Ninety-Two Percent of All Agents Fail - Why?

[rbrewer]

Look if agents just did 1/3 of Marks ideas they would not be on this post whining how broke they are. It's really not that hard if you just apply some of what you learn on here. I think people want to be lead, there are very few leaders. Just get up and do something today that makes you some money and protects a family. $$$$
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The only way the failure rate will even be slightly improved is if obtaining a license was a 3 month course. I think the bare minimum would be a six week course costing at least $1,000...to start the bidding.

That would kill a lot of the riff raff from coming in - absolutely would prevent broke agents from coming in looking for a commission check next week.

Just the fact that you can "study online" for the insurance exam equates this industry to getting degree from the "University of the Bahamas."

Did you here they are trying to make nurses get phd now when you used to be able to get it with cert. All because they can $$$$
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If you want to be so critical of new agents as they are just trying to find their way and find success not failure, open a school for training and be the Insurance forum hero.

 

[Guest]

I heard a rumor that Al's jock strap is homemade. It consists of half a peanut shell and a rubber band. Al, tell me it isn't so!

You are not strong enough to carry my jock strap, much less well endowed enough to wear it.

However, you will easily be able to carry what Winter and the other right-wing conservatives wear (and I have it on good authority that it is Winter who is modeling this.)

http://tinyurl.com/qhrae2

Al

 

[brkrsrevolution]

Agencies will hire anyone who has a license.​

Agencies tend to put their best producers into a training or manager role, when most of the time the best producers should do just that, produce business. They usually don't make good trainers or good managers, as their skill is selling.​

Well those are two of the things I have seen which cause high failure rates.​

What do we see that causes success.......​

Agents who have a genuine concern about helping people and feeding their brains with knowledge about the field they have chosen to be in. You must love what you do and loving it is not all, you have to be able to show you love it.​

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50% of the agencies that agents go to work for are below average.
50% of the agents themselves are below average.​

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Matt McCray

 

[arnguy]

You are not strong enough to carry my jock strap, much less well endowed enough to wear it.

http://tinyurl.com/qhrae2

Al

BRAGGART!!!

 

[Guest]

BRAGGART!!!

Dizzy Dean: "It's not bragging if you can do it."

 

[Winter_123]

You are not strong enough to carry my jock strap, much less well endowed enough to wear it.

However, you will easily be able to carry what Winter and the other right-wing conservatives wear (and I have it on good authority that it is Winter who is modeling this.)

http://tinyurl.com/qhrae2

Al

I guess that came out of the collection of pictures stored in your computer. Don't let your wife find your folder with all the Barney Frank pics. I am sure she has enough suspicions already.

 

[arnguy]

http://tinyurl.com/qhrae2 Al[/quote]

Who took that picture of you, Al?

 

[Guest]

I guess that came out of the collection of pictures stored in your computer. Don't let your wife find your folder with all the Barney Frank pics. I am sure she has enough suspicions already.

I'm more worried she will find the pictures of you and I taken at Fire Island last summer. I can't remember if that is you on the far left or far right. My guess is the far right... to match your politics!

 

[Amber Scherloz]

Two reasons in my mind:

1. Being an insurance agent isn't being a salesperson, it's being a business owner. Salespeople realize that accounts come and go, but business owners have a vested interest in seeing accounts grow and thrive, so that they are in business for the long haul and have a solid partnership.

2. No cojones/stones/balls/testicles/etc. Your financial future rests in how well you perform on a daily basis. You will piss some people off, and it may not just be the competition. But if you don't do what is right, either ethically or for your customer (hopefully both at one time), you are doomed to fail. It doesn't matter if you take a 30% hit in your residual commission, you MUST do what is right.

Exactly! We are the ones to blame for the success that we may have or failed to have. I believe that having the hold of the things that will make us succeed will give us a good direction towards achieving it.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

Sometimes, inspirational quotes help you become successful. Here are a few:

"It's not a lie if you believe it."

"My father was a quitter, my grandfather was a quitter, I was raised to give up. It's one of the few things I do well."

"I can't carry a pen, I'm afraid it'll puncture my scrotum."

If you take everything I've accomplished in my life and condense it down to one day, it looks decent!"

"I'm disturbed, I'm depressed, I'm inadequate, I've got it all!"


Thanks George.