Door Knocking...

[Robert_Brown]

Yes and I appreciate that.

If I can leave doorsteps without a sell, but with names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. I can keep following up with people until they become a client or tell me to stop. Great idea.

 

[xrac]

Yes and I appreciate that.

If I can leave doorsteps without a sell, but with names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. I can keep following up with people until they become a client or tell me to stop. Great idea.

EDJ wouldn't have you do it if it didn't work. We had and EDJ guy door knock our neighborhood a few months ago. He was well received at every door that I observed.

 

[jjrardin]

A friend of mine just went to work for them. We talked about the door knocking, he said he just walks up and introduces himself, has a little light conversation and says is it ok if I call you later. Or something to that effect. My understanding was that the door knocking is just an introduction type deal.

Jim

 

[TylerDurdan]

gotta love door knocking man.

 

[VolAgent]

My question is, can door knocking be an effective way of gaining leads and building a book of business?

You're right. Door knocking doesn't work. It is a complete and utter failure. There are only thousands of successful FAs with EDJ that started their career by door-knocking.

 

[rlubnau]

I started my Insurance Agency going Door to Door. Put on a nice shirt, comfortable dress shoes and a tie, and went door to door. I did this 15 years ago, and I still have my clients on the books that I got going door to door. It is tough, but who goes door to door anymore. My philosophy on it was to go D2D on Saturday morning. Start at 9:00 am and stop by 1:00 pm. Thursday nights between 5:30 and 8:00 pm. These produced the best results.

 

[nyc2phi]

I started my Insurance Agency going Door to Door. Put on a nice shirt, comfortable dress shoes and a tie, and went door to door. I did this 15 years ago, and I still have my clients on the books that I got going door to door. It is tough, but who goes door to door anymore. My philosophy on it was to go D2D on Saturday morning. Start at 9:00 am and stop by 1:00 pm. Thursday nights between 5:30 and 8:00 pm. These produced the best results.

What were you selling, Life & Health or P&C ?

 

[rlubnau]

I was selling P&C, and the goal was to get xdates. Later I did it for life, and generated leads.

 

[HomeService]

Go meet a debit agent, you have them in Arkansas, ask him if to go door knocking with him. The problem is: door knocking works best in poor to middle class neighborhoods, and you are selling a product that is for a slightly higher earning clientelle. Not that you could not stay away from the poorer neighborhoods, you could. I have been told that door knocking is the number one thing they teach at Edward d. especially for newbies. They give you a neighborhood, where your office is, a territory, right? You must go around to all those houses near your office?? Right? BTW, I'm a debit guy and it's just an itntroduction, yes. Very simple script. Very simple, like, "who do have your insurance with now?". That's it. That's all I say.

 

[Ron Van D]

I have a friend who is a EJ guy. He hires and trains new advisors. He told me years ago that the door knocking works and if an advisor wasn't making $85000 his second year, they would ask him to leave.

I recently had the new local rep knock on my door one evening. It was just an introductory "How do you do?" with a request for approval to keep in touch. Very low key and not offensive in any way.