About Don

I have spent over 40 years working with companies designing and developing lead marketing systems.

My experience has allowed me to work with direct mail, telemarketing, T.V., newspaper inserts, store stuffers, credit inserts and pre-approach lead marketing.

Don travels nationwide working with marketing organizations both big and small on Lead Prospecting and Recruiting. Below are the services he provides. Each session is fully customizable to each client’s need and can range in length and size of attendees. These sessions are high energy and very interactive.

Don Runge is known as a professional coach, marketer and motivational trainer. He focuses on creating various ways to create appointments/prospecting activity, using non-traditional marketing approaches. Don uses a relationship marketing approach and technique.

CONSULTING

Don has spent over 50 years working with insurance agencies, companies, IMO’s, FMO’s, career branches and independent agencies. His focus has always been directed at creating, developing and assisting in implementing prospecting activities, approaches, leads as well as personal recruiting programs. Don can consult in person, via webinar or conference call.  Please email for Don’s hourly rate: [email protected]. If you aren’t meeting or exceeding your recruiting goals, give Don a call to set up a no-cost 30-minute conference call at 972-378-9876

ON SITE APPOINTMENT SETTING WORKSHOPS/CLINICS

Don will come to your location to conduct a fast paced targeted appointment setting workshop

Practice telephone appointment setting over the phone and face-to-face. Learn valuable quick tips!

SEMINARS

For lead training, these are approximately 6-8hrs in length on site sessions and are fully customizable. For recruiting, seminars run 3-5hrs in length. Here are the topics Don usually covers:

  • Learn how to increase your lead-to-appointment conversion ration/net ratio
  • Increase sales
  • Reduce lead cost
  • How to average 15+ appointments/week
  • Create leads out of leads
  • Be able to Get Up, Get Out and Get In more often
  • Audience interaction
  • Build an effective 45-second appointment approach
  • Recruiting vs. interviewing
  • Creating a constant flow of candidates
  • Reactive vs. proactive recruiting
  • Balancing demands of being a recruiting manager
  • Real sources that work

WORKSHOPS

More in-depth, hands on customized interactive training in a live environment or virtually in real time.

RECRUITING BOOT CAMPS

Participants will experience live, in-market personal recruiting training making recruiting phone calls etc.

2-day combination interactive workshop plus actually going out and activating a sample personal recruiting action plan. Participants will also role play, make phone contact calls work on approaches etc. Understand the meaning of “Recruit or Die!”

  • Learn how to build a customized personal recruiting program
  • Focus is on learning simple, transferrable and current techniques and approaches
  • Eliminate last bullet, “real sources that work” and add, “Learn the how-to’s of personal recruiting
  • Fish with a net not a pole strategy

To book or inquire about any of the above services, please email [email protected] or call 972-378-9876.

RESUME Chronology

1993Present

DMR Marketing, Inc.; Plano, TX

4/9112/93

I RENT AMERICA; Richardson, TX

3/893/94

UNITED INSURANCE COMPANIES, INC.; Dallas, TX

5/8312/88

InsurUSA Marketing/K Mart Insurance Group; Dallas, TX

8/824/83

KINDER BROTHER & ASSOCIATES; Dallas, TX

19731974

MONTGOMERY WARD LIFE INSURANCE; Chicago, IL

19691973

FIDELITY UNION LIFE INSURANCE; Dallas, TX

19661969

Teacher/Coach

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