How do you develop quality affiliates? It's real simple: WORK WITH THE WORKERS!
When you see people who are working
SFI in your group, work with them! Tip: You can easily locate these people by
checking your "My Movers" list on your SFI homepage daily. Support
them closely, and train them to do the things you do so that you are creating
duplication and maximum leverage.
Work with the Workers. It's of
course more natural for us to let the workers in our group just do their own
thing. After all, they got active without you even telling them to, they're
already sponsoring new affiliates, referring TC members, etc. They don't need
your help or support--or so you think.
Meanwhile, you're spending all your
time trying to get the people who obviously don't "get it" to do
something. As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't
make it drink--yet you continue to try.
You need to know that this is
exactly the opposite of what you should be doing to build a successful
business. I'm not saying you shouldn't follow up with those who don't
immediately get active with SFI. You should. But don't spend ALL or even the
majority of your time with this. And DEFINITELY DO NOT IGNORE your workers!
Indeed, the way you create those 3-5
"top-gun" affiliates that you need is by treating them LIKE YOUR
FUTURE DEPENDS ON THEM!
If you're not in touch with your
best, hardest-working affiliates at least every week (email, phone calls,
chatroom, or whatever), I'm sorry, but you're trying to win a race with a car
that only has one wheel!
How many affiliates will you have to
go through to find your top guns? That's of course difficult to say. What I can
tell you though is that they're out there (or are ALREADY in your group), and
you'll develop them so long as you deny your natural instincts and apply the
proper focus (work with the workers!).
Just like in a deck of playing
cards, you KNOW there are four aces. If you start working your way through the
deck, the first ace may not come up for a while, but eventually it will so long
as you keep going through the deck. And if you don't quit, you'll eventually
locate FOUR aces. It's the very same principle with SFI; the aces are there.
Keep sponsoring affiliates, work
with your workers, and success will happen.
Tip: Don't waste time on skeptics or
pessimists. They will NOT succeed in SFI or any other similar endeavor. They do
not possess the qualities of a winner (this includes "rocking-chair
advisors" who talk and talk, seem to know all the answers, but never act).
"Eagles don't flock--you have
to find them one at a time."
--H. Ross Perot
