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In commercial insurance sales, there is no such thing as a “win-win.” If you want to grow your book of business, someone else has to lose.

In this episode of the Agency Growth Machine Podcast, Randy Schwantz breaks down the hard truth most insurance producers avoid: every prospect already has an incumbent agent. If you want the account, you must create a reason for the buyer to fire their current broker.

Instead of competing on price or hoping relationships win deals, Randy explains the real strategy top commercial insurance producers use to take accounts from competitors.

Inside this episode you’ll learn:

• The 3 brutal realities that control every commercial insurance sales conversation
• Why pain is the only true motivator that gets buyers to switch brokers
• How prospects lower their expectations and why that creates opportunity
• The sales questions that expose weaknesses in the incumbent agent’s service
• Why the best producers differentiate with process instead of price
• How to shift a conversation from a quote meeting to a competitive takedown

You’ll also hear the story of how one producer used this approach to take a $40,000 revenue account from an incumbent who held it for 11 years.

If you sell commercial insurance, this episode will change how you approach every prospect meeting.

Because the real competition isn’t the other broker.

It’s the comfort your prospect has with staying exactly where they are.

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