Sales Tips
Selling to Homeowners' and Renters' Insurance Businesses
As the market recovers, homeowners' and renters' insurance businesses are gradually bouncing back from the market slowdown and are starting to reinvest. For business sellers prepared to compete, homeowners' and renters' insurance businesses offer a dependable channel for sales and revenues .
In today's economy, even small detract from your company's bottom line and impede your selling success.
With perseverance and strategy in your corner, it's possible to penetrate the market and receive an acceptable return for your efforts.
Networking Tips
The homeowners' and renters' insurance business industry is relationship-based. Businesses that sell in the industry routinely use networking to advance the sales cycle.
Lead lists are helpful in expanding your network, but only to the extent that your team invests time and effort to develop lead list contacts into long-term business relationships. As an owner or manager, you need to prioritize networking strategies and proactively model relational sales techniques.
Sales Strategy Tips
Effective homeowners' and renters' insurance business sales strategies are concerned about both sales techniques and ROI. Some sales techniques are more effective than others and the ones that maximize ROI need to be prioritized.
Also, it's important to avoid a silo approach to homeowners' and renters' insurance business sales. Companies that isolate their sales units fall behind in the marketplace, especially when they compete against companies that encourage collaborative processes between sales, marketing and other units.
Marketing Mix
Since marketing and sales go hand in hand, your company's marketing mix plays a central role in bottom line sales revenue. The industry's leading sellers employ multichannel marketing strategies and place a high premium on channels that funnel messaging directly to decision makers.
Although there are no one-size-fits-all marketing strategies for homeowners' and renters' insurance businesses, B2B sellers often achieve higher returns by outsourcing lead generation to a third-party provider. Experian and other vendors maintain accurate and up-to-date lists of homeowners' and renters' insurance businesses. For many businesses, these lists establish a framework for the rest of the sales cycle.
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