Abrasax
Guru
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SFG is downright reckless in their marketing recommendations. They encourage production and LOTS of recruiting training, but very little product training.
As soon as I was added to the GroupMe chat where every sale was sent out on blast, I knew there was a problem. From my "Agency Owner" on down, there was only maybe one or 2 sales a day. I started doing the math and felt nervous that nobody was making money. At least not on their own production. I saw my upline make 2 sales my entire time at SFG and I went on one ride along with him which was cringeworthy. And he was my go-to person. SFG strongly discourages you from going outside the chain of command so my trainer, mentor and coach was an unsuccessful producer with very little experience. This is the situation MOST people at SFG find themselves in.
In my first month, I lit up the GroupMe chat. For about a month, my name was being blasted out most days, far more than anyone else on my team. I was getting calls from my upline congratulating me, but I quickly learned the difference between written AP and issue paid AP as half of what I wrote either didn't get approved or got caught in underwriting, and since nobody above me knew what they were doing, it was trial and error for everyone. In the end, I wound up getting less than half of all the commissions I expected.
I was #34 in production on the leaderboards for the month from ALL AGENTS in ALL OF SFG that home office publishes on Facebook and I probably took home about $2,000 that month.
Granted, getting your knuckles bloodied is part of the business, but when you accept insanely low comp levels (60%), you expect some serious support and help getting apps through. Dick Sylvester, the top of our team direct to SFG, used to say on the mandatory calls that agents should NOT call them or SFG, but rather just talk to their upline.
I almost left the industry after this and only later realized there are better options out there. The level of production required just to get to 100% contracts is insane.
As soon as I was added to the GroupMe chat where every sale was sent out on blast, I knew there was a problem. From my "Agency Owner" on down, there was only maybe one or 2 sales a day. I started doing the math and felt nervous that nobody was making money. At least not on their own production. I saw my upline make 2 sales my entire time at SFG and I went on one ride along with him which was cringeworthy. And he was my go-to person. SFG strongly discourages you from going outside the chain of command so my trainer, mentor and coach was an unsuccessful producer with very little experience. This is the situation MOST people at SFG find themselves in.
In my first month, I lit up the GroupMe chat. For about a month, my name was being blasted out most days, far more than anyone else on my team. I was getting calls from my upline congratulating me, but I quickly learned the difference between written AP and issue paid AP as half of what I wrote either didn't get approved or got caught in underwriting, and since nobody above me knew what they were doing, it was trial and error for everyone. In the end, I wound up getting less than half of all the commissions I expected.
I was #34 in production on the leaderboards for the month from ALL AGENTS in ALL OF SFG that home office publishes on Facebook and I probably took home about $2,000 that month.
Granted, getting your knuckles bloodied is part of the business, but when you accept insanely low comp levels (60%), you expect some serious support and help getting apps through. Dick Sylvester, the top of our team direct to SFG, used to say on the mandatory calls that agents should NOT call them or SFG, but rather just talk to their upline.
I almost left the industry after this and only later realized there are better options out there. The level of production required just to get to 100% contracts is insane.
