How to Sell Insurance — What Insurance Agents and Financial Advisors Don’t Know

The sales skills of life insurance agents and financial advisors and the training they receive is abysmal.  But I will prove my case in this article and my intention is that this riles senior industry executives (in a good way) … Continue reading

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Life Insurance Lead Generation – The Three Elements

Life Insurance Lead generation has scientific step-by-step activities that anyone can apply. It is not guesswork or luck. Let’s look at the basic elements of a an effective life insurance lead generation system for a life insurance agent. To generate … Continue reading

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Insurance Marketing Research — The Key to Great Life Insurance Leads

The success of life insurance lead generation stems from understanding what your prospects want. But this is far harder than it sounds. The reason is, as an insurance agent, you already have your biased ideas of what your prospects want. … Continue reading

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Is Your Life Insurance Lead Insurable?

It makes common sense that you wouldn’t want to buy a life insurance lead unless you knew that the consumer were insurable. However, this common sense criteria will actually leave you with fewer sales and less money. Let’s take a look. … Continue reading

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Insurance Leads from Google

Google’s business for advertising your business and generating insurance leads on its site and its affiliate sites is called Adwords. The offering allows you to create your own advertisements and choose important words to match your ads to your audience … Continue reading

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Internet Insurance Leads and Agent Misconceptions

So the low cost of Internet insurance leads is offset by a greater dispersion of rich and poor respondents as well as a greater number of bogus insurance leads. As long as you understand that, you will not be unhappy as you can still earn a 1000% return ($1000 for every 100$ invested) and be flush with insurance leads. Continue reading

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Insurance Agent Lead – what it is and is not

So you’ve just started your insurance business and you’ve learned how important it is to have insurance leads knocking on your door on a daily basis.  But what are insurance agent leads really?  You’ll be shocked to learn what the … Continue reading

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Insurance Lead Systems Never Work

I was interviewing a guy who had sold leads for Eloan to mortgage brokers.  He told me he had sold leads for years and had used them himself. “The truth is,” he said, “lead programs never work.”  The producer who … Continue reading

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Insurance Lead Service – Should You Use One?

The answer is yes, you should use an insurance lead service because efficient, productive businesses outsource whatever they can.  When you outsource prospecting, you get to spend more time in appointments where you need to be to make sales. There … Continue reading

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Where’s My Insurance Agent Lead?

It’s a shame that so many insurance agents are clueless about marketing and client acquisition.  In July 2009, 1600 insurance agents did a a Google search on the phrase “insurance agent lead.” What exactly were these agents looking for?  A … Continue reading

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