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Life Insurance From Your Employer Usually Isn’t Enough

by Amanda Austin | October 29, 2020 | Life Insurance Life insurance from your employer is a valued benefit for millions of American workers.  Employer life insurance is a form of group life insurance that’s offered to you and your coworkers. It’s typically a set… Read More

LIFE INSURANCE IS BOUGHT, NOT SOLD

When I first started selling life insurance with a career company, my instructors claimed repeatedly that life insurance was sold, not bought. Their rationale was this: People do not like talking about death; They therefore do not like talking about… Read More

A SIMPLE WAY TO AVOID A FAMILY FEUD

You know you have had a good day as a life insurance salesman, if you have helped your client solve a messy problem with a simple solution 🙂 My client Mike was the founder and owner of a very successful… Read More

WHAT I DO AND HOW I CAN HELP

Do you want to know what sets me apart from other businesses? I am dedicated to putting my clients’ best interests first and making the life insurance process streamlined and clear. My passion is to ensure that my clients have… Read More

3 Reasons to Give Life Insurance a Second Look

by Stafford Thompson, Jr. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed so much of our world, from day-to-day activities to long-range plans. But one thing hasn’t changed: the need for life insurance. If you have put off getting it—or more of it—here are three… Read More

RELIGION AND LIFE INSURANCEIn a prior post, we talked about how conventional wisdom cautions against mixing politics and religion with business – but that in truth, these two topics are highly influential on business, and really should be discussed. Of course, there is a right way to do so.

That article pointed out the impact of politics on the life insurance consumer. Today, we will relate how religion has an equal – if not greater – impact on the purchase of a policy. Here goes: how do you feel… Read More

SURPRISE! YOUR TERM INSURANCE RATE IS RENEWING AT AN ASTRONOMICAL PRICE!

There’s a good chance that when you first purchased your term insurance policy, you were focused on finding low-cost coverage. You were just starting a family, buying a house, building a business, and stretching your money thin due to other… Read More

10 Ways to Make Affordable Life Insurance a Reality

by Amanda Austin – Many people are looking to trim expenses during these uncertain times. Perhaps life insurance is one area where you’re looking to economize. If so, the good news is that there are quite a few ways to get affordable… Read More

POLITICS AND LIFE INSURANCEWhen I first entered the life insurance business, my managers preached the following:

“Two things you never talk to clients about: politics and religion.” This was supplied to be a time-tested guideline that applied to all businesses, not just the insurance industry. In my career, I have found the opposite to be true:… Read More

The Wonderful Wizard of Odds

In the early days of my career, I worked with a senior agent whom we called “The Wonderful Wizard of Odds.” Clearly it was a play on the “Wizard of Oz.” But unlike the fraud “behind the curtain” in the… Read More