Newsletter

There will be the first quarterly letter sent out in March detailing the product offerings from Meek and Associates Insurance group.  Partnerships are being made to increase product distribution and the newsletter is focused on increasing communication among all institutions to identify changes and innovations in the industry.  

Calls

At the beginning of the week we went on our last trip to an insurance provider.  After re establishing relationships we are ready to move forward and sell more products.  Today will be spent in the office getting emails out and paperwork together and tomorrow will be spent making calls.  Next week will be spent making calls all week to push the product to the banks.  We are also planning to have a website up and running by March 1st.

Calls

I travelled to Topeka today with my father and business partner.  We made several calls.  On one we encountered one of our competitors.  It is is interesting to start a business but also have a lot of luggage along with it.  It felt hopeful after seeing a few new prospects.  It is good to be out of the office and I hope I can structure my day to be partly in the office and then out everyday.  I need to decide if I should try to launch it from here or if I should start to work out of Chicago.  I think I am going to focus on credit unions for a time and see if I can make any head way.

RFP's

Working as a middle man, and the truth is I guess we are all middle men in some way you have to wait for other people.  I take half introduced ideas and try to get them finalized.  I have been waiting on proposals from companies for two weeks and still don't think I am even close to the end.  It is good to start the process and understand what they need to get the work done.  I also sleep in too late and need to start getting up.  My goal is just to work harder than everyone else.  That's really the only talent I have so I need to exploit it I guess.  So far this is much better than sitting in a cubicle having to deal with those people.  I just need to make more money and focus to make this work.

Internet

The next step for a small company is to get internet into the office.  Today AT&T came out and made sure the connection would work.  Now it is up to me to save the 250 dollars and make sure I can install the modem/router myself.  It should be an interesting day.  I have never set up a network and am buying the modem/router off craigslist to save money and then installing it myself.  It is a time to be thrifty and I hope that this exercise is worth it.  I also upgraded to unlimited minutes on my cell phone plan so that we will not install a line into the office.  Hopefully down the line we will have to have a line in the office for someone working there and can actually answer it, but for right now internet is a huge step.