OFFER TO REVIEW PRESENT INSURANCE Dear (Customer Name): It took a lot of hard work to buy your home. If you're like the average American in pursuit of a dream home, you spent evenings and weekends ...

Ergonomics expert John Quain offers these recommendations for keeping computer-induced, repetitive-stress injuries (RSI) at bay: Get up and walk around...

PERSONAL PLANNING FOR SUCCESS by Mary Beth Bolen Here's a short quiz. Answer True or False: 1. Success is only for the educated or favored; it is discriminatory. 2. Success doesn't...

Check out this creative approach to the merger process.

Planning is like making a jigsaw puzzle. You have to look carefully at the picture you want to create, spread out and sort the pieces, make the border, and finally fill in the blanks.

PROCRASTINATION: STOP IT TODAY, NOT TOMORROW Procrastination. Why do people do it? How can it be stopped? Let's look at some causes of and cures for this common ailment. Depending on whose the...

Nothing happens until somebody sells something. To make sales happen, IMMS.com Key Sales Consultant Randy Schwantz has created a comprehensive series of 43 Producer Success Lessons. Used singly or in combination, these powerful tools can help your producers build their skills - and grow their sales.

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Nothing happens until somebody sells something. To make sales happen, IMMS.com Key Sales Consultant Randy Schwantz has created a comprehensive series of 43 Producer Success Lessons. Used singly or in combination, these powerful tools can help your producers build their skills - and grow their sales.

Nothing happens until somebody sells something. To make sales happen, IMMS.com Key Sales Consultant Randy Schwantz has created a comprehensive series of 43 Producer Success Lessons. Used singly or in combination, these powerful tools can help your producers build their skills and grow their sales.
'When the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an honorable man.'

In the 19th century, businesses had three communication options: The Pony Express, Western Union, and (rarely) the telephone. With the Pony Express, at best you had to wait days or weeks for a response — a lot like a producer trying to cold-call senior executives today.

With Western Union, telegrams had to convey their message in a limited number of words. Today a marketing letter might get through, but the executive has little time to read it and it doesn’t display your verbal communication skills.

To grow your referral business, follow these 10 steps by Bill Cates.