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By Jeffrey Dobkin Easy Direct Marketing Methods for Insurance Agencies This Month: Strategies for Letters, Post Cards, Newsletters,
Testimonials, Referrals. Selling insurance is tough: too many agents selling too few clients, and
ouch - trying to show value when all you are selling is a piece of paper
that no one really thinks he needs until its too late. But you knew all
that. Heres how to get more business and keep the customers you
have. Send a Thank you for your business letter. Ill bet you ten bucks that I know the last piece of correspondence
your customer received from you or your providers: it was a bill. Right?
OK - 99 out of 100 of you pay up. Break this cycle of insurance bills with
something refreshing. Send a bottle of champagne. Just kidding. Send
that bottle to me, Schramsberg/NAPA is just fine. To your clients and
prospects, send a couple of refreshing Thank you letters. Spend the 74 To keep customers happier and longer, twice a year send them a
letter simply thanking them for being a customer. Let them know their
business is appreciated. Paint a picture of your firm on high alert 24
hours a day: if they need you - youll be there. Let them know you
appreciate their business and that you are eagerly waiting to serve
them. Your customer retention rate will soar. Your customers will be
happier; therefore, your customers will be your customers, longer. As for
me, Im still waiting for that bottle of Schramsberg. Now Im not talking about the pre-printed Thank You card you get
from your accountant each Christmas. Ugh. Thats close to worthless
(dont tell your accountant, Ill start getting nasty letters). Im talking about
a real, bonafide letter. Signed personally by you, or at least someone
who works with you who is willing to sign all those letters with your
name in a blue pen. Yes - twice a year. Cough it up: postage 74. Thats
not much of a cost to retain a customer. Do you know what other
agencies call your best customers? Prospects. I personally think a letter
is the cheapest customer retention strategy you can use, and the most
effective. Hummmm... cheapest; most effective. See, nice guy that I am, I started off this article with my best tip first.
Its all downhill from here. Or is it? Dont start a Newsletter. Thats right, dont. Youve got to be crazy to start a newsletter. 90%
of the ones I get are terrible: no direction, poor copy, lousy photos
everyones dressed. Nothing like that Hooters newsletter I, er, a friend
of mine signed up for 2 years ago. What? What do you mean you dont
think theres continually fresh and interesting news from a restaurant
chain? Most newsletters are written with no clear objectives, and some just
ramble on in a dialog about and by the president like someone
cared about his babble on the new boat he just bought. In reality - where
I virtually think we are - newsletters are just a lot of work. They may start
out with some enthusiasm, but soon become the drudgery of month after
month of hard work, eventually assigned to someone as a thankless job
no one really wants to do. Without lively copy, great design, consistent
frequency and timely delivery, newsletters lose all effect of branding and
building customer loyalty. Case in point: Q. The number one priority of a newsletter? A. It must
be read. To be read it must be fascinating and interesting beyond belief.
Remember, if it aint read, it aint working. See my article on newsletters
elsewhere on this site. Or visit www.dobkin.com for this and other
articles of marketing tips Ive written. Instead, create a series of post cards. Thats right, slightly oversized 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 post cards print nicely
2-out of an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet. Spend some time on graphics and copy to
make them really interesting and clever. Since I just mentioned
newsletter, I know some readers are now hell-bent on creating a
newsletter, so you guys can title your post card The Worlds Tiniest
Newsletter. Then design it like a tiny newsletter. Well, I hope that made
your day. Still stuck on newsletters? Call this number and complain:
610-642-683. If I really cared, Id have given you the last number, which
is 2. Its our fax machine. Or at least the fax machine of our competitor. Post cards can look good printed simply in one or two colors so
they can be inexpensive to print. While I dont mind one color printing, I
do always prefer an upscale sheet of paper (like bright-white Cambric
Linen). Dont use glossy stock unless your post card is printed in 4
colors, as the post office mail sorting rollers will leave black marks on it.
Mail post cards once a month to every 6 weeks for consistency, or to
maintain Top-of-Mind awareness. Write about anything as long as its interesting. The limitations of
space ensure the brevity of copy; this generally will make sure the card
remains interesting to a good degree. Somewhere, somehow on the card, say Call for a quick quote! to
encourage people to call. If the objective of the card is to generate a call
and it doesnt, it didnt work, did it?. Supersize the phone number and
follow it by a longish laundry list of all the types of insurance your firm
offers (or that you can get for your customers). If its a long list - and it
should be - set the list in small type - and print it on the lower portion of
the bottom of the card. Heres an example: Since you live in Nebraska, boat insurance
probably isnt your main livelihood, or flood insurance either, so most of
your customers probably dont know you can get these kinds of
coverage for them along with their tractor insurance. By listing all the
kinds of insurance policies you sell on this card, all your customers who
own boats (both of them) will get the message that they can call you for
a quote. Other customers and prospects will see what they need also -
and call for quotes, too. The list of services is not the main message in the card, but it lets
clients know that you offer a full depth of different products, and they can
get all their insurance quoted and placed by a quick phone call to your
office. Remember, if you dont get calls from your post cards, and thus
additional business - they didnt work. Then let me guess: Your mailings
went into your we tried direct mail and it didnt work file. How
unfortunate. Know whos getting those phone calls if youre not? Your
competitors. Their post cards went into their Holy Cow! Look how much
money we made from this little post card mailing! file. Why are phone calls so important?All your business starts with a phone
call. Any time you can make the phone ring - especially for a quote, you
have the opportunity to generate a sale, or perform a service for your
customer. Either way, if you look at this more closely as an opportunity,
youll find a phone conversation is a great way to increase a clients
loyalty and endear them even more deeply to you and your company. If you can get the phone to ring from a mailed piece, the piece is a
total success, even if you didnt get any business at that exact moment.
Heres why I say this: Ive been in direct marketing for OH MY GOD
AM I THAT OLD ALREADY!. Anyhow, its tough to sell something from a
sheet of paper, especially insurance, which is sometimes tough to sell
anywhere, even in a stuck elevator for 12 hours with 6 doctors whose
medical malpractice policies have an ex-date of tomorrow. Come to
think of it, if you want a business decision from a doctor youll have to
ask his office manager or his wife. Either way, a yes answer will take a
month. By trying to sell something directly from a sheet of paper, you get no
feedback, no buying signals. You cant tell where the hot buttons of your
clients are. When do you back off? When do you press for a close? All
this may come subconsciously when youre selling in person, but I
assure you a lot of thought has to go into a printed piece to get to these
specific areas with just the right timing, correct pace and selling
proposition to close a sale from a flyer that you sent in the mail. Armed with the knowledge that its very difficult to sell anything off
the page, dont even think about trying to sell anything from your mail
piece. The objective of 99% of the letters, mailers, post cards and
brochures I create for clients dont sell anything -- the objective is simply
to generate a phone call. My client is the one that does all of the selling.
With your brochure, you do the selling when they call. Face the further fact: create letters and mailers with the sole
objective of making the phone ring. When the phone rings - the piece
worked. Voila. Now we know it was successful. Then you sell the client. For an article Ive written on post cards, just drop me a letter
requesting it: Jeff Dobkin, P.O. Box 100, Merion Station, PA 19066. No,
an email wont work. Id like to make sure you really want it and an email
wont show me this - I dont want to get 5,000 emails requesting stuff like
the last time I offered something free on the Internet. Ugh. OK, lets get back to more tips about your post card mailings.
Sending post cards every four to six weeks keeps your agency in Top of
Mind awareness of your clients. When they need new policies, or a quote when they have friends
that need insurance services -- theyll think of you. Whoa. When they
have friends??? Can you say referrals? Referrals and Testimonials I dont know about you, but I hate asking people for referrals. So
heres a way to get them, and how to use testimonials in your marketing.
Its even tough for me to write a personal letter asking for a referral
without sounding like a bleeding heart solicitation piece I once wrote for
the Friends of Kaballah association who needed money for guns,
but a post card can serve this function just right. Lets say someone refers a client to you, from the post card you just
sent them with the copy on it saying, Thanks for all your referrals! We
appreciate our customers and friends who refer clients to us for our fast
and friendly quotes. Dont forget: were always ready to help anyone -
whether they are our client or not - with any of their insurance questions
or problems. Please let your friends and colleagues know to just give us
a call at 800-987-6543 - we are always happy to help. You remember
that post card, don't you? So now what do you do? Besides opening that nice bottle of champagne celebrating the new
client you just got, and then sending me a nice bottle of champagne for
that new client you just got - you know, the one you already forgot to
send me from the oh never mind, you send the referring person a
thank you letter. No, a call is not the same. With a call, after you hang up
the phone you cease to exist. And dont even think about sending them
that pre-printed accountants thank-you card we discussed earlier - it still
wont work. You send them a hand typed letter thanking them. Right
from your own computer. Signed by you in blue ink. Same as before. Heres what we do around here when we get a referral. We send the
referring party a nice letter, a really nice letter, and a Cross Pen,
engraved with their name on it. Sure, we could have my company name
engraved on it, but the only person that would think thats great is me.
That pen goes inside their desk drawer. Big deal. But when we
havetheir name engraved on a pen - well, that pen goes in their shirt
pocket (man), in their pocketbook (woman), or on top of their desk
(neutered). And you just cant buy that kind of top-of-desk real estate.
Or top-of-mind awareness. Dont worry, theyll remember from whom theyve received it - from
the nice letter you sent them with the pen. You, umm, did send them a
really nice letter with the pen, didnt you? Thanks, Jeffrey Thank you very much for your kind referral of me. I appreciate it. I dont take referrals lightly, or for granted. A referral means that you
thought enough of my services to recommend me as a professional, and
thought enough of me as a person to recommend me to a colleague. I appreciate your trust - and assure you I will always act well within
the framework of fairness and good taste, and will strive at all times to
provide exceptional value. Thank you again for the privilege of your referral, the opportunity to
be of service to your associate, and your trust. Kindest regards, Jeffrey Dobkin A call - or an email - is not the same. You see a Thank you for your
referral letter is a touchy, feely thing - kind of like that cute little red
haired secretary you had until your wife found out. Dont feel too bad, my
wife wont let me go out on dates, either. What the letter really says is
that you cared enough to sit down and type a personal letter, print it out,
sign it, find an envelope and a stamp, and mail it. It was an effort. Now they have a permanent record of your sincere thanks that can
sit on their desk for days, and if its anything like my desk it probably will.
I have letters from 1995 on my desk. But thats in another article I was
going to write - about procrastination - but I keep putting it off. So youve just sent a Cross Pen to a person who just referred a new
client to you. What do they think? They think: how nice it was, and start
looking around to see who else they can refer. Is a new client worth the
$25 of an engraved Cross Pen. I think so. Testimonials Has anyone ever said anything nice about you or your firm? Oh.
Dont worry, it hasnt happened to my firm yet either. But when anyone
does say anything good about you, your firm, or your services, tell them
that its very flattering to hear, and ask them if they would mind if you use
that as a testimonial. Wait for their answer. After that awkward pause,
theyll say sure. Then theyre committed. Then you make it more formal. Youthen say, Can I write down what you said and send it to you in a
letter, have you look it over, and if its OK would you approve it. If not,
just let me know - thats OK, too. Most people, seeing that it wont be a
lot of work for themselves, will say sure. So you can now write down pretty much what they said - and you
can take some liberties here, they wont remember exactly what they
said - send it to them in a well constructed letter and have them sign it.
Youll get a letter with a great testimonial (because you wrote it) that
someone has signed-off on without causing them to do any work. Theyll
be happy. Youll be happy. Also, heres a big plus: your testimonial letter will be free of any
spelling errors or typos that my own clients letters always seem to have.
You know, thats why letters and articles Ive written always have a few
typos and spelling errors in them - so clients (and editors) wont feel
embarrassed that theyre the only ones who make those errors. And Im
a-stickin to that story. Anyhow, never trust a man who only has one
spelling for any given word. When pitching to a new client, tell them the difference between your
agency and others is service, and bring out a really big book of recent
testimonials. Its probably the most convincing sales tactic you can use. 2003 Jeffrey Dobkin Jeffrey Dobkin, author of the books, How To Market A Product For Under
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response writing. He writes powerful, response-driven sales letters, TV
commercials and scripts; persuasive catalog copy; and exceptionally
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The Value Attributes in the Specialty Coffee Industry

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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Garry_Allen]Garry Allen Ok, so you decided you want or need a wireless phone.
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By Tim Lee Dating is probably one of the most popular activities there are among humans. At one point in our lives, we will definitely be faced with somebody else whom we'd like to get to know more intimately or introduced to someone whose characteristics make us interested in getting into one on one time with. When we really think about it, dating is one of the most inevitable things that can happen throughout our lifetimes, because we are all social beings, and whether we like it or not, we are bound to meet someone who will irk our interest (unless you are deliberately a hermit). There are many definitions to a date. But for the purpose of this article, we will define dating as a one-on-one meeting between two people who are both seeking and hoping to find reasons to gain a deeper relationship with each other, no matter the gender. In other to succeed in the dating scene, romance is key. After all, what is a date without the usual mush and butterfly kisses, right? If you start to get all defensive upon the mention of the word romance and mush and say that you're just eyeing a friendly date, you should start rethinking your definitions. Because a date is a date is a date. And no matter how friendly, still involves some degree of romance. On the other hand, some people go on dates because they search for romance. There are those who get out of it successfully and bag a second, third, fourth, etc. encounter. However, there are those who manage to mess things up at the onset that the idea of dating seems few and far between. If you are one of the latter, don't despair just yet. Help is on the way. Here are some of the most popular romantic dating activities you can do in order to have cupid looking toward your direction and aim his arrows at you. 1. A nice dinner date. This is all too common right? Everyone who dates goes to dinner. However, HOW you plan the dinner and what you say in the middle of it spells the difference between success and a failure. While it is prudent to be yourself, don't get too comfortable just yet and eat with your mouth full. Just talk as if you're with a new friend and try to extract topics of interest to both of you to keep the ball rolling the entire night. It's okay to fumble, too. Just don't keep apologizing about it. Remember, the taboo dating topics include politics, religion and exes. 2. Walk on the beach Now this probably scores at the top 5 of many people, because the beach affords romance no matter what time of the day. The most romantic times to stroll are during sunset or sunrise. If you're the nocturnal type, you can set up a picnic at night with candles, some chips and a bottle of wine. 3. The fireplace date You've seen this in movies and it has worked. Nothing is more romantic that sitting infront a warm fire on a cold day, cuddling and talking. Speaking in low voices and talking about more serious issues (again, not politics, religion or exes) will help jumpstart the romantic vibe. Don't forget the wine! 4. Take massages together. Or massage each other! Enough said, here. In sum, the most important element of a successful date is communication. As much as you want the other person to see how nice and sincere you are, the date isn't all about you. Learn to listen to what he or she has to say also and try to meet him or her halfway. In the end, no matter the setting, the good communicator always takes the cake. Have fun! For more romantic dating ideas, please visit http://www.fun-dating-ideas.info/. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Tim_Lee http://EzineArticles.com/?4-Romantic-Dating-Ideas&id=360959 cheap online pharmacies xanax cod
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Playing Texas Holdem Poker Online: Must Know Info

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Slot Machines' Secrets - The Truth About Slot Mathematics

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