I think you have to keep in mind that some of the correspondence received from upline Sponsors or Co-Sponsors doesn't lend itself to responses.
To illicit a response from your down-line Affiliates you need to ask a question - and make the correspondence brief so that the leading question is what they see.
A great deal of correspondence is being sent out to Affiliates every day - wonderful reminders from SFI to get things done and all of these reminders we know are valuable and can help us expand our business using SFI and TC.
But we need to keep in mind that if an Affiliate is already at the point of opting out - these regular bits of information can actually be deleted without even being review or read through. The more correspondence received, the more likely this is to happen.
If you keep in mind that the Affiliate joined with the idea of creating a potential income, then you need to work with that same idea to attract that uncommitted Affiliate back to the daily reviews and responses on the To Do List.
For that reason I believe you have to keep the following in mind when sending out messages, especially to Affiliates who appear to be losing interest:
1. Make the TITLE to each message RELEVANT and IMPACTFUL
A message entitled: "More about SFI" is unlikely to elicit a response from an Affiliate who is already losing interest.
Whereas, a message entitled: "Yay! I just made $100 on SFI" is much more likely to once again get the Affiliate at least curious about reading that message
2. Make the message BRIEF
Messages that are long-winded and difficult to read tend to lose the attention of the reader.
If you need to bring to their attention several points use point form to make it easier to read
So the content of the message could be:
"I just won 200 TCredits by bidding on the Pricebenders Auction and it only cost me 1TCredit (the equivalent of $0.29).
Now I can use those TCredits to play EZ games and bid on more Pricebender auctions.
Contact me and we'll set up an online meeting so I can tell you how you can do the same and expand your business and start earning money."
3. Always include CONTACT DETAILS
While those of us who have spent time learning about the SFI site can probably fairly easily find our Sponsor and Co-Sponsor contact details, we tend to forget that at first it seemed like a really confusing and difficult task. So make it easy for your down-line Affiliates.
Another way to get more active in communicating with your Affiliates is to offer them the opportunity to meet with you on a weekly basis.
If you set up a weekly online meeting (using Skype or a similar chat room - I use GoToMeeting which is a facility that I invest in because I find it the most useful in helping new Affiliates as it give me the opportunity to view their screens and provide them with real-time assistance as they are doing their daily To Do List or something else that they're finding a little confusing.
Then always remember to ask yourself the question:
"Do I respond to every message I am sent?"
The likely answer is "No"
Which means that if you're not doing it, others are unlikely to do it either.
Communicating with Down-Line Affiliates is selling and marketing - so keep in mind that:
80% of sales occur after at least FIVE follow-ups
BUT
92% of sales people give up before FIVE "No's"
SO
8% of sales people are making 80% of the sales
Don't get disheartened and don't give up!
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