Duford Insurance Group vs. Digital BGA for Final Expense Telesales

[WinoBlues]

I have use most of the stuff mentioned. Expensive stuff like pharmacy bags and cheap stuff like emergency contact cards.

Two that were actually mentioned and requested by clients and referrals were the 1/3 page size calendars and emery boards. The emeryboards surprised me. I just used those as lumpy mail.

 

[DonP]

I have use most of the stuff mentioned. Expensive stuff like pharmacy bags and cheap stuff like emergency contact cards.

Two that were actually mentioned and requested by clients and referrals were the 1/3 page size calendars and emery boards. The emeryboards surprised me. I just used those as lumpy mail.

Im thinking of mailing the magnet small branded calandar. I found 1000 at 48 cent each . I'm just wondering if people will put the calandar on the fridge like am agebt does when in a house ?

 

[rmhaire]

Im thinking of mailing the magnet small branded calandar. I found 1000 at 48 cent each . I'm just wondering if people will put the calandar on the fridge like am agebt does when in a house ?

Those work. I know agents that will put one on the fridge themselves when the get up from the kitchen table after the appointment.

I like the rubber jar thingies they use to open jars. The grannies love those.

 

[DonP]

Those work. I know agents that will put one on the fridge themselves when the get up from the kitchen table after the appointment.

I like the rubber jar thingies they use to open jars. The grannies love those.

I got like 8 boxes of Humana branded swag . One is the jar openers . They love those .

 

[myinsurebiz]

No, we recommend several third party solutions instead.

Which ones?

 

[WinoBlues]

Im thinking of mailing the magnet small branded calandar. I found 1000 at 48 cent each . I'm just wondering if people will put the calandar on the fridge like am agebt does when in a house ?

I still find old calendars on people's fridges. I ask them why they have it and they say for the contract info. Sometimes my magnet card is right beside it.

Mailing stuff to our book is under rated

IMohsoHO

 

[shonceman]

Im thinking of mailing the magnet small branded calandar. I found 1000 at 48 cent each . I'm just wondering if people will put the calandar on the fridge like am agebt does when in a house ?

I've given out full size calendars face to face, and also mailed them to several out of state clients. A couple years ago, my shipment was delayed. So I quickly ordered some of those small magnet calendars and mailed those out.

This year I didn't order any because the big ones got to me on time. But a couple weeks ago, I had an in person visit with a client that I had always dealt with entirely by phone. She mentioned that my magnet calendar from the previous year was still hanging on her fridge. A lightbulb appeared above my head, and I resolved to start ordering those every year!

It's funny that I've been getting football schedule magnets in the summer from the same company for a few years. I've often seen those still hanging on the fridge well after the season's over. Not sure why I didn't think of the calendar magnets before. I'll still pass out the big hanging ones because my people really like them. But I'm going to order a pile of the magnetic ones, too.

 

[LostDollar]

Caveat, not an agent.

I see calendars being discussed. A question.

What is the cost of a refrigerator magnet business card
vs
The cost of a slightly larger refrigerator magnet with both a business card and a calendar stuck to it?

 

[goillini52]

Caveat, not an agent.

I see calendars being discussed. A question.

What is the cost of a refrigerator magnet business card
vs
The cost of a slightly larger refrigerator magnet with both a business card and a calendar stuck to it?

https://www.vistaprint.com/

 

[LostDollar]

https://www.vistaprint.com/

Thanks for the info, I am not going to research because I have no interest in buying any.

I'll say what I was going to say in a different way.

Up until 2 weeks ago, I had a two year old "business card" calendar, open to the month of May, stuck on my refrigerator. Any marketing person seeing that and thinking "Oho, I should be mailing him a new calendar" would be making a totally incorrect inference from the presence of the calendar.

I also have a "magnetic business card only" from the same person. The only reason the calendar was still there is because I don't throw things away.

In terms of consumer utility, I see those small magnetic calendars as useless because I don't have a very good place to put them, the numbers are too small to read, and the pages are too small to write on. If one can bring themselves to throw them away and has a pen that writes on coated papers, the backs do make nice scratch pads.

From the agent perspective, I can see mailing a little calendar each year just as a reminder the agent is still in business and ready to help. I don't know how many of those actually make it to the refrigerator-we get one from a real estate agent each year which I throw away.

Since I am not an agent, none of us, including me, knows what I would do for sure in regard to "magnetic swag" if I was an agent, but I think I would just do magnetic business cards and skip the magnetic calendars.

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I would also have reservations about mailing a lot of large calendars.

Definitely not something I would do when I was starting out and money was limited.

In my house an approximation of "first one in wins" applies to large calendars. For several years one of my credit unions provided large calendars. I would pick one of those up in the fall and any other large calendars coming into the house were discarded.

The credit union stopped handing out calendars, so now we use one from the zoo, anything else is discarded. If we stop a zoo membership, then I will have to come up with another idea.

A large calendar from an insurance agent would have a much higher chance of being discarded than used-in my house anyway.

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A Union Pacific or BNSF calendar might be fun, but I think those are charged for nowadays.