Insureme is Going Bananas

[treeves]

I know for me, I get a lead from InsureMe and in many cases, I call within a minute of getting the lead, and the lead's phone is busy!

So, since the lead is getting bombarded within the first hour, would it be a better approach to wait a day until the chaos settles a bit before calling?

 

[0b1kanobee]

ON AVERGE how many times are you the FIRST agent to call? Maybe it's a dumb question because you might know you were the first. You could of been number two or three but after that I think people get frustrated.

But how many times would you say on average you are agent number on to call?

Reason why I ask is something just doesn't sound right here? Is your way of getting the lead slower than some other agents? Maybe some agents or agencies are getting special treatment?

Anybody have an on average answer to them being number 1 to call or a theory behind the madness?

 

[Guest]

On Tuesday, Insureme sent the same lead to every agent in the company I work for (3,500 + agents) regardless of being signed up with them or not.

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

How would InsureMe have the email addresses of all 3,500 agents?

 

[YouGotMyMoney]

ON AVERGE how many times are you the FIRST agent to call? Maybe it's a dumb question because you might know you were the first. You could of been number two or three but after that I think people get frustrated.

But how many times would you say on average you are agent number on to call?

Reason why I ask is something just doesn't sound right here? Is your way of getting the lead slower than some other agents? Maybe some agents or agencies are getting special treatment?

Anybody have an on average answer to them being number 1 to call or a theory behind the madness?

If you do a google search for "Health Insurance Quotes" you will not find InsureMe on first page google(At least I didn't, but I am half blind ....)


So what happens is they purchase leads from other lead vendors then sell it to you, so the lag time is longer vs getting the lead from the original vendor who generated the lead.

Also these lead vendors participate in Live Transfer programs where they call the lead before it is routed to you, and try and sell it to an agent as a live call for about $25-35.

Remember these leads can be sold to multiple lead vendors at once, who then in turn sell it to 5+ agents each.



A lot of leads in this day and age are generated via email spam and not actually folks going out looking for health insurance rates, plus some of these vendors will use incentive based marketing---" Fill out these 5 offers for a free $50 Red Lobster gift card", and one of those offers is health insurance quote request.

 

[Crabcake Johnny]

Kinda makes you wonder how insurance agents made a living before the interweb.

 

[treeves]

I thought insureme.com was tied in with Bankrate.com.

 

[Franz Kafka]

I don't get it (but then I don't know anything about buying leads). Is it really that hard to generate your own leads using your own website (exclusive leads for $0)? Is it that hard to compete on the web with these companies that sell you the leads?

 

[treeves]

Although you might have a web site, you have to promote it somewhere. I used to tell my clients when I was in the web development field..."a nice web site with no marketing is like having your beautiful daughter with no date for the prom." And most marketing efforts costs dollars.

My site www.InsuredByReeves.com doesn't look that bad, and I incorporated quoting tools in it. Next, I plan to add a blog, but I still have to promote it somehow.

For me just starting out as a one man operation (less than three weeks of active selling), quick hits are important to me- hence internet leads.

Google Adwords cost me an average of $4 per click through in my area, but I may get two visits a day there. My site hasn't been live long enough to be high in the organic search engine rankings yet.

Networking in the community is the next step, but it would take away from opportunities that come in during the time I was out networking.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Franz Kafka]

Although you might have a web site, you have to promote it somewhere. I used to tell my clients when I was in the web development field..."a nice web site with no marketing is like having your beautiful daughter with no date for the prom." And most marketing efforts costs dollars.

My site www.InsuredByReeves.com doesn't look that bad, and I incorporated quoting tools in it. Next, I plan to add a blog, but I still have to promote it somehow.

For me just starting out as a one man operation (less than three weeks of active selling), quick hits are important to me- hence internet leads.

Google Adwords cost me an average of $4 per click through in my area, but I may get two visits a day there. My site hasn't been live long enough to be high in the organic search engine rankings yet.

Networking in the community is the next step, but it would take away from opportunities that come in during the time I was out networking.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks for sharing and a nice website by the way. When I google "health insurance my area", the top two seem to be indenpendent agencies (and the 3rd showed address which turned out to be a house in a rather poor area of the town). What do these lead companies websites look like anyway?