Instructions for implementing

the Agent Office Letters & Promo Pieces

Attached to your e-mail is a Zip file which contains 4 folders;

Activities, Promos, Letters, and Introduction, with all the files in them.

Here are step-by-step instructions to implement the Agent Office Activity Plans.  Please remember that when FNIS puts it into a package, it will simply be a matter of installing everything in one step.  The problem is that I have no idea when that will happen. I've released it in this form, early, due to the  students in my Agent Office Classes (you know who you are) continuing to bug me about it :-)

1)  Right click on the attachment, and click on "Save As", and save it to your desktop, or a folder where you are sure you will be able to find it again.

2)  Find the file and double click on it to open it up.  You must have WinZip to open it.  You'll know if you have it, if you double click on it, and it doesn't do anything, or asks you what you want to open it with.  The vast majority of people already have it.  If you do not have it, click here, and download it for a free trial version.  

3)  Unzip the folders/files to a folder on your computer.  Optimally, you should create a folder in your "My Documents" folder, maybe called "Agent Office Imports", to unzip it to.

 4)  Locate the folder called "Letters".  Click here for a tutorial on how to import the letters into Agent Office.  Import ALL of the letters BEFORE creating your plans.

NOTE:  THE LETTERS AND PROMO PIECES WILL NOT OPEN IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN AGENT OFFICE. THEY MUST BE IMPORTED.

5)  Locate the folder called "Promos".  Click here for a tutorial on how to import the Promo pieces into Agent Office.  Import ALL your promo pieces BEFORE creating your plans.

6)  If you're like most people, you only read the directions if you can't make sense of whatever it is without them.  IF YOU DO THAT WITH THESE PLANS - YOU'RE SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT!  PLEASE - locate the folder called "Introduction".  Print out the Introduction file, and read it BEFORE keying in the activities.  They will make much more sense, and you will have a better idea of which ones to use, and why.

7)  Locate the folder called "Activity Plans".  Print them out.  The Activities themselves, which have the descriptions with them, must be manually keyed in, to create your plans.  For a tutorial on how to create activity plans - click here.