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I want to teach you a prospecting idea that will help you. We want to reach out to clients that think they are uninsurable. Please watch the video or call me to learn more.

 

One of my favorite Niche Markets
One of my favorite Niche Markets


I want to talk about a big untapped market, the uninsurable market. Or at least that is what they are led to believe, because they cannot get coverage.

 

Tons of clients think they can not get any type of coverage because of having a poor or a pre-existing health conditions or for other reasons.

 

Most agents run away from unhealthy clients and are taught to only focus on the clients that have no health conditions. I want to help to show you how to not only run away from these types of clients, but how to prospect and help them.
   
I'm going to talk about the clients that you would think are uninsurable. Clients that have had a heart attack, stroke, cancer, d.u.i., or obese clients, just to name a few. You would be right to think that they can't get normal insurance. But many of them do qualify for some type of coverage.
   
Graded benefit products take about 95% of the clients out there. There is hope for many clients that feel like they can't get any type of coverage. Most graded benefit products are limited in benefit in the first couple of years. After the graded period has past, it has full benefits. If the client dies in the graded period, the client usually gets their money back, plus interest (12% to 24%) or a limit amount of the death coverage. This all depends on the company offering the product. I work with a couple of companies that offer this type of coverage. I believe that this product can be used to help certain clients.

I want to tell you one of my boring stories. I had a friend named David Littleton that found a great deal on a house on 7 acres and had a pond on it for about $62,000. This was a great deal. He went to several banks trying to get a loan, but was turned down by all of them. He had poor credit, due to some credit cards that he never paid back when he was younger. After being told by many loan companies that he would not get the loan, his heart was broken. He found one loan company I think it was Greentree Financial that offered to give him the loan. They wanted him to pay a very high amount of interest. It was over 3 times the interest that I was paying for my home. I thought they were ripping him off with such a high interest rate. But the fact was that he had poor credit and could not get a loan anywhere else. Let me just save some time and tell you that he jumped on the offer. He didn't give it even one day to think about it. After being told many times that you can't have something that you need, and then you are allowed to have it, you will jump on it. No matter what the price.
   
The point of the story is to show you how the clients feel and think. They know that they have to pay a higher rate if they can even get the coverage to start with. Most clients are thrilled to death to get the coverage they didn't think they could ever get. Most of them have already talked to a couple of agents that have told them that there was nothing they could do to help them.
   

Graded Benefit polices are great for these types of clients. Let me give you an example. Let's say a client that had brain cancer just one year ago is worried about protecting his family from the cost of a funeral and wants to buy life insurance. He gets out the phone book and calls a couple of agents and most of them laugh at him or tell him that he can't get any coverage. He gives up on getting any kind of coverage until he runs into you. You tell him that you can help get some protection. You show him a graded benefit plan. In this example we will use United Home Life product. In the first year it offers return of premium and 12% interest. Second year it offers R.O.P. plus 24% interest. After the second year, it offers full benefit. This is not a bad deal. It is better then if he put the money in the bank and got a lower amount of interest. It would be hard to find anywhere willing to give him 12 to 24 percent interest on his money. He understands that he is going to pay a higher premium then someone that is in great health. Most companies Graded Benefit products are non medical and jet issued.

 

Here is an example client brochure to give you an idea on this product.

http://rosenthalfinancialservices.com/_downloadz/tp3agentguide.pdf

 

I want to share my story with you. I'm unsurable myself. I have Multiple Sclerosis. I had no idea what MS was when I found out that I have it. I quickly had to do a lot of research and join a lot of support groups. I don't know how I would have made it without them. 

The support groups  really helped me deal with this issue. A lot of people like me join support groups and associations after getting bad news. Like after having a heart attack, stoke, cancer or other life changing events. In the meetings we mainly talked about our families, finding some answers to our questions and what we are suppose to do now. Many of them did not have any type of life insurance. Now, that they wanted to buy some coverage it was too late. After about one year, I found a product that Americo Life had, that was through College Life that had no health questions on it and took everyone. I started showing this product to everyone and a lot of them jumped on it. So I didn't just stop at one support group, I went and visited some other support groups. I was able to help many clients. I was lucky that I already had life insurance on myself; because that was the first thing I did in this business. I started thinking about how many other support groups there were out there that I could help. You would be shocked at how many you can quickly find.   
 
I want you to look for the clients that have been told that they can not get any kind of coverage. You can do this in two different ways. You can go fishing with a fishing pole or a net. You can try and sell one person at a time, or go after the groups of them. Look for the support groups and the associations. Image an ad that say "have you been declined for life insurance? I can insure anybody".
   
Let me talk about why this should be one of the niche markets that you use. The clients just about never lapse one of these polices. They are so glad that they have found coverage that they never let it go. The premiums are generally slightly higher then most types of insurance, but the clients understand the higher premiums. There is more good reason to sell these types of product then I could tell you in an hour.
   
I suggest that you start thinking about tapping into this untapped market. Other agent's declines will now be your future clients.

 

 

I have two great insurance companies for this niche market.

 

 

American Amicable and United Home Life.  Also ask me about table 4 term, prospecting ideas.
 
Call me at 770-968-5757 and let me help you with this niche market. Let us help you grow your business. I have tons of great prospecting ideas.
     
  

 

 

 

 

 

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Sincerely,
Mark Rosenthal

 


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