Affiliate since: 02/13/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lindsey's 3 other Ask SC answers

I have found that by creating a wide funnel through advertising and personal approach that I will filter down the active committed affiliate that I will work with and help them to become successful.
It has to be kept in mind that out of the many that sign up only a small percentage will really take their SFI business to the next level. If you only have a small number coming through then there could be a tendency to get too caught up with the lack of activity that may be present and get frozen in the development of your own business.
The most important aspect is to have the right welcome message and first initial mailing that will capture the enthusiasm and excitement of a new affiliate. Be bold and plainly display the potential of the business, and state what you are looking for as Leaders that you are going to spend your time helping them to achieve. Keep you eye on the ball and note those who are reacting positively and actively encourage and congratulate them for their efforts(remember many are completely new to this type of business)
In conclusion the number are initially important, but it is what you do when PSAs start to show potential. Pick up on the signals even if they do not communicate with you. Be prepared to be the initiator and guiding light.
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I have found that by creating a wide funnel through advertising and personal approach that I will filter down the active committed affiliate that I will work with and help them to become successful.
It has to be kept in mind that out of the many that sign up only a small percentage will really take their SFI business to the next level. If you only have a small number coming through then there could be a tendency to get too caught up with the lack of activity that may be present and get frozen
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Affiliate since: 11/09/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Milan's 15 other Ask SC answers

First of all, sponsoring and coaching, helping are two things which are going with a hand in hand very well together. In every case it is good to be done on the way and up to the limits, where the quality of your sponsor's support could still not suffer too much.

When you sponsor even one affiliate, you need to take care first, how it will be with your coaching and helping. If you have a lot of new affiliates in a short period, you need to know this even more.

How you will organize and do this, is your sponsor's work - in both cases. Make a plan and be prepared before referring.

With regarding to your question...in both cases you will have with the time PSAs to concentrate on coaching and helping them. From the second part of your question probably more. That's the only difference. All of them will need you.

I suggest let we do our job first and not to go under your good sponsor's limits in support when referring. My choice is quality first.

Then we still have open space for some lucky strikes in new good affiliates from massive campaigns, which will don't need our help maybe.

But let it be this hazardeous part a part of another story.

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First of all, sponsoring and coaching, helping are two things which are going with a hand in hand very well together. In every case it is good to be done on the way and up to the limits, where the quality of your sponsor's support could still not suffer too much.

When you sponsor even one affiliate, you need to take care first, how it will be with your coaching and helping. If you have a lot of new affiliates in a short period, you need to know this even more.

How you
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Affiliate since: 07/02/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anil's 13 other Ask SC answers

Hi Andrew,
Very interesting question but there is no sure shot answer to this. It will depend from individual to individual and situation to situation. My take on this is as follows:

"I prefer quality over quantity".So i will go for recruiting fewer PSAs and concentrate on coaching and mentoring them to get started and build their own team of active affiliates. By doing so, i will be indirectly building my own team of active members. If I go for continuously sponsoring affiliates and don't concentrate on coaching them, it might be that maximum number of my affiliates may loose interest and quit SFI. In this scenario i will be left with very few number of affiliates to train them. So why not to devote time to those few affiliates and make them successful than wasting my time behind so many and getting nothing out of it.

So in nut shell, it's always better to "go for Quality than Quantity".

All the best.
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Hi Andrew,
Very interesting question but there is no sure shot answer to this. It will depend from individual to individual and situation to situation. My take on this is as follows:

"I prefer quality over quantity".So i will go for recruiting fewer PSAs and concentrate on coaching and mentoring them to get started and build their own team of active affiliates. By doing so, i will be indirectly building my own team of active members. If I go for continuously sponsoring affiliates
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Affiliate since: 11/23/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read SURESH's 17 other Ask SC answers

This is a highly debatable issue. Quality or quantity ? Does one choose one's PSAs selectively and then groom them carefully and band them together into a long lasting team, OR, just go on enrolling as many PSAs as possible and let the "good ones" emerge as great performers ?

Actually, either of these methods might pay off and it is entirely left to individual choice.

I have had over 70 CSAs for the past several months and have been trying to "wake up" at least 5 of them into action. No chance. I have reason to believe that mass production of PSAs might yield similar lack of results. So I am on the look-out for 5 committed and really good prospective PSAs. It may take a few more months and I will eventually find and enroll them. Then I will have an effective team.

Remember: the raison d'etre of SFI is to buy and sell products through our own store TripleClicks.
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This is a highly debatable issue. Quality or quantity ? Does one choose one's PSAs selectively and then groom them carefully and band them together into a long lasting team, OR, just go on enrolling as many PSAs as possible and let the "good ones" emerge as great performers ?

Actually, either of these methods might pay off and it is entirely left to individual choice.

I have had over 70 CSAs for the past several months and have been trying to "wake up" at
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Affiliate since: 04/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ayaz's 8 other Ask SC answers

Having fewer active PSAs is the basis of success at SFI but one should dream BIG and sponsor lots of affiliates (have more active PSAs) to expand his/her downline. It is true that if you have a lots of active affiliates then you may get bulk of support requests from your downline but if you do proper management then you can easily handle those. In any case, you have to be focus on your Movers (https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=movers).

So, the best approach is sponsor new affiliates as much as you can but you need to concentrate on the active ones.

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Having fewer active PSAs is the basis of success at SFI but one should dream BIG and sponsor lots of affiliates (have more active PSAs) to expand his/her downline. It is true that if you have a lots of active affiliates then you may get bulk of support requests from your downline but if you do proper management then you can easily handle those. In any case, you have to be focus on your Movers (https://www.sfimg.com/Home?tab=movers).

So, the best approach is sponsor new affiliates as much
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

hello Andrew,

this is continuous process you need to do both actions in the same time. In case you succeeded to sponsor a few of them ,you can never be sure will they at least maintain their EA2 rank or they might start well but after a few month they can simply abandon sfi for unknown reason. You need to do parallel process ,provide solid team support to each affiliate present in your downline + constantly advertise and try to add new members to your current team.
Naturally you will concentrate more energy to help new sign ups ,to teach them duplication process because quality is more important than quantity ,you should never leave your downline without support.Entire process demand lot of patience and energy to spend but that’s necessary to do it and on the right way for your business.

Hope this was helpful

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hello Andrew,

this is continuous process you need to do both actions in the same time. In case you succeeded to sponsor a few of them ,you can never be sure will they at least maintain their EA2 rank or they might start well but after a few month they can simply abandon sfi for unknown reason. You need to do parallel process ,provide solid team support to each affiliate present in your downline + constantly advertise and try to add new members to your current team.
Naturally you
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Affiliate since: 06/01/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Victoria's 124 other Ask SC answers

Interesting question. In Standard Multi Level Marketings business people should do personal meetings and if they find a good in their opinion prospect, they invite him to join their network business. But there is no guarantee the prospect will be active in business. It takes too much time, which not everyone has. In SFI things seems easier, but they are not. The same rule as in MLM applies here. 5 % of people joined in the business will do the business, other will not. So, my answer regarding SFI is that is better to continuously sponsor new affiliates. When they begin to search answers and make contact with their sponsors, thy are the active people, who look for a business with SFI. Then the couching begins. I concentrate in couching as much as I can only on those, who communicate with me and are looking for answers. I share my experience with all team members, I appreciate all 523 of them. But regarding SFI Rules I only "work with the workers" as much as I can and if they're interested in working with me. Until the active affiliates it can be years in SFI. On every 1000 affiliates, only a few will be active and will buy something from Tripleclicks. One of my upline is having 350 000 + down line for 12 years. Of course he's a great couch and have a lot of active people. He works with the active affiliates and he treasures everyone of his team members. So do I - lead by example like he does.
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Interesting question. In Standard Multi Level Marketings business people should do personal meetings and if they find a good in their opinion prospect, they invite him to join their network business. But there is no guarantee the prospect will be active in business. It takes too much time, which not everyone has. In SFI things seems easier, but they are not. The same rule as in MLM applies here. 5 % of people joined in the business will do the business, other will not. So, my answer regarding SFI
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Affiliate since: 05/19/2016, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Donnahue's 31 other Ask SC answers

its best to sponsor a few affiliates that are coachable than a whole bunch that are filling up your downline but are actuallly not doing anything. 5 good affiliates that you can turn into team leaders are way more valuable than 10,000 affilates doing absolutely nothing every month and posibily giving you a little stress to because you are constantly trying to motivate them to action and they dont even have the common deceny to even return your email

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

Hello Andrew,

Captain Dave – SFI training, quoting:
Every time a person asks us something, we have to re-think a thought we've already processed before. That means we have to internalize the matter and make a choice on what action to take. Life is a matter of choices. We make life changing choices thousands of times a day. In fact, we are the embodiment of what we have decided to do up until now in our lives, aren't we? (That was a question, wasn't it?).

Here we go: Life IS a matter of choices.

Answer would be simple - both will make you successful, if you are an excellent coach, and you have excellent PSA’s that soak up your knowledge and duplicate -than sponsor more! Bravo! My hat down, go on and don’t worry. Sky would be a limit. Maybe not even sky.

But if your PSA’s are not responding so well, and that is a reason why you want more affiliates – by my opinion – it’s a mistake. Total mistake if you go for “continuously sponsoring new”.
Why so?

If my PSA’s are not moving, I take it as my fault. I try my best to be better at what I do – coach better. Know more. Share. Learn through mistakes on my own account, share that too, be honest and motivate.
Yes, I’ve spend a lot as a newbie, have traded YOB for JOB :) but at least – I am able to share and lead now and I am not afraid that my PSA will go through the same and be disappointed . Now I am ready to jump higher and go on for assigning more affiliates.

But, that’s me. And we are all different. That’s why asking, reading and responding is so good. On the other hand, excluding never is, in any business.

Look objectively how good you are as sponsor;
You will have the best answer.

Have a good weekend! Cheers!!

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Hello Andrew,

Captain Dave – SFI training, quoting:
Every time a person asks us something, we have to re-think a thought we've already processed before. That means we have to internalize the matter and make a choice on what action to take. Life is a matter of choices. We make life changing choices thousands of times a day. In fact, we are the embodiment of what we have decided to do up until now in our lives, aren't we? (That was a question, wasn't it?).

Here we go:
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Affiliate since: 05/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Emmanuel 's 82 other Ask SC answers

Since you are asking what is best, I would recommend you do continuous sponsoring and coaching new affiliates in tandem. You cannot separate these two partners that you need to keep your PSAs active and persist. If you are just keep on sponsoring without reassuring them that SFI lays a gradual course of business, your PSAs will just be frustrated and wasted is your effort and money in case you paid for your PSAs. It is really important for you to let them understand the way you do what is in SFI and how to go along with it without establishing too much expectation for immediate results. You must let them know that SFI takes step-by-step ways for any one to make a business.
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Since you are asking what is best, I would recommend you do continuous sponsoring and coaching new affiliates in tandem. You cannot separate these two partners that you need to keep your PSAs active and persist. If you are just keep on sponsoring without reassuring them that SFI lays a gradual course of business, your PSAs will just be frustrated and wasted is your effort and money in case you paid for your PSAs. It is really important for you to let them understand the way you do what is in SFI
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