Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

This is a really good question. It really depends on:

1. Who your audience is.
2. What your are communicating.
3. Why you are communicating it.
4. Median you are using to communicate with.

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A. If your audience is your entire genealogy and you are communicating your newsletter to provide value using the genealogy mailer, then weekly or monthly is more than appropriate. Weekly vs monthly depends on the level of value of the content provided. You set the tone for that in the beginning.

B. If you are communicating to your all CSAs as a whole using the CSA mailer, then monthly or weekly is sufficient and anything more is too much as you are not their sponsor and do not want to flood them with too much information. Furthermore, be sure what you are communicating is valuable for them and useful. This will lead you to whether monthly is better duration between mailers.

C. If you are communicating to your all PSAs as a whole using the PSA mailer, then weekly is appropriate and you should be communicating consistently and providing them with useful duplicatable content. Anything more than weekly when sending as a group is too much information and you may overload them and turn them off.

D. If you are communicating via team mail to your generation 1 down line as a group or an individual with your downline on generation 1, daily communication is advantageous and recommended. Your relationship with your generation 1 front line should be at a level where daily communication is expected. If you are not their yet, start with weekly and work your way to daily.

E. If you are communicating with your top affiliates, then multiple communications daily are not unheard of. It is never too much as long as they are prompting the communication and the questions are warranted to help achieve a common goal beneficial to you and them.

F. Lastly, if you are using stream posts, you can use your best judgment, but typically one post every other day of something valuable is appropriate and you should be dong this anyway. Communication in SFI should be seen as expected from your downline and not excessive. In my mind, if they want to or expect to see your communications, you have got their attention, if they see you as an annoyance, you need to change your approach.

Hope this helps. Good luck.


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This is a really good question. It really depends on:

1. Who your audience is.
2. What your are communicating.
3. Why you are communicating it.
4. Median you are using to communicate with.

IE.

A. If your audience is your entire genealogy and you are communicating your newsletter to provide value using the genealogy mailer, then weekly or monthly is more than appropriate. Weekly vs monthly depends on the level of value of the content provided. You
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Affiliate since: 02/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Rupeni's 15 other Ask SC answers

We tend to overwhelm new affiliates or team members with information. We do not know the mentality, educational background and attitude of our Affiliates. The question that is being asked is based on the concepts of "too much" and "unnecessary".
First is too much. Too much here would mean that we are overwhelming our Affiliates or team members with information. SFI has provided us with the tools to kick start our business. Our role is to provide the platform to ensure a smooth integration where the interest to continue is not diminished or waned unduly. I would prefer that our team members to ask us key questions to assist them in their business. We inject the ideas initially to cultivate and maintain the interest.
Unnecessary would imply that we are sharing irrelevant information that does not have any bearing to the business. Additionally, information that is out of context and the Affiliates do not need to know or is not relevant to their SFI business. Cheers!
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We tend to overwhelm new affiliates or team members with information. We do not know the mentality, educational background and attitude of our Affiliates. The question that is being asked is based on the concepts of "too much" and "unnecessary".
First is too much. Too much here would mean that we are overwhelming our Affiliates or team members with information. SFI has provided us with the tools to kick start our business. Our role is to provide the platform to ensure a smooth
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Affiliate since: 09/10/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michelle's 11 other Ask SC answers

What would be too much and/or unnecessary communication with your team?

Unnecessary communications would be cross-solicitations. I don't like feeling like I am just here to make someone else money and I don't want my team to think that is the only reason I am interested in them being successful.

Too much communication would be sending daily emails, unless they request it for motivation. Especially emails that don't have any valuable information.

I send my team a weekly training email. I include VersaPoint training, little SFI secrets, motivational quotes, and other things that come up during the week. I also will drop a quick email to my movers if I notice they are missing something, but that is a personal message and not a group message.

We need to be here to help guide, teach, motivate, and support our team. You will need to find the balance between too little and too much in your communication with your team.
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What would be too much and/or unnecessary communication with your team?

Unnecessary communications would be cross-solicitations. I don't like feeling like I am just here to make someone else money and I don't want my team to think that is the only reason I am interested in them being successful.

Too much communication would be sending daily emails, unless they request it for motivation. Especially emails that don't have any valuable information.

I send my team
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Affiliate since: 02/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bryan's 47 other Ask SC answers

I'm not sure you can put a number on this. People will have differing opinions and communication needs. What works for 1 affiliate may not work for others. In general, I try to keep my communications to no more than 1 per week.

Your messages tends to get lost if you're sending 3 or 4 per week. People will stop reading them altogether or may choose to opt out. Very rarely will you have someone tell you to send them more email, but you could easily have them tell you that you're sending too much.

If you have a need to send more than one email a week, ask yourself why. As a leader, you should be keeping your team communications short and to the point. Perhaps summarizing 3 emails into 1 would serve your team better.

Don't give your team too much info all at once. It's better to spread out the info to allow your team to soak it up and put to use the info you're sending them.
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I'm not sure you can put a number on this. People will have differing opinions and communication needs. What works for 1 affiliate may not work for others. In general, I try to keep my communications to no more than 1 per week.

Your messages tends to get lost if you're sending 3 or 4 per week. People will stop reading them altogether or may choose to opt out. Very rarely will you have someone tell you to send them more email, but you could easily have them tell you that you're sending
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Affiliate since: 02/02/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kambhampati's 17 other Ask SC answers

Already there is an information overload at SFI. If I start communicating for reasons not that important for the promotion of SFI or my team, it would be unwelcome.

To my mind, all the communication that I send to my team should be absolutely to the point, whenever there happens to be an essential point to be mentioned in order to promote my team's (indirectly, my) interest as well as the interest of promoting SFI for everyone's benefit.

Weekly mails for the entire team may be all that should be enough. Besides, if there is some achievement demonstrated by someone, a brief message of congratulation, by way of encouragement, should be in order. And, if one of my team members is in need of some assistance, surely a short message of advice or help would also be necessary.

I will consider any communication, not in the interest of advancing the team members or promoting SFI for the common good, is too much and unnecessary, I think.

I hope this answer will be helpful.
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Already there is an information overload at SFI. If I start communicating for reasons not that important for the promotion of SFI or my team, it would be unwelcome.

To my mind, all the communication that I send to my team should be absolutely to the point, whenever there happens to be an essential point to be mentioned in order to promote my team's (indirectly, my) interest as well as the interest of promoting SFI for everyone's benefit.

Weekly mails for the entire team may
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Affiliate since: 10/19/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Neels's 1 other Ask SC answers

I believe a weekly email communication to your time is generally enough. The rest of your communication should be prompted by individual team members.

If your team member asks a question or for advice, you should communicate as much as it takes to help them. In this case, I don't believe there should be any limit to the amount of communication.

I disagree with some of answers previously submitted which states not to offer any personal information to your team. All your team members are real people with real lives (good and bad) and knowing that their leader is a human being with the same kind of problems or life achievements as they can really help to build trust.

Remember, your team becomes your online family and you want to share your life with them. They after all are helping you achieve success online.

As with most things though, too much sharing can also be detrimental. The trick is to keep a good balance.

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I believe a weekly email communication to your time is generally enough. The rest of your communication should be prompted by individual team members.

If your team member asks a question or for advice, you should communicate as much as it takes to help them. In this case, I don't believe there should be any limit to the amount of communication.

I disagree with some of answers previously submitted which states not to offer any personal information to your team. All your team
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Affiliate since: 11/15/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Anderson's 3 other Ask SC answers

Have you ever considered how many messages you are sending out? It may be time to consider that while technology has made us more efficient perhaps it has also made us less effective. This causes detrimental effects. When you over communicate with your downline, you will find that your marketing messages is being lost. I.E. They may not even considering reading it after a while especially when they receive your messages too rapidly because, your downline will start to encounter confusion and worst yet you will even begin to lose your downline one-by-one.

There is a balance between business communication being informative and overwhelming to those that receive your messages. You have to find that balance. If not, it may be time to consider the messages you are sending out and the volume and content of those messages and make a determination as to whether they are serving as a business communicating tool or a nuisance to your downline.

I hope this help. Good luck and have fun
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Have you ever considered how many messages you are sending out? It may be time to consider that while technology has made us more efficient perhaps it has also made us less effective. This causes detrimental effects. When you over communicate with your downline, you will find that your marketing messages is being lost. I.E. They may not even considering reading it after a while especially when they receive your messages too rapidly because, your downline will start to encounter confusion and worst
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Affiliate since: 07/01/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jane's 17 other Ask SC answers

Before going further to the things unnecessary in communication, I think it's necessary to give an opinion on the members' right. I believe that every one of us has different opinion on this matter. Maybe some of us will say that we need to keep communicating with our team regularly. But how regularly should we communicate with them? Maybe some will say that we need to communicate daily. Some will say, it's not that necessary to communicate daily. Maybe it's fine to contact them weekly.

Well, I will say that I am one of the people who will contact my team weekly. Why? Because communicating with them weekly will not have them get overwhelmed. I mean if we contact them daily, and some of them if not most or all can become 'fed up'. They probably will become bored and tired of our action.

If they want to know more or have things to ask, that's a different situation. In that case, then we can have communication with them as much as needed.

Only my team members and I know how necessary a communication should be made. As long as I can manage it well, and know when to use it properly, then the communication can be more effective.

Keep up the great work...to your success!
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Before going further to the things unnecessary in communication, I think it's necessary to give an opinion on the members' right. I believe that every one of us has different opinion on this matter. Maybe some of us will say that we need to keep communicating with our team regularly. But how regularly should we communicate with them? Maybe some will say that we need to communicate daily. Some will say, it's not that necessary to communicate daily. Maybe it's fine to contact them weekly.

Well,
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Affiliate since: 12/21/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jerry's 1 other Ask SC answers

It is good to communicate with the team. But excessive communication can backfire.

Excessive & unnecessary communications are those that do not bring any benefit, too much repetitive communications.

It may not be necessary to communicate every day, the frequency recommended by the scoreboard, about 3 communications per week (3 VersaPoints for stream post + 30 VersaPoints for group message) is supposed to be quite sufficient. Repetitive communications that have the same messages over and over again can be a nuisance.

Communications that are too simple where the team members already know may be unnecessary, unless for some reminders.

Communications should bring some positive effects and motivating. If not, they are not necessary.

Some communications that are too demanding and intimidating can push some team members away.

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It is good to communicate with the team. But excessive communication can backfire.

Excessive & unnecessary communications are those that do not bring any benefit, too much repetitive communications.

It may not be necessary to communicate every day, the frequency recommended by the scoreboard, about 3 communications per week (3 VersaPoints for stream post + 30 VersaPoints for group message) is supposed to be quite sufficient. Repetitive communications that have the same
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Affiliate since: 07/31/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Michal's 8 other Ask SC answers

It does not matter the amount of information they convey to your team is important to the quality.
If you pass the information about what you've done and how they can do the same in order to be successful and it is written specifically and not too long, such information can be easily sent 2-3 times a week no one offends.

However, I am strongly opposed to sending daily messages with tips. I think it is better collect the most interesting and include them in the weekly newsletter.

It is also important to keep in touch with your team through instant messaging or other means of communication, and then you will definitely help and advice much faster.

Definitely when we focus on direct communication and assistance on issues raised by the affiliates, which results in increased confidence, curiosity, which translates into a more accurate duplication of the affiliate.
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It does not matter the amount of information they convey to your team is important to the quality.
If you pass the information about what you've done and how they can do the same in order to be successful and it is written specifically and not too long, such information can be easily sent 2-3 times a week no one offends.

However, I am strongly opposed to sending daily messages with tips. I think it is better collect the most interesting and include them in the weekly newsletter.

It
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