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I'm thinking of joining combined strictly for the training. I would stay for three months max.
I have 30+ years of sales experience in various industries. I see you mention combined for training quite A few times.
My question to you is - Do you think combined Teaches you how to sell insurance (product knowledge) and not just how to be a salesman period?
I think it would be ridiculous to start out independent without knowledge of the industry and what your actually selling.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
Never thought I would be an insurance salesman but I needed a job and took a position with Combined in 1992 selling the sickness policies and med supps and went from zero to hero ( 8,000 a year to 45,000 ) in 3 years before I realized I didn't need the Combined regiment to sell insurance on my own.
Now 22 years later as an insurance salesman knowing now what I didn't know then about the insurance biz I would never in a million years have taken that position but.........
I would have never been as successful as an agent as I am now if I wasn't so ignorant about the insurance sales industry and plunged in to it without a clue. I was forced to go through that hard core training, constant rah rah go em positive thinking meetings and the crazy high activity level expectation for low commission rates.
Everything afterwords has been a piece of cake for twice the commissions compared to working at Combined.