AFLAC on the Bob & Sheri Radio Show

For those of you who don't know who Bob & Sheri are, they are morning personalities for a radio show that is popular in the South. I honestly have never heard of them until I lived in Georgia.

Week 51

RSC:

Regina- 145.06% of MPI!

DSC:

Josh- 223.15% of MPI!
Ted- 204.14% of MPI!
Marie- 32.30% of MPI!

Associates:

Gil- $8,448.36!
Brent- $5,604.84!
Aubrey- $4,324.80!
Ben- $2,266.80!
Jason- $1,210.68!
Francine- $1,152.00
Guillermo- $962.64!

New AFLAC incentive item... a backpack for your computer. It's looks sharp. There is also a new picture of a black baseball hat too.

During the bowl games, you will see the latest AFLAC commercials...it's the duck as a superhero! Can we expect a new superhero stuffed duck to be released? I know that Regina has one that is wearing a mask but I am not sure if there was a cape on that one.

We've got one more week in 2006. I am not sure how many of you will be in the office next week, but if I don't see you, Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Sactown

Here's a shot of the Bay Bridge from the tunnel. It was raining pretty good tonight, but I needed to come home after five victorious days in Sacramento!

8 years ago, I left Sacramento for Columbus, GA to pursue a career in television. I've come back to visit friends in the "River City" but never had a long period of time to hang out until now. This week I spent some time working and hanging out with old friends. It was great.

Monday I did ee presentations all day. I went to 4 locations.

Tuesday I went to another 4 locations to do presentations.

Wednesday I went to enroll. 2 locations waived. 2 other locations signed up. I also drove back to Hercules to do an ee presentation and then drove back to Sacramento.

Thursday I completed my tour of Sacramento by enrolling 2 more locations. The other 2 waived.

I wrote $3,342 in premium the first day. I wrote $7803.85 the second day. So, my two day total was $11,147.85. This is a personal record for me. I have $707 already posted this week. I have $354 pended in a whole life policy. I have $1,380.48 that is newly transmitted business from another group. I have two other groups to enroll tomorrow so I am not done for this week. What is great is that I can pay back some of the people that I borrowed premium from plus have some premium to call my own.

Another good thing about this trip is that I am writing on my new computer! I've written 37 policies within the last 11 days! That's awesome because I was shooting for 30 policies written on my computer per month. This will help me pay off my computer quickly!

I did a lot of driving. I want to say that I drove about 650 miles since Sunday!

Other news...

I got my giant AFLAC duck! I ordered some mini ducks but I expect those won't come until after Xmas.

The packaging technique has proven to be a very successful way to present AFLAC plans.

AFLAC items on ebay has slowed as we get closer to Xmas. I guess people are getting busy. I've checked a few times this week but there is nothing of note to post up here.

I've joined the bluetooth headset club. I got a new cell phone (T-mobile Dash) because next year, you can't talk on your cell phone unless you have an earpiece or a speakerphone. I made the switch because I just needed to get keep up with the cell phone technology.

Week 50 stats:

Associates:

#4 Guillermo with $5,519.52 and he achieves the super fireball award!
#8 Gil with $3,151.92!
#12 Ben with $2,158.80!
#13 Brent with $2,124.12!
#16 Irene with $1,710.36!
#21 Jason with $826.56!
#27 Richard with $363.72!
#28 Francine with $322.80! I want to say that is the first time I've seen Francine on the board!

DSC:

#5 Georgianna at 163.56% of MPI!
#6 Josh at 144.80% of MPI!
#7 Ted at 73.95% of MPI!
#11 Ellyne at 35.71% of MPI!
#13 Marie at 31.63% of MPI!

Josh is 99.15% of his annual MPI! Whoa!

RSC:

#4 Regina at 142.05% of MPI!

Let's finish out the week strong! You can do it!

This is pretty much how my "package display" looks. I'm excited about it, 'cause I think that it looks great.



Tell Santa
you want
THE PACKAGE:

· Personal Accident Expense, Level 1
· Basic Dental
· Cancer Indemnity, Level 1

$33.80 Employee
$48.75 One Parent Family
$55.65 Employee and Spouse
$68.10 Two Parent Family

I've been slacking

I had the intentions of updating our office blog last week but I was worn out by the end of the week. On Friday, I came home and went to sleep at 9:30 pm. I woke up at 4:30 am and then went back to bed and slept until noon.

I've done so much traveling within the last two months. I want to say that I've driven at least 1000 miles within the last 2 1/2 weeks. I'm not keeping track of the miles but knowing how many times I've filled up my tank gives me a good guess at the mileage.

Big news in the office...

Jason got a cool small Panasonic computer! It's like a mini-me computer!

I got a computer!

Guillermo is getting a computer!

Can't you tell we just love paper apps?!?

My computer came today and I had Jason open it. He said it was a beauty! It sure is. Richard came over and took a big wiff of the smell of a new computer. The smell of newness is great!

So here I am tonight. I bet you can tell I'm very happy to have a computer to write on! This is my computer and I will love it and cherish it and name it "The Green Machine" even though it's black. Oh by the way, I'm wearing my new AFLAC polo shirt I won on ebay! It smelled funny when I got it so I had to wash it before wearing it.

Talking about ebay...there is a green AFLAC tie up for bid. It's $5.99 right now. The ducks on the tie are suppose to have Santa hats on them but from here you really can't see it. It's a cool tie but I think I'll pass. I honestly can't think of a suit I have that I could wear it with.

I'm haven't seen many people in our office recently because we are all busy running around and doing business. That's a good thing though. I hope that we are all writing big premium this week!

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." Louis Pasteur

Lessons to be learned

After my fight to achieve the super fireball status, I have a few things to share with the team.

1. I think there is value in knowing how to fill out the paper applications, but if you can write on a computer, do that. It makes life so much easier.

2. If you ever decide to get policies for yourself and you download the AFLAC agent group number, make sure that when you write policies on yourself, that you change the state to CA. If you don't, you'll be writing applications for GA which will pend.

3. Don't wait until the last minute to achieve your goals. It's very stressful.

4. Make a friend in pended business.


Today I went out on an appointment and I want to share with all of you that I was very rusty in my ER script. I haven't had to do that in at least 1 month. Honestly, it could have been longer than that. I've been so wrapped up with ee presentations and enrollments that I haven't been practicing my ER script. I could have done so much better with just a little refresher by going over the script in the car before my appointment.

Guillermo celebrates his birthday!

This is Guillermo right before he blows out his candles for his birthday! The official day isn't until the 12th of this month so what would be cool is he can celebrate his birthday and hit his super fireball award in the same week! Now that would be absolutely great!

Happy birthday bud!

What a week! Phew!

bThis was my last week for the super fireball award. I thought the last two policies that Irene transmitted for me at 2:30 pm were jet issued. Not the case as of this morning. I'm $756 short. I called pended business but I couldn't convince the lady I talked with to help me with getting that unpended today. The reason that they are pended is because it needs to go through a 48 hour review. I thought that cancer and hospital policies are jet issued. It's probably something to investigate so no one else has to deal with this issue if they are going for a certain award.
Theoretically I have hit the super fireball award so I am going to celebrate with my team by treating the entire office to a bunch of food and drinks. I did this because I am a very grateful for the support and encouragement I get from the Giants team.

So today I braved the Saturday crowd at Costco (I hate going there because it's crowded and I don't like waiting in lines) and bought a bunch of food and drinks for all of us. The types of foods I bought breakfast foods because if you are like me, I often don't eat before coming into the office and I get hungry in the morning. I also bought snacks for those stomach gurgles that you might have if you are waiting for pended business to unpend. I also bought some bottled waters and energy bars and rice krispies treats so if you need something for the road you are set.

So this is all the food I bought from Costco today! It took several trips from my car to bring it all in.

(From left to right and from top to bottom) Bottled water, grapes, blueberry muffins, cranberry/raspberry juice, and more bottled water! There is also orange juice, apples, and pears!

From left to right: Pretzels, chocolate chip cookies, chicken cup of noodles, three flavors of nutri-grain bars, cheez-its, and rice krispies treats. These are found on top of the frig.

Gum is on the microwave just in case you need fresh breath for an appointment. I have never heard it said out here, but in the South, the reason you chew gum is "so your breath don't stank!"

In the cupboards below the microwave, you can find cups and towels. I thought that we needed some. Not pictured...underneath the sink I put some wipes to clean with so our kitchen area will smell lemony-fresh.

I also cleaned all the dishes and cups with hot water and soap. I then wiped down the counter, the sink, the outside of the microwave, the coffee machines, and the table that we eat on. I can confidential say that I would eat off the counters and tables and drink out of every cup without any problems. It's clean!

That's what I think of all of you...#1. Enjoy the goodies and once again thanks for the support!


In other news...

I have my ducks in a row in my bag. There's the vision duck, the Santa duck, the doctor duck, the original duck, and the life duck!

I went to one of the schools this week. It had an awesome mural of Thurgood Marshall and a bunch of other cool people.

In the world of ebay...

I haven't received my red AFLAC polo shirt. I was expecting it yesterday.

A person from Savannah, GA has an AFLAC duck that I have never heard of. Here's the description: "This is a limited edition AFLAC duck featuring the sultry voice of Donald Trump's wife Melanie. Instead of hearing the usual AFLAC chant, press the duck and you hear 'If you're hurt and can't work, AFLAC can help pay your bills with cash.'"

It's going for $21.50 + shipping right now. I thought that was a cool and rare duck.

Another AFLAC duck from the 2006 Hawaiian convention is for sale. Right now it's going for $51.00 + shipping.