Insureme is Going Bananas

[Guest]

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

At one time all of our agents were signed up with insureme to buy lead. We were giving a "corporate discount". This is how insureme had all the agents emails.

When I called the lead the customer had a recording on the voice mail saying that they had found insurance coverage already and to please stop calling he, this was at 9:00 a. m. on day one of receiving the lead.

 

[Aram Fingal]

I have used InsureMe pretty consistently ever since I started selling insurance, and they always used to be pretty good. But something must have changed in the way they do business recently because the quality of the leads they are sending me has dipped dramatically. There have always been the people you could never get in touch with, and the occasional bogus lead. But over the last couple of months I'm getting a lot more fake leads (John Smith at 1234 Main St with a phone number of 555-1212). They've been pretty good at crediting them so far although they have declined to credit a couple of them and then sent me an email that said they were concerned about my sudden increase in credit requests. Well, I'm concerned too!

Anyway, I'm not going to put any more money in my account for a while. I might try them again in 6 months to see if they have improved. Fortunately I'm to a point where I don't really need internet leads, I was just buying them because they were profitable. So I'll take a little break and try them again later.

I won't try any other leads companies because the one thing that InsureMe does that I still really like is you don't have to set up automatic account "refill" so I have much more control over what I'm spending without having to go in and "shut off" my leads. If I want to spend $200, I put $200 on my account and I get leads until it's used up. Then I can choose to put more in or not. The other lead companies all seem to want to set up an account minimum and then charge your credit card automatically when it dips below that. This prevents me from signing up with any of them. (are you listening lead companies?!)

Anyway... Yes, I have definitely noticed a decrease in the quality of leads from InsureMe lately.
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P.S. I noticed they they not longer give you as much filtering control either. They have different lead templates of varying "quality" like AgentInsider now. My current lead profiles are apparently grandfathered in, but I tried to set up a separate profile for another area and I couldn't pick and chose the filters like I used to be able to. Probably part of whatever change they made that also resulted in the decline in lead quality.