Update News for January 2016
Here is a quick run-down on what you will find in this bulletin:
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You Snooze, You Lose
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Happy New Year!
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January 11, 2016 9am EST
The Term4Sale Land Rush Will Begin -
Some Tips For New Zip Code Buyers
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Web Quotes Now Has Responsive Pages
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FREE Mobile Edition
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These topics will be dealt with in more detail throughout this bulletin.
For those of you who do read, this bulletin contains some VERY important announcements, please pay close attention.
Once again, we hope that 2016 is a great year for you and we hope that Compulife is a big reason for your success in 2016. After all, your success is our success and we can’t do what we do without you.
WRITE IT DOWN!
On the morning of January 11th Compulife will publish the new 2016 zip code list of agents to our term4sale.com website. Each year a certain number of zip codes that were previously full (3 agents listed) come open and available because one of the agents previously listed is no longer listed. Each year a certain number of subscribers retire, some die, some leave the business, whatever. The zip codes that they previously had, a number of them GREAT zip codes to be listed in, become available. Those agents who buy those zip codes have a LOCK on them unless they are bumped by a local agent (and that can only happen at the end of each year).
At the beginning of each year there is a bigger and bigger land rush for the purchase or exchange of zip codes that have become available because subscribers did not renew their zip code listings. This year will be no different and will offer better opportunities to buy good zip codes as Compulife has reduced the MAXIMUM number of zip codes that any one subscriber is allowed to purchase. Some subscribers are being required to give up some zip codes that they were previously buying.
So if you want to get in, here’s what you need to know:
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- 1. Use the Term4Sale
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- 2. Any zip code with 2 or less listings is available for purchase.
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- 3. The best time of the year to buy is January 11, 2016, at 9am EST.
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I suspect hundreds of agents will be hitting the Zip Code Analyzer this year and good zip codes, which have been abandoned by those who previously had them, will be plucked up very quickly.
To make this orderly and fair for everyone, here are some important tips/rules:
Do NOT call us on January 11th to discuss zip codes. No doubt some will, and the phones will be plugged; let me say “sorry” in advance. If you have questions about the Zip Code Analyzer or how you should prepare before the 11th, call us now, not on that date.
ONCE AGAIN: Do NOT call us on January 11th to discuss zip codes. Instead, identify those zip codes that you want to buy and email us your list on January 11, 2016, at 9am EST or LATER. Your email should say in the subject line: term4sale zip codes. Send the email to service@compulife.com. Alternately you can use this web page to send the request:
Zip codes will be sold on a first come first serve basis. If one additional zip code is requested by 3 people, the first person making the request (by email date and time) will get that zip code. Once again, DO NOT CALL!
In the next day or two following your request (new purchase requests after January 11th), you will get a responding email with an invoice for your new zip code purchases. You will have 3 days to complete the purchase by credit card. If the purchase is NOT completed within that time period, the invoice will be credited and removed and the zip codes will remain available. If a second person asks for one of more of those zip codes they will be emailed and given the opportunity to buy it. If they want it, and they will be sent an invoice and have 3 days to complete the transaction.
A good zip code, from a numbers point of view, is a zip code which contains a large number of household where the average income of each household is relatively high (for that area). Of course if all the people living in that zip code are older and retired, they are probably not very good prospects for term life insurance. That is where local knowledge and/or other research comes into play, in addition to the information you will find in the zip code analyzer. You can get the household average income, and number of household from the Term4Sale Zip Code Analyzer and if you have not spent much time playing with it, you need to do so prior to January 11th. Some subscribers have become as proficient with it as we ourselves have, and they are like the gamblers at the horse race tracks who carry around those big thick racing forms. They are also the people most likely to profit from the game.
Be realistic with your expectations.
We believe a good result from THREE zip code listings would be one or two contacts a year, and we hope you make at least one sale. If all you have are the three free zip codes you get with your subscription, and you make one sale, then you have more than paid for your subscription from Compulife. If you are one of those subscribers who buy 90 additional listings, paying us $1,350, then we hope you are going to see at least 30 contacts. If you can sell half of those, and average $600 commission per sale, then you will have a very nice profit ($9,000 – $1,350). If you are buying volume, and those are not your results, then maybe Term4Sale is not a good fit for you.
We are not making any guarantee as to how well anyone will do, simply because you are taking a chance, just as anyone does who buys advertising. But you can read the comments of other subscribers who have talked about their Term4Sale experiences here:
The older pages and templates will remain for those who want them. If you have designed your site to work with the old pages, you don’t need to do anything. It will continue to work as it did before.
For those agents who want to obtain and use the new version, you can see a preview of the new version here:www.termsampler.com[new].
NOTE: That link is to a sample of the new page, which is not yet active at www.termsampler.com. The actual termsampler.com page is still showing the current quote format, but that will be updated once we are ready to offer our subscribers the opportunity to upgrade their version/site. That will happen sometime later in January once Jeremiah has intregrated the new options into our database, which allows an account to be established or modifiied with a single click of the button.
The BIG benefit of the responsive pages are for those agents who want to simply create a frame (box) on their web page, and have the Compulife page display in that frame. You will now be able to do that much more easily as the quote result page is fully responsive and will fit the frame (box).
More important: If you design/modify your site/page to be responsive, in order to make it look better on a phone or small tablet, you can do that and the space you allocate for Compulife will also be responsive.
The big benefit is that you no longer have to place the life insurance quote page on your site in order to customize the content around that quote form. If you want, you can simply display the frame, and call the quote page from our server, which can then display in the box. However, if you want to modify/change the page, then you can still place the initial quote request page on your server and change it in any way that you want. Needless to say, for those adding the quote system for the first time, things will be much easier than they were before.
NOTE: You will still need to leave enough space in the frame so that the quote looks decent; you can’t display a quote on a postage stamp. Typically you want the frame size to be what would display nicely on a phone (with nothing next to it). Take a look at what we did at www.termsale.com, on the home page. The Term4Sale quote pages are not yet responsive but will be responsive once the work on the web quote pages is all finished.
If you are already a subscriber to the Web Quote option, and want to try or look at the new responsive page available for your site, we ask for just a little patience. We will have an email sent to you later in January. At that point you can change/upgrade your account. The upgrade is free if you are already buying the web quote option.
If you do not currently use the Compulife web quote option on your site, then you can do so for 4 months for FREE, with no obligation to buy it at the end of 4 months. It you want the 4 free months, send an email request to: service@compulife.com
If you do not currently have the Compulife Mobile Edition activated, please complete the following applicaton form. Remember, it’s FREE:
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- 1. Responsive web pages that automatically adapt to the size of the screen.
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- 2. A much more up-to-date look and feel
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- 3. Preferred Health Analyzer
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- 4. Links to A.M. Best for more company information.
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- 5. A blue navigation menu bar on the bottom of quotes
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- 6. Company Logos
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*NOTE: Company logos are available for use by agents on their sites, because we expect agents to quote ONLY those companies who they have been appointed with. Naturally, if a company has appointed you to sell their products, we assume that you have permission to use the company logo. By contrast, Compulife does NOT have logos at www.term4sale.combecause that site does not sell insurance, and we are not contracted with, or appointed by, any life insurance company.
Individual agents can now buy the Compulife Mobile Edition for $96 per year. 10% and 20% discounts apply for those who want to pay 2 or 3 years in advance. Those who buy the Mobile edition can get 3 listings at www.term4sale.com for an additional $84 per year. Alternatively, if the Compulife Mobile Edition customer wants a quoting system for their website, they can get that and 3 zip codes for only an additional $180 per year.
IMPORTANT: Standard License subscribers have had the maximum number of mobile devices increased from 5 to 12. They are also allowed to give links to their Compulife Mobile Edition to their agent/brokers. If you are a Standard License subscribers, and need more information, please call or email us at:
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- (800) 798-3488 Jeremiah
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- (888) 798-3488 Bob
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If you are a personal use subscriber, but would like to provide a quoting system to fellow brokers, you can upgrade to a standard license.
VERY IMPORTANT: Standard License subscribers are now allowed to purchase additional access to the Mobile edition for more of their brokers. The initial cost is $300 for 25 additional agent users. Details about this will were sent to Standard License customers in December. If you are interested in that, contact us:
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- (800) 798-3488 Jeremiah
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- (888) 798-3488 Bob
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