Short training video (sales advice) that argues the easiest way to sell life insurance is to start by discovering the customer's "why" — their underlying reason for buying — rather than reciting scripts or product features. The speaker criticizes scripted, feature-driven pitches and instructs callers to ask and identify the buyer's motivation at the start of the call.
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Alright, let's talk about the easiest way to sell life insurance in 2024. It all starts with one word, which is why. So what a lot of people do is they basically they get some fancy script that has all these things about this is what this life insurance policy is going to do and it has all these living benefits and blah, blah, blah, blah. And they call someone up and they're like, hey, you know, Ms. Jones, I'm gonna just run through and give you a quote and get you this and get you that and I can get you signed up and what's your social and blah, blah, blah, blah. That stuff.
It sucks. So we're gonna start with why, AKA the reason that somebody buys life insurance. So this is the reason they buy. The why is the reason they buy. That sounds really simple, right? Almost like stupid, but it's true. So the why is the reason they buy. So your job when you jump on the phone is to find out this. Your job is to find out their why.