A Different Take on the Big Check

I don't that many $240K producers so we will have to wait to see if any speak up. However, different people do things different ways.. I would never use an "Illustration" that I once heard an old debit agent use back when I was a young pup in the business. He was talking with an older lady in Copperhill, TN who said she didn't need the $1500 life insurance policy he was presenting becasue she had a "Burial Plan" at the funeral home. This was in the days when a person could get a $250 plan for a quarter per week. He looked at her and said, "Ma'am, (that's the way we talked back in those days) that's wonderful but I don't think that is the way you want to be buried. The casket they used is made of cardboard! A few years ago I was over at the graveyard attending the funeral of a customer of mine.. Now, you know how hilly that graveyard is..Well, the pallbearers were carrying the casket down the hill to the grave when one of them slipped and fell. The casket tilted up and Mr. ____ came right through the end of it and started to rolling down the hill with the other pallbearers trying to catch him. Now, you wouldn't want that to happen to you would you? She looked at him and said, "How much did you say this was".. He wrote the app and it was still in force years later when she died. I have never been one to back the hearse up to the door but he did and did it well. He was always one of the company leaders. ---------- We are not talking about "FE Sales Gimmicks".. We are talking about "FE Sales Visual Aids." :1biggrin:

Good for him...now was that an actual true story or some BS he made up? Sounds a little fabricated if ya know what I mean...if that's the case the 'hero' in your story was a liar...ain't hard to make it in a sales profession being a liar...for the record...those are the kinds of stories that make me Hate insurance agents.
 
Good for him...now was that an actual true story or some BS he made up? Sounds a little fabricated if ya know what I mean...if that's the case the 'hero' in your story was a liar...ain't hard to make it in a sales profession being a liar...for the record...those are the kinds of stories that make me Hate insurance agents.

I have no idea if it was true or not but from the way he told it, I assumed it was not and I ahd the impression the lady felt the same. It just brought the point home to her that she might want a little more in a funeral than whhat the "burial plan" would provide. .. Many illustrations that have been taught and used over the years are fictional.. The field of diamonds being just one of them.
 
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I have no idea if it was true or not.. Many illustrations that have been taught and used over the years are fictional.. The field of diamonds being just one of them.

That's great, many things that have been taught are fictional, ergo they must be ok. You and I view the world differently I guess. My daddy taught me, "a little lie is still a lie"

I've never had much use for people who have to resort to gimmicks and fictional stories to prove a point...to me those are crutches that the weak hold onto.
 
I don't that many $240K producers so we will have to wait to see if any speak up. However, different people do things different ways.. I would never use an "Illustration" that I once heard an old debit agent use back when I was a young pup in the business. He was talking with an older lady in Copperhill, TN who said she didn't need the $1500 life insurance policy he was presenting becasue she had a "Burial Plan" at the funeral home. This was in the days when a person could get a $250 plan for a quarter per week.

He looked at her and said, "Ma'am, (that's the way we talked back in those days) that's wonderful but I don't think that is the way you want to be buried. The casket they used is made of cardboard! A few years ago I was over at the graveyard attending the funeral of a customer of mine.. Now, you know how hilly that graveyard is..Well, the pallbearers were carrying the casket down the hill to the grave when one of them slipped and fell. The casket tilted up and Mr. ____ came right through the end of it and started to rolling down the hill with the other pallbearers trying to catch him. Now, you wouldn't want that to happen to you would you? She looked at him and said, "How much did you say this was".. He wrote the app and it was still in force years later when she died.


I think I'll start using that story. I can see that dead guy rolling down the hill. They'll never forget that funeral.....love it! :twitchy:
 
The next time someone balks at adding $3,000 for the same premium, I'd like to pull that out as a visual and start stacking up $100 bills. And say, just tell me when to stop. I like visual aides.

Newby you will be the new Monty Hall... I'll take Door #3
 
That's great, many things that have been taught are fictional, ergo they must be ok. You and I view the world differently I guess. My daddy taught me, "a little lie is still a lie"

I've never had much use for people who have to resort to gimmicks and fictional stories to prove a point...to me those are crutches that the weak hold onto.
And what direct mail pieces do you use?..
 
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