Article: Answering a prospect's objections. (Producer Advice).(Brief Article)

Objections can stop a new agent dead in his tracks, sending him retreating to the new agent handbook on overcoming objections. But many producers agree that an objection is "an important part of the selling process--it gives prospects an opportunity to voice their concerns with the proposed plan of insurance.

"We should be happy when someone objects," says Burt Meisel of The Detroit Financial Group, Farmington Hills, Mich. "It's a prime method of communication," he says.

Meisel says that prospects object not because they don't want a product or service he is offering, but because they are trying to avoid making a decision.

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