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Living On The Top of The Mountain
I just came back from speaking to a large audience of insurance agents. Of course, the subject was as it always is, The E-Myth. I don’t have any interest in talking about anything other than that. It’s what I do. It’s who I am. It’s what has transformed my life not only once, but many times since I started on this odyssey of mine in 1977 with the founding of E-Myth Worldwide.

How To Break The 3 Commandments of Network Marketing Prospecting
There are 3 commandments in network marketing prospecting that have been around since the birth of multi-level or network marketing. These commandments should never be broken. I did… you should too.
Cold Calling Should Not Create the Sales Catastrophe of Becoming a Commodity
Do you need more sales as service professional whether you are a business consultant, sales coach, financial advisor, insurance agent or realtor? Are you making those necessary cold calls? Did you ever think that you are potentially creating a sales catastrophe of becoming a commodity?
Yes You Can Win More Sales By Breaking This Rule
Many sales professionals from their sales training have been taught this rule: Do not give anything away! You must be paid for your sales skills, your advice, your knowledge, your products or services. Guess what? Today you can break this rule and get paid even more. Interested? Then read on.

Professional Services Win More Sales by Educating Instead of Telling
Are you a professional service provider such as a lawyer, realtor, insurance agent, financial advisor, business coach, sales coach or executive coach? Would you like to win more sales while decreasing your sales to lead or sales cycle time? Then why not use your sales skills educate your potential qualified customers (a.k.a. prospects) instead of the traditional sales based marketing approach of telling them?
RELATIONSHIP SELLING – PART II (TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS)
Do not sell products, services or commodities. Just establish strong relationships with clients and achieve the coveted status of a trusted advisor. Then, your clients will elect to buy services and/or products from you. Never try to sell them. I know that this sounds deceptively simple. Almost as if one could just sit around and wait for things to happen. Establishing and maintaining trusted client relationships without trying to sell them anything, requires a lot of patience and a constant struggle against the temptation to start selling.
How Much Do I Charge For Bookkeeping?
When you are thinking about running your own bookkeeping service, one of the main questions you need to answer is how much you will charge. There are a number of aspects you need to consider when working out an hourly rate. This is how I work it out.
How You Can Stand Apart
Find out what makes you stand out from your competitors...and enjoy the bonuses that involves.
Why I Left My Insurance Agent
I decided to switch because my new agent not only cared, but he helped me improve my existing coverage’s, which I was willing to do even if it meant paying a higher premium. (After all, why have insurance at all if it doesn’t protect us the way we want it to?) We connect with people for who they are
Inventories are for More than Your Warehouse!
If you had an emergency, would you know where your important documents were? If your business had a fire, would you be able to tell your insurance agent all of the things that you own? What would you remember and what would you forget? Could you list the brand, serial number, model and cost? No? Neither could I if I relied on my memory! Read on for more reasons an inventory is important and what you can do right now.
It's Time to Re-Evaluate
Allow me to begin with a discussion of how and why to evaluate things, and then move on to a discussion about either changing occupations or re-inventing yourself and your business. Just because you’re good at something doesn’t mean you like it!
Using Primal Triggers to Increase Sales, Part 1.
Very few behaviors are consciously motivated. New research in anthropology and biology shows how our primordial conditioning drives our decisions and our buying behavior.

You Are Unique - Market It
Excerpt from “The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction” By Chellie Campbell

The Seven Deadly Business Sins
Being successful is all about making the right decisions, heading in the right direction and avoiding the things that will lead to failure. Knowing what those things are is half the battle.
Be an Advocate to Ruffle Some Feathers and Accelerate Your Business
The “it” factor- that special something that will make you and your business stand out in a crowded marketplace and be selected over your competitors. The “it” factor is being an advocate. Taking a stand for something and in fact being loud and proud about it.
Which Ads Don’t Work?
The clever creative ones that come with first-class graphic design, full colour print on glossy papers, but they have absolutely no sales power. If you search through the Yellow Pages and look at a dozen ads in one category, most will look the same and feel the same. Most ads are more like an enlarged version of the company's business cards. They have the company name in the title, a lifeless description of the product or service, and a phone number at the end.

Taking Networking to a Different Level
Creating charity events for increased exposure, free publicity, and giving back to your community.
10 Ways to Build a Referral-Only Business In Less Than Ten Minutes a Day
While most businesses are spending enormous amounts in an effort to attract new customers, a select few use a strategy that has virtually eliminated the need for marketing. Building a business on referrals isn’t costly or time-consuming once you know the secret.

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More Answers to a Plea
Our last issue gave my answer to this plea for help from a new agent, ”Please help me to understand what I need to know about basic life insurance”, and I asked for your answers. Here are a couple.

Answer to a New Agents Plea
"I am a new life insurance agent working for one of the largest companies in Canada for about seven months now.

Become An Insurance Agent
Insurance is a hugely popular work at home career. Although there are many possibilities in the insurance industry, becoming an insurance agent is the most popular. What follows is a brief article on becoming an insurance agent from home.
How to Become an Insurance Agent
How to become an insurance agent is not something people just randomly go around asking others. Insurance can be a lucrative carrier for individuals who are sales mind people pleasers. There are different types of agents who specialize in several different types of insurance policies. Typically though the insurance fields most people go into are life, health, property and liability insurance. Below are some ideas on how to become an insurance agent that might help you on your way. The first step to any new enterprise is to do the homework. Research all of the different types of insurance and realize where they are different. You might want to specialize in just one or two types of insurance or offer the full spectrum. Really this depends on you.
Home-based Business: Insurance Broker
If you consider having your own insurance brokerage for your home-based business, your income is higher, compared when you choose to become a ‘captive’ insurance agent.
Insurance: The Statistics War – Are Consumers Losing?
Back in the days before computers, auto insurance was personal and subjective. The insurance agent actually talked to the man he knew in the main office, called in a few favors, and got their best customers the best rates. Male drivers under 25 were charged a lot. Young females, being perceived as less risk, were charged much less.
Life Insurance Online – How To Guide
Life insurance offers owners the ability to give financial stability and constancy to family members and loved ones. There are a variety of life insurance options currently available: child life insurance, whole life insurance, term life insurance, accidental life insurance, disability life insurance, universal life insurance and guaranteed life insurance to name a few. Yet, with such an assortment of choices, policies, prices and benefits, finding the perfect life insurance representative can seem daunting.
Height Weight Chart - Gauging Your Life Insurance Risk Factors
Health questions and inquiries are common practice amongst life insurance agents and companies. The truth is the healthier lifestyle the prospective life insurance member has, the more benefits and lower premiums they qualify for. Height and weight queries are generally found on all life insurance forms. Whether requesting information online, or going the traditional route and visiting an agent or a life insurance facility, your height and weight will be used to determine what kind of policy you qualify for, and how much you are going to pay in premiums because of that height and weight.
NetQuote Low Cost Health Insurance | Health Insurance Company Guide
NetQuote is a web-based health insurance provider that provides individuals with low cost insurance options. Through the site, consumers may receive free insurance quotes from any of the 50 states. The quotes will be available from any of the company’s national insurance partners or the independent local insurance agents. Some of the largest insurance companies in the United States are listed on the NetQuote website. Some of these companies include American Family Insurance, Amica Insurance, AARP, Electric Insurance, The Hartford and Unitrin.
Florida Health Insurance Corp Reports Health Care Reform
A resident of Florida has quite a few selections to choose from if it comes to Florida health insurance. A lot of insurance carriers supply a broad range of ideas for different health requirements. The different insurance plans that are offered are personal medical health insurance, group health insurance, Florida health insurance, temporary health insurance, child/student health insurance, and a lot more.

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