American Benefit Services

[Hank]

My thinking is....... and maybe I'm wrong....... if they won't invest on you...... and they want YOU to front some money..... then stay away from them ! It sounds like you are going to get taken.

Just my humble opinion !

 

[jhenderson99]

I have googled them, checked other forums and can not find anything terrible.....

 

[stormtracker]

Conference call today said that pre-set appointmentsleads are free, after you pay the $295 commitment fee to make sure you're serious about it. They did say that their lead system isn't perfect and they had to fire one of their telemarketers last week. Give them credit though for characterizing their pre-set appointment system as a crapshoot.

You can forward your fees to me. After words, I can assure you that you will be committed.

 

[John Stratton]

My name is John Stratton. I am the President of American Benefit Services, Inc located in Ocean City, NJ and Charleston, SC. The reason we ran the ad referencing the amount of income an agent could earn is because some of our top producers were consistently performing at that level. We were looking for top producers. We never guaranteed that anyone would make that level of income. We had a lead program which put the producer in front of qualified prospects each day.
The reason we asked for a Committment Fee is because it is expensive to set a new producer up with qualified leads. Before requiring a Committment Fee, we brought a number of people into our program and spent alot of money to get the producer set up with client appointments only to learn that the producer didn't even follow up on the appointments. When we asked the producer to have some "skin in the game" with a one time Committment Fee, we found the leads had value, the agents kept the appointments and were much more successful.

 

[Guest]

My name is John Stratton. I am the President of American Benefit Services, Inc located in Ocean City, NJ and Charleston, SC. The reason we ran the ad referencing the amount of income an agent could earn is because some of our top producers were consistently performing at that level. We were looking for top producers. We never guaranteed that anyone would make that level of income. We had a lead program which put the producer in front of qualified prospects each day.
The reason we asked for a Committment Fee is because it is expensive to set a new producer up with qualified leads. Before requiring a Committment Fee, we brought a number of people into our program and spent alot of money to get the producer set up with client appointments only to learn that the producer didn't even follow up on the appointments. When we asked the producer to have some "skin in the game" with a one time Committment Fee, we found the leads had value, the agents kept the appointments and were much more successful.

I understand what your company is doing, but I think you went around it the wrong way. Doing it the way your company does it smacks of deceit, something of which there's too much of that going on today's job market, and you're losing a lot of potentially good sales people due to the turnoff. Just one look at this post with the negative response of the fee should tell you that!

Instead you should consider the fee to be refundable AFTER the first $1000 in premiums have been paid, and make that known to the potential agent. Then a real sales agent will more inclined to pay the fee knowing he/she are more then capable of earning a $1000 in premium.

Just a thought.

 

[jdeasy]

I understand what your company is doing, but I think you went around it the wrong way. Doing it the way your company does it smacks of deceit, something of which there's too much of that going on today's job market, and you're losing a lot of potentially good sales people due to the turnoff. Just one look at this post with the negative response of the fee should tell you that!

Instead you should consider the fee to be refundable AFTER the first $1000 in premiums have been paid, and make that known to the potential agent. Then a real sales agent will more inclined to pay the fee knowing he/she are more then capable of earning a $1000 in premium.

Just a thought.

Since ole Joh amde that post almost two years ago and never made a follow up post I doubt that he will read you response to him.

 

[Cenla Agent]

I mean really, how gullible are we?

If it was this easy, don't you think EVERYONE would be doing it? Sh*t, that's 150-200k per year!

Insurance is not get rich quick. It's get rich SLOW. If you're looking for get rich quick, try Carleton Sheets...or drug dealing.

I don't remember Tom Vu. But I think I like him better than Don Lapre and his tiny ads. Vu is now a professional poker player.





Tom Vu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"A lot of your friends will tell you, 'Don't come to the seminar. It's a get-rich-quick plan.' Well, tell them, it is a get-rich-quick plan because life is too short to get rich slow."

"Do you think these girls like me? NO, they like my money!"

 

[Bill_Kiray]

I can't speak for this particular opportunity, but I have known and worked with John Stratton (as well as his son Wes) for 10 years. They run a good shop, and I've never heard of them treating agents poorly or cheating them.

I would recommend working with them. I have recommended agents to them in the past.

Just my 2 cents...

 

[ddjbham]

Well I really have nothing against him but I just went with the wrong GA and SGA They have turned out to be big fat liars. I would get out of the medicare business before I worked for them ever again.