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		<title>Using CRMs to Enhance Your Insurance Sales Capabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance leads.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance sales don’t increase overnight. They are the product of a lot of endeavors which collectively help you secure more conversions. If you are going to increase your insurance sales, then a large part of your goal will have to depend on getting the right tools and systems to ensure that you are getting to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Insurance sales don’t increase overnight. They are the product of a lot of endeavors which collectively help you secure more conversions. If you are going to increase your insurance sales, then a large part of your goal will have to depend on getting the right tools and systems to ensure that you are getting to the right insurance leads and filtering the ones that need less emphasis to be placed on them. One tool that good insurance agents and agencies will swear by is a CRM.</p>
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        <span style="color: #cc3333;  font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>REGISTER NOW </span></b></i>  and take advantage of our lead-generation sytems to begin maximizing your conversion rate today.</span>
        </div><p>There are a ton of CRMs available out there and one of the best when it comes to insurance leads is the LeadMiner. CRMs do a wide variety of things and to understand their capabilities, you have to think about the average sales workflow. Since you are dealing with insurance sales leads, let’s look at it from that perspective.</p>
<p>Start of thinking about how you get leads. You might be hiring a company to generate leads for you or you might be generating them on your own from a couple of resources. When you get the lead information you put it into another system, or use the existing system which then gives you all the information you need in order to be able to contact an insurance shopper. </p>
<p>You enter your conversation into a system, or perhaps enter that information into a spreadsheet which you eventually use to contact the lead again. As time goes by, you need to sort your leads into the various categories based on how warm they are as leads and you need to stay in touch with dormant leads through some other means such as emails or newsletters perhaps and the cycle goes on.</p>
<p>As an insurance agent, it’s hard to look at all that information and manually sort it out. It’s also difficult to keep the information secure and accessible from whatever location you’re in and ensure that the information gets updated correctly and that’s exactly what a CRM can do for you.</p>
<p>Technology is meant to make things easier for you and that’s why you need a CRM. Of course, getting the right leads can be a problem. Make it less of one by getting yourself the high-quality, targeted insurance leads we can provide and raise those insurance sales. Sign up now!</p>
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		<title>Cold Health Insurance Leads: Warm Them Up in the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the holidays, it’s a likely situation that you’ll be going through some kind of a dry spell. In a way, your insurance agency will also be going on holiday where you don’t have any leads to work on. And if you do, you might be thinking of not bothering them on the holidays. Speaking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the holidays, it’s a likely situation that you’ll be going through some kind of a dry spell.  In a way, your insurance agency will also be going on holiday where you don’t have any leads to work on. And if you do, you might be thinking of not bothering them on the holidays.  Speaking of leads and the holidays, this is the most crucial time for you to get reacquainted with those that have slipped through the cracks.  What better way to reestablish your connection and the lines of communication than with a holiday greeting.  Yes, the holidays are one of your ways to do some insurance marketing.</p>
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        <span style="color: #cc3333;  font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>REGISTER NOW </span></b></i>  and take advantage of our lead-generation sytems to begin maximizing your conversion rate today.</span>
        </div><p>Without a doubt, you have a pile of insurance leads filed away somewhere or even a list of contacts in your database that you haven’t been updated with what’s going on their insurance search.  It might be that they already found insurance but it’s also they just gave up on the search.  That’s right! They still have to find the right kind of coverage.  Go ahead and send them a holiday greeting.  You don’t really have to advertise anything just yet, just greet them and ask them how they are.</p>
<p>In getting a reply to that email message, you can start getting your bearings on where your prospect is in the process of finding insurance.  They might mention on their own that they’re still on the lookout and this will be a great time for you to present your services.  Follow up with an email where you detail the policies in your product line that will suit them best.  It’s never a problem to provide such information, when you make use of your quote engine.  As for medical insurance leads who are slow to react to your holiday greeting, you can always utilize your autoresponder for drip marketing.</p>
<p>You don’t have to lay low during holidays. In fact, this will be the best time to get reacquainted with your seeming dead leads.  Send out a holiday greeting and see how they are.  If you sign up today, you’ll learn about the other ways that you can put the holidays to good use – pursuing our high quality leads and closing them. Sign up now!</p>
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		<title>Insurance Marketing through Client Testimonials</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed, one of the things that prospects and Medicare leads look for in an insurance agency and insurance agent is reliability. On most cases, they’ll be looking for information about the kind of service that you provide. The best place that they can find this would be from your website &#8211; in the testimonials page. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed, one of the things that prospects and Medicare leads look for in an insurance agency and insurance agent is reliability. On most cases, they’ll be looking for information about the kind of service that you provide.  The best place that they can find this would be from your website &#8211; in the testimonials page.  If you don’t have a page devoted to this, you’d better contact your web designer and have him input a testimonials page tout suite.  If you already have a particular section in your website devoted to this, the question is &#8211; are they juicy enough?</p>
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        </div><p>For the most part, testimonials that medical insurance leads are looking for to help them pick a good insurance agent would be testimonials that are believable.  The more believable the testimonials posted on your site, the more effective they’ll be.  If you want a believable testimonial, this would have to be specific.  It would be good if your name and your agency are mentioned on the testimonial and just what it is you helped a particular client with.  Don’t be tempted to go over the top with testimonials because if they’re too ecstatic, it can provide a negative result.</p>
<p>When you’re in the process of collecting testimonials, make sure that your clients are specific and detailed.  Ask them what they like about you and ask them to put this in realistic words.  In a testimonial that details what your clients were looking for and what you did for them, you can do very well with your insurance marketing.  Make use of specific numbers like with testimonials talking about the savings that you provided for them.  Instead of “James helped me to save a lot on my premium”, put in the specific amount.  You’ll catch more attention with testimonials that say, James helped me save $77 a month switching me to the new plan.</p>
<p>Prospective customers are always in search of information and recommendation about you.  They can get it from the testimonials on your website.  When you do things right, you’ll be able to impress the high quality leads that you have.  Impress more leads and get them to close.</p>
<p>Are you generating enough leads? If you could some more, sign up now and get strings of high quality insurance leads that are genuinely interested on what you have to say. </p>
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		<title>Reaching Out to Your Insurance Leads Using Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health insurance leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are naturally drawn to other people and this is no different for insurance shoppers. In fact, insurance leads are more than likely to feel more attached if they can see how personal your service is. It isn’t a matter of creating a website with lots of personal information &#8211; rather adding personal touches to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People are naturally drawn to other people and this is no different for insurance shoppers. In fact, insurance leads are more than likely to feel more attached if they can see how personal your service is. It isn’t a matter of creating a website with lots of personal information &#8211; rather adding personal touches to the website will humanize you in their eyes. Here are a couple of tips you can put to good use.</p>
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        <span style="color: #cc3333;  font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>REGISTER NOW </span></b></i>  and take advantage of our lead-generation sytems to begin maximizing your conversion rate today.</span>
        </div><p>The first tip is extremely simple. Add an “About You” section to your site. You can tell your health insurance leads a little bit about who you are and what things you like. If you work with a group, talk about each person in detail. The more people read about you the more they will feel they actually know you. This can go a long way in ensuring they see you as a human being and not a money grabbing insurance agent after their hard earned money. It’s important not to be general, but specific and sincere in your introduction of yourself or your group. Make sure you add your signature to this page as well. </p>
<p>Another simple tip is to add photographs. Choose simple yet fun photos that will show you care about people. If you have a team, take various pictures of the team in different scenarios but always with huge smiles on your faces. Your medical insurance leads will be naturally drawn to who you are and how much fun it seems to work with you. Make sure to also add captions to your photos so that your leads know exactly who you are and what event you’re at. You can also add some sort of tagline to make sure you get a point across. A good trick a lot of companies employ is to walk through processes they work on. You can also do this as an insurance agent as this helps to personalize your service yet again.</p>
<p>Finally, add a little bit of humour to your site. Insurance shoppers love the chance to get a few laughs from the information that they read &#8211; especially with topics as heavy as insurance. Don’t lose insurance sales by making your website too uptight or overbearing.</p>
<p>Need more insurance leads while you’re fixing up your site? We can help you break the barriers. Sign up for excellent quality insurance leads now.</p>
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		<title>Insurance Sales: It’s a Question of Speedy and Real-Time Delivery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shopping is one of the most common things we do in life and in your quest to get the best products, you’ve read at one time or another about advice for shopping. The shopping tip that usually stands out would be to put your shopping off for at least a day before you actually make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shopping is one of the most common things we do in life and in your quest to get the best products, you’ve read at one time or another about advice for shopping.  The shopping tip that usually stands out would be to put your shopping off for at least a day before you actually make a buy. When you sleep on the things that you want, you have a clearer perspective of what the best move would be.</p>
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        <span style="color: #cc3333;  font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>REGISTER NOW </span></b></i>  and take advantage of our lead-generation sytems to begin maximizing your conversion rate today.</span>
        </div><p>With insurance sales, the story is different.  You can&#8217;t let your insurance leads sleep on getting coverage.  That’s why from the time you get them in your inbox, you have to give them a call.  Your speed in contacting your leads has a great impact on whether you close the sale or not.  So when you’re shopping around for leads companies, you have to ask them about the speed in which leads are delivered to your inbox.  If they take too long in processing your prospect’s information, they might have long signed up with another agent – that’s something that can ruin your sales success ratio and your ROI figures.</p>
<p>As proof of the freshness of insurance sales leads, you have to get them time-stamped.  The important detail that you need to know is the time when the insurance shopper actually submitted the request for insurance information. Remember that even if it just took you 30 minutes before calling your prospect, their interest would have significantly dipped by then.  Not to mention, nothing is stopping prospects from taking their search in another direction if no one responds to their inquiries and requests for insurance info. The leads provider that you should be handing your business to on your needs for leads should show on the time stamp that it only took seconds to receive prospect’s information on your inbox from the time it was requested. </p>
<p>Even if your prospect is so ready to sign an app if no one comes to their aid the minute they ask for a quote, their interest can fizzle.  Even the hottest leads can always turn into warm leads or even dormant leads.  Sign up with a leads company that sends you leads in real time.</p>
<p>Want to have leads that are delivered to your inbox in real time? Sign up now and get your leads just seconds after the insurance shopper click on the submit button of the quote request form. </p>
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		<title>Keeping in Touch Doesn’t Take Too Much Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building relationships can take a lot of work but in the world of insurance, nurturing them doesn’t have to take too much time. When you first get insurance leads, you have to do what you can to get through to them. Call them up the same time you’re sending out your welcome email. While you’re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Building relationships can take a lot of work but in the world of insurance, nurturing them doesn’t have to take too much time.  When you first get insurance leads, you have to do what you can to get through to them.  Call them up the same time you’re sending out your welcome email.  While you’re at it, come with a proposal too. Although you always wanted to close the sale right away, you can&#8217;t pressure them into signing an app.  The best you can do is to stand by them and guide them in their quest for coverage.</p>
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        <span style="color: #cc3333;  font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><i><b>REGISTER NOW </span></b></i>  and take advantage of our lead-generation sytems to begin maximizing your conversion rate today.</span>
        </div><p>If your insurance marketing efforts for the first few days don’t work on transforming your lead into a customer, you can employ tools in your arsenal like your autoresponder.  You can send perfectly timed emails to stay in touch &#8211; at most twice a month for the first few months.  Sending email messages wouldn’t have to be put in your schedule and you don’t have to do it manually.  The autoresponder is designed to take care of that for you.</p>
<p>You just input the contact information of the lead, the type of message you’ll be sending that particular prospect and set the date when the emails will be sent.  After six months of no response, you can limit the frequency of your email to just once a month. Even if you’re not eliciting any response, you are still keeping your face in front of them. </p>
<p>You still maintain contact and that’s your best move when dealing with leads that have turned cold &#8211; not pestering them about insurance and not laying off either.  You’re just keeping them warm and putting your agency in front of them until they’re ready to close – which sometimes can take a while. </p>
<p>There are medical insurance leads that you can close in just a few weeks and there are those that you have to keep from turning cold.  Keeping the relationship alive doesn’t have to be difficult and tedious.  You can do it with your autoresponder – and with the use of the magical wonders of technology. </p>
<p>Are you tired of leads that are not living up to your expectation? Sign up now and get back every penny you invested on our high quality insurance leads!</p>
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		<title>Taking Back Seat to Learn More about Your Prospect in the First Contact</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[it’s getting to know who you’re serving – and what would make them happy. Do you want to see a rise on your conversion rate? So would we. Sign up now and get easier time closing more sales speaking wi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notice how you’ve got this whole batch of hot leads from your leads provider but you’re only converting a handful of them? You have to look at your whole selling process because there might be somethi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[of course but you have to remember that you’re in business because of your insurance leads. For the most part]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the better you’ll be at finding the right policy for them. You can only do that when making your sales script prospect centric. It doesn’t matter how many products you sell. There will be time for tha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[you have to learn more about your prospect in this call. There are just few details about your prospect when you get their contact information in your inbox. You can't really get insurance sales worki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[your first contact would be about your potential customer. Even if you’ve already made a list of policies that would work well for them]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Notice how you’ve got this whole batch of hot leads from your leads provider but you’re only converting a handful of them? You have to look at your whole selling process because there might be something wrong with one or two of the components there. The likely culprit that you’re losing your power over leads [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notice how you’ve got this whole batch of hot leads from your leads provider but you’re only converting a handful of them?  You have to look at your whole selling process because there might be something wrong with one or two of the components there.  The likely culprit that you’re losing your power over leads might be your sales script.  </p>
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        </div><p>Assess your sales script on how prospect centric it is.  Maybe you’re only concentrating on why you are the agent that they have to work with and what makes you the best agent in the industry.  There is some room for that, of course but you have to remember that you’re in business because of your insurance leads.  For the most part, your first contact would be about your potential customer.  Even if you’ve already made a list of policies that would work well for them, you have to learn more about your prospect in this call.</p>
<p>There are just few details about your prospect when you get their contact information in your inbox.  You can&#8217;t really get insurance sales working on the idea that they’re this age and they have this pre-existing medical condition and they live in this area.  You have to learn about why they requested the information for insurance today.  Did something change in their life that they felt they need to get coverage?  You also have to ask about what would be important to them when getting insurance coverage.  Maybe they recently had an addition in their family who they want to protect.</p>
<p>The more you know about your prospect from the first call, the better you’ll be at finding the right policy for them.  You can only do that when making your sales script prospect centric.  It doesn’t matter how many products you sell.  There will be time for that in the next call.  For now, it’s getting to know who you’re serving – and what would make them happy. </p>
<p>Do you want to see a rise on your conversion rate? So would we. Sign up now and get easier time closing more sales speaking with very interested insurance shoppers. </p>
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		<title>Lucky Number 7 also Works in Insurance Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re dealing with hot health insurance leads, you won’t even shed a sweat leading them to their buying decisions. Sadly, not all the leads you have are hot and ready to buy insurance. For warm leads, cool leads and even cold leads, you have to take a bit of time working on them to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you’re dealing with hot health insurance leads, you won’t even shed a sweat leading them to their buying decisions.  Sadly, not all the leads you have are hot and ready to buy insurance.  For warm leads, cool leads and even cold leads, you have to take a bit of time working on them to get them ready to buy.  </p>
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        </div><p>There a number of reasons why leads are not ready to buy.  They might be looking for more information, they might be looking for more options or they might just be looking for something with a better price to come along. And if your first or second sales do not pan out, how many times more would you get in touch with them before you get tagged for being pushy. How to really go about touching base with your new leads? </p>
<p>As soon as you receive your insurance sales leads on your inbox, you have to send them a welcome email and try to establish a phone call right away. If you don’t get to speak to them on your first try, place another call later in the day. Establishing a phone call once or twice within the first day can be the right number of times.  Go further than that, you’ll annoy them to consternation.  Do less than that, you wouldn’t worm your way into their hearts and heads.  Now, for the magic number, you should try to get in touch with your leads seven times.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t do all seven times in a day.  You have to divide different methods of touching base with them equally in a span of four to six weeks.  That’s about one message every week.  If your insurance leads still don’t bite, you can still touch them once every month. Remember that insurance isn’t a very easy decision to make and your email campaign can last for a year and sometimes even beyond. But with the use of email autoresponder, you can easily lay out your year long follow-up campaign with ease. </p>
<p>Hot leads aren’t too hard to close but obviously not all your leads just needs a little nudge to sign up. You have to touch base with them every once in a while.  The magic number of keeping in touch would be seven before you resort to your year-long monthly newsletters or updated proposals. </p>
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		<title>The Best Timing for Selling Life Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time of year is one of the important factors you have to look at when you’re selling life insurance.  That statement might be eliciting confusion and questions in your head because you’re thinking that life insurance is one of the needs that people have.  Even if it’s a great need, you stand to earn [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The time of year is one of the important factors you have to look at when you’re selling life insurance.  That statement might be eliciting confusion and questions in your head because you’re thinking that life insurance is one of the needs that people have.  Even if it’s a great need, you stand to earn more sales if you time your life insurance marketing accordingly.</p>
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        </div><p>Remember that insurance sales atmosphere changes.  Let’s take for example the idea that an individual is getting married.  When he or she has to think of somebody else, life insurance becomes a very good prospect.  With the responsibility they have for themselves as well as for their partner, they’ll be more sold into purchasing life insurance now.  Your chances get even higher when you focus your sales pitch on the protection of their loved ones.</p>
<p>According to statistics, the time of the year where marriage vows are at its peak is during the month of August.  Factor in the months where babies are most likely to be delivered, May through July, you can successfully sell life insurance during these months.  If you are closing 10 life insurance policy from October till April, you’ll be doubling and even tripling these numbers during the months of May through August.  Another time of the year you’ll have booming sales with life insurance is at the beginning of the school year, September.</p>
<p>Parents will be in the state of mind where they want to ensure the security of their loved ones as well as the future of their children.  If you have products for life insurance that are geared towards the wellbeing and safety of their children, you can get more prospects to signs apps when you sell your products on these specific months of the year.  Consider people’s need for security and the need to provide their loved ones with the best. People will be more actively in search of life insurance in these months and you’ll be able to close more successfully.</p>
<p>Are you looking for life insurance leads? Sign up today and find more reason to sell life insurance after speaking with a couple of leads that are genuinely interested in finding a protection for them and their loved ones.</p>
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		<title>Exclusive or Shared Insurance Leads, Is There Really A Difference?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Generating your own leads can dramatically bring down your operating cost. However, it doesn’t come in plenty – especially when you’re just new in the business. So aside from the referrals from family and friends, you can take a look at the option of buying online insurance leads. Generally, it is classified into two categories [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Generating your own leads can dramatically bring down your operating cost. However, it doesn’t come in plenty – especially when you’re just new in the business. So aside from the referrals from family and friends, you can take a look at the option of buying online insurance leads. Generally, it is classified into two categories – shared and exclusive leads.</p>
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        </div><p>If you’re on the crossroads on which one to choose, go over this article and let’s discuss which one could best work for your. Exclusive sales insurance leads definitely have the edge in terms of contact and close ratio. Being the only agent trying to pursue a prospect among the hundreds of subscribers of a particular lead generating company, expect the competition to be minimal. The word is minimal and not absolute exclusivity, keep in mind that there’s no way to stop a person who’s in dire need of insurance to look for other sources.</p>
<p>A huge setback that exclusive leads have is the price &#8211; it would usually cost double than the regular price of shared leads. But if you are confident with your sales skill and work like the speed of light, it’s not impossible to close up to 30% of your purchased exclusive leads.</p>
<p>Shared leads on the other hand are more affordable but you have to share it with 3 to 4 other agents. Your odds of bagging the sale will significantly drop and you’re more likely to reach a less enthusiastic prospect – understandably after getting numerous calls from different agents. If you’ve been around in the insurance business for a while and comfortable working in a competitive environment, then shared leads can be profitable since the price is considerably low compared to exclusive leads.</p>
<p>So which one to choose? Find out for yourself. If you want to try out online health insurance leads, buy both shared and exclusive in equal numbers and see how much profit you gained from each category. Remember that each agent works differently and it would do your wonders if you’ll know first hand which one best suits your selling style.</p>
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