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I telemarket but what do I know... we have only averaged $1.8M a year in new business (small commercial P&C with a 92% retention)for 3 strait years by picking up the phone and calling 150 people a day. Maybe I should scrap that, start a blog and an ebook and just watch the business roll in. Maybe there is some brilliant marketing guy or lead vendor out there who can show me the way.
Like you I'm afraid that I'm not very smart either. I have been successfully telemarketing for 18.5 years. Tried everything else and keep coming back to the easiest, most successful, cost effective way I have found to get new clients. (Generally not considered acceptable by most because it is "work" and a "waste of one's valuable time".)
I'm sure if I dumped what I was doing and started a facebook page I would be an instant millionaire. Wouldn't know what to do with all that money so I will just keep putting my finger in the hole and turning the wheel.