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Yep, I called Fire stations and they'd go on and on about how I was tying up an emergency line. I thought to my self, just hang up the ***ing phone....problem solved. I kept waiting to hear from a D.A.'s office after they got a call.
#1 Aha moment & #1 Biggest mistake?
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The DA called me looking for you. I covered for you the best I could.Yep, I called Fire stations and they'd go on and on about how I was tying up an emergency line. I thought to my self, just hang up the ***ing phone....problem solved. I kept waiting to hear from a D.A.'s office after they got a call.
Go turn your tv on. You're the next episode of COPS.
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Easier to say it isn't fair.
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Yup. With the tools available today this business has never easier.
Back in the 70s I bought an Elba Unit on the GI Bill. It was a combo slide projector with built in screen and tape player. It had You Will Earn a Fortune and several other presentations. One would back the hearse up to the front door. Big, heavy, and time consuming to set up and break down. Had that thing in one hand and a briefcase in the other when I approached the front door; looked like I was going to spend the night. I used it a couple of months and realized I was writing more business before I started using it. Total waste of money. Will say the old boy that sold it to me was a heck of a salesman.
The new show is Live PD. Wait, now it's called On Patrol. I'm sure it will be called something else in the next few years...
That reminds me of the Keypact Computone computer agents would lug around to prospects homes. About the size of Samsonite luggage, computer + modem + printer all in one. The agent could run illustrations in front of his prospects.
I think agents had to buy them if they wanted to work for the agency.
This was a 1977 model.
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I was the 'Life Specialist' for three Allstate agents in the late 80.
I wrote my first $Million dollar policy with this hand held thing that looked like an adding machine. As I recall it had a roll of thermal paper that printed out the illustration.
I wrote my first $Million dollar policy with this hand held thing that looked like an adding machine. As I recall it had a roll of thermal paper that printed out the illustration.
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My real AHA moment?
My mother was terminally ill, advanced COPD - horrible stuff. My stepfather was her primary caregiver, along with hospice volunteers. She lived about 4 hours from us, we'd go down every couple of weeks. One weekend my wife was tied up, so I drove down by myself. At this point she was completely dependent upon others for just about everything, and was completely bed-ridden. I'd been there about an hour, and my stepfather said he'd like to run some errands. "Sure," I said, "I'll be here." He hopped into his truck, and about 1.5 seconds after he left the driveway, my brain screamed to me "What if Mom has to go to the bathroom?"
I'd been selling LTC insurance for over a decade at that time, but that was the first time I'd actually been faced with the possibility of needing to assist my mother with going to the bathroom, and all the nasty realities that it would present. Maybe it's shallow, but it really scared the hell out of me. That moment cemented for me the fact that what I do is important in ways far beyond the financial benefits.
(And yes, she had long term care insurance, but had bought it before I got into the biz, and it was a nursing home only policy. By the time I was in the position to get her a real policy, she was uninsurable.)
My mother was terminally ill, advanced COPD - horrible stuff. My stepfather was her primary caregiver, along with hospice volunteers. She lived about 4 hours from us, we'd go down every couple of weeks. One weekend my wife was tied up, so I drove down by myself. At this point she was completely dependent upon others for just about everything, and was completely bed-ridden. I'd been there about an hour, and my stepfather said he'd like to run some errands. "Sure," I said, "I'll be here." He hopped into his truck, and about 1.5 seconds after he left the driveway, my brain screamed to me "What if Mom has to go to the bathroom?"
I'd been selling LTC insurance for over a decade at that time, but that was the first time I'd actually been faced with the possibility of needing to assist my mother with going to the bathroom, and all the nasty realities that it would present. Maybe it's shallow, but it really scared the hell out of me. That moment cemented for me the fact that what I do is important in ways far beyond the financial benefits.
(And yes, she had long term care insurance, but had bought it before I got into the biz, and it was a nursing home only policy. By the time I was in the position to get her a real policy, she was uninsurable.)
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Never could get mine to get LTCI. Finally got my dad to get a Life policy with Chronic rider. It will help some.
Cant force anyone to get it, especially family.
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