The retaliatory strikes come as over 700 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas' onslaught with that number set to rise. The Israeli health ministry this morning, being Monday, saying around 2,400 are wounded with over 3,000 of the injured in serious condition. Well, let's now go to Israel's northern border, where our correspondent Pierre Kloschendler is standing by. Reports coming through just moments ago of the Lebanese foreign minister saying that his government has received assurances from Hezbollah that they will not join the fighting unless Israel harasses Lebanon. What are you seeing on the ground there? Do you trust them? That's the first question. Here it's quiet, but there's been some demonstrations and stone throwing from Palestinians emanating from the Enel Hilway refugee camp in the Tyre region, which is further west at the border fence. But those clashes were quite minor. Here it's quiet, but you hear the loud and incessant buzz of the uncrewed aerial vehicles of the Israeli army that are patrolling the skies along the Israeli-Lebanese border. And just an hour ago, we were apprehended by Israeli soldiers who checked us and asked us to leave immediately after this life transmission because they said this is not safe. The soldiers seemed quite relaxed. They have been called up on Saturday at the onset of this war. They are reservist soldiers from the Ghulani Infantry Brigade, and they're here not exactly knowing what will happen just as us, but obviously very active on the Israeli-Lebanese border patrolling, setting ambushes just in case of infiltration, that kind of job. Now the residents of the community villages adjacent to the border are asked to leave their homes to evacuate their places in order to leave way for the army to settle in those villages. In the particular sector in which we are, there's about eight community villages just like this one that Dean Barenboim will point at you. Those villages are just on the border a few, a couple of hundred meters away from the border wall that has been installed here. And 8,500 of these residents of these community villages have already left, but it's not mandatory, it's voluntary evacuation. Now Joav Galant, the Israeli Defense Minister, has instructed the Home Front Command to issue an evacuation plan called Safe Distance, similar to the one that is carried out with great difficulty along the Gaza border, because the fear of infiltration has always prevailed in the area where we are. And fortunately, and ironically maybe, the fear of infiltration did not materialise here as was anticipated, but was materialising along the Gaza border. Our correspondent, Pierre Kloschendler, we can hear the IDF planes just above you in the north of Israel. Thank you very much for that update. Obviously, more questions at this time than answers, but a big question being asked from the international perspective is what the fighting possibly means for both Israel and the Palestinians and the relations with other Middle Eastern counterparts. For one, analysts expect the conflict to derail a US-brokered negotiation between Israel and Saudi Arabia to establish formal relations with each other, a subject concerning officials in the United States as well. Here's Anthony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State speaking with ABC. George, it's no surprise that those opposed to the efforts to normalise relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel and more broadly to normalise Israel's relations with countries throughout the region and beyond, who opposes it, Hezbollah, Hamas and Iran. So to the extent that this was designed to try to derail the efforts that were being made, that speaks volumes. Right now the focus is on dealing with this attack, dealing with Hamas. And we'll come to the normalisation efforts, which, by the way, are incredibly difficult when it comes to Saudi Arabia and Israel, lots of hard issues to work through. But if we could get there, that would significantly advance stability in the region. It would offer so many greater prospects for people in all of these countries. And there are basically two paths that are before the region right now. One is the path of normalisation, of integration, of people working together. And by the way, in that and on that path, it's not a substitute for resolving the differences between Israelis and Palestinians. On the contrary, it needs to be used to advance that effort as well. But that's one path. The other path is what we've seen from Hamas, terrorism, horror and something that offers not only nothing to people throughout the region, it offers nothing to the Palestinians. On the contrary, everything that Hamas does makes their situation, their plight even worse. They bring nothing but death and destruction not only to Israelis, but to Palestinians. Let's cross now live to a front in the West Bank where I'm joined by Dr. Emanuel Navon, an international relations expert and the CEO of Elnit. Emanuel, good morning to you. This is obviously a very difficult couple of days in Israel and perhaps even premature to be asking about what is likely to happen to the Middle East after this sort of fighting between both Israel and Hamas is done with. But what we can be speaking about at least at the moment is the Abraham Accords, the countries of which we signed peace accords with not too long ago. Have any of them commented, sent their condolences, condemned Hamas, any news from them with regards to what is happening in Israel? There's been some mild condemnation from the UAE, but definitely I think Israel was looking forward and expecting some stronger condemnation in light of the fact that this is just not another round of fighting between Israel and Hamas. This was barbaric acts of terrorism by Hamas against Israeli civilians. And I think that you just interviewed, I mean, you just broadcast an interview by Secretary of State Blinken. And I think that Anthony Blinken has been working very hard to get a stronger condemnation from Arab countries that have normalized the relations with Israel because we're talking here about an act of pure barbaric terrorism against civilians. Right. Are we seeing that news is coming out that China, quote, opposes and condemns actions that harm civilians in Israel, Hamas, violence, more on the neutral side from them. But again, countries are coming out expressing both their condemnation and their concern. And Emmanuel, just before we let you go, I would like to ask you, there's been footage of pro-Palestinian activists in New York, in Washington, D.C. We're talking about the United States of America, but not just there in countries around the world. Surely there's got to be a difference being made here with support with the Palestinians versus support with Hamas, an identified terror group. Generally speaking, all the Western governments, including in Europe, have been very supportive of Israel, have expressed their support for Israel's right to defend itself. The mainstream politicians, the mainstream media throughout Europe, the United States and the Western world. We know that within the free world, because the free world is free, there are voices that are against democracy, against freedom that support terrorism. This, of course, is part of the freedom of expression. But of course, we need to realize that when those people say free Palestine, what they mean is the murder of Jews and the elimination of Israel has nothing to do with freedom.  They are celebrating the murder of children, of elderly, of innocents. And this has nothing to do with freedom. This has nothing to do with rights. This has simply to do with supporting the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews wherever they are. Dr. Menion, I want to stay with us, but I do want to cross now live to our correspondent Nicole Zedek, who is standing by for us in Storot in southern Israel. Nicole, earlier when we spoke to you, we're quite literally in the line of fire. Are you and the team safe right now? Where exactly are you and what is happening on the ground where you are? I think that's a difficult question to answer, Batya, because really where we are right now, it's a closed military zone. And we keep kind of being shuffled by Israeli forces to different safe places. But really, as long as we're here in the south, there is no real safe place because there are active terrorists on the ground. And Israeli forces continue to patrol the fields behind me. You continue to hear that was some Israeli artillery firing towards the Gaza Strip. Right now, the Gaza Strip, I'm here three miles behind me here in the distance. It's difficult to see because the sky is so hazy right now. There are different plumes of smoke that you can see in the distance over Gaza, but really it all just blends into this smoke that's filling the skies here in southern Israel. So we continue to hear these artillery booms and we do continue to also get rocket alerts coming from Gaza. So we are stationed right next to a public bomb shelter as well. Because in these southern cities, you have about 10 seconds, maybe 15 to quickly run to a bomb shelter as soon as you get some of those alerts. And we are hearing these these loud booms just shaking the ground and the streets here, Batya. You can feel it reverberating off of the walls, even inside the bomb shelter. So really, really a tense scene out here, as I said, a closed military zone. And so all of the residents here in the south are still told to stay inside their homes, lock their doors. Don't open it for anyone because there are active Hamas terrorists who continue to be in these fields. So Israeli soldiers are going through the fields. They're going door to door. They're looking through different gardens and in areas to try and find exactly where any more terrorists have infiltrated into southern Israel. But it is a difficult task, even with so many different soldiers and reinforcements on the ground. I mean, even as we're speaking, I continue to see different Israeli forces drive by on the roads behind us here. Different armored vehicles, different tanks being sent to different areas as they need reinforcements. Because as you've seen throughout the day, we are just being shuffled from city to city area to area really along the side of the road wherever it seems safest, depending on the hour. And that just shows exactly how ever changing and developing and constantly dangerous really this situation is down here for the Israeli soldiers, the police of the military and and the residents and the citizens in the area as well. So really a dangerous situation in this ongoing war down here in the south. Right, Nicole, we are looking at live visuals at the moment of the Gaza Strip with massive plumes of smoke. They're evidently probably those fires that you are hearing being shot over into Gaza that amounting there. Now, Nicole, on a bit more of a personal note at the end of the day, journalist in Israel, you are in the south. Many residents, as you mentioned, are behind closed doors told not to come out. How difficult has it been today being in the south, apart from the logistical difficulties of being moved and shuffled from place to place that's deemed safe or safer? What has it been like as a reporter on the ground currently in Israel? These are normally scenes reporters talk about in the Gaza Strip during conflicts, but this is actually happening right here at home in the south of Israel. Exactly, and that's what makes it so difficult to cover because this is our home. This is Israel. This is the place that we all all consider home and we've lived in for years, months, days, whatever it is. We all have a sense of pride for this land. And so seeing it completely taken over the fact that terrorists are still in this territory in Israel, in these residential areas, nearly more than 48 hours after the initial infiltration, it's sickening. It is hard to watch, hard to watch even the Israeli soldiers. We have to remind everyone that many of these people, they are so young. They're 18 years old who are on the front lines defending the country here in Israel. So that's what's truly difficult as we look at all of the different soldiers in this military police who many of them got called, had to be at their bases in the blink of an eye.  I do apologize, but we do have the IDF spokesperson giving a statement now. Let's tune in. We're in control of the communities. There's no fighting going on in the communities right now. There could still be terrorists in the area like terrorists we found in Sharon Egev, people who were hiding. We took down these guys who were hiding.  Our fighters, the special units, the ground troops are fighting bravely. As we speak, there are no live fighting going on. The arrangement of the area is our goal right now. And what I mean is closing the gaps in the fence. These holes in the fence will be secured by tanks that would stand in front of each of those openings. Fighter helicopters and drones will all monitor the gaps in the fence in order to ensure that no terrorists infiltrate Israel. The settlements, the communities next to the fence are now liberated. We've evicted 15 of 24 communities. We're expected to evacuate all the communities near the fence. There will not be evacuated at this stage. The state of Israel has faced 4,400 rocket launches. We have high readiness in the northern command with our ground forces there. Yesterday, there were a number of local events on the border. On our post, there are no casualties. We returned fire. And we're maintaining the north strong. There's no fighting going on in the north as we speak. We have high readiness in the north, full readiness for any scenario. I wish to move to the attack. The IDF is on an attack. We transformed into heavy waves of attacks in a wide compound, aerial compound of 50 to 60 combat fighter jets dropping thousands of ammunition. As we speak and strike on the north Gaza Strip in an area that has hundreds of targets being attacked, we will reach thousands of targets being attacked. In each of those, there are terrorists. We do not attack areas where there are no terrorists. We are attacking terrorists. Every area that has terrorists will be attacked. Every headquarter, every office will be attacked.  Hundreds of them. Hundreds of them on the fence. We took down everyone who attempted to reach the fence, with helicopters, with planes, with tanks, with ground troops. There are terrorists killed on the fence in the hundreds. Hundreds are buried under buildings in our attacks. In the wave with which we attacked in Beit Hanun, there are dozens of terrorists buried under buildings. The closures are closed. There is no power in Gaza. No one comes in or out. Aanda is under siege. We are conducting a wide reservists' drafting. We have never drafted this many reservists so quickly. We have reached 300,000 reservists in 24 hours. The best of the Israeli civilians are drafting to the IDF. IDF has equipment. There is a lot of talk about this. There is equipment. We have places and units where 150 and sometimes 200% of reservists arrived. Those who are not needed will be released back home. We are not short of equipment or food. Everything will reach, even if it takes some time. Not everyone will have the same type of equipment. Those are in the forefront, are not the same as those who are in the back. Everyone will have equipment. Everyone has food. We need to show resilience with great appreciation to the citizens who came in the hundreds of thousands to draft to the IDF. There are casualties. Civilians, IDF fighters, commanders, some 700 killed so far. IDF soldiers, who we informed their families so far, are 73. We hug the families at this difficult time. There are hundreds of wounded. We wish a speedy recovery to those injured. There are also people who are kidnapped and missing. Missing from the fighting areas and Hamas has published information. The murderous group is spreading videos showing their barbaric behavior. And we will inform the families. We have appointed Lior Karmeli to be in charge. We are also drafting dozens of HR personnel to collect DNA and find out who's missing, who's kidnapped. We will inform the media and the public only after we will update the families. It's the greatest terror event that the state of Israel has experienced. The political wing of Hamas is a murderous terror group. Sinwar is the leader of this campaign. Himself and are all worthy of dying. His infrastructure are part of the war campaign. We're attacking them very focused in terms of intelligence. We are attacking any place that has terrorists in it. We're attacking with force and that force will only increase. All of the capabilities of the IDF will be operated. Questions? Guys, I appreciate you very much for translating that. We've also still got with us Mr. Navon on the line. I wanted to ask you, Emmanuel, we've just heard the IDF spokesperson reassuring the families that up until they have been notified, there will not be announcements made to the public on those that are missing or possibly kidnapped. But the reality is that a lot of these families telling I-24 News that they have not been contacted at all about the whereabouts of their families. How likely is this to reach possibly the international sphere in similar senses, but albeit different to Gilad Shalit where the international community is called upon to be able to assist in hostage situations? Well, first of all, I must tell you that like the rest of the country I watched last night on the news, the representatives of the families, the parents of victims who have been lost. We don't know where they are. And it was really heartbreaking. The tragedy of those parents who simply do not know what their children are, who heard them last on the phone on Saturday with shooting around them. Nobody should go through such a horrible situation. There are now citizen civilians, innocents held hostage by a barbaric jihadist organization in the Gaza Strip. And Israel must do everything it can to gather the support of the international community to free those people, to give access to the Red Cross. Hamas is acting against international law, against the rules of war, against the rules of engagement. And I think that we need not only the support which we have today. Of course, we very much appreciate the expressions of supports which have arrived from capitals around the world. But we need the same governments to also do everything they can and use their influence to make sure that Hamas not only enables access to those hostages, but also frees them to Israel. So that is a number one priority. Dr. Emmanuel Navon, the CEO of Elnett and an international relations expert. Thank you very much for being with us this morning. Just to recap, the Israeli military says that aircraft continued to pound the Gaza Strip with their objective clear to devastate the capabilities of the Hamas terror group. Israel's retaliatory strikes come as over 700 Israelis have been confirmed murdered by Hamas's onslaught with the Israeli Health Ministry saying that 2,400 are wounded and around 300 of them in serious condition. Continue to follow I-24 news on our breaking news additions, as well as our website and social media pages for more updates on the situation.


If you don't gain new clients, you will fail. Keep watching this video to figure out five ways to gain clients for any insurance business. I'm Cody Askins. That started when I was 19 as an intern, made 117K in my first eight months. I used several of these ways that I'm going to share with you, and I'm sharing with you right now. So don't go anywhere. The very first one to just jump right in on how to gain clients is face to face networking. There's several other ways. I believe that every way is actually going to get better the longer in the video that you stay. And it may have a special deal at the end of the video if you watch the entire video. So we'll stay tuned and wait for that. So face to face networking. What I'm talking about is there are a lot of local things that you can do that you can help. So like for instance, a lot of PNC agencies will network with car lots or take by popcorn or whatever so that they refer them business. There's chambers. You can create your own networking group. My father created his own networking group a few years ago. He gets referrals weekly because of that specific group and the networking that takes part in that. Even if they're not looking for coverage, just beginning out in networking and meeting with people lets other people know that it lets me know that you're serious about this business and that you will be here a very long time.  I'm not part of the 92% I'm part of the 8%. And face to face networking is a great way to get brand recognition to meet people, to network with people. Coach Burke talking about right now about a top 25 you need a top 25 that you can network with in your market across the country or whatever. Face to face networking even though old fashioned can still work so don't forget about the opportunities that come from actually getting out in face to face networking. The second one is cold calling. Now you can use this. You could say that we're talking about cold calling in door knocking. You could say cold calling as in actually making calls. You could talk about consumers. You could talk about businesses going B2B or B2C. That's a way that a lot of insurance agents have built their agencies, their companies, their brands. When I was a brand new agent, I used to bring over three to five college kids over to my office every Monday night. We would call from about 5.30 to 8.30 about three hours every Monday night and we would cold call for life insurance. I would walk out of there with 8, 12, 16, sometimes even 20 appointments and my whole week was booked up because I was leveraging cold calling to gain clients. Now I bet 50, 60% didn't keep the appointment but that's besides the point. It was activity. I was trying to gain clients. I was doing it in a creative approach without spending a bunch of money. There's a lot of different ways to succeed and cold calling even though also old fashioned can still work. You could say, well you know what, I'm going to also call aged leads. If they're a couple years old, that thing is probably a freaking cold call. Right now I'm going to treat it like a new lead. That's what I do with a script, however doing that can still benefit you because the whole goal is to gain clients, typically activity and getting in front of people is what actually gains you clients. Number three is current client referrals. Current client referrals. So don't you think about that for a second. What are some creative things that you can do in your business with your clients to get more referrals? Is it events? Is it marketing? Is it networking? Is it spending time with them? What does that look like in your business? Could you do? For instance, here in Springfield, Missouri, I know some agents that just put on a massive client appreciation event. I believe it was, I think it was like Bass Pro down the road and they had like 400 clients show up. Do you think they're going to get referrals from that? Do you think they're going to get repeat business from that? Do you think they're going to have a good retention rate with their client base because of that? So I want you to think outside the box for a second. Are you sending your clients? For instance, are you sending them a birthday card? And I'm not saying a birthday card that says, hey, happy birthday, thanks for your business.  I'm saying, hey, happy birthday, Betty. Back in 1942, when you were born, you could buy a Coke for five cents. Today it may cost you a dollar, so have a Coke on me and throw a dollar bill in the freaking envelope or the freaking card and say, hey, happy birthday. Don't mention your business, right? You can drop a business card in there if you want, but it isn't about that. It's about them focused, not you focused, right? Okay, so that's one way. Also, I used to send, I used to send newsletters every single month, okay? It was a physical newsletter. It was probably about this size, all right? And I would have, I would have recipes. I would have new updates. I would do trivia where if you call and you get a gift card, if you refer somebody, you know, I may give you something, right? I would release a new product. I would talk about, I would show a picture of me and my wife maybe or our dog or whatever, right? And it would be a way for me to create this relationship with them, this custom bond.  So I would send out monthly newsletter. I'll get to where I was sending out five or 600 of those handwriting them every freaking month, okay? And when you're, when they're first doing business with you, are you sending them a thank you card, okay? And get creative with the thank you card.  So get creative with that. Are you asking for referrals? Are you doing events, right? Most of your clients, suppose there's a statistic out there that says that every one of your clients is worth five to six referrals. And you don't even know it, okay? If that's true, are we actually asking for referrals, okay? So that's another one, okay? Client referrals. The next one is we're gonna move into more 2020 and beyond, okay? Online marketing. What are you doing online marketing-wise, okay? We're doing our best to build a brand and help agents and get attention in the marketplace. What are you doing in your local market to get attention, okay? Are you doing some online marketing?  Do you have a website? Are you present online? Do you have a website, okay? And some of this is gonna be like super elementary, but the average age of an interest age is 59 and a half and most don't have this stuff, okay? Website, do you have a Facebook page? Do you have a LinkedIn? Do you have an Instagram, okay? Do you have a YouTube where your clients are putting up testimonials?   Do it yourself.  What would they find? Does it create a good first impression, a bad first impression?  I don't know, right? At the end of the day, you need to be present online. Our world is shifting that way. You need to be present online. Online marketing is a great way to be present online and you need to be, especially in your local market, you got to be present, okay? The, what does, what does Cardone say?  Online marketing is a good way to do that. The fifth way, okay, is you need, you can buy leads, right? If you don't get enough from networking, cold calling, referrals, marketing, et cetera, you can actually buy leads from someone, okay? If you mention that Cody mentioned buying leads on that video from January the 8th of 2020, okay? Deal, how big of a deal should we do? Maybe five bucks off the regular price per lead. That's a big discount, by the way, because our leads don't cost that much, okay? Five bucks off is a big percentage, right?  And what we'll do is, we'll do it, you know what? We may cap it once we get to about probably 40 people or so, which I could see happening pretty quick. But you know what? Call in, try that. 833-4024-368, all right? So, who are you buying leads from? That's a valid way of how you could gain clients every single week. The top most successful agents in our industry are doing this weekly. I know an insurance agent right now that I just spoke to recently that I'm coaching that's spending $1,000 to $2,000 per week on leads. And when you buy leads, quick complain they don't work and just remember that maybe you don't work, okay? And it may not always be the leads, and typically it isn't. A lead is only as valuable as the hands that they're put in, okay? So when someone puts leads in your hands, how valuable are they, all right? So remember that when you're going out and you're looking at gaining clients, none of this matters. None of this matters if you don't actually sit down with people every single week. You're looking to help people. You have to, only reason I was successful, if you're a new agent and you're watching, the only reason I was successful my very first year is in an insurance business. As I said, I'm going to sit down with 10 people every single week. And if I do that, I'll be successful. So I did whatever it took, cold door knocking, cold calling, leads, warm market, etc., I did whatever it took to get in front of people. And I always sat with 10. And when I sat with 10, I made a couple grand a week. Whoop-de-doo, I didn't even know how to spell insurance. I wasn't good at sales. I had no experience, etc. The whole goal to gain clients is to get in front of people. Hey, if you love this video and maybe you want to gain clients from home in your freaking pajamas, then you'll love this video. Top ways to sell life insurance 100% from home. Click on it and I'll see you there. 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