Cold Doors 2020 - Discussion Thread

[DayTimer]

You knock in the country past dark with 110 lb monster dogs you'll be leaving in an ambulance . I had a massive 100 lb blood hound take a bite at me a few years ago and ripped my pants leg right off. If the lady wasn't standing there i'd have been mauled .

May I suggest ...
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[theleadingagent]

You knock in the country past dark with 110 lb monster dogs you'll be leaving in an ambulance . I had a massive 100 lb blood hound take a bite at me a few years ago and ripped my pants leg right off. If the lady wasn't standing there i'd have been mauled .

I always analyze the area before I get out my car. The times I knocked after dark, I'm looking to see if the home is well lit, etc

I usually carry pepper spray.

I always carry a pen. If I need to use that as a weapon then I will.

If I see feral animals or hear vicious animals then I don't get out.

Once I was about to knock some door and the neighbor had some kujo looking dog that was barking aggressively behind this short ass fence before I even got out the car - so that one I did not get out.

Thankfully haven't had issues as most people I encountered with pets control them pretty well. Well except this one guy with this big ass dog that kept jumping on me so he finally locked it in another room. And this one lady with this massive pit bull and she literally sat on her dog then locked it in another room.

But I really haven't thought about the rural area thing since I all my after dark knocks are in more populated suburban areas.

I prefer door knocking in areas where houses are close together so I can do more in shorter time

 

[WinoBlues]

Qualified quality prospective clients. People with insurance needs. People you want in your book. Orphan policy holders = someone that was sold and never heard from the salesman again.

Aged MP leads = they are homeowners, you have the address so you can Google it to see if the house implies a high enough income level for you. Is it in the lower income flat lands of Oakland or in the upper income hills of Oakland. Is it an upperly mobile 40 year old couple that is way under insured? Do they have 'a guy' ?

 

[DayTimer]

It sounds like the cold door knocking is working out well for you. What type of neighborhoods are you in?

So my "territory" is six townships, my own and the five townships that surround and share a partial border with my home township. I use my home as the the center of a more or less flexible 5 mile radius (my office is about 4.5 miles from my home).

The average of the average family incomes in these townships is $89K/year. Plenty of folks living on much less than that in these townships, and plenty making quite a lot more. The neighborhoods I am knocking are more likely to have a majority of folks who are living at, near, or above that average income rather than below it unless they are already retired.

This month, I have been working two neighborhoods that are right near my office - so near, in fact, that I can leave my car in the parking lot if I want and walk across the street and start knocking. The first neighborhood is a townhouse neighborhood built in the 70's. This neighborhood of townhouses flows right into a neighborhood of single family homes, also built in the 70's and 80's.

I will tell you that I have found very wealthy folks in both developments living right next to folks drowning in debt and struggling to stay in their homes. I picked up a few nice annuity cases so far that will fund this month from folks with assets but low income. They are all about to get quite a pay raise.

My plan is to knock every subdivision in my territory at least once over the next year or two. I am starting with those closest to my office and working my way out. My goal, which I took from whirleybird's cold knocking thread, is 75% contact ratio within a subdivision inside of a month of knocking and then I'll move on.

 

[KOC Agent]

@DayTimer Thanks for sharing. By 75% contact ratio; do you mean that you will have at least a conversation with that percentage of the people in any given subdivision?

 

[DayTimer]

By 75% contact ratio; do you mean that you will have at least a conversation with that percentage of the people in any given subdivision?

eyeball to eyeball with 75% of the homeowners regardless of outcome.

 

[DayTimer]

It has come to my attention that many Americans have no clue what the Constitution says about our Government and the Separation of Powers. Many have come to view the President as King, and Congress as a mere parliamentary adornment.

It is worth reading, studying, and learning this document.

The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription

 

[DHK]

When the Left are so power-hungry... they are a unified power... and they are using their collective power and voice to move a particular agenda. And quite frankly, those on the Right... aren't strong enough or unified enough against it.

The Left are undermining the Constitution. How? By using the Constitution against the people it was designed to protect.

This is a religious speech made back in 1978. There are some unique points in it.
Foreordination for the Challenges of Today - BYU Speeches

We are now entering a period of incredible ironies. Let us cite but one of these ironies which is yet in its subtle stages: we shall see in our time a maximum if indirect effort made to establish irreligion as the state religion. It is actually a new form of paganism that uses the carefully preserved and cultivated freedoms of Western civilization to shrink freedom even as it rejects the value essence of our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.

And if this perspective and movement is the majority of people in Congress... we are losing our freedoms... and aren't we losing them little by little now?

If I didn't believe that this movement was happening, I would agree with you. But those on the right... just aren't strong enough or unified enough to combat all this... and the people are voting for these people... so we're getting what we get by who we are electing.

 

[DayTimer]

When the Left are so power-hungry.

Both sides are power hungry, and none more so than Trump himself. You need to rise above the partisanship. You are certainly intellectually capable of this more than most of us. I am afraid you yourself do not see the extent to which your own ideological lens is coloring the world as you see it. I was there myself at one point in my life. You can rise to a perspective not clouded by partisan and conventional shadows.

You, of anyone I know here, can and should do so. You will be unbelievably rewarded when you are able to look at both sides and see both for the dangers they pose. But to think that the danger today is primarily from the left ignores the creeping fascism from the right.

 

[DHK]

Both sides are power hungry, and none more so than Trump himself.

Maybe.

But with how the Left has promoted open borders, shamed for defending our country, and promoting economic greatness... I know who my enemy is.

When I see who is villainizing Trump... all I see is jealousy and envy because they don't want him taking any credit. Trump has done far more than any other president and the agenda is pro-America (at least as I see it). Now, is he doing it to fulfill his ego? Sure. Just like any other CEO.

He's also proved that congress is useless in getting things done for the American people. If anything, Trump proved how inept most people in Congress are - and the weak ones don't like it.

I have a bias... and Trump is acting in accordance with my bias. So I like it. Those who didn't, have a bias, and because they view the world differently, they don't like him. That's okay.

However, I do predict that Trump will be the first impeached president to be re-elected.