Making the Most of Being an Insurance Agent

[Paradigm]

Caliban (character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

 

[4milliondollaragent]

The most important piece of advice I can give any agent is to not give up. You will have days that are good, and more days that are bad (in the beginning) but you are in this for good now, and its what you've chosen to do. So, see it through, and make the best of it. Don't play the roll of the victim, don't feel bad for yourself and do nothing all day because your depressed, anxious, and desperate. DO SOMETHING TODAY! Get motivated and get your business going. You are your own best resource, and you can also be your own worst enemy. Choose to help yourself out by staying strong and seeing this through! Read the posts in this forum...don't post a bunch of time wasting garbage. Read the relevant and informative posts...there is a ton of great material here! This advice comes from agents who have already been there done that. Read it. Absorb it. Live it. Now get back to work!

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

Caliban,

Have you read Tim Ferris's 4 Hour Work Week? If not, pick a copy up - while not at all about insurance sales, the book is about this very topic. He might have some ideas that will jog your thinking.

Aaron

 

[arnguy]

This thread sounds like a soap opera!

 

[money888]

The most important piece of advice I can give any agent is to not give up. You will have days that are good, and more days that are bad (in the beginning) but you are in this for good now, and its what you've chosen to do. So, see it through, and make the best of it. Don't play the roll of the victim, don't feel bad for yourself and do nothing all day because your depressed, anxious, and desperate. DO SOMETHING TODAY! Get motivated and get your business going. You are your own best resource, and you can also be your own worst enemy. Choose to help yourself out by staying strong and seeing this through! Read the posts in this forum...don't post a bunch of time wasting garbage. Read the relevant and informative posts...there is a ton of great material here! This advice comes from agents who have already been there done that. Read it. Absorb it. Live it. Now get back to work!

Thanks for the inspiration!!

 

[TNAgent]

I am trying to get to that stage! Based on my other business ventures, I would suggest getting another salesperson and add some sort of profit sharing as well. Or some people enjoy trips better and offer an all expenses paid trip to Disney or something (avoid the monorail in light of recent news) and people work hard for that stuff. When I introduced that trip my sales went up 30%!!! especially the guy with 4 kids. That is something some people never make the time to do and it paid off big. Then plan it in the most dead time of year for you and take 4-7 days and make it happen. of course they have to produce to get it...

that is my 3 cents you owe me a penny.

 

[hardwork]

Dang bro, what's the "once more into the breach" speech all about? Are you trying to get in 100 posts on random threads or something?

"Get to work" you say? Doing what? Explaining why a client's monthly payment is 35 cents more this month than last? Quoting some dude's renter's insurance? Explaining the difference between bodily injury liability and property damage liability. Quoting some internet leads? Going to an agents' meeting perhaps?

Dude, step away from the hamster wheel.

This thread is about making the most of being an insurance agent by running an office that is so efficient that the agent can actually be there as little as possible so he or she can live the real life.

You say, "do something today". On that I agree, only it better not be work. Do something today . . . like swimming as long as you can without stopping, or go the library and read a book, or deliver some food to the home-bound, or begin to learn a new instrument, or even a foreign language.

Experience this life man, let your helpers trade their lives each day for coppers, not yours.

In Caliban's world, you either have an assistant, or you are the assistant.

Caliban I'm starting to think you have missed your calling!
Thanks for making me

 

[Aaron_4SIGHT]

My only hope is that some future alien race will dig up my Mac and somehow find my posts and see where I was going with this agency gig (my AFE doesn't understand) and let his 7-fingered species know how Caliban racked his pool balls and why . . . .

As a back up plan, I am going to have my head frozen when I die

This has got to be the #1 most unusual post ever to hit this forum.

 

[annuityseller]

hey he lost me at hello!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[1manshow]

have you ever dreamed

I'm guessing caliban does more dreaming than most