Insurance Agent Forum

[Texas Agent]

Has anyone tried selling without a storefront. I have been selling for a little over a year, and have only meet a handful of clients. I am thinking of going independent with a partner. I see no need for a storefront.

Other than no personal meeting with clients, can anyone tell me any down side to trying this direction?

[xrac]

Originally Posted by Texas Agent

Has anyone tried selling without a storefront. I have been selling for a little over a year, and have only meet a handful of clients. I am thinking of going independent with a partner. I see no need for a storefront.

Other than no personal meeting with clients, can anyone tell me any down side to trying this direction?

My advice is skip the storefront and keep the overhead low. I don't see a need for a storefront unless it is P&C and then maybe. If it is business insurance a lot of the big P&C outfits have area agents who call on business and all of the business is conducted on premise. More and more business are strickly on line and they have no storefront. The customer is not going to go to the GEICO office.

[Texas Agent]

Originally Posted by xrac

My advice is skip the storefront and keep the overhead low. I don't see a need for a storefront unless it is P&C and then maybe. If it is business insurance a lot of the big P&C outfits have area agents who call on business and all of the business is conducted on premise. More and more business are strickly on line and they have no storefront. The customer is not going to go to the GEICO office.

I agree! Thank you for the reply! I do all of my sales over the phone. I think this is the best way to keep my $$$

[superfly33]

Another thing I have considered is to rent an office room or desk space from a local realty office or something like that. In my area, it would run about $300 a month.

That way I do have a location if someone wants to visit me and it's somewhere I can go to do work when the family is home.