"Heard a Guy Say"

[senior-advisor-indiana]

Sister and brother in law don't count

My days are about like JD's but I only get about 1/10 of what he gets done accomplished. I do make trips to the apple store with my wife about every 4 months though.

 

[TDFnCali]

25 leads a week mean dropping 2500 mail pieces at a $1000 a week. Better have your act together if you want to pull this off. And you better get everything you write issued....almost everything.

If you aren't getting everything or almost everything issued in the FE biz, it doesn't matter how many leads you're getting or not getting... You're doing something wrong, or you have the wrong carriers!

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[JimmyUt]

25 leads a week mean dropping 2500 mail pieces at a $1000 a week. Better have your act together if you want to pull this off. And you better get everything you write issued....almost everything.

Depending on your upline you can get leads for under $30 with above street contracts. That is only $750 worst case. 2 policies and you are making money. I pay $28 and have 115 to 120% contracts. Once I decide I want to work harder, I am sure I can justify higher contracts based on production.
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I never start calling before 10:00 am and I just call until I have 6 appointments for the day or until I call through all 15 fresh leads. Meaning that If I call thru 8 or 9 leads and already have 6 appointments I will still call the others. So I might more than 6 appointments on a Tues.

There really is no average. I've filled up the next day many, many times in 30 minutes on the phone and then there have been a few days where I didn't get the next day filled. That's pretty rare. That might happen a handful of times in a year.

I will call through all the new leads and then call through old leads for that county if I have some and I pretty much have old leads for every county I work.

If calling through them all doesn't fill the day then I will immediately call through them again. If still not full for the next day then I will take an hour or so break and do busy work or whatever. Then do it all again. I will stop at 6 or 7 pm regardless of the number of appointments.

Then the appointment day I will take all my leads for that area with me. If I do have an open spot I will doorknock the ones that didn't have a phone number. If I don't have any of those I will doorknock the ones that have several "no ans" written on them.

Unless I have already hit my weekly goal that day. No doorknocking if I'm over goal. I will still run set appointments if over goal but no more seeking out prospects. That happened yesterday. By noon I was $1000 over my weekly goal. I went ahead to my scheduled appointments and ended up the day at over $5000 ap over my weekly goal. My last scheduled appointment called to postpone and I just about thanked her.

I was home by 6 pm.

The freedom that this job gives is amazing. Monday, for example, my wife's iphone was on the blink and Apple said they would fix it or replace it. She could send it in and they would take a look at it and then send a new one or the repaired one back. This was a 10-14 day process. She didn't want to be without her phone for that long. They told her she could go an Apple store and they would replace it on the spot. The closest Apple store to us is Nashville, Tn. About an hour and half to 2 hour drive. She called and asked if I would go to Nashville with her. She left work at 1:00 and we headed to Nashville and got her phone replaced.

I already had Tues set up when she called so it was a please to ride down there with her. We also went on down to Broadway and ate at Jack's barbeque since we were in town.

She had to ask her boss if she could leave work. I didn't have to ask anyone.

Gotta love those weeks that are better than most agents months......sounds like a little monkey dust has made it to Kentucky

 

[rousemark]

My days are about like JD's but I only get about 1/10 of what he gets done accomplished. I do make trips to the apple store with my wife about every 4 months though.

I go to the Apple store with my wife about every week.. We also pick up strawberries, watermelon and oranges while we are there..

 

[xrac]

I go to the Apple store with my wife about every week.. We also pick up strawberries, watermelon and oranges while we are there..

Yes! But you are from Tennessee.

 

[houcoogster]

I go to the Apple store with my wife about every week.. We also pick up strawberries, watermelon and oranges while we are there..

I didn't realize what a bunch of hillbillies you guys were. I live in the boonies and can get to an Apple store in 20 minutes...lol

 

[senior-advisor-indiana]

I didn't realize what a bunch of hillbillies you guys were. I live in the boonies and can get to an Apple store in 20 minutes...lol

I thought everyone had to drive an hour and a half to an Apple store...

 

[rousemark]

I thought everyone had to drive an hour and a half to an Apple store...

Naw.. Ours is only 45 minutes away.. It sits right next to the bread store.. One of these days we will get one of those new fangled stores where they have apples, bread, meat and milk under the same roof.

 

[Rearden]

Give me some of that monkey dust, please.

People picking up the phone? Total hit or miss.

3 weeks ago, everybody picked the phone up, and everybody wanted to do business.

2 weeks ago, everybody picked the phone up, and nobody wanted to do business. Had to door-knock a little more, leave stickies for call-backs, and rely on annual reviews and hitting up old clients to cover the difference.

This week, a moderate amount are picking the phone up and putting us off, a moderate amount are not interested, a few are setting appointments, but everybody I've door knocked this week has done business with me. Did 4 knocks yesterday, wrote 3 apps within 5 hours on 3 separate presentations in Rural Alabama.

Lesson is to do what it takes to see the people.

 

[TDFnCali]

My days are about like JD's but I only get about 1/10 of what he gets done accomplished. I do make trips to the apple store with my wife about every 4 months though.

All Apple products SUCK, unless they are the ones u eat!!