Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

One thing I have found is that a E-mail from me is often opened where a initial e-mail from SFI ends up in the SPAM Folder on many free mail accounts.

Fact is SFI sends business e-mails in a niche that is notorious for SPAM and has made a lot of enemies over the years out of scammers, cheats, and people who simply didn't follow instructions well enough or long enough to make any money. As a result, until the affiliate logs in and starts their training and gets to the point where they verify their SFI Account and white-list SFIMG.com they may not even see a welcome letter or e-card sent by the system.

Meanwhile I have my own e-mail account on my own domain name and I have zero SPAM complaints and can write content with a score lower than 3 on a 5 scale used for rating e-mail copy as spam or safe. My e-mails almost always go to the inbox and I write headlines that catch attention so sending from my own e-mail address simply makes sense.

I can use a canned reply the same as having a stored welcome letter at SFI to save time but if I know the person from a social network or from the coffee shop down town I can add in a personal welcome that shows I care and noticed it was them too. This makes that form letter less formal and more personal and can be a difference maker in terms of strengthening a working relationship.

Conversion wise I get far more response back sending an e-mail from my personal account than I do from team mail.

Have a great week.
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One thing I have found is that a E-mail from me is often opened where a initial e-mail from SFI ends up in the SPAM Folder on many free mail accounts.

Fact is SFI sends business e-mails in a niche that is notorious for SPAM and has made a lot of enemies over the years out of scammers, cheats, and people who simply didn't follow instructions well enough or long enough to make any money. As a result, until the affiliate logs in and starts their training and gets to the point where they verify
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Raymond's 64 other Ask SC answers

In a word: Absolutely!

Your affiliates need to know that you care about them individually... that they are not just another statistic or another payday for you. It shows them that you care enough about their success to have taken the time to review their profile.

This allows you to get to know them a bit better. You will learn a bit about their background and what kind of experience, if any, they are bringing to the table. You will learn why they joined SFI. And perhaps most important, you will learn what goals they have set for themselves.

Knowing these things allows you to be able to custom-tailor the training, coaching and guidance you provide to them to help them achieve those goals and fulfil their primary reason for joining.

I hope my answer has helped shed a little insight to your question.
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In a word: Absolutely!

Your affiliates need to know that you care about them individually... that they are not just another statistic or another payday for you. It shows them that you care enough about their success to have taken the time to review their profile.

This allows you to get to know them a bit better. You will learn a bit about their background and what kind of experience, if any, they are bringing to the table. You will learn why they joined SFI. And perhaps most
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 255 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

I would say it's a must. But we must be very careful of the content. The gist of welcoming them personally is good but the content of your letter may drive them away and do more harm than good.

To have a good content of your welcome letter use this guidelines:

1. Your objectives is to win their trust and engage them in a conversation. - greet and welcome them in their own language. From their profile you will know where they come from.

You can use online translation of english greetings to their language. Use simple greetings so that it can be translated correctly.

2. Have a short introduction of yourself and your commitment to help.

3. Make them excited about SFI specially on the potentials on making multiple income. Do not give details but always say that you are ready to explain in details if he ask you.

4. End with friendly action-to-do statement and make it easy for them to start. Example: go to your TO-DO list and start earning here's the link https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=to-do_list.

5. Maintain a friendly and helpful tone in your letter.

Some of the DON'Ts:

1. Do not push them, specially to buy. It is not the culture here at SFI.

2. Do not overwhelmed them with so many information. - They are not ready for it.

3. Do not make empty promises or expectation - be true and be honest.

4. Do not make your welcome letter very long nor too short. The objective is concise, short but with substance.
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I would say it's a must. But we must be very careful of the content. The gist of welcoming them personally is good but the content of your letter may drive them away and do more harm than good.

To have a good content of your welcome letter use this guidelines:

1. Your objectives is to win their trust and engage them in a conversation. - greet and welcome them in their own language. From their profile you will know where they come from.

You can use online translation
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 44 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Personalized welcome letter can work wonders when it comes to welcoming your new PSAs and informing them what to expect as a new members of your team.

Start by letting your new PSAs know that their action to join your team was successful and greatly appreciated – give a sincere thank you.

Yes, it is worthwhile to send a personalized welcome letter to your new PSA, most especially when you as his/her Team Leader receive a PSA profile notification. This shows his/her interest in getting started in his/her SFI journey. As his/her sponsor, you should ensure in your personalize message that you’re here to offer friendly guidance and support in a timely manner.

Personalized welcome letters demonstrate to your new PSAs that you value them. As the saying goes, "Win friends and influence people. Your personalized welcome letters will provide useful information and convey the value you put on your PSAs. Make them feel appreciated and needed.

Your personalized welcome letter further cements your brand name into your new PSAs consciousness. Remember, you have an engaged audience and their interest level fades with every hour that goes by after signing up. The sooner you can re-engage your new PSAs, the more likely they are to open your message and click on the links within and most likely also with your succeeding newsletter.

Lastly, sign the message with a personal touch and never forget that a first impression can only be made once!

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Personalized welcome letter can work wonders when it comes to welcoming your new PSAs and informing them what to expect as a new members of your team.

Start by letting your new PSAs know that their action to join your team was successful and greatly appreciated – give a sincere thank you.

Yes, it is worthwhile to send a personalized welcome letter to your new PSA, most especially when you as his/her Team Leader receive a PSA profile notification. This shows his/her interest
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 22 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

It is worthwhile to create welcome letters with a nice personal touch using the the information from their Affiliate Profile. It makes the recipient feel sincerely welcomed and valued early on.

It is also interesting to know what they say about what they want their sponsor/upline know about them.

You can also check the details under CONTACT, to see which country he comes from, and what dialect or language he speaks.

Starting your welcome letter with a greeting popular to a certain country, may endear you to your new PSA. And if you’ve been to his country before, mentioning the place you visited briefly will also add friendliness and warmth to your letter.

A personalised welcome letter will also reassure the new person that it comes from a real human being who owns a real home-based internet business such as SFI.

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It is worthwhile to create welcome letters with a nice personal touch using the the information from their Affiliate Profile. It makes the recipient feel sincerely welcomed and valued early on.

It is also interesting to know what they say about what they want their sponsor/upline know about them.

You can also check the details under CONTACT, to see which country he comes from, and what dialect or language he speaks.

Starting your welcome letter with a greeting
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

Absolutely yes where practicable! This is because one of the most effective welcome letters is to give your PSA a sense of personal attention and understanding. This is one of the very reasons we have the Affiliate Profile which is defined in SFI Glossary as:

"A key component of SFI's powerful personalized training and support programs. Be sure to update and edit your profile to reflect current information about your business, thereby getting the best, most pertinent personalized training from the SFI system. You can access your Affiliate Profile HERE (www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/Profile)."

Source: https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=33072&referrer=search

However, I will not advice you to make your understanding of their personalities the main focus of your first letter because you may put your PSAs under immediate pressure which may back fire, but you may subtly chip in one or 2 personalised aspects like expected monthly income, expected rank within a specified period and type of car. Based on these, you may include the following lines in your welcome letter:

....you have a great ambition regarding your monthly and rank expectations which are very possible within your time specification.....however, you need to work hard, be determined, be persistence and work with me to achieve your desired objectives......as we work to achieve your success, I will be in close contact with you but do not hesitate to contact me if you need any assistance......this is also how you can realise your dream car, Ford Lincoln, but it will certainly not come on a platter of gold, so lets go to work immediately....

Personalised letters are very effective because they address the direct problems associated with or issues peculiar to individual members of your downline, so it is not only necessary to reflect this in your welcome letter, but also important to approach it as a work-in-progress (WIP), required in letters regarding training, assistance and mentoring.

It is important to mention that as your new PSAs get larger, it becomes very difficult to do personalised letters, but may become practicable as the 'fog' settles gradually and you can see who is who clearly among them. I will add that the best time to do personalised letters, where your new PSAs are in droves will probably be when your Movers are established.

One important point is not to be carried away by the information supplied by your new PSAs in their affiliate profile because most of them just complete it without paying attention to or having the understanding of the purpose. As a team leader, you may therefore need to frequently remind your PSAs the purpose and importance of their affiliate profiles in order to be more useful to you, in your attempt to use it for training and mentoring purposes.

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Absolutely yes where practicable! This is because one of the most effective welcome letters is to give your PSA a sense of personal attention and understanding. This is one of the very reasons we have the Affiliate Profile which is defined in SFI Glossary as:

"A key component of SFI's powerful personalized training and support programs. Be sure to update and edit your profile to reflect current information about your business, thereby getting the best, most pertinent personalized
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 428 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

The brief answer to this question is Yes.

Right from the start, when you 1st make contact with your new PSA you want to make a good impression.

For you to be able to sponsor that PSA successfully and for him/her to flourish in SFI there must be trust between the two of you. You need that PSA to know that you are real, that you care and that you are genuine in your desire t for him/her to be successful. If these come across in your welcome letter and if throughout your communications with the PSA these are re enforced, the chances are that you will have an active and serious affiliate on your team. You, both of you, will be winners.

Your welcome letter is therefore very important. Put a lot of thought and effort in your letter and make it as warm and friendly as possible but professional. It must be balanced.

Use their first names in your letter and if possible personalised it even further by including appropriate information they have included in their profile. I would advise against saying “Dear Affiliate...” at the beginning. That’s cold. It says that you are just going through the motion and that you are not genuine. It’s not a warm welcoming letter at all!

Yes, it is it worthwhile. It is important to create individual, personalized welcome letters to new PSAs using information from their Affiliate Profile.

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The brief answer to this question is Yes.

Right from the start, when you 1st make contact with your new PSA you want to make a good impression.

For you to be able to sponsor that PSA successfully and for him/her to flourish in SFI there must be trust between the two of you. You need that PSA to know that you are real, that you care and that you are genuine in your desire t for him/her to be successful. If these come across in your welcome letter and if throughout your communications
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

Creating individual personalized welcome letters to your new PSAs using the information they provided is a great idea. People like to see the personal touch it lets them feel like they are more of a team instead of just another “down-line” affiliate.

There is a small problem with this and that is when you might have a few hundred affiliates signing up within the month. You will not have the time to personally address each affiliate.

If that is the case then send your personal letters to those who are already busy and showing up on your movers page. Be sure to set your “movers” notice up to the top 50 this way you will be less likely to miss a new mover.

Make sure your welcome letter is a little more personalized by using the “~FIRSTNAME~” command in the begging of your letter – in the middle of the letter and at the end of the letter. People like to see their own name when being addressed this action helps to alleviate the “automated” response a little.

One of the things you might do is to take notice of is their language and then send your first letter to them using a translator to change your message to their language. This is a great personal touch that they know for sure it wasn’t an automated message.

Another tool when addressing your new affiliates is to use the “Welcome” Ecards. Send a personal short message to each new member no matter how long it takes. This is a personal touch that stands out in SFI and TripleClicks as a great free tool that is not available anywhere else (That I know of).

Any time that you can add the personal touch to communicate with your new affiliates is a sign of an awesome sponsor.

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Creating individual personalized welcome letters to your new PSAs using the information they provided is a great idea. People like to see the personal touch it lets them feel like they are more of a team instead of just another “down-line” affiliate.

There is a small problem with this and that is when you might have a few hundred affiliates signing up within the month. You will not have the time to personally address each affiliate.

If that is the
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Affiliate since: 12/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lisa's 12 other Ask SC answers

It's nice to have a personalized Welcome Letter and that is possible if you have a reasonable number of people in your down line. It's somewhat difficult to keep up a degree of personalization once your numbers increase beyond a certain point. The idea that we work primarily with our workers leads us to develop a rapport with those whom we interact most frequently.

Of course,the easiest way to do this is to compose your main letter and insert certain variables such as city,or country or name,so that you can have the majority of the main points of the letter composed and then add a personal touch to each.
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It's nice to have a personalized Welcome Letter and that is possible if you have a reasonable number of people in your down line. It's somewhat difficult to keep up a degree of personalization once your numbers increase beyond a certain point. The idea that we work primarily with our workers leads us to develop a rapport with those whom we interact most frequently.

Of course,the easiest way to do this is to compose your main letter and insert certain variables such as city,or country or
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anton's 25 other Ask SC answers

I feel it is always worth it to create individual welcome letters to your affiliates! Unfortunately it is not always possible. Do you not enjoy hearing personally from someone of "whom's" company or club you just joined? I do!
But with SFI, you can often bring on 100's of affiliates a day with their PSA to go program. Therefore it is harder to do a personalized welcome email.
I the rely on both genealogy and the movers page as I do this monthly with a standing order.
I send out a generic welcome letter and invite the PSA's to email me personally with questions.
My letter may be in "updates" for Gmail or Spam if I am not added to their contact list (White Listed)
I look at my movers on the To Do List and reach out to those who are active. I check out their ledger and then contact them.
In Genealogy, I go to the most recent points filter and write those who did not make it on my mover list and write them as well.
I use both instant messages and group mail. Some have joined SFI but bow out quickly. It is my hope that by email, I may change their mind. Instant message can give them a boost and quick advice they can utilize on the site right away.

See you at the Top!


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I feel it is always worth it to create individual welcome letters to your affiliates! Unfortunately it is not always possible. Do you not enjoy hearing personally from someone of "whom's" company or club you just joined? I do!
But with SFI, you can often bring on 100's of affiliates a day with their PSA to go program. Therefore it is harder to do a personalized welcome email.
I the rely on both genealogy and the movers page as I do this monthly with a standing order.
I send
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