Make sure you're watching your genealogy carefully for red "<500" flags. This flag indicates your affiliate has generated less than 500 VersaPoints in the last 90 days and, hence, is in jeopardy of having their SFI affiliateship cancelled at the end of the month.

Please note that starting on the 15th of each month, SFI sends all such flagged affiliates a series of e-mails to let them know that they are under 500 points and need to take action quickly. However, our e-mails may not get through, so we encourage you to be pro-active and contact your flagged affiliates yourself too.

What should you say? Here's a sample letter:

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Hi Tom,

My genealogy is indicating that you have less than 500 VersaPoints in the last 90 days. This is less than SFI's Minimum Activity Requirement, so your SFI affiliateship could be cancelled at the end of this month.

You are an important member of my team and I'd really hate to lose you! So how can I help? Are there questions I can answer for you? Is there anything I can assist you with?

I'm extremely excited about what SFI is doing. With their new E-Commerce Associates program, for example, the SFI opportunity has just taken a huge leap forward. I'm going to be very active with SFI personally and I would really like to be able to work with you as a key member of my team.

Please drop me a quick e-mail and let me know what I can do to help you get the points you need before the end of the month.

Thank you! I look forward to hearing from you.

Your Name
Your contact information

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Note also that many additional uses for TCredits are coming to TripleClicks. Order TCredits at TripleClicks.com. Just log in at TC and search for "TCredit."

As of noon today, our big purge of inactive affiliates has been completed. All of your inactive PSAs (personally sponsored SFI Affiliates) are now PRMs (personally referred TripleClicks Members).

Your genealogy should now be uncluttered of "deadwood" and much faster. You may have also picked up one or more PSAs who rolled up from inactive sponsors to you. Similarly, you may have a new sponsor yourself if your previous sponsor was not active.

You should also notice a speed difference in maneuvering and doing various activities around the Affiliate Center.

Also, a reminder, we will be purging inactive affiliates every month from now on, on or about the 5th of each month, so make sure you are monitoring your genealogy. When you see someone with a red flag indicating they have become inactive, you need to jump into action! Contact them individually. Offer your assistance to help them get active again. That said, always remember that you can't "drag people across the finish line." THEY have to want it. If they don't want to help themselves, MOVE ON. And always remember to replace those in your organization who become inactive. Bringing new blood into your group is something you must always be doing to build a profitable SFI business.

ONE MORE THING: If you have any former affiliates from your group (those purged today or otherwise) who wish to get back in SFI and become active again, all you have to do is send them to:

http://www.sfimg.com/convert

Logging in at this special page will instantly reinstate them as an SFI affiliate with their previous sponsor. Also note that this new "/convert" page is also the mechanism for converting TC Members into SFI Affiliates. That is, if you've referred a TC Member who would like to be an SFI Affiliate, all you need to do is tell them to go to to http://www.sfimg.com/convert and log in and they will immediately become an SFI affiliate--personally sponsored by you.

With the new 2010 SFI affiliate requirements of maintaining at least 500 points every 60 days or being an active EyeEarner, inactive affiliates will no longer clog the Genealogy report, resulting in a leaner, more user-friendly, and easier-to-navigate resource for you and your team members. Consequently, effective next week, links to the old Condensed Genealogy will redirect to the full Genealogy report.

You can now transfer your TC Credits to your SFI Affiliates! This is a GREAT new way to spark growth and momentum in your group. Give them out as incentives to take action and rewards for reaching goals.

Even better, transferring TC Credits is extremely easy. Just choose the TC Credit Transfers format at your SFI Genealogy. Pick your recipient by clicking the Transfer TC Credits link for that affiliate and enter the number of credits you want to give them, and click Submit. That's it! SFI sends the recipient an e-mail notification and the giver of the credit a confirmation e-mail.

For more information, check out the new TripleClicks Credits FAQ.

SFI's Reassignment tool gives you a great way to spark growth and momentum in your group. And now we've made it even more valuable, letting you assign multiple affiliates at once to your up-and-coming team members.

Using the Reassignment tool is easy:

1. Go to your (Genealogy).

2. Choose the Reassignment format. All affiliates who are eligible to be reassigned (i.e. see restrictions below) will be designated by a checkbox.

3. Check the boxes for those whom you want to reassign (no limit to how many you can choose).

4. Click the "Reassign selected affiliates" link in the top left area.

5. Enter the SFI ID number of the person to whom you want the reassignment(s) to go. Make sure you have the right ID number!

6. Click Submit, then Done.

The reassignments now will appear in the recipient's genealogy. He or she will also receive an e-mail notification from SFI for each reassignment.

It's that easy!

NOTE: For more on getting the most from the Reassignment Tool, read this article.

Staying connected with your team is vital to a successful business. To that end, we've introduced some enhancements to your Genealogy report that will make this task easier than ever.

Take a look, and you'll notice three icons after each name listed on your Genealogy report: a white envelope, a blue envelope, and a bubble icon.

Click the white envelope to contact your affiliate via regular e-mail.

The blue envelope lets you contact your team members via SFI's in-house messaging system.

To contact your Personally Sponsored Affiliates (PSA) via instant messaging, click the bubble.

IMPORTANT! The IM bubble icon will appear gold next to your name on your sponsor's Genealogy if you have given permission to let your sponsor contact you via IM. Just Go to your Change Account Information page and add your IM handles in the appropriate fields. Then, select "Yes" next to "Share with my sponsor?" You'll also want to select "Yes" next to "Display to PSAs?" if you want your PSAs to be able to IM you.

With IM quickly becoming the preferred mode of contact among online users, making sure your PSAs can contact you in this way (and making sure your sponsor can easily get a hold of you) is vital to your success in SFI. Consequently, we strongly encourage every affiliate to take a moment NOW and enter their IM and other contact information here:

https://www.sfimg.com/MyAccount/EditAccountInfo.sfi

Genealogies at the SFI Affiliate Center are now sporting a new feature that gives sponsors and Team Leaders even more team management ability.

Genealogies have contained the total Power Rank points for your affiliates for a few weeks. Now, you can click on those totals to see a detailed listing of exactly how they've scored those points! You can see if your affiliates are completing the LaunchPad training, know if they're following SFI on Twitter, know if they''ve reviewed the Maximum Income Plan, and so on.

Use this handy information to guide your affiliates and assist them toward more activity and success.