How to Train Your Affiliates Offline

While deciding on this issue, the first thought that came to my mind is the degree of feasibility of training your PSAs offline. I believe you can only do so successfully if all or a very large number of your PSAs are living within your locality. With the nature of SFI and its affiliates programs, I hardly see how feasible that is. 

 
If as your question indicates you believe you can easily assemble very many of your affiliates to a training seminar under one roof, all well and good. In that case, your seminar will take the form of any other regular seminars where you will have to invite and assemble all the affiliates you want to train in one place. In that case, I will advise you to do the following:

1. Find out first from your PSAs who and how many of them will be interested in your offline seminar.
2. If you receive good responses, you can then decide on a date and venue for the seminar.
3. Send out invitations to the PSAs who have indicated interest by way of communicating same to them well in advance.
4. Advertise to the affiliates well in advance what the topics of your seminar will cover.
5. Secure a suitable venue for the seminar preferably in a hotel or events club.
6. On the day of the seminar, be there to personally welcome the PSAs with very warm handshakes.
7. At the seminar proper, make it interactive and be sure the topics are interesting, informative and entertaining.
8. Request feedbacks from participants to aid preparations for future seminars.
9. Open follow-up communications with the participants on the subject matters.
10. Encourage the PSAs to open up communications with themselves as well.

I believe any offline seminar you are able to organize with these tips in mind will achieve the desired results.

Good luck!!!

 

How to Use Webinars for Marketing and Training in SFI Business

Webinars are very effective marketing strategies online. If you do not have a customized website to host them, you can register FREE on some other sites like AnyMeeting.com to host your webinars. From there, you can post your lessons regularly to your downline. Even with non-professionals, many of these sites provide very good support, training and infrastructure for good webinars. That makes them very easy for any interested marketer to use.

However, for your webinars to be very effective in SFI business, you must take the following into account:

1. First, find out through research the degree of interest your downline has for webinars.
2. You must know very well the subject matter of your webinar.
3. You must be an undisputed authority on the subject matter of your webinar.
4. Take into account the time zones globally when delivering your subject.
5. Factor in cultural, linguistic and regional considerations/sensibilities when delivering your webinar.
6. Encourage visual contacts and feedback in your webinars.
7. Be time conscious when delivering your webinars.
8. Schedule webinars well in advance at specified times.
9. Research your subject matter thoroughly and regularly and ensure you are up-to-date.
10. Make sure you keep all promises you make in your webinars.

No sensible marketer will get involved in webinars because everyone else is into them. What matters is how best webinars can help your marketing efforts. That is why you must endeavor to make your webinars interesting, informative and useful. Taking the above tips into account before you embark on the use of webinars greatly enhances their effectiveness.

Best of luck in your campaigns!

4 Business Opportunities Suitable for Veterans

Are you a veteran? Do you have friends or relatives who are veterans? If yes, there is good news for you. Veterans can and do make great entrepreneurs and or small-business owners. From their training and service experience, many veterans indeed possess many of the skills necessary to survive in the business world. These skills include but not limited to leadership, orderliness, discipline, responsibility, teamwork and the ability to make snappy on-the-spot decisions. Some businesses especially require these skills to succeed. That is why they are very suitable for veterans. Here are 4 options to take a pick from if you are a veteran.

01. Security Consultant: Having served in any of the disciplined and armed services, it is assumed that through training and experience, many veterans have come to know a lot about security and the use of firearms. That is largely why many firms make veterans their very first port of call when it comes to designing, building and maintaining credible security infrastructure for their companies. Veterans are at home too when they do business helping to secure lives and property 24/7.

02. Retail Shop Management: Retail shop management is a good business option for veterans who excel in sales, marketing and supply chain management. Starting and managing a retail business works well for veterans who want to focus on selling a product with a military theme as many experts have correctly observed. Because people generally like veterans, they like to buy products or support companies which project veteran identity. Civilians like to support veterans by shopping at veteran-owned businesses perhaps to also be regaled with war-time stories many veterans relish in telling. That patronage is what keeps veterans in retail shop management in good business.

03. Franchise Ownership: According to Mark Rockefeller, a U.S. Air Force veteran and CEO of StreetShares, an online small-business lender, “Veterans are drawn toward franchising because it mirrors the military structure.” Franchising is exactly what by training and service experience, veterans are already very much at home with. There are other advantages veterans derive from franchising. With a franchise, they don’t have to start from scratch to grow a new brand. All the systems and procedures they need will already be in place when they buy a franchise. The exact training and support they also need is provided by the franchisor. That sounds really great for veterans.

04. Government Contractor: Traditionally worldwide, governments are usually the largest purchasers of goods and services. These governments who were the former employers of veterans already have a well-established relationship with them and there is the tendency to trust them with business as well. In some countries like the US, there are programs like, the “Vets First Contracting Program” which help all veterans better compete for government contracts. That naturally gives veterans some contracting advantage when bidding for government contracts. Some other countries have in place many more incentives which help veterans to thrive well in business doing government contracts.

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