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Sell More in the 50-Plus Market

Keys to the Bank

Sell More Variable Annuities Now!

Find the Gold in Gray

 

Keys to the Bank

Bank Investment Reps get most of their business as referrals from bankers. They could get much more business if bankers:

  • Felt a greater obligation to the Investment Rep
  • Were more knowledgeable about working with the bank investment program's best prospects, clients in their 50s, 60s and beyond
  • Were better trained at capturing all the referrals that are really possible in a banking situation

This program is designed for Bank Investment Reps to add value to their relationships with bankers by teaching them how to work more effectively in the 50-plus market:

  • For themselves
  • And to be more productive making referrals to Investment Reps

Program components include:

  • Keys to the Bank PowerPoint
  • Script for PowerPoint
  • Finding the Gold in Gray, 60-minute, 2 audiocassettes providing intensive background for Investment Reps to understand the 50-plus market and to conduct training program for bankers

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Keys to the Bank

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Sell More Variable Annuities Now!

Advisors are missing VA sales simply because they are not effectively connecting VA product features to the quite different psychological factors motivating individual age segments. The program shows Advisors how to do that and provides marketing materials using those psychological factors to drive new business.

Program components include:

Delivering the Overall Message

  • Mike Sullivan's audiocassette, Sell More Variable Annuities Now! Drive time tape that provides background and understanding of the concepts. The flip side of the tape can carry a message from your sales manager.
  • Mike Sullivan's Sell More Variable Annuities Now! Webinar. A 45-minute telephone conference call combined with an Internet presentation that provides background and a deeper understanding of the concepts plus examples. Can be hosted by a wholesaler or sales manager, like an in-person meeting.

Advisor Materials

  • The Three Rules for Selling Variable Annuities. A four-page 8 1/2 x 11 brochure describing the three key points:
    • The need to control the physical environment
    • How and why to understand the underlying motivations
    • How to connect the motivations to the product
  • AgeStyle Profiles. One-page, two-sides, 8 1/2 x 11 sheets that summarize key characteristics and identify how specific motivations connect to Variable Annuity features. There are AgeStyle profiles for Aging Baby Boomers (45-56), the In-Between Generation (57-64), Matures (65-74) and Elders (75-Plus).

Client Materials

  • A suite of sales letters for each age segment based on their key underlying motivations for buying a VA.
  • One four-page, 8 1/2 x 11 fulfillment brochure for each age segment. Each brochure delivers the information promised in the suite of sales letters for each age segment.

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Find the Gold in Gray
Become an Expert at Selling the 50-Plus Market

Anyone can sell to the 50-plus market some of the time.

It takes an expert to sell consistently. In good environments and bad. To existing customers and to people you don't know at all. To 50 year olds and 65 year olds and 80 year olds. To men and to women. To those who know what they want and to those who don't have a clue.

Find the Gold in Gray is designed to turn anyone with basic selling skills into an expert at selling the 50-plus market. Learn how to…

  • Find new customers
  • Sell more productively
  • Manage after-sale activities more effectively
  • Generate referrals

Selling to the 50-plus market is like riding a bike. Anyone can learn to ride. But it takes training to become a competitive racer; you can't become competitive by doing the things you do as a casual biker.

Program components include:

Understanding the 50-Plus Market
Mike Sullivan's Finding the Gold in Gray two-audiocassette set, plus insert booklet. Approximately 60 minutes of in-depth discussion, covering market characteristics, the effects of physical aging, motivations for behavior, and communications techniques.

Find the Gold in Gray Training Binder

Finding Customers

  • Life events
  • Advertising
  • Direct mail
  • Cold calling
  • Networking
  • Giving seminars
  • Publicity

The Selling Process

  • Controlling the physical environment
  • Uncovering motivations for action
  • Connecting motivations to the product/service
  • How to improve your sales communications
  • Telephone
  • In-person

After the Sale

  • Building a relationship
  • Relationship Profiler
  • Checklists

Generating Referrals

  • Intergenerational
  • Friends and relatives
  • Acquaintances
  • Professionals
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