The first question I would have to ask here is this: Did you recruit these PSAs personally? That is, did you talk with the people involved, get them interested in joining, and then bring them to your page to sign up? If so, it is much easier to get someone new to commit because, in all likelihood, you already know *exactly* what that particular PSA wants out of SFI and how willing he or she is to do what is necessary to succeed.
If you haven't already done so, you elicit the PSAs' skills and values: If I am talking to a writer, for example, I'm going to be able to show that person how to use the skills he or she has to build a blog, use that blog to promote TripleClicks using affiliate gateway links, and then use his or her time on the SFI site to best advantage. If I'm talking to someone with a passion for crafting, I will encourage that person to list his or her craft products and sell them either as Member Listings or as an ECA store. That will make promoting TripleClicks more personal because he or she now has a personal stake in seeing people come to TripleClicks and will have stronger desire to commit.
If you're recruiting in a more "done for you" manner, such as "PSAs to Go" or any other service or co-op, you have a much harder job because you do not know the PSAs' motivation, nor do you know how they even came upon the ad. As has been mentioned in other "Ask SC" answers, there are even some services through which advertisers are able to offer bounties for sign-ups, which means that a PSA may have absolutely *no* motivation. If you're very lucky, you can still communicate with them early and elicit information from them that will help you motivate them to success.
Beyond that, much of the desire to commit is *internal*--your best methods are to show them how easy success here can be, through your own lessons and your own training. If a person feels success is attainable, he or she is far more likely to stay. It is up to *you* as their sponsor to show them how easy it is to succeed; once you do, teaching them and duplicating your success will quickly follow.
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The first question I would have to ask here is this: Did you recruit these PSAs personally? That is, did you talk with the people involved, get them interested in joining, and then bring them to your page to sign up? If so, it is much easier to get someone new to commit because, in all likelihood, you already know *exactly* what that particular PSA wants out of SFI and how willing he or she is to do what is necessary to succeed.
If you haven't already done so, you elicit the PSAs'
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