Our life sales are up 34 percent, our financial position is strong, and we have made dramatic improvements in how we handle new business and underwriting.

Today I want to share with you how we are doing – and I want to thank you for all that you do for National Life Group.

You are a major contributor to our success!

Since its inception Indexed Universal Life has evolved into one of the most advantageous products on the market and now it has come even further. LSW has released the Income Builder IUL, which has become one of the premier IULs on the market. LSW has always been known for its living benefit riders and now it has one of the top guaranteed death benefit features. In today’s volatile market it has never been more important to make sure that you are in a product with strong guarantees. With their new product LSW will make sure that your clients have guaranteed protection regardless of interest rate and stock market environments, while still giving them the benefits of their living riders and tremendous cash accumulation.

CLICK HERE for the press release and please let us know if you have any other questions on this product.

Introducing The NEW LifePro Online University!

One of LifePro’s main purposes as an organization is to keep contributing to our producer’s lives and practices in ways that are constantly becoming more valuable to them. Evolution of our systems tools and products is paramount in order to stay on the industry’s cutting edge. LifePro achieves this by researching industry trends, working numbers, assessing data, and collaborating with one another here in the office and professionals across the industry.

Above all else, we listen to our producer’s unique thoughts, concerns, ideas, requests and feedback. We imagine ourselves as an educational oasis in the abrasive desert of false information, misleading sales pitches and glittery fluff that a thirsty producer treks through nearly every day. Via the wonders of technology and per your special request, we’ve organized an entire On-Demand library of archived lessons on www.lifeprouniversity.com.

The collapse of financial markets has left people nearing retirement in a state of high anxiety. Many portfolios took a 40% hit over the past year, and despite the stock market’s rebound the crisis is far from over. The market could still go down, and for many clients, cashing out means locking in an unfathomable loss. Even the venerable notion that investing in equities will always outperform bank deposits over time is being challenged.

Enter the concept of laddered annuities. Or perhaps we should say welcome back.

Click To Watch Rethinking Retirement Income Video

While conducting a “Circle Talk” (an exercise that is part of Don Blanton’s Circle Of Wealth system) with one of his clients, a LifePro producer was referred a client that had prostate cancer. This particular client was 70 years old and a non-tobacco user. The tumor stage was T1C, his Gleason score was 3, and secondary was 3. The gentleman underwent prostate surgery in October 2008, after which his PSA went from 5.2 to 0.01. Click Here To Read More!

As of this writing we have 65 double confirmed reservations for Don Blanton’s upcoming “Circle of Wealth” Basic Training on May 25 & 26 in San Diego. We also have a waiting list that is pretty significant.

One of the reasons we have been successful in filling the room already is because of the results we have had from the 28 students that attended the Basic Training in March. It is also due to the “Accountability Call” process we have developed.

The production increases you see in this graph below prove how truly valuable it can be to your practice when you invest in yourself! The graph also includes multiple agents that didn’t have ANY annuity production before they came to an academy… then, in the three months following had $500k-$700k of production. The numbers speak for themselves! Sign up for one of our many educational events and watch your own numbers soar. To view upcoming LifePro events click HERE

Upon looking back, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone that 2009 was a tough year to be a financial planner. With the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing almost 27% of its value in the 2008 calendar year (according to cnnmoney.com) and unemployment reaching approaching record highs, clients were not especially anxious to “pull the trigger” on purchasing investment vehicles. Who can blame them? If I was laid off and I had a couple of mouths to feed, I would not be thinking about my retirement or what investments offer the best rate of return. My only immediate concern would be to keep a roof over our head, warm food in our bellies and clean clothing on our backs. But as all of the great economists have said, “Things will eventually get better.” We live in a capitalistic free market system where everything that goes up will go down and everything that goes down will go up again. History, like it has done before, will repeat itself again.

Yes, you guessed it, one is extinct and the other is on the endangered species list. 529 plans were introduced to the American public as a way to save for future escalating college costs and named after Internal Revenue Code section 529 in 1996. 529 plans are operated at the state level and each state has their own personal signature or contract stipulating the varying rules and regulations of each plan.

Cross selling is a must to develop a thriving and profitable practice. With it being so hard to get in front of qualified clients, cross selling will allow you to access your current book of business and get appointments with those clients that you have already qualified. As the client buys more products they will be more inclined to stay with you and come back to you for additional needs. This will help you to increase your retention ratio while also allowing you to become more profitable. In addition, cross selling will also help to educate your customers on the variety of products and services that your business has to offer.