Newest Posts Other Blogs | MarketplaceCommercial Business InsurancePosted on March 6, 2010. How to Get Low Prices on commercial insurance You can save big money on business insurance, if you insist on brokers being shipped in advance of sales meetings. I have been helping buyers to negotiate with insurance brokers for years and I can report this action is very powerful for negotiating lower rates. These interviews can lose a lot of time. Try my suggestion below, and see how much better use of your results efforts. When you follow these procedures, the need for traditional sales interview is widely denied. The sooner you take control of your renewal cycle, the easier your job is. Once renewals are properly managed, these meetings would be more celebrations of a job well done by telephone, email, fax, rather than a high-pressure bargaining session last minute. When a broker calls to announce a quote is ready for delivery and request a meeting, consider the following response instead of what you could normally say: Great. Thank you. Please (email / fax / mail) me the proposal and so I have the time to absorb into the preparation of your visit. " If you make that your standard response, brokers will expect that you would like information sent in advance. Get quotes in advance you from being handled too much by sales tactics. It does so because it helps to separate the commodity insurance policies (the quotes, and quality factors and pricing) from the professional relationship you have with your broker (the meeting Your broker relationship, maintaining your account, etc.). Insisting on obtaining proposals sent in advance, and even ask the broker to include an agenda of the meeting, you will do much good. You will have time to understand your options and prepare your questions. The meetings will be more professional and more productive. Sometimes a quote is very disappointing. If you get ahead, you can cancel the meeting and you save much time and aggravation. Finally, the professional advice of the insurance may be given, and purchased separately from financial products that we call the insurance companies. I think that paying for advice through commission structure is dangerously wrong and is also one of the worst conflicts of interest in life in the business world today. There is much to discuss on this topic ... CommentsThere are no comments.Leave a Comment |