Affiliate since: 07/07/2021, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Betabasi's 66 other Ask SC answers

Be an awesome sponsor to them. Some might be inactive because their sponsors are inactive and so might not understand the program since there is no one to guide them.

I have an inactive sponsor but that has not discouraged me, rather I looked up to my CoSponsor for assistance who has been very helpful and supportive. Another important factor is the language barrier.

Some affiliates do not come from English speaking countries and so find it hard to understand the program. I will advise you to find out the primary language of your CSAs and use the google translator to communicate with them effectively in their own language where they can easily understand you.

Show them the love which their sponsor may not have showed them and always be there for them. Remember, patience is very essential in succeeding in this business so do not jump to conclusion without close analysis.

You never can tell how active your CSAs may turn up to be when they discover that they have a loving and supportive CoSponsor who is always there for them.
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Be an awesome sponsor to them. Some might be inactive because their sponsors are inactive and so might not understand the program since there is no one to guide them.

I have an inactive sponsor but that has not discouraged me, rather I looked up to my CoSponsor for assistance who has been very helpful and supportive. Another important factor is the language barrier.

Some affiliates do not come from English speaking countries and so find it hard to understand the program.
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I think they should be treated in the same way as our PSA. Do not give up on them. Never.

I will quote one of our fellow affiliate:

"I was an inactive affiliate for about 4 years. I joined because I thought it was something I'd try, but it was something that I really did not care to put much effort into - so I quit. NEVER My sponsor sent me a message and I never got a contact from my co-sponsor. It just happened that, as I was searching online (years later) for a home-business, I remembered that I had started with SFI before. I found my username / password , logged in, and started working.”

So, I think...

- Always keep an eye out for those who are occasionally logging in.

- Watch those that are doing a little, they may actually come around and start really working.

- Be proactive with those that want to learn.

However, the best thing we can do is that we should never give up on them, but communicate with them at least once a week using SFI team mailer and their email addresses provided.

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I think they should be treated in the same way as our PSA. Do not give up on them. Never.

I will quote one of our fellow affiliate:

"I was an inactive affiliate for about 4 years. I joined because I thought it was something I'd try, but it was something that I really did not care to put much effort into - so I quit. NEVER My sponsor sent me a message and I never got a contact from my co-sponsor. It just happened that, as I was searching online (years later) for a home-business,
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2010, Power Rank: 272 | Read Kay's 289 other Ask SC answers

When you receive inactive CSAs, chances are that you will first need to change your attitude from "drat, I got a bunch of losers" to "I wonder how many are just needing a great co-sponsor?"

An inactive CSA is an affiliate whose sponsor has not been able to get him started in SFI. It may be the sponsor's inactivity, but it may be several other reasons, also.
1) There are people who's income goals can be met with what they get from PTC and they have no intention of becoming an active affiliate with us. They do not read or respond to their sponsor's welcome letters or weekly emails.
2) There are the tire kickers who want to take a look at SFI but make their decision against doing it before they have examined the opportunity enough to really know how it works. These people have already shown that they are lacking patience and persistence and belief. If they don't want to believe that this is a legitimate opportunity for them, they never will see it. But they may read your emails.
3) There are those not in the habit of reading and get scared off when they open the To Do List. Or they don't even get that far. These people should receive short easy notes telling them how to begin and reassuring them that you will help guide them and and answer all of their questions.

The best way to handle these inactive CSAs is to treat them all alike since you can't tell which group they are in until you get to know them, which is unlikely as long as they are inactive. When you have written enough short, easy to read, friendly, helpful emails, you will begin to see a few approaching you for help and the faith to believe that this is the real thing.

One thing that you need to remember: no matter how inactive the CSA's sponsor seems, the sponsor and his upline have money and time invested in this CSA and he is still in their team. No matter what, he is not your PSA and not fully in your team. You have been assigned to encourage him and guide him through the getting started process. You are not his sponsor. You are just filling in for his sponsor during a time of the sponsor's weakness.
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When you receive inactive CSAs, chances are that you will first need to change your attitude from "drat, I got a bunch of losers" to "I wonder how many are just needing a great co-sponsor?"

An inactive CSA is an affiliate whose sponsor has not been able to get him started in SFI. It may be the sponsor's inactivity, but it may be several other reasons, also.
1) There are people who's income goals can be met with what they get from PTC and they have no intention
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Affiliate since: 07/26/2007, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Williams's 638 other Ask SC answers

When you receive inactive CSAs don't forget to count your blessings. You either won them or was awarded them so be thankful. Next thing is to draft a short introduction letter about your experience in SFI. Assure them that you are available to support them 150%. In most cases, you will not get a response but it doesn't mean that they are not following up on your progress.

Generally affiliates that want to succeed jump in with both feet and hit the ground running. Those that don't are wrestling with their choice to move onward or stay on the fence. Fear has paralyzed them into inactivity. Sometimes there is nothing you can do to alleviate this fear. Yet you do the best service by being the best affiliate that you can be.

When they see that you are making milestones, achieving goals, earning badges, winning auctions, etc. some will become embolden to try. Assist all who ask for assistance and those who try support 100%. For the other that do nothing, remember SFI is not for everyone. We are not looking for 1,000,000 affiliates. We only need 5 or so who see the vision and run with it!
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When you receive inactive CSAs don't forget to count your blessings. You either won them or was awarded them so be thankful. Next thing is to draft a short introduction letter about your experience in SFI. Assure them that you are available to support them 150%. In most cases, you will not get a response but it doesn't mean that they are not following up on your progress.

Generally affiliates that want to succeed jump in with both feet and hit the ground running. Those that don't
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Affiliate since: 05/31/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Jessa & Jerry's 25 other Ask SC answers

First: Introduce yourself and briefly explain why you became involved with SFI. I like to tell them that the thing that impressed me the most was the honesty!
I was told from the very beginning that like any BUSINESS I should not expect to make a lot of money for the first six months and specially here in the Philippines which is a poor country and people do not have much money to buy expensive products or pay large shipping costs. But I was encouraged to use as much free or ow cost advertising to build my group and my business.
And above all else I was encouraged to treat SFI as a business and expect that sooner or later, I would decide that I would need to invest some money. I have now found that to be true and have a Standing Order for 100 T Credits ($29.00) and 1 S-Builder share ($22.00). I use some of the T Credits as rewards for my group for achieving small accomplishments and some for bidding on PSAs or CSAs to help grow my group and the earned MRP to purchase some items for myself.
Finally, I try very to promptly answer questions I get from any of my group or A2A friends and even Forum posts (If I am VERY SURE) the answer I am giving is accurate. By answering questions in the Forum or A2A friends, I also demonstrate specially to CSAs that I am concerned with helping everyone, not just those in my immediate team.
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First: Introduce yourself and briefly explain why you became involved with SFI. I like to tell them that the thing that impressed me the most was the honesty!
I was told from the very beginning that like any BUSINESS I should not expect to make a lot of money for the first six months and specially here in the Philippines which is a poor country and people do not have much money to buy expensive products or pay large shipping costs. But I was encouraged to use as much free or ow cost advertising
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 16 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

It really doesn't matter whether your affiliates are CSAs or PSAs. It doesn't matter if they are active or inactive. You treat them the same. Communicate with them at least once per week, just as you do your entire team. Keep encouraging them. You never know what people will do. Work with the workers, but don't leave the others out of the loop. They may just see the value of SFI and TripleClicks. They have one year to prove they are interested, unless they decide to opt out.

Always let your team know you are there for them and you are willing to help if they just ask. Just keep the lines of communication open and learn as much as you can and share what you have learned. When people see how you are doing and see your badges, some of them will duplicate your efforts.
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It really doesn't matter whether your affiliates are CSAs or PSAs. It doesn't matter if they are active or inactive. You treat them the same. Communicate with them at least once per week, just as you do your entire team. Keep encouraging them. You never know what people will do. Work with the workers, but don't leave the others out of the loop. They may just see the value of SFI and TripleClicks. They have one year to prove they are interested, unless they decide to opt out.

Always
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Affiliate since: 10/26/2013, Power Rank: 528 | Read Nafisa's 286 other Ask SC answers

I try to usually analyse some of these questions by relating to real life situations which people have experienced. For example having a child who may start out slow but exceeds all expectations when he/she tops the class! The parents feel proud at not having given up on him/her.

Inactive CSAs are those slow starters who need time, patience and constant motivation to take the next step forward. I would also include in the regular mailer, my own achievements in SFI in the hope that it will generate interest. This can create curiosity towards the program and likely to also start a communication process between you and the inactive CSAs.

I also find it useful to have a list of the CSAs on my whitelist (personal email) as this is a way to personally communicate with each CSA especially if they are not logging into their SFI accounts.

We have to give them time and not give up on them. They might be the ones to nurture your business in the future!


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I try to usually analyse some of these questions by relating to real life situations which people have experienced. For example having a child who may start out slow but exceeds all expectations when he/she tops the class! The parents feel proud at not having given up on him/her.

Inactive CSAs are those slow starters who need time, patience and constant motivation to take the next step forward. I would also include in the regular mailer, my own achievements in SFI in the hope that it
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Affiliate since: 08/14/2013, Power Rank: 1362 | Read Om Prasad's 1 other Ask SC answers

Good question!

And the answer is obvious!You try communicating and motivating them through various methods in your way. Who knows they start performing under you and won't stop working thereafter. If that is the case, it can turn out to be a lottery ticket for you with winning numbers, we never know the fate of an individual.

Even if we know the person is inactive under someone but you fortunately tried which his previous sponsor couldn't and this time they are back with the boom, isn't this a diamond for you? if they take active participation in auctions, buying TripleClicks products, duplication, etc.

Never underestimate the potential within the human being, if it is awaken or the right spark is lighten, it can be transformed to a lucky charm under you.

Say, you tried all the ways possible and they doesn't respond, you have no other options rather than saying "God will help those who help themselves" & leave. Don't simply sit and waste time thinking CSA is not working for you, just move on to the next.

Hope this definitely helps!!
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Good question!

And the answer is obvious!You try communicating and motivating them through various methods in your way. Who knows they start performing under you and won't stop working thereafter. If that is the case, it can turn out to be a lottery ticket for you with winning numbers, we never know the fate of an individual.

Even if we know the person is inactive under someone but you fortunately tried which his previous sponsor couldn't and this time they are back with the
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Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 217 | Read Nelia's 25 other Ask SC answers

Hello Keith and all SFI Affiliates

This is a great question especially for new team leaders because they will start to receive second home CSA's and sometimes they are inactive.

What I recommend is the same thing I tell everyone treat them like they were active and keep sending them your weekly newsletter as well as an occasional individualized letter addressed to each CSA who is inactive, from your personal e-mail address. I would send it from that address because it is a little more personal to see a standard name in the from box instead of being from SFI Corporate.

If you have a support website and have made some training videos or articles I would send them the link to your website that has them posted so if they wanted to view them and possibly become active again

The thing to remember is you never know what their mindset for being inactive was/is until they start back up again and you never know what will trigger them to become active with their business in the future maybe it was your newsletters you sent out weekly or maybe it was one of those personal letters you sent them or maybe it could have been they were having a family issue or was working a lot at their 9-5 job and just was too tired to work on their SFI Business and now that they have a little more time are rededicated to their business with your help they might have the resolve to get back in the game. or they could have thought that it was too hard to earn any money with SFI which it's not it just takes a lot of time patience and perseverance to get through the rough times till we all have our team of 5 or more dedicated downline to be making a good commission check each month you just need to explain that to them from the beginning. we all start out receiving low commission checks its with time that it grows.

And If you know what their main goals are then try to focus on them in an e-mail say if their goal was to get out of debt them send 1 message a month to see if they have gotten out of debt without SFI and focus on how over time they can actually be debt free and be making a residual and leveraged income every month if they wanted to put forth a little time and energy.

You could also talk about your goals and how far you have come so far in SFI and what your next goal is and how you are going to achieve it. Be very descriptive like I will advertise at this certain site every day or multiple sites every day, buy advertising co-ops from my upline, whatever you do think about how it could motivate your inactive CSA's or even your PSA's for that matter

I try to treat all my teammates as if each of them were my only member. I try to give them the individualized attention they need and deserve some respond others (most do nothing ) but I still send out my weekly messages to everyone

I hope that this answer has been a little helpful

thanks
see you at the top!
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Hello Keith and all SFI Affiliates

This is a great question especially for new team leaders because they will start to receive second home CSA's and sometimes they are inactive.

What I recommend is the same thing I tell everyone treat them like they were active and keep sending them your weekly newsletter as well as an occasional individualized letter addressed to each CSA who is inactive, from your personal e-mail address. I would send it from that address because it is a little
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Affiliate since: 08/11/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Marija's 63 other Ask SC answers

Hello!

Do you have inactive PSAs, too? What do you do with them?

I treat all my team members, PSAs and CSAs the same. You don't have to, because SFI gives you a chance to mail only PSAs or only CSAs, but you can also sent emails to the whole team. In my opinion, the message you are sending should be visible to all. Everybody in your team needs to know:

- who you are (the person behind the sponsor)
- how successful you are and how you achieved it
- what they can do and HOW
- that there are others who succeeded, too. (You give praise to Movers)

They might have been inactive for many different reasons. If the reasons are gone (illness, family issues, reluctance to trust an online business, inactive or not supportive sponsor)your emails with information I just mentioned may get them back to SFI and to your team.

Good luck!
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Hello!

Do you have inactive PSAs, too? What do you do with them?

I treat all my team members, PSAs and CSAs the same. You don't have to, because SFI gives you a chance to mail only PSAs or only CSAs, but you can also sent emails to the whole team. In my opinion, the message you are sending should be visible to all. Everybody in your team needs to know:

- who you are (the person behind the sponsor)
- how successful you are and how you achieved it
- what
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