<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <title>Kenneth's Blog</title>
  <link href="http://activerain.com/blogs/biznizman/atom" rel="self"/>
  <link href="http://activerain.com/blogs/biznizman" rel="alternate"/>
  <id>http://activerain.com/blogs/biznizman</id>
  <updated>2008-05-29T15:43:05Z</updated>
  <author>
    <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
  </author>
  <entry>
    <title>Home Team Advantage Presentation</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/528872/Home-Team-Advantage-Presentation" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/528872/Home-Team-Advantage-Presentation</id>
    <updated>2008-05-29T15:43:05Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
This proposal is intended for the real estate professional doing business in Indiana who knows the importance of relationships in business. In the business of real estate, there is only one relationship that is truly important - the one with our customer. This presentation demonstrates how you and I can build a business relationship that will show our customers that we mean business - and pleasing them is our business. I look forward to working with you in the very near future. You have a wonderful day.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?docid=d3nvzhx_0dvqcxddz&amp;size=m" frameborder="0" height="451" width="555"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Porter County Real Estate Professionals - Don't Let Insurance Stop Your Closing!!!</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/517797/Porter-County-Real-Estate" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/517797/Porter-County-Real-Estate</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T15:23:55Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;center&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This 10 Minute Presentation Shows You Why Your Buyers and Investors Will Never Have To Search For Insurance Again!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

  

&lt;b&gt;If you've ever had to try to find insurance for your customer in order to close on 

that house, you know the frustration of looking for a good insurance agent.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


If you leave it to your customers to search for an insurance agent, 

then be prepared to never have them look for one, either.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

If you have 10 minutes to change the way your closings are done, 

take a look at this presentation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


If you don't, find out from this presentation how you can get at least 10 free minutes in your day to help your clients and less real worries that sap your energy.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


Log onto &lt;a href="http://www.kennethinsurance.com" target="insurance" /&gt;www.KennethInsurance.com&lt;/a&gt; 24 hours a day and type &#8220;Real Estate&#8221; in the comments box to receive your presentation.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


Your help is in Merrillville, IN.
&lt;/center&gt;
    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Lake County Real Estate Professionals - Don't Let Insurance Stop Your Closing!!!</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/517791/Lake-County-Real-Estate" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/517791/Lake-County-Real-Estate</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T15:19:16Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;center&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;This 10 Minute Presentation Shows You Why Your Buyers and Investors Will Never Have To Search For Insurance Again!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

  

&lt;b&gt;If you've ever had to try to find insurance for your customer in order to close on 

that house, you know the frustration of looking for a good insurance agent.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


If you leave it to your customers to search for an insurance agent, 

then be prepared to never have them look for one, either.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

If you have 10 minutes to change the way your closings are done, 

take a look at this presentation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


----------------- &amp;lt;&gt; -----------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


If you don't, find out from this presentation how you can get at least 10 free minutes in your day to help your clients and less real worries that sap your energy.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


Log onto &lt;a href="http://www.kennethinsurance.com" target="insurance" /&gt;www.KennethInsurance.com&lt;/a&gt; 24 hours a day and type &#8220;Real Estate&#8221; in the comments box to receive your presentation.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;


Your help is in Merrillville, IN.
&lt;/center&gt;
    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>a site to help all my real estate associates</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/470795/a-site-to-help" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/470795/a-site-to-help</id>
    <updated>2008-04-16T03:08:09Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;Hey good people,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have just stumbled across something that would be a wonderful tool for you.&amp;nbsp; I just began using it as an insurance agent marketing to real estate professionals so I&amp;#39;m waiting to see the results here soon.&amp;nbsp; But as I was thinking of better ways to reach the real estate&amp;nbsp;professionals I want to reach, I began to think about YOU, the real estate professionals.&amp;nbsp; I know that marketing the properties that you have listed with you is at the heart and soul of your business.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.emailagentflyers.com"&gt;www.emailagentflyers.com&lt;/a&gt; is a website that will e-mail real estate professionals by the thousands for less than a few bucks.I just sent out my e-mail yesterday but I can&amp;#39;t imagine that sending out 1000 almost 2000 e-mails could cost this much.&amp;nbsp; Go check it out and let me know what you think about it.&amp;nbsp; I want to know if you think it&amp;#39;s as great a website as I do.&amp;nbsp; I look forward to hearing from you..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s continue to build that home team advantage.&amp;nbsp; You can take a look at what I&amp;#39;m talking about by going to &lt;a href="http://www.kennethinsurance.com"&gt;www.kennethinsurance.com&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Take care.&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>here to help even further - targeted website link</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/469286/here-to-help-even" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/469286/here-to-help-even</id>
    <updated>2008-04-15T03:09:54Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;Hello all,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have recently changed the link on my page to guide you and your customers directly to the homeowners section of my website.&amp;nbsp; I want you to be able to go in and look around and find all the information you need to know about farmers insurance and the homeowners insurance I will be able to provide for you.&amp;nbsp; I want you to be comfortable with the product and the benefits that I have to offer you and your clients.&amp;nbsp; I look forward to working with you and helping you find what you need.&amp;nbsp; You have a wonderful day and I will talk with you soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.farmersagent.com/kthames/homeowners"&gt;www.farmersagent.com/kthames/homeowners&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Gain the HOME TEAM Advantage</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/469272/Gain-the-HOME-TEAM" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/469272/Gain-the-HOME-TEAM</id>
    <updated>2008-04-15T01:50:57Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&amp;lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"         "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Email Agent Flyers&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body bgcolor="#EAEAEA"&gt;

&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="640"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
	&lt;td&gt;

&lt;table cellspacing="1" border="0" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="640"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;

	&lt;td background="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/flyer_templates/images/top_gold.gif" height="80" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;
	&lt;font face="Arial" size="6" color="#FFFFFF"&gt;Gaining the HOME TEAM ADVANTAGE!!!&lt;/font&gt;	&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
	&lt;td bgcolor="#EEEE00" colspan="2"&gt;&lt;h2 style="text-align: center; color: #000; padding: 0; margin: 0; font-size: 1em;"&gt;Together Everyone Acheives More - I know!!!  I know!!! &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;/table&gt;

	&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
	&lt;td bgcolor="#9c9c9c"&gt;

&lt;table cellspacing="1" border="0" cellpadding="5" align="center" width="640"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
	&lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="300" valign="top" align="center" style="padding:0px;" width="440"&gt;
		&lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/app-r001/interfaces/public_images/flyer_710_photo_1.jpg" alt="photo1" width="440"&gt;	&lt;/td&gt;

	&lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" valign="top" rowspan="3" style="line-height:18px;" width="198"&gt;&lt;center&gt;
        &lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/app-r001/interfaces/public_images/member_620_personal_photo.jpg" alt="Photo"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
        &lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Thames Insurance Services&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
	  Kenneth 
	  Thames&lt;br&gt;
	  2480 W Lincoln Hwy&lt;br&gt;
	  Merrillville, IN&lt;br&gt;
	  46410&lt;br&gt;
	  Office: 219 791-9591&lt;br&gt;
	  Cell: 219 614-9414&lt;br&gt;
	  Fax: 219 795-1826&lt;br&gt;
	  &lt;a href="mailto:kthames@farmersagent.com"&gt;Email Me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
	  &lt;a href="http://www.farmersagent.com/kthames" target="_blank"&gt;Visit My Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
      &lt;/center&gt;
	    &lt;br&gt;
        &lt;center&gt;
          &lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/app-r001/interfaces/public_images/member_620_logo.jpg" alt="Logo"&gt;
        &lt;/center&gt;
	  &lt;br&gt;
        &lt;br&gt;
        &lt;center&gt;
          &lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/flyer_templates/images/mls_logos.gif" border="0"&gt;
      &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;
	&lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#9c9c9c" cellspacing="1" border="0" cellpadding="5" width="100%"&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="35"&gt;Hello, my name is Kenneth M. Thames with Farmers Insurance.  As a real estate professional there are times when your customers ask you for guidance on where to get home insurance. When that happens, I want my agency to be the one you trust to refer them to. However, before that can happen I need to find out what's important to you and demonstrate how I can add value to you and your customers. Does that sound fair? &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Let me start by sharing with you a little bit about who I am and the company I represent.... Thames Insurance Services is a business that's made up of people just like you: People who laugh, people who cry, people who get most things right but get some things wrong.  We're not afraid to let you know any of it.  We service the entire state of Indiana but our focus is in the Northwest Region of Indiana.  &lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;


As a real estate professional, you rely on a team of trusted professionals to help you meet your customer's needs. I do as well. I call my team the Home Team. What is different about our team is that in addition to serving our customers we also actively work to help each member of the team achieve their goals.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;


I am a homeowners insurance specialist who is dedicated to treating your customers with the same professionalism that you would expect from your partners and that they would expect from you.  I look forward to working with you on your endeavors to help as many people as you can.
&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td bgcolor="#EAEAEA" align="center"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial" size="2"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Service Benefits&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="35"&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Prompt service for you to resolve your issues and needs.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Courteous and timely service for you and your staff.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;A team member who has the team's interest in mind and at heart - to sell a house!&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Someone who's goal is to make sure your customer knows you are the best thing since sliced bread.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;An insurance agent who knows about homeowners insurance and will guide your customer through the process at their level of understanding.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
      &lt;tr&gt;
        &lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" height="35"&gt;We service all of the following counties:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;


Lake&lt;br&gt;
Porter &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
We service all of the following cities: &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

Merrillville&lt;br&gt;
Hammond&lt;br&gt;
Hobart&lt;br&gt;
Crown Point&lt;br&gt;
Whiting&lt;br&gt;
East Chicago&lt;br&gt;
Gary&lt;br&gt;
Portage&lt;br&gt;
Schererville&lt;br&gt;
Valparaiso&lt;br&gt;
St. John&lt;br&gt;
Lake Station&lt;br&gt;
Chesterton&lt;br&gt;
Griffith&lt;br&gt;
Cedar Lake&lt;br&gt;
Dyer&lt;br&gt;
Munster&lt;br&gt;
Lowell&lt;br&gt;
Highland&lt;br&gt;
and all points in between.  If you don't see your city on here and it's in NW Indiana, I specialize in that area too.  Just send me the name of your city.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

If you have an insurance need, have the desire to fulfill it.  You won't find a brighter smile in all of Northwest Indiana than the one on your face.  I'd love to see that smile in my office as we complete our business together.  I look forward to meeting you.

&lt;/td&gt;
      &lt;/tr&gt;
    &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

	&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" width="640"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
	&lt;td background="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/flyer_templates/images/bottom_gold.gif" height="20"&gt;
	&lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/flyer_templates/images/spacer.gif" border="0" height="1" width="1"&gt;	&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;



&lt;table bgcolor="ffffff" cellpadding="5" align="center" width="640"&gt;
  &lt;tr&gt;
    &lt;td&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emailagentflyers.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emailagentflyers.com/flyer_templates/images/footer.jpg" border="0" height="150" alt="EmailAgentFltyers.com" width="630"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
        &lt;div style="font-size:10px;color:#666666;font-family: Verdana"&gt;
          &lt;p align="center"&gt;904 W. San Marcos Blvd. #6 San Marcos Ca. 92078&lt;br&gt;
            Toll Free: 800-697-5905&lt;/p&gt;
          
        &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div align="center"&gt;
          &lt;/center&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
  &lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
        </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Your Insurance Could Be Bad For Your Wealth </title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/465884/Your-Insurance-Could-Be" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/465884/Your-Insurance-Could-Be</id>
    <updated>2008-04-12T14:31:20Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
This is about auto insurance but it's still good information.  I'm working on my next one for homeowners insurance and then I'll put one together for real estate professionals so if you have any suggestions of questions you'd like to have answered, let me know.  This was quite fun to do and if you have time to go on to host your own radio show, go for it.  It's a great way to get your information out to your prospects.  Especially if you have a website that you can include this on.  Try it out.&lt;br&gt;

&lt;embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/player.swf?displayheight=&amp;file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2fThames_Insurance_Services%2fplay_list.xml%3fshow_id%3d178749%26localembed%3dshowpage&amp;autostart=true&amp;shuffle=false&amp;callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx?localembed=BTR&amp;referrer_url=%2fshow.aspx&amp;volume=80&amp;corner=rounded" height="152" wmode="transparent" menu="false" quality="high" width="160"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>As a real estate professional, what coverage do you recommend?</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/463856/As-a-real-estate" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/463856/As-a-real-estate</id>
    <updated>2008-04-11T01:07:53Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;To all the real estate professionals who are helping their customers with their insurance - PLEASE PLEASE stop recommending your customers get the insurance for the amount of the loan.&amp;nbsp; I, as an insurance agents, recognize the need to get the deal closed.&amp;nbsp; I want to get everything done as quickly as possible too.&amp;nbsp; But when you recommend that your customer gets enough insurance to cover their loan, when they become my prospect, it makes it very difficult for me, as an insurance professional, to recommend the CORRECT coverage for them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In actuality, what you should be recommending to YOUR customers is RECONSTRUCTION COST.&amp;nbsp; Reconstruction cost is the amount of insurance that it would take to rebuild the home from the ground up.&amp;nbsp; If that home was totally destroyed, reconstruction cost would rebuild that home, in that same location, exactly as it was before the loss.&amp;nbsp; So I ask you to continue to send the referrals to me, but as far as the recommendations here&amp;#39;s a quick little line you can use to help us keep the customer on our team - &amp;quot;Kenneth is very good at what he does.&amp;nbsp; He will find the right insurance for you and get you the best price he possibly can right up front.&amp;nbsp; No games.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I look forward to our team continuing to prosper.&lt;/p&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>The Home Team Advantage</title>
    <link href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/463827/The-Home-Team-Advantage" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>http://activerain.com/blogsview/463827/The-Home-Team-Advantage</id>
    <updated>2008-04-11T00:24:08Z</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Kenneth Thames (Farmers Insurance Group)</name>
    </author>
    <content type="html">
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="REP" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/5/9/1/0/ar120789118501955.JPG" height="380" alt="real estate professionals" width="572" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m looking to join your team to help all of your customers find the insurance that is right for them and that will help you complete your sell.&amp;nbsp; Above, you have a FEW of the things you will get when you decide to work with me.&amp;nbsp; There are so many more benefits that can&amp;#39;t be put on a post card.&amp;nbsp; I look forward to hearing from you and helping you with your customers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;    </content>
  </entry>
</feed>
