Why Are So Many Agents Lazy?

[WCMason]

Nancy, did you learn that from many years of experience or did you just leave a Rah Rah meeting where they were serving Kool Aide, and that just happened to show up on an overhead projector?

The points are good. Why the concern about their source?

 

[nfl72]

stated by Nancy


2) Too much outside interference. If you had a regular 9-5 you wouldn't miss work very often for kids being sick, someone needing a ride, family in town, etc, etc. You'd get fired. Treat being an agent the same way because otherwise the flexibility kills you.




Those reasons are exactly why I left the auto industry as a salesman. I like being able to stay home and enjoy doing the things I want to do. I also no longer enjoy working 40 hours a week. I just got a call from some relatives that live in Oklahoma. I haven't seen them in 7 years. They will be here in 2 hours and I plan on not doing much of anything but lounging around the pool with a cold beverage of choice visiting with family, for the next 3 days.

I do agree that you need to learn how to walk before you run. But once you learn how to run it's nice to slow down and enjoy the ride.

"Work smarter not harder"

 

[NancyFL]

Nancy, did you learn that from many years of experience or did you just leave a Rah Rah meeting where they were serving Kool Aide, and that just happened to show up on an overhead projector?

You're not gonna see that on any slide. This is personal observation over the last 6 years of Managing. Do you disagree with the points or you just like making assumptions?

I like being able to stay home and enjoy doing the things I want to do. I also no longer enjoy working 40 hours a week.

There's nothing wrong with that once you're established. The problem is when people who have bills to pay and little to no client base thinking they can get away with 20 hour work weeks. You have to pay your dues.

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by looking at Nancy's avatar, its looks like she may be a recruiter at a local "rah rah" FMO here in florida.

I'm not a recruiter. Just sharing my experiences.

 

[Gooner]

There's nothing wrong with that once you're established. The problem is when people who have bills to pay and little to no client base thinking they can get away with 20 hour work weeks. You have to pay your dues.

Disagree. My average work week since starting in FE is 20 or less hours a week. I don't have a client base to pull from, so I do all of mine off of leads and appointments.

Now I probably have a much higher cost basis than most agents...especially the door knockers and agents who set their own appts, but it affords me the ability to do the things I want to do and provide a good life for my kids. In reality the $200 or so inspend for an appt setter is money well spent...it is definitely the part of the job that I do not find appealing at all.

 

[NancyFL]

Disagree. My average work week since starting in FE is 20 or less hours a week. I don't have a client base to pull from, so I do all of mine off of leads and appointments.

Now I probably have a much higher cost basis than most agents...especially the door knockers and agents who set their own appts, but it affords me the ability to do the things I want to do and provide a good life fornmy kids

Good. I'm really glad that worked for you and you were able to afford to do it this way. Many can't afford any or very little marketing expenses when they first start.

 

[jdeasy]

Good. I'm really glad that worked for you and you were able to afford to do it this way. Many can't afford any or very little marketing expenses when they first start.

Do you have any personal experience selling insurance? If so, how much experience and how much personal production and what products?

 

[NancyFL]

Do you have any personal experience selling insurance? If so, how much experience and how much personal production and what products?

I'm still an agent, though I'm in office now more than in the field. I sell Medicare, Life, LTC and annuities but the core of my business is LTC and Life. I find very little competition in the LTC/HHC market in Florida. With Life, I typically write it when I come across an overpriced policy that I can beat. I've been doing it for 6 years.

 

[jdeasy]

I'm still an agent, though I'm in office now more than in the field. I sell Medicare, Life, LTC and annuities but the core of my business is LTC and Life. I find very little competition in the LTC/HHC market in Florida. With Life, I typically write it when I come across an overpriced policy that I can beat. I've been doing it for 6 years.

Then why are you giving advice in the FE forum when you obviously have no basis for that advice?

 

[Gooner]

Then why are you giving advice in the FE forum when you obviously have no basis for that advice?

That's what I'm talking about. If you write life insurance, "when you come across it". You have no idea if the FE market and the beautiful simplicity it offers an agent.

Now my challenge to the rest of the board is to use the word beautiful and FE in the same sentence.

 

[NancyFL]

Then why are you giving advice in the FE forum when you obviously have no basis for that advice?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but FE falls into the "Life Insurance" category. I sell FE. And besides, the topic of this thread is "Why are so many agents lazy?" You don't have to agree with me, but I am allowed to give my opinion.