Need Recommendation for Web-based Insurance Sales

[Justin Bilyj]

ehealth does medicare, and life also... no auto or home?

 

[Mark from WI]

Hi,

I've been looking to create a web site to sell insurance on-line.

During the course of my research I've found templates on E-bay, individual web masters, hosting companies, and a host of other on-line presence sources with non too sincere, effective, or too appealing, so far.

What I'm looking for is automated shopping cart taking clients order and submit applications in real time on-line for immediate bindings to different participating insurance companies. The site must be a turnkey web based business on the WWW and only be required to promote the site and create traffic to make money. Would this be possible?

I can provide a decent budget for a professional designer to develop this site. I would however like to see samples of actual working sites that been already designed and making money for the site owners.

I hear this a lot from agents. Usually I try to talk them out of directly competing with the big guys on their terms (pun intended).

As other agents are suggesting here on the forum (including the great post about eHealth), you are joining VERY late in the game, and you are up for an incredible uphill climb.
You can get there, but you need investment, patience, expertise and a very strong network of online insurance marketing friends and affiliates.
The best way to leverage the Internet is sales process efficiency. Using a multi-carrier quoting and proposal service like those discussed on this forum (and our own BrokerAdvantage), you can efficiently convert an existing prospect to sale. The best services use real-time rate updates, and have strong carrier coverage. Ours also has has LIFE insurance so you can cross-sell within the same proposal.
Also, be careful when you choose a web site building, quoting and/or SEO service- many of them are also marketing like crazy on their own and also selling insurance and/or leads. So... at the same time as selling you a website and getting your hopes up, they are stamping out thousands of their own web sites to grab the customers you had sought to attract.

Good luck!
- Mark from WI