Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thanks for this question.

When we joined SFI, we started it as an Affiliate. Step by Step we were able to learn many things through LaunchPad, SFI Basics, Up line, Forum, etc. Soon we were able to achieve something, reach the next level leadership positions and to this day, we keep growing.

As long as we have this seeking spirit we can learn, we can grow and we can achieve things.

But if we miss the " initiative ", we will only end up on the losing side.

Same way, we can help our Team to the best of our abilities, using our knowledge and experience.

But if any of them is not willing we can do nothing.

Without a strong and active Team, we can achieve nothing.

Every one should treat this SFI business as " Business " and pay attention regularly - Every day. We can inspire them through our achievements. We can do anything permissible within SFI norms to help them grow.

I don't think beyond these there is any such thing as helping your affiliates too much. You can take the horse to the Pond. But it is up to the horse to drink and quench its thirsty.

Conclusion:

We can re-visit " How to be an awesome Sponsor " to understand more about building a Strong Team!!!

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Thanks for this question.

When we joined SFI, we started it as an Affiliate. Step by Step we were able to learn many things through LaunchPad, SFI Basics, Up line, Forum, etc. Soon we were able to achieve something, reach the next level leadership positions and to this day, we keep growing.

As long as we have this seeking spirit we can learn, we can grow and we can achieve things.

But if we miss the " initiative ", we will only end up on the losing side.

Same
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

You can never help the right affiliate too much. Some you can't seem to help enough. So find a balance that works for them and for you. Many affiliates want you to hand them the six steps that leads to 5,000.00 a month income in SFI. I can give it to you in 1 word. Work! It will take effort to find what is best for your best. True success does leave clues but my success is just that mine. There success should be just that their success.

I've had people ask me to do the work for them. For those people, politely tell them no. When my affiliates make milestones I reward their effort. When they do nothing they have my support mails weekly and when they are ready they can get more help but it will be based on their effort to reach out to me and not always my effort to do and reach out for them. Let your affiliates grow up to be good strong marketers. If they need your help and want your help they will ask for your help. Otherwise, trying to drag them along is not the way to lead them. This is wasted effort on your part.
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You can never help the right affiliate too much. Some you can't seem to help enough. So find a balance that works for them and for you. Many affiliates want you to hand them the six steps that leads to 5,000.00 a month income in SFI. I can give it to you in 1 word. Work! It will take effort to find what is best for your best. True success does leave clues but my success is just that mine. There success should be just that their success.

I've had people ask me to do the work for
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Affiliate since: 11/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Smart's 49 other Ask SC answers

There is absolutely no such thing as helping your affiliates too much. In a business such as SFI where your success lies in the numbers of active and hardworking affiliates among other things, you have to offer help to your affiliates even if it is “too much” provided you are able to ensure duplication happens in your team.

What you should do to offer help is to your affiliates are outlined below

I. When you receive new affiliates into you team, quickly send a welcome letter to the affiliates by introducing yourself and helping them to navigate the site since the site can be overwhelming to most first affiliates.

2. Encourage them to take the bull by the horn by applying themselves to the business, gentling introducing the fast track 2.0 program to them and highlighting its benefits.

3. Help your affiliates to understand the importance of advertising aggressively both offline and online and if possible help them with their first online advertising campaign.

4. Offer TC Gift certificates, TCredits etc to hardworking and active affiliates as a form of encouragement.

What you should not do however, is to help your affiliates to log in to their accounts and begin to perform their daily, weekly, monthly and other tasks tasks. That will be a negation of the SFI business model.



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There is absolutely no such thing as helping your affiliates too much. In a business such as SFI where your success lies in the numbers of active and hardworking affiliates among other things, you have to offer help to your affiliates even if it is “too much” provided you are able to ensure duplication happens in your team.

What you should do to offer help is to your affiliates are outlined below

I. When you receive new affiliates into you team, quickly send a welcome letter
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 301 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

In order to understand what is too much in helping your affiliates, you’ll need to consider their skills and level of knowledge in operating their own SFI business.

You can categorize them into the following:

- New affiliates

- EA, EA2 (Executive Affiliates)

- TLs (Team Leaders)

Knowing your affiliates abilities, skills and knowledge in the first hand will help you make wise decision in helping and supporting them.

When to help your affiliates?

- Your new affiliates need your guidance and support in regards to understanding first SFI BASICS and doing LAUNCHPAD. They need your constant support especially in their first month as they explore and navigate their SFI homepage.

- Support your EAs/EA2s and TLs in maintaining their status, in acquiring skills of sponsoring new affiliates and in establishing and on building their network.

When not to help your affiliates?

- Don’t spoil your new affiliates by offering them rewards/incentives in their first month just to keep them under your organization. They need to prove themselves with their consistency, determination and commitment.

- Don’t push your affiliates in purchasing products for their sales VPs by offering Gift Certificates for payment, just to fulfill your interest. You’re encouraging your affiliates to rely on you and are counterproductive.

- Don’t offer rewards/incentives to your EA2 and TLs for the sole purpose of accumulating your much needed AVPs in moving up to the next level. If they’re not convinced and understand SFI concept, they’ll eventually leave.

- In building your team, don’t just reassigned affiliates just to please your EA2s and TLs. You’re setting up your organization’s foundation on the sand.

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In order to understand what is too much in helping your affiliates, you’ll need to consider their skills and level of knowledge in operating their own SFI business.

You can categorize them into the following:

- New affiliates

- EA, EA2 (Executive Affiliates)

- TLs (Team Leaders)

Knowing your affiliates abilities, skills and knowledge in the first hand will help you make wise decision in helping and supporting them.

When to help
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Affiliate since: 10/28/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Alma's 21 other Ask SC answers

Yes, there is!

First of all, you need to make team leaders, who will be able to pass the knowledge and good working habits on their own affiliates. They must learn to make their own decisions.
If they lean on you too much, they will never become independent. It is more important to teach them where they can find the help they need.

Second, there are people who are just lazy. Those people simply do not deserve your attention and energy.

I think you must have an individual approach. Some people do need more help than others, especially at the beginning. We all start SFI business with different marketing knowledge, some people are able to make progress faster than others, we all have different personal situations and circumstances, etc. If your affiliate gives his best, then you should too. It is all about the balance between giving and receiving.
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Yes, there is!

First of all, you need to make team leaders, who will be able to pass the knowledge and good working habits on their own affiliates. They must learn to make their own decisions.
If they lean on you too much, they will never become independent. It is more important to teach them where they can find the help they need.

Second, there are people who are just lazy. Those people simply do not deserve your attention and energy.

I think you must have an
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Affiliate since: 10/28/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kurien's 8 other Ask SC answers

Hello Emma,

Let me share my experience with you. I am very new to SFI. Just over 2 months. I got my first PSA recently. This person does not speak good English. I speak his language. Since then I have been on FB, WhatsApp and telephone with him. He is a slow learner. I need to repeat most of the stuff to him. Further, he uses an internet cafe in the small town he lives in to communicate. We are from India.

Sometimes, I feel I am overwhelmed. So what do I do? Do I give up on him. Initially I was over-enthusiastic and did his initial work for him as we were online. Now, it seems to me he is over-dependent on me.

What I am trying to say is we "should" judge the person quickly to decide the amount of time and the extent of efforts we put in for such persons. Now I have only a few downline members to handle. I will drown if I continue to spend this amount of time on all. So where do we draw the line and how?

I now find that multiple chats on FB is a nice medium to get down to effectively handle such situations. We should not give up on such persons.

After all "we can take a horse to the water, we cannot make it drink". SO what I find effective now is to guide them initially then when they seem to become overly dependent, I tell snapshot tasks and follow up on them. I question them as to the whys and keep track. This way I am able to gauge their interest and proceed accordingly.

So my take on your question is Yes, there is definitely a limit to the amount of help we provide. However, "there should be no limit to our availability to hear and guide them in their problem areas".

Cheers.
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Hello Emma,

Let me share my experience with you. I am very new to SFI. Just over 2 months. I got my first PSA recently. This person does not speak good English. I speak his language. Since then I have been on FB, WhatsApp and telephone with him. He is a slow learner. I need to repeat most of the stuff to him. Further, he uses an internet cafe in the small town he lives in to communicate. We are from India.

Sometimes, I feel I am overwhelmed. So what do I do? Do I give up on
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Affiliate since: 02/24/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Derek's 210 other Ask SC answers

The short answer to this is YES. But this will depend on what you are doing to help your affiliates.

Is it just one or two affiliates that you are worrying about or is it all of them.

No one likes to have emails on a daily or even weekly basis if they are not providing useful information to your affiliates.

If your affiliate(s) are not opening or reading your emails then possibly they are being helped too much or they are not getting the information they need to improve their business.

Are you spoon feeding your affiliates and helping them where they should be helping themselves? Everybody likes to receive helpful and relevant information, but they do not like to receive information that is not useful or relevant.

Do you find yourself doing tasks for your affiliates? You should be giving them the information on how to carry out the tasks and not doing it for them.

There will be affiliates who would take advantage if you offer to help them past the information stage. You have your own business to run, and so while you are helping your affiliates you are to a certain extent ignoring your own business needs.

Give information and expect your affiliates to act on it. Don't do their advertising for them.

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The short answer to this is YES. But this will depend on what you are doing to help your affiliates.

Is it just one or two affiliates that you are worrying about or is it all of them.

No one likes to have emails on a daily or even weekly basis if they are not providing useful information to your affiliates.

If your affiliate(s) are not opening or reading your emails then possibly they are being helped too much or they are not getting the information they need to
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Affiliate since: 06/05/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abe's 168 other Ask SC answers

Great question Emma,

Not at all. In fact I would say we don’t do it enough. Even if we do there is no such things helping to much in terms of equipped them with knowledge and give them the right tools to succeed.

I don’t mean you have to do what they suppose to do for them, If you do they will never
learn, and they will never know how to be independent except being dependent and not
having the confident to manage things by themselves and afraid to be a great leaders
but certainly you can help them as long as they need you and till they tell you no more,and ready to get out of your wings.

Believe it or not there were times and still is, I spend 2 to 3 hours helping
One person in a single visit, as my sponsor spent countless hours with me without
tired of me.

There is always new things to learn, life is a learning process, Discoveries, Ideas, Inventions and all other modern technologies flies faster than we can blink our eyes, faster than we can Keep up at them, so having all this to learn one always need someone’s help so don’t feel You are over doing it.

Ask them their progress, ask them time to time their confident level, ask them if they are ready to lead, ask them if they ready to take responsibility, If they do let them do it one step at a time, even then keep helping them and watch out for them, Advise them, correct them, all your effort should be to follow your foot steps to help their fellow affiliates as you did help them.

If you help them limitless , they will do the same, if you do little they will do that the Same as well.

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Great question Emma,

Not at all. In fact I would say we don’t do it enough. Even if we do there is no such things helping to much in terms of equipped them with knowledge and give them the right tools to succeed.

I don’t mean you have to do what they suppose to do for them, If you do they will never
learn, and they will never know how to be independent except being dependent and not
having the confident to manage things by themselves and afraid to be a great
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Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

I believe there is this serious issue that can get out of hand and this is what can happen.

Your PSA will ask you for assistance and it can be monetary or otherwise. You think you are helping this one time but then because you are trying to build your business, you not only invest in your business but allow your PSA to manipulate you into helping out financially. This is helping TOO much!

Affiliates must understand that this is an independent business yet it is not and this is where some affiliates take advantage of their Sponsors.

By all means, provide support to your down lines but do not encourage or leave yourself open to unethical practices.
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I believe there is this serious issue that can get out of hand and this is what can happen.

Your PSA will ask you for assistance and it can be monetary or otherwise. You think you are helping this one time but then because you are trying to build your business, you not only invest in your business but allow your PSA to manipulate you into helping out financially. This is helping TOO much!

Affiliates must understand that this is an independent business yet it is not and this
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Affiliate since: 12/30/2020, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rainne's 13 other Ask SC answers

Yes, in my opinion there is such a thing as helping your affiliates too much. First as a Team Leader it is our responsibility to assist our downline and do what we can to help them succeed; however, on the other hand we don't want to cripple them or give them the impression that we are there to carry the load for them. If you are constantly helping them make EA, you are helping to much. If they don't see the importance of an SO or maintaining EA then how serious can they be. Not having the money is no excuse, there are many free advertising methods they can use to obtain PSAs...are they trying? Of course it's going to take more effort but so what...they're either hungry for success or not. If you are always answers questions for them when they have not read the information, you are helping to much; explaining something they don't understand is different. It's their business and the success of their business depends primarily on their efforts, dedication and commitment. We can guide and direct them but they must do the work. I'm all for sending gift certificates, rewarding with PSA's, TCredits and the like but only to those who have proven their seriousness about SFI. We are instructed at SFI to "work with the workers" this is exactly what I do.

I've learned in the 2 years that I've been with SFI that those who honestly want to better their lives will work their business. Aces are not here for the fast buck, nor are they the kind to appear for a moment and disappear. They have the spirit of an entrepreneur. They ask valid questions and follow directions given, they log in daily, maintain EA and advertise their business...help these ones and you will never feel like you are helping them "too much" because they will automatically do the things necessary to bring success. When you do something for these ones you will be rewarding them and you will feel great about doing so. As long as it feels like a win-win situation you're not doing too much for your affiliates.

I wish you tremendous success with your SFI business. Keep moving forward...the future looks bright:)

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Yes, in my opinion there is such a thing as helping your affiliates too much. First as a Team Leader it is our responsibility to assist our downline and do what we can to help them succeed; however, on the other hand we don't want to cripple them or give them the impression that we are there to carry the load for them. If you are constantly helping them make EA, you are helping to much. If they don't see the importance of an SO or maintaining EA then how serious can they be. Not having the money
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