100 Best Sales & Marketing Ideas: 100-91

95. Triple P.

Prospect where you pay, where you play, and where you pray.

—Lloyd Lofton

94. Love thy plan type.

I tell all my senior clients to pick a plan that will take them through their golden years. As they get older, medical expenses will rise and they need a plan that will take care of those expenses and prevent worry that they do not have the appropriate coverage. When a client turns 65, he or she still has a good idea what is going on with insurance, but at age 75, 85, 95, it gets more complicated. When your clients turn 65, encourage them to pick a plan that will outlast their living years.

—Laurie Lacey

93. The golden rule.

Take excellent care to service your clients because you never know who they will refer to you. Believe that what goes around comes around.

—Glenn Miller

92. Wine and cheese.

Many agents have success with seminar selling. I have found a much less expensive but excellent way to get in front of qualified prospects for both index annuities and index life insurance. I ask new and existing clients if they would like to host a wine and cheese party and invite a few couples into their home so that I can demonstrate to the invitees the features and benefits of owning the products that my clients have benefitted from. Most every one of them is perfectly willing to host a party. (I pick up the cost, of course.) I give my client a profile of whom to invite and they call their friends and neighbors to come see and hear about something special.

—Mel Katz

91. You gotta ask.

This is a very simple and basic one: When I first started, an “old-timer” told me that no matter what the circumstances, never leave the house without asking the prospect to buy.

—James Calvert 

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