We’ve identified one action you could take to achieve three major goals in your agency this year. Those goals are:

1. Better serve your top producers
2. Feasibly grow your revenue by as much as six figures
3. Help increase agency valuation

In this blog post, we’ll describe our strategy in greater detail and explain why it might be a smart option for your agency.

Well, it’s been quite a year, hasn’t it?

It feels like the rug was pulled out from under us.

But hopefully there were still some positives to come out of 2020 for you.

One being that you realize the significance of what you do every day. Planning for the unexpected and the protection products you help put in front of clients has never been more important. YOU and the work you do has never been more important.

For us, continuing to provide helpful content was just a small part of the service we hope we delivered to you this year.

Although we are anxiously looking forward to 2021 and everything we have planned to help you make it your best year yet, we like to take time to reflect on how we did.

And look back at what content resonated most with you.

To that end, we’ve compiled a list of the Top 10 Most-Read Posts of the Year. Did you miss any these? You can check them out below:

If an indexed universal life (IUL) insurance policy is structured properly, loans could be one of the most important features of an IUL for the right person and right circumstances. 

And it could be especially important right now as  clients may be looking for extra sources of income -- wondering what they own and how they can access it. 

One source they may not have considered is an IUL. The distributions from an IUL can be a tax-friendly way to access money when a client needs it. However, there are many nuances to IUL loans and it’s extremely important to understand all the ins and outs before speaking to your client.

In this post, we’ll cover what you need to know about IUL loans so that you can help clients decide if this might be a good option for them. 

“I’ve heard I’ll need less income in retirement, but is that true?”

A client asked one of our producers this question recently. And maybe you’ve gotten this one before too.

The answer many pre-retirees typically receive though, may be incorrect…

This year has been unique in many respects, including changes to how we do business in our industry. With face-to-face contact difficult, prospecting virtually for new clients has been challenging.

But even in the "new normal," there are ways to  dynamically grow your business in 2021. In this blog post, I’ll show you a couple of ways you can achieve your life insurance goals in the coming year …

Would you like to be able to provide your clients a proven strategy to pay for most of their health care costs, if not all of them?

Well, in this blog post we’ll explain a strategy that agents and advisors can use to do that (even if you're not a Medicare agent and don't want to become one). Keep reading for the details...

It’s unfortunate, but today, your clients may be well-positioned with enough retirement assets to last 30+ years. While tomorrow, a drop in the market could mean their retirement assets may be drastically reduced due to sequence of returns.

From economic uncertainty, to recent drops in the market, to the impending election, and ongoing concerns around COVID,  a perfect storm could be brewing... are your clients prepared?

Keep reading for a simple way to explain one of the biggest risks to the longevity of a client's portfolio. Plus, how to help them prepare for and mitigate it.

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The top 1% have a "secret" they've used since the Great Depression to help put themselves and their families in a better position.

But we think middle-income clients can benefit from this wealthy family secret as well. In this post, we’ll share how. Plus, we'll cover how you can make a living as a financial professional in this market.

Of course we're not suggesting a magic pill and it’s taken effort, but one of the financial professionals we work with, Mike, found a way to get in front of prospective clients on a consistent basis – which opened the door to new opportunities…

Read on to learn what he did to land new business even though he’d just opened his financial services practice a couple months before the pandemic hit.

“I had another agent refer a client to me and suggested I look at a term conversion strategy for her. But I don’t know when you’d use a strategy like that…” The comment was made during a conversation we recently had with one of our contracted agents. So, in this post, we're going to tackle the topic -- who's a good prospect and what's possible with a convertible term policy...