Affiliate since: 07/08/2018, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ufuomaoghene's 238 other Ask SC answers

Good day Earl,

SFI indeed is an International Company as countries from different continents join for the sole aim of improving their Standard of Living.

Advertise Locally:- When we advertise online, our adverts are seen by different people around the world. If we as online marketers want to streamline our market or get affiliates within your country, we can place our advertisement locally to get sign ups. With that, it makes communication easier thereby overcoming Language Barrier.

Getting to know affiliates Spoken Language and using Google Translators:- Usually, when we get our sign ups, on their Snap shot page, it is filled up by them their Primary Language. If Primary Language Is not English, we as Sponsors should not give up easily as there are different ways of Communicating with them by use of Google Translators. With that, we type a mail and copy to the Google Translators to the Affiliate preferred Language. Once translated to the affiliate preferred Language, we send them a mail. This is the first contact with our new sign ups who do not speak English as their Primary Language. This is good as sending a mail in their Language helps to build rapport and a good relationship with the new PSAs so that they do not loose track or drop off due to communication barrier.

Using the Reassign Tool:- We as Sponsors, when we realise that we are not Communicating effectively with our PSAs/CSAs, we can re assign them to hardworking affiliates in our team of the same country or if CSAs, through the CSA exchange pool. These are wonderful tools by SFI as its a win - win situation. Win - Win situation as we are helping our hardworking PSA build their their team as they are communicating with people from their country. Also with the new Team Leadership advantage, a BTL can also transfer his CSAs to hard working CSAs from the same country .This is a way of appreciating such CSAs as they are building their team as well. Likewise, exchanging some of my CSAs not from my country to ones from my country via the CSA exchange pool.

Use Simple and Concised words in Communication:- As sponsors, when we are aware that our PSAs/CSAs are not too fluent with the use of English, we should try as much as possible to Keep It Short and Simple (KISS) for clarity and ease of communication.

These are some good ways of overcoming Language Barrier when communicating with your team members and I do hope this information would be of use to you.

All the best Earl.

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Good day Earl,

SFI indeed is an International Company as countries from different continents join for the sole aim of improving their Standard of Living.

Advertise Locally:- When we advertise online, our adverts are seen by different people around the world. If we as online marketers want to streamline our market or get affiliates within your country, we can place our advertisement locally to get sign ups. With that, it makes communication easier thereby overcoming Language
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Affiliate since: 11/14/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read VIVEK KUMAR A's 129 other Ask SC answers

Yes, SFI is truly an International company. Hence, we have to have alliance with various nationals of the world in form of new prospects, PSAs, PRMs, CSAs and ECAs. You have to communicate with them on regular basis and language at times is really a big barrier in achieving your objective.

Although, Google Translator or translator at SFI are present to take help of, but they at times can really go wrong. They would be helpful most of the times but not always, hence there is a need of some more ways to be looked into.

They can be:

1. Country Forums: SFI has introduced country forums where you can communicate in local language to help your recipient understand better. As this may still not address to all whom you want to communicate, you have:

2. A2A Friends: You can take help of A2A friends from those countries, where your recipient resides or follow the language to get your text translated. You can then forward the translation to them.

3. Webinar: You can have webinars conducted in one common language, say English and then the transcripts made available in different languages for all your associates to understand. Your website would play an important role in this case.

4. Reassignment tool: Having tried the above methods still your results are not to your satisfaction, then you can use the option of reassignment of your PSAs or CSAs to your other active team members from those countries. This would not only help you meet your objective but also would be a great incentive for your active team members.

5. CSA Exchange Pool: Although this addresses the issue related to CSAs only but can be used. It has been introduced with a basic objective to reduce the language barrier and provide better guidance to SFI affiliates who face the language issue.

There is no one solution that can address the issue is all circumstances. Hence you have to be open to; and practice combination of methods to have a maximum effect.

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Yes, SFI is truly an International company. Hence, we have to have alliance with various nationals of the world in form of new prospects, PSAs, PRMs, CSAs and ECAs. You have to communicate with them on regular basis and language at times is really a big barrier in achieving your objective.

Although, Google Translator or translator at SFI are present to take help of, but they at times can really go wrong. They would be helpful most of the times but not always, hence there is a need of some
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 104 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

I think most affiliates who join SFI must have a basic knowledge of English that enable them to understand enough to fill up the joining form. But problems may arise when communicating once they log in and try get started.

There are many ways to overcome the language barrier. The following are some of the most practical ways we can use to our advantage.

GoogleTranslate. Although Google Translate can only give a literal translation of English words to another language, it can help bridge the gap in communication.

Used properly, it can help getting your points across by using simple words in a short question and answer format.

You write what you want to say in English, then ask Google to translate it, copy the translation and send both the English and the translation to the person you’re communicating with.

Translate option. When sending a Welcome E-Card, write a short message in the new person’s language with advice to use the Translate Option in his homepage and everything will be translated for easy understanding of SFI procedures to help with getting started properly.

Enlist the help of an a2a friend from the same country to translate for you a message to give to your member to visit the Sub-Forum My Country/My Region where he can post a question or seek help in his native language and someone from his country who speaks his dialect can help.

Use Reassignment tool. Go to your Genealogy and choose Geography to find someone in your team who comes from the same country. Ensure you inform the PSA of the reason for the reassignment. This tool is also very useful for reassigning CSAs as well.

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I think most affiliates who join SFI must have a basic knowledge of English that enable them to understand enough to fill up the joining form. But problems may arise when communicating once they log in and try get started.

There are many ways to overcome the language barrier. The following are some of the most practical ways we can use to our advantage.

GoogleTranslate. Although Google Translate can only give a literal translation of English words to another language, it can
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Affiliate since: 12/05/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Warren's 21 other Ask SC answers

Launching a business in your own country is a challenge in its own right. Expanding your business internationally faces many more challenges, language barriers, cultural, financial, and legal considerations are all important, but overcoming the language barrier is the most difficult challenge encountered by everyone involved. Lack of communication with your international affiliates will negatively affect your chances of communicating successfully. That is why it is crucial to break down these language barriers.

Here are my best methods to get you started:

1. Narrow Your Market
Before you begin recruiting new affiliates narrow down your market/search. It will benefit you to tackle select markets and not every market – don’t spread yourself to far.

2. Know Which Language Is Spoken
Do your research – find out which languages are spoken in your market before you can even attempt an effective marketing campaign. This will immediately be in your favor, showing respect for local language by doing your homework to learn and understand the local customs and language.

3. Translate Marketing Tools
Translating key SFI marketing tools, i.e. pamphlets, brochures, fliers etc. into the native language of your new affiliates is crucial. Make sure these are proof read for language and grammar errors, you may need the help of an interpreter to assist as this is a costly outlay so get it done right before going to print.

4. Hire an Interpreter
If you are not comfortable nor fluent in the local language, your best approach would be to hire an interpreter who can present to your potential market/affiliates in their local language avoiding any miscommunication.

5. Advantages of Modern Technology
SFI offers a translation platform which you can make us of, but from experience Google Translate ranks amongst your best option currently, but for difficult languages like Russian, Afrikaans, a local translator platform designed for that specific language will be more effective and accurate. Simplify and translate short concise points/facts as opposed to lengthy long sentences, this is proven to be more effective.

6. Avoid Idioms, Jargon, And Slang Words
When communicating in English with international affiliates who may have some grasp of the English language, avoid idioms, jargon, and slang words – these will only confuse - use more formal English to ensure easier understanding. Speaking slowly and clearly.

7. Visual Communication
Visual communication methods, i.e. emailing or personally presenting your presentation onto a screen, slideshows, handouts, brochures, pamphlets are an extremely powerful communication tool. Remember, affiliates are visual learners. If you can, avoid too much text, you want to use pictures and visual aid to communicate better.

8. Learn The Basics
Learn the basics of your affiliates language - greetings and common phrases. By learning these basics, it creates a team that will coexist, succeed and communicate, this applies to you too!

9. Clarification
Never assume that your affiliates understood what was presented and explained initially. Encourage questions and feedback, comment cards are handy to give you feedback on the level of understanding.

International commuincation is a challenge for every marketer to overcome, don’t be shy you may have just learned a couple of phrases and are a bit embarrassed about not being fluent in the affiliates language. Get over that, you’re trying and only time and practice will improve this. The more you learn the local language, the better your marketing success will become.

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Launching a business in your own country is a challenge in its own right. Expanding your business internationally faces many more challenges, language barriers, cultural, financial, and legal considerations are all important, but overcoming the language barrier is the most difficult challenge encountered by everyone involved. Lack of communication with your international affiliates will negatively affect your chances of communicating successfully. That is why it is crucial to break down these language
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI being an international company, naturally English alone can be expected as the Main language for communication. However, the following options are available to communicate effectively both with SFI & your Team.

1. Using the Translator facility provided by SFI. There are very good sites that help in
Translating English text in to various other languages and vise versa. Please do a
Google search and you will be able to find them or Try these:
www.freetranslation.com; babelfish.altavista.com, or World Lingo,.

2. Taking part in your Country’s Forum .

3. Reassigning the PSAs to a performing PSA of their country, in your Team.

4. Exchanging CSAs of other countries with CSAs of your country through the CSA
exchange program provided by SFI.

5. Create A2A friends from countries, from where you have your majority of team members, and seek their help on specific issues.

6. In case English is the problem for you to communicate, if you are so committed to
SFI business for a long term, then its better to learn the language from now onwards.
Again, there are Free Tutorials available in the net which you can make use of.

7. Alternative will be, if you have institutes that offer English Communication courses in
your Country, you can join them. It will help a lot.

Finally, please strive to introduce more people from your Own Country/Region/Area which can effectively help you to build your Team quickly.


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SFI being an international company, naturally English alone can be expected as the Main language for communication. However, the following options are available to communicate effectively both with SFI & your Team.

1. Using the Translator facility provided by SFI. There are very good sites that help in
Translating English text in to various other languages and vise versa. Please do a
Google search and you will be able to find them or Try these:
www.freetranslation.com;
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2024, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

The best way to overcome the language barrier is to communicate right where your affiliates are. If you get a message in french, then use google translate to write a message in english then translate it in french. When I am in chat with such affiliate, I have my screen split so that I can copy and paste what they say directly into Google translate. Then I give my answer to the translator to come up with an answer in their native tongue.

This is the best way I have found to communicate with those partners that don't speak english. Likewise, I realize that English is an universal language in much of the world. So no matter which country your partners are from there are those in the SFI family that are fluent in more than one language. So the reassignment tool allows team leaders to reassign affiliates from the same geographical region to foster goodwill and to give our team members the best chance of success.

Finally, if you don't have many affiliates from a particular region, then you can reach out to an A2A friend that may be fluent in English and the native language of your team member. You may have to reciprocate something of value with your A2A friend but I'm sure you can get someone of a native language to translate your messages into the language needed to support your team mates.
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The best way to overcome the language barrier is to communicate right where your affiliates are. If you get a message in french, then use google translate to write a message in english then translate it in french. When I am in chat with such affiliate, I have my screen split so that I can copy and paste what they say directly into Google translate. Then I give my answer to the translator to come up with an answer in their native tongue.

This is the best way I have found to communicate
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Affiliate since: 12/01/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Elvedina's 9 other Ask SC answers

When you communicate, keep in mind that even though English is considered the international language of business, it is a mistake to assume that every business person speaks good English. In fact, only about half of the 800 million people who speak English learned it as a first language. And, those who speak it as a second language are often more limited than native speakers.
When you communicate cross-culturally, make particular efforts to keeping your communication clear, simple and unambiguous.
And (sadly) avoid humor until you know that the person you're communicating with "gets it" and isn't offended by it. Humor is notoriously culture-specific: Many things that pass for humor in one culture can be seen as grossly offensive in another.
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When you communicate, keep in mind that even though English is considered the international language of business, it is a mistake to assume that every business person speaks good English. In fact, only about half of the 800 million people who speak English learned it as a first language. And, those who speak it as a second language are often more limited than native speakers.
When you communicate cross-culturally, make particular efforts to keeping your communication clear, simple and unambiguous.
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Affiliate since: 06/05/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abe's 168 other Ask SC answers

Sometimes we go through obstacles to achieve things and language barrier is
One of them, but we are also in this technology advanced world and we can do
Many things if we put our effort in to it.

Even if English is not a common language for all, most part of the World learn and
Speak English. The place I came in, we have our own language no other part of the
World speak except us, yet learning English is a requirement. Start from grade
School. Then past seven grade all subject given in English except one subject of our
Own language. Even if we don’t speak a perfect English, and have different accent
We get a basic understanding to communicate and write.

If you look on your notification, when someone signed in, 95% of the time what they
Put in their primary language is English even if they are not primary English speaking
Countries.

On the other hand most English speaking tourists travel all over the world and most
Communicates with them while they visit their country, businesses moved over seas
In short English is spoken by others more than we think.

You have a choices of many, can use language translator, Google, Bing, will give
You that advantage.

You can pair your affiliates with their own language speaking affiliates if they
Choose too. But always give them the choice, don’t be a decision maker for them.
I ask even my CSA’s if they want me to exchange them with their own country
Speaking People. ( pool ) But even that sometimes doesn’t work. All we see is they are
from the same Country but we don’t realize even within their own country they speak different languages, that’s why asking them is very important.

Only when I don’t get respond, then I assign them to their country regardless.
( Place them in the pool )

You can encourage them to join forum of their language speakers and to help each
Other.
If you get a little more creative, you can solve this problem and get success on your
International team building.

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Sometimes we go through obstacles to achieve things and language barrier is
One of them, but we are also in this technology advanced world and we can do
Many things if we put our effort in to it.

Even if English is not a common language for all, most part of the World learn and
Speak English. The place I came in, we have our own language no other part of the
World speak except us, yet learning English is a requirement. Start from grade
School. Then past seven
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Affiliate since: 10/05/2011, Power Rank: 311 | Read Francis's 105 other Ask SC answers

As your question rightly states, SFI crosses all borders around the world. The main reason for its success is because of the language it speaks, “business!”

The key to communicating this language of business is “understanding” and this means one can still make himself or herself understood to people who do not converse in the same spoken language, in this case English.

The easiest way to do this is by using Translation tools. Almost every major language of the world can now be easily translated online. In fact even the SFI homepage has a translation tool at the bottom. However, if you would like to send your new affiliate a message in their own language, just write down the message in English and check it for any spelling and grammar errors before translating it using other translation tools available on Google. If the affiliate writes to you in a language other than English, you can of course still use the translator. It will not be perfect but it will be understood!

Another way of minimising the language barrier is to re-assign your new non-English speaking affiliate to a PSA within your team who speaks their language. You are not really losing that affiliate, as he or she will still be in your downline.

The hardest part is to start, so just give it a try!



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As your question rightly states, SFI crosses all borders around the world. The main reason for its success is because of the language it speaks, “business!”

The key to communicating this language of business is “understanding” and this means one can still make himself or herself understood to people who do not converse in the same spoken language, in this case English.

The easiest way to do this is by using Translation tools. Almost every major language of the world
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Affiliate since: 01/11/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ingrid's 3 other Ask SC answers

For my oppinion there are no barrier for communication with people speaking other langage. On the SFI page we have a possibility to set the Google Translate in a lot of languages.
Somethimes using translator we even do not understand every translated word, but keep smiling and try to understand what was the message.
If you want communicate, you will find a way to understand.
On internet your can find a lot of other translator free programs, so keep searching and learn.
Best wishes for your future.

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For my oppinion there are no barrier for communication with people speaking other langage. On the SFI page we have a possibility to set the Google Translate in a lot of languages.
Somethimes using translator we even do not understand every translated word, but keep smiling and try to understand what was the message.
If you want communicate, you will find a way to understand.
On internet your can find a lot of other translator free programs, so keep searching and learn.
Best wishes
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