There are many and various ways of communicating with team
members but I think the main thing to do is work out which way is best for each
individual member.
This is of course
easier when you have a small team. If you have a large number of affiliates, I
would recommend that you focus your communication efforts on your movers. Sure
you still need to keep in contact with all members of your team, but make sure
you do not lose contact with your workers. They are the ones who will bring you
the money.
The main ways I
communicate with my team members are - emails, streams, e-cards and newsletter
and I find emails and e-cards to be the most effective way to connect with
them.
The majority of the
emails I receive from my team members are in reply to my e-card messages. I use
the E-Cards a lot. They are easy and quick to use personal messages. The only
minor draw back is that if I forget to save them, the messages are lost ones
they have been sent.
I find that all my
workers communicate with me by email.
Whenever I see one
of my people are online, I send them a chat request and connect with them that
way. I also connect with some of my team on FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Skype is also good.
Speaking to them on
the phone is not always possible for me because of where I live, the difficulty
of time zones and of course the costs involved. I am after all running a
business.
So for team
messages, I stick with the streams and Newsletters but for the workers, I use
E-Cards and Email.
TIP: If you haven't
done so already entered all your teams emails on a mail group in your Gmail,
Yahoo or whatever you use. Call it SFI Group and send out emails to them using
the bcc facility say ones a month. Those emails that come back to you as
undelivered are obviously not correct so you can try and find other means of
connecting with those people. Every time you add PSA & CSA to your team add
their emails to your group and if they leave SFI, take their names off you
group mail.
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