Affiliate since: 11/23/2015, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rasheed's 4 other Ask SC answers

As your Downline grows it’s very important that you become a leader.
It's common knowledge that helping downline set and reach goals is a critical part of every sponsor's job.Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism for providing ongoing and year-end feedback. By establishing and monitoring targets, you can give your PSA real-time input on their performance while motivating them to achieve more.

As a leader it will be your “job” to train them to share the business, enroll reps and in turn train them to do the same.

#1. *Teach the Basics to your downline:
Start by setting definite goals in terms of what your PSA is expecting from the business. Know what steps are they willing to take to achieve their goals. Your PSA should always start with an end in mind. Help them map their course to success.
*Next, help your downline build a prospect list.
Everyone knows at least 150 people. That may sound like a lot of people to your PSA, but as they start thinking of all the people they come in contact with, the list can sometimes be larger than 150. Family, friends, co-workers, church family, and others that they come in contact on a weekly basis that would be interested in making a little (or a lot) of extra money in this economy.
*Put the list in the order of easiest to approach.
Your PSA will become more comfortable talking about the business if they are successful in the beginning of enrolling reps to begin their own downline.
As your downline starts to grow, you will be able to see the leaders rise to the top. They will step up and want to become the leader for their own downlines. These leaders will follow your lead and share with their own downlines the basics you shared with them. You can change from teaching to coaching.

#2. Teach the basic skills of being a leader:

#3. Set Higher Goals for your Downline: Encourage your downline to focus on their dreams of nicer homes, new cars, vacations, substantial retirement fund, and so on. Keep encouraging them to strive for their goals. Set the example by reaching your own goals and then setting higher ones for yourself.


Getting into your downlines' heads is vital to knowing what makes them tick and helping them stay active and achieving. When they, and you, get a sense of where they would like to be and how they would like to make Stampin' Up work for them, you will have a direction to focus your efforts. Together you will achieve far more with this sense of purpose.
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As your Downline grows it’s very important that you become a leader.
It's common knowledge that helping downline set and reach goals is a critical part of every sponsor's job.Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism for providing ongoing and year-end feedback. By establishing and monitoring targets, you can give your PSA real-time input on their performance while motivating them to achieve more.

As a leader it will be your “job” to train them to share the business,
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Affiliate since: 11/22/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Helen's 13 other Ask SC answers

I do not have any PSA's that I know personally who I could speak to face to face, so all my communication with my PSA's is via email.

In my experience, unless a PSA is committed to SFI from the start, trying to communicate and find out a little about them or their goals, let alone getting a response, is like drawing blood from a stone.

When you get one of the rare gems, it is not difficult to discuss their goals, as they are open to sharing their needs and receiving suggestions, help and direction. Being realistic and honest with your PSA's is vital, as they need to know that fortunes are not made overnight, and especially not with little or no effort from themselves! Without committment and perseverance they will not reach those goals.

Many of my PSA's have joined SFI because they have financial difficulties and are therefore unable to commit to a monthly budget, so it is a challenge to come up with alternatives to buying TCredits, Affiliates etc. There are many ways like advertising for free, blogging, flyers and so on, but I have found that unless money comes in fairly quickly, they lose interest and drop out.

I try to encourage my team to give themselves at least a year. Most new businesses do not make a profit in their first year, so they need to be realistic in setting their short or long-term goals.


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I do not have any PSA's that I know personally who I could speak to face to face, so all my communication with my PSA's is via email.

In my experience, unless a PSA is committed to SFI from the start, trying to communicate and find out a little about them or their goals, let alone getting a response, is like drawing blood from a stone.

When you get one of the rare gems, it is not difficult to discuss their goals, as they are open to sharing their needs and receiving suggestions,
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Affiliate since: 02/22/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kathryn's 24 other Ask SC answers

So far my PSAs don't respond, but with the new daily action with goals, I think this is a good way to get started.

Encouraging them and offering our help with their goals is something that should help to get them involved with the business. We need to recognize that many people join SFI because it is free and they think that they don't have to do anything to make money or that they will make money fast with this business. We need to encourage them that they will make money but it may not be as fast as they think because this is not a get rich quick scheme. That is the reason for setting goals and, with the new goals section, being accountable for what we are doing each day. If we haven't done something that day, we are allowed to take a day off every once in a while if we want. It is OUR business, so we can follow whatever schedule we want. But if we want to make something of this business we will work it every day at least long enough to do the daily, weekly and monthly tasks.

Each person has a different reason why they wanted to join and why they want to make money. They also have an idea of how much they want to make. If we can get them to talk about that and let us help them reach their goals, the business will grow for all of us.
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So far my PSAs don't respond, but with the new daily action with goals, I think this is a good way to get started.

Encouraging them and offering our help with their goals is something that should help to get them involved with the business. We need to recognize that many people join SFI because it is free and they think that they don't have to do anything to make money or that they will make money fast with this business. We need to encourage them that they will make money but it may
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 590 | Read Nelia's 25 other Ask SC answers

Paul Great question,

in my opinion the best way to approach a new PSA regarding their goals is to have an open ended conversation with them through genealogy mailer and E-mail as well as skype start off slow but build up to asking about their goals they have with SFI see what they had in mind as to when to get them accomplished and how as well as a time line for the next set of goals when these are complete

Here is more of a break down


Step 1.

first check their affiliate snapshot and see if they even have goals set up yet if they do great set one is complete if not you can send a personal message to them saying I am happy that you made the decision to join my team but in reviewing all of my team members goals I see that you have not set yours up yet. Your goals are there as a reminder of why you signed up for SFI and what you want to accomplish with us here. And should be updated at least every 3-6 months to reflect changes you have made and goals that were accomplished already

Step 2.

Now that we have our goals set up. we can now discuss how to achieve them and make them more Realistic so say the first goal is to earn $1,000 a month in the first 6 months now that can be done BUT you need to stress to them that it will take A LARGE AMOUNT of effort and might require you to step up and actually buy some paid advertising say in a co-op or two and they will see quicker results than just through free advertising and sponsoring friends/family

otherwise they might get disappointed when 6 months comes around and they are not making lots of money you should also remind them that this is NOT a get rich quick program and work has to be done in order to achieve even the smallest of goals

step 3.

ways to achieve your goals

the best way to achieve your goals is to print them out and post it on your desk so you can see them every time you are on the computer or you can post them as a background on your computer so every time you log in you will see them waiting to be looked at

make sure you set aside time to advertise and post blog messages and if you have a website to update it regularly with fresh content


step 4.

communicate communicate communicate!

communication is key

keep in constant contact via e-mail or skype of just through our genealogy mailer 3-5 times at most per month and go over their goals every so often say every 3 months maybe at the beginning of the month and see what has been accomplished and what needs to be pushed back a few more months maybe they are not ready to be a Team Leader yet so give it another say 6 months to see if their downline can be built up enough that will qualify them to reach BTL assuming they have already achieved EA2 and just do not have the required VP to advance yet.

step 5.

results are in

As long as your team member continues to be active in SFI and working on their goals daily then the results should be that they are starting to see money coming in (and you too) as a result of your ongoing efforts as a sponsor and Team Leader

good luck and I will see you at the top!!
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Paul Great question,

in my opinion the best way to approach a new PSA regarding their goals is to have an open ended conversation with them through genealogy mailer and E-mail as well as skype start off slow but build up to asking about their goals they have with SFI see what they had in mind as to when to get them accomplished and how as well as a time line for the next set of goals when these are complete

Here is more of a break down


Step 1.

first
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Affiliate since: 04/08/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Robert's 47 other Ask SC answers

If your PSAs send their goals to you, you are on a good way to build a good team, so it would be unreasonable to lose that opportunity. We may also assume that sharing the goals is a signal that your affiliates want to discuss them with you and this may require a great deal of sensitivity, common sense, and tact.

Before going into the details, I'd first compliment them on setting the goals and thank them on sending them to you.

While discussing the goals themselves, never evaluate them, at least do not provide negative feedback, like "No, that's simply impossible" or "You're planning too high", etc. Instead, provide positive advice. If you feel your affiliate might have set their goals too high, you may say something like this: "I can see you plan to XXX. That's great! How would you divide it into a few smaller goals, so once you reach each of them, you know you're making progress?" This will make your affiliate concentrate on the goal even more.

Also, you might ask about their first step towards reaching this or that goal.

If you think your affiliate's goals are too modest, you may ask about their next step after reaching those goals, or how they are going to revise the goals on reaching them earlier than planned. This, again, will make your affiliates think about their goals more and they may find out themselves that dreaming big is more exciting and more rewarding than being conservative.

Whatever you do, however, simply remember to provide positive feedback, to motivate your affiliates to do more (if you think they underestimate themselves) or to plan carefully (if you think their goals may overwhelm them).

And on the off-topic side: also monitor their milestones with them and congratulate them (or even reward them) on reaching each of them.

Positive feedback, motivation, encouragement - these are the elements of the best approach to discussing the goals with your new PSAs.
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If your PSAs send their goals to you, you are on a good way to build a good team, so it would be unreasonable to lose that opportunity. We may also assume that sharing the goals is a signal that your affiliates want to discuss them with you and this may require a great deal of sensitivity, common sense, and tact.

Before going into the details, I'd first compliment them on setting the goals and thank them on sending them to you.

While discussing the goals themselves, never evaluate
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Affiliate since: 04/17/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Izekor's 2 other Ask SC answers

Wooooow! Good question.
First of all, I want to believe there is a cordial and good level of rapport between the PSA and his sponsor. Therefor, good communication is the key. Communication builds trust and friendship between the Sponsor and PSAs. When this trust is built, the PSA will always feel free to open up on his/her goals and can easily discuss it with his sponsor.
Also, when an affilliate complete his/her profile, SFI corporate will send the sponsor a notification about it. The sponsor can capitalised on the existing relationship between him and the PSA to discuss the goal set.
Moreover, the sponsor should have good communication skills and should apply tact in letting the PSA knows the importance of setting goals and can also assist the PSA in goal setting. By doing this, he is already discussing the goals with the PSA.
I hope this helps. Thanks
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Wooooow! Good question.
First of all, I want to believe there is a cordial and good level of rapport between the PSA and his sponsor. Therefor, good communication is the key. Communication builds trust and friendship between the Sponsor and PSAs. When this trust is built, the PSA will always feel free to open up on his/her goals and can easily discuss it with his sponsor.
Also, when an affilliate complete his/her profile, SFI corporate will send the sponsor a notification about it. The
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Affiliate since: 12/17/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Terry's 14 other Ask SC answers

First of all I check out my PSAs profile so I know exactly why they joined SFI. I only deal with those who have bothered to complete the profile since I am more likely to get a response from them and I have an idea at least of their overall goal.

I communicate shortly after welcome letter and let them know I am aware of their goal in joining SFI and offer my support in finding the path best suited to achieve said goal.

Then suggest that they break down that general goal to daily, weekly, and monthly goals so that together we can determine what we need to do to get them there.

If they have expressed a goal in their profile, at least you have a place to start.
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First of all I check out my PSAs profile so I know exactly why they joined SFI. I only deal with those who have bothered to complete the profile since I am more likely to get a response from them and I have an idea at least of their overall goal.

I communicate shortly after welcome letter and let them know I am aware of their goal in joining SFI and offer my support in finding the path best suited to achieve said goal.

Then suggest that they break down that general goal to daily,
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello, very nice question, thanks for posting it.
I found that the best way, for me, is to follow genealogy report and see their points up to date. According to them (if they are above or below the "green line") I define what will catch their attention, so that I can keep the doors open for further discussion. Before sending anything, I check if my information is accurate, if the information is up to date as well.
Because new PSA is already overloaded with much information provided by SFI system, your message should be short but up to the point.
When writing to them, always have in mind that every word count – so be focused and crystal clear.
Keep in mind that they are NEW, therefore decide on the one or two most vital points and keep it brief and simple.
I hope this answer helped.
Good luck!

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Hello, very nice question, thanks for posting it.
I found that the best way, for me, is to follow genealogy report and see their points up to date. According to them (if they are above or below the "green line") I define what will catch their attention, so that I can keep the doors open for further discussion. Before sending anything, I check if my information is accurate, if the information is up to date as well.
Because new PSA is already overloaded with much information provided
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hey Paul, good question.

I find it important to make sure that any goals new PSA's set are realistic goals. If goals are unrealistic then people become disillusioned quickly when these goals aren't met.

It's baby steps in the beginning and bigger goals as you get more experienced.

It's also important to review goals regularly, both to see that you haven't over reached yourself and also to ensure your goals aren't to small. You also need to review your goals so you can set new ones when the old ones have been reached.

A goal to make $50.00 a month in 6 months time although a realistic goal isn't enough. What happens after 6 months? How are you going to achieve that goal?

When discussing this with a new PSA you also need to take into consideration their personal circumstances. Whilst a band new car in 12 months may be realistic in some parts of the world it might not be the most important thing to someone living in a third world country. All this needs to be taken into consideration.

This is where it is important to create a rapport with your new affiliates, so that you can ascertain answers to some of these questions.

I hope this helps you.
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Hey Paul, good question.

I find it important to make sure that any goals new PSA's set are realistic goals. If goals are unrealistic then people become disillusioned quickly when these goals aren't met.

It's baby steps in the beginning and bigger goals as you get more experienced.

It's also important to review goals regularly, both to see that you haven't over reached yourself and also to ensure your goals aren't to small. You also need to review your goals so you
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Affiliate since: 05/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Nsikak's 10 other Ask SC answers

A new PSA is one that does not know much about SFI. You must be very patient with them, 
When approaching them, do the followings:.
1.  Explain to them what SFI stands for and what they stand to gain in being a member, know that most of them may have joined network ((MLM)  before, so you must let them know why SFI  is different.  2. You must be careful  with choice of words, never attempt to be coercive they will repulse your move and don't be too persuasive and desperate , they will see it cheap. Be bold and to the point. 
3, Be a 'sniper' , know what you want from them , be patient to wait on them if need be especially in explaining some difficult aspect they do not understand .
4. Stress the importance of SFI basic routine ...TO-DO list.
5. Do not dwell much on expenses that might be required either to join coop  or triplclick initially. Let them advance a little or even become  EA first , everything will fall in place.
6. Above all, let them know you. Lead by example.
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A new PSA is one that does not know much about SFI. You must be very patient with them, 
When approaching them, do the followings:.
1.  Explain to them what SFI stands for and what they stand to gain in being a member, know that most of them may have joined network ((MLM)  before, so you must let them know why SFI  is different.  2. You must
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