I'm an insurance agent looking for a way to advertise, any suggestions?

Try advertising on the phone book, or google adwords.

Magnet on the side of your vehicle with your name number and what you do. Donate to local sports teams or high school teams so you get advertisement in their programs or a banner on the back fence at the fields. Some years books also have an area for local business to put an add to raise money for the yearbook. Also ask the schools if they do a school newspaper.

Try setting up a landing page with your information on it and have people sign up for your site for more information. Then send them your information! Then promote your site like crazy! check out my site for more advertising avenues! http://www.dwdnetworkonline.com/ Thanks, Dave Galich DWDnet.2007'

NO BODY wants to buy INSHORANCE! End of THAT conversation. SOOO. the next issue is HOW do you get them to buy itand the answer is YOU SELL IT TO THEM. Yep, your a died in the wool INSHORANCE saleman-just 2 notches ABOVE that of whale dung on the publics radar. Now that we got the issue of what you are OUT OF THE WAY, we can get down to how to do what it is you want to do. Sell INSHORANCE. If door to door WORKS for you and you find your time LIMITED in tying to canvass 9 counties, take a page from the product distribution system. Recruit people and TEACH them how to canvass door to door. Put them on a commission equal to your set up and take a piece of the action off of the volume. But I gotta tell ya, selling sickness and cancer policies is just PLAIN wrong. WHAT if you are SICK AND HAVE cancer at the same time? Do you get to collect twice? I didn't THINK so. So, essentially you are selling two policies and letting the buyer "pick" his poison and hope that he is right. Same with death and accidental death. The sales pitch goes like this, "well mamm, statistically speaking IF your husband dies prematuely hit will MOST likely be from an accident" Therefore I recommend of Double Wammy, Double Imdemnity policy. Now, for only .78 cents per unit per month, we can also increase the deathe benifif to you by $10,000 if he dies accidently while falling off the south end of a north bound train. Wife: But sir, my husband only commutes on a train going east and west. Agent: No problem mamm. You need our Accidental East West policy then. BUT, if he should ever have the urge to travel on a North South train I would highly recommend including the North South policy as a rider...for only $1.25 per unit per month extra. It is a SMALL price to pay to know that no matter what, the little lady is protected. You would do a LOT better finding GOOD policies at GOOD prices to be sold to good people scattered across 9 counties. What you have is JUNK. I KNOW. Been there, done that and I DID get the T-shirts.

I would also suggest you look into google adwords. Even if your prospects have no internet access, they have a print add feature now added to their service which might work for your area

The best way to increase your chances is through some target marketing. Mailers and door hangers work quite well, and not nearly as expensive as you would think. A website is also a great way to go. My web designer is a genius and I have personally seen him turn a one-man show into a thriving business with 18 employees, etc., within a year. (My computer tech guy introduced me to my designer. My computer tech guy was doing tech stuff on his lunch hour, moonlighting. He quit his job, went full time and hired a bunch of staff to handle all the business he got BECAUSE he followed the advice of our designer.) I think its against the Yahoo rules to give you his name, etc., on Yahoo, but you can write me and I will give it to you, if you want it. He is an awesome designer and I have no trouble recommending him. Good luck!

You might consider buying Internet leads. They are especially good because they are generated by consumers proactively seeking solutions only minutes before you receive the leads. An internet lead is pre-qualified in the sense that the consumer has already performed a search with a search engine, looking for a solution to a problem. They have then taken the time to fill out a form, requesting a call. A good lead provider “scrubs” the lead to make sure the data is valid before it is offered for sale. All of this is done in seconds after the consumer fills out the form. If you pay a little more, you can have the lead exclusively for a period of time—exclusive from the company that sold it to you. (If the consumer filled out more than one form, then they can be contacted by someone else.) Check out these guys: http://www.ileads.com/ Not only do they have real-time internet leads, but they also have a replacement policy for leads with bad data. They also enhance their insurance leads with data from First American Financial, so you will have a better handle on how serious and qualified the lead is and perhaps even be able to prepare a quote before you call.

come up with a good ryme like "Nation Wide is on your side!"

OK well either quit your job, or go to a magazine HQ, or radio/TV station and then ask if they will let you go on the air to advertise. Or use the newspaper