Marcus Erlandsson embodies the spirit of local service that makes Davie County special. Born and raised in the community with Swedish immigrant parents, Marcus didn't start his career path thinking about insurance. After working in construction while earning his degree, a chance connection through his father-in-law led him to Farm Bureau Insurance, where his natural people skills and sales background have made him a trusted advisor for families throughout the county.
What makes Marcus stand out is his commitment to personal connection in an increasingly digital world. "I'm old school and I like to sit down and meet with families across their kitchen table," he explains, highlighting the importance of face-to-face relationships when helping people protect what matters most. Licensed in five different insurance areas and capable of writing over 20 different types of coverage, Marcus primarily focuses on helping families with auto, home, and life insurance needs.
While Farm Bureau's historical roots began with serving agricultural communities (hence the name), Marcus emphasizes they now protect everyone from young families to established businesses. He takes particular pride in educating new insurance buyers who might otherwise feel overwhelmed by industry jargon and complicated policies. "Insurance can be confusing," Marcus acknowledges, "and they can maybe get taken advantage of by people sometimes. I really like sitting down with them, educating them on the whole process and making sure that they're taken care of from an early stage."
Marcus's passion for his community shines through in everything he does. "I take a lot of pride in being from Davie County. It's given me everything I have," he shares. This deep local connection translates into responsive service and genuine care for his clients' wellbeing. If you're looking for insurance protection from someone who truly understands your community because he lives it every day, reach out to Marcus through his Facebook page, by phone at 336-909-1679, or by email at Marcus.Erlandsson@ncfbins.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Karen Wood.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, good afternoon.
This is Karen Wood and I'm soexcited to have Marcus Erlandson
here with us.
He is one of our clients withAdvanced Neighbors and we love
to talk with our clients and getto know them a little bit
better and share their story andbusiness with the community.
So welcome, marcus.
(00:32):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm doing great, karen, thanks for having me here
.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm so glad to have you here.
So tell us a little bit, Marcus, who you are.
I know you're a Davie Countyresident, so just give us a
little bit of your background.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, I'm pretty much born and raised here.
I went to high school here,live here, work here, whole deal
Davie County through andthrough.
I have a wife of almost fouryears and I have an almost
two-year-old son.
So just you know, I got myroots settled here and
everything as well, so notplanning on going anywhere
(01:07):
anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I love it.
I love it, and is your familyoriginally from here?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're not.
They're actually originallyfrom Sweden.
They moved here in the lateeighties, so me and my brothers
are first born Americans here inthe country.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Okay, how exciting.
But now your parents still livehere, right?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They do, yep, they sure do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Okay, awesome.
And they're in Baby County aswell, right, yep, sure are
Awesome, awesome.
So you are with Farm Bureau,correct?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I am.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Awesome.
So tell me how you ended upwith Farm Bureau and in the
Insurance Business Act andactually what you do for them.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, so I actually I used to be in construction for
about four years almost, and Iwas in working for a GC in
Winston and while I was gettingmy degree and I had originally
planned on going into projectmanagement or some type of
management that's what my degreeis from and my father in law
(02:11):
was actually upfitting a FarmBureau office in Statesville and
you know, whenever I was comingup graduating I had to leave my
work just over somedisagreements and everything.
I wasn't really giving what waspromised to me whenever I
graduated.
So I was in the market fordoing something different and my
(02:32):
father-in-law was talking tothe manager in Statesville and
he was asking my father-in-lawif he knew anyone who was young,
was interested in sales and waslooking to do something
different.
And I actually was in the NorthCarolina Sales Institute in
college and openly competed insales competitions and stuff.
So I mean, that was really yeah, I've always been a interested
(02:57):
in sales, so I figured, you know, it sounds like a good
opportunity, might as well giveit a shot that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what?
What do you do at the NorthCarolina sales Institute?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So, uh, you just do like a lot of like mock little
little sales things.
You know we do like uhdifferent scenarios and just you
know you get like scripts andstuff where you practice your
sales and you know you learn,you know you just learn the
basics of sales.
It's a really neat, really neatyou know club that I was a part
of.
It's definitely one of thehighlights of my college
(03:29):
experience.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So it sounds like that's a lot similar.
I guess what I'm thinking, butI guess on a collegiate level,
some basic skills, people skills, I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, just to a deeper level, absolutely Mixing
with sales.
I love it.
Well, I can.
It certainly shows becauseyou're very easy to talk to and
work with.
So that's awesome.
So you went from constructionto Farm Bureau, which now,
understanding your background ofhaving that involvement with
(04:05):
the North Carolina SalesInstitute, I can connect that
and that makes sense for me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
A little bit better, but generally just yeah,
construction to insurance.
So what's your favorite part ofwhat you do with Farm Bureau?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, I guess the main thing is I've always been a
people person.
I get to meet people of allwalks of life.
It's never a dull moment.
I always get a differentinteraction with people on a
daily basis.
I really enjoy working withpeople.
I'm old school and I like tosit down and meet with families
(04:41):
and sit across from theirkitchen table.
Know, kitchen table sit acrossfrom my office.
It's remote so I mean I'm, I'malways out and about, so it's,
it's a, it's a nice littlelittle little deal going on
there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You're an old soul in a young body.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I've been told that a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Well, you know it takes that to do what you do
because you're getting intimatewith people as far as their
information and people need totrust you to divulge a lot of
that information.
So that's awesome and you'redefinitely a trustworthy person,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So you started then with your father-in-law in
Statesville, but your office isback here in Davie County,
correct?
It is yes.
So I was in Statesville forright at almost three years, and
they weren't actually opening.
They didn't have any openingsin Davie, you know.
So that was the only reason whyI wasn't working home, but it
was the closest I could work.
So as soon as they had anopening in Davie, my current
manager, grace, later reachedout and he was like hey, I have
an opportunity for you.
If you want to come on over,we're willing to make it work.
(05:52):
And here I am Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So you've now been with Farm Bureau.
You said four years.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'm going into my fourth year Yep Going into your
fourth year.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
OK, and tell me a little bit specifically what you
do for families.
Four years, is that right?
I'm going into my fourth year.
Yep, going into your fourthyear.
Okay, and tell me a little bitspecifically what you do for
families.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh man, pretty much.
My job is to safeguard what ismost important to families, so
you know, their vehicles, housebusinesses, farms, their life,
health.
It's a wide range of thingsthat I do.
I'm licensed in five differentlines of insurance.
(06:30):
I'm capable of writing over 20lines of insurance, but really,
really, what I specialize in isjust that auto, home and life
market.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, so tell me, what makes Farm Bureau special.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think that the thing that Farm Bureau does very
well is that they have a localfeel.
You know we're, we have over100 offices in the state, so
you'll be hard pressed to find acounty that doesn't have a Farm
Bureau office in it.
And um, we're, we.
We, uh, do a lot withagriculture and with with the
(07:08):
people of the county and of theof the state.
So we, I feel like, you know,versus these big national
carriers, we still, you knowwe're obviously a large, you
know business and everythingstill, but we still have that
feel of like a local, littlefamily-owned of office.
So I think that reallyseparates us.
You know people like that.
(07:28):
They can come in, you know,just drive down the road and
talk to someone in person,instead of being on the phone
for four hours trying to get ahold of someone you know in
another country or something.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So right and not knowing who you're actually
going to speak with, versusthere's an actual face behind
the name and you can see thatface regularly in your community
, living life with you yep,exactly love it.
That's awesome.
So do you have a larger or along-term vision for yourself
(08:01):
with Farm Bureau um?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
you know, maybe a management is in the future, but
you know, I'm I'm currentlyenjoying what I'm doing.
Um, I, I really just I take alot of pride in being from Davie
County.
I love, love the county.
It's given me everything I have, you know, and I I wouldn't be
in this situation I'm in rightnow if it weren't for for Davie.
So any chance I have to justservice and help grow the county
(08:27):
and, just, you know, make asmany connections and
relationships as possible,that's really ultimately my, my
long, long-term goal.
So just having as many peopleon Davey insured and, you know,
friends and clients, that'spretty much my long-term goal.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, so do you.
I know you work withindividuals, you know, and
families and so forth.
Do you do commercial, or I knowyou deal in agriculture and so
through that there's going to bebusinesses, but how would you
classify that?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, we do commercial.
I have several business ownersI work with.
We try protection for thosebusiness owners there.
You know commercial autos, allkinds of policies like that,
along with the farming side ofit as well.
So ultimately, you know, wehave our separate federation
just for farming, so we havethat as well.
So we try to service as much aswe can.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, well, so we're.
We try to try to service asmuch as we can.
Okay, because sometimes justthe name Farm Bureau can mislead
people.
You know what I mean that theysometimes think that is only for
that rural, the agricultureclientele.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But that's not the case yeah, in the early 1900s we
actually were formed for thefarmers who can't make it to the
city, pretty much because allthe people in the city weren't
willing to, you know, come outand service the farmers and all
the people that lived out in therural areas.
So they kind of just formedtheir own thing out of that.
(10:16):
So that's, we've always, youknow, had a big emphasis on
farming and on people in ruralareas, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But we do service everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So we don't just, don't just do farms.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
OK, OK, Very good to know and you said that
federation, that's part of thatfederation that you're speaking
of how you guys were founded.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, we have a separate federation and I
probably should know more aboutit than I do, but I do know that
we do a lot, lot for thefarming and agriculture in North
Carolina.
We do a lot for FFA and stufflike that.
Young Farmers and Ranchers isanother big one I know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Farm Bureau offers scholarships and a lot of other
opportunities for agriculture,so they really do try to give
back and help out as much asthey can in that field that's
awesome too, because and youknow, davy county has a lot of
rural farm area, um, so I canimagine that, um, you're able to
give back to davy county a lotum through that.
(11:18):
So, yeah, that's awesome.
So who's your favoriteclientele to work with?
Like, is it new families?
You know who's that sweet spotfor you that you just naturally
feel like every time I turnaround, you know that's who I'm
working with.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, you know our primary you.
That's who I'm working with.
Yeah, um, you know our primaryclient is is the?
You know just the typicalfamilies and everything you know
.
We don't set ours for just oneclientele but I like working
with, uh, with new families, youknow younger people, just
because a lot of the timeinsurance can be confusing and
(11:58):
they.
They can be maybe a little more,you know, unaware of what to do
and how to set it up, and theycan maybe get taken advantage of
by people sometimes.
I really like, you know,sitting down with them, you know
, educating them on the wholeprocess and making sure that
they're taken care of from anearly stage so we can, you know,
(12:18):
set up their future the rightway and everything, and make
sure that everything's good fromfrom the start, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Outstanding.
Well, you don't find, or atleast in my experience, someone
as young as you that has theheart and passion for what you
do, and I think that's veryspeaks volumes for you, your
character, um, and everything.
So, um, I think you're doing agreat job out there.
(12:47):
People are very, very lucky tohave you in their corner, Um, so
tell everyone how they can bestreach you if they want more
information, um, or just like toto connect with you.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So, um, I do a lot on Facebook, social media.
You could follow my Facebookpage.
It's Marcus Erlandson, northCarolina Farm Bureau Insurance
Agent.
You can have websites linked onthere.
I have my office number, myemail, my cell phone on there.
I try to be, you know, asreachable as possible.
(13:20):
I like to pride myself ongetting back with people you
know at within 24 hours, forsure, but you know way earlier
than that, pretty much all thetime, unless there's you know
something going on.
But I try my best to bereachable and that's usually
where people are able to get ahold of me at.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, what's the best phone number for someone to
reach you?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So, uh, you can, I'll get my cell phone number out, I
mean whatever you're mostcomfortable with, I'm fine with
that, yeah absolutely, it's a336-909-1679.
Okay, okay, hopefully no onesends me any nasty pictures or
texts or anything.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Uh, you're you're too nice for someone to want to do
that, and do you have aparticular or best email that
someone could reach out?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I do.
So it's just my name.
It's Marcus, and then DotErlinson at N as in Nancy, c as
in Charlie, f as in Frank, b asin boy.
I as in igloo N as in Nancy andS as in samcom, so it's just
N-C-F-B-I-N-Scom.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Got it.
Got it Well, Marcus.
Thanks for taking a few minuteshere with me on this kind of
wet Friday afternoon just to letour Davie County audience know
a little bit more about you andyour services and what you do,
and we really appreciate it andI hope you have a great rest of
your services and what you doand we really appreciate it and
I hope you have a great rest ofyour day and weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Absolutely.
You too, karen.
I love any chance we get to sitdown and talk, so happy, happy
to help and happy to supportthis.
And, you know, get back to thecounty anyway, I can.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Outstanding.
Same here, buddy.
Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yes ma'am, me too, thanks.
Thank you for listening to theGood Neighbor Podcast.
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That's GNPDavycom, or call336-559-3044.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Karen Wood.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, good afternoon.
This is Karen Wood and I'm soexcited to have Marcus Erlandson
here with us.
He is one of our clients withAdvanced Neighbors and we love
to talk with our clients and getto know them a little bit
better and share their story andbusiness with the community.
So welcome, marcus.
(00:32):
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm doing great, karen, thanks for having me here
.
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm so glad to have you here.
So tell us a little bit, Marcus, who you are.
I know you're a Davie Countyresident, so just give us a
little bit of your background.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, I'm pretty much born and raised here.
I went to high school here,live here, work here, whole deal
Davie County through andthrough.
I have a wife of almost fouryears and I have an almost
two-year-old son.
So just you know, I got myroots settled here and
everything as well, so notplanning on going anywhere
(01:07):
anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I love it.
I love it, and is your familyoriginally from here?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're not.
They're actually originallyfrom Sweden.
They moved here in the lateeighties, so me and my brothers
are first born Americans here inthe country.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Okay, how exciting.
But now your parents still livehere, right?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They do, yep, they sure do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Okay, awesome.
And they're in Baby County aswell, right, yep, sure are
Awesome, awesome.
So you are with Farm Bureau,correct?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I am.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Awesome.
So tell me how you ended upwith Farm Bureau and in the
Insurance Business Act andactually what you do for them.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Well, so I actually I used to be in construction for
about four years almost, and Iwas in working for a GC in
Winston and while I was gettingmy degree and I had originally
planned on going into projectmanagement or some type of
management that's what my degreeis from and my father in law
(02:11):
was actually upfitting a FarmBureau office in Statesville and
you know, whenever I was comingup graduating I had to leave my
work just over somedisagreements and everything.
I wasn't really giving what waspromised to me whenever I
graduated.
So I was in the market fordoing something different and my
(02:32):
father-in-law was talking tothe manager in Statesville and
he was asking my father-in-lawif he knew anyone who was young,
was interested in sales and waslooking to do something
different.
And I actually was in the NorthCarolina Sales Institute in
college and openly competed insales competitions and stuff.
So I mean, that was really yeah, I've always been a interested
(02:57):
in sales, so I figured, you know, it sounds like a good
opportunity, might as well giveit a shot that is so cool.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So what?
What do you do at the NorthCarolina sales Institute?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So, uh, you just do like a lot of like mock little
little sales things.
You know we do like uhdifferent scenarios and just you
know you get like scripts andstuff where you practice your
sales and you know you learn,you know you just learn the
basics of sales.
It's a really neat, really neatyou know club that I was a part
of.
It's definitely one of thehighlights of my college
(03:29):
experience.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So it sounds like that's a lot similar.
I guess what I'm thinking, butI guess on a collegiate level,
some basic skills, people skills, I guess.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, just to a deeper level, absolutely Mixing
with sales.
I love it.
Well, I can.
It certainly shows becauseyou're very easy to talk to and
work with.
So that's awesome.
So you went from constructionto Farm Bureau, which now,
understanding your background ofhaving that involvement with
(04:05):
the North Carolina SalesInstitute, I can connect that
and that makes sense for me.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
A little bit better, but generally just yeah,
construction to insurance.
So what's your favorite part ofwhat you do with Farm Bureau?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, I guess the main thing is I've always been a
people person.
I get to meet people of allwalks of life.
It's never a dull moment.
I always get a differentinteraction with people on a
daily basis.
I really enjoy working withpeople.
I'm old school and I like tosit down and meet with families
(04:41):
and sit across from theirkitchen table.
Know, kitchen table sit acrossfrom my office.
It's remote so I mean I'm, I'malways out and about, so it's,
it's a, it's a nice littlelittle little deal going on
there.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You're an old soul in a young body.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah, I've been told that a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Well, you know it takes that to do what you do
because you're getting intimatewith people as far as their
information and people need totrust you to divulge a lot of
that information.
So that's awesome and you'redefinitely a trustworthy person,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
So you started then with your father-in-law in
Statesville, but your office isback here in Davie County,
correct?
It is yes.
So I was in Statesville forright at almost three years, and
they weren't actually opening.
They didn't have any openingsin Davie, you know.
So that was the only reason whyI wasn't working home, but it
was the closest I could work.
So as soon as they had anopening in Davie, my current
manager, grace, later reachedout and he was like hey, I have
an opportunity for you.
If you want to come on over,we're willing to make it work.
(05:52):
And here I am Awesome, Awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So you've now been with Farm Bureau.
You said four years.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
I'm going into my fourth year Yep Going into your
fourth year.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
OK, and tell me a little bit specifically what you
do for families.
Four years, is that right?
I'm going into my fourth year.
Yep, going into your fourthyear.
Okay, and tell me a little bitspecifically what you do for
families.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh man, pretty much.
My job is to safeguard what ismost important to families, so
you know, their vehicles, housebusinesses, farms, their life,
health.
It's a wide range of thingsthat I do.
I'm licensed in five differentlines of insurance.
(06:30):
I'm capable of writing over 20lines of insurance, but really,
really, what I specialize in isjust that auto, home and life
market.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Okay, so tell me, what makes Farm Bureau special.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
I think that the thing that Farm Bureau does very
well is that they have a localfeel.
You know we're, we have over100 offices in the state, so
you'll be hard pressed to find acounty that doesn't have a Farm
Bureau office in it.
And um, we're, we.
We, uh, do a lot withagriculture and with with the
(07:08):
people of the county and of theof the state.
So we, I feel like, you know,versus these big national
carriers, we still, you knowwe're obviously a large, you
know business and everythingstill, but we still have that
feel of like a local, littlefamily-owned of office.
So I think that reallyseparates us.
You know people like that.
(07:28):
They can come in, you know,just drive down the road and
talk to someone in person,instead of being on the phone
for four hours trying to get ahold of someone you know in
another country or something.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
So right and not knowing who you're actually
going to speak with, versusthere's an actual face behind
the name and you can see thatface regularly in your community
, living life with you yep,exactly love it.
That's awesome.
So do you have a larger or along-term vision for yourself
(08:01):
with Farm Bureau um?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
you know, maybe a management is in the future, but
you know, I'm I'm currentlyenjoying what I'm doing.
Um, I, I really just I take alot of pride in being from Davie
County.
I love, love the county.
It's given me everything I have, you know, and I I wouldn't be
in this situation I'm in rightnow if it weren't for for Davie.
So any chance I have to justservice and help grow the county
(08:27):
and, just, you know, make asmany connections and
relationships as possible,that's really ultimately my, my
long, long-term goal.
So just having as many peopleon Davey insured and, you know,
friends and clients, that'spretty much my long-term goal.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, so do you.
I know you work withindividuals, you know, and
families and so forth.
Do you do commercial, or I knowyou deal in agriculture and so
through that there's going to bebusinesses, but how would you
classify that?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, we do commercial.
I have several business ownersI work with.
We try protection for thosebusiness owners there.
You know commercial autos, allkinds of policies like that,
along with the farming side ofit as well.
So ultimately, you know, wehave our separate federation
just for farming, so we havethat as well.
So we try to service as much aswe can.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Okay, well, so we're.
We try to try to service asmuch as we can.
Okay, because sometimes justthe name Farm Bureau can mislead
people.
You know what I mean that theysometimes think that is only for
that rural, the agricultureclientele.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But that's not the case yeah, in the early 1900s we
actually were formed for thefarmers who can't make it to the
city, pretty much because allthe people in the city weren't
willing to, you know, come outand service the farmers and all
the people that lived out in therural areas.
So they kind of just formedtheir own thing out of that.
(10:16):
So that's, we've always, youknow, had a big emphasis on
farming and on people in ruralareas, for sure.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But we do service everyone.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
So we don't just, don't just do farms.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
OK, OK, Very good to know and you said that
federation, that's part of thatfederation that you're speaking
of how you guys were founded.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, yeah, we have a separate federation and I
probably should know more aboutit than I do, but I do know that
we do a lot, lot for thefarming and agriculture in North
Carolina.
We do a lot for FFA and stufflike that.
Young Farmers and Ranchers isanother big one I know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Farm Bureau offers scholarships and a lot of other
opportunities for agriculture,so they really do try to give
back and help out as much asthey can in that field that's
awesome too, because and youknow, davy county has a lot of
rural farm area, um, so I canimagine that, um, you're able to
give back to davy county a lotum through that.
(11:18):
So, yeah, that's awesome.
So who's your favoriteclientele to work with?
Like, is it new families?
You know who's that sweet spotfor you that you just naturally
feel like every time I turnaround, you know that's who I'm
working with.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, you know our primary you.
That's who I'm working with.
Yeah, um, you know our primaryclient is is the?
You know just the typicalfamilies and everything you know
.
We don't set ours for just oneclientele but I like working
with, uh, with new families, youknow younger people, just
because a lot of the timeinsurance can be confusing and
(11:58):
they.
They can be maybe a little more,you know, unaware of what to do
and how to set it up, and theycan maybe get taken advantage of
by people sometimes.
I really like, you know,sitting down with them, you know
, educating them on the wholeprocess and making sure that
they're taken care of from anearly stage so we can, you know,
(12:18):
set up their future the rightway and everything, and make
sure that everything's good fromfrom the start, pretty much.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Outstanding.
Well, you don't find, or atleast in my experience, someone
as young as you that has theheart and passion for what you
do, and I think that's veryspeaks volumes for you, your
character, um, and everything.
So, um, I think you're doing agreat job out there.
(12:47):
People are very, very lucky tohave you in their corner, Um, so
tell everyone how they can bestreach you if they want more
information, um, or just like toto connect with you.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
So, um, I do a lot on Facebook, social media.
You could follow my Facebookpage.
It's Marcus Erlandson, northCarolina Farm Bureau Insurance
Agent.
You can have websites linked onthere.
I have my office number, myemail, my cell phone on there.
I try to be, you know, asreachable as possible.
(13:20):
I like to pride myself ongetting back with people you
know at within 24 hours, forsure, but you know way earlier
than that, pretty much all thetime, unless there's you know
something going on.
But I try my best to bereachable and that's usually
where people are able to get ahold of me at.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, what's the best phone number for someone to
reach you?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
So, uh, you can, I'll get my cell phone number out, I
mean whatever you're mostcomfortable with, I'm fine with
that, yeah absolutely, it's a336-909-1679.
Okay, okay, hopefully no onesends me any nasty pictures or
texts or anything.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Uh, you're you're too nice for someone to want to do
that, and do you have aparticular or best email that
someone could reach out?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I do.
So it's just my name.
It's Marcus, and then DotErlinson at N as in Nancy, c as
in Charlie, f as in Frank, b asin boy.
I as in igloo N as in Nancy andS as in samcom, so it's just
N-C-F-B-I-N-Scom.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Got it.
Got it Well, Marcus.
Thanks for taking a few minuteshere with me on this kind of
wet Friday afternoon just to letour Davie County audience know
a little bit more about you andyour services and what you do,
and we really appreciate it andI hope you have a great rest of
your services and what you doand we really appreciate it and
I hope you have a great rest ofyour day and weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Absolutely.
You too, karen.
I love any chance we get to sitdown and talk, so happy, happy
to help and happy to supportthis.
And, you know, get back to thecounty anyway, I can.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Outstanding.
Same here, buddy.
Have a good one.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yes ma'am, me too, thanks.
Thank you for listening to theGood Neighbor Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to GNPDavycom.
That's GNPDavycom, or call336-559-3044.
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