How to Get Your Insurance License Faster (And Avoid Common Mistakes)

And as far as pre-licensing and this side, what do you really see as the most common misconception people have about what pre-licensing actually involves?

I would think it's kind of that pre-licensing is... is here to teach you how to be an agent, right? Like I think maybe when you first get into this space, um, and you're coming to us as a student, you think that everything that we teach you, you're going to use every single day.

And you kind of alluded to that earlier, but it's just not the case, right? This is a requirement in some States, not at all, but, um, and let's just say half the country, um, this is a required thing step that you have to go through.

And, Really, what we're here to do is just...

It's almost like...

I mean, I hate to use this comparison, but it's almost like when people say you got to go to college before you can get the job.

And really, college, you're not going to learn anything.

You just got to show you can stick to it to get it done.

And then they're going to teach everything at the job.

It's a very similar mentality is what I've learned is that, look, you need to check this box.

You need to go through this education and you need to get this done.

And we're going to try and help you do that as quickly as possible.

But when you get to the agency and you go to work, I mean...

They're there to teach you how to be a successful agent.

They're there to give you all the tools to learn how to sell or to learn how to run your business and then you sell.

They're there to support you.

We're just here to kind of help open that door for you.

So...

When we first initially were around this industry, I think I very much had that misconception of, oh yeah, pre-licensing teaches you the basics to be an insurance agent and sell insurance.

That's not really what it teaches.

It teaches you how do I have the base level of knowledge I need to know to pass this test and show to the state I can be responsible.

in entering into this area and and you know being able to actually offer insurance to people for whatever you know uh license i got on that space um and then yeah it's it's definitely not how to go sell insurance that's a whole different story and hopefully you have a company that'll teach you that um but like i said it's the like we both said it's the beginning of the journey you have to get a license uh all states require a license they don't necessarily require the pre-licensing always but in my mind uh the test is going to be extra extra difficult and hard unless you're doing pre-licensing anyways uh so on my state it's 40 hours of pre-licensing uh to then sit for the the test and take it but so you know having something that will guide you through because this test can be tricky um uh and and knowing how to properly uh prepare and have the answers to those is really powerful Now, when someone decides they want to become an insurance agent, where do you see most people get stuck? Is it in that doing a pre-licensing, taking the test, and that's kind of the end of the journey or the I got caught up in this for weeks and months? Or where do you see most of them get stuck?

I think it depends on kind of how you find insurance as a career, right? I think if you come to us or if you come to insurance through as like, I want to do this part-time, I want to make some extra money, and you found this opportunity and they say you need to get licensed, those tend to take a little bit longer when they're going through that study process because they have either a family, maybe they're a full-time stay-at-home mom, and that's...

takes up a ton of time.

Maybe they have a full-time job or a couple of jobs that equate to a full-time job.