Affiliate since: 10/01/2013, Power Rank: 426 | Read Nimo's 381 other Ask SC answers

By yourself, you cannot provide personalized attention for everyone.

If you have a large active downline, my suggestion to you is to use your leaders within your team. Together you can provide personalized attention for all your affiliates.

I suggest you identify those with leadership skills and reassign affiliates to them. (Just because an affiliate is a BTL does not make him a leader) Use the Reassignment Tool and reassign affiliates to appropriate leaders. You can use geographical location, same primary language, same culture etc.. as criterion for reassignment.

By doing this you reduce the number of affiliates under Generation 1, for which you are directly and personally responsible for coaching etc.. You delegate this responsibility to your leaders and you then focus your attention on developing your leaders.

This is a win- win situation. Your leaders will earn the relevant VPs associated with sponsoring; they will develop their leadership and sponsoring skills and duplication will happen. You on the other hand will have a smaller group to sponsor and you will benefit from the activities of your leaders and their teams.

All affiliates can receive personalized attention.

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By yourself, you cannot provide personalized attention for everyone.

If you have a large active downline, my suggestion to you is to use your leaders within your team. Together you can provide personalized attention for all your affiliates.

I suggest you identify those with leadership skills and reassign affiliates to them. (Just because an affiliate is a BTL does not make him a leader) Use the Reassignment Tool and reassign affiliates to appropriate leaders. You can use geographical
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Affiliate since: 10/29/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Joseph's 6 other Ask SC answers

This is a very interesting question and also a great position to be in.
It is one where any team leader would hope to be in considering the rewards that this could bring. It however, can be a very demanding undertaking.
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Since everyone is active it would be easy to use the PSA and CSA Mailers, whereby all Team members can be reached at the same time. That will cater for the weekly mailing.

Another good way to communicate to such an active group is through a weekly News letter. Here the opportunity to deal with the various issues that confront your team can be highlighted and discussed.

Finally,the use of E-Cards and personal emails should be used to address the personalised situations. This would ensure that each team member remain in contact with the Team Leader and is made to feel that he/she is a valuable member of the team.

It means that one will have to make the necessary sacrifice of time to ensure that the communication lines stay in tact for all of the above to be a realty. An alternative to the above can be to reassign some of the active downline to several of the more dedicated team members who must be monitored to ensure that all the members remain active.

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This is a very interesting question and also a great position to be in.
It is one where any team leader would hope to be in considering the rewards that this could bring. It however, can be a very demanding undertaking.
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Since everyone is active it would be easy to use the PSA and CSA Mailers, whereby all Team members can be reached at the same time. That will cater for the weekly mailing.

Another good way to communicate to such an active group is through a weekly News
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Affiliate since: 06/05/2014, Power Rank: 449 | Read Abe's 168 other Ask SC answers

Great question Sharon,
I believe that’s why we need to build a team and many team leaders
As much as we can, when you expand yourself to wide it will be hard to
Manage Since you are operating by yourself.

But it is recommended to have 5 wide then go 5 wide deep as much as you
Can to 12 generations.
Then add few more wide after that and do the process again,
by then you will know all the tricks.

When you have your 5 active members, it is a good Idea passing your
Other active members to your down lines to build their team and train
Them to do the same.

By doing this you will create team leaders to help you ease the load, don’t
Worry about you commission , by having proportional growth through
Your down lines you will earn better than earning from your one wide
Down lines, not only that if you don’t reward your active members to
Build their team as their leader, you might lose them all.

Team work for better achievement.

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Great question Sharon,
I believe that’s why we need to build a team and many team leaders
As much as we can, when you expand yourself to wide it will be hard to
Manage Since you are operating by yourself.

But it is recommended to have 5 wide then go 5 wide deep as much as you
Can to 12 generations.
Then add few more wide after that and do the process again,
by then you will know all the tricks.

When you have your 5 active members, it is a good
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 45 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

Managing a large active downline could pose a big challenge for Team Leaders. SFI always emphasize that do not purchase PSAs if you’re not willing to provide quality support. As a sponsor of your new affiliates, you’re responsible for actively supporting them. Providing quality support to a large, active downline will be insurmountable and overwhelming.

I have around thousands of affiliates in my downline. Around 95 percent are inactive. Two percent are fully active and the rest are semi-active. This is manageable and giving personalized attention for everyone is not a formidable task.

How to manage a large, active downline and provide personalized attention for everyone?

- Select five most active affiliates in your downline

The first step is crucial. As a Team Leader, you’re starting to build team members, whom you can trust. You need to establish strong relationship with them. Your important resources are time and communication and SFI provides excellent communication tools which you can use.

- Train them in establishing, managing and building interpersonal relationship

Give your time and support as much as they need until they have the skills like you as their Team Leader. You can easily personalize your attention with your five most active affiliates. You have SFI support system and SFI tools and resources which you can use extensively to achieve this purpose.

- Use the Reassignment tool

As you continue to sponsor and grow your downline, identify new affiliates who are active. Start reassigning them under your first five. Now, this is where interpersonal skills take an important role to create new Team Leaders of similar qualities like you as their Team Leader.

These steps will be repeated as you keep sponsoring. A team member equipped with this important knowledge and skill will naturally find it easy to manage new affiliates, transfer his knowledge and skills to his downline, and create new Team Leaders of similar qualities as his own through the process of duplication. With these steps, you don’t need to worry about personalizing emails to thousands of your active downline.


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Managing a large active downline could pose a big challenge for Team Leaders. SFI always emphasize that do not purchase PSAs if you’re not willing to provide quality support. As a sponsor of your new affiliates, you’re responsible for actively supporting them. Providing quality support to a large, active downline will be insurmountable and overwhelming.

I have around thousands of affiliates in my downline. Around 95 percent are inactive. Two percent are fully active and the rest are
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 5 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

This is very timely question. I am glad you asked.

The nice thing about the SFI system is you do not need to manage your whole downline and, if you are you are, you actually are not duplicating what the successful leaders are doing. For me, for example, there is no way I could manage 12000 people effectively. The nice thing about it is I don't have too nor would I want to.

Remember the basic SFI model.

*Become and remain an EA2 or Team Leader.
*Find 3-5 PSAs and train them to become EA2s and / or team leaders
*Then train them to do the same

It is really that simple. I don't mean simple by duration, I mean simple by process. The time it takes to build up that team is really up to you. By team, I mean your front line 3 or 5 PSA. It is this front line 3 or 5 PSA that you should devote your full attention to at first. This is your magic line so to speak. What I mean is this is where all the magic begins.

The beauty of the system and why you don't need to manage your entire line is you don't need to as you will leverage your line to that for you and your front line's front line and their front line front line front line etc

This is where we get the term leveraged income. Right now you are being leveraged by your sponsor and more so by your UPLINE sponsor 's sponsor and so on. The beauty of leveraged income is bigger and wider and deeper your down line goes, the less you upstream need to work as you now leverage the work of others in your downline like you are today by your upline and you not only earn leverage income but residual income. Income that comes month after month forever.

Now that you know why you don't need to manage your entire downline and just focus on your first generation line, we can focus on the importance of what personalized attention you do néed to give and to whom. Your goal remember is to build a solid team of 5 PSA. This takes time and is sped up or slowed down by you and your time and captial invested. I will assume that you know how to find PSA and focus on what you should do with the ones you do find.

Quite simple put, treat your front line 5 like you need them to live. Without them you will die. They are your air so to speak. Devote your time and attention on finding 5 solid PSAs and then train them well to each build their team of 5.

By doing this, you can better manage and focus on small group and manage it effectively too and for the long term. If you try to support everyone and everything, you will become overwhelmed and most likely burn out or quit when you find out that your work is going for not because you are stretch way too thin. Sound familiar?

Getting those solid front five will take time. Some can do that in months some years but in the end it's the quality of those front five that will drive the effectiveness of your entire line. Therefore, I highly recommend that you put in considerable effort up front to build a high quality, highly effective front line and then incentive-vise and motivate them until they become self guiding and repeat or duplicate what you are doing.

This is where duplication is key, if you want your front line to be highly effecive like you, you better be sure that you are the leader you want them to be and doing what you are asking of them and show proof.

*Earn every badge you can.
*Become a force In the forum
*Bring in constant leads
*Offer reassignments and coops to your line
*Aim high and think big
*Be number one in everything where you can

This will make your job of building much easier as people begin to come to you like clockwork rather than you having to find them. It's all about strategy and efficiency and then taking that efficient, strategic plan to action effectively.

This is how you mange a large down line effectively and efficiently and will pay off down the line, no pun intended in major ways. Success takes hard work but it also rewards you in major ways. SFI is simple by process. Where it gets hard is staying motivated, persistent, consistent and effective when you go through times where you feel you are not getting very far.

If you keep things small and simple that will take you farther and greater then trying to do it all yourself. Leverage others and duplicate what works and you will hit your mark but try to get to creative and complex and deviate to far and you may get nowhere.

To your success. Good luck.

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This is very timely question. I am glad you asked.

The nice thing about the SFI system is you do not need to manage your whole downline and, if you are you are, you actually are not duplicating what the successful leaders are doing. For me, for example, there is no way I could manage 12000 people effectively. The nice thing about it is I don't have too nor would I want to.

Remember the basic SFI model.

*Become and remain an EA2 or Team Leader.
*Find 3-5 PSAs
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Always, Always, and Always again, be sure that you send Ecards to everyone for any accomplishment, win or even for logging in. These build confidence in you and re-pore'.

Tell some personal stories that pertain to SFI in a fan page in Facebook. Invite all of your members to join Facebook and any other social media you are involved in yourself. Use these mediums to broadcast your success.

Write your weekly newsletters and acknowledge any accomplishment that anyone of your team made have made.

Be active, involved and available to any of those that request help, ask a question or respond to something that you have done.

Identify common problems, and send emails with suggestions to solutions for the problem to those you have identified.

Join SKYPE and invite them to SKYPE you, message you in any way they can.

Have a blog or other instrument outside of SFI that is pertinent to SFI material and information so that they can see that you are very active, involved and interested in their success in as many ways as possible.

Write your active people extra news items, and your inactivity people motivational items and from the Forum, AskSC and other places that identify even the smallest gain or success in SFI.

Don't be concerned that you are sending too much information. Just be sure that you contact everyone at least once a week. Make your newsletters interesting and short. Make your motivational items short and have pictures or some personal item that improves their knowledge or you and your ability to lead them in SFI.
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Always, Always, and Always again, be sure that you send Ecards to everyone for any accomplishment, win or even for logging in. These build confidence in you and re-pore'.

Tell some personal stories that pertain to SFI in a fan page in Facebook. Invite all of your members to join Facebook and any other social media you are involved in yourself. Use these mediums to broadcast your success.

Write your weekly newsletters and acknowledge any accomplishment that anyone of your team
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Affiliate since: 08/17/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bernard 's 4 other Ask SC answers

Great question!

A large active downline can easily be managed by first being organized. Using social media in our era has come to help a lot of Team Leaders in managing large downlines. For instance the use of hung up, skype video calls, facebook and other social media channels easily personalize interactions with affiliates.

You may not have all the time to solve each and everyone's problem all at once. You can let affiliates book appointment with you on times mutually convenient to you. Attend to their question and sometimes direct them to the SFI pages of information to reduce the time you attend to each individual.

You may have Team leaders in your downline since you are describing it as large. Organize Team Leaders on skype or google hung up to address their needs. Once the team leaders have all the needed support from you, it ripples to their individual teams which are all under your care.

Once team members direct their questions to their team leaders you will be free to pick on some affiliates with special need to help. Moreso frequently asked question by affiliates can easily be answered using the PSA or CSA mailer.

I can go on and on for so many tips to you but time will not allow me. Hence I hope what I have already said will be beneficial to you.






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Great question!

A large active downline can easily be managed by first being organized. Using social media in our era has come to help a lot of Team Leaders in managing large downlines. For instance the use of hung up, skype video calls, facebook and other social media channels easily personalize interactions with affiliates.

You may not have all the time to solve each and everyone's problem all at once. You can let affiliates book appointment with you on times mutually convenient
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Affiliate since: 11/07/2019, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Kanishka's 11 other Ask SC answers

Well,
We can provide attention or manage them through -

1. PSA/CSA/Group Mail - once a week
2. look at Movers tab to find who is online now and chat with them
3. One mid-week letter from personal mail box
4. inspirational tips through Stream post
5. You can manage them also through your Blog
6. You also can able to provide them attention, easily through net call/ vdo chat/ online
conference - you can do a meeting with them in every week with a particular schedule.

It is better if you can maintain a separate Folder for your downline with all the details and their query - It will makes you up to date about them when you communicate with them.

Last of all, as per my experience and knowledge - Active downline didn't need any extra care, they always contact their upline if the upline has the all eligibility to call as upline. So, it's better for every upline to react correctly with their downline with inspirational word + kind heart + helpful hands + awesome ideas - that's all for maintain the active downline.

Good Luck
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Well,
We can provide attention or manage them through -

1. PSA/CSA/Group Mail - once a week
2. look at Movers tab to find who is online now and chat with them
3. One mid-week letter from personal mail box
4. inspirational tips through Stream post
5. You can manage them also through your Blog
6. You also can able to provide them attention, easily through net call/ vdo chat/ online
conference - you can do a meeting with them in every week with
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

If you've got a large, active downline--the keyword being *active*--the majority of this is taking care of itself. However, when it comes to attention and providing the additional value that makes you an "awesome sponsor," there are essentially three items to consider:

1) Keeping the line of communications open: setting up your own blog or forum can be handy, and if you have people that use Skype, that gives you the ability to give personal attention or, if there's interest among your active downline, even set up group teleconferences or even "webinars" that everyone can participate in.

2) Continue to elicit information, not only on what each member is doing so that you can suggest alternatives, but what each person is seeking so you can better help him or her achieve more personal goals.

3) If you're already doing these, you can also provide incentives that encourage, each in his or her own way, to continue being active and effective members on SFI. Not all of these will be TCredits, co-op shares, or otherwise SFI-based. Graphic designers can help with artwork for their ECA stores, bloggers can publish articles on affiliates' sites, and affiliates looking to explore TripleClicks for items to promote can ask their downline members to help evaluate goods.

Every other piece of advice I would give you hinges on one of these three facets. Keep building your downline and enjoying great success.
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If you've got a large, active downline--the keyword being *active*--the majority of this is taking care of itself. However, when it comes to attention and providing the additional value that makes you an "awesome sponsor," there are essentially three items to consider:

1) Keeping the line of communications open: setting up your own blog or forum can be handy, and if you have people that use Skype, that gives you the ability to give personal attention or, if there's interest
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Affiliate since: 07/24/2012, Power Rank: 8 | Read Beverly's 79 other Ask SC answers

This is a really good question. The answer will be different for everyone. It depends on whether or not you have Team Leaders with their own large downline, how many first line PSAs you have who are Team Leaders or EA2s etc.

Personally I have a huge downline. The most active ones are PSAs level two and down and CSAs. The reason is that I help everyone as personally as possible. ECards are very useful. I copy and paste welcome letters and training to new affiliates, and for other things, just changing it here and there to personalize it. I also check their profiles to help them reach their goals.

Here's a list of some of the things I do:

1. Maintain my leadership page: blog, recognition, personal story and tips, contests and suggestions for great TripleClick products. I include information on advertising and different ways to earn income right from the beginning.

2. Let my downline know when I have updated anything on my leadership page, and give them a reason to check it out.

3. Congratulate them for winning a contest or reaching a level like EA or Team Leader, either by Stream Messages or personal e-Cards.

4. Use my genealogy to keep track of how active downline are doing. I concentrate mainly on my first level PSAs but also check out anyone who has acquired any VP at all. I still send out team mail to everyone once per week. At the end I remind them that they can contact me for their SFI# if they have forgotten or use their email to log in to www.sfimg.com and give my leadership page and contact information.

5. Send eCards for birthdays and anniversaries, and for tips. I always point out the positive first when I give advice.

6. Promptly answer questions in team mail and email or chat.

7. Pass on information from the forum, Alerts page, ASK SC, and training sites at SFI.

8. Let new affiliates know where they can find their upline and encourage them to keep in contact. (info at bottom of Stream Page)

9. Use gift certificates or TCredits for those who are active but struggling to maintain EA2, even if they aren't on my first line.

10. Reassign my first-line affiliates, who are not active, to new active affiliates so they can send out team mail, getting 30 VP per week. This will get them to EA faster. I always remind new affiliates to transfer their VP to the next month if they haven't reached 1500 VP and to collect their CSAs on their Alerts page when they do reach 1500 VP for the first time.

11. Reassign EA2s, or even a BTL on my first line to long-term Team Leaders on my first line to encourage them to keep working. I help these Team Leaders with their newly assigned affiliates, just like I do with all reassignments.

12. I ask my sponsor to reassign some of his to me. I let my downline know. This is great team work and is a good example.

There is a lot more that can be done like having webinars, Skype, You tube, social media sites for your team. So far i haven't done this. I do have a website that I send my affiliates to. It explains how to get started. Ten lessons are listed.

Hope this helps.


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This is a really good question. The answer will be different for everyone. It depends on whether or not you have Team Leaders with their own large downline, how many first line PSAs you have who are Team Leaders or EA2s etc.

Personally I have a huge downline. The most active ones are PSAs level two and down and CSAs. The reason is that I help everyone as personally as possible. ECards are very useful. I copy and paste welcome letters and training to new affiliates, and for other things,
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