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FACT: Total up all the marketing firms, brokerage agencies, and insurance companies, with insurance marketers seeking independent and semi-independent insurance brokers. The final tally is just over 15,000. The total count eliminates small office General Agents or Life Insurance Career agencies with an agency force.
7 Major Problems Blocking Insurance Marketers
At least 70% of health, annuity, and life insurance marketers have one or more of these situations. These are situations that can be a roadblock causing failure, or a less than proud income.
1. Getting Enough Producers. My research shows that there are 450,000 true independent and semi-independent annuity, health, and life insurance producers representing an average of slightly over 3 insurance companies. Therefore, it should be easy to have 100 agents/brokers producing business. Usually this a yardstick requirement to get enough production to prosper financially. Simple math would conclude a recruiter has realistic chance to acquire 135 broker contract if they were average.
Few insurance marketing people targeting brokers are average, but instead a very diverse group. Its also true that the statistics reveal only 1/3 of these various types of marketers even have 135 agents or more. You must never stop recruiting.
2. Many Marketing Directors Never Sold Insurance. This reasoning is hard to understand, yet true. A steady flow of agent recruiting is the lifeline for many insurance companies. Despite this logic, too many of the company employed recruiters have never sold a life insurance policy. This sounds like inviting over an expert care mechanic to remove your computer virus. Top recruiters are very well versed that being experienced in selling insurance products is required. A prospective broker expects marketers to be knowledge in selling techniques of their products.
Otherwise it is often the blind advising the blind to see how easy their product is to sell.
3. Targeting the Wrong Agents to Recruit. This is the quickest route to failure. Many a recruiter believes the best of recruiting prospects are insurance agents with 1 to 4 years experience. This style of recruiter has no sense of longevity, either in the agent lasting with the company or his own career longevity. Over 90% of the inexperienced health and life insurance producers will have their career finished before reaching 4 years. Mail these non-brokers and get a stack of leads. They respond to everything, yet do nothing.
Never prospect from any source using a yellow page directory. 85% of the firms listed are 80% property casualty orientated, with life, annuity, and health sales rarely exceeding 20% of production. That is unless you want Allstate, Farm Bureau, AAA, Geico, Progressive, Liberty Mutual, and Nationwide on your side.
If you have an exceptional career opportunity offer to present, concentrate on brokers with 4 through 12 years of experience. Many agents and brokers make company changes during this time period. All independent and semi-independent agents and brokers are excellent at any point in their career. Especially those selling a similar product.
4. Having a Career Makeover Within the Same Company. Some insurance companies each year make the transition from operating as career agencies only. The company opens new divisions devoting to procuring the sales of insurance brokers. This marketing recruiter may be a solid company man. However, the independent word of brokerage and tactics required is a whole new realm. You are pushing the broker to be independent, yet you yourself are not, and probably never will be.
5. Marketers on a Set Salary. Similar to the above situation. Here the recruiter is an employee of the company, and paid a monthly salary. Pay increase stimulations are some of the sweetest carrots for insurance recruiters. Without an incentive, the recruiter will probably slack off. A big handicap is the lack of independent thinking. Any bright idea the marketer develops will probably be vetoed from up above. The insurance company follows old traditions, and money enhancement and recruiting plans are usually dictated.
6. Noticeably Working Out of the House. More and more insurance recruiters have an auxiliary office. Others house their whole operation in a portion of the house. If this helps free up more money for a recruiting campaign, it is a fine concept. HOWEVER, the barking dogs, cat calls, and barfing babies are not pleasant. Employing background music is pleasant and often enough to mask out a non-professional sounding atmosphere.
7. Is Anyone There Alive? This type of agent marketer always has the telephone answering machine on. In additional your phone call is responded back to with an email. The broker must then take the time to respond back to the previous email. Finally the agent contacts the recruiter successfully on a static cell phone connection. That makes a broker wonder if the insurance marketer eats, sleeps, and works out of his car. Brokers and agents want to talk to a live person. Few sign contracts without sufficient personal trust in the firm they are dealing with.
My husband is the only person named on the car title, and he has liability insurance on the car w/ Farm Bureau?
My husband and I claim different physical address’. When we got married, I was not a licensed driver, and had no need for car insurance. Nor did his insurance ask if I needed to be added. He later purchased a second vehicle and added liability insurance in his name (title and insurance). If we have separate address’ and I am now a licensed driver, If I drive the car once every other month, will I be covered, and If I were to get pulled over by the police, and show them the insurance listing his name only, will I be covered.
By showing insurance with his name only, will I be considered driving with out insurance if I am not insured on my own vehicle (another one) and the proof of insurance is listed in his name and not mine?
The car is also registered in his name only.
Are you excluded from your husbands policy? If so you aren’t covered. Most company’s will require that a spouse is either added or excluded. If you weren’t licensed when you got married it is likely that you were excluded from the insurance.
You need to be added to the policy.
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