Affiliate since: 07/05/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

Let us be realistic and analyse this question deeper. As much as I am able to communicate effectively on the internet and look for information and talk to people about my online business, I am not yet proficient. There are still areas that I am not very competent at in online recruiting and I would therefore concentrate on offline recruiting because this is what I know and I am good at (contrary to what others believe).

I agree that I may be slow when it comes to the numbers I recruit every week because I am adopting offline methods but consider this:-

- I am looking for quality affiliates who will remain with my team on a long term basis (this is where your commissions will multiply) so I would rather recruit 5 people offline and know that these will be active than have 100 who will start being useful but then fade away with time.

- I have the opportunity to talk to people offline near my area and this means that people know me and would trust what I say-it is easier to attract their attention and get them to be self motivated.

Whether it is offline or online, the emphasis should be on having affiliates who are serious about this opportunity and this is where you will decide what works best for you. At the moment, I do not know how to place online advertisements and recruit by this means and until such time that I become conversant with this online method of recruitment, I would rather utilize a method that I am familiar with and that works for me.

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Let us be realistic and analyse this question deeper. As much as I am able to communicate effectively on the internet and look for information and talk to people about my online business, I am not yet proficient. There are still areas that I am not very competent at in online recruiting and I would therefore concentrate on offline recruiting because this is what I know and I am good at (contrary to what others believe).

I agree that I may be slow when it comes to the numbers I recruit
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Both recruiting approaches - online and off-line are beneficial.

Remember each has it's benefits so it is better to consider what is your purpose for recruitment.

If you're focused on networking and connecting to local businesses, then it would be best to perform off line recruitment.

If you're simply looking to have exposure and build an e-mail list for people to receive updates about products or to receive feeds from your updates on a blog site or even use of social media means, then on-line strategies for recruitment will work best.

For promotional work, it is always best to work from the out-come phase and work your way back wards to find the answer to your question about which strategy is best to use for that out-come.

For recruitment marketing, it is of vital importance to consider primarily "to whom" you are wanting to share your message with. Depending on the audience, the "to whom", you will find one method will be a profile fit in comparison of the other.

Each recruitment method works...you simply need to consider who whom you are sharing the recruitment message with and then from that you will begin to develop a clear plan with which (on-line or off-line) approach is best.

Good Luck with recruitment efforts.
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Both recruiting approaches - online and off-line are beneficial.

Remember each has it's benefits so it is better to consider what is your purpose for recruitment.

If you're focused on networking and connecting to local businesses, then it would be best to perform off line recruitment.

If you're simply looking to have exposure and build an e-mail list for people to receive updates about products or to receive feeds from your updates on a blog site or even use of social
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jerry's 4 other Ask SC answers

It is not so important where you recruit as is how you recruit.

With both offline and online, it is important to let people know before they sign-up that there is work, cost and daily effort required. That means this is not a get rich quick plan. This is a real business and MUST be treated as such.

Simply blindly signing up as many affiliates as you can will not bring in an active downline. If people know up front what they are dealing with, they can be more likely to succeed.

Most people think this can only be done offline. It seems easier to get these points across on a face to face basis. However, with messaging, autoresponders and even phones (texting or calling), this is also possible online. It is just a matter of getting the right message out there.
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It is not so important where you recruit as is how you recruit.

With both offline and online, it is important to let people know before they sign-up that there is work, cost and daily effort required. That means this is not a get rich quick plan. This is a real business and MUST be treated as such.

Simply blindly signing up as many affiliates as you can will not bring in an active downline. If people know up front what they are dealing with, they can be more likely to succeed.
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Affiliate since: 05/06/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Dejan's 5 other Ask SC answers

Hello.

There isn't best way. Both are equally good and should be used all the time.

If You know a lot of people in person from your city, town or country that you see all the time, You could easier explain the SFI business and how it works.

Online recruiting (advertising, sharing, posting, commenting on social medias) has more people who will see, but if we look in percents, less than offline recruiting would be interested because they didn't have first hand experience.

Also, leaving business cards and flyers in restaurants or other public places will have almost same results as posting on Facebook or other social medias, the key is lack of first hand experience.

Cheers!


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Hello.

There isn't best way. Both are equally good and should be used all the time.

If You know a lot of people in person from your city, town or country that you see all the time, You could easier explain the SFI business and how it works.

Online recruiting (advertising, sharing, posting, commenting on social medias) has more people who will see, but if we look in percents, less than offline recruiting would be interested because they didn't have first hand experience.

Also,
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Affiliate since: 03/04/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Omorogbe's 9 other Ask SC answers

Both offline and online recruitment are good
For me it depend on where you met the person you want to recruit, before recruiting the person, he or she need to know what SFI is really about during that period you engage the person on conversation on what he or she is getting into.

I still look at it that the offline recruitment is better to tell and teach the person what is been done and how it is been done on a daily base, daily task, marketting skill, bidding, etc.

The offline to me is preferable because of the fact that a lot of people join SFI online believe on different thing and making money in the different scope but see the whole thing as time wasting, and then leave without signing for a long time.

This set of people make 98 percent of non-active persons in the SFI business and they are very difficult to remove from the SFI affiliate, because we always hope they will come back some day.

So I think is better to recruit offline, so when the affiliate starts he or she will be serious with the business rather than have a lot of affiliate under you and they are just they doing nothing.
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Both offline and online recruitment are good
For me it depend on where you met the person you want to recruit, before recruiting the person, he or she need to know what SFI is really about during that period you engage the person on conversation on what he or she is getting into.

I still look at it that the offline recruitment is better to tell and teach the person what is been done and how it is been done on a daily base, daily task, marketting skill, bidding, etc.

The
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Affiliate since: 05/31/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jessa & Jerry's 25 other Ask SC answers

"Better" is a relative term and the answer depends completely on the questioner because if he/she is forward, outgoing, and comfortable speaking to strangers, the answer may be "offline" recruiting.

This style of recruiting will probably be more effective for this type of person because it has the advantage of face-to-face and skin-to- skin contact. That is, you (& your prospect) can look each other in the eye and shake hands which immediately instills a slight sense of intimacy and most often also friendship. If you achieve those 2 things, you are already 1/2 way to "closing the deal". Put them together with sound knowledge about SFI and are able to answer your prospects questions with honest, solid information, and you almost certainly have not just a new PSA, but a future diamond.

If, on the other hand, you are a bit shy, and uneasy meeting people this way, you will most likely be more comfortable and therefore more effective with "offline" recruiting because you can "meet-and-greet" your prospect without being uncomfortable and so long as you are also honest and truthful with your answers to their questions and can chat with them in a friendly and (This is important) anything but arrogant manner or without seeming to be anything but caring about them, you again are 1/2 way home. The downside to this is that convincing them you really do care about THEM usually takes longer and is not quite as solid a "friendship" as a face-to-face contact.

In short, the only "BETTER" in this answer is "Which ever is easiest, more comfortable and most efficient for you!

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"Better" is a relative term and the answer depends completely on the questioner because if he/she is forward, outgoing, and comfortable speaking to strangers, the answer may be "offline" recruiting.

This style of recruiting will probably be more effective for this type of person because it has the advantage of face-to-face and skin-to- skin contact. That is, you (& your prospect) can look each other in the eye and shake hands which immediately instills a slight
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Ify
To know which is the best is to know which one you are most effective in.
What do i mean?
Offline recruiting is multifaceted. It does not go with warm marketing alone or face to face marketing. You can also recruit via magazines, newspapers, flyers, X cards, radio and Tv etc however, they are limited and can't cover wide because it can only cover a national or local region or radii but with the online marketing you cover a wider range and populace but require skill.
How you recruit online will determine the result you'l get. So before you go into the online recruitment. Understudy the following:
1. The audience you want to reach.
2. Skill Accuement
3. Marketing Skill
4. Where you want your advert to reach.
5. Identification of where your audience are.
These are what enables you to recruit online and well.
Online recruitment is the best. You cover both local, national and international radii and make great recruits, having different kind of affiliates from all over the world that can build your SFI business.
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Ify
To know which is the best is to know which one you are most effective in.
What do i mean?
Offline recruiting is multifaceted. It does not go with warm marketing alone or face to face marketing. You can also recruit via magazines, newspapers, flyers, X cards, radio and Tv etc however, they are limited and can't cover wide because it can only cover a national or local region or radii but with the online marketing you cover a wider range and populace but require skill.
How you
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Affiliate since: 04/16/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Darlene's 14 other Ask SC answers

Are you better face to face, screen to screen or both. Test the waters. See what works best for your.

Promoting or Marketing as they call it now days is a trail and error situation. Experiment with various techniques. There are over thousands of them. Some free, some moderately priced, some quite expensive.

Cost can be a common factor in both. Where as offline you can post up flyers, insert flyers in newspapers, book in the library, on car windshields, newspaper ads, many many others which will cost time and money to print. However, it's the least expensive of them all.

Online you can use Traffic Exchanges, Craigslist, Ezines, Free and Inexpensive Classifies, Emails, Social Networks, free to expensive.

It all comes down to tracking the resorts and stick with the ones that work. SFI not only has Marketing Aids and Methods, but touches on quit a few other methods in the Training Section. Of which I myself have obtain quit a bit knowledge on marketing.

It's a great tool should you choose to use it. Persist until you succeed.
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Are you better face to face, screen to screen or both. Test the waters. See what works best for your.

Promoting or Marketing as they call it now days is a trail and error situation. Experiment with various techniques. There are over thousands of them. Some free, some moderately priced, some quite expensive.

Cost can be a common factor in both. Where as offline you can post up flyers, insert flyers in newspapers, book in the library, on car windshields, newspaper ads,
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Affiliate since: 08/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lesley's 11 other Ask SC answers

I think that each individual must play to their own strengths. Some of us are skilled at marketing on the internet and others are very good at talking to people face to face about SFI and encouraging them to join us.

To me, you must develop your own mix of the two - but make your recruitment methods stand out from the crowd. Placing online adverts and handing out flyers in person are two obvious ways to recruit, but what about using both online and offline opportunities in more creative ways? As an example, each e-mail I send out, both personal and related to SFI includes one of my gateway links at the end as a 'signature'. Similarly, I belong to a number of internet forums, (not business oriented), and each posting I make has the same gateway link as my 'signature'. I also belong to a couple of women's groups in the area - one business oriented and the other purely social. In both I adopt the same stance, seeing SFI as my own business and taking every chance, (without boring my fellow group members!), to tell everyone about the opportunities that are available to them.

In summary - Create your own mix and see every interaction, both internet and face to face as an opportunity to advertise SFI. Some people will ignore you, but you just might find your next Affiliate.
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I think that each individual must play to their own strengths. Some of us are skilled at marketing on the internet and others are very good at talking to people face to face about SFI and encouraging them to join us.

To me, you must develop your own mix of the two - but make your recruitment methods stand out from the crowd. Placing online adverts and handing out flyers in person are two obvious ways to recruit, but what about using both online and offline opportunities in more creative
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Affiliate since: 09/21/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gopakumar's 35 other Ask SC answers

Offline and online recruiting are like a 'Play' and a 'Movie'. A Play directly interacts with the viewers (limited number of interested people) and the results are instant. In case of a movie, they have viewers from far and wide, in huge numbers but you cannot see or measure the response of the viewers immediately.

A play's effect has a limited time span, that's you get the response only when the drama or the play is live. But in case of the movie, they release on different part of the world from time to time through various media and you get numerous viewers again and again!

Offline recruiting give you an instant result; either positive or negative (most of the time) and the conversion rate is much better than the online recruiting. You get some quality affiliates, more loyal than unknown online recruits. But if your presentation is bad the result will be fatal, like in the case of a play! The time taken for recruiting a good team is considerably long and the expense is higher than online recruiting. You need a lot of preparations before going to offline recruiting like the rehearsal of a drama or play!

In online recruiting, you get more referrals but the conversion rates are low. In online recruiting you get a lot of freedom. You can edit or change the promotion method, the ad copy, the visual and the media. You can also target a particular market segment or country. The budget may be very low (if you use the free advertising mediums) or higher like a big budget movie. But the results are unpredictable.

Therefore, initially go for one-on-one recruiting (warm marketing) and get a few loyal team members. Then recruit online using the different sources like Social Medias, blogs, websites, online ad services, PTC, PPC, safe-list mailings, etc. Friends and family are a best starting point in this journey!

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Offline and online recruiting are like a 'Play' and a 'Movie'. A Play directly interacts with the viewers (limited number of interested people) and the results are instant. In case of a movie, they have viewers from far and wide, in huge numbers but you cannot see or measure the response of the viewers immediately.

A play's effect has a limited time span, that's you get the response only when the drama or the play is live. But in case of the movie, they release on different part of the
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