Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

While we can send more team mails than just one a week, I like it that it is only once a week that we can earn 30 VersaPoints for sending a group team mail. This is an immediate encouragement not to overload a new affiliate with information.

What I like to do is:

1. Send a welcome ecard as soon as possible after I've been notified I have a new affiliate on my team, whether a PSA or CSA. My ecard message includes a warm welcome and some basic tips for getting started.

2. Then I like to leave the new affiliate alone for a few days (other than if they ask me questions - then I reply as quickly as possible). I leave them alone because I hope they are reading and learning, and also because I know that they are also getting emails from SFI.

3. After a few days I check their VP Ledgers, and I note what it is they've been scoring VersaPoints for. If it looks like they haven't been putting in much effort, or no effort at all, I usually just leave them alone to get on with doing nothing much, unsure of what their reasons may be. It is enough that they get emails from SFI and from me at least once a week. Should they start to put in some effort though, I do the same for them that I do with those who are putting in some effort right from the start:

4. I set up a small challenge for those who seem to be putting in some effort. After studying their VP Ledger I give them a short list of things I want to see done usually over a 3 day period. If they successfully complete the challenge, I reassign two or more of my new affiliates to them.

5. Beyond that, I continue to monitor their VP Ledgers, and give guidance, in small bites, related to a specific area of their VP Ledger.
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While we can send more team mails than just one a week, I like it that it is only once a week that we can earn 30 VersaPoints for sending a group team mail. This is an immediate encouragement not to overload a new affiliate with information.

What I like to do is:

1. Send a welcome ecard as soon as possible after I've been notified I have a new affiliate on my team, whether a PSA or CSA. My ecard message includes a warm welcome and some basic tips for getting started.

2.
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Affiliate since: 05/08/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Phyllida's 8 other Ask SC answers

As it can be overwhelming for a new affiliates, it is important to remember how you felt when you first joined SFI and empathize with your new team members.

I have found that it is important to:
Direct (and re-direct) my new team members to the BASICS tab to grasp the simple idea behind SFI.
It is important to read information properly as it is part of training and they are encouraged not to rush through LAUNCHPAD lessons, for example.
Focus on daily actions on the red tabs and the To Do list as priority and continual tasks.
Keep it short and simple in my mails and communication - use bullet points, focus on a theme/subject and keep to the 3-point rule so not to overload an email or message.
Keep team mails or emails to once a week
Have a welcome e-card for new affiliates without repeating information in your email.
On chat, I post short (one-liner) messages to individuals to encourage, advise or remind them about a task.
Give a timeline - that their first month is really a crucial time as training ground and knowledge building about SFI and to login daily to gain AVP.
Be aware that affiliates need the time to process it all and let them know you are available for more specific questions to understand it all.

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As it can be overwhelming for a new affiliates, it is important to remember how you felt when you first joined SFI and empathize with your new team members.

I have found that it is important to:
Direct (and re-direct) my new team members to the BASICS tab to grasp the simple idea behind SFI.
It is important to read information properly as it is part of training and they are encouraged not to rush through LAUNCHPAD lessons, for example.
Focus on daily actions on the red
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Most people feel overwhelmed when facing things that are new to them. They are anxious to get things done and therefore try to tackle several tasks at once. People who are new to network marketing may find it first challenging and therefore require extra time in learning the stuff. This is typical for new affiliates joining SFI.

Here are steps you can do to guide your new affiliates to prevent or minimize information overload:

- When sending your welcome message to your new affiliates, introduce yourself briefly, direct them to the Getting Started page and include your contact information.

- Ensure that your messages to your new affiliates in their first week are in line with what SFI are presenting to them upon their joining. You don’t want to confuse them by including other topics that are not consistent in regards to their journey with SFI.

- Ask them to focus on SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD. You need to reiterate the importance of understanding these core principles of SFI by telling them not to move on to other topics until they feel confident and fully understand these basics. Always offer your support and be prompt in your reply to their questions.

- Use your Genealogy to track the progress of your new affiliates. You’ll be able to identify their Getting Started activities and send your support messages accordingly.

- Always adapt your support messages according to their learning progress. Don’t jump from one topic to another just to put your interest ahead by prompting them to upgrade to EA as quickly as they can to put you in a position for qualifying in the Leadership Challenge.

- Offer them one-on-one support to ensure that they’re getting started right.

These steps above if followed can prevent/minimize information overload and create a healthier and more productive work environment for your new affiliates.

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Most people feel overwhelmed when facing things that are new to them. They are anxious to get things done and therefore try to tackle several tasks at once. People who are new to network marketing may find it first challenging and therefore require extra time in learning the stuff. This is typical for new affiliates joining SFI.

Here are steps you can do to guide your new affiliates to prevent or minimize information overload:

- When sending your welcome message to your new
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Affiliate since: 09/22/2014, Power Rank: 1035 | Read Luis's 14 other Ask SC answers

This is an excellent question.

SFI is so well structured and organized that is not easy to understand at first. Here is the great challenge that all we have in SFI. I think the first thing to do is put ourselves in the shoes of the new members and answer this question thinking from our own experience when we started. Let me tell you about my own experience. When I subscribed to SFI happened so quickly that I could not understand anything and is more not remember receiving any communication from my Sponsor and Co Sponsor giving me the welcoming. I was so confused that decided to leave. After a year I found again to SFI through a Web posting that said it was among the top 10 companies in the affiliate marketing. This last impacted me and awakening in me a burning desire to be protagonist and the rest is history.

This introduction leads to the following conclusion. You need to know what was the reason for the person to register in SFI. This will affect the arrangement in the sense of having to take the time to review, analyze and understand in its full context the nature of SFI. Understand that necessarily have to go through a learning curve that will not go beyond two months, of course after this time continue to enhance learning. Will be conscious not to reinvent the wheel to be successful because the tools used have been tested and work with tangible results, you just have to go step by step, following the recommendations of SFI and their upline to start: Start, SFI Basic and SFI Launchpad. You should take the time required for each phase. If we can clearly communicate this approach to the new members then it will avoid the temptation to learn everything fast and be overloaded of information, resulting in the abandonment of SFI, becoming in inactive members and being eliminated after a year.

I hope I have contributed something to my answer.


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This is an excellent question.

SFI is so well structured and organized that is not easy to understand at first. Here is the great challenge that all we have in SFI. I think the first thing to do is put ourselves in the shoes of the new members and answer this question thinking from our own experience when we started. Let me tell you about my own experience. When I subscribed to SFI happened so quickly that I could not understand anything and is more not remember receiving any communication
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 22 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

Guiding new affiliates in a way that prevents or minimises information overload should be our primary concern.

Communication at this time should also be minimal. After sending Welcome E-Cards and E-mails, give the new affiliates time, a week to ten days is recommended, to understand what they have joined in, as others have no idea SFI is a business opportunity and not a job.

There are plenty of information on the Homepage alone, that new affiliates will not know what to do and what to read first. A clear and simple guidance will help much in getting new affiliates settle in quickly and with ease.

So start from the beginning- that is direct them to click START and to watch the short video by Gery Carson, for a short introduction to SFI and to get familiar with the layout of the Homepage.

Next is to click and read the SFI BASICS, this contains a brief information and guidance of how to build a successful SFI business with the Ultra-Simple 3-Step Plan.

Then there’s the LAUNCHPAD. Clicking links contained in 30 lessons will take them to pages in the SFI Affiliate Center.

This where the new affiliates can be overwhelmed. The SFI Affliate Center contains all the important and relevant information found on the drop-down menu starting from Home, Hot Spots, Income, Marketing, Reference,Training, Power Tools, Leaders, Misc.- each with its own indexes that need not be explored yet while learning the basics.

So it’s best to advise new Affiliates to just click the blue "SFI BASICS" button above. Review the four actions in SFI BASICS and focus only on them. Everything else is really just tools and resources to help with the actions described in SFI BASICS.

Then wait for their questions, and if ready to go further, feed the information as needed and required.


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Guiding new affiliates in a way that prevents or minimises information overload should be our primary concern.

Communication at this time should also be minimal. After sending Welcome E-Cards and E-mails, give the new affiliates time, a week to ten days is recommended, to understand what they have joined in, as others have no idea SFI is a business opportunity and not a job.

There are plenty of information on the Homepage alone, that new affiliates will not know what to do
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

It is easy for team leaders to get excited about signing up new affiliate and then sending the new affiliates to much information for them to digest. This in turn creates what is known as “information overload.”

A new affiliate who is bombarded with information all at once can get very confused and slow down their start up activities and even cause some affiliates to feel like it is too much for them so they quit before ever getting started.

Team leaders need to remember that a new affiliate is receiving emails from SFI and TripleClicks during their first 30 days. They are also receiving our weekly newsletter that we send to our team. Our new affiliates are also seeing the stream post that their sponsors are writing 3 or more times a week. They are also being asked to read 10 or more “ASK SC” questions and answers. Talk about overload!

During my new affiliates first 30 days I will only send small “To the point” Ecards guiding them in the direction they should be heading in. (Along with the weekly team newsletters).

My main encouragement during this indoctrination time is to remind them that I am here to help them if they do not understand some of their training material.

If they are serious about their new business they will contact you and ask for information that is the time to get into the details of how to accomplish what they are asking for.

When you have a new baby in the house you feed them baby food not meat and potatoes. Save the meat until they are able to chew the information you are sending them giving them too much to early will cause them to choke on it.

I say “drip feed” them information until they are ready to stand in the shower.

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It is easy for team leaders to get excited about signing up new affiliate and then sending the new affiliates to much information for them to digest. This in turn creates what is known as “information overload.”

A new affiliate who is bombarded with information all at once can get very confused and slow down their start up activities and even cause some affiliates to feel like it is too much for them so they quit before ever getting started.

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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Information overload happens when we are exposed to new material to assimilate and act upon, but we get additional deliveries, without giving us the time to digest the first batch.

This may happen very easily with new SFI recruits. As sponsors, we are eager to welcome them, help them, give them tips, encourage them, try to make them aware of the various deadlines they face along their road to full fledged, well trained affiliates.

First, our affiliates need to absorb what they are being taught, make it an integral part of their personal knowledge base and their own experience.

But, in our eagerness, we forget that SFI Corporate has scheduled a series of communication deliveries that are more comprehensive, time tested and proven to be more effective to get the new affiliate fully trained and up to date.

The potential of information overload is so real that SFI Corporate has just released an alert on the topic, providing us with a detailed listing of all the messages sent to new sign-ups in their first 31 days, including the 30 launchpad lessons we all go through.

This alert advises us to "align our new PSA welcoming" efforts with those of.SFI Corporate . It lists all the emails the new SFI affiliate will receive.

https://www.sfimg.com/Support/Solution?id=211643

All the important reminders and calls for actions as well as major deadlines on the E365 contest, and Fast Track are thoroughly addressed within.

This is a salutary reminder for every sponsor. It is the first, major piece of the answer to your question.

To welcome and help our new affiliates, without overwhelming them, we need to follow the sponsoring guidelines. Our welcome letter should reflect the spirit and content of the draft welcome letter made available to us. Our communications with our new team members should focus on personalizing our business relationships, trying to understand their motives, their goals and their needs. We should build upon that understanding and offer them the support tailored to their personal situations and expectations.

We should refrain from pressuring the affiliate on issues of standing order (SO), fast track, E365 contest, as they are addressed in the mail sent by SFI Corporate. We can however mention these questions in the blogs we post on our Leadership page and use our stream update to motivate our team member to read them, if they so choose.

Our weekly team mails should be tailored toward mentoring and offering support.

Overall, it is more important to give the affiliate a sense of friendliness, and availability than to repeat to them information they can find else where in the SFI website, especially if they do not ask for it.

We only need to make them aware that the communications lines are open and they can contact us when they desire to do so. This way, we will remain a support reference for them.

By doing so, we can be helpful, without being overbearing and drowning our affiliate under the weight of too much ill timed messages and unwanted information.
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Information overload happens when we are exposed to new material to assimilate and act upon, but we get additional deliveries, without giving us the time to digest the first batch.

This may happen very easily with new SFI recruits. As sponsors, we are eager to welcome them, help them, give them tips, encourage them, try to make them aware of the various deadlines they face along their road to full fledged, well trained affiliates.

First, our affiliates need to absorb what they
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Affiliate since: 11/17/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rupak's 99 other Ask SC answers

In my opinion we need to guide minimum information to new affiliates. As SFI every day or weekly send newsletter to everyone. So we send new affiliates they will not understand anything. So we must keep it short and simple .
Direct them to the following core principles of SFI:

1. SFI BASICS – contain important elements of making SFI a business. This is where your new PSAs will get to know what SFI is all about. Understanding the content of SFI BASICS clearly is the key being on the right path.

2. LAUNCHPAD – the lessons contain important key principles, which will further deepen the knowledge of your new PSAs in venturing SFI.

3. START – containing simple instruction in getting started, your new PSAs will appreciate the simple and clear instruction of how to get started.

4. Getting Started actions – to get your new PSAs established right away, point out to them the importance of performing the Getting-Started Actions with jet icons such as confirming registration, whitelishing [email protected], completing Affiliate Profile, sending their SFI commitment message to their sponsor and uploading their photos.

Hope this answer is helpful.
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In my opinion we need to guide minimum information to new affiliates. As SFI every day or weekly send newsletter to everyone. So we send new affiliates they will not understand anything. So we must keep it short and simple .
Direct them to the following core principles of SFI:

1. SFI BASICS – contain important elements of making SFI a business. This is where your new PSAs will get to know what SFI is all about. Understanding the content of SFI BASICS clearly is the key being on
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Affiliate since: 07/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read George's 5 other Ask SC answers

In my experience, You should take things one step at a time.

A good idea to avoid information overload, is to create and use step by step templates(in WORD format), custom made for each affiliate and then work on the quality and readability of your communications. Here's a helpful guideline:

1.Use titles before paragraphs.

As you may have come to understand, communication is KEY in creating a duplication premise, therefore, you need to make your messages as clear and effective as possible. By offering a title before every major paragraph, you guide your prospect through the content of your letter. This gives them a sneak peek of what is you are covering in each section and compels them to keep on reading.

NOTE: TITLES ON CAPS ALWAYS WORK BEST IN TEAM MAILS

2.Use smaller chunks of information.

Your paragraphs should be anywhere from 3-5 lines each with enough space(or indent even) to allow for easy readability. Why?

In today's busy age, it only takes 6 seconds for the viewer to decide whether he goes through your whole message or not. That calls for us to make their experience as smooth as possible, in order to keep them interested in what we communicate in those messages.

If sent through your personal email provider, feel free to use Bold, Italics and Underline in order to emphasize on KEY points. Bullets is also a fine choice when you offer guidelines.
TeamMail is more restricted on that area, but gmail, yahoo and outlook offer a wide array of edit features to make your message as appealing as possible.

3.Keep your Alignment even.

Whether it's paragraphs or signature, you need to keep an even alignment in order to look neat and proffessional.

All in all, our aim is to offer our team top notch quality communications as part of the GREAT VALUE plan that delivers results ;)
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In my experience, You should take things one step at a time.

A good idea to avoid information overload, is to create and use step by step templates(in WORD format), custom made for each affiliate and then work on the quality and readability of your communications. Here's a helpful guideline:

1.Use titles before paragraphs.

As you may have come to understand, communication is KEY in creating a duplication premise, therefore, you need to make your messages as clear
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 25 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

As a sponsor, you are likely to come across two types of affiliates in your team:

1. Recently joined or “newbies”
2. Established (both active and inactive)

“Information overload” resonates more with your new team members. They have just joined SFI and will need guidance where required. Every new team member looks at exactly the same SFI website and its resources but not everyone responds to this information in exactly the same way that SFI says they should. To avoid or minimise information overload, start with the basics and take it step by step: Just let the new affiliate know that they can begin their journey with:

1. START
2. SFI Basics
3. Launchpad

The short video on SFI gives them an insight into what SFI is and it can do for them.

In the absence of a process, it is possible for the affiliate to jump from one topic to another and in the end get nowhere. Your role as a sponsor is to help them and avoid this. If you can build their confidence in the initial steps then you will have planted a seed. As they make progress, they will be ready for other tasks.

In the first stages, always listen to the affiliate and you can always have an idea of what your affiliate is actually doing by looking at his or her Ledger. I have come across many affiliates who have signed up and even logged on and yet still fail to register. Then there are also others who manage to register but choose not to do anything else after that. And still there are those who sign up, log on, register and focus only on doing all the Launchpad lessons in one day. What these examples illustrate is that the first step that one takes is very important but having said that there is always room for correction if only the sponsor and affiliate can communicate.

If the acquisition of information is not structured it can seem overwhelming and deter further progress.


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As a sponsor, you are likely to come across two types of affiliates in your team:

1. Recently joined or “newbies”
2. Established (both active and inactive)

“Information overload” resonates more with your new team members. They have just joined SFI and will need guidance where required. Every new team member looks at exactly the same SFI website and its resources but not everyone responds to this information in exactly the same way that SFI says they should. To
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