This guy paid an expired meter and left a perfect note for the motorist
Who doesn't love a good insurance salesman story?
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Who doesn't love a good insurance salesman story?
Finding new business to sell insurance to does not sound extremely exciting, but one agent figured out a pretty slick way to entice potential clients.
A photo of a note that was left on a car with an expired meter hit the front page of Reddit on Wednesday.
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"I paid your parking meter for you ... imagine what else I'm willing to do to protect your car," the note reads. Attached to the note is the business card for Andrew Cooney, a car insurance salesman based out of Rochester, Minnesota.
CARD ID: 204910, CARD TYPE: Imgur
Slick.
We reached out to Cooney to confirm that this note wasn't fake, and he told us via email that this is indeed a tactic he uses to market to new clients.
