Newly Licensed Agent

[Chrisdabomb]

What brokerages do you guys suggest working for? Best commissions, most connections with companies (to place your clients), best customer/broker care? Any places I should look before? My thoughts were to work as an insurance adjuster and work for a brokerage on the side

 

[marindependent]

The more information you put in the more valuable response you are likely to receive.

Insurance is such a fractured market, is this P&C? Personal - Commercial? What State?

You want to work as an Adjuster and an Agent? I guess I do not understand, sorry.

 

[Markthebroker]

It sounds like you have no experience? In which case training is going to be your main concern for the 6-12 months. 2-5 years if you are going commercial.

If you are going to a brokerage, are you going to go independent? If so, how are you going to get an audience? You can literally have the best training, best products, and best customer support, but if you can't get in front of clients and close the deal (which most people, especially most insurance "experts" can't) then you'll starve faster than you'll know what happened.

 

[Thenewguy1]

It sounds like you have no experience? In which case training is going to be your main concern for the 6-12 months. 2-5 years if you are going commercial.

If you are going to a brokerage, are you going to go independent? If so, how are you going to get an audience? You can literally have the best training, best products, and best customer support, but if you can't get in front of clients and close the deal (which most people, especially most insurance "experts" can't) then you'll starve faster than you'll know what happened.

Ok let's say you have experience but no book what so ever. How would you get started then?

 

[marindependent]

et's say you have experience but no book what so ever. How would you get started then?

Go work for an agency that is up and running already for a year or so and learn on their dime.

 

[Markthebroker]

If you had experience, you would know the answer that best suits you. Furthermore, you initial question would have been phrased much differently. "Best commissions" is highest commissions, "most connections with companies (to place your clients)" are called appointments, and best "customer/broker care" is called servicing. I'm not trying to beat you up or pick on you, just let you know that this industry is incredibly complex, and you are surrounded by people and competing with people that have been doing it for decades.

If you want to sell, I suggest working for a captive agent for a year or two, then explore going independent.

 

[Markthebroker]

Go work for an agency that is up and running already for a year or so and learn on their dime.

Lol, there you go. Pretty much the same answer from two different seasoned agents.

But you know, I have a cape and can fly, and he can't.

 

[marindependent]

Lol, there you go. Pretty much the same answer from two different seasoned agents.

But you know, I have a cape and can fly, and he can't.

Yah but I got a hoddie

 

[Markthebroker]

Yah but I got a hoddie

 

[Thenewguy1]

If you had experience, you would know the answer that best suits you. Furthermore, you initial question would have been phrased much differently. "Best commissions" is highest commissions, "most connections with companies (to place your clients)" are called appointments, and best "customer/broker care" is called servicing. I'm not trying to beat you up or pick on you, just let you know that this industry is incredibly complex, and you are surrounded by people and competing with people that have been doing it for decades.

If you want to sell, I suggest working for a captive agent for a year or two, then explore going independent.

Well that's what I'm saying, I've worked under a captive agent for 3 years now and I'm trying to go independent but I don't know if anyone will appointment since I have no existing book. I'm assuming a really bad cluster will appoint me but I don't want to get stuck in a horrible contract I can't get out of. So again my question is then who would appoint me