How wide before we reassign?

[David Watson]

The Genealogy report has an option to reassign affiliates.

Would anyone have any suggestions about reassigning affiliates to other down line affiliates.

Thanks

[tab426]

Hi David,

I've never been a real big fan of the reassignment tool, because I feel it tempts people to give away "stale'" affiliates as an incentive. You can provide a much better incentive using a co-op to provide "fresh" affiliates.

Nothing worse than expecting a lobster dinner and being served a bologna sandwich.

It may generate a few upgrades short-term, but long-term it might backfire.

That being said, I have found the reassignment tool useful for other things.

For example:

I'm NOT a phone person, but have an affiliate who enjoys making the calls... so when I get a request for a call, I reassign them to my affiliate. He gets a highly qualified lead and I get to keep my mouth shut (just the way I like it).

I will also sometimes reassign an EA to someone who I KNOW is working and commited to help them reach BTL or retain it if they have a setback.

If I get an active affiliate from a country, i'll reassign some from the same country or similar interests.

And while i'm against reassigning old/unresponsive affiliates as an incentive, there are people who will respond more to a challenge than a gift... older leads can offered as a "I couldn't do anything with them, you want to try?" type of deal.

I'm also not opposed to reassigning one annoying affiliate to another annoying affiliate. ;D

You could also reassign affiliates as they come in and are still fresh, but the co-op is a better alternative to do this. Since an affiliate can only be reassigned once, one coming in through the co-op would still leave the reassignment option open to the recieving affiliate.

Tim

[talfighel]

tab426 said:

Hi David,

I've never been a real big fan of the reassignment tool, because I feel it tempts people to give away "stale'" affiliates as an incentive. You can provide a much better incentive using a co-op to provide "fresh" affiliates.

Nothing worse than expecting a lobster dinner and being served a bologna sandwich.

It may generate a few upgrades short-term, but long-term it might backfire.

That being said, I have found the reassignment tool useful for other things.

For example:

I'm NOT a phone person, but have an affiliate who enjoys making the calls... so when I get a request for a call, I reassign them to my affiliate. He gets a highly qualified lead and I get to keep my mouth shut (just the way I like it).

I will also sometimes reassign an EA to someone who I KNOW is working and commited to help them reach BTL or retain it if they have a setback.

If I get an active affiliate from a country, i'll reassign some from the same country or similar interests.

And while i'm against reassigning old/unresponsive affiliates as an incentive, there are people who will respond more to a challenge than a gift... older leads can offered as a "I couldn't do anything with them, you want to try?" type of deal.

I'm also not opposed to reassigning one annoying affiliate to another annoying affiliate. ;D

You could also reassign affiliates as they come in and are still fresh, but the co-op is a better alternative to do this. Since an affiliate can only be reassigned once, one coming in through the co-op would still leave the reassignment option open to the recieving affiliate.

Tim

The one thing that I know encourages affiliates to become EA is by offering them a few free affiliates under them.

It can bring you new EA if you do this. It has worked for me.

You can offer them as little as 3 or as big as 10 if you have lots of free signups on a daily basis coming in from your TOPS website.

A good/strange thing happend to me last month. One of my team member who became EA right before the end of the month after I made the offer, got about 7 SFI affiliates from me.

In 4 days, from 7 of the free affiliates that I gave him, he got 4 of them to upgrade to EA.

I think that this may get him on his way to take full action with SFI.

So if you can offer your team a few free SFI affiliates if they upgrade then that would be good for you too.

Tal

[David Watson]

Tim and Tal
thank you very much for your input with this.
This is great information.