"I don't know who my next 100 clients are, but they're in my database."
That's a quote from a top advisor in California, as relayed by prospecting expert Robert Krumroy, CLU, ChFC, during Life Insurance Selling "Better Prospecting" columnist Kim Magdalein's free monthly prospecting teleconference last week.
Krumroy, CEO at Greensboro, N.C.-based Identity Branding Inc. and founder of E-Relationship, was Magdalein's guest for the call, which focuses exclusively on providing prospecting concepts for producers.
Krumroy delivered with a great core idea many producers could implement immediately. He noted that 80% of the people you met yesterday will turn down your offer today to set up an appointment. But if you take a different approach instead of asking for the meeting, you can be much more effective in the long run by building up your database in the following way:
"Do you have any objection if I put you in my database and treat you as a privileged client for 12 months?"
Krumroy says people hardly ever object to this suggestion. More likely, they may respond something like this: "Yes, I'd love to be treated as a privileged client for a year. No one in your business has ever offered that to me before — everyone just wants to make an appointment with me."
