Affiliate since: 06/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Francis's 42 other Ask SC answers

Yes it is effective but you need to keep activity going in the Room, keep your affiliates chatting and interacting.And preferably keep it a useful fun place.Remember it is social networking.

You can only keep your team members interacting by being present,interacting.Ask questions in the group, and ask everyone to respond and discuss.
Hold competitions - say you’re going to award the top 3 most active affiliates a prize - get people motivated to contribute.

You could run a scheduled event (make it at a popular time) and hold a
quiz, or have a Q&A session about their SFI challenges.

Frankly speaking,it is a good avenue to sell TripleClicks Products aside engaging your team.A group of 300 people on Skype gives you a fantastic new resource - a resource that will contain people with products to sell. Work with them to offer your
products.

Note you will get people who NEVER contribute in the group. But that
doesn’t mean they aren’t using it, they might just be lurking - absorbing the
information without giving anything back.

Aim Higher,Dream Big!





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Yes it is effective but you need to keep activity going in the Room, keep your affiliates chatting and interacting.And preferably keep it a useful fun place.Remember it is social networking.

You can only keep your team members interacting by being present,interacting.Ask questions in the group, and ask everyone to respond and discuss.
Hold competitions - say you’re going to award the top 3 most active affiliates a prize - get people motivated to contribute.

You could
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Affiliate since: 01/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Prashant's 2 other Ask SC answers

Yes, it is very helpful. I have tried to explain through skype to my friend locally in my country. I found it is very effective using screen share option of skype. You can either show your screen or view recipients screen while making conversation.

If you are viewing your friends screen, you can able to explain detail screen and pages. Suppose you are explaining SFI Homepage tab, you will see his entire screen on skype with full screen mode, it will be easy to you explain each Tabs, Pages and Menus.

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Yes, it is very helpful. I have tried to explain through skype to my friend locally in my country. I found it is very effective using screen share option of skype. You can either show your screen or view recipients screen while making conversation.

If you are viewing your friends screen, you can able to explain detail screen and pages. Suppose you are explaining SFI Homepage tab, you will see his entire screen on skype with full screen mode, it will be easy to you explain each Tabs,
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Affiliate since: 11/05/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jennifer's 8 other Ask SC answers

I use Skype with not only my team members but with other affiliates that I associate with as well. I find that Skype is a great tool for this business, because we can not only have a real time text conversation, but also if necessary we can have a video chat as well. This is a wonderful program that doesn't cost anything to download and use. I tell all of my affiliates that by getting Skype it is the fastest way to get in touch with me.

Skype offers a great way of connecting with your affiliate team. It gives them real time information and it allows you to give them the answers they are looking for quickly rather than them having to wait for an email reply, which could take a few hours to as late as a day. Skype is a great program to allow for open communication with your affiliate team!
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I use Skype with not only my team members but with other affiliates that I associate with as well. I find that Skype is a great tool for this business, because we can not only have a real time text conversation, but also if necessary we can have a video chat as well. This is a wonderful program that doesn't cost anything to download and use. I tell all of my affiliates that by getting Skype it is the fastest way to get in touch with me.

Skype offers a great way of connecting with your
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Affiliate since: 05/15/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lobo's 21 other Ask SC answers

I myself have used Skype utilizing all methods of communication: text, voice, and video. I highly recommend the use of Skype in your SFI business. I personally have used Skype for quite some time and definitely suggest video because it cancels out any form of miscommunication that is often lost in text. It also really helps with building much more personal and business relationships because you can see facial expressions, and here the persons voice. Isn't that what business is all about? Besides, how else would you normally meet so many great people from around the world?
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I myself have used Skype utilizing all methods of communication: text, voice, and video. I highly recommend the use of Skype in your SFI business. I personally have used Skype for quite some time and definitely suggest video because it cancels out any form of miscommunication that is often lost in text. It also really helps with building much more personal and business relationships because you can see facial expressions, and here the persons voice. Isn't that what business is all about? Besides,
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Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

Using Skype as a communications tool with your team members has its pros and cons.

Pros:
Using Skype can be useful to gain the confidence of your new Affiliate members to gain their respect and trust.
It is a great tool to extend an ongoing friendship with your active downline.
Some Affiliates will appreciate the one-on-one contact to understand the topic of discussion.
And, it is a motivational tool if you are willing to spend a little one on one time with a struggling Affiliate.

Cons:
Possible language barriers if both or all parties do not speak the same language well enough.
Slow computers, some PCs are not fast enough to keep the flow of conversation effective.
It is time consuming.
And, it is not an strong tool to provide details, for example links to web pages, reference materials, etc.

I have found the SFI Chat service to be more effective, for one-on-one contact.
And, it gives you the ability to
search for specific information to provide assistance and answer questions,
at the same time.

You must decide if it will be a good tool for you.
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Using Skype as a communications tool with your team members has its pros and cons.

Pros:
Using Skype can be useful to gain the confidence of your new Affiliate members to gain their respect and trust.
It is a great tool to extend an ongoing friendship with your active downline.
Some Affiliates will appreciate the one-on-one contact to understand the topic of discussion.
And, it is a motivational tool if you are willing to spend a little one on one time with a struggling
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Affiliate since: 01/13/2006, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michael's 101 other Ask SC answers

If you are not using Skype you are missing out on an excellent marketing tool for talking with your team members and new prospects.

I use Skype for most of my business calls and always include it in my welcome email for new affiliates.

Skype will become even more valuable soon as Microsoft (owners of Skype) are encouraging MS Messenger users to use Skype as MS Messenger will soon be turned off.

It is effective for one on one and conference calls. The cost free if you want to basic version. The cost is minimal if you want the extras. You can even buy a telephone number so people can call you from anywhere in the world directly to your computer. The telephone number can be in any country so calls from that country are charged at local rates to the caller.

Download it here: www.skype.com

I hope this is helpful.
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If you are not using Skype you are missing out on an excellent marketing tool for talking with your team members and new prospects.

I use Skype for most of my business calls and always include it in my welcome email for new affiliates.

Skype will become even more valuable soon as Microsoft (owners of Skype) are encouraging MS Messenger users to use Skype as MS Messenger will soon be turned off.

It is effective for one on one and conference calls. The cost free if
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Affiliate since: 08/02/2000, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read David's 16 other Ask SC answers

I LOVE SKYPE!!!

and yes I did mean to shout that.

While Skype is not perfect it does help "put a face" to your business. Your PSA's CSA's and friends can actually *see* your enthusiasm and I've found entusiasm to be "catching". I find that those affiliates that I can "Skype" with are more involved and seem to get with the program faster.

One word of caution though, Keep the discussion to business because you can very easily get off topic and find yourself having spent way to much time chatting about nothing with one person instead of building your business.
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I LOVE SKYPE!!!

and yes I did mean to shout that.

While Skype is not perfect it does help "put a face" to your business. Your PSA's CSA's and friends can actually *see* your enthusiasm and I've found entusiasm to be "catching". I find that those affiliates that I can "Skype" with are more involved and seem to get with the program faster.

One word of caution though, Keep the discussion to business because you can very easily get off
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

All tools has its own appropriate uses. Almost everybody will say that these tools are effective to use in communicating with team members. But based on my experience I would say yes and no. I will start with no.

It is not effective when your team members are shy and can not speak well specially English. It will cause embarrassment and may just refuse to communicate with you any further.

Technically it is not effective if either of you have slow internet connection, you will just end up frustrated, and can not even say “hello, how are?” without being cut –off.

Now for the Yes. Yes it is very effective when you have already developed relationship with your team members. Oh.. the talking will just be spontaneous. I am using it with my affiliate friends a lot. But with new affiliates I use writing to communicate information and also my intention to offer help and friendship.

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All tools has its own appropriate uses. Almost everybody will say that these tools are effective to use in communicating with team members. But based on my experience I would say yes and no. I will start with no.

It is not effective when your team members are shy and can not speak well specially English. It will cause embarrassment and may just refuse to communicate with you any further.

Technically it is not effective if either of you have slow internet connection, you will
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Great question! Honestly, I've not used any type of video chat myself with my SFI team, but I've been on a few video chats hosted by others for things like learning Facebook, chatting about blogging systems, etc.

I would have to say, as long as you and your team are comfortable with being on camera, and you can all coordinate to have a half hour or an hour free at the same time, absolutely it will be effective.

What video chat has done is taken the "old" way of networking; i.e., driving to weekly meetings at some hotel conference room, hooking up over coffee at a local restaurant, etc., and brought the whole network marketing conferences to your home, regardless of where you live.

It's especially effective if you have something new you want to share or if you want opinions from your team on a new advertising method or new ways to recruit affiliates and sign up ECAs.

What might be good is to send out a team mailer to get topics to discuss and get a feel for the interest level of your team members. Then have them submit questions and topics for discussion at the chat. Your team members can share their ideas and what's working for them with the other members too.

So I would say go for it if you're thinking about setting something up. You can even have the chat session streamed live from a Google Hangout onto YouTube so other team members can access the replay later if they weren't able to attend the live session.

And once you do venture into it, be sure to share the experience in the forums!
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Great question! Honestly, I've not used any type of video chat myself with my SFI team, but I've been on a few video chats hosted by others for things like learning Facebook, chatting about blogging systems, etc.

I would have to say, as long as you and your team are comfortable with being on camera, and you can all coordinate to have a half hour or an hour free at the same time, absolutely it will be effective.

What video chat has done is taken the "old" way of networking;
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Affiliate since: 11/20/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mesaros's 16 other Ask SC answers

Yes, I used Yahoo Messenger and am very pleased. I think it's the best way to communicate in real time with your affiliates.

I am always online whenever they need me give me a buzz and we respond.

You can download the program Yahoo Messenger from the official website Yahoo! It will not cost you anything, just make an account and you can talk to any affiliate!