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Tsk, tsk, James. It should read, "....MORE TIME THAN MONEY...."
John, I haven't been in Maryland in ages. How did you get a picture of my patrol car?
You know AT&T is doing residentual marketing here, they have came to my door three times, I'm sold yet haven't gotten it? Everytime the wife or I request they come back when we are both here, even give them exact times on when to come back and, they agree on the time. They have been a no show everytime! Remember if you promise a prospect something, deliver on the promise and you'll likely get a sale, I guess some call it "Service"?
B to B works - for selling almost anything. I've done a ton of B to B and did B to B for two other sales industries. I also was a regional manager for a marketing company and had a retail location and you'd be surprised the number of industries that go B to B - I got hit up several times a week by everything from coffee services, advertising, office cleaning security systems, etc...
Verizon just finished laying their fiber optic lines in our community about 2 months ago - offering VIOS now and trying to compete with Comcast. Guess their chosen method of marketing - cold-call residential door to door. We've already had 3 reps come by. Verizon knows door to door kills telemarketing and sending postcard mailers.
105 life apps? That's a no-brainer if you go B to B - basically 2 apps a week. You can absolutely pull 2 life apps a week doing B to B but you simply may have to spend more time in the field then other agents doing health or employee benefits.
One of my friends interviewed for a UHC group health job a couple of years back - base pay, health/dental and 401K. Guess what the job entailed....B to B to get middle-market group business.
Concentrate on what you made for the week. Take a surreal situation and assume you had a job where you want B to B 6 hours a day, every day and got one sale a week that made you $5,000 - and you did that consistently. Good job? You bet.
I went B to B almost exclusively the 1st three months in this biz - wrote $220,000 in health premium in three months. Unfortunately it was with Mega. However at a 20% commish level as an independent is it a bad deal to make $44,000 over three months?
I had agents in my Mega office saying "wow...you walk into businesses all day - dude, there's better ways of doing this." Yeah....and I was turning in $20,000 for the week and they were turning in $8,000.They didn't mean "better" ways - they meant lazier ways.
I'd be interested in getting an idea of what your pitch is as you walk in, and, if you target any specfic stores/strip malls.
I've been doing this sort of thing for the past month, and have only succeeded in gathering a small collection of business cards.
I'm not looking for the "holy grail" of scripts, but would more than welcome any input from those who have more experience in this particular area.
As I noted elsewhere, I have a minimual, and I do mean minimual, "natural market" to work from and am confined to B2B cold calling, which is limited to cold calling on the phone, e.g., "I'm doing business with some people in your area and would like to know if I can drop off some things for you."
It's a door opener phone script at best, but certainly could use some working.
What about walking in off of the street?
Thanks in advance!
Now that this is back on top, I'm sure Mark Rosenthal will have some sage advice on this market.