Permission Sales

You don't need more 'time' on your calendar in order to be more successful. What you need is better 'usage' of your time. In others, stop doing whatever is keeping you from getting the results you ultimately want to achieve. To summarize it even more .... JUST SHUT UP AND START PROSPECTING!  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht breaks down th...

There are one-owner shops, small agencies, medium-sized agencies, large alphabet houses, and everything else in between. The question is: Which one can you make more money at as a producer?  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht walks you through the pros and cons of each, tells you which type/size agency he would work at today if he was plann...

A weak mindset is often what most of your competitors possess. But what about you? Do you have a robust and competitive mindset when it comes to sales? Are you afraid to ask for the signed Broker of Record Letter? Are you nervous about telling the insured what you require from them in order to move forward?  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Spec...

If you can do this one thing, you'll not only win more signed Broker of Record Letters but you'll save yourself a ton of time, headaches, stress, and you'll make a lot more money too. What is it? Here it is: "Show me the money, Jerry!" See, you need to become an insurance agent who is more like Jerry Maguire the sports agent, rather than "Joe Quotes" who offers quotes to non-clients. What I mean i...

Could you write $250k of new business commission in the next twelve months? I think you can ... And here's how! There are three main things you need to do in order to successfully write a quarter of a million dollars in commission this next year. In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht breaks down the step-by-step process of how you can do this...

If you have not yet CLEARLY DEFINED what your ideal client both is and is not then you're probably making only $0.50 on the $1 of what you could be earning. That's right. Not clearly defining your ideal client is costing you money -- a lot of money! You not only need to know what you will say "Yes!" to but also what you will say "No!" to in order to enjoy million-dollar success.  In this episode o...

Yes, indeed, your clients get solicited by other insurance agents all the time. During this policy renewal year, they are more likely to meet with those agents (your competitors!) to see if there are alternative options available to them to cut costs. Why? Because inflation, a lack of workers, and a hardening insurance market are forcing them to look at options in order to do nothing more than sta...

How would you like to have a $2,500,000 Book of Business (commission)? Sure, we all would. Well, that's what my client--Guffy Wright--from The Mahoney Group was able to accomplish in less than five years after working with me for 1-on-1 coaching! If you're a P&C or EB producer struggling with Micro-Niche selection, differentiation, leveling-up, mindset issues, limiting beliefs, or not getting enou...

You don't have to be the "best" insurance agent out there. (Please, read that again!) There are literally tens of thousands of insurance agents out there who prospect in your very own geographic territory. You don't need to be the best out of all of them. In fact, all you have to be is the better CHOICE of whichever agent the prospect is using to get quotes on their behalf for that renewal. That's...

Are you a P&C or EB producer who is struggling to set enough new business appointments? Or, maybe you're just not able to close and win enough clients? Do you have too much pressure on you to succeed and you need to start delivering some positive results -- ASAP? If that at all describes where you're at right now then stay tuned because, in this episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcas...

Delivering bad news to current clients is an art. So is uncovering bad news from your prospects. In fact, the best and most wealthy insurance agents out there are typically the ones best at advising their current clients on industry trends, and uncovering pains/problems with their competition.  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht will explai...

Please .... do not be one of those insurance agents who have no strategy or process when it comes to presenting renewal quotes/proposal to the prospect! If you do that, you're more likely to lose than win. Why? Because, if you do that you're wingin' it and throwing mud against the wall to see what sticks. In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht...

Do you struggle at branding? Are you still a quasi-generalist who is not focused in a Micro-Niche? Or, maybe you've chosen a Micro-Niche industry to focus on, but you haven't figured out how to BRAND yourself so that your prospects are attracted to you and want to sign over their insurance to you? Well, I have good news for you if that describes where you're at right now.  In this episode of the M...

It's one thing to agree that targeting BOR's is a smart move but it's another thing altogether to develop a step-by-step process to winning signed Broker of Record Letters on a consistent basis.  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht will "build you a house" by explaining what the foundation is, what the four walls are, and what the roof is to...

Do you struggle with setting appointment and writing new business? Many agents do. Actually, most do. Why is that? Well, for one thing, most agents don't know where to begin. In other words, they haven't even decided what to prospect, let alone why they should focus on that. They are "generalists" and have a Jack-of-all-trades mindset. Does that describe you? If it does, then this podcast episode...

Referrals, referrals, referrals! You've probably heard that referrals are great to get and have the highest win percentage when compared to other forms of prospecting. And, you'd be right to think that because it's true. However, most insurance agents and agencies do either a very poor job at systematically asking for (and receiving) referrals from their client base or COIs, or they have no proces...

Do you struggle at scripting, branding, or sitting down to actually do the hard work of prospecting? Most producers struggle at something, and most of us struggle at many parts of the sales process. In this episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht shares the five parts of his Permission Sales Framework and how selling insurance is like building a house. You have t...

One of the biggest reasons insurance agents don't achieve success as a producer is due to the QUANTITY of accounts on their prospect list. But the biggest reason overall is no doubt the QUALITY of the accounts on their prospect list.  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht will teach you how to increase the QUALITY of the accounts you are prosp...

Setting appointments with new prospects is hard. But it's also one of the most important things a producer needs to improve at in order to win new clients. "Scripting" (what you say or write to your prospects) is the difference maker for all of it. In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht outlines what is potentially the best prospecting script i...

If you're like most insurance agents out there, you're not getting the new business commission results you know you're capable of. You're either not prospecting enough, prospecting inefficiently, not setting enough appointments, not sure how to transition to asking for the signed Broker of Record Letter, or how to close the business if you go through a quoting process. Usually, this boils down to...

In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht teaches you how to determine what type of business you should target for prospecting. In other words, Charles will teach you the step-by-step process he takes his 1-on-1 coaching clients through to determine their own most profitable micro-niche focus. This is the topic Charles gets asked about most, which...

Do you have a defined and well-structured sales process that helps you win new business? No, I'm not talking about a few lucky points here and there. I'm talking about a "proven by long-term results" A-Z Sales Framework that covers everything from start to finish, from the type of account you're first going to prospect to the end goal of collecting the deposit check. That's what host Charles Spech...

Definitely, getting the signed Broker of Record is the better approach to winning new clients. But there are times when the BOR is not an option and so the only way to win that client is by quoting. No worries, because in this episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht is going to explain to you the three things YOU NEED TO GET from the insured before quoting, and t...

In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht interviews one of his sales training clients, Man Phung. Man only started writing commercial accounts about three years ago but has been implementing the things Charles has been teaching, such as Thinking BIGGER, micro-niching down, utilizing the 12-Month Timeline of Services, etc. The result is that he's...

Most insurance agents out there don't really know what they are supposed to be doing, as far as prospecting and selling are concerned. They have little training and often they're trained to do what the person before them has done, even if that person didn't achieve A+ results.  In this throwback episode of the Millionaire Insurance Producer podcast, host Charles Specht will detail seven things ins...