Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 16 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

Sponsors should help their affiliates by answering any questions they may have or helping them learn where things are on the SFI and TripleClicks sites. They should keep in touch with them and encourage them and motivate them.

Rules should be pointed out by sponsors if they see that an affiliate is trying to do things in a manner that would not be ethical or honest or could potentially be harmful to others. He/she should report to Support anything that does not look right or any messages from affiliates that are hurtful or abusive or that are not written according to the rules and policies of the business.

A sponsor should never do work for another affiliate. Each affiliate is responsible for logging in and working each day. Sponsors must not take over that responsibility.
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Sponsors should help their affiliates by answering any questions they may have or helping them learn where things are on the SFI and TripleClicks sites. They should keep in touch with them and encourage them and motivate them.

Rules should be pointed out by sponsors if they see that an affiliate is trying to do things in a manner that would not be ethical or honest or could potentially be harmful to others. He/she should report to Support anything that does not look right or any messages
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Affiliate since: 12/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999

This is the most relevant question for all the affiliates when they need first help of their sponsor/co sponsor.
“A blind cannot walk fast without a helping hand”.
The responsibility of sponsor/co sponsor is;
-to welcome affiliates with many returns to be persisted.
-to promote his/her down line group of very new or a few years old affiliates.
-to encourage the affiliates .
-to available for answering any time for any question.
-to train the affiliate as a sponsor.
-to help new affiliates at hard stuck points (offering TCredits, Gift cards ).
The affiliates are varied in knowledge. Therefore, necessary advice can be included in sponsor’s / co sponsor’s welcome message to save time and quick promote of such a tight task. Then the affiliates will be fast trackers as a result of sponsor’s duty.

According to the SFI rules sponsor/cosponsor has no limit of period or level to help the affiliates.(knowledge based)

Hope this answer will help.


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This is the most relevant question for all the affiliates when they need first help of their sponsor/co sponsor.
“A blind cannot walk fast without a helping hand”.
The responsibility of sponsor/co sponsor is;
-to welcome affiliates with many returns to be persisted.
-to promote his/her down line group of very new or a few years old affiliates.
-to encourage the affiliates .
-to available for answering any time for any question.
-to train the affiliate as
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Affiliate since: 11/29/2011, Power Rank: 22 | Read Gliceria's 402 other Ask SC answers

This is a very thought-provoking question that requires an equally well thought-out answer.

For me, there is no point at which help to deserving affiliates should be limited or held back.

Each affiliate has individual needs, and sponsors should be able to know what kind of help to offer based on the level of their activity.

By checking one’s Genealogy, sponsors can see who are committed to seriously building their business.

Sponsors should focus more on helping those who are helping themselves by being regularly on the Movers list.

These are the ones who are seriously building their business and yours, and help in whatever manner - be it financial in the form of gift certificates, TC credits, re-assignments; or motivational - empowering words of belief in their own abilities,giving strength in their weakness, and positive re-enforcements, for example, will work wonders for their morale.

For these hard-working, self-motivated, and deserving Affiliates, sponsors should be giving their full moral support as well in order for them to reach their full potential.

So, for me, there’s no holding back, for I can only be successful if THEY are successful.

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This is a very thought-provoking question that requires an equally well thought-out answer.

For me, there is no point at which help to deserving affiliates should be limited or held back.

Each affiliate has individual needs, and sponsors should be able to know what kind of help to offer based on the level of their activity.

By checking one’s Genealogy, sponsors can see who are committed to seriously building their business.

Sponsors should focus more
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Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 785 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers

You should never offer financial help.

This may sound cold and callused but the task in this business is to empower business leaders, not to take on dependents. You can advise people on methods to grow their results and earn money to expand their business but don't be the one who feels a need to butter their biscuit.

I see entirely too many members at SFI who devote their focus to helping people spend the least possible, do the minimum, and expect the maximum return. I understand being a broke marketer but operating in that broke mindset did nothing to grow my business. Flat out if I continued doing the minimum and investing little or nothing I would be a broke marketer still today and I would have quit 10 years ago instead of owning over a dozen websites.

I had to develop a mindset that said I can do this to earn that.
I had to look at that small money and say yesterday I survived without it so if I do what I did yesterday I can invest what I have today and get even better results tomorrow. I had to stay broke to grow my business into a full time income and I have personally fired the boss 3 times. In fact I can safely say 90% of my earnings are from the results of building my online business on elbow grease and a shoe string budget, but no handouts.

Instead I found good people, like SFI in my first time around and a millionaire marketer named Cory Rudl who took me under his wing and showed me how he went from no budget to millionaire. Sad to say I have been my own worst enemy at times and caused myself to have to rebuild and revamp, then reinvent myself before many of those lessons sunk in but I will tell you the education has served me far better than anyone could have done by giving me a shortcut. I know, I had a few free memberships given to me for paid programs and they never got half the effort those programs deserved because I was not invested in my success.

So please, be the friend, support the soul, educate the mind, but don't pay the bill.
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You should never offer financial help.

This may sound cold and callused but the task in this business is to empower business leaders, not to take on dependents. You can advise people on methods to grow their results and earn money to expand their business but don't be the one who feels a need to butter their biscuit.

I see entirely too many members at SFI who devote their focus to helping people spend the least possible, do the minimum, and expect the maximum return. I understand
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Affiliate since: 11/24/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gregory's 28 other Ask SC answers

Leading the horse right up to the waters edge. By this I mean go to the full extent. Lead by example. Sponsor should:

- encourage downline to reach their potential through weekly team mail, stream etc.

- recognize movers and work with them. check on their VP Ledger on a weekly basis and send e-tip card or mail on how movers can increase their points to attain the next level of status or re-confirm EA status.

- should be ready to assist downline with not only words of encouragement, but actions such as presenting gift certificates, tcredits, re-assigning affilaites to hardworking PSA/CSAs.

- Congratulate on achievements or milestones reached by downline members.

- Run a contest among downline to encourage growth and actions

- send tips on moving forward, advertisement, useful articles/e-books to read, download or buy from TripleClicks.

- Assign S-Builder Co-op shares to promising downline team members and top movers acknowledging their effort and motivating them to achieve more for a bigger share. (Promises to be kept)

- there is no limit what a sponsor can do. Fortunately I had a awesome sponsor, who got me going when she gifted me with TCredits. I am proud to state that I followed her footstep and have done same to my most outstanding movers.

As for what sponsors should not do:

- Simply do not do the work your downline needs to do. That is sponsor should not do what affiliates should or could do.

- do not let affiliates/downline team be dependent. Sponsors should teach but not be learners for affiliates/downline team. That is the job of affiliates/downline team.

- be there for you PSA/CSA/Affifliates but be not your PSA/CSA/Affiliates.


I hope this answers your questions.


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Leading the horse right up to the waters edge. By this I mean go to the full extent. Lead by example. Sponsor should:

- encourage downline to reach their potential through weekly team mail, stream etc.

- recognize movers and work with them. check on their VP Ledger on a weekly basis and send e-tip card or mail on how movers can increase their points to attain the next level of status or re-confirm EA status.

- should be ready to assist downline with not only words
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Good question.

A sponsor is supposed to help the affiliate understand how SFI works and where to find the information needed.

One way is to act like a teacher with a student. The student has an assignment, to learn as much about SFI as possible. The teacher will tell the student where to find certain information and after the student has read the information they will answer any questions and explain what is not understood. They will never do the work for them.

The teacher will suggest better ways of doing things to make it easier learn. I the student needs extra help they will be there at all times, but it is very important that the student is first working to learn as much as possible on their own.

If an affiliate is doing everything they can and needs help to reach EA a sponsor can give them VP or a gift certificate as a reward. They can also set up contest for them to win something to help build their business. These things are good, but never give out money to affiliates and never do the work for them. This will cause many problems and you will be hurting them more than you realize.

I hope this helps.

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Good question.

A sponsor is supposed to help the affiliate understand how SFI works and where to find the information needed.

One way is to act like a teacher with a student. The student has an assignment, to learn as much about SFI as possible. The teacher will tell the student where to find certain information and after the student has read the information they will answer any questions and explain what is not understood. They will never do the work for them.

The
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Affiliate since: 09/28/2022, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Olga's 32 other Ask SC answers

Where is the borderline which should not be crossed?

In my opinion, every sponsor should make the first step towards establishment of communication with downline members. You should send weekly mail to all your PSAs, with some general reminders and hints, each time on a different subject: explain the green line, the difference between action and sales VP, advantages of SO, recommend W3 and explain the benefits, etc. Then you should contact each of your PSAs by a personal e-mail, and see where it takes you. If the PSA is irresponsive, don’t push, try again in a couple of days, but if the PSA readily replies and shows interest in getting to know you and to communicate more frequently – go for it! In other words, you need to respect each person’s own limits and approach them carefully, because you don’t want to drive them away either by heaps of mail and advice or by complete absence of interest.

As concerns the point that you should not go beyond – well, you should not do their tasks for them. You may want to use Skype or phone to explain something in the beginning and for the first time, but don’t let your affiliates rely on you too much. They really need to read and learn a lot by themselves, maybe even make some mistakes on the way, so as to become successful and able to be someone else’s sponsors in the future. For example, if your affiliate doesn’t know how to set up a co-op, you can show it to him/her the first time, but if he/she asks that again – just refer them to the link where they can read about it.

It’s very similar to raising kids – you want to teach them, lead by example, but also to let them grow up as independent individuals able to take care of themselves.

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Where is the borderline which should not be crossed?

In my opinion, every sponsor should make the first step towards establishment of communication with downline members. You should send weekly mail to all your PSAs, with some general reminders and hints, each time on a different subject: explain the green line, the difference between action and sales VP, advantages of SO, recommend W3 and explain the benefits, etc. Then you should contact each of your PSAs by a personal e-mail, and see
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2013, Power Rank: 531 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

In my view it is important to keep the following points in mind when helping affiliates move forward:-

1. Ensure that you do not offer financial support to the affiliate because this can get the affiliate to become dependent on the sponsor; it will be become a complicated issue and likely to create friction later on between the Sponsor and the affiliate;

2. The purpose of the SFI business is to get as many affiliates to work independently as possible, each one to expand his/her business and in this respect providing moral support or incentives towards helping affiliates achieve their goals is not wrong-however this support should not be interpreted or misconstrued by the affiliates as an ongoing reward or one that must be offered every month.

3. It is useful to have frequent brainstorming sessions on how to expand the business and this is highly beneficial towards the growth of the team; this will be an ongoing exercise and should be a regular feature especially if the affiliates are in the same country!

4. How much of time you spend on your affiliates will depend on the sponsor's commitment to the business and how many hours per week are available to devote to the affiliates; if you see potential in each and every one of your affiliates to move forward then any amount of time you spend with them would still not be enough.

Generally, you will use your discretion to assess the capabilities of the affiliate and once you believe that they can handle the business independently, it would be time to focus on other affiliates and therefore give your best to each and every one!
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In my view it is important to keep the following points in mind when helping affiliates move forward:-

1. Ensure that you do not offer financial support to the affiliate because this can get the affiliate to become dependent on the sponsor; it will be become a complicated issue and likely to create friction later on between the Sponsor and the affiliate;

2. The purpose of the SFI business is to get as many affiliates to work independently as possible, each one to expand his/her
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Affiliate since: 08/23/2013, Power Rank: 535 | Read Marija's 36 other Ask SC answers

Hello and thank you for your question.

According to my oppinion you should be helpful to your affiliates. Monitor their progress, if you see they are stuck, offer your help. You can't work instead of them, but your task is to motivate them, show them the right direction, advice them how they can prosper in this job.

You can't have the same approach to all your affiliates. Some people like working alone, so let them. From time to time just remind them you are there for the help they might need. Other people like being in contact with other people, need motivation. To those people try to find a little mor time. Congratulate them on every single achievement they make, monitor their work, direct them.

But remember, you can't do their work instead of them. That is point where you should stop. If they ask you 10 times the same question, that means they are not focused and not interesting in this job. So, let them go.

I hope I helped with my answer. Good luck!!!
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Hello and thank you for your question.

According to my oppinion you should be helpful to your affiliates. Monitor their progress, if you see they are stuck, offer your help. You can't work instead of them, but your task is to motivate them, show them the right direction, advice them how they can prosper in this job.

You can't have the same approach to all your affiliates. Some people like working alone, so let them. From time to time just remind them you are there for the help
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Good question. I think that a sponsor can not really have a point where he or she can stop helping affiliates to succeed. But then you get affiliates that simply start good and then go on for a day or two and after that there is no activity. In these cases, which you get a lot, you should try to get them back on track as soon as possible. If you leave them for a long period they will lose interest completely. If they do not give any feedback or ask any questions, and they do not go onto the website after say two or three weeks I personally will back off. As you will learn in the training, work with the workers. Do not totally ignore your inactive affiliates, but do work with the workers. If after three weeks you can not convince inactive affiliates to accept your help, and they totally ignore you and SFI, what is the use to keep trying. Obviously they have then made up their mind and we must respect that.
I will try again after a month or two, but that will be my point where I will back off completely.
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Good question. I think that a sponsor can not really have a point where he or she can stop helping affiliates to succeed. But then you get affiliates that simply start good and then go on for a day or two and after that there is no activity. In these cases, which you get a lot, you should try to get them back on track as soon as possible. If you leave them for a long period they will lose interest completely. If they do not give any feedback or ask any questions, and they do not go onto the website
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