Internet Insurance Leads & Internet Lead Generation for Insurance Agents
Insurance agents have two sources of internet insurance leads when it comes
to internet lead generation.
An agent can buy leads from an Internet lead generation company, or they can build
a lead generation web site and create their own leads.
Buying Leads
It's important to buy leads from a company that has experience generating Internet
insurance leads. New Internet lead generation companies have a tendency to rely
upon questionable marketing tactics, and this can affect the quality of your
leads.
Internet insurance leads can range from $5-$30 each, depending on what kind
of lead it is (life insurance, annuity, auto, etc.), and whether it's an exclusive
lead or not. An agent should verify if the leads are exclusive or not
because some internet insurance lead generation companies sell the same leads
to multiple agents.
Also, legitimate Internetinsurance lead generation companies will credit you
back for bad leads. You should be able to call into the lead generation company
and speak with a service representative on the phone in case you need to discuss
a bad lead so that you can get credited for it.
Building a Internet insurance Lead Generation Web Site
There is a good opportunity for agents to build a quality lead generation web
site of their own. An agent can create a web site in his or her local market and
build pages based upon what people are typing into the search engines.
For example, if an agent lives in California, he/she can research keywords like
'insurance', and 'California', as well as specific towns or counties in his or
her area ('keywords' is a term used to describe what people are typing into the
search engines). So if an agent discovers that people are searching for 'California
insurance broker', and 'San Francisco insurance agents', he or she can create
one page for each of these keyword phrases.
As an agent digs deeper into their keyword research, they may uncover quite
a few keywords and keyword phrases. But one page is not going to do it.
You need a combination of dozens of pages because each page will get a few searches
per month, and this can add up. Plus the more pages you build, the better chance
you have getting ranked in the search engines.
The key to success in building a successful content based web site is to focus
on quality content first. The reason that content is important is because you
don't want your web site to look like you're trying to sell something. You want
to build pages that relay good quality information in order to build trust with
your prospect.
The second mechanism that is needed is an 'opt-in' internet insurance leads
system. For example, offer a free quality newsletter, and/or a free course that
your prospect can subscribe to via an autoresponder (an autoresponder is a simple
web based marketing tool that automatically sends information to people who
'opt-in' for your information). This way, you capture names and e-mail addresses
(as well as mailing addresses) for your Internet direct marketing and direct
mail efforts. But if you do not have quality content and you ask for someone's
e-mail address or mailing address to sign up for your newsletter or auto responder,
you may not get good results.
Fortunately, the time you spend building this web site can pay off because
big commissions can arise from just one lead, paying for the time and money
you have invested.
An alternative to the content based web site to generate internet
insurance leads, is a 'landing page' web site. A landing page is basically
a one-page web site and its main goal is to get the prospect to subscribe to
a free report, mini-course, or newsletter. Instead of relying on your content
to build credibility and trust, you will have to rely upon your copywriting
ability to get your prospect to give up their contact information on your landing
page.
A landing page web site usually does not get good placement in the search engines,
so in order to generate Internet insurance leads, an agent will have to rely
on 'pay per click' advertising (where you pay for traffic to your web site),
and other advertising mediums.
An insurance agent can build a significant clientele buying leads from reputable
insurance lead generation companies and building a quality web site. All it
takes is a little bit of due diligence and patience.
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©2006 Brian Maroevich is a Direct Marketing entrepreneur and has written courses
on lead generation and marketing for insurance agents, financial planners, and
small businesses. You can read Brian's articles for free at
Insurance-Leads-Advisor.com
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