In addition to your Sponsor and Co-sponsor, you have your upline up to those who were with SFI from the start.
Call upon them for inspiration and help.

If you do the above, good idea and actions may come out of your efforts to jump start your business.

Good luck
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Hello, Aneta Celebic!

There are many ways to approach sponsoring.

Which ones have you been using?

There basically two things you may want to do, just based on the information you are giving.

1. Fully evaluate your sponsoring, advertising and marketing strategy, plan and tactics

2. Call upon your upline for help and guidance.

A. A Full review of your Approach will be highly beneficial.
There may be many ideas that you have not
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Affiliate since: 08/16/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lureita's 23 other Ask SC answers

If what you are doing isn't working then try something else. Talk to your up-line, contact sucessful A2A friends and ask them for ideas. There are so many people here that are more then willing to give you tips and advice. All you have to do is reach out, which is apparently what you are doing here.

While you are seeking the advice from others here at SFI, also have them recommend some good books to you that will teach you different methods for attracting new affilifates.The more you show people that you are trying to help yourself the more willing people are willing to help you.

Most importantly hang in there and keep trying. Your ship will come in when you least expect it and you will be so thankful you didn't give up.
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If what you are doing isn't working then try something else. Talk to your up-line, contact sucessful A2A friends and ask them for ideas. There are so many people here that are more then willing to give you tips and advice. All you have to do is reach out, which is apparently what you are doing here.

While you are seeking the advice from others here at SFI, also have them recommend some good books to you that will teach you different methods for attracting new affilifates.The more you
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Attracting -recruitment of affiliates is not an easy part of our work with SFI but can successfully be done.

Since I do not know what you have done thus far I can only make a general listing of ideas; hopefully something will generate an idea or two for you:

Focus on what you hear from people around you. Comments from people usually will disclose to you who he or she is and what likes and dislikes are. Once you hear a comment/story that may be used as your introduction to recruitment - do it.

S-builder Unit/s- purchase when you can from SFI on the TripleClicks store. This product is excellent and all the heavy lifting for recruitment is done for you. You simply need to follow up with affiliates to support their own efforts with their SFI business.

Purchase recruitment services from ECA's listed on TripleClicks.

Purchase coaching services from ECA's listed on TripleClicks. Coaching services provide 1 - 1 support to affiliates to work on skills or areas that are a challenge when owning your own SFI business. There are several to choose from and all produce results.
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Attracting -recruitment of affiliates is not an easy part of our work with SFI but can successfully be done.

Since I do not know what you have done thus far I can only make a general listing of ideas; hopefully something will generate an idea or two for you:

Focus on what you hear from people around you. Comments from people usually will disclose to you who he or she is and what likes and dislikes are. Once you hear a comment/story that may be used as your introduction to recruitment
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

I don't know your approach so I can't say for sure what the cure is.

Most of the time the approach will have one of two needs. It will need Time to take hold and begin showing results from consistent application, or it will need minor adjustments until it's fine tuned. That is unless you are using bad tactics like Spamming Facebook Groups or using traffic exchanges because simply put you do more damage than good to your business with SPAM and TE's give horrible results.

Best advice is to adjust your approach to focus on capturing contact details and doing live follow-up with every prospect, instead of sending them directly to your gateway. If you can contact and work with your prospects you will breed a better crop of workers who are motivated by that personal connection and close support.

If you are posting classifieds ads have contact details for more information instead of a link saying go here join that. You will gain more respect and build strong business partnerships plus you gateway is never blocked for SPAM because you simply don't post it to the website to begin with.

Learn to network and add value to your social media community pages instead of dropping ads then leaving. Spam the group and they'll Spam you.

When possible learn to implement paid advertising campaigns and laser target the people you really want in your team. Aim for quality over quantity when given the opportunity to choose.
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I don't know your approach so I can't say for sure what the cure is.

Most of the time the approach will have one of two needs. It will need Time to take hold and begin showing results from consistent application, or it will need minor adjustments until it's fine tuned. That is unless you are using bad tactics like Spamming Facebook Groups or using traffic exchanges because simply put you do more damage than good to your business with SPAM and TE's give horrible results.

Best
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Affiliate since: 07/19/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Chrystina's 43 other Ask SC answers

Yes, not all approaches work for everyone. It may not actually be your approach that is flawed, it may be others reaction to your efforts that is not working.

For instance, if you hold a contest rewarding free child toys for winners...but, hold your contest at a retirement home, filled with those not interested in toys, it would not be your approach that is not working, but rather those that you are approaching that have no interested in what you have to share.

If people are interested, they will want to be an affiliate with SFI, if they are not interested, they will not.

Either way, do not be afraid to share the SFI experience with everyone. This is a great opportunity, since it never obligates others to buy, anything.

Also, even if you were to hold a contest for free toys at a retirement home...I am sure someone there would enter to win free toys...after all, they could have children in their family that would enjoy toys...

But, just because you pick the retirement home that is filled with people with no interest in free toys, does not mean this approach is flawed...people will still eventually be interested if you do not give up...but, it would be best to go to pre-schools, child day cares, nursery schools, and places better to accept free toys.

The same is true for SFI, a FREE to earn while you earn, business opportunity.

Reach out, with any approach you feel comfortable with, but...know your audience, well. It is also wise not to advertise a business opportunity at a retirement home, because it is not often these are the ones that wish to go back to work...but, maybe, you may reach a few staff workers there.

Be sure that your approach is flawed, and not those you are approaching, instead.

If you still believe it is your approach, try encouraging others to approach you, instead...wear SFI shirts, hats, and other merchandise encouraging others to approach you to answer questions, put a bumper sticker on your car and always keep business cards, and/or gift cards available.

Look mostly for business oriented, and like-minded people to approach. These are mostly the ones that will be interested. Place flyers at colleges, libraries, Laundromats, apartment buildings, and other places where people like to learn and read. Those that learn to earn while they earn, are likely readers like people at libraries, colleges, and other places like this.

As long as you are approaching people, it really does not matter how much you think it may be flawed...with practice, you will gain experience, and no longer feel like the approach is flawed.

Never give up on approaching others with the SFI Opportunity.

Best Wishes
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Yes, not all approaches work for everyone. It may not actually be your approach that is flawed, it may be others reaction to your efforts that is not working.

For instance, if you hold a contest rewarding free child toys for winners...but, hold your contest at a retirement home, filled with those not interested in toys, it would not be your approach that is not working, but rather those that you are approaching that have no interested in what you have to share.

If people
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 16 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

I am not sure what to tell you because I don't know what your approach has been to attracting new affiliates. However, It may be well for you to go back to the marketing area and study all of the information on the marketing tools that have been put in place. Start with the Beginner Marketing Aids. Try the advertising co-ops. S-Builder is a good place to start. There are also some very good co-ops at TripleClicks that you can join. When you join them, create a co-op with the Co-Op Manager and use that tool to the fullest extent possible. Then begin to use the eCards and gift cards and the other tools that are available, like banners, shirts, mugs, mouse pads, car signs, text ads in your email signature, etc.

The point is that you have to use a number of tools to advertise your business, because you never know which one will work best. It's just like planting seeds. You have to plant many seeds, and you have to plant more than one kind of seed. The reason is that you don't know which ones will grow or how the harvest will turn out. Just remember to stay the course.

Even animals have to be patient. Eggs are often crushed or do not hatch for many reasons. The young ones are often captured and killed. The animals often have to reproduce in large numbers because of these challenges. It's the same with advertising.

I hope this gives you some help.
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I am not sure what to tell you because I don't know what your approach has been to attracting new affiliates. However, It may be well for you to go back to the marketing area and study all of the information on the marketing tools that have been put in place. Start with the Beginner Marketing Aids. Try the advertising co-ops. S-Builder is a good place to start. There are also some very good co-ops at TripleClicks that you can join. When you join them, create a co-op with the Co-Op Manager and
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