I am a new health insurance agent. I am working with an IMO but they are not local. I get my leads from online sources...and make calls everyday from my home office. I talk to several people a day and take apps over the phone...but i've noticed an isolation aspect to this job that i haven't encountered in my other sales jobs.
My question is....how do independant agents deal with the isolation issue?
I have sold appliances and other tangible items for over 1 decade...but the isolation aspect of selling as an independant...is pretty tough.
I was thinking of joining an agency...but i want to maximize my income.
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I prefer to stay home. My birds are here. I have found that it is difficult to achieve financial success working with others. Maybe someday I will find others I enjoy spending time with who can make a contribution to my life, instead of sucking me dry.
Meanwhile, there is always the forum.
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I just created a social network through my association to deal with this issue - some of my members wanted to network around with other agents - right now we have most 200 signed up to the network. If you want more info just email me.
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Go out for lunch and eat with strangers and start a conversation, cold call business owners, become a mentor for a kid, teach adults to read, join a prison ministry, volunteer at a local school, learn to fish and hunt, walk, exercise, go see your relatives, visit nursing homes, join a book club, visit a strip club, learn to shoot a pistol and hang out at the gun range, shoot skeet, grow a garden, work on a house for habitat for humanity.
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Originally Posted by The Rabbi
I prefer to stay home. My birds are here. I have found that it is difficult to achieve financial success working with others. Maybe someday I will find others I enjoy spending time with who can make a contribution to my life, instead of sucking me dry.
Meanwhile, there is always the forum.
The Rabbi is right on the money. Spend some time on the forum, and you will realize that working by yourself is one of the best things. You can focus and eventually hire an assistant and have some sub agents and before you know it, you won't feel lonely for long. All of these people will be worrying the hell out of you. Take your assistant to lunch every now and then, fall in love, get married, so on and so forth. Next thing you know, you'll be dreaming about the good old days, when loneliness was your chief concern.
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I just do not understand selling from home, over the internet, and the phone. I don't think I would want to do it. Never do something you don't want to do, it will become tedious. Do what you enjoy.
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Originally Posted by HomeService
I just do not understand selling from home, over the internet, and the phone. I don't think I would want to do it. Never do something you don't want to do, it will become tedious. Do what you enjoy.
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The key to hiring an assistant is to make availability for overnight travel a requirement. That should narrow it down to available women. Unless you want to hire a dude (teh ghey).
Until you can afford to hire your future mistress, focus on the senior market -- they're lonely too!
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Originally Posted by theinuranceguy
And thats exactly why I am a part time stripper.
Maybe Jesse Jackson can get you a scholarship like he wanted to for that hooker who tried to frame the Duke Lacrosse Team. Excuse, she was "an exotic dancer" not a stripper.
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When you eliminate the verbage (not verbiage) on this post there is actually some sound advice.
I recommend you set up shop at a Starbucks for a few hours a day, a few times a week with your laptop and a cell phone, you get to interact with people, they hear you on the phone speaking about insurance and it creates the human interaction you're craving.
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Not all people are cut out to be independent agents.
I experienced the same thing for a couple of months when I went independent. I had been captive for five years.
Even though I still go on appointments, talking to prospects face to face is still not the same as being around people who who share the same interests you have. When you are with a prospect you are "on" and constantly aware of what you are saying and the way you say it and intently listening to what they are and are not saying.
Selling insurance is work, for me it is not a social activity. Once I got away from the BSing agents I use to work with I was more focused. I don't need someone telling me "good job" or chewing my ass out because I didn't meet his expectations that week to be productive.
I learned to work hard and play even harder. I am not a "joiner" and probably don't play well with others anyway. Jacqueline and I have a very active social life, go out to dinner several times a week and enjoy doing many of the same things together. Go ahead and bust my ass but she really is my best friend.
It comes down to having a life away from insurance and for me that is not spending time joining organizations like the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, etc.
Spend your work time making money and your play time away from insurance and insurance agents. Most of them are pretty boring anyway.
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