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	<description>What You Need to Know Before Buying Insurance Leads</description>
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		<title>Insurance Marketing and Sales through Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, one of the greatest tools that you can use on your insurance marketing and sales is your website. This means that you need to pull out all the stops to make sure that your website is working overtime. It’s not enough that you have...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Clearly, one of the greatest tools that you can use on your insurance marketing and sales is your website. This means that you need to pull out all the stops to make sure that your website is working overtime.  It’s not enough that you have a beautifully-designed website that’s attractive to your leads and prospects.  You also need to provide something of value so that you can turn your leads into clients and customers.  Here, it pays to know who’s coming to your website, where they come from and what they’re doing on your site.</p>
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        </div><p>It’s not as difficult as it seems to track your insurance leads in your website.  You can always get some tools like Google Analytics to see exactly where your leads came from and how you can use that to your advantage.  It’s possible that you’re running an internet ad that’s very attractive to people who need insurance.  When you see that many of your visitors are coming through that ad, you can construct a similar ad on another page or with another website to get more eyeballs.</p>
<p>If you know who your visitors are, you can also tweak your ads and the various things in your website to cater to their needs.  If you’re selling insurance that covers the needs of Medicare leads for example, you can make this fact even more visible to your market so that you can get the attention of your target audience.  As for knowing what your visitors are doing at your site, you can also see where your website needs to be improved on.  So if a lot of your visitors leave your site at your products page, they might be running into a problem there.  Fix that and you’re as good as leading them to signing an app with you.</p>
<p>Start working on high quality insurance leads from the moment that they visit your website.  Make sure that your website works overtime and does what it’s supposed to do.  Find more information and tips of how you can improve your insurance sales numbers. And sign up now for our hot insurance leads. </p>
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		<title>Letting Your Insurance Leads Know Who You Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to get insurance leads to want to buy from you, they’re obviously going to have to trust you. There’s no better way to do this then really, just make sure they know exactly who you are. You might be wondering what that means...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to get insurance leads to want to buy from you, they’re obviously going to have to trust you. There’s no better way to do this then really, just make sure they know exactly who you are. You might be wondering what that means but it’s actually pretty simple. There are a lot of ways to add your personality to your own website and the best way to do it is provide a good About Us page.</p>
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        </div><p>The About Us page is a standard in any website, although it may be called by a variety of names. This page isn’t a place where you give a small jist about your company and then that’s it. This page is where your insurance sales leads are going to look and this is the perfect page to let them know exactly who you are.</p>
<p>First off, make sure you give a little history about the company. Don’t make it an extremely long history &#8211; just enough to build yourself some credibility. State how long you’ve been in the insurance industry if you can but make sure that you put a positive spin if you haven’t been around for that long.</p>
<p>Secondly, make sure that you give your leads information about yourself. It will also be helpful if you can give them a small piece of personal information, although nothing that is too personal. It helps to let your leads also know who is in charge of insurance sales so they will know who is going to contact them.</p>
<p>Third, talk to them about your values as a company or an individual. If you’re going to build trust, it’s important that they have a better understanding of you as an entity and the trust factor is higher when they respect your values.</p>
<p>Lastly, put a picture up. It can be a fun picture or it can be a professional picture, just something to help them put a name to the face.</p>
<p>Another way to get your name out there is to make sure you contact leads who are ready to buy. Sign up for our high quality insurance leads and talk to people that have insurance on top of their head. Sign up now!</p>
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		<title>2 Items That Can Make Your Website More Adept at Getting Insurance Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[insurance leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your website is your first and most obvious method of increasing insurance lead sales. Without a proper website, you won’t be able to sell effectively to the insurance leads you’re aiming to sell to. One of the biggest drawers of leads to a website is...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your website is your first and most obvious method of increasing insurance lead sales. Without a proper website, you won’t be able to sell effectively to the insurance leads you’re aiming to sell to. One of the biggest drawers of leads to a website is the website aesthetics. This is why such a huge emphasis is placed on the aesthetics of a website. </p>
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        </div><p>Unfortunately, one of the problems that accompany this is that most of the effort is placed into making the site look good rather than enabling it to do what it’s supposed to do which is to build the urge of leads to buy insurance plans. If you want to make your website better in terms of attracting insurance sales leads, then here are two key pointers you’ll want to bear in mind.</p>
<p>Pointer number 1 – Make your website easy to use. Yes, it’s important to make your website look pretty; however at the end of the day it should be encouraging leads to sign up not just encouraging them to look at your website. Don’t make the website so good looking that it’s harder to use or has less of what you need to be there. There are three basic steps you want your leads to be going through and that’ looking and reading the information, making it easy for them to answer questions they may think of and ultimately making it easier for them to buy the insurance plan that they want. The easier they get to these, the easier for them to buy your products.</p>
<p>Pointer number 2 – Always make sure to add a call for action. As an insurance agent you are bound to have gotten used to the call to action by now. The call to action is important because it is obviously the right way to get your leads to buy the plans you are offering. Make sure your call to action is always visible, even more visible that every item on your page. This way, your prospects will find it easier to just cut to the chase.</p>
<p>These two items may seem extremely simple but they are two of the best ways to get your leads to buy from you. Cut to the chase by signing up for quality insurance leads that are sure to want to purchase. Sign up now!</p>
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		<title>Getting Into the Habit of Updating your Insurance Leads’ Statuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health insurance leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most essential tools you in the insurance business is the leads management system. From the terms itself, you know that you can manage your health insurance leads better with this tool. The thing is, you can&#8217;t input your prospects’ data into the...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most essential tools you in the insurance business is the leads management system.  From the terms itself, you know that you can manage your health insurance leads better with this tool.  The thing is, you can&#8217;t input your prospects’ data into the system and leave it as it is.  You have to make use of this tool and use it to the fullest.  As soon as the status of your leads changes, you have to update the information in your system too like taking a hot lead to a dormant lead division when you haven’t established any contact or when the lead didn’t have any activity at all in few months.</p>
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        </div><p>You might be handling 50 leads a day.  If you aren’t in the habit of keeping your system up to date, you have to start today.  Putting your insurance sales leads in the right category should come naturally to you.  If you’ve ever heard about the advice that you have to do something in a day that you dislike doing, you can put this under the docket.  You have to brace yourself because you might have to do this a number of times a day &#8211; depending on the number of leads you speak to and follow up with.</p>
<p>When this becomes a habit, you’ll also feel a change in the way you handle your business.  The best part of this would be that you save yourself time and money.  Instead of putting too much effort on a prospect that’s dormant, you can use up most of your time working on hotter leads or leads that are ready to close.  You can save valuable time and money by not putting much focus your dormant lead or an invalid lead where you have a long shot of closing.  The point is lead statuses are dynamic &#8211; it changes from hot to cold and the other way around.</p>
<p>You have to go with the flow and categorize them accordingly if you’re going to work towards insurance sales effectively.  If you sign up today, you’ll get loads of high quality leads. They might be ready to close now or you need to give them a little nudge &#8211; the point is &#8211; they want to know their options in insurance right away.</p>
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		<title>Sure-fire Tips to Get Hard-Nosed Gatekeepers on Your Side</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setting your sights on your insurance leads certainly seems easy enough when you&#8217;re planning to make your calls doesn&#8217;t it? After all, you&#8217;ve just got to think about how to get them to buy your plans right? Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t that simple when you add...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Setting your sights on your insurance leads certainly seems easy enough when you&#8217;re planning to make your calls doesn&#8217;t it? After all, you&#8217;ve just got to think about how to get them to buy your plans right? Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t that simple when you add your gatekeepers into the mix. Newer sales or insurance agents reading this are probably cringing at the thought. But don&#8217;t worry, hope is not lost, there are actually quite a number of ways to get gatekeepers on your side and make it easier for you to get your sale.</p>
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        </div><p>The simplest and most effective way to get a gatekeeper to listen is to be nice. Notice that the first tip was to be nice and not confident. This is because over confidence on the phone is an indicator of telemarketers and that will lessen your chances of being transferred over. Just be nice and stay professional and you should be off to a good start.</p>
<p>Choose your words carefully. There are actually a number of ways to get through a gatekeeper but the most tried and tested has been wordplay. Gatekeepers know what they know and understand that there are some discussions they cannot answer for. Try to use words that they will not question because they won&#8217;t be able to take a message for you. This way, they will still be nice but pass you on.</p>
<p>Try to find out how they are doing. Your medical insurance leads employ gatekeepers for a number of reasons and they will generally also serve as an indicator of how your decision maker is feeling since they share the brunt of the workload. Seeing how they are doing therefore will get you in their good books and will give you time to figure out a strategy to use on the insurance sales leads you are calling.</p>
<p>Finally, don&#8217;t lie. Be open and honest, albeit choosing your words carefully. If you lie and happen to get through to your lead they will be the ones who get the flack. Tendency is they will remember you after that and will not let you through a second time.</p>
<p>Remember, your leads are bound to have gatekeepers that are good at what they do but some manners and smarts will get them on your side.</p>
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		<title>Fighting Away the Competition – Setting Yourself Apart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of books have been written about making yourself known and making yourself visible to your customers because at the end of the day, you want to be known as the agent they want to buy from. The problem is there are so many books...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Plenty of books have been written about making yourself known and making yourself visible to your customers because at the end of the day, you want to be known as the agent they want to buy from. The problem is there are so many books and articles that it’s easy to look beyond the basics and think of the more complicated things. The problem with that technique is that you over think your strategy and forget your foundations. There are actually lots of simple steps that you can take to ensure you stand out from the rest.</p>
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        </div><p>Listening is one of the easiest ways to stand out because more and more insurance agents get into the habit of just trying to sell the most profitable product. If you listen well enough, you will find that your insurance leads will actually tell you what they want and what they expect. This makes health insurance leads feel that you take them seriously and are taking their considerations to heart. Selling them the most expensive or profitable product for you tells them that you are only after the money and will discourage them from buying a plan from you. The customer is always right and you should remember that when trying to sell them a product.</p>
<p>Customer service is another important point. A lot of insurance agents can become pushy bordering on rude when they sell to their leads. This isn’t really surprising considering that insurance agents and sales people in general are confident in what they sell and aren’t afraid to tell people about it. The problem with is, it can turn away prospects rather than get them on your side. Most insurance shoppers feel that they should make the decision and do not appreciate being backed into a corner. That’s why a confident yet polite insurance agent who can make the customer feel important will get more sales than a pushy agent.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, standing out is providing a quality product with your customers in mind and those are the first steps to get a good customer base. </p>
<p>Still not making a head start on your insurance career? Sign up now and let our insurance leads give you the experience of submitting more apps.</p>
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		<title>Making the Most Out of Renewal Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s easy to forget clients who have already signed up with you for an insurance plan and are awaiting renewal. Not a lot of agents maximize this time in order to get new insurance leads, however what a lot of agents seem to forget is...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s easy to forget clients who have already signed up with you for an insurance plan and are awaiting renewal. Not a lot of agents maximize this time in order to get new insurance leads, however what a lot of agents seem to forget is that renewal time is as good a time as any to increase your customer base.</p>
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        </div><p>Obviously you don’t want to keep calling up your clients trying to get potential referrals from them. Most people don’t appreciate having to answer too many calls from their insurance agent no matter how much they like you. Fortunately renewals provide a perfect opportunity to call them up. A quick reminder about an insurance plan that needs updating or one that is approaching renewal is a perfect excuse to call you current clients. </p>
<p>Since you’ve already gotten the chance to actually call them, it doesn’t hurt to see if they know anyone who might be interested in getting another plan. You’ve also got to remember that lifestyles change and existing plans may not meet the needs they have now, so making a small push at a better plan might get them to upgrade their plan to a better one.</p>
<p>Marking insurance sales leads as dead is common practice for most agents who haven’t made a sale to particular lead. However, a lot of good insurance agents practice the skill of never letting their customers go away empty handed. This means that even if they didn’t sell their insurance leads a plan, they still provided them with a sample quote or even better, used email auto responders to send information to those potential clients. </p>
<p>The good thing about using an email auto responder is that it will actually do a lot of the work for you by sending them information they would need should they wish to change their plan. It also makes sure they are still aware of who you are and creates immediate name recall.</p>
<p>Renewal time doesn’t have to be unprofitable for you. If you sign up with us you will get information on how to maximize profits in areas no one else will and if you would like to go a step further we can provide you high quality leads to maximize your profit even more. Sign up now!</p>
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		<title>Nurturing the Bonds with your Insurance Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask the most successful agents in the industry for advice on how to succeed in insurance, many of them will tell you about nurturing your insurance leads. Even before prospects buy from you, a relationship between you has to be established.  It’s going...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you ask the most successful agents in the industry for advice on how to succeed in insurance, many of them will tell you about nurturing your insurance leads<strong>.</strong> Even before prospects buy from you, a relationship between you has to be established.  It’s going to be one of trust where you’ll be there to provide them with information about insurance and eventually help them find a policy that best fits their lifestyle and budget – a plan that covers most if not all their needs at the lowest possible premium.</p>
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        </div><p>It’s not always with establishing contact that the building blocks of a good relationship with your insurance leads are laid.  You have to do more than just beating any other agents on that first important call. Even if you were the first agent to reach them, there’s no stopping them from shopping around if they think that you don’t have their interest in mind.  But obviously, the faster you get on the phone, the better chance you’ll catch them while they are still browsing around on their computers and their interest level is still at its peak. Marketers believe that the level of interest drops a notch lower every 30 minutes. With insurance clouding their minds, they’ll be more receptive towards you.</p>
<p>The relationship you have with your prospects should also be one without any strings attached.  You shouldn’t pressure them for anything.  It gets easier when you put it into your head that you’re there to educate your prospects about insurance.  You can lay it all on being there to answer their questions for them.  When your insurance sales leads don’t buy from you on the first contact or first meeting, you’ll have your chance to nurture the relationship.  You can do these automatically using tools like the autoresponder where you can send information about new products, advice and so on for weeks, months and even years.</p>
<p>Following the advice that top producers have, you’ll have much to gain.  It’s all summarized in one phrase, nurture relationships.</p>
<p>Do you want to increase your number of sales? So do we. Sign up now and get steady supply of high quality insurance leads.</p>
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		<title>A Self Assessment Skills Quiz on How to Work Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the insurance business, there are many things that you can do toward the success or the failure of your agency.  The point is you have to learn if what you’re doing is right or wrong in order to make a change for the better. ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the insurance business, there are many things that you can do toward the success or the failure of your agency.  The point is you have to learn if what you’re doing is right or wrong in order to make a change for the better.  Here is a short yes or no quiz that you can take to assess your skill with working on insurance leads and how successful you are with converting them to sales.</p>
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        </div><p>Are you coming in with a well-thought proposal?</p>
<p>Yes – This paves the way for a more positive result. With something catered to your client’s needs, you can get them to listen and be interested because the topic is about them.</p>
<p>No – you have to face the fact that you’re not making it easier on yourself or your clients.  If you present information in a way your clients understand, you’ll be saving time and effort and have more success.</p>
<p>Do you make yourself available to your prospects and your clients?</p>
<p>Yes – this doesn’t only mean by phone, you also have to give your leads an option for signing up to your website.  By making this clear, you can make yourself even more available to help them about insurance.</p>
<p>No – think about when you’re convincing your prospects to sign up.  Even if sale is not too far behind, they can still change their minds.  If they can&#8217;t decide yet and you’re not accessible when they’re ready to buy, they can easily go to your competitors.</p>
<p>Do you get back with your prospects only if they said that they’ll be signing up?</p>
<p>Yes – basically, you’re handling things wrong.  If you’re going to succeed in making a sale, you have to make an effort on getting in touch with your prospects.  When you get their email address, you can always send them information about new quotes to keep yourself in the race.</p>
<p>No – this is a very good answer provided that you’re not in their face every single day to check up.  Yes, there’s nothing wrong with sending an email once in a while to ensure that they get new information.  A twice a month email on the first three months and once on months after is a good insurance marketing email frequency.</p>
<p>Are you piling up your cold leads? Sign up today and up your conversion rate using our high quality insurance leads that have shown full intent that they are looking for insurance.</p>
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		<title>Turning a Hot Sale Out of Cold Insurance Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Viel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health insurance leads]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you’re working on so many leads, regardless if you generate it on your own or from lead generating companies, it’s hard for cold leads not to pile up. There will be good days where you only need to provide additional information and they’re ready...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you’re working on so many leads, regardless if you generate it on your own or from lead generating companies, it’s hard for cold leads not to pile up. There will be good days where you only need to provide additional information and they’re ready to purchase.  But on most days, you’ll be talking with leads that need variety of proposals on the best plans and policies before they even consider buying &#8211; and not a few will not even come close to it.  But remember that when you have leads that have turned cold, you can still get something out of them.</p>
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        </div><p>The key is to make use of insurance marketing tactics that keeps your relationship with these leads alive.  It’s possible that from the time you first contacted them, they still opened themselves up to other insurance agents and look for other insurance providers in the market.  If you don’t keep in touch by sending them email newsletters or emails about specials, you’ll be easily forgotten by your prospective clients.  The thing is, leads have short-term memories so you need to keep your agency in front of them to bring back your cold leads into the hot zone.</p>
<p>Long term marketing and keeping in touch even through the passage of months and years is possible today with the use of technology.  You only need an email autoresponder on your system so you can schedule when you’ll be sending these cold health insurance leads information about new policies and programs that would likely benefit them a lot.  Even if you don’t have new products, you can still keep in touch through newsletters and sending them the occasional holiday postcard.  Even if you’re keeping track of a hundred cold leads, you can do so efficiently with the email autoresponder.</p>
<p>If a special event is happening in your agency or when there’s a promotion for example, go ahead and email your prospects about it.  Even the dormant ones have a potential of waking up with great policy offers.  You can still keep your cold Medicare leads in the insurance loop by sending them newsletters.  It might be that they’re just waiting to get more educated about insurance before actually buying.  Every lead can be turned into a sale &#8211; even the cold ones.</p>
<p>Handle cold leads the right way by reading our effective tips. Sign up today and experience how your cold pile leads becomes fewer since most are now your buying clients.</p>
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