The Amber Scherloz Thread

[Crabcake Johnny]

Re: How Careful Are You?

Amber - please, enough of the promotions disguised as questions.

 

[WinoBlues]

Re: Average Insurance Agent Salary

My average salary is 0. I am unemployed every morning. I have to find people to hire me daily.

However, don't think I could ever do a real job again.

 

[briko3]

Re: How Careful Are You?

Is that what she's been doing? I honestly haven't understood a word she's said since she's been here.

 

[xrac]

Re: Average Insurance Agent Salary

You may spend 40 hours fooling yourself that you're working, but there is no possible way you are spending 40 hours seeing people or actively fighting to see people (ie talking to suspects/prospects). I don't care if you are socially inept, ugly as a catfish, if you actually spent 40 hours prospecting or seeing people you couldn't help but make substantially more money. I could attach a note to a monkey and let him lose in an industrial park and he could do more than $5000 in a year.

Sorry if I hurt your feelings, but this isn't the career for you if you haven't figured this out in five years. That's nothing to be ashamed of, most of the population isn't geared to be in direct sales. You owe it to yourself to find something you are good at and can provide you a decent living.

My first reaction is brutally honest but true and good advise but then I remembered that it took John Savage about 9 years to become successful in this business and then he went on to make millions.

 

[xrac]

Re: How Careful Are You?

Or do you think she is actually thinking about getting into the business herself. You can't study this forum for very long, bet setting appointments and not want to get your feet wet.

 

[Josh]

Re: Magic Jack

More than one person? As in a conference call or someone else in the office also talking to the caller? Any issues doing a conference call? I do that regularly.

Thanks for the help. Our contract is coming up on the current carrier and due to this forum I am looking at Skype and Vonage.

That is exactly what I'm talking about. If you keep adding callers you'll need more bandwidth, but other than that it works great and it's very user friendly. How many folks do you have in your office? There are some other options that might make more sense too. Send me an e-mail and I can't talk to you about that a bit more.

 

[DHK]

Re: Average Insurance Agent Salary

9 years, but you're right!

If he could do it after 9 years, so can I! (But it had better happen a little sooner than that!)

 

[Lance320]

Re: Average Insurance Agent Salary

hes right in this business you cant help but sell something every week. Maybe you should take a look at your processes to see if there is something that needs fixing.

 

[MrKropp]

Re: Magic Jack

I have a very fast internet line (ATT Uverse). I have tried several VOIP providers and MagicJack. The are all less reliable than a landline. Poor quality, dropped calls, etc. I looked into it and the price of landline with unlimited long distance is about $20 more than VOIP. The VOIP competition has resulting in much lower landline pricing. If you sell over the phone why would you want anything other than a landline???

 

[Pangaea]

Re: Magic Jack

I have a very fast internet line (ATT Uverse). I have tried several VOIP providers and MagicJack. The are all less reliable than a landline. Poor quality, dropped calls, etc. I looked into it and the price of landline with unlimited long distance is about $20 more than VOIP. The VOIP competition has resulting in much lower landline pricing. If you sell over the phone why would you want anything other than a landline???

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree about quality, it depends on the provider. I've used Skype, Vonage, RCN, & Comcast VOIP and I've had perfect quality with RCN & Comcast.

I switched to comcast for bandwidth purposes (I have around 50mbps download, 10mbps upload) and have crystal clear quality with their VOIP.

Most newer offices I've visited have VOIP and Cisco phones, more features than you can shake a stick at, many of which landlines can't compete with.

You may have issues with VOIP if your bandwidth allocation is too low, ATT U-Verse doesn't go any higher than 18mbps that may be the issue.