FMO that Handles UHC Medicare Products

[life02]

Hi Sam,


Brand new guy here, sort of, re-entering the life & annuity business after some time and am seriously looking at Gordon Marketing as a starting place for an IMO/FMO . You recommend them? I have seen they have quite a wide scope of companies they deal with along with much training. Good points....bad points, any information I may not get directly from them?


Thanks,


Marcusg

Gordon Marketing is the biggest joke of a FMO there is, beyond Captive or GA Amerilife. Gordon Marketing provides ZERO senior products support, takes weeks for them to submit contracts, they harass or blackmail you by saying they wont support your other contacts you have with them if you dont bring them your XX company contract as well, and once they have all of your contracts they completely ignore all help requests.
The founder of Gordon Marketing was a wonderful man, but the second he handed it down to Sylvia Gordon his daughter it became a joke of a organization, plus about 60% of their medicare contracts are not direct with carriers. The only direct Medicare contract they have is with United Healthcare from what I can tell, rest are through SMS, Amerilife, Agent Pipeline.

You also need to watch some of the contracts they send you, a few of them Gordon Marketing receives the commissions and then pays you.

Sorry for the rant, but run the other way from that FMO. Leaving them was a wonderful decision.

 

[yorkriver1]

My FMO / GA Suggestion List:

Senior Marketing Specialists - DISCLAIMER - I do training / marketing for them...so you get me for some training...that can be deemed as good or bad

Ritter Insurance Marketing

Word and Brown (you do have to assign commissions, but they are upfront about it and will release)

Todd King

Chris Westfall

Some other ones I have heard great things about (but I do not have any experience with):
Agent pipeline
Health Choice One

FMO's can be like cars - some may work for you, and not others. I have no use for a two seat car since I have kids, but that may be what you are looking for.

My advice - write down what you want your FMO to do for you (training, case placement assistance, back end office support, technology, etc) and then interview them. Talk to a handful then make a decision. Remember they are all trying to sell you on themselves, as they do not know who their next big producer will be. They in a sense will be your partner, so work with the one or two that you would want to partner with.

Hope this helps.

I thought Word and Brown was only for agents in California and Nevada. They were great when I was a new to health agent in CA working on small group for my P&C business clients. Ground breaking ideas, excellent service.

 

[MedicareAgent]

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