SFI has designed effective communication tools to facilitate our exchanges with other affiliates, adding a special focus on our team members and our upline. However, these tools are no longer accessible if somebody decides to block us, closing most of the avenues through which we could reach them.
I just reviewed my "Block List" from my account. I highly recommend that every affiliate visits that information from time to time. There is valuable insight we can gain by knowing how many have blocked us and for what reasons.
https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/BlockList
The list includes all the SFI affiliates with whom we may have come into contact and who no longer wish to read from us.
This data is particularly critical when it comes to our team members.
The good news is, it is possible to reverse the situation.
In your case, the first step is to analyse to Block list data. Some may have blocked all communication lines; other may have only blocked one part. Knowing the extent of the blockade and the reasons will help you in devising a strategy to overcome the situation.
Here, the major objective is to change the perceptions that led your affiliates to block your messages. You can achieve this by adopting a different approach to your communications. You want to be highly positive and extremely supportive.
If your affiliates realize that they will gain much more by re-establishing the communication lines, they lift the blockade.
The one tool that remains available is your "Leadership Page". I suggest you update it and use it to inform your team members of your activity, including your tips as a sponsor, the contests your organize, and your blogs.
The second most appropriate tool is in your Genealogy filters. Your most important goal is to identify the active affiliates on which you want to focus your sponsoring and mentoring efforts. They are the prime target of your strategy and actions aiming at lifting the blockage, which may consist of the following:
1. Offer Tcredits to the most active who will likely use them in their business building efforts
2. Re-assign affiliates to those active team members who may have blocked you
3. Include them in your S-Builder Co-op
4. Recognize their efforts and express support to what they are doing through your stream posts. Even if they have blocked your streams, other may read your positive comments and share them with those who blocked you.
5. Use the forum with the spirit of an "awesome sponsor". The affiliates who blocked you will have access to your forum posts either directly or indirectly.
6. Organize team contests and reward generously. Every affiliate who truly wants to build their business would feel motivated to be part of contests that will motivate them to succeed.
7. If all fail, reassign the affiliates who have blocked you to your top 'movers" and assist the new sponsors to avoid the mistakes you may have made.
In conclusion, it is important to fully take advantage of the lessons we learn from our affiliates' blockade. Our affiliates are business owners and want only what will help them be successful. Our job, as sponsors, is just that: help our affiliate succeed. When we have their best interest in mind and me communicate with them within that spirit, we all will reach our ultimate goals.
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