Insurance Consultant & Mentor
Scott Simmonds, CPCU, ARM
September, 2006

Helping Insurance Experts Build Great Businesses
www.icmentor.com

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Feel free to forward this newsletter to colleagues. Comments, questions, and suggestions are always welcome. Email: Scott@ScottSimmonds.com or call 207-284-0085.

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Define Your Future - Alan Weiss was asked how to design your future. He answered with a set of questions that can be answered looking out two or three years:

-What types of value will you be delivering?
-How wide or narrow geographically?
-How much profit would you like to achieve?
-Who will be your ideal clients?
-What will be your primary marketing avenues to reach them?
-What technologies will you be utilizing?
-How much of your week will be devoted to work?
-Will you want to develop equity, or maximize immediate monetary reward?
-What kind of retirement plan will you be building?
-What will your brand be?
-What would your array of services look like?
-What would your “average” week look like?

Alan shared these questions with me a few weeks ago. I have been spending a few minutes each day since refining my answers. It's a great tool. Thanks Alan for permission to share this with my readers.

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Free Mentor Sessions - I preach value based marketing. Taking a page from my own book, I'd like to try something different. As a reader of my newsletter Id like to offer you a free mentor session. Email me a bit of information about yourself. Tell me about your current insurance job and where you want to go. We'll set up a time to get together on the phone. I'll provide a free mentor session - no obligation. Let's spend some time exploring where you want to go and how I can help you get there.

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Referral Network - I'm building an online listing of insurance consultants. This may grow into a referral network and directory. I need to know who is out there! If you're interested in being a part of a directory, please complete the form at http://insuranceconsultant.org/listform.htm. There is no cost or fee.

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Insurance Consultant Mentor Program - Designed to help you build your business faster, with less hassle, and fewer false starts. Grow your current practice or gain the edge in your startup. The object is for you to make your business the best it can be - faster and more profitably. Go to http://www.icmentor.com/mentor.htm.

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Insurance Agent Mentor Program - A fair number of my subscribers are insurance agents who have no intention of becoming consultants. Several have talked with me about how my methods can help them. The principles of marketing professional services are universal. I'm glad to talk about how we might be able to work together to build your book of business. Call or email me to discuss.

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Scott Simmonds, CPCU, ARM
Insurance Consultants of Maine, Inc.
Phone 207-284-0085
Scott@ScottSimmonds.com
http://www.ScottSimmonds.com

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