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...ryteller — about a timber contractor riding through south Louis... professor has the brain tissue and lost $5.00. Bubba has the scar tissue and won $5.00!   M...

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... a center of influence for you. FOCUSED TARGET MARKETING Finally, don't attempt to offer your services to every business in the area. Being all things to all people will make you a specialist' to none. Market yourself to one business segment at a time (contractors, retailers, professional offices, and so forth) as a specialist in their type of business — and watch your referrals, and sales, grow. E. Al Diamond is president of Agency Consulting Group, Inc., 507 North Kings Hwy., ... for enhanced performance will spend months planning a vacation to assure its success. The reason that they plan for their vacations, but not for the success of their business, is Fear of Failure. If agents fear that performing the activities required to sell more insurance and build their retention rate would lead to disappointment, they might shy away from the process completely. They believe that their past successes are simply luck and that they can blame failures on others or on circumstances. They'll enjoy the successes of their business (whether due to ... for a free gift (such as a pen, or a card-size calendar) . The flyer should have an agency magnet — a highly effective long-term Personal Lines advertising specialty item — enclosed that people could put on their refrigerators. Then mail a series of post-card sized road signs' such as the sample below to a targeted community on a daily basis for a week. On Monday, send a card that contains one line on a road-sign image. Follow up on each successive day with a card that adds a line to the ...

... little "schoolin'" (brain tissue), but I'm equally certain that he had great experience (scar tissue) . &# 160 Lynn then took us back to the future. He told another story — and he's a master storyteller — about a timber contractor riding through south Louisiana during the sugar cane harvest. He watched as giant tractors equipped with diagonal cutting blades plowed through the field harvesting the cane (at harvest the rows of sugar cane stand more than six to eight feet tall and must be cut at ground ... . They're separate, yet linked. These experiences are about innovations that have saved millions (if not billions) of dollars in productivity costs, but have probably never been studied at the Harvard Business School. These were lessons learned in fields with weeds, not in buildings with ivy-covered walls. &# 160 Lynn explained that when he first started in the timber industry, the companies would cut the timber, clear the land, and then replant new seedlings. The supervisor at each plant would stress the importance of lining the seedlings ... tractors equipped with diagonal cutting blades plowed through the field harvesting the cane (at harvest the rows of sugar cane stand more than six to eight feet tall and must be cut at ground level) . &# 160 The guy was mesmerized. He pulled off the road, crossed the fence, and asked how the machine worked and what it could do. He even had the driver show him how the blade could be rotated to cut higher above the ground. To demonstrate the possibilities, the driver snapped off the top of ...