The best ways to use the CSA Reassignment tool

What are the best ways to use the CSA Reassignment tool?

07/14/2016

CSA Reassignments are a powerful tool for all TLs (Team Leaders) and up.

Why is this a tool to be excited about? Because by strategically reassigning CSAs, you can provide the incentive for many members of your group to both become EAs and maintain the minimum rank of EA every month!

Reassigning CSAs works exactly like reassigning PSAs. Simply go to the REASSIGNMENT tab on your Genealogy and choose the CSAs you want to reassign and to whom. Reassignment happens instantly and your recipients will receive an email notice of all the CSAs you've reassigned to them.

Note that the email, sent after midnight, is a RECAP of the reassignments received. That is, if you reassign 50 CSAs to someone, they won't get 50 separate notices. Instead, they will receive ONE notice informing them that 50 new CSAs have been reassigned to them by you, and with directions for how to locate them in their Genealogy and start interacting with them.

ROLL-UPS!

One of the best parts of the CSA Reassignment program is that if you reassign CSAs to someone, and they do not maintain their EA rank (or, in the case of someone who has not yet reached the rank of EA, if they do not achieve the rank of EA), they roll back up to YOU!

That's right...it's a great big WIN/WIN! Either your reassigned CSAs create EAs for you...or you get the CSAs returned back to you (and you resume your role as their Co-Sponsor with all the Co-Sponsor benefits you had before).

And for the person who you reassigned the CSAs to--provided they maintain their EA status of course--it's a WIN too, because you've markedly helped them build their team and potentially their commissions, also.

STRATEGIES

If you create strategies based on THE Plan, as you should, your first step should be to identify 1-5 PSAs that you feel have what it takes to eventually advance all the way to Diamond Team Leader status. We'll call them your FDs (Future Diamonds).

It's of course crucial that your FDs maintain at least the rank of EA every month. And this is the beauty of reassigning CSAs. Because affiliates must maintain their EA status to keep their CSAs, reassigning CSAs to them provides a VERY strong incentive to stay active and stay an EA!

Step two: Decide on an appropriate amount of CSAs to transfer to each of your FDs. Keep in mind that you can start with a smaller number and increase it over time. But let's say you've got a significant number of CSAs and you want to make things happen, so you've decided to place 100 CSAs under each of your FDs. You now have 1-5 PSAs with a powerful reason to be EA every month. Congratulations, you've now met the new (as of January 2016) requirement to have at least one EA2 to maintain the rank of BTL!

Step three: If your sights are set higher, if you want to have the rank of STL, for example, you'll of course need two of your PSAs to hold the rank of BTL. How now will you make this happen? In the same way your CSA reassignments motivated your PSAs to maintain their EA status of course! That is, you can reassign CSAs to those in your second generation just as easily as you did to your first generation to provide the incentive for them to go/stay EA every month, too. And you don't have to stop there. It's possible to repeat this process down 3, 4, 5, or even more generations. Hello, Gold...or Platinum...or Diamond!

Of course, while you're acting as an extremely generous sponsor and upline member, you're hopefully also leading by example and teaching all of those you're giving a big helping hand to how to climb the ranks at SFI.

That is, your generosity might be responsible for a couple BTLs on your 4th generation, for example, but those BTLs and others like them that you've helped, now know how to create duplication through CSA reassignments and advance to silver, gold, platinum, and diamond themselves. And when they apply this knowledge, guess what? Your entire group starts getting wider, deeper, and filled with income-generating EAs and Team Leaders! And YOU are on your way to a substantial residual income!

IMPORTANT

It's very important that all Team Leaders understand the following before using the CSA reassignment tool:

When you reassign a CSA to someone in your group, the CSA will no longer appear in your Genealogy (they will instead appear in the Genealogy of the person you reassigned them to). Similarly, when you reassign a CSA to someone, you're also transferring any commissions and Matching VP that CSA currently generates for you to the person you're reassigning them to.

Of course, in the big picture, this should not deter you. Indeed, having a PSA who now is an EA every month because of the CSAs you've reassigned to them, will typically generate larger commissions for you (45% CV Direct Commissions vs. 15% Co-Sponsor Commissions/Matching VP). Moreover, helping several people get to EA every month can manifest itself in invaluable "momentum" that you can create group-wide exponential growth and profits.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: Who am I allowed to reassign my CSAs to?

You may assign to any rank (A, EA, TL) as you wish. However, you will only be allowed to reassign CSAs to those of the Affiliate rank during the first ten days of each month. This is so that such persons have enough time to collect the VP necessary to attain the rank of EA (necessary to keep the CSAs of course).

Q: Are there any limits on how deep I can go with my reassignments?

Yes. BTLs are limited to reassigning their CSAs to generation 1. STLs are limited to generations 1-8. GTLs are limited to generations 1-10. PTLs and DTLs are limited to generations 1-12.

Q: Who are the best targets for reassigning my CSAs to?

Helping your PSAs advance in rank is probably #1. Next up, especially if you don't have many active PSAs, is new EA PSAs. New EAs already know how to get to the rank of EA and they're currently active. Feed this! Build on the momentum they've already started for themselves by reassigning them a nice group of CSAs and give them a big extra incentive to go EA next month and every month thereafter!

Q: Is it a good idea to reassign CSAs to currently inactive persons...to try to get them to become active?

This remains to be seen. The only way to know for sure is to TEST it. The nice thing is, because of the automatic roll-ups, there's little downside to testing this proposition. That said, we DO discourage reassigning CSAs to affiliates whom have been inactive for a long time and/or that you've had no contact with. Giving a bunch of CSAs to such persons is PROBABLY not going to "wake them up." And you don't want to stick your CSAs with a bad Co-Sponsor; it could be counter-productive in fact.

We recommend that you focus on currently active persons in your group first and foremost. If you still have some CSAs left over that you want to do some testing with--on currently inactive affiliates--that's up to you. Maybe try some small amounts knowing that they will receive the email notice from us about your gift to them. A better option would be to contact them first and let them know you have X number of CSAs that you're willing to reassign to them if they'll simply reply and confirm they are still interested in SFI. Tip: You can quickly and easily do a group message like by using the appropriate filter(s) in your Genealogy. You might even try some A/B testing to determine which CSA offer gets the best results.

Q: I've heard that matching up CSAs to Co-Sponsors by country and/or language helps. Is that the route I should take?

Our data definitely shows that when affiliates are matched up with Sponsors and/or Co-Sponsors of the same country and/or language, there is more activity. Therefore, where it's possible, we definitely endorse matching via country and/or language when reassigning your CSAs.

Q: I don't have very many CSAs. How can I get more?

Just by maintaining your Team Leader status, you'll of course receive one or more shares of all the new Second Home CSAs each month. Additionally, at Pricebenders auctions, hundreds of CSAs can be won weekly by bidding. All of these CSAs--both of the Second Home variety and those acquired via Pricebenders auctions may be freely reassigned.

Q: Can I use CSA reassignments as a reward/incentive?

Yes, this is a GREAT way to use CSA reassignments. For example, you could inform your entire group (or some subset of your group) that for everyone who goes EA this month, you'll reward them with 20 or 50 or 100 CSAs (whatever amount you're comfortable with). Or incentivize all of your EA2s to become BTLs...or all your BTLs to become STLs, etc. Or "go small" and offer a few CSAs for taking small but meaningful actions each day (e.g. sponsoring an affiliate). Or go BIG and incentivize all your affiliates to become E365 champions with a rewards of, say, 500 CSAs. The possibilities are endless. And, remember, all your CSAs will return back to you if the recipient fails to maintain their minimum EA status.

Q: If a CSA I've reassigned to someone is forfeited and he/she rolls back up to me, can I reassign them again to someone else?

Yes, you can currently reassign a CSA up to two times. And we may consider increasing this limit at a later time.

Q: Since CSAs that I reassign are removed from my own Genealogy, how do I know who I gave my CSAs to?

Very shortly we will be introducing a new report for you. It will provide you with counts of all CSAs you've reassigned and the names and ID numbers of those who you've reassigned them to.

Q: Does SFI notify people that they'll lose their CSAs if they don't keep their EA rank?

Yes. We have a series of emails that are sent during the last week of each month to everyone who has not yet re-qualified as an EA and is, hence, in jeopardy of forfeiting all of their CSAs. We even provide names of some of their CSAs and a count of the TOTAL sum of the CSAs they will lose if they do not regain their EA rank by the end of the month.

Q: Should I teach my "future Diamonds" this strategy of securing CSAs and strategically reassigning them?

If it's working for you, absolutely 1000% YES! This is the very definition of duplication--the most important activity, the KEY to success in SFI! When something is working for you in SFI, teach it to your downline! Doing this is, of course, like cloning yourself, and making it so you can essentially be in "a hundred places at once," 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And the best part is that you can earn override income on what all of your "clones" do. So, YES, always, always, always be teaching your downline what works. They'll win, you'll win, everyone wins!

Q: If someone forfeits the CSAs I reassigned to them, when do they roll back up to me?

Approximately on the 15th of the month following the month of forfeiture.

Q: Is it okay for me to stay in touch with a CSA who I've reassigned to someone?

Because they are a CSA of someone in your downline, they are still, indirectly, part of your team technically, so for support reasons it would be acceptable to stay in contact, yes. However, remember that they will no longer appear in your Genealogy. Hence, you'd have to contact them via your personal email or other method outside of SFI.