National Underwriter Sales Essentials Life Health

Packed with engaging examples and case studies from companies including Amazon, IBM, and Pepsi, as well as unique insights from sales professionals across the globe, this comprehensive textbook balances research, theory, and practice to guide students through the art and science of selling in a fast-changing and digital age. The text highlights the emerging role of storytelling, sales analytics and automation in a highly competitive and technological world, and includes exercises and role plays for students to practice as they learn about each stage of the selling process. As well as its focus on selling, the text also provides students with essential sales management skills such as onboarding, coaching, mentoring, and leading salespeople, as well as managing sales pipelines, territories, budgets, systems, and teams when not in the field. Online resources are included to help instructors teaching with the textbook, including PowerPoint slides and a testbank. Chapter overviews and teaching notes for the roleplays included in the text and suggested course projects and worksheets are also provided for instructors. Suitable for courses on selling and sales management at all college and university levels.

Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

This comprehensive reference to all areas of expert systems and applications, plus advanced related topics, lets you spend your time reading expert systems literature rather than searching for it. It gives you a source of historical perspectives and outlooks on the future of the field. Whether you are a manager, a developer or an end user or researcher, Expert Systems and Related Topics: Selected Bibliography & Guide to Information Sources puts all the sources of expert systems literature at your fingertips.

Every insurance professional can use new ways to connect with clients and improve his or her visibility in the community. Successful practice building requires the right frame of mind and philosophy for success. By taking time to learn from history's most successful leaders and thinkers, you can become more aware of the value that you provide to your clients, and build the confidence you need to help your clients achieve their risk-management goals while reaching your own personal sales milestones. The Edge: Managing Your Client's Financial Well-being in Risky Times is a conversational guide designed to help professionals of all experience levels achieve the their business and personal goals. It will show you to how to re-direct your thoughts to areas that will allow your practice to flourish and help you gain the respect of your peers. Long-term accomplishment requires the right philosophy, and this roadmap will show you the paths already travelled by those who have also faced many of the same challenges as today's industry leaders.

The 3rd Edition illustrates successful people-centered, long-term care strategies in wake of today s challenges strategies that sincerely benefit clients while increasing the marketing potential and profitability for financial and insurance planners. Authored by Jeff Sadler, an expert in disability and long-term care coverage with an insurance career spanning more than 30 years. While most people do not consider long-term coverage until it s too late, many financial and insurance planners have yet to establish successful ways to reinforce the manner in which clients will use and benefit from long-term care coverage. Jeff Sadler shows you how to better educate your clients about their long-term care options and increase your sales. You'll learn how to adapt sales presentations, select the most benefitical coverage and capitalize on current trends with this thorough resource guide to the long-term care market. Divided into reader-friendly sections, this book gives you a comprehensive overview complete with stories and statistics illustrating the need for long-term care insurance, the potential funding sources that exist today, a detailed review of the various product solutions available to solve this potential problem, and the current tax and legislative ramifications for the product. A section entitled "Knowledge Is Power" will provide you with a never-ending source of information about all of the various aspects of this market, equipping you with ideas and concepts you can use to educate your prospects and existing clients. This book is the cornerstone to your full understanding of the long-term care market. Sadler delivers: Time-tested solutions to overcome current sales declines in long-term care product lines Actual family case examples and statistics on how to capitalize on today s opportunities The book s building-block approach clearly outlines: How to explain client need How to motivate healthy clients to buy this often-overlooked coverage The topic-specific sections direct long-term care opportunities to: Individual and group health insurance Life insurance 401(k) sales Annuity sales Disability insurance Business planning Financial planning each designed to work with a different type of prospect.