Julius_Seizeher
Master Don Juan
Hey Taiyuu, the "throw mud at a wall" hiring model of sales companies is the SOP for every insurance company who employs an agency distribution model. They've been doing it for 100 years. I spent the last year (until a month ago) at a large insurance company, I was attracted by their efforts to move towards a financial planning model. If you are going to sell insurance, do NOT go with a MA or other "contracting" type of agency; the overrides within a company are bad enough. What I'm saying is, always eliminate the middle man where you can.
Man, insurance and fin serv is the hardest sales gig to thrive under. Most of them are 100% commission, and at the end of the day you are selling something nobody wants to buy. My hat's off to the folks who make MDRT, that business is tough as nails. It's an all-or-nothing business; you can work 80 hours a week and not make a dollar, or you can make 5 grand in two days. The real money in insurance is selling annuities to retiring folks, but then you are competing with the dedicated financial planning companies and the bank advisors, who sit in an office and sell annuities like shooting layups at the gym.
I don't begrudge my experience in insurance at all, it was a tremendous education in sales. But it is one that I paid for with much suffering and hardship, I'm glad it's behind me.
I'm now going after a gig selling television airtime to ad agencies and businesses, I've taken serious initiative to get this job and hope it comes through. It comes with a very nice base (what a concept!) and fat commission schedule. But I had to pay my dues at the insurance company and my other outside sales gigs to get this far.
Man, insurance and fin serv is the hardest sales gig to thrive under. Most of them are 100% commission, and at the end of the day you are selling something nobody wants to buy. My hat's off to the folks who make MDRT, that business is tough as nails. It's an all-or-nothing business; you can work 80 hours a week and not make a dollar, or you can make 5 grand in two days. The real money in insurance is selling annuities to retiring folks, but then you are competing with the dedicated financial planning companies and the bank advisors, who sit in an office and sell annuities like shooting layups at the gym.
I don't begrudge my experience in insurance at all, it was a tremendous education in sales. But it is one that I paid for with much suffering and hardship, I'm glad it's behind me.
I'm now going after a gig selling television airtime to ad agencies and businesses, I've taken serious initiative to get this job and hope it comes through. It comes with a very nice base (what a concept!) and fat commission schedule. But I had to pay my dues at the insurance company and my other outside sales gigs to get this far.
