Postage going up another 7.4%. Legitimate dm has a few yrs left

[noah]

If you're calling people that understand the little card is about them being pitched for a life insurance and both husband and wife are willing to do business if the price is right then ok.

Not so that's why the card rarely says life insurance. Nobody want this shit.

Calling someone to tell them you're gonna be there to drop off the information is weak. To me that's not an appointment.

A new agent would wash out of the business fast trying to call people.
And many do.

The leads are expensive. I'm gonna meet the person who sent it in f2f.

I don't care how anyone else does it.

I'm getting private messages from unknown lurkers that are new. I don't respond to them unless I know them.

So here's your answer. See the people.

 

[Jccwell]

If you're calling people that understand the little card is about them being pitched for a life insurance and both husband and wife are willing to do business if the price is right then ok.

Not so that's why the card rarely says life insurance. Nobody want this shit.

Calling someone to tell them you're gonna be there to drop off the information is weak. To me that's not an appointment.

A new agent would wash out of the business fast trying to call people.
And many do.

The leads are expensive. I'm gonna meet the person who sent it in f2f.

I don't care how anyone else does it.

I'm getting private messages from unknown lurkers that are new. I don't respond to them unless I know them.

So here's your answer. See the people.

You can set the appointment and still meet the prospect face-to-face. I didn't understand what you meant by the second line: "Not so that's why the card rarely says life insurance. Nobody want this shit."

But sounds like you're describing pre-qualifying the appointments. That's not effective for setting appointments, like GM (Adam?) was saying.

I'm curious. Do you pre-qualify prospects when door knocking? Do you explain at the door that you'll be pitching them life insurance and wait until they agree to a price before stepping inside the home?

 

[DayTimer]

Do you pre-qualify prospects when door knocking? Do you explain at the door that you'll be pitching them life insurance and wait until they agree to a price before stepping inside the home?

"Hey, it's just DayTimer. You wouldn't want to buy any life insurance, would you?"

No.

"That's what I thought. Have a nice day."

 

[rousemark]

If you're calling people that understand the little card is about them being pitched for a life insurance and both husband and wife are willing to do business if the price is right then ok.

Not so that's why the card rarely says life insurance. Nobody want this shit.

Calling someone to tell them you're gonna be there to drop off the information is weak. To me that's not an appointment.

A new agent would wash out of the business fast trying to call people.
And many do.

The leads are expensive. I'm gonna meet the person who sent it in f2f.

I don't care how anyone else does it.

I'm getting private messages from unknown lurkers that are new. I don't respond to them unless I know them.

So here's your answer. See the people.

If nobody wants it how has Colonial Penn made a fortune sell their product? They make it plain they are talking about life insurance.

 

[WinoBlues]

like GM (Adam?)

No, But close.

 

[jdeasy]

If you're calling people that understand the little card is about them being pitched for a life insurance and both husband and wife are willing to do business if the price is right then ok.

Not so that's why the card rarely says life insurance. Nobody want this shit.

Calling someone to tell them you're gonna be there to drop off the information is weak. To me that's not an appointment.

A new agent would wash out of the business fast trying to call people.
And many do.

The leads are expensive. I'm gonna meet the person who sent it in f2f.

I don't care how anyone else does it.

I'm getting private messages from unknown lurkers that are new. I don't respond to them unless I know them.

So here's your answer. See the people.

You cannot do what we do. There's no argument about that. It's a simple fact.

I'm always thankful that my competition is agents just like you.

Keep spreading the word.

 

[jdeasy]

If nobody wants it how has Colonial Penn made a fortune sell their product? They make it plain they are talking about life insurance.

They don't make it plain that's it a 2 year waiting period and overpriced for even that. But I wish them much success.

I wish SL, BL, OA and LH sold more than they do. I wish the telemarketers would sell more.

I wish Todd Queen had 20,000 FE agents. Just like TAG and ORCA. I wish those people much success. I wish they all had 1000 Noahs.

It's shooting fish in a barrel for those of us that can't do what we do.

 

[rmhaire]

If nobody wants it how has Colonial Penn made a fortune sell their product? They make it plain they are talking about life insurance.

I remember an agent back in the 70's that worked in downtown NYC. He'd ride the elevators in the business district.

He'd simply pop into all the offices and ask if anyone wanted to buy any life insurance. Must have worked. He made MDRT every year.

 

[WinoBlues]

If nobody wants it how has Colonial Penn made a fortune sell their product? They make it plain they are talking about life insurance.

Personally I have never been a good enough salesman to sneak my way in. Although, that is how we were trained in the olden days. "Mrs Jones i have some information from the home office I need to go over with you". I hated that. But it worked.

 

[Rick Lee]

CP makes money from the people who don't ever read the fine print, and plenty of them have never even opened their policy envelopes. I deal with that "$9.95/mo" BS every single day. But then I also regularly run into chain smokers who hand me a 3 yr old, unopened Americo policy envelope and had never heard anything about having to quit smoking. Then I get the perfectly healthy people with a 3 yr ROP AIL policy who had no idea their union wasn't looking out for their best interests. Some of my biggest sales have been 1) DK'ing the wrong address accidentally, 2) being threatened with physical violence and still building trust, 3) talking my way in the door and then getting a conversation going. Anyone who rings the bell and says, "Anyone here looking for life insurance?" is dead meat.