You will see the web pages you view: exclusive, never seen before selling to prospects flocked, insurance and pensions leads. Some leads cost a few dollars - others are a pop over a century.
I was curious how good are these insurance and annuity leads? I decided to find out.
I'm not going to certain insurance and pensions sites leading names, but I'll give you a summary of how it all shook.
Insurance and Annuity Lead Website A business:
Cost:Cheap
Results: Terrible. 10% of the leads my staff called got number no longer in service recordings. The rest: the people had no idea what we were talking about. They were not interested in pensions, insurance or investments, nor has it remember filling out a request for information on the Internet.
Sales: 0
Insurance and annuity business Lead Website B:
Cost: Average
Results: Terrible. Prospects not recall filling out request for information onnothing to pensions, insurance or financial planning are related. Most just hung-up.
Sales: 0
Insurance and Annuity Business Leads Site C:
Cost: Expensive
Results: About twenty percent remembered filling out a request for information. However, it was as repeatedly by different agents. Most of them were sick and tired of the calls. Some had begun with other agents. Most hung up angrily.
Sales: 0
I spent two thousand dollars on thisExperiment. I could not find a receptive buyer. I had thrown away my money, not to mention my time spent calls from staff to these "hot prospects contact".
What the hell was going on? How could sell these websites such garbage?
I poked around, wrote a few e-mails to "industry experts", not surprisingly, no one has come back to me. Luckily I had at the end of the contact with a person who will sell on the market prior to a big lead to outfit worked. She gave me the juicy detailsHow to operate the majority of these companies mean, whether it leads to insurance, long term care leads, pension leads, or MLM / Work-From-Home leads. They all use the same methods.
Method # 1: You send cute e-card to your mother wants her happy birthday. Fill in your name, e-mail and click send. Your name and email will be captured. If the site is a leading harvester masquerading as an e-card site, you are now by e-by people who sell, bonds, economy sentOpportunity, etc.
Method 2: Executes site buys huge database, often just regional phone book listings. They sell these "leads" are nothing else than the names and numbers selected from the phonebook. Some of these people are even on the do not call list, which could end up in hot water.
Method No. 3: Harvesting leads from search engines. Often these leads are quality, but are expensive to collect, so the lines will lead the company to sell over and over. ByTime, which would you buy, leading to it have sold it twenty times. Sometimes buying the first one, and you will find some quality prospects, the more often they are not.
Method 4: Internet robots crawl web sites hunting for e-mail addresses with insurance and pensions content. Someone could ask about pensions in a newsgroup or forum, next thing you know they always offers pension companies. The Annuity Lead companies do not get how they haveharvested leads. It's called spam and you could be in serious trouble to get by these people without being asked.
My contact information is not to say that there are decent leads sites. She said to check their policies to see if it relies on the guarantee. Remember, just because they have a warranty, does not mean that you your money back if the results lead to results fail. But often sites with some kind of guarantee are sites that harvest only quality leads and sell them only once.
Ifyou are trying to still the mind internet leads my advice is to try to just a few. Now you do not buy into a huge program that includes a minimum monthly or a great need to advance. Experiment a little with a cross section of locations. Who knows, maybe you will find that is legal that will help you earn some money.
