Want to spark new life into your team and SFI business? Consider alternatives to usual methods of communication to help re-establish contact with your PSAs and team member signups who aren't taking action.
First, go to your
Genealogy report (not the condensed version, but the full Genealogy). Set the report's first Sort to "Communication" and the second Sort to "E-mail Address" and click the Go button.
Notice the e-mail addresses in the resulting list. Type "yahoo" in the Genealogy filter to bring up your affiliates who are using Yahoo! e-mail (you can do the same for Hotmail and other popular e-mail providers). Download the .csv file from your sort, and open it with Excel or another spreadsheet program.
Now, you can use this spreadsheet list of e-mail addresses to send a general PLAIN TEXT e-mail to all affiliates on your list. Enter one e-mail address in the SEND field and the rest in your e-mail's BCC field.
IMPORTANT! Please do not put all e-mail addresses in the SEND field. Doing that will cause all e-mail addresses to be sent to everyone, and you DON'T want to do that. Using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) will prevent addresses from being viewable to everyone else and keep your affiliates' information private.
Your message to these affiliates should be short, explaining why they are getting this message and who you are. Include a short line telling your affiliates to login to sfimg.com with their e-mail addresses if they cannot remember their account numbers and to pay attention to the alert on the first page they see. And don't forget to ask your affiliates to reply to your e-mail message.
TIP: Do NOT include any clickable Website links or your e-mail address in your mail. Clickable links and e-mails within the message body will will probably be caught and deleted by spam blockers. If you include links, strip off the "http://" part of the URL.
You could also get your own Yahoo! Messenger account (and/or MSN Messenger, etc.) and add your list of e-mail addresses to your Yahoo! Buddies list. Just be sure when adding to your Buddies list that you put your affiliates' first and last names in the Alias field and tag the end of the name with "(SFI)." Create a group called SFI and put your affiliate list in that group. Don't worry if you get an error message, the names will still be on your buddy list. Then, send an intro message to them (doesn't matter if they're online or not. The next time they login, they'll see your message.
NOTE: MSN Messenger does not let you send messages when recipients are offline.After you give these methods a try, you may successfully establish your first communication with affiliates who have been sitting for months with no action. Even something as simple as a "hello" when you notice they're online might be enough to keep SFI on their radars and help build a good relationship with fellow affiliates and team members. In fact, you may be pleasantly surprised how quickly things can change for you and your team by simply maintaining simple, easy contact.
EXTRA TIP: A lot of affiliates today love social networking (MySpace, FaceBook, etc.). Some of these programs allow you to immediately search for other friends in your address book who are already using that social site. You might be surprised to find some of your affiliates who have already signed up but have not logged in to the Affiliate Center or taken any action in a long while. Just send a friend request to re-establish communication with them. That said, it's VERY important that you take it easy and not force SFI-related questions or conversations on them right out of the gate. Build a good rapport first before you remind them about of their SFI businesses.
Special thanks for these tips to:
Lyle Kannenberg, SFI EA
EDMONTON CANADA
Lusekelo Kaoloka, SFI EA
BLANTYRE MALAWI
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