Hard Facts

" (or to at least pile the manure into more creatively tasteful arrangements)."

This is all man and women have done since we learned to stand on two feet. Nothing is new. VARs will survive just like your backyard garage mechanic. The insurance salesman has the same problems.

I always tell people that "I reupholster corporate messages" think about it.. Just new fabric on the same old work harder - better message... duh..

And when you are cursing the big multi-nationals and the internet and the computer,, just ponder where you would be today if the computer revolution did not happen.. Can you imagine what inflation would have been for the last 20 years.....

I do independent insurance agency Tv spots, some of these agencies you visit are all empty desks, (lots of empty desks) where all the old staff has not been replaced when they retired... because of the 'economies of the computer"

but one I visited recently had all their desks filled with young people and the just retired founder of the agency was there, so I asked him his secret....his answer "you got to shake a lot of hands" "belong to every club and participate in your community" It takes 5 years in the insurance biz before you make any money,, and that is if you are working 70 hours a week.. (still want to change jobs)

On interviewing a bunch of life insurance guys, we asked them their secret to success, the answer was "dial faster" (for the new guys, that is to make more phone calls)

So quit crying about VARS, they will always be out there somewhere. Quit crying about the new guys who post stupid questions on the COW, cause that is why we have a MASTHEAD of all those sculpted faces on our bow,,, "to take all the spray from those new waves" and personally I think it is fun to put a hot cinder in the new guys pocket every now and then.

And thank you COW for you are a lot more fun to read with my morning coffee than the local newspaper (but I still get it everyday, I don't want to be blamed for killing print)...

Now quit crying and start "dialing faster"

after all it is just the yin and yang of this dance we call life..