Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 392 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

Stop and think why it is smart to invest cash into your PSAs. Would it be better if you didn't? What are they learning when you send them TCredits or Gift Certificates. Does it help or hinder them? does it really help you? What happens when you no longer have the funds to continue the hand outs?

There are several reasons why you might give cash or TCredits to PSAs
1. You might be running a contest to stimulate them to specific actions
2. You may be rewarding them for past actions and achievements.
3. You might be giving them that little "help" to reach their goals, or your goal for them.

If they get used to your benevolence, will they perform at their best when you have to stop giving out the treats?There is a good chance that they will think that you have given up, and they will give up.

While the random reward or help will stimulate the recipient to work harder, generally it is not permanently beneficial.

What is a more permanent approach to keeping your PSAs fired-up about working SFI is your weekly communications
1. recognizing their success,
2. telling them about your struggles and successes,
3. giving them new ideas for old challenges,
4. teaching them how to do something that they have been avoiding
5. giving them some uplifting quotes
6. suggesting books on success, positive attitude, marketing.
7. teaching the benefits to them and their team of duplication
8. helping them make sales

There is a lot of things we can do to keep our PSAs active without giving them money. These 8 ideas can take most of a year to develop. In that time there should be some real excitement building as the team grows.
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Stop and think why it is smart to invest cash into your PSAs. Would it be better if you didn't? What are they learning when you send them TCredits or Gift Certificates. Does it help or hinder them? does it really help you? What happens when you no longer have the funds to continue the hand outs?

There are several reasons why you might give cash or TCredits to PSAs
1. You might be running a contest to stimulate them to specific actions
2. You may be rewarding them for past actions
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

It is evidenced that providing financial support to one's team members, by investing in them, may be useful in helping them growth their business faster.

But, it is far from being the only effective mean for guiding them to success. Nor is it necessarily the best. It is certainly not the most constantly used to encourage affiliates to be active and productive.

In fact, as sponsors, our role is, first and foremost, defined as friend, and mentor. Our job is to establish a one-on-one business relationship with our PSAs.

We achieve such goal of being an effective sponsor by following the established guidelines.

Among the suggested sponsoring support that has direct link with investing funds on an affiliate, we find:

- Offering incentives, such as free leads, and SFI Gift Certificate, etc. to encourage affiliates to accumulate VersaPoints and become an Executive Affiliate.

- Adding them to the S-Builder Co-op we may have set for our own advertisement.

- Helping them qualify for the Silver and Gold Fast Tracks.

- Rewarding contest winners with worthwhile prizes that keep them interested in take part in those contests in the future while they also get the benefits of building their businesses.

To reach the same intended results, there are numerous ways to substitute other activities and forms of support..

Instead of free leads and/or membership to our S-Builder co-op, we can re-assign some of our sign-ups to the affiliate we want to help.

Instead of gift certificates, we can direct the affiliate to undertake the sales activities that will help them score enough Sales VersaPoints that will qualify them as Executive affiliate while they are earning commissions.

We should educate them on the alternative ways to qualify for Gold Fast Track, using the second chance options available to affiliates who miss the deadlines of the first ten days, after joining SFI.

More importantly, what provides true lasting benefits is the trust we build with our affiliate. When we create that special rapport, bond and friendship, our PSA will feel understood, valued, and cared for. They will know that we have their best interest in mind. They will be responsive to our guidance; they will use our tips. They will take our advice to focus on sales and sponsoring.

They will be highly active to their own benefits and ours.

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It is evidenced that providing financial support to one's team members, by investing in them, may be useful in helping them growth their business faster.

But, it is far from being the only effective mean for guiding them to success. Nor is it necessarily the best. It is certainly not the most constantly used to encourage affiliates to be active and productive.

In fact, as sponsors, our role is, first and foremost, defined as friend, and mentor. Our job is to establish a
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 593 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Encouraging your PSAs to stay active doesn’t necessarily have to cost you money. There are ways to get them motivated without costing you a single dime, if you develop a strategy that will continually help them to focus on their long term goal.

Here are effective ways to keep your PSAs active for the long term:

- You need to communicate clearly with your new PSAs right on their first day that they have to be discipline, to be logging in everyday and that there is work involved to grow their own SFI business.

- Emphasize to them clearly that SFI has designed a simple system that can be duplicated and if they put their mind on this system wholeheartedly, they could realized their long term goals.

- Provide support and follow-up to your PSAs, if you truly want to build a solid and profitable network marketing business. Right in the beginning, you need to set the tone, being focus on monitoring the development and growth of your PSAs.

Work closely and be supportive to them. No one is guaranteed success. However, you will be amazed at how high of a success rate you will have with those you personally sponsor when you work closely with them and are supportive of their efforts. Granted some people will never do what they need to do and you can't build the business for them. But, if you provide support and show you care, you encourage them to stay active.

- Follow-up is following-through. Just because someone signed up, does not mean your job is completed. You must follow-up with your new PSAs as soon as you get the notification of their sign ups. Send them your warm welcome and let them know that they have made a good decision in joining SFI. Send them a clear message that there is work involved to earn their commissions and they need to develop a habit of logging in daily starting from SFI BASICS and LAUNCHPAD to get them started in the right direction. Make certain they are tapping into the resources and getting off to a good start.

- Monitor their progress and look for common challenges in their journey with SFI. Most likely you’ll find solutions using the SFI tools and resources. You need to allocate time in learning how to get the most out of SFI tools and resources. You’ll find this to be invaluable in helping your PSAs to stay active.

- An excellent way of encouraging them to stay active is helping your first level PSAs in the aspect of team building, showing them how to help their first level PSAs, implementing the duplication process. You can look at this way, you must be able to help your first level and show them how to help their first level PSAs.

As a Team Leader, you’ll want them to do the same. If you can focus this goal of helping them, and you and your PSAs both make money, then you’re motivated to help your PSAs. They’ll start to see that SFI works and very likely they will stay active. Considering the fact that SFI stays up-to-date when it comes to the latest innovation in network marketing business, this should motivate you to get involved fully in growing their SFI business.

- Encourage your PSAs to concentrate on going through the Training/Marketing tabs. You have to emphasize to them that there is work required to earn their commissions, right from the start. By making clear this to them right at the very beginning, you help them clear up any misconceptions they might have before joining SFI. Knowing this fact, they wouldn’t be dependent of any incentives/reward from you but rather, they’ll work hard, because this is their own business.

- Create intimacy with your PSAs. What this means is to be genuine in your concern for your PSA as a person. Show them you are not just in it to get their money. You must go beyond just promoting to them SFI/TC products but help them get the skills need in expanding their network. If you provide value through concern for them as a person and deliver quality support in every way possible, you will find your PSAs will be there for the long term.

- Anticipate the needs of your PSAs in their development and growth. By staying in contact, you can anticipate or stay ahead of their needs. You will strengthen your relationship and will more fully understand their current needs. This ultimately leads to anticipation of future needs. Try to always think ahead. This will help you keep your PSAs happy, satisfied and even can help you to exceed expectations.

- Make your PSAs feel appreciated. One of the greatest needs of each person is the need of being appreciated. Very often appreciation is a greater reward than money. Show your sincere gratitude for the unique contribution everyone makes to your organization.

- Give as much support to your PSAs as you can. Even if your PSAs are self-disciplined and creative enough for finding solutions to various problems, anyway they are always in need of your guidance. Support them as much as you can, and they will be inspired to do the same for you.

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Encouraging your PSAs to stay active doesn’t necessarily have to cost you money. There are ways to get them motivated without costing you a single dime, if you develop a strategy that will continually help them to focus on their long term goal.

Here are effective ways to keep your PSAs active for the long term:

- You need to communicate clearly with your new PSAs right on their first day that they have to be discipline, to be logging in everyday and that there is work involved
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Wayne's 236 other Ask SC answers

As a new affiliate coming into SFI and wanting to build a good business they are going to see many forum post or stream messages that encourage them to help their down-lines become team leaders.

With that being said; we as team leaders need to be training our new affiliates what is the appropriate assistance that they should be giving their new and up-coming team leaders.

One of the easiest traps to fall into is when a teammate of ours will contact us with a plea for financial help. I am soft hearted and an easy pushover for a good hard luck story (because I have been there many times myself). So I ended up giving financial help too many different affiliates over the period of three years.

I kind of told myself; “This is an investment in my business,” As of today I must say it has been a bad investment. Not a single affiliate that I have helped financially is in my team today. As soon as I have helped them they disappear or quit by the end of the month.

So I would say that you do not need funds to invest in them because it doesn’t pay. Also when we are helping them financially we are setting a bad example for our teammates to follow. Remember we train our affiliates to duplicate our actions and many of our affiliates cannot afford to help others financially.

One other point to consider is that when helping our teammates financially we are helping to create “dependents” and that is not what we want to create, we want them to be in-dependent affiliates building their own business.

Give every kind of assistance that your affiliates needs as far as training, recognition, and in teaching them how to market and sell products. Help our affiliates sponsor people in their team then teach them to train their down-lines.

Stay in constant communication and contact with your affiliates and answer their questions as soon as you can.

Be the Awesome sponsor we all wish we had – but keep your wallet in your pocket or purse.

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As a new affiliate coming into SFI and wanting to build a good business they are going to see many forum post or stream messages that encourage them to help their down-lines become team leaders.

With that being said; we as team leaders need to be training our new affiliates what is the appropriate assistance that they should be giving their new and up-coming team leaders.

One of the easiest traps to fall into is when a teammate of ours will contact us with
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Affiliate since: 08/28/2022, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read John's 37 other Ask SC answers

Very good question

SFI offers many rewards for those affiliates who are active and without you having to invest any funds, so all you have to do is inform them and motivate them to go for these rewards.

Some of these rearwards are .......

1) The Daily Grand: In order to enter in the daily Grand an affiliate needs to visit his affiliate page on a daily basis. This will keep them active without you having to invest funds in them . You have to explain to them that the more entries they have the bigger chance is to win a prize. As you will see below the more active they get the more entries they will have in the Daily Grand.

One entry for producing at least 10 VP during the previous day
Second entry for producing at least 20 VP during the previous day
Two additional entries each day for maintaining a minimum 1500 VP Standing Order
One more entry for reviewing 30 Ask SC answers
One more entry for reviewing alerts and posts on your homepage's ALERTS tab

Now here comes the best part . For new affiliates they can earn one entry for 30 days in a row by becoming a Fast Track member and earn 2,3,5,7 or 10 entries as prizes in E365 rounds one through five.

So the daily Grand will keep them active if they go for the win. Make sure you point out the prizes as well . This information is available on the Win IT tab.

Also make sure to brag about your prizes and congratulate your team members In your Stream feed. This will add more activity to your team.

2) E365 prizes. Make sure you encourage your new affiliates to ake it to the E365 Finals. Once they become E365 Finalists then they need to collect 10 VP to enter in the E365 daily drawings. Always remind them that they could win the $ 50 daily prize or the 20 DSAs by securing the 10 AVP / Day. This should keep them a lot active.

3) Eeager Zebra Games : Are free to play and chances to win prizes again.

4) T-Time : Every hour they could win , no money required to participate.

Good luck and keep motivating your team


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Very good question

SFI offers many rewards for those affiliates who are active and without you having to invest any funds, so all you have to do is inform them and motivate them to go for these rewards.

Some of these rearwards are .......

1) The Daily Grand: In order to enter in the daily Grand an affiliate needs to visit his affiliate page on a daily basis. This will keep them active without you having to invest funds in them . You have to explain to them that
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

Encouraging your PSAs to stay active in SFI when you have no funds to invest is an art just as much as it is a matter of following the plan. PSAs that come to SFI looking for gift certificates have proven to be not serious about their own investment toward their future business success. So anytime a team member comes to SFI with the idea that someone else is supposed to invest in their success besides them is misguided. No business venture is successful without an investment of time and money.

That said, everyone comes to SFI to make money and improve their lifestyle and standard of living. Therefore, it is imperative that you mentor your team members and help them catch the vision for their SFI success using the plan found here: https://www.sfimg.com/the_plan Point them to the getting started video here: https://www.sfimg.com/start Then help them map out what a day looks like at their new business center here: https://www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics

Most team members come to the SFI business center with no prior knowledge or experience in running a business or internet marketing. So it is very important to take the time necessary to be sure that they understand the SFI Basics and where to start. This will eliminate the paralysis of analysis. It is easy to become overwhelmed when you do not know where to start or what to do.

Consequentially, you encourage your PSAs by investing the time in them they need to get a solid footing in the business. Don't shove standing orders, purchases, sales, or leadship responsibilities down their throats. But give them the basics. Allow room for their questions by asking open ending questions to get the conversation started. We are not independent bosses but independent mentors and should avail our time and talents freely to the team we are supporting. Follow the guideline for awesome sponsors as given here: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor Reward your active members by giving them recognition in the recognition forum and use ECards to give them the proverbial pat on the back for a job well done.

Finally, remember that your team doesn't care how successful you are. They are concerned with how successful they can be. When you show your team that you are genuinely concerned in their success, then they will become actively involved in their business and therefore perpetuate your success. This can be done without gift certificates, TCredits, or money. That's the beauty of the SFI success formula - invest the time in and the rest will come.


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Encouraging your PSAs to stay active in SFI when you have no funds to invest is an art just as much as it is a matter of following the plan. PSAs that come to SFI looking for gift certificates have proven to be not serious about their own investment toward their future business success. So anytime a team member comes to SFI with the idea that someone else is supposed to invest in their success besides them is misguided. No business venture is successful without an investment of time and money.
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Affiliate since: 01/16/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jaykant's 2 other Ask SC answers

In network marketing it is important to talk about your business and how you got this far. One of the mistakes you can make during these conversations is trying to convince people to join SFI. Personally, I do not feel that it is a matter of having to convince anyone at all, and here’s why:

With anything that we do in life that involves people, whether personally or professionally, it starts with building and nurturing relationships. Let’s say you have a friend who has come to you in dire need of advice. Why did they come to you? Because you have built that relationship and have earned their trust.

The same principle can be applied to your SFI business. As you build, develop and grow your team, enter into conversations with your downline. Get to know them. Find out about things like family, hobbies, sports, where they live, etc. This demonstrates to them that you are genuinely interested in them as a person and not just another pay cheque. As you develop relationships with your downline members, you will, in time, earn their trust, and once they trust you, then it is not longer a matter of having to convince them… all you will have to do is teach and show them how to make money with SFI and they will instinctively follow your lead out of trust in you.

What can you do?

It’s hard to convince people to do anything without showing them some sort of proof, and many affiliates have not yet earned the kind of income that could inspire someone to join SFI on that premise alone.

Even if you could show how successful you are, it doesn’t mean that the individuals you are trying to convince will obtain the same results, so it’s always best to avoid giving any tangible proof that may ultimately back-fire on you.

Instead of just focusing on how much money they can earn, why not turn the conversation around to the many opportunities and benefits SFI has to offer. A good way to do this is by talking about your own experience.

Tell them about your achievements and how you have learned more than you could ever have imagined; how you continue to learn something new each day. Tell them about your badges or the prizes you have won, or any other accomplishment you are particularly proud of. But most of all, allow your enthusiasm and passion for SFI to shine through.

Let your prospects know that by joining SFI, not only will they have free access to valuable information; they will also have many useful tools at their disposal to help them grow their business. And, although their level of success will depend entirely on how much time and effort they dedicate to their new venture, assure them that they can always count on you to guide and support them.
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In network marketing it is important to talk about your business and how you got this far. One of the mistakes you can make during these conversations is trying to convince people to join SFI. Personally, I do not feel that it is a matter of having to convince anyone at all, and here’s why:

With anything that we do in life that involves people, whether personally or professionally, it starts with building and nurturing relationships. Let’s say you have a friend who has come to you
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Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Gilbert,

This is a tricky question as alot of PSAs join out of curiousity, how to make quick cash as the word used to entice them is FREE to JOIN.

Considering that, each affiliate is accountable for themselves. Forninstance, if they have a shop, they need to open every day to transact business and make sales. Without opening their shop, no sales can be made. That is my first approach.

My next approach is to teach and guide them. As a good mentor or sponsor, Let them know you are there to support them in every way explaining to them that its their business and that no matter the little financial commitment they have, that it would go a long way to help build their business.

Do not offer them something that you cannot meet up with or break the bank for. Try to be honest, tactful and helpful to encourage your PSAs

In summary, we should:-

1. Work with the workers & guide them to grow and advance slowly but steadily.
2. Invest your precious time grooming, teaching and training them which is the best investment.
3. Share tips that can help them to grow their business.
4. Share your achievement which can be viewedmon your homepage.
5. Provide them more and more Testimonials of other Affiliates regularly.
6. Make them understand that they have immense potential to succeed and its their own business.
7. Remain their trust worthy friend.

Hope it helps

All the best.
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Good day Gilbert,

This is a tricky question as alot of PSAs join out of curiousity, how to make quick cash as the word used to entice them is FREE to JOIN.

Considering that, each affiliate is accountable for themselves. Forninstance, if they have a shop, they need to open every day to transact business and make sales. Without opening their shop, no sales can be made. That is my first approach.

My next approach is to teach and guide them. As a good mentor or
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Affiliate since: 11/24/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Pamela's 32 other Ask SC answers

Its very plain & simple. I can tell you from my very own, experience. I can also help you to ride that path, even more simplified then I myself did! I'm here to help you & inspire you, to persevere on.

See, when I too, 1st started here, reading, "you can also gift your team!". Use to make me burn,flame up, with intimidation too.

This one question, use to burn in my mind! "How they expect me to recruit new team members, Psa's & Prm's, invest in a monthly Standing Order,(invest in Psa's) & gift my team too? Well I couldn't & wouldn't be doing that & maintaining my personal fiances too! Go figure! I just couldn't see that happening. After all, I'm here in need of the need to make more money!

Well that was just a bit to confusing & a bit to much to be asking for. After all, I signed-up to a business, I'm sure, i have read that was Free, right! But thanks, to my determination & In time, i've figured it out!

Today, I'm here, to make that path & the logic reasonable & totally easy & understandable for you & I hope you share this, knowledge proudly with all your pending team members too.

Today, you may not be imposition to gift your team, 1st of all your never obligated too, its your choice. If you have minimum funds, then be honest with your team, its quite OK, to share that amongst them.

Now, for the fun part! Anybody, that trains here, remains here,learns, studies, applies themselves & this business in-house tools & duplicates everything they do to their teams,will eventually be in position, to afford, any & everything, their heart so desires, especially the choice of gifting & investing in their teams, if their hearts & pockets desires to.

But make you know, your not here to buy in your teams working ability, your hear to build & train your team, to build their teams too. One should only reward those team members, who work & earn Team leader's rewards. this is so very important to you & your team too. No one is here to be taken advantage of. So be mind of this,

I believe in, going forth, one step at a time & "Trusting the Process!" With that said, empower yourself 1st here with all the knowledge available to you, while doing so build your team & your sales, stick to the wicket & the funds will come!
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Its very plain & simple. I can tell you from my very own, experience. I can also help you to ride that path, even more simplified then I myself did! I'm here to help you & inspire you, to persevere on.

See, when I too, 1st started here, reading, "you can also gift your team!". Use to make me burn,flame up, with intimidation too.

This one question, use to burn in my mind! "How they expect me to recruit new team members, Psa's & Prm's, invest in a
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Having no funds to invest makes SFI more challenging. Many of us don't have funds, so here are some suggestions.

1. Write affirmations using all of the methods available in SFI. Stream, chat, message, and ecards.

2. Place some free advertisements for your members using their ID instead of yours.

3. Set up a coop for your standing order, and place them in your coop so they get signups. You can service their signups even if they are in your 2nd level if your PSA doesn't follow through for you.

4. Send them informative messages.

5. Help them with ECA set ups. Encourage them to set up and ECA for themselves and anyone else they can. Having an ECA both their own ECA and other people's ECA helps them to stay more involved and interested. Gives them some DC income.

6. Reassign members to them even if they are inactive. Try to match them to their language and region. If you have active members you can reassign, you don't lose them, you can continue to work with them. I do it through my PSA by sending copies of everything I do for his PSA, and getting his permission. That helps to keep both of them involved, especially if they are new to SFI.
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Having no funds to invest makes SFI more challenging. Many of us don't have funds, so here are some suggestions.

1. Write affirmations using all of the methods available in SFI. Stream, chat, message, and ecards.

2. Place some free advertisements for your members using their ID instead of yours.

3. Set up a coop for your standing order, and place them in your coop so they get signups. You can service their signups even if they are in your 2nd level if your PSA doesn't
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