Association as main job now

After yesterday's Norvax webinar my main job now will be running and managing the IHIAA. To me, the number of members is amazing and I greatly appreciate every member.

This industry has so many flaws I can't even count....but let's try:

• Horrible lead sources agents stumble across - waste hundreds/thousands of dollars
• Between lacking to no training on products or the correct products to sell and why
• Zero training about writing apps relating to the claims review process
• No community atmosphere
• No unbiased source of info - we're an association - do not make overrides so we don't need to "steer" agents into selling for any particular carrier
• Agents trapped into bad contracts - can't escape
• Agents trapped in bad agencies - can't escape
• Taught "kill it and grill it" methods of writing business - write an app - onto the next kill
• More of a "just get the deal" - less focus on "career agent"

So we can solve a lot and there's power in numbers.....a lot of power in numbers. Regarding my blog - I'll keep updating it as to what's going on in general, but at this point I'm just dealing with my existing block of business and referrals.