Friends Selling You Stuff (Moved From ISU Butthurt Racist Thread)

[EMAWmeister]

There is a string of posts on this page that are making me really nervous about my future  . I don't want to be an annoying insurance salesman. But that's financial planning in a nutshell.

Welp, I just won't be annoying I 'spose?

[the KHAN!]

You should probably do the honorable thing now and drop your friends right now before they drop you.  Fall on that sword.

[EMAWmeister]

I've been pushing them away, THOSE FUCKERS JUST WON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!

[the KHAN!]

In that case, you'll be a great Amway salesman someday.

[EMAWmeister]

In that case, you'll be a great Amway salesman someday.

 

[kslim]

I'm about to lose a friend to just regular old home/auto insurance sales. As soon as this crap is over I'm implementing a strict no sales from friends other than children 18 and under.

yep. had my daughter 2 years ago, hadnt talked to my buddy in a couple of months and he calls up all "hey man congrats mind if i talk to you about child life insurance"

scumbag

[Rage Against the McKee]

There is a string of posts on this page that are making me really nervous about my future  . I don't want to be an annoying insurance salesman. But that's financial planning in a nutshell.

Welp, I just won't be annoying I 'spose?

You won't necessarily lose any friends. Just don't call them and ask them to buy insurance from you. If they want to support you, they will realize that you are selling insurance and will contact you about it. You also have to realize that your insurance will not be the best or cheapest for everyone, and that you cannot hold a grudge against one of your friends who doesn't do business with you or switches away from your insurance.

Basically, be annoying to random people you meet because you have to sell, sell, sell. Just don't go for what you perceive as low hanging fruit (your friends) and alienate them in the process.

[steve dave]

I'm planning on not answering the phone the next 5 or so times this guy calls me.

[Rams]

There is a string of posts on this page that are making me really nervous about my future  . I don't want to be an annoying insurance salesman. But that's financial planning in a nutshell.

Welp, I just won't be annoying I 'spose?

no.  it's not.

[steve dave]

There is a string of posts on this page that are making me really nervous about my future  . I don't want to be an annoying insurance salesman. But that's financial planning in a nutshell.

Welp, I just won't be annoying I 'spose?

no.  it's not.

 

[puniraptor]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

It's not a job. It's a business. $200 to start your own business is peanuts. Sure, I haven't made that back yet, but the business eventually will take off and then I'll be rich. The guy I'm under just bought a brand new truck this year. Just come down to the convention in Louisville with me and I'm sure you will be convinced.

[EMAWmeister]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

  at this being it's own thread. And the herbalife pyramid bullshit isn't what this was about. More about smaller life insurance firms.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

  at this being it's own thread. And the herbalife pyramid bullshit isn't what this was about. More about smaller life insurance firms.

Also, don't tell your friends that they are irresponsible assholes if they choose not to carry life insurance when they don't even have a wife and kids.

[puniraptor]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

  at this being it's own thread. And the herbalife pyramid bullshit isn't what this was about. More about smaller life insurance firms.

It's not just about you here.

But I have had friends pay the hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to take the insurance "sales" classes to get "certified" and never actually sell anything or make any money.

Is it a firm or a scheme?  Cause insurance sales operate both ways.

[Willesgirl]

You men have it easy. Try having a friend selling Pampered Chef or those fabric purse things or Premier Designs jewelry.

Not only are you expected to buy their crap at prices twice as high as what you would buy somewhere else, you're supposed to host "parties" to help your friend.
The worst.

['taterblast]

interviewed for a job last year and was told that when i started i would be required to write down 300 names of people that i know. then i would have to call each one of those people. 

[ben ji]

Pro-Tip: Any job that you have to pay money and/or buy 450 energy drinks to get isnt a job.

  at this being it's own thread. And the herbalife pyramid bullshit isn't what this was about. More about smaller life insurance firms.

It's not just about you here.

But I have had friends pay the hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to take the insurance "sales" classes to get "certified" and never actually sell anything or make any money.

Is it a firm or a scheme?  Cause insurance sales operate both ways.

I used to work for a company that sold insurance education products to people studying for their LH/PC insurance exams. Our biggest clients were the churn and burn insurance companies like Aflac and Primerica. Its pretty insane when you see these companies training over 1,000 "Agents" in a single state/metro every year.

I usually worked with the district managers and home office people but every once in a while I would have to talk to the actual student who was having trouble studying for the exam.....They were a treat.

[Rage Against the McKee]

interviewed for a job last year and was told that when i started i would be required to write down 300 names of people that i know. then i would have to call each one of those people. 

I would have just got up and left.

[Dugout DickStone]

I have bought both my life ins from a frat bro for Mass Mutual.  disability too.

I am not unsatisfied....though I guess I would only use this stuff when I get dead or injured.

[EMAWmeister]

interviewed for a job last year and was told that when i started i would be required to write down 300 names of people that i know. then i would have to call each one of those people. 

Was it Northwestern Mutual? I had an interview for an internship with them after my freshman year and it was very obvious that it was a scheme.

[puniraptor]

would you have had to write 300 names off the top of your head by hand? or could you have copy/pasted a few years of ksu football rosters?

[Emo EMAW]

You men have it easy. Try having a friend selling Pampered Chef or those fabric purse things or Premier Designs jewelry.

Not only are you expected to buy their crap at prices twice as high as what you would buy somewhere else, you're supposed to host "parties" to help your friend.
The worst.

Would love to go to a passion part with my wife's friends (but like not my wife because that could be weird if she got fixated on the huge black veiny one).

['taterblast]

interviewed for a job last year and was told that when i started i would be required to write down 300 names of people that i know. then i would have to call each one of those people. 

I would have just got up and left.

i did, mentally

['taterblast]

interviewed for a job last year and was told that when i started i would be required to write down 300 names of people that i know. then i would have to call each one of those people. 

Was it Northwestern Mutual? I had an interview for an internship with them after my freshman year and it was very obvious that it was a scheme.

no but i also had a friend intern for them and badgered not only me, but asked me for names of anyone i knew.

so it's just as bad when that person calls a friend of yours and says "hey i got your name from your friend, _______."

he was a really good friend, was very awkward and i didn't want to not help him.