Affiliate since: 11/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read VIVEK KUMAR A's 129 other Ask SC answers

Stream posts can be a powerful tool to communicate and train your team. Although, it has a limit in length of text that you post but an advantage that they are viewed by all affiliates in your team at all levels.

You can inform them about:

1. An event. It could be, spin & win; any SFI news or to carry forward of VP’s for new comers who could not qualify as EA last month within first week of subsequent month.

2. You can update them with any contest you have launched on your leadership page or starting of a co-op with its qualifying norms.

3. You can also update your team with marketing tips that they can use to strengthen their business.

4. You can provide them with links to training lessons that can help them understand SFI processes and grow their level of knowledge to help grow their business.

5. You can share successful and time tested strategies with the team to know and guide them to advance towards growth.

6. You can start a discussion and brainstorm over topics where each one of your team member contributes and eventually grow their knowledge horizons.

7. You can adopt ways and means to acknowledge their achievements, praise their work or motivate your team members.

8. If you are an ECA you can post about various products you are selling; with their USPs and / or any hot deal offers and promote them within your team.

9. You can promote your member listing item by posting a description about it, for your team members to know.

Although there is no limit to no. of posts you can post here but above all, not to forget that your first 3 posts fetch you 3 valuable VP each week.

It is one good way to communicate to your team members and others in the team know about the stars of your team.

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Stream posts can be a powerful tool to communicate and train your team. Although, it has a limit in length of text that you post but an advantage that they are viewed by all affiliates in your team at all levels.

You can inform them about:

1. An event. It could be, spin & win; any SFI news or to carry forward of VP’s for new comers who could not qualify as EA last month within first week of subsequent month.

2. You can update them with any contest you have
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Susan,

Stream posts are good ways to communicate with your PSAS and CSAs to get them actively involved. Stream posts can either be Motivational, Informational, Educational, Affirmative or Acclimation.

Its quite important as a Sponsor or Co spononsor to know the difference instead of over whelming them with information that might be confusing.

For me indulging them or getting them engaged, in using stream post I tell them the importance as they can be used to:-

1. Give short information for them to read up (Regarded as Informative)

2. Dissemminate SFI news to their team and their downlines which we can be regarded as Informative.

3. Praise hardworking affiliates in the team for achieving certain parameters or goals (Regarded as Motivational).

4 . Congratulate them if they win at the Daily Grand can be regarded as Affirmative.

5. Share tips on how to build their team.(Informative).

6. You winning at the Daily Grand can be regarded as Motivational. As this can encourage your downlines to participate actively on their To Do List.

With stream post, you can post anytime and are meant to motivate and educate your affiliates where you can give tips, ideas or places on how to advertise their affiliate link.

You as their sponsor can put them in your co op if they achieve Team Leader positions or they are EAs. This is Motivation for hard work and encouragement.

You can also quote people that have achieve certain things in the past to encourage them and to let them know that its not anything new. For instance, When we say Quitters never quit or Setting goals that are to high to achieve is a failure above everyone else's success (James Cameron).

Stream posts, generally ensures that affiliates in our team regardless of how slow they respond to our emails usually respond to our stream post as its simplier, shorter and easier to understood.

In summary, use stream mails to pass information to our downlines, appreciate them when they have achieved certain parameters, inform them about your win , achievement so as to get them active and duplicate your actions.

Hope informtion is helpful.

All the best.
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Good day Susan,

Stream posts are good ways to communicate with your PSAS and CSAs to get them actively involved. Stream posts can either be Motivational, Informational, Educational, Affirmative or Acclimation.

Its quite important as a Sponsor or Co spononsor to know the difference instead of over whelming them with information that might be confusing.

For me indulging them or getting them engaged, in using stream post I tell them the importance as they can be used
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

There are times when you will want to get a short message out to your teammates in a hurry. SFI has provided a way for all affiliates to do just that. This is done through the communication system that is called the “Stream.”

With the Stream I can send messages to my a2a friends, my CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates), my PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or to my CSAs and PSAs combined.

The size of your messages must be no more than 340 characters long and that includes the spaces, periods, numbers and blank lines you might insert.

I have used the Stream three or more times a week right from the first week I enrolled in SFI. And some days I have posted as many as five times on the stream because of different teammates accomplishing task at different times during the day.

Use the stream to send a quick message to your team about changes in SFI or TripleClicks put a link in the stream so your teammates can click on it and go read the important information for themselves.

You can send your teammates suggestions and ideas on helping them build their home business. This is a stream message I sent a couple months ago (Posted on 10/03/2015):

“As I became older I found it hard to do the physical things that I used to do. My step father told me- "When you get older you have to find smarter ways to do the job easier." If you're finding it hard to get things done in SFI & TripleClicks then start looking for smarter and easier ways to accomplish what you need to do to succeed.”

Use the stream messages to encourage, motivate, recognition and inform your teammates they will appreciate the messages and some may even surprise you by responding back.

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There are times when you will want to get a short message out to your teammates in a hurry. SFI has provided a way for all affiliates to do just that. This is done through the communication system that is called the “Stream.”

With the Stream I can send messages to my a2a friends, my CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates), my PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) or to my CSAs and PSAs combined.

The size of your messages must be no more than 340 characters
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Affiliate since: 07/26/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

The best ways to engage your team through the stream is to remind them of the following:

1. SFI News Alerts. SFI News Alerts have vital information that's critical to daily operation of our business centers. Besides, there are developments highlighted that may be changes in policy or new policy. New features and tools are announce in the SFI News Alerts. In addition, the news alerts highlight useful resources and tips team leaders can use to improve business centers in their downline.

2. A thread that you have bookmarked from the forum. When I run across useful posts I try to bookmark them. I will reference those posts on my FB business profile, Twitter feed, or GooglePlus.

3. Ask SC Answer of the Day. Remind your team of the importance of Ask SC! There are jewels to be found that can serve as a catalyst to boost your income.

4. Quote of the Day. Witty axioms, metaphors, quotes, and interesting topics of conversation can serve to be a reminder of the big picture or the natural course of things. Give your team some food for thought!

5. Did You Know? Factoids about the business are always interesting and helps to keep the business alive. Share with your team SFI by the numbers and other interesting facts about SFI and your journey here.

6. Deal of the Day. Sharing a quick tip about the Deal of the Day can boost your SFI commissions. Remember the 3 basic pillars of SFI are sales, growth, and support.

7. Featured Marketing Aid. So many team members fail to take advantage of this point of referral. Remind your team to use the featured marketing aid in their advertising.

8. Goals Tab. Setting goals and following a plan of action to reach your goals are important to your SFI success. Have you set your SFI goals? Are you on track to meeting your goals?

9. Featured ECA. Sales are the lifeblood of any business and our ECAs provide over 80,000 products and services from around the world. Remind your team that you can support ECAs in their country and region as well as find highly rated ECAs right from the ECA tab! There are also links on sponsoring ECAs and ECA discussions at the Forum.

10. Eager Zebra Factoids. To promote EZ games, why not share an interesting factoid. Also from the EZ tab you can find helpful resources that provide training on how to boost your income playing EZ games!

11. PB Auctions Factoids. What better to build interest in Pricebenders Auctions than to share the savings! Let people know what they are missing out on. You can't win if you don't bid. Jump in and have a strategy and fun!

12. My Earnings. Remind your team that they can see where they stand commission wise. All they have to do is review the information on the scoreboard tab. They can also access leader boards from this tab. Ask open ended questions to get your team communicating about their income goals. Let your team know that they can update their goals anytime and they should be flexible to fit their present business needs.

These are just a few things to get the ball rolling as it relates to communication with your stream. Recently, the stream characters have been expanded but be brief and to the point. Keep your stream current up to 72 hours . There isn't a need to post things in the stream everyday but when the need arises don't hesitate to use this powerful resource.

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The best ways to engage your team through the stream is to remind them of the following:

1. SFI News Alerts. SFI News Alerts have vital information that's critical to daily operation of our business centers. Besides, there are developments highlighted that may be changes in policy or new policy. New features and tools are announce in the SFI News Alerts. In addition, the news alerts highlight useful resources and tips team leaders can use to improve business centers in their downline.
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Stream Posts is a powerful tool for communicating with your team members. Here are some ways to engage with your team through Stream Posts effectively:

- You can keep your message simple, but deep in meaning.

Communicate to them your strategy briefly. By doing this, you’re going to establish your strategy’s relevance with your team in a way that makes them care more about their development and growth in SFI. It should be at the core of all of your communications, a simple and inspiring message that is easy to relate to and understand. Strategy-specific messages linked to common purpose become tools to help your team members connect their day-to-day efforts.

- Not all messages are created equal. They need to be prioritized and sequenced based on their purpose. Think of the upcoming changes in 2016 the new Team Leader qualification added; you can re-emphasize this to your team with your post briefly and provide a short description of measures you’re going to take. This may spark their interest and would likely ask you for more. You can then expand on this topic on your weekly support message. Consider using a Share/Reinforce/Inspire framework when delivering your messages weekly, monthly and annually.

- Share important information to your team.

You can post important links resources that relate to marketing SFI such as live networking events, chambers of commerce sites, etc. You can even post threads links from the Forum that could help them in their training and support.

- Inspire your team.

Send inspiring messages to your team with their accomplishments. Whether you’re looking to build optimism, change focus, instill curiosity, or prepare them for future decisions, you’ll have more impact if you stir some emotion and create a lasting memory.

- Reinforce.

Most often you’ll have to repeat the message in order to increase understanding instill belief and lead to true change overtime. You might have developed an excellent strategy in marketing your SFI business but if it’s not communicated effectively, it is good for nothing. Write a few catchy words about it on the Stream Posts and direct them to your Leadership page for more.
These reinforcing messages need to come in a variety of tactics to be more effective. Ultimately, they serve to immerse your team in important content and give them the knowledge to confidently connect to your strategy.

- Recognize individuals in your team who consistently contribute growth to your organization such as sponsoring new affiliates every month, maintaining EA status, moving up to the next rank, etc.

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Stream Posts is a powerful tool for communicating with your team members. Here are some ways to engage with your team through Stream Posts effectively:

- You can keep your message simple, but deep in meaning.

Communicate to them your strategy briefly. By doing this, you’re going to establish your strategy’s relevance with your team in a way that makes them care more about their development and growth in SFI. It should be at the core of all of your communications, a simple
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 54 | Read George's 87 other Ask SC answers

It is of great value to use SFI Tools to cultivate your affiliates. And the Stream Message is a good one.

I see people wasting their stream message with meaningless dribble. I had one guy who posted every three days "Hello there". Sometimes he changed it to "Hi". This guy was after the VP, not the cash. A strong well educated and capable affiliate team earns you cash. Here are some stream messages that may help you to do just that.

Stream messages should generally be one of 5 types, Motivation, Affirmation, Information, Acclimation and Education. Affirmation, Acclimation and Information are usually time sensitive.

Affirmation: "Sally congratulations on winning the Daily Grand today."

Information: "Did you see the News Release concerning the new Genealogy update? Click here to learn more: http://news.sfimg.com/2015/07/23/new-genealogy-feature-send-e-cards-directly-to-your-affiliates/"

Acclimation: "Got an email today that was great to see. It said I won T-Time today - 2 TCredits added to my account. Are you playing T-Time? You can win 2 TCredits a day."

Education and MOtivation can often be sent anytime. Below are some Streams you can post anytime and are meant to motivate and educate your affiliates

1. Need to improve and increase your advertising? Contact me, your sponsor, and I will quickly and easily get you set up with SFI Banner ads all over the web

2. Rapportive — another free Gmail plugin, links people’s social profiles directly within your Gmail. It pulls Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Angel List, GitHub and other profiles directly into Gmail. In an instant, you can literally see who you’re chatting with, and what they’re all about.

3. "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." James Cameron

4. Did anyone know that you can put several photos into your goal's page?? If you do they rotate through the pictures. I just took my Goals pics and made an ad page sharing my goals. What are your goals. Take another step toward them everyday.

5. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau

6. LinkedIn – I had a LinkedIn profile for years before I realized how to leverage the platform. It’s free, and if you’re diligent about inviting everyone you meet, within a year you will be one or two connections away from a truly astounding number of people. I can’t imagine building a business without LinkedIn.

7. "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." John Wooden

8. HootSuite — is a favorite social media management tool. Manage Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and more all from one dashboard. You can setup alerts and tags, incorporate analytics, and auto-schedule posts and Tweets. There are other tools out there, but HootSuite is pretty solid — and Free

9. "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos

10. Are you posting to facebook? Post regularly.I use a tool that creates a redirect link, that allows me to post many good things to Facebook. I'll send you an example.

11. "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." Jim Rohn

12. What it comes down to is that there is a difference between just joining a company and being a real entrepreneur. And if you want to really succeed in network marketing you will need to put yourself firmly in the entrepreneur category.

13. "People who stick with one company for the long haul are 20 Times more likely to succeed!" Andre Vatke, Founder, Leaders Club, Jump Start You Business

14. A perfect quote for SFI: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ~ Thomas Edison

15. The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. - Joe Girard
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It is of great value to use SFI Tools to cultivate your affiliates. And the Stream Message is a good one.

I see people wasting their stream message with meaningless dribble. I had one guy who posted every three days "Hello there". Sometimes he changed it to "Hi". This guy was after the VP, not the cash. A strong well educated and capable affiliate team earns you cash. Here are some stream messages that may help you to do just that.

Stream messages should
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 75 | Read Aina's 157 other Ask SC answers

Stream Post are meant for sharing valuable post, where you can instantly send brief messages to your PSAs, CSAs, and/or your entire downline. You are automatically set to receive messages from your Sponsor, Co-Sponsor and Upline Team Leaders. You will also see messages from SFI Corporate and your A2A friends.

So, Stream is very useful where you can:
• Send important instruction to your PSAs, etc. You are able to send to certain level of PSAs in your group depending on your rank, example BTL from level 2 to 6, STL level 2 to 8 and so on. Communicate anything important, but in brief e.g if you are running a competition for your group. Or welcome message to your new PSAs, congrats messages for achievement or just plain motivational quotes to motivate your team of PSAs and CSAs.
• Disperse additional information. If you have or found something e.g good thread from ASK SC which crucial to their progress, just provide them those relevant links, so that they can do the reading by copy and paste those links to their browser.
• Often we see very useful tips from our Upline Team Leaders, use Stream to re-post it to your entire team.

With 3 days interval is recommended, posting at Stream is limited to 340 characters, you have to plan how you like to engage with your team, may by the importance or by the subject if nothing important to share. Definitely Stream will ensure that your precise communication will reach your team in the shortest time.

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Stream Post are meant for sharing valuable post, where you can instantly send brief messages to your PSAs, CSAs, and/or your entire downline. You are automatically set to receive messages from your Sponsor, Co-Sponsor and Upline Team Leaders. You will also see messages from SFI Corporate and your A2A friends.

So, Stream is very useful where you can:
• Send important instruction to your PSAs, etc. You are able to send to certain level of PSAs in your group depending on your rank,
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Affiliate since: 10/21/2011, Power Rank: 1239 | Read Cindy's 14 other Ask SC answers

Stream messages are like your Facebook or Twitter status updates. You just have to post any short messages since the character is limited to 340 only. My suggestions would be:

1. Post reminders about what they should be doing in SFI from time to time. For example: we should set our goal by the 10th of the month for 5 VP, tell them about that and they should do it before the 10th.

2. Did you just learn something new that would benefit to your SFI business and also to your team? Post it right away!

3. Have you read anything at the forum that interests you? Share the link to them.

4. Got an achievement or idea? Tell them about it.

5. And lastly, tell them the latest SFI news because it is important for us members to be updated.

Just a little reminder, do not post all of these at once or else they will be overwhelmed. Besides, SFI suggests us to post every 3 days interval but it is up to you how much you want it. If you post a reminder today, post a tip on the following day, and so forth.
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Stream messages are like your Facebook or Twitter status updates. You just have to post any short messages since the character is limited to 340 only. My suggestions would be:

1. Post reminders about what they should be doing in SFI from time to time. For example: we should set our goal by the 10th of the month for 5 VP, tell them about that and they should do it before the 10th.

2. Did you just learn something new that would benefit to your SFI business and also to your team?
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Affiliate since: 07/23/2021, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Girish's 23 other Ask SC answers

Stream messages are one of effective methods to get engaged with our affiliates.

1. Keep posting some important methods you involved during your journey.

2. Post the quotes related to our business and which in turn brings enthusiasm to affiliates.

3. Congrats Newest EA or qualified EA2s or any ranks on Streams to get other affiliates motivated.

4. Always try to post some unique ideas and strategies.

5. Arrange webinars or group conversations and invite the affiliates via Stream Messages

6. Assign some new tasks regularly to get involved in SFI Business .

7. Post Incentives/ Rewards for new tasks on stream messages.

8. Try to reply for good comments and possibly LIKE the nice comments, it creates good impact on the affiliates to get involved in stream posts and to learn the things .

9. If there is important news from SFI, post on stream so that the affiliates will be redirected to news.sfimg.com (New Affiliates are unaware of news)

10. Post New And Updated ideas on Sales And Sponsering.

11. Arrange Co-op unit and share on stream messages, for new affiliates to get involved effectively.

12. Never forget to wish during Important Days like Birthday of any affiliates or Festivals or something important.

Keep Stream Post Updated, Use it effectively.
Be Positive, Keep Posting, Get Engaged!
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Stream messages are one of effective methods to get engaged with our affiliates.

1. Keep posting some important methods you involved during your journey.

2. Post the quotes related to our business and which in turn brings enthusiasm to affiliates.

3. Congrats Newest EA or qualified EA2s or any ranks on Streams to get other affiliates motivated.

4. Always try to post some unique ideas and strategies.

5. Arrange webinars or group conversations
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Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 426 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

If an upline member writes in his/her stream ‘Welcome to SFI (name)’ and if this is his/her message most of the time, it’s not the most engaging message. Is it?

To me the ‘stream’ is a great way of building our teams and getting them engaged and active in the business.

The messages must be short but lively, active and useful.
Remember our team members are most likely to read these messages because:
- They have to review the Stream tab in order to earn their VP
- They do not have to read a long letter/email
They can also enter their own comments under your stream messages.

Take advantage of this and send them messages such as:
- Spin & Win alerts when this competition is on
- Topical and important announcement such as Signing Bonus, new Team Leader Requirements etc
- Encouraging messages to start, keep going etc..
- Encouraging & motivational quotes
- Useful business links etc
- Team news, team competition results
- Congratulatory messages etc..

Invite and encourage them to respond to your streams and when they do acknowledge their contributions and comments.

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If an upline member writes in his/her stream ‘Welcome to SFI (name)’ and if this is his/her message most of the time, it’s not the most engaging message. Is it?

To me the ‘stream’ is a great way of building our teams and getting them engaged and active in the business.

The messages must be short but lively, active and useful.
Remember our team members are most likely to read these messages because:
- They have to review the Stream tab in order to earn their
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