If you are having difficulty adding new clients to your client list, you need to remember that closing sales is not as difficult as you might be thinking. Here are 6 tips to gain new clients and watch your agency grow and prosper. You’ll be a closing sales and generating revenue in no time.
1. You Can’t Be Pushy
If you are pushy with your clients, you’ll loose them. In fact, that doesn’t just apply to insurance sales. Anytime you are selling if you are pushing your client around and annoying them they won’t be purchasing anything from you. You’ve had that annoying salesperson when you’re out shopping. Don’t be that person.
If you are kind and you are considerate, it will make a significant difference in the number of insurance policies you are actually able to sell. Your client needs to feel like you are their to aid them in improving their life, and help them to secure their health and well-being for years to come.
2. Honesty Is Key
Don’t beat around the bush, and don’t stretch the truth. Right from the beginning it’s important to be honest about what it is, you are offering the client including its pros and cons. You need to be honest about what the product can do for their life. When you do this, you’ll come across, as caring, respectful, and honest and your client will appreciate this, increasing the likelihood that you will get the sale.
You want to watch for verbal cues that your client shows to determine how interested they are in the services you are offering. Your client is going to ask you questions about the service you are offering. They might ask if it will be easy to add a family member or they might even criticize previous policies they used to have or maybe even still hold. They might tell you that they are glad you offer such a service or that it had never been offered to them before. Read the verbal cues and act accordingly.
3. Be An Expert
Nothing will send your potential client running faster than if you don’t know what services you offer, if you must constantly look things up, or if you simply don’t appear authoritative. When you appear as an expert, and when you know your services inside out, the client feels they can trust you and you come across as really having their best interests at heart.
4. Ask Questions To Answer Questions
This is an excellent marketing strategy that actually increases the close rate significantly, because the client is forced to choose your service without ever realizing it. You simply answer a question by asking a question. If the client asks if it is easy to add my family member to their policy, you would answer, “Would you like to add your children now?”
5. Give Your Client Options
An insurance agent that’s effective always tailors the insurance plan to what the client wants. It can change at any moment during a conversation, which is where the clues are taken from. When you suggest insurance policies that are based on the clients needs and wants they know you care about improving the quality of their lives.
6. Clients Need Time To Think
You should always give your client time to think. You can subtly push them in a direction but you never want overload them or come across as pushy. Your potential client is going to need time to think and digest what you have told them.
There you have it – 6 tips to gain new clients quickly and effectively. Use these tips and you’ll see a significant increase in your close rate. You should also consider purchasing qualified insurance leads from a company where you’ll get leads that are already verified as legitimate leads. It’s what can give you the edge over the competition, so why not start gaining new clients today?
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Author: Seth Kravitz | October 2nd 2008

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