Know Your Ideal Prospect

As you get started killing commercial insurance, something you have to do is create your ideal prospect profile. You cannot deliver value and an exceptional client experience to your clients if you don’t define who it is you are going to go after and be able to give the most value. It’s crazy because this is a natural place for any agency to start in commercial insurance. Still, as I’ve talked to agency owners from all over the country, none of them know how to begin writing good commercial business. They write what comes in the door, what calls on the phone, who fills out a web form for a quote, and that’s just how they build their commercial practice. 

Increase Profitability

You can’t do that and be successful, ultimately, in larger commercial accounts. I don’t take anything away from these agencies because they have good commercial books. Still, my goodness, the amount of services that it takes just to handle the basic and mundane tasks, is a drain on the profit margins of the organization. It’s nuts!   And the fact is there’s only so much that you can automate.

Improve Your Client Experience

If you want to deliver an awesome client experience, then you need to identify who the ideal prospect for your firm is. It could be a different one for each producer. You might have three or four total that you’re going after. Still, by diving deep into that ideal class of business, you’re going to be able to handle risk management functions.  You can look at things like loss control, the total cost of risk analysis, training, and development, leadership accountability programs, all of these things that help your clients save way more money than you’re ever going to be able to negotiate down in premium.

It's More Than Customer Service

I go to continuing ed all over the country, and when I’m in there, I hear people talk about the differentiation of agencies. It’s crazy because the one question that instructors always ask is who differentiates themselves by customer service? And I look left, and I look right, and every agent in the room has their hands up. The ironic thing is when I look left and right, and I see agencies that my firm takes business from every day because they don’t deliver an awesome client experience. See, customer service is the verbiage that we used ten years ago. Customer service is the expectation. If you want to make yourself different, you have to deliver an awesome client experience.

 

It Starts in the Prospect Phase

An awesome client experience starts from the prospect phase through onboarding and, ultimately, to them becoming your client. So if you want to do that, focus with a narrow focus. Anybody can hunt with a shotgun; it doesn’t make sense. Be a sniper; hunt with a rifle and pick off precisely what you want your target to be. And I can promise you, and you will kill commercial insurance.

Responses

Report

Harassment or bullying behavior
Contains mature or sensitive content
Contains misleading or false information
Contains abusive or derogatory content
Contains spam, fake content or potential malware

Block Member?

Please confirm you want to block this member.

You will no longer be able to:

  • See blocked member's posts
  • Mention this member in posts
  • Invite this member to groups
  • Message this member
  • Add this member as a connection

Please note: This action will also remove this member from your connections and send a report to the site admin. Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.

Report

You have already reported this .
Killing Commercial Login