Affiliate since: 12/06/2012, Power Rank: 231 | Read Elizabeth's 190 other Ask SC answers

BORDERLESS IS BEAUTIFUL! What do you think this sentence means? The word borderless means that there is no border or if you put it in another way, it means that you should recruit affiliates worldwide. The answer to your question is to sponsor affiliates from both your country and other countries of the world, SBuilder and ECA's on TripleClicks sponsor affiliates from a variety of countries some of them speak my language and some don't but SFI provides the Google translator to allow each and every affiliate to read and communicate in their own language.

To Sponsor affiliates I suggest setting SBuilder to your Standing Order to get international affiliates and then you grow your team by advertising offline to people from your country by giving out flyers or XCards. I suggest you read Day 5 of your Launchpad lesson to answer your question and to understand the benefits of a global online business vs. a business in your own country only.

SFI is designed to sell products to affiliates in over 200 countries because a store will make much better money than just selling to one country alone. I also read in the Launchpad lesson that some countries that have a high population and having trillions of internet users can make lots of money for you because the affiliates you sponsor will sponsor affiliates from their country allowing you to have a team of affiliates earning you VP and Direct Commissions.

China and India are the perfect examples because they have the highest population on earth and their billion dollar industries , so can you imagine getting affiliates from these countries?

The reason why SFI is so successful is the fact that they are global, they recruit affiliates worldwide so this is the perfect example for you to follow. So follow the leader!


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BORDERLESS IS BEAUTIFUL! What do you think this sentence means? The word borderless means that there is no border or if you put it in another way, it means that you should recruit affiliates worldwide. The answer to your question is to sponsor affiliates from both your country and other countries of the world, SBuilder and ECA's on TripleClicks sponsor affiliates from a variety of countries some of them speak my language and some don't but SFI provides the Google translator to allow each and every
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The motive for prospecting is to sign-up affiliates and grow our businesses. Hence, it is of paramount importance to approach our team building efforts with the best methods so as to maximize our potential results. Only when we prospect offline will we restrict ourselves to a localized area. Any online advertising or marketing activity has the potential to reach wide and far, unless extra steps are taken to limit the range and scope of our campaigns. And, we should have valid reason for such restrictions.

There are times when prospecting offline will be more effective. In such cases, we are limiting our efforts to a town or a metropolitan area. This happens when we focus on our family members, our friends and business relationships, or specific local groups of prospects we have identified. Somebody who is not familiar with online marketing may find it beneficial to start offline.

There are advantages to focus on a localized area. We will have the ability to interact with our team members, person-to-person, visit them, reach them by phone, get to together with them in familiar surroundings, coordinate local team building efforts while using the same language. It is a good method to minimize inactive affiliates.

Besides such motives, today, even if we want to target an entire country, it may be more cost effective to use online marketing. In addition, some countries are very small, and one may quickly face the need to reach out to larger markets. One should not neglect this opportunity afforded by the entire online market as such approach may lead to the most cost effective strategy. Thus, we can aim at drawing affiliates from everywhere.

The diversity, size and scope of the social media offer great advantages. It is possible, if not easier, to aim at attracting affiliates from every corner of the world at approximately the same costs as if we were prospecting locally. It would be a lack of insight to ignore such a wide market.

Free online advertising and marketing tools can be used if there is lack or shortage of financial resources. Facebook groups, Google Hangouts and LinkedIn, just to name a few, are very friendly for such strategies.

For those who do not have yet enough online skills and/or experience, the resources available within SFI will be an efficient recourse: The S-Builder Co-op, the PSAs-to-Go, the PSAs available though the Pricebenders auctions, all these are excellent, cost effective means to start building teams.

A more comprehensive approach is to combine all the above.
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The motive for prospecting is to sign-up affiliates and grow our businesses. Hence, it is of paramount importance to approach our team building efforts with the best methods so as to maximize our potential results. Only when we prospect offline will we restrict ourselves to a localized area. Any online advertising or marketing activity has the potential to reach wide and far, unless extra steps are taken to limit the range and scope of our campaigns. And, we should have valid reason for such restrictions.

There
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

After joining SFI and have learned enough of the basics it will be time to start prospecting for new affiliates to join your team. The sooner you start prospecting the quicker you will build a team and it is teamwork that will take you to the top of the success ladder.

Now comes the time when the question of “where should I prospect for new teammates?” “Should I concentrate with people of my own country or try enrolling globally?”

Let’s look at the name of our marketing company – SFI; those letters stand for “Strong Future International” The last word in the title is “international” that my friends means globally.

It is good to prospect people in your own country do that as your “warm marketing” that means your friends and relatives. As they join, they will enroll friends and relatives of their own and you now have a group starting within your own country.

Put your main efforts into prospecting for affiliates in as many countries as you can. The reason for this is because many factors can change the economy of a single country such as natural disasters, war and so forth. If all your affiliates were in that one country you would risk losing everything.

Growing your business internationally is income protection at its best. It is much harder to destroy a business that has its base set globally.

Because your SFI business is based on “teammate relationships” I can think of no better way than to have friends in several different nations. The information on culture, customs, traditions and exchanged knowledge among different nationalities is priceless.

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After joining SFI and have learned enough of the basics it will be time to start prospecting for new affiliates to join your team. The sooner you start prospecting the quicker you will build a team and it is teamwork that will take you to the top of the success ladder.

Now comes the time when the question of “where should I prospect for new teammates?” “Should I concentrate with people of my own country or try enrolling globally?”

Let’s look at
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Affiliate since: 06/09/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olufolake 's 206 other Ask SC answers

Hello Andjela
I will advice you not to limit yourself just to your own country due to language barrier.
You are working with a company that has gone beyond the four walls of the United States to over 149 countries in the world and has been able to bring us together as one big family solving the language barrier. You too do the same. Extend yourself to build new relationships, culture etc and thus learning, expanding your business.
Expanding everywhere fulfils the law of creating sales known as Business Networking. This is a business principle that explodes your sales giving you an exponential growth. Every successful business enterprise utilizes this law greatly including SFI to build their business.
Yes, you'l be faced with some challenges that deals with interacting with people of other cultures especially when it comes to languages. SFI has solved that for you already by creating for you the google translator. Use it to guide you.
You can also use the sub region section at the forum and lead your foreign team members there. The Forum is a place where you can receive help 24/7 or
You can also reach out to some of your upline leaders for help.
Also, you can reassign your new foreign members to some of your active members who are from the same country and language and culture, whom you've built good ramport with.
From the above suggestions, you'l realize that you have nothing to worry about by looking for prospects everywhere. It is a business networking principle.
Good luck.
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Hello Andjela
I will advice you not to limit yourself just to your own country due to language barrier.
You are working with a company that has gone beyond the four walls of the United States to over 149 countries in the world and has been able to bring us together as one big family solving the language barrier. You too do the same. Extend yourself to build new relationships, culture etc and thus learning, expanding your business.
Expanding everywhere fulfils the law of creating sales
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2013, Power Rank: 306 | Read Gilbert's 79 other Ask SC answers

Should I prospect people to become affiliates only from my own country … or from everywhere?

I say do both – DON’T LIMIT YOURSELF!

I embrace SFI’s motto “AIM HIGH – DREAM BIG!” wholeheartedly so my dream is to lead a team that has at least one Diamond Team Leader in every country in the world.

AND, this is an internet business. That lends itself to and is aimed at the worldwide marketplace.

Internet businesses and worldwide businesses are also the future of marketing. So, it doesn’t matter if you know nothing about either the internet or marketing – just get on board with SFI. All the training you need is provided free by SFI. And we can spend the rest of our lives learning how best to do it. That’s another one of my dreams!

It is a developing business too – so there is always something new coming along. None of us really knows just where SFI can take us. Isn’t that exciting!

I was also going to write that we would prospect differently in the local market to what we would do in the global market. But, thinking about it, I don’t think that we would. We really do live in a “global village” – the internet and developing technologies (Email, Skype, Facebook, etc) highlights this. But the ease with which we can travel worldwide also confirms this. So we can really use all the different marketing tools available to us both in our “own countries” and “everywhere”. We just choose what appropriate ones to use for each particular circumstance.

And, what is your “own country” anyway? Take me for instance. I was born in New Zealand but I worked for over 30 years in Papua New Guinea. (My heart is now in two places.) My wife is from Papua New Guinea and our two daughters were born there. Now we are all living back in New Zealand. Furthermore my daughters have had boyfriends from other places, such as Samoa, Niue and Tonga. My twin sister and her family live in US and my elder sister and her family are in Australia. And if I consider my grandson our “nationality” links become even broader. Really, my “own country” really does encompass the whole world too.

And that’s one of the greatest attractions to me about SFI – it is a worldwide business, through it I have a worldwide reach. I just love the idea that through SFI and my SFI business I may be helping someone I have never met lead a better life. (And that fits perfectly with my Christian faith too.)

For me the answer is prospect “everywhere”.

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Should I prospect people to become affiliates only from my own country … or from everywhere?

I say do both – DON’T LIMIT YOURSELF!

I embrace SFI’s motto “AIM HIGH – DREAM BIG!” wholeheartedly so my dream is to lead a team that has at least one Diamond Team Leader in every country in the world.

AND, this is an internet business. That lends itself to and is aimed at the worldwide marketplace.

Internet businesses and worldwide businesses are
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Affiliate since: 01/20/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Meka's 2 other Ask SC answers

Hi there. You have asked a wonderful question.
My suggestion is that your take on both spheres, you own country as well as every where (the world over). Listed below are my suggested reasons:
1.If you sincerely desire to grow your business over time and dream of rippling effect, think big and act big. Thinking big and acting big will not limit your ability to dwell with in your own limited horizons, limited resources, limited abilities and with in your comfort zones. It will help you raise your expectations and prop you out to scan unchattered waters and take risks by faith.It will help you to raise your eyes sky high, making the sky your limit. It will help you have a positive mind set, willing to take on challenges and having one aim: to conquer the world with your business enterprise: SFI. Making SFI your life, your family, your world and your everything.
2. Which ever sphere comes in handy in maximizing your resources and abilities, go for it. Have an open mind to reap plentiful harvest where ever possible. Closer to home (own country), you may have easy accessibility to propagate and be able to communicate well within your own common cultural and language identities. Understanding the financial situation of your own communities and their daily strive for betterment will pose a dynamic opportunity to hit home your desired product. Utilizing this opportunity will produce awesome results.
3.Going international (every where) will exponentially expand your business horizons and will bring home untold financial benefits. So why should you only limit your focus only with in your country.
Thank you so much for your question and be blessed always.

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Hi there. You have asked a wonderful question.
My suggestion is that your take on both spheres, you own country as well as every where (the world over). Listed below are my suggested reasons:
1.If you sincerely desire to grow your business over time and dream of rippling effect, think big and act big. Thinking big and acting big will not limit your ability to dwell with in your own limited horizons, limited resources, limited abilities and with in your comfort zones. It will help you raise
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 25 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

With SFI attracting more than 4 million members from more than 200 countries, you would be doing yourself a disservice if you restricted your recruiting exercise to just your own country.

Yes, it is certainly true that speaking the same language and having a common culture makes it easier to relate to one another but in business, this notion was more valid in the pre Internet era than it is today. In the last 30 years, we have seen a vast improvement in how the global community communicates. I think you will also agree that SFI would have found it more difficult to be present in 203 countries without the help of the Internet.

If your potential affiliate can understand you and is active and making progress, you are speaking the same language regardless of the country where he or she is. At SFI there are many teams comprising of affiliates from different countries and some of them are very successful.

In short, even though there are some advantages with recruiting affiliates from your own country, why stop there? There is a greater outlook and potential in recruiting without borders!

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With SFI attracting more than 4 million members from more than 200 countries, you would be doing yourself a disservice if you restricted your recruiting exercise to just your own country.

Yes, it is certainly true that speaking the same language and having a common culture makes it easier to relate to one another but in business, this notion was more valid in the pre Internet era than it is today. In the last 30 years, we have seen a vast improvement in how the
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 426 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

Prospecting from everywhere is the correct thing to do.

I would recommend that you do not limit yourself to your own country.
Here are some of my reasons why I recommend this.

This is an international company operating throughout the world.

In some countries the uptake of online business such as SFI is low. If you country is in that category you will be really struggling to recruit affiliates.

Regardless of where affiliates live, they all have the potential to become Diamond Team Leaders. You just have to find those 'rough' diamonds and start polishing and working on them and they will shine for you.

If you believe that understanding language would be a problem, fear not. There are free translators, readily available that you and your affiliates can use. There are also other strategies that you can put in place to address this, such as assigning PSAs to leaders who speak the same language.

Be bold! Aim High! Prospect worldwide and you will find those diamonds!

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Prospecting from everywhere is the correct thing to do.

I would recommend that you do not limit yourself to your own country.
Here are some of my reasons why I recommend this.

This is an international company operating throughout the world.

In some countries the uptake of online business such as SFI is low. If you country is in that category you will be really struggling to recruit affiliates.

Regardless of where affiliates live, they all have the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Thanks to modern technology we have a choice. Borders and distance no longer matter - we can communicate with people all over the world. That means you can recruit where ever you like.

BUT - just because you can, it does not mean it is the best idea ever. We have to take a couple of factors into consideration. Keep in mind - I am only trying to make you think about your unique situation. What you decide to do will still be your choice. There realy is no right and no wrong decisions. Local and international have their own advantages and disadvantages. How you are able to overcome obstacles will depend on you.

1. Language - how well can you communicate with people speaking a different language than
you?
We have the translation tool available to us - but think about it. Say you have 10 affiliates
from 10 different countries, speaking 10 different languages. Let's say for argument's sake
none of them can understand English well enough to communicate effectively. Do you have
enough time to translate and communicate with them individually?
I have another concern around language and the translator tool. I did an experiment - I wrote
a few sentences in English and then translated it to my home language - what came out on
the other side (in my home language) was not always what I was trying to say.
Recruiting locally is also not the best option for me personally - why? Because we have 11
official languages in my country and I am fluent in only 2 of them. Although a lot of people
can speak and understand English a lot of my fellow countrymen battles to communicate in
English. My solution is to concentrate on English Speaking countries.

2. Cultural differences can also present a challenge - but in my opinion nothing that we can not
overcome. You just have to be sensitive and tolerant of other cultures. I also view it as a
good thing to learn about different cultures.

3. Different countries also have different challenges and traits that make them unique. When
it comes to this I prefer people from my own country - regardless of the language differences.
Our economy is just not the best climate to work in. Our infra structure (Eg. our postal service)
is also not the best. On the flipside - the economy and huge unemployment rate is also what
gives us a better chance to recruit. People here are looking for ways to support themselves
and their families and they are not scared to give it a go - despite the challenges.

So you see, where you are, your culture and your language strengths and weaknessess will guide you to decide where to concentrate your efforts. Look at your situation and make a decision that will work for YOU. I only mentioned 3 factors because that is what I have to take into consideration, but I am sure you might have more to think about or even different factors.

I hope my answer will put your mind onto a track that will work for you.

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Thanks to modern technology we have a choice. Borders and distance no longer matter - we can communicate with people all over the world. That means you can recruit where ever you like.

BUT - just because you can, it does not mean it is the best idea ever. We have to take a couple of factors into consideration. Keep in mind - I am only trying to make you think about your unique situation. What you decide to do will still be your choice. There realy is no right and no wrong decisions.
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2013, Power Rank: 2351 | Read Jennie's 147 other Ask SC answers

The answer is sponsor from any and everywhere.

In order to recruit PSA's to build a successful business you must expand your advertising boundaries to include as many prospects a possible. This means prospects from both your country and internationally.

The only way you can avoid prospects from outside your country is to avoid online marketing which is not advisable. At the same time you would not want to miss the opportunities to promote to people you meet, friends and family members.

If you take a look at the Marketing Methods at Marketing Center, you will notice the various advertising methods that you can use for sponsoring.

If you are able, use as many as possible. This means locally, in your country, on your continent and internationally.

Do not restrict yourself, you cannot be choosy. Since you do not know who will become or stay active you could lose out.

Hope this helps.
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The answer is sponsor from any and everywhere.

In order to recruit PSA's to build a successful business you must expand your advertising boundaries to include as many prospects a possible. This means prospects from both your country and internationally.

The only way you can avoid prospects from outside your country is to avoid online marketing which is not advisable. At the same time you would not want to miss the opportunities to promote to people you meet, friends
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