Get off my lawn!!
Unicorn IMO/FMO??????
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Get off my lawn!!
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Far from butt hurt. Clowning it maybe. But Butt hurt? Brotha Please!
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Like Wino said, we're mostly joking around with you about being a real FE guy JD. I don't think I've recommended that anybody cold door knock targeted data lists over working DM leads.
I've had people ask me how to do it(even Smokin Goose for Med Supps), and I've said that it's an alternative way to market if an agent doesn't have the money for leads. I was trained to go door to door and to be more efficient, I've adapted it over the years to cold knock the people I'm targeting. It works for me and I enjoy it.
I thought I knocked on your mom's door last year, because I remembered what you said about salesmen knocking on yours. She chewed me out and told me she would never do business with a door knocker..if she wanted insurance, she'd look in the phone book. I asked her if she had a son called JD(just kidding on that part).
Most people are receptive. I've even had some tell me it's cool, they didn't know there were still door knockers out there.
As the DNC list gets bigger and the DM leads get more expensive, I think there will be more guys turning to door knocking. I've got an advantage, because there aren't many doing it. Looks like it might come full cycle.
The point I've always tried to make with you is that there's lots of ways to do things and there's more than one way to skin a cat. Ewwww, that sounds icky.
For the record: I said nothing disparaging about FEX qnd never have. I have suggested them to several agents and I have never been slammed for making that recommendation. I simply told the OP if he were looking around, he might talk to Dave about what he could offer. Newby has often told people they should consider all the available options available before making up their mind. I don't recruit and probably never will do so gain. I have no contracts with Dave so I have nothing to gain if an agent signs with him. I do know him and know him to be an honest, dependable fellow who has always done whatever he has told me he would do. He is also a decent man. I have never known him to put someone down for where they might live or how little they might earn. He knows the business and knows how to train. I ahve seen how he conducts himself in the field and if i were looking for someone to work with, I would be pleased to have him as an upline. But, that is not say there are not others on the forum that I would also have no problems with being a part of thier organization.
I have been posting here 6 years, not 4 and it was a lot more fun before everybody got into the active recruiting business. I do think I know a little about selling burial insurance but much of what I have learned about it was gained long before ever coming to the forum. I started on a debit in the days when that was the primary way of selling "burial insurance". The people that comprised the FE market of that day are no different from the people that comprise the market today. What I don't have very much first hand knowledge about and don't give advice on is how to run DM leads. In fact, there was a time when "real" agents looked down on the guys that ran leads because they "could not sell insurance with a 'crutch' to lean on" (My, how things have changed)
I have been posting here 6 years, not 4 and it was a lot more fun before everybody got into the active recruiting business. I do think I know a little about selling burial insurance but much of what I have learned about it was gained long before ever coming to the forum. I started on a debit in the days when that was the primary way of selling "burial insurance". The people that comprised the FE market of that day are no different from the people that comprise the market today. What I don't have very much first hand knowledge about and don't give advice on is how to run DM leads. In fact, there was a time when "real" agents looked down on the guys that ran leads because they "could not sell insurance with a 'crutch' to lean on" (My, how things have changed)
Like Wino said, we're mostly joking around with you about being a real FE guy JD. I don't think I've recommended that anybody cold door knock targeted data lists over working DM leads.
I've had people ask me how to do it(even Smokin Goose for Med Supps), and I've said that it's an alternative way to market if an agent doesn't have the money for leads. I was trained to go door to door and to be more efficient, I've adapted it over the years to cold knock the people I'm targeting. It works for me and I enjoy it.
I thought I knocked on your mom's door last year, because I remembered what you said about salesmen knocking on yours. She chewed me out and told me she would never do business with a door knocker..if she wanted insurance, she'd look in the phone book. I asked her if she had a son called JD(just kidding on that part).
Most people are receptive. I've even had some tell me it's cool, they didn't know there were still door knockers out there.
As the DNC list gets bigger and the DM leads get more expensive, I think there will be more guys turning to door knocking. I've got an advantage, because there aren't many doing it. Looks like it might come full cycle.
The point I've always tried to make with you is that there's lots of ways to do things and there's more than one way to skin a cat. Ewwww, that sounds icky.
Do you door knocking guys all live in vans down by the river?
All the ones that didn't have to settle for a Yugo by the creek.
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That is cool with me.
OK, my kid is back. Back to the poker game.
You are awesome JD. You are Da man! Conor McCloud was a posser.
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