Insurance Insights

Should I Sell Medicare Supplements or Final Expense If I Just Got Licensed?

You've finally gotten your insurance license. You're ready to get out there. But have you already thought about what, exactly, you will sell? There are a lot of products you can offer, but it pays to focus on one first. Insurance plans targeted to the senior market, for instance, are hot business right now. So, selling Medicare Supplement insurance plans or final expense policies can get your career off to a great start.

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Life & Final Expense Insurance

Follow Up Call Techniques For Life Insurance to Close The Deal

When selling life insurance, the follow-up call is vital. Setting follow-up calls is absolutely crucial to your business but it often feels like a hurdle without a strategy behind it. Learn how to tackle the call or objection and pin down the next appointment.

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Life & Final Expense Insurance

What Final Expense Insurance Agents Should Know About How Consumers Purchase Life Insurance

Statistics say much about America’s view on life insurance:

  • One in five Americans who don’t have life insurance say they need coverage
  • 40 percent of Americans don’t have any form of life insurance
  • Securing a comfortable retirement remains one of the nation’s top financial concerns
  • 61 percent of people do not buy life insurance because they have other financial priorities

There is an interesting disjoint in the statistics presented above: the first half sees Americans wanting life insurance, but not having it. The second half shows that people think a comfortable retirement is a must, but they’re too busy saving for other financial priorities. Hence, they forget about investing in life insurance.

In summary:

People know that life insurance (such as final expense insurance) is important. Some of them, however, do not buy it because there are other essential things in life.

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Medicare Supplement and Advantage

Follow These Tips to Sell Med Supp Products Effectively

The Baby Boomer generation, or those people born between 1946 and 1964, make up about 25 percent of the current U.S. population. Every day since 2011, 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 and are expected to do so until 2030.

These numbers show how great an opportunity insurance agents have in selling Medicare supplement products. Greater, still, is the opportunity to sell these products when you partner with a Medicare FMO or Field Marketing Organization. Doing so means that commissions are paid directly to you as you help the elderly get the additional healthcare coverage they need.
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