Darcie

I always make contact when I get an email saying I have a new prospect.  I don't give a huge email, just something short saying thanks for visiting GDI, give them your email and tell them they are welcome to email any time with questions.

I also send an email to my new members, no matter what level they are in.

I hear of so many people complaining their upline don't help them out, so I always contact my downline and offer help.

Don't give up - help your team, and encourage them to do the same with their team.

www.stayhome-mum.com has a 'gdi training centre' section, which has a section on how to promote GDI - it could be helpful for you to have a look at.

Alan I agree you have to take responsibility of building your own business and regardless of whether you have a helpful upline or not, don't give up.  Keep at it and be determined to make it successful.

BUT.....

Having said that I can also see why these people are disappointed.  If you build a downline and are going to profit from the work of these people in your team or downline, then you should be more than willing to help them out if they need it.

Even if they don't ask for it, if you want your downline to stick with the program and make a go of it, then it does help to contact them and be helpful with them.

Not everyone comes into GDI knowing how to promote it and the best ways of doing so.  I was very lucky I didn't join GDI until I already had a fair bit of Internet Marketing experience, so I know how to promote it, but not everyone does.  Those people do need help and more than just the email that comes from GDI.

You have no idea how many people have told me they wish they had joined my team because their upline don't help them.  Even though they aren't in my team I have helped them out more than their upline ever has.

I have had people contact me in tears because they aren't getting anywhere and they keep contacting their upline and don't get a response.  I have had these people wanting to quit and join under me but they can't do that - and I think that's drastically unfair to them.  These people that I know - they are giving it all they've got the best they know how and it just makes it all the harder for them when they get no help whatsoever from their sponsors.

I don't care how successful they are, they still owe it to their team members to help them out - after all these are the people that are getting them into the position they are in.

I know I've raved on a bit, but I was in touch with one of these people this morning, who I have become friends with even though she's not in my downline, and she was so upset that it just makes me really mad.  I wish she was in my downline because I can see how hard she is trying and how determined she is to make it work, and it does make me really mad to see her so upset because she can't get any help from her upline.

Just my 2 cents worth

I agree with what you are saying, and I do place new members under my level 1 members.  I do encourage them to do the same, but whether they are just having a difficult time recruiting or not trying I'm not sure.

I need to sign up a 'big hitter' - someone thats going to work hard and help me build my downline

Thanks Alan

Most of their sites they have done nothing with, they just point to the gdi promotion page still.

I even offered to build their websites identical to mine, had 2 people take me up on the offer, one of them is now contacting me and giving it a go.

The other I didn't even get an acnowledgement from after building his site

But I'll keep prodding along, I have one signup now that is quite determined to give it a go and working on a big project that he says should bring in a lot of people, I can't wait to see what he has up his sleeve hopefully it will be good.

Sheryl

I have been with GDI for a couple of months now and have been doing ok with getting signups, I have about 14 people in my downline.

My problem is that my downline hasn't been getting any signups.  I don't know if they aren't promoting much or if they are but just aren't having much success.  Now I'm starting to get a couple dropping out.  I email them to offer advice and help but I don't get any reply.

So how do you get your downline moving?

I just saw a post from someone in Adelaide -  I'm an Adelaidian also.

I've been a member for about 6 weeks now I think, I have about 15 in my downline, about 8 stayons and 7 trials.

Hit the ebay market guys, just be careful with your advertising as ebay are quite picky.  I wrote myself an ebook and I sell it on ebay for 99cents - I sell it worldwide, but I've even had a few Aussie signups through it.

I move my downline, I only have about 5 in my level 1 just now.  I do the moves to try and help my team out and encourage them to stay on.

I personally think it would be good if you could move into levels below also since I'm having trouble keeping some of them on, but I guess if you do that, then their downline will go out of your 5 levels quicker.

You can only help your downline out so far though, it gets a bit hard if they don't help themselves 

I have been here 6 weeks and have 15 in my downline - all my recruits, I haven't had a single recruit brought in by anyone within my downline

Just joined a few days ago, working on my website and have a couple of pages up.  Happy so far - no sign ups yet though 

G'day

I have just joined GDI yesterday and I'm quite excited about this new venture.  I am involved with a few different online ventures, some have been successful, others not so successful.

Here's hoping this one will be 

I haven't really started promoting GDI as yet, I have a couple of marketing methods in mind that I will use but I need to spend a bit of time getting them set up.

Should be good though, looking forward to getting to know everyone here.