Tips on How to Find Quality Online Life Insurance Leads
July 23rd, 2010 | 
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Selling life insurance can be rewarding and lucrative way to make a living. However, it isn’t always easy, and if you’ve been at it for a little while, then you already know that customers aren’t necessarily lining up outside your office to buy insurance. The first step to selling life insurance, is to find people to sell to. Indeed, this is the most demanding part of the job. You need to actively find new clients if you expect your business to thrive. So how do you find insurance leads? Some agents rely on the age old technique of cold calling. Others take advantage of the life insurance leads available for purchase. Below are three potential sources for insurance leads that have been effectively used by successful agents. If you are having trouble paying the bills, then give these methods a try. The first step is to take advantage of your own social network. You know a lot of people: friends, relatives, and other acquaintances. These are potential life insurance leads and they are potentially good leads too. Since your already know these individuals it will be much easier to talk to them about policies. Most people dread the sales pitch, but when you are talking to a friend you can let them know why they might consider a policy, and that you can help them out. Once you have exhausted your own circle of friends and family, you will have to look for leads elsewhere. This can be as simple as picking up the phone. Insurance agents have long used cold calling as a lead generation technique. The truth is, it isn’t the most effective way to get leads. Most people don’t like sales calls, and it might take many calls before you make a sale. However, you can get business this way. Especially if you tone down your sales pitch enough to connect with a person first. Once you have them interested it will be easier to help them with a policy. Although cold calling can work, a more effective means for finding leads is to purchase them. Today there are many companies that collect potential life insurance leads from the internet. These companies specialize in collecting leads so they can sell them to insurance agents. Not all services are created equal, so you will have to shop around for a company that provides what you are after. However, once you find a quality lead provider, your job will be much easier. Since the leads these companies sell have already expressed an interest in purchasing a life insurance policy, your closing rate will be much higher. These leads are expecting a call from an insurance agent; indeed, they want you to call them. Quality insurance leads are an agent’s dream come true. Of course, you will have to pay for these leads. But competitively priced quality insurance leads are well worth the investment.
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Life insurance?I need to get life insurance but I have heard that you don't get the policy on yourself but that your spouse is supposed to get one for you…. What is the difference?
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There are two types of Insurance; Permanent and Term.
Permanent Polcies remain at the same monthly cost for the rest of your life.
Term policies remain fixed for a set number of years. After the set number of years the policy either terminates or can be rewriten for the same length of time, but you'll now be evaluated at your new age, not the age you are now.
Permanent Policies are similiar to buying a home. The policy builds Cash value and could potential increase your death benefit. You can take a loan out against your own cash value or should you cancel the policy at a later time, you will get the cash value paid out to you at that time.
Term policies are like renting. After the set term (5, 10, 20, 30 years) each party walks away. You don't get any money back, but you'll have paid less over the course of the 10 years.
If you were to get a 20 yr term policy now, at age 50 your policy would end (unless you had already died). You could then get another policy, but they'd rate you as a 50 year old, not a 30 year old. and at each of these 20 year renewals, you'll have to go through medical screening again.
If you were to get Permanent Policy now, you'll have a higher premium now, but at age 50 you'll still be paying the same amount as you are now. At age 70 you'll still be paying the same amount as you are now. At age 90? Same amount.
To figure out how much coverage you'll need, here's a handy tool: L.I.F.E.
L: Liabilities: mortgage, car note, student loans, credit cards
I: Income replacement: 5 to 10 times your annual income (though in your case, each of you have another 30-35 years working life in you, you might want more)
F: Final Expenses: Typically $10-25 k
E: Education: Education for your spouse, should they need to change careers to maintain their standard of living after you pass and/or college tuition for any childre you may leave behind.
So, with a $200k mortgage, $25k car loan, and $15k Student Loan, your "L" is $240k.
If you're making $50k annually, you'll need $500k for "I."
Let's call "F" at $15k
"E"? Well, 2 kids at $20k per year for 4 years each translate to $160k.
This mean you'll need $915,000 worth of Life Insurance.
I have my Life with State Farm. It's also giving me a discount on my car insurance.
There is no difference. Someone is going to pay the premiums to get you covered, either you or your spouse. You will be subjected to medical exam and be asked some health questions to find out what your rate is.
If the life insurance company does it, you can add yourself as a "spouse rider" to your primary's policy to avoid additional policy fees.
@probslpwtyormama-go read it yourself. Its a simple concept. Good luck.
@MegaJohnShaft read what ???
Allstate is by far the best. They are ranked in the top 50 employers book.
You may want to try a website that compares multiple companies at once to get you the best price. I am paying less than ½ after I did.
http://top-usa-health-insurance-comparator.blogspot.com/
Take care,
Tena
So here is some advice: #1 Dont trust anyone that only pushes one type of insurance, one size DOES NOT FIT ALL #2- stay away from anyone that tries to tell you what you need or should do without knowing your exact goal and situation first. That kind of person is only after a commission and doesnt care about you
Life insurance is insurance on your life. If you die the insurance company pays money to your beneficiaries. they could be family, friends, the company you work for even a charitable organization. as long as there is an insurable interest.
If you are dead the money from the insurance can pay for your funeral, your debts, mortgage, medical bills, car payments, children's college education, your families survival if you are no longer here to provide for them, as well as pay for inheritance taxes, probate taxes (life insurance is tax free)
if you are single, no family, no responsibilities and don't mind being buried by the state then you probably don't need life insurance. Try this site to find the best life insurance
http://best-life-insurance-usa.info/
Here you can get quotes from different life insurance companies in your area, its the best way to find an affordable life insurance with a reliable company.
Hope this help,
Agencies make their money from First Year Commissions (FYC) on new policies, and renewal commissions and service fees on policies which have been on the books beyond the first year.
If an agent works for an established agency, he/she will get paid a percentage of the total FYC. The total FYC could be anywhere between 40%-120%, depending on the insurance companies the agency represents, and what type of policy is being sold. Health policies pay a lot less than life insurance policies.
Of the total FYC, the appointed sub-agent would receive anywhere between 50% and 90%, depending on the sub-agents contract with the agency. Most agencies will pay advance commission on 75% of the sub-agent's FYC.
Example:
Let's say that the sub-agent writes a life insurance policy, and the annualized premium is $1200. ($100.00 per month). Let's assume that the agency's FYC is 100%, and the sub-agent's FTC is 80%. The agency's FYC would be $1200, and it's advance would be $900 (75%). The sub's FYC would be $960, and the advance would be $720 (75%). The balance would be paid as earned on the final 3 last payments of the first policy year premium. If the total ANNUAL premium was paid initially with the application for the same policy, it would be a little less than $1200, around $1162 give or take. ALL FYC would be advanced in this case.
Once the policy is in force for 12 months, renewals and/or service fees will be paid, 2-20%, depending on the carrier, and the sub-agent would get his/her percentage of that. (I had a company that paid $100% FYC and 20% renewals)
Some companies pay bonuses, based on your total production and persistency rate, the percentage of business that stays on the books.
If you work for an insurance company as an employee/captive agent, your commission rate will be somewhat less, but your benefits will make up the difference, such as company-paid retirement, 401K, health and life insurance. In this case, your commissions would be put in a commission pool, and you would draw from that on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. When you initially start selling for one of these companies, you are on a guaranteed salary for a specified period of time, while you build your commission pool. Some of these types of companies will guarantee your salary, (based on production quotas), for up to three years, on a depreciating basis.
After the first year, you start earning renewals/service fees. Let's say that over time, you build up your book of business to $500,000 of life insurance annualized premium, and your renewals are 3%. Your base pay would be $15,000, plus your FYC and bonuses.
Some of the captive companies will offer you an established book of business, with renewals and service fees. It's possible to be offered an agency which is paying $300-$500 or more per week, which would either go into your commission pool, or be paid as part of your initial guaranteed salary. If you are assigned to an existing book of business, you have all those policyholders as potential prospects for new business, along with their family members and other people they know.
Here are some names of companies that have guaranteed starting salaries: (Not in any particular order)
New York Life, Met Life, Monumental Life, American General, American National, Western-Southern Life, Prudential, Liberty Life.
The following site will give you a free side by side comparison quote of the best companies. It is free and easy and then you can make an informed decision
@probslpwtyormama — the buy term invest the diff is what those policies do for you. The great thing is its all in one. AND TAX FREE. Im off to work now, I hope it was clear and people understand the difference.
@dkfrsh do you now how you can tell a whole life agent is lying? they are posting !!
And another person steps in to admit they dont know what their talking about. First step to correct a problem is to admit you have one..any way. If you are a person trying to decide on Life Ins and reading all this, you are probably confused. I can only hope you have noticed how closed minded term agents are. Not to mention rude and disrespectful.
You can't do that without his concurrence. HE should be the one getting the policy.
Basically insurance only works when a large groups of people own that particular insurance. Everyone pays to protect their income, but not everyone is going to use their insurance. So that's how basically insurance companies stay in business, unless something extraordinary has happen in this country where there's lots of people are filing for claims and the insurance company can't pay them all (such as the Hurricane Katrina event).
What is whole life insurance?
1) Its a level term insurance to a specified age (usually to age 95, 98 or 100) plus cash value.
2) It is very expensive when compared to term insurance
3) Cash value grows at a very low rate of return. In the first 10 years, you see a negative return on your money. But long term average is anywhere between 1-4%, depending on the company.
4) If you want to take money out, you have to borrow it and pay loan interest of 5-8%.
5) If you die someday, the insurance company pay the face amount of the policy (minus loans and missed premiums) to the beneficiary, but they keep all the cash value.
6) If you do get to live by the end of policy date (when you around age 100), the insurance company pay you the cash value, but you lose the insurance.
There's only one reason why that agent is trying to sell you whole life insurance: MONEY!
Next thing you'll know, that agent would try to sell you universal life insurance, a product that is more horrible than whole life, but it pays out more commissions.
Go with your instinct and find a different company who would listen to your needs. Try this site
http://free-best-life-insures-comparator-usa.blogspot.com/
Here you can get quotes from different life insurance companies in your area, its the best way to find an affordable life insurance with a reliable company.
An excellent video to watch if you want to learn something is MISSED FORTUNE- DOUGLAS ANDREW: LOCK AND RESET vs THE MARKET Its 3:20 long and he does a fantastic job explaining the IUL. Its a very broad explanation because diff comp use diff indexes and credit you diff %. Everyone have a great Easter weekend!!!!!!!!!!!
These guys are great and note when this was taken – March of 2007 – way before the crash of ’08!!! How’s those buy term and invest accounts (which don’t exist) doing now?
@dkfrsh way to explain bullshit cash value agents.