Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hi Andrew,

It is advisable to concentrate on both. Your downline is dynamic therefore forever changing. Whilst you can be an awesome sponsor and encourage maximum productivity from your team members, you have no control over their personal lives and so your best workers may drop out at any time. Which is why I think it is best to continually sponsor new affiliates. By all means concentrate on the ones who are in your '[movers' tab but you can't afford to think that you have enough affiliates in your team.

I think the marketing funnel helps to answer this question well. At the top of the funnel you may have 100 prospects aware of your opportunity. let us say that 50% enter the consideration stage. Out of that 50, 10 people actually convert. You may feel that 10 is a great number of affiliates especially if they duplicate your efforts but the funnel hasn't reached it's smallest yet. After a month or 2, you may find that only 1 of those stays loyal and becomes a model SFI member. A couple of months later, you may get 2-3 conversions coming back for whatever reason. They may have searched the internet for the get rich quick scheme asnd learnt it is just a dream and remembered SFI. Theuy may have felt they weren't ready but now are.

You see how dynamic your downline can be?

For this reason you cannot afford to stop recruiting new members into your down-line. If you feel you have to many PSAs to be able to give them your undivided attention, you can always re-assign some to one of your PSAs that you feel are capable of giving them the same care (maybe even better. You will still get the same commissions from them if you re-assign them to another PSA in your downline. If you're worried about what will become of them if their new sponsor leaves, allay your fears for they simply get rolled back to you. This looks to me like a win-win situation.

So to summarize:

Concentrate on coaching those few really good affiliates but don't stop- sponsoring new ones because your downline is forever changing. I would like to add that while one to one coaching is awesome. We have the group mailer with all its brilliant filtering system to help provide that personal touch even when your downline grows to 1000s.

I truly hope this helps you, Andrew. Have a successful future here in SFI!

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Hi Andrew,

It is advisable to concentrate on both. Your downline is dynamic therefore forever changing. Whilst you can be an awesome sponsor and encourage maximum productivity from your team members, you have no control over their personal lives and so your best workers may drop out at any time. Which is why I think it is best to continually sponsor new affiliates. By all means concentrate on the ones who are in your '[movers' tab but you can't afford to think that you have enough affiliates
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Affiliate since: 07/01/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jane's 17 other Ask SC answers

Maybe it sounds cliche but if I am asked to choose, then I'll say both are important. But which one brings most benefits, then I'll answer the first one, i.e. sponsoring ACTIVE PSAs. Having only 3 or 5 PSAs will give us much advantages as long as they are active and want to move forward. Continue to assist them in every way possible to stay on the right track and build their own team will be more effective than to continually refer many new PSAs who are obviously inactive.

It will be wasting time to focus on affiliates who don't show much interest on SFI or TripleClicks and who don't want to move or trying to move forward. Focus on those who are willing to be succeeded and help them to grow is the main purpose of duplicating. Help the active PSAs and CSAs to build a secure income now and in the future.

Keep up the great work...to your success!
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Maybe it sounds cliche but if I am asked to choose, then I'll say both are important. But which one brings most benefits, then I'll answer the first one, i.e. sponsoring ACTIVE PSAs. Having only 3 or 5 PSAs will give us much advantages as long as they are active and want to move forward. Continue to assist them in every way possible to stay on the right track and build their own team will be more effective than to continually refer many new PSAs who are obviously inactive.

It will be wasting
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Affiliate since: 04/29/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Vanja's 21 other Ask SC answers

Hello Andrew Mahamo

Nice question and I will also give you my example how I began with my PSA's.

First of all I just wanted to promote SFI bussines as much as I could and it gave me so much results at the beginning, but after a month or two when I had so much PSA's in my Genealogy I just couldn't teach or explain or even answer on so much question at once because every day I had so much questions. The result was - they just went off and never came back.
After that I realised the point is not to bring as much PSA's as you can, it's about promoting your SFI bussines every day just once at one place and every day find a new place to promote, because in that way you will find some new PSA's who will register, but not 50 of them like before, but just 1,2 or 3 a day and you will have so much time to answer and explain everything they want to know and by that they will be interested and start working seriously.
So the point is to promote SFI once a day, some will register, teach them first and basic steps that they need to know, tell them what to read, from where to learn and day by day your team will be more successful than bringing 50 or 100 or even 1.000 PSA's a day.
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Hello Andrew Mahamo

Nice question and I will also give you my example how I began with my PSA's.

First of all I just wanted to promote SFI bussines as much as I could and it gave me so much results at the beginning, but after a month or two when I had so much PSA's in my Genealogy I just couldn't teach or explain or even answer on so much question at once because every day I had so much questions. The result was - they just went off and never came back.
After that I realised
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Affiliate since: 01/11/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sachin 's 6 other Ask SC answers

Best is continuously sponsoring new affiliates, then concentrating on coaching and helping, the ones that last and do not quit, build a successful business in SFI.

You cannot just sponsor fewer PSA's as anyone long enough here knows that not all of them stick, some who work for sometime just do quit. So it is not guaranteed that the fewer PSA's will last.

Best is to continuously sponsor affiliates. if it takes more time to coach and help them you got to.

Affiliate since: 11/17/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read R S's 34 other Ask SC answers

First you must understand that even to get fewer active PSA, you have to sponser a lot.
For example I have over 200 PSAs & over 600 CSAs but not even one is even EA2 in spite of coaching & contacting them every week.
But if I have a choice I would certainly go for quality rather than quantity but again to get quality you have to have quantity.
Hve that much quantity which results in atleast five quality affiliates.

If you sponser just 5 affiliates in one month & they in turn sponser another five each in next month and if all of them attain EA2 (earning 1500 VersaPoints for two months at least), then see the result below if the down line goes 6 steps deep.
You as a team leader will get benefits of all the VersaPoints earned by all of them.
For the total number of Versa Point generated by your EAs down line and you will see that in just 6 months you’ll achieve and surpass $10.000 (Ten thousand dollars) monthly income:
Month EA2 Total EAs Total VP Monthly Income
1st 5 5 7500 $3
2nd 25 30 45000 $22
3rd 125 155 232500 $116
4th 625 780 1170000 $585
5th 3125 3905 5857500 $2,928
6th 15625 19530 29295000 $14,647

With just five quality PSAs who can repeat the same,you can do wonders.
Who then would not go for quality instead of quantity ?


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First you must understand that even to get fewer active PSA, you have to sponser a lot.
For example I have over 200 PSAs & over 600 CSAs but not even one is even EA2 in spite of coaching & contacting them every week.
But if I have a choice I would certainly go for quality rather than quantity but again to get quality you have to have quantity.
Hve that much quantity which results in atleast five quality affiliates.

If you sponser just 5 affiliates in one month
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Affiliate since: 11/05/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Philip's 67 other Ask SC answers

It depends what you are comfortable with in terms of teaching what you have learned. I know that's not an explicit answer as circumstances will alter for us all. If recruiting friends and family its easier to hold one to one sessions which work through various questions and topics effectively. scale that up to a webinar and quickly it might overwhelm unless a plan is in place. Also some might not be comfortable holding a skype meeting even with a limited number of screens even.

I use a 500 seat web conferencing facility for various activities so it's a point worth saying about branding being careful to remove any links to non SFI or we might offend where no offense meant or implied as cross solicitation might occur without meaning to.

The basics of getting to EA status doesn't necessarily mean a lot of spending so that is a question worth answering from the get go as some affiliates sign up and almost run away from a cost without realizing their time is costing more to pay for internet cafe or just type for hours at a time...there are not enough hours in the day to do all like a robot!

Help them to understand the value of networking and using the internet to make connections that might well result in new recruits one day if not immediately. Slow and steady is an oft mentioned theme in training yet clarity of pathways is not always visible to a quicker reader so be prepared to verify your audience has properly understood the outcome you intend as often as not a tangential direction might be where they go...

Whatever you do, crucial is that you tell your story as people are attracted to people not programs or schemes. People want to knwo how you are affected by SFI and what is means in your life so they can decide for themselves. We all learn at a pace suitable for us so don't worry if you think you aren't teaching "it" "right". there is no right or wrong. "Good enough is good enough", is what a mentor of mine says which is all about doing something without being too much or a perfectionist about someone else's standards or you'll always fail that. do what you can and it will come across to your team and they will follow;)
To our success!

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It depends what you are comfortable with in terms of teaching what you have learned. I know that's not an explicit answer as circumstances will alter for us all. If recruiting friends and family its easier to hold one to one sessions which work through various questions and topics effectively. scale that up to a webinar and quickly it might overwhelm unless a plan is in place. Also some might not be comfortable holding a skype meeting even with a limited number of screens even.

I use a
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Affiliate since: 07/13/2016, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ance's 11 other Ask SC answers

Hello Dear,

I would say both.

We can't guarantee all our affiliates will continue to build their own business successfully, unless we take care of their financial part too (its where many of new affiliates stop coming to SFI).

If we need to improve our business then we need to recruit new affiliate as well as train them to be successful in SFI. So recruiting alone will not bring any effect on our business rather it can only waste our precious time. But if we try to help those who are new joiners, then we can definitely say that we did use our time wisely, and that will finally effect into developing our own business.

Therefore, the conclusion is we should recruit new affiliate regularly and train them to be successful in SFI.

Hope my note is useful to some extent.

Cheers, keep improving...

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Hello Dear,

I would say both.

We can't guarantee all our affiliates will continue to build their own business successfully, unless we take care of their financial part too (its where many of new affiliates stop coming to SFI).

If we need to improve our business then we need to recruit new affiliate as well as train them to be successful in SFI. So recruiting alone will not bring any effect on our business rather it can only waste our precious time. But if we try to
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Affiliate since: 05/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kerrie's 68 other Ask SC answers

"What's best? Sponsoring fewer PSAs and concentrating on coaching and helping them build...or continuously sponsoring new affiliates?"

Quality is more important than quantity. It is better to have 5 active team leaders than to have 1,000 inactive affiliates.

If you have active affiliates, you need to work with them so they can learn to duplicate your actions.

However, there are so many inactive affiliates, you need to keep sponsoring more and more of them to find the gems.

You should focus on making your gems shine, but you should also continue to look for more. This is how your income will grow over time. :)
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"What's best? Sponsoring fewer PSAs and concentrating on coaching and helping them build...or continuously sponsoring new affiliates?"

Quality is more important than quantity. It is better to have 5 active team leaders than to have 1,000 inactive affiliates.

If you have active affiliates, you need to work with them so they can learn to duplicate your actions.

However, there are so many inactive affiliates, you need to keep sponsoring more and more of them
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Continuous sponsoring, that's what's best, not because you are greedy, but because you don't know which of your affiliates will be "THE AFFLIATE." No body is praying for anything bad to happen, but what if suddenly your star affiliates stop logging in one after the other, not because they don't want to but because "life happened?"

Again, I believe its only a selected few that will see the light, and this may be 1 in 200. I am not trying to be pessimistic, but that's the way it is. I am not talking about those that will be very active for 5months, and then gradually fizzle out, but those that will hang in come rain or shine,(and there will be rain) even if it takes them 5years to get there, they are in for the long haul. Now those are the "AFFILIATES." They are those who will be willing to build their Downline the way you are willing to build yours'

Meanwhile, give the coaching you are supposed to give, and continue digging, you will find the diamonds.

See you at the top.
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Continuous sponsoring, that's what's best, not because you are greedy, but because you don't know which of your affiliates will be "THE AFFLIATE." No body is praying for anything bad to happen, but what if suddenly your star affiliates stop logging in one after the other, not because they don't want to but because "life happened?"

Again, I believe its only a selected few that will see the light, and this may be 1 in 200. I am not trying to be pessimistic, but that's
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Affiliate since: 06/26/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Allen's 7 other Ask SC answers

There are many factors involved in answering this question.

Firstly, it depends somewhat on where you are getting your PSA's. If you have 5 PSAs that are from your warm market (friends and family) They are more likely to need coaching than if you get 10 Affiliates from a Network Marketing forum where you could expect the participants to have some experience with MLM basics and marketing in general.

From some sources such as Traffic Exchanges, Safelists and other online sources you can expect a high fallout rate. They often have no more information than what's on the gateway page before signing up. They may just join to find out more information about what SFI is out of curiosity, with little actual interest in becoming an affiliate. These types of sources will require that you go for continuously sponsoring more and more affiliates.

So some sources will produce affiliates that require more coaching while other sources require sponsoring lots of affiliates.

Then there is also the factor of how good you are at coaching. Some people may not have what it takes to be a good coach, and may be better at getting bigger numbers and hoping for the ones who are go-getters that will become big successes with little or no coaching. They will need to sponsor a lot of affiliates in this case.

Maybe a good strategy for these people if they do get an affiliate who is a better coach than they are themselves, is to keep promoting for more affiliates. Then they can reassign them to their downline members who are better coaches than they are. This will free the coach from having to do so much promotion and enable him to concentrate more on coaching.

It also depends how good you are at organizing yourself and figuring out which affiliates are just wasting your time and which ones are worth spending a little extra time on. If you spend 40 hours a week dealing with questions from people who don't bother to read the information available at their fingertips (who aren't likely to get very far anyway) then you are better off using that time to find people with more potential.

Work with the workers, but a good affiliate with high potential shouldn't require more than a few hours of support a week.

Another thing is that newbies are going to require more support and coaching than people who have been at it for a while. So as you get more affiliates worth coaching, the ones you already have will require less and less of your time and effort. A steady influx of new affiliates will keep the business growing, but won't necessarily mean you are spending more and more time on support and coaching.
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There are many factors involved in answering this question.

Firstly, it depends somewhat on where you are getting your PSA's. If you have 5 PSAs that are from your warm market (friends and family) They are more likely to need coaching than if you get 10 Affiliates from a Network Marketing forum where you could expect the participants to have some experience with MLM basics and marketing in general.

From some sources such as Traffic Exchanges, Safelists and other online
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