What Are the Day 1 Bear Minumum Essentials ?

Assuming that you have your license for P&C or Life, Health, and you've picked what you want to focus on. You have a phone, email address and business cards.

What are the other Day 1 essentials that you have to have, to get started ?

-S

A answering machine with a good message on it.

A list of prospects that you are thinking about approaching.

GPS or a MAP.

Nice suit.
 
Try a nice chilled grey goose before posting and the incessent ramblings of the incoherent and incompetent will seem to you like a beautiful sonnet or a melodic concerto.
 
The truth of all offers and leads is they all work. if you have enough money and enough time to work the system. The secret to success is investing time and money in yourself and your business.

What works for agent A may not work for Agent B due to personality or some other difference. Find what works for you and then keep doing it until it doesnt work for you; then find something new that works for you and repeat step 2.
 
Try a nice chilled grey goose before posting

My sum knowledge of wine is "November was a good month."

Gary Goose is vodka. When it comes to vodka "Tuesday was a very good day!"

For a quick "fight-club" post here, gin or vodka is fine. But to post something of substance I suggest you stick to the aged spirits... usually the older the better. Sip is slowly. Eventually you will be able to "write the sunset"

Mr. Glenn Holland: Let me ask you a question. When you look in the mirror, what do you like best about yourself?
Gertrude Lang: My hair.
Mr. Glenn Holland: Why?
Gertrude Lang: Well, my father always says that it reminds him of the sunset.
Mr. Glenn Holland: Play the sunset. Close your eyes. One, two, three, four.

Adult Gertrude Lang: Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn't rich and he isn't famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he's achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.


Now that, my dear authors... is great writing... and damn few people do it well... sober!! :-) (I don't know if Patrick Duncan (author of above) imbibes when he writes... but I would not be surprised.)
 
My sum knowledge of wine is "November was a good month."

Gary Goose is vodka. When it comes to vodka "Tuesday was a very good day!"

For a quick "fight-club" post here, gin or vodka is fine. But to post something of substance I suggest you stick to the aged spirits... usually the older the better. Sip is slowly. Eventually you will be able to "write the sunset"

Mr. Glenn Holland: Let me ask you a question. When you look in the mirror, what do you like best about yourself?
Gertrude Lang: My hair.
Mr. Glenn Holland: Why?
Gertrude Lang: Well, my father always says that it reminds him of the sunset.
Mr. Glenn Holland: Play the sunset. Close your eyes. One, two, three, four.

Adult Gertrude Lang: Mr. Holland had a profound influence on my life and on a lot of lives I know. But I have a feeling that he considers a great part of his own life misspent. Rumor had it he was always working on this symphony of his. And this was going to make him famous, rich, probably both. But Mr. Holland isn't rich and he isn't famous, at least not outside of our little town. So it might be easy for him to think himself a failure. But he would be wrong, because I think that he's achieved a success far beyond riches and fame. Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. We are the music of your life.


Now that, my dear authors... is great writing... and damn few people do it well... sober!! :-) (I don't know if Patrick Duncan (author of above) imbibes when he writes... but I would not be surprised.)

Hmmm maybe some agents who phone prospect while drunk should post and lets see if it works as well in our field as in the literary world :DI know being high while giving a speech definitely eliminates any stage fright and I am convinced most actors are stoned.:nah:
 
My sum knowledge of wine is "November was a good month."
I believe that sums up much of your knowledge - especially of insurance.

We all look forward to another long post where you point out that I have an anger management problem, etc. Can't wait!

Rick
 
I believe that sums up much of your knowledge - especially of insurance.

We all look forward to another long post where you point out that I have an anger management problem, etc. Can't wait!

Rick

Rick,
You should change your name to agent provocateur:1wink:

You know he's gonna come out swinging LOL
 
al3, good point. I'm guessing that using the wrong word in a contract could cause a problem.

I'm sure that another peeve in the insurance world would be

Insure vs Ensure

Like when people write "I want to insure you that it won't happen again" That one drives me crazy.....


Actually, insure, ensure, and assure are interchangeable verbs which basically have the same meaning. In Britian, assure is used to mean life insurance. I believe Equitable Life Assurance was the name used here in the USA. And how about Assurant?;)

P.S. I was waiting for Rick to come on here and give a knock, Al. I thought you two guys burried the hatchet---or was that buried in each others back?
 
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