Called on a DM Lead Today
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Oh, I would... I would have applied myself more in the beginning and then I would not have let the antique business distract me for about 20 years. My problem was a steak and beans attitude.. I would get to making pretty good money and then I would coast until I was eating beans again.. Spent much too much time sitting around coffee shops shooting the bull with other agents.
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I am the opposite. I had the chance to enter this field when I was 26 and another road opened and I took that path. I wish I had 27 years of renewals coming in right now. The other day my son said he wants to major in history when he goes to college. "Oh, so what do you want to do with that ... be a teacher? A professor?"
"No, I figure I'll go around and knock on people's doors like you and sell them insurance. I really like history though, so I figure I should study what I like."
I kid you not - his words.
And it doesn't sound like a bad plan to me at all.
I made sure my kids got an education because my parents didn't offer it to me. Son has his MBA and is a CPA. One of my twin daughters is a school teacher. The other twin just graduated from medical school and is a PA. My wife is a teacher and like me wouldn't do it over again. We worry about our daughter who is a teacher. Teaching isn't what it once was just like the insurance business.
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I've had missteps and misfortunes and many distractions along the way. But I've never regretted getting into the business. I love what we do. (I only wish I'd discovered the LBL home service contract a few years earlier!)
It's just like When Tony Robbins gets on the stage and pumps everyone up they can all be successful and be rich . Everyone in that crowd will be pumped when they leave but maybe 2% will change . Just like all these insurance you tubers tell you how they have tons of people doing $25 k a month of fe premium or selling 500 mapd a yr . It's designed to recruit . If all the people you recruit believe that and even 5-6 apps x 20 people you've made $30 k in overides . And if one becomes a big producer you make $40 k plus a yr off him .
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One of the good ones was A L Williams' "do it" speeches.
He was great at selling the dream.
This was in 1987. I did a lot of over the kitchen table f2f battle with A L Williams agents back then. Fun times.
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Yelp.. battled them too.. Never lost a client to them. But, I have to admit that is one of the better speeches I have ever listened to.
