Starting An Insurance Agency From Scratch

An easy guide to understanding everything you need to know about starting an independent insurance agency. Hear it from Author Kimm Hackett, the owner of an agency with a book of business worth over one million dollars! From setting up your first agency to getting contracts with multiple insurance companies, Hackett will help you avoid the common mistakes made by beginners in the insurance industry.

This is a step by step instruction manual on the nuts and bolts of how to start your own insurance business. It goes beyond a business book by relating the personal side of starting a business, its effect on family and home life. There are useful tips for a beginners as well as the most seasoned veteran producer about how to get started on the right foot and make it to profitability in the shortest amount of time possible. This book is based on the writer's successful experience in setting up his own agency and making a family business work.

Are you a struggling Agency Owner? Brand new to the industry or thinking about starting from scratch? This book is a process focused book that is engaging and easy to read. I wrote this book to be read in a single sitting and easily adaptable for a broker or agent. Topics discussed; marketing, selling, prospecting, script building, different types of agency models, and other important topics for Agencies.

Darren Sugiyama, nationally known author and business consultant has disclosed the secrets of his insurance industry success. His story will amuse and inspire you to take your company to the next level. Proven results...every time!

Prepare for the Future Develop Your Digital Road Map Increase Profit, Scalability, and Time We are currently in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where digital capabilities are providing velocity to all prior developments. This includes the insurance industry and independent insurance agents. Do you have a digital strategy? The insurance industry and independent insurance agencies have been slow to adapt to change, but change is here. Insurance Agency 4.0 brings together the digital evolution of insurance agencies and presents a wholistic view of the future agency. Main Street staples like bookstores, travel agents, and music stores have been disintermediated and their products moved online and into self-service; but insurance's complex nature has kept the local insurance agent viable. However, consumers are becoming better educated, price wars blast across all advertising, and people expect the same digital experiences across all parts of their lives, including with their insurance agent. Insurance Agency 4.0 will help agency owners and managers develop a custom path to modernize their business strategy relative to their people, marketing, operations, service, and sales while developing a practical approach to: - Discover and Analyze Your Starting Point - Develop Your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats - Build and Execute Your Customized Strategic Digital Plan

The Most Comprehensive Guide To Successfully Starting Your Insurance Sales Career... No Matter What Insurance Product You Sell... From The Perspective Of A Top Producing Insurance Agent And National Trainer!Did you know that the "ugly" truth of insurance sales is that over 90% of new agents FAIL within their first 12 months of getting their license?The sad truth is that insurance sales is TOUGH, and to succeed, you must have a strategy in place to avoid becoming another statistic.Taking his own experience succeeding AND failing out of insurance sales, David Duford has designed this guide to help new insurance agents navigate the most common pitfalls to selling insurance so you can improve your odds of a successful, lucrative career.The Official Guide To Selling Insurance For New Agents provides the blueprint to optimizing your new career as an insurance agent. This handbook explains:1) How to avoid failure and achieve success.2) How to select the best insurance product to sell.3) How to identify and avoid joining agencies who are NOT working in your best interest.4) A crash-course in understanding how to become a top-producing insurance agent.

This book is meant to be a guide to help any insurance agent who is thinking about or planning to start their very own multi-line insurance agency.In the book, we get a bit into the details about all the issues any entrepreneur needs to consider and fully plan for to help increase the chances of a smooth transition from the world of employment to being your own boss.In this book, we look at matters related to: -Business planning -Sales and marketing-Startup issues and costs-Forming partnerships and strategic acquisitions-Contracting-Scaling your agency-Funding and capital requirements-Many more