Who Would You Recommend for P&C Sales??

[kysales]

If you were coming from a sales career in another industry to sell P&C...which company would you recommend?? I realize after reading many posts here that there are many positives and negatives to every company. My goal is to sell P&C and eventually own my own agency either for a company or independent. Any suggestions on which companies are best to start with??

Thanks for all the great info on here.

 

[mmaedelins]

What state are you in?

 

[djs]

I'm hoping the KY in KYSALES stands for Kentucky.
We will await an answer and find out.....

 

[kysales]

I'm hoping the KY in KYSALES stands for Kentucky.
We will await an answer and find out.....

Yep.....Kentucky is where I am

 

[HomeService]

I tried to go from L&H to P&C as an indy and found it to be tough to do. Hard to get appointments, hard to get E&O. So my advice to you would be to either find an established indy agent looking for help, looking to hire and train a CSR or producing agent, or maybe State Farm or Allstate. Now, there is a AAA thread or two on this site, they seem to hire and train folks as well in certain states, dunno about your state.
edit: Also here in TX Liberty Mutual seems to be hiring and MetLife P&C.

 

[iiinycboi]

I agree about hard to get appointments, but i'm going to disagree on getting E&O.

Only thing is the price for E&O. I called my local PIA and they got me E&O within a week, but it was over 3k. I've talked to other people in the field and say after the first year, it will drop a lot, to like 500-600 a year, not sure how true this is though.

 

[djs]

At least in CA, it will NEVER drop to $500-600 a year. This is especially true if you need an agency policy. You might get $2000 a year (yeah, someone will say $1800).

$5-600 a year is Life/Health with variable stuff added, definitely not P&C.

Dan

 

[HomeService]

I agree about hard to get appointments, but i'm going to disagree on getting E&O.

Only thing is the price for E&O. I called my local PIA and they got me E&O within a week, but it was over 3k. I've talked to other people in the field and say after the first year, it will drop a lot, to like 500-600 a year, not sure how true this is though.

Yeah, I did not mean it was tough, I meant it was expensive. and it is around $2000 a year here. They want to know if you have CSR's, have experience, have other offices, write L&H, so on. The application for E&O is like 5 or 6 pages long here in TX.

 

[iiinycboi]

Ah yes, my E&O here was 8 pages and they wanted resumes, referrals, and exactly what i do, who i work with etc... long process but youll get it though.

 

[kysales]

so back to the original question

which companies would be a good place to start a career in p&c??