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True Sales Pros do not use Shared Leads

Article Summary: Is the prospect you are working on truly a lead? Do you have the knowledge to provide a meaningful presentation leading to a sale? Is your prospect willing and able to purchase this insurance from you? How many other salespeople received the same lead?

Show your agency what a fool you are. You have seen internet leads make a difference for some insurance salespeople. Just give you a lead and you can sell it. Leads allow you to talk about your products. The more you talk to prospects, the more sales you can make. Correct?

Wrong! An insurance salesperson proves he can sell, yet has four major barriers to overcome. ONLY very successful sales makers resolve all of these blockers.

1.Insurance salespeople and insurance salesperson recruiters are just plain CHEAP.

The roadmap leading your journey to riches does not provide any free gas or free prospects. Cheap leads run the gamut from telephone directors to association membership lists to acquiring the least costly prospect leads. Get out your mental dictionary! Find out where it says internet shared leads are true prospect leads.

The less you are willing to pay to reaching prospects interested in your insurance products the longer and riskier the road to success becomes. Rationalize why internet shared leads are losers. The company selling an internet shared leads, makes outlandish profits on each one. You are misled into believing the prospect information is given to 6 other agents, when the figure is usually 12. And who knows if the prospect is a true insurance prospect? You only spent $10.00 to get the prospect but the lead company netted $120.00

2. Your Ego is a rolling balloon ready to explode.

Facing 11 other competitors you truly believe your selling skills will outshine all competition. A stubborn, inflated ego blocks out reality. The internet shared lead company makes no guarantee this client is going to purchase from any insurance salesperson. If your prospect has already chosen to buy, can you swallow your pride do?

If you ever watched baseball, observe the catcher give the pitcher a sign. The sign suggests to the pitcher which pitch to deliver. The catcher's sign often gets shook off with a nod of the head by the pitcher. Now the catcher has lost his chance of having his pitch delivered. The same occurs with your pitch. Should your prospect already decide to buy from a competitor, don't bother to deliver your pitch. Face it you lost this one! Trying to undo a sale that was just recently made by another agent is a sign of desperation. Stop, look, and listen.

Calculate what your odds were. The internet company provided a shared lead in which existed a 33% chance the prospect would buy. Since it is a shared lead, multiply the chance (one to three), by the total agents in the game to pitch the prospect. For a seller like you, one in 3 sales likelihood evolves to one in thirty six. To your cheap mentality it translates to paying $120 per chance. A shared lead that cost $10.00, end up costing you $360 per sale, because your closing ratio is highly polluted and diluted. Acting cheap just cost you a bundle.

3. BELIEVING the internet lead company.

The sales lead company takes no oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. Do you Still think most people are honest? Do you think your auto mechanic charges you his price for parts or the retail price? Profit is the name of their game and your game too. Are you the first to enter the field with a prospect before anyone else does, even with a shared lead?

Once the first competitor has delivers his pitch, your prospect may already hit on the offer. You are no longer playing on a level surface. Each insurance agent ahead of you further tilts the odds against you. Saving your best pitch for last, will almost certainly bounce off the prospect with little effect. Even if you are first to deliver your insurance presentation and it is perfect, yet no sale, do you still believe in the profit motivated lead company? Easily they can take an "exclusive lead" prospect that would not buy, and recycle it into a shared lead.

4. SALES do not equal the sum of leads plus presentations.

Let's face it, insurance salespeople remain dirt cheap, even when knowing profitable ways exist. You can hide your cheapness behind busy work. Seeing busy work keeps sales managers off you back.

Is the prospect you are working on truly a lead? Do you have the knowledge to provide a meaningful presentation leading to a sale? Is your prospect willing and able to purchase this insurance from you. You receive a tip that a local business is looking for a health plan. No problem. You call a dozen insurance marketers asking for a quote on a nine person group. How can you make the sale, when what you were offering was a planet away from your client's needs. You were way out of your league.

Face the music; you didn't take the time to determine if your prospect for a group plan was a genuine prospect worth pursuing. Where did you get off the train. The ability to sell one insurance product, can produce zero effect trying to sell another. You even skipped all the needed fact finding to give yourself a chance. To put it bluntly, this was a loser lead. You could give 30 presentations a week. However should none of these be true leads of fresh prospects. The only fresh item will be the horse manure you are standing in. What about going back to cheap internet shared leads?

Maybe none of this article sunk in. It seems you have an ego that can't be shattered, but your future is already shattering. Either you profit, or others profit off you.

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About the Author:
Donald Yerke
This article along with loads more of its type was written by Donald Yerke. Don is the founder and adviser at the well established Agents Insurance Marketing firm. Check more articles like this at http://www.agentsinsurancemarketing.com