Senior Marketing - Preset Appointments

[javajnky]

Anyone worked with "Senior Marketing" out of TX? Considering adding these guys as a lead vendor for my IMO, but I was looking to see if anyone had an experience with them. Good preset appointments are kind of like Big Foot. Everyone talks about them, but no one is sure they're real. And without fail, the companies I've tried in the past have been horrid.

Look forward to any constructive input.

Best Regards,
John W. Fitzgerald
PHR Insurance

 

[lsalmans]

Anyone worked with "Senior Marketing" out of TX? Considering adding these guys as a lead vendor for my IMO, but I was looking to see if anyone had an experience with them. Good preset appointments are kind of like Big Foot. Everyone talks about them, but no one is sure they're real. And without fail, the companies I've tried in the past have been horrid.

Look forward to any constructive input.

Best Regards,
John W. Fitzgerald
PHR Insurance

Texas is a big state, and that is a very generic common name for businesses. But I bought 25 final expense telemarketing leads from a group with that name from Allen TX , and long story short, It was a joke. They filled about 8 of the 25 leads, I never got the recordings of the call (which they said they would do), and about 6 of the 8 leads were very adamant that they did not agree to any appointment. I of course had no way to argue with them because I was only emailed a name and address with appointment time. I had no callers name to reference or even discuss how their conversation maybe went.

Even more weird with these guys is because it was my first order with them they made me mail to them a money order to place the first order. This should have been my first sign to run away. Good luck on trying to get a refund of any sort when you pay with a money order. It's almost like, they have ran the numbers, and 90% of their business doesn't return for more leads after the first order. So lets just take cash only on first time orders. Im not sure if I was even emailed a receipt.

They knew I wasnt going to buy more leads, and they didnt care, because they had already won.

 

[tins]

Anyone worked with "Senior Marketing" out of TX? Considering adding these guys as a lead vendor for my IMO, but I was looking to see if anyone had an experience with them. Good preset appointments are kind of like Big Foot. Everyone talks about them, but no one is sure they're real. And without fail, the companies I've tried in the past have been horrid.

Look forward to any constructive input.

Best Regards,
John W. Fitzgerald
PHR Insurance

I've had email conversations with them. They told me they use foreign telemarketers to set the appointments.
At 20-30 dollars per appintment, you're better off just hiring your own telemarketer.

 

[Josh]

Anyone worked with "Senior Marketing" out of TX? Considering adding these guys as a lead vendor for my IMO, but I was looking to see if anyone had an experience with them. Good preset appointments are kind of like Big Foot. Everyone talks about them, but no one is sure they're real. And without fail, the companies I've tried in the past have been horrid.

Look forward to any constructive input.

Best Regards,
John W. Fitzgerald
PHR Insurance

Have you tried generating your own?

Most of the big Allstate agencies that do well have their own in-house telemarketers because it's such a low profit business that they have to take that one extra hand out of the cookie jar to make it worth their time. I ditched my vendor five years ago and it couldn't have been a better decision. I hired some telemarketers, bought a dialer, bought a list (didn't see where that was going to take me at the time), and had at it. There are some extra headaches and stresses that come with it, but considering the size of your operation it'd probably be worth considering. If nothing else it would give you a different appreciation for what telemarketing companies do.

 

[javajnky]

Thanks for the input everyone. I talked to some other IMO heads and got bad feedback regarding them... So I'm gonna pass.

@Josh - I've considered it and honestly, am still considering it. Hosted dialer VOIP solutions are readily available and data is cheap... Just not sure I want to deal with the management of it all. Thanks for the input though!!

 

[tins]

Thanks for the input everyone. I talked to some other IMO heads and got bad feedback regarding them... So I'm gonna pass.

@Josh - I've considered it and honestly, am still considering it. Hosted dialer VOIP solutions are readily available and data is cheap... Just not sure I want to deal with the management of it all. Thanks for the input though!!

I'm pretty sure Josh still has an active telemarketing team. I'm sure they could tailor a campaign for your agents/agency. Why don't the 2 of you work out some sort of deal?

 

[medwining]

You can always go to Linkedin and join a "Call Center" group and get in touch with a center yourself.

 

[mbm0219]

I used them once and most people were not expecting me to show up. Complete waste of money!

 

[MIM]

Sorry I'm responding late to this thread but if it helps any I've only had one experience with a company that sets up preset appointments and it was with this one. Save yourself the trouble and go somewhere else. I flushed $500 down the tube on this one. At first it may seem like an established outfit but it was pretty simple. It's run by a girl/woman that goes by Jennifer. There's only one "extension" that goes to her mailbox. You call the number, she gives you the pitch, and then tells you to send a check for $500. (I guess the no credit cards accepted should've raised red flags for me on this one but obviously a fighter has never learned how to fight without taking some hits.) Once she gets the check, she emails you the appointments. You go to these supposed appointments and the ones that actually claimed they received a call tell you that it sounded like someone with a thick accent saying that someone was going to come down to offer them medical insurance. The prospect would never actually consent to the appointment. You then try to call Jennifer back and she then points you toward billing. Of course billing doesn't exist so you then try to call her again and of course she just ignores you. She's done this numerous times and has no conscience or remorse of doing it again.

I really hope one day that she gets some sort of conviction in her heart and realizes that she's taking some one else's hard earned money.