In This Issue
Grow Your Business: The Top 5 Secrets To Increasing Your
   Close Rates
Agent Perspective: Mark Gordon
Did You Know: We've Upgraded Our Lead Quality Applications
Partner Spotlight: Quotit and NetQuote Deliver Cutting-Edge
   Lead Generation Software for Agents

Grow Your Business
Okay, so you're doing all the right things and using all the right marketing channels, but perhaps you're still not seeing the leads turn into the business you'd hoped for. Well, what you do with the leads once you get them is as important--if not more--as how and where you get them. Below is a list of the five most successful follow up tactics that are sure to increase your close rates.
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Agent Perspective
A corporate banker for 16 years, Mark Gordon decided he'd had enough of the turmoil of numerous mergers that affected the banking industry. On the advice of a friend, Mark decided to enter the insurance business and joined Allstate in 2005. Bringing much of his financial know-how to selling insurance, he's become successful in a very short time. Read to find out how he's done it.
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Did You Know
The agents in our network have spoken-and we've listened! As part of our constant mission to provide high-quality leads, and based on suggestions from agents, NetQuote began auditing every single lead requested for credit in 2007. A dedicated team was hired for the task, and all lead credit requests are now put through a process through your extranet. Because of this, NetQuote is able to track quality issues back to the source of the lead.
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Partner Spotlight
Quotit, a leading Internet application service provider for the health insurance and employee benefits industry, has partnered with NetQuote Inc., the leading online lead provider to the insurance industry. The partnership allows insurance agents and carriers who subscribe to Quotit's web-based health insurance proposal system to benefit from a complete, streamlined approach for receiving insurance leads.
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