Internet leads are no longer a stranger. We need to embrace them and work them. It can be daunting, but it is really easy to incorporate into your daily activity. Don’t live in fear, stand up in it! Don’t hate internet leads. They work, if you work them. Let’s take Read more…
Keeping Your Workforce Engaged: Six Top Tips for Insurance Managers Insurance firms depend on the commitment, passion, energy, and engagement of their employees to remain competitive. Most firms are undergoing a transition period where leadership is unlocking employees’ full potential by allowing them to exercise their complete authenticity. Keeping your Read more…
How to Speak to Clients About Varying Degrees of Risk It is important to note that some risks are controllable, and others are not when talking about them. When discussing insurance products and services, a client can gain control over the unforeseen circumstances in insurance sales. For example, a client Read more…
Improve Your Phone and Online Presence The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to the way we do business, a number of which seem like they’re going to become permanent. One of them is fewer face-to-face meetings. In an industry like insurance sales that thrives on personal connections, this last Read more…
Creating Structure for Independent Agents For many independent insurance agents, part of the upside is freedom from other people’s rules. When you work for yourself, there are no tedious expense forms to fill out and get approved by a bean-counting CFO, and you don’t get side eye from your colleague Read more…
Two Approaches to Life Insurance Sales During a Pandemic For nearly a year, most adults around the world have had one thing in common: we’ve been thinking about death. It’s not a topic that any of us would choose to bond over, but there it is—death, in the corner of Read more…
Honing Your EQ The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) was first popularized by psychologist/journalist Daniel Goleman in his 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The idea is of EI is being aware of our own feelings and other people’s feelings as well as being able Read more…
This post is part of a series on how to cultivate three traits that will help any insurance agent be more successful: being persistent, productive, and personable. Click on each link to read them all. Part 1, Part 2. Learning to be Personable What makes someone personable? How do some Read more…
This post is part of a series on how to cultivate three traits that will help any insurance agent be more successful: being persistent, productive and personable. Click on each link to read them all. Part 1, Part 3. Learning to be Productive Whether you work at a larger insurance Read more…
5 Simple Tools to Maintain Connection In budding romantic relationships, there usually comes a point where you need to make a decision. Do I want to continue having a relationship with this person? Is this going to be exclusive? Is this someone I want to stay with long-term? Sometimes you’ll Read more…