Want to work @ EDJ

Make calls in the Day in the Life. Don't get bogged with emails, it's a trap.

What the fuck is Day in The Life?

Jtp- I am a big fan. I like your mindset. Delbs is right a 5mil goodknight isn't much at all. Especially if the guy hasn't done many. You will be getting a steaming pile of shit accounts so your prospecting will still make or break you. Just tread lightly. EJ doesn't give a fuck about you or your success as much as they act like they are one big family. It is a low goals wirehouse with herd mentality employees. Look out for yourself first. 

5 mill is better than nothing unless some genius in stl decides to move you up in expectations ...p1 to p2. Than nothing is better!!! Most good knights are kinda dog shit but so are most of the doorknock clients. Start thinking outside the box now.

I just took over a very tiny office where the FA was fired a few weeks ago (3.5 mil).... She literally never showed anyone any reports. I found like 2.5 mil in assets the first week just by showing people basic portfolio charts and now that I've run through the entire list of existing clients to call and generating whatever business was needed for them (basically my first full week selling) I'm right back out prospecting.

The nice part about taking a small office or goodnight plan is that you basically will have your PDP numbers done in like 4-5 weeks but after that it's almost like starting new. It's nice to have some of the pressure taken off and in my case I have a 5yr BOA who I get along with very well so that's been extremely helpful. The real negative I have found (and what most have said already) is that of my 100 or so household 40 are inactive, 30 are absolute trash. There's probably a gem or two in that mess but if you just focus on calling them and get lazy your basically screwed later on

Having the Goodknight lined up may help streamline the hiring process, it used to anyway, I've been gone a while.  I know in my town the EDJ rep can pretty much pick anyone to get hired if he will give them a Goodknight.  He is a big producer that has been trying unsuccessfully to Goodknight for quite a while, and the town is an armpit no one wants to move to, so I don't know how much that plays into the equation.

ClarenceBeeks wrote: Oh yeah, say you are the jones rep in a podunk town, you do a 5mil goodnight, the new guy turns out to really suck, and then boom, you have all the clients back again!  Awkward.

I would be the 3rd attempt on the same goodknight (reading between the lines here a bit). So ya, I would probably lose a few accounts from just their sheer frustration with how much no one wants to work with them.

Edited by jtp - Sep/15/2014 at 10:20am

we've had about half of our recruits get cut in the day in the life deal....