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Wisconsin Bound
I am very happy and honored to announce that I will be making my very first trip to the great land of cheese and Badgers (like Seahawks QB Russell Wilson).
I have come to an agreement with the Independent Insurance Agents of Wisconsin to present a 2-hour seminar titled, Recruiting Top Talent & Maximizing Success. I am thrilled to be part of this event and meeting all the fine folks insurance folks in Wisconsin. This topic is a major part of my forthcoming book for insurance professionals, Insuring Success.
If you’re in the Wisconsin area, I hope you will join us. If you’re not, I will be blogging on the trip, the content, and the value you can still get. Watch for a promotional video coming to your You Tube screen soon!
© 2013 Dan Weedin. All Rights Reserved
P.S. If you’re insurance association needs a speaker, this is one of several topics I am able to offer. Please get in contact with me and talk about how we can enhance your next big event!
Webinar on Art & Science of Gaining More Referrals
I am leading a webinar this coming Thursday – March 21st – on how to gain more clients through gaining more and higher quality referrals.
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The webinar is being hosted by the PIA Western Alliance and is free for all members. Everyone else is nearly free at only $20.
Join us for this event and walk away with strategies, techniques, and tactics to gain more referrals fast!
© 2013 Dan Weedin. All Rights Reserved
Insuring Success Video Series
I’ve had folds ask me…”What will you be talking about in your 5-minute videos? Why should we watch?”
Okay…
Your wish is my command!
I have already developed topics for over half the year. Not all of these are the snazzy titles that they may end up being, but you will get the point. Welcome to the value that you will get to help boost your career and life…
Increasing Income
- Super Language – First Impressions
- Super Language – Sealing the Deal
- Building Relationship between introduction and effective date
- The Art & Science of Getting Referrals
- Techniques to better writing
- Improving the presentation/proposal
- Power Questions
- Using your own intellectual property to increase at-bats
- Super Language – Cross selling techniques
- 10. Speaking a value-based language
Improving Time Efficiency
- Managing e-mails
- Leveraging the power of technology
- Overcoming daily distractions
- Managing Social Media and technology
- Setting priorities
Enhancing Life Balance
- True wealth = discretionary time concept
- There’s always a bigger boat concept – perspective
- Managing crisis at home
- You don’t have a personal life and a professional life; you have a life
- Community involvement
Leadership
- Managing a sales team
- Essentials of a Great Sales meeting
- Improving organizational mentoring and accountability
- Maximizing talent within your organization
- Recruiting talented people
- Succession planning
- Escaping gravitational pull
- Leading strong, effective organizational meetings
© 2012 Dan Weedin. All Rights Reserved
Insuring Success Video Series tailored to help insurance pros THRIVE
ATTENTION! New Program Alert. Reading this here for the first time. I will be sending out promotions fast and furious this week. Be one of the first to register…
Receive a boost every week with another technique for Insuring Success, which will increase your income, decrease your labor intensity, enrich your life, and play a great electric guitar (probably a Stratocaster).
My incredible offer is this:
- I will send you every week (for 50 weeks) a five-minute video with a complete explanation of an immediately applicable technique for Insuring Success. I’ll send you an email of any graphic, document, process visual, or tattoo involved.
- You will send me $250. Now. See below.
That’s it. No “but wait” and no knives that cut through titanium.
For $5 a week (!!), a buck per working day (!!!) I’ll send you a device, approach, process, method, or secret decoder ring that will immediately serve to accelerate your income, increase your value to clients and agency, and decrease your time.
You’re spending $5 a week right now on minor, impulse buys, like digital music and caramel mochas. Bottled water costs more than this.
For the veteran, you’ll find it the best investment you’ve ever made – try it and find out. Most of your training has been internal or by the school of hard knocks. This will allow you the opportunity to stretch and grow as an insurance professional and add more value to your clients.
For the new person, heck, who else in your business will spend 5 minutes a week providing you outrageously superb value? Well, after a month or so you’ll know more than most, and after a year people will be breaking down your door.
Think about this: 5 minutes a week equals over 3 hours in the year. That will be the best 3 hours of professional growth and career development you will get. Your ROI is through the roof!
We start on January 18th, just in time to get a jump-start on the New Year. You’ll have these videos on your own platforms, your iPad, computers, and your cerebral cortex. Access them any time. Use them as tutorials.
There are never any refunds. I’ll happily resend anything lost in cyberspace. These are all copyrighted, and you can’t share them, because that’s illegal.
Wait…one more thing. I almost forgot. Sign up before my birthday December 31st (I hit the big 48 this year) and you’re in the charter group for $200. That’s four bucks a week. That’s less than what you spend on lint. Deadline is firm, 5 pm Pacific US time December 31st. Once you’re in at that level, you will be “grandfathered” in regardless of how much it goes up…and it probably will.
Agency Owners – Listen Up! I am giving an agency discount to those who buy in bulk. Register up to 10 of your people for only $1,000! That’s half the price and more than double the return.
Hurry, I’m thinking of changing my mind.
Individual – $200
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Agency (up to 10 people) – $1,000
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People who think I’m pretty good at this…
“If you are smart enough to see when it is time to seek a fresh, outside perspective and to engage the assistance of a dynamic, enthusiastic and skilled professional, look no further than Dan Weedin.”~ Darin Puryear, Pacific Northwest Area President, Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance (Bellevue, WA)
“Dan’s strategies on opening and closing a sales presentation have helped me improve my closing ratio to over 75%. I highly recommend him to any insurance professional.“~ Jason Webb – Bell-Anderson Insurance (Bellevue, WA)
“Dan is an expert in the field of insurance, as well as an excellent communicator/teacher of his expertise. He is a wealth of information. I find great value in his wisdom and suggestions. He is the most reliable and responsive businessman I have ever dealt with. I greatly value our business relationship.“~ Debra Linn Allbee, Farmers Insurance agency principal
“His expertise and ability to consult on ones needs comes from years of direct experience assisting people. I admire his integrity and desire to do what’s right by his clients.”~ Jason Mayer, Risk Manager – EHL Insurance (Poulsbo, WA)
Free Teleconference
September is National Prepardeness Month and to “celebrate” that, I am offering a very special teleconference on September 18th from 12:00 to 1:00 Pacific (3:00-4:00 EST). My guest will be nationally renowned branding strategist, Dorie Clark.
We all know that being prepared for crisis is critical to surviving one. Whether it’s a natural disaster, an economic crisis, or a travesty like what happened at Penn State University, you must be ready to make tough and smart decisions.
Is part of your process on how to protect your brand and reputation?
Reputation risk may be just as damaging as the crisis that started it. Just ask BP! You must have a plan in place to communicate effectively to employees, investors, clients, prospective customers, the media, and your community. Failure to do this will lead to distrust, loss of reputation, and lost revenue. Having a plan in place, on the other hand, will set you in a postion to not only protect your good name, but take advantage of the opportunity to thrive.
In this teleconference, Dorie will share with your strategies, tactics, tips, and suggestions on how to prepare your business or organization to respond to a crisis both internally and externally. You will walk away with new ideas on how to:
- When and how to effectively work with the media
- How to inspire and lead your employees when chaos is all around you
- How to communicate with your supply chain and key stakeholders
- How to protect your brand
My guest, Dorie Clark is the President of Clark Strategic Communications in Boston. Dorie is recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, She honed her crisis communication skills as a spokesperson for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and as the press secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s gubernatorial race. Today, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and the American Management Association’s publications. She is also a columnist for Mint, India’s second-largest business newspaper. She consults on marketing and branding strategy for clients like Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation, and is the author of the forthcoming Harvard Business Review Publishing book Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (2013).
Dorie has taught marketing and communications at Emerson College, Tufts University, Suffolk University, and Smith College Executive Education. She has also lectured at universities worldwide, including Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She is quoted frequently in the international media, including the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and more. At age 18, Dorie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
This is a FREE teleconference, but you must register to save a spot. Space is limited so don’t delay. This might the most important hour you spend all year. Register today!
© 2012 Dan Weedin. All Rights Reserved
Free Teleconference on Crisis Leadership: Why You and Your Clients Should Tune In!
September is National Prepardeness Month and to “celebrate” that, I am offering a very special teleconference on September 18th from 12:00 to 1:00 Pacific (3:00-4:00 EST). My guest
will be nationally renowned branding strategist, Dorie Clark.
We all know that being prepared for crisis is critical to surviving one. Whether it’s a natural disaster, an economic crisis, or a travesty like what happened at Penn State University, you must be ready to make tough and smart decisions.
Is part of your process on how to protect your brand and reputation? What about your clients? You are in charge of helping them prepare for their own crises?
Reputation risk may be just as damaging as the crisis that started it. Just ask BP! You must have a plan in place to communicate effectively to employees, investors, clients, prospective customers, the media, and your community. Failure to do this will lead to distrust, loss of reputation, and lost revenue. Having a plan in place, on the other hand, will set you in a postion to not only protect your good name, but take advantage of the opportunity to thrive.
In this teleconference, Dorie will share with your strategies, tactics, tips, and suggestions on how to prepare your business or organization to respond to a crisis both internally and externally. You will walk away with new ideas on how to:
- When and how to effectively work with the media
- How to inspire and lead your employees when chaos is all around you
- How to communicate with your supply chain and key stakeholders
- How to protect your brand
My guest, Dorie Clark is the President of Clark Strategic Communications in Boston. Dorie is recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, She honed her crisis communication skills as a spokesperson for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign and as the press secretary for former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s gubernatorial race. Today, she is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and the American Management Association’s publications. She is also a columnist for Mint, India’s second-largest business newspaper. She consults on marketing and branding strategy for clients like Google, Yale University, and the Ford Foundation, and is the author of the forthcoming Harvard Business Review Publishing book Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (2013).
Dorie has taught marketing and communications at Emerson College, Tufts University, Suffolk University, and Smith College Executive Education. She has also lectured at universities worldwide, including Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She is quoted frequently in the international media, including the New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and more. At age 18, Dorie graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
This is a FREE teleconference, but you must register to save a spot. Space is limited so don’t delay. This might the most important hour you spend all year. Register today!
The Balancing Act: A webinar on creating life balance for insurance pros
There is still time to join this webinar that is being run by the Professional Insurance Agents Western Alliance. I am leading the group on discovering how to most effectively balance work, home, and life for busy insurance agents and professionals. The world is fast-paced and asks a lot of you. Are you juggling too many lives?
Please join me for this potentially life changing webinar. It is at 10 AM Pacific time today – June 12th. Hope to see you there!
Click here to register.
