Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

You must understand the job or role of a Sponsor, simply put your sponsor is your teacher. So the job of being a Sponsor is to help you get started on SFI by giving you the SFI basics article but on your part you have to take your time to read and take notes and review until you understand well. So what am I saying? Is that your sponsor can only provide assistance but they cannot do the work for you. So as an example your sponsor shows you how to complete the getting started actions to help you get the first 500 points to achieve fast track but you cannot expect your sponsor to set up the standing order and pay it for you.

So you ask how much you should rely on your sponsor to succeed on SFI the answer should be about 50% and the other 50% should be on yourself.

You should rely on your sponsor up to a certain point as a source of information but the main source of info is all over the affiliate center so you should also use that to teach yourself so don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Did you read the SFI news? I mean did you see the article called "Tap into Your Upline" This means that you don't just get information from your sponsor you should also get in touch with your co sponsor and other members of your upline team because they may have something of value to offer for example they may add you to their advertising coop or they may be holding a contest and you could win something like TCredits, PSA etc...

So remember you rely on your sponsor to teach you and help you get adequate training but do not rely only on your Sponsor you should also tap into your upline team and guess what? SFI corporate can also help you through online support, Telephone or even live chat, but you should also go to the forum to look for well informed affiliates so you can choose 10 of them as A2a friends and you can also follow some of them.

Good luck with your success.
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You must understand the job or role of a Sponsor, simply put your sponsor is your teacher. So the job of being a Sponsor is to help you get started on SFI by giving you the SFI basics article but on your part you have to take your time to read and take notes and review until you understand well. So what am I saying? Is that your sponsor can only provide assistance but they cannot do the work for you. So as an example your sponsor shows you how to complete the getting started actions to help you get
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Affiliate since: 04/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read John's 41 other Ask SC answers

This is your business. not your sponsor's, although you form part of, albeit a very small part of your sponsor's business. Whilst your sponsor has a vested interest in your success, it is only a small one. You may be only one of hundreds or thousands of your sponsor's PSAs. Your success depends on you, not your sponsor's help.

Many affiliates never hear from their sponsor and your sponsor may be like this, unfortunately. However it is likely that your sponsor will take an interest in you if you take an active interest in your business. My sponsor has tens of thousands of PSA's but has never failed to help when asked and has pro-actively offered advice from time to time. But if I was not active every day, I doubt if he would notice me.

So, in short, never rely on your sponsor. You have to do the work yourself. By all means ask for advice from your sponsor, but you do not have to take it. It is your business. If your sponsor contributes to your success, treat it as a bonus, as a way of quickening your eventual success. But do not rely on your sponsor to do anything.
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This is your business. not your sponsor's, although you form part of, albeit a very small part of your sponsor's business. Whilst your sponsor has a vested interest in your success, it is only a small one. You may be only one of hundreds or thousands of your sponsor's PSAs. Your success depends on you, not your sponsor's help.

Many affiliates never hear from their sponsor and your sponsor may be like this, unfortunately. However it is likely that your sponsor will take an interest in you
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Affiliate since: 11/05/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bob's 6 other Ask SC answers

I do not believe you should "rely" on your sponsor. Your sponsor cannot login and do your daily tasks for you. Your sponsor can't make you learn how SFI works. Your sponsor cannot force you to build an SFI business directly. Only you can build your successful SFI business.

What your sponsor can do is

1. Provide guidance when you need it
2. Answer questions that you have
3. Offer you encouragement when you succeed
4. Help you figure out why something did not work

Your SFI business is your business. You need to actively pursue the activities that will make it successful. You need to rely on yourself for any successful business. Your sponsor should be a mentor.


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I do not believe you should "rely" on your sponsor. Your sponsor cannot login and do your daily tasks for you. Your sponsor can't make you learn how SFI works. Your sponsor cannot force you to build an SFI business directly. Only you can build your successful SFI business.

What your sponsor can do is

1. Provide guidance when you need it
2. Answer questions that you have
3. Offer you encouragement when you succeed
4. Help you figure out why
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

Great question.

Many Sponsors are new to affiliate marketing themselves and learning same as you.
Most all are active from the beginning, some not.
It is unfortunate that all affiliates do not have an active sponsor.
But, it is not entirely necessary.

The SFI program provides training, materials and tools for your use.
Even if you have a responsive and helpful Sponsor, you will still have to conduct
your business on your own.
It is up to you to learn and become the best business owner and team leader that
you can be.

Building your own successful IM business will ultimately rely on your ability
to manage and run it yourself.

Personally, my sponsor introduced me to SFI and I have very never had a personal
message from him since.
I found that taking the time to learn the business from the SFI program
was the best route to take.
For added assistance, the SFI Forum, Support, Marketing, Training, Support tabs,
as well as,FAQ sections, Help Section ( http://csi.freshdesk.com/support/home),
Ask SC answers and the new Search bar,
all provided the information I needed to succeed.

When all else failed, i would do an internet search for questions not directly related to SFI.

Keep a positive mind, a persistent approach and you will succeed.
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Great question.

Many Sponsors are new to affiliate marketing themselves and learning same as you.
Most all are active from the beginning, some not.
It is unfortunate that all affiliates do not have an active sponsor.
But, it is not entirely necessary.

The SFI program provides training, materials and tools for your use.
Even if you have a responsive and helpful Sponsor, you will still have to conduct
your business on your own.
It is up to you to
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Affiliate since: 12/25/2001, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ken's 60 other Ask SC answers

Whether you have an active sponsor or not, you will benefit most by taking full responsibility for your SFI business. Active sponsors will certainly be of benefit to you. It is indeed good to receive helpful information and to get useful replies to your questions.

If you have an inactive sponsor, not taking full responsibility for your SFI business will get you nowhere. SFI provides everything you need to be successful. You can learn everything you need to know from SFI's training, and all you you need to do is put what you learn into practice. Every day there is something new to learn. Every day there is something you can do to promote your SFI business.

So your success is always based on what you are willing to do. If your sponsor is helping you along the way, that is great! But don't forget you are the one who is making your business prosper.
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Whether you have an active sponsor or not, you will benefit most by taking full responsibility for your SFI business. Active sponsors will certainly be of benefit to you. It is indeed good to receive helpful information and to get useful replies to your questions.

If you have an inactive sponsor, not taking full responsibility for your SFI business will get you nowhere. SFI provides everything you need to be successful. You can learn everything you need to know from SFI's training, and
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Affiliate since: 06/24/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mark's 1 other Ask SC answers

While relying on a sponsor sounds wonderful to help get you started in business, you honestly should view your sponsor more as a resource, than a crutch for your business. If you don't support your business with your own desire, work, and effort, deciding to rely on your sponsor, you could end up with a rather shaky business that won't withstand the test of time.

For this reason, I would suggest that you do not rely on your sponsor to build a successful business. You should rely on the training materials, your desire, the team you build, and focus your energies into completely duplicating what your sponsor or co-sponsor shows you. If they don't show you the process, or you feel like they are not responsive enough, you can always ask others and use the forums to ensure you get the right answers you need.

Any business that you begin is only as strong as you make it.

Think of it this way...

If you build a house on the beach, you must build stilts to support the weight of the house. If you want to build a second floor, you must then ensure that the first floor and the stilts can both handle the additional weight. This would directly translate into your business as your sponsor is above you (the second story), and you are the first story, while those you sponsor are the stilts.

While your sponsor holds an interest in your business (because they don't want to fall), they have other beach houses they can live atop (their other sponsored affiliates)... so you are not their everything, though they do care about your success...

Meanwhile, your success depends directly on the stilts (your sponsored affiliates) being able to support you. This means that if you don't work with them to ensure you are supported, you crash into the ground below, while your sponsor adjusts to another supported structure, and tries to offer advice and suggestions on how to build your first level better.

This means:
1. While your sponsor is a great resource to help you build your business, they are not as vested in your business as you are; they work with multiple supports for their own house.
2. There is nobody that will want to ensure your house is supported as much as you will; take advice and suggestions from others, but it remains up to you to take action and make sure your house is built!
3. While it is up to you to put in the "hard work" to ensure that your house is built properly, you can always lean on sponsors, co-sponsors, the SFI forums and even your team mates for help in making sure that you build your house secure -- but also have the opportunity to ensure that you are also set up for the niceties that are possible as you build!

I hope this helps you understand that the best option is to rely first on your own efforts, and second upon the support of your sponsor, co-sponsor, and SFI forums equally, to ensure that you can find the success you seek in your SFI business!

I wish you the best!
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While relying on a sponsor sounds wonderful to help get you started in business, you honestly should view your sponsor more as a resource, than a crutch for your business. If you don't support your business with your own desire, work, and effort, deciding to rely on your sponsor, you could end up with a rather shaky business that won't withstand the test of time.

For this reason, I would suggest that you do not rely on your sponsor to build a successful business. You should rely on the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Your sponsor is there to answer any questions about SFI you may have. They are also there to lead you and give advice on how best to reach a specific goal in SFI.

Some sponsors will do contests to create a little competition in their team. But this is dependent on the sponsor's resources.

Some sponsors provide coops. They should let you know in one form or another whether they do or not.

Personally I don't depend on my sponsor for much of anything. Its my responsibility to build my team. If I have a question that I can't find on the SFI or TripleClicks sites then I will ask my sponsor or upline to find the answer.

So personally I don't think a person should expect a whole lot from their sponsor except what they are there for. To help you get started in SFI.

This probably doesn't help much perhaps. But it is my personal belief that you give a person fish you feed them for a day. You teach them to fish they feed themselves for a lifetime.
So in short. Your sponsor is your teacher. But if they don't teach look up to your other upline members. If that doesn't work ask on the forums.

Hope this helps.

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Your sponsor is there to answer any questions about SFI you may have. They are also there to lead you and give advice on how best to reach a specific goal in SFI.

Some sponsors will do contests to create a little competition in their team. But this is dependent on the sponsor's resources.

Some sponsors provide coops. They should let you know in one form or another whether they do or not.

Personally I don't depend on my sponsor for much of anything. Its my responsibility
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Affiliate since: 11/10/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Leona's 6 other Ask SC answers

Hi Magundu,

I probably understand what would have compelled you to ask this question.

Going by my own experience, when I first joined SFI in 2014, I was totally lost. I heard from my sponsor only a couple of times at the beginning and that was it.

I sent my sponsor a couple of emails for help but no help was coming from there. This non-support from my sponsor made me stronger because I decided to explore a lot of areas and check out the resources in SFI by myself.
I then decided to concentrate on doing some reading. From there I used the a2a program where I got some help.
I started to visit the Forum and basically got a lot of my questions answered from there. Very slowly I joined some of the discussions in the Forum.

I joined the newsletter which gave me first hand news every month. That was and still is a very big help to me. Very slowly things started to fall into place. Today I am still not comfortable working with SFI but I told myself ages ago that, this is not a race. I will continue to follow the long track that everybody is using until I reach my goals.

In a nutshell, if you are not getting any help from your sponsor, don’t rely on him or her. You have to use the resources that SFI makes available to its Affiliates.

You can get help from the following plus a lot of other resources available.

1. Then Forum
2. Join the newsletter
3. ASK SC

Hope you can pick up some help from my own experience. May you be blessed.

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Hi Magundu,

I probably understand what would have compelled you to ask this question.

Going by my own experience, when I first joined SFI in 2014, I was totally lost. I heard from my sponsor only a couple of times at the beginning and that was it.

I sent my sponsor a couple of emails for help but no help was coming from there. This non-support from my sponsor made me stronger because I decided to explore a lot of areas and check out the resources in SFI by myself.

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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 303 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

To a great extent, success depends on the efforts of the affiliate. Along the way to your destiny, you will come across not just material to read and understand but also people of which one them is of course your sponsor. The sponsor is your first point of contact but there are also other people in your upline including your co-sponsor. Sometimes the relationship between the sponsor and the affiliate is also affected by how one got the sponsor. For example it is possible to have a member of your family or friend as your sponsor if they introduced you to SFI. You can also get a sponsor allocated to you by SFI, or through an advert to which you responded.

Regardless of how you got the sponsor, you should try to do most of the work yourself and ask when you need help. It is true that one way of growing is to be in the company of those who have more experience or success. They are not just a source of help when you need it but also motivation. There is saying, “God helps those who help themselves.” What this entails is that you have to be the initiator and not your sponsor.

Some sponsors will never write to you or even reply to your queries but this should not put you off, as your success does not entirely depend on having a sponsor. On the other hand, there are some sponsors who are very helpful and write to their affiliates even when they (PSAs) are inactive. It is a bonus to have such helpful sponsors or co-sponsors and one should make the most of that type of relationship to grow their own team.

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To a great extent, success depends on the efforts of the affiliate. Along the way to your destiny, you will come across not just material to read and understand but also people of which one them is of course your sponsor. The sponsor is your first point of contact but there are also other people in your upline including your co-sponsor. Sometimes the relationship between the sponsor and the affiliate is also affected by how one got the sponsor. For example it is possible to have a member of your
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Affiliate since: 09/12/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mark's 6 other Ask SC answers

Hi Sebastian,

To build a successful SFI business, you should not be relying on your sponsor.
This does not mean that you should not be working with your sponsor if he/she is actively giving you support.

I have been 40 days with SFI and I can count on one hand, the number of contacts I’ve received from my sponsor so far.
I have built my business on my own so far by reading all the information available within SFI, although I did join a2a and made friends with some kind people who shared tips which was also helpful when getting started.

If your sponsor is actively communicating with you, follow his/her advice and ask questions on anything you’re unsure of. Contact them and let them know what you want from SFI.
Check your sponsors Leadership page and check what they have been doing and try to achieve the same as them and they will notice your efforts and be more likely to mentor you.

Always refer to the Start tab and the SFI Basics tab for a reminder of how easy this can be. You don’t need to make it complicated. Yes there is a lot of information but that doesn’t mean you have to take it all in right away.

Go through the Launchpad day by day and take in all that you read on there. It is an excellent way of learning about your new business so take it step by step and get the most out of it.

Basically, use your sponsor to your advantage if they are there for you. If not don’t waste time worrying about it, get into action and start building your business and maybe you will even motivate them to become more active.

Good luck with your new business :)

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Hi Sebastian,

To build a successful SFI business, you should not be relying on your sponsor.
This does not mean that you should not be working with your sponsor if he/she is actively giving you support.

I have been 40 days with SFI and I can count on one hand, the number of contacts I’ve received from my sponsor so far.
I have built my business on my own so far by reading all the information available within SFI, although I did join a2a and made friends with some
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