I would like to share my thoughts and opinion about Insphere
Be on your guard and watch for red flags.
I was part of this company but was gone in under 4 months if you count licensing time and training time.
The division I had was saturated and the state I live in has squat for options so in this state we got the ever so unpopular Mega.
Let me step away from that though.
The "first" interview/recruitment slide show I watched with a sales leader was appealing for a new guy like myself who was recently laid off from the telecommunications field. I remember key things about what the leader said, one of them was "I don't care if you make $3,000 or 3 million dollars, there is no quota and the only way you are going to make money is to write policies" He also said "You are self employed, you decide what you want to make, self employed is one step from being unemployed"
After I got licensed the support from my leader was down the tubes, he was cranky about everyday, his assistant wanted to keep him booked out of the office as much as possible.
Each time I sought advice I got brushed off, but one agent who was there a few months longer then myself who was struggling, got all the help in the world when he basically cried he was dying for a client. I got the impression as if I was underestimated or given up on fairly quick probably due to the amount of time (just over a month) to get officially licensed
He even offered to help cold call, he would tell me we would sit down and would learn how to turn cold calls into appointments. Each time the "time" would come, he had an excuse, from he had to go home, he has an appointment, needs to make a call, etc and blew me off to his assistant. My self esteem was getting shot, sure I gave it my best with what I didn't know. Finally as I observed he was just getting more cranky and after 3 weeks of other new agents feeling they got ripped a new one for not making sales, I jumped that ship. Shortly there after even folks who were writing sales got canned from the company for not writing enough, so much for the recruitment speech telling us he didn't care what we made...
We even got speeches in one of the weekly meetings if we can't write enough business, the office can't stay a float meaning we have no revenue to pay the lights, etc. In other words we needed to line his and the division managers pockets with money in my opinion.
To my understanding (oddly enough I work with his assistant and one of the former agents..that oughta tell more) the office went from 11 people to 3.
I think we had some pretty crappy leadership. If you didn't write a million bucks quick like he did it seemed you didn't have a leg to stand on. I have heard of other offices in other states where folks are content, that's fine. I left mainly from learning Megas reputation and the crappy leadership and knowing if I wasn't writing a million bucks soon I would be canned anyways.
If you are serious, all I say is keep this information in mind, the minute a red flag is raised, debunk it as a misunderstanding, etc and if you can't grab a life vest and jump ship.
Be on your guard and watch for red flags.
I was part of this company but was gone in under 4 months if you count licensing time and training time.
The division I had was saturated and the state I live in has squat for options so in this state we got the ever so unpopular Mega.
Let me step away from that though.
The "first" interview/recruitment slide show I watched with a sales leader was appealing for a new guy like myself who was recently laid off from the telecommunications field. I remember key things about what the leader said, one of them was "I don't care if you make $3,000 or 3 million dollars, there is no quota and the only way you are going to make money is to write policies" He also said "You are self employed, you decide what you want to make, self employed is one step from being unemployed"
After I got licensed the support from my leader was down the tubes, he was cranky about everyday, his assistant wanted to keep him booked out of the office as much as possible.
Each time I sought advice I got brushed off, but one agent who was there a few months longer then myself who was struggling, got all the help in the world when he basically cried he was dying for a client. I got the impression as if I was underestimated or given up on fairly quick probably due to the amount of time (just over a month) to get officially licensed
He even offered to help cold call, he would tell me we would sit down and would learn how to turn cold calls into appointments. Each time the "time" would come, he had an excuse, from he had to go home, he has an appointment, needs to make a call, etc and blew me off to his assistant. My self esteem was getting shot, sure I gave it my best with what I didn't know. Finally as I observed he was just getting more cranky and after 3 weeks of other new agents feeling they got ripped a new one for not making sales, I jumped that ship. Shortly there after even folks who were writing sales got canned from the company for not writing enough, so much for the recruitment speech telling us he didn't care what we made...
We even got speeches in one of the weekly meetings if we can't write enough business, the office can't stay a float meaning we have no revenue to pay the lights, etc. In other words we needed to line his and the division managers pockets with money in my opinion.
To my understanding (oddly enough I work with his assistant and one of the former agents..that oughta tell more) the office went from 11 people to 3.
I think we had some pretty crappy leadership. If you didn't write a million bucks quick like he did it seemed you didn't have a leg to stand on. I have heard of other offices in other states where folks are content, that's fine. I left mainly from learning Megas reputation and the crappy leadership and knowing if I wasn't writing a million bucks soon I would be canned anyways.
If you are serious, all I say is keep this information in mind, the minute a red flag is raised, debunk it as a misunderstanding, etc and if you can't grab a life vest and jump ship.
