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Increasing Life Sales In A Property/Casualty Agency
The sale of Life insurance to Personal Lines Property/Casualty customers has long been an ...ime to determine your customers’ needs and recognize buying signals, selling L...

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... tip sheets, sales letters, and more! Communications Marketing Customer Service Planning Finance/Accounting Risk Management Human Resources Selling Legal and E&O Technology Life/Financial Services Glossaries Management Resources & Links Categories Popular Recent All Back Life Insurance: Unlimited Opportunities 4/30/2013 12:00:00 AM by CompleteMarkets Editor , Judith Newman This content has not been rated yet. Why don't all Property Casualty agencies receive at least 20% of their commission income from Life, Health, and employee benefits? ' This article will show you why this potential revenue source remains untapped by so many firms, and what to do about it. Your files contain a treasure chest of new-income possibilities. Of course, George Nordhaus has been saying this for years. So the even bigger question is, ... don't all Property Casualty agencies receive at least 20% of their commission income from Life, Health, and employee benefits? ' Because this question has bothered me for years, I decided to get my Life and Health license and find out more about these products. I also wanted to learn why this potential revenue source remains untapped by so many firms. I attended a crash course in Life taught over two weekends. This course opened my eyes to the immense amount of information possessed by a good Life and Health producer. This is not a part-time and Oh, by the way, do you need Life insurance? ' undertaking. A vast amount of knowledge is required. To the traditional Property and Casualty producer, most of the information seems to be a foreign language. (Personally, ...

... rated yet. In the next few years, you'll probably be devoting more time and resources to Life and Health insurance products - that is, if you're at all like the estimated 2,000 independent agents who participated in the "Future One Agency Universe Study." The study shows that independent agents are increasingly aware of the need to be full-service insurance providers. Agents who have traditionally focused on Property/Casualty insurance see the need to expand more aggressively into Life and other types of insurance products. In fact, slightly more than half the agencies surveyed said that over the next three years, they'll devote a higher proportion of agency resources to Life and Health products. Processing Challenges But Life is not Property/Casualty insurance in product or in process. Unlike Property/Casualty, no true ... agency system vendors exist in the Life industry. Instead, agents or insurance companies use multiple vendors and must pay someone to integrate the packages, or else they must enter the same data over and again. An agent may use several software programs to manage the business: Contact management programs help track prospective customers; fact-finding programs help document information from an initial sales call, such as current insurance and income investments; and needs-analysis programs process these facts to calculate how much Life insurance is needed by a customer. Next, illustration software reveals the costs and benefits of Life insurance over a certain period in different variations and amounts. Finally, the final recommendations are presented in a proposal package to the customer. This all happens before the sale! Once a customer buys insurance, agents use database programs ...

... rated yet. In the next few years, you'll probably be devoting more time and resources to Life and Health insurance products - that is, if you're at all like the estimated 2,000 independent agents who participated in the "Future One Agency Universe Study." The study shows that independent agents are increasingly aware of the need to be full-service insurance providers. Agents who have traditionally focused on Property/Casualty insurance see the need to expand more aggressively into Life and other types of insurance products. In fact, slightly more than half the agencies surveyed said that over the next three years, they'll devote a higher proportion of agency resources to Life and Health products. Processing Challenges But Life is not Property/Casualty insurance in product or in process. Unlike Property/Casualty, no true ... agency system vendors exist in the Life industry. Instead, agents or insurance companies use multiple vendors and must pay someone to integrate the packages, or else they must enter the same data over and again. An agent may use several software programs to manage the business: Contact management programs help track prospective customers; fact-finding programs help document information from an initial sales call, such as current insurance and income investments; and needs-analysis programs process these facts to calculate how much Life insurance is needed by a customer. Next, illustration software reveals the costs and benefits of Life insurance over a certain period in different variations and amounts. Finally, the final recommendations are presented in a proposal package to the customer. This all happens before the sale! Once a customer buys insurance, agents use database programs ...

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... And just about everyone agrees that building extended relationships by cross-selling to customers is one of the best ways to stave off competition and increase retention rates. Why is it, then, that relatively few agencies have established Life and Health Departments- or for that matter, even have ad hoc marketing programs to focus on rounding out their books of business? It's certainly not for lack of trying. The Property/Casualty landscape is littered with the bones of many a failed Life insurance venture. The problem is that in the real world, the differences between Life insurance and Property/Casualty make it extremely difficult to carry out a comprehensive marketing plan. In Life insurance, the supply is relatively stable, with few market swings, and the salesperson's biggest challenge is to stimulate demand. In the Property ... Casualty arena the demand is stable but the supply fluctuates, often dramatically. This leads to differences between the two product groups in the underwriting process as well as in the agent/client relationship. Life producers who send leads to the Property/Casualty producers often have a hard time understanding why they can't get the end results that they want. Or the Property/Casualty producers might feel that the Life people are not sensitive enough to the finer points of maintaining client relationships. As a result, initial enthusiasm wanes and follow-up calls are not made on either side. Another part of the problem is that many agencies are simply looking at the Life and Health arena as a means of rounding out existing Property/Casualty accounts and are not expanding their vision into the development of a true stand-alone profit ...