Why do you sell the type of insurance you sell?

[tikibarrister]

There's a zillion kinds of insurance someone could sell: life, P&C personal, P&C commercial, final expense, health, senior, IUL/VULs, pet insurance, alien abduction insurance...

Why do you choose to sell the type of insurance you sell instead of some other kind?

 

[somarco]

I have sold nearly all types of life & health insurance products over the years before settling on the Medicare market.

It's not really selling (which I detest) but mostly educating folks on how the Medicare parts work. I really don't have any competition since most agents are aggressive and pushing for the close. They don't take the time to ask questions and listen to what the prospect wants and that makes my approach stand out in the prospects mind.

I never ask for referrals but they come to me without encouragement. Almost all of my T65 prospects are pre-sold which makes it even easier.

My only regret is that I did not pursue this market earlier.

 

[Tahoe Ray]

I sell disability insurance as a primary line because everyone mainly hates selling disability insurance (myself included).

 

[rmhaire]

I can't remember what I sell or why I sell it. I'm old and grizzled. I just wish that I'd learned how to play one of those accordion folders.

 

[somarco]

I just wish that I'd learned how to play one of those accordion folders.

Don't you need dark glasses, and a monkey with a tin cup on a leash to do that?

 

[rmhaire]

Don't you need dark glasses, and a monkey with a tin cup on a leash to do that?

Hadn't thought of that. Maybe I'd make enough to buy me one of those Rolodex watches.

 

[PrivClientSG]

I sell life insurance, and disability insurance (I have a specialist in my group who handles that for me). I first entered the business in 1985, been doing it ever since. As far as life products -- whole, term, UL, VUL, IUL, and PPLI for the most part. Thanks.

 

[Chazm]

In 2009 I was conned into going to an interview, thinking it was for a marketing position. That’s literally the phone call I got about the position.
Those Bankers Life and Casualty managers are sneaky.
I learned Medicare immediately and had to unlearn what I was taught the next year.

 

[DS4]

before settling on the Medicare market.…
My only regret is that I did not pursue this market earlier.

Me too. I sold life insurance my first few years before settling into Medicare in 1978.

 

[Al3x Lee]

To make it sound cool: I come from a lineage of Commercial P&C producers, it's in my bloodline

Reality: I was guilted into it by my family, who has been in Commercial P&C for many decades