A final-expense insurance salesman shares the cold-call opening that made him the #1 producer at FFL: "Guess you need some insurance, huh?" He treats "no" as data, not rejection, and credits the blunt approach with generating $460,000 in sales.
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Final expense, my opening. Guess you need some insurance, huh? Why wouldn't I? Because every other time when I started with all the reasons why people— they'd be like, this is insurance? They need insurance. Guess you need some insurance. They say no to me, it's weird. They go no, which happened this percentage of the time. I look at a phone, I go, damn, I'm in the wrong house. Is this you? No, it's me. It says insurance right on it, look. That was my in-home guess you need some insurance. Yes, done. I don't have to get deeper, dude. I'm not kidding. And some people are like, that can't work. Try it. I was the number one final expense producer at FFL in— damn Oh, he's upstairs. Go look at it. Guess you need some insurance, huh? I mean, what else am I there for?