Affiliate since: 08/28/2012, Power Rank: 202 | Read Marta's 64 other Ask SC answers

There is no best way, it all depends on the PSA or CSA, but I would say Team Mail, is probably the first choice

When I get any new PSA's or CSA's, I try to contact them daily for the first 2 weeks or so, and thereafter, a weekly team mail.

If any affiliate writes to my personal e-mail, with queries, I send a more detailed reply than I would if it was team mail, and the ones who contact you, through your private e-mail, are in my experience the "workers".

You can send 1 team mail per week, and some will say is too much, others will say too little. I have adopted the attitude, that if you feel I am sending you too much e-mail, than you are not really interested in learning the business, as in any business you need to read, be it memos from your boss or supervisor, or read to keep up with all the new innovations around us

So to summarise, do what you feel is right, and is working for the majority of your PSA's and CSA's

hope this was helpful
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There is no best way, it all depends on the PSA or CSA, but I would say Team Mail, is probably the first choice

When I get any new PSA's or CSA's, I try to contact them daily for the first 2 weeks or so, and thereafter, a weekly team mail.

If any affiliate writes to my personal e-mail, with queries, I send a more detailed reply than I would if it was team mail, and the ones who contact you, through your private e-mail, are in my experience the "workers".

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

Hi Eva,

First of all, when you have a contact with your PSA or CSA for the first time, send them a welcome message. It should be brief, just a couple of sentences for introducing yourself as their sponsor and welcome them into your team.
The next day you can send a message explaining shortly how daily actions are important. Write down your e-mail where they can write about everything they need to know, always state that you will answer as soon as you can.
Weekly mails are important for tracking their results and VP ledger first,then write them your suggestions.
Step by step, think about important steps you will include into your weekly mails.Noone can do everything at once but explain your suggestions and the actions they should take. Always lead them by example,when suggesting something, show your badges or support that with the evidence that you did it,too.
Humans are very different,some of them will work without much help but some of them need constant support and time to learn how SFI system works.So, its not so important how exactly mails you send them but the fact that they know how much you carry about them, so, you are always there for your downline.
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Hi Eva,

First of all, when you have a contact with your PSA or CSA for the first time, send them a welcome message. It should be brief, just a couple of sentences for introducing yourself as their sponsor and welcome them into your team.
The next day you can send a message explaining shortly how daily actions are important. Write down your e-mail where they can write about everything they need to know, always state that you will answer as soon as you can.
Weekly mails are important
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

The system that SFI rewards you for is the best!

Send weekly letters to you whole team. (CSA's &PSA's). Use these to cover various sales techniques, SFI program functions, Standing Orders, stories from your own experience, etc.

Send short notes via Stream 3-4 times a week. Use these for inspirational quotes, leader recognition, contest reminders, short sales ideas, etc.

Personal notes via regular email. These are important especially for people who have not gotten into the habit of logging in every day. Also, you MUST use regular email if you suggest programs other than SFI to your team. I find that personal email asking questions about family, school, hobbies, and the like build relationships and strengthen your team. I try to send one personal email to my top twenty at least every other week - more if they are not logging in or have questions.

It is hard to figure out the balance of how many is enough or too much. I use the Stream a lot, as it is the least invasive, and only active members will see it. Team letters go to both the SFI and personal mail boxes, so your inactive folks get those. At the first of each month, I go through my genealogy and write a personal email to folks who started well in the past 90 days to find out if they have a specific reason for not working their business and reminding them that I am there to help. Alternatively, if I have a mover from their country, I will reassign them. (It might be a language problem)

I hope this helps!
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The system that SFI rewards you for is the best!

Send weekly letters to you whole team. (CSA's &PSA's). Use these to cover various sales techniques, SFI program functions, Standing Orders, stories from your own experience, etc.

Send short notes via Stream 3-4 times a week. Use these for inspirational quotes, leader recognition, contest reminders, short sales ideas, etc.

Personal notes via regular email. These are important especially for people who have not
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Hello,

There are several contacting ways in order to keep up with PSAs and CSAs.

1. Email

2. Team Mail

3. SFI Chat

4. Genealogy Mailer (PSA Mailer, CSA Mailer)

5. Skype

It is good to use all 5 contact methods above, so try to manage each of them. I personally use my email in order to contact my PSAs and CSAs. My affiliates would definitely respond back to me via email. All 5 of them definitely come in handy.

In regards to how often to keep in contact with them, I would say only keep in touch like 2 to 3 times a week. You don't want to overdo your notices by contacting them way to many times. So it's best to keep the contact at a minimum unless your PSAs and/or CSAs really need your help if they need something. It's always best to keep your contacts balanced out so you won't seemly be forcing your team to reach stuff in a pressured manner.

I hope this helps. Take care.


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Hello,

There are several contacting ways in order to keep up with PSAs and CSAs.

1. Email

2. Team Mail

3. SFI Chat

4. Genealogy Mailer (PSA Mailer, CSA Mailer)

5. Skype

It is good to use all 5 contact methods above, so try to manage each of them. I personally use my email in order to contact my PSAs and CSAs. My affiliates would definitely respond back to me via email. All 5 of them definitely come in handy.

In
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Affiliate since: 10/09/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Simon's 35 other Ask SC answers

This depends on the member and also will be different from PSA to CSA.

If you are getting CSAs it is because you are in a leadership position which is good, so that is the position you should take. An affiliate should look to their sponsor in the first instance. In the second instance they can look up to their upline, or sideways to their co-sponsor.

Send out a mail fortnightly, a message of encouragement and support, and offer for them to contact you. Add them as A2A friends. Be there if they need it but don't be pushy.

With PSAs, they are your own sponsored affiliates and you are their immediate upline, the person they should turn to for help and support. As you should be sending a fortnightly letter to your CSAs, send one to your PSAs but make it different, make it personal. Encourage but don't interfere. Again add them on A2A. Let them know you are there for them.

Some will do nothing with SFI. Some will work alone and be content. Some will contact and ask for advice and support and THAT is when you give it. You wll have some PSAs who you then will be in regualar contact with and they may be the right ones to develop into Team Leaders.

Consider giving these special ones some T Credits. Look a moving some other affiliates under them and help them to groom and develop these new team members.

Don't push but ALWAYS reply when asked for something. Be the leader they need, the leader you would like to have.

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This depends on the member and also will be different from PSA to CSA.

If you are getting CSAs it is because you are in a leadership position which is good, so that is the position you should take. An affiliate should look to their sponsor in the first instance. In the second instance they can look up to their upline, or sideways to their co-sponsor.

Send out a mail fortnightly, a message of encouragement and support, and offer for them to contact you. Add them as A2A friends.
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Affiliate since: 05/25/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Diamond 's 1 other Ask SC answers

PSAs and CSAs are like business associates. Staying in touch with them is an issue one cannot over-emphasize.

First of all, SFI provides various means whereby we can stay in touch with our downline. In my opinion, the number of times we can stay in touch with them cannot be quantified. What is important is for you to leave communication lines open all the time. At least it is helpful to make yourself accessible to your downline, because they may need help at odd hours.

In answering your question, "how often is best to stay in contact with downline?", apart from the weekly mail that fetches you VersaPoints, it is crucial to always stay in touch with them.

As long your downline needs help from you, you should do all you can to help sort out their issues. Be prompt with your responses and do your best for them. Most times we find downlines who do not respond to emails or IMs. Do not give up on them. Keep watching their progress and keep encouraging them. They may come round someday. Some affiliates may be reluctant to respond to emails cos they are not comfortable communicating with strangers. But you can debunk this myth by constant communication.

The following means of communication can be used to reach out to them.

1. The SFI Team mail (Geneaology Tab) - Very often we can send team mails through our genealogy tab to either our group of PSAs or CSAs or we could send a general team mail to all our downline. The Genealogy tab helps to filter these groups too and that is quite convenient.

2. SFI Online Chat - This is available if a downline is online. You can click to send an instant message to an affiliate. Your downline at the other end gets the message instantly too.

3. Your leadership page - This is another helpful tool for communication. Keep your leadership page updated. Always refer affiliates to your leadership page. There they can find useful information too when you are not available.
Set contests for your team and encourage them to participate.

4. Set up a blog - It is also good to have a blog of your own and provide the link for your downline too. Keep them informed of new posts on your blog and avail them other helpful information.

5. Social media - The use of social media has given business a big boost in current times. You can add your downline to your social media contacts. Social media such as skype, facebook, twitter, my space, etc are some examples.

6. A2A - Encourage your downline by adding them up to your a2a friends. Also encourage them to add each other. When you send out a message on your stream tab, you can select your a2a friends exclusively and send out tips to them. That way they get to read from you.

7. Emails - The conventional Email is also helpful

Communication is very key in the success of any business.

Cheers:)
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PSAs and CSAs are like business associates. Staying in touch with them is an issue one cannot over-emphasize.

First of all, SFI provides various means whereby we can stay in touch with our downline. In my opinion, the number of times we can stay in touch with them cannot be quantified. What is important is for you to leave communication lines open all the time. At least it is helpful to make yourself accessible to your downline, because they may need help at odd hours.

In
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Affiliate since: 05/11/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read EVELYN's 12 other Ask SC answers

These are the pointers I think work best:
1. Welcome PSA's and CSA's to your team asap after they join.
2. Advise affiliates of your availability for support, to answer their questions. Use the system or upline if you do not have or are uncertain of responses.
3. Prompt responses to any and all questions- give links so that they can find more indepth info on their own. This will encourage them to use the system and more often than not pick up additional tips. The more you learn, the more you earn
4. Send general group mailers minimum once per week.
5. Quick CHAT notes to affiliates "Do you need my help?" whenever you see them online.
6. Organize group meetings using methods like skype or free conferencing to create team strategies/goals based on response. Fortnightly or monthly.
7. Send mailer/email reminders of points needed to meet requirements such as E365 contest, rank etc.
8. Inspirational and congratulatory stream posts to bolster team confidence at least 3 times per week.
9. Alert affiliates when red flagged for deletion; highlight the benefits of SFI if they have not already blocked SFI the personal touch could reignite their interest.
10. Keep your leadership page up to date and exciting with news, congratulatory messages, giveaways, contests, tips etc. Include links to this page in all correspondence.

All the best
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These are the pointers I think work best:
1. Welcome PSA's and CSA's to your team asap after they join.
2. Advise affiliates of your availability for support, to answer their questions. Use the system or upline if you do not have or are uncertain of responses.
3. Prompt responses to any and all questions- give links so that they can find more indepth info on their own. This will encourage them to use the system and more often than not pick up additional tips. The more you learn, the
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

This is a great question,

What I do to stay in contact with my psa's and csa's is send the first email once you receive them is the first and foremost the very important because that lets them know your very interested in them. Then I send a email saying what to work on and if they have any questions I am here to help.

After that if they are online I instant message them to see if they have any questions for me, if not I send a email to just check in and see how they are doing.

I also send weekly emails using genealogy mailer to get everyone in your team. This way the other csa's and psa's get the information too.

Once everyone is established then I email once a week using genealogy mailer. This gets the whole team at once.
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This is a great question,

What I do to stay in contact with my psa's and csa's is send the first email once you receive them is the first and foremost the very important because that lets them know your very interested in them. Then I send a email saying what to work on and if they have any questions I am here to help.

After that if they are online I instant message them to see if they have any questions for me, if not I send a email to just check in and see how they are
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Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 219 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers

It is important to keep in touch with team members regularly so us to obtain their feedback, provide assistance and maintain the cohesiveness to work as a team in achieving our goals in the most productive manner. The best ways to stay in contact with PSAs and CSAs with the frequency of contact is appended below.

WELCOME LETTER
The first point of contact with yours PSAs is your “welcome” letter. Similarly the first point of contact with your CSAs is when you send them an email or team mail to let them know that you have been assigned as their Co-Sponsor and your are there to support and assist them.

STREAM TAB
Post messages on your Stream Tab every three days. Brief messages of encouragement, success quotes and congratulatory messages to contest winners is best posted at Stream Tab.

PSA MAILER
The PSA mailer is sent out once a week. Providing tips on carrying out the SFI business to a new level is a good idea.

CSA MAILER
The CSA mailer is also used to sent out messages once a week. Ask the CSAs if they need your assistance.

GENEALOGY GROUP MAILER
The genealogy group mailer can be used to send newsletters to PSAs and CSAs once a week.

SFIM CHAT
The SFIM chat is used when you receive the notification of a new PSA. Start a chat with them to introduce yourself as their sponsor and ask if you could help them to get started.

A2A
Encourage your affiliates to connect with SFI affiliates in their own countries. The locals will know better about the culture and marketing in their respective countries.

To conclude being an awesome sponsor calls for robust communication with your downlines to build a cohesive team and build up the SFI business.

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It is important to keep in touch with team members regularly so us to obtain their feedback, provide assistance and maintain the cohesiveness to work as a team in achieving our goals in the most productive manner. The best ways to stay in contact with PSAs and CSAs with the frequency of contact is appended below.

WELCOME LETTER
The first point of contact with yours PSAs is your “welcome” letter. Similarly the first point of contact with your CSAs is when you send them an email
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Affiliate since: 10/24/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Moch. Arif's 76 other Ask SC answers

There are several ways to keep in touch with the PSA and the CSA are:

1. Send a message through the genealogy.
Send a message via the genealogy is an important factor. Send a message via genealogy will get 30 VP per week. We can send a message one time per week, could also more than once. If there is no important things that should be delivered one time each week we send out a message to your downline, it is good to establish communication with the downline.

2. Send a message through the team mail.
Send a message via the team mail will affect both of our relationships with team members. They will wait for the important information from us. Should we provide information that is essential for the development of our team.

3. Send the message via stream
Send a message via the stream is very good for our team. We can send messages every day. We can also send you a different message for our team in accordance with the categories provided.

4. Send email
Sending email is crucial. We can send personalized thing. We can also build two-way communication to downline.

5. Communicate in Forum
Communicating on the forum is also an important thing. We can answer the question of our downline at the forum, while the downline can ask things that are not well understood in our answers.

That's some of the best ways to keep in touch with the PSA and CSA.
May be useful for friends.

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There are several ways to keep in touch with the PSA and the CSA are:

1. Send a message through the genealogy.
Send a message via the genealogy is an important factor. Send a message via genealogy will get 30 VP per week. We can send a message one time per week, could also more than once. If there is no important things that should be delivered one time each week we send out a message to your downline, it is good to establish communication with the downline.

2. Send a message
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