Why Induce Your Downline with Gift Certificates and TCredits?

The last thing I will ever recommend in SFI business is for any Sponsor to do anything which remotely looks like a “bribe” as an incentive for his/her downline. This is because there are very many highly effective ways you can literally “fire-up” your downline without offering unmerited gifts or even bribes. If you must give any gifts to your downline, give them such gifts as a token appreciation for a landmark achievement in the business and not as incentives for something you want them to do which they are yet to do. Acting that way clearly demarcates the difference between a bribe and a legitimate gift. 

 
From my own experience, unless an affiliate is sufficiently interested in the business, no amount of bribes or gifts can change their position. What works best therefore is to do such things for and with your downline which help them to take their business more seriously. To my mind, that is the best way to go about it. Some of such things which you must never fail to do include, but not limited to:

1. Regular communications with your downline.
2. Sending down the line regular tips and information on how to succeed in the business.
3. Forming a cooperative and involving your downline.
4. Promptly addressing concerns and requests for information from your downline.
5. Encouraging your downline to engage you with their fears and concerns about the business.
6. Promptly congratulating members of your downline when they make some landmark achievements.
7. Remembering their anniversaries and birthdays and helping them to mark the dates.
8. Occasionally giving away to some of them such gifts as TCredits and even PSAs but certainly not as bribes.

These are the things I believe you can do to and for your downline to encourage them in SFI business. Bribing them is clearly out of the question.

Best Way to Help Your PSAs Understand SFI Business

The best way to help your PSAs to understand SFI is to be an excellent and outstanding sponsor yourself. If you are, you will ensure that your PSAs read and understand SFI basics and Launchpad lessons very thoroughly before they embark on any major business in SFI.

- After that, encourage your PSAs to ask you questions in relation to their SFI business. From the kind of questions they will be asking you, you can easily detect how much of the business they have mastered and how much help they further need from you.

- Encourage them to join A2A and to interact fully with the members.

- Encourage your PSAs to participate fully in the FORUMS as well as ASK SC.

- Make sure they know “SFI Rules of Success” and they are complying with the rules.

- Encourage them to communicate freely upline and downline as the need arises.

- Show them how to use their Gateways to recruit PSAs and to market products.

- Once they have mastered the basics of the business, encourage them to log into their sites daily to do their Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and other Actions to grow their VP Ledger as a way of earning money in SFI.

Doing all these things and a little bit more will help your PSAs to understand SFI as a business.

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.

 

 

How Far Sponsors Can Go to Help Their Affiliates

 No sponsor should ever lose sight of the fact that the affiliates they sponsor are simply their business partners and not their employees or subjects. With this fact in mind, dealing with affiliates at all times becomes a very simple matter because once that relationship is well understood; helping affiliates presents very few well-defined challenges henceforth.

It must be well-stated and understood that affiliates are all individual business persons with their own unique and peculiar characteristics. That is what defines how they do business and relate with other affiliates as well as their sponsors. To take on this matter directly therefore, YES there are certainly limits sponsors should not go beyond in their dealings with affiliates in this business relationship.

SFI clearly defines what sponsors should do and should not do in their “awesome sponsor” page found on this link: https://www.sfimg.com/Training/AwesomeSponsor. That clearly sets the limits for all affiliates and sponsors. Once you keep to the rules, sponsoring affiliates presents no special challenges thereafter.