With all of this in mind, you also need to understand that affiliate marketing is not some get-rich-quick system. It’s a business. A real marketing business that will take some time to grow. All of the resources you need in order to succeed are listed above, but don’t expect overnight success. Give it a good 6 to 12 months and about 10 to 15 hours per week working on your business. If you do that, by this time next year, you should be an affiliate marketer yourself, at the very least making a nice secondary income. If not, in a year from now, you’ll be exactly where you are right now. Focus on the long-term and keep going with sustained effort. Of course, I’m always available as well if you ever want to contact me. I never charge a dime. 🙂
^{Establish Sales Goals: Many agents think as long as they have money in their account and their bills are paid, they don’t have to worry about personal sales or marketing metrics. Without setting goals and measuring your progress toward them, there’s no way to plot a course for growth. By tracking your lead outcomes, along with average commissions and number of contacts to achieve those commissions, you reveal insights into the effectiveness of your process.}
Start Using Pics in Tweets: Pictures say a thousand words, and those thousand words can ensnare more people’s attention and entice them to your blog faster than anything you can write within 140 characters. Pictures directly appeal to emotions, the activating catalysts in the consumer thought process, whereas words have to bypass the rational area of the brain to be processed.
As you can see, you can have both a personal and a business page on each of these channels. Before you get overwhelmed and start worrying about all the work involved in maintaining a presence on all these channels, think about the big picture benefits of establishing your presence online. Not only does each channel build your personal syndication network, giving you more communities where you can share your content and connect with others, but each channel also gives you an additional backlink that will show up in the Google search results for your company’s name. So, when senior leads see your phone number show up on their caller ID and Google it, they’re going to see all the social media channels you’re on, instead of seeing a generic phone number look - up site where consumers complain about strange calls from unknown callers who don’t have a website, let alone a Facebook page. Each channel builds your online presence, which builds your online brand reputation in the eyes of prospects and clients who are looking to see how legitimate you really are.
LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a little tricky, because this platform doesn’t allow you to see who’s talking about certain subjects. You can only search for people, companies, and jobs that revolve around a keyword or phrase. So, to find free leads on LinkedIn, you might notice life events like job changes for people in your network (but you won’t find much here regarding births or deaths.) Unless you’re lucky enough to spot a conversation from one of your connections asking directly about insurance, it may not be as easy to search for free leads on LinkedIn as it is on other networks. But you should still leverage your LinkedIn profile to explain how you can help people with questions about insurance, and post helpful content to establish your expertise. By asking clients and other contacts to write recommendations of your service, you can make it easier for potential prospects to find YOU on LinkedIn, instead.
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Twitter: As with Facebook, you can search Twitter for phrases people would use if they were talking about insurance, like “Medicare plan,” “Medicare season,” “Obamacare,” or “premiums.” The idea is to catch someone griping on social media about an experience they had or a bill they received, and then come to their rescue and open a dialogue to see if they need any recommendations.

_{Offer Multiple Sign - Ups: Be flexible with other prospects’ processes for how they approach your recommendations. Some people aren’t comfortable enrolling over the phone, maybe they need a paper application. Some might need to see a genuine face. Offering multiple ways to sign up or enroll in a plan can go a long way to minimizing the chances of someone walking away from a sale you put together because they didn’t like your process for enrollment.
Create a Media Kit: Agents wanting to beef up their public relations campaigns can dedicate a full page on their website to sharing the most pertinent background and contact info for your company, along with specific topics you can speak to, that will help journalists better utilize your expertise in stories. The Blog Maven has a great article and template for designing your own media kit, or check out ours for inspiration.}
Create an Elevator Pitch: Agents must be prepared to talk to prospects that they meet at networking events or encounter throughout the day. The best way to do this is by forming an elevator speech, a short introduction that not only informs others of what you do but prompts a discussion about any possible needs they may have. A great article on how to construct one can be found on LifeHealthPro.

Say I’m Sorry: We all have client relationships that ended badly. Looking to turn things around, revive an old lead possibly re - earn their commission? Reach out to them and tell them that you don’t like how things ended, and if there’s anything you could do to help them in the future, you are here for them – and then add them back to your mailing list for sending cards and newsletter.

Ready to take YOUR business, income and lifestyle to the next level? Since 1996, my wife Lisa and I have built numerous 6-figure even multiple six-figure income streams online using a simple 'attraction marketing' model that has never failed to profitable results. So let's hang out, connect when it makes sense and see where the road ahead takes us, shall we?