John Wetmore walks through the questions he asks before training a new insurance agent. He covers qualifying prospects, handling objections, dialing volume expectations, and what sacrifices candidates need to make for the role.
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If someone calls you back with 80 dials and they have 5 objections, how much can you really help them? Are you that good? Me either. So I don't try to be that good, you know? And I let him know if he drags this thing out too long, it's going to be brutally painful. Now, if he goes, dude, I work and I can't start dialing until 6 PM, totally different conversation. No, I'm a single mom. I got this going. Totally different conversation. But he said yes. And I asked him if he had anything else going on, if he had anything in the way, or if he's wide open. I just ask questions. He answered them. Now I'm giving him direction, right? If it's a different situation, I'm handling it differently. I got to figure out where he's at, where he wants to go, and things he's willing to sacrifice. So if he's trying to make $22,000 a year and he ain't willing to sacrifice nothing, he's not going to be available at 7:00 AM, and it's going to be a totally different conversation. Just like I give you in-home, but if it doesn't go the exact way— in-home is different, you play off the client, you know what I'm saying? So every conversation doesn't go perfect.