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Has the Declining Economy and Soft Market Affected Your Marketing Plans for 2009?

Beacon Marketing – “Helping to guide your prospecting needs to new destinations”

Orange, CA – November 19, 2008: With the current economic conditions, a lot of agencies have had to reduce and/or cut out their marketing budgets for 2009. If the economy and continued soft market has hurt your plans for growth and new business, Beacon Marketing has a solution to keep you in the game and ahead of your competition. They have a program offering payment plans to their clients to ease the cost of implementing effective telemarketing campaigns. They are so confident with their services and model, that they will finance the annual investment for you and take on all of the risk. Let Beacon ‘earn’ their keep and your business or you don’t pay, it’s that simple.

Under the current market conditions, it is more important than ever to get new business and increase retention rates as premiums drop. That’s where Beacon can help – with their 35 years combined experience, they can guide you to your destination of hitting new business goals for 2009. The Beacon Team has the experience and know how to target everything from large companies, to medium-sized businesses (in all industries), to professional liability risks, and even BOP candidates. They work with some of the top 100 brokers in the country to small independent agents that are looking to grow their agencies – if you are looking to grow your book in 2009 you need to contact Beacon today.

Call for information about their ‘Starter Program’ – if you’ve had a bad experience in the past with other telemarketing companies or need to scale back your budget for 2009, you can test the Beacon model without a big financial commitment. If you are working with a national data firm or others that say they guarantee and deliver their services – Beacon can show you a more cost effective way of developing new business with less financial risk and a more secure model to deliver the actual results. Since your clients don’t pay you by the hour, why should you pay a marketing firm that way? Beacon understands that agents are only looking for results that can be measured, and that’s what they deliver.

Unlike other firms that only offer ‘calling hours’ to develop leads and appointments, Beacon offers the following services – AND YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY IN ADVANCE!

• List of suspects based on your criteria – you own the data and we don’t sell or share information with other brokers!
• Program analysis to outline your needs/goals
• Database of pre-qualified Leads/X-Dates
• Follow up letters and/or emails to your database of Leads/X-Dates to keep your name in front of the prospects throughout the year
• Confirmed Appointments with interested prospects
• Confirmation/Reminder emails to every Appointment with your contact information the day they are set – and an option for Beacon to do your confirmation calls prior to every Appointment
• Dedicated marketing representative (just like you would have in-house)
• Bi-weekly conference call meetings with your dedicated marketing representative to discuss the current results of the program and anything new going on in your industry that will help our efforts
• On-line access 24/7 to your data, calendar, & reports

Contact Beacon Marketing today and they will help point you in the right direction for 2009. Additional information can be found at www.beaconmarketing.net

Beacon Marketing | 866.580.4264 x 200 or 201 | sales@beaconmarketing.net