How to Convince Your PSAs to Remain in SFI Business

This is a very difficult issue to tackle particularly when you know that at some point you too were faced with this same dilemma. It makes no economic sense to keep telling anyone to keep putting money in a business when they are not receiving commensurately. However, in SFI, optimism is the main key to success in the business. If you are able to find a practical way to keep up the optimism of your PSAs, it is possible to prevent them from quitting the business even if they are putting in more than they are receiving. 

 
My advice is that you should open up very sincere communications with your PSAs if you notice any form of apathy. Let them know that you too had been in a similar situation in the past but you persevered that is why you are where you are today. Teach them the skills and offer them some tips to minimize what they are putting in the business. Specifically, advise them that:

1. They should not aspire to higher ranks above EA monthly until they deepen their downlines.
2. They can earn EA monthly through more of Action Points than Sales Points.
3. They should leverage on any opportunity they have to cut costs.
4. They should remember that the business is theirs alone and should therefore desist from competing with anyone.
5. They should always consider costs/benefits before taking any action.
6. They should remain focused and optimistic because SFI business is not a get-rich-quick business. It takes time and plenty of efforts to build the business.
7. They should try to interact with fellow affiliates at the a2a and forums to share in their experiences.
8. They should read more and learn more about the business.
9. The only money they should put in the business is what they can spare or afford to lose.
10. They should never spend any money they don’t have for the sake of the business.

Let them know that if they follow your advice, they can minimize risks and material losses in the business. That way, it is possible to stay on in the business hopeful that things will turn around with time. That is how it plays out for every affiliate who has made it in SFI business and theirs can’t be different.

 

 

How to Prevent Others from Preying on Your Downline

 

My first reaction to this issue is to advise every sponsor to be a very good and reliable sponsor to their downlines at all times. If you are a very good sponsor, it will be very difficult if not impossible for others to prey on them by diverting their attention to other programs.

There is no doubt you are aware that in SFI business, many affiliates have unhindered access to other affiliates through A2A and the Forums. If you are a very good sponsor to your downline, chances are always very high that they will believe in you and take your advice more than any other affiliates they may have come in contact with after joining SFI. Remember, as a sponsor, you are always the very first human contact your new affiliates “get to meet” when they join SFI. If you welcome them professionally and manage to get them to trust you, you will establish a solid bond with them.

If you are able to nurture that relationship very well, there is hardly any other affiliate who can easily convince your downline to join any other programs particularly those other programs you may not approve of. For that reason, everything depends on you how you have managed to bond with your downline to build loyalty and trust. A solid bond with your downline is about the only antidote I can think of right now which you can use to prevent others from preying on them to join other programs.

 

 

What to Chat Online With a New PSA

Initiating an online chat with a new PSA is a very good way to help such a PSA to “settle in.” Since you are the one who initiated the chat, please give plenty of room for the new affiliate to ask most of the questions. You must avoid a posture which portrays you as lecturing the new affiliate. Engage the affiliate in a few chit chat first to put them at ease before you go into the real business. Among many other issues you can discuss with a new PSA, the following to my mind appear to be the most pertinent,

1. Find out why the new PSA joined SFI, and how she is doing presently.
2. Find out if she has been through the LaunchPad and what she learned.
3. Let her know the importance of the “to-do” list.
4. Find out if she routinely sets goals in SFI.
5. Let her know the importance of logging in to her site every single day.
6. Find out how she is promoting her business.
7. Discuss participating in the forums.
8. Discuss how she is doing in a2a.
9. Let her know how she can make minimum of EA monthly and the benefits.
10. Discuss duplication in details and the awesome benefits.
11. Discuss the trivia games and the benefits.
12. Discuss the benefits of forming and joining co-operatives etc, etc.

 

Why it is Beneficial to Create SFI Forums in Other Languages

There is no doubt that when viewed very narrowly, it is easy to admit that it will be beneficial to create separate forums and do web seminars about SFI in languages other than English. This is because many people feel more at home and are more comfortable with their first language than any other language, English inclusive. With an international business like SFI, creating a separate forum with this local language can be very helpful to those who speak the language. These people can therefore learn more quickly and feel completely at home with getting ahead in their SFI business as well as easy recruitment of affiliates. 


 
In my opinion, that is the easy part. The not-very-easy part is, who creates the forums and do the seminars? What is their level of expertise and proficiency in the local language particularly when you factor in that no language can ever be fully translated without losing some form of value from the original language. Besides, English is such a universally acceptable language which is spoken almost everywhere in the world. I am told all international pilots are compelled to use English to communicate when they over fly other countries irrespective of the local languages spoken in such countries.

Allied to that is the fact that SFI is trying frantically to create an international business platform acceptable and accessible to all peoples of the world with the power of the Internet making English the universal language for transactions. SFI has rightly built into the business to assist non-English speakers an SFI Translation Tool which is very efficient and effective. Smart Internet users also deploy Google Translate Tool for the same translations purposes. 


 
The question to ask here is, why localize a business SFI is striving to internationalize? But if the idea of a local language is to complement what SFI is doing, then why not? If you are so good in your local language and you believe you have the resources, patience and expertise to use your local language effectively, all well and good but you do face the additional task of finding enough people interested in SFI business who speak the language with you. With the way SFI is structured, that additional task may be very daunting even if you choose to use A2A or you organize co-operatives with the sole qualification criterion being ability to communicate in a specific local language. That can by no means be an easy task. With all these bottlenecks, can anyone still be keen on creating separate forums and doing web seminars about SFI in languages other than English? If anyone still does, I am not sure I envy them at all.