I’ve got $1500 to spend on business development by year end. So, here’s the question. If you were to imagine starting your business from scratch and all you had was $1500 how would you use it?

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15 lunches with 10 people at each. $100.00 each lunch. Speak for 5 minutes and get a comment card with name address phone number before the food comes out. 2.6m will come from it. Rinse and repeat.

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That's in the Ameriprise playbook. I can email it to you. It's so over simplified and corn but it works.

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Fill up my car with gas to go by a few doors. Put an ad for 1 3 and 5 year CDs in the paper. Call 500 people on the phone this week and host a seminar.

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W&R, were you joking before or being serious?

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W&R1 - hilarious! That’s the same exact script I️ had 10+ years ago when I️ was at AMP - I‎t works - my business partner and I️ would host three lunches back-to-back-to-back at same higher end sports bar on Thursday and Fridays - built my book doing that - was actually fun - they key (like any lead) is the immediate follow-up - though that was back in the day (pre-2008) when firms actually had marketing budgets to hand out

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Rent out expensive venue and invite wealthy friends and acquaintances & pay for drinks

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Ahh please do! Does anyone know how to send direct messages to another user here?

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W&R1 thank you for sharing!!

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The leads come from putting fishbowls at restaurants and raffling lunch for up to 15 for the professional looking business cards.

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Standing desk

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Worked at Ameriprise for 7 months. Can still do about half the pmm from memory. They sure do love their Scripts!

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If you are independent, go to www.strategicmp.net and sign up to use the templated website. It’s the best out there

Nah, Twenty Over Ten rocks lol

W&R stopped paying for lunches but at this point I believe in the process so much it's worth it to pay out of pocket. 6-8k per year on lunches till reoccurring revenue flows back in to pay for them.

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