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I have recruited, trained and motivated hundreds and hundreds of insurance agents over the past two plus decades. I have found that skills, knowledge and work ethic have less to do with success as their habits do. Here are 5 habits of successful insurance agents I have observed throughout my career.
I was reading an article I found on reason.com where in the early 1800s that life insurance was deemed to be immoral. How can a product that is both legal and beneficial be thought of as immoral? Well it seems that religious traditionalists believed they should trust in God’s providence, not a financial contract, to Continue reading →
I was reading this article on MSN Money on how much money a person would need to save daily to become a millionaire at age 67 years old. It is an interesting lesson in time and compounding. It is really sad that we don’t educate our youngest generation to fully understand its importance. Instead, we Continue reading →
In our busy lives, it is easy to forget to let our loved ones know where everything is in the event of our death. Things we take for granted at work, our insurance policies and maybe even a safety deposit box should be listed for our loved ones. If you died today, would your spouse, Continue reading →
I see self-employed people and small business owners struggle with what is referred to as how to get your business name out there in the market place. People cannot buy your products or services if they have not heard of you no matter how good you are. There are multiple ways to get your business Continue reading →
For those regular readers of my blogs, you know how much I am into the Law of Attraction and how our thoughts create our reality. The fact that we are all creators by what we think about most often. I read a lot of Napoleon Hill and Earl Nightingale who understood the power of Continue reading →
Too many small business owners, salespeople, realtors and insurance agents spend their precious time and marketing dollars on where their next sale will come from instead of finding the source of their sales. It is like asking for a glass of water instead of asking for the well. If you owned the well, you will Continue reading →
There are lots of people that seem to spend too much time thinking about their past. You know the glory days, whether it be high school, college or some time specific in the past. If you continue to look backwards, you will wake up one day without a past. We must live in the moment Continue reading →
Going through a divorce is tough. Thankfully, I have never experienced a divorce and hopefully never will. I have had plenty of friends and clients to go through a divorce and it is miserable for them. There are so many things to consider when getting divorced that often life insurance is overlooked. This can be Continue reading →
Don’t use a life insurance agent to buy your life insurance if you want to over pay. Just because you can buy life insurance online doesn’t mean you are getting the best coverage at the best price. If you Google life insurance, you are not finding your best policy, you are finding the life insurance Continue reading →
I found an old news story from 2011 on ABC News Good Morning America about an elderly widow in Italy that died at age 94 and wills her cat, her beloved kitty Tammaso, her entire estate worth $13 million. That is one lucky cat. This elderly widow had no children, no living family and suffered Continue reading →