This is my mom and I taking a ride this weekend around my land. I enjoyed showing her some of my favorite spots.
Jon
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By Jon DeKok
By Jon DeKok
We have twenty apple trees on our land – more if you count the wild ones found here and there down by the pond. I’m the official apple guy at our house. This includes mixing up a big batch of organic insect repellent
for the trees, picking up the fallen apples before the rot, harvesting the good ones and finally turning them into organic juice I freeze. (we can also safely pick, polish, and eat apples right off the tree worm and chemical-free)
These days, picking up fallen apples is hot work and I share the space with hundreds of bees. They don’t bother me too much. I pile the apples into the back of our John Deere Gator and haul them away where they can deteriorate uninterrupted. The bees follow the apples. Joy says when drive off with the apples piled high and a cloud of bees above the sweet, sticky fruit, it reminds her of cartoons she watched as a kid.
When the apples are ready to pick, I fill up the Gator again (this happens weekly Aug – Oct) and clean the fruit. Using an old-fashioned apple press, I “juice” the apples, strain the juice, and fill up one gallon jugs with juice. We have three freezers we use just for juice.
I don’t separate the different kinds of apples. Instead, I crush whatever is ripe at the time. This results in many different flavors of juice.
Some of the apples are almost ready for the first batch of this season. The crop is abundant and I’m going to busy. When winter comes and the squirrels and blue jays are feasting on the few frozen apples still on the trees,
I’ll be inside enjoying the fruits of the trees labor and mine. That makes the sweat and a bee sting now and then worth it.
Jon
By Jon DeKok
Although having insurance is required by law, some states report 25% of their drivers don’t have insurance.
That’s why it’s so important for you to understand the value in an insurance policy that includes Uninsured (UM) and Underinsured Motorist(UIM) Coverage.
What is UM and UIM?
UM covers you or anyone in your vehicle if you are injured or killed by a driver who has no insurance. Your coverage will be up to the limit you have on your policy.
UIM covers you or anyone in your vehicle if you are injured or killed by a driver who has liability insurance, but doesn’t have high enough limits to pay for your injuries. In this case, the at fault driver’s bodily injury liability limit will be exhausted, and your underinsured motorist coverage will pay in addition to their coverage up to your limits.
What’s In It For You?
These protections help cover you physically and fiscally. They take out the uncertainty of what happens if we are injured by an uninsured or underinsured driver.
Don’t get hit without them!
Common Limits: Most of us have um & uim limits that are the same as the Bodily Injury liability limits.
This coverage is not required on motorcycles in Minnesota, however, because the risk is much greater, most motorcycle drivers also purchase it.
Did you know?
If you have a personal Umbrella liability policy you can add um & uim to that policy. For instance if you have a $1,000,000 Umbrella policy you can add $1,000,000 um & uim coverage also. Feel free to call me at 507-226-8121 for details. Or, you can email me at [email protected].
Jon
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By Jon DeKok
We have saved our clients from $50 to $1600 per year!
Disclaimer: We can’t promise these kinds of savings for all our clients, and in some cases have saved them even MORE!
90% of the people who contact me for a quote are saving money on their insurance.
This ranks right up there with client referrals on my personal success scale. It’s a great day when I save my clients money and provide them with better insurance than they had before.
If you haven’t called for a quote yet, why not call today and see if we can save you some money on your insurance?
Jon
507-226-8121
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By Jon DeKok
It’s hard to believe we opened the DeKok Insurance Group, Inc. 7 months ago.
Thanks to all of our clients – it’s a privilege to serve you.
We’ve been studying all the way new ways we can reach out to potential clients. The world of marketing is changing. We’re blogging, have a page on FaceBook, and are learning the fine art of Twitter.
While all this social marketing is interesting and effective, we have discovered there is one long standing marketing avenue that beats them all: client referrals.
When a call comes in to the office and we are told a friend, family member, or co-worker told the caller to contact us for their insurance needs, it matters to us in beyond the possible increase in our income; it says to us that you TRUST us enough to send the people you care about to us.
That is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job.
If you’re satisfied with the job we’ve done for you, we invite you to let the people in your life know about us. We’ll appreciate it and they will enjoy the same benefits you are. . .
-Savings on their insurance
-Coverage with the TOP rated companies in the insurance industry
-We make the change over from your old agency to us easy
-Excellent customer service in our office and via all the companies we represent
Thanks again for your business!
Jon