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More and more insurance carriers are offering Living Benefits built in to their products where an insured can accelerate a portion of their life insurance benefit. Some carriers make it part of their term products while others its part of their whole life portfolio. While working the mortgage protection market these features can be a great selling tool for most any age group.

Almost everyone 30 years and older has either personally experienced or is close to someone who has experienced a family member going through a chronic or critical illness. Understanding exactly what is defined by each will help you close the sale by driving the need.

Today we are going to be talking about four steps that will help you close more life insurance applications in the mortgage protection market. You may find that these steps will also translate into more sales in other markets as well.

I am going to make a couple of assumptions, one is that you have quality leads to work and two, you’ve already set the appointment are ready to speak to your prospect. You also understand that mortgage protection is a one-call close.

1. You’re working a lead from “Joe/Jane” and are assigned to their case.

One the most frustrating aspects for insurance agents moving from Final Expense products to Mortgage Protection products is understanding the underwriting. All of a sudden your cases are being inundated with questionnaires, table rated, or worse declined. In fact this frustration has led many agents to leave the industry altogether as they are battling chargebacks from final expense and declines from mortgage protection.