When new affiliates joined my team, I’m very much excited. I send them my welcome message right away. I get my new PSAs through my website/blog. S-Builder Co-op and through purchase from ECAs.
I have been in that situation, where some of my PSAs were very much active in their first month then gradually slow down becoming less active. Some of them have maintained their EA status every month and moved up to TL rank. I have experienced from this group of most active affiliates after attaining the TL rank stopped logging in and became inactive. I have been closely working with them (they’re my movers).
I felt sad for not seeing them in my Movers tab and Genealogy. I would like to be a part of their success and to see them experience the fruits of their labor as they grow their SFI business. We have been keeping in touch at least two to three times a week. We motivate and encourage one another, even though we were separated thousands of miles from one another, yet we have established trust in our relationship and became close.
I’m going to answer your question based on my experience. What do you do about PSAs that start off great but then suddenly become completely inactive?
- Your course of action will depend on your PSAs situation.
From the day your new affiliates signed up under your team, your messages, which include welcome message, weekly support messages should focus on building and establishing trust between you and your new affiliates. By doing that, your PSAs will most likely share both business and life challenges. In my experience, I was able to find out the following reasons why some of my TLs stopped logging in.
1. Coping with illness, including close relatives
2. Career change.
3. Additional responsibilities and obligations in the family making it difficult to invest time with SFI.
- Have a positive attitude. Don’t try to push your luck in changing other’s opinion. Set a good example instead.
When your active downline suddenly become inactive because life has got in the way for them – what do you do?
When you’re trying to set up a blog and your widgets or plugins or apps just won’t work properly, or you’re trying to do something that you just don’t understand – what do you do?
When your children or family need you or when your job is very tiring but you know you need to call your leads, do a training or create a blog post – what do you do?
You see what I found out was that the only real difference between me as a success and me as a failure was my own personal mindset, persistence and commitment.
You see when your head is in the right place – the technical obstacles become immaterial, because you just know that a solution will present itself. It always does.
When the leads start to come in, then eventually the income starts to come in too, the self doubt disappears – have you noticed that? It is only when there are very little or no activities of your downline that the self doubt starts to creep in, you start doubting yourself and then finally it cripples your SFI business if you allow it too.
Does this mean that if you just start thinking positively you can just sit back and wait for everything to work on its own?
No of course not. I have worked very hard this year to achieve my goals but having a strong reason/motivation, a disciplined approach to my SFI business, and the persistence to see things through have helped me enormously to remain positive and focused on my goals.
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