Want to get started on insurance

walts

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Help!!!!!!!!! I have been licensed L&H for several years but been helping a friend manager his business and done nothing with insurance. Now I would like to get something started part-time that could eventually develop into a full-time income. I am unavailable to work insurance 7AM - 5PM M-F. I have evenings and weekends to work this. #1: Is it reasonable to expect to start selling insurance this way? #2: Which would be better to start, Life or Health? #3: If possible, I would prefer selling from home rather than face-to-face due to windshield time and cost of travel. Is that feasible? #4: And lastly, if it is practical/possible to start selling insurance on a part-time basis, HOW DO I GET STARTED???????? I have read this forum for several weeks. I know I need E&O, leads, etc. But I think I need knowledge of what and how first. Can someone/anyone give me some worthwhile advise?

Thanks. Walt
 
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#1: Is it reasonable to expect to start selling insurance this way?

#2: Which would be better to start, Life or Health?

#3: If possible, I would prefer selling from home rather than face-to-face due to windshield time and cost of travel. Is that feasible?

#4: And lastly, if it is practical/possible to start selling insurance on a part-time basis, HOW DO I GET STARTED????????

1) Yes - evenings and weekends are prime time!

2) Learning curve is shorter for life. Better advance commissions too!

3) Yes - the only way.

4) Buzz me . . .

Tom
 
Re: Wanting to get started

1) Yes - evenings and weekends are prime time!
2) Learning curve is shorter for life. Better advance commissions too!
3) Yes - the only way.
4) Buzz me . . .


You definitely get the award for most pimping lately.

I asked once before, but I don't believe you ever answered...
What is your background/experience/track record in the insurance business that would give someone comfort in dealing with you?
 
Re: Wanting to get started

Help!!!!!!!!! I have been licensed L&H for several years but been helping a friend manager his business and done nothing with insurance. Now I would like to get something started part-time that could eventually develop into a full-time income. I am unavailable to work insurance 7AM - 5PM M-F. I have evenings and weekends to work this. #1: Is it reasonable to expect to start selling insurance this way? #2: Which would be better to start, Life or Health? #3: If possible, I would prefer selling from home rather than face-to-face due to windshield time and cost of travel. Is that feasible? #4: And lastly, if it is practical/possible to start selling insurance on a part-time basis, HOW DO I GET STARTED???????? I have read this forum for several weeks. I know I need E&O, leads, etc. But I think I need knowledge of what and how first. Can someone/anyone give me some worthwhile advise?

Thanks. Walt

Apply for a job at Wal-Mart as a greeter. You will make more money and have a whole lot less stress in your life.

No one has ever become extremely successful doing anything part-time. You will piss away a whole lot of time and money unless you make a commitment.

If you have the confidence, skills and knowledge go for it.

If you need help getting started then either stay in the gate or go back to the stables.
 
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Thanks, Frank, for the tremendous encouragement and worthwhile advise. I will consider your words carefully and act accordingly.
 
Re: Wanting to get started

Thanks, Frank, for the tremendous encouragement and worthwhile advise. I will consider your words carefully and act accordingly.

Yes, I was being a "smart ass" and the advice could have been presented in a kinder manner. However, the message is still the same.

You are not willing to make a total commitment, you do not want to have to leave your home, you want to become an underwear agent and you know nothing about insurance.

Selling insurance is a profession, not just something one can jump into a couple of hours a week and have the money start rolling in.

Most of us here, the successful ones, have accomplished what we have done on our own as in paid our dues. Worked long hard hours every day all day learning the market, learning how to make a successful presentation, becoming experts on the products we sell and stepped on our dicks so many times it is amazing it still works.

Then people like you come along and think they can become a successful agent working 10 or 12 hours a week in the evening if they are in the mood and have a little time to spare.

Yes, that is going to get a smart-ass answer in most cases. Prospects for the most part are not going to want to be bothered in the evenings and weekends. Neither are successful agents who may be willing to train you.

If you want training in the senior market I will be willing to do it evenings and weekends but it is going to cost you dearly. Your time may not be valuable but mine is.
 
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What is your background/experience/track record in the insurance business that would give someone comfort in dealing with you?

I've operated a few very successful businesses and have failed a few times. BUT - I know how to build teams.

Insurance is the perfect product for team building.

#1 - You are not willing to make a total commitment, you do not want to have to leave your home, you want to become an underwear agent . . .

#2 - Selling insurance is a profession, not just something one can jump into a couple of hours a week and have the money start rolling in.

#3 - Then people like you come along and think they can become a successful agent working 10 or 12 hours a week in the evening if they are in the mood and have a little time to spare.

1) He can still be committed and do things in #1.

2) Why not?

3) "people like you"? What a pompous ass . . .

Insurance is simple if you keep it simple . . .

Tom
 
Re: Wanting to get started

I've operated a few very successful businesses and have failed a few times. BUT - I know how to build teams.

Insurance is the perfect product for team building.

1) He can still be committed and do things in #1.

2) Why not?

3) "people like you"? What a pompous ass . . .

Insurance is simple if you keep it simple . . .

Tom

Yep, simple as A B C. All of this good advice and wisdom from a self-proclaimed "Insurance Marketing Organization".

No hidden agenda in those comments.

Come one, come all. Sign on the dotted line. You want a blue suit we will turn on the blue lights, want a green suit, no problem, we will turn on the green lights. You don't need to read the contract, just sign, we will "take care" of you.

We all know how helpful and fair "Insurance Marketing Organizations" are. They would never mislead an agent or even remotely make a comment they were not prepared to follow through with 199% of the time.

Does the phrase "bottom feeder" strike a familiar note? I would much rather be viewed as a "pompous ass" than a "bottom feeder". At least I'm not screwing with people's lives and future by making false promises.
 
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