How important is it that your family embrace your SFI business...and what if they don't?

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Alvin Johnson, Aff (Michigan, US) Top Author Forum Guru 10/20/2015 3:30 am
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Question:
"How important is it that your family embrace your SFI business...and what if they don't?"


This is a very serious question. First of all you want your family to be just as serious as you are before sharing valuable information about SFI. You also want to avoid wasting valuable time.

Here is my own experience. Pitching any online business opportunity takes skill. Of course we have the experience, and we know this business has many rewards, but just
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Joan Wilson, Aff (Netherlands) Top Author Forum Guru 10/18/2015 9:17 am
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Hi,

This is a good question, and one I would gladly answer from experience. It is so important that our family embrace our SFI business. But, I must say; they don't, and why not? You may ask.

Some will not see what you see in an internet business. For them it is not legal or a scam. Seeing is believing for them where this concerns. And, there some who will encourage you to go ahead and do it.

Yes, we want them be apart of this business, but they will only wait, and
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Hetty Lenten, Aff (Germany) Top Author Forum Guru 10/18/2015 3:27 pm
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Hello Andjela,


Good question,let me ask you: ,how important is that for you,because the SFI business is your business and sure you want your family that they like SFI and do something with it or become member..

My experience with the family is,i'm very enthousiastic and all the possibilitys are there, and yet my family response : oh nice and they live there life. So do not despere if they don't like it or not interested, they will be interested when you are make some
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Corrisa Malone, Aff (California, US) Top Author Forum Guru 10/17/2015 4:38 am
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It’s very important that your family embrace what you’re doing because when you have full support and someone cheering you on, it creates a better atmosphere for your success.

When you’re around negativity and doubts about your ability and business choices, it makes it much more challenging to build a business.

Unless your family has a background in business, they’re not going to understand what you’re doing - and that’s ok. What you do want to tell them that you
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Dušica Jovanović, Aff (Montenegro) Top Author Forum Guru 10/19/2015 4:22 am
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I am sure that mutual work of the family members in promoting is very important for success in any business, so in SFI business too. But some family members look differently, they are skeptic. They don't believe that after a certain period investments of money, work and time into SFI business will lead to more prosperous life.

The question is what if the family members don't embrace the SFI business. My answer is : GO ON in spite of all obstacles.

My experience is just like
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Cal Warren Akers, Aff (Pennsylvania, US) Top Author Forum Guru 10/15/2015 6:10 am
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Andjela, it would be a wonderful thing if your "family embraced your SFI business" in the same way as you do. Unfortunately, however, such is normally not the case. Most people, and this would likewise include most family members, are interested in more "immediate gratification", the kind received from regular-paying jobs.

You on the other hand, must find the strength to move on despite the opposition you may receive from family members. You must not allow their negativity
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Gyanendra Puri, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 10/19/2015 2:15 am
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That's a very good question and faced by almost all PSAs.
The support of family is very important and if you get your family's support initially then your SFI business will skyrocket immediately. But it doesn't always happen that way. Most of us face this challenge and wished we could get family's support. In my personal case too I too wished all my family members supported me but it is not there. But its a challenge for me. I have taken it as a project to be completed anyhow. I am prepared
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 10/19/2015 6:51 am
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It is very important that your family embrace your SFI business because it will impact on
them in many ways.Remember,when you start a business,it wont affect you alone but your
whole household.The family finances are involved and the other partner need to be consulted
for is or her approval.The other way to elicit support from your loved ones is to discuss
your business with them.

Show them exactly what you're doing,where your started and where you are presently.In
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Ufuomaoghene Afekhuai, Aff (Nigeria) Top Author Forum Guru 10/23/2015 8:55 pm
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Good day Andjela,

Based on my experience, I would say its insignificant.

Why?

Because as a business owner, whether you get the support from your parents or not, and you keep striving, you will excel and make it. For instance, if you are dependent on your parents, then it would be of great concern as you would be going beyond their wish as they might feel you are wasting you time and money on irrelevant things.

On the other hand, if they support you,
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 10/20/2015 7:45 am
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For me, personally, it's more important that my family embrace ME, than embrace my SFI business. If they embrace me, they automatically embrace my SFI business whether or not they believe that it will be my ticket to future financial success.

Of course I'd like it if my family also actually believe that SFI is my ticket to future financial success, but it doesn't matter to me if they don't. As long as they are happy with me spending time on my SFI business, I look forward to making them
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