Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

Actually, there are different reasons why affiliates are inactive in SFI; lack of understanding of the system, lack of time, lack of money to invest, lack of support, language difficulties among others. It is therefore often difficult to understand the exact reason why a particular team member is inactive (unless you are informed) and there is no silver bullet to resolve these problems, but you may adopt the following messages:

1. Ensure you initial messages reveal the exact nature of this business; not a get-rich-quick-scheme, purchasing and investment decision are their discretions and the importance or benefits of logging in regularly.

2. Let them be aware of the benefits of keeping pace with the E365 competition in order to encourage them to be more active, by emphasising that inactivity may result to been eliminated.

3. Encourage them to place advertisements on a regular basis for PSAs, PRMs, and ECAs. Let them be aware that the more ads they place, the more chances of success, to keep them regularly engaged.

4. Tell them the importance of sponsoring and duplication, that if they are inactive they may forfeit their commissions, forfeit their CSAs if they have any, their team may become 'sheep without shepherds'. Let them know that inactivity may beget inactivity, so their team members may have no reasons to be motivated to become active.

5. Commit them by highlighting team contests in your messages and discuss the consequences of missing out on prizes that may be won. You may include that some of these contests have to do with minimum login periods or times.

6. Introduce them to areas of fun like EZ games, especially highlighting the free ones to attract them to the games and tell them how they can convert these fun games into real business opportunity like generating signups and earning commissions.

7. You may also attract commitment by sending messages of the possibility of reassigning some team members to them if they demonstrate dedication and understanding of this business by regularly logging in, doing some work and learning something new.

8. Send messages regarding news, updates and policy changes that are in their favour. Inform them that SFI is always getting better and there have been very positive improvements and increased benefits since they last logged in and that they should become more dedicated in order to benefit from the changes and new opportunities.

9. Include testimonials of successful affiliates, especially those who were once inactive. If you can micro target your messages then you may include testimonials of affiliates from the same cultural and geographical background.

10. Inform them that SFI is presently contemplating the introduction of other languages in forums specially created for affiliates from the same cultural, geographic and language background. Let them know that the benefit of this is to allow for the free flow of information and assistance between affiliates of the same kind, so they should take advantage by registering and participating in such forum.

To conclude, please you need to realise that no matter how well you craft your message, some will still remain inactive, so at a point you need to separate the 'wheat' from the 'chaff'.

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Actually, there are different reasons why affiliates are inactive in SFI; lack of understanding of the system, lack of time, lack of money to invest, lack of support, language difficulties among others. It is therefore often difficult to understand the exact reason why a particular team member is inactive (unless you are informed) and there is no silver bullet to resolve these problems, but you may adopt the following messages:

1. Ensure you initial messages reveal the exact nature of
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Keeping the momentum of growing and expanding your SFI business will depend on how much effort you put in each day and that includes keeping your team up-to-date on the goal of your whole team. As their Team Leader, you need to not only maintain your connection with them but most especially strengthen your relationship with them. Being a good example and maintaining close contact with your team are very effective in preventing them to become inactive.

How do you accomplish this? As I have already mentioned above, the most important message you can convey to your team is your example. Your example as a Team Leader are message in action and action speaks louder than words. If you’re setting an example of logging in once in a while then they will most likely follow your lead. If on the other hand, you possessed dozens of badges such as Top Enroller, Fast-Track member, etc., they would want to become like you.
Here are series of questions that will help you to find out what kind of message you’re sending to your team. It’s very important to answer the following questions honestly in order to see yourself as your team sees you:

- Are you logging in everyday (not missing a single day, if possible) and performing your To-Do List?

- Are you actively participating in SFI Forum and Ask SC?

- Are you consistently communicating with your team by giving your 100% support and words of encouragement?

- Are you actively participating in the EZ games? Are you displaying as a result those attractive EZ games badges?

- Are you employing one-on-one communication with your team? Your willingness to talk to each member of your team in regards to their challenges shows your deep concern and you’re sending a strong message to each one of them of how best you can help your team.

Conveying a message of how deep you’re involve with your team will get them more engage in their journey with SFI.

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Keeping the momentum of growing and expanding your SFI business will depend on how much effort you put in each day and that includes keeping your team up-to-date on the goal of your whole team. As their Team Leader, you need to not only maintain your connection with them but most especially strengthen your relationship with them. Being a good example and maintaining close contact with your team are very effective in preventing them to become inactive.

How do you accomplish this? As I
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Affiliate since: 01/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Fran's 122 other Ask SC answers

Hi Khalida,
This is a good question! I think we all, as team leader, have been trying to prevent our team members from going inactive.
Many affiliates have reasons as, too busy, have to really work and/or learn, or not paid enough money.
Many never consider they are given a paycheck for no real work and have never looked at all the added perks as part of their income. Many are afraid of marketing, because they don't know what it is. I define marketing as advertising, because it is. You must let people know that you are in business and how it works, this is advertising.

Here are some things for you to consider doing:

COMMUNICATE:

NOTE: It's important that you check new PSA & CSA for their language. You can find their language in the message you receive about your new affiliate. If it is not English, contact them in their language or they will not stay with SFI, because they will not know what to do.
Always welcome your new PSA & CSA. Personally, I like to use the E-Cards for this and then
follow up with an e-mail. The e-mail will let you know the new affiliate has given a correct e-mail address. Many sign up with a false e-mail address because, they know they will not come back.
I believe many sign up to see what SFI is.

Make sure to send group mailings to your team every week with new information.
Some important information for New Affiliates is:
1) SFI is not a Get Rich Quick program, but has been around since 1998 and growing everyday.
2) Yes, SFI is a marketing company. What is marketing? It is advertising your business.
3) SFI gives, for FREE, 2 websites, training courses, and tools to market/advertise their business.
To find the training courses go to the black Training tab or: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/
4) Giving them step by step instructions as doing the Start, Basic, LaunchPad, and then doing their
daily actions (the red tabs across).

Sending a group mailing each week to your full genealogy may overwhelm them.
By sending a mailing to a different group on your team each week can help. Here are some examples in no special order:
1) To all the new PSAs & CSAs on your team.
2) To all the Movers on your team.
3) To all the Red Flagged members on the team. This means that they will be purged within 45
days or less. Try to encourage them to come back by explain what they can do to start
working their business. For some tips go to
For some tips on what to say go to "What would be a good e-mail to send red flagged affiliates
to get them active in SFI again?" at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=ask_sc_question&id=1036
4) Send to the whole working team and/or the inactive affiliates on your team.

MESSAGES:
To find ideas for messages and Newsletters, check out these :
1) " Be An Awesome Sponsor" www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor
2) "What Should I Say In My E-mail To My CSAs"
http://csi.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/20955
3) "How to write e-mails that create EAs" www.sfimg.com/Reference/AskGery020207
4) "Ideas For Weekly Newsletters" www.sfimg.com/PopUp/sampleMessages

MOTIVATIONS:
Setting up incentives can help to motivate the team
1) Set up a contest to give a Gift Certificate for those that become EA2 or higher.
You can set it up under Rewards and Incentives on your leader page at:
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/LeadershipManager?tab=rewards
To learn about Gift Certificates (which is different than Gift Cards) go to:
https://www.sfimg.com/Resources/GiftCertificateManager
2) Set up an S-Builder Co-Op or other Co-Op. To learn about Co-Ops go to:
https://www.sfimg.com/Support/index?category=26444&folder=47786
To find the Co-Op manager go to: https://www.sfimg.com/PowerTools/TLCoop
( I won PSAs on a PriceBender Auction that I am sharing, so no cost to my team.)

I hope this is helpful.

May you be Blessed with success.

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Hi Khalida,
This is a good question! I think we all, as team leader, have been trying to prevent our team members from going inactive.
Many affiliates have reasons as, too busy, have to really work and/or learn, or not paid enough money.
Many never consider they are given a paycheck for no real work and have never looked at all the added perks as part of their income. Many are afraid of marketing, because they don't know what it is. I define marketing as advertising, because it
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2013, Power Rank: 2352 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

An important message to communicate is : "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated Day-In and Day-Out." Their small efforts like signing in today could repeat huge benefits tomorrow. They must not underestimate their signing in to SFI.

You will know by an affiliate's performance whether he/she will become inactive. After 5 days of not signing in and no standing order, I will be concern. I will send communicated messages with offers of help to motivate and bring them back.

If an affiliate, on the other hand, has been signing in every day, I will not be concerned about inactivity. Your goal is to keep them motivated so they can grow up the ladder of success.
- Motivate them with team mails and stream posts
- Recognize their achievements
- Offer to help if you think there is a problem
- Be there to assist when they call for help
- Reward them for accomplishments
- Advise them not to ignore the small efforts of being there

Be an awesome sponsor and watch for the signs that they may of become inactive.
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An important message to communicate is : "Success is the sum of small efforts repeated Day-In and Day-Out." Their small efforts like signing in today could repeat huge benefits tomorrow. They must not underestimate their signing in to SFI.

You will know by an affiliate's performance whether he/she will become inactive. After 5 days of not signing in and no standing order, I will be concern. I will send communicated messages with offers of help to motivate and bring them
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Affiliate since: 07/24/2012, Power Rank: 8 | Read Beverly's 79 other Ask SC answers

Great question!

The most important message to convey is to show you care. Try to get to know them personally. You can do this by email and/or e cards on a regular basis. If they want to Skype, that's okay, but don't spend too much time. Remember that you are their role model. If they think they have to spend a lot of time in conversation, they may give up. Instead, show them how much fun it can be playing free games and earning at the same time. Be excited yourself and share your own successes!

Experience over the past nearly 3 years in SFI has shown me that I need to keep in close contact with affiliates who contact me asking for help and direction. Once they get started it's important to keep a close watch on their progress so you can offer tips for the best game plan for them. Check their profile and ask them questions. Encourage them with any and all successes.

Some things that you need to know about your affiliates are:

- their ability to financially have a standing order.
- time available to spend on their SFI business and TripleClicks.
- their ability to follow your directions.
- desire to earn income fast and/or long term.
- commitment and perseverance

Tailor your leadership to each individual and send out regular team mail to help them all succeed. Show them things that are available on their SFI site for self-instruction. When they become a Team Leader themselves, they will need to know where to find answers, so start to wean them once they've been in the business a few months and are making progress.


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Great question!

The most important message to convey is to show you care. Try to get to know them personally. You can do this by email and/or e cards on a regular basis. If they want to Skype, that's okay, but don't spend too much time. Remember that you are their role model. If they think they have to spend a lot of time in conversation, they may give up. Instead, show them how much fun it can be playing free games and earning at the same time. Be excited yourself and share your own successes!

Experience
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Affiliate since: 01/04/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read David's 87 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion:

1- I would be honest and open with them. Let them know what SFI is all about and what it is not. It is not a "get rich quick" scheme. It is a legitimate business, team building opportunity.

2- Don't push your team members to purchase items so that you can gain commissions. Give them the options they have available to them if they can invest money or not.

3- Lead by example. If you are going to ask your team members to do a set of actions, make sure you, yourself are willing to do this as well.

Lastly, be there to assist them when they ask for help. Nothing discourages a teammate more than when they ask for help and get none. Simple fact is, if they don't succeed, we won't.

If you are doing everything you can to help guide your team members to be successful, then it is up to them to put the advice given in to action.

I hope this helps. I wish you all the success.
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In my opinion:

1- I would be honest and open with them. Let them know what SFI is all about and what it is not. It is not a "get rich quick" scheme. It is a legitimate business, team building opportunity.

2- Don't push your team members to purchase items so that you can gain commissions. Give them the options they have available to them if they can invest money or not.

3- Lead by example. If you are going to ask your team members to do a set of actions,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thanks for this question.

Please keep telling your Team Members:

1. SFI Rules of Success i.e

- Become and Remain an EA every month;
- Introduce 5 strong and active PSAs;
- Help them to duplicate the above.

2. Patience, Perseverance and Duplication are key factors for every one to become successful.

The above two are, other wise inter related. As much as you keep explaining and reminding your team members about these, they will remain focused. They will never become inactive.

Conclusion:

a) Please continue to inspire them with your successful performance. Ultimately, all said and done, it is your achievements that can keep them going.

b) A leader has to lead by his own example. When you set an example, your team members will certainly follow.

c) Please do remember: A Winner has a huge following and a loser will have none including his shadow.




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Thanks for this question.

Please keep telling your Team Members:

1. SFI Rules of Success i.e

- Become and Remain an EA every month;
- Introduce 5 strong and active PSAs;
- Help them to duplicate the above.

2. Patience, Perseverance and Duplication are key factors for every one to become successful.

The above two are, other wise inter related. As much as you keep explaining and reminding your team members about these,
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 427 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

I believe that they become inactive because of mainly two reasons - they fail to see their potential in SFI and also they are not hungry enough for financial success.

Because of these two reasons, they give up when they don't seem to be getting a head such as - not earning a bigger income, not recruiting affiliates, not retaining them, not making sales etc.. These tend to knock their self confidence and they start thinking that they are wasting their time at SFI. They fail to see their potential. They fail to see and doubt that they can success in SFI.
If they are really hungry for success, to secure a financial future for themselves and their loves ones they may not give up and become inactive. They are most likely to stick with SFI and persevere with it.

The nature of my messages to them therefore is always the same. I encourage them to stay active by - urging them on, coaching them, acknowledging their successes, encouraging them to set their business goals and strive for them, giving them tips of what to do - anything that would keep them motivated and also help them in building their businesses. Let them know that I care for them and that I would help them with their businesses wherever possible. I tell them about other members successes, my successes and lead them by examples.

The idea is to motivate them and to build up their self confidence so that they will persevere and not become inactive.


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I believe that they become inactive because of mainly two reasons - they fail to see their potential in SFI and also they are not hungry enough for financial success.

Because of these two reasons, they give up when they don't seem to be getting a head such as - not earning a bigger income, not recruiting affiliates, not retaining them, not making sales etc.. These tend to knock their self confidence and they start thinking that they are wasting their time at SFI. They fail to see their
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 254 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

Most of the people in our team will be inactive whether we send our most important message or not BUT these question is about our message that could possibly cause our active affiliates to become inactive.

I want to direct the question to me and share what will make me inactive as active member of SFI if I receive a message from my sponsor.

1. I will be inactive if I don't see any hope that I can earn from SFI.

So in return, therefore my most important message is to show how one can earn from SFI and also lay down what it will cost to earn. I will not give them false hope but what is the reality of earning from SFI.

2. I will be inactive if I feel cheated.

Some sponsors will just push and push their affiliates to buy without explaining the connection of buying to their earnings. Simply because sponsors will just like to earn the commission without helping the affiliates understand that without finding affiliates earning VP or ranks has very little significant in the earnings.

Therefore I will be as honest as I can in my message.

3. I will be inactive if I receiving wrong or confusing information from my sponsor.

Therefore I will be as accurate as I can in my message.

My most important message therefore to my active affiliates that would hopefully prevent them from becoming inactive is telling them honestly how they can earn from SFI. What does it takes to earn and what is expected of them to earn.
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Most of the people in our team will be inactive whether we send our most important message or not BUT these question is about our message that could possibly cause our active affiliates to become inactive.

I want to direct the question to me and share what will make me inactive as active member of SFI if I receive a message from my sponsor.

1. I will be inactive if I don't see any hope that I can earn from SFI.

So in return, therefore my most important message is
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2013, Power Rank: 530 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

In my short stay with SFI I have started earning a "real" income, I would say almost immediately. What I mean is that my first paycheck came in as soon as I enrolled a PSA who became active with a Standing Order.

I would say that building an active downline would be the idea you would have to ingrain into your new PSAs and CSAs as you get to know them. We are told consistently that you do not have to have a Standing Order to succeed in SFI but my view is that your business will take off much faster if you do.

When your team members (Level 1) are leading a team of active members, the chances of your Level 1 members becoming inactive is minimised because they are earning $7.95 commission from 1 active individual who has a standing order or has qualified as EA2.

For anyone who sees that the income can be earned online, the chances of them becoming inactive will be significantly reduced. Of course this is one income stream but you have the opportunity to explore various other income streams within SFI and TripleClicks that will earn money for you and your downlines - once the cash flows who will want to become inactive?
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In my short stay with SFI I have started earning a "real" income, I would say almost immediately. What I mean is that my first paycheck came in as soon as I enrolled a PSA who became active with a Standing Order.

I would say that building an active downline would be the idea you would have to ingrain into your new PSAs and CSAs as you get to know them. We are told consistently that you do not have to have a Standing Order to succeed in SFI but my view is that your business
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